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i ■ • V J ~Y r .. BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, 80UTH 0AR0LIN4 if SPANISH INFLUENZA w niiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniii<iiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiii<i 4,.» ... “1 f 1 / * Do Not Fear When Fighting a German or a Germ! By f>R. M. COOK. ._>* h The cool fighter always wins and so , there Is /no need to become panic* strleken. Avoid feur and crovj-cls. Ex ercise In* the- fresh air and practice the three C's: A-Clean Mouth, a Clean Skin and Clean Bowels. Toxarry off the poisons that accumulateYvithln the body and to ward off an attack of the Influenza bacillus;'take; a~ good liver regulator to move the bowels. Such a or^e Is made up of May-apple, leaves of aloe, root of jalap, and is to be had at any*tlrug store, and called “Pleasant Purgative Pellets.” If a bad cold develops, go to bed, wrap tip well, drink freely of hot lemonade and tsfke a hot mustard foot-bath. Have the bedroom warm but well ven tilated. Obtain at the nearest drug store “Anurie tablets 1 ’ To flush the kidneys and control the pains and aches. Take_ajr"“Anurie” tablet every two hours, together with copious drinks of lemonade. If a true case of influ enza, the food should be simple, such as broths, milk, buttermilk and ice-cream ; but it Is important that food be given regularly In order to keep up patient’s strength and vitality •By ALBERT N. DEPEW Ex-Gunner and Chief Petty Officer, U. r S. Nayy Member of the Foreign Legion of France Captain Gun Turret, French Battleship Cassard Winner of the Croix de Guerre > Copyright, 1918, by Reilly und Britton Co., Through Special Arrangement With the George V hew Adams Service HOW MRS. BOYD AVOIDED AN OPERATION llHIIIIIIIII3llllll1llllllllllllllllllllll»IIIIIIIlllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII»llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllIllllllllllhlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll| CHAPTER XXIII—Continued. the top of the flrst page it siiid that -^-20— Mr, Gerard had left the country, or It certainly was hard, when the next was getting ready to leave. They had day-came, to-give up your whole ration to drag me the rest of the way to the and go 1 without that day. But I never gjafar a man hedge, or even speak of-It. And we did not have any food pirates among us either: we were not captains of industry by Vfi 1 y. means. , j. .There were times when, some of us could not eat certain of our rations. For instance, many and many u time I was as hungry as anybody could he. and 1 wanted to eat my bread, but it seemed as if, 1 could not get it into my mouth. Then I would trude it with someone y el8e for his “shadow souo” or his barley coffee. \Vp were dying every day in Bran denburg ."and after each death the After .the acute’ senior nibn of that barracks would de- barraeks and throw snow on me before I came to. I was still, half naked, but I did not mind the two-hour wait bn the station platform. I noticed a little sigh that read, “Berlin 25 miles north,” and that was the first time I had much of an idea where Brandenburg was. [Gunner Depew’s Interview with -Gerard took place at the Dulmen prison camp on or about February 1, 1917. On j February 3. our state department demands j ed the release of sixty-two Americans captured on British vessels and held as prisoners in Germany. On the same day. President Wilson severed diplomatic rela- j tions with Germany. Ambassador Gerard left Germany exactly one week later. The newspaper that Gunner Depew saw must have been issued after February 10. It was not until March 9. 1917, however, that Gunner Depew was actually released from Brandenburg.—Editor’s Note.] f,- When we got into the compartment Mr -; and I found that the windows were not smashed I could not believe it at first until I remembered that this was not a prisoner train. We had a forty- eight hour ride to Lindnu, which is on the Lake .of Constance, and no food or water in that time. But still I did not'* was torpedoed and taken -prisoner, I was supposed to be neutral, too,’’ But I said I would not look for trouble any more, add started back to the hotel. But no sooner was I underway than f a Hun private came along and began t to laugh at me. My. hands Itched again, and I could not help but slum him a fqw. We went round and round for a -while, and then the Hun re versed and went down instead. Mr. Keene saw us, or helftrd about it, so he told me I had better go to Berne. So off I went, with my passport. But Canton, Ohio.