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8,@7 KILLED IN RAIL
ACCIDENTS DURING 1918
Injuries TotaIed e4,144, According
To Report Of Interstate Com.
kerce Commission.

me casualttes on steam railroads
IN connection with the operation of
trains during the calendar year 1918
amounted to S,6s7 deaths and GAIA
injuries, according to the annual re-
port OF the Interstate Commerce Com
missionship just made public. In ad-
oition there were $50 persons killed
ano !Io'fsl injured in non-train &C
cioents during the year.
During the calendar year 1918 there
were 1s4 employees killed and 2,332 in
Jureo In coupling, and uncoupling
cars Casualties due to employees com.
ing Into contact with overhead and
sloe oostructions, falling from and
getting on and off cars, resulted in
$50 deaths and 1883 injuries.
AS compared with the previous year,
there was a decrease of two deaths in
the number killed and 176 in the num-
Der injured in the former class Of ac-
cidents, and an increase Of thirty nine
in the number killed, and a decrease
Of 1851 in the number injured in the
latter class Of accidents
During the year ending June 80.
1919. the Commission Investigated
seventy-nfne train accidents. These
accidents included ffty-three col
lisions and twenty five derailments.
There were filed with the Commis-
sion IS. sS1 tariff publications contain
ing changes in freight. express and
pipeline rates. passenger fares and
classification ratings.
These figures. the report says, indi-
cate decrease in the number Of rate
changes established during the period,
but this period followed the general
increases in rates and fares ordered
by the Director General of Railroads.
The number Of informal complaints
received amounted to 4,450, a decrease
of zoos. Carriers filed 1855 special
docket applications for authority. to
refund amounts collected under the
rates admitted by them to have been
unreasonable, . decrease Of 876.
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IL 10 t. yssF best interest to put
yeur Liberty Bsnd interest In W. 8. 3.
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.FRENCHNURSE WINS
EVERY DECORATION
Woman Whose Bravery Was Re-
warded by Every Honor on
List Comes to U. S.

NEW YORK. Dec. 6.-Orphaned oy
the war and wearing all tho decorH-
tions that her native country couio
bestow on her, Mile. Martha Gautn1er'
war nurse with both the Frehcn
and American armies. arrived on ehe
French liner Niagara. She was so III
that she was. helped down the gang
plank by two American former sol
diers and a former sailor. whom sne
called "her brothers" and who came
to the French line pier to meet her.
Mile. Gauthier, in April. 1915, found
herself In the eighteenth sector. near
vitry. Although only . nurse, she
went out where the wounded lay De-
yond the linea Within short time
she was wounded by . German ma
chine gun bullet Then came long
days Of recovery In . front-fne hos
pital. Later she again took her
place. nursed the wounded. and one
day near Malincourt she was taken
prisoner, after having been woundcd
in the thigh.
Tried To Attack Her.
She was placed In a prison camp In
Alsace-Lorraine. and when German
major found that she was French
nurse he attempted to attack her.
Before he could overpower her she
had punctured both the arteries OF her
wrists, and because Of this was trans
ferred to a hospital One day she
secreted a bottle Of chloroform, and
that night while twenty-five wounded
Germans In the same room were sleep
ing she left her cot and crawled. she
said, from one German to another and
gave them a sleeping potion that
added to the soundness of their slum-
bers.
Hiding in shell holes. she finally got
into the French lines. There she
learned that both of her parents had
been killed by German bomb. With
in a short time her only brother, a
French soldier, died in her arms. A
few months after that she was wound
ed by fragment of a shell.
Her last service with the French
ended after working at the front with
the poilus at Charleroi On September
%. 1917, she went to get water for
her wounded when a shrapnel shell
burst near. wounding her.
The French government bestowed
on her the cross. of the Legion of
Honor the Medaille Militaire. given
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$500 BOOKS SENT
TO YANKS IN FRANCE

