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Show h Tells How to Stop a yg, Cough r ay 5 Ijt nrprifiing result from till ft (moodj (i) o prepared and coats 11. tie. () SS I If you have a severe cough or chest ycll aixompaiiipdi with fioreness, throat I ' fickle, hoarseness, or difficult breathing, or if your child wakeB up during the i n iff lit w ith croup and you want quick help, try this reliable old home-made cough remedy. Any druggist can supply sup-ply yon with - 'a ouiices of Pinex. Pour this into a pint bottle and fill the bottle with plain granulated sugar syrup. Or you can use clarified rnoliisses, honey, or corn syrup, instead in-stead of sugar syrup if desired. This rucipe makes a pint of really remarkable eoutrU remedy. t tastes good, and id spite of its low cost, it caif be depended upon to give quick and lasting relief. You can feel Hi is take hold of a cough in a way that means business. It loosens loos-ens and raises the phloem, stops throat, tickle and soothes and heals the irritated membranes that line the throat and bronchial bron-chial tubes with such promptness, ease and certainty that it is really astonishing. aston-ishing. Pinnx is a special and hichly concentrated concen-trated compound of genuine Norway pine extract, and is probably the best known . menus of overcoming; severe coughs, ' throat nnd chest colds. There are many worthless imitations of this mixture. To avoid disappointment, fisk fr "2' ounces of Pinex" with full direct ions and don't accept anything else. j Guaranteed to civo absolute satisfaction or monev prompt Iv refunded. Tho Pinex Go.. F- ' 'ml shal Key, hero of the Napoleonic wars, was reached. In the shadow of this figure Marshal Petaln and the conquering troops passed in review. No military pomp at consequence conse-quence marked the return to France of her own. Tho ceremonies of official occupation oc-cupation were simole in the extreme, being be-ing broken time and again by the populace popu-lace in wild acclaim of the conquering deliverers. Thus lias Alsace-Torralne. a province always devotedly French, been restored to the country whence It came and to which it must ever belong. I The regime of oppression and vexation for Alsace-Lorraine is ended. Pe tain's army has brought liberty and justice to a people oppressed since the Franco-Prussian peace. Franco has formally received into her arms her refound children. Vastly rich In essential resources, Alsace-Lorraine must, if predictions of students of those countries be true, be counted a salient factor in the industrial rebirth of Franco. The restoration of the dual provinces marks an epoch of which Franco is expected to take tUie fullesr ad VA ntage. Since the year 1ST0 these fertile and minerally wealthy territories have been forcer to yield of their best for the sustenance sus-tenance of Prussia. Much of the minerals, min-erals, of which iron is a large part, have been diverted to the use of the German empire and have been a tremendous factor fac-tor In providing material to tho Krupp works for the manufacture of guns of all calibers and for the sheathing of battleships battle-ships with armor plate. Cotton, manufactured In these provinces In Immense quantities, has. with divers other important textiles, had much to do with the staunch bolstering of German industrial life in this line, while from the agricultural and vine-growing sections much food has been sent to the interior country. Will Lead France. Tn connection with the restoration of Alsace-Lorraine to French control. Cle- i ment Ruff, president of the American A Isace-Ixirraine society, with headquarters headquar-ters in New York, recently declared that the restored provinces will be that part of France which will lead the country in its work of reconstruction. "Tho rebirth of France will lie in the territory wrested from it in 1S70," he said. "Todaythat territory is facing the problem of changing from German rule to French. The taslt Is a happy one for these people. ' Not without cause has it been said that Alsace-Ior.ralne is more truly French than Paris Is. Nothing serves so much tojiurture a feeling or a passion : as an efforf to suppress it, imposed from ; without, especially when that effort Is a hated one. "Long before the hope of a speedy victory, a commission was appointed in France to undertake the problem of reorganizing re-organizing Alsace-Lorraine. The unanimous unani-mous decision of all Its members, as well as of all of France, was to make the transition period as gr adual and easy as possible. Conscious of the political, po-litical, economic and industrial changes that must necessarily take plae, it was decided to destroy nothing in the. way of laws, customs and policies he fore the people were ready to assimilate the newer constructive ' French methods and changes. Thoughtful Altitude. "The attitude of JYance toward this section has- always been thoughtful and wise. During the war, In the sections of Alsace-Lorraine occupied by French troops, even in those where French predominated, pre-dominated, the government of France, appreciating that a good many of the inhabitants were more famllar with the German language, had the war news printed nnd posted in German as well as French. ""Under German rule Alsace-Lorraine was nominally governed by Its own people. peo-ple. There was a loal legislature, which was responsible, however, for all its laws, rules and regulations to the kaiser and the bundesrat. The first change that will be made thfre will be to incorporate this section of France into the general scheme of organization of the country that is, it will be divided Into departments the same as the rest of the country is divided. Jt will have its local governing bod v. its representatives in the French chamber of deputies and its prefects. Resident Delegates. "The lost named are comparable to resident resi-dent delegates of a central government, or. to bring It nearer to t lie form of government gov-ernment in this country, to governors of states. One must understand, of course, that the prefect has control, however, over a much smaller district. All this wili tnke time. The work of assimilation will be done gradually. The Aisatians are a mixed people religiously. "There will be. no effort on the part of France to do anything in the way of imposing one religion on the community. "It is industrially and economically certain cer-tain that Asace-l-orraine will .truiv find itsolf. people ha e iong talked about the Importance of returning this confiscated territory to France. Their views wure based on emotion rather tiian knowledge of tacts. "I am not overstepping the mark verv much when I say tha t. had it not been for the rt-",-'iplon of Alsace-Lorraine, the Germans could never have held out as long as they did. Alsace-Iorraine is c storehouse of power and wealth. Vast Iron Mines. I "A short time before the war bmke out j Germany piblished its annua 1 series of s'atist ics of industrial wealth. Of the tw t-nty-seven miilicn tons of iron mined, twenty-one million were taken out of Alsace-Lorraine. That means that more than tiiree -quarters of 1 he Iron used in Germany all these years and especially in the war came out of this territory. The district of Lorra ine is the biggest iron field in the world, bigger even than that of the state of -Minnesota. "That is not all. In close proximity to the Iron fields, in the district of Saar, we have one of the biggest coal deposits. The combination of these two, the coal and the iron, is what made Germany the industrial in-dustrial power that she became during Die last fifty years. Anything from an iron nail to a locomotive was manufactured manufac-tured at the lowest cost and with the greatest efficiency not efficiency of German Ger-man brains, but efficiency due to the wealth and position of natural resources. In the large majority of cases it was the Alsatians who controlled the property. The wealth cf it went to the country bv whioh they were governed. It was the Alsatians, however, who were the brains of the industries. Great Potash Fields. "The Germans were aware, of this Wherever possible they tried to overrule the industrial growth of the people. It was not to their advantage to decrease j Hie output of the eon! and iron fields. rheretore, they mined them to capacity ' In the question of potash, however they were not so greatly dependent upon Al-A'i'-e possesses the largest potash fields in existence. "The Germans object M to the mining of this product in regions outside their own Immediate confines. This proves that they never really thought Alsace belonged be-longed to ihem. Jn order to cut off ihe output of the Alsatian mines a svn-dicaie svn-dicaie was organized, with the approval of the reichslag. whose purpose was to regulate potash mining. One uf the most conspicuous clauses in that svridicate provided that the mines of Alsace be worked to noL more than iO per cent of their capacity. "One of the greatest things that Germany Ger-many has been noted for Is its perfection perfec-tion of aniline dyes. The situation is ironic, to say the ieun. In Ahirlca sen a city in the territory of Alsace, is the most famous chemical college' in the world, supported by French Alsatians and attended by the younger people of Alsace and Lorraine. It is to the work of this college, that Germanv owes its superiority in the de industry. Discouraged Growth. "-Much a long the same lines can be 1 said of olher industries. Reforc 1870 . M'elhmiseri was a mrst inumrtant inrlus-l trial center of France. When the Ger- I mans took possession of Alsace the city I still held its position of importance, but1 only in so far as it did not interfere ! with the progress of industries which were already organized in German v prop- j cr. In every way possible the G-rmajis ! discouraged industrial growth t here in 1 spile of this .Mu.dhai'--en. Kolmar, Metz. ' Strnssburg and secern I other equali - well-kno-.Mi cities steadily rosy in importance. impor-tance. "Ail Ibis Irads to one conclusion: What ! Alsru .