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TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1917 ' tim REVTFTW; RETDfVILLE, N. a PAGE f It IOZIANKE ReirjKuyt '"OUTtRSfrHOAS't" Hie Luzianne Guarantee: If, after using the contents of a can, you are not satisfied in every respect, your gro cer wili refund your money. IMANNKcoffee "Ihe Reily Taylor Company, .New Orleans Has a Good Opinion of Chamberlain's Tablets "Chamberlain's Tablets are a won der. I never sold anything that beat thlera, writes F. B. Tressy, Richmond, Ky. When troubled with indigestion or constipation give than a trial. SPOCOAQ. NOTOC I wish to announce that I have open ed up a Real Estate! Rental and Insur ance business at the Sheriff's old office, 108 Gilmer Street. I buy and sell real estate, farm lands, look after collecting rents, and write all kinds of insurance. Anything you may trust to me will be greatly appreciated. PETTIGREW REAL ESTATE, RENTAL & INSURANCE AGENCY Per W. J. Pettigrew. YOU HEARIT EVERYWHERE When "something to di ink" is mentioned you always hear the suggestion of Buy it in bottles! Keep a scores of oar cit'zens are doing. There mn;t be some reason for the universal liking of Coca-Cola. THERE IS! Drink Coca-Cola in bottles and you'll learn why. Order a crate today and see bow truly delightful it is. ' FRED DEGROTTE, Phone 183 Shorely is Good Start the day with a cup of good, old Luzianne. There's cheer in its very aroma spunk and go? to-it in every swallow. You'll like Luzianne. Buy a can today and, if you don't agree it goes farther and tastes better than any other coffee at the price, tell the grocer and he will give you back exactly what you paid for it, with out argument. You simply can't go wrong on Luzianne. Ask for profit-sharing catalog. 1 Less than a fortnight , ago the Turks had decided to evacuate Jeru salem without battle pfrovided the city was seriously menaced. It has been learned that this decision has been Changed at the instance of thle Germans and that the city will be de fended. crate in your home Registration Day Caused by Unfair Act of 1917 Democratic In the Extreme, While That of 1863 Was Undemocratic Could Buy Exemption For $300. THE conscription is in full opera tion. Approximately 10,00QOOO men between the ages of twenty one and thirty-one have been regis tered, and from this number Unole Sam will take his first army of 025,000 for active duty in France. Everybody Is familiar with what happened on that momentous day, Tuesday. June 5. 1017. There is no need to repeat the story of what oc curred then. In great contrast with the actions of the citizens In 1917 we read of the terrible draft riots that occurred In New York city and, to a lesser extent, in other -cities of the United Sfates in 1SG3. The draft of 1917 was essentially democratic. Exemption cannot be bought. It must be for cause. The draft of 1SG3, besides being so conducted as to suggest a blind lottery with life, the names coming out of a wheel like prizes of fate, was undem ocratic. Exemption could be bought for money. . One whose name was drawn bad either to go to the front or pay $300 in money. This was what really caused the violent protest, says the New York Tribune. The riots of 1S(!3 took New York un aware. On July IJ, 1803, at 10:30 o'clock in the morning a pistol shot cracked at Forty-sixth street and Third avenue. That shot was the signal for a reign of terror which for five days filled" the streets with howling mobs. The man It killed was the first of hundreds who fell in the ensuing col lisions between rioters on one side and police and soldiers on the other. New York was In the throes of the draft riots of 1803. Speeches denunciatory of the gov ernment aud compulsory military serv ice, the circulation of Inflammatory handbills urging resistance to the draft, the organization of societies to oppose it, activities of radicals inciting volence all these were part of the op position to conscription In 1863. Men of influence and recognized integrity lent their sympathy aud aid to the anti draft movement, though not to the law lessness attending it. The crisis devel oped suddenly, The drawing of names was started unexpectedly on the morn ing of Saturday, July 11. There had been little preparation, aside from the preliminary enrollment some time te- f ore. Up to the morning of the draft the murmurings of complaint had been pitched In a key too low to alarm the authorities. Even on the first day of the drawing a certain apathy seemed to hover over the throng that had as sembled In a little office room at G77 Third avenue to witness the lottery. The Draft Wheel. On a raised platform at one end of the room had been placed a great, hol low wheel, with a crank by which It might be turned. Into this boxlike re ceptacle had been put thousands of lit tle rolls of paper, each