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 <p ili rr> 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><t ipi»'«e« alone #h»>
are dim-on ten ted ^ri Germany." Tile
wealthy miiMla are- :hT»j.'.W
greater alatf.o^ anger |»nd reatft*»
neaa than the ma«a*«. k.turpp«n to
know that a couple of, wceka Kjfo tfiere
wan a private meeting of mme of the'
mint influential commercial and Lbuel
neaa, men Herlin. gathering
wu neld at the Jiouae of Herr B^Jlin,
the great ahipptng maj^ale. tterr
fjallitl i». one of the kai*e{> moat in:
timate frielinV, but Herr HnIIin la a1<9
a hu.iinea* man. and hi* vaat private
intereata are of much more concern te
him than tne friendahip with the em
peror. 'Our loyalty to the emp«*mr
haa rout ua half of p\ir fortune al
ready', he naid. 'We ''hall hot allow
it to r "t u the other half.' A re*o
lution waa paaned at the meeting to
send the following me age to the
**aiaer, 'Win the war or end the war.'
b insurv** uini inerr wmjui im* u
revolution in Germany tomorrow hut
for on« fact 'lint no revolution in any
country, In-t of all in Germany, i*
prmaibia that in not nupported by the
army, ami the only man whom thn
army would follow in a revolt would
he Hinderibe'-jr.
"Von Hind»»nher|j i* at the pinnacle
of hi* popularity. fie in the idol of
the German people. All the »u<Vf .ea
that have attended the German army
have been (cored by the German idol.
And if IlindenherfC m an idol to the
civil population in Germany he i*
tomething even more to the rank and
file of the German army.'—L' r:don
Answer.
Lexington Automobile Speeder
Heavily Fined.
Lexington, March 31.—Lexington
folks had the sensation Thursday r ight
of seeing their main streat made a j
sure enough spvedway, when a high-!
powered car owned by Boh Cecil, wan,
driven at top speed through the princi
pal thoroughfare of the tawn three or
four times. The speeding automobile
made its first appearance just as the
folks were going home from the revi- j
val meetings a» the Kirst M. E. and
First Reformed churches. One or1
more persons are reported to have nar
rowly escaped l>eing run over. An of-1
ficer was not on the scene and no of
ficial action was taken to try and stop
the car, driven by a negro chauffeur
under order of Cecil, who was the prin
cipal passenger, although one citizen
threw a tub in front of the car. The |
tub wts smashed and then someone I
suggested that a battery of nail kegfc,
be placed across the street but cooler!
counsel prevailed. The roar of the|
high-powered motor and the swirl of
dust made some folks uncertain as to
whether it was an auto or areoplane.
When the recorder had gotten through
with the case yesterday morning Cecil
was a little over $88 poorer for hi*
hour's fun.
rrnFFi
UFT OUT YOUN CORNS
i» Mm, «i
Om In,
nabt up, aad lilt out, «IIW a partial*
>• mIM ff him aad la a
aoatpooml III "tbmr dlwiv«n4 by a Cl»
eiaaatl au»n
Aab at any Iran «tor« for a saall
hnttla u( Irmmiv, arhiati will mat but
a Itt&r, lilt la •udlrimt to rid <>aa'a
fi- t uf •««/ «>rp«yr railua.
. Put a fmar dlrmtljr nam aay
Uii'l<■/, ».hl((u rof» or aatHja Inirtantly
Ota riiaappaara ami 4lnftly tha
Mini 'I* rallua will lanara and ran ha
llffead "If Willi, tha tnarrm ' *£ - '
Thin Hru« tri^tnn* rat nut tha
corn* or ralliw» lait ahrtvalp Uim wlth
oyjt mi l Irritating th* Mirrmiadlng akla.
lout think' Vo pa>n-at all. n«
a*»» .* MtiartliHt whra apply inu It or
aftiirwjirU. If jHj»r ilmpjlat hava
fnwuoii* bar* mm ordar it far jott.
G«rfn«n 5m lUidtf off Sovtli ,
#■ i American Coast. %
Rio Janeiro, March 31.--At leant
^Kv*<njp* have been halted by a new
fitimOiji commerce ranler,'1 now operate ,
In* off the South American maxt ami
I I of jjjem *ent -tn Q* bottom of tha
<>c«ian,,their crew* having arrived here
on hotfrd the French h»r4i Cambronna
which encountered th» raider on March
•tf- j .
The German *hip la the Seeadler a
three |pii. ^J*|| *«)uare rigM'l ve»*«l of
#|hnrriM two 10(1
nfifrimetv'gttn* arffplfl rrmchirte gun*„
besides a powerful wirele** infant. Tha^
ve- el on approaching her nuamth fa;
-aid 'o fly a Norwegian merchant flair./-'
Eleven ship* ware sunk l.y the raider ^
feefi.re the rambrnn«$>wa* sent to Rio
•ittiiefro with the crew*. ,
i hi ■ r: h. inan ■ -'m- <
P*& ed the prisoner* for their *er
vice». A rcn.ai kahle ca.te wi.< that (if1
a Hollander. Thin man wan a**igned
to work in the gallery. At the end of
hi* stay on the raider hi* German cap
tor* feanded him !.r>0 mark* in German
paper for hi* work. He refused the
payment with a gesture of diadain.
He was at once arrested arui ia now a
prisoner on ilie Setadler,' the only
member of the captur.ed erew< who
waa not given hi* liberty, it is said.
Life pn« ed pleasantly on board the
raider, ^the released men report,
"•'pecial consideration, according to the
ailor*, seemed to be given the Ameri
can* among the captive* on the raider.
Tb*ra '» more Catarrh In this aectlon
of tha country than a.I oth^r dleea«es
put together. and for y#*ars It wai sup
posed to hi Incur t-ie. Doctors pre
scribed local r*n«d»»* and by con*tsnt
ly falllnr to cuf- with local treatment,
pronounced It Incurable. Catarrh la a.
local disease. jrreatly influenced by con
iBtltoilonal condition* and therefor* re
quire® constitutional treatment. Hall's
Catarrh Curs, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney Sc Co.. Toledo. Ohio, Is a constl
tut .ral remedy, la tak**n Internally
and acta thru the I'.lood on the Mucous
■urfacea of the Hyetem. One Hundred
Dollars reward la off* red for any caa*
that Hall'a Catarrh Cure falls to cure,
•and for eirculara and testimonials.
F. J. CHENEY 4k CO., Toledo. Ohio.
Bold by Drurrfsta. 75c.
Hall's Family Fills for const! patio*.
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The Lest rubbing liniment is
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Good for the Atimcnb cf
Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc.
Good for your own Achet,
Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains,
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Time
Merciless Father Time mow*
down scantily painted buildings.
His scythe cuts de*t> into un
protected boards. He slashes
constantly, day and nicht. all
year round. He wins. The buildings lose.
Paint which will blunt the edge of Time's
scythe, and be an armor protection for the
buildings, is Dutch Boy White-Lead thinned
with linseed oil and tinted any color d< sired.
This paint I* nfl-weathei pro f proof agair s' '
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