BUCKNELL-GETTYSBURG BATTLE SATURDAY WILL DRAW BIG CROWD TO SEE LOCAL HEROES
Tech Terrors Will Have
Real Battle on Saturday
When Manager "Bill" Fortna first
arranged the Technical High school
football schedule, all the contests
were to have been played on the Is
land with the exception of the
Greensburg game at that place this
coming Saturday. But the coming of
the epidemic made games on the Is
land an Impossibility, so that three
of the first five have been played on
foreign soil. But this fuct has not
kept the Maroon stars from winning
with regularity. They have captured
five straight gamos and in not one
has their goal line been crossed. De
spite the short quarters, an average
of 66 points has been tallied per
game.
Coach Smith will take his charges
out to the Westmoreland county
seat with two purposes in view. In
the first place the eleven wants to
win the contest. Secondly, they are
out to avenge the first defeat in
1914 when Captain (Clarence Beck
took his crack team out for their
initial game and was trimmed 38
to 0. The feat was thought impos
sible, and it was many a day before
the Maroon followers recovered from
the shock. But Greensburg had a
champion of champions. Carl Beck
will have a chance to wipe out that
defeat handed his brother's team,
War's Got Nothing On
Peace-So Say Whitewings
Throwing Confetti Is One Thing and Sweeping It Up—
Well, That's Another
'"Well, it's all over, old boy, <h?
Biggest day Harrisburg ever had;
say, didn't we carry on!"
One citizen slapped his old friend
a lusty whack at the corner of Mar
ket and Front streets and they fairly
oozed fond recollections of the big
spree.
"All over!" sighed the ancient
street sweeper through his twisted
lips and faded bead. "Taint all over
ferns; jes' look at that pile o' spa
ghetti, er confetti, er whatever you
call it! Rolled that up the whole
block, and now th' wind's carryin' it
JOHN E. GIPPLE
HEADS REALTY BOARD
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region of that board. Favorable ac
tion was taken by the real estate
board.
The report of the appraisal com
mittee was submitted to the board
and approved. The report Included
an appraisal of the property adjoin
ing the old Carlisle Indian school,
which will be leased by the govern
ment for war purposes. The apprais
al committee was re-elected, and is
as follows: Edward Moeslein, chair
g man; A. C. Young and George A.
Shreiner, Superintendent of Grounds
and Buildings of the state.
A. C. Young, chairman of the
membership committee, reported
several applications for active mem-
THANKSGIVING!) AY
TO BRING PAGEANT
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demonstration be arranged for
Thanksgiving Day churches in the
city will be requested to hold their
morning services earlier than usual,
AROUND THE BASES
The Kaiser's said to huve admired
Napoleon,
He said it with ills wanton, cruel
smile;
He'll have Ills first sensation now in
Holland
Wonder how the old beast likes
exile?
Here's another bonehead hunter.
Ludwlg Godycki while on a-hunting
trip near Wilkes-Barre, was shot in
the right leg when his gun accident
ally went off in the hands of a com
panion who was on his first hunting
trip. If the hunting season keeps up
long enough, there'll bft more casu
alties than in fighting the Huns.
Jack Dempscy's next ring engage
ment will be against Jack Clifford, a
heavyweight whom he meets in Phil
adelphia on November 18.
Harry Greb will have the honor of
boxing Georges Carpentier in the
tournament for the King's trophy in
England, December 11 and 12.
Tough for Judge Bonniwell that
election day did not fall yesterday. •
Albert, (anxiously)—"l'm afraid
I'll soon be bald. My hair comes out
every day." His Good Wife—"Why
worry about that, Albert; don't your
teeth come out every night?"—ln
dianapolis Star.
Cameron Coffey, the 5-year-old
diving prodigy of the Los Angeles
A. C., accomplished a few days ago
the amazing feat of performing sev
eral dives from the 55-foot height.
It almost unbelievable work for a
boy of his age and size and a won
derful display of nerve and skill.
"Do you think that Hollund'll keep
me?"
Asked Old Bill with slinking
knees;
"Why, sure," said General Ludcn
dorf;
"That country's strong for cheese.''
Lend me a heart replete with
* thankfulness! —2d Henry VI.
He —Doesn't Maud look like a
peach to-night?" She —"Yes; but she
didn't get the bloom evenly distrib
uted." —Boston Transcript.
Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 12. —The Get
tysburg Preparatory School team
defeated the Franklin and Marshall
Academy eleven in a hard-fought
game by a score of 6 to 0.
ACADEMY GETTYSBURG
Mitchell, If Miller, le
Davis, It Boyles, It
Rettew, lg Breen, lg
Leinbach, c Myers c
Reeves, rg Minich, rg
B. Tyne, rt Miller, rt
Dunkle, re Overmiller, re
Sheaffer, qb Forgerberger, qb
Milbourne, lhb Myers, lhb
Gray, rhb Texas, rhb
J. Tyne, fb P. Myers, fb
Touchdown, Texas; substitutions,
TUESDAY EVENING,
when the local squad goes West Sat
urday.
In the four games that the two
High schools have played to date,
the Westerners have won three. Fol
lowing the 38 to 0 disaster, Greens
burg came East In 1916, and In one
of the closest games ever played on
the Island trimmed Tech 7 to 0. In
1916 Tech went to Greenaburg and
lost out 10 to 6. Last year Tech gave
Greensburg their first defeat In five
years when the local aggregation
won by a score of 16 to 7. This com
ing Saturday the local lads are sure
of winning, only they want to win by
a larger score than 38 to 0. A score
like that seems impossible when
Greensburg's records are perused.
But Captain Ebner and his follow
ers are sure that the trick can be
turned, and the entire squad will be
"out for gore" every minute of the
play.
Football was adjourned yesterday
afternoon because of the kaiser's un
expected trip to Holland. To quote
Captain Ebner the former war lord
is apt to "get in Dutch" in the land
of dunes and dikes. To-day the squad
was out in full force and every Ma
roon player will be fighting hard to
take the big trip to Greensburg. A
big squad of the student body will
accompany the team.
to and gone. Yes, sir, I been
working fer the street cleaning de
partment six years and I never seen
such litterin' up as this. The worst is
them steamers. "He gave a swish
of his broom and a bunch of the art
ful gay stuff swooped up and got a
half-Nelson on the aged sweeper's
carcass. "I s'pose it's lots o' fun to
i most folks, but it's fierce for us. I
I must have picked up ten thousand
j newspapers, candy boxes and that
conscarned spaghetti, wi' a million
' streamers. I'm glad th' war is over!"
probably at 9 o'clock, and the parade
would form about 10 or 10.30 o'clock.
Everyone will be invited to be in line
officials said, and the committee in
charge will have a task much great
er than to arrange for the duly 4
parade it is believed. Every effort
will be made to have the demonstra
tion over before the annual Thanks
giving Day football game which will
be played this year between the
Technical and Steelton High School
teams on Island park.
Other city officials sanctioned the
mayor's suggestion to holA the peace
jubilee on Thanksgiving Day and at
the same time to have a gigantic
parade. Mayor Keister, however,
said he would not fix the date for
some time, pending a possible proc
lamation from the President or ac
tion by Congress.
RALLY AT TRINITY
New Cumberland, Pa., Nov, 12.
A Sunday school rally will be held
in Trinity United Brethren Church
the first Sunday in December.
McCullough for Millbourne; Navarre
for Leinbach, Leinbach for McCul
lough; McCullough for Dunkle; Kipp
for Rettew; Leuman for Kipp; Ret
tew for Kipp. Referee, Miller, Get
tysburg College. Umpire, Smith, Get
tysburg Preparatory. Head linesman,
Davis, Gettysburg Preparatory. Time
of quarters, 15 minutes.
New York, Nov. 12.—Those friend
ly enemies of old, Walter J. Travis
and Finday S. Douglas, met yester
day afternoon at the Garden City
Golf Club In an exhibition match for
the benefit of the United War Work,
in which the former won by 1 up, at
eighteen holes, after a close and rea
sonably exciting round.
The West End Football team is
without a game for Saturday and
would like to arrange one with some
team. It makes no difference to
them whether the game is played at
home or away from home. Address
communications to F. Iliney, 1637
Fulton street, or E. J. Kiilinger. Dial
phone .3013.
All players of the West End are
requested to come out for practice
this evening and it is especially re
qested that Kunhart put in an ap
pearance.
The team must now get down to
some real work in preparation for
the city championship game the Sat
urday after Thanksgiving Day with
the Tarsus School of Gymnastics.
