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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
u. S. TROOPS TOO QUICK
FOR HUNS in GREAT DRIVE
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g operations thus appear have resulted in the closing OF
the neck of the loop point where is not much more
than five miles across
Two German divisions were reported night be still in
this part of the salient and they have not succeeded in ex
eating themselves their capture probable.
Trying to Save Artillery
The Germans have had great difficulty getting their artillery
the lone railroad line their disposal They were
working feverishy last night the out through
Vgneules but their blocked by the con-
American progress to-day Numbers of trench mortars and
great quantity of machine already IN american han
the reported The other railway line in the
salient running through Thaucour was early blocked by the
American capture of that place.
While the Americans thus driving forward in the successful
carrying the first thoroughly American offensive movement
General Perhng command the French and the british
continuing make progress along the north and south
the battle front where the fighting had cenered all through
the year UP the American drive started
Allies Continued Advance
troops last night closed in towards St Quentin cap
the of little more than TWO ana
from St Quentn's outskirts.
The British part advanced farther to the northwest
of ST. Quentin taking the village of eancour and gaming pos
session of Honon wood.
considerable of which, assault on aVrlncou
which the took recently the was assisted by
squadron of 1owyng arplanes He was repused however, "l
very heavy losses n.., , 4h
Canal du line of Cambria frustrated by the
British fire.
London Sept 13Gernan troops night delivered an attack
with cooperation of arplanes, the town OF
southwest of Cambria recently taken by the British The attack
repused with great los Field Marshal ag announceu
the official statement to-day. .e, =,
Further south, the front opposite ST. Quents the Dli'o
have gained possession of Honon wood RI
German attack opposite MoeuVreS on the cdhdi ie "
Cambria, failed completely - e..
British troops captured the of Jeancourt IN the 81
Quentin north Of Vermand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13

salients. The chance lay ready to the
American leaders hand.
Almost due south of the war-wreck
ed fortress of Verdun which has de-
fed every German effort, the town of
st. Mihiel stood at the apex of a
great enemy wedge driven into the
French lines and which all but cut
Verdun off in the first German rush
toward Paris. Along the eastern
cu-ve of this salient, American
troops have stood for months, hold
ing the lines. Americans also were
on the line between Verdun and st.
Mihiel, but st. Mihiel itself was held
by the French for the fate of Verdun
rested upon that line.
Reduces Pocket
Surgfng forward o.. d twelve-m nile
front to the east of st. Mihiel, Per-
shing's men have rolled over the
complicated defenses of the enemy
all along the line and thrust a steel
shod jaw out into the territory be-
hind the enemy forces that hold the
town. From the other side, another
American thrust has carried the lines
forward to meet the bulge from the
east I'd grim trap is being drawn
about the enemy forces that remain
In the salient. 1t was only twenty
miles across the mouth of the pocket
and the reports last night showed
that this had been closed in to less
than fifteen miles.
Through that narrowing gap the
German forces in the depth of the
salient must escape, and to with
draw without confusion that might
turn the retreat into rout, they
must shake off the French forces
which are battering them all along
the st. Mihiel front.
Germans Still In Trap
On the face of last nights reports
officers here believed there was good
promise that General Pershing might
succeed in closing the neck of the
bag and trapping considerable
force. The fact that the enemy was
still offering stubborn resistance in
st. Mihiel showed there was a con-
siderable German force still in the
depths of the trap.
The American attack, as it now
shapes up, is a major action, it is
said, and there is no doubt that the
strongest American forces yet en-
ployed are engaged. Possibly a quar-
ter of a million American troops
either are in action or in close re-
The advance of the eastern jaw rest
on wide base. Reports indicated
that it had broken through at the
first rush until General Pershing
could fling out cavalry screens on
both sides to prevent counterattacks
on his fianks. The very width of his
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
CONFERENCE ON
TROLLEY FARES
To Plan Organized Fight on
Increased Rates of the Val
ley Railways Company

