THE JPULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURG. PA.
iteJHE MB CROSS MEW mmt
IN PRISON C11P AS SEEN fit" AN filKI.
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The Soldier-Christian
Connecticut Man Arrives Home
After Escape Into Sweden
on Fertilizer Boat.
WAS'KELD IN THREE PRISONS
MEH1E1S f 0 BEUP
fJi illf
r,f onwiNc & AKTwit wuMM onown
By WILLOUGHBY LEE.
v 1 1 1 heart of America tit (Ills
Christmas time Is yearning
toward the liills ond val
leys and mud flats of
aCiA France, for thousands nml
tens of thousands and, for
Krh "" Wft hundreds f
thousands of our tlm-st boys
C BiM "rc ov'r there w'tn IVrsli-
'i lni And hi' n n n f li n r
Christinas there may bo 2,-
OOO.(HX) of .thorn, and two
years from now, so far as anyone can
see. It may bo nearer 5,000,000. For
America has taken oath that not until
kalscrlsni has been blotted from the
earth will the war end.
Those Imys of ours who are over
there, and the others who uro going,
need all the help and encouragement
and aid the folks at homo can jmissI
My give them. Tlmt Is why the Red
Cross, lti8to:id of confining Itself to giv
ing them hospital treatment uftcr they
hnve been hurt or are Kick, Is giving
lliem Christmas trees and comfort kits
ml doing everything possible to make
Christmas enjoyable for them, i Not n
nimi In nil "Mack .luck" Pershing's
iiriny, will be without some reminder
of the people at home for whom he Is
lighting. Not n man In any one of all
the army and navy cantonments seut
lercd all over the United States will
he without a genuine Christmas even
to a Christinas tree. The Rod Cross
has gone Into the Santa Onus business
wholesale, ns It goes Into everything
It undertakes.
- And that Is why every man. every
woman, every child, owes It to him
self and to the soldiers and sailors to
become n member of the Hed Cross. A
campaign Is being carried on to enllsc
tO.000,000 new members of the Amer
ican Red Cross, which will make It five
times os large and ten times ns rich
nd powerful ns any other lied Cross
la the world.
It Is becnuse of the millions nnd mil
lions of American boys who are going
over to France that the whole Amcr
Wn people has got to Join the Ited
Cross In helping care for them. A few
hundred thousand can be looked after
by the present membership; but multi
ply them by ten or twenty or twenty
Ave, nnd It takes a nation to bnck them
properly.
It hits been great sport this year to
fix up the CJirlstmiiH packets, and write
Hie little personal note that goes with
fnch one, and picture to one's self the
pleasure with which the unknown sol
dier In France will hall the gift from
tbe home land. For there hns been uo
real fighting only n trench rnid or so,
In which only a few lives were lost
'':. In all likelihood, than, would
Ih'vm occurred In the 'natural course of
vents If they lind reninlned" In civil
He. So. while there was sorrow for
he brave fellows who went down fight
ing, nnd for those others who were
lulu In the submarine brushes with
the Germans, there was not the over
whelming grief that comes after overv
great battle.
Next year It will he different so
different. In the spring and earlier
If the French line should break at any
Polnt-I'ershlng will hurl his boys Into
gap. and everybody knows whnt
that means. There will be righting
f the kind tlmt made n whole world
admire the men of Him Hun, nmJ An.
t'ctain. and ClmneollorsvIUo, nnd
Chlcknmauga, and Gettysburg, nnd
wherever Americans have fought.
They win )C pitted against a foe who
whatever we may sny of his arrogance
nnd cruelty, his disregard of the laws
of hnmanlry nnd the ordinary decen
cies of civilized life. Is a bard fighter.
That means that the hospital will be
full of American boys whose lives de
pend on the work the Hed Cross must
do for there Is no other agency that
can wait on them. It means bandages
TOLD IN A PARAGRAPH
An English street railway Is experi
menting with cars that lake current
from overhead wires and run on rails
far ns they ;ire laid, then complete
their Journeys ov r ordinary roads, us
ing storage batteries for power.
An Individual life raft Invented In
t'Cinuiny Is provided with a compass
In front and an Intermittent light, op.
united by a motor, which, like Ihe light.
Is supplied by a storage battery, In the
rear.
