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pack nicnt public opinion, ctiamtjersburg, niTP.w mcrngbectjiber 13, mis. I A L. PUBLIC OPINION! USt OiKS I fll Which? 1 1 -f I ff BELM0SE ENDIOOTX MMllW Si 7rrfSfF i vA i vAWA i IS vf i mm.m i V'A WA MS WVZ MVs 1 -1 NM'-L M' They Who Would Serve Their 1 1 Letters' from theffdnt By Edgar A. Guest LIFE'S FINEST MIRACLE I've reen the nun at morning break The sable canopy of night, I've seen the hills and fields awake To beauty with the coming light. I've seen the power of God, divine, In ways mysterious and strange.

And now upon life's battle line I've Keen the souls of mortals change. I've marveled at the birth of spring To see the orchards come to bloom. How glorious the blossoming That follows after winter's gloom! The miracles of life F.eyond the grasp of human ken. Out of the cold and barren ground I've seen the roses grow again. Now I have seen the soul awake, And looked upon.

a glorious youth That once had lived for pleasure's sake Co rorth to battle for the truth. I've seen the light of fire divine In eyes that once were dull and cold. Oh, privilege superbly fine! I've teen the souls of men unfold. I I've seen men spurn the easier way To tread the rugged heights of pain. I've seen them turn from geds to clay To worship 'One that shall remain.

I've seen them march from pleasure's ways To answer when the helpless cry. And in these dark and troubled days For liberty I've seen them die. (Copyright 1918 by Edgar A. Guest). DO THE BIGGEST MEN ALWAYS DRIVE THE 'SMALLEST AUTOMOBILES? 4 I 2 With the Paxagrzphers 2 Polities will remain a mystery as long as an intelligent man is willing to confess having spent $1154 in order to be eleeted'a lieutcrant-governor.

New York Evening Post; One consolation for a humble sphere is that no bygone, friendship with a gentleman of the name of Rernstorff is apt to and smite you. Phila-relphiu North American. This is tlje closed season for open diplomacy, Washington Post. Dr. Garfield Is out of a1 job.

We hope he has coal in his cellar at any rate. Philadelphia Record. The allies aren't lifting any blockades until they have got Germany nailed down tight. Rochester Her- aU I From the first it was a foregone conclusion that Germany would ask "for more" at thepeace. table.

Atlanta Constitution. ik a I This Day in the Great War i 1914 British submarine entered the Dardanelles and torpedoed a Turkish battleship. 1915 Berlin announced Anglo-French forces had been entirely expelled from Macedonia. 1916 Dutch section of League of Nations issued urgent appeal to people of America to intervene behalf ul 1917 Funchal, Madiera, was bombarded by a German subma- rine." 1917 German envoys arrived at lirest-Litovsk to signV armistice with the Russians. 1917 Berlin reported a further advance of the Austro-Germans in Northern Italy.

i ItOSH K. GILIVEJIT. Editor 'ibllnhed -'ery mornlrisr, except Sun- I day, by Til Ol'INiON l. Edward Loo, president, at thj" I'ulillc Cloion HuiliJiriK, Lincoln 'Way I Wt. tt inbersbur.

i'a. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRKS8 The A'orlated Pren I -rliiKlvely entitled to th for republication of at nw di-piiube credited to tt or not Otherwise credited In thin pa per and also the 1 new herein. All rllit of re-publh atlwn of Hpeclal dispatcher herein are also reserved. Friday, December is, ems IQia DECEMBER. rro Local Weather Superlatives Firat thunder atorm Jan.

12. Coldest day-Jan. 21, 11 below. Greatest raupe 47 degrees, Mar. 7, Heavies rain, 24 inches Aug.

6. Hottest day, Aug. 6, 104 degrees. Local Temperatures Readings taken dally at the local olH'Ki'vaUon nation of the United Hint1 weather bureau. Observations muda at 7 p.

m. on: Thursday, Dep. 12. Maximum 5 3 Minimum 32 Hit 3C Range 21 A vcru ice 4 2 crimes rL.vv big part is elections By 7 he Associated Press LONDON, Dec. 12 The British campaign Is becoming keener with the near approach of election day.

Election experts maintain' their prediction that the coalitionists will tie returned by a substantial majority. The kubjecls which appear to Interest Ihe electors most, ure; Who Is going to pay for the war? Will conscription be Will the former emperor and the crown prince he ti for tlieir crimen? Will the perpetrator of tortures on prisoners be brought to justice? Of the noncoalitkuiiHt parties, labor probably Is making the biggest effort. It declares the coalitionist assurance that conscription will cease Vi hypo- critical. It maintains also that the private capitalist system has broken down and cites a. recent government statement that state control of the railways during th war saved the country many millions as an argument In favor of national ownership and control of industry.

