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Page Four EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS Eastern Clackamas News Entered at the postoffice in Estacada, Oregon, as second-class mad. Published every Thursday at Estacada, Oregon UPTON H. GIBBS Editor and Manager. S ubscription H ates One year Six months $ 1.50 .75 Thursday, Nov. 14, 1918 The Fulfilment of a Curious Prophecy. Now that the German Emper or and kings have abdicated and Hed the country, and a republic is being established in Germany, it recalls a curious prophecy. When the old emperor William I was only Prince of Prussia, he befriended an old gypsy woman, who to show her gratitude, vol unteered to tell his fortune. She looked at his hand and then in quired what year it was. He told her 1849. She then told him to add up the numerals making this number and add their sum to the year. He found the total to be 1871. She then said: “ In that year you will become Emp eror of Germany. ’’ At that time a German empire seemed most improbable. However it came about in the year she predicted. Then she told him to do with 18- 71 what he had done with the former year and asked him to give the total. When he inform ed her it made 1888, she told him that would be the year of his death, which subsequently prov ed to be tne case. Then she once more told him to go thro the same process with 1888 and this would give the year of the downfall of the German empire. Altho this gave the year as 19- 13, the gypsy was not entirely wrong, for in that year trouble broke out in the Balkans, which had a direct bearing on the war of 1914 which has ended in the overthrow of the empire. Home is Where the Boy is in this War BY BRUCE BARTON 1 visited a home wdiere a ser vice llag hangs; and while weate we talk of the boy who is over there. “ 1 wonder if he is cold tonight,“ the mother said, “ 1 wonder if he has a place to warm himself and dry his clothes; and something good to eat.“ “ What wouldn’t 1 give to In? with him,“ she said and we were silent, knowing her heart. But 1 thought of the Soldiers of Friendliness who that very night would crawl out across No Man’s Land to take chocolate and hot coffee to that boy. Of the huts with their warm fires burning; of the great lect urers and preachers and actors and motion pictures that are over there. And I thought to myself: “There is a difference between this and every other war. For when the boys have marched away before, the influence of their homes has stopped at the front gate and could go no far ther. But in this war it follows the flag, across the ocean, over the shell torn battle land, straight up to the front line trenches. Home is where the boy is in this war. From every town and village the lines of helpfulness run out. And no boy leaves his home behind him; step by step it travels with him, financed by the folks behind him—a token of their love. Thursday, November 14, 1918 •M' ’OTHERS and sisters of America, there are a thousand girls over there who are representing you. They are the girls of the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W . C. A. and the lassies of the Sal vation Army. Boys come back to them at night hungry for a woman’s voice in a language they can understand. They bring your letters; and the pic tures of you—their sisters and their mothers over here. Have you ever stopped to think that this is the first war in which the influence of good wo men followed the boys straight up to the front? It’s worth a lot to you to keep that influence strong and perma nent Keep it so through the UNITED WAR W ORK CAMPAIGN __ V THAT PREMATURE * ANNOUNCEMENT The premature announcement of peace last Thurrday, served to bring out an important revela tion, which was that the restora- of peace rather than the subjuga tion of Germany, altho it involv ed this, was the primary reason of our rejoicing and thankful ness. This shows how close the war has come to us, that we thought first of the end of the terrible fighting, and that our dear ones would no longer be exposed to danger, even tho their return would not yet be for a matter of months. No longer will we read of atrocities which make the blood run cold, nor of the sinking of ships by the under sea sharks, which sought out the trawlers, the unconvoyed passenger and hospital ships as their especial prey, rather than the dread- naughts. While it is true, that Germany has surrendered and submitted to most humiliating terms, yet there is no particular pleasure in the thought of her downfall, ex cept as the price of peace. And now that peace is a certainty, we can thankfully breathe freely once more and begin to lay plans for the readjustment of a sadly disjointed world. The Port’l Journal has m ad e th e a m e n d e HONORABLE f o r its p r e mature announcement of peace, by expressing profound regrets and by donating its gross receipts for last Thursday, amounting t o $2.100 to the United War Work Campaign funds. The m a t t e r might now well be dropped. THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY L. A. C hapm an Estacada, Oregon R. G. Marchbank Estacada, Or. Soda Water • Soft Drinks • Lunches BOB’S PLACE Headquarters For Cigars and Tobacco Tfie H otel O regon - Respectfully solicits the patronage of the People of Es tacada and Eastern Clackamas County, when in Port land. The HOTEL OREGON has been for many years one of Portland’s leading hotels and is located in the heart of the business and theatre section, at the convenient corner of Broadway and Stark. You are assured a cordial welcome and your patronage will be appreciated. Stop at the HOI EL OREGON, the next time you are in Portland. Rooms $1.25 and up