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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. ? *
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' DELCOLIGHT
Increases Farm Efficiency
L 8itm tht ud labor?Work formerly door nmbr poor
Hght and by hand can be door better and in leu time
with the aid of electric light and power.
a. Labor la attracted to tha fan*?The "back to tha
farm" movement it made practical when the coovenlaacae
afforded br electric light and power an be had Ja the
country.
* 1. ITaelH tha hip, aad |>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.
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J. A. ELEY, AGENT I
Ahoskie, N. C.
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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 <ft oar officers could speak Oer
?U AaB U qoesdonad The qui au.
In ? Mat interrupted by fr^
qnent hiccoughs, the unterofllsler toM
hU ?tory.
There had bean a drinking boot
among the oOcera In on* of the Ger
man dugouts, the taaln beverage -being
champagne. With a drunken leer be
Informed ne that champagne was plen
tiful on their aide and that It did not
coat them anything either. A boot aeven
that night the conversation had tamed
to the "contemptible" English, aad the
captain had made a wager that he
would hang hla cap on the English
barbed wire to show his contsmpt for
the English sentries. The wager was
accepted. At sight o'clock the captain
and he bad crept out into No Man's
Land to carry oat this wager.
They had gotten about halfway
across when the drink took effect and
'the captain fell asleep. After about
two hours of sain attempts the outer'
offlzler bad at last succeedefl in wak
ing the captain, reminded him of his
bet, and warned him thst he would be
the laughing stock of the officers' mesa
If he did not accomplish hla object, bnt
the captain waa trembling all over and
Insisted on returning to the German
lines. In the darknsea they lost their
bearings and crawled toward the Eng
lish trenches. They reached the barbed
wire and were suddenly challenged by
our sentry. Being too drunk to realise
that the challenge was la English, the
captain refused to crawl back, finally
the unteroflHer convinced his superior
that they were in front of the Engllah
wire. Realising this too Iste. the cap
tain drew his revolver aad with a mut
tered fcorse fired blindly toward oar
trench. His ballet no doubt killed aw
captain.
Then thf> 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<VraartMm
with my pack weighing ? too, I waited,
with forty other*, for the adjutant to
Inspect us. After an hoar's wait, be
came oat; must hare been aore became
be wain't going with na.
The quartermaster sergeant issued
na two days' rations, la a little- w^Ite
cantas ration bag, which we tied to
our belts.
Then two motor lorries came along
and we piled In, laughing. Joking, and
In the beat of aplrlta. We even loved
the Germans, we were feeling ao happy.
Our Journey to seven days' bliss in
Blighty bad commenced.
The ride In the lorry lasted about
two hours; by this time we were cov
ered with line, white dust from the
road, but didn't mind, even If we were
'nearly choking.
At the railroad station at IT we
reported to an officer, who had a white
bend around hla arm, which read "R.
T. O," (Royal Transportation Officer).
To us this officer was Santa Glaus.
The sergeant In charge showed him
our orders; he glanced through them
and said: "Make yourselves comfort
able on the platform and dont leave;
the train Is liable to be along In Ave
minute*?or Ave hours."
It came In Ave hours, a string of
eleven match boxes on big. high
wheels, drawn by a dinky little engine
with the "con." These mstch boxes
were cattle ears, on the sides ol which
was painted the old familiar sign,
"Homffies 40, Chevaux 8."
The R. T. O. stuck us all thto one
car. We didn't care; It was as good
as s Pullman to us.
Two days we spent on that train,
bumping, stopping, Jerking ahead, and
sometimes sliding back. Atjhree sta
l.> ;?/. & 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:
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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
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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
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