--L.HT r, ic w;is not a i lowed lo do ' under the rule ,f fne enemy omntry it . will be en co ura ged t o do as pa rt of the republic of France. The pp,p,7 ,,f ANaco- i Lorraine form the very backbr.iv of industrial in-dustrial France. I am not deer-vine the work of any or the other sections ((f that ' count ry. Hut just as t he I " nit ed St a t cs ; is made up nf different sections of the country, each lending son vt hing uf its' own to the strength of the whojo, even! so is Alsace-Lorraine peculiarly fitted to1 take up t he work of reeonsi ructing I' ' -nice indust Had-,-. What M u--l h;i usn was before 1 S 70 she will most asuredlv be after litis. " j Brilliant Future. i T say with perfect. fnh that in the ' years to come France will rank second ; only to the T"nitd State? in ;tn- trailer ; of industrial wf-aith ." .r ontv wiit ; resume aii ihr-se industries which h ive been earned i.n n Alsace-Lorraine dur- 1 ing tic lat ha if c - it a -v. hut. slv will : also rmiki ereat slnO-- in tic? drv-lop- ; ment of those, na '. un ' re-.-ourr.'s which . have meant so much in the rjS r,f j many. Iron, stel. porash. eh e mica !. j Cot tuns and W.K'iens a re some nf t be fieid.-i in which Alsace-Lorraine will I j prove its power. And Alsace-Lorraine to-l to-l dav means France." Oricinallv a part of Kon.an Gaul and 1 inhabited by Cejtic tribes, the region now known as Alsace was overrun by the Gpr" manic nations during the fourth and fnth centuries and ultimately brought under the domination of the Franks. The Teutonic Teu-tonic invaders supplanted, to a great extent, ex-tent, the old Celtic Inhabitants, ard by the tenth century the country had be-i be-i come thoroughly Germanized. After the i partition of the Frankish empire Alrace J was held bv the dukes of Swabia and ; later by the Hapsburgs. under whose rule it enjoyed prosperity. Rich and powerful towns, chief among I them Strassburg and Kolmar, sprang up ' and attained, in the course of time, a j very large degree of self-government, entering en-tering frequently into treaty relations with olher cities of tlT empire, and partaking par-taking fully in the intellectual and spiritual spirit-ual life of tho German people. Invaded by Henry II. Modern Lorraine, in the meantime, originally the nucleus of the independent nation of Lorraine, had become steadily more and more French. A part of the possessions of the Duke of Burgundy, its autonomous position tended to disappear, until finally Henry II invaded the country, seizing Metz, Verdun and Loue. Alsace next became the obj-jct of French ambition. In the peace of Westphalia West-phalia in 1647, the Hapsburgs (as rulers of Austria), ceded their territories in Alsace Al-sace to France. Louis XIV subsequently seized numerous free cities in Alsace. Kolmar was incorpoiated with France in and Strassburg in 1681 . The treaty of Ryswick, in i6!i7, confirmed France in possession of Alsace. I Systematic attempts to assimilate the j inhabitants with the French were made by the government, out met with but minor success until the revolution, when, in the general overthrow of feudalism, Germans and French were drawn together tn the common ideal of democracy. The French spirit penetrated deeper and deeper Into the upper and middle classes, and even the mass of the population became be-came reconciled to French rule. When vvar, therefore, between France and Prussia Prus-sia broke, out in 1 S 70, those natives of Al-sac Al-sac who did not side zealously with France remained neutral. Jn Lorraine, occurred oc-curred some of the most decisive battles of the wax, Gravelotte, Vionville, and tne siege of Metz. The surrender of Alsace and part of Lorraine was made the principal condition condi-tion of peace by Prince Bismarck, who acted as the exponent of a widespread spirit tn Germany which demanded the recovery of the ancient Germanic boro'cr-i boro'cr-i land. Alsace fwith the exception of Bel-fort) Bel-fort) and part of Lorraine, where the French language had not bee supplanted by German, became part of the newly founded empire, and were put under the direct control of the emperor. Vehement Opposition. The attempt to win back the peoplo to German influences was greatly hampered by the vehement opposition of the Gallicized Gallic-ized upper classes and the clergy, and i the civil administration