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E ROB Established 1870. Country, God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cer; VOL XLIH NO. 79. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1912. WHOLE NO. 2813 1 ESON 1 A N WAR NEAR AN END? A Shift to the Field of Diplomacy Christians Reported Massacred. London Dispatch, 20th. The Turkish-Balkan war has shift ed for a time from the field of arms to that of diplomacy. It is bolidvd that the war is near an end. Pleni potentiaries for the belligerent pow ers will meet tomorow at the Vilem keui, a few miles outside the capital, for the preliminary discussion. How many veBtiges of former Turk ish power they are prepared to con cede depends largely upon two fac tors, the strength and supplies of the allied forces threatening attacks at the gates of Constantinople and the extent to whicn the cholera has un dermind their pains. Christians Reported Massacred. Athens Dispatch, 20th. Reports of massacres of Christians in Jaffa, Palestine, caused the com mander of the Russian cruiser Oleg, to weigh anchor and depart hurridly for that district today. Five Christian missionary societies are represented in Jaffa, Palestine. The Christian and Missionary Alliance has a station with one man, the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East two men and two wo men, and the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews two men and two women, the Seventh Day Adventist's Missionary Board, one man and one woman, and the Tabeetha Mission School for women. There is also an American Orphanage. There are supposed to be about 10,000 Christians among the inhab itants, the total of whom is estimated at about 40,000. There are eight Christian churches and four Jewish synagogues. There is an English hospital and a French hospital. Washington Dispatch, 20th. Although without confirmation of the reported massacre of Christians in the neighborhood of Jaffa, the United States government officlials here ad mit they have been apprenhensive of mich trouble on the Syrian coast, where the religious differences be tween the Mohammendans and the Christians are more pronounced than in any other part of the Turkish empire. American interests in that quarter are large, owing to the extensive fruit trade, and because of a large number of American missionary and educational institutions. Within 20 miles vi Jdiiii, which is uic pui i ui Jerusalem are three important Amer ican missionary stations, Tavyibeh, Ramallah and Ain Areck. THE HORRORS OF WAR. leading Developments of a Day in the War Between Balkan States and Turkey. London Dispatch, 18th. The failure of the first attack of the Bulgarian army upon the forti fications at Tchatalja; the surrender of Monastir, with 50,000 Turkish troops, to the Servians; the success f the Montengerins in driving the Turks from one of their mountain positions at Scutari, the renewal of an appeal by Constantinople for an armistice, this time through the Rus sian amabassador; the expansion of the ravages of cholera to frightful proportions, not less than 5,000 deaths a day being reported on the line to Tchatalja, and the landing of 100 British bluejackets to protect the American Embassy at Constantinople were the leading developments today in the war between the Balkan States and Turkey. It is also stated on what is believed to be good authority that the Sultan has Addressed an appeal to the sover eigns of the great powers requesting intervention to end the war. CHOLERA DEADLIEST FOE. Causing More Deaths Among Turk ish Troops Than Shot and Shell. Berlin Dispatch, 18th. The liveliest imagination would be unable to depict the frightful con- ditions existing among the Turkish troops at Hademkeui, on the lines of Tchatalja, according to Maj. Eugene Zwenger, the war correspondent of Tageblatt. He says thousands oi dead and dying lie along the road. Men with stretchers are engaged day and night gathering the dead for burial and the wounded for transport to the hospitals. He continues: "Wherever I looked I saw the dis torted faces and stiffened hands of the wounded stretched forward ap pealing for help. The nearer I ap , approach the railroad station the sadder grew the picture. "Tho railroad station itself is just a field full of dead. I saw in one car 10 men, five of whom were living and other five dead, their faces still ex pressing the horrible agonies they had passed through. I walked among piles of corpses, and among masses of groannig, sick men who would soon find relief in death. , "A train about to start was over crowded with cholera-stricken men. Many of those in the cars died soon after they got on board. "According to authentic informa tion the deaths from cholera number 9,000 daily along the line of Tch atalja." Another dispatch to the Tageblatt from Kustendje, Roumania, to which place it had been sent by wireless, ays 1,000 cholera cases and 200 deaths occur daily among the Turkish reserves at San Stefano, where the sick and the dead lie indiscriminately in the streets. For rezular action of the bowels: ' easy, natural movements, relief of onstipation, try Doan a Keguiets. Zbc at all itores. TERRIFIC HEAD-ON COLLISION. Eight Killed and Four Injured in Seaboard Wreck Near Norlina. Norlina, N. C, Dispatch, 19th. Eight trainmen were killed and three severely injured at 4 o'clock this 'morning when two Seaboard passenger trains running at high speed crashed head-on seven miles north of here. No passengers were injured. The dead are: Will A. Faison, en gineer, Raleigh; Charles A. Beckman, engineer, Raliegh; Dick Gray, color ed, fireman, Raleigh; Jim Ruffin, col ored, fireman, Raleigh; Tom Bogan, colored, porter, Richmond, Va.; J. R. Rountree, express messenger, Jack sonville, Fla.; O. V. Priddy, express messenger, dead-heading, Boykin, Va.; Henry King, dead-heading. The injured are: Baggagemaster Bryant, badly burned about body and face; Express Messenger Brown, bruises and shocks; Express Messen ger Coates, leg and arm broken; Willis Pope, colored porter, scalded about head and neck ' The trains met as the southbound, No. 81, was coming out of a Ion;? curve in a .deep fill, and both were running full speed. The crash was terrific, both locomotives being total ly demolished. The fact that only three coaches were demolished and there were no passengers in these is considered remarkable. Engineer Beckman, of the north bound train, is thought to have mis read orders to meet No. 81 at Gran ite, less than a mile from the scene of the wreck. It was impossible for eitfciwetr tp Jiaye seen the light from the other train for more than a minute before the crash. The col lision was on the main line of the Seaboard from North to' South, and both were through trains. The wreckage did not catch fire. Though many of the passengers were women, there was no panic. There was some suffering from the chill of a cold morning, but shortly after the wreck farmers brought coffee to the scene. Wrecking crews and relief trains were sent out hurridly The track was clear at 5 o'clock this after noon. Lee Reinheimer, a Richmond cigar salesman, was awakened when a wo man was hurled into his berth from the compartment ahead of him. She tore a hole cleanly through the thin partition of the sleeper. DOCTORS AND DRUGGISTS ARRESTED. A Nation-Wide Raid on Doctors and Drug Concerns Charged With Mis use of Mails. Washington Dispatch, 20th. A nation-wide raid, involving the practically simultaneous arrest of 175 persons in the principal cities of the country, was made today by Post office inspectors and United States Marshals upon doctors and durg con cerns, charged with misuse of the mails to solicit criminal medical prac tice or to dispose of medicines and instruments connected with such prac tice. The raid the most extensive and far-reaching ever made by any de partment of the government was un der the personal direction of Post master General Hitchcock and Chief Inspector Robert S. Sharp, of the Postoffice Department. So careful ly had its details been guarded that until the first of the arrests were made at Indianapolis early in the day, practically nothing was known of the government's contemplated action. Working with clock-like precision, the inspection force, spread over a States, carried out the pre-arranged plans, and, at an early hout tonight the Postoffice Department had re ceived word that nearly all of the de signated persons had been arrested. Masked Maniac With Infernal Ma chine Creates a Panic. Los Angeles, Cal., Dispatch, 19th. Armed with an infernal machine containing enugh dynamite to de stroy an entire city block, a bottle of mtro-glycenne and a 45-eanbre re volver, a masked maniac took posses f , i i i: , sion or tne central ponce s'.d-.'ijn iu dav and held it for more than an hour, while hundreds of occupants of the building and those for blocks around, panic-stricken, sought .safety in distance. When Detective James Hosick knocked the man unconscious with a leather "billy," after slipping up be hind him, the fuse of the infernal :a chine was automatically ignited, but Detective Samuel L Brown grabbed the box, with its fuse sharply splut tering and hurled it into the street. Sticks of high-power dynamite scat tered over the pavement while Iimi1 dreds of spectators startled, appar ently paralyzed by fright. Through a freak chance there was no exDlos ion, and Brown continued kicking the sticks of dynamite and jumping or. the fuse until he had broken the con nection and extinguished the fire. Mancaled to a cot in the receiving hospital tonight the would-be dyna miter, who gave his name as Albert Henry Davis, is suffering with several severe scalp wounds, but the police surgeons say his injuries are not seri ous Jamaica Devastated by Hurricane. Kingston, Jamaica, Dispatch, 20th. The western end of the island of Jamaica has been devastated by a Hur ricane lasting for five days. A great tidal wave has swept over both the north and south coasts practically wiping out Savanna La Mar an'l Lucea, both towns of considerable im portance. According to a report Drought in by a steamer, 42 persons were killed at Montego