Five years ago the pupils in the
Kwnnju t;iiis Industrial school, Koi-.-a,
never had seen a crochet need!", vet
hey have acquired such proficiency In
croi beting that they have earned about
$100 f.,r thu self-help department Of
the school.
Cupl. I.uls I.lnnso of Siinln arrived
Smii Francises) recently Willi his
Wfe nml utmi children. The children
w,,re i,,irM S,.V(., different countries:
Montsernit. ill Sunlit; lutein, to I'nrlu.
literally by the
their wounds.
splints and wound pads nnd
pillows and nil manner of
surgical dressings without
stint., It means pajamas nnd
bed shirts and surgical shirts
the kind thnt surgeons can'
open nnd reach wounds with
out handling buttons. It
means bid socks and bath
robes nnd convalescent robes
nnd nil the things thnt In
valids need.
It means drugs nnd medi
cines nnd operating Instru
ments nnd nil the appliances
with which modern surgeons
nre dully performing miracles
In saving lives and restoring
to usefulness legs and arms
which under other methods
would have been cut olT ut
once.
American soldiers must not be for a
single day without all of these tilings
they need. The French have been. In
n. .i .:, ...
v.n.j, unja oi me war and it lias
been said in some later days word
went out that Ihe French surgeons
were operating without anesthetics lie
cause they had none. It Is bad enough
to lose an arm or a leg. but no one
likes to think of being tied fast to a
table and the leg or arm cut olT with
no chloroform or ether to give the suf
ferer unconsciousness whilo the knife
'Is wielded.
Also, within the last year, word has
come from the battlefields of France
that the little I'ollus had to use old
newspapers to stanch the blood from
their wounds. That was because thlr
supply of gauze hud run out and no
more was to bo had. It meant Infect
ed wounds, gangrene, lockjaw, and
the loss of legs and arms and lives that
might hnve been saved.
All America will agree that none of
these things must happen to Pershing's
boys. P.ut It will happen unless the
American people get right behind the
Hed Cross, and make and ship those
hospital supplies In n never-ending
stream. Tin- surgeons at the French
hospitals Uy thnt s etlmes It takes
a whole box of surgical dressings
7,000 of tMem for a single wounded
man. They have been so short at the
French hospitals that Instead of throw
ing the dressings away after using,
they have been driven to try to clean
them nnd use them over and over.
Tlmt Is what MnJ. Grayson M. P.
Murphy had In mind a few weeks ago
when lie cabled to the Hed Cross that
nothing on earth Is now of equal Im
portance to getting a big supply of
surgical supplles.lntu France. Unless
we do, he said, disaster and disgrace
are nhead for America nnd the Hed
Cross and the American people cannot
afford to Incur that. No American sol
dier must lose u leg or an arm or an
eye, or give his life, when It can be
saved by anything the American peo
ple can do. Major Murphy Is tlio Hed
Cross commissioner for France, nnd
knows perhaps better than any other
tmun In the world exactly what needs
to be done for the urmy In a medical
nnd surgical way. When lie speaks
America will do well o listen.
Money Is not nil the Hed Cross must
have for this (work money Is not even
the most Important thing, though It
will take millions of dollars. What it
needs most of all Is nit Immense num
ber of members, nnd their personal
service. It needs, and has to hnve, the
whole American people, fathers nnd
mothers, sisters and daughters, and
the children, to back up the govern
ment and the Hed Cross In this work.
Take, for example, the recent call of
Major Murphy for 0,000,000 warm knit
ted articles for the soldiers nnd for
the destitute of France. If the money
had been nt bund to buy the lot, there
were not that many knitted things In
the whole world of the kind wanted.
Hut the Ited Cross appealed to Its
members, mid asked each chapter for
Its quota, nnd the socks and sweaters
and mulllers and wristlets rolled In by
carloads, and nre still coming. The
'mothers nnd sisters and daughters and
wives went to knitting, nnd that an
swered the cull In an nmnzlngly short
time.
The sltuntlon will be the same when
the boys begin to need bandages nnd
gauze dressings and hospital garments
In grent numbers. Not all the stores
In nil the land will hnve enough such
things to fill the demand. Rut the
American people nre being enrolled ns
Hed Cross members, nnd they are
learning by tens of thousands how to
mnke nnd pack nnd ship these things,
and whatever the demand, they will
meet It In full.
