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PaUnon, N. J. — " I that k you for
tka I.ydia K. Plakham a* th*y
baulthy. ^uom>
lima ago I felt 90
run down, bat] peins
in my back and aide,
wa.< wry iirrfgulur,
ttr*H, n«-rvou», had
mieh b ad~dr«ama,
did not lan uau eat
ing and had uhort
breath. I read your
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ham's Vegetable Compound, it worked
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York Paterson, N. J.
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CONFESSED COMMITTING
MURDER 25 YEARS AGO.
Missisippi Farmer, on Death
Bed, Admitted Part in Crime.
Columbia. Miss., March 10.—The
sheriff* office here t'xlay revealed
that Joseph Beard, an aged u. mer
who lived near here, and who died last
Sunday, confessed on his death bed
that -o years ago he and two other
men murdered Wm. Buckley, in this
suction, for which crime William Pur
vis, who lives in Lamar county* Miss.,
escaped death l>y hanging only because
the noo. e about his neck slipped after
the trap had been sprung
Buckley and a brother, according to
the story revealed to the authorities,
gave information concerning a secret
band of "White Cappers" who oper
ated in that section in 1SUJ and shortly
afterv. aids Buckley wa.: shot from am
bush.
Purvis was convicted of the murder
after a sensational trial and was sen
tenced to be hanged. Hundreds
gathered to witness the ex ution.
But aiter t'le trap was sprung, the
noose slipped and Purvis fell from the
scaffold unharmed. Many* of the
spectators. uperstitlou., over the
thvvu led execution, induced the au
th to i I. e rvis i.i jr:l and an
apj t to governor r - ulted in
cominL'tati'. i ' his death sentatfee to
life imprisonment. Pur\'is was par
dontd several years later.
Beard, attaches of the sheriff's of
fice said, first con hissed his part in
Buckley's murder to members of a re-*
ligiuus sect which he recently joined,
in order to clea his conscience. Later
when Beard was convinced he was dy
ing, the authorities were ■ notified.
Be.- id. it wa: .stated, gave the names
of two other men who he said partici
pated with him in the murder nnd the
aut'ioi dies said they knew where to
locate them, but declined to say
whe'her any action against them was
contemplated.
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FOOD PRICES ARE LOWEIt
ED IN CITY OF MEXICO
Pr«p*< u« for *a Exhibition.
Washington, D. C ,—It U stated by
the Mexican New* Bureau that tlia
authoriti** of Maxico City have pre
pared a liat of prima for food article*
of prima nem*sity Which is much
lower than formerly. All wholesale
price* have *o decreased with the
abundance of *upplies that thin ha*
IxK-ome possible. According to the
former lint i**ued in December, many
article* were actually cheaper than
in mo«t cities of the United State*,
while the new ■.ffi<-ial -ate" make them
still le»* in cost.
A law school for those desiring to
enter the legal profession and several
night schools for workingmen have
l>een established in the city of Vic
toria, capital of Tamaullpas.
For the first time in a number of
years the National Schoo, at Fine Arts
has prepared a public exhibition of
painting* and art works which is said
to be extensive and interesting as well
as instructive. The members of the
school have *hown great enthu*ia*m
in the revival of this feature.
From various portions of the Re
public is received information of the
establishment of periodicals, both daily
and weekly.
The police of the city of Monterey
report thut city to be unusually free
'rom all manner of violations of the
law, and that no more than two or
three arrest* are ».u<!e daily. The
population is upward of 100,000 and
the laboring class is very larger
A new office has been created in
Yucatan, that of Director-General of
Uhwrtifc
Art*
] he special rales wnicn nave oeen
granted in the pant to certain indus
tries anil concerns by the National
Railway lines have been withdrawn,
i the management of the road# declar
! ing them to be illegal.
Under instruction from the First
Chief the poor people who were dis
1 possessed of their lands and water
i supply on the border of the San Juan
I Hiver, ir the State of (jueretaro, under
: the Diaz regime, have had their pro
I perty restored to them and an ade
quate system of diversion of water
i for irriial.,,n is to be supplied.
Instructions have been issued that
fexicans now resident in the Uniteii
i States who desire to return to theii
1 native land and repatriate themselves
hall be permitted to import free ol
duty on their return all material"
wagons, etc., that are neces ary, sc
far as the ports of entry of the StaU
, of Sonora are concerned.
