Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-07-15
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to the war at its beginning, We're
stirred by the same Canadian enthus-
iasms, shared the adventures of the
first troops over seas from Canada
blazed the way for the thousands OF
other Canadian troops that We're to
follow and were in the earliest bat
tiles of the war. But Lowell has a tale
Ito tell that reaches experiences I'M
known to Private Peat, for he was
captured and spent year and quar-
ter amid the horrors of German pris-
on camps. Moreover Lovell's tale
reaches the climax of an escape out
of Germany, through friendly Hol-
land, after two previous attempts had
met with dismal failure. His is as
stirring a tale as ever thrilled an
audience or won its Astounding SYM
pathy.
Private Lowell is an Englishman by
way of Canada where he had lived a
few years when the war broke out.
He tells his story with a pleasant
near-Cockney accent that charms the
hearers In simple language he lays
his adventures before the Chautauqua
audience. He is learning the difficult
art of public speaking as he goes
along, and the effect of speech, man
and natural unaffected manner is
thrilling in the extreme. He is
live messenger from the heart of
Germany from whence few voices now
reach the outside world He was TAX
en- prisoner at the second battle of
"Wipers," otherwise known as Ypres,
From there he was taken to three
| different German prisons and eXper-
fenced all the rigors of prison life in
! Germany. If anybody had doubted
current tales of Germany's inhuman
treatment of prisoners, Mr.. Lovell's
lecture yesterday must have made
disbelief forever impossible. More
over Mr.. Lovells tale sheds light up
on internal conditions in Germany.
Evidently nobody there has plenty to
eat. Breakdown through starvation
may not be near in Germany, but
Private Lowell thinks it is inevitably
coming.
Mr.. Lowell and companion tried
twice to escape before in the third at
tempt they succeeded in crossing the
Holland border. He tells that part OF
his story well. Indeed, from the be-
ginning to the end of his remarkable
chain of personal adventure, he holds
his audience spell-bound. We hope
that some day he will put his story
into print. In private conversation
yesterday he told of the coming of
Ambassador Gerard to his prison
camp. TO prepare for the ambassa-
doris visit the camp was put into fine
shape, and extra food and clothing
We're in evidence. Every precaution
was taken to prevent free access to
the ambassador When the ambassa-
dor had gone rations and clothing
were taken back and the prison i'm
mediately fell back to the old dis
reputable and unhealthy condition. If
Private Lovell's whole tale were told
there would be many such side lights
upon the history of the war.
The Evening. Lecture.
After the Pugh-Poe prelude last
night the lecture was given by DR..
Charles E. Barker of Washington, D.
c., and the subject was, How to Live
a Hundred Years." The lecture was
well given and well received. 1t was
a common sense disquisition on the
laws and methods of health as grow
ing out of recent medical discoveries.
The speaker AYERS that at fifty years
of age, when many people begin to
feel the turn of the tide of life, one
should not have lost single useful
vitality. He said that DR.. Koch de-
clared that impurity of blood lay at
the root of all disease, and the lecture
last night was intended to demon
strate certain rules of living, courses
of diet and systems of exercise where
by the blood may be kept pure and
healthily at work in the human body.
Rules We're laid down by the doctor
in his lecture whereby the lungs may
be wholly used, the skin kept in tip
top condition for it's sewer work, the
intestines made to do their share OF
life's work and the kidneys prevent
ed from landing men in untimely
graves. The rule of health demands
that everybody should drink an
abundance of water, take proper abb
dominal exercises use a scientifically