was brought almost al-most to a standstill for a number of years by the refusal of the men elected to the district and provincial councils to take the oath of loyalty and perforin their functions. The representatives in the reichsrath were, for the most part, French irreconcilables. In 1S72 the German government called upon the inhabitants to declare themselves them-selves either German citizens or French. More than 150.000 expressed their adherence adher-ence to France, and of these nearly 50,000 moved across the border. On the part of the German authorities a policy of severity approaching military rule was tried in alternation with one of mildness and concession, and for a long time both proved equally ineffective. The Gei manizaticn of the provinces was the chief aim of the Prussian government during the entire period of occupation, the study of the German anguatre being made compulsory in the schools, and tne use of it obligatory in the courts and legislative bodies, in the suppression of French radical rad-ical newspapers and the establishment of higher schools of learning under German control. After 1S!0 the prospect of ultimate reconciliation became brighter. A loyalist loyal-ist party appeared, which wielded some influence in the elections. The status of Alsace-Lorraine, however, was stlH unsettled un-settled and disturbed. Hope for Reunion. A great many of the inhabitants still entertained hopes of agafn being reunited with France, while still others urged that the provinces should become a republic, re-public, like Switzerland, with its neutrality neu-trality recognized in international agreement. agree-ment. In December, 1913, the situation became more critical than ever, owing to the stern suppression of an anti-Prussian anti-Prussian demonstration, giving rise to a parliamentary crisis of serious proportions. propor-tions. Alsace-Lorraine, pronounced in French Alzas-Lorran, is a territory occupying the southwestern end of "the German empire, and bounded by the grand duchy of Luxemburg, the Rhine province of Prussia, and the Rhine Palatinate on the north and Baden on the east, Switzerland Switzer-land and old France on the west. Its area Is fiSOS square miles. Administratively, Administra-tively, under German rule, it has been divided into the districts of I'pper Alsace, Al-sace, Loiver Alsace and Lorraine. Alsace is touched by the Rhine on the east and the Vosges mountains are on the west border. The eastern part Is an extensive plain, slightly inclined toward the Rhine, wdiere it occasionally passes into swamps and marshes. The western part is traversed by the Vosges, which attain their greatest elevation in Alsace, the Ballon do Ci neb wilier rising to a height of nearly -1700 feet above the level of the sea. Lorraine is a plateau region. The offshoots of the Jura, where Ihev enter Alsace, are about 2500 feet high. Alsace-Lorraine Alsace-Lorraine belongs entirely (o tho basin of the Rhine. The III. a tributary of the lalter. rises at the south end of Alsace and flows to the northward throughout the greater part of its length. Great Water Supply. In the north, A?sace is watered bv the Zoin. Modder and a few other tributaries of the Rhine, while the western part of Lorraine is crossed by the Moselle. The lakes are generally small and furnish water for irrigation and water-power projects. The climate is mild, with a slight difference between the plains nnd the mountainous regions. The respective average summer temperatures in the two regions are 61 and oH degrees. Fahrenheit. Fahren-heit. The temperatures for winter are 39 and 37 degrees. Strassburg has an average, yearly temperature of F.O de- I grees. and Metz about -IS. 6 decrees. j Rainfall Is abundant. J Few territories in Kurope are superior j to Alsace-Lorraine In the development of ! agricultural resources, And few are more j productive along lines of agriculture, j dairying, mining and manufacture. In fact, it is well established that Prussia : looked covetously in the direction of these countries as well for their productive produc-tive possibilities as for the political ef-f""t ef-f""t of possession much in advance of the Franco- I'russi.'i n war of 1x71. when Alsace Al-sace and Lorraine were finally annexed and became German possessions. The soil of the country is well adapted for agriculture, and Is. In some parts, extremely fertile. The mountainous region is devoted exclusively to tne cultivation cul-tivation of fruit and the vine, winch it rows luxuriantly and productive- on land as high as ?fi feet above the yea. Small Land Holdings. The rou ! hem end of I "pper A'sac l considered the most fertile part of the ci'Mrf country, in contrast with the northern pa rl of Lorra ine. where the stony nature nf the ground renders it unlit for agricultural purposes. About 40 per cent of the land is under tillage, over 3u per cent under forests, nearly 13 per cent in meadows, and about 2.3 per cent in vineyards. The land is all divide into very small hold i rigs, only about 2 per cent of t he total area being estates of fifty acres or over. When!, rye. barley and oats are the chief grains grown. F'otafoes and susnr bet-ts, as well as hay and hops, are produced in large quantities. The ou.ti- at ion of lo:"io'er if stol very important, although it has been deeljninir of late. The cultivation of the vine is cn.