The Director-General of the Depart
ment of Fine Arts has designed a
suitable medal for the commemoration
of the fourth hundredth anniversary
of the d. covery of Mexico.
The 15th of February was .>et apart
an "Arbor Day" by the Department
f Fomento in certain portions of the
Federal district, and many thousand.
Iff tree, wire planted, al! being do
! nated by the Government,-which main
tains extensive nurserios and gardens
! at Mexico.
The Dep:>' tment of Archaeology has
decided to «riter upon a comprehensive
plan of i%<-earch throughout the Re
' public. ,
The authorities of the city of ''-im
i eche have refused the application of
a proiainen* citizen for permission to
i pen a sal'on on tile principal thor
oughfare of the place, on the ground
that the building selected is needed for
the establishment of a new school,
which they declare in their refusal to
grant the permission is of such para
mount importance to the public wel
fare as not to admit of discussion.
The school established in Hermosillo
some time ince for the education of
the children of the Yaqui Indian tribes
i t' the mountains of Sonora has proved
a great success. Many pupils are in
attendance and the number is con
stantly increasing.
Certain fertile lands made available
by the drainage of the shores of
Luke San Cristobal, in the Valley of
Mexico, have been divided into tracts
of ?V4 acres each, which are sold to
small cultivators at the rate of $100
national specie per lot, 10 years' time
being allowed for payment. Only one
, lot is sold to each purchaser.
A steamship company un>i«r the
name of the "Passenger and Freight
Company of the Pacific Coast" has
begun operations on the West Coast,
! between California and Guatemala,
| calling at all ports, including Magda
lene Bay, Alazatlan, Sanlina Crui, San
'Jose de Guatemala, etc. An exten
sive traffic is assure*.'.
A women's total abstinence society
lhas been organized in the State of
Yucatan.
Kn tntereftting prenistorie tempir
I'M recently l>een discovered lit Mix
coon, n >",:!uirb of the capital city, and
' • oavationj arc roveulinpr many ob
,•« of ][ <>nt arrhaeulbgical Intercut,
The no ■ ion.il library is to be plan-I
>«. rtuirga of »n experienced librarian,
••ho will artt!rc<ii him- If nt the out
»f to tliu j uparation of n complete
li'.atouii' of all til* wo.'ka, i imethini;
,ha: has iiever been accomplUhod in
.. .'k . * "iifiha*Ii"Vi *■■ ■'
The demand for rnpper in Europe
haa etimulated tho production at that
metal in Mexico and ffraat activity
is noted In the reo[i«ninc of minea
that have iieen idle for extended peri
■•da, aa well aa in the ''evelopment at
I new propertien.
A commiMion appo. i by the De
. partment of Fomrnt aa gone to
l-ower California ... i • a minute
tudy of the renourtin o hat remote
portion of tha repubitr, m h the view
, to the adoption of a pia.i for their
adequate development.
CARRANZA TIPPED OFF
THE CERMAN INTPICUE.
Gave President Wilson Fact*
j Concerning Zimsacrmann Ef
forta to Ally Mexico.
El Paso, Tex., March 11,—First.
! Chief Carranza himself disclosed to
. President Wilson Germany'* offer of
a coalition with Mexico and Japan
1 against the United States.
A. plot was formed against Car
ranza's life as a result of thia action
but it was discovered in time and the
first chief fled t'i rtuadalajara for
\ protection.
These facts were disclosed last night
' by investigators for American capital
ists who • have interests in Mexico.
They made public on the eve of the
elections in Mexico tomorrow.
According to the aunt's reports no
sooner had Carranza received Dr.
Zimmermann's note offering Ger
many's hacking for Mexico in u war
with the United States than Mexico's
executive dispatched a special mes.-uge
to Washington with the German foiei
! gn secretary's original letter.
The first chief's tnove was quickly
discovered by Mexiran agents of the
i German legations and the assassin*
; tion plot was about to be carried out
j when it was discovered.
Carranza's action in warning Presi
dent Wilson of the German intrigue ii;
said to explain the change of front on
the part of the American administra
tion towards Mexico and to mark the
! beginning of new phases in tht rela
| Lions between the two countries.
