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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-02-19
DIR. TOEL
ELECTRO-THERAPIST
AND
ELECTRO SURGEON
DALLAS, ORE.
FOUR YEARS STUDY AT GER
MAN AND SWISS UNIVERSE
TIES AND THE LARGE HOS
PITFALLS OF LONDON, ENGLAND,
OVER THIRTY YEARS EXPER-
IENCE IN HIS SPECIALTIES.

Office: 619 Washington street,
one-half block east Of the S. P. depot,
from 9 a. m. to II noon, 2 to 5 p. M,
7 to s p. M, Sunday 10 to l p. m.
Telephone 1903.
Specialties:
Cancers and Tumors.
No knife and loss of blood. No
plasters and pain for hours or days.
Polypus, Goitre, Piles, Fistula, Dis
eases of Women, Skin and Nervous
Diseases, Neuralgia, Neurasthenia,
Gout, Rheumatism, Liver, Stomach,
Kidneys, Bladder Prostate, Asthma,
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Con-
stipation.
Patients from out of the city wish
ing to consult him must inform him
before hand by letter or telephone of
the time of arrival of their trains to
make sure that they can be seen the
same day.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-02-19
Shovel Slips Into Pit.

The large steam shovel belonging
to the Willamina brick plant is repos-
ing in the bottom of the clay pit, and
the operators are specializing on the
best method of recovering it. The
outfit slipped into the pit when the
bank eaved in after the recent rains.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-02-19
4. + I. + + + + + 4 4. + 4
RES SEED Sewers.
|. + 4. 4. + + + + Z. + + + +
George H. Bennett.

The twenty-sev-
en- great botanical
provinces I'M the
vegetable king
dom, comprising
more than one
hundred thousand
species of plants,
afford us many IL
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-02-19
WATCH FOR THIS
FELLOW

We are informed by our wholesale
news company that subscription
faker is working in this territory. He
offers standard magazines at greatly
reduced rates, and collects as he goes.
Described as of medium height,
weighs about 140 pounds, wears blue
suit and nose glasses. Has victimized
many people. Look out for him.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-02-19

Mr.. Chas. Hartung of Falls City
was a Dallas visitor on Wednesday.
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REPORT THAT SEAGULLS POINT
OUT GERMAN SUBMARINES

of being a trif1e below normal in intel
ligence. But reputation is not always
or ever what we are, but what we are
thought to be.
The raven did fine thing when he
fed the prophet, but made of himself
somewhat of a nuisance when he be-
gan to quoth "Nevermore." and peck
upon the windowpane and perch or the
bust of Pallas.
Then. it was the robin, or several
robins. which did such n good turn for
the "Bab es in the Wood that the world
has ever been grateful to this harbin-
ger of spring who so often gets his
feet frost bitten by harbingering too
soon.
Birds in general have caused good
deal of trouble in the world by whis-
perine things. When the little bird
whispered to you or the little bird tells
you it is usually some secret which
you really ought not to know. 1t may
be that birds whispering is not respon-
sible for so much gossip and scandal
as charged. and it may be that the man
who says that little bird whispered
it to him is really a member of the
Ananias Club.
But. to come back to the war zone
and the seagull, 1t is no doubt the fact
that this bird thought the periscope of
a German submarine might be a tender
morsel and that therein lies the reason
why he flew to it from the British ship.
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MANY RACES AND TRIBES
FIGHTING WITH GERMANY

