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cCONFESSES TO WHOLESALE

MCUDEILKILLED IX A CYCLOXE.

Genera Netis.get ia money, totftakes the trip.

We expect fife Ut7nlng boys from aU JJ

Fortunes in Faces

There's often much truth la thesaying "her face is her fortune, butit's never said where pimples, tkiaeruptions, blotches, or other blem-

ishes d if2gare 1L Impure blood Is

back of them all. and shows the nee4of Dr. King's New Ufe Pills. Trythem. 25 cents at all dfuggiats.

Farm Topics

lrises In Hoy' CVrn Huh.To All Members o fthe Corn Club:

I wrote you before that we shouldhave additional prixes and I am now

glad to announce two additionalprize in each district under the samerules as the first list I sent you.These new prixes are two free trips.In each district, to the National CornShow which will be held In Columbia,S. C, in January, 1913.. The Southern Fertillier Associa-

tion has appropriated 1500 for thispurpose. The boys who win theseprizes will each get $25 to cover all

Milam Is cu&ranteed under thepure food and drugs law to con-

tain no opium, morphine, strych-nine, mercury, potash or otherdangerous or habit formingdrujrs. Thus you take no chances aotwith your health when you take

Milam.

I will alwa7s take pleasure in recommending Milam for Uric Acid troubles.

C. T. Barksdale. former U.S. Postmaster,Danville, Va.

For nearly eight years I suffered withrheumatism at times unable .o walk. Iam taking Milam with great benefit slsI am now able to walk and suffer no pain.Mrs. Ira R. Preston, Abingdon, Va.

Rheumatism affected my heart until Icould not lie down without such pain thatI could hardly bear it Milam has mademe feel like a new woman. Mrs. J. P.Brown. 635 N. 8th St., Richmond, Va.

For 13 years I was confined to my bedthe greater part of the time with rheuma-tism. Milam has been a Godsend to me.I now walk about my farm the swellinghis left my limbs and joints reduced tonormal size. F. L. Gristle, R. F. D. 1,Chocowinity, N. C.

State Nerts.A negro In Wilson waa fined $10

and costs, or thirty days on theroads, for cruelty to his horse a feyday ago.

Mrs. C. C. Green was last Mondayapolnted postmistress at Othello,Ashe County.

Telegrams from Mitchell and AveryCounties to-d-ay state that as a resultof conventions held, delegates wereunanimously Instructed for Roose-

velt.

Webb Jeffries, a negro of MooreCounty, stabbed and probably fatal-ly wounded Mr. J. W. Moore, his em-

ployer, last week. The negro Is inJail.

In Greensboro on last Friday nightClyde Brooksher, a negro, shot andkilled another negro at Brroksher'shome. It is said that the shootingwas accidental.

Webb Jeffries, who stabbed andprobably fatally wounded John W.Moore, near Carthage last Thursday,was captured in Stanly, RandolphCounty, Saturday.

On last Tuesday morning near Scot-

land Neck, a negro named Hawkinsshot and killed another negro namedCotten in a row at a disreputablehouse In that vicinity.

A charter has been issued for thePamlico Co-opera- ge Company ofWashington, with capitol stock of$25,000, by A. M. Drewery, GeorgeT. Linch, and C. P. Freeman.

The contract for the erection of aCarnegie library building in Hender-sonviil- e

has been let. The buildingit to cost $10,000, and will be thehandsomest brick building in Hender-eonvill- e.

Daniel Koonce, an eighteen-year-ol- d

boy who lives near Tranton. JonesCounty, committed suicide by shoot-ing himself last Monday afternoon.He was disappointed in a love affair,it is said.

At a gold mine, near Cando, inMontgomery County, a few days ago,Jim Ward, a negro employe, droppedseventy-fiv- e feet through a shaft tothe bottom of the pit and was killedinstantly.

Charlie Robbins, the man who cutand seriously wounded a man namedCopp, in West Durham on Fridaynight of last week, was caught inGreensboro Saturday and carriedback to Durham.

Mr. W. L. Bryan, of Boone County,it is aid, is getting up subscriptionsfor the erection of a monument tothe memory of Daniel Boone, whichis to be placed on the site of Boone'scabin in East Boone.

