Get It While It LastTk k|y The new Store in Ahoskie, N. C., known ^ as the Ahoskie Department Store has just ili opened anew shipment of the very latest W designs in Mattings to be sold at 2Vc per yard. We are also getting ready to make X X * big display of Summer Goods?Palm ^ A Beach Suits, Shoes. Straw Hats, White ^ Shoes and Oxfords?and a large varity of w Sport Shirts, at very low prices. ? * I' Ahoskie ? Department Store ? J (At D. P. BAKER'S Old Stand) W ^ ^ , Ahoskie, N. C. J1 | What About Your Groccry Bill? | ? If you pnrchace your supplies from this dependable groo iT: ?ry store, your giocery bill will be moderate, and you will ^ ^ get the very best service and goods. O ? We handle STAPLE GROCERIES % ^ J. P. Boyette rl. an thi frrm Flrrrrir rrrrlrr on the farm ofcrti city attraction I. Valuable labor aad 1 valuable young manhood and womanhood arc nred to the country community. 41 fcfraa tfca raHrad r p?M? Electric light and power make the farm home ao attract ire aad comfortable ' that the farmer and hie wife remain oa the farm when their advice, experience, aad immediate interna an ?f gnat practical mine. wori! b'war time* an aae iacriaaad labor for the houaa wMe. KlectricitT often the aaly practical meaaa of taking tha drudgery of haunhaM taaka (ram her Aouldaw. D1111 I latl te ? aaaaaat aiaaahdaaHahaw* n III imn. nlh a Ate naiad. Tlhk ?haa.lia???il >iMin7lJl li He beta. RUNS ON KOtOSBtt fliKMBlt CO. B* omau.*.*. J. A. ELEY, AGENT I Ahoskie, N. C. OfvMLOOOfltihfbdUM* iL^LtiPwiJu V 1 TovOL Never Know How Good This Coffee Is Until ^bulry It "TTTORD8 cannot adequately deecriba VV the fine flavor of Luijum Coifem. Yoo've got to taete it yourself. Wont you try Lusianne next time? / Luzianne is packed in eantaury, air tight, full-measure tine?Impurities cant get in and the flavor can't leak out It haa bean mads very easy far you to get acquainted. You take no chances. If Luzianne doesn't tasts better than any Other coffee you ever tried, your grocer will refund your money. So, buy that firpt can today. IPZIAHHEcoffee "When It Pour*, It Roigna" ? 1 ?. ?- .. ?r???-?i? _ ... ? Do it Row: Subscribe to the Herald V I" - .jhjtffi A': m i r ?j BY AN AFRICAN SOLDIER WHO WENT Arthur Guy Jzmpey and was a complete aucix.is, the party bringing back twenty-one prisoners. The Germans moat bare been awful ly sore, because they turned loose a barrage of fchrapnel. with a few "Min nies" and "whizz bangs" Intermixed. The shells Were dropping Into our front line like hailstones. To jet even, we could have left the prisoners in the Ore trench. In charge of the men on guard and let them click Frits'* strafelng but Tommy does not treat prisoners that way. Five of them were brought Into my dugout and turned over to me so that they would be safe from the German Are. , In the candlelight, they looked very much shaken, nerves'gone and chalky faces, with the exception of one, a great big fellow. He looked very much at ease. I liked him from the start. I got oat the rum Jar and gave each a nip and passed around some fags, the old reliable Woodbines. The other prisoners looked their gratitude, but the big fellow said In Kngllah, "Thank you, air, the rum Is excellent and I ap preciate It, also your kindness." He told me his name waa flari Schmidt, of the Sixty-sixth Bavarian Light Infantry; that he had lived nix yean In Mew York (knew the &ty bet ter than I did), had been to Oooejr Island and, many of our ball game*. He was a regular fan. I couldn't make Mm believe that Hans Wagner waaat the beat ball player In the world. Prom New York he had gone to Lon don, where he worked aa a waiter In the Hotel Bussell. Just before the war be went home to Germany to see his parents, the war came and he waa con scripted. He told me he was very sorry to hear that London was In rains from the Zeppelin raids. I could not con vince him otherwise, for hadn't he seen moving pictures In one of the Germap cities of St. Paul's cathedral In ruins. 