NNR R1TERS on ethnology during this
Wv war, have called wide attention
to what they insist on as a historical
fact that the valley of the Elbe, which
is now Prussian territory, was once :.
Slavic land peopled by a race of Slcvie
blood called Wends. Remnants of thesr
people are still existent in the Ger
man empire. and the Lusat ans. or the
Serbs of Lusatia, in Prussia and san
ony, and the Slovines or romeranians
and kasuby OF the Baltic region are
reminders of the Slavs that once popu-
lated Prussia. The name Prussia was
once Borussia, which was corrupted
from Po-Russa, a compound word sig
nifying near the land of the Russ"
''po' being the Slavic word meaning
near" Other of the place names in
Prussia are said to be of Slavic origin,
as, for example, Pomerania, S,reitz and
Kolberg.
While all nationalities are a blend OF
various races. it is interesting to note
that an authority on such matters has
said that fighting under the German
banner today are representatives of the
following nations and tribes:
Prussians, Bavarians, Wurttember-
glanS, BauenS SaxofS, iieSSlonS. Bruins
wickians. NJ eel 9 nburg- SchWerins,
Ma cklenburs- Strelitzars, o e n burg
ians. Saxe-Weimar Eisenachians. Sake
Coburg -Gothans. Sake MeininSens. SAKE
Alenburgens, W a / ecks, Lippes.
Lippes. Reussens, Anhaitans.
rzburg -Rudolstadtians. SchwarZ-
burg Sonderhausens. IL a m blu gians.
Bremens. Lubecks Austrians, Czechs.
Poles, Ruthenians. Slovaks. Slovines.
Serbians. Croatians. Magyars. Ru-
mans, Bulgarians. Armenians. Hunga
rians, Gypsies, Ladins. Serbs. Dalma-
tians, Moravians. Tyrolears. Silesians.
Galicians, Styrians. Arabs, Albanians,
Syrians. Turks. Greeks, kurds. Chal-
deans and Hindus.
This list is nearly as long as would
be q list of the races and subraces at
war with the peoples OF the Germanic
n 4larn0 alliance
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III the hurry of Transforming the mer-
chantman into a commerce destroyer
the Karlsruhe forgot TO furnish The
converted linen with copy of the
latest war code. with the result that
although the hronprinz attempted
many times to communicate With the
PrinZ Iitei, the latter. believing an
enemy had become possessed of an old
code and was settin. Il trap. refused
10 answer
Again. it was part of tn" days work
among the men on the commerce de-
stroyers to do all in their power to
mislead the warships of the allies.
Whenever the big converted ocean
greyhound would change her hunting
grounds, pieces of property labeled
with the name Kronprinz Wilhelm
would be set adrift-sometimes a life
preserver, sometimes a raft, now and
then one of the boats taken from CAP
tured prizes and labeled to lit The need.
That is why for long time reports
came continually that the kronpriL1
had been destroyed, the finders of this
fiotsam drawing their conclusions from
its presence drifting upon the waves.
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aboard her found that every man must
be his own tailor. The uniforms in
which they had put to sea were worse
than rags and the ships stores did not
hold extra equipment of this sort.
Then it was that February %, after
they had been six months at sea, the
French steamer Guadeloupe fell into
their hands and from her they took
hundreds of bales of fine French fan
mel. That the flannel was gray in
stead of the blue which they desired
made no difference, and thereafter for
weeks. whenever not engaged In the
duties which their hazardous existence
placed upon them, most of these mer-
chant man-o'- warSmen spent their time
with those distinctly feminine imple-
ments, needles and thimbles, while
some of them. seamstress-like. worked
at the pedals of captured sewing ma
chimes So finally 1t came to pass that
each man had n new outfit, but the ont =
fit itself furnished another to the all
ready long list of Inconsistencies an
parent aboard the raider-her German
crew went about their duties CARRIED in
new French uniforms.
Although the duties of the men and
the constant vigilance necessary 10
keep them above water left them but
little time for play. those aboard the
sea raiders soon found that. aside from
the usual naval games which are
more lessons in tactics than pastimes,
composed, as they are, of naval prob
lens. no recreation has been provided
for them. So they set about provid-
ing it for themselves, especially after
the capture of the Highland Brae.
aboard of which they discovered hum
dreds of reels of moving pictures, to-
1efheY with new Aim and a camera for
taking other movies. but no projecting
apparatus. Yet this did not daunt
them. The men Immediately set their
hearts upon a moving picture show,
and SO. after many experiments, they
evolved what is perhaps the strangest
motion picture machine extant It is
made of bicycle wheels and gears, hi
nocular lenses and scraps of metal,
with actually here and there pieces OF
beef tins, and, most wonderful Of all,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-02