of which bore a name. At the appointed hour of 10 Charles H. Carpenter, a clerk, bare armed 'and. blindfolded, 'took his 'place beside the wheel. He was to draw the names. Another clerk stood at the wheel to turn it. Four times the wheel whirled arouud. The crowd was very still. Even the rustle of the many bits of paper in the big hollow box might be distinctly heard. The wheel stopped and the clerk drew back ft sliding panel. Into the wheel went Carpenter's bare arm, and out it came with a tiny bit of pa per clutched in bis fingers. Charles E. Jenkins, provost marshal, took the pa per from bis hand and opened it. Iu a voice that vibrated tensely In the stillness he read the name: "William Jones. Forty-sixth street, near Tenth avenue." There was a stir In the crowd, a sound like a great sigh of relief from a hundred lips. Then tame the mic tion. Some one laughed. A man's yruft voice muttered, "Poor Jones:' In a tone ; half pitying, half sarcastic. The uiood of the crowd changed to one of ironic merriment. "How are you, Jones?" "Good for you, Jones!" "First blood for Bill Jones! Smith's next!" '".. Crowd Comments Bitterly. Into the wheel again went the bare arm of Carpenter, and out it came with the bit of paper. All morning and far Into the afternoon the 'work kept up, while the crowd looked on,., with bitter comment, sarcastic bantering, but no show of violence. When at last the drawing closed for the day 1.230 names bad been placed upon the list of drafted men. It was during the following day, Sunday, that the spirit of the mob was born. The morning newspapers car ried the complete list of those who had been drafted. All day little knots of angry men gathered on street corners, iii. alleyways or about the doors of their homes, protesting loudly and bit terly against the conscription or mut tering among themselves. The city was ill prepared for trouble. Only a short time before its forts and arsenals bad been stripped of their gar risons, and nearly every soldier jn the i state, both Volunteer and regular, had j been rushed Into Pennsylvania at Fres- j Idrnt Lincoln's order to re-enforce the 1 army of General Meade, rraetlcally Recalled Riots Draft In Civil War At Least 400 Persons, Maybe 1,000, Were Killed In New York While City Remained at Mercy of Mob For Five Days. -000 the only defense of the city was its police force of about 2,000 men. For what followed bitter criticism was heaped on tlie officiate in charge of the draft for the sudden manner in which it was put into operation at an inopportune time. No notification of when tlie draft would begin was given, it is alleged, to General Wool, in com mand of the military of the New York department; to Mayor George Opdyke, to Governor Horatio Seymour or to the police department. The drawing of names was begun most unexpected ly by Provost Marshal Jenkins in what was then the Twenty-second ward, Ninth congressional district. Mob la Ugly Mood. Before the drawing of names was re sumed at 077 Third avenue at 10 o'clock Monday morning the spirit of mob resistance had already developed far. There was an ugly tone to the murmurings of the crowd that gath ered outside the provost marshal's of fice. There were few In the office when the drawing begnn aside from the pro vost marshal, his clerks and assistants and representatives of the press. For half an hour the wheel spun quietly. About seventy-five; names had been added to the list, when suddenly there I came tlie report of a pfctol, the sound I that marked the beginning of the five ! days' relgu of disorder. As if at a sig j mil a shower of bricks and stones de I scended on the' marshal's office. In one second every window had been smash ed aud the room was filled with flying missiles. The .mob then charged the office. The clerks carried the wheel to the top floor of the brick building, the upper floors of which were used as dwellings. Hiding it in a corner, they escaped from the building, as fire start ed by the mob in the office below began to eat its way upward. Climbing a fence in the rear of tlie building, Pro vost Marshal Jenkins sought safety in an adjoining house, where he lay In hiding while the mob howled for his Hfe. . :. V": .;.' For two hours and a half the mob held sway in the blocks about Forty sixth street and Third avenue. Hand fuls of pCl!p sent against them proved powerless. Superintendent Klennedy, in charge . of the police force, ventured among the crowd lu citizen's clothes during the first stages of the riot. He was recog nized and sot upon by a score of men. Fleeing for his life, he was pursued for blocks, finally intercepted by an other band aud beaten Into insensibil ity. :,- At 1 o'clock, after three buildings had been burned, six families rendered homeless and the entire block endan gered, a sudden whimsy of the mob caused It to rush away