Speaking to the Krppp workers
only two months ago, the kaiser
said: "Each one of us has received
his appointed task from on high. You
at your hammer, you at your lathe,
and I on my throne. We must all,
however, build on God's assistance.
Doubt is the greatest ingratitude
toward the Lord.
"Just look at the four years of
war! What immense achievements
we have behind us! Half the world
stood against us and our allies, and
now we have peace with Russia and
peace with Rumania. Servia and
Montenegro are finished.
"Only in the west do we still fight,
and is It to be thought that good God
will abandon us there at the last
moment?"
New York, Nov. 12.—The twenty
seventh revival of the international
six-day bicycle race, which will be
held at Madison Square Garden the
week of December 1-7, will be the
first real international affair since
the start of the world war. With final
peace In sight all the foreign cham
pions will be able to come across.
The management this year is assur
ed of entries from France, England.
Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland
and Sweden. Six-day riders protested
against a paplermache track and the
management has given up the idea.
The way to help Pan-Germans,
Drenched, ns they are, with gore;
Is to pan them gocl and plenty;
Keep panning evermore.
SNOODLES By Hungerford
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Gettysburg and Bucknell
Will Carry On Saturday
~s ' i ot 1
Four Gettysburg players, left to right: Wolf, quarter; Beam, right
entl; McDowell, right half; Cusliin g, fullback.
If any one imagines that Satur
day's game on the Island between
Bucknell and Gettysburg is likely
to resemble an old maid's tea party
they should shake the snow off their
pedals, says "Doc" Rice, handler of
things for Gettysburg. He is an
ancient alumnus of that institution.
"There is Intense rivalry" explained
Doc to-day, "and Harrisburg fans
will see something spectacular in
pigskinning. Fori one thing, there is
quite a bunch of native sons in the
teams, like Ben Wolfe, of Gettys
burg, who was a star at Central
High. He was quarterback'last year
and Captain of the basketball squad.
Then there is Harold CBarrael")
Martz, who was selected for all-scho
lastic choice for tackle In 1915-16,
another Central High meteor, who is
captain of Gettysburg and plays
center."
As for Bucknefl, she, too has a
Tom Marshall's Good-by
to the Fishing Season
The red gods are departing! The
close of the fishing seasen was on
November 1. With this article our
fishing columns will discontinue un
til the fisherman's season opening in
1919.
The human family like the mi
gratory birds are becoming restless
and uneasy, preparations are now
being perfected for the migration
trip to the sunny south and tempe
rate climes.'' The duration and length
of man's pilgrimage will be govern
ed in the major instances by the
length of his purse strings.
Indian summer has been follow
ed by squaw winter, the rod sup
planted by the gun. All nature has
taken on the phase of migrating
life. Game birds are heavily feath
ered and fit to match conclusions
with either climatic conditions or the
hunter's wiles. Chilly, cold, yet
bracing zephyrs come howling down
from the north land rushing in ad
vance the feathered aces of the air,
these are the halcyon days of the
hunter. The kid gloved angler in
company with his Companions discus
sed scentific dry fly fishing, tackle.
Georgia Tech's World Record
In Winning Football Games
By all tokens Harrisburg Tech
hag the best schoolboy team In
America, . and lest they hesitate
about making too big a score and
scaring away all combatants it
might be well for the husky chaps
to read about another institution
which overtop them, and does not
ease up when the foe gets hooked
up with them. This is the Georgia
Tech, which is due to meet Pitt at
Pittsburgh on November 23. Neither
of these colleges has had a defeat
in nearly four years of gridiron
duelling .
Georgia Tech through 1915, 1916
an 1 1917 played 25 ames, winning
23, losing none and tying two. It
scored a total of 1129 points in those
combats against 61 by its foes.
Tech so far in 1918 has played Ave
games—and won them all. In two
of those contests it ran up pver 100
points.
Pitt in 1915, 1916 and 1917
played—and won—26 games, scor
ing a total of 762 points. Owing
to cancellations in its schedule, Pitt
did not start Its 1918 season until
November 9th.
Here Is the George Tech grand
summary:
(1915, 1916, 1917 and 4 games
1918).