IMftTKl'lt INSTITUTE OF new yoimc has been closed NEW YORK, Deo. 12 The Pasteur Institute of New York, after nearly thirty years' service, lias been closed. The physician last at the heads of St, Dr. George (libler Rimbaud, had re-C'ldved a commission as major in the national army and was ordered to France on active service. His valedictory lor thei institute was the observation that it had fulfilled its purpose by Introducing the Pasteur treatments, now given In all Veil appointed hospitals.

It was the Pasteur pioneer this side of the Atlantic. After its establishment others were opened in Chicago, St. T-iOuis and elsewhere. The bulk of Its work was the Pasteur treatment of hydrophobia; since 11-10 more than 10,000 patients had been treated, four-fifths of them without charge, and only Doctor Ratnbaud knows how brains and medullas of hapless dogs which hail bitten some one had been examined to determine whether the canine vtx rabid or not. freq i sentenced BEADING, 'Dec.

12 Constable William Miles was given eight months In Jail and Edward Davis six months, with, $25 fine for each, yesterday by Judges Knrtiich and Wagner, after pleading guilty on charges of frequenting red-light resorts. Nine proprietresses of resorts were riven Jail sentences, four to nine months each, and seven other women were fined and put on probation. Sentence in another woman's case was suspended, one was held under advisement and one woman failed to appear. With the alleged scarcity of food in Germany Dr. Solf should be careful not to spill the beans.

DO YOU KNOW WHY 8 9 lojirld ii4 15 16 17:18 19 2021 22)23 24M6 27gS 2930 31! i -P'i merica Roll of Honor By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 The following casualties are "reported by the commanding general of the American expeditionary forces; Killed in action Died of wounds Died of accident and other causes Died of disease Died of airplane accident ,3 Wounded severely Wounded (degree undeter mined Wounded slightly Missing in action Total In the above list: Killed in action, Private Klmer II Hrechbill of Chambeisburi; It. II. 6. I Wounded severely, Lester Shearer of Carlisle, David M.

Rahauser of Chambersburg, Arohio F. Monn of Waynesboro and Martin F. RurR of Camp Hill, ItORF.UT WITJ.IAM COK Mrs. Robert Coe of Liiicohi Way ICast has received word from the war department that her husband, Robert Coe, was lightly wounded on September 26. Mrs.

Coe has had thiee letters from her husband since September and he said he is well and safe. PHIVATI-J. KLMKIt H. IlRKCIlN IUIjIj Elmer H. Brechbill, son of Mr.

and Mrs. C. R. Brechbill of Cham-bersburg R. R.

6, gave his life for freedom's sake on the battlefield in France on November 7. He 24 years old aad was drafted and left for Camp lee in September of 1917. Prior to his induction into the army-he worked on the farm for his uncle, Daniel R. BrechbHl of Crider's Church. lie is survived ly his parents, three brothers David of Rrat-ton's school house, Joseph, Clinton, and a sister, Susan, at home.

LIEUTENANT JOHN LYNN MORT Mrs. Nettie Mort of Fannettsbui'g has received word from the war department that her son, lieutenant John'' Lynn Mort of the signal corps, died in France November 22, witli bror.cho-pneumcnia. Lieutenant Mort enlisted In Los Angeles, July 25 1917., After receiving training at Camp's Lewis, Morse and Vail, he sailed for France. --lie fore enlisting Lieutenant Mort lived in California where he was a sub-superintendent of the Southern Sierras Power Co. at Klsi-nore.

lie aged 27 years. He was a member of Camp No. 577 O. R. of Masonic lodge.

California Electric Light Association, chamber of commerce ami of the Reformed Church, Fannettshurg. I STORK NEWS I i. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Eber Ridg-ley who reside at No.

IS Kennedy street, announce the birth of a son, Franklin EIer Ridgley, jr. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pheniele of Greene township announce the birth of a' eon. Mrs.

Margaretta Hatmaker Snedden announces the birth, of a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Spedden. who was boin at the home of: Mrs. Speddeii's parents, Mr. and. Mrs.

Jacob Hat-maker in Garber street. The child's father, Emmett Rpedden died from flu and pneumonia some weeks Sgo in Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Alonza Miller of 'Lincoln Way East annouj.ee the birth of a son.

i TODAY'S EVENTS I EVENTS l. Friday, the Thirteenth. An emergency conference on reconstruction "plans has been called by the National Organization for Public Health Nursing, to l3 held in Chicago today. What the smallest state of the union is able to accomplish in the production of corn and corn products will be illustrated at the annual show of the Rhode Island Corn Growers' Association, opening today in Providence. At the seventh annual meeting of the National Drainage Congress, which.1 is to begin its sessions in Chicago today, a large government appropriation for the- development of drainage systems and water power, flood control, and river regulations will be considered.

