Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-08-31
TIRNISH WOMAN -FOUR YEARS IN BERLIN

officer who had never smelt powder
one still finds many Of them ia Berlin-.-
was a fellow visitor. / repr0ached my
host as well az my fellow visitors for
their many miseonduets against their
victims. THIS young officer became sud.
denly Indignant and reminded me Of the
fact that my eo-religiouists were also
being accused If barbarities enacted
against their Christian Subjects Must
we believe one aud deny the otherR''
he exclaimed rather smartly. | must
admit that I, too, became angry, and
retolted; eyes, Il is true, we, too, have
been guilty, but We never made a pro.
%fesslon Of II until We became acquainted
with Germany"
uurepentent and ill.tempercd Ger
manyl Neither my boasts nor my fel
low visitors would share my spirit OF re.
fenteaee They All became angry At
rae and the Young daughter Of my host
brought my coat and umbrella and was
Ia gitcd out Of the house
I nm a%hnormaliy bitter against Ger.
mauyl ! confess that | am, But | am
aut bitter for reasons Of my own i'll
treatment, On the contrary. ! admit
that | have fully deserved all the I'M
kind treatment noted out TO me IN that
land
even found them unusually patient
Witl me. They knew | wanted 20 leave
tleir countfy aud they knew that soon
er or later | would succeed Ia obtaining
my permit to cross Switzerland, They
resoited to every mean whereby TO i'm.
press me, and ON many occasions ! per
mitlcd myself TO accept their advances
although mwhrdly | abhored myself for
not being more heroic aud honest IN re-
s%oniing their many attempts 20 beguile
me, | am bitter against them Tor their
utter hearltcssness against their vic
Tins, many tragic instances Of which |
viii relate.
II was nearly three years ago thai !
first gave expression 70 my bitter feel
lng against the country in which fate
had planted me In these ragic timus, o
how often | have cursed the dav ON
which | had implored my father 10 send
me 20 Germany TO finish my studiea, in
stead of 70 Paris whore he had received
t6s early education aud 20 which city
he had wished that | should go fot
mine. "Under the skin these 6ermani
ave iufidel harhatians, = he had often
remarked
The French Slave,
Il was nearly three years ago when
a Young IfieRd. a woman, came TO ne
|tellug me that they had secured a yemg
Fieu,b girl Of about eighteen years Of
age % 10 Work tor them In their house.
sho was ono az this ninety such Young
girls who had been a%pper,loned to agri
5Wltral lahar outside the capital dis
tttlet. Tia farmer 60 whom she Wa
AandAa over had found her unfit e q,
thu work for which she was intended
Ile had. therefore, Induced the loea.
c%ommandant 20 permit him TO make d
transfer and sent her to his friend Ia
neslin with the understanding that hs
would hs responsible for her retafn q
him an demand IL She local command
ant. The family to which this yeans
French girl was transferred was th,
house Of my friend, She wished me q
10 with her to her house aud act in Tbs
capacity It al interpreter as the frencg
gitl spoke not a waid II German aud
none OF the members Of the family an
lerslood i Woyl Of French, They Wished
8lt ,o translate a SEA af Instructions "a
thA new eryant the slavel
On visiting tho house Of my friend til
Young French girl was Trough, 70 n,
room, lcd hy lhc hand 4 once heaail
fui. but new palc faced, frail, blonde
child eairrr3 tike 4 lltilp child h.
BY he mother Ia the fathers prcseaes
for a reckoning, she wept and wep, bit
iaIly II WAS a truly tragic scene
standing il the middle 81 the room, ia
Asg shabby garments, about six feel
from me. stlll her hft hand held IS ms
fYiend. she brought % my mind the AJAX
ed static II the Greek slave u Rhodes
carved cut of the everlasting shame q
AS n angestors BY that great Amagi
eaa sculptor. tliiFam Powers Tbs
6reek SlaYet" wished % speak I,
Ast. hut seAeihlng In my throat stood
hard and Aeld us speech ! could Hel
speak. rasa from ms seal and walking
10 heF ex'ended my bands she saranA
back san essieg. Haalls succeeded
Is swallowing sAp lamp IL nay thFesI