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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
POLES WRITING
BOOK OF WAR
Story of Atrocities Under the
Reign of Bolsheviks Is
Being Compiled

Warsaw, Oct. 1s.-The Polish
Government is compiling the story
of the atrocities committed under
the Bolshevik reign in the city of
Minsk, now occupied by the Poles.
The latest, brought by an Ameri-
can Red Cross worker who has just
returned from a relief assignment
in that newly occupied city con-
Germs the murder of a woman hos
pital assistant who was rash enough
to express the hope that conditions
would improve when the town fell
to the Poles.
The director of the hospital in
question, smarting under an Hide
served rebuke administered to him
by a surly official of the Red
regime, warned the latter that the
arrival of the Poles would bring a
change for the better. For this he
was deported to Smolensk. His wo-
man assistant, who ventured a lit
tie further in expressing her opin-
ion, was shot into a grave on the
dawn before the taking of the city
by the Polish army.
When visited by workers of the
American Red Cross Commission to
Poland, the hospitals and orphan
ages of the city were found in such
pressing need of food that many of
them had been obliged to close.
One home for war orphans had
been without so much as a crust of
bread for more than a week. Many
others had suffered similar priva-
tions. According to reports on in
vestigations, only outside aid can
rescue these people from the chaos
of terror and suffering in which
they are submerged.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
MECHANICSBURG

Mechanicsburg, Pa, Oct. 1S.-Lit-
tie Miss Elizabeth Brindle, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Brindle,
Maplewood avenue, entertained
members of the young peoples mis-
sion band, of St. PauPs Reformed
church at her home on Monday eve
ninfi. There were about 80 persons
present who took contributions of
jellies and canned fruit for the Hoff-
man orphanage at Littlestown. Fol-
lowing social hour, refreshments
were served by the hostess. Miss
Clara Titzel and Miss Ada Wilmer
are in charge of the young people.
Mrs. Murray l.. Dick, president of
the Woman's Club, and Mrs. T. D.
Winston, secretary, were in Scran-
ton attending the State Federation
of Womans Clubs, in session in that
city this Week.-Mrs. Edith Sprin-
ger, of East Coover street, was elect
ed a delegate to represent Trinity
Lutheran Willing Helpers Mission
Band at the convention in York on
October 22 and 23.-Mark B. Ibach,
of South Market street. and w. d.
Myers were in Carlisle this week at
tending court as jurors.-Prof. and
Mrs. A. H. Eye were in Harrisburg
on Saturday attending the Thomas
Stamm wedding reception.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
Girl Saved 100000
For N. j. Bank While
Facing Bandits Gums

New York, Oct. IS. - While tho
police of Roselle, n. j., Elizabeth,
Morristown and this city were seek
ing the seven bandits who held up
the First National Bank in Roselle
Thursday, Miss Margaret Carpenter,
the 19-year-old heroine of the rob-
berry, was back at her desk in the
bank to-day. She is given the credit
for having frustrated the robbery,
which might have resulted in the
loss of 100000 in cash and securi-
ties.
The bank officials are still urwill-
ing to make public the exact amount
of their loss. but it is not believed
to be more than s2,500. Miss Car
penter, staring into the muzzle of
revolver, her hands held high above
her head, managed to press with her
foot a button that sounded a signal
in police headquarters across the
street from the bank.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
Fuel Oil Burner to Be
Shown at Penn-Harris

A good deal of interest has been
awakened among business men in
Harrisburg anticipating the demon
stration of the new heating devices
invented by William NJ. Hoffman,
which are to be exhibited in the
engine room of the Hotel Penn-Har-
ris, Monday afternoon.
The threatened strike of bitumin-
Gus coal miners, tagether with the
recognized shortage in anthracite
coal, gives extreme timeliness to an
invention designed to add another
fuel to those available for home
heating and other heating problems.
1t is evident that an effective solu-
ton of the use of cheap oil as fuel
has in it tremendous business posi-
bilities, and II. B. Milward, whose
statements have aroused the interest
of the Harrisburg business men he
has been interviewing, is certainly
confident that the Hoffman inven-
tions are such a solution.
MEMORIAL PARK ADDITION
The Suburb Cnparallel ed.-Adv.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
MALTA