That Is why llio Ited Cross wants
15,000,000 member. It Is not so much
the $2 or the $10 or the $25 or the
$100 or the $1 fee that membership
costs, though that has. Its Importance.
It would be even more necessary If
membership did not cost a cent. Hut
In' this enso the fee Is n small consid
eration. What Is needed Is nil army
of 15,000,000 true-hearted Americans
who will stand back of the army and"
navy, nnd supply them with everything
they need to keep them well and
cheery, nud to give them every chance
for life If they get sick or are hurt.
Confidence Ills bucking is a mighty
factor In a fellow's spunk when he Is
fighting .'!,."00 miles from the home he
s defending.
Now a word about tho different
kinds of membership : A patron mem
ber pays $100 in one sum. and the In
lerest on that money accrues to the
Hed Cross every year. A life member
pays $-3 In one sum, and the Interest
sullices to keep ids membership alive
so long us he lives. Hut the most
stress Is not -to be laid on these forms
In this campaign because, as I have
said, money is not the chief object.
Everyone who can possibly afford It
oti(.ht to bo what Is called a ".Maga
zine Member." H costs ?2, each year,
but it I rings Willi It the Hed Cross
Magazine, published every month tith
a wcultU of pictures of Hed Cross
work, and Inspiring articles telling
what the Hed Cross Is doing all around
the world.
For those who cannot spun $J, the
annual membership cosls but $1, and
one who has this membership Is Just
as much a Hed Cross member ns any
one, thu only difference being thnt he
does not get the magazine. The great
effort will be to enroll the fl and $'J
people, for It Is numbers and not mon
ey nt. this timo thut the Hi ! Cross
wants.
When the membership has c. bed
lo the 15,000,000 mnrk, then will .. -no
the call for members lo help turn .
supplies. There is no compulsion-
nobody hns to pledge himself to give
nny money except his dues, nor to
give service nor nny thing. Rut of
course you will want to belp, and vou
will have a world of opportunity
hetlier you can knit, or sew, or roll
bandages, or run err.iiiiW for thoso
who can do those things, or give nion
ey to help them buy supplies of yam
and muslin i.nd gauze, you can help.
It will be your part to do the biggest
thing you cun to bnck up the fighting
boys over there.
The first thing Is to become a Red
Cross member. Take somebody In
with you If you possibly can. Help the
membership team that comes to you
for your name and your dollar or two
dollars. Remember, It Is not, In the
final analysis, the Hed Cross you arc
helping at all it Is the boys who nr.1
over there lighting for you. Nobody
concerned with the Hed Cross ever
gets a penny out of anything given for
relief, or from any garment made and
entrusted to It. F.very penny nnd
every stitch goes to some American
soldier or some destltuio one whom the
Red Cros.t Is trying to keep nllve.
You will l ent if you have not nl
ready heard a dozen stories about
graft in the Red Cross. They nre lies,
everyone of them. They were started
maliciously, and have been peddled
ever since by gossips, some malicious,
some merely chatterers with no sense
of responsibility, who would In the
same spirit repent a slander about a
good woman.
You have heard, or will hear, that
tho high oflicers of tho Red Cross get
most of the money given. It for relief.
Exactly the reverse Is true. Every
member of the war council, every head
of every Red Cross bureau In Washing
ton, every head of every burenu In
everyone of the thirteen divisions of
tho Red Cross In the United States,
Is givliu. Ms time free, and Is spending
money t.i bis own while he does the
work.
In n recent public speech on thlr
subject, Hunry P. Davison, chairman
of the Hed Cross war council, de
clared that of every dollar given the
Red Cross for relief, about $1.02 Is
spent for relief. Not only are the ex
penses met from funds provided for
that purpose, but the money contributed
draws Interest while In bank, und the
Interest also Is applied to relief work.
The Red Cross Is led by the biggest
and brainiest nud most unselfish men
the nation could find.- Trust them.
They are doing the very best that
brains nnd money nnd determination
can do to prevent human suffering, and
to take care of Pershing's boys. Help
them. Your own may bo there soon. I
Lost 60 Pounds In Seven Months Be
fore Aid Came Guards Worse Off
Than Prisoners and Glad to Get
Scraps from Food the
Y. M. C. A. Sent.
New York. What Is a German pris
on cntnp like, from the prisoner's view
point? Whnt sort m food, treatment, com
forts (It erry) do the men receive who
are otpcured by tho Germans?