Bay. Mr. F7 W. Walters, of Marietta.ls a Lumberton visitor today. CANAL FACTS GIVEN OUT. Report of Panama Canal Commission Channel will be Completed Next Summer and Formal Opening Will be a Year Later. Washington Dispatch. Some time next summer or fall, no exact date being specified, a ves sel will pass what is now the Isth mus of Panama, which consequently must disappear from the world's geography and by the same human agency, the Western Hemisphere will be divided into two continents. The vessel will not be the Oregon nor any other famous ship, but will be one of .the many small water craft in daily use by the canal buildings; and probably the only passengers win be Col. George W. Goethals, and the staff of American engineers, who for the past eight years have been carry ing on the greatest engineering work the world has ever seen. It will be later than that, anywhere from six months to a year perhaps, before the formal opening of the waterway will take place and a naval fleet headed by the famous old Oregon, will pass through into the western ocean, and the canal may be fairly said to be open to the trade. January 1915 The Date. These facts are not of official rec ord as yet; the date of January 1, 1915, still stands for the opening pre dicted by Colonel Goethals. But that the opening will be anticipated to a great extent has been promised by the canal builders in unofficial state ments, and now comes a clear inti mation of their purpose to advance the opening date, in the annual re port of the Canal Commission, just published. It is disclosed while the completion of the great locks by Jan uary 1 next will not be possible, ow ing to contract delays, within six months thereafter the channel will be finished, while to insure the safe passage of the locks, the contractor has been called upon to finish the gates in one flight first, so that if the rest of the work is in condition passage of thips can be permitted without waiting for the completion of the other flights. This statement will be understood, when it is known that the great locks being built in dupli cate, side by side, not only to add to the capacity of the canal buto in sure its continuance in operation in case of a serious accident to a ship in one of the locks. The report shows a most satisfac tory state of progress of the whole great work, though in view of the facfcjthat it is dated September, 10, lasff the figures regarding excava tion, placing of concrete, erection of dams and locks and subsidiary works are not as recent as those contained in the regular monthly reports. Nat urally the most interesting feature of the report relates to the operations in the Great Culebra Cut. Here,. great landslides, many ranking with h Alpine avalanche in magnitude, have so increased the amount of ma terial to be excavated, that were it not found possible to steadily reduce the cost a yard of dredging and steam-shoveling through the grow ing expertness, of the employes and improved engineering methods', the total cost of excavating would have been vastly greater than the esti mates. During the last year nearly 16,500,000 cubic yards of earth were taken out of this cut, leaving nearly 12,000,000 to be displaced before the canal can be opened. The damage caused by the slides may be appre ciated from the fact that nearly 6, 000,000 yards of earth excavated was so composed or nearly 36 per cent of the total excavation. Already the appropriations made by Congress for the canal have run into big figures, the total up to June 30 last being $293,561,468, and since that 'date there have been additional appropriations, exclusive of those for fortifications, amounting to $28, 980,000, making the grand total $322,541,468. On June 30 of all these appropriations, the engineers had ex pended 69 per cent of the total esti mated Tost of the canal. Legislation Planned for 1913 Ses sion of the General Assembly. Raleigh Cor., 18th, Wilmington Star. It is understood that there are al ready in process of preparation a num ber of bills to be introduced in the approaching Legislature and cam paigns being planned for their enact ment into law that will give the 1913 session a distinctly "progres sive" atmosphere, at least as to measures proposed if not bills actual ly passed. A distinct advance in anti trust legislation is being hinted at, a complete revision of the State elec tion law, a general primary law for all parties, blanket commission form of government and iniative and ref erendum laws for cities to be op tionally adopted, the application of the Torrens system of land titles and a variety of other departures. Indica tions are that Hon. E. J. Justice, former speaker, who is returned from Guilford, will espouse a considerable amount of progressive legislation and that his course in the Legisla ture will have a specific bearing on the United States Senatorship con test that will be on two years hence, when Senator Overman's term ex pires and he will be standing for re nomination and election. It is believ ed that Justice will be in the race and that legislat'on he