THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURO, PA. HMHttMMMMMHMMIMMMMMmMM IMMHHHm IMItMMtMMMMMMMMllMMIMMIMMHIMHtMMMmU "OUTWITTING THE By LIEUTENANT PAT O'BRIEN HUN 99 iiiiiitiiMiittttiiiiititttitttittttttttiiinfnmtmntftitintttiiimttttin CHAPTER XVI Continued. 11 From the kitchen you could wulk directly Into tho cow-bnrn, where two fu,V!t were kept, nud this, as I have miiifvd out before, Is the usunl con itructlon of the poorer Belgian houses. I eniiU) not make out why the caller germed to be so antagonistic to me, and j et I am suro he was arguing with the fit'iilly against me. Turnups the fuct Mint I wasn't wearing wooden ihoes I doubt whether I could have obtained a pair big enough for me had convinced hi in that I was not really a Belgian, because there was nothing about me otherwise which could have given hlra that idea. At that time, and I suppose It Is true today, about 04 per cent of the people In Belgium were wearing wooden shoes. Among the peasants I don't believe I ever saw any other kind of footwear and they are more common there than they are In Hol land. The Dutch wear them more on account of a lack of leather. I was told tlmt during the coming year prac tically all tho peasants and poorer people In Germany, too, will adopt wooden shoes for farm work, as thut U ouo direction In which wood cun be substituted for leather without much los.". When the young man left, I left shortly afterwards, as I was not at all comfortable about what his inten tions were regarding me. For all I knew he might have gone to notify the German authorities that there was strange mun In the vicinity more perhaps to protect his friends from suspicion of having aided me than to Injure me. At any rate, I was not going to tnke any chances and I got out of thut neighborhood as rapidly as I could. That night found me right on the frontier of Holland. CHAPTER XVII. Getting Through the Lines. Waiting until it was quite dark, I made my wuy carefully through a field and cventunlly came to the much dreaded barrier. It was ull thut I hud heard about it. Every foot of the border line between ischium and Holland Is protected In precisely the snme manner. It Is there to serve three purposes: first, to pre vent tho Belgluns from escaping Into Holland; second to keep enemies, like myself, from making their way to free dom ; and third, to prevent desertions on the part of Germans themselves. One look was enough to convince any one that it probably accomplished all three objects about as well as any con trivance could, and one look was all I pit of It that night, for while I lay on my stomach gazing at the forbid ding structure I heard the measured stride of a German sentry ndvanclng towards mo and I crawled away as fust as I possibly could, determined to spend the night somewhere In the fields and make another and more careful survey the following night. The view I hud obtained, however, was sufficient to convince me that the pole-vault Idea was out of the ques tion even If I bud a pole and wus a prollclent pole-vnulter. Tho three fences covered a span of nt least twelve feet and to clenr the lust bnrbed wire fence It would be necessary to vuult not only at least ten feet high, but nt lenst fourteen feet wide, with the cer tain knowledge thnt to touch the elec trically charged fence meant Instant death. There would be no second flitmeo If you came a cropper the first time. The stilt Iden was also Impractica ble because of the lack of suitable timber and tools with which to con struct the stilts. Jl seemed to me that the best thing to do wns travel up and down the line bit In the hope that some spot might be discovered whero conditions were more favorable, although I don't know Jst what I expected uloug those lilies. It wns mighty disheartening to real ize that only a few feet away lay cer tain liberty and that the only things preventing mo from reaching It were three confounded fences. 