down Third avenue. This gave the fire department Its first opportunity to check the spreading flames. Hand to Hand Battle. At Thirty-fourth street and Third avenue the mob came face to face with a detachment of the provost guard on their way to the scene of the original riot. A hand to hand battle followed up to Forty-fourth street. When at last the showers of stones, bricks and clubs descending on the guard began to deplete IN ranks Lieutenant Reed gave the order to fire. Instantly the mob rushed the guard, overpowered them and took'-.a way 'their guns. Dis armed, the handful of soldiers fled, pursued by the mob as far as Twen tieth street. For the rest of the day the mob ruled the city, with little resistance. Spasmodic efforts of the police tc check the Hoc resulted In frequent com bats, in which both rioters and officers were killed or Injured. Boards bear ing the newly painted words "No Draft!" were the banners under which tlie mobs inarched the city's streets House after house, the homes of draft officials. Abolitionists and others whe bail incurred the enmity of the mob, was sacked and burned. Stores were looted and the streets piled high with plunder waiting to be carried off. Tel egraph poles were cut down and piled across the tracks of the Third Avenue railway, which ceased to run early in the afternoon, as did the omnibuses. Negro Asylum Burned. One of the atrocious acts of the mot came at 5 o'clock on Monday after noon, when it descended upon the Col ored Orphan asylum, oo Fifth avenue, near Forty-sixth street. Intent upon in flictlng reprisals ukii the negro cbil-j dren. The children were removed tc a place Of safety before the mob arrlv ed. Tlie asylum builiing was burned. Next the mob turned its attention to the downtown district of tlie city. Their first stop, was at the building al Twenty-ninth street and Broadway where tlie enrolment for draft had taken place. The lower part of the building was occupied, by a large Jewel ry store. Within five minutes aftei the arrival of the mob not an articlt of value was left in the place, while diamonds and rubies gleamed in the light of Paring torches iu the street as tlie looters examined their prizes. A few moments later the building was Inflames. It was at 8 o'cloek that night that historic attack on the office of tb New York Tribune occurred. The mob gathered quickly In Printing House square, in spite of the spasmodic ef forts of handfuls of police to disperse It. The attack began with the hurling of stones through the Tribune's win dows. Then, with a sudden rush, tha mob invaded the counting room on tha ground floor, put to flight the single clerk in charge and proceeded to sack the place. Their work, as usual,, cul minated with the kindling of flames, The mob had barely finished its work and the fire had not yet gained great headway when police re-enforcements rushed up Nassau street, under Cap tains Warlow und Thorne. While part of the officers beat biyk the mob from the Tribune building Captain War low's men extinguished the flames be fore great daniuge'had been done. But not until scores of heads had been cracked did the crowd retreat before the officers' onslaught. Monday night was one of terror throughout the city. Marauding bands held undisputed sway, while the sky glowed with the glare of burning buildings and tlie night echoed with the reports f firearms. Colonel O'Brien's Home Looted The 'mobs resumed their work early Tuesday. Learning that Colonel II. T. O'Brien of the Eleventh New York vol unteers was co-operating actively ii the plans to put down the riot, a Biol marched to his house on Second ave nue, between Thirty-fourth and Thirty fifth streets, and sacked and looted it As they were finishing their work 3(M policemen, under Inspector Carpenter, charged the mob. emptying their re vol vers as they advanced. After a few moments of battle the rioters lied, tak ing refuge in nearby houses and on roofs, from which they stoned the po lice. ' While the battle was still under way Colonel O'Brien appeared with a de tachment of his regiment and two Held, pieces. In spite of there-enforcements, however, the mob rallied and attacked again. The soldiers tired, and in the resulting battle seven persons were killed and sres were wounded, many fatally. Bitter fighting ensued Tuesday after noon about the building-of the Union Steam works, at Twenty-second street and Second avenue, which was held alternately by the police and soldiers aud by the rioters. Volley after volley was fired into the ranks of the mob by the soldiers, who followed their fusil lades several times with bayonet charges, LHtring this battle at leust a score were killed or fatally wounded, and the number of those less seriously hurt was never known. The mob sought especially to vent its bitterness against the Tribune and Horace Greeley, though