THE CONDON GLOQE AQE 3
" Outwitting ; the HunM
By Pat O'Brien ; '
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carried the rock la my bandkarcblef
nd I mad do offort to conceal tu
preaengv or It mission.
Anywety! they motioned n Indoors,
pt mo my flrat hot meal In moro
than a month I True, It consisted only
of warm potato. Tbty bad been
previously cooked, but tbo old women
warmed them op la milk la oo of tbo
dirtiest ktttloa 1 bad vr teen. I
asked for broad, but aho ahook bar
head, although I think It muat bat
bora for lack of It ratbr than pe
cans aba begrudged it to m. For
If ovor man ahowed b wa flmlslied.
I did tbat night. I swallowed thus
warm potato ravenously and I drank
four glaase of wator, on attar aa
otbtr. It was tbo bt meal I bad bad
Inc tbo "banquet" la tbo prlaoa at
CourtraL
Tbo woman of tbt bout wa prob
ably seventy-five 7 tar old and bad
evidently worn wooden, aho all ber
life, for ah bad a callou spot oa tn
aide of bar foot tb alt of half a dol
lar and It looked o bard tbat I doubt
whether you could bate driven a nail
Into It with a hammer I
A I aat there drying mywlf for I
waa la no hurrry to leave tb ftrat
human babltatloa I bad entered la
four week I reflected on my un
happy lot and tb unknown trouble
and danger tbat lay ahead of me.
Here, for more tbaa a month. I had
been leading the life of a hunted
animal yea, won than a hunted
animal, for nature clothe haw !
favored creature more appropriate
ly for the life they lead than I waa
clothed for mine aad there wa not
the allghteat re eon to hop that con
dltlona would grow any better.
Perhapa tb flrat warm food I had
eaten for over a month had releaaed
uouaed apringa of philosophy In me,
aa food aometlmea doe for a. man.
I pointed to my torn and water-
oikVJ) clothe and conveyed to them
a teat I could that I would be grate
ful for ao old suit, but apparently
they were too poor to have more than
they actually needed themselves, and
I roe to go. I had aroused them out
of bed and I knew I ought not to keep
them up longer than, waa absolutely
necessary, , - v :
Aa 1 approached the door I got a
glance at myeelf la a mirror. 1 wa
the awfuleat algbt I bad laid eye on I
I'll gllmpa I got of myaolf itartled
me alinoat aa much a If I had aeon a
dreaded German helmet I My left eye
waa fairly welt nettled by thla time
and I waa beginning to regain eight
of It, but my face waa so haggard and
my beard o long and unkempt that I
loojcedjlke Janta Clous on . bit I .
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The Most Terrible Indict ment of the Man Who Made
: This War That &as Ever J Jeen Presented
What Do You Really Know About the Kaiser,
"The iad Dog of Europe?"
Did you know that t'ne Kaiaer had a poUon-Allad abscess in hia ear, and
that If It burst he Wotfid be a raving maniac? '
Did you know xr.at the Kaiser's left arm is sif inches s horter than hia
right, and that tho band is puny aa a child's? 'And did you kn w how he car
ried It in order to; dlBguiae the deformity? '
Did you know that the Kaiser has a mania foar admiring b rautlfui hands,
whjch greatly embarrasses the ladies of hia courts
Alt theae thlngi and many more will be ahown in tiHis illumin itinr photoplay
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From Photograph Taken In the Courtyard ef the Officer Prleon at Courtral,
Which Lieutenant O'Brien Preaerved Throughout Hla Perlloua Journey.
O'Brien la Shewn Standing Behind the German Guard, Who Sit at the
., Table In the Center of the Group.
Aa they let me out of the door I
pointed to the oppoalto direction to
tb on I Intended taking and atarted
off In the direction I had Indicated.
Later I changed my course completely
to throw off any possible punult
The nest day I waa ao worn out from
eipoeure and exlmuxtlon tlmt I threw
away my coat, thinking that the leaa
weight I had to carry the better It
would be for me, but when night came
I regretted my mtatake became the
night were now getting colder. I
thought at flrat It would be better for
me to retrace my atepa and look for
the coat I bad ao thoughtlessly dis
carded, but I decided to go on with
out It
I thon began to discard everything
that 1 bad In my pocket, finally throw
ing my wrist watch into a canal. A
wrlat-watch doee not add much
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weight, but when you "plod along and
have not eaten for a month It finally
becomes rather heavy. The next
thing I discarded was a pair of flying
mittens.
These mittens I bad gotten at Camp
Borden, In Canada, and bad become
quite famous, as my frlenda termed
them "anow ahoes." In fact, they
were a ridiculous pair of mltlens, but
the best pair I ever bad and I really
fvlt worse when I lost those mittens
than anything else. I could not think
of anybody else ever using them, so I
dug a hole In the mud and buried
them and could not help but laugh
at the thought If my frlenda could aee
me burying my mittens, because they
were a standing Joke In Canada, Eng
land and France.
I bad on two shirts and as they were
always both wet and didn't keep me
Next
warm. It Wa mele'to wear botn.
On of these was a shirt that I bad
bought la France, the other an Amer
ican army shirt. They were both
khaki and one as apt to give me away
aa tb other, so I discarded the French
shirt Tb American army shirt I
brought back with me to England and
It la still In my possession.
When I escaped from the train I still
bad tb Bavarian cap of bright red In
my pocket aod wore It for many
nights, but I took grvat car tbat no
on aaw It It also bad proven very
useful when swimming rivers, for 1
carried my map and a few other be-
up my mind to bring It borne s a
aouvenlr. But tb farther I went
the heavier my extra clothing became,
so I wss compelled to discard even
the cap. I knew that It would be a
.tell-tale mark if I simply threw It
away, so one night after swimming a
river, I dug a bole In the soft mud on
the bank and burled It too, with con
siderably less ceremony than my fly
ing mittens bad received perhaps; so
tbat waa tb end of my Bavarian hat
My experience at the Belgian's
bouse whetted my appetite for more
food and I figured that what had been
don one could be done again.
Sooner or later. I realised I would
probably approach a Belgian and find
a German Instead, but in such a con
tingency I waa determined to meas
ure my strength against the Hun's if
necessary to effect my escape.
Aa It waa, however, most of the Bel
gians to whom I applied for food gave
It to me readily enough, and If some
of them refused me It waa only be
cause they feared I might be a spy
or thst the Oermans would shoot them
If their action were subsequently
found out -,
About the fifth day after I bad en
tered Belgium I wa spending the day
as ususl In a dump of bushes when I
discerned In the distance what ap
peared to be something hanging on a
line. All day long I strained my eyes
trying to decide what It could be and
arguing with myeelf that It might be
aometblng that I could add to my In
adequate wordrobe, but the distance
waa so great that I could not Identify
It I had a great fear that before'
night cam It would probably be re
moved. As soon as darkness fell, however, I
crawled out of my hiding place and
worked up to the line and got a pair
of overalls for my industry. The pair
of overalls was the first bit of civil
ian clothes I hat thus far picked up
with the exception of a civilian cap
which I bad found at the prison and
concealed on my person and which I
till had. The overalls were rather
small and very abort but when I put
them on I found that they bung down
tar enough to cover .my breeches!
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The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin B
Will Be Shown at the Liberty Theatre
Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 3 and 4
. At the Fossil Theatre, Thursday, September 5 v
Did you know that tbe Kaiser has 3C0 full dress uniforms; that he was twice kinjr, twice; a. graad
duke, eighteen times a duke, twice a prince, nine times a count, besides being a bishop. Did you
know why he slaps hia right thigh all the time? Of course.you didn't.
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