Malta, Pa, Oct. 16.-The remains
of James Hamilton, of Emporium.
were brought here for burial in the
Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery.
-Alva NJ. Zerbe, teacher of the
Lentz school. attended the teachers
institute at Harrisburg this week.
Mrs. Charles Benner and children,
of Sunbury, visited relatives here on
Sunday.-David B. Spatts, Jr., who
was employed on the farm of NeVin
E. Harris for the summer, returned
to his home at PaXton.-Mrs. Emma
Zeiders, of Harrisburg, is visiting at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Irwin Karstetter.-C. E. Dreibelbis
left for Philadelphia on Monday.
where he expects to find employ
H. Zerbe was at
Herndon on Saturday.-Mrs. j. L.
Wilmer is home from a trip TO
Lancaster
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
$4,000 Reds in U. S.,
the officials Believe

Washington, Oct. 1S.-Federal Of
ficials here estimate that there are
at least $4,000 radical aliens in this
country who believe in the system
of Bolsh evism and the principles
advocated, and who are agitating for
the confiscation of property and the
overthrow of organized Government.
These agitators are supported by
many of the 5000 foreign language
papers printed in this country,
which are circulated mainly in the
large industrial centers, where the
alien population is the largest.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18

eliminated the situation will be much
less severe than the present outlook
indicates and motor car dealers will
benefit to degree proportionate with
their efforts to relieve the shortage"
1t was added by the executive that
there are fewer freight cars in active
service now than at any time in the
last three years.
The campaign undertaken by
Dodge Brothers is in line with the
advice of the Director General OF the
Railway Administration, who con-
ceded a few days ago that there was
grave danger of q freight car short
age. In asking shippers to give their
cooperation, he suggested prompt
loading and unloading of freight
cars, and hauling by motor truck as
the most important means of afford
ing relief.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
CELEBRATES RIRTHDAy

Lykens, Pa, Oct. 18.-Mrs. SAM
uel Fetterhoff, of North street, was
agreeably surprised on Thursday
evening when a number of her
friends gathered at her home to help
celebrate her sixty-eighth birthday.
The evening was spent in games and
talk of olden times, after which a
supper was spread, of which all par
took. Her daughter, Miss Elizabeth
Fetterhoff, of Washington, D. c., was
home for the occasion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
WORKER SPEAKS

Chambersburg, Pa, Oct. IS. -
Miss Mabel Stafford, a representa-
tive of the national board of the
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton, who is organizer for the east
central field of the educational pro-
gram by which the Y. w. C. A. is
presenting the world movement for
women, described her work at
meeting in the Central Presbyterian
church here last night. Miss STAFF
ford has just returned from the
Orient where she spent the summer
in China, Japan and Korea.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
THOMPSONTOWN

Thompsontown, Pa, Oct. Is. -
Miss Cora Mcclellan, of Lewistown,
is visiting the Misses Mary and Anna
Dimm.-Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Halde-
man have gone to Detroit, Mich.
where they are guests of their scn,
Nj. ]. Haldeman, and are also at
tending the convention OF the Episco-
pal church.-Dallas Thompson, OF
Topeka, Kans., was a guest of MIR.
AMI Mrs. Edward S. Thompson Mon
day and Tuesday of this week. =
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Shirk and little
daughter and Mrs. S. w. Cameron
ard daughters, Anna and Marion,
visited in Harrisburg Saturday. -
Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua Gross, of the
Aqueduct, are OCCUPYING Mrs. E. A.
Tennis home for the winter.-Miss
Pearl Haldeman left on Friday for
Cleveland, Tenn, where she will
visit her friend, Mrs. William P. Mar
tin.-Mrs. ]. G. Haldeman is a guest
at the home of J. E. Haldeman and
family, 203 Harris street, Harrisburg.
H. u. Sewers is spending a week
among friends in Adams county. =
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. F. Tennis, of Madi-
son, Ind, are visiting Mrs. Israel
Tennis and Mrs. Mary Gross.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
ENTERTAINS GLASS

Enola, Pa, Oct. 1S.-Mrs. Chris
tan F. Kautz entertained the La
dies Bible class of st. Matthew's
Reformed Church at her home on
Columbia road Thursday evening
The following members were pres
ent: Mrs. John F. Gruver, Mrs. Guv
A. Yeager, Mrs. Ambrose Backen-
stoe, Mrs. William L. Fisher. Mrs.
Ellis c. Rosenberg, Mrs. McNaIl,
Mrs. c. F. kautz. Miss Clara Nc
Nall.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
CANCEL CELEBRAATIoN

