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THE FLU 11 you think you have the flu And d on ’t know just w hat to do, Just stick your head out the open door A nd then your doom w ill com e quite sure. Jfs g o quickly and jum p into bed A nd give u few m oans and grab our head, F or its already beginning to whirl A nd you r hair is turning gray and beginning to curl. Then, hello central, give me the doc tor real quick, "Is this you doctor; com e at onee for som ebody is s ick ;’’ In com es the doctor and gives you a straight look, Then reaches into his pocket and takes out a little book. A m essage to the druggist he is w rit ing in haste, “ Send over plenty o f tablets, cap sules and paste;” Then with a second look and a nod of the head, He emphasizes the w ords, "Y ou must stay in bed." Then for his hat the doctor w ill go For others are w aiting and suffer ing so, B ang! Goes the door w ith the word, "G oodbye,” In com es the nurse and watches you cry. F or the first few days you think it'll be light, Then you will notice your cough becom es tight, W h en in your chest you ’re begin n ing to wheeze Y ou'll notice yourself com m enc in g to sneeze. Then that aw ful cough! Oh! My its a fright! It sounds like a bull but you arn't goin g to bite For if you did bite it w ould have no taste Tor what you try to eat is sim ply a waste. Hay dies aw ay, night drags on with a dread A s a thousand little notions fly thru you r head, Then with a yawn, a sigh and a groan. "iou im agine you have lost a joint in your .backbone. B ackw ard turn backw ard, O, time in your flight! There’s no longer doubt o f your lam entable plight, Y’ou're a victim of Flu, the doctor w as right, So good night, nurse, good night! W . G. GRANT. MR. H ARRIS ENDORSES THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS Independence, Jan. 8—T o the Edi tor— 1 have just read Senator Knox's denunciation o f the league o f na tions idea, and 1 fail to discover any thing in it w orthy o f serious con sid eration. I believe a league o f na tions would w ork for the good of the w orld just as well as our ow n union o f states works for the good o f the states, lie seemed to dwell on this point, that the league o f nations m ight interfere with the right o f congress to declare war. W h o wants a declaration o f w ar? Yes, a league o f nations w ould interfere w ith the rights of congress to declare w ar on another m em ber of the league, and it w ould also interfere w ith the right o f en y m em ber of the league to de clare w ar on us, or any other m em ber of the league; and, as every na tion on earth w ould belong to the league, there would he no m ore ex changes of declarations o f w ar and no more war. Hallelujah! W ith a league o f nations, o f course, it w ould be necessary for the league to have its courts nnd arbitration tribunals, where aggrieved mem bers o f the league could go with any grievance for adjustm ent; then, if such aggrieved mem ber should re fuse to abide by the findings o f sych court and should resort to hostilities, it w ould sim ply be up to the league to suppress such hostilities and re store peace. Mr. Knox is fighting W ilson ’s league of nations idea, and at the sam e time adm its that he knows nothing as to what W ilson 's league o f nations idea is. W ell, he would be w onderfully surprised to learn after a while that W ilson ’s ideas are just exactly what he w ants him self; nnd that he has had all this fight ing for nothing. W ell, its politics. No, that's w rong; it's not political— it's personal, as to President W ilson , and, o f course, could not be political. But there is a bunch of w ouldbe leaders o f the Republican party w ho are w orking with m ight and main to m ake a political issue o f it and line the Re publican party up against W ilson end everything that he does. T hey are men o f such vicious inclinations — such low m otives—that they would see the world in perpetual warfare — they w ould barter aw ay the happi ness of m ankind—If they could on ly down NT ilson. J. K. P. HARRIS. ÎHELD PRISONER OWED BY FOE ! FOR FOUR YEARS KEEPS WITCH ON IL Peter9011 returned home from »II Portland Saturday after spending M Clirndmaaa with his sistcra Mrs. A u - SOUTH PO ROLL » I i Seicheprey Tell of Harsh Treatment by the Huns. French Judge Returns to Battered Remains of Cambra! Home. Uncle Sam Will Tatce Good Care of His Merchant Crews. Attempt Later Made te effect Recon Refuted to Leave Poet When H m | Herdee Poured Through HI* Coun ciliation Spurned ’W An^nfeana— try— Telit o f Cruoitiee Inflict 'Corporal Who Refdeed to Work ed by Invaders. - Hurled Down Mine Shaft. 