Mrs. Ellas Carr, widow of the lastGovernor Carr, died March 29 th, inWashington, where she had gone tovisit her son. She was seventy-tw- o

years of age. Her remains were tak-en to her former home in Edgecombefor burial.

Investigations in the case of LenC. Smith, who was found murderedand lying near the track of the Nor-folk Southern Railroad a few daysago, near Farmville, have resulted inthe arrest of three, who were boundover to Superior Court.

The case of Warren against theSeaboard Air Line Railroad, whichwas concluded in Durham last Thurs-day, resulted in damages in the sumof $12,000 for the killing of JamesWarren who was killed in the Hamletyards last year as a negro excursiontrain was leaving the yards.

The body of a young man abouttwenty years of age, was found nearthe railroad track ( Atlantic CoastLine) at Hayne, Sampson County,April 1st, by two travelers, E. A.Bullard and Francis Parker, whowere in a buggy going to Hayne. Itis supposed that he was killed by thetrain.

The body of an unknown whiteman was washed ashore on the CapeFear River, about two miles from

'Wilmington, Sunday morning. Thebody had been in the water, it isthought, for more than a month.There were no papers or anything inthe pockets to give any clue to hisidentity.

A United States Government In-spector who was in Greensboro with-in the past few, days examining thecourt records relative to the grantingof naturalization papers, finds, it issaid, that not . more than one out often naturalization certificates are le-gal. He says it is just so in manyother places. .

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Saves Leg of Boy.

"It seemed that my fourteen-year-ol- d

l)oy would have to lose his leg onaccount of an ugly ulcer, caused by abad bruise," wrote D .F. Howard,Aquone, N. C. "All remedies anddoctors' treatment failed till we triedBucklen's Arnica Salve, and curedhim with- - one box." Cures burns,boils, skin eruptions, piles 25c. atall druggists.

Wayne County Vlltl by HearyStorm That Does ConsiderableDamage.A special sent out from Goldsboro,

March 29, says:"A cylclone storm passed over the

city this morning doing little damagehere, but wrought great damagethroughout the Patetown section ofthe county, blowing up trees fromtheir roots, demolishing houses,barns and rendering destruction toeverything in Its patch. Many horses,mules and cattle were killed.

"Two little boys, fourteen andeleven years old, respectively, broth-ers, and the sons of Mrs. Fanny Woo-te- n,

a widow, living with her fath-er, Mr. Cutrell, near Patetown, inStony Creek Township, this county,took shelter In their grandfather'sbarn to play, while the storm was onand while there a Sudden cyclonewind passed, demolishing the barnand killing the older boy and seri-

ously injuring the younger, break-ing one of his legs In two places.Other great property damage wasdone in the wake of this wind, butfull particulars cannot be had at thishour."

--J'oliceman Arrested on Charge ofMurder.

A Waynesville, N. C, dispatch ofApril 2 says:

"Robertson Rogers, a policeman atClyde, has been brought here underarrest. It is alleged that he killedLee Wells in the McCracken andWells shooting affair last Fridaynight."

Headless Body of Grandy O'BerryFound Near Hayne, Sampson Co.

A dispatch sent out from Fayette-vill- e

Tuesday night says:"From developments transpiring

to-d- ay it has been learned that theyoung man whose headless body wasfound on the Atlantic Coast LineRailroad track near Hayne yesterdaymorning was Grandy O'Berry. ofFairmont, Robeson County, and thathe met his death by falling from thetrain on which he was traveling toWilmington."

Veterans Make Conscience Contribu--r

tions.Washington Dispatch.

The , Treasury Department to-d- ay

received a contribution to the consci-ence fund from a veteran of the CivilWar to pay for a blanket retained bythe veteran at the close of the war.The $5 contribution was accompaniedby the following letter addressed toSecretary MacVeagh:

"When I was discharged from thearmy in 1885 I had two saddle blank-ets, old one I had picked up. So Iturned over one and kept the other,which I should not have done. SoI will send you $5, which1 I think theGovernment is entitled to."

The letter is signed "One of UncleSam's "Veterans," and the envelopebore the postmark of an Illinois town.Two weeks ago the department re-

ceived a draft for $200 sent by aminister for a conscience strickenveteran who appropriated a mulefrom the Government at the close ofthe war.

