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THE CONDON GLOBE PAQE 3 SACIC I J OR - . i aM d : ad i i a WHICH WILL IT BE Are you going to 6ack or bulk . , your grain! ; We can supyly you with sacks at 30 cents, with a nine cent differential making' your sack cost you about 10 cents. - If you are going to bulk your grain, prepare now. We have a good supply of grain' bin material on hand. - Buy a thrift stamp today. ..ARLINGTON LUMBER CO.. Hot Water Beat in Every Room, Also Hot and Cold Water Hotel Fentori -C- A. Penton, Proprietor P Clean Rooms Bet Me'a's Home Cooking In fondon, Oregon- J rf H. II. WILBURN WELL CONTRACTOR AND DRILLER ' - SATISFACTION GUARANTEED CONDON, OREGON -1. J J.J.AJ. M.M. ' a-atLijaAjLA W ttttfttt TTTTTTftf'JTT WE ARE EQUIPPED TO HANDLE YOUR TIRE TROUBLES IN EVERY WAY . - .... . . "Over the Top" By Ai Amerlcu Stiver WksWeat ARTHUR COY EKPET Matklm Cr Sflt ai freee SYNOPSIS. 41 -WltiLmJI TO HAVE IT - Send -them in by Parcel Post - . or when in Arlington come in and see what we can do - -; -for your old tires. '-' Arlington Vulcanizing Works Arlington, Oregon CHAPTER t-Flrd by the rwa of Iht sinkln of th Luslianle by 0rroe aubmarlno. Arthur Quy Kmpo, aa Aiwri can, Imvm hi otfle tn Jry Oily anil vur to England whr he enlists In lit Brlltah army. CHAPTKR II-Attar a period of train Inc. Kmpy volunta-ar fur liuimxllal nrv. lo and auon find hlinxlf tn real billot "aonowher In KraiH'," whr ha Ural makra tn acqualntaee ot the r-pra-nt "cootl." . i CHAPTER III-CmMr attend hi first cburrh arrvlcoa at th front while a O.r. man Fukkr clrclae evecthe eontratatloa. CHAPTER lV-Empr' command to Into th front-ltn tranches and U under tlr for th flrt tlm. (NiHtn t-tmM trarn to adoot the motto of the Brttah Tommy, "If you are cln to set It, you'll t It, eo Bvr worry." , CHAPTER Vl-8ae la reet bltleta, Km- pry rata Ma nrl xpmno aa a a orderly. CH APTER Vlt-Emper learnt how the Brlttah auliUara are fad. CHAPTKR VIlI-Back In th front-tin trench. Empy im hi drat trlaod of th trench "to Wt." CHAPTER IX-Empr tn hla Bret vialt to a qufoui in sutciu mvu ruiPtrii X-rmMv kema what con (tltuta a "day' work" In U troot-Une trench. CHAPTER XI-Kmpey toee "ovr the top" for the flret tlm In a chare on the Ovrman tranoh and la wounded by a bavonet thruat. fuisrrR XTI Ktnna lain th "aul eld club" as th botnMnf squad la called. CHAPTER XIII-Kach Tommy get an official tratti. CHAPTER XIV-Empry heltte dig M advanced trench undar Uerman Bre. rHAPTER XV-On "llcteniai poet" la Nn Man' Land. CHAPTE-R XVt-Two artmrymn "put on over" on Old Pepper, their relmeaial commander. ' CHAPTER XVtl-Empsy ha njJTOjr cape while oh patrol duty l No Ma 1 .n CHAPTER XVin-Back In reet btllets Empay writes and staaea a farce oemedy. CHAPTER XIX-oldlere hae many ways to amuse themaelv wbUe "on their nam CHAPTER XX-Empey eotunUer tor machine eun eervlce and o hack tow the front-line trncna. CHAPTER XXI-Empey arein toes "otr the top" In a charce which coat tus comoenv 17 killed and al wouimmki CHAPTER XXII. Punlahmenta and Maehlne-Oun ttunta. Soon after my arrival In France; la fact, from my enlistment, I had found that la the British army discipline very strict. One has to be tery cars. ' f ul In order to stay on the narrow pat of government virtue. ' There are about seven million waya of breaking the king's regulations; to keep one you have to brear another. The worst punishment Is death by a Bring squad, or "up against th wall,' as Tommy calls It This Is for desertion, cowardice, mu tiny, giving Information to the enemy, looting, rape, robbing the dead, forcing a safeguard, striking a superior, etc. Then comet the punishment of sixty four days In the front-line trench with' out relief. During this time you have to engage In til raids, working parties In No Man's Land, and every bainrdous undertaking that comet along. If you live through the sixty-four dayt you are Indeed lucky. This punishment it awarded where there Is a doubt aa to the willful guilt of a man who has committed an ot fence punishable by death. Then comet the famoua field pun ishment No. 1. Tommy has nicknamed it "crucifixion." It meant that a man is spread-eagled on a Umber wheel, two hours a day for twenty-one dayt. During this time he only gets water, bully beef and biscuits for hit chow. Ton get "crucified" for repeated mlnoi offenses. Next In order It field punishment No. 2. This It confinement in the "clink,1 without blankets, getting water, bully beef and biscuits for rations and doing all the dirty work that can be found. This may be for twenty-four hourt or twenty dayt, according to the gravity of the offense. Then comet "pack drill" or default era' parade. Tula consists of drilling, mostly at the double, for two hours With full equipment Tommy bates this, because It la hard work. Some times be nllt bit pack with straw to lighten It, and sometimes he gets caught. If he gets caught, he grouses ' at ' everything In general for twenty- one dayt, from the vantage point of .Umber wheel. Next comet "C. B." meaning "con fined to barracks." This consists of staying In billets or barracks for twen ty-four hourt to seven dayt. Ton alto get an occasional defaulters' parade -.nd dirty jobs around the quarters, The sergeant major keept what Is known at the crime sheet. When man commits an offense, he , Is "crimed," that It, hit name, number and offense It entered on the crime sheet. Next day at 9 a. m. he goes to the "orderly room" before the captain, who