1 chapged the subject because ho was so stubborn In his belief. It waa my intention to try and pump him for Information as to the methods of the German snipers, who had been earn ing us trouble In the laat few days. I broached the subject and he ah at up like a clam. After a few IB 1 nut as he very Innocently said: "German snipers get paid lewaida for killing the English." I eagerly asked, "What are theyf He answered: Tor killing or wounding an English private, the sniper gets one mark. For killing or wounding an Bngllah officer he gets Ave marks, but If be kills a Bad Cap or English general, the sniper gets twenty-one days tied to the wheal of a Umber as punish meat for his carsliss oeas." * Then he paused, waiting for m to bite, I suppose. I bit all right and asked him why the sniper was punished for killing aa Bngllah generaL With a smile ha re plied: "Weil, you see. If all the English gen erals were killed, there would ha no one left to make coetiy mistakea." I shot him np, he was getting too fresh for a prisoner. After a while he winked at ma and I winked back, then the eecort came to take the prisoners to the rear. I shook handa and wiahed him "The beat of lad and a safe Jour ney to Blighty." I liked that prisoner, ha was a fine fallow, had an Iron Cross, too. I ad vised him to keep it oat of sight, or some Tommy would be sending It home to his girl In Blighty as a souvenir. One dark and rsinv nlrht whila nn guard we were looking over the top from th< Or* step of oar front-tine trench, when we beard ? noise Imme diately In front of oar barbed wire. Tha sentry next to me challenged. "Half, wno cornea there?" and brought his rifle to the aim. Hla challenge was answered la German. A captain lo the next traverse climbed upon the sand bagged parapet to Investigate?a brave bat foolhardy deed?"Crack" went a ballet and he tumbled back Into the trench with a hole through his stomach and died a few minutes later. A lance corporal In the next platoon was so en raged at the captaln'a death that he chocked a MIHs bomb in the direction of the noise with the sbouted warning to as: "Duck yonr nsppers. my lacky lads." A sharp dynamite report, a flare In front of us. and then alienee. We Immediately sent up two star shells, sad In their light coald see two dark forms lying on the ground close to oar wire. A sergeant and four stretcher-bearers wefct oat la front and soon returned, carrying twp limp bodies. Down In the dugout. In' the flickering light of three candles, we saw thst they were twoTSerman offi cers, one* a captain and the other an "nnterofflsler," a rank one grade higher than a sergeant general, bat below the grade of UsatenanL The captain's face had been almost completely torn awsy by the bomb's etploslon. The unterofflsler was alive, breathing with difficulty. In a few min utes he opened bis eyes and blinked In the glare of the candles. Tbe pair had evidently been drink ing heavily, for the alcohol fumes were sickening and completely pervaded the dagout I turned away In disgust, hating" to as* a man crosa the Great Di vide foil of boose. . One hnmh mviia nmr Hum be was, dying?and ? good Job too, we thought. Tit* captain dead? Wall, kla man wouldn't weep at tfea news. Without el ring us any further Infor mation the nnterofflxler died. We searched the bodies for Identifi cation dlaka bat they had left every thing behind before starting on their foolhardy errand. Next afternoon we hurled them In our little cemetery apart from the grave* of the Tommies. If yon ever go Into that cemetery you will see two little wooden cro?ee In th* corner at the cemetery set away from the reat. They read Captain J German Army ' v Died ? 1916 I Unknown KLPi Unterofflxler -? ! German Army Died ? 1916 Uq^nown ? B.LF. CHARTSII XXL About Tam. The aext evening we #ctw relieved by th* ?th brigade, and one* again returned to raat billets. Upon arriving at the** billets w* war* given twenty four hoars In which to dean up. I had Just finished getting th* mod from my uniform when the orderly sergeant In formed me that my nana was in orders to leave, and that I was to report to th* orderly room in th* morning for o? dsn, transportation and rations, I nearly had a fit. hustled aboat packing up, filling my pack with *on vsalrarach as shell hand*, dud bomb*, none capa. shrapnel balls, and a Prus sian guardsman's helmet la feet, be fore I turned In that night, I had every thing ready to report at th* *rd*rty mom at nln* th* not morning. I waa th* envy at the whole section, ?wanking around, tolling of th* good time I waa going to have, the pUcee I would visit and the real, old English beer I Intended to gnasle. Sort of nibbed It Into theas, became they all do It and now that It was my tarn, I took pains to get my own back. At nine I reported to the captain, re ceiving my travel order and pass. He aaked me how much money I wanted to draw. I glibly answered. Three hundred francs, sir;" be Just aa glibly handed me one hundred. HfDortlrur tt hrfnri* hM ;?