no new attack was attempted on the Tribune build ing, which was strongly guarded, h loaded howitzer beiug stationed at the corner of Spruce street In charge of 8 marine. A house In Twenty-ninth street between Eighth and Ninth ave nues was wrecked and looted because, it was reported, "Horace Greeley boarded there." A young man sus pected of being a Tribune reporter was beaten almost to death. Late hi the afternoon the mob suc ceeded in wreaking its delayed venge ance on Colonel O'Brien. As he was entering his home he was captured by the crowd aud literally beaten to death. Many negroes were hanged. Business in all parts of the city was suspended on Wednesday. The reign of terror continued, with the slaying of more negroes, dozens of Incendiary fires and numerous bloody combats be tween the rioters and the police and soldiery. Authorities Rout Rioters. On Thursday the situation was somewhat-relieved, Tlie arrival of the Sev enth, Sixty-fifth and Seventy-fourth regiments and a battery of the Eighth regiment gave the authorities a firmer grip on the situation, and the rioters were routed whenever they essayed fight In numbers. A battery of artillery was stationed before the Tribune office to protect if. Tlie severest combat oc curred Thursday at l) p. m. at Twenty first street and Third - avenue,', when thirteen rioters were killed, eighteen wounded and twenty-four taken prison ers. In the afternoon fifteen soldiers of the Seventh regiment were killed in a battle at Twenty-ninth street and First avenue, A happening on Thursday that help ed t t take the heart out of the rioters was the arrest of John Urkhardt An drews, an agitator who had been one of the ringleaders of the mob and had frequently harangued It, urging it on to further violence. By Friday the situation was so well in hand that Mayor Opdyke issued 8 proclamation declaring the rioting end ed and urging citizens to resume the normal course of their business. ' At Least 400 Killed. The total casualties of the week of riotiug were never actually known. It was conservatively estimated that at least 400 or WW Were killed, and some estimates ran as high as 1,000. Ac cording to polk-e reports, many bodies of slain rioters were hurried oft and buried secretly. The deaths of many who subsequently succumbed to their wounds were attributed to other causes. Approximately fifty buildings were burned by the mobs. Twenty of the rioters were Indicted and tried aud nineteen were convicted, receiving sen tences aggregating nearly 100 years. Simultaneously with the rioting it New York there were similar disturb ances in Boston. Jersey City, Troy and Jamaica, although none approached In seriousness the troubles In the metropo lis. There also was forcible resistance to the draft In several counties of Wis cons In and Pennsylvania. Sporadic out breaks to various other places ceased a: soon at the New York riots subsided. 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In fact a dollar bottle lav.s is long a3 other and weaker Iron rem edies which often as not contain al cohol vl h everyone k -.ows l..i on ly a teirimr. effect an.! nlva8 a dangerous reaction when taken ia excessive quantities. Give Your Blood a Real Cleaning. Start taking a teaspoonful of Acid Iron Mineral (natural iron) after ach meal for a week or ten days. Get out in the air and draw in a few great big mouthfuls of ozone, eet the alart:n for early and see how sound the sleep gets, and how refreshed and full of vim you fetel on getting no. Everybody needs iron. Here It is. Non-alcoholic, non-injurious, halpful and beneficial to blood, kidneys, stom ach and bladdier, It is death to germs, uric acid, and other blood poisons. Begin by phoning or calling at the nearest druggist this very day.v A large bottle of Acid Iron Mineral will be sent anywhere prepaid upon rteceipt of one dollar. Ferrodine Chemical Corp., Roanoke, Va. A Washington, N. C, dispatch re ports that twenty carloads of pota toes brought into the local market ov er one line on onla day since the first of Junie brought the shippers approxi mately $25,000; The shipments cama from the country near the Eastern terminus of the Washington & Vande- more railroad. That section is be ginning to rival Mainte in making the spud a staple crop. MAMMA! DON'T YOU SEE YOUR CHILD IS s SICK, CONSTIPATED Look at tonguje' Move poisons from liver and bowels at ' one. Mother! Your child isn't naturally cross and peevish. See if tongue is coated; this is a eure sign its little stomach, liver and bowels need a cleansing at once. Wrhen listless, pale, feverish, full of cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn't eat, sletep or act naturally, has stomach ache, diarrhoe, remember a gentle bowel cleansing should always be tha first treatment given. 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