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CHAPTER I-Flr.4 by the Mwt of the
dnkln gf th I. uilt.nl by a O.rm.n
lubmarlm, Arthur Guy Ktny, an Am.rt
can, leavre hi ufflra In Jrraar City and
1."!. ! ICn1," ha euUata In the
llrltlah army. , .
CH.MTKR U-Aflar a parlod of train
liu), Kmpay voluntaara fur Imirwllata atrv.
and aoun And hlmacir In mat bllkll
"aomawhara In Kranra," whare ha flrat
maii tha rtjtialiitano of tha aver-praa-
i-HArTKH lll-rmpar altanda hit (lr
ehunh earvlrra at tha rent whlla a 0r
wan Kokkar clrclaa over On consrasallun.
CHAPTER IV-Emimy'a command m
Into tha front-Una trtnchaa and la unuar
Ora fur tha Ural tlma.
Clf AFTER V-Krnpay barns to adopt
tha mot lo of tha Hrilnh Tommy, "If you
ara i'ln to fat It, you'll sat It, to navar
CHAPTER VI-Bar In rot biiiata, Em
pay sals hla Drat eiparlenoe a a mat
orderly. .
CHAPTER Vll-Empay learns how tha
Brltlah auliliara ara fad.
CnAPTER VITt-TtMl In the front-Una
tranrh, Kmpay araa hla flrat trtand of Ilia
trenrhaa "so WaU"
CHAITER IX-Emiwy makas hla Drat
vlalt to a durut In "Huldda Ditch.''
CHAPTER X-Kmpr learne what em.
atllulita a "day's work" la tha front-Una
traorb.
CHAITER Xl-Empay foaa "ortr tha
top" tor lha Aral tlma In a cherae on tha
German tranrhaa and la woundad by a
bayonet thru
II XII-Rmpoy Jolna tha "ul
m tjja toml'lpf S"1 Is called.
CHAPTER XIIl-Kaon Tommy gels tn
official bath.
CHAPTER XIV-Empr htlpa 1f U
advanrdd trooah under Oonuea Ara.
CHAPTER XV-Od "Uatenlng poet" IB
Na Man'a Und.
CHAPTER XVI-Two artlllaryman "put
ona our" on Old Ptppar, thalr r.linenll
-Arriving at hesuquaPtert the bat
tery CfitumaniliT was the flint to be
Interviewed. Tbli waa behind closed
doors, from the roaring and explo
ton of Old Pepper It sounded ai If
raw meat waa being thrown to the
Modi Cnwcll, Inter, described It aa
eoundlug like t bombing raid. In about
two minute the officer reappeared.
The sweat was pouring from bis fore
head, and bis face was the eolor of s
beet He was speechless. As he
pawied the captain he Jerked his thumb
la the direction of the lion's den and
went out Then the captain went In,
and the lions were once aguln fed.
The captain stsyed about twenty min
utes and came out 1 couldn't eee his
face, but the droop tn his shoulders
was enough. He looked like a wet hen.
"The door of the general's room
opened and Old Pepper stood In the
doorway. With roar he shouted:
"Which one of you Is Cassell?
D n me, get your heels together
when I speak I Come In here!'
"Cassell started to say, 'Yes sir.'
"But Old Pepper roared, 'Shut up I'
"Cassell came out In five minutes.
He suld nothing, but as he pained me
he put his tongue Into his cheek and
Winked, then, turning to the closed
door, be stuck bis thumb to Ills nose
and left
"Then the sergeant major's turn
came. He didn't come out our way.
Judging by the roaring, Old Pepper
must hat eaten him.
"When the door opened and the gen
eral beckoned to mo, my knees started
to play 'Home, 8weet Home' against
each other.
"My Interview was Tery short
"Old Pepper glared nt me when I
entered, and then let loose.
" 'Of course you don't know anything
about It You're Just like the rest
Ought to have a nursing bottle around
your neck and a nipple In your teeth.
Soldiers by gad, you turn my stom
ach to look at you. Win this war,
when England lends out such samples
as I have tn my brigade I Not likely I
Now, sir, tell me what you don't know
about this affair. Speak up, out with
It Don't be gaping at me like t fish.
Spit It out' , ,
"I stammered, 'Sir, I know absolute
ly nothing.'
"That's easy to aee,' he roared;
that stupid face tells me that Shut
up. Get out; but I think you are a
dd liar just the same. Back to
your battery.'
i"I saluted and made my exit
"That night the captain sent for us.