undertakes or accomplishes will be factors in that contest. It is understood that he will not consider the speakership of the House this time at all, prefer ring to lead on the floor. Clarence H. Poe, editor of The Progressive Farrvar of Putleiyh, is being mentioned as a probable mem hpr nf Prpjiiitpnt , Wilson's Chhirpt "sis I Secretary of the Depirment of Agriculture. BATH TUB TRUST CASE. Supreme Court Hands Down Im portant Decision. Washington Dispatch, 18th. In an epoch-making decision today in the so-called "Bath Tub Trust case" the Supreme Court of the Unit ed States laid down the broad princi ple that there can be no monopoly in the unpatented product of a patented machine, without violating the Sher man anti-trust law. Justice McKenna delivered the unanimous opinion of the court. In accordance with this doctrine, the court struck down as illegal the "license agreements" by which manu facturers of 85 per cent of the sani tary enamelled iron in the Uniited States were bound together in com bination The license agreements allows the manufacturers to use a patented dredger, but only on condi tion that they abide by an attached price list; would not sell to jobbers who bought from independents; would sell in certain territory and would sell "seconds." Officials of the Department of Jus tice were highly elated over the decision, which it is claimed, will have an important bearing upon sev eral investigations now under way by Attorney General Wickersham, as well as anti-trust suits already filed against the so-called "Moving Pic ture Trust" and the United Shoe Machinery Manufacturing Company. A BAD AUTO WRECK. Machine Runs Into a Ditch and is . .Torn, to Pieces Occupants Not Seriously Injured. Reported for The Robesonian. Messrs. A. Collins of Lumberton, H. Barnes of Proctorville and J. H. Purvis, near Proctorville, returning from Cerrro Gorda Manday after noon, had a very serious wreck ' near Proctorville when the driver lost con trol of his auto and let it run into a ditch at the rate of about 20 miles an hour. Messrs. Collins and Barnes were .sitting in the rear seat and were thrown some distance ahead of the machine, Mr. Barnes striking a stump and receeiving a very painful injury in his right side, probably breaking three or four ribs. Mr. Collins landed directly in the ditch head down, diving into a cracker box and getting a very heavy jolt. Mr. Pur vis was caught behind the steering wheel and was jolted, but not seri ously hurt. The machine was practically torn to pieces. Viewing the wreck after the ocupants were out, it looked al most impossible to have such a wreck without fatal injuries being received. COME FORWARD GENTLEMEN. County Elect-Officers Notified to Come Forward and Qualify. All persons elected to office at the election held on the 5th day of No vember in Robeson county are here by notified to meet at the court house iii the town of Lumberton on the first Monday, the second day of December, 1912, to then and there qualify, as re quired by Section 4312 Election Laws of North Carolina. FRANK GOUGH, Chairman Board of Elections Robe son County. Commissioners of Rockingham County Indicted. Greensboro Special, 19th, to Charlotte Observer. The entire board of commissioners of Rockingham county has been in dicted for failure to carry out the rec ommendations of the grand jury and upon instruction of Judge O. H. Al len, according to a story which was brought here by a well-known Rock ingham attorney today. It seems that in Rockingham, the county 'com missioners have several times ignored the recommendations of the grand jury, and that in July last this body specifically ordered the building of a new county home, reporting that the present structure was "a" disgrace to a civilized community." The commissioners, it is said, paid no heed to the oder, with the result that at the term of court closing Sat urday, Judge Allen ordered Solicitor Graves to draw presentments against every member of the board. New Residences at Marietta Thanksgiving Concert Items. Personal Correspondence of The Robesonian. Marietta, Nov. 19. Most all the farmers in our section are almost through picking cotton. Mr. N. A. McQueen is attending court at Wlmington. Mr. L. M. Oliver went to Lumberton last Mon day. Mrs. D. N. Oliver of Montreat was the guest of Mrs. M. J. Oliver last Saturday and left for Dillon, S. C, Tuesday, which she will make her home this winter. Miss Theda Nance went to Lumberton last Monday. There will be a Thanksgiving con cert in connection with an oyster supper on the night before Thanks- fiving, which will be November 27. he public is cordially invited. Mr. J. R. Poole, our county superin tendent of public instruction, and Dr. B. W. Page, superintendent of health, visited our school last Wednesday and we are glad to say that Dr. Page found our school in very good condi tion. We are glad to see Mr. S. M. Oliver out again after several days of ill ness. Our school is still progressing and new pupils adding their names to the list every day. Among some new things we see going on in Marietta