The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald., September 27, 1918, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4

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FRIDAY,
27. 1216.
T h e S e n tin e l
BY ML W. YOUNG.
Washington toko
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An oflfcer attached to the Amertoas B*P®d'tionary
Force in France pen da the p e o p le b a ck
home this message:
“ Build b Bridge o f Ships to Pfenkin*”
the (tru ffle for aver four rears, la
G snaggy papar clothing has boon re­
sorted to and none bat the high coos'
mood eon ass ears with rubber tires,,
while their bread is pieced out with
sawdust sad weeds. We haven't be­
gun to know what war »san s as yet.
y
et the
NO CHANGE UNTIL OCTOBER 17
A Portland daily has made a bad
break during the past week by pub­
lishing repeatedly on it* first page
th® erroneous information that docks
ors to be set bock next Sunday, 8ept.
ripped; ia fact, there was hardly a 2» at 2 a. m.
That is the way it
thing in the city left intact.
The
houses o f the poor, in which the Ger­ the whole hog in the daylight saving
man privates hod been billeted, were business by seeking 2 a. m. Sunday
juet as badly pillaged and devastated morning, O ct 27, the date. The fol­
os the homes of the well-to-do. The lowing is the law in the case :
church, grand eneagh for a cathedral,
“ At 2 o'clock antemeridian time of
hod not been spared. Its paintings the last Sunday in March of each
sad altars and crucifixes and stations year tho standard time shall be ad­
of the cross had bean ruthlessly bat- vanced one hour. On the last Sun­
fared and defiled. Yet even this doss day in October the standard time of
net tell the story—a story which can each sons shall, by tho retarding of
not be told to people who respect de­ on« hour, be returned to the mean
cency—for the Germans left tokens of astronomical time of the degree of
physical and mental obscenity in ev­
ery house I visited, and I sntered
scores. If all hell had bean let looee
in a choice suburban teem for half a
day, it could not have pat Ha obscene
and diabolical mark on a place more
Coquille
tasM ell
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According to Secretary o f Com­
merce Redil eld, SO,000 factories in the
United States honre been turned over
te war week.
Agrsat many things
that it was ones desosad impossible to
M ear® outsid® of G®nnjkn a n bow m
wholesale production in the United
Tho Spanish fever that has been
cutting such a swath in the eastern
states has Jumped the continent end
appeared et Sen Francisco. We can­
not hope to evade e visit. The best
preparation ia to be temperate in ell
things, gat plenty of fresh air sight
and day, and not to worry.
“ Unlike
many old continental
houses, the chateau was fitted with
modern toilet arrangements.
But
these seamed to appeal to German
staff officers only moderately—except,
es befere explained, as a means of
dishonoring the American fing.
In­
stand, tha satin hangings, corners of
t e rooms, the beds, and other equally
inappropriate places wore assigned a
role which the amdern plumbing ar­
rangements modo uns i ciliary, to ray
"The officers end the soldiers mede
victims of every woman in the village
—from littlo girls of only tan years to
old women who wars so afflicted phy­
sically that any man should have
pitied thorn, oven if he did not feel re­
pulsion toward them. This I my out
of my own knowledge, for H happened
In my village and these women and
Bttie girls ware personally known to
mo. Mine was only one of hundreds
of towns to which tho Germans came ;
«nd, ss I said before, its story is one
of tho loaat horrible. But bring H
home to yourselves, if you want to
know the kind of enemies wo aro
fighting. Hew would you like them
to earns to your town ?•
The other extract is from an article
in t e Outlook hy Joaepb H. Odell, Ha
correspondent in Franca, who was hi
t e Y. M. C. A. Service. Ho soys:
<» Ararrîîsr:? rrrrist In dlf.
Our shipbuilding program calls ft* the te*"***“ "
of millions o f dollars the citisena o f t e United* States must supp y
by taxes and hy investing to Government War u m n s.
. . .
