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Seventeen Years in
Man
Walla Walla, Wash.—Edward
Sutherland stepped from the pen
itentiary the other day into a land
of strange things and made nts way
Into Walla Walla, that he almost
failed to recognize.
He was the oldest prisoner in the
institution, and seventeen years of:
his life were spent there. His re-1
lease papers arrived from Olympia
that morning, and as soon as he:
could be fitted out in clothing he j
was let go. Sutherland was sent up|
for twenty years in 1900 for attacks J
on women and girls.
Sutherland was taken to the pen-'
ltentiary to save him from mob vio-:
lence after being attacked. He was
convicted on two charges, one'
brought by a young girl and the'
other by an older woman, and was j
given fourteen years for each offense.
He was past middle age at that time;
and left prison aged and feeble, a
mere shadow of his former self.
KEEPING SOLDIERS STRONG
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fortify the health of soldiers against the rigors and
exposure of camp life and to help keep up their strength.
SCOTT'SoneEMDLSION
that actually guarantees the pure quality of Norwegian Cod
Liver Oil, skilfully emulsi6ed to promote prompt assimi
flation which is always difficult with the raw oil.
Scoff's Emulsion is famous for putting power in
the blood to thwart colds, grippe, pneumonia and
lung trouble. It is free from alcohol or opiates.
Scott & Bownc. Bloom field, N. J. 17-38
The
Christmas Dpint
Prevails throughout the stores of the Gately & Fitzgerald
Supply Company not only in words, but in deeds.
The benevolent sentiments that are the very essence of Christ
mas A just consideration for our employes and due regard
for the influence of what we do for the welfare of others,
whether that influence be little or much, are more precious to
us than the prospect of a few more dollars earned at the ex
pense of overworked salespeople.
In accordance with these principles and the broad progressive
policy maintained by this firm for years the
Gately & Fitzgerald
Supply Co. Stores
will NOT be open evenings during the Holiday Season
except 011
Thursday, Friday, Saturday,&Monday
December, 20, 21, 22, 24
when it mil be absolutely necessary to be open to meet the
obligations to our patrons and the public.
We sincerely wish that we shall have your approval and co
operation in this matter as we have had in former years.
Notliwithstanding the wonderful increase in our business and
the handicap 011 account of the scarcity of experienced help,
we shall endeavor to give you the same good service
That Has Made These Stores A
Favorite With You and Your Friends
We will appreciate the favor if you will make your selec
tions early as possible so we can make our prompt deliveries
as usual.
Wishing You the Compliments of the Season
Gately & Fitzgerald
Supply Company
31-32 South Second Street
FRIDAY EVENING, HXMBBURQ Mfe Tra TORXPH
I John McCormack Tour to
1 Get SIOO,OOO For Red Cross
'j Washington, Dec. 14. Agift *of
SIO,OOO to the Red Cross from John
McCormack, the tenor, was an
nounced to-day. Paying his own ex
j penses. Mr. McCormack will make a
I patriotic tour from the Atlantic to
! the Pacific, opening in Washington,
! December 18, with b concert which
i President and Mrs. Wilson have an
> nounced they will attend.
1 "I will keep on singing until I
' have earned SIOO,OOO, which the
I American Red Cross may use as it
: sees fit." said Mr. McCormack, in
making his offer. "The work will be
a privilege to me and I will perform
' it with an enthusiasm such as I never
felt before."
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| LettersFromtheFront j
HARRISBURG BOY
KIND FRENCH NURSES ARE
Pari sis full of Amer'cm soldiers,
writes Herbert Wallower to his
father, E. Z. Wllower. The number
of Yankees is said to be so large as
to make it seem as if they had taken
possession of the city. Mr. \Val
lower's letters follow:
Le 5 Novembre. 1917.
Dearest Daddy and la famille:
Le bover du Soldat is :tt til* dis
posal of the poor blesse's here at
the big field lupital tis-". • oui camp
and which takes care of most all of
the wounded in this sector. You
probably are wondering why I am
here, and perhaps worried too, but
really I am quite ashamed to tell
on what slight pretexts I have the
nerve to play sick.