is the erection of two nice residences which are be ing built by Mr. D. M. Hill and Mr fJ: L Hays, which will add much to the appearance of our city. MURDEI) AM) CAUSING ABORTION. Coroner Rnncke Ho'ds Inquest (Wer Young Colored Woman and Pre maturely Born White Child In quest Held Over Woman's Mo ther in Same House Some Months Ago. Coroner G. E. Rancke held Monday in Afordsville township over the body of a young colored woman an inquest in the same house on Mr. Alex. Al ford's plantation in which he last F'ebruary held an inquest over the body of her mother, both women hav ing been shot by a colored man. Cattie Morrison was her name and the coroner's jury fastened the guilt upon Herbert Barnes, colored, who has disappeared. It was in evidence that Cattie and Herbert had a quarrel in the house where Cattie lived, 5 miles from Alfordsvilile, late last Sat urday evening. Several witnesses testified that following the quarrel Barnes left the house and went to the automobile in which he was traveling; that Cattie followed hfm and took him by the arm, evidently trying to persuade him to come back; that they walked off a little way and then a pistol-shot was heard and Cattie came back to the house and crouched down in a corner and died in 30 minutes. She was shot through the left breast. No one saw the shot fired but a pistol was seen in Barnes' hand, when they walked off. Cattie's mother was shot and killed at the same place by a negro man last Feb ruary. Coroner Rancke also held Monday, on Mr. Billy Smith's farm in Howells ville vtownstihip, an inquest over a prematurely-born child. From the evidence the jury was convinced that Mary Quick, a young white woman whose parents live at Pope Mercer's mill pond, was the mother of the child and that she had taken med icines to bring on the premature birth. The child was about five months old. The body was found in the yard at Mr. Smith's only partal- ly under ground and covered over with a plank. It was in evidence that Mary Quick, who was working at Mr. Smith's, took turpentine Fri day and that Saturday, becoming very sick, she went out behind the smokehouse. Seeing one of the wo men of the house coming, she went to her wfth her hands besmeared with dirt and said she was very sick and weak. She was taken into the house and doctored, those who were with her having no intimation of the cause of her trouble. Sunday night her father came for her and took her home and Monday morning the child was found. It was also in evidence that the young woman had been taking camphor before she took the turpentine, a large dose, b nday even- ng. It will be recalled by some readers of The Robesonian that a young white man named Will Small shot and killed himself some months ago at Quick's home, in a room with Mary and her sister. President -Eect Wilson and Family Welcomed in Bermuda. Hamilton, Bermuda, Dispatch, 18th. President-elect Wilson and his fam ily, on board the steamer Bermudian, arrived at Hamilton today. Large crowds of people lined the streets and wharves, awaiting the ar rival of the President-elect, and all public and private buildings were decorated with flags and bunting. The President-elect and his party landed at noon. Mr. Wilson was re ceived by the officials of the city and was enthusiasticallly cheered as he passed through the streets. In response to a hearty onicial wel come, Mr. Wilson said: "As soon as I knew I had been sen tenced to four years' bard labor, I thought of a rest in Bermuda. The friendship existing between the Unit ed States and Great Britain is a very happy and natural one. I hope noth ing will happen during my adminis tration to distrub the relations of the two countries." Mr. Wilson then expressed his wish to be allowed to remain incognito. The President-elect occupied part of the afternoon in getting his fam ily settled in a private cottage which he has rented, overlooking the ocean. He discovered that he was short one bed, and rowed across the bay alone to obtain it. Four Gunmen Guilty of Rosenthal's Death. New York Dispatch, 19th. "Gyp the Blood," "Lefty Louie,' "Dago Frank" and "Whitey" Lewis killed Herman Kosenthal.the gambler. at the instigation of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker and must pay the pen alty of death in the electric chair The jury which has been hearing the evidence against the four gunmen so decided today when it returned a ver dict of murder in the first degree af ter but 20 minutes' deliberation. Man Whb Shot Roosevelt Found In sane by Alienists. Milwaukee, Wis., Dispatch, 19th. That John Schrank who 6hot Theo dore Roosevelt on the night of Octo ber 14, last is insane will be the Bub stance of an unanimous report of the five alienists appointed by Judge A. C. Backus to examine into th'; pris oner's mental condition, vas the statement of a cour official .his after noon. Forest Fires. For several days a forest fire about five miles from town, near the Eliza beth road has been doing consider able damage. The lands of ex-Sheriff Geo. B. McLeod and Mr. Ii. H. Cald well have been badly