E ra. 25-cent Thrift Stomps wlU help buM t e t bridge o f ship,
to Pershing. We oeH them, aloe Wer Serie*» Stamps and Liberty
Bards,
SUSTAIN THE BOYS WITH YOUB DOLLARS
Ua «inter:
Well, girlie, J
days’ rest frond
sat part of thoj
and, believe me
changing the la
Hiney is aboud
piece he was v4
him and I guest
Say, littlo sisj
to see the Ssmfl
All of us in the I
fldent of doing |
had quite a ft
took moro pris«
We will probabl;
in a few days, i
portunity to wri
FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK
OREGON
COQUILLE
Just received a new shipment o f
Stoves and Ranges
Am feeling ill
is all right so a
not worry about
to get bumped ol
German souvenil
home but lost M
not sure if they j
sure in a place V
tiful for some tif
Haven't heard
a while but supp
while we were b
chance to make,
the order, “to th
Have been in s
the'last few da]
Both COAL and WOOD Burners
are included in this large stock o f stoves which we
invite you to call and in spect
Our Prices Are
THE PRESENCE OF GOD.
Now something more from Mr.
Odell’s article about the battle of
Chateau Thierry, which was molly the
Gettysburg—tho turning point—of
this world war.
After telling of
other sights and scenes o f horror
which ha says “ will haunt mo to my
dying day,’* ho concludes:
“ As I look bock I nek myself what
impressed me moot, what essmsd the
greatest thing I hod seen in all the
phases of the terrific battle; and I
answer without hesitation, t e onael-
flahasas and valor o f the Y. M. C. A.
men. They were either tee old to
fight or were physically incapacitated,
yet they had crossed t e ocean te face
the hasards of war out of sheer love
for the Imperiled cause or for the
cheer and comfort o f the fighting men
of our Army, they asked for no finan­
cial returns and lotted for no badges
of glory; bat wherever the danger eras
the greatest or tho opportunity for
service the most obvious 1 found thorn
—bunkers, stock-brokers, preachers,
university professors, manufacturers,
profeeaional seen—working cheerfully,
radiantly, persistently, end seeking
neither praise nor reward. It was t e
Gloria in Exctlois of humanity. There
may be defects in the administration
of t e Y. M. C. A.; it may root upon
■ narrow, theological foundation, and
may m t e unreasonable exclusions at
GERMAN YILBNBS8
Dose t e madar und erstand what
oort of a being the German of today
ist
The writer confssses that he
knowe some herrible and flendtsh
things t e Hon hat done but by no
maans all of tham. Evary dey threws
new light on the abominatkms of
whkh he ia capabla. Wa knsw that
he was beastly, that he was crusl,
that he laeked eil sense o f ehivalry, of
Hy. So to lsarn that ho is alee ob­
scene and filthy te the last degree
merely seams to round out end com­
plete a character utterly detectable
and without «as redeeming trait.
Te held the m inor np to nature end
show how vile a boast e men moat
become to da tho Kaiser’ s work of
frightfuhiss« wo pr sssnt tho following
pictures of Franco:
Baroness Hoard, of
who be­
fore her marriage was Miss Fracnss
Wilson, of New Rochelle, New York,
had to leave her chateau sixty miles
north of Paris when the Germane ov­
erran that section in 1214, end it was
occupied by General Von Kluck as his
headquarters for nine days.
In a
book which the Baroness has written
she tells what the Germen barbarians
did to her home end whet they did
to the woman in neighboring village
during those nine days:
The follow il
juat received
and than to its personnel; but at the
battle-front, whore oar soldiers are
fighting and dying for nil that our
hearts hold dear, the Y. M. C. A . is a
biasing, glorious, unmistakable evi­
dence of the presence of God."
THE WAR IN THE HOLT LAND
Those were up-to-date war cones
pondents in Palestine who told how
the British and French forces there
dashed across the plain of Armaged­
don and captured the city of Naso*
roth.