How do the captives stand Gertnnn
prison conditions?
Americans are more than ever vi
tally Interred In these questions,
since som of General Pershing's sol
diers were liuido prisoners n few days
ngo In n trench raid In France.
Throilgh tho nnrrntlve ef an Amer
ican ildventurer who less than n
month ago escaped from n German
prison and who had had experience
with two other confinement camps,
tho New York World Is able to give
answers to the questions.
Captured by Mocwe.
Tho narrator Is Wlllet C. Smith of
South Norwnlk, Conn., who reached
this country pn November C from Swe
den. . to which lnnd he escaped from
Luebeck, Germany, by concealing him
self in the hold of a vessel nnd ex
isting six days without food or wa
ter. Smith had been n prisoner, first
aboard thf Gorman raider Moewe, then
In camp n Duelmen, then nt Rrnnden
burg and finally nt Luebeck, for seven
month nnd one day. He fled ob Octo
ber n.
Summed up, his testimony Is this:
There Is no particular brutality, no
clubbing with guns or stabbing with
bayonets ns long ns prisoners remain
orderly. But tho food Is insufficient
he fell nwny from 210 to l.'iO pounds
and long continued subsistence upon
Germun prison faro alone has most
grievous effects upon the health.
Only the Red Cross nnd Y. M. C. A.
supplies nre keeping the prisoners
nllve nt some confinement places.
Brandenburg, where about 70,000
prisoners of allied nations were kept,
was the worst cntnp Smith encounter
ed. This Is In'Prussln, not far from
Berlin. Duelmen, In Westphalia, was
bad enough, although the treatment
wns better. At Luebeck, which Is not
n camp but a port where prisoners
are worked on the waterfront, condi
tions were not bad nt all.
Guards Worse Off.
The German soldiers guarding the
prisoners were far worse off there than
the captives, Smith declares. Re
lief organizations keep the prisoners
supplied with enough food nnd clothes
to get along with, nnd tlie middle-aged
guards, half starving nnd In pntches,
beg supplies from their cnptlve ene
mies.
"They're sick nnd disgusted with
the wnr, these fellows nt Luebeck,"
Smith Rays. "They would often say
'Look nt us, without enough to eat
or wenrl Tlie kaiser's no earthly
good! He's crnzy. Germany's starv
ing nnd licked and yet he keeps on
fighting!'
Smith, n railroad hrakeman by
trade nnd a "boomer" by inclination,
salUd from Newport News on January
28 for Liverpool as foreman of (54
American horse-wranglers. When his
ship, the British-owned steamer Rs
mernldn, was on her return voyage In
March ehe wus captured, robbed nnd
sunk by the raider Moewe, nnd her
crew added to the prisoners of that ad
venturous craft, who numbered nt the
end of the Moewe's raiding voyage
above COO.
How the prisoners were shut be-
THE THINKER
Looking Ahead.
Junior, with his playmate, had been
given some candy by tin old gentle
nfiin, nnd on being asked how they
liked It replied: "Just line I Will you
get us some more when this Is done?
We're big enters."
v, Injuries and Insults.
Injuries may be atoned for nnd for
given; but Insults admit of no compen
sation. They degrade the mind In Its
own esteem und force It to recover Its
level by revenge. Junius.
Minister a Linguist.
Four languages were used last year
In the preaching of Rev. Paul Burgess,
Presbyterian missionary In thu Que
ziilteniingii Meld of Guatemala, accord
ing to the Guatemala News, He spoke
In Spanish, Kngllsh, German nnd Cak-chlqucl.
Decolorizing Carbons.
FnL'lish evnei'lmenf era lmvi .i
Kl; Joaquin, In United States; Ln'.fl. pari hilly discovered the secret proc
" China ; Francisco, In Japan ; Josef n ' esses used In the manufacture of
"D(l Mar In Manila, and Nurla nnd German and Dutch decoloriziug car-
U"U0. twins, on the t'm'lllf Iwinu f.m lli.i eiir,m !.,,!,,
Idolatry on the Decline.
It Is becoming a custom nrnong non
Chrlstlnn Chinese of Borneo to go to
the Bfethodlst cbnpel for their mar
riage ceremony. Because of the Influ
ence of the mission, Idolatry among
thefti bus practically ceased.