2 — U 9 lqm oo b avail Paris.—There reached Paris recent- London.—“ When tkay took us pris a fine-looking old French gentleman, oners they held revolvers to our heads d-eyed, hollow-cheeked. For four and made us give them our shoes, but when the armistice came and we were Jteurs be had been held prisoner by s e t ' free a socialist leader made a Ike Germans in the city o f CambraL e had seen the Hun kaiser three speech to us, saying: ‘ We are now nes passing through the streets o f brothers.’ “ This was what American soldiers tils city which previously had been who returned to London from Ger ■wept by the French women. Night many—the first to reach here after the qfter night he had been forced to go signing o f the armistice— had to say and sit in the railroad stations o f the about the change In the attitude of Hty while the British bombed them. their captors from the time they had He had seen his friends, people once fallen into German hands in April un Wealthy and o f high birth, sent out to til they were released on Novem dig trenches, to bury the dead and to qpltlvate and weed the fields. For two ber 12. “ When We Wed* were ci cAptureÇ at Selche- years he had only soup and cocoa for prey/' reyJ* \salc sakT BPriW Private tL Jamqg TE. li t o Ms dinner and a semi-monthly allow chelfl ti e 111 of Providence, “ the -hertnSn sol- ance o f three-quarters of a pound of dlers held pistols to the heads o f some ■Meat and black bread. Henri Bergier reached Paris just as o f us i *n<t demanded tbtr > sh4e& I m a n a g e Bo hung ok In mine, b it teth the news came from the front that ers weren't so lucky. They had to British and American troops had freed walk barefooted through No Man’s his home. As soon as he is strong Land, Putting their feet badly on enough to travel again he will return barbed-wtre o r pieces o f shell. A.H of there to find. If possible, the priceless us had to walk 30 miles to the rear, records o f the city which he hid In where wooden shoes were given us. 1914 when the Huns swept across Bel and no Otto was permitted to keep his gium and Invaded northern France. Stuck to His Post boots. •'They told nff-'-uue.geuemt (lid As a judge o f a tribunal or court —that they hud attacked to get prison ers, but the next ritne t^ey attacked of Cambrai, Ber&ler refused to leave the One Hundred and Second they his post when the German hordes would take no prisoners, because they poured through his country In August, 1914. By a trick o f chance he had 'x ' had fought too fiercely.” just sent his wife and three daughters This was corrohori rrofau rated f ed by Private to Boulogne-sur-Mer, on the coast of Frank Butler o f |-N«w Ha »van. France, for a holiday and was plan The Americans were eventually ning to Join them early In September. taken to Frtedrlchsfeldt, op The meeting was deferred Just four feldt, and W op He was captured, but was portunity was missed to show th« the yifars. led- -to American prisoner* to the populace, spared the bitterness o f seeing his for they w et» among the earliest to family subjected to the humiliations lch came to the other women o f be taken. mbral. His wife and daughters at These Americans were taken to ce volunteered for hospital service camp where there were prisonere* from all the other allied countries, and •fid worked so heroically for three though .ttjery afterward, s y e m ^ to years that they were decorated by the be an attempt to single out Ameri French government with the medal cans Cot Vetter treatment, according “des epldemles et du devouement.” The story which Bergier brought to the returned men now here, they fnred much same as the others back was one of want and suffering. during'thef earlier part o f their im- The Germans held him as hostage so prtsomuMrf. 