With fear and trembling we went to
his dugout He was alone. After sa
luting we stood at attention In front
of him and waited. His say was short
" 'Don't you two ever get it Into your
heads that Morse Is a dead language.
I've known It for years. The two of
you had better get rid of that nervous
habit of tapping transmitters; It's dan
serous. Thai's all'
A JNAMOI0N50IMR
iUUHUKU 1,
(UWaMKMrMKE '
I C 17 BY
ATHU) wy tfl
"We saluted, snd were Just going out
the door of the dugout when the cap
tain called up bark and said:
"'Smoke Oolilflakest ' Test Well,
there are two tins of them on my ta!le.
00 bock to the battery, and keep your
tonkins between your teeth. Under
stand? s
"We understood.
"For five weeks afterwards our bat
tery did nothing but extra fatigues.
We were saflKfled and so were the
men. It was worth It to put one over
on Old Pepper, to say nothing of the
Injury caused to Fritz' feelings."
When Wilson had finished his story
1 looked up snd the dugout was
Jn mined. An artillery captain and two
officers hsd slso entered and stayed
for the flnlkb. Wilson spat out an
enormous quid of tobacco, looked up,
mv the captain, snd got as red as a
iitmutl'in. The captain smiled and
I .ft. Wilson wbjapered to me:
"Rllme me. Yank, I see where I click
for crucifixion. That captain Is the
time one that chucked us Goldflakes
In his dugout snd here I have been
'chucking me weight about In his
hearing.'"
Wllmiq never clicked bis crucifixion.
Quite a contrast to Wilson wss an
other character In our brigade named
Scott; we called him "Old Scotty" on
account of his age. He was fifty-seven,
n'thotigh looking forty. "Old Scotty"
had been born tn the Northwest ant.
bad served In the Northwest Mounted
imllce. He was typical cowpuncher
and Indlnn flinter and was a dead shot
with the rifle, and took no pains to
disguise this fact from us. ne used to
take care of bis rifle as If It were a
baby. In his spare moments you could
always see him cleaning It or polish
ing the stock. Woe betide the man
who by mistake happened to get hold
of this rifle; be soon found out his
erwr. Scott was ss deaf as a mule,
and It was arousing at parade to watch
him In the manual of arms, slyly
glancing out of the corner of his eye
at the roan next to him to see what
the order was. How he passed the
doctor was a mystery to us; he must
have bluffed his way through, because
he certnlnly was Independent. Beside
him the Fourth of July looked like
Good Friday. He wore at the rime a
lurire sombrero, had a Mexican stock
saddle over bis shoulder, a lariat on
his urm, and a "forty-five" banging
from bis hip. Dumping this parapher
nalia on the floor he went up to the
recruiting officer and shouted: Tm
from America, west of the Rockies,
and want to Join your d d army.
I've got no use for a German and can
shoot some. At Scotland Yard they
turned me down; snld I was deaf and
so I am. I don't hanker to ship In with
a d d mud-crunching outfit, but the
cavalry's full, so I guess this regi
ment's better than none, so trot out
your papers and I'll sign 'em." He told
them he was forty and slipped by. I
was on recruiting service at the time
he applied for enlistment
It was Old Scotty's great ambition
to be a sniper or "body snatcher," as
Mr. Atkins calls It The day that be
was detailed as brigade sniper he cele
brated his appointment by blowing the
whole platoon to fags.
Being a Yank, Old Scotty took lik
ing to me and used to spin some great
yarni about the plains, and the whole
platoon would drink these In and ask
for more. Ananias was a rookie com
pared with him.
The ex-plalnsmen and discipline
could not agree, but the officers all
liked him, even if he was. hard to man
age, so when he was detailed as a
sniper a sigh of relief went up from
the officers' mess.
Old Scotty had the freedom of the
brigade. He used to draw two or
three days' rations and disappear with
his glass, range finder and rifle, and wej
would see or hear no more of him
until suddenly he would reappear
with a couple of notches added to
those already on the butt of bis rifle,
Every time he got a German It meant
another notch. He was proud of these
notches. ' ' i
But after, a few months Father
Rheumatism got him and he was sent
to Blighty ; the air in the wake of his
stretcher was blue with curses. Old
Scotty surely could swear ; some of his
outbursts actually burned you. .
No doubt at this writing, he Is
"somewhere la Bllsto" ouasiiootlng,
n on a cringe or siong me Van oi
soma munition plant with the "0, B,"
or Home Defense corps.
CHAPTER XVII.
Out In front
After tea Lieutenant Stores of our
section came Into the dugout and In
formed me that I was "for" a reconnol
terlng patrol and would carry six Mills
bombs.