About two weeks ago I cut my
finger while cleaning my engine,
which refused to heal quickly and
which finally produced a slight in
fection with swelling of my right
hand and arm. I went to the in
firmary at camp, where the doctor
dressed it and then much to my
surprise ordered me to this field
hospital. That was last Wednesday
morning, 6 days ago, but it seems
like a year. The French doctor
lanced the finger, which began then
to improve immediately, so that now
it is completely healed, except tor
a little aftermath pain in my arm.
t 5 till have the dressing on my arm
which interferes slightly with my
writing. I will stay here two more
days and then —I have to take a
lonfi breath here—then I will go to
Paris for 8 days permission to do
as I please, and - I have lots of things
in mind. First I want to go to
Neuilly to the American Hospital to
see tho bed in memorium to mother.
I will probably stay at the Y. M.
C. A. hotel and the rest of
my time in real sight seeing.
My stay here at the .hospital has
been very n't ;* sting and .111 unusual
.'.liioli in many ways I
hope never to experience again.
The hospital is very large, con
sisting of at least 50 large barracks
150x25 in which are the operating
rooms and wards accommodating
about 600 wounded. In addition are
many smaller barracks for doctors,
nurses and attendants. The wounded
stay here as short a timo as pos
sible, or as soon as they can be
safely moved and are evacuated by
train to the base hospitals in the
interior. They are brought here
from the postes de service by ::m
--bulance.
During the last attack the hos
pital was taxed to its capacity for
,1 week, so you can imagine how
many wounded went through, prob
ably 10,000. There are left here
now about 2,000 with few new pa
tients as the battle along this front
is over. It was very short, a bril
liant victory, terrible in its inten
sity while it lasted.
I was brought to a ward where
there were still about 25 wounded.
Since then most of them have been
evacuated, about 9 left now. 1 can
never describe what this week lias'
been and I could not stand another.
Two poor young soldats. terribly
wounded, died right at my side, in
the beds next to me during the
night, two nights in succession. Only '
the attendant and nurse there at'
their sides, but I breathed a prayer j
for them as their souls took flight..
Oh, what a terrible thing war is! I
The tragedy of it had at that instant!
been suddenly revealed, the sad'
scene in the darkness of the night l
with the mingled voices of pain and j
suffering of the other wounded, made !
an impression upon me that will I
never be effaced. The horrors of
the war I have yet to see on the
battlefield; this is the tragic part. j
I have been terribly depressed at
times, and I need a diversion to re
lieve my mind. I am glad there
are only two more days of it. !
Of the wounded left In the ward, |
some are still very low and moan'
continually, while others are gain- i
ing strength. Every day one or two!
are brought in and others moved '
out.
Mine is a case ne pas grave 30 I I
do not go through the usual aro- 1
ceedure. Indeed I have been |
treated exceptionally, the two little I
French nurses have been wonderful j
to me, doing lots of little things for
me, bringing bonbons, things to I
read, etc. One of them, a young!
girl whose fiance has been killed j
In the war speaks a little English,
as much as I speak French, and we
get along pretty well. Every one |
over here has a heartache some-1
where. While she was telling me!
of her fiance, and her brothers now
in the war, she broke down and!
cried. It is hard to comfort when !
all carry a heavy burden in their
hearts.
Yesterday afternoon I was invited
to tea by the head French nurse.'
the Infermiere Chef, who is a>
splendid capable woman. She real- |
ized the state of mind I was in, so •
I was very glad to go, even though j
they were all French nurses, and I j
was the only American. There was!
a French doctor there who spoke
excellent English, so it was not
quite so hard, but I had a great
time with the nurses.
I have been getting up in the aft
ernoon for the last few days for a
stroll. There is an American oper
ating team here at the hospital, four
doctors, two orderlies, who by the
way are young Princeton students,
and two American nurses. I usually I
spend the afternoon with the boys,
which is quite a help. Several of
the boys have walked over from!
camp to see me too.
The next word will probably be |
from Paris. I have had no mail
fo rover two weeks, so there ought
to be a goodly bundle In a few days.
With much love to all,
HERBERT.
Tuesday .Nov. 13, 1917.