'U n til their own food he was not maltreated. Whenever the parcels began to arrive they got cpn- city was bombed, however, he was slderalde food from the generous Brit sent with three other Judges, nlso held as hostages, to sit in the railway sta ish and other allied compatriots, k More than 30 were detailed to work tions so that they would be killed If In coal and salt mines, and one man, the traffic centers were destroyed. The people o f the city who did not Corporal Lueien, who, It Was said, re fused to work In a mine when ordered bbld official positions were treated to do sp».jyas marched,pff to the pit more summarily. The women were head and given another chnhce to de all made to do menial work o f some cide whki he would do by the two kind, such as sweeping the streets Prussian» guards who had him In o f the city or cultivating and weed charge! When he again stoutly re ing the fields. The young boys and fused, saying -be was not required, as men were sent out to dig trenches and an uudpr. offlcpr, to (Jo s<j>, he was to bury the dead. No one was al thrown ^fl<VWa the shaft and killed. lowed to leave his lodgings after seven The burial was witnessed, his com o'clock at night, and no lights were rades said, by a British sailor, who allowed at any time. Turned Out o f Homes. told about lt“ on the following day. Family after family was turned out Eventuully the Americans were token to the prison enmp at Opladen. of homes to make place for the wives For their work they got six cents a of the German officers who came to stay In Cambrai with their husbands day. and for German actresses and sing Armistice Starts R iot On November 9 they learned o f the ers who were brought’ from Germany armistice. On that day riots were pre to stage performances o f grand opera cipitated In the town In which the and to make merry In the casinos. Aimrlcuns were stationed, and ma The prisons were kept filled with rines had been hurried up to quell the “offenders.” One woman was thrown disorders. On November 11 word Into Jail because she had hidden a came that the armistice hod been copper vessel, a family heirloom, In signed and that ail the prisoners defiance o f the German order requisi tioning everything o f ihetnl from the were now free. It was arranged shortly afterward people. Another woman was arrested that they were to be sent to Holland beenuse she read a copy o f a French for transportation to Rngiana with paper which bad been dropped into the Kngllsn prisoners. The men were per city by allied airplanes. Contains Passports to Good Health by Providing Freo Hospital Treat ment Anywhere— Days of the Dog'a Lifo Now History. WaslUngtou.—Uncle Sam 1» getting more watchful o f the health of his merchant crews as the great American peace-time fleet coutiuues to grow The latest innovation o f the United States shipping board In the “seaman’s bottle,“ which has now become one o f the cherished possessions of hundreds o f Americun seamen. This little glass bottle, small enough to be carried in the vest pockeL con tains passports to good health—print ed forms which, when filled out by a ship’s captain, will gain admittance for the holder to any United States ma rine hospital or relief station o f the public health service In every Impor tant port In the United States. On a foreign voynge the application will pro vide the seaman with the best medical care, free of charge, on application to the United States consular officer. At present the bottle is being pro vided only for men who have been trained for a sea career by the recruit ing service of the shipplug hoard, but In the opinion o f Surgeon General Blue every American seaman should have one. It Is In port that the new “ seaman’s bottle,” which was originated by Dr. Louis W. Croke, medical director of the shipping board recruiting service, plays Its chief part. A seuman in need o f medical attention has merely to dig the bottle out of his kit, bring the printed form to his skipper to be filled out and then go ashore to the nearest federal official. Free Hospital Care. The label which bears the Imprint of the board’s recruiting service Informs the scufivef, that he la untitled to free hospital cure nb matter what his stà tlon aboard ship. The term “ seamen," it says, means not only the men who are employed on deck but persons em ployed on board In the care, preserva tion j>r navigation o f the ship, and it even includes those who aro In the service, on board, of those engaged in such ‘care, preservation or navigation. When discharged by the medical au thorities the American seaman Is givenf free pa ssage to the port from which he originally signed, unless the articles provide ror discharge else where, or I f In a foreign port to some port Bn the United states. Ue must serve on board the ship on which his passage has been arranged If possible. Thé "seaman’s bottle” not only will Impress upon Americans who are going to sea the privileges to which they are entitled as seamen of the United States but will preserve the certificate and keep It clean. Years ago, in the (lays of the clipper ship, und even since that time, the sick or disabled American sailor at sea or In a foreign port had no resource but the charity of his captain or ship mates.. Old-time skippers generally prescribed and supplied u blue pill and the crews were not burdened with funds to lend. Hurrowlhg tales have been told 61 those dark days of the merchant ma rine, o f men forced to He for week* In crumped, foul-smelling forecastles, often ffeserby rats and wlfhoiit proper food, light, air or clothing. If the man lived until the ship reached port some sort of care might be provided for him, but hundreds died, were buried at sea; their toga were sold and they were soon forgot ten. Mutt Carry Medicines. But the days when the life of a sail Early tn September Bergier was told or was a l(k>g’s life at best are how his that an exchange had been effected tory. Every vessel flying the Ameri and he was to return tQ./Frnqgp. He cas flag and engaged ou long voyages would be gsrmltted to tfike With him la required to carry a chest of medi- r»h^t belonging» ha c u m . He clfies suitable for the treatment of ftmqfi-flti eld MbytoarrlMge with two coDimon alimenta and Injuries. Fail h^TS o ff ..and pfilfhod' It up with ure to comply with this law subjects heWs',,froffl a >Hrinarm«! gtffi. His the master or owners o f the vessel to clothing, though threadbare, still held a heavy fine. ficurvy, that scourge of the old days, together, but he had no shoes at all. hga practically disappeared from the took the leather portfolio which H» his daughter imu had used to American mercantile marine because mo youngest uau^iiici [the liberal supplies o f lime or lemon carry to fithpol and made a sort of sugar and vinegar that are now f|ojtaeer oat fif it, using for soles the belting from a machine In an aban rgguired to he carried on every ship a long voyage and to be given daily doned factory. the crew within ten days ufter salt Part o f his Jour Journey to Belgium he viMath) have beea chiefly served to nmdg pn fooL pushing pus his belongings m. In the days of yore “salt junk” a i d * In tlA A ld b baby carriage. Part the main item on every fgc'sie bill he flaae by train. fare. This food, consigned to the From Belgium M. Bergier went to 1 in barrels, was generally stowed Switzerland, finally arriving In Paris ow as ballast and sometimes re w hqp he r^ y n e d his family. ined there for a long time before ng requisitioned for the crew. This Four Average Ninety-Two Year*. 1, with the lack of fresh vegetables, Bowdolnham, Me.—Living together sed scurvy. la this town are Mrs. Eleanor Sparks, Adequate hospital facilities aboard CO one hundred years; her sister, sMp also are provided. The law re ra/M ary A Green, aged ninety-eight quires that In addition to the space al years; their brother, William K. Den- lotted for lodgings, which must be hatp, righty-ftve years, and his wife, roomy and well ventilated, all mer aged eighty-five years. chant vessels of the United States, which ordinarily make voyages of Multiply in Transit mere than three days’ duration be- Ellsworth, M b —A local man sent • tffeen ports and which carry more llr o f Belgian bares fr o * New than twelve seamen, shall have a suit ampshlre to his family here. When able hospital compartment with at the crate was opened at the Ellsworth l«ast one comfortable bunk for every home there were 14 hares. twelve seamen aboard. S mitted rrougfl rite town at will, and the people, as well as their for mer gga were anxious to frater- nlze, but short shrift from the re- leased jr A r i A Germ who stylflA hteseM as an S o c ia lly J f e t > _ p e IntenUtloi camp to tell the prisoners how glml he was that the war was over. “ We are all no g ," ho mita ntixh much gusto, Trat ttiyb -was too nraeti to swallow after months of harfl work, poor food ment, and one o: this exclamation oans. The Socialist departed dlsconso- late as i did Sir Rog( Roger Casement when w the he lneffi ther favor camps. An uneventful neventful trip to Holland en sued, and id then the men vsgre isgre taken In charge k; went tw mles who had been In the camp with them. T T '■ ■ ■ I — ■ ; T T A Give« Three Sene io Service.. ‘ Newnaa! D. Harris o f Ne#- nan has given three sons to his coun try’s fight tar f reedom, a ll o t wham volunteered early In the war. Alvin H. Harris, Marine corps, was killed In action at Bftrearhes, and hlg ceor- tge was warmly praised bp ll s su perior officers. Marvin D. Farris Was accldentaTtf**'knied during a storm. William D. Harris, Marine cerps. was severely wounded at Chateau-Thlerrjr. B Missing te A ctios m •. SEAMAN'S BOTTLE IS LATEST « ’ ( (I | ( |/f’ 0 Q rrtr y tt o ttyt ytt » Mrs. RobertshtUVhb nab bietrn tna 4 < house guest o f her brother, E d g a r 1-i‘ hty, left Sunday for her home in I Portland. 8 JOHN >HN O. NASH NAS a RII PRICELESS CITY RECORD REFUSED TO BE BROTHERS ¡ JO H Q L A R K i ,) BOY JOHNSON JASON A ARRF.LL D U d In the the, Service ! C- « Í R ^ A N Severely w ounded • i ia r r V i H. s t a l n a K er Joe Pecker, af^er m aking an e x tended visit with Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Licnty, ret art ted (o hom e in M cM inn ville Sunday. ■ CYR IL R. RICH ARPSQN Prisoner ol W ar s, LIEUT. RALF A BLOYD s '/ n o TT -I HUES ARE FEB ’ BY SEIF DENIAL Generous Doing Without America Supplied Food to Èurope. B Mrs. M. L. Prather, w ho spent & I le w .'d fy t w(ith ,Vi Prather aiuB ■ at a ■ Killed ! Men Captured at ñ ft# * in Exports from this country alaco It entered the war have kept atarvatlwi from Allied Europe and have main tained the health and strength of those who have been bearing the brunt of our battles,, so that they could hold »at to victory. Now that hoatllltiaa have ceased we must asoume the add ed burden of keeping starvation from Increasing its toll upon the millions who have beea liberated from the Prussian yoke. Famine would undo the work which has been accomplished In freeing the world for democracy. No stable government can be established and maintained by a nation harassed by hanger. A starring people turns to rioting and anarchy. Food has given strength and coerage to the na- tkms fighting fbr dem ocracy; It must now give the nations strength and tranquillity to re-establish themselves In freedom and democracy. Without our help It would have been absolutely Impossible for the Allies to maintain a living ration. Since eur entry into the war we have been con tributing largely to the support o f ene hundred and twenty million people whose normal food supplies have been sot off, whose production has fallen almost to the vanishing point, whose fields have been devastated by Ger many. The food exported from the Ufilted States In the past year has been sufficient to supply the complete ration o f twenty-two million people. It is hard to grasp the magnitude and significance of the assistance wblch has been lent the Allies by the patriotic, voluntary service o f the American people. The food we sent abroad last year would have been suf ficient to feed one-fifth o f our popula tion. And this was done In spite of the fact that we entered the year with short crops. Our surplus was practi cally nothing. An overwhelming pro portion o f the food that left this coun try last year was saved out of the nor mal home consumption o f our own people. In spite o f difficulties met In Inter nal transportation and shortage of ocean tonnage our food exports last year amounted to a figure that a few years ago would have been unbelieva ble. Eveq the most optimistic element of our population faced with anxlons consternation the prospect which opened before ns wUl^ the beginning of the 1917 harvest year. The American people have not been compelled to save. They have been appealed to on the basis of humanity and of patriotism. They have re sponded voluntarily. RaljVh Brown and fam ily accom - panied try In* brother and sitdaf ln- law, spent Sunday with M, y ..P ra th er and fam ily. F i l l ) W ilbgr D evil*'* V h o has b een w orkinV in A djinufc eafnp near Seat tle, has been discharged and cam e home last week. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Clare Struwu at their hom e in H opeville, W ash., u girl and to Mr. and Mrs. Roy E l kins at Sanaa*1 yC kobt > M csdam e» Strawn and Elkins are daughters o f Mr. and Mrs. C. P. W ells. There w as a very joyfu l event took place Christmas eve at the hom e o f N. C. Anderson w hen the fam ily h^d a Christmas tree and on Christm as day the annual dinner with all o f Mrs. E. J. A nderson’s children pres ent but one daughter and son-in-law and three grand children. Dewey Steele, w ho has been w ith the Canadian arm y in France sin ce last June, has returned and is visit ing his sister, Mrs. N. C. Anderson. He has m any interesting things t o relate. He went over the top th ree times and carries scars from shurp- nel w ounds nnd ulso w as gased. Miss Marie Prather entertained a few intimate friends W ed n esd ay evening at her hom e in Corvallis a t a charm ingly appointed lu n ch eon to honor her sister, Miss M ildred Prather. The table w a s artistically centered with a tiny'C hristm as trea from w hich red ribbons running tn eacli plate were attached to cu p id cards announcing the engagem ent o f Miss M ildred Prather to L eo Couch. The announcem ent cam e as a surprise to their m any friends. Miss Prather is the (laughter o f Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Prather o f C orvallis, but form erly o f Buena Vista, and is a graduate o f the O. A. G Mr. Couch is a son o f Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Couch o f W allow a. He is a m em ber o f the A lpha Tan Omega fraternity nnd a graduate o f the O. A. C. WIGRICH Ernest Chown returned hom e from Portland Sunday evening. Miss Nina Porterfield is confined to her home with the lagrippe. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Turner w ere calling in this vicinity Sunday. F. E. Turner nnd tw o (laughters and Mr. Cobine o f Salem visited o n Friday at the Ralph Porterfield home. Mr. and Mrs. W alter Plant attend m e oeuems ol our food-saving ed the party given by the M isses campaign that was a vital factor In Plant and Rose at Buena Vista and the winning o f the war were not all to report a nice time. these we fed. We have at home a new appreciation of food that will prevent it ever being wasted again by those that have come to understand the re ligion o f saving and the place that food occupies In our new, world-wlda human relations. Meix Goldman Deals in BUENA VISTA O iy school closed Friday on ac count o f the flu. Mrt and Mrs. G. E. Harman t¿(Ao shopping iu A lban y SaJyulay. HIDE« PELTS WOOL y n n rims MOHAIR CASCARA BARK MU and Mrs. Carl Neal and daugh ter vfeited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. KANeal, last week. * Mias Evans, one of our teachers, luy» Been quite sick at the hoMo o f MTrs.*A. J. Hall with the flu. a r; Ü F,(* Prather and JJ. G AnWraotL arc tutting som pagd vyood logs on the B erlin «' place north o f town. ' Call Lucas, w ho visited his par ents* Mr. and Mrs. Lucas, returned to h it home in Arizona last week. M | nnd M m . & Mf. M cLnughlfn atended the fu n e rtl o f M m Colnm bus T edrow at M onmouth Monday. VEAL PORK BEEP POULTRY BUTTER FARM PRODUCE WOOD SHOES FURNISHIN08 DRT GOODS CASS OR TRADE Our postm aster J. K. Neal, w h o has keen conllned to h it room wltW a sore throat, is otilé to go out again. SWOPE & gWOP* A lm a and Btta W ells, daughters o l G. A. W ells, have been quite ill with the flu but are better at present. L O. 0. F. Bftildiaf Independence, , L awyers « 0 DM è 4r.