—“1 suffered from • female trouble which caused me much suffering, and twa> doctors decidadi that I would bar* to go through an operation before I could get well. r “My mother, who had been helped by Lydia E. Pinkham V Vegetable Com* pound, advised me to try it before sub mitting loan opera tion. It relieved me from my troublee so I can do my house work without any ho ■ difficulty. afflicted with female troubles to gi Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- 1 advise any woman wt with female troubles to re attack has passed, which is generally from three to seven days, the system should he built tfp bv the use of a good iron tonic, such as “Ironticf’ tablet’s, to be -Obtained at some” drug stores, or that well flttinwn blood-maker and herbal tonic made from roots and barks of forest trees—sold everywhere us Dr. fierce's- Collier! Medical Discovery. tail twelve of iheir number to go out for half an \Jh»our and dig tire grave, while others made little crosses, on which they wrote or curved the man’s Trame, ~wheri he was captured, and his regiment or ship. In tire middle of the cross were nlways the letters, H. T . P.—Rest in Peace. One time we werp ordered to report to tire German doctors for a serum treatment of some kind—to receive an injection, in other words.^Thereswas no eborcr about it this , time, tiswe i released tomo to the> I did" not w; mind it much. At Lindau they drilled me into a little house and took away all the addresses that I had, and then marched me over to the little boat whjch crosses the lake. As I started up the gangway the last thing I received in Germany reached I do not know what happened during the next few days. But a week or so later the Spanish me—a crack across the back with a ambassador and four German officers rifle! and Swatts came to our barracks and The women and children on the the ambassador told me I would be dock had their fists up and were yell- re Teased! It was~ att I coufd do to ; ingr “American swine!” But 1 just FOR PERSONAL HYGIENE Dissolved in water for douches stops pelvic catarrh, ulceration and inflam mation. Recommended by Lydia E. Pmkham Med. Co, for ten years. A healing wonder for nasal catarrh, sore throat and sore eyes. Economical. •V de.n.m, * wi aermickial power. SaridIc_rro«, 50c. a!l r!r\iggitU, or postpe.J by ^Mata. J KODAKS & SUPPLIES We also do hlghent rlann of finishing. Prices and Catalogue upon request. S. Galetki Optical Co., Richmcsd, Vs. BOYS GOT PRIZED PILLOWS Bride's idea That of All True Citi zens—Nothing Could. Be Too __ Good for the Soldiers. Tlu-v were pillows like your moth er's and mine. The little bride had made them and stuffed- them-Jo cmn- fortnhle popping with real goosi feathers. She-had raised the geese from flufTj goslings ami rtytd pleked them. Nr penltentiljjjt striped ticking was used, but a materia! of delicate bitie. sprin kled with [link rosebuds, oh, hut these pillows were the pride of the rtome- loving heart of the little bride, whose young husband Is “over there.” Yet. she sent the six pillows Inst week to the sick soldiers trf*Fort Harrison. “If JitnyHinvs hack we can buy m w pillows,” she'said.—"that Is if we have the money. If we haven't we can do without. "Ob’, hut those geese were a trouble, but when 1 think of a soldier’s head f< '■ting on those pillows. I’m convinced that flio Inst pesky gosling lias paid for its raising.”—IndianapoJis News. —: - . Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt of New -Vowa<-iw-4.lux.xilllei»l ^g.utnmth'T” of the Italian Alpine soldiers. • were--simply herded togetbeE- to the hospital; barracks. Now, I knew what these tilings were like and how brutal the German doctors were in giving an injection, so I wanted to he the very first man and not have to witness the other men getting theirs. • ^ So ^ pushed up to the hdnd of the line, with the crew of II. M. S. Nomad, who had been raptured in the Jutland Ibattje, and by the time we got to the hospital was the very flrst man in line; But the. sentry threw me buck amt there were several men ahead of me. Each of them bared l]Is chest and the doctors slashed them across the breast with a very thin knife, so you can see that it was very painful. When it came to my turn they slashed me three times in the shape of a triangle just to one side of the breast. Ami that was all there was to it—no’ injectioff noth ing on the.knife that 1 could see. Now, I do not know what the hleir was. Every man of us was dizzy for the rest of the day and could not do anything HtTt lay around the barracks. And hardly any of us bled n drop, though the gashes were deep. I do'not think we had any blood tn us to run. and flint is the truth of it. It was just another German Hack that no one could explain. One day a war correspondent named Bennett, from a Chicago paper, canto to the camp and went through all the barracks. When lie chine to our liar- racks I told him I wits an American 4 i t and asked for tin* news. Instead of answering he began to ask nil sorts • >f questions. Finally, after I had told him I had boon in the French service, I asked him if he could help me in any way. He answered that I had only uiy- -sejf to hianie and thaF it served me Rod not right if I had been in one of the allied bread ” armies. I did not like hisjooks much and he seemed unfriendly, hut when he’ began smoking a cigarette it almost drove me crazy and I could not-help asking for —am*,—ifa-Tiuu-S. il me nml •. Hit I shcnM keep from fainting again. Then Swatts asked me in English if I had anything to say about the treatment in the camp, and I began to think maybe it was a frame-up of some kind, so all I ;ii< 1 was, "When will I get out of here?" ami lie said' “Why, you will be tomorrow." dt to hoar any more, but laughed at them. And when I looked nroulid the boat and saw no'German soldiers — only Swiss civilians — I rubbed my eyes and could not believe it. When they gave ine bread, which was what I had decided I wanted most of all back in the camp, I thought I was in-heaven sure enough, and when,, focty-tivejninutes later, we arrived at Rorschach in Switzerland, 1 finally the same thing happened in Berne. I tried very hard, but I just could not keep my .hands off the Germans. So I guess everybody tfiought It was a good thing to tell me good-by—anyway I was shipped'into France, going direct to St. Nazaire and from there to Brest I made a short trip to null, England, with a letter from a man at Branden burg to his wife. She was not at home, dint f left the tetter imd* refn mod ttr France. I was in France altogether about three weeks, and then went to •Barcelona, Spain. Then I took passage for the States on the C. Lopez y Lopez, a Spanish merchantman. We had mostly “Spigs” • •a board, which Is navy slang for I Spaniards. Almost every one of them rtahed into tile barracks-again, singing and whistling and yelling as loud ns I knew 1 was free. could. The boys told me my face was very red ;md I guess what little blood CHAPTER XXIV. I had in my -body had rushid to iny — head, .because I gouid hardly walk for Back in the States, a few minutes. Then tin* men began to think I waS crazy, and none of theta believed 1 would really lie released, but that I was going to be sent to the mines, as so many were. But I believed it. and 1 just sat there on my bunk and be gun to dream of the food I u'ould get and wluu I would eat first, and so on. I did not sleep that night-r-just walked from barracks to barracks un til! they chased me away, and then .walked up and down in my own bar racks the rest of the night. When I got to tlie Russian barracks and told the two doctors my news, they would not believe me at nil, although they knew -there had been some important visitor at the camp. But when I walked out of their door I.said “Dobra vetshav," which means “Good night!” Then they must have believed me, for they culled me back, and all the nieu guvetne addresses of people to write to in case l should get away. / ■ They were all talking at once, and • one of the doctors got very excited and got down on his knees with his hands 1 in the air. “Albert,” tuAsaid, “if you have the God-given luck to get out of Germany—not for my sake, but for the sake of us who are here in this hell-hole, promise me you will tell aft the people wherever you go w hat they are doing to us here. Tell them not to send money, for we can’t* eat money, meat—just bread, bread. 