Concrete Railroad Tie.
Italian steam nnd street railroads
nre experimenting with n concrete tie
that rocks slightly, affording uniform
elasticity nml n. more perfect align
meut of track than wooden ties.
Sea Coast Sand Binder.
Cnllfornlans say there Is no seu
coast .sand, binder that surpasses In
effectiveness Ammophllu nrennrtn, sen
bent giuss. It bus done more to hold
the shifting dunes of Gulden Gait
park, San Francisco, than any other
agency.
Decidedly Unusual.
A Wisconsin man's defepsfc against
ills wife's divorce -suit was ort the
ground that she refused to speak to
him nnd compelled him to buy u phono
1,'raph for company.
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An old Frenchwoman Seated In the
midst of what was once her home.
Hearing that tho Germans had left her
home town, driven back by the French,
she returned, but to find the ancestral
home a mass of ruins.
VIOLATES ORDER, LOSES CROP
British Farmer Also Gets Prison Sen
tence and Fine of $1,C00 Is
Inflicted.
London. The severest penalty yet
given for violation of the farm culti
vation nets has Just been administered
to Alfred White, n farmer of Maid
stone. He was ordered by tlie au
thorities to cut down his nerenge of
hops to one-hnlf. He paid no atten
tion to the order, declaring that be
ow, with no chance for their lives,
whenever the Moewe sighted another
vessel, has been lold by others, and
Smith's narrative of that need not be
repented. He nriived with the rest
nt Kiel, Germany, on March 21, and
next day, with all llm Moewe's pris
oners, was sent to Duelmen, Westpha
lia, u town about ten miles from the
Holland bonier.
Captora "On Leave."
"We were sent down thero In third
class cars," Smith said, "with one
guard to Vach ten men. Tho guards
were nil middle-aged Germans who
had been at the front and who were
home on furlough. They complained
bitterly because when they got a leave
it wasn t really a leave at all. They
lind to do guurd duty or work In n
fnctory or on a farm. This trip lust
ed nil night, but we didn't get a scrap
of food till we had breakfast at Duel-
men In the morning.
The camp consisted of a lot of low.
wooden, unpnlnted shucks, with pV,n
board floors. Around the walls ran
bunks, one above another. Each bunk
hnd u bag of straw for a mattress, and
two medium weight blankets. There
were four of these shacks In each In
clofmre at K'uolnvii. iCach Inclosure
held about 1,000 prisoners, and had a
11-foot barbed wire fence around It,
wltL tl, wire nt the top bent Inward
so ?nu couldn't get over. How many
of these Inclosures there were each
Willi Its four (.hacks I don't know.
but I was told thero were 50,000 pris
oners.
"Then there was another barbed
wire fence, higher nnd thicker, on the
oulslde of n roadway which ran around
the entire camp. livery 200 feet
around this barrier was a sentry box
and u sentry. Insldo of each smaller
Inclosure thero were two nrmed
guards, marching bnck and forth.
Nationalities Separated.
"The nationalities were all separnt
( The French prisoners were kept
by themselves. They seemed to get
the worst treatment. The Russians
were by themselves and we Americans
were kept with the English. Nobody
got what you'd call good treatment.
"For breakfust every morning we got
n piece of bread nn Inch and n half
thick and about four Inches square and
one tlncup of what they called coffee
hut I'd call good water spoiled. 1 don't
know what they made It out of, but It
wus rotten, bitter stuff nud not even
very hot.
"For dinner nnd supper we had the
same thing every day turnip soup,
with mighty few turnips In It. We
never had anything else. No meat, no
potatoes, mi bread, even, except nt
breakfast. You could take the turnip
soup or stnrve. It was Just about
enough to keep you alive. Somo of the
fellows got so weak they'd have to be
carried to tlie hospital. There they'd
get nourishing food for a few days,
but as soon ns they were a little
stronger they'd be chucked out of the
hospital. There wasn't much of what
you'd call real suffering at Diielinan
and the guards were decent enough-
hut It wasn't much of a life."
Sent to Brandenburg.
On April 3 Smith and his fellow
captives of the Moewo were sent from
Duclmnn to the notorious camp at
Brandenburg, wlilfli Is on the Havel
river, between Berlin and Magdeburg.