Camp Hill, Pa. Sept. 13.-This
evening representatives of the FIVE
West Shore boroughs and the West
Shore Firemen's Union will meet in
the local firehouse to plan an or
ganized fight against the increased
trolley fare. which was recently an
nounced to take effect on october l
by the Valley Railways Company.
At the meeting the matter of taking
the protest to the Public Service Conn.,
mission will be discussed
All along the West Shore there is
much criticism concerning the in
crease. Every effort will be made to
place the matter before the Public
Service Commission before the date
set for the increase to go into effect.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
Gold and Silver
Thirnbles

$3.50 G o ! d
Thimbles. S a ] e
price 49,. S2.7O
$1.25 G o ] d
Filled Thimbles.
9Sc
Sterling Silver
ThimbleS. 35c to
75c values.
zoe, 35c, soc
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
"Nobody but Myself Knows
How Tonall Has
Helped Me"

Mary Fritz. of Mohnton, Berks
county, Pa, says:
II was run down in my system
and suffered from weakness. Soon
after taking Tonall I began to build
up right away. 1 feel like myself
again and will continue to use it
until my system gets good and
strong.
IT heard about Tonall from a
friend of mine and read in the pa
pers how Tonall helped so many
people with ailments like mine.
II am proud to give my endorse
ment and praise of Tonall for the
benefit it will do for others. as
believe in the Golden Rule"
This testimonial was given Au-
gust /. 1918.
Tonall is sold at Gorgas Drug
Store, Harrisburg, and at Hershey's,
at Hershey, and Martz' Drug Store,
Steelton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13

battle line, however, tends to protect
him and also to give his initial thrust
the power that will carry it across
the road that is the only line of re-
treat for the Germans in st. Mihiel.
Greater Blows to Come
To many officers, the action start
ed is butthe forerunner of greater
blows to come. They anticipate that
General Pershing will follow, up
without delay, the clearing out of the
st. Mihiel salient with actions OF
greater scope, probably directed to-
ward the capture of Metz. With such
an advance, it is said Fsench thrust
from Verdun and along the front be-
tween Verdun and Rheims would &c
naturally and the great movement "a
force the enemy out of all Northern
France and much of Belgium would
be well under way.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
AMERICANS PUSH
AGAINST TEUTON
UNDER PERSHING
Yankees in Complete Control
of Operation in the st.
Mihiel Salient
BY associated Press

London, Sept. 13.-The Daily Mail
correspondent at the American front
sends the following description OF
the battle along the st. Mihiel sector:
The First American army under
personal command of General Per-
shing for the first time went into
action to-day Thursday in the st.
Mihiel salient. Never before has there
been such a large concentration of
American troops for one operation
and never have the Americans been
in such complete CONTROL of their
own operations.
The event had long been anti
cipated. Some people assigned to 1t
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13

SupStlIute, 10. 20 W SoS
Potatoes
New, per half peck $50. % to 35c
Sugar
Granulated, per ID. .....9h to 10kc
substitutes for wheat flour: Hominy.
corn grits. cornmeal, corn flour, edible
cornstarch. barley flour. rolled oats.
oatmeal. rice. rice flour. buckwheat
flour. potato flour. sweet potato -four
and soya bean flour.
The retail dealer selling standard
wheat flour is required to carry in
stock either barley flour, cornmeal or
corn flour, and he is not permitted to
require that a consumer shall take any
other substitutes with wheat flour
than one of the three, but the Gus
toner may require, instead of these
three, any other of the permitted sub
stitutes which the dealer has In stock
and which are the following fiours:
Rice flour. potato flour, sweet potato
-four, buckwheat flour. oat -four. pea,
nut flour, milo flour, Kaffir -four and
meal, and feterita flour and meal.
Fifty-fifty and "Victory Mixed Flour
may be sold without substitutes.
Rye flour, in the proportion of two
pounds of rye to three pounds OF
wheat flour. may be sold as a substi-
tute.
All other substitutes must be sold
in the proportion of one pound of sub
stitute to flour of wheat -four.
Consumers may purchase a sixty
days supply of flour. with substitutes
in quantities sufficient for their rea-
sonable requirements.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13

six and seven per cent. greater than
the estimate made for them by the
provost marshal generals office. OF
ficers of General Crowder's staff said,
however, that the 100000 grand
total expected would not be over
run to that extent as the states re-
porting probably had abnormal local
conditions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
Five States Exceed
Their Draft Estimate

