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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-16

What were my sufferings ever begun
for2'
Perhaps the answer lies in the sug-
gestion / have made.
At any rate. if this record of my sd-
ventures should prove instrumental in
sustaining others who need encourage
ment, / shall not feel that my suffer-
ings were in vain.
II is hardly likely that any one will
quite duplicate my experience, but 1
haven't the slightest doubt that many
will have TO go through trials equally
nerve-racking and suffer disappoint-
nents just as disheartening.
It would be very far from the mark
to imagine that the optimism which 1
am preaching now so glibly sustained
me through all my troubles. On the
contrary, / am free to confess that
frequently gave way to despair and
often, for hours at a time, felt so de-
jected and discouraged that I really
didn't care what happened to me. In
deed rather hoped that something
would happen to put an end to my
misery.
But despite all my dependence and
hopelessness, the worst never happen
ed. and I can't help thinking that my
salvation must have been designed to
show the way 20 others.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-16
CHAPTER II.
I Became a Fighting Scout.


/ started flying in Chicago in 1919.
was then eighteen years old, but l
had had a hankering for the air ever
since 1 can remember.
AS a younsster L followed the ex-
ploits of the Wrights with the greatest
interest, although L must confess 1
sometimes hoped that they wouldn't
really conquer the air until l had had
a whack at it myself. I got more
whacks than / was looking for later on.
Needless to say. my parents were
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 l had a smash-up or some
other mishap / was ordered never to
go near an aviation field again.
So I went out to California. There
another fellow and built our own ma
chine. which we flew in various parts
OF the state.
In the early part OF 1915. when
trouble was brewing in Mexico, joined
the American flying corps. l was sent
to San Diego, where the flying school
is located. and spent about eight months
there. but as 1 was. anxious TO get into
active service and there didn't seem
much chance of America ever getting
into the war 1 resigned and, crossing
over TO Canada, joined the Royal flying
corps at Victoria, B. c.
vas sent to Camp Borden. Toronto,
first 10 receive instruction and later 10
instruct. While cadet l made the
first loon ever made by a cadet In Can
ada. and after I had performed the stunt
/ half expected TO be kicked out OF the
service for il. Apparently, however
they considered the source, and let IL go
AT that Later on l had the Satisfaction
of introducing the loop as part of the
reruIar course of instruction for cadets
in the r r. c. and I want TO say right
here that Camp Borden has turned out
como of the hest hiers that have ever
gone to France.
In Nav. 1917, I and seventeen other
Caudsau fiiers left for England on the
Neganic. where we were TO qualify TOT
service in France.
Our suuadron consisted of nine Amer
leans. e. c. Robinson, II. \. Miller r. >.
NrcClurg. 4. 4. Allen. +. b. Garnet H.
X. Boysen, II. 4. Smeeton and \. a.
Taylor. and myself, and nine Britishers'
Paul r. Raney, J. r. Park c. Nelmes'
4. r. Moore. 7 L. Atkinson, r. =.
Coury. s. Muir. +. a. L. +. Smith and
:. g. Jones.
Within a few weeks after our arrival
in England all OF US had won our
'-wings-the insignia worn on the 'eit
breast ~ every pilot on the western
front.
We were all sent to place in France
known as the Pool Pilots Mess. Here
men gather from all the training squad
rons in Canada and England and await
assignments to the particular squadron
of which they arc to become members.
The Pool Pilots Mess is situated a
few miles back of the lines. Whenever
a pilot is shot down or killed the Pool
Pilots Mess is notified to send another
TO take his place.
There are so many casualties every
day in the r. F. c. at one point OF the
front or another that the demand for
new pilots is quite active, but when 3
fellow Is itching to get into the ight
as badly as I and my friends were
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-16

