Begins Thursday, April 12, and Continues Friday, the 13th, and Saturday, the# 4th. We have an unusual assortment of Household Remedies, Stationery, Toilet Goods, Drug Sundries, Rubber Goods aiid Candies included in this Sale. FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS PLEASE Sf;E HAND BILLS Hawks-RoM Drug Company The ^&xaJLSL Store Corner Main and Franklin Street*, Fulton Building : : : : Mount Airy, North Carolina [. D. HARBOUR, 0. D. Eye-Sight Specialist Mount Airy, N. C. 128 N. Main St. CHARGES REASONABLE Wood s Seeds 100-Day Velvet Beans. This new Velvet llean la rapidly forging lo the front, both as j for age and soil-Improver. A: the low price at which then- can ho secured they are really the cheipc't of summer forage and soil-Improving cropa, and their t»c Is likely to in crease to a very considerable ex tent in the place of cow peas and eoja beans. We strongly recom mend their more extensive use. We are headquarters for Velvet Beans, Cow Peas, a Beans, Millet Seed. ail forage and soil-im proving crops. Write for "Wood's Crop Special** gives prices and full Information. Mailed free on request. T.W.WOOD ©SONS, SEEDSMEN, - Richmond. Vs. We offer all the most productive varieties of SEED CORN. Wood's Crop Special gives full information, i Starch for Mining Boy ia Still Kept Up. Somewhere there in a little fi year uld hoy who would lie wort h $500 to the person who carried him back to his parents. The country genera'ly is fa miliar with the case of the loss of James Douglas Class, of Jersey City, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Glass, but it is of interest that the parent* have never allowed the search to cease, but continuously effoits are directed toward the recovery of the child, ef forts which are nation-wide in their •cope. The missing child was born January 31, 1911, and therefore he is now ar riving at the school age. Having this in mind, Frank Hauge, director of pub lic safety of Jersey City, has sent throughout the country circular de scription of the boy, and of the people with whom he was last seen and sup erintendents of the public schools everywhere are being asked to call to the attention of their teachers the pro bability of the introduction in the first grude somewhere of the little boy fo badly wanted at home. The reward of $500 ia with "No quertions asked" and will be paid for information which will lead to the boy's recovery. The parents feeling that some one was attracted by the child and took it away and may be afraid to show themselves in posses sion, declare their hope that the boy will be returned aa mysteriously as he went away, if the plan ia considered best. Be&sley 6 Tesh J. A. TESH, Manager. Manufacturers of all kinds of Lumber, Building Material, Floor ing, Siding, Ceiling, Doom, Window Sash, Window and Door Screens, Mantels, Mouldings,'Sfeorch Work, Stair Work, Kitchen Tables and Shingles. Screen your house before the flies come. MOUNT AIRY, N. C. I PHONE 178 1917 BARK! BARK! We are ready to contract for Chestnut Oak and Hemlock Bark. Call at our sheds for prices. n March 7th, 1317. •—J* C. C. SMOOT & SONS CO. . A. JOHr'SON, In Charge. DEPOSED CZAR IS THE WORLD'S RICHEST MAN. From Private Wealth of $2,000 000,000, Nicholas Roman off* Income Reaches $85 A Minute. New York, March 29.—Nicholas 11., deponed czar of Russia, in the richest man in the world. His private wealth in not lex* than *2,000,000,000. In! many quartern here it is believed a large part of thin will be seized by the Russian people to finance the war. Nicholan Romarioff'n wealth in large ly invented in foreign bond* and stocks. i Hit American holding* are said to be i extensive. It is understood that he' owns $50,000,000 worth of the Pennsyl vania railroad's stock*. His name does not appear in the list of that cor poration's stockholders for obvioun reasons. Instead, home nominal own-, ers appear. The deponed czar also owns about 680,000,000 acres of land in Russia, i Most of Russia's mineral resources are his private property. Into the czar's private treasury, according «o the Rus sian law, one-third of Russia'* gold and ailver output is annually contribut ed. Since the treaty of Portsmouth the Russian empire has occupied 8,647,-, 657 square miles, or one-seventh of the land surface of the globe. It has a population of about 200,000,000, or fewer than 25 to the square mile. Nominally the autocrat "own*" both land and people, but he and hi* family out of the immense total of 948,063, 763 acre* actually own and receive the revenue from 680,938,927 acres, about 70 per cent of the whole land area of Russia—one-tenth that of the world. The balance, or 267,124, 836 acres is distributed a* follows, according to the 1910 report of the department of agri culture, the latest: Acres. Nobility Merchants, Peasants Landed proprietors, 181,606,<f 36,312,303 36,141,8P.fi, . .8,381,83!'' Other classes 6,673,289 j Total 267,124,836. J ifil nobility number about 1,400,000,1 the agricultural classes (peasants and landed proprietors) 110,000,000. Thus the tiller of the soil and the taxpayer possess on the average about one third of an acre; the Russian noble man, who does not pay taxes, pos- j ses on an average some 128. To put the case In another form. Krom^ every 384 loaves of bread pro duced by the Russian agriculturist the noble land owner alone takes away some .383 loaves for himself, leaving 'ine loaf for the producer, from which the latter has yet to devote a port to natisfy the Htale or autocratic tax col ic or. I Nobody knows exactly the amount <■•' r?ar'« enormous income. The i
of pome of it Is traceable
t" certain public works whose budget*
are matters of public record, and a
uri'c part Is known to be absorbed hy
hi* family and their dependents, who
riumlicr about 3.00&1 anil are, entirely
■ part from the notilo class, which ha<
no Romanoff affiliation-. The ixar
had an annual salary of $12,500,000.