U. S. JJIMY If AS HOUSES AND MILES WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 Army remount stock on hatid when the armistice was signed included 477,262 ani-malsi a war department reportJissued yesterday shows. Of these, 113,725 were cavalry and riding horses, draught horses, 144,611 draught mules and 17,298 pack and riding mules, the remainder being unclassified.

ttCS 7 ttsn I 5039 Ten rods further on the horse snorted, and tried to etop. A writhing, flaming snake a burning branch plunged down through the smoke directly ahead. "Go on shouted Joseph Stajr. with; a sharpness that would ordinarily havo' set Cherrv tTf nt irnllon. I But, as the snorting creature etill shied, the man seized the whip ami lashed poor Cherry cruelly along LIj flank.

At that the horse went toad. Ha plunged forward, leaped the Llazlcg brand, and galloped down the road at a perilous galL The man tried neither to soothe him nor to retard the pace. The smoke swirled around them. The driver ceuld not see ten feet beyond the horse's nose. Ten minutes later they rattled down into tha straight road, and then, very soon, indeed, were at the abandoned 'camp.

The fire was near, but It had not reached this place. There was no eiga of life about. The man knew whJch was Judy's cabJn. lie leaped from the vehicle, leaving the panting Cherry unhitched, and ran to the hut. The door swung open.

The poor furniture wan In place. Even the bed-t clothing was rumpled In the old worn- en's bunk. But neither Ehe nor A man- da Parlow nor little Carolyn May was there. CHAPTER XVI. Th Laurel to the Brave.

The heart of the man was like weight in bis bosom. With so many hundred acres of forest on fire, and that, too, between the abandoned camp and The Corners and' Sunrise Cove, how would Amanda Parlow and Caro lyn May know where to go? Certainly the place must hare beea deserted In haste. There was Carolyn May's coat. The man caught It up and stared around, as though expecting tha child to be within sight. The old wotaan's clothing was scattered about, too.

It did not look as though anything had been removed from the hut. Coming out, he found another article on the threshold ona cf Amanda'3 gloves. Joseph Stagg lifted the crnmpled glove to his lips. "Oh, God, spare her!" he burst forlH, "Spare them both Then he kls.sed the glove again and hid It away, in the inner pocket of his vest. The hardware uealer tried to think of Just what the ugitivea might have flone when they escaped from tho cabin.

If It were true that Amanda would not run toward the fire, then she mora than likely had taken the opposite direction on leaving the cabin. Therefore, Joseph Stagg went that way setting off down the tote road, leading. Cherry by his birdie. Suddenly he remembered calling Prince the day Carolyn May had been lost on the Ice. lie raised his voice la a mighty shout for the dog now.

Prince! Prlncey, old boy! where: are you 5" Again and again he called, but thert was no reply. The smoke was more stifling and the heat more intense every minute. Mr. Stagg realized that he must get out quickly If he would save himself and the horse. He had just stepped Into the buck-board again, when there was-an ex cited scrambling in the underbrush, and a welcoming bark was glven.

"Prince I Good boy!" the man shout ed. "Where are they?" The excited dog flew at him, leaping on the buckboard so as to reach him. The" mongrel -was delighted, ami showed Jt as plainly as a dumb brutfj could. But he was anxious, too. lie leaped back to the ground, ran a little ahead, and then looked back to see If the maa was following.

The hardware dealer shouted to him again: "Go ahead, Prlncey! "We're coming Tie picked up the reins and Cherry; started. The dog, barking his satisfaction, on ahead and struck into a side path which led down fx glade. Joseph Stagg knew Immediately where this path led to. was a spring and a small morass la the bottom oC the hollow. "Go on! Good dog!" "cried Mr.

Stagg. "Lead the way to Hannah's Car'lyn He heard "the little girl 6creamlngs "Oh, Uncle Joe Oh, Uncle Joe 1 Hera we are Cherry rattled the buckboard down to the bottom of the hollow and stopped. There was some smoke here, but not much. The man leaped to the ground when he saw a figure rise up from the foot of a tree by the spring a figure In brown. "Joseph! Thank Godl" murmured Amanda.

The hardware dealer strode to her. She had put out bovh her hands to him, and he saw that they were trem-. bllng, and that tears filled her great brown, eves. r- give the good news to many French soldiers as I rodealong and what demonstrations, what joy, what ovation for me, the American officer. "We are camping on the edge of a little ruined village just about twelve miles from Verdun on the Meuse river.

The enemy was driven out only a few days before our arrival. We were very close to the- front when hostilities stopped. "We had a very pleasing social function here on Tuesday evening. We invited three French officers to take supper with us and it was great fun trying to get along in conversation. Of course we 'Americans have acquired sope French and our guests knew a few English words.

We helped one another and spent about three hours around our- table, very pleasantly. We exchanged addresses and brought in several enlisted men as singers to help out with the celebration. "We to see the American army of occcupation pass this place on its way into Germany as per the terms of the armistice. "It is rumored that France has asked America to allow a large number of our men to stay one -ear here for reconstruction." 1 IN THE DAY'S NEWS 1 Miss Christabel Par.khurst. who is one of the fourteen women candiates for parliament in the British elections to be held tomorrow, is a.

daughter of. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the well-known militant suffragist. Like her mother and two sisters, Miss Chritsa-bel has been prominently identified with the suffrage cause. She is said to be a most brilliant youijg-woman.

She took her degree as a lawyer at Victoria university, but was not allowed to practice under British law because of her tex. For pome years she held the position of organizing secretary in the Woman's Social and Political Union, and many of th most daring and ingenious devices of the militant suffragists were the direct product of her brain. With her mother and sisters she had b.een arrested several times in her devotion to the suffrage cause. HIGH POINTS IN I WAYNESBORO NEWS I i J. C.

Whitman of Cumberland, who was coming to Waynesboro to search for his lost daughter, was on the C. G. car due to arrive at n((on. He was in the baggage car and a piece of marble was jolted down, hitting him on the ankle and spraining it so he will not be abla to walk for several days. The local motor club held it3 final meeting of the year.

J. J. Schmidt was elected president. The fire company will hold a lair from Feb'. 8 to 22.

DIES ON HIS HONEYMOON" GETTYSBURG, Dec. 2 Andres Shelly, a yoing farmer and orchard-ist of Cashtown. died yesterday morning" from influenza at Niagara Falls. On November 30 he was married, to Miss Elizabeth Diehl and they were spending their honeymoon at the resort when he was stricken with the disease. He was 30 years old.

AN ANNOUNCEMENT (Contributed) s- We wish to announce the birth and death of our daughter, Evelyn Evangeline, born Dec. 8, died Dec. 8. Mr. and Mrs.

Raymond Gsell, Pleasant street. tm Ef FiSucf HOW TO t- KEEP THE I 'HOUSE T'CN Captain Arthur B. Fleming, a former town boy but who prior to his enlistment was a physician at writes a very, interesting letter to his mother, Mrs. M. B.

Fleming of East Liberty street. The letter is dated November 11, at Avocourt, France, and says in part: "This is the happiest day since I entered the service of Sam almost one year ago. It will be Closed by spending one hour with you. Note first that I give you my exact location for the first time. The war is over.

You undoubtedly know more of the details, 3,000 miles away, than we do. This day will long be remembered by me, first for its history and next for certain personal experiences. "We were at breakfast when an American ambulance "hurried past and threw out a bunch of New York Heralds (Paris Sunday edition) to the boys. There was a wild scramble and in a few minutes wt were cheering and- dancing. Frence soldiers came up and told us that "wireless" said the armistice had, been signed at I a.

m. and guns would stop at 11 a. m. At 9 a. m.

I started "back to our old location, on horseback, riding my German mare and leading our captain's horse. It was my privilege to i Local Hospital Notes Cliambersburj Hospital John Foreman of Edenyille had his leg broken yesterday When his hunting partner's gun 'accidentally, exploded and the shot struck him in the leg. He was admitted to the hospital yesterday. Lenora Miller of Burnt Cabins' was admitted for an operation yesterday. Privates William Hincke and Ralph Ellis of the truck train that camped here Wednesday night were discharged from the hospital yesterday.

Mrs. Tosten and son John of Kauff-mans, who were, ill with typhoid, were discharged yesterday. Merklein Hospital 'Mrs. David Isenberger, who tried suicide on Wednesday by taking rat poison, last night was resting fairly with chances new even that she will recover. Yesterday Clarence Lesher'of It.

R. 10 and Mary and-Edna Garvin of R. R. 11 were admitted; all are flu patients. Every bed is now occupied in the hospital.

I TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University, born in Boston, 62 years ago today. Arthur George Perkin, one of the world's foremost coldr chemists, born at Sudbury, England, 57 years ago today. Edwin O.