New Bloomfield, Pa, Oct. Is.
The celebration arranged by Perry
county lodges to celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary of the found
ing of the Independent Order of odd
Fellows on Saturday, October 25, has
been cancelled because of the torn
up conditions of the borough streets.
the celebration having been sched.
uled to be held here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
Returns From West
in Interest of the
Salvation Army

Alfred Franklin Hoffsommer, of
Old Orchard, this city, has Just re-
turned from a 10 weeks stay in the
middle west in charge of the Saliva
ton Army Home Service Fund for
100000, representing territorial
headquarters in Chicago which has
jurisdiction of all Salvation Army
work west of Chicago to the Haw-
iian Islands.
After 10 days rest at his home,
Mr.. Hoffsommer, with his associates,
will take up the organization of a
national campaign for S10,000,000
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
WEDDING ANNOUNCEn

Marysville, Pa. Oct. IS. = An
nouncement has been made of the
marriage of Miss Esther Viola
Shatto and Cloyd o. Dick. of Key
stone, by the Rev. L. e. Yeter. mas
tor of the Keystone United Evan
gelical church.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
BURNED BY ACID

Gettysburg, Pa, Oct. 1S.-whife
working in the chemical laboratory
at Gettysburg College. Nelson Fish
er, a post graduate student was
badly burned in the eye by sui
phuric acid. Fisher is a member
of the football team and will not be
able to play against Ursinus TODAY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
FRUIT GROWERS CaII.En

York, Pa, Oct. 18.-A meeting of
the fruit growers of York county.
will be held in the Court House on
october 80, at 1890 a. m, for the
purpose of organizing an association
The meeting has been called bv
County Farm Agent G. G. Weber.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
MISS GARDNER ENTERTAINs

Now CumDerIand, Pa, Oct. Is
Miss Elizabeth Gardner entertained
at her home in Little street on
Thursday night in honor OF Miss
Bessie Dull, who celebrated her
seventeenth birthday anniversary.
Halloween decorations were used.
Refreshm were served to: Miss
Bessie Dull, Almeda Parthemore.
Amy Front, Elizabeth Kerns, Eliza
beth Gardner, New Cumberland,
Pauline Zimmerman, of Lemoyne,
Norman Wood, Lemoyne, Mr..
Fardy, Harrisburg, Earl Leelithaler.
Ralph Cook, Clarence Stettler,
Charles Gardner, Robert Gardner,
New Cumberland.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
1e CARS oFF TRACK

Marysvillc, Pa. Oct. 18.-A wreck
in which 16 cars were thrown from
the tracks. Tied up movements in
the local preference freight yards
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, yes
terday to Il considerable extent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
DIES AT DAUGHTER,s HOME

Columbia, Pa, Oct. 18.-George
w. Wolf died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. J. w. Noll. aged So
years. Three children, Mrs. goil
and Amelia. of Columbia, and Lille,
wife of ]. H. Hook. of Harrisburg,
survive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
BACHELORS WANT GAMES

The Lockwood Bachelors Club, OF
Chambersburg, would like to kSar
from the managers of fast basket
ball teams in regards to scheduling
games. Write your terms to the
manager, J. NJ. Shade, Chambers
burg, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18

[other State News on Page FL
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31

handling the war part of her novel
than most of her contemporaries have
so far achieved. She does not let the
war efface everybody nor transform
human nature overnight. We admire
the honesty with which she conforms
to her people in shaping the fate of
Densie Plummer's son-who did not
get to France and win the Croix de
Guerre. But we wish she had not ex-
planned the source of Rex Humber
stones income in the way she does.
It's like mixing bit Of a Robert W.
Chambers formula with the Mary S.
Watts-like recipe Of her novel.
The solid construction and the sub
stantial qualities of A Woman
Woman were what reminded us of
Mrs. Watts's best work-also, maybe,
the informal, even goSsipy -garrulOus
touch in the telling. Otherwise the
main comparison that entered our
heads was with Mary Roberts Rine-
hart. We kept thinking: "Mrs.
Rinehart S public wilf~eat up this
novel and ask for more!f
Now A Woman s Woman is mainly
all about one family and variegated,
interesting, not untypical American
family at that. We have the authors
word for it that the wife and mother,
Densie Plummer, is "my own
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31