Dearest Family—
Well, at last I am back in the
nip city, and the joy of being 1 here
cannot be expressed—a good bed
with sheets, wonderful food and the
privilege of doing as I please.
I was detained at the field hos
pital two days longer than I had
anticipated, so that I was there ten
days altogether. It is customary
in French hospitals to give a man
as many days leave as he has been
in the hospital with certain limits,
so that now I have ten days per
mission.
The trip In to Paris was rather
interesting for I had to travel on a
"permissionaires" train on which
wore at least a thousand poilus on
their way back home. Only officers
are' supposed to travel in first 'lass
compartments, but nothing daunted.
I climbed into a first class coach
over a few captains and a couple
of majors, etc., and they not know
ing my uniform and being an
American they showed me every
courtesy thinking I was an officer
too. The train left the hospital sta
tion at 1.30 a. m. arriving in Paris
9.30 Sunday evening.
I went immediately to the Y. M.
C. A. hotel where I obtained a
splendid room with an excellent bed,
hot and cold water for four francs
a day. Before the Y. M. C. A
leased the hotel it? was called the
Hotel Pavilion, which was consid
ered a very good hotel. There ia a
restaurant and cafe with excellent
food at very reasonable prices.
There are several boys here I
know so I have company at last,
and to-day I expect my chum in
frog* camp on permission, Duncan
Welty.
The first persons I saw Sunday
morning whpn I walked in were
Franklin Ettei and Meade Detweiler
Sunday I spent in the hotel at
tending a Y. M. C. A. service In the
evening which was a pleasure after
having experienced no religious at
mosphere for months.
Yesterday t went out to 21 Rue
Raynouard to report to the office
and to the O. S. E. office which is
the Paris police who keep track of
every person entering Paris.
I am going to make an attempt to
be released from the French serv
ice, so I talked to one of the men
at 21 who, however, did not give me
much encouragement. He was not
the right man to go to, so I will try
again. In the meantime lam going
to investigate all the branches of the
Army .service to find which suits me
best.
There are several special branches"
organized over hero only, which ot
ter some attractive advantages, fne
is the camouflage department and
the newest one, which I heard of
last night was a branch of artillery
which attempt to locate enemy guns
by sound wave mechanism, etc. It
is in charge of Major Augustus
Trowbridge, who was my old In
structor in Physics at Princeton,
and he is looking for a few college
men with technical training. A
commission is given immediately I
believe.
I will investigate thoroughly all
these before I decide.
J_.ast night I had dinner at Noel
Peters a famous restaurant which
I found certainly to deserve its re
nown, for I had the best dinner T
have had seen since T left New Y:irk.
After dinner we went to a Revue, a
show something like the Winter
Oarden. Every opportunity they got
they would brine in something
about America, and the grand finale
consisted of a bewildering variety
of costumes made of red. white and
blue, American flags draped all over
the stage, and the music Dixie. Tt
made a great hit with the French
who cheered vociferously, and it
looked pretty good to me too.
When Duncan Welty arrives we
will plan a systematic sightseeing
Itinerary.
's full of American soldiers,
who have almost taken possession
of the place. The boulevards are
very Interesting with every variety
of soldier uniform imaginable.
I am feeling fine again and ready
for anything. I believe it was the
food at camp which put me tern-
porarily out of condition. I aave
had no mail for almost a month.
With much love.
HERBERT.
(Address)
Section Or".i, e Amdrlcaine,
T. M. 526 Pelaton D. Convois Autos,
Par B. O. M.
Paris, France.
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HOUSE SEATS DEMOCRAT
Representative Bucou, of Michigan,
Replaced by Beakes
Washington, Dec. 14.—The House
yesterday voted to give the seat for
the Second Michigan district held by
Mark R. Bacon, Republican, to S. W,|
Beakes, Democrat.
The final returns showed Bealtes,
slightly ahead, but technical ques-i
tions on alleged irregularities madej
it necessary to carry the contest to!
the House.
DROPS NAME OF GERMANIA
Fire Insurance Company Will Be
Known as the National Liberty
Directors of the Germania Fire
Insurance Company, at a special
meeting yesterday, voted to make ap
plication for an order authorizing
the company to change Its name to
the National Liberty Insurance Com
pany of America.