Again they had nn nll-nlgbt trip with
out food and crowded Into narrow
woodeu benches In the worst sort of
cars.
"Here we had Prusslnns for guards,
nnd they were wicked devils," Smith
went on. "Tho camp wns the same
sort of n place as Duelmun, with
barbed wire Inner Inclosures, and then
n roadwny circling the whole camp
and barred on the outside with wire.
"At Duelmau they would turn us out
nnd kount us only twice a day, but at
Brundcnbur: they gave us the raus' a
dozen times. They'd keep us standlug
barefoot In the snow for hours until
some major would come up nnd verify
the final count. By this timo our shoes
had worn out, nud most of us actually
were barefoot.
'The Prussians hauled and shoved
us around like cattle, although I must
say I didn't see any one struck or
stabbed who didn't huve It coming to
him.
'At Brandenburg we got the same
old food turnip soup, with never a
change. They made the strongest of
us work on farms outside the Inclo
sure, clearing tho ground for the spring
planting; but we got no better food
than the rest.
"We nearly froze to death nt Bran
denburg. There were suiull stoves In
the huts, but they didn't begin to warm
them, Tlie blankets you could see
through them I We were all full of
Insects nnd had to have our clothes
fumigated every two weeks, but In n
couple of days we'd be ns bud us ever.
Gets Job on Docks.
"I wns about ready to take a des
iterate chance for escape when on May
P tlc y asked for I500 volunteers to go
to work on the docks nt Luebeck.
They s.ld they'd give us boots, better
clothes nnd n mark a day for wages.
I thought anything wns better tlmn
Brandenburg, so I volunteered uud was
taken,
"The clothes they gnvo us were black
uniforms with a yellow stripe down the
pants and n yellow baud fitted Into the
sleeve, with our number nnd tho word
iCrlegsgefangenlager (war prison) on
them.
"They did give us better footgenr,
but you were Just ns likely as not to
get one boot und one shoe, end differ
ent sizes. And when they half-soled n
slioe they did it with the upper part of
an old boot. They had scarcely nny
leather nt nil. While I was working on
HERE IS "COLLEGEIST"
PRIVATE IN U. S. ARMY
Sun Antonio, Tex. The best
educated man In the southern de
partment of the army has been
found In Private George B. L.
Thornton. He was born in Eng
land, but now Is nn American
citizen and enlisted man In the
qunrtermnster's service. Here
Is his collegiate education : One
year In College St. Servals, Liege,
Belgium ; one yenr In Colkv St.
Michael, Frlbourg, Switzerland ;
four years In St. Bedo college.
Manchester, England ; four years
to graduation from tho Universi
ty of Oxford. He Is getting $:J0
n month.
the farms I managed to get n pair of
wooden shoes to keep my feet off the
ground.
"There hnd been promises of Red
Cross packages und Y. M. C. A. boxes
at Brandenburg, but they hadn't ar
rived when I left.
"At Luebeck everything wns much
netter. iney Kept us in a big ware
house on the Hamburg-American quay,
and made us load nnd unload ships.
But here we had steamer bunks to
sleep in and decent blankets, and It
wus luxury compared to the other
-places. We had the same oil bum
coffee and turnip soup but our guards
got the same. Then In the summer we
began to receive some clothing from
the International Y. M. C. A. nnd some
fowl boxes from the American Hed
Cross through Copenhagen.
What Y. M. p. A. Sent
"Every week we got a box thut had
In It 50 biscuits, some corned beef,
veal lonf, suet pudding, condensed milk,
one-quarter pound of tea, a slice of
bacon, a can of fruit, 50 cigarettes and
some tobacco. Tlmt saw us throimh.
It was so good we felt sorry for the
poor guards and would give them
scraps. They offered as high as 50
marks tor a pound of tea. And tlie
bacon they would hnve given anything
for."
In June, Smith made his first t
tempt nt escape. Ho had been work
ing in n shipyard distant from Luebeck
nnd managed to elude his guard t
nightfall. He struck out overland, but
his prison uniform revealed him and
two days later he was captured nnd
returned. For the offense of trying to
escape he wns given 19 days In the
'liluek hole," with only a piece of
bread n day to eat. Also a big Ger
tnnn guard "took a couple of cracks"
at bis face.