, "Ah, mon minstrel" We went up
through the noble halls, already
transformed by signs that had been
put up for the convenience of the
Brussels people having dealings
there, although with some lack OF
imagination they we're all in German,
and with smile he gave me lals-
ser-passer permitting Gibson and
Blount to pass through the lines to
Antwerp and to return; and after
luncheon they started on their dan
gerous mission with the cipher tele-
grams / had prepared for Washing
ton.
There was nothing then but to wait
and l could not resist the tempta-
ton to remain out of doors all the
afternoon, in the sweet airs anodyne,
to drive in the Bots once more,
though somewhat to my dismay l
found that our motor, with its little
flag, attracted an attention that was
apt to prove embarrassing the
crowds assembled uncovered as the
tiny flag went 1uttering by and cried
''Vive rAmerique!" CLong live
America
Brussels showed after all few out
ward signs of change save an occa
sional body of tired soldielS march
ing along, now and then motor filed
with officers whizzing by, and the
folded vans of the esse-making
tiganes. There were few vehicles in
the street, and life was dead; there
were sadness and humiliation and
fear. The Red Cross flag, however,
still f1oated from the tower of the
Hotel de Ville-and high on Ste
Gudule the Belgian flag remained.
The rue de Namur looked more like
old times, the shops were peeping out
one by one, beginning to resume
business. l had gone there to my
barber, and even there one could not
escape tragedy, for one of the bar
bers, German, was weeping because
he had to leave his Belgian wife and
return to Germany to enter the army.
LIE Jeune, the coiffeur, expatiated
with tonsorial volubility on the state
of the modern world. \.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-16
Ugh! CaIomeI Sickens;; SaIivates!
Please Try Dodson's Liver Tone
] am sincere! Ny medicine does not upset liver
.~ and bowels you lose days work

You're bilious! Your liver IS slug
gish! You feel lazy, dizzy and all
knocked out. Your head is dull, your
tongue is coated breath bad; stomach
sour and bowels constipated. But don't
take salivating calomel. 1t makes you
sick; you may lose a days work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel crashes into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking it up. That's when
you feel that awful nausea and cramp-
ing.
If you want to enjoy the incest
gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you
ever experienced just take a spoonful
of harmless Dodsof's Liver Tone to-
night. Your druggist or dealer sells you
q bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone for a
few, cents under my personal money
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-16
BY aI5SI = 8


copyright. 1918. Oy HlI -Ais.1 - STlS..- r
PREFACE.
There is a common idea that the age
OF miracles is past Perhaps il is. but
II so. the change must have come about
within the past few Nveeks-aftcr I es-
capped into Holland. For il anything is
certain In this life IL is this: this book
never would have been written but for
the succession OF miracles set forth in
these pages
Miracles. luck. condolences, Provi-
dence-It doesn't matter much what you
call ft-certainly played an important
part in the series OF hair-breadth es-
capes in which I figured during my
short but eventfuI appearance in the
great drama now being enacted across
the seas. Without IL, all my efforts and
suffering would have been quite una
vailing-
No one realizes this better than 1 do
and I want TO repeat II right here be
cause elsewhere in these pages 1 may
appear occasionally 20 overlook or min
imize IL; without the help Of Providence
I would not be here today.
But this same Providence which
brought me home safely, despite all the
dangers which beset me. may work sim
liar miracles for others, and il is in the
hope OF encouraging other poor devils
who may hnd themselves in situations
as hopeless apparently as mine often
times were that this book is written.
When this cruel war is over-which
I trust may be sooner than 1 expect it
to BEL hope I shall have an opportu-
nifty TO revisit the scenes Of my adven-
lures and to thank in person in an ade-
Quate manner every one who extended
helping hand TO me when / was
wrecked fugitive. All OF them took
great risk in befriending an escaped
prisoner. and they did It without the
slightest hope Of reward. At the same
time hope shall have a chance to pay
my compliments TO those who endeav-
ored to take advantage OF my distress
In the meanwhile, however. can only
express my thanks in this Ineffective
manner. trusting that in some mysteri-
Gus way a copy Of this book may fall
into the hands Of every one who be-
friended me. I hope particularly that
every poor Hollander who played the
part Of the Good Samaritan to me so
bountifully after my escape from Bel
GUM will see these pages and feel that
/ am absolutely sincere when / say that
words cannot begin to express my sense
OF gratitude to the Dutch people.
II is needless for me TO say how deep
" 1 feel for my fellow-prisoners in
Germany who were less fortunate than
l. Poor. poor feIlowsi-they are the rael
victims OF the war. hope that every
one OF them may soon be restored TO
that freedom whose value I never fully
realized until after I had had TO fight so
hard to- regain IL.
PAT oBRIEN.
Momence. Ill. January IL, 1918.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-16