damaged, but it is understood that -the - fire . is - now just about under control BRIEF LOCAL NEWS ITEMS Cotton today, 12 'h cent. Mr. P. P. Green, who had beeu confined to his home, Fourth street, about two weeks on account of soil ness, is able to be out again. A recital will be given tomorrow evening, beginning at 8 o'clock, in the graded school auditorium by Jdm Mary Weildells music and elocution pupils. The public is invited. Mrs. I-ary McNair was broueht home yesterday from St. Luke's hos pital, Fayetteville, where she under went an operation four weeks ago. Her condition has greatly improved. At the Pastime theatre this evening will be shown two reels, one a Western, the other a comedy. To morrow evening three reels will be shown, one of which will be F'athe No. 32. Mr. R. I). Caldwell had work Ktarted this morning on a single-story brick building to be erected on the corner of Second and Elm streets, di rectly in front of the Lumberton cot ton mill office building. The building will ne IHx"2b feet, with glass front. Mr. ( aldwell says the building wilt be for rent when completed. Mr. M. Levin of Raleigh, amrist- ant district pagsanger agent for the Seaboard Air Line, wan in Lumberton yesterday. He wan working up interest in the footbaB games for Richmond and Norfolk on Thanksgiving. In other words, he was making the people acquainted with the special rate the Seaboard offering to these points. ' All the ladies who have promised to give cakes to be sold for Thanks giving are requested to leave them at Townsend Bros, store Tuesday af ternoon, the 26th. The ladies ff Chestnut Street Methodist church will run a cake counter in the store the day before Thanksgiving and will sell cakes to raise money for the new church. Also the ladiea of this church. are asked to bear in mind that the bazaar is only about two weeks from now and to keep very busy. Mrs. J. Q. Beckwith and son Mas ter James are expected home tonight from Norfolk, Va., where they and Mr. Beckwith went last week on ac count of the illness of Mrs. Beckwith' mother, who, as stated in Monday'ii Robesonian, died in Norfolk last Fri day. Mr. Beckwith returned home Tuesday and the other children, Mas- . i t : i." i ier vuw.Lun aiiu lime miBH rvfiina. who had been in Wilmington since their parents went to Norfolk.return- ed home Tuesday evening. A number of young men of Lumberton and from other points in the county will go to Richmond next Wednesday night to witness the an nual Thanksgiving Day football game between the universities of North Carolina and Virginia. Ixcal Agent Jones of the Virginia & Caro lina Southern has made arrange ments for a Pullman car which wilt be attached to this regular train Wed nesday evening. The round-trip fare including Pullman, will be, $9. The round-trip ticket is $5. BUILDS OWN FUNERAL PYRE. Daughter of Sultan, Overcome With Despiar at Her Country's Disasters Commits Suiicide While Her At tendants Lament St. Petersburg Dispatch, 17th. According to a Russian correspon dent who is at Constantinople, Zekie, the oldest daughter of Abdul Ham id, the former Turkish Sultan, and who is very patriotic, was overcome with despair on account of her country's disasters and dramatically committed suicide in the garden of her magnificent palace at Abusheir Her husband was Noureddin Pasha, general of a division of the army and a son of the famous Osman Pasha Ghazi, "the victorious." He was fighting under Nazim Pasha, the Turkish minister of war, who al though he declared to the Sultan that he would die on the battlefield rather than return in defeat, ban been overwhelmed with defeat and is now advising the Turkish ministers to abandon the war. As the news of the successive Turkish defeats came in Princei Zekie became morose and refused to converse with her friends. After the defeat of the Turks at Lule Gurgas became known in the Ottoman cap ital the princess determined to com mit suicide. She built a funeral pyre with her own hands and decorated it with flowers and pricless tapestries. The servants were very anxious ov er their mistresses' behavior, but they did not dare interfere. The princess spent a long time in her apartment in silent prayer. Finally she came out, her hair flowing and attired in a long garment, ascended the pyre and then applied fire to it. She was burned to death while the servants stood around lamenting, but, with characteristic Turkish fatal ism, did not attempt to prevent the saddened woman from taking her own life. Afterward a letter from Princess Zekie to her husband was found, hi which she declared that sne could not survive the ruin of her people and cursed the beaten army for it loss of the ancient valor. The letter closes with a prayer to Allah not to permit the complete destruction of the Ottoman nation. A monument to the Confederate dead, erected by the Scotland county chapter of the United Daughters of the Confderacy, was unveiled at Laurinburg Friday. Mr. A. D. Barnes.of route 3 from Lumberton, is among the .visitors in town today.
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