The Prohibiton Law and Drunken-ness in Charlotte.

Statesville Landmark.In Charlotte Saturday night some

son of Belial went about the streetsand gave liquor away to all whowould take it, and many there werewho accepted the bottle when it wasput to their mouths and fell by thewayside. It must have been thatway, for the Observer says theamount of public drunkenness inCharlotte Satuiday night was aston-ishingly not to say disgracefullylarge even for the "metropolitan cityof Charlotte." Exactly a score arrest-ed for this offence were arraignedin the police court Monday morning,not to mention the great number thepolice didn't find or who --were ableto navigate and thus escape theclutches of the law; and when askedwhere they got their liquor, they allwith one accord said: "It was giveto me."

Democracy Doesn't Seem to Want aSouthern Man.

Charlotte Observer (Dem.)In the Macon Telegraph's opinion,"

the noun dwag is apt to become theemblem of the Southern Democracy,and with much justice, because nonoun dawg was ever kicked aroun'with such impunity as the SouthernDemocracy. "The poor animal," sym-pathizes our contemporary, "is soused to being kicked aroun that itsets up a howl the minute some onesuggests a purely Southern man forthe Presidency expecting the kick."

Shot Convict to Halt Him, But KilledHimx Instead.

A dispatch from Rocky Mount dat-ed March 30 says:

"News reached this city about 10o'clock this morning from Nashvillethat the office of that place, whilein pursuit of a convict who had es-caped from the county gang aboutChristmas of last year, had shot andkilled the negro, he dying instantly.The man's name was Will Richardsonwho was sentenced to two years onthe roads some time ago by RecorderThorpe of Nashville." .

Xrsro Girl Aire! on Charg ofM ordering Thirty People.

A d Upatch from LaFayettc, La..March 2. says:

"Officials In LaFayette an4 tkreeother Louisiana towns to-nig- ht aresearching for evidence corroborativeof the sensational confess of the sen-

sational confession made to-da-y by

the young negrtss, Clementine Barn-abe- t,

of participation in the whole-

sale 'axe murders, which have start-led this section.

"Seven negro families, a total ofthirty-fiv-e persons, have met deathby mysterious midnight assassins ineach case armed with an axe, inSouthwest Louisiana towns and in j

Texas within the past fourteenmonths.

"Clementine Barnaget, nineteenyears old, to-d-ay confessed that shewas the principal in annihilatingfour of these families, with a totalof seventeen persons. She said oth-

er families had been marked fordeath and would pay the 'sacrifice.

"There were five members of thegang,' two other women and two

men, according to the Barnabet girl'sstory. She gave the names of thetwo other women but declined to tellwho the male members of the gangwere. The namesvof the two womenare unknown to the local authoritiesbut a systematic search Is to be madein the towns where the murders oc-

curred."

TWO KILLED IX CYCLOXE.

Many Houses Unroofed and OtherDamage Done.

A Philadelphia dispatch of April2 says:

"Two women were fatally injured,scores of houses unroofed and morethan twenty-fiv- e were completely de-

molished by a windstorm of cyclonicvelocity which passed over that por-

tion of Camden, known as Cooper'sPoint, and swept down the DelawareRiver to the center of this city, doingthousands of dollars worth of prop-erty damage.

"To-nig- ht Camden is In utterdarkness, all the electric lights having been turned off and the streetsin the northern section of that citypiled high with debris and telegraphpoles.

"Mrs. Annie Cleary, of Camden,and Miss Annie Behren, of Phila-delphia, who were riding in a street-car in Camden were caught beneatha building which was demolished bythe storm and both were so badlycrushed that neither can recover.

"In the section of Camden wherethe storm was most severe, entireblocks of dwellings were unroofedand the occupants driven to thestreet."

Distiller and Storekeeper Arrested onCharge of Bribery and -- Fraud.