/. & i...j _ . , , ' > DM tea, bat were unable to wash, wo when we rotted at B , where we were to ittbwk (or Blighty. we were aa black aa Turcoa and. with oar un abaren faeee, we looked like a lot of tramps. Though tired oat. we were happy. We had packed up, preparatory to detraining, when a R. T. O. held up hla hand (or hi to atop where we were and came orer. Thla la what he aald: ? ? e Dwid Rodlw Ev?rywh#r(. "Boys, rm worry, but order* hare Jo* been received cancelling *11 lore. If you bad been three boor* earlier you would bare gotten away. Juat atay In! that train, aa It la going back. Ration* will be laaued to you for your return Journey to your reapectlve stattaoa. Beastly rotten. I know." Then be left A dead alienee reaulted. Then men atarted to curae, threw their rlflee on the floor of the ear; others said noth ing, seemed to be stupefied, while some had the tears ruaplng down their cheeks. It waa a bitter disappointment toalL How we blinded at the engineer of that train; It was all hta fault (so we reasoned) ; why hadn't be speeded up a little or been on time, then we would hare gotten off before the order ar rived} Now it waa no Blighty for us. That return Journey waa misery to us; I Just cant describe it When we got back to rest blUets, we found that our brigade was 4b the trenches (another agreeable surprise) and that an attack was contemplated. Seventeen of the forty-one will never get another chance to go on leave; they were killed la the attack. Jast think If that truln had been on time, those seventeen woald still bo alive. I bate to tell you bow I waa kidded by the boys when I got hack, bat It was good and plenty. Oar machine gaa company took over their part of the llna at seven o'clock, the night after I returned fram mj Mar leave. At 8:80 the following morning thrss waves went over and captured the first ?ad sscond German trsachsa. The BMChlne gunners went over with the fourth wave to eaaaoUdato the cap tured llae er "dig to." as Away calla It , Crossing No Mao's Land without clicking aay casualties, we came to guns aa ths parados of asms I never saw such a mess la my Ufa ?bunches of twtatod bathed wire lying about, abell holes evsrywhsre, trsnch all baahed la, parapet* gone, aad dead bodlea. why, that ditch was full at them, theirs aad ours. It waa a regu lar morgue. Boms were mangled hor ribly from our shell Are. while others were wholly or partly bailed In the mud, the result of shell expioelons cav ing In the walls of the tr?ch. One dead German waa lying on his hack, with a rifle sticking straight up la ths air. the bayonet of which waa burled to the hilt In his cheat Across his feet lay a dead English soldier with a bal let hols In hla forehead. This Tommy most hare been killed Just as h? rmn hte bayonet through the German. Rifles and equipment war* Mattered about, and occselonally ? steel helmet could be aeen (ticking out of the mod. ?t one point. Juat In the entrance to ? communication trench, waa a stretch er. On this stretcher a German was lying with a white bandage around hla knee, near to him lay one of the stretcher-bearers, the red cross on his arm covered with mod and his helmet filled with blood and brains. Close by, sitting np against the wall of the trench, with head resting on his chest, waa the other stretcher-bearer. He seemed to be all ye, the posture waa so natural and eaay; but whan I got closer I could see a large, )aa?d hole In his temple. The three mftst hare been killed by the same (hell-burst. The dugouta were all am ashed In and knocked about, big square-cut timbers splintered Into bits, walla cared In and entrances choked. Tommy, after taking a trench, learna to his sorrow that the hardest part of the work la to hold it In our caae thla proved to be so. The German artillery and machine guns had us taped (ranged) for fairs It waa worth yonr life to expose your aelf an Instant Don't think f6r a minute that the Germans were the only sufferers; we were clicking casual ties so fast that you needed an adding machine to keep track of them. DM you ever see one of the steam ?hovels at work on the Panama canal? Well, It would look like a hen' scratch ing alongside of a Tommy "digging In" while under Ore. You couldn't see day light through the clouds of dirt from his .hovel "\ * itk' -I . - 'f - ? , . . . ./.A 1 \ Aatt, , . ? I maekteT?un "oU^if the Ufathe tripod vm m)li| on the ant of ? I half-fcurled body. Whan Hk* jtm ?n | firing, It gave the luigl ?