Washington, Sept. 13.-Five states
reporting early to-day on yester-
days draft registration of men IS
to 45 years, showed totals between
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
Fair Food Prices

The following statement. revised to
September 1S, regarding fair prices for
food necessities, was issued to-day by
the local Food Administration.
Consumer prices are figured on a
quotation of "cash-and- -carry" basis.
Credit and delivery prices may be
higher The Federal Food Admins
tration has no authority to fix prices.
If your retailer charges more on a
cash-and-carry" basis than the prices
named below. report him by letter to
the Federal Food Administration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13

Stuart's Calcium Waters Surely Do
Give q Lovely Complexion.
The reason why Stuart's Calcium
Waters beautify the skin is their
natural tendency to seek the sur
face.
The wonderful calcium sulfide is
one of the natural constituents of
the human body. You must have
it to be healthy. 1t enriches the
tNup the pimples and boils. eczema and
Sblotches, enables new skin of fine
NeXture to form and become clear,
pinkish, smooth as velvet and re-
fined to the point of loveliness and
beauty. This is how to be beauti-
full" Stop using creamc, lotions,
PGiG%deffs PiG fSr a4a taa DieaGnes "hfSn merely
cent box of Stuart's Calcium Waters
at any drug store today.
And if you wish to give them a
trial send the coupon below.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-31
At TILE REPUBLIC TONIGHT

Francis x Bushman and Beverly
Bayne, supported by a cast of stellar
rank, will appear at the Republic to-
night in the Metro All-Star Series
picture with Neatness and Dispatch"
screen version of Kenneth L. Rob
erts' Saturday Evening Post story
Frank Currier, Metros sterling
character actor, appears as Police
Commissioner Roger Burgess He
has been prominently cast by Metro
in Social Hypocrites" with May Ali
son, The Brass Check" with Bush
man and Bayne, Revelation" with
Nazimoya, and "Outwitted" with
Emily Stevens. Hugh Jeffrey, who
plays Police Inspector Cororan, has
supported the Metro co-stars in most
of their recent releases including
"The Brass Check" and Under Suspi-
eion."
Ricca Allen plays Aunt Letitia Jud-
son. She has appeared for Metro in
The Brass Check" with Bushman and
Bayne, THE Shell Game" with Emmy
Wehlen, and "Outwitted" with Emily
Stevens Sylvia Arnold, who plays
Mary Ames, makes her first appear
ance in a leading role in this picture
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-31
WHEATLESS DAY BAN
OFF AFTER TOMORROW
Food Administrator Also Re
moves Hotels Self-Imposed
Restriction
BREAD LIMIT is RETAINED

Wheatless days are to be abandoned
throughout the country beginning to-
morrow, and hotels, restaurants, clubs
and dining-cars under pledge not to
use any wheat at all until next har-
vest are released the same day from
The restriction, under order by cable
from Food Administrator Hoover. The
order also applies to homes which
have been observing wheatless days or
have been eliminating the use of wheat
entirely.
The use of Victory Bread composed
of 70 per cent wheat flour and 20 per
cent substitutes is to be continued
throughout the country, and the order
requiring hotels, restaurants, etc, to
serve not more than two ounces of
Victory Bread per meal to a customer
is also to be enforced. There was
considerable misunderstanding on
these points, evident particularly
among restaurant proprietors. as a re-
suit of Mr. Hoovers order, and a num-
Der called at the food administration
office went away with no doubt as to
the meaning of the announcement
Mr.. Hoover reached the decision for
the action taken, in England, follow
ing conferences there with food ad-
ministrators of the allied countries.
William H. Maltbie, acting food ad-
ministrator for Maryland, in COM
menting on Mr. Hoover's announce
ment, paid tribute to the patriotism of
hotels and eating places. Mr.. Maltbie
also took occasion to oppose as un-
necessary for Maryland the Pennsyl-
vania food administrators plan for a
general investigation of the accounts
of licensed food dealers and the issu-
ance of a price list of vegetables. A
caution to all dispensers of sugar for
retail consumption was sent out by
the local food administration as to the
proper use of sugar obtained by house
holders for canning purposes. Those
householders signing pledges on which
they obtain % pounds or less for can
ming are TO use the sugar only for
preservation of fruits, etc, for winter
use, and sugar thus obtained is not to
be used in cooking apples, dried
peaches. etc, today for consumption
tomorrow.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-31
90 NOT APPEAL TO VISITOR
Writer Frankly Expresses Feeling CT
Disappointment at Sight of Build
Ings Within kremIin Walls.