Total games played . 29
Total games won .... 27
iTAHRISBTTRG tSSSI TELEGHXPH
Harrisburg boy or two, among them
Jack Hall, who held the center of the
stage many a clay for Central High
as a plunging halfback. He became
famous two years ago In the Thanks
giving game, when Central trimmed
Tech for the last tmle, 34-0.
A huge crowd promises to ogle the
encounter, and both schools are
bringing delegations with bands.
They propose to jazz up things be
fore the call of Coach Wlne
gard, of Bucknell, has been working
like a beaver to round up his ath'
letes after their defeat by Villa
nova, and with experienced men back
of the line he will no doubt have a
fast team here. The lineup will in
clude: Gebhart, of last season's
squad: Faust, Krawer, Rosenblus,
Wagner. Moose, Johnson. Plckarski,
Donosille, Seneles, Hall, Wargo,
Kramer and Weaver.
flics and methods. The rough neck
fisherman recites the marvelous
catches, time in landing some espe
cial lish, being computed by the
strong back action, required to put
the fish into midair, giving the scaled
beauty an opportunity to play to
his heart's content on the sand reef,
prior to packing him away in the
gunny sack lying In the water near
by.
The resort hotels which cater in
a great measure to the descendants
of Isaac Wulton, have closed their
doors and the windows are tightly
nailed to exclude the sifting snows
of the advancing winter. Guides
have congregated at their regular hl
bernating quarters, there to discuss
the "fares" they have chaperoned
during the fishing season. The gene
rosity and peculiarities of all visit
ing guests is discussed and weighed
up. The acquired souvenirs of
boots, tackle, sweaters and fishing
clothing is exhibited and exchanged,
based on sizes. Fishing innovations
and new-fangled tackle introduced is
discussed and commented on as re
gards eflicieney. The season is over,
memory alone remains of a pleasant
or nonsuccessful outing. We pack
tackle away until 1919.' A bumper of
good luck to all anglers and fisher
men.
Total games lost 0
Total games tied 2
Tech Total Point ;....1426
Opponent total pointy 61
Tech average points per game. 49
Opponent average points per
game a 2
And this' is Pitt's:
(1915, 1916, 1917 seasons)
Total games 26
Total won 7 26
Total lost a< 0
Total tied % '. 0
Pitt total points 762
Opponents tdtal points 82
Pitt average points per-game.. 29
Opposite average points per
game ~ 3
This season Georgia Tech, em
ploying Its "Jump shift," the niftiest
strategy yet discovered in football,
has mowed down everything, as the
following record shows, and the
greatest battle of the year will be
that twixt this university and Glenn
Warner's demonds:
Georgia Tech 28 Clemson 0
Georgia Tech 118 Furman 0
Georgia Tech 128 Fort Ogel
thorpe, 11
Cavalry .... 0
Georgia Tech 28 Camp Gordon
Ga. ..' 0
Total .... 297 Total ....... 0
1
Academy Beat Only Scrubs,
Declares Stevens' Manager
Stevens Trade school football team,
the team reported to have played the
Harrisburg Academy Saturday, was
disbanded October 28 on account of
the draft. So the report goes as
given by T. K. Tiffany, manager of
the Stevens Trade school team.
Tiffany, who called on the sport
ing editor yesterday, stated that the
team which played the Aademy Sat
urday was a scrub bunch, or, de
scribed in better language, "the Stev
ens Trade school reserves." Tiffany
.further alleges that the Saturday
game was scheduled 'Friday noon,
and that the "reserves" had but
one small hour's practice before
coming to this city. They believed
they were to play a "practice game"
with the Academy boy's.
There is no doubt whatever that
the Saturday gojne was little more
than practice for Academy.
THE AMERICAN HOY
Sont
Father look up and see that flag,
How gracefully it flies:
Those pretty stripes they seem to be
A rainbow in the skies.
Kntberi
It is your country's flag, my boy,
And proudly drinks the light,
O'er ocean's wave in foreign climes;
A symbol of our might.
Son i
Father, what fearful noise is that
Now thundering in the clouds?
Why do they cheering wave their hats
And rush along in crowds?
Father!
It is the voice of cannonry,
The glad shouts of the free;
This is a day of memory,
'Tis Freedom's jubilee.
Sont
I wish that I were now a man,
I'd free mj country too.
And cheer'as loudly us the rest;
But, father, why don't you?
