The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 7, 1918, Page 4

i PAGE 4 Great Was the Fall of the House of the Hohenzollerns | ; 15& CENTURY eg - | | | | _ The little black dot (1) on this map K | is the principality of Hohengoilern, | Where the kaiser's family originated; |(2) Brandenburg, (3) East Prussia, | 4) Pomerania, (5) Rheinish Prussia, | (6) West Pruas (7) Poren, (8) Sil | exla, (9) Saxony, (10) Hesse Cassel, (11) | Hanover, (12) Westphalia, (13) Nas: |mau, (14) Schieswig-Holstein, (15) Al | sace-Lorraine. Within the heavy bor. der is the German empire of 1914 |The farthest advance into France |and Relgium ix shown by the broken line in the west. All Austria-Hun wary, Turkey and Western Russia have recently been under the Hohen- From its inception, in the 14th cen- | sican’s fall, and permitted the annex: ;fort, and brought about the North tury, with the exception of a tempo- ation of a part of Saxony. | German confederation, under Pru rary lapse, during the Napoleonic| The next territorial aggrandize ag domination. xollern yoke. he Hohenzollern family has not | Met came in 1864. when Prussia and | ~The Franco-Prussian war of 1870 era, the - until its fait, | Austria attacked Denmark, and the | added Alsace-Lorraine to the king: | Paget ae hee ot Germany to|former annexed Schleswig-Holatein. | dom, and resulted in the formation of ¢he at | Two years later Prussia made war| the German empire ae it was consti E FROM . upon Austria and the federated Ger. | tuted until the present war The family began its despotic sway | ay states, bringing the:n to her feet| ‘The German African colonies were | COLD? LISTEN | after a seven weeks’ campaign, This | all acquired by colonization and in z j as overlords of the minor principal- 1 stad ol vaitae 1008. Methe origin ot | resulted in the annexation of Hano-| ternational agreement during the lat . . | ver, } the family is shrouded in medieval | myths. | Its first real power came in 1411,| when Frederick of Hohenzollern was | made margrave of Brandenburg, by 1 the Emperor Sigismund. Just 100 “Eat Weeds!” Is Order of Hun } 3s ee,Mowereainn wa et Officers to Their Hungry Men} ' OO yr R22 ea eR AE ie is SL et Si ID ¢ der, which controlled East Prussia, i and, in 1618, this province was made| (Special to The Star by N. E. A) Quantities of choice foods were| It promptly opens clogged-up nos- i a part of the Hohenzollern domin-| PARIS, Nov. 7.—Invading Amer-j|found. These included such things |ttlls and air passages in the head, 4 | |““Pape’s Cold Compound” ends severe colds or grippe in few hours. Your cold will break and all |grippe misery end after taking a| |dose of “Pape's Cold Compound” |every two hours until three doses aro taken. Hesse Cassel, Nassau and Frank-| ter half of the last century. beet | . ions, icans are getting many samples of |as jam, spices, cheese and pickles, | Stops nasty discharge or nose run- “Jn 1609 the Rheinish provinces of |the striking contrast between the) And out in the enlisted men's |Ming, relieves sick headache, dull- Cleves, Mark and Ravensburg were|mess menus for Hun officers and | quarters were printed circulars, urg.| ness, feverishness, sore throat, added. men. ing the soldiers to eat weeds ana|sneezing, soreness and stiffness. Frederick William, the “great| In Essey, they found an officers’| conserve food! The circulars gave| Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blow- i elector,” further strengthened the dy-|mess building. There was a fine|the names of eight field weeds and|ing and snuffling! Kase your J nasty by the acquisition of Swedish | French range in the kitchen. In the | direction» were given how to pre-|throbbing head—nothing else in the if Pomerania, in 1675, and his son,|dining room was a long table and|pare them so as to make them nu-| world gives such prompt relief as ri Vrederick Il, was recognized as|carved chairs—and a piano, #0 the /|tritious and palatable. Weeds were|“Pape’s Cold Compound,” which ing of Prussia by Emperor Leopold | officers could have music with their | urged as good food—because no seed | costs only a few cents at any drug J., in 1700, Brederick took the title | meals. was needed! store. It acts without assistance, of Frederick L, king of Prussia. tastes nice, and causes no incon- i ‘The next monarch built up a pow- venience. Accept no substitute, { erful army, leaving this heritage to - Peg RR So RRS ER “ Vrederick, the Great,” founder of the present military system, who added | Silesia, West Prifsia and Posen to his territories. After successive defeats at the hands of Napoleon, Prussia was al- lowed to resume its former territories 4 THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1918. “Peace on Earth--Good Will to Men!’ | apeed, 4 at the congress of Vienna, which re- Constructed Europe after the Cor- “Close-Up” WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 7 It's a sort of a code in Washington not to may that Pre@ident Wileon goon walking, right in the open streets, looking in shop windows, watching the street sights and gen-| erally conducting himself like an ordinary citizen, I'm going to bust the nay he doce And, what's more, I'm going to tell how many secret service men he has with him or near him; that is, viaible, noticeable secret service men ‘They are four. Washington and, indeed, all Amer. fea, take thene walks ax a matter of course. But you must have been in Europe and seen the pomp and circumstance with which the Euro to realize the code and | ot ident Wilson's strolls, There is no other ruler in the world who would be allowed by court or retinue his support era to mix with the crowds as Presi dent Wilson does. SENDS NOTE THEN TAKES WALK had y, and ter President Wiison late to Germ Jui went b nad a sent to a“ a man request for an armistice after, aa it may develop, he had, by good judgment, literally saved the lives of some tens of thousands of human beings—he went a-walking in Connecticut ave. ‘The contrast between forth and the public appearance of any monarch I had ever seen in Europe was fascinatingly great, and Ger ) his faring | I followed him at a distance. What he did on his walk was not | of great interest; what the folks did | who passed him and noticed him was what marked the unique Ameri canism of it all, Mrs, Wilson was with him. As for appearance, they might have been any welltodo couple in the United States. About 15 feet behind him walked two men. One had hin hands folded behind him, The other had one hand in a trousers pocket. Twenty feet behind them came another pair of men. One of the latter pair was rather too plump for | it seemed to me, in case a foot race was necessary, These four men looked like office workers going home They, with Mrs. Wilson, formed the only visible guard. Perhaps, for all I know, some of the automobiles passing now nd then might have contained guards, but I saw none that I could put down for secret service cars OTHER PEDESTRIANS GO BY WITHOUT COMMENT | And the Americans on the streets | who noticed them? They passed | along without comment One maid} of 18, in a natty blue suit, a girl) clerk, perhaps, in one of the war offices, walked along beside them for a way, perfectly oblivious of her company. She didn’t know. | | She turned off at a corner, and er even looked back ‘a not as tall as I thought he was,” T heard several persons say who had passed him. That is a common remark about him. ‘Those were the only remarks I did hear, Men took off their hats to him, with almost Involuntary motion As I passed him and looked at him, he turned his face toward me ~and I found my hat in my hand. It seemed like saluting the flag. Thus the party of six moved, past homes where service flags, Red Cross posters, food cards and Lib Cp ee Relief from Eczema }\\ of President erty Bond banners hung in the win | dows, tokens of the war which this | one man has done so much to turn toward victory. His heels clicked on the sidewalk like any other man’s. CARRIAGE OF | DEMOCRACY THERE | There was democracy there, A! country lawyer, a school teacher, a| college professor put Into power by a great people; not much above many | of them in learning or training—in-| deed, only one of them. He was great because he had attached himself to| the great idea on which this country in founded, the liberty of the people: | powerful enough to rock thrones be- cause this 4 idead had been his} gulde and fore I looked and looked and looked, and could see in him only | A man, but a representative of a} great idea And #0 the crowds of Washin: n saw him, as only a man. The greatness of him, we all knew aa we walked behind hin or passed him, was the idea he stood for | Was it dangerous for him to walk forth, freely, as no ruler in Europe | would dare w No human being, not ¢ a maniac led to fore ibly wipe out an idea as big ahd good walks safely, and we as ours, He wh ree hicn all know it | AGES UNDER BURDEN | OF HIS RESPONSIBILITY His hair ds « and his face | r than when I saw him at the White House and told him what I had seen of war in 1915. The duty of calling 4,000,000 men to face death has left its mark on him. But, from what I know of him in his New Jersey days and since, there is on his mind that overwhelming thought—once expressed by Lloyd| George, in England—that the life of not one single allied soldier must be lost needlessly after Germany has surrendered, The war must not go one tick of the clock longer than is | necessary to bring Germany to her | knees in unconditional surrender. | When will Germany—all her les | told out, all her duplicity ended—be on her knees? President Wilson knows that he must wateh for the very second of that occasion, One| mother’s son needlessly lost after that would be a pitiful sacrifice. His face 18 grave and strained— looking for that tiny second, EPILEPTIC] ATTACKS Have Been STOPPED For Over 50 Years by DR, KLINE'S EPILEPTIC WeMEDY chins tion! ant Fo eI Nervous Derangemenis. Get of order it o | at any drug store. . ‘or our valuable book on Epilepsy, It is br, RW. 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Spank the drum for joy! The pit which he digged crumbles faster and faster And the hell of his hopelessness deeper and vaster: ‘ So be it forever, when any mad master Shall covet the world thru another's disaster! The boast and the bombast which burbled and bumbled Is still as the tomb, for the kaiser has crumbled. The last gun is fired and the last Hun is humbled And Potsdam the damned, the attainted and tumbled! Blow the bugle! sound the cymbal! Dick, be quick, and Nick, be nimble! Roll it! Atta-boy! Now the Prussian weeps and wallows; Triumph comes and Freedom follows; Squeeze the fife until it holloas! Spank the drum for joy! \ (Copyright, 1918, N. B. AQ