either punishes him with "C. B." or tends him before the O. 0. (officer commanding battalion). The captain of the comuany can only award "C B, Tommy many a time hat thanked the king for making that provision in his regulations. '. To gain the title of a "smart soldier," Tommy has to keep clear of the crime sheet, and yon have to be darned smart to do It. I have been on it a few times, most' ly for "Yankee impudence." During our stay of two weekt In rest billets our captain put us through a course of machine-gun drIUt, trying out new stunts and theories. After parades were over, our guns' crews got together and also tried out some theories of tbelr own In reference to handling guns. These courtes had the Yit, cSusThIvJ. tnosfly of causing tricky. Jams la the gun, and then the rest of the-creW would endeavor to lo cate aa quickly at possible the cause of the stoppage. This amused them for h few days and then thing came to standstill. On ot th4voT on my gun claimed tha he could play a tun while the gun wat actually firing, and demon strafed this fact one day on th target range. We were very enthusiastic and decided to become musldana, After eonatant practice I became quite expert In th tune entitled "All Conductor Ilav Big Feet." When I had mattered thta tune, our two weekt' rest cam to an eud, aud once again we went up the line and took over the sector tn front of O W004., .... i At this point the German trenches ran around the base of a hill, on the top of which was a dense wood. This wood was Infested with maclUne guns. which uaetl to traverse our lines at will, and sweep the streets of a little village, where w were billeted while In reserve. There was one gun In particular which used to get our goats, It had the exact range of our "elephant" dugout entrance, and every morning, about the time ration were being brought up, Its bullet would knock up-th dust on th road; more than one Tommy went Wet or to Blighty by running Into them. This gun got our nerve on edge. and Frita teemed to know It, becaua x'-V t- '.(5"' w ! r 1 mmm hi- ir ' --f-f.j 'jL Dead Bodies Everywhere. he never gave 0 an hour's rest. Our reputation as machine gunner was at stake; we tried various ruses to locate tod put tbtt gun out of action, but each one proved to be a failure, and Frit became a worse nuisance than ever. He wa getting fresher and more careless every day, took all kind of liberties with o thought he wat in vincible. ' Then one of our crew got a brilliant Idea and we were all enthusiastic to put it to the "test. Her was hi schem: When firing my gun, I was to play my tune, and Frit, no doubt, would fall for It, try to lmttat me a an added Insult This gunner and two other would try, by th sound, to lo cate Frits and hla gun. After having got the location, they would mount two machine guna In trees, In a little clump of woods to the left of our ceme tery, and while Frits wat In the middle of hit lesson, would open up and trust to luck. By our calculations, It would take at least a week to pull off the tunt If Frit refuted to swallow our bait, It would be Impossible to locate hi special gun, and that's the one we were after, because they all sound alike, slow pup-pup-pup. Our prestige wa hanging by thread. In the battalion we had fo en dure all kind of Insult and fresh re mark a to our ability In silencing Frits. Even to the battalion that Ger man gun wa a aore spot. Next day, Frlti opened up aa usual I let him fire away for a while and then butted In with my "pup-pup-pup- pup-pup-pup." I kept this up quite a while, used two belts of ammunition, Frit had stopped firing to listen. Then he started In; aure enough, he had fallen for our game, hi gun wa trying to imitate mine, but at first he made a horrible me of that tune. Again butted In with a few bar and atopped, Then he tried to copy what I had played. He was a good sport al. right, because hi bullet were going away over our heads, must have been firing Into the air. I commenced to feel friendly toward'hlm. This duet went ofi for five day. Frit was a good pupil and learned raDldlv. In tact. Eot better than hi teacher. I commenced to feel Jealous When he had completely mastered the tune, be started sweeping the road again and we clicked it , worse than ever. But be signed his death warrant by doing to, because my friendship turned to hate. Every time he fired he played that tune and we Danced. The boy In the battalion gave us the "Hal Hal" They weren't In on our little fromenp. The originator of the ruse and the other two gunners had Frlts't location taped to the minute; they mounted their two guns, and also gave -me the range. The next afternoon was set for the grand finale. ' Our three guns, with different eleva tlons( had their fire so arranged, that, opening up together, their bullets would suddenly drop on Frltt like hailstorm. . About three the next day, Fritz starts ed "pup-pupping" that tune. I blew sharp blast ona whistle, It was the slg nal agreed upon 1 we turned loose and United States Tires are Good Tires m v 1 WM 1 i toi Omtn Trtad' The Real Meaning of Tire-buying Economy 4 Your car must give greater service tbit year than ever before. - . It speeds up your work Increases your working power. v - The highest car economy lies in utmost service. The most economical tires are those which will give you greatest use of your car. That's just what United States Tires will do for you. 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