Two and one-half million volumes
Of American reading matter were sent
to Yankee fighters in France through
the library war service Of the Ameri-
can Library Association. These hg-
ures are contained in the annual re-
port of the Librarian of Congress- who
was honorary general director of the
service.
The American public gave $4,000. .OoC
and 5000, 900 books to the library serv- =
Ice in American camps and abroad
Half a million books were supplied for
education Of soldiers after the ar
mIstice.
The Library Of Congress now has
2.710,o56 volumes, besides maps and
manuscripts. A number of old his
torical documents and the papers OF
Presidents Taft and Roosevelt have
been added during the fiscal year GOV.
cred by the report
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MINISTERS PLEECED BY
MAN WITH LOUD "AMEN"

BALTIMORE. Dec. 5.-About three
weeks ago a patriarchal old man
walked into the office Of the Metho-
dist Protestant and introduced him
self to Editor Frank T. Benson as the
Rev. J. s. Newton, a fellow minister
OF the Methodist Protestant Church
and member of the South Carolina
conference, besides being an old
friend Of the Rev. DR.. +. T. Tagg, the
former editor. His purpose in visit
ing this city. he said, was to seek
treatment for his sick son, who was
supposed to have been at Johns Hop
kins Hospital
Impressed by his benevolent appear
ance and his piety upon all occasions
and under all circumstances, local
members of his denomination rallied
round In q satisfying and comforting
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Cussing, Plain Cussing,
Even With Reformers,
Popular In England