Resides this ennormous revenue he
lerives yet another annual income
from hi* private estate* anil mine*,
the latter beinir worked hy romirn n
unit political convicts.
Accorr'inir to the Almana'h Harhete
the czar enjoys, nn annual income of
M2,500,000, or $85 per minute.
All thin is in addition to the income
from the Romanoff property of fiSO,
1).'J8,!)27 acres, 32,000,000 acres of
which are at present productive. This
yields an annual revenue of $10,000,
>00. This sum (foes for the support of
the rrnnd dukes and dutchesses, who
number 4fi, many of whom draw yet
ither incomes from private sources, or
from various posts occupied in »he
irmy and navy, or in the general ad
ministration of the bureaucracy.
HON. JEANETTE RANKIN
IS GIVEN GREAT OVATION
First Woman Congressman
Takes Her Seat Amid Up
roarious Cheering.
Washington, April 2.— Representa
tive Jesnette Rankin, of Montana, first
woman member of Congress took her,
teat in the house today after an
elaborate prelude of ceremonies in
which woman suffragettes predomi
nated.
The principal ceremony was a break
fast for the "Honorable Jeanette Ran
kin, of Montana," under the auspices
if suffragettes of all factions.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, presi
lent of the National American Woman
Suffrage association, sat at Miss
Rankin's right and at her left was
Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the Na
tional Women's party.
"The day of our deliverance it at
hand," was the keynote of Mrs. Catt's
ipeech.
Miss Rankin, in reply made the
longest speech she has delivered since
the arrived in the capital.
"The day after election," said Miss
Rankin, "it looked very much as if I
lad not been elected, but it seemed to
ne that the campaign had been never
theless worth while, because the
women hail stood together, the women
tad learned solidarity. It seemed to
Tie that that one thing had been alone
worth striving for. I think that thi«
ireakfast this morning shows that the
women are standing together."
Miss Rankin's entrance into the
House was signalized by uproarious
•heeritig and every member and every- !
>ody in the crowded galleries rote, as, I
iccompanied by Representative K\ans
if Montana, she walked to a seat in I
ho rear center of the hall. She car-!
ied one of the scores of boquets which '
'uiBu to her office today. She did.not
rear a hat and was attired sima^y in
i dark dross.
"If thara to • revolution In Rmmhi;
It will b« held by HlndMl»rf."
Thta la fSa astounding ■iat»m#nt
mad* tha other day by a neutral mill*
fary attach* with tha German army
who haa joat mm» from Carman head
foartari on urgent private huaineaa to
London. V "
"What f aa^ia a fact," ha continued.
"If tha lfohenr.nl lern jjynaaty la t'i ha
overthrown, ifindeniterg la the man
who will overthrow LI and liafore the
war la nvgr yofl m#y aae Von Hidden
l>erg the firat president of the (jptted
German j*pwtifi»».
"Germany i» ripeer»>ig for a fevolu
tlon. , ft iw not fnerely that the m« t.
of the people are nuffering greatly,
and are growiug daily mure dim-on
tented, jlr.wever great their auff«^>
ing and thair djw-nntent. tj»* maaae* id
Germany wi.uV^prohahly never dare
to break otKttnto open Avolt. , **
"But it fTffot D>