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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-04-23

FOR SALE - VICTROLA COSTING
$3.50 with records costing more than
SIS. Will sell machine and all rec
ords for $125 cash. Call or see Mrs.
S. E. Hutton, lis Van Buren,. Phone
SO. Taft
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-04-23

FOR SALE-7 H. P. NEW WAY GAS
aline engine, in good repair Price
$100. A. R. Swift, Viola, Ida. S
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-04-23
GARDEN WORK

LOOK HERE pillow gardens. W.
A. Holden. Phone 166-W 17O-176
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-04-23

FOR SALE-LADIES HIGH GRADE
saddle, good condition, Phone 134L
1851
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-04-23

FOR WASHING MACHINE
and wringer. Phone 1901. 173-175
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19
MAKING OF THE YELLOWSTONE
How Its History is Written in Its
PIateaus, Mountains, Petrified
Trees and Lava.

To comprehend what we have in the
Yellowstone, we must begin with its
making The entire region is of vol
canic origin The mountains around
it on both sides and the mountains
within it are products or remainders
of great volcanoes of the far past; and
the great plateaus, from which spring
its geysers and hot springs and through
whose forests now roam so many wild
animals, are composed of the ash and
disintegrated lavas which were once
elected from these volcanoes. OF
course the plains are now all deep with
soil. But such evidences of the past as
the black volcanic glass of the Obsidian
Cliff and the fantastic whorled lava
rocks of Mount Washburn are plain to
the least instructed eye.
One particularly fascinating glimpse
of Yellowstone's tempestuous past is
afforded in the petrified forest of the
Specimen Ridge neighborhood, where
many levels of upright petrified trunks
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19
OBEDIENT TO OLD COMMAND
Palestine Farmers Still Remember
Biblical Injunction in Refer
| ence to the Cleaners.

After the lentils and similar crops of
the bean family have been gathered in
by the Palestinian farmer, the barley
harvest comes next, and lastly the
wheat.
When harvesting, the men wear a
leather apron and sometimes a large
padded glove. The women have none
of the protection provided for them,
says zthe Christian Herald. Sickles
are of two kinds, one, the kaloosh, is
small and with quite dull edge and
is employed when the crops are short
and scanty. These do not cut the
straw, but rather help pull up the
grain by the roots or break off the
brittle stalks. The other, called man.
pal, Is much larger and supplied with
short, slanting teeth, and is used on
the tall, well-grown grain fields.
Reaping with these simple imple-
ments and binding the sheaves with
their own straw, considerable
amount is left behind and many of the
ears drop off, but once the reapers
have advanced, they, actuated by al
most religious scruples, will not pick
up that which has been dropped, even
though they be severely poor them
selves for they unwittingly follow a
command not given to them but to for
mer inhabitants, the tillers and reap
ers of this land: "And when ye reap
the harvest of your land, thou shalt
not make clean riddance of the cor
ners of thy field when thou reapest,
neither shalt thou gather any cleaning
of thy harvest"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19

may be found alternating, like the lay
ers in cake, with levels of lava;
which plainly shows that, after the
first forest grew on the volcanoes slope
and was engulfed by fresh run of
lava, enough time elapsed for a second
forest to grow upon that level; and
that this, in turn, was engulfed with
new lava to make the level for another
forest, and so on. There is a cliff 1000
feet high composed wholly of these al
ternate levels of engulfed forests and
the lavas which engulfeG them.
In magnificent contrast with the vol
canic plateau and its border of volcanic
mountains there rises from the plains,
80 miles south of the park, one of the
most abrupt and stupendous outcrop-
pings of granite in the Western hem
isphere. From the western shore of
Jackson lake the Teton mountains lift
their spired peaks 1000 feet in appa-
rent perpendicular. Many glaciers rest
upon their shoulders. Their climax is
the Grand Teton, whose altitude is 49,
747 feet.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19
CHAPTER II.
Became a Fiohtino Scout.

started flying in Chicago in 1912. l
was then eighteen years old, but I had
had hankering for the air ever since
can remember.
AS yOungSter I followed the eX-
ploits of the Wrights with the greatest
interest, although l must confess
sometimes hoped that they wouldn' t
really conquer the air until had had
whack at it myself. 1 got more
whacks than l was looking for later
on.
Needless to say, my parents We're
very much opposed to my risking my
life at what was undoubtedly at that
time one of the most hazardous pas
times" a young fellow could select, and
every time had a smashup or some
other mishap l was ordered never to go
near an aviation field again.
SO l went out to California. There
another fellow and l built our own
machine, which We flew in various
parts of the state.
In the early part of 1916, when trou-
bic was brewing in Mexico, l joined the
American flying corps. | was sent to
San Diego, where the army flying
school is located, and spent about eight
months there, but as | was anxious to
get into active service and there didn' t
seem much chance of America ever
getting into the war, l resigned and,
crossing over to Canada, joined the
Royal Flying corps at Victoria, B. G.
was sent to Camp Borden, Toronto.
first to receive instruction aid later to
instruct. While a cadet l made the
first loop ever made by cadet in Can
ada, and after 1 had performed the
stunt l half expected to be kicked out
of the service for it. Apparently, how
ever, they considered the source and
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19
PREFACE

There Is q common idea that the ag>
Of miracles is past. Perhaps 1t Is, put
IL so, the change must have come about
within the past few weeks-after L es-
caped into Holland. For # anything Is
certain in this life it is this: this book
never would have been written but for
the succession of miracles set forth in
these pages.
Miracles, luck, coincidence, Provi-
dence-it doesn't matter much what
YOU call it-certainly played an impor-
tant part in the series of hair-breadth
escapes in which l figured during my
short but eventful appearance in the
great drama now being enacted across
the seas. Without it, all my efforts and
sufferings would have been quite un-
availing.
No one realizes this better than do
and want to repeat it right here be-
cause elsewhere in these pages l may
appear occasionally to overlook or
minimize it: without the help of Provi-
dence 1 would not be here today.
But this same Providence which
brought me home safely, despite all
the dangers which beset me, may work
similar miracles for others, and it Is in
the hope of encouraging other poor
devils who may find themselves in situ-
ations as hopeless apparently as mine
oftentimes were that this book is writ
ten.
When this cruel war is over-which
l trust may be sooner than l expect 1t
to bel hope l shall have an oppor-
tunity to revisit the scenes of my ad-
ventures and to thank in person in an
adequate manner every one who ex-
tended a helping hand to me when
was a wretched fugitive. All of them
took great risks in befriending an es-
capped prisoner and they did it without
the slightest hope of reward. At the
same time hope shall have chance
to pay my compliments to those who
endeavored to take advantage of my
distress.
In the meanwhile, however, l can
only express my thanks in this ineffec-
tive manner, trusting that in some
mysterious way copy of this book
may fall into the hands of every one
who befriended me. hope particular
ly that every good Hollander who
played the part of the Good Samari-
tan to me so bountfully after my es-
cape from Belgium will see these pages
and feel that am absolutely sincere
when 1 say that words cannot begin to
express my sense of gratitude to the
Dutch people.
1t is needless for me to say how
deeply 1 feel for my fellow-prisoners
in Germany who were less fortunate
than I. Poor, poor fellows-they are
the real victims of the war. hope that
every one of them may soon be re-
stored to that freedom whose value
never fully realized until after l had
had to fight so hard to regain it.
PAT O'BRIEN.
Momence, ILL.,, January IA, 1918.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19
Pathetic Plea Made by Austrian
Woman More Than Her English
Sister Could Refuse.

She was a little Austrian woman
and she was crossing the ocean on a
great hostile liner. Most of the other
women were the wives of Englishmen
and they could not forget that her
| country was at war with their land.
They ignored her, and she was left
much to herself. And yet
One morning as she was walking
up and down the deck in her solitary
way she passed the steamer chair Of
| a middle-aged English woman who was
knitting at a gray woolen sock, re-
lates a writer in the Christian Herald.
And suddenly she paused in her walk
and held out both of her hands.
"Oh," she cried, in very good Eng
lish, will you not let me knit few
rows on that sock?"
The English woman looked up. And
her face was cold and rather hard. 81
think" she said, "that you would
scarcely want to knit on this sock
For it is going to an English colonel
my husbandl"
The little Austrian woman looked
at the cOlOneIS lady. AND there were
tears in her eyes. Listen" she said
in low, shaking voice. 81, myself.
have a son. He is an officer in the
Austrian army. But if you knew my
son 1 do not think you would hate
him! If knew the colonel, your hus-
band, do not think I would hate
him either. =" She paused for
moment before she went on, and
then-"now that the world is torn by
war;" she said, 1--WE women must do
what we can to keep a little lose in it
May I, perhaps, knit few
rows on the sock 2"
Silently, but with tears in her own
eyes, the English woman handed over
the gray wool.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19

Utah, and changed its name. 1t
is now known as the Zion National
monument, which is immeasurably bet
ter from every point of view.
The old name, besides being hard to
pronounce and remember, was obscure
in origin and was never used except
officially. The new name is that in
popular use. Besides, it crystallizes
the romantic history Of its amazingly
beautiful valley; the surrounding coun-
try was settled by Mormons many
years ago, and this difficult canyon was
chosen as a refuge in the event of
Indian attack, and called "Little" Zion
to differentiate if from ''Big" Zion,
which was Salt Lake City. Since then
1t has universally been called Zion
canyon.
The enlargement of the Zion Nation
al monument follows naturally upon
its recent thorough exploration and the
discovery of outlying areas of alto
gether extraordinary scientific interest
and scenic grandeur. That its fantas-
tic cliffs, it's sensational coloring, and
its romantic conformation will bring it
national popularity cs resort is mani
fest destiny. 1t has been called, for
good reasons, "the little Grand Canyon"
and "the desert Yosemite" but it Is no
miniature of either; its individuality
Is marked.
Remarkable Variety Of Color.
The original monument was created
by proclamation in 1909, but, being
well outside the highways Of ordinary
travel, it was not thoroughly explored
until within the last two years. Off
cial investigation and action promptly
followed.
among the numerous geologic fea-
lures of interest" wrote Secretary
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19

The people who are lonely in this
world are those who are always look
ing for something to come to them !;
they hope for pleasant adventures !;
they exact much from their friends
and from their family-and they are
never satisfied. But the happy men
and women are those who never think
to demand for themselves-who give
and give and give again, and find joy
whenever they find opportunity to give
ioY.-Exchange
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19

own country to take her place with
the allies, had joined the British colOrs
in Canada. l was one of the latter.
We were going to England to earn
our "wings"-a qualification which
must be won before a member of the
n. F. c. is allowed to hunt the Huns
on the western front.
This was in May, 1917.
By August 1, most of us were full
f1edged pilots. actively engaged at vari-
Gus parts Of the line in daily conflict
with the enemy.
By December 10, every man jack of
us who had met the enemy in France,
with one exception, had appeared on
the casualty list. The exception was
H. X. Boysen, an American, who at
last report was fighting on the Italian
front still unscathed. Whether his
good fortune has stood him up to this
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19

gypsum and beds of limestone in which
were entombed the shells and bones Of
sea animals"
Mighty Cleft in Mountains.
The principal canyon, which is more
than Is miles long and varies from SO
feet wide in the Narrows to $500 feet
wide in other portions, is a mighty
cleft, as if the mountain had been
violently riven asunder. The walls
are inconceivably carved into domes,
half domes, colonnades, and temples
forms which appealed strongly to the
religious imagination of the early Nor
mons, who gave them names which ap-
peal strongly to the Imagination of to-
days tourist.
The tortuous outlying canyons and
monumental rock formations added by
the new proclamation make an area as
remarkable in its particular way as
the Grand Canyon. There are several
neighboring natural bridges of mag
nificence. !
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19

Lane to the President, "two deserve
more than passing notice. The Yer
million Cliff, so called because of its
brilliant color, famous, since the days
Of Major Powell's exploration, as one
Of the most remarkable in the world,
an escarpment more than 100 miles
long and so precipitous that it can be
scaled in few places, passes through
this monument. 1t consists of red
sandstone 1000 to 1000 feet thick and
overlaid by 1000 feet of glistening
white sand. These two form single
cliffs nearly 5000 feet high. These re-
markable walls bear evidence that the
sand gathered in desert in ages long
past-that here was great prehistoric
American Sahara.
'The second feature of unusual in
lerest lies Immediately above the sand,
for the desert was destroyed by the in
cursion of sea water, which covered
the drifting sand and buried it beneath
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19

| the spin they would be above him,
having all the advantage, and would
shoot him down with ease. It Is q
good way Of getting down into a
cloud, and is used very often by both
sides, but it requires skill and cour-
age by the pilot making it if he ever
expects to come out alive. A spin
being made by a pilot Intentionally
looks exactly like a spin that is made
by a machine actually being shot
down, so one never knows whether it
is forced or intentional until the pilot
either rights his machine and comes
out Of it, or crashes to the ground.
Another dive similar to this one Is
known as just the plain dive. As
sumo, for instance, that pilot flying
at a height of several thousand feet
is shot, loses control of his machine,
and the nose Of the plane starts down
with the motor full on. He is going
at tremendous speed and in many
instances is going so straight and
swiftly that the speed is too great for
the machine, because it was never
constructed to withstand the enor-
nous pressure forced against the
wings, and they consequently crumple
up.
If, too, in an attempt to straighten
the machine, the elevators should be-
come affected, as often happens in
trying to bring a machine out Of a
dive, the strain is again too great on
the wings, and there is the same dis
astrous result. Oftentimes, when the
patrol tank is punctured by tracer
air, the plane that is hit catches on
fire and either gets into a spin or a
straight dive and heads for the earth,
hundreds of miles an hour, mass Of
fame, looking like a brilliant comet
in the sky.
The spinning nose dive is used to
greater advantage by the Germans
than by our own pilots for the reason
that when fight gets too hot for the
German, he will put his machine in
a spin, and as the chances are nine
out Of ten that we are fighting over
German territory, he simply spins
down out Of our range, straightens
out before he reaches the ground, and
gets on home to his airdrome. 1t Is
useless to follow him down inside the
German lines, for you would in all
probability be shot down before. you
can attain sufficient altitude to cross
the line again.
1t often happens that pilot will
be chasing another machine when
suddenly he sees 1t start to spin. Per-
haps they are fifteen or eighteen thou
sand feet in the air, and the hostile
machine spins down for thousands of
feet He thinks he has hit the other
machine and goes home happy that
he has brought down another Hun.
He reports the occurrence to the
squadron, telling how he shot down
his enemy; but when the rest of the
squadron come in with their report,
or some artillery observation balloon
sends in a report, it develops that
when a few hundred feet from the
ground the supposed dead man in the
spin has come out of the spin and
gone merrily on his way for his air.
drome.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19
CHAPTER I.
The Folly of Despair.

Less than nine months ago eighteen
officers of the Royal flying corps,
which had been training in Canada
left for England on the Meganic.
If any of them was over twenty-five
years of age. he had successfully con-
cealed the fact, because they don't ac-
cept older men for the r. F. c.
Nine of the squadron were British
subjects: the other nine were Ameri-
cans, who, tired of waiting for their
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19
Figures Never Lie.

It Is amusing, though, how much
printed figures can lead the imagina-
ton astray. One good lady came to
sell the Keenes quite modern coffee
pot with the catalogue number, 1431.
stamped on the bottom. Now it might
have been worth perhaps dollar and
a half, and she asked five hundred for
it because it was made before Column
bus discovered America."-Alice Van
Leer Carrick, in the House Beautiful.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19

swirling, roaring torrent. Such 1t was.
not many years ago in February. when
over seven inches of rain fell within
49 hours. In 1884, and again in 1889.
the river was on a rampage, in the
former year several persons being
drowned. Then there is the Rio Colo
RADIO, a placid enough stream during
most of the year, but in food time
devouring monster, that never has
been, and probably never will be. en-
tirely controlled by man.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19
Siberian Wedding Custom.

1t is a custom in Siberia that when
a woman is married she must prepare
the wedding feast with her own
hands. If the food is well cooked
her credit as an accomplished house
keeper is established or vice versa.
AS a result Of this practical custom
most Siberian brides make good
wives.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19
Southern California Rivers.

To the "tenderfoot" Southern Cal
ifornia river is a joke. Few who see
the Los Angeles river during the great
er part of the year, when scores or
teams are busy hauling gravel from
the river bed, to take its place in sky
scrapers, can be induced to believe
that sometimes this river Is a rushing,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19

There's one New York man who evil
dently believes the courts to be omnip-
otent. He has trustingly asked that
an order be issued compelling his wife
to keep Quiet.-CleTeland Plain Dealer.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19

Cut flowers will keep fresh many
days if their stems be inserted in a
mixture of charcoal and sand.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19

In a desperate battle with
four Hun flyers, O'Brien is sent
crashing to earth behind the
German lines from a height of
5000 feet. The next INSTALL
ment tells of his miraculous es-
cape from death and of his re-
gaining consciousness to find
himself prisoner of war.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19
WOULD KEEP LOVE IN WORLD

(TO BE CONTINUED1
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-17

hair brush, good CASTLE eoap and hot
water. Rinse and then dash cold
water well over the neck Rub with
good cold cream, beginning at the
chin and rubbing around the neck
downward. Remove the cold cream
with absorbent cotton.
A good cold cream mixture is the
following:
Sweet oil Of almonds =, rs grains
Virgin wax. ......-.. 20 grains
Spermacetd ....-...... grammes
Perfume.
Melt all of these together and stir
for 20 minutes. AS the mixture
ccols add your favodite perfume and
pour into jars, which should be kept
tightly closed.
I've noticed that many women have
the habit of carrying their heads eth
er sideN avs or too far forward. Such
pastures destroy the beauty Of ones
carriage, nd make the neck unshape-
ly in the course of time.
The neck shouldn't be held in any
enc fixed position. That isn't the
beauty way. In repose it should be
held straight so the head is well
poised and thrown backward a trie
But the neck must at all times be fex-
ible, for in its fexibility Of motion il
becomes expressive and adds to per.