Fntben
1 am getting old and weak, but still
My heart is big witli joy;
I witnessed many a day like this,
bhout you aioud, my, boy.
Son v
Hurrah! for Freedom's Jubilee,
God bless our native land,
And may I live to hold the boon
Of treedom in my hand.
„ * Fbtheri
Well done my boy, grow up and love
The land that gave you birth;
A land where Freedom loves to dwell,
A paradise on earth.
—JOHN G. KETTERMAN,
v 1850 Park street.
Lutheran Committee Leaves
For Great Convention
Clergy and lay members of the
East Pennsylvania Conference of the
Lutheran Church have gone to New
York, where sessions will be held
during the next few days to complete
plans for the great merger of Luth
eran churches. Representatives from
Harrisburg include the Rev. Drs. H.
W. A. Hanson, chairman, Messiah
church; Lewis C. Manges, Memorial
church; J. Bradley Markward, Beth
lehem church; 3. Wintield Herman,
Zion church; laymembers, Luther
Minter, Dr. Croll Keller and E. G.
Hoover. The first meeting will be
held this evening in the auditorium
of the Hotel McAlpin.
Company I Will
Resume Tonight
Company I of the Second Regi
ment of the Reserve Militia will
begin drills again tonight at the
City Grays Armory. The company
has recently added a number Of men,
including students and members of
the Harrisburg Reserves.
Tho Harrisburg Reserves wjll
start their instruction of students
at Technical ajtd Central High
Schools tomorrow. The Technical
drill is to be at 9 and the Central
at 2.
HOME DRIVE TO
OPEN AT RALLY
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FACTS ABOUT
TONIGHT'S BIG
MASS MEETING
' General public invited; no tick
ets required.
Meeting begins promptly at 8
o'clock, preceded by parade of
homes workers from the Square.
Workers line up according to
wards. Reserved seats for work
ers who should have tickets sup
plied by Paul Johnston, chair
man, or war leaders.
J. T. Hoffman. "Y" overseas sec
retary, will tell of experiences
along the front lines with the
Americans in France.'
Representatives of United War
Work organisations will explain
need of the war work fund al
though peace is declared.
Ward quotas will be announced.
Muslo by band, choir and sol
dier quartet.
No canvassing, no soliciting.
ing lines. The t'enelits accruing
from the work of the seven war re
lief organizations represented in the
United War Work campaign also
will be recounted by Mr. Hoffman.
Mr. Hoffman will bring a personal
message from tlje boys In
France. He was stationed la the
Argonne forests while the Americans
were training there and he knows
the needs and conditions of the
American Army.
E. T. Colton, who spent nine years
as a Y. M. C. A. director in Russia,
alßo'will speak Ao-night. As the rep-'
resentatlve of the "Y" in war-torn
Russia, and later during the over-
throw of the old regime and the as
cendancy of Bolshevikism, and as di
rector of; the 200 "Y" secretaries
in all parts of Russia, he secured a
knowledge of affairs in Russia pos
sessed by very few authorities in this
country.
The demonstration of the activi
ties of the seven war relief agencies
I will be enacted in the replica of an
overseas hut which ilgured in the
open air meeting in front of the
Capitol Sunday. To emphasize the
fact that the United War Work Fund
is just as necessary during the per
iod of demobilization as during the
lighting, the representatives' of the
seven organizations will explain the
after-peace activities of their vari
ous agencies.
There will be plenty of music by a
band, a trained choir, and the sol
diers' quartet from Middletown.
Homes Canvass Tq-iuoitow
To-morrow the hundreds of homes,
canvassers will be carrying on their !
campaign throughout the city for the
balance of the city's quota. At head
quarters in the Gilbert storeroom
this morning, it was, said that the
responses to the solicitors must be
generous during the homes drive if |
the campaign quota is to be sub- I
scribed. The executive committee is 1
counting on the homes cumpaign to I
raise much of the city's quota.
The solicitors especially will de-1
mand large offerings as a thanks
giving for the coming of peace.
Where householders huve contribut
ed to the industrial canvassers, the
homes workerswill make supplemen
tary appeals for thanks offerings,
now that the nation lias celebrated
the cessation of hosi ilities.
Industrial Reports To-tlay
The balance of the team captains
of the industrial committee were
scheduled to make their reports af
ter the' meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce in the Board of Trade
at noon to-day. Chairman Starkcy,
of the industrial committee, yester
day declared that the industrial cam
paign has been highly satisfactory.