'The Spanish ambassador enme m
see us Americans on June 1 nnd prom
ised to send us books and clothing,
but I never saw msy of them. They
did begin to put a few potatoes Into
the turnip soup, und occasionally they
put about five pounds of meut Into tho
soup supply for 300 men.
Another Getaway Chance.
"In October I made up my mind to
take another chance on a getaway. The
ships we were loading were plying be
tween Luebeck nnd Swedish ports, and
I thought I might hide on one of these.
They carried mostly salt fertilizer to
Sweden, though sometimes some con I
nnd coke, and they brought bnck pig
Iron and nre. I never saw them bring
In any foodstuffs. Sometimes the Ger
man ships would go out carrying
barbed wire and Iron rods for tho
trenches on the Russian front They
went to Rlgn, I believe.
"There was one boat, the Undine,
which traveled between Luebeck and
a Swedish port named Norrkoplng reg
ularly. I got acquainted with a Swedo
on board her, and he told roe one oth
er fellow hud mnde his getnway to
Norrkoplng by concealing himself In
the hold.
"My scheme was this : Every morn
ing the guard would set together nn
early working crew of 12 men at four
o'clock. He would take them on board
while It was durk, to get the hatches
ready for the others. One morning
when I wasn't In this squad I bid my
self In the hallway where they always
lined uik The guard counted his 12,
nnd then In the darkness I Joined
them. As we climbed aboard the
Undine he didn't know bo bad 13, In
stead of 12. Ho was a bonchended
German anyhow.
"I hid myself In the fertilizer a
combination of salt aud sulphur. What
It did to mo wns plenty. My feet nre
still full of holes and tho nnlls are
off my toes."
For six days then (an unusunlly
long Journey) Smith remained In the
hold. When the vessel docked at
Norrkoplng nnd the hatch wns opened
he dashed down the gnngplank to
safety. The Swedish police gave him
water and food ; American consulate
nt todies clothed til in and sent him to
Stockholm nnd then to Christlnnla,
Norway, and there he boarded the liner
Bergensjord for home.
By REV. J. H. RALSTON, D. D. ij
Scwetary of Coireondtnc Department,
Moody Ilibla InilltuM, Chicago
eminent nnd the Ineluslveness of this
Jath is very great. The ClnWlan who
Adopted 22 Children.
Vlnelnnd, N. J. William J. Purvis
of Rosenhnyn celebrated the forty-second
anniversary of bis mnrrlage the
other day by coming to Vlneland nnd
visiting tho old homestead on Oak
road. Purvis wus married In Mill
vllle and the next morning he and his
bride adopted five needy children. The
couple have kept that practice up un
til now they can point with pride to
a family of 22 that they have, raised
nnd sent out Into the world, all Imbued
with the Purvis spirit of America first.
The foster father Is n survivor of the
Civil wnr nnd extremely pntrlotlc.
would make a profit of $50,000 out of
hops, and so could well nlTord to pay
a substantial fine. The court fined
him only $1,000, but ordered tho for
feiture of the entire crop of hops nnd
added a sentence of two months In
prison.
Plans for a Fox Farm.
Butte, Mont. Raising of sliver foxes,
whose pelts are selling for $1,500 each,
may become a new Industry for this
stnte. Fox ranchers from Cnnnda
were here recently with a view to
establishing the Industry, where they
snld conditions nre admirably adapted
to It.
Bear Too Familiar.
Conrad, Mont.- George Robinson has
killed n brown bear nt their home on
Sheep creek. Old Brnlu hnd been mak
ing regular visits flits last summer,
nnd, In fact, was getting to bo alto
gether too familiar with the sur
roundings. On tho evening of his last
appearance be wus seeu looking
through tho kitchen window.
TKXT No imitt (lint wurrcllt rnlunglnth
lliiiaulf with thu affairs of tills life; that
le mny pliae lilm who hiith chosen bins
be a aoldtcr.-I! Timothy i:4.
This Is not n consideration of tho
Christian as a soldier fighting for bin
country, tyut of
Ihe Christian con
sidered from
military stand
point. The figure
of the soldier Is
used quite freely
In the Bible In
speaking of the
Christian, nnd we
nre Justified la
applying that fig
ure to the modern
Christian. There
are several things
In n soldier's ex
perience today
that belong to tho
Christian and to
ltie.se ur will give attention.
The Christian's Enlistment and Oath
of Loyalty.