LONDON, Dec. 6.-The British
public Is not so sensitive about 4
"cuss" word or two these days.
Lately some Of the reformers
and rcconstructionists have been
sowing their wild oaths all over
their speeches, and they're being
reprinted in the press just ex-
actly ~ they fell from the orators
lips.
Hell" in the newspapers Of to-
day Is HELL" not "h-Il," which was
An anaemic rendering Of q flne
expletive. considerate Of the feel
ings OF old-time readers.
General Ironside came back
from Russia and told every re-
porter who approached him. 'T
think a damn sight too much has
been said about Russia already,
and nobody thinks any the worse
OF General Ironside nor of the
newspapers for writing damn
damn instead of d-n.
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only for the highest duty under are,
and the Croix de Guerre.
As Nile. Gauthier convalesced she
made up her mind to serve with the
Americans and was accepted a. an
army nurse At the base hospital At
Bordeaux.
There she met . sailor NJ H. Har-
rison. OF Philadelphia, now third en-
elneer OF the steamship Westwood.
Another patient was Leon Worner.
OF camden. who served with the Five
Hundred and Eleventh Engineers.
Mile Gauthier will go to the home
or Harrison in Philadelphia, and stay
with his mother
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A practical shoe repairing outfit
that will enable every family in
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manner. Money was loaned him by
ministers. The Rev. DR.. G.. w. Hadda-
way had him in his church at one
service and the visitor made a deep
impression with his loud Amen" He
was taken to the dining room OF q
department store by group Of min
listers and held the attention of the
whole room during the meal with his
thanks to Providence for the vtands
which graced the table. St John 8
Board of Benehcence had decided to
give him 500 for himself and his
paralyzed son and things were SAIL
ing smoothly when it occurred to some
suspicious soul to inquire At the hos
pital about the SON
There was no son. This unpleasant
fact caused further Investigation. In
quiry was sent to President Somerset
Of the South Carolina conference. Re
ply came that ]. 8. Newton had been
requested to resign from that confer
ence twelve years ago.
IL - t. ye0F best interest to Put
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WAR KEEPS COUPLE
APART SIX YEARS
Wife OF G. w. U. Graduate Final.
Iy Reaches U. S. With Dread.
full Stories of Oppression.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 6.-After q sep
aration Of nearly six years, caused
by the war, Simon 8. Gerber was able
to bring to his home his wife. Mrs.
Judith Gerber. and their six-year-old
son, Leon, who have just arrived from
Rumania.
Mr.. Gerber had intended to return
to his native country for his family,
but finding this impracticable sent
his wife funds and directions for the
journey, through the State Depart
ment and the American consul at
Bucharest .,
Mr.. Gerber came to the United
States early in 1914, and although q
graduated and registered pharmacist
in Russia, took q course At tho George
Washington University In washing
ton. where he became . chemist Dur
ing the war he made continued but
unSuccessful efforts to bring his fam
lily to this country.
Speaks Three LaA40GeA.
Mrs. Gerber, who speaks Rumanian.
Russian, and Yiddish. but a. yet no
English. has been living 1t their
former home in the province of
Bessarabia, which has been annexed
by the Rumanians. Her account of
the cruelty Of the Rumanians IS
reminiscent Of the stories OF the
German invasion of Belgium As a
result of their treatment the whole
province is just about ready to re-
volt, Mrs. Gerber stated.
The Rumanians, Mrs. Gerber de-
clared. have been shrewd enough not
TO use guns, as they feared an imme-
81 l. NIL l1ySA Adj ~
other means of torture. The soldiers
take whatever they wish without any
payment. she declared, and when the
inhabitants of a village do not do
whatever the military wish, they beat
to death with clubs and knouts the
leading citizens.
People Impoverished.
In the two years and nine months
that they have ruled the province the
Rumanians have managed to impover-
ish the people, she says, not only by
taking their possessions. but by COM
pelling them to exchange their roub-
bfes for Rumanian money at a ruinous
rate of exchange. As q result, q pair
of good shoes now costs $3.50, and a
pair that will last about three weeks
$62. Children's shoes cost $50 and q
pound Of bread $3.50. The other
charges are in proportion. In many
places, according to Mrs Gerber. the
Rumanians have attempted to exact
more than the people had in their pos
session altogether. with the result
that even existence II all but impos-
sible. She says that they are killing
both the bodies and the souls Of the
inhabitants.
Helping Belshevfl1. She Says.
Although the Rumanians, accord
ing to Mrs. Gerber, advance as a pre-
text for seizing Bessarabia that II ia
to save the province from the Boil
I sheviki. they are. nevertheless, giving
the Bolsheviki in the province OF
I Ukraine, which ID separated from
Bessarabia by only q small river
guns and ammunition to continue
their outrages. There were no Bol.
| sheviki in Bessarabia. Mrs. Gerber
says. although the Rumanians have
declared that Bolshevism was being
supported extensively by the Jews
here Mrs Gerber told stories of the
bloodshed and massacres in Ukraine
, by Bolsheviki, aided by the Ruma
3 niana which are worse than any out
RACES committed by the Germans In
Belgium
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on which the men are being sxanAasl
are arithmetic. spelling. psnmass41A
reading. blueprint reading. -
theoretical knowledge Of the trAAA
There - still q need tor exper1eoooA
bcilermakers ~ the local Navy Yafd
and at many of the Asvy yar1s
throughout the ccuntry.
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HOLD APPRENTICE TESTS
AT NAVY YARD TODAY

Examinations for Apprentices In
the various metal working trades are
being held today at the Washington
Navy Yard. The apprentices who
pass the examinations will be given
positions to I'LL existing vacancies at
the yard
Apprentice classes in the old pat
tern shop are discontinued while the
examinations are going on Subjects
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ALLIANCE PLANS BAZAAR.

Under auspices Of the woDss's Az
lance of All Souls Church. . bAaAAs
and ball for the benefit - tAs Nsas
East Fund and local sAA<sesas WI -
givsn In the New WnlAF1 - 3So1nH
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MUSTARD PLASTERS!
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Chapter CCV
copyrighted. 1919. King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)