Besides striding Ambassador Fletch
er to Mexico City exchanges of cour
. icsies between military officers of the
two republics were Begun at Friday's
i < avalry review here. General Pablo
; Gonzales and General Murguia, com
manding at Juarez, were guests of
I General George Bell, Jr., commanding
the El Paso district.
VILLA GREAT LEADER
SAYS OFFICER .OF HIS.
O. W Monroe Talked with Edu
cated American Who Servi-d
Under the Mexican General.
Greensboro News, 12th.
Had the American government re
cogrrized Villa instead of Carranza, {he
trouble in Mexico would have been set
tled by now, according to the belief of
an American who held a colonel's com
mission under the outlawed leader . O.
W. Monroe, of Creensboro, has just
| returned from Cuba. *nd while there
he met this colonel of Villa's army and
got well acquainted. He talked fre
quently with him, and was highly
pleased with the character of the
soldier of fortune who had served
under Villa's orders until very recently
when the indications' were that the
United States might be embroiled in
real warfare with the republic to the
south. Then Villa told afl of his men
who were citizens of the United States
to depart the country before too late.
"I know that should trouble come,
resulting in a real struggle, that you
would be loyal to the United States at
heart, and therefore I want you to
leave now while you c.m," V1II9 told
the Americans, according to this of
ficer, So he is in Cuba, awaiting re
adjustment of the international situa
tion, So that he may return to the
army of Villa.
The American professed a great ;ul
, miration of Villa. He told Mr. Monroe
that the Mexican had been greatly un
derestimated and.much misunderstood
by Americans. He is not educated
and he realizes his handicap, but he is
a great natural leader of men and a
real patriot, so the soldier who served
under him said. He also told the
Greensboro man that Villa didn't want
to be President of Mexico, wouldn't
take the office, indeed, because he felt
his Inadequacy for its duties, but he is
it fighter, and had he been given the
; prestige which formal recognition by
: United Slates gave Carransa, he would
i have fought his wny to control of the
situation before this, the American
stuled.
Mr. Monroe was in Cuba, talking of
war many miles away, and all the time
i didn't know that he -"as in a land torn
liy revolution. He saw two little
ifroup* of men earned under guard
' and imprisoned in Morrn castle, but
he didn't kn«w what it was ail about,
:tnd the people generally didn't seem
to know, he stated. Not nnlil Mr.
! Monro* reached the United States and
rettd the impyi < ovat here, (ltd ha real
ise that Cuba is experiencing a small
j war of her own.
ACCOUNT GIVEN OF THE
NEW BRITISH ARMIES.
London, England— In an account
publiJiml by the War Office and re
ferred to mm frutn- an "authoritative
Mturrtt," the organization and train
ing of the now armiu whi.h ram*
into being on the firat «»uthreak of
war in August, 1V14, ia described. The
account, which ia to be Untied in three
parts, deals in pan 1 with the firat
period of lean well urganizad training,
viz., Auguat, 1914, to December, lilUi,
and *h< w* in part many difficulties
which had to be »urmount«d. Part 11
will take un the narrative from early
in 1916 and onwarda when the prelim
inary stagex and difficulties had been
overcome, awl < well organize'! *#«
Un set up. Cart 111 will touch on the
development and training of special
corpa, Huch an the K. K., R. A. Machine
(jun Oorp«, etc. liila taut part will
overlap parts 1 and 11 to iiome ex
tent. The Hrcount opens with a refer
ence to the army that went out to
Mona, to which it refers aa probably
the best trained army, trained in peace
time, that ever left England, pointing
nut that »o far aa auch training could
go regimental officers and men could
hardly have been improved. There
waa available also for the first time a
highly tiained general staff.
These ends had been accomplished
by a steady attention to and removal
of the drawback* and want of train
ing that were found to exist during
the long drawn out Boer War, in which
'he sturdy farmer* and their helpers
aught the British army lesson* that
'iv« since been put to Rood account.
■ that war the number of officer*
, ...; r a keen interest in their work
I e almost the total, instead of a
small percentage, and the ^/krious
staff college* (one being in Iorti»t-,
cavalry and other schools were greatly
extended and developed. I'art of the
expeditionary force was trained under
the men who would lead them in war
in a practical way such a* had never
before been seen in England. "The
<•» lurance and marching power, the
sk^i at arm*, the intelligence, and
above all, the morale of the soldiers
of this fine body of men, had been
brought to the pitch which enabled
them to add another laurel to Eng
land'* military record in the great
retreat from Moni»."
