Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1918-08-16

me out, but I was almost sure I had
the right direction and trusted 10 luck.
That night found more rivers, canals
and swamps than ever found In my
life before. but had the good fortune
TO stumble on 10 some celery, and after
my diet Of beets II surely was a treat.
Perhaps It's unnecessary TO add that ]
took on q good supply Of celery and
for days ! went along chewing celery
like COW would cud.
Along towards morning, when I sup
posed had gotten In fairly good lap
Of my journey-perhaps seven or eight
miles-I began 10 recognize certain OBJ
Jects as familiar landmarks. AZ least,
! thought / had seen them before and
as I Travelled along knew positively ]
had seen certain objects very recently.
OF at my right-not over a quarter Of
a mile-I noticed some fairly good
sized woods and thought would 90
over there 10 hide that day, because II
looked az though the sun was going to
shine and ! Hoped to get my clothes
dry, and perhaps get a decent sleep.
/ had this celery and a large beet, so
l knew would be able to live the day
through.
Finally made my way over to the
woods. It was gtill too dark IN among
the trees TO do much In the way Of
selecting my quarters for the day and
I could not go a step farther. SO I
waited On the edge of the forest until
dawn and then set out to explore the
place, with view to finding some nook
where might sleep. Imagine my dis
gust, and encouragement, too, when an
hour or 80 later came upon the exact
place where had spent the day before,
and / realized that all night long had
been circling the very woods ! was try
Ing to get away from. I think perhaps
had gone all Of quarter of mile In
the right direction. but then had lost
my bearings entirely. and daylight
found me with nothing accomplished.
The sun, however, did come out that
dag, and welcomed Its warm rays.
as they. perhaps. have never been well
coined before. I was very tired-just
ABOUT all in-but / spent better day
In the woods than the previous one,
That night the stars came out; /
located my friend, the North Star, and
tried to make up for lost time. But
when one is making only seven or eight
miles q day, or rather a night, one
night lost means . whole lo:. especl-
ally when each day keeps him from
freedom. Such Ill fortune and dis
couragements as this were harder to
endure, I believe. than the actual
hunger, and the accompanying worry
naturally reduced my weight. At times
was furiously angry with myself for
the mistakes / made and the foolish
things I did, but always tried to see
something funny about the situation.
whatever It might be. that relieved
the strain Of habit and helped to pass
the time away. I think II man is
oyerburdened with a sense Of humor
and wants to get rid Of 1t, this trip /
took would be an excellent remedy
for 1t. Right at this time would
have welcomed anything for compan-
ion. believe even a snake would
have been a Godsend to me.
With O name as irish as mine, 1t Is
only natural that I looked for goats
along the way. thinking that I might
be able to milk them. There are very
few cows In this country, and the op-
portunities for milking them fewer
than the cows themselves because they
are housed In barns adjoining the
homes and always alertly watched by
their fortunate owners. did hope
that I might find goat staked out
some place in the fields, but in all my
travels I never saw goat or pig,
and only few cows, Several times
searched nests for eggs, but somebody
always had beaten me to 1t, as ], never
even found so much as q nest egg.
There was no chance of getting away
with any bullying" stuff in Luxem-
bourg. knew, because the young men
have not been forced into the army
and are still at home, and as they are
decidedly pro-German, 1t would have
been pretty hard for me to de fhand
anything In that part Of the co'hntry.
It was not like taking things away
from old men and women or rtbbing
people that could not stop me III they
chose to do so. thought at this time
that I was suffering about the worst
hardships any human being cosad ever
be called upon to endure, but was
later to find that the best q my jour
ney was made along about this time.
There were plenty Of vegetables, even
| though they were raw, and these were
much better than the things I was
afterwards compelled to eat or lp
without.
We frequently hear Of men who hav e
lived for q certain number of days .
their own resources in the woods jus
on bet or to prove that the "back..
to-nature" theory still has the merits
and will still work. My advice to some
Of those nature seekers is that If In,
the future they wish to make a real