1 T Nearly all political candidates under treaty obligations. are Thousands erf under nourished people have found -that - ^ - "food — a sciervfci-fic blend of nour ishing cereals —— helps wonderfully in building healfh arv Happiness. Needs no a r have stayed in.inv own'country, where I could have had plenty of cigarettes. After n while he threw away a ciga rette stub and not only I but three or four others who were near made a dive for It. A man named Kelley got it— a crazy man who went around trying To eat xvoml and doth and anything he could find. When my three weeks were up and I had not heard from Mr. Gerard I was just about ready to go down to the lake and pick out a vacant spot and And when I looked around all the men were sitting on .their beds crying* !aml tearing their hair and saying, “bread, bread, bread," over and over again. Then each trivfl to give me something, as if to say that even if they did not get out, perhaps their but ton or belt or skull cap would get back to civilization. When 1 left their barracks I began to cry, because It did not seem pos sible that I was going away, and-al ready I could see them starving slow- ly,Just us 1 hud been starving. The next morning a sentry came to my barracks, called out my name and took me to the commander of the camp. They searched me, and then drilled me 1>acfc- v to barracks again. Then th,e, men all thought they were just playing a Joke on. pie, and they said so. ’ \ \ .' •• The same thing happened the next day, and when one of the men said That probably I would be slammed up against a wall and shot, I began to feel shaky, I <;an tell you. I But the third morning, after they j hud searched me, the commander said, “Well, you’ll have to have a bathlie- l^fore you leave the country*” and I j was so glad that I did not mind about the hath, although- i-remembered tlie last one I had, ami it did not agree . very well .with me. After I arrived at Rorschach I was - taken to a liLfge hull, where I re mained over night. There were three American flags on the walls,'the first I had seen in a long time. I certainly did a fine job of sleeping that night. I think I slept twice us fast to make up for lost - time. • In the morning I had a regular ban quet for breakfast—eggs, coffee, bread and a small glass of wine. Even now, although I never pass up a meal, that breakfast is still easy to taste, and I sometimes wish I could enjoy another meal as much. But I guess I* never shull have one that goes as good. After breakfast they took me out on the steps of the hall an$ photographed me, after which I went to the railway station, with a young mob at my heels. It reminded me a bit of Germany—it was so different Instead of bricks and bayonet jabs, the mob gilve me cigarettes nnd chocolate and sund- wiches. They also handed me ques tions—enough to keep me busy an swering to this day if I could. I got on the train to Zurich, and at every stop on the way there were more presents and rhore cameras and more questions. At St. Gallon they had cards ready for me to w rite on, ^and then they were going to send them to anybody f wished. The station at Zurich was >acked with people, and 1 began to think I was a star for sure. Francis B. Keene, the American con sul general at Zurich, and his assist ant, were there to meet me. We walked a few blocks to his office, and all the way the caiuerus were clicking and the chocolates and cigarettes pil ing up until I felt like Santa Claus on December 24th. After a~itttfe4alk ~4teinent~ xyth Mr. Keene, he took me to the pound a trial and i* will do jd Jiuch for them.”—Mr*. Majue Boyd, 1421 6tk Stj N. E., Canton, Ohio. __ Sometimes there are serious condi tions where a hospital operation is tha only alternative, but on the other hand so many women have been cured bv this famous rootsnd herb remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, after doctors have said that an operation was necessary — every woman who wants to avoid an operation.should give it a fair trial before submitting to such % trying ordeaL If complications exist, write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Maas., for advice.. The xesnlt of many year* experience is at your service. Comforting Message. Mrs. Cassidy—Norah is tukin’ on aw ful. Her husband's got three years— hut he can get wan off for good be- havior. * ' ' - ~ Mrfi. O’Brien—Tell her to rest alsy. Sure an’ lie may not behave himself.