1 thought of my machine and wished that some kind fulry would set It lu front of me for Just one minute. I spent the night In a clump of bushes and kept In hiding most of the '"'tt day, only going abroad for an "our or two In tho middle of the day to Intercept some Belgian peasant ."'"I beg for foqd. The Belgians In this section were naturally very much afraid of tho Germans nnd I fared badly, in nearly every house German soldiers were quartered and It was out of the attention for mo to ntinly for food In that direction. The pros- natty of tho border made everyone eye each other with more or less suS' pb'lon and I soon came to the conclu sion that the safest thing I could do ns to live on raw vegetables which I could g(,l from the fields at night as i Had previously done". That night I mmfe another survey "f the barrier in Hint vlelnltv. but It looked Just ns hopeless as it hod the "'Kiit before and I concluded thut "1y wasted my tlrm; there. 1 spent the night wandering north, Hided by the North Star which had served me so faithfully In all my trav Every mile or two I would make jay way carefully to the barrier to see lr conditions wero any better, but It "cetned to be the same all along. I felt '"'e a wild animal In n nitre, with 'bout as much chance of getting out. The section of the country In which I was now wandering wns very heavily """'ten tiiul tbero was really no very -"'i difficulty In keeping myself con ''''"ted. Wlllfll I ,11,1 nil ilg l,,l,c oli-lv, nil the time to think of somo ffny which I could" cl.Tinnvent thut "Xi! barrier. . The Iden of u huge steplnddcr oc curred to me, but I senrched hour after hour In vain for lumber or fallen trees out of which I could construct one. If could only obtain something which would enable me to react: a point about nine feet In the nlr It would be coinpnrutlvely simple mutter to Jump from thut point over the electric fence. The" l hoirht thnt perhaps I could construct a simple ladder and lean It against one of the posts upon which the electric wires were strung, climb to the top and then leap over, getting over the burbed wire fences In the snme way. This seemed to be the most likely plan and all night long I snt construct ing a ladder for this purpose. I was fortunnte enough to find a number of fullen pine trees from ten to twenty feet long. I selected two of them which seemed sufficiently strong and broke off all the branches, which used as rungs, tying them to the poles with grass and strips from my hnndkerchef and shirt as best I could. It was not a very workmanlike looking ladder wjien I finally got through with It. I leaned It against a tree to test It and It wobbled consid erably. It was more like a rope lad der than a wooden one, but I strength ened It here and there and decided that It would probably serve the pur pose. I kept the ladder In the woods all day and could hardly wult until dnrk to mnko the supreme test. If It proved successful my troubles were over; within a few hours I would be In a neutrul country out of oil dnnger. If I fulled I dismissed the Idea sum marily. There was no use worrying about failure; the thing to do was to succeed. The few hours thnt were to pass before night came on seemed endless, but I utilized them to re-enforce my ladder, tying the rungs more securely with long grass which I picked In the woods. At lust night enme, and with my bidder In hand I made for the barrier. In front of It there wus a cleared space of about one hundred yards, which had been prepared to make the work of the guards easier in watch ing It. I waited In the neighborhood until I heard the sentry pass the spot where I was In hiding nnd then I hurried across the clearing, shoved my ladder under the bnrbed wire and endeav ored to follow it. My clothing caught In tho wire, but I wrenched myself clenr and crawled to the electric bar rier. My plim wns to place the ladder against one of tho posts, climb up to the top and then Jump. There would be n fall of nine or ten feet, nnd I might possibly sprain an ankle or break my leg, but if that was all that stood between me nnd freedom I wasn't going to stop to consider It. I put my ear to the ground to listen for tho coming of the sentry. There wns not a sound. Eagerly but care fully I placed tho bidder ngulnst the post nnd stnrtcd up. Only a few feet sepnrnted me from liberty, and my benrt bent fast. I had climbed perhaps three rungs of my ladder when I became uware of an unlooked for difficulty. Tho ladder was slipping. Just as I took tho next rung, the ladder slipped, came In contact with the live wire, and the current pnssed through the wet sticks and Into my body. There wns a blue flash, my hold on the ladder relnxed nnd I fell heavily to the ground unconscious. Of course, I bad not received the full force of tho current or I would not now bo here. I must -have re mained unconscious for a few mo ments, but I came to Just In time to bear the German guard coming, and the thought came to uio If I didn't get that ladder concealed at once he would see It even though, fortunately for me, It wus an unusually dark night. I pulled the ladder out of his path and lay down flat on the ground not seven feet nway from his feet. Ho passed so close that I could have pushed the bidder out and tripped him up. It occurred to mo that I could have climbed buck under the bnrbed wire 'fence and waited for the sentry to re turn and then felled him with a blow on tho head, as he had no Iden, of course, that there was nnyono In the vicinity. I wouldn't havo hesitated to tuke life, becouso my only thought was to get Into Holland, but I thought that as long as be didn't bother mo perhaps the safest thing to do wns not to bother him, but to continue my ef forts during his periodic absence. Ills bent at this point was apparent ly fairly long nnd allowed me more time to work than I had hoped for. My mlshnp with the ladder had con vinced mo that my escape In that way was not feasible. The shock that I had received bad unnerved nie and I wns afraid 4, risk It again, particu larly as I realized that I hnd fared more fortunately than I could hope to again If I met with a similar mis hap. There was no way of muklng Hint ladder hold and I gave up the idea of using It. I was now right In front of this electric barrier and ns I studied It I saw another wuy of getting by. If I couldn't net over It. what was tho matter with getting under It? The bottom wire wns only two Inches from the ground nnd, of course, I couldn't touch It, but my plan was to dig underneath It and then cruwl through the holo In the ground. I hud only my hands to dig with, but I went nt It with a will anil fortu nately tho ground wns not very hard, When I had dug about six Inches making a distance In ull of eight Copyright, 1018, by Inches from the lowest electric wire. I came to an underground wire. I knew enough about electricity to real ize thut t.lila wire could not be charged, as It was In contact with the ground, but still there was not room between the live wire and this underground wlro for me to crawl through, and I ether hnd to go back or dig deep enough under this wire to cruwl under It or else pull It up. This underground wire wns about as big around as a lead pencil and there was no chance of breaking It. The Juck-knlfe I had hnd at the sturt of my travels I had long since lost nnd even If I hnd had something to hammer with, the noise would have made tbe method Impracticable. I went on digging. When the total distance between the live wire nnd the bottom of the hole I had dug was thirty Inches, I took hold of the ground wire nnd pulled on It with all my strength. It wouldn't budge. It wns stretched taut across the narrow ditch I had dug about fourteen Inches wide and all the tugging didn't serve to loosen It. I was Just about to give up In de spair when a staple gave way In the nearest post. Thut enabled me to pull tho wire through the ground a little and I renewed my efforts. After a moment or two of pulling as I had never pulled In my life before, a staple on the next post gave way, and my work became easier. I had more leeway now and pulled and pulled ngnln until In all eight staples hnd given way. Every time a staple gave way, It sounded In my enrs like tho report of a gun, although I supposo It didn't renlly make very much noise. Never theless, each time I would put my ear to tho ground to listen for the guard. If I heard him I would stop working nnd lie perfectly still In th? dark till he had gone by. By pulling on tho wire, I wns now able to drag It through the ground enough to place It back from the fence nnd go on digging. The deeper I went tho harder be came the work, because by this time my finger nnlls wero broken nnd I wns nervous afraid every moment thnt 1 would touch the charged wire. I kept at It. however, with my mind constnntly on the hole I wns digging nnd the liberty which wns almost with in my reach. Finally I figured thnt I hnd enough spnee to crawl through and still leave a couple of Inches between my back and the live wire. Before I went under thnt wire I no ticed thnt tho luce which the Belglnn womnn hnd given me as a souvenir mnde my pocket bulge, and lest It might be tho Innocent means of elec