Excell, celebrated evangelist and com poser gospel songs, born at Unlontown, Ohio, 67 years ago Emil Seidel, Socialist leader and former mayor of Milwaukee, born at Ashland, 54 years ago today. DELIRIOrs WITH FLU; TAKEN TO CO. HOME Police Chief Byers had a problem to solve last, night. Herbert Wood, who makes his home vith Rush John's in South Main street, is delirious with flu. He was caught by the police, roaming around the street irt his stocking feet and wearing a 'night gown.

He can't be kept in bed, the family stated. to care for him was the. problem, and the only solution was' to take him to the county homo, "where conditions for caring for flu patients are bad. dawn for Ihis Sf fori- CT- nfwsi. you sje.e 1 DOUl hLL Mer Pi -A: Country Sergeant Garnet Gillan has sent a cable message from France to friends in St.

Thomas, that he is- well and He has been with the Aiyericati forces in Europe for some months. Lieut. J. Coyle Kennedy has received his honorable discharge from the army and has sailed from France for home. Mrs.

J. LL Lawrence of Altoona has just received word that her son, I Jeut. Njorman M. Lawrence of the 325th infantry, now in France, has been promoted to a captain. He states that he is in good health and just a few-weeks before, he had met Lieut Hunter Riddle and had a long talk with him.

Mr. and Mrs. William Fqrbes of Kennedy street received word yesterday that their son, Richard Forbes, who has been with the 837th aerial squadron in France arrived in New York on December 11 and is now at Camp Mills. COUNTY BOY TELLS OF BEING IN HOT BATTLE WAYNESBORO, Dec. 12.

Irwin Bonebrake, son of Mrs. Sarah Eone-brake, of Shady Grove, is the first in jured Franklin cotmty soldier of the American forces to arrive home after the battle of Chateau-Thierry. July 15, and he says that the fight was ter rible and he received severe injuries. He is, 20 years old. Bonebrake was in Waynesboro Tuesday and told the following: story in a straightforward manner without anj- braggadocio, whatever.

He was a member of a machine gun company. "When we were going in we met some British troops coming out," he said. "They told us there was no use going' in, that no outfit could live in that hell. "Our captain said: That makes no difference to me. I have orders to go, if not a man of us comes And we went.

"When we reached the spot where we were to commence fighting we jumped off our trucks (I was in a mo-torize'd battalion, and started right after those boches. Guess they didn't know where wff- were from, for they kept coming right toward tis. Say, you know a machine gun fires so fast it hits a man seven, times before he falls. Well, that was the softest picking we ever had. Those crazy Hans came right toward us like we were their friends and the way we cleaned them-up.

They dropped just like flies went over just like the way grass does when you put the scythe through it. We never had It as good again.for after they had counted their dead that night and I guess they realized the Americans were the, real thing. After this battle we had to pick them off the best way we could, but we got them, nevertheless. It was hell, but a fellow don't mind, it when he is in. "On Jjjly 3 the captain asked for a volunteeer to take a message to headquarters.

I offered to go. It was about 11. o'clock in the morning and I had to go across an open space, when, I presented a fine target to the boches. They got me all right, with a high explosive, which tore my limb open from the thigh to the foot. I was picked up and taken to the hospital, where they kept my wound open twenty-five days, picking pieces of bone and shrapnel out of It before they sewed it up.

Then they sent me to Paris to tlie Red Cross military hospital No. 1. "I sailed from France October, 22 and at Newport News, on November 2. From there I went in hospital at Cape May, and now I must report at Fort McIIenry, Baltimore. "I will probably never be able to work" on a farm again, but thev are going to teach me a trade, that of automobile repairing, which will enable me to earn a livelihood." He said while he was in the P.o.i Cross hospital the Huns shelled it and one of the Red Cross nurses was struck by the splinter of a shell or on net which entered her left rhook and came out through the right one causing her to lose her speech.

NEGROES DRIVEN OUT Men. Women and Children Cleared l-om rureen Iliver, Wyoming By The Associated Press OGDEN, Utah. Des 12 -v-. refugees from Green River, ar- ifre toaay declared that all colored men. women and 'children had been ordered to leave that inwn lowing the lynching Tuesday of Edward Woodson, a negro charged with killing a railroad switchman and wounding another.

Nearly all left their possessions In Green River, having been given only until last night to leave. KILLED. A BUCK Bruce Mor-is of Richmond Furnace killed tin eight pronsj buck that cd 1 CO pounds near that town vpstr. Ttarj'is' Uscte SomslFmEs I 1 1 WIT 1 lr? frrr.NAiiCHAi. CAirrooNCJW.Y.

7 SwtrKr dayafternoon. tTo qontlnuedl.