Chapter CCV
copyrighted, 1919, King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
When Neal passed the restaurant
the day was lunching with Ahthony
Norreys l was helpless, and knew
it.
| couldn't lean out across the bal
cony and shout to Neal, Ind there
wasn't the slightest hope that ENVY
would call his attention to my pres
,nce. or that he'd do anything more
than bow even if she did. SO had
TO let my brother get away from me
again, and l didn't even know where
he was living.
Later IN the afternoon, when Tony
and l had talked our fill about Bet
TVS happiness and the bravery that
was keeping unhappiness at pay,
and he had gone back to WORK.
put my pride in my pocket and tele-
rhoned ENVY. l wanted news OF
Neal. so l was prepared to let her
sloat, over me if only she'd tell me
how TO get in touch with him. But
ENVY wasn't home. 1 left word for
her to telephone me that evening
or the next morning.
ENVY did neither. but early the
next morning the clerk at the Wal
grave announced, Miss Mason call
ing"
Send her up" 1 replied, with
mixed emotions.
l didn't expect to enjoy Evvys
visit. but 1 thought it might prove
useful to me. | was right-and
wrong. AS soon as our first greet
ings were exchanged, Envy got down
to business. She had taken off her
smart sable scarf and seemed alb
sorbed in patting the fur to absolute
sickness as she spoke in her throaty,
little voice:
rs that distinguished looking
man you were lunching with yes
terday the latest, Anne?"
What do you mean?" 1 demand
ed.
"Oh, don't play Puritan with me-"
Evvy's voice was amused, and she
gave. me a fleeting glance at her
eyes before they dropped again to
a study of the scarf.
I'm not playing anything" I re-
piled, smoothly. Il want to know.
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Advice to the Lovelorn
TWO BOYS AND A GIRL

Dear Miss Fairfax:
l am eighteen and love young
man of twenty. A short time ago l
meet a young man and he asked me
to write to his brother in France.
His brother knew me, but L didn't
know him. Foolishly | started to
write and he answered with nice
friendly letters. Now ! get letters
from him with love in them.
! am worried for the soldier is
coming home soon. My friend, whom
| really love, knows nothing of these
letters, and if he found out, l don't
know what he would say to me.
WORRIED.
I should tell the young man /
really love the truth, while not do
ing wrong and to which no one, but
the most jealous Turk" could OBJ
ject. You wrote merely friendly
letters to a soldier, as thousands of
American girls did, and finally the
soldiers friendly letters began to
contain love interest. At the same
time I'd write to the soldier and tell
him your interest was only friendly.
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STRINGS

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There was hidden barb in every
word, but the worst was saved for
the climax. And I'm told that this
Mrs. Cosby is warm and alluring
and young. Do be careful, Anne,
anI if you have any trumps-play
them"
Are you actually trying to do me
a good turn?' l asked, revealing
my attitude clearly before l real
lied it.
Yes l am-though you may not
believe it," said ENVY more con-
vincingly than she had ever spoken
before. Il saw Jim and the Cosby
woman at the Breakwater Inn Sat
.urday night drinking vichy as If it
were nectar. I'd come over from
our country place with Neal. He
was staying the weekend with us.
How that nice boy did vince when
he say his sisters husband playing
the devoted to a beautiful womani
Now, how do you think he'd have
your gaunt cavalier?
Neal knows me-" L cried. He
wouldn't have thought any harm -
Envy broke in with u laugh:
Meals beginning to know the
city, too, and what it does to people.
He's a man now, Anne. He has a
mans way of looking at things
and a mans emotions. He idealizes
his 'Babbsie,' and I'd be the last
to wake him up-unless l had to-
I knew there was q covert threat
in that. but l couldn't drag it out
where 1 might fight it. Nor could
1 persuade Envy to give me any
clue as to Meals whereabouts. But
her parting words gave me food for
no satisfaction.
1T wouldn't be loyal to Neal to
tell you what he doesn't want you
to know. And you must realize how
loyal 1 am to the dear boy when L
put my pride in my pocket and come
here in spite of the way you always
doubt me. If you weren't Meals sis
ter, / wouldn't have taken all the
trouble to warn you"
She left me with the feeling that
Neal wasn't my brother any more
a friend of hers. AS for my
friendship with Anthony Norreys.
I made up my mind Envy couldn't
touch that
(To BE Continued.)
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I however, what you mean when you
ask a married woman if-a bach
elor is the latest?"
"A baby stare certainly goes with
that remark" laughed Envy. My
dear, don't pretend that you're un-
conscious of the sad fact that since
the charming married women mo-
nopolize the bachelors, the debu-
tantes have to put up with the neg
lected husbands Society certainly
is merry -go-round."
Don't be cynical. Evvy." I re-
torted, unsheathing the claws 1
hadn't known l possessed. Your
role is girlish innocence. Cynicism
ages wide blue eyes dreadfully."
Il was trying to be tactful," re-
piled Envy, fixing her blue eyes at
their widest on me and evidently
giving up the effort. But you want
it straight and if you haven't any
other sincere friend in New York
never forget-what l owe you and
Jim. That's to save you from your
selves. If you don't see where you're
driving that dear boy the way
you're carrying on-well, it's time a
real friend told YOU
Envy! You're insulting. 1 won't
listen;" cried, wondering if women
ordered other women out of their
apartments anywhere except on the
stage.
Envy rose, and her voice had an
injured husky sweetness when she
spoke again:
Anne, you act as if we had to
mince words. Don't l know there
isn't q particle of harm in you!
But you drive men to distraction
with the warmth of your eyes and
hair, and the coldness of your mouth
and manner. Toms mad about you
and you freeze him. And our
dear, unstable, reckless, boyish Jim
mie-don't you see what you're do
ing to him ?"
Envy" 1 cried in real distress
this time. What do you mean?
Sit down and tell me-
Il mean this, Anne Harrison!
Jim has to have his. own way or
think he's getting it. I didn't un-
derstand that, so 1 broke with him
long ago. l don't want to see an
other woman-his wife-drive him
still nearer the reefs that 1 did"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26
You Need not
Suffer from Catarrh

use for over fifty years, will driv
the catarrhal poisons out of your
blood, purifying and Strengthening
it, so it will carry vigor and health
to the mucous membranes on it's
Journeys through your body and
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All reputable druggists carry
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For Ski,, Tortures

Don't worry about eczema or other
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Zemo generally removes pimples,
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26
"Wher a Girl MarrieS"
BY ANN Isle

A New Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problems of a Girl Wife
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26

her lessons or her hours of practice !;
she was simply putting little life
and vivacity into her idle moments,
which she would otherwise have occu-
pied in plying herself for being so lonely
and unhappy.
Professor William James asserted
that we only use about one-fourth of
our brain power, and that we are really
reservoirs of unsupported wealth and
untapped mental ability
The majority of us don't begin to draw
on these reservoirs, and we are not al
ways wise when we suppress our i'm
pulses to do things on the side.
The more knowledge and training we
can pick up here and there, by that
much more our work in any particular
line is improved and enriched.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26
But You Must Drive It Out of
Your Blood to Get Rid of It
permanently
Permanently.

You have probably been in the
habit of applying external treat.
ments, trying to cure your Catarrh.
You have used sprays, washes and
lotions and possibly been temporar-
lily relieved. But after a short time
YOU had another attack and Won
dered why. You must realize that
catarrh is an infection of the blood
and to get permanent relief the
catarrh infection must be driven out
of the blood. The quicker you come
to understand this. the quicker you
will get it out of your system. S.
5. S., which has been in constant
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your welfare so closely at heart.
If the young man cares about you
in the right way, he will certainly
be anxious for you to finish your
educational course before asking you
to marry him. For the present, at
least, l would try to forget him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26

2S01-This Cover All" Apron may
we'll serve as a morning" or play
dress. 1t is cut in kimono style, and
the closing may be reversed. Cling
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The pattern is cut in sizes: 6,
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pattern of this illustration
mailed to any address on receipt of
10 cents in silver or stamps.
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DOURTFIrT,

other pupils Would you advise me.
which is best, to marry him or try
to forget him?
DOUBTFUL.
At eighteen it is certainly best to
regard the wishes of ones parents,
as no one else could possibly have
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26
SHE IS IN LOVE WITH HER
TEACHER

Dear Miss Fairfax:
am a girl of eighteen and go
to college, and l am deeply in love
with my teacher, ten years my sem
ior. He has asked my to marry
him. But my family objects. They
claim he is too old for me and that
he also pays much attention to his