-ried on more, extensively now than In the years prior to German occupation, us tl.e i;.t-man!o i;.t-man!o government, immediately r.fti-r the peaco of l.-.i. encouraged the cu!t.vat;on r.f the vine to a very large extent, because be-cause t:.e nature of the sod is better adapted to this form of production than anv territory now under German control. Alsace produces chietly white wines, while Lorraine yields exclusive y red wines. The value of the output In l?ll was 34 900.000 murks f ?S, i.Onn . of which nearlv ode-half whs credited to Iower Alsace. The forests of Alsace-Lorraine Alsace-Lorraine are larRcly of foliaecous trees, and arc owned to a eonsideiuulo extern by the communities. Iron Production. ! Alsace-Lorraine occupies a place in the : fir?t rank anions iron-producing' countries coun-tries of JCurope. The crow l h of this in- ; dustrv was most remarkable In the fifteen fif-teen vears immediately preceding the outbreak out-break of tho Kuropean war. In tho year 1P11 alone the Alsace-Txjrra ine output of iron was 1 l.TT, t,r71 tons, as against 4.-for 4.-for the en t ire remainder of the Prussian empire, which, in that year, set a hichwater mark in its history for Iron production. The center of Iron minine Is at the western end of Lorraine, near the frontier of Luxemburg, where the high lands on the west bank of the Moselle river contain con-tain vast deposits of Iron and phosphate. Coal is mined principally in I he Vosires; the output in lUll was a.0S3.4.1fi tons. The output of salt, too. Is considerable, the production In 1911 beinc R0.790. Anion? the manufacturing industries of Alsace-Lorraine the production of textiles occupies first place, employing about one-third one-third tho total population encased In industrial in-dustrial pursuits. Cot ton -weaving has been carried on extensively hi these countries coun-tries since the m!ddle of the nichtcpnth cenfury, and Ik at present considered the most important among the manufacturing Industries. Tho production of textile, If, carrkd on chiefly at luelhausen, KoMnar, and along tUo numerous streamy whi' h are utilized largely for induslrbil purposes. pur-poses. The production of woolens and yarns Is very extensively developed in lower Alsace. Linen and silk-weaving establishments es-tablishments also arn numerous. The production pro-duction of textiles is ftill to a considerable consider-able extent a house industry. The iron arid fcteel industry is next to textile in importance. im-portance. Value of Output. There are extensive foundries, maeb ine shops, tool factories and numerous other plants for the production of various iron products. The vaiue of ihe annual output of the mills and foundries is about 000.000. Tireweries and distilleries arc numerous, buL supply chiefly lucal de-mn de-mn nd. Tra nsport a linn .f-'" eili t ics i n A Isace-Txirrainc Isace-Txirrainc are not behind the industries In fact It is largely due to the spl-uijiid system of railways and waterways that manufacturing has won the hirh place, il occupies. There arc over r.oon miles of hishwas. ncirly one mile of roan to the square mile of territrv. Of railways tn VM2 It had 12e.r. miles, or n--ar.y 22. fi j miles for every 100 square miles of tcr- rltury. about the srune in ihe Mate of j Illinn:s. The v 'al jo stern of Alsaer-. IxTrHine has been one of the best in tho ' l!"rm;iri empire, the Teutonic government I having rxo.-n led vast sums on its main-I main-I tcrian''e and constat)! ex t ensi'in. I ' nd.er German rule the public pt-iiool "vstem wiih Mjpcrvisf d by a se; t -u ' of st a te. but oluca t ion was eont rolled urinripally 1'V the embolic church, nvrr 27 i.er cent of th te;:(-)iiiig staff being1 rb-revmen and other persons I -longing ' tn rdieious oiii rs. A ls;i - f ,rra i !; b;is i one university, that bdng at Strassburr I In lIM'i the Komn n 'at holies mirnhcred ! l.t-V-b'!: 'i f.u-star.t. 4'S,::74; other f'hrbs- tfariH. :ur,.v: Jews, :t0,4:i; others, :nio. Of j the Udn.1 Kir, were maie ;.r.d i-os '.',t fmnle. ytravsburc, the fai(;,l, b:d-i population of UWil. On the dav of the restoration of AIC'-UnTalDr: to French j rule, approximately 2."00.i.(o people v. ere loM. to the population of fi.imanv at;d j added to that of France. |