— Bpptim Transcript- EAT A TABLET! DYSPEPSIA GONE i- PAPE’S DIAPEPSIN INSTANTLY RELIEVES SOUR, GASSY OR ACID STOMACHS. M When meals hit back and your stom ach is sour, acid, gnssyror you feel full and bloated. When you have heavy lumps of .pain or headache from indi gestion. Here Is instant relief! r F The Swiss Certainly Treated Me Well Just as soon as you eat a tablet or two of Pape’s Dlapepalo all the dys pepsia, Indigestion and stomach dis tress ends. These pleasant, harmless tablets of Pape's Dlapepsln never fail T to make upset stomachs feel fine at once, and they cost very little at drug •tores. Adv. Stussehof hotel, where my wounds were dressed—and believe me, they needed it. . \ The Swiss certainly treated me well. Every time I came out on the streets they followed me around, aqd they used to give me money. But the money might Just as well have been leather or lead—I could not spend it. When- had a* large family of children and a raft of petsr We sailed down through Valencia. Almeria, Malaga, Cadiz and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. When we left Las Palmas we had a regular menagerie aboard—parrots, canary birds, dogs, monkeys and va rious beasts. The steerage of that boat was some sight, believe me. We had boat drill all the way across, of course, and from the way those Spigs rushed about I knew that if a submarine got us the only thing that would be saved would be monkeys. But we did not even have a false alarm all the way over. I arrived In New York during the month of July, 1917—two years and a half from the time I decided to go abroad to the war zone to get spme ex- I got It, and no mistake. Now Xork.harhor qnri the old Statue ot p Quite True. "This prohlbitlon-.moveuieht Is a se rious problem" =—•-— “Yes, It requires sober thought.” No Worm* in • Healthy Child ▲11 children troubled with wornu have M U- heiltfar color, which Indicate* poor blood, and at a rate, there la more or leea stomach disturbance. OHOV M’S TA8TSLH8M chill TONICflTen refularlf for two or three weeka will enrich the blood. Im prove the diiMtlon. and act aa a General Strei enln* Tonlo to the whole eretem. Nature wilt throw off or dispel the worms, and the ChlM In perfect health. Pleasant to taka. 00o per Women billposters are adding to the fame of Coney Island. Liberty looked mighty good to me, you can bet. ^ i So here I am, and -sometimes I have to pinch myself to be sure of 1L I cer tainly enjoy the food and warmth I get here, and except for an occasional pro-German I have no trouble with ; anybody. My wounds break open once in a while, and I am often bothered ew I wntod to buy obythlng the lnitd on Kcount o( thc gas , sw> j. QhnnL'OftDni* tvAnlH m nlrn vma a nwAonnl shopkeeper would make ip e a present of it. I also visited the Hotel Baur au Lac, the*horae of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mc Cormick of Chicago, who are doing such fine work with the Red Cross and are looking after the Belgian and French refugees in Switzerland. It was iTdinner, and much appreciated by one guest, at least. I need not men tion his name, but he ate so much that he felt ashamed afterward. Ldounot think he got in bad for it, though, for afterward Mr. and Mrs. McCormick each gave him a valuable present, which he needed badly. After lowed. They say I cannot get back into the service. It Is tough td be knocked out before our owu boys get into the scrap. But I do not know. I am twenty- three years old, and probably have a lot to live for yet I ought to set tle down and be quiet for a while, but comfortable as 1 am, I think I will have to go to sea again. I think of it many times, and each time it is harder to stay ashore. THE END. the dinner Mrs. McCormick mnde a.lit- i uiu not agree tie patriotic speech, in which she'Snld After toe -that the 1 Inns would never trample on they drilled me out into the road. the United States flag, and sAfne other There were four Sentries with nfe. .things"! that made all the Americans l»ui not &\\ults,' nor did I sec Jtiiu there very -proud, especially Mr. Keene anywhere around, for which I was-Sor- and myself. So you see I was having ry-'. But all the boys came down t to r n great time. -rU4»e hnrhe.