The company was chartered by the
State of New York in 1859, and all
of its officers are American-born,
it has no German re-insurance con
tracts and is not in any way under
German influence or control.
win Exchange Kinney's Big Sale JSULm
After Xmas zzz. Harrisburg
01 Holiday Shoes and Slippers
Shoes and Slippers are becoming more popular every year as a
Xmas gift. They are always appreciated and bring back pleasant
recollections every time they are used.
frSSllli! II j Couple thrift with your Yule-tide spirit and buy of
11 j our kig holiday stock.
Ladies' Felt Boys' and Little Military Heel
1 M Juliettcs ® ents ' Boots For Ladies
jj it Fur or ribbon trim- Military Shoes _
| J ming 980 * j* —^
j aij) ——————. new shoe. Army ' II I
T| st y' e in tan, strictly I ®/ # /
rm T TrrT —j- —J Women's Felt Slip- solid leather, ' Jy /
H pers '^ lOto 13* ... #1.98 If
p|| j Ito 2 $2.19 jj*
Childs' and Misses' 2*/ 2 to S*/ 2 ..., $3.98 I
( I Felt Bootees in Red or _-Jr f\ xjA
Ju 111/ ' blue .. 7 and 890 v \
Ml il 11 I _ Boys Hi-Cuts, J
/p@Su|l k- . ——————— Buckle Tops, sizes 1
i '■■'! \ Men's Romeos .. 980 to 6 for, /£?* yr
L \ $2 - 49 and * 2 - 98 yQ&itr
Men's Felt Slippers, f
Gray or Black, $1.25 f
———————— varied and
Boys' and Youths' Rub- Little Gents' Hi- complete line of this
ber Boots .Cuts. Size 11 to 13 / it popular seller in town.
Short Boots—Boys' $1 93 All Gray Kid .. $3.98
3 to 6 $2.29
Youths' 11 to 2, Misses' High Lace Tan Lotus with
$1.98 Shoes, extra good /al- Khaki co lored cloth
ties 111 lan Calf or fnn <ti'2 <)tt
White Nu-Buck, $2.98 ' 1
Children's Rubber Same in Gun Metal Tan Ca , f or H
Boots, up to size 10 . Brown Kid ... $3.98
Boys' Dress Shoes, 1
111 . F^ tr . a Variety of Mcn ' s Arctics. 9Sc S rade * 3OS
( \-ivM Ladies Shoes with '
j. Louis Heels, $4 grade, Men's Rubber Boots, Tan Calf with Fawn
Aft G. R. Kinney & Co., Inc.
19 and 21 N. 4th St.
East End Bank
Thirteenth and Howard Streets
Announces
1918
*
Savings Society
Now Open—Will Remain Open Until Dec 29, 'l7
1917 Wa® Largest Year
Help Make 1918 Larger Yet
DECEMBER 14, 1917
With Baby in Her Arms,
Woman Shoplifter Is Jailed
Fhlla, Dec. 14.—With her 3-year
old child in her arms, Mrs. Frances
Murphy, of Catharine street near
Third, was sentenced by Judge Crane
to serve one year In the county pris
on. The mother, vaguely at first un
derstanding the import of the Judge's
sentence, clasped the child tightly
and cried as court officers escorted
her from the municipal courtroom.
Mrs. Murphy was sentenced for
violating her parole following con
viction in 1915 for shoplifting. It
was testified that she with a friend,
Mrs. Marie little, who was also giv
eVi a like sentence had gone to New
York and were arrested and convict
ed there for shoplifting.
"Further clemency would be use
less in these two cases," said Judge
Crane. "Both women have records
for shoplifting, and they have made
a farce of the probation system."
A Man's Gift From a Man's Store
M Wm. Strouse jjh
92,000,000 FOR STEKIJ 00.
V. S. Will Advance Money to Bethle
hem Concern on Contracts
Washington, Dec. 14.—Two mil
lion dollars will be advanced by the
War and Navy Departments to the
Bethlehem Steel Company on muni
tions contracts, because of the com
pany's difficulties In obtaining funds
from private sources to expedite de
liveries.
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