trocuting me by touching the live wire, I took It out, rolled It up nnd threw It over the barrier first. Then I lay down on my stomach and crawled or rather writhed under the wire like a snake, with my feet first, nnd there wnsn't any question of my hugging mother earth as closely as possiblo because I realized thnt even to touch the wire above mo with my bnck meant Instant denth. Anxious ns I wns to get on the other side, I didn't hurry this operntlon. I feared that there might be some little detail that I had overlooked and I ex ercised tho greatest possible care In going under, taking nothing for grouted. When I finally got through and straightened up, there were still sev eral feet of Belgium between me and liberty, represented by tho six feet which separated the electric barrier from tho lust bnrbed wire fence, but beforo I went another step I went down on my knees and thanked God for my long series of escapes nnd es pecially for this last achievement, which seemed to me to bo nbout all thnt was necessary to brlug mo free dom. Then I crawled under tho barbed wlro fence and breathed the free air of Holland. I had no clear Idea Just where I was and I didn't care much. I was out of the power of the Germnns nnd thnt was enough. I hud wulked perhaps a hundred yards, when I ro membered tho lnce I had thrown over tho barrier, and dangerous as I real ized tho undertaking to bo, I deter mined to wnlk back and get It. This necessitated my going buck onto Bel glnn soil again, but It seemed a shame to leave tho loco there, and by exer cising a little care I figured I could get It easily chough. When I camo to the spot nt which I hnd made my way under tho bnrbed wire, I put my enr to tho ground and listened for the sentry. I heard hlin coming and lay prone on the ground till he hnd pnssed. The fuct thnt he might observe the hole In the ground or tho ladder occurred to mo as I lay there, and it seemed like nn ago bo fore ho finally marched out of ear shot. Then I went under the bnrbed wire nguln, retrieved the lnce nnd once ngoln made my way to Dutch terri tory. It does not tnke long to' descrlbo the events Just referred to, but the Inci dents themselves consumed several hours In all. To dig tho holo must have taken me moro than two hours and I had to stop frequently to hldo wlillo the sentry pnssed. Muny times, Indeed, I thought I henrd him coming nnd stopped my work nnd then dis covered thnt It wns only my Imagina tion. I certainly suffered enough thnt night to last me a lifetime. With n German guard on ono side, death from electrocution on tho other, und starva tion storing mo In the fnce, my plight was anything but a comfortable one. It was on tho 10th of November, 11)17, when I got through the wire. I had mnde my leap from the train on September 0th. Altogether, therefore, Pit Alvi O'Brien Just seventy-two days hod elupsed since I escnped from the Huns. If I live to be as old as Methusaleh, I never expect to live through another seventy-two days so crammed full of In cident and huzurd and lucky escape. CHAPTER XVIII. Experiences In Holland. But I wus not qulto out of the woods. I now knew thnt I was In Holland, but Just whero I hnd no Idea. I walked for about thirty minutes and came to a path leading to tho right, and I had proceeded along It but a few hundred yards when I saw In front of me a fence exactly like the one I bad crossed. Thla la funny," I said to myself. "I didn't know the Dutch had a fence, too." I advanced to the fence and examined It closely, nnd Jutlgo of my astonishment when I saw beyond It a nine-foot fence apparently holding live wires exactly like the ono which hnd nearly been the death of me I I had very little time to conjecture what It all meant, for just then I henrd a guard coming. ' He wns walk ing so fust that I was sure It was a Dutch sentry, as tbe Hans walk much slower. 