At 11 :80 that night twelve men, our
lieutenant and myself went out la
front on a patrol In N Man's Land.
We cruised around In the dark for
about two hours, Just knocking about
looking for trouble, on the lookout for
Boche working parties to see what
they were doing.
Around two In the morning we were
carefully picking our way about thirty
yards In front of the German barbed
wire; when we walked Into a Boche
covering part nearly thirty strong.
Then the music started, the fiddler ren
dered hi i bill, and we paid.
Fighting In the dark with a bayonet
la not very pleasant. The Germans
took It on the run, but our officer waa
no novice at the game and didn't fol
low them. He gave the order "down
on the ground, hug It close."
Just In time, too, because a volley
skimmed over our beads. Then In low
tones we were told to separate and
crawl back to our trenches, each man
on his own.
We could see the flashes of their
rifles In the darkness, but tha bullets
were going over our beads.
Wa lost three men' killed and ona
wounded In the arm. If It hadn't been
for our officer's quick thinking tha
whole petrol would have probably
been wiped out ' . ,
After about twenty minutes' wait we
went out again and discovered tbat
the Germans had a wiring party work
ing on their barbed wire. We returned
to our trenches unobserved with the
Information and our machine guns Im
mediately got busy.
The next night four men were sent
out to go over and examine the Ger
man barbed wire and see If they bad
A Hidden dun.
cut lanes through It; If so, tils pres
aged an early morning attack on our
trenches.
Of course I had to be one of the four
selected for the job. It was just like
sending a fellow to the undertaker's
to order hla own coffin.
At ten o'clock we started out armed
with three bombs, a bayonet and re
volver. After getting Into No Man'a
Land we separated. Crawling four or
five feet at a time, ducking star shells,
with strays cracking overhead, I
reached their wire. I scouted along
this Inch by Inch, scarcely breathing.
I oould hear them talking In their
trench, my heart was pounding against
my ribs. One false move or the least
noise from me meant discovery and
almost certain death. .
After covering my sector I quietly
crawled back. I had gotten about half
way when I noticed that my revolver
was missing. It was pitch dark. I
turned about to see If I could find It;
It couldn't be far away, because about,
three or four minutes previously I had
felt the butt In the holster. I crawled
around In circles and at last found It
then started on my way back to our
trenches, as I thought
. Pretty soon I reached barbed wire,
and was Just going to give the pass
word when something told me not to.
I put out my hand and touched one of
the barbed wire stakes. It was Iron.
The British are of wood, while the
German are Iron, My heart stopped
beating; by mistake I had crawled
back to the German Hues.
i Tomea'siowiy aoout ana my tunic
caught on the wire and made a loud
rinsing noise..
ir w
W 1
M I I I agaai
Continued next week
Trains into Monmouth ' -L've
Portland 71.5, a m, Gerlinger 10:20, Independ'ce 10.32, Monm'tb 10:60
" Salem 9.X5, " " " ' -- " f " "
" " 1.40, pm Dallas 2:46..f...' ..... 8:10
" " 8.45, " Gerlinger 454, Independence 4 XI, Monmouth 4:65
" " .00, " 6:45, " ' Hi, . " 7:10
" Portland 8.30, Connects with above . . . . : '. ' !X
" Corvsllis 6.45, a m ......Independence 7ft...- Arrive Monmodth 7:45
" " 1.15, p m " 2:14 " 2:30
" Dallas 7.00, a m, Arrive Monmouth 7:25
Airlie 8.30, a m snd 8:45, pm. Arrives Monmouth 9:05 a m and 4:13 p m
Leave Independence, 6.60 am, 7.35, 8.45, 10.35, 12.20, 1.30, p m, 2.20, 3.50,
4.40, 7.00 . -
- Trains out of Monmouth
L've Monmouth 7:05 a m, Independence 725, Gerlinger 7:49, Ar Salem 8:30
" Same as above Portland 11.10
" Monmouth 1 Ah, pm, " 2:14, " 227, Salem 3:10
" 8ame as above Portland 5:50
" Monmouth 4:05, " 4:40, " 4:55, Salem 530
" ." 9:05, am Dallas 10:00 "11:00
" " 4;30, pm " 4:46, " 636
" " 9;06, a m, Independence 1032, Corvsllis 11:20
, " " . 4;65, pn, " 6:57,' " ' 7:45 '
" " , 7;25 a m and 3;10 p m. Arrives Airlie 8 a m snd 8;40 pm
Leave Monmouth 7.05, a m, 8.15 9.05, 10.60, 12.30, M, 1.45, p m, 2.35, 4.15,
i. f4.65, 7.1J
THE WAR, THE FARM
AND THE FARMER
Br Herbert Quick ... ',
Member Federal Farm Loan Board
Tha farms of this country could
carry the war to a victorious con
clusion even If all the rest of the na
tions should quit The rest will not
quit; but we could win it without
them It we hsd to do It The farmers
of the United 8tates can whip Ger
many. We can whip them with guns.