To me none of the ten churches with
IN the Kremlin walls is impressive.
ivan Velild towers the highest, but il
is far from imposing. writes Maynard
Owen Williams in the Christian Her
aid. From one side ii resembles q tow
er rather than church. yet il has nc
such quiet dignity as one finds in the
Eutah Annar, near Delhi, or the tov'-
ering dome of St Sophia with its
fanking needle mlnarets. The other
cathedrals are dropped around with
careless abandon and n nice disregard
for the cost Of gold leaf, but none q
them dominates a vista or gather
about itself the other masses In pleas
ing array. The kremlin is a mighty
whole. composed of many unimpoSiag
parts. It's long red walls and splendid
gates produce. an effect of simple
strength which cannot be found within
their portals.
The interiors are as disappointing
as'are the groups of domes which dis
t:nguish the exteriors. None is large
aone is truly intimate. The effect is Cf
surplus gilt and multiplicity of saints
which remind one of the gopurams OF
India. Spindle-shanked saints, whose
amaciated figures seem too weak &c
support their gilt haloes, alternate
with knights in armor.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-31
Honey of the Bible.

It is interesting to note that the
wild honey named in the Bible may
not have been altogether the stores
packed away by the bee in the hol-
lows of trees and between the rocks.
There is a clear, sweet liquid called
honey dew found frequently en- leaves
and comes from the aphids, the tiny
"cows" cared for and ''milked" by the
ants for their saccharine substance.
There was so much of it on the leaves
of the trees in oriental chimes that it
dripped down in considerable quahd-
ties to the ground. This must have
been the kind named In the book Of
Samuel where it says: "And all they
of the land came to wood and there
was honey upon the ground. And
when the people were come into the
wood behold the honey dropped"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-31
PRIMITIVE WAYS IN ARABIA
What 1t Was in the Time OF
Abraham.

1t appears that in certain parts OF
the Arabian desert life is as primitive
rs in Abraham's time. Sheep are
still slain 10 seal a vow. The salt or
bread covenant Is observed and when
q man dies his tent is torn down and
destroyed.
Old names like Joseph, Moses, Alex
andcr, etc., are still in common use
among Arabs, although pronounced
"Yusuf," "biusa" and "Skandnr." To
divorce his wife q man may repeat the
formula "Ent telek" three times; usu-
ally uttering ii once makes the woman
behave and the repetition IS not nee
assary. The cyu eye superstition Is
common, and the first injunction Civ
IN n foreigner by experienced Arabian
travellers is that he must not point at
animals or persons in Arab settle
ments.
Arabs say that 4 man possessed 6
this mali-n power can look at a bird
dying in the air and It will drop dead:
that if he chooses to cast his wicked
spell on a camel it may go lame, or q
child may be struck blind. None of
the lower class can read or write, but
the Arab is noted for his ready wit
and his habit Of speaking in allegory.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-31
INTERESTING PAPERS BY
PROMINENT TEACHERS
EXCERPTS FROM FIRST ANNUAL.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF EDU-
CATION OF ANNE. ARUNDEL co.

