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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
To drive nails into very hard wood
"a tb,tr ,,nintc IN oil

To drive nails into very hard wood
dip their points in oil.
The farmers wife is entitled to far
more credit than she receives.
Fowls seldom tire of milk. They
may eat too much grain or meat fol
their health, but milk in any form i,
p~alatahle and healthy.
The proper care Of the dumb ami.
mails often insures success on the farm
when carclesSness and pr ofligateness
in this line will lead to failure.
Small Potatoes. Take potatoe,
about the size Of a marble, put them
iato ii stew pan with plenty of butter
and a good sprinkling of salt, cover
and shake occasionally until they are
quite done, about an hou.-BoSton
Budget.
If any thing has been clearly dem
onstrated in connection with the indus.
try of farming it is that success in il
does not depend upon the ownership
of Il large amount of land. Indeed the
best and best paying farming is done
upon small or at most moderate-sized
farms.
Not a few housekeepers claim that
afloor is mosteasily kcptin good condi-
ton by rubbing it off each morning
with a flannel cloth that is soaked in
Kerosene once in two weeks. Use the
cloth over a brush or broom stub, go
ing up and down the boards. No water
is applied and the floor soon takes on n
nice polish.-S. Paul Pioneer Press.
Excellent Soft Gingerbread.-The
materials are one cup of sugar, onscup
of butter, n cup of sour crealt,onc
cup of molasses, four cups of s,fted
flour, one tablespoonful of soda dis
solved in a little hot water, one table
spoonful of ginger, three well-bcaten
eggs, the rind of one lemon grated.
Add raisins ii you wish them. Chris
tiaR Union.
-Sardine Salad.-Six cold boiled po-
tatocs chopped fine, one h~ard-boiled egg
chopped fine, t%easpoonfCl dry mustard
beaten with one r&wegg, gradually add
Il box Of sardines, n little salt and pep
per; as you beat the mixture will
thicken. After this add vinegar to
taste and then stir into the potato and
egg. A little chopped omen improves
it.-Good Cheer.
The French have % way of making
"A tough fowl tender in roasting which
is worth following. 1t should be sea.
soned and then tied up in two thick
nesses of soft white or pale brown
paper, and put into the oven a half
hour earlier than one would choose to
insure its being done. 1t will steam
slowly i'll this way, and if delicateIy
dredged with flour, when the paper is
taken off Mt the end of the half-hour,
in II hot oven, it will come out brown.
i had n mule with three large
warts on her, writes a Georgia farmer
in the Southern Cultiyator, and | cured
them with this remedy: Put one pound
of alum in a quart of water and let it
dissolve; then wash the wart three
times II day for ten days. Presently
the warts will disappear, leaving no
scar. and you could not tell that there
ever had been any there. As | have
seen so many inquiries for a remedy to
cure warts in your monthly, thought
would remind you that you once pub
Ii'hed this remedy, and / know it will
do the work well, for | tried it myself.
-haiannp0iiS J0urnai.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07

How Nervous People Can Avoid Half OF
Their Suffering.


II you are sick or ailing, don't de
pend too much on the medicines you
take or the remedies you apply to effect
a cure, TONES and alternatives are OF
great use, but attention TO the rules OF
hygiene, mental as well rs physical,
will make them much more eilioac'ouS.
In the first place. don't give up too
easily; have courage; exert your will
power; don't brood over your aches
and pains and symptoms, but try to
forget them; and the chances are YOU
will forget them so thoroughly that
when you do by chancerememberthe them
you will wonder where they are, If
the worst comes, and you must give up,
then do so gracefully and thoroughly,
keen hopeful, and so order all pertain
ing to your mind as well as your body,
that the best results may be obtained
from the remedies used.
Half of the suffering of nervous peo-
pie comes from their brooding over
their ailments till the Imagination gets
the upper hand. Nine times out of
ten, all their symptoms would disap-
pear if they would pay strict attention
to their diet, have it light and nutli-
tious, and avoid stimulants of all kinds
-even tea and coffe; battle daily, using
friction with n brush or towel; take
plenty of outdoor exercise, whether
the weather be pleasant or not; and
try to forget their nerves in pleasant
reading or pleasant company-not ex-
citing company, for that would only
irritate-or in congenial work; and if
work they must. and it be not ION
genial, then let them make the best of
it under the circum stances and do it
''by Gods law" thoroughly and con-
scientiously, and they will be aston
ished to find how the sunshine will
ever seem brighter, the icy wind less
cold, the noise less irritating, and their
friends so much plcasantcr, when in
reality it is all in themsclycs-they
are only taking brighter views of life,
and not causelessly irritating them
selves and others around them. DEM
oreSt's Monthly.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07

lit can not be otherwise" he NUT
tered hoarscly, ''you must be mine,
You and | could not avoid it if we
would, and let us thank the fatcs that
our union will be cemented by love.
You could never have been another
mans wife. There is a destiny hang
ing over you-'
80, George she gasped, convul-
sively,' brush it away, please do. "
Merchant IYarcler.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07
Brown was abusing Smith