A Richmond, Va., dispatch ofApril 2 says:

"Clarence B. Wood, President ofthe Broad Rock Distillery Company,in Henrico County, was to-d- ay indict-ed by the Federal grand jury on sixcounts charging bribery. The pre-sentment charges that on six specificoccasions Wood gave sums of moneyto O. T. Burroughs, a store-keep-er

employed by the Internal RevenueDepartment in the distillery, with thepurpose of influencing him to allowfraud to be practiced against theGovernment. Burroughs was indictedMonday last charged with connivingwith the distilling company to de-fraud the Government of part of thetaxes on the spirits it manufactures."

President Wins Fight for Control inIndiana.

Indianapolis, Ind., March 29.President Taft has won his fight forcontrol of the Indiana delegation inthe Republican National Convention.Eighteen of the thirty votes the Statewill cast to-d-ay are pledged to thePresident. Eight are pledged to Col-onel Roosevelt. Yesterday's five dis-trict conventions increased Taft's to-

tal by four and Roosevelt's by six.Two Congressional Districts have notyet named their delegates.

"The results in Indiana, with itsfar-reachi- ng influence, because ofthe State's pivotal position in poli-tics, means the renomination of thePresident on the first ballot in theChicago convention," said Harry S.New, Republican National Commit-teeman and Taft leader, here to-da-y.

'.'I believe that two of the remainingfour delegates to be selected will beinstructed fo rthe President givinghim twenty of the State's thirtyvotes."

Woman Lawyer Will Defend NegroFrom North Carolina.

A New York dispatch under dateof March 30, says:

"Judge Swan to-d-ay in general ses-sion assigned as counsel to LeroyPoindexter, a negro charged withmurder in the first degree. Miss Lu-cille Pugh, a young woman lawyer.

"The assignment of Miss Pughwas made after the young womanhad made a plea, saying she was will-ing to waive the State fee of $500.She said that Poindexter comes fromthe same part of North Carolina thatshe does and that he appealed to herfor aid. .

Poindexter is under indictment forshooting Thomas Brown, a white manduring a fight."

It will do you no good to put It off nothingto gain, all to lose. Act today..

Ycur druggist has Milam or can get it very quickly from any drug jobber.

THE MILAM MEDICINE CO., Inc., DanvilU, Va.

An earthquake shock was reportedin Syria Monday, causing enormousdamage to life and property.

John Arbuckle, the noted coffeeman, died'in Brooklrnjast week. Hewas seventy-fou- r years of age.

Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, wasattacked by a crazed Pole while theSenator was speaking last Saturdayin Waukeza, Wisconsin, but was notinjured.

Mrs. Yin Harris and her son Char-ley, of Somerset, Ky., have been ar-

rested, charged with the murder ofMr. J. W. Whitaker, a half-broth- er

of Mrs. Harris.

A levee at Hickman, Ky., broke afew days ago and the tow a was flood-ed. Hundreds of families were driv-en from their homes, but no loss oflife was reported.

Henry Hafner, a Civil War veteran,seventy-tw- o years of age, shot him-self last Saturday in the Soldiers"Home in Philadelphia. It was saiIhe was despondent.

Miss Susan L. Monroe, of Fall Riv-

er, Miss., died a short time ago andleft an estate valued at $100,000 toher favorite horse, which she hadowned for twenty years.

Jasper D. Farmer, a merchant ofBowling Green, Va., was found withhis skull crushed near his store onMonday last. The surroundings boreevery evidence of robbery.

A ton of powder exploded in themill of Laflin & Rand Powder Com-pany at Wayne, N. Y., Monday andkilled one man and wounded twoothers. The shock was felt as far asNew York. '

Major-Gener- al Frederick D. Grant,Commander of the Department of theEast, is reported to be suffering froma throat trouble similar to the illnessfrom which his father, General U. S.Grant, died.

iNewell Sanders, chairman of the

State Committee of Tennessee, isspoken of for appointment to thevacancy in the Legislature made bythe death of Senator Taylor. Mr.Sanders is a Republican.

The breaking up of the ice in thePlatte, Loap, Elkhorn and other riv-ers of Nebraska, is said to be causingthe worst floods in that State formany years. Considerable damagehas been done to property.

Rev. J. Frank Norris, of FortWorth, Texas, charged with the burn-ing of the First Baptist Church ofthat city, of which he was pastor, sur-rendered to the sheriff and was re-

leased on a bond of $1,000.