of entrance to the elementary school
10 its year of graduation from the ele-
mentary school To see that the per
certage of elimination is great in the
upper grades When this select few
who survive enter the High School, it
would seem that they would find II
comparatively easy to get through the
four years Of the secondary work. But
statistics do not bear out this sup
position. on the contrary, nowhere
along the line is the slaughter greater
than in the first-year high. This ques-
ton Of why pupils are eliminated
from school is certainly worthy of
consideration by any school system
The facts underlying the causes may
lie significant for us in measuring our
service as a system.
A scientific study Of the educational
careers of individual school children
of the New York schools by DR. Van
Denburg brings out the following var
ious possible causes of elimination:
l. Sex. That boys stay a shorter
time in the High School than girls
u ~ | =
that enter at twelve stay three and a
half times as long as those who enter
at seventeen.
3. Physical FrailneSS.. That those
who are frail physically remain in
school longer than those who are not
those who wear glasses stay in longer
than those who do not
4. Nationality. That the Russian
Hebrew stays longest. the German
next, and the American third.
8. Expected Occupation. Boys who
say they expect to take up the learned
professions, such as law or engineer
ing. stay longer than those who are
undecided or expect to enter the bust
ness world. Girls who expect to enter
the teaching profession stay longer
than those who are undecided or who
take up stenography.
6. Value Placed on High School.
That those who think a high school
course necessary stay longer than
those who do not
z. Expectation of Completing the
Course. That those who come expect
ing to complete the course stay longer
than the undecided. Girls stay longer
than boys.
s. Economic. That this is a minor
consideration. The wealthiest, the
poorest, and the mean stay about
equally long in school.
8. School Marks i'm the First Few
Months. That those who stay longest
are those whom the teachers rate high
in the first few months. An average
of so or more means stay of five
times as long as an average of so or
below.
BY getting such records from pupils
at entrance and following careers of
three or four classes, it should be
possible for principals to calculate
the expectations of their communities.
Applying these findings to this par
ticular community, we find that the
same causes seem to be operating
here. More girls graduate than boys
Most of our classes are average. The
entrance class in 1914 was four
teen and half, ranging from thirteen
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-31
THEATRE ATTRACTIONS

in Cuthbert's clothes, and discovers
the necklace in his overcoat pocket
Believing it is a present for her which
he had promised. she puts il on, and,
on a dare, attempts TO steal the mo-
torboat from the boathouse of the
neighboring estate. Blair, the owner
OF the estate, discovers her as she is
entering Phyllis escapes, but in the
struggle she loses the necklace, while
her hat falls of revealing her luxriant
hair. and Blair recognizes her as the
girl OF the cafe.
Phyllis the next day reads in the
paper an account of theft of the neck
lace and believes her brother has stol-
en- it. She determines TO recover and
return it TO the owner. That night she
enters Blair's lodge Blair discovers
her but she escapes.
Phyllis finally decides to confess
What she knows TO Blair and goes to
his city apartment after writing her
brother When Cuthbert, puzzled by
the note, arrives and finds Phyllis in
Blair's apartment. he believes his sis
ter is compromised. and attacks Blair,
The mystery is cleared up by Blair's
Identification OF his overcoat Blair
asks Phyllis to put the necklace on,
and then tells her there is a legend
that the necklace will win for its own
er the heart of the maiden who wears
it.
This picture, "A Bit of Jade" will
be the excellent attraction at the Re
public Theatre tomorrow.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-31
Catarrah Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrah is a local disease, greatly in
fiuenced by constitutional conditions,
and in order to cure it you must take
an internal remedy. Halls Catarrah
Medicine is taken internally and acts
through the blood ON the mucuous sur
faces of the system. Halls Catarrah
Medicine was prescribed by one of the
best physicians in this country for
years. 1t is composed of some of the
best tonics known, combined with
some of the best blood purifiers. The
perfect combination of the ingredients
in Halls Catarrah Medicine is what
produces such wonderful results in ca
tarrahal conditions. Send for testi-
monials, free.
FL. CHENEY, & CO., Props, Tole-
do, Ohio.
All druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.