1 wns so bewildered, however, that I decided to take no chances, and as the rond was fairly good I wandered down It and nway from that mysteri ous fence. About half a mile down I could see the light of a sentry sta tion and I thought I would go there and tell my story to the sentries, real izing thnt as I was unarmed It was perfectly safe for me to annouuca myself to the Dutch authorities. I could be Interned only If I entered Holland under arms. As I approached the sentry box I noticed tbreo men In grny uniforms, tho regulation Dutch color. I wns on the vcrgo of shouting to them when the thought struck me that there was Just a chnnce I might bo mistaken, as tho German uniforms were the same color, nnd I hud suffered too muny privations and too many narrow escapes to lose all at this tlmo by Jumping at conclusions. I had Just turned off tho rond to go back Into somo bushes when out of the darkness I beard that dread Ger man command: "Unit! Haiti" He didn't need to holler twice. I heard and heeded the first time. Then I henrd another mnn come running up, Heard the German Guard Coming. nnd tbero wns considerable talking, jmt whether they were Germans or Hollanders I wns still uncertain. He evidently thought someone was on the other side of the fence. Finally I heard ono of them laugh and saw him wnlk bnck to tho sentry stntlon where tho guard was billeted, and I crawled a little nearer to try to mnko out Just what It meant. I hnd begun to think It wus all a night mare. Between myself nnd tho light In the sentry stntlon, I then noticed the stooping figure of a man bending over as if to conceal himself nnd on his hend wns the spiked helmet of a Ger lii an soldier 1 I knew then what another nnrrow escnpo I hud hnd, for I nm qulto suro ho would have shot mo without cere mony If I hnd foolishly mndo myself known. I would hnvo been burled nt once and no ouo would have been any wiser, even though, technically speak ing, 1 wus on neutral territory and Im mune from capture or attack. This new shock only served to be wilder mo more. I wns completely lost. There seemed to bo frontier be hind mo and frontier In front of me. Evidently, however, what hud hap pened was that I had lost my sense of direction nnd hnd wandered In the arc of a circle, returning to the snme fence thnt I had been so long. In get ting through. Tins solution of Ti &.?-.K 'r ution of Tiku trimmi lenly and I at Sand mystery came to me suddenly once seurched the lundscape for some thing In the wny of a landmark to guide me. For once my fnlthful friend, the North Star, hud failed me. The sky wus pitch bluck and there wasn't a star In the heavens. In tho distance, nt about what ap peared to bo about three miles away, but which turned out to be six, I could discern the lights of a village, and I knew It must bo a Dutch village, as lights are not allowed In Belgium In that Indiscriminate way. My course was now clenr. I would mnko a bcellno for thnt village. Before I had gone very fur I found myself In a marsh or swamp nnd I turned buck a little, hoping to find a better path. Finding none, I retraced my steps and kept straight ahead, determined to reach that village at all costs and to swerve neither to the right or left until I got there. One moment I would be In water up to my knees and the next I would sink In mud clear up to my waist I paid no attention to my condition. It was merely a repetition of what I had gone through many times before, but this time I bud a definite goal and once I rcuched It I knew my troubles would be over. It took me perhaps three hours to reach firm ground. Tho path I struck led to within half a mile of the village. I shall never forget that path ; it was almost ns welcome to my feet as the opposite bank of the Meuse bud seemed The first habitation I came to was a little workshop with a bright light shining outside. It must hnve been after midnight, but the people Inside wero nppnrently Just quitting work. There were three men nnd two boys engaged In making wooden shoes. It wnsn't ncccssnry for me to ex plain to them thnt I was a refugee, even If I hud been ablo to speak their language. I was caked with mud up to my shoulders and I suppose my face must have recorded somo of the ex periences I hnd gone through thnt memoruble night. "I want the British consult" I told them. Appnrcntly they didn't understand, but one of them volunteered to con duct mo to tho village. They seemed to be only too anxious to do ull they could for me; evidently they realized I was a British soldier. It was very late when my compan ion finally escorted mo Into the vil lage, but he aroused somo peoplo he knew from their beds nnd they dressed and came down to feed me. Tho family consisted of an old lady and her husbnnd nnd a son, who wns a soldier In the Dutch army. Tho cold shivers ran down my buck while he sut besldo me, becnuso every now nnd ngnln I caught a glimpse of his grny