Harry Stewart, assistant superin-tendent for the Carnegie Steel Com-pany, Pittsburg, Pa., was shot andseriously wounded by a workmanwhom he had dismissed from service.The man immediately shot himselfdead.

J. P. Cambrell, Jr., the young manwho was accidentally shot by hiscousin John Gambrell, near Ander-son, S. C, a few weeks ago, died inthe hospital at Anderson last Friday.The young men were scuffling over apistol.

Frank Whisonant and Joe Brinson,negroes, were found swinging fromrafters in a blacksmith jShop inBlackburg, S. C, a few days ago.They had been dead several hours.It is supposed that they were victimsof mob violence.

Roland Johnson, a thirteen-year-ol- d

boy of Bessemer City, made an at-tempt to swing on a moving train inthat place Tuesday, when his foot wascaught, dragging him under thetrain, injuring him so badly that hedied in a few hours.

Damages of $36,000 were awardedthe Peoples Tobocco Company ofNew Orleans against the AmericanTobacco Company in the UnitedStates District Court, in the anti-trust suit, for alleged conspiracy todestroy competition.

R. W. Doolittle, planter and millowner of Newton, Miss., and D. W.G. Allen, of Wayside, Miss., engagedin a shooting affray at the railroadstation of Newton, a few days ago,and as a result, Doolittle is dead andAllen is thought to be dying.

As a result of a wreck on the Nor-folk & Western, near Wytheville, Va.,Monday, Engineer Samuel Petitt wa3killed, and Robert Mason, who. wasin charge of the second engine, wasbadly if not fatally scalded. Theengines were overturned and ninecars went down a bank.

The four Senators from the newStates of Arizona and New Mexicothis week became members of theSenate. All are lawyers. Marcus A.Smith and Henry F. Ashurst, who arefrom Arizona, are Democrats, whilei nomas a. uastron and Albert B.Falls,-- of New Mexico, are Republi-cans. , ,

States to be at ih- -will rw fnl.V.i . t

will stay in one bsn:-- ,i cat u re ox tn trip t:j vschool. Two or hr irill be tpent la Ju4tttc Vand live stock azs4 z rjlous exhibits of th .w"X.t5!

I believe lb rnxnfered In the State,will have a great Uscorn grown In the raing 1512 and win mlTMlions In corn Judiaac. Jshould do all in hi wf, ,

3of these trips.We now have Men

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each to pay his exjtlonal Corn Show bi!e . Mwill get the cash priieiJ '7 tti4lours very truly,

I- - O SCiunSpecial A Kent Sa r,.?West Raleigh, N C.

You take no chinceimoney either, for if sT tcourse of six bot'Jfnot benefitted you cia rnymoney back for the aUtcs.

aw8! No dispute no arruffitu-- yare the judge.

I have been a great sufferrr iiirheumatism and for several yean sa.able to attend to my duties ronLco- -

ously. Six bottles of Milam mid 1 1

man of me. Claude Curling. U L IUjSI, Norfolk, Va.

I spent oyer 13.000 for rheumatic ,ano benefit wbstever until 1 tried Ux.It ha done all you claim for it ta atcase. L, H. Wade, corner Church tULee Sts., Norfolk, Va.

For a long-standi- ng and acrrmWease of rheumatism I am glad to itr I

more benefit from the uu of MJtathan all the other treatment errorsover a period of ten years. C P. Birrtr.withvW. M. Ritter Lumber Co.. Huttton. W. Va.

Since taking 6 bottles of Milam icy rWmatism is entirely sone. my coiTulei'and a ppetit 4 improved-- 1 wouldn't uu$50 for the good it has done me. JL xtBride, Danville. Va.

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(G(D)(ffl HaM(D)Are not sold by the special sales people that you hear

so much about no w-a-da- ys. The margain of profit is too

narrow to admit of cutting and slashing prices in the

way they do.

Quality regulates the price in pianos just the same

as it does in any other article of merchandise, and take

our word for it, that if you purchase a good piano yon

will pay a good price. You cannot obtain anything of

any value without paying a price in proportion.

The person that claims he can sell you a four hu-

ndred dollar piano for two hundred and fifty is simply

mispresenting the true value of his instrument and is

not a fit person to deal with. You take no risk here,

and get just what you pay for every time.

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