among the raiders early in their voy-
agings, there being several pianos
aboard each boat. Bands and orches-
tras were organized among the men,
many of whom are excellent perform
ers.
The Kronprinz Wilhelm is perhaps
the only vessel of warlike nature af1oat
today which possesses a real palm gar
den. And this feature of the strangely
anomalous craft came into being be-
cause the officers of the ship, no less
than the crew, wished Il place where
they might relax and enjoy themselves
The French steamer Guadaloupe-the
same from which the stores of French
flannel which caused the seamen to
transform themselves into seamstresses
were taken-chanced to have aboard
many huge plants in tubs. among them
some remarkable specimens of the CO.
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staterooms with private baths. Lack of
space made this necessary. and the same
shortage forced the officers to turn the
grand saloon, tapestried and finished with
the finest examples of the cabnetmakers'
art. into a great bunker for reserve
supply of coal, let into the hold below
through shutes hacked in the hardwood
floors.
Then, too. many of the palace suites
of liner which in her more peaceful
days had commanded the gold of million
aire travellers We're thrown together to
make card rooms for the crew. And it
was under such topsy-turvey conditions
as these that the crews of the Priuz Etel
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ry. and the chase would be on. The
men who were so lately tip-seeking
stewards and swab- welding deck
hands would swarm to the guns. a
shot fired by hands unacquainted with
shells and breech- blocks would ring
out to splash across the bows of the
marked-down prey. Boats would be
lowered and the capture made. Then
the/ routine would be broken by the
work of looting the captured ships of
needed supplies and the setting of dy-
Mantle bombs by men lately strangers
to such perilous work.
Soon after the Kronprinz had been
constituted commerce destroyer IN
midocean by THE Karlsruhe the men
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coanut and royal palms. These the Of
ficers pre-empted to their own use, and
soon what had been the after prone
made deck of the liner took on the
guise of a \shady and inviting bit of
jungle. Awnings were rugged to aid
the foliage and fronds In turning the
rays of the sun, and there. In their
private summer garden. the officers
were wont to enjoy the stores of
taken from the same ship. as the wine
saloon had already been turned into a
hospital.
Typical of the conditions which ex-
listed aboard the commerce destroyer
was the presence Of such Injuries as
vintage wines and rare cordia1s-
enough for officers and men alike in
abunda nce-and the absence of many
of the bare necessities of life, which in
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they made it work. After that the
long afternoons were beguiled for those
off watch by exhibitions of the cap
tured reels.
The presence of the moving picture
camera aboard Immediately led not
only to another departure from the
established and expected routine aboard
a man-o' war, but also to new di-
version, for the German seamen began
taking moving pictures of the Kron-
prinz in action, and her method of TAX
ing and sinking her prizes, which films.
so far, Lieut.. Capt. Thierfelder has re-
fused to exhibit publicly, stating that
he is keeping them for the kalser's
private eve.
Music became a popular diversion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-02

\V\V farmers from plows 10 the
" " ankle deep blood of the
trenches. machinists from shops to
belchtng batteries of big berthas,
and sober clerks from counting house
stools to slaughter pens of battle,
handfuls of men. learned only in the
paths of peace, We're chosen by the gods
OF war for extra hazardous and anon
a1ous roles in the great conflict. They
We're the merchant crews of the pas
Senger liners PrinZ Eitel Friedrich.
Kronprinz Wilhelm and Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse, converted TO the work of
commerce destroyerS. the last of whom
paid the price of the venture when
their craft. early in the war. was sunk
OFF the African coast.
AT the time fate flung them ruth
lessly into the caldron of the war these
men knew lar more about slushing
down decks than they did of real
"sailoriZing. The stewards We're bet
Ter acquainted with tips than traiec-
tories. The wireless men were more
familiar with commercial messag es
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Aboard the Pnnz En Friedrich Wilhelm Now
Nes-Tung Liners War
Uniforms
den Amusement Crew mz nNaa Games and Penpo
the Wmesreadg the Wsh the Allies by Odd Schemner Fit
ted Out a Warshps by the Karlsruhe in Mid Ocean,
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and the kronprinz began their existence
as scourges of the sea.
Of course. as far as possible both
Capt. Thierichens of the Eitel and
Lieut.. Capt. Hhierfeldcr of the Kron-
prinz established strict naval routine
hoard their craft with an rlnremitting
system of vigilance both in watches on
deck lookouts in the crows nest, per-
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than with secret war codes. and so on
through the company on each of the
auXiliaries.
Yet mixed with a leaven of trained
sea fighters under the command of
naval officers-aboard the Prinz Eitel
detachments from S. NJ s. Lynx and
s. NJ s. Tiger. and aboard the kron-
prinz squad of marines from $. NJ. S.
Karlsruhe - these hitherto peaceful
merchant companies were sent out upon
the cruiser-scoured high seas to make
war on enemy trading craft.
And because the ships were totally un-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-02