Wa can whip them with our products.
Wa can whip them with our money.
Every farmer In the United States
must remember that the war has a
first mortgage on every cent be has.
The last spare cent In the pockets of
every farmer tn America should be
devoted to tha war.
The Kaiser began foreclosing hla
mortgage on our farms when ha de
clared ruthless submarine warfare.
The war Is our answer to his bill at
foreclosure.
Our contribution la, first our sons
and brothers for the trenches; sec
ond, the last pound of food products
which we can grow by mobilising our
scanty labor supply, utilising the men,
wamen and children and the towns
people about as; and third, money
tor Liberty Bonds.
This Is the crucial year of tha war.
Our soldiers are at the front hun
dreds of thousands of them In the
trenches, and a million more ready to
go. The whole burden of carrying on
our owi part In the war, and of aid
ing our sister nations In arms, rests
on the United States Treasury.
It the treasury falls or falters or
finds Itself unable to respond to .every
call upon R, the war la lost So you
realise that?
Your son, and all the natlon'a sons
are relying on the United States
Treasury to furnish things with which
they may fight
Their lives are lost It the treasury
falls. Our country la lost If the treas
ury falls.
Germany wins It tha treasury tails.
Therefore every cent you can rake
and scrape together belongs to the
treasury, that our soldiers may come
back to us alive and victorious. This
Is literally true. We can whip the
Germans with our money; but not
with the money In our pockets or
bank accounts. It must go Into the
United States Treasury In subscrip
tloae to Liberty Bonds.
(This Is the fast of a aeries of
1 1 1 1 .,, i y H'lIM r MM M-I-H'i I-l-lll-l-H-l I1 1 M"H'
First National Bank
Monmouth, Oregon
Paid Capital,
Surplus & Undivided
Established . -
Ira C. Powell, President;
Emma M. Parker, Assistant Cashier
We are prepared to , take care of your
banking business and solicit your account.
Interest paid on time deposits.
DIRECTORS .
J. B. V. BUTLER, Chairman
I. M. SIMPSON, WM. RIDDELL, ROBERT STEELE t
IRA. C.
While Gerard waa our ambassador
In Berlin, the Kaiser said to him oaad
day that he would stand no
from America after the war.
Do yon know what tbat means? B
means that the Germans Intend tsjj
sud jugate mis country u they
out of this war victorious.
Tha German Imperial goTernnami
has preached the superiority of OerJ
many to all the rest of the world ms
til tha German nation la drunk wttHj
megalomania. One of their areati
writers axpressed tha prevailing, aaV
flcial view In 1901, whan ha wrata: j
"The Teutonic race la called opoa
to circle the earth with Its rule, to ex
ploit the treasures of nature and at
human power, and to make the pas
sive races servient elements in its
cultural development Who
ever has the characteristics of tha
Teutonic race la superior. AU the
dark peoples are mentally inferior, be
cause they belong , to the pssslva
races. The cultural value of a nation
Is measured by the quantity of Teu
tonlim It contains." (
Are you one of the darker races?
Ara you willing to be rated as ona
of the "servient elements" In Ger
many's cultural development?
Too began to be one of the "servi
ent elements" when peaceful people
were slaughtered aa they carried your
produoe to market Waa it because
you belonged to a "passive racer
This war la for tha purpose of say
ing to that Insane claim, with the
roar of a hundred thousand cannon
"NO!" ,
Never since the Turks threatened
to overwhelm Europe waa the world
In such danger aa now. Germany
must be defeated this year. Unless
wa win, our place In tha world la
lost and our history aa one of the
"servient elements" begins. We must
withhold nothing from tha support of
the war. We must give our sons. Wa
must bring forth food tn abundance.
We must give Into the treasury of tha
United States every cant we can
spare.
This summer the support of the war
la up to the farmers; and Uncle Sam,
haa never called upon the farmers in
vain!
three articles by Mr.' Quick.)
$30,000.00
Profits, $18,000.00 : :
- - 1889.
J. B. V. Butler, Vice Pres.
POWELL
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