^Hrrr. -'or to the gate, und| But I was having a little "trouble, all some, were crying, and others were the time, for this reason-: there were cheering, and all of them were very^quite a few Germans interned in Zu- mueh exeited. But after a minute or r jch, nnd they went about lit*unlform.1 Now/'when I saw two they got together again and the last thing I In ur'd was the song about packing up your oitf ki “Are we downhearted?—No! were certainly game lads.' - ' Marmoset's Rival. Mrs. Ellen Walker of Philadelphia keeps as her mascot a land turtle whjch she has had for twenty-five years, since it first wandered into the yard of het-h’orne. The turtle is car ried with her on all her travels In a basket made for the purpose. During. the summer it spends its time in the garden at the Walker home. In the winter it is kept in the basement. one of these birda and remembered what had been hap-' then.*| penlng to me just « *hort lime befofe They|iny hands began 16'itch. Believe me, TT was -not “good morning” that I They did_nm take me, straight to: Ra ld to tfitm. '1 enjoyed it all fight; They Slashed Me Three Times, the station, hut took me through, all the streets they could find, and as us ual, Hie .women lay down in. it. - I really do not think I could have lasted two weelcs. longer. And jtt*t about that time, as- I was walking back to barracks one day, a I rem hmap_ showed me a Gen»mti j\»ff than,they, because they had to stay nqwsDaticr: and there in large type on 4 iu the Tiple -tUTTcd Germany. were there w bricks und spiL Bui l-di& not mind: I was used to it, ami besides, it whs the first time. So F Just grinned at them,'and thought that I was better they were n. . in squads and had no arms, so it was hand.to hand, nnu pie But Mr. Keene did guess, for he called me-io his one morning and bawled me out for a while, and I .promised to be -gom^ “You’re suppowd to be neutral.” hie said. His Former Occupation, The customer in the barber shop suffered in silence a .long while, but. there are limits to patience even in such places. He asked: “What made you take to haircutting?” The barber * blandly replied: “Good money t sir. Pays a sight better than hedge trimming, which was my last Job;”—London Answers. not like It, 1 office 1 ^ - ^Defying the Coal Man. Pneumatic regulation of the tem perature' of residences is provided by a new thermostat that--switches elec ~ tricity to n motor- to open or rios<- Hard Work Alone Never Kills Hard work never killed anybody. But hard work, with Irregular hours and neglect of rest does weaken the kidneys and keeps one tired, miserable and half slek. If- your back aches— If you have headaches. dlAxlness and urinary disorders—don’t wait! Help the wesdtened kidneys before dropsy, gravel or Bright's disease attacks you. Use Doan’s Kidney Pills. They have helped thousands and are used the world over. A North Carolina Case Mrs. W, A. Morley. -1^,1^, THhef* - « Pen land 6t., Ashe- 3 vUle, N. C.. says: “I vis- very nervous and had dlzsy head- | aches. My kidneys didn’t act as tney should, I had severe backaches and couldn’t straighten after stooping. I be* gan taking Doan’s Kidney Pills and they soon stopped all the pains and my kidneys became nor* mal.. All - the other symptoms were re lieved, too. "I con- -• hLder Doan’s Kidney Pills-a wonder ful kidney medicine.” Get Dean's at Aay Sieve, 0Oe • Boa DOAN'S VfJL” FOSTER-MILD URN CO.. BUFFALO. N. Y. Eczema MONEY BACK without question If Hunt’s Balm falls In the treatment of Si iiiww Tetter, Ringworm. Itch. etc. DonX become discouraged because other treatment* failed. Hunt's 8alvw elleved hundred* of such oases can’t lose on our Manm Bntk Oitanmlee. Try It at oar rlsi TODAY. Price T5c. at drng • torSe. berman, T*xjts Cotton Seed FOUR BALES PER ACRE The record of Vandiver * Heavy Pfwtter'OWMhl .Jfiiriy b-- iaa:>ke pound, kurtf .1 z net crutlint; rig lrchtlape. 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