q 0NCLE SANS old Norman castle in
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stacKs-ah imposing iea.uie III .ie
serves that are sa'o ~ NC VI ''''i yin
Gent structure thah ehoee III use d.
the Library OF oohsress-are eepe.iai'S
devoted 10 housing ihe libraries VI the
government bureaus under the d'rec-
ton of the Smithsonian institution: lts
new display cases. set about in the
center Of the hall, are to contain rare
exhibit of graphic arts. showing ex-
Fermentation and effort in this line
from early days.
The library equipment OF hreprooI
steer constructors var INC iorn' VI
PAIN sheiVihS Oh '"e man HUI anu
runs the entire iength OF the nan on
both sides 1t runs under the silis or
the ola ioth1c WINDOWS ana covers the
space between to height OF at least
eight feet.
ri. .,,,.r;es a;,har enG or tho b.,1
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are also oeFoted 10 BOOKCASES puiit IN
three stories. extending to the ceiling.
The structure Of these gallery or ''mul-
tin1e story, stacks az thew are called
...
.spee'S Ah.e' ."t ."e' arc
unlike anything else In the city. Be
cause of the height Of the stacks the
question of weight was a yery inoor-
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49, 80 "
GU" "PPoi ans Tug oooNSaees upoii inc
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per- ious .'ns'uei'is Inc great "eishe
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anu i.s upf n.e iorh 'he sioes OF the
noohshei'es' "h'le inc oars support the
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;,sIu.i espionage Of the ar, Via the
wireless drills at the small naval ri
hes, and such regular duties AS so to
make up the modern man-e -waFsman's
day when no quarry is in sight and no
apparent danger threatens.
But there would he interludes-fre-
uuent in CONFERENCE.-The the unend-
ing round of drill and watch would be
broken by the sight of merchant quar-
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reaus. 1t is at the disposal of the pub
lie and invites inspection in its new
cases, il not use.
Altogether more than $4,000 have
been spent in refurbfshing the build
ing, for new heating and lighting ap-
paratus has been installed as well as
other repairs to floors and walls.
These improvements come in the ma
ture of a spring budding. During the
whole winter the great hall has been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-02
Smithsonian Institutions
New Equipment.

the camp of workers who have shroud-
ed it with canvas and Uttered it with
tools to the extent that the sightseer
was prohibited entrance to the build
ing. Now, however, this is changed.
With the completed installation of
these many improvements the institu-
ton is again thrown open to the pub
lie with it's interior put in condition
to merit as much approval as its
beautiful exterior.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-02