Thirty-five team captains reported
approximately $4 5,000. 'Several large
industries were included in the re
ports of, the team captains sched
uled to be made late this afternoon.
The commercial department of the
Harrisburg Gas Company won com
mendation from the committee when
thirty-four of the thirty-flVe em
ployes pledged two days' wages for
the fund. One day's salary is to
come out of each of the next two pay
envelopes.
Roys and Girls Contribute
J. Frederick Virgin's various com
mittees in charge of the work of
enrolling the students of the public,
private, and parochial schools in the
Victory Boys and Girls Corps, be
gan their work to-day. Through the
churches of the city, boys and girls
who cannot be enrolled through the
schools will be reached. Boys und
girls between the ages of 12 and
20 years of age will be asked to
pledge sums in multiples of $5,
which they also pledge to earn by
their own efforts.
In the County
The work of the county organiza
tion is progressing smoothly, it was
announced at the county headquar
ters this morning. While yesterday's
peace celebration held up the ma
chinery of the drive for a while, the
workers surged forward this morn
ing with renewed efforts to raise the
quota of $52,000.
Meetings which have been arrang
ed for to-night and to-morrow night
are:
Halifux and Vicinity
Royal Theater. Halifax, 7 o'clock,
speakers, James E. Bents, county re
corder, and the Rev. J. N. l.aufter,
Steelton. i
I joy ai ton
The Loyalton Evangelical Church
at 7 o'clock. A number of prominent
speakers will be present to address
the gathering.
JOINED IN Hit; HOLIDAY
New Cumberland, Pa.. Nov. 12.
Yesterday was a big holiday here.
Stores, post oflice, all business places
were closed. The Citizens Hose
Company went to Harrisburg in a
body and hundreds of people went in
automobiles and trolley cars t
SUNDAY SCHOOL RALLY
New Cumberland, Ij'a., Nov. 12.
The Sunday schooj of t Baughnyan
Memorial Methodist Church is ar
ranging to hold a rally Sunday, No
vember 24.
EMPERORKARL
QUITS HIS THRONE
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has been rumored several times In
past two weeks, but none of these
reports has been confirmed. On Oc
tober 29 it w*ns reported that he had
fled to Vienna, but this report was
denied by a Berlin newspaper, which
said he was at tho Austrian capital
on October 30 and that he had been
cordially received by the people
while going about the city. The most
recent report in connection with Em
peror Charles was received on No
vember 2, when it was said he had
announced his intention to abdicate.
Emperor Charles I, of Austria, King
of Hungary, was an unpromising
major in an Austrian infantry regi
ment when the shot of the assassin
who killed tho Archduke Francis
Ferdinand on June 38, 1914, made him
the heir apparent to the*throne in
the "Hawk's Castle" on the banks
of the River Aar.
'Two hundYed or more monarchs of
this historic house of Hapsburg ruled
for centuries the land of Magyar,
Slav and Teuton—centuries of blood
shed, tyranny and aggression—and
sleep their last sleep in the wonder
ful crypt of the Capauchln Church in
Vienna. Emperor Francis Joseph,
NOVEMBER 12,1918.
SO SHOCKED AT CLOSEUP
ORDER HE LEAVES HIS
FALSE TEETH ON BAR
Joe Armenti Can't Use Crunchers With Two Gold Crowns,
So Exhibit A Is Being Held For Return of the Owner
"Close up!" Orders .of the Mayor!"
It was precisely one minute, three
seconds after 11 o'clock In the State
Capital Hotel, In Walnut street, when
a big, burly cop bounced in to make
this announcement yesterday, and
Proprietor Joseph J. Armento was
somewhat startled, but not so much
as a guest who was just in the act of
gazing fondly at the bottom of a
stein.
"What's you say," cried the cus
tomer in pained accents. ""'Goln' t'
close up!"
Such was his consternation that,
with the cop, Joe and myriad guests
gazing at him, he opened his mouth
so wide that out dropped a complete
top-set of false teeth. With a ring
the aged predecessor of the youthful
Charles, seeing "the handwriting on
the wall," had hoped to unite the dis
cordant elements among his 50,000,-
000 subjects whose racial antagon
isms were complicated by the ab
sorption by Austria of rf the Serbian
provinces of Bosnia and Herzego
vina in 1908.