(on that the body breathing. Thta was MNd j by the miwlvt vibration. Three or four feet down the lwt>, ?boat throe tmmt from the ground, a foot waa protruding from the Mitk. We knew It waa a German by the Mack laatbor boat Ob* of oar crow used that foot to banc extra bandoliers ot ammunition on. This man always waa ? bandy faUow; made um of littla points that tba ordinary person worid overlook. The Germans made three counter attaoka, which we repolssd, but not without heavy loss on our rtde. They also angered severely from oar shall and machine-gut fire. The gioaad waa spotted with their daad and dying. The next day things were seeoewhat quieter, bat not quiet enough to bury the dead. ' We lived, ate and slept in that trench -with the unbolted dead for six days. It waa awful to watch their faoea bo eome swollen and discolored. Towards the last the stanch was flsrea. What got on my nerves the moat waa Chat loot sticking oat of the dirt It send to u, at night. In the moow Ught, to bo trylag to twist ai iiand. Several times this Impression was so strong that I went to It and grasped It b both hands, to saa If I coald fast a BOTOTMQt. I told this to the man who had uasd It for a ha track )mmt before I lay down Car a little nap, as things were quiet, and I needed a root pretty badly. - Whan I woke op the foot waa gone. Be bad cut It off with oar chain saw oat of the spare parts' boo, and had plastered the stamp over with mad. Daring the next two or three days, before we were relieved. I missed that toot dreadfully; eeemed aa If I had ?uddenly loot a chum. I think the went thine of all waa to watch the rata, at night, and ??! ?*?? In tbe day, ran over and play ?boat among tha dead. v Hear our gun. right acroae the pan pat could be aeen the body of a Ger man lien tenant, the bead and arms of which were banging Into oar trench. The Mi who bad cut off the foot need to sit aad carry on a onesided conver aatlon with this offlcer, need to argue aad point out why Germany waa la tha . wrong. Daring all of thla monologue I never heard him my anything oat of tha way?anything that would hare , tart the Unga had be beeo all re. Be waa square all right; wouldn't eren Uke advantage of a dead man in an artgoatent To civilians thla mnat aeem dread M, bat out here om gets ao need to awful sights that It makes no tmpiaa ?loo. In paaelng a batcher (hop you are not aborted by aeelng a dead tur key banging from a hook. WeO, IB francs, a dead body la looked apoa flrom the same angle , Bat, serertheieas, when our six days W?re up. we were tickled to death ta be relieved. eeveoteaa killed aadthlrt^STieuad ad to that Uttla local aCftlr of "straightartng tha Una.- while tha other compaalao cUcked It woraa than we did. . After the attach wo wet into ia carve btlleta (or rix dank aad ea tha ae renth once again wa Were to rsat htt lato. * CHATTKR XXII. hmWrnaah aad Maehlne-Oun toaato. Sooa after my arrival to France; to fact, from my ealiatassat. I bad foaad that In the British army discipline la very strict. One has to bo very care ful to order to stay oa the narrow path ' of government virtue. There are a boat seven million ways of breaking the king's regulations; to keep one you hove to break another. The wont punishment la death by a firing squad, of -op against the wan," - M M TVimmr Mill It This la for flsasrtlah, cowardice, sa tiny, giving Information to tlM eawj, looting, rapa, robbing the dead, forcing ? safeguard, striking a superior, ate. Then cornea the punishment of *xty- , #o?r da71 In the front-line trench with out relief. During this time yo? hare to engage in all raids, working partlea In No Mail's Land, and every hasardons nndertaklng that comes along. If yon lire through the slxty-fonr days yon | are Indeed locky. This punishment la awarded where ? there la a donbt as to the willful guilt of a aun who has committed an of fence punishable by death. Then cbmes the famona Held pun ishment No. L Tommy has nicknamed It "crucifixion." It means that a man ' la spread-eagled on a limber wheel, two hours a day for twenty-one days. During this time he only gets water, bully beef and biscuits for his chow. You get "crucified" for repeated minor offenses. * Next in order la field punishment No. 2. v This Is confinement In the "dink," without blanketa, getting water, bally ? beef and biscuits for ration* and doing all the dirty work that can be found. This may be for twenty-four hours or twenty days, according to the gravity of the offense. Then cdmes "pack drill" or default ers' parade. This consists of drilling, mostly at the doable, for two hours with fall equipment. Tommy hates this, because It la hard work. Some times he (Ills his pack with straw to lighten It, and sometimes he get* caught. If he gets caught, he grousea at everything In fceneral.for twenty one days, from the Vantage point of a i (Continued Next Week) - . '.v i ? , !