IN HE war dog, the war horse, the
single-headed and the double
q headed eagles. the lion rampant
and the lion couchant, the unicorn. the
dragon and the camel cavalry, or the
camerly, have not the stage of the
whole world to themselves. According
to reports the seagull has proved him
self a bird of war and has aligned him
self on the side Of the allies. Perhaps
he has taken that position because
England. being a maritime nation. he
considers it fitting that he should es-
pouse her cause. 1t is reasonable that
the seagulls Of the English channel, st.
Georges channel and the Irish sea
should be British in their sympathies,
but 1t is not clear, nor has been con-
clusively shown, that the seagulls Of
the German ocean should be or that
they are pro-British in their senti-
ments.
1t has been reported that seagulls
have apprised some British ships of the
proximity of submarines. Spying Il
periscope, they have circled around it,
thus attracting to 1t the attention of
enemy eyes-eyes that might not have
picked 1t out of the watery waste but
for the action of the alert and keen
eyed birds of the sea. One story was
that gulls which had been following a
British ship rose high in the air, flew
away from the ship and began to circle
around a small and distant object
which up to that time had not been
sighted by the ships crew. This be-
havior of the birds excited curiosity
and the glasses being turned to that
part of the sea under them and which
seemed to occasion their activity, the
periscope of hostile submarine was
seen. Whereupon with this warning
the British ship put on speed and es-
capped.
Men who have some authority 10
speak of and for the seagulls have
given it as their opinion that the birds
did not thus conduct themselves he
cause of any desire to aid the escape of
the British ship or with any intent to
thwart the German submarine. They
simply thought the strange object
peeking out of the Water-an object
with which they were not familiar
might be something new in the eating
line. There is no doubt as to the in
quisitiveness and enterprise of the sea-
gull in any matter appertaining to food.
The appetite of the seagull is as raw
enous as that of the raven. 1t is be-
lieved that their appetite is neutral and
that they would eat a soutbhown NUT
ton chop or frankfurter sausage,
plum pudding or a kartoffel salad with
equal zest and glee. That strange thing
~ he n
them the promise of a meal But for
all that, the seagull rendered aid and
comfort to Great Britain and in the
eyes Of the periscope committed an I'M
neutral act.
Birds have even before this notewor-
thy action of the seagull taken a prom
inent part in the affairs Of the world.
The geese in the capitol at Rome per-
formed q distinguished service to the
state which fed them. For once their
cackling was commendable. Somehow.
the goose has acquired the reputation
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OF premier Importance in the daily
routine upon the sea raiders was the
attendance necessary in the
wireless room. No single moment p ,s:-
ed by day or night but what two aid
three operators were sitting
silent in their little compartments.
straining each faculty to catch every
vagrant Hertzian wave which might
be gathered by the sensitive antennae
which spread high above the decks.
and which might potentially hold
safety or disaster for them. And yet
the wireless men on the KronprinZ. at
least. could do no more than listen, for
they could not communicate with any
other German ship.
This was by reason of the fact that
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ftted for the peIilous enterprise on which
they sailed, being neither out-and-out
rnen-of-war nor any longer merchant
craft, and because the crews manning
them had cast behind the safety which
lies In being non-copbatants. and yet
could not claim the station of full-fedged
Warriors. the most unusual daily life
which has ever been known grew up
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aboard the merchant raiders of Germanys
navy
Hourly these men were called upon to
dice with death. No fixed base of sup
plies was possible for them, as is pos
sible for most fully equipped warships.
They existed like nautical Robinson
CruSoes marooned on floating islands, de
pendent for suStenance for themselves
and coal for their engines upon whatever
the happen chances of their cosnmerce-de-
Stroying mission. threw into their hands,
and upon mnkeshft invention to supply
that which the fortunes of war denied
them.
Added TO these handicaps which marked
~ affected the routine of their existence
was the fact that none of the converted
craft was IN The slightest degree adapt
able to the use to which 1t had been
placed.
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the end caused the outbreak of beri-
beri aboard the Kronprinz from the
forced diet of rice and bully beef
without the proper vegetable concomi
tant to overcome the effect of this par
ticu1ar ration.
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That the officers should occupy suites
de luxe aboard the kronprinz Wilhelm,
lately the pride of the North German
Lloyd line. was, of course, quite the ex-
pected thing. But ordinary seamen on the
kronprinz. who. under regular naval con
ditons. would have bunked en- masse
tween decks, in many instances occupied
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Life Aboard Germ1ar1y's Commerce Raiders Of the Sc

00 0HEN the tide of war engulfed
MAN. Europe's millions. driving
\VW farmers from plows 10 the
" " ankle deep blood Of the