uniform and it resembled very much that of tho German soldiers. Some of the neighbors, aroused by tho commotion, got up to see what It wns all about, and came In and watched while I ate the nieul those good Dutch peoplo prepared for me. Ordinarily I suppose I would buvc been embarrassed with so muny peo plo staring at mo while I ate as though I were somo strange animal that has Just been captured, but Just then I wns too famished to notice or euro very much what other people did. Tbero will always be a warm place In my heart for the Dutch people. I had heard lots of persons say that they wero not Inclined to help refu gees, but my experience did not bear these reports out. They certainly did more for mo than I ever expected. I had n little German money left, but ns the vnluo of German money Is only nbout hnlt In Holland, I didn't havo enough to pay the fare to Rot terdam, which wns my next objective. It wns duo to the generosity of these people thnt I wns nble to reach tho British consul ns quickly as I did. Some duy I hope to return to Holland and repay every single soul who played tho part of the good Samari tan to mo. With the money that these people gave me I was ublo to get a third class ticket to Rotterdam, and wns glad that I didn't huvo to truvel first class, for I would have looked as much out of place In a first-class currlnge ns n Hun would nppenr In heaven. Thnt night I slept In tho bouse of my Dutch friends, where they fixed me up most comfortably. In the morn ing they gave mo breakfast and then escorted mo to the station. While I was waiting at the station a crowd gathered round me and soon It seemed as if the wholo town had turned out to get a look at me. It wns very embarrassing, pnrtlculiirly ns I could give them no Information re garding tho cuuse of my condition, al though, of course, they all knew that I was a refugee from Belgium. As the train pulled out of the stn tlon, tho crowd gave n loud cheer and tho tears ulniost enme to my eyes ns I contrasted In my mind tho conduct of this crowd and Mho ono that had gathered nt the station In Ghent when I had departed a prisoner en routo for tho reprisal camp. I breathed a sigh of relief as I thought of that re prisal camp und how fortunate I had renlly been, despite nil my sufferings, to have escaped It. Now, at any rate, I was a free man nnd I would soon be sending home the Joyful news that I had mndo good my escnpel At ElnhofTen two Dutch officers got IntA tho compartment with mo. They looked at mo with very much disfavor, not knowing, of course, that I was a British officer. My clothes wero still pretty much In-the condition ' they were when I crossed the border, al though I bad been nble to scrnpe off some of the mud I bed collected Hie night before. I had not shaved nor trimmed my benrd for many days, must have presented a sorry appearance. I could hardly bluws them for edging away from me. Tbe trip from ElnhofTen to Rotter dam passed without speclul Incident At various stations pussengers would get In tho compartment and, observ ing my unusual appearance, would endeavor to start a conversation with me. Nono of them spoke English, however, and they bad to uso their own Imagination as to my Identity. When I arrived at Rotterdam I asked a policeman who stood In front of the station where I could find the British consul, but I could not make him understand. 1 next applied to tuxlcub driver. "English consul British consul American consul French consul!" I said, hoping that If he didn't under stand one he might recognize un other. He eyed me with suspicion and mo tioned mo to get In and drove off. I hnd no Idea where he was taking me, but after a quarter of an hour's ride he brought up In front of tho British consul. Never before was I so glad to see tho Union Jnck I (TO BE CONTINUED.) CAUSE AND CURE OF CRAMPS Too High Blood Pressure Frequently Brings Them On Removed by Vigorous Rubbing. In this nrtlclo we shall discuss only the local muscular spasms thnt affect most commonly the calves of the legs, but thnt sometimes occur In the thighs, tho arms or the wall of the abdomen. Ihternnl crumps, or colic, swimmer's cramp nnd writer's crump ore affec tions of nn entirely different nature. A cramp, In this restricted sense. Is a sudden, pnlnful and very strong con traction of n small part of a muscle; It does not usuolly cause any move ment In the rffected