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VOL. XVII. J. T. Strange & Co.’s Special Offering! On account of our wonderful trade and the immense amount of goods sold up to date, we find some lines a little broken, such as Shoes, Oxfords etc., and now we are goin£ to give our patrons some of these values at less than actual production. UMBRELLAS. LOT NO 1. 143 Men's and Ladies' 26 and 28-inch Um brellas, straight and crooked Congo handles. As long as they last at . 25c each SHOES AND OXFORDS. \ LOT NO. 2. Ladies’ Oxfords and Strap Sandals; sizes 42, 21-2,3 1 -2, 4, 7 and 8. They are good values, but brok en lots and sizes from heavy selling. They go for 25c and 50c pair. LOT NO 3. Men’s Bal and Blucher Patent Oxfords and Shoes. See if any of these sizes fit you—s, 51-2, 6, 61=2 and 7—52.50, $3.00 and $3:50 kind. Choice, $1.50. w LOT NO. 4. About 100 pair Crossett make of Shoes and Oxfords, $3.00 and $3.50 goods, to go at $2.25. LOT NO 5. Brands Crossetts, Bay State and N Hess, sizes 6, 61-2, 7,8, 10 and 11. These are $4.00 and $5.00 grades. We are going to discontinue these lines and they must go at $2.98. LOT NO. 6. Children’s Tan Strap Sandals, sizes 1 to 4, all good styles, 50c. " LOT NO. 7. . Utz & Dun’s Vici Strap Sandals, French heels; nice, smooth goods. Never had better wearers. Value $3.00. In this sale at SI.OO. If you are smart shoppers you will find some genuine BARGAINS in the above offerings. J. T. STRANGL & COMPANY, ■ Leaders in Styles; Regulators and Controllers of Low Prices iDiniler tDcekln A c mo. WINDER. JACKSON COUNTY. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. APRIL 29, 1909 SULTAN LOSES THRONE. Babes Slain, Men and Women Butch ered—Christians Being Persecuted. Sultan Abdul Hamid, of Turkey, was deposed Tuesday, putting an end to a reign marked by blood shed and internal dissension. His brother, Mehraed Rechad, was pro claimed the new ruler, amid scenes of the wildest enthusiasm- There is still doubt as to tTie fate of Abdul Hamid. There is much feeling against him and the excitement is so great that it is feared further bloodshed will occur. The grounds upon which he w*s deposed were that the sultan's primacy was harm ful to the church, contrary to sa cred law and unjust to the Turkish people. The overthrow <>f Abdul Hamid’s regime is the greatest victory of its kind in modern history. The se cret history of Turkey is filled with wholesale bloodshed of those who presumed to criticise the sultan or his government. His armies of spies and secret agents reported ev ery indiscreet word or action and it remained for the leader of the Moslem faith, backed up by the young Turks, to put an end to his reign of terror. The women of the harem and servants of the sultan's palace are now under guard. Conditions in some parts of Tur key ave deplorable. livv. Herbert Adams Gibbon-*, a missionary, writing from Adana, says in part: “The entire viiayt of Adana has been the se me during the last five days of a terrible massacre of Ar menians, the worst ever known in the history of the district. The ter ror has be<m universal and the gov ernment is powerless to cheek the disorders. Adana, the capital of the province, has been the storm center “ Conditions have been unsettled for some time and there has been animosity between Turks and Ar menians owing to the political act iv ity of the latter and their open pur chasing of arms. “Wednesday morning, while I was in the market, Armenians were closing their shops and hurrying to their homes. An Armenian and a Turk had been killed during the night and the corpses were paraded through their respective quarters. The sight of the doad inflamed the inhabitants, and crowds at once be gan to gather in the streets armed with sticks, axes and knives, “William Chambers, field secre tary of the Young Men's Christian Association,proceeded to the Ivoenik and found a howling mob demand ing arms with which to kill the Giaours. We then went to the tel egraph office to summon the British consul. On the steps of the build ing we sa.v three Armenians who had been masacred. Their bodies had been mutilated. While we were in the telegraph office a mob burst into the room where we were and killed two Armenians before our eyes. “Adana was a hell. The bazars were looted and set on fire. There was continuous and unceasing shoot ing and killing in every part of the town, and fires raged in many quar ters. “Missionaries of the Central Tur key mission had assembled for a district conference in the center of Adana on the day of the outbreak. They received and protected hun dreds of refugees in the American seminary for girls, and courageously endeavored to pacify the warring elements. “On Thursday Daniel Miner Ro bers and Henry Haurer, American missionaries, were killed under treacherous circumstances. “On Friday the Armenians yielded, since when there has been little murdering. “Adana is in a pitiable condition. The town has been pillaged and wrecked and there are thousands of homeless people here without means of livelihood. It is impossible to estimate the number of killed. The corpses lie scattered through the streets. Friday, when I went out, 1 had to pick my way between the dead. “Sunday morning I counted a dozen cart-loads of American bodies in one-half hour carried to the river and thrown into the water. In the Turkish cemeteries graves are being dug wholesale. r l he condition of the refugees is most pitiable. Not only are there orphans and widows beyond number, but a great many, even the babies, are suffering from severe wounds. On Friday after noon 250 soealled Turkish reserves, without officers, seized a train at Adna and compelled the engineer to convey them to Tarsus, where they took part in the destruction of the Armenian quarter of that town, which is the best part of Tarsm. Their work of looting was thorough and rapid. It is said that they fired the great historic Armenian church at Tarsus, the most important build ing in the city.' The,? demolished marble statues and shattered im portant tablets. „ Everything por table aas carried away, but the church itself resisted their attempts to burn it. Fortunately, few per sons were killed there. This was owing to the proximity of the Amer ican college, where four thousand destitute and homeless persons had sought and found shelter.” MEMORIAL DAY. Memorial day was fittingly cele brated in Winder Monday under the auspices of Joseph E- Johnston chapter, Daughters of the Confeder acy. The daughters did not select an orator for the occasion this year, but instead called upon the three local ministers, Revs. Perry, Wood and Hunnicutt, for short talks. Each of these gentlemen tenderly eulogized those who had gone be fore and paid beautiful tributes of praise to the living wearers of the gray and to the Daughters of the Confederacy for their efforts in teaching the children to honor and over keep green the graves of the south’s greatest heroes —the men who went into the trenches in de fense of home. After the speaking at the opera house the line of march, consisting of Daughters of the Confederacy, military, fire com panies, school children, etc., moved on to Rose Hill cemetery, where wreaths of flowers were placed upon the little mounds located there. NEW TEACHERS. At a meeting of the trustees of Perry-Rainey Institute at Auburn Monday Prof. Oscar D. Fleming, of Carrollton, was elected president of the institute. He is a graduate of Mercer. Prof. L. P. Green, of Monroe, was chosen principal of the gram mar school department. —Gwinnett Journal. NO 7