back guarantee that each spoonful viii
clean your sluggish liver better than
a dose of nasty calomel and that It
won't make you sick.
Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver
medicine. You'll know it next morning
because you VIII wake up feeling fine
your liver will be working, your head
ache and dizziness gone, your stomach
will be sweet and your bowels regular
You will feel like working; you'll De
cheerful; full of vigor and ambition.
Dodson's Liver Tone is entirely vege-
table, therefore harmless and can not
salivate. Give it to your children.
Millions Of people are using Dodson's
Liver Tone instead of dangerous calomef
now. Your druggist will tell you that
the sale of calomel is almost stopped
entirely here.-(AdVt.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-16
Lieutenant Dismissed \
From Pershing's Force

WASHINGTON, April 13.-Suspected
OF having German sympathies, Lieuten-
ant Victor Won Gemmingen, a VirginiaH,
has been dismissed from General
Pershings expeditionary forces, it was
learned officially today.
Gemmingen's remarks and his origin
made the war department believe it ad-
visable to relieve him from service,
though no specific charges warranting
court-martial had been laid against him.
Gemmingen was graduated from Fort
Myer training school and later served
for time at Camp Lee, Va.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-16
Constipation Makes
Baby Uncon1fortob bic

When its tender little organs arc
bound up with a congestion of stomach
waste in the bowels Baby is a mighty
uncomfortable morsel of humanity, and
reflects its discomfort in its disposi-
tion. II Mother will just give it a
tiny dose of a mild laxative, such as
Dr. Csldwell's Syrup Pepsin, the con
Sestion will quickly loosen and be ca
PEELED, and her child he normal and
happy once more.
DR.. CaldwelFs Syrup Pepsin is espe-
cially desirable for children; because it
contains no opiate or narcotic drug, be
ing a combination of simple laxative
herbs. with pepsin, mild and gentle in
action. positive in effect, aud very pal
atable. Children like it and take it
readily. Druggists sell Or. Caldwell's
Syrup Pepsin for fifty cents bottle;
trial bottle, free Of charge, can be
obtained by writing to DR.. W. B. Csld-
well, 425 Washington St, Monticello
Illinois, for whom this advertisement is
published.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-16
CONTINUED Next 1ssus)

Copyright by Brand Whitlock,
1918, under the title Memories of
Belgium Under the German Occupa-'
ton" All rights reserved. Copy
righted in Great Britain, Canada and
Australia. All rights reserved for
France, Belgium, Holland, Italy,
Spain, Russia and the Scandinavian
countries.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-16
Favors Closing of
Private Wire Houses

WASHINGTON. April 12-Recom-
mendations for the closing of what are
known as private wire houses were made,
today By Food Administrator Hoover
replying to notification by grain eN-
changes of self-1mposed restrictions. eff
fectiYe today. for June and July trad
ing.
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-04

think of the suffering of the poor peo-
pie who can't or won't eat them. One
good Englishman said: 1--WE would
onions" Many dishes are simply
characterless without the piquant fla
yor of the onion or a touch of garlic.
For an all-around, good vegetable
the onion stands high. being stimulat-
ing. antiseptic. and prophylactic. For
the weak and feeble the onion will
give new strength. Our grandmothers
knew the value of onions when used
as. poultice or in cough syrup.
The antiseptic effect is found in the
action of the onion in the large intes.
tine where imperfectly digested food
may be causing self-poisoning. The
onion disinfects the whole system.
cleanses and heals. Robert Louis
Stevenson calls "the onion the poetic
soul of the salad bowl" Truly few
salads can do without the zestful vege-
table.
A bit of parsley taken after eating
Jhioho 10 tiiC DSSl
known. although everybody has a
remedy: milk, an apple, as well as q
dozen other breath-killers. A person
with a good digestion will not carry
onion odOr on the breath very long.
Onion With Cheese.-One of the
most appetizing of hot dishes is cook.
ed onion with cheese. Put layer of
cooked onions in baking dish, a lay.
er of cheese and rich white sauce
then another layer of each finishing
with layer of buttered crumbs on
top. Bake until the crumbs are brown
Use good favored, rich cheese, other
wise baking 1t will make it stringy.
Onions roasted with their skins on
are delicious, peeled and served with
butter, salt and pepper.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-04
Bathing Is a Luxury, Not a
Necessity, According to
Arctic Explorers Theory

1t is not essential to one health that
one battle frequently, according to the
hypothesis expounded by Vilhjalmur
Stefansson, the arctic explorer. in a
philosophical discussion Of scurvy In
the Medical Review Of Reviews. Mr..
Stefansson asserts bathing is purely
an esthetic principle and that the
value Of cleanliness to health has not
been established by the medical prac-
titiOners.
Mr.. StefanssOn's prOnOuncement
will be greeted with jubilation by the
elements which possess an ingrown
dislike for hydrogen and oxygen In
proportions of two to one. 1t has been
accepted as dOgmatic by the Mexican
pelados for years, who as a religious
function. battle only on st. Johns
day, which is celebrated early in May.
"Much of what the ordinary practi-
toner tells you about bathing for
health Is either not yet demonstrated
as true or else is demonstrably un.
true" declares Mr.. StefanssOn. 1.-The
fact is that. according to the point Of
view. cleanliness Is matter Of esthet-
les or else of taboo observance rather
than of health
The explorer makes an apology In
the article for his attack on medical
orthodoxy by declaring he has been
divorced from medical books and jour
nails for more than ten years. Mr..
Stefansson wrote the treatise while
in the arctic region in 1916. He was
reported as dangerously i'll from ty-
phoid fever on Herschel island.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-04
Tighter and Longer Skirts,
Cause Order for Lower Steps
On the Spokane Street Cars

Score another for the women. This
time they have made two big trans
portation companies see the error of
their way. They have compelled
tardy recognition of the fact that the
length Of skirt offers the only proper
rule for regulating the height of street
car steps.
The women of Spokane did it. They
were confronted by fashions latest
edict of longer, tighter skirts, and
street car steps twenty inches from
the ground. Something had to give
way. Obviously fashions decree
could not be changed, hence the at
tack on the high steps.
But the street car companies could
not see 1t. The same steps had been
In use for years and it would cost
money to make the change. Protests
by the women were aired in the news
papers and gravely considered by the
nickel gatherers, but no action re-
suited. Then the WOmen's Good Gov.
eminent league got busy with an APP
peal direct to the public service COM
mission Of the state. The commission
listened to the argument, considered
it reasonable and promptly ordered
lower street car steps. The trans
portation companies bowed their heads
and the car steps are now dropped
TO height of fifteen inches from the
ground.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-04
THE THINGS THAT COUNT

Now. dear. it isn't the bold things.
Great deeds of valor and might.
That count the most in the summing up
of life at the end of the day.
But 1t is the doing of old things.
Small acts that are just and right:
And doing them over and over again. no
matter what others say:
In smiling at fate when you want to cry.
and In keeping at work when you
want to play
Dear. those are the things that count.
And. dear. II isn't the new ways,
Where the wonder-seekers crowd,
That lead us into the land of content, or
help US to find our own.
But 1t is keeping to true ways.
Though the music is not so loud
And there may be many Swallowed spot
where we journey along alone;
In floating prayer at the face of fear.
and in changing into a song a groan-
Dear. these are the things that count.
My dear. it isn't the loud part
OF creeds that is pleasing to God,
Not the chant of a prayer or the hum Of
hymn, or a jubilant shout or song.
But 1t is the beautiful proud part
OF walking with feet faith-shod;
And in loving, loving. loving through all.
no matter how things go wrong:
In trusting ever, though dark the day and
in keeping your hope when the way
seems long
Dear, these are the things that count.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-04
Chimney $40 Feet High on a
Hill 43O Feet Above Smelter

In many cities in various lands are
chlmneys which have been proclaimed
as 1.-The tallest in the world" but the
structure which without doubt truly
possesses this title has recently been
completed in Sagonoseki, Japan. 1t is
Of REINFORCED concrete and stands $40
feet high on a hill 400 feet higher than
the copper smelter with which 1t Is
connected. so that 1t discharges its pol
s0nOus fumes 1000 feet above the
plant The chimney is AZ feet in d.
ameter mt the base and its inside
diameter at the top Is 26A feet.
The foundation is 95 feet in dame
ter and contains 200 cubic yards Of
concrete. The first $50 feet Of the
chimney has a concrete lining sepa-
rated from the outer wall by five
inch space. Four hundred tons Of
steel were used I'm the whole con-
structiOn.-POpular Mechanics Maya
zine.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-04
TO CAMOUFLAGE A HOME
Just Few Simple Suggestions That
May or May Not Be Exactly
Followed.

Hang the crayon portrait Of Aunt
Anastasia over the bad place in the
living room wall paper.
Back the sideboard up against the
place where the wainscoting was
blistered during a chatting dish party
given by your predecessors.
BY keeping the player-piano going
you can easily ocercome the banging
Of the faulty radiator in the living
room.
The temperature may be made agree
able by constant exercise with wall
weights, dumb bells and rowing ma
chimes. On heatless days you can thus
fool your landlord and yourself at the
same time.
Place large japanese umbrella up
against the ceiling in the library
where the radiator upstairs has leaked
through.
Where you have too many pictures,
hang them one over the other, the pic
ture Of your relatives On the bottom
and those Of your wife's relatives ON
top.
Hang a towel rack over the place
where the genuine marble has peeled
off the bathroom wall.-RichmOnd
Dispatch.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-04
eREkr LAKES NAVAL TRAINING STATION BAND ON PARADE.

GREAT LAKES NAVAL TRAINING STATION BAND PARADE.
Arkansas Indiana Mississippi Pennsylvania
Mexico,
three thousand hundred
enthusiasm accorded military organization the history of America
Besides bond
billion dollars
which
bueackets fighting
of who before
of
Station
going Every
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-04


are well Drowned. Serve from the
baking dish.
French Baked Fish.-Stuff the fish
with plain bread dressing. seasoned
well with salt and pepper. If there
is any left arrange 1t around the fish.
Pour over the fish can of toma-
toes. add a finely minced Glove of gar
lie, add butter, salt and pepper. with
dash of cayenne. Bake until ten
der.
Holland Rabbit.-Prepare the rabbit
for roasting and put an onion inside /;
place 1t In baking pan and pour
over it cupful of boiling water.
Cover with another pan and steam
one how Remove the cover and
haste viii the following mixture: A
cupful OF jelly (currant is besD, u
half cupful of mild vinegar and n
tablespoonful of fat, mixed with a
teaspoonful of prepared mustard.
Serve with baked onions and brown
gravy.
Minced Chicken With Green Pep.
pers.-Cover green peppers with boil
ing water and cook ten minutes !;
drain, remove the seeds and cut In
narrow strips, using pair of scis-
sors. Melt two tablespoonfuls Of but
ter. add one and a half tablespoonfuls
of flour, stir until well blended. then
pour on twO-thirds of cupful of
liquor in which the chicken was
cooked. Bring to boiling point, add
cupful of diced chicken and the
peppers; again boil and serve on
pieces Of toast.
Chicken victoria.-Cream two table
spoonfuls of chicken fat with three
hard-cooked egg yolks, add fourth
of cupful of cracker or bread
crumbs soaked in fourth Of a cupful
of milk fifteen minutes. Pour on grad
ualiy one cupful Of hot chicken stock
and when boiling add a cupful of
chicken cut In small bits.
Southern Fried chicken.-Roll the
prepared chicken in flour seasoned with
salt. sage and pepper; place in an
iron frying pan with hot fat to cover
the bottom; set into hot oven and
bake until brown.