limb, for to do thnt a contraction of nearly the entire muscle Is necessary, and then we have what Is culled a spasm, or n convul sion. The contraction Is Involuntary, al though persons who are subject to cramps sometimes bring them on by a voluntary movement, such ns stretch ing. Tho early-morning crnmp Is of ten brought on by the stretching to which one Is prone on awaking. Very commonly the cramp comes on during sleep," nnd the Intense pnln awakens tho sufferer with a sturt. The affected part of the muscle forms a hard knot, nnd If a lnree part of the muscle la Involved the limb mny be drawn np. Children nnd the aged suffer more often with crumps than do persons In middle life. In children the cause Is usually violent exercise, such ns run ning and Jumping, but In the elderly n tendency to cramps Is often caused by Incipient burdening of the nrterles. When tho ?)lnnd pressure Is high, cramps often occur, but they cense to trouble If the pressure Is reduced. Persons who are rheumatic nnd gouty nre especially liable to bo attacked by crumps very likely because hardening of the arteries accompanies their con stitutional disposition. The treatment of a single cramp of the calf Is very simple: stand on tip toe In such a way as to stretch the calf muscle and at the same tlmo rub the place where the contraction hns occurred. . Thnt will put on end to tho attack promptly. If the attnrks recur frequently, there Is probably some constitutional fault that needs correction, nnd Hie sufferer should con sult his physician. Youth's Compan ion. Jungle Can Furnish Food. While the new food campaign wns being talked nbout nt Seottle, Ron dolph I,. Siininierfleld of Singapore, who lias lived forty years In the Malny States, arrived on n government mis sion. Ho Is a civil engineer." "The world's live-stock market bos been dec Imnted," snld Mr. Siininierfleld. "but if worst comes to worst nnd there's a real meat famine, tbe Jungles of tho Malay States can supply vast quanti ty ef ttents nnci fats. Our forests are full of monkeys of all kinds. Our streams teem with crocodiles. Tho huge nnncnndn snake Is numerous nnd prolific. Monkey ment, cooked French or Spnnlsh style, billed on the menu ns veal, would mnke an epicure yearn for more. There's no disagreeable sen timent about killing a crocodile or the boa constrictor. Portions of the 'croco's' tnll are oxtroordlnnrlly good, and tho boa constrictor Is a culinary favorite In India. Fried In butter, or certain oils, the bon constrictor Is con sidered a delicacy." Argonaut. When a Prisoner Is Exchanged. Ivan Rosslter, captured by tho Ger mans and later exchanged, says In the Farm and Fireside: "Then I lay down, not to sleep but to think. I thought of the dnv when I enlisted In Canada, of leaving home, the training camps, the trip oversells to i;ngiiinu, me training In England, going across tho channel to Flanders, tho terrific fight ing nt Ypres, of tho many friends who fell on that bloody battlefield, how I was wounded nnd captured, the Inhu man treatment I received nt the hands of the Germun surgeons, who hnd four husky Germnns hold me down while hev eut five bones out of my wrist nnd amputated my middle finger nt the second Joint when I wus wounueu in tho palm of the hnnd, tho kicks nnd tho cuffs from prison guards and the terrlblo stuff the Germans called food In the prison camps." VV Discouraged. "Pvo given up trying to keep a hired girl." "What's the mntter?" "I've come to tho conclusion that when It comes to paying wages I can't compete with a munitions factory." (Conducted by the National Woman's ChrliiHan Tamperanca Union.) PHYSICALLY COMPETENT, MOR ALLY FIT. Under this title Daniel A. Poling tells In the Outlook of his Investiga tions at the front und his conclusions. We quote: "I believe thut I not only know what the American soldier does la France, but thut I begin to know wbut he Is. "Ho is u representative" American. And he Is living on a moral plune 'which Is above the moral plune of Chilian life at homo. Our leaders In France hnve not conquered the vices society bus battled against from the first organised beginnings of civili sation; but If tbe Amerlcun expedi tionary force Is not setting un exam ple in moral Idealism to American civilian life, then I hnve walked through France with my eyes closed and my ears stopped. "When you see one eoldler under tbe Influence of