Brown was abusing Smith violent.
" on the sidewalk one night. Jones,
who was Smiths friend. heard it from
an upper window and yelled to Smith,
"KnOck him down. The next dav
Jones and Smith met. "Why didn't
You knock that man DOWN" asked
Jones. 9" hollered to you to do it,"
YES replied Smith, ''and l would
have hollcred the same thing had
been up where you wero."-- zssa.
SUt aqs.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07
A Reliable Almanac for 1888.

Webstcr's Unabridged Dictionary says
tanning a calendar of days, weeks and
months, to which astronomical data and
various statistics are often added, such as
the times of tho rising and setting
of the sun and moon, changes OF
tho moon, eclipses, hours Of full tide,
stated festivals Of churches, weather
probabilities, etc" All this and more too
will DO found in the Ben Franklin Almanac
issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee Il st.
Paul Railway, Send six cents in POSTAGE
to A. V. II. Carpenter. General Passenger
Agent, Milwaukee, Wis, and an almanac
for 1883 will DO forwarded to your address.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07

And that, too, in the shape of the heart
burn most abominahle of aciiitiesp after
eating, if indigestion, in its chronic form,
has you in its clutches. Neither, il it has,
can you long expect immunity from bilious
ness and constipation. its pleasing col.
leagues, the hideous trio vicing each with
each to render youl life more miserable,
Get Hostetter's Stomach Bitters at once
insist upon the genuine in glass and use it
with rational persistence.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07

There is no end to the tasks which daily
c~onfrons the good housewife. To be a sue
cessful hcusekeeper, the first requisite is
against the trials and worries ofhousekeep-
ing if she be suffe ring from those distress.
ing irregularities, ailments and weaknesses
peculiar to her sex! DR.. Picrce's Favorite
Prescription is a specific for those dis
orders. The only remedy, sold by drug,
gists, under a positive guarantee from the
manufacturers, Satisfaction guaranteed
in every case, or money refunded. See
printed guarantee on bottle wrapper.
HE gave me some pointers said the
tramp of the farmer; "he jabbed me with a
pitchfork.-DrUt.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07

The general climate of England is
favorable to the development of can.
Ger. Out of every million deaths from
all causes, those from nicer number
about 10000. This proportion is only
exceeded by phthisis, old age, con
vulsions, bronchitis, pneumonia and
debility" Next to consumption,
cancer is the most fatal of all the con
stitutional diseases; and it has been
steadily gaining ground for more than
twenty years. The deaths from can.
Ger per million of persons living were
in 1862, 36l; in 1872, 43l, in 1881, 520;
in 1882, 532; in 1888, $40; in 1884, $50;
in 1885, 500; and are now close upon
GOO. -L0nd0a Standard.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07

It is fancied by a grateful patron that the
next comet will appear in the form of huge,
bottle, having Golden Medical Discovery
inscribed upon it in bold characters, Whether
this conceit and high compliment will be
verified, remains to be seen, but DR.. Pierce
will continue to send forth that wonderful
vegetable compound, and potent cradicoter
of disease. 1t has no equal in medicinal and
health giving properties, for imparting vigor
and tone to the liver and kidneys, in
purifying the blood, and through it cleans
ing and renewing the whole system. For
scrofulous humors, and consumption, or
lung scrofula, in its early stages, it is a
positive specific. Druggists.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07
General Tis-Up

Of oil the means of public conveyance IN O
largo city ever for q few hours, during a
strike Of the employees, means a general
paralyzing of trade and industry for the
time being, and is attended with an enor-
nous aggregate loss TO the community.
How much more serious TO the individual
is the general tie-up Of his system, known as
constipation, and due to the strike OF the most
important organs for more prudent treat
mcnt aud better care. If too long neglect
ed, a torpid or sluggish liver will produce
serious forms Of kidney and liver diseases,
malarial trouble and chronic dyspepsia. