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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-04-26
WINDOW BOX FOR
STARTING PLANTS
Gardener May Save Several
Weeks by Planting Various
Crops Indoors.
IS NOT DIFFICULT TO MAKE
Material Used Should Be Light and OF
Such Size as to Be Easily Han
dIed-GIass Top Will Keep
in the Moisture.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of ~Agriculture.)
BY using a seed box or window box
in which to start plants of cabbage,
cauliflower, tomatoes, peppers, egg
plant, celery, and perhaps even lettuce,
the home gardener may get these crops
into edible maturity several weeks
earlier than If he waits to plant the
seed out of doors.
Making the Window Box.
1t is a very simple matter to make a
window box by mailing together the
narrow sides and ends and then nall
ing the bottom onto these. The boards
or strips used should be light in
weight, about one-half inch thick, about
8 inches wide for sides and ends, and
any width available for the bottom.
The window box should be of such
size as to be easily handled, perhaps
II to 10 inches wide and Is to "a inches
long. A store box of convenient size
may be sawed l~engthwise of sides and
across the ends 3 or 4 inches above
the bottom and thus make a good win
dow box.
Filling Box With Soil and Planting
Seeds.
When the box is completed, cover
the bottom about an inch deep with
gravel or fine cinders and fill nearly
full with rich soil full of decayed veg
etable matter or of manure like that
used in potting home plants or green
house plants. Most gardeners have a
compost pile which will furnish the
kind of soil needed. The rich soil
beneath the family wood pile or around
decaying logs is splendid for this pur-
pose.
Press the soil down firmly in the
box with a small piece of board, then
with a thin strip, such as a cheap
ruler, make rows crossways 2 inches
apart by pressing the edge down X
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-04-26
Continued from last week
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER III-Hedwig herself. who
loves Milky Larisch, Otto's aid de camp,
and Larisch are upset by the kings de-
c1sion.
CHAPTER Tv-countess Loschek, lady
In waiting to Annunciata, in love with
Karl of Karnia, is jealous of Hedwig. She
plots to start a revolt in Liyonia by send.
Ing a code letter to Karl telling him of
conditions in the country. Peter Niburg,
who was to deliver the message, is be-
trayed by a fellow clerk. Herman Spier.
CHAPTER v-Niburg is robbed of the
missive, and a dummy letter substituted;
Captain Larisch, unaware of the substi-
tuition, holds up KarIs chauffeur and Sc
cures the envelope.
CHAPTER vI-Black Humbert, promi-
nent among the Terrorists, decides Coun-
tess Loschek's message. with the aid of a
student named Haeckel, a police spy,
whom the Terrorists are holding prisoner.
CHAPTER vII-captain Larisch imper-
sonates Karl's chauffeur and exchanges
the sheet within the letter for some ciga-
rette papers. On delivering the note to
Karl. Larisch is made prisoner when the
deception is discovered. Hedwig's consent
to the marriage forcibly obtained. Nett
Itch, chancellor of Livonia,, concludes the
arrangements for the marriage and leaves
for Wedding. King Karl's hunting lodge,
ing Chancellor Mettlich's party finds Karls
chauffeur, with whom Larisch had changed
clothes, bound and gagged. They release
him and proceed with him to the kings
hunting lodge. The chauffeur escares.
Mettlich and King Karl reach q satisfac-
tory arrangement as to the marriage, and
Kari releases Larisch, after telling him of
the coming wedding.
CHAPTER IX-Old Adelbert, crippled
veteran, long an attendant. at the opera
house, loses his position and becomes en-
Uttered against the king and the chan
cellor.
CHAPTER X-Countess Loschek finds
her room in the palace searched and
also find a luminous to appear before the
Committee of Ten, revolutionary tribunal.
She goes, and is ordered to assist In the
kidnapping of the crown prince. under
to Chancellor Mettlich. She is given a
week to consider.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-04-26

1--WE VIII Go Away, Milky" She Said.
sand it must be soon, because other
wise"
Milky dared not touch her again,
knowing what he had to say. Dear
est" he said, bending toward her,
that is what we cannot do"
"No?" She looked up, puzzled, but
still confident. "And why, cowardly
one?"
Because I have given my word to
remain with the crown prince" Then,
seeing that she still did not compre-
bend, he explained, swiftly. He stood,
as many a man has stood before, be-
tween love and loyalty to his king,
and he was a soldier. He had no
choice.
1t was terrible to him to see the
light die out of her eyes. But even
as he told her Of the dangers that
compassed the child and possibly 9th
ers of the family, he saw that they
touched her remotely, If at all.
All she said, when Milky finished,
was 81 might have known it. OF
course they would get me, as they did
the Others" But a moment later she
rose and threw out her arms. "How
skillful they are! They knew about
it. 1t Is all a part Of the plot. They
made you promise never to desert
Otto, so that their arrangements need
not be interfered with. oh, 1 know
them, better than you do. They are
all cruel. 1t is the blood"
That evening the Princess Hedwig
went unannounced to her ~grandfather's
apartment, and demanded to be al
lowed to enter.
A gentleman in waiting bowed deep
~, but stood before the door. "Your
highness must pardon my reminding
your highness," he said firmly, "that
no one may enter his maJesty's pres
ence without permission"
"Then go ill.," said Hedwig, in a
white rage, "and get he>permission."
The gentleman in waiting went in,
very deliberately, because his dignity
was outraged. The moment he had
BOuC, AOWCfCly LSQWl6 huhS lhO OOVA
open, and followed, standing, a figure
of tragic defiance, inside the heavy
curtains of the kings bedroom.
'There is no use saying you won't
see me, grandfather. For here 1 am"
They eyed each other, the one, it
must be told, a trife uneasily, the
other desperately. Then into the
kings eyes came a flash of admiration,
and just a CLEAN of amusement.
$50 I perceive" he said. "Come
here, Hedwig."
A sister of charity was standing by
the kings bed. She had cared for
him through many illnesses. In the
intervals she retired to her cloister and
read holy books and sewed for the
poor.
+. The sister went out, her black habit
dragging, but she did not sew. Some
time later she heard bitter crying In
the royal bed chamber, and the kings
tones, soothing now and very sad.
'There is a higher duty than happi-
ness" he said. "There are greater
things than love. And one day you
will know this
When she went in Hedwig ha gone,
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-04-26
CHAPTER XII.
AS a Man May Love a Woman.

nc q hba htaJ
Hedwig came to tea that afternoon.
She came in softly, and defantly, for
she was doing a forbidden thing, but
Prince Ferdinand William Otto had
put away the frame against such a
contingency. He had, as a matter of
fact, been putting cold cloths on Miss
Braithwaite's forehead.
81 always do It," he informed He'd
wig. 81 like doing 1t. 1t gives me
something to do. She likes them
rather dry, 81 the water doesn't run
down her neck"
Had Miss Braithwaite not been Ill,
Hedwig would have talked things over
with her then. There was no one else
to whom she could go. Hilda refused
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-04-26

CHAPTER III-Hedwig herself, who
loves Milky Larisch, Otto's aid de camp
and Larisch are upset by the kings de-
cision.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-04-26
Not So AItrulstIc.

I'm working hard to get several of
my friends on an investigating com
mittee," announced Congressman
Flubdub.
'That shows good fellowship on
your part. What is the committee 60
ing to investigator"
"Me."-Louisville Courier-Journal
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-04-26
CAREFUL SELECTION OF SEED
Cheap Varieties Should Be Avoided
Unless Quality and terminating
Power Are Good.

Don't buy cheap seeds unless you are
sure of their quality and terminating
value. Cheap seeds Of plants, like
cabbage, onions, or lettuce, may be the
most expensive in the end. It costs
just as much to plant and care for as
good seed.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-04-26
Gone to Her Head.

Mrs. Exe-They say she's crazy over
shopping.
Mrs. Wye-She Is. Why, her poor
husband complains that she pulls the
bed clothes off him almost every night
thinks she's examining. dress goods
at a bargain rush.-Boston Evening
Transcript.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-04-26
Cause and Effect.

Flatbush-My pext-door neighbor
was taken sick last night.
Bensonhurst-Too bad.
Eyes, we telephoned for the doctor
but he couldn't come"
SLOW Is he todayf"
"Oh, he's worse. The doctor came
today
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-17

aaalian front-After being tempo
rarily checked by counter attacks all
along the new seventy mile offensive
front, the Austrians renewed their as
sault yesterday in the mountainous re-
gion between the Astieo and Piave
rivers ana also at various points along
the latter stream.
A special eommunique issued by the
Italian war office last night declared
that the enemy is being held.
British troops are opposing the Aus
trians along the Asiago plateau. while
French forces evidently are fighting
in the Mount Grappa region, between
Asiago and the Piave. The fact that
Rome admits the enemy is fighting
"west of San Dona Di Piave," indi-
Gated the Austrians have forced a
crossing of the Piave at this point.
San Dona Di Piave is on the east
bank of the Piave, ten miles from the
sea and on the railway Inc which
runs northwestward to MeSte, the rail
way junction on the mainland north of
Venice. Venice is less than twenty
miles southwest of the poins whee the
Austrians have crossed the Piave.
Petit Parisien says that more than
900 900 Austrians are being used in the
drive.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-17

With the Italian Armies in the Field, June 17---The
Austrian pressure is continuing strongly on the whole
battle front between the Asago and the sea- with the
greatest force exerted both sides of the Brenta
1t is still possible that the line will flow backward and
forward but the situation seems assuring.
The enemy with sixty divisions (72OO0O men has not
succeeded in passing the advanced south of Mont
eo where they succeeded in crossing the Pave in consd
cradle NUMBERS There they being gradually pushed
backward toward the river
The Italian reaction on the lower Piave came more
quickly The Austrans who crossed the river at several
points between Candea Senson and San Dona D Piave
were counter attacked and driven back almost i'm
mediately.
The Austrians have been carefully trained for the
drive They attacking with light equipment then
opening out in storming formations protected by ari
fca fog One of their obecves it has been learned is
to reach the plains southwark of the mountains They
also intended to reach Treviso the first day. an advance
of fifteen kilometers (about ten miles.)
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-17
INDUSTRY
ALIVE IN NORTHWEST
Orders Of Past Week Have
Swamped Already Over
worked Plants

Tacoma, Wash, June l7.-Lumber
manufacturers Of western Oregon and
Washington during the past week have
taken more new orders than in any sin
gle week in the last six months, accord
ing to the report of the West, Coast
Lumbermen Is association, issued today.
The total new business received was
SO, ,7s6,235 feet.
In addition to this, tremendous vol
umes Of government and commercial or
dcrs are in sight. Buyers are rushing in
to the market before the 25 per cent
advance in freight rates takes effect.
The immediate demands for westcoast
products are heavy in every consuming
district and many retailers are laying in
thGr stocks fearing car shortage.
Unofficial advices from Washington
D. c., indicate that an order for $4,000,
900 feet of cantonment lumber soon will
be placed.
The new government fixed prices for
lumber, averaging $26 per thousand feet
was also announced by the West Coast
association. This schedule is said to be
$1.75 thousand higher than the old
price.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-17
Head Of Pro-Cerman Truth
Society and Active As
Kaiser's Paid Agent

Vancouver, Wash, June 17.7Jere
miah O'Leary in the custody of his
government agent eaptors who traced
the alleged traitor across the continent
and caught him near Sara, north of here
should arrive in New York tonight OF
tomorrow.
The. party left Portland Wednesday
night. So careful were the government
men to guard against legal moves that
might prevent an uninterrupted trip tC
New York that even government agents
Of Oregon and Washington were not in,
formed Of the capture.
The handsome Irishman, president Of
the American Truth Society and pub
fisher of Bull, who undertook to per
suade the United States to favor Ger
many instead of Great Britain in the
war, has changed remarkably since his
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-17
ITALIAN DRIVE is
DESPERATE Eff ORT
TOBETTER CONDITIONS
Hindenburg Would Force Italy
Out Of War Before Amer
lean Pressure Is Great
By ]. W. T. Mason

tUnlteu 1TeSS Wdr EApcItJ
New York, June 17.-Austro- Hun
gary 5 offensive against Italy undoubt-
edl5 has been ordered by Hindenburg
as a final despairing effort to weaken
the allies through forcing Italy to with
draw from the war before America IS
Forthcoming offensive can be started.
Hindenburg has taken blind chance
at his new blood spilEng. To compel
Austro- Hungarians to slaughter them
selves in what will almost certainly
prove ile.-adventure, is deliberate
ly to stimulate disastrous domestic con-
ditions within the dual monarchy. For
the practically negligible possibility of
compelling Italy TO sign separate
peace Hindehburg is risking an upriS'
ing in Austria Hungary against Ger
man militaristic rule. SO great gam
BILE as this demonstrates that linden
burg realizes that time is fatally against
him and that Germany must win by
autumn or not at all.
The allies have been given splendid
opportunity to increase Idissensions in
Austria Hungary by holding fast along
the Italian front.
A slight gain Of territory by the Aus
tro- Hungarians, with the capture of a
few thousand prisoners, will never DC
accepted by Emperor Karl's subjects as
sufficient justification for heavy
slaughter of Hapsburg troops. The Aus
tro. Hungarian offensive apparently has
for its immediate main object the cap
turo of Venice. The two railway lines
nearest to Venice, from the Piave river
are being strongly held by the Italians
against powerful assaults. Venice is 10
to 20 miles away from the main enemy
attacks along the Piave. If the Austro-
Hungarians can cross the Piave in force
1t will require stiffcned fighting by the
Italians to save Venice, but for the
present most of the enemy are being
held on the eastern bank of the rivr.
Th capture of Venice, in itself, would
be without military value to the Aus.
tro- Hungarians, because nobody in Aus.
tro- Hungary believes it would be retain
ed after the war.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-17
IS DEAD Is WOUNDED
ONE MISSING IS LIST
OF DAYS CASUALTIES
Six Killed In Action, Captain
Gwynne Killed In Air.
plane Accident

Washington, June 17.-Today's cas-
ualty lis- reported to the war depart
ment by General Pershing contains IS
names, divided as follows:
Six killed in action; two dead from
wounds; one dead from accident; foul
dead from disease; twenty-four severe
ly wounded; one wounded, degree un
determined; one missing in action.
Captain Harry S. Gwynne Tulsa
Kkla., vas killed in an aeroplane ac
cident, Captain Albert S. Tucker, Lar
edo, Texas, and Lieutenants w. r
Gahring, Mt. Vernon, Mo-, and Samue
J. Gilmore, Brooklyn, were severely
wounded.
Lieutenant Hugh S. Thompson, Chat
tanooga, Tenn, was wounded, degree
undetermined.
The list follows:
Killed In Action.
Privates Charles F. Albreeht, Brook
lyn, N. T.; William II. Goodwin, Clovis
N. NJ; Ian T. Graves, Ellisville, Miss.
Claude r. Myers, Browning, Mo-; Pie
tro Nataln, Montenegro; Henry j. Rob
ertson, Lockport, La.
Died of Wounds.
Privates Alexander Olkosky, Canoe
Run, Pa; John NJ. Peterson, Rutland
N. d.
Died of Airplane Accident.
Died of Disease.
Privates George Jones, Norwood, La
Bonifuss Miller, Erie, Pa; Elgar Lawr
enee Pattee, San Mateo, CAL; Paul A
Wineholt, Laporte, Indiana.
wounded Severely.
Captain Albert s. Tucker, Laredo
Texas
Lieutenants William Ross Gahring
Mount Vernon, Mo-; Samuel j. Gilmore
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Scrgeants Charles H. Buck, James
town, N. Y; Arthur Simmons, Canton
Okla.
Corporal Alexander Sage, Railway
N. j.
Privates Joseph G. Balenger, Lowell
Mass; Barnes G. Beckwith, Parkers
burg W Va; Dewey Brewer Indian
apolis, lad; James Donaldson, Wash
ington, D. c.; Jodie M. Ferguson, Timp
son, Texas; Ralph M. Fox, Hershey
Pa; MarcelinO Garcia, Meadowbrook
W. Va; Neil W. Gibson, Holley, N. Y.
Gustav e. Gunderson, Maddox, N. D..
Levi D. johnson, Aver, N. d.; Fred r
Lawyer Bismarck, N. D.; John G. Lis
lie, Columbus. Ohio; Harry R. Matten
Reading, Pa; Leo E. Mitchell Amster
dam, N. y; Joseph X. Pace, Elizabeth
La; William A. Roe, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Marion Cinatra, East Boston, Mass.
Clarence Stiff, Evansville, Wis.
Wounded Degree Undetermined.
Lieutenant Hugo Smith Thompson
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Missing In Action.
Private Robert $. Niver, Hartford
Conn.
Rejoiniig company, previously re
ported missing: Privates Edward L
Gurney, New Haven, Coma; Carl II
Nilsson, Plainville, Conn; Boleslaw r
Sefcik, New London, Conn.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-17
DR.. DONEY WRITES
ABOUT THE TALKS
THE SOLDIERS LIKE
Intin.ates He VIII Soon Start
for Home and May Be
On the Way

The following is one Of the last let
ters written by DR.. Carl Gregg Doney,
president of Willamette university,
before preparing to return to this
country from France. II is understood
that DIR. Doney is now on his way homo
After reaching New York, he will 60
to Washington city for q conference
with the war department regarding
military instruction for Willamette rni
versity next fall.
The letter is addressed to Dean Al
den and is as follows:
The bugles have sounded and only
the steps of the sentries break the
quiet Of the town. Half an hour ago,
the streets were crowded and the lit
tie stores were busy; nine o'clock clos
es everything and the soldiers go to
their billets In this place they have
no tents or barracks but are quartered
in homes warehouses, barns and over
the stores. Many Of the second story
rooms are reached only by ladder on
the outside of the building. There arc
any number of excellent residences
which have no inside stairway and de-
pend instead upon the ladders which
one sees resting on the street and
leaning against the house. The soldiers
90 up and down like squirrels. Uncle
Sam pays the French people five cen
times a day for soldier s billet and
one franc day for Sn officers.
I am just back from giving an ad-
dress at a Y hut. Not half Of the men
could get inside and when once inside
they could not get out, so held my
crowd. 1t is fine arrangement for
the speaker and when | speak but one
time in a place, the plan can often be
used. but these people are unusual, FOR
tonight was my third appearance with
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-17
IRISH TRAITOR TAKEN EAST
TO ANSWER FOR CRIMES

flight from New York on the eve Of
his hearing on a treason charge. He is
lean and weak and eyesore. While on
lit. little chicken ranch, bought for him
near Sara, he was able to do only the
highest work.
The story of the capture has been
cleaned from the fragmentary know
ledge of neighbors of the chicken ranch
and from Samuel F. Stein, employed by
-0'Leary's advance man to do the real
work as chicken raiser and cook.
The three acre ranch was bought from
Thomas L. Sager of Portland by man
giving the name of Thomas J. Corbett
who said he was buying it for his bro
ther-in-law named Wells, an invalid
writer.
O'Leary, known as Wells, arrived al
the little ranch on about May 25. His
hiding place was found less than three
weeks later.
Stein. man Of 20, who was born in
Germany, but is an American citizen
was the constant companion of O'eary
(C0nfinuad m nara thraal
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-17

London, June 17.--"The Austrians
lost five men to our one" the war of
flee said today in report on the
Italian front operations.
"The enemy used 20 divisions (34S
900 men) between the Asiago plateau
and the Piave, Of the 5S divisions
(696,000 men) employed on the whole
battle front.
British airmen have destroyed sew.
en- bridges.''
The twenty mile front from the Asi-
ago plateau to the Pave river is held
jointly by British. French and Italian
forces. The British apparently occupy
most of the plateau region, while the
French are in the Mont Grappa region
to the eastward. italian troops evident
ly hold sectors between the plateau
and the mountain, and between the
mountain and the river.
The drive, which followed an intense
bomIbardment between the Lagarina
valley and the Adriatic sea, distance
of about 100 miles. was begun on the
seventy mile front between the Asiago
plateau and the sea. The line extends
eastward from the plateau to the Piaye
river in the vicinity of sahusino then
follows the river southeastward to its
mouth.
The Austrians succeeded in forcing
a crossing Of the Piave at Nervesa, II
miles southeast of Segusino and ter
miles north Of Treviso and at Fagare
and musile, Respectively, ten ans
twenty miles from the sea-
Counter attacks initiated by Italian
French and British troops all along
the front later restored most of the
ground yielded under the first shock
Vienna claimed capture Of ten thou
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-17
SIX AMERICANS GET
AMERICAN CROSSFOR
BRAVERY UNDER FIRE
On Four Of These The Honor
Is Conferred After
Their Death

Washington, June l7-Six Ameri-
can soldiers have been awarded the
United States distinguished service
cross for bravery under fire, General
Pershing reported in Frday's com
munique.
The decorated men arc.
Corporal Thomas A, Carroll, infan-
try; Major Alexander Rasmussen,
United States reserve infantry; Pri-
vaes Oscar Griffith, medical depart
ment, ambulance company; Frank ].
Goldeamp, engineers; Leslie NJ. Lane,
infantry and Sergeant Gray E. Swim
gle, engineers.
The eOmmunique follows:
"Section A-Northwest of Chateau
Thierry the day was marked by heavy
shelling, executed by the batteries of
both sides and including the use of
gas. There is nothing to report from
the other points occupied by our
troops.
4" Yesterday our aviators shot down
two hostile machines.
'Section BIN the Woevre, on the
night of June 11-12. a German patrol
captured an American sentry at a list
ening post. The sentry held two gren-
AIDES, one of which he managed to re-
move the cap while he was being tax
en- away. By striking this grenade
against the other, then dropping them
and making a sudden dash, he succeed
ed in escaping.
THE following distinguished serv.
ice crosses have been awarded, four OF
which are post humous:
Corporal Thomas A. Carroll, infan-
try, while member of the patrol, was
rushed by greatly superior patrol
opened fire on the enemy at Is yards
and, although severely wounded, dis
played marked coolness in covering
the retirement of his patrol
major Alexander Rasmussen, (post
hnmous) proceeded to his post of com
mand in spite of heavy bombardmeni
in order to save important papers, and
while thus engaged, was killed by shell
fire.
"Private Oscar Griffith (pssthum
ous) displayed extraordinary devotion
to duty in going to the assistance Of Q
wounded man and in remaining with
him through heavy bomDardment un
| til Private Griffith himself was kill
| ed.
Sergeant Gray f. Swinglc (post
humous) was in command of a patro,
sent out near Bois Destailloux OF
March 2S. The patrol came suddenly
under hostile machine gun fire anC
Sergeant Swingle was mortally wound
ed. He gave instructions to the patro