The first term is from t e
Apoealypoe, sad cannot bo found on
any map; but Colonel Roosevelt trans­
planted it into oar political vocabu-
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Well girlie, H
what I would i
send it anyhow, i
to have package!
but letters, pap
From Art
J. W. Hod go,
ceipt of a letter
who was in a tn
whan he wrote,
been promoted 1
It it a Une day,
We heve bed 4
pest week, sc a ‘
corns.
Things have
G-E M otors in
the D aily
For milking, cream separating
and churning, electric motor
driven machinery is the dairy­
man’s best aid. A single mot
will furnish clean, safe “ always re a d y ^
for a number of machines.
tambor 24, impoi
on our credulity
render of 66 Germans, and without
leaving their piano shepherded the
party across No Man’s Land to tho
British lino, according to a tale from
the battlefield today.
The pilot and his oboarvor had been
attacked from a trench and sunken
rand. The pilot dived and replied te
the enemy fire with his machine gun,
killing one end wounding three. The
Germans in n panic censed firing and
hoisted n white handkerchief.
,
As there were no British infantry ia
that neighborhood the pilot descended
to within 60 feet of the ground and or­
dered the Germans out of the trenches,
circling around them to insure that
none escaped. All were safety handed
over to the British troops.
IV». Mfgre., Bnffkloj If,
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The farther statement in thoae dis­
patches that by seising t e fords of
the Jordan, General Allenby’s forces
trapped 40,000 Turks, is one that
seems to link up tho world war with
Joshua’s conquest o f tho promised
WE MUST SAVE PAPER.
After a careful reading of the circu­
lar we have just received from the
War Industries Board at Washington
we conclude that the object of the
rule that wu must not send the Sen­
tinel to those who have not paid for
H in advance, is to reduce the amount
of paper used by the weekly newspa­
pers of this country by the amount
of 16 per cent This means that after
euttihg off exchanges and other free
copies we have bean sending out we
must also drop from our paying list
Buy Liberty Bonds and Keep them.
considerably over 100 names. If this
reduction has to be mode it is no more
PERFECT CONFIDENCE.
than right that those who are the
slowest in paying should be cut off oqoille People Have Geed Reooi
Per Cemptote Reliance.
first So if the reader is in arrears
Do you know how— . •
and wishes to continue to receive the
To find relief from backache;
Secntinel, the more promptly ho t o
To correct distrseeing urinary ills;
news end puts his date well in ad­
To assist week kidneysT
Many people In this vicinity know
vance the more likely he will be to
set the paper. As H stands we can t e way.
Have used Doan’s Kidney Pills;
see no other way in which we could
Have preved their worth in m
roduct our paper consumption 16 per Mta.
Here’s Grants Pass
cent than by cutting off subscribers
Mrs. A. M. Evenson, 626 8.
St., Grants Pees, Ore., raye: T
nearly told np with rheumatic pains
in my hip and through am o f my
limbs. At timos the pain was almost
unbearable. Often tho mu sel«« in my
limbs ssstnsd to contract. My kidneys
were affected end finally I took Doan’s
Kidney Pills. The first box :
my kidneys and I
boxes in nil. Urn rheumatic pains in
my hipa and limbs toft me entirely.
New when my kidneys ere t e least
■ordered, I see Doan’s Kidney PtBa
mí they always do me good.*
Prim 60c st all dealers.
Don’t
simply ask for a kidney ret
Doan* Kidney Pille— the
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Coquille Hardware Co.
which give mi
Oregon Power Co.
Phone 71
dral said to be
still used and ia
This morning 1
Catholic church,
vice but did not
from the sermoi
understood wss
the American toi
solving the tobacco _
for more men every day.
Smaller chew. Better tobacco.
The good taste lasts.
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Chewing Plug
F. C. Purstoy]
ing letter from
who need to live
a First
Service in Fr
I am quite
peet to be on
weather goto
eay much in
work, but leave
preparing to
plenty.
France to ve
get tired e f It.
modernism and!
western world.
There are
greet interest
part of Sunday j