liquor, do not con clude that the army Is drunk. It Is at least suggestive thut In three mouths spent In England and France, associated with tens of thousands of eoldlers, I did not see a single sol dier, officer or private, Under the In fluenco of liquor In the streets. "I found the American In uniform building up ubout himself a wall of protection In tho very attitude ho Is assuming toward the moral excesses practiced by the few. He Is resent ing tho indulgence thut cuuses bis country's civilization to be misjudged ; ho Is dlsclpllng his comrade who by tuklng improper and forbidden liber ties endangers the freedom of others; he shows a distinct pride In the fact that Amerlcun physical and moral standards are high. I believe thut for every mnn In the army thut Is moral ly destroyed, nt leust five men aro morally born again. We have spent much time In discussing the vast task of keeping our men fit to return to us when the war Is over, nnd It Is time well spent. But there Is another mntter quite as Important America must be mnde nnd kept fit for these men to return to. "The American soldier has no rum ration. "In war areas under the absolute control of American authorities liquor for beverage purposes light vlnc3 Included Is not avullable. 'Ture or purified water Is being sup plied the American soldier every where und In ubumlnnt quantities. I drew fresh, cool water out of great canvas bugs at the very front. At General Pershing's heudqunrters I saw being completed a water main that local authorities said could not bo lnld until the frost wus out of tho ground. The muln was finished beforo the nrgument was terminated. "Less than three hours after a re cent raid hot coffee was served to tho men, even to the last observation post. The genius of the American army In furnishing Itself uonnlcohollc drinks has astonished the French and elicited their praise. "General Pershing and those who are In authority with him In Franco deserve, not a resolution of Inquiry or censure, but a vote of confidence with the nssurunce of our co-deration and support." LUKEWARM NO LONGSR. "When I note the results I nm nshnmed that I ever was lukewarm In the matter of prohibition of booze," says Chief of Police James Malono of Lincoln, Neb. "If ever n thing was detrimental to n community It was booze. It brought on starvation nnd strife, filled tho penitentiary and In nane asylums, brought hunger to tho little children and the wife In tho home, caused murder und every crime In Hie list. "The saloon wns n loafing plnco f men, where tlmo nnd money wero ppent, where energy wns dissipated and the moral fiber broken down. In the days of the open saloon pay days wero busy days. On Christmas day after the dry law went Into effect, the mutron and I policed the city while the putrolmen enjoyed a day off." RAILROAD MEN NOT WITH MR. G0MPERS. The resolution In favor of nation wide prohibition adopted recently by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers was the unnnfmous vote of the 8T.7 delegates present. W. S. Stone, chief of the order, takes Mr. Gompers to tusk for his effor's to lineup organ ized labor for the brewers. He declares thut Intoxicating beverages have no place In the Industrial llfti of America, certainly none In the Biotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. ARE YOU A DEFECTIVE? God never made n normnl brain that needed alcohol to sllmulato It to action. And If you examine your brain and decide that it needs alcohol, Just set yourself down as a defective by birth, or by habit. For If by nn lure your brain needs nlcobol to stimu late It, you are Inferior to your fel low men, nnd If It Is not a mntter of "ldrth but of habit, nnd your bruin needs alcohol to stlmulute It because you have accustomed It to a crutch, then you have made yourself Inferior. William Jennings Bryan. . HUMAN NATURE NOT YET KNOWN. "A prominent womnn physician, when thcr"person with whom sho was conversing cast some reflection on hu man nature, retorted: "Human nature I Tho world will never really know w hat human nature actually is until it hus seen a generation grow up five from the vicious Influence and effects of al coholic drinks." Sure w have to tifM the Imlser. And we have to Hunt IV blurs. Hut thank heaven, atntii were wlsor, Y Oun't hnva to nrht thn l"oo. t!l, Pi i -intfillluencer.
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