Every soldier of bis country must
tuke an oath of allegiance to the gov-
ill not make u pledge to bis Ird,
ordinarily In u public way, lacks the
first visible testimony that he Is a sol
dier of tlie Lord. Christian profes
sion Is most Important, and the ex
ception to the rule but prove Its im
portance. the Christian's Eaulpment for Service.
The Christian must have his equip
ment for service ns the government
at nny country must equip Its soldiers.
In which case clothing, food, shelter,
arms, niiimunltlon and other thing
ere absolutely necessary. In the sixth
chapter of the Epistle to tbe Epheslana
this equipment of the soldler-Clirlstlnsj
Is quite fully given. Thnt equipment
Is spiritual of course, but It will ba
noticed that It Is both defensive and
affensive. The enemy of thu Christinsj
Jften nttacks, nnd the Christian must
Jefend himself. Tlie Christian must
not mnke It a rule of his life how
ever to nwnlt the iittaek of the enemy,
but must attack as well. For attack
only one weapon Is named, and that
Is the sword of the spirit of the word
of God. Unlike human wars, the spir
itual warfare has known no change
through the nges. The Bible today is
the best wenpon and there are no Zep
pelins nor other nlrcraft. nor subma
rines, nor mines, nor anything else that
makes It obsolete. It Is well to note
Hint there Is only the offensive weapon.
Many have forgotten this; the Bible
has been abandoned nnd the 4'iicmy
has pressed the post of righteousness
buck. Courage, knowledge, faith and
ill other equipment will be furnished
If the Bible Is used faithfully. The
srenpon of offense needs emphasis.
The Christian's Training.
The Christian does too much unor
ganized lighting. His warfare Is loo
lurgely a guerrilla warfare. In con
nection with the national urmy of the
United States the training Is most to-'
tensive, the results of which are aston
ishing to all beholding It. There are
provisions for training the Christian.
The old Methodist class-meeting, now
showing innocuous desuetude, wus a
ipleudld training school In the dnys
gone by. Sunday schools, Y. M. C. A.'s,
young people's societies, etc., give fair
training opportunity. For ollleers
training there ore utility theological
seminaries, und n few of them turn
out Napoleons and Grants nnd Persh
Ings, but many, of them nre turning
out oflicers with a very Indistinct the
ory of real spiritual warfare and with
very little knowledge of It practically.
There nre some great Bible schools
where the training is Intensive, lurgely
so because tlie calls for workers must
be promptly met nnd the time Is short.
The Soldier-Christian and Hardship.
"Endure hardship ns u good sol
dier of Jesus Christ," Is whut Paul
said to the recruit Timothy. What
ever mny be done by the government
or the people of the various countries
for the comfort of men at tlie battle
front, ultimately there Is hardship.
The Soldier-Christian Must Fight
"Fight the good fight of faith" Is
the Scripture exhortation und there Is
on escaping that responsibility. To)
light Is to oppose un enemy, to Injure
or destroy lilm, to gain the victory
over him by contention. The old hymn
gives the right Idea:
Fight on my soul till death '
Shall bring thee to thy God;
tlo'U take tlm at thy parting in-rath
Up to his blessed abode. .
In Ephesiuns 0:10 the Christian Is
told that be Qglits against principal
ities, against powers, against the rul
ers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness In high
places. Today there Is nn enemy la
the form' of false religious teaching
that he must fight The Christian
must contend for the faith once for all
delivered to tbe saints.
The Christian's worst enemies are
those within his own bosom his pride,
unbelief, Indifference, unholy seal, evil
heart all uctlve enemies every mo
ment. J
The bright ray of cheer that comes
to the soldler-Chrlstlnn Is that ultimate
victory Is assured, lie will overcome
by tbe blood of the lamb. His crown
will be given lilm by tho righteous)
Judge In that day.
The Burden of Life.
Christ saw tlmt men took life pain
fully. To some It wns u weariness.' tc
others n failure, to many a tragedy.
(6 all n struggle and n pain. How tfl .
carry this burden of life had been thf
whole world s problem. It Is still the
whole world's problem. And here It
Christ's solution: "Take my yoke nni
leurn of me, and you will find It ensy."
Proverbs.
Proverbs, It has well been- said.
mould be sold In pairs, a single one
H'lug hot bait a truth. w. Mathewe,