In military experience of small op
eration* all over the world the British
army has far *urpa. sed all other*
and this experience has given rise to
resourse, independence and self-reli
ance in both officer* and men. Thi*,
it in claimed, help* the British soldier
to that quality of never knowing when
he is beaten—a quality shared by the
French- another peculiarity i* the
strong regimental feeling of esprit de
corprf which exist* in every regiment
and is fostered with the greatest care,
so that every man feels that his and
his alone is the finest regiment in the
army, and thi* loyalty to his regiment
leads to loyalty to the army. I't spite
of recent military *ervice act* thi'
British' army remains in character
fundamentally a volunteer army.
The training is given "in a spirit of
loyalty," self-reliance, and kindness,
"a spirit in which the officer leads"
and the man follow*—'noblesse oblige'
—because the officer anil noncommis
sioned officer have been taughl by the
traditions of the British army, handed
on by the few men of the old army
left to train them, to look alter their
men, to put their comfort before their
own, to join in their games until, in
Field Marshal Lord Wolseley'* words
"they regard him as one of themselves,
a companion and a friend. For and
with such a man they will brave any
<langer or endure any amount of pri
vation.
"It is a broad minded and tolerant
method which insists on smartness, on
duty and discipline and high courage
and courtesy, but not on hate: now it
has become a code of morality, one
may almost call it, taught systemati
cally in the training establishment*
for officers and N. C. O's at home and
in France.
Several extracts are given from
note* prepared for one of the army
school* in France, on such subject* as
patriotism, giving a* an example 90,!
000 Boers fighting the whole British
Empire for 2H years: Comfort of the
men in billets: making a man who
joins your company feel "at home."
No one, the writer points out, wly>
watched the long column* of recruit*
in the early days of the war and saw
the straight brave look in their eye*
could fail to see that this wa* the kind
of man ready to respond to such train
ing, and though the later stage* of
Derby recruit* and conscripts did not
have that look of absolute certainty
universal at first, a day or two with
the army brought it out in those in
whom it was lacking.
E. D. HARBOUR, 0. D.
Eye-Sight Specialist
Mount Airy, N. C.
128 N. Main St.
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Zeppelin and His Invention.
Charlotte Observer.
Count Zeppelin's fame as an inven
i tor waned with the waning of the fame
of the Zeppelin airship. In the early
days of the war certain performances
, of the big balloon crave promise that
( ihe Zeppelin was d«' tined to play an
important' part in destructive opera
: tions, but about the best it did wa.i to
! . care people. It was a terror until the
:ij/ship (runs devised to keep it at a
life distance came into play, and after
that, except for an occasional visit
: above London and other British towns,
nothing was heard of the dreaded ball
oon from which such i-reat things
were expected, t'o long .:s the Zep
, pelin had the field tu t. 'f, it was
, regarded as a ({rent engine of war.
Hut it did not hold this field long,
i- ollowing the airship guns dkmc a
I tleet of swiftly-darting airplanes
which could assail the lialloon from
: above and from either side, and it was
i these airplanes, pursuing the balloon
i like so many bee martins would pursue
a ciow, that finally made the opera
tions of the Zepjielin practically use
less, except for scaring purposes, and
drove it from the field. The Zeppelin
as an irritant was renuereti largely in
effective by the invention of counter
irritants.
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Insurance Agents
MOUNT AIRY, N. C.
Office in Merritt Tuildinj?.
Several Aeroplanes Are
Seen by Wayne Farmer*.
Goldsboro, March 10.—Five larife
areop.ar.es were seen nix mile* north
cast of Gol(i.tboro yesterday afternoon
by J. J. Kol -rt". a prominent farmer
of Sty/iey C eek township, accor iinjf
to a sjatem'-nt made by Mr. Roberts
here this afternoon, «ho said that for
more* than an hour . he and his son
wntched the machines as they flew
over his fa m and tircled over Neuse
river several times, then as suddenly
as they appeal ed they disappeared,
flying in a northerly direction.
Mr. Roberts says the appearance of
the aeroplanes cau.-ed a sensation
a?, -ns other farmeis in his section
v > "believed t^ey were commanded
by German -nies."
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