It was the Archduke Francis Ferdi
nand's determination to bring about
a triune empire up of Magyar, Slav
and German states, It Is generally be
lieved, that led to his assassination
in Sarajevo. Francis Ferdinand fear
ed the dual monarchy might be end
ed upon the death of Francis Joseph
by the Intervention of Russia or Ger
many and sought thus to forestall
It.
Son of Archduke of Saxony
Charles I was born August 17, 1887,
the son of the late Archduke Otto, of
Saxony. He married the Princess
Zita of the Bdurbon house of Parma
(Italian) in 1911. When the Nunc
Dlmittls was sung for his dead grand
uncle, the Emperor Joseph, the only
achievements of Charles brought to
public notice were that he was a keen
sportsman, an excellent shot and mo
torist. Frequently he was seen In
the parks of Vienna wheeling one of
his young dukes In a baby peram
bulator. When he acceded to the
throne on December 30, 1916, Austria-
Hungary, torn by four years of war,
saw the first faint gleam of possible
peace.
The course of the new ruler was
regulated largely from Berlin and
for the first six months of his reign
Austria-Hungary was regarded as a
mere German state. Hindenburg's
successes in Galicia in 1916, in which
Charles shared as a commander in
the field, gave the young monarch a
prestige which enabled him to hold
the Austrians to the Central Powers
until the collapse of Bulgaria and
Turkey and the final crash.
I'sed Famous Slxtus Better
Numerous peace overtures and
maneuvers characterized the diplo
macy of the dual monarchy after
Francis Joseph's death, precipitated
doubtless by bread riots and other
outbreakr throughout Austria. Un-j
able to maintain his pledge to the
German Emperor "to continue the
war to the end" Charles made use
of famous "Dear Sixtus" letter,
an autographed missive written In
/April, 1918. to Prince Sixtus de Bour
bon for transmission to the French
government in which the monarch
said France's claim to Alsace-Lor
raine was "justified."
Although the letter was denounced
as a "forgery" in Vienna, the Foreign
office claiming it had been written by
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and echo they dropped on the bar,
and the owner, still dazed, raced out,
leaving the stalwart crunchers on the
oak bar.
"He's left part of his jaw here,"
shrilled Proprietor Armento. "No one
ever did that before in-my place;
they must be worth SSO. Who was
he?"
Nobody knew the visitor, and to
day the guests of Joe's place were in
deep meditation as to why the man
has not come back to claim the
crunchers.
"I can't use 'em," said Mr. Armen
to. "Mebbc they won't tit anybody
else."
Two bright gold incisors denote
that the maker of the lost teeth
aimed to make them look natural.
a French ecclesiastic who had been
acting as confessor to Empress Zita,
subsequent events proved its authen
ticity. It was the first revelation of the
break betwfeen the German Emperor
and his vassal king. Previously, Em
peror Charles had indicated his de
sire for peace, however. In •peeches
before the Reichsrat. In December,
1917, he declared his willingness to
conclude peace with the Allies if
they Would guarantee the Integrity
of Austria-Hungary.
Conditions In the dual monarchy
were rapidly growing worse. There
were many cabinet changes and as
sassinations. The Magyars, Czecho-
Slavs and other nationalities were
clamoring for constitutional reforms
and autonomous government.
Lot Not a Happy One
Thereafter Charles' lot was. far
from being a happy one. He was re
ported to have refused to send Aus
trian troops to the western' battle
front despite the German Emperor's
importunity. In every way he en
deavored to stem the tide of revolu
tion which seemed to be rising. He
promised all kinds of reforms and
as a sop to his discontented subjects
pardoned twenty-four prisoners
awaltifig trial at Sarajevo for high
treason.
On October, 1918 he announced
plans for the Federalization of Aus
tria-Hungary and in an address to
the Hungarian Diet frankly admit
ted his throne was in "peril." A
day or twp later Count Karolyl.
leader of the Hungarian republicans,
announced the success of a bloodless
revolution In Budapest and declared
Hungary a free and Independent
state. Still later the German and
other provinces declared their pur
pose to become autonomous entitles
and the House of the Hapsburgs, once
the leader of the Holy Roman Em
pire, seemed to be about to collapse
like a house of cards.
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