mother with notifications doubt
less in so far as the novel is bio
graphical there is a measure of ac-
counting for the first class quality OF
it. A novelist of very moderate skill,
drawing a figure based on a fine
actual person seen at close range, can
hardly fail to do good work. Nalbro
BARLEY has more than moderate skill.
Densie Plummer is the wife of
John, who inherited a coffee and
spices business and certain place in
the world to keep up. John was
just an ordinary American husband,
father and business man. He kept
spruced up while his wife ran things
at home and came to look more like
his mother than his wife. John went
about and saw people and had plenty
of good times, while Densie looked
after the children and made the money
go round and mended and everything
and in especial saw anxiously to it
that home was a regular place when,
between excursions, John deigned to
grace it with his presence. There were
three children. Harriet was the under
sexed, intellectual type; Sally was
pretty as they make 'em and utterly
frivolous; Kenneth was mothers
boy and John was sure that Densie
mollycoddled him.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
IN reading the new novel by Nal

~
" bro BARLEY, 4 Woman s Woman,
we arc convinced that here is writer
of fiction of interest to all American
readers of fiction. GAIL" we say;
for the book is good story, to begin
with, and well written, to continue
With, and solidly substantial-to fin
ish off. 1t has, therefore, elements
to appeal to every class Of novel
readers, and it has each element
strongly. Great stuff!
The most important thing about the
book is the feeling you have, all the
way through, of real substance. Pub
fishers have sometimes misused the
expression about "a cross-section of
American life," but the phrase can
honestly be applied to 4 Womon's
Woman and is, in fact, the most ac-
curately descriptive phrase to be had.
The book is noticeable for some sharp
exaggerations, but there is infinitely
more truth than exaggeration about
it, just as there is in good carica-
ture. And yet the exaggeratiOn is
nowhere so great as it is in first rate
caricature unless, perhaps, in the
figure Of the girl Harriet. Even here
we hesitate to talk about caricature
because you can go up to the United
Charities Building and find young
women who outdo Harriet-at least,
we'll bet you can. You might even
find them in Greenwich Village,
though of course there they would be
going in for Art or the New Litera-
ture instead of the Causes of Infdel-
ity Among Tibetan Immigrants at the
Port of New York, with statistics.
And, Harriet aside, the other peo-
pie are recognizable as Americans of
19O1-191S, the period with which the
novel deals. We don t mean that you
can recognize them as people you
have known-we should hope not, ex-
cept Densie Plummer, who would
have been thoroughly worth knowing.
We mean that they are put before
you with such an infnity Of little, life
like touches that you can see them
breathe and hear them talk and
understand them through and
through. One touch Of nature
makes the whole world kin, all
right; but several touches of human
nature are necessary to make you be-
levc in the possibility Of a character
in a novel And plausibility in her
people means that Nalbro BARLEY
knows how to write.
II.
1t is true the novel, ending in 1918,
brings in the war and takes on an air
of unreality in its closing pages. Why
this should be so we cannot tell, but
the intrusion Of the war in a novel
of American life has just that weird
effect, at the moment, anyway. The
war gives an impression of being
>lugged into such novels as A Womdn's
Woman where the whole story is con-
cerned with folks whom the war did
not, in the observation of most of us,
much affect or change. But it ought
to be said right away that Nalbro
BARLEY gets more perspective in
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
Nalbro Bartley's New Novel
"a Won ans Woman" Is Story at Once So Good and
So Substantial Make Her Work of National Interest

The problem that confronted Den
sic when, at 81, she attended Har-
riet S graduation was the problem Of
catching up with her family. Here
they were all moderns and she was
the back number. She was tied down
to narrow little set of interests at
home. You may say there were i'm
pOrtant interests, and so they we're;
the point is, they were not interests
she shared with her husband or any
of the children except possibly the
youngster, Kenneth. What to dof
They got out of the roomy, old
fashioned house and moved inte fiat
NDensie's idea. She didn't like it,
but she had to do something She be-
gan to get in the world Of women's
clubs, from an extremely humble
beginning, where her chief Importance
to her fellow club members was reg
istered by her willingness to provide
six dozen biscuit toward refreshments.
About here it strikes us we ought not
to tell many more particulars of the
story. They are for your enjoyment
when you read it. We can say this:
Densie does catch up and she even
shoots well ahead of her family In
fact, while she's Overtaking them
some of them shimmy back consid-
cradle distance in the fashionable rush
of our "vital" modern existences.
III.
The character drawing is impress
sively good and remarkably sustained
all the way through the book, but
there is nothing better in it, in that
respect, than the portrait of the girl
Sally, who was so pretty and so empty
headed and whose nemesis was TO fall
irreeoyerably in love with chap
who had not the least intention Of
marrying her, so that by the time she
found out just where she stood she
was as helpless as fly firmly meshed
in spiders web. Sally is so convine-
ing that you get angry with her-a
tribute to the authors skill as great
as would be the tribute to an artist
if you felt like using a dagger on his
deviGsh canvas. Only, of course, it
would not occur to You to dse dag
ger on Sally. You would prefer an
operation on the skull under that adj
mirable hair of hers. Her sister Bar-
riet commands a certain respect for
her driving power. After all, Harriet
had a dynamo buzzing inside her
only the eccentric WASH t right. Ken
meth is not 50 good. Densie is best of
all, but her husband, Rex Humber
stone, Senator Gleason and even such
minor personages as Sally Hatton and
Sam Hippler are done with care. We
wish Kenneth had not called Densie
Mummy" Sally would, of course !:
but only boys in English novels should
call their mothers Mummy.
We should say A Woman Woman
was novel one could recommend to
most anybody without danger of a
kick as a comeback. Believe us, that 5
a good deal to say.
A WOMAN'S WOMAN. By NnBRo BART
IEY Rostan. Small Mavnard T. 90
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-06-06
WHERE SOL DIERS ARE BETTER
Army officer Explains the Benefits Of
Development Of Physiological
Resistance.

In an interview with Surgeon Gen.
eral Gorgas for the American Maya
zine, about the chances your boy has
to come back alive, the author says,
referring to another army officer for
the moment
major Grille said another thing
which every mother and father ought
to learn by heart. He said: The
thing which affects a wounded mans
chances more than almost anything
else is physiological resistance. That
IL where the soldier puts 1t all over
the civilian every time. When a man
goes out from the worries, response
bilitles, anxieties, and irritations Of
civil life to the peaceful pursuit Of
war
''He stopped and laughed. Then he
went on seriously:
az mean thatl I've seen these sal
low, pasty young clerks get out and
turn into menl I've seen young chaps
who were little more than flabby hu-
man jellyish transformed by their life
in the trenches into husky fellows that
were grit clean through. They laughed
at things which would have finished
them completely before they went into
the army. They had developed the
biggest factor in wounded mans
chances-physlologlc resistance. And
1t was their life as soldiers that gave
them this new possession"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-06-06
POPULARITY OF LOST HAND
That He Should De Able to Feel II
Alternately open and Close Pux-
zles Soldier.

A British soldier writes: Most peo-
pie, I think, know that when a person
has lost a limb, that person still re-
tains the Sense" or feeling, of the
missing limb. As a case in point,
might mention that a friend of mine,
who had lost leg in the war, In an
unthlnking moment took step on the
missing leg and came to grief. my
self had the misfortune to lose my left
hand on the Messines ridge last June,
and all the pain l have suffered from
the wound has been in the hand which
no longer possess. Now, the peculiar
part of It all is that on alternate days
the fingers of the missing hand open
and close that is to say yesterday
they were closed; today they are open.
Tomorrow they will be closed again.
Can this be explained? This change
takes place during sleep, and once or
twice, on restless nights, l have actu-
ally felt the change taking place.
was lefthanded, and during the attack
1 carried my revolver in the missing
hand. When the fingers are closed
they are exactly in the same position
as If they were still grasplng the re-
volver. That l can understand, but
why should they open on alternate
days2 The only explanation can Of
fer is that what remains of the hand
after l was wounded was amputated
exactly twenty-four hours later. Also,
was wounded somewhere about 4
O'Clock In the morning, and was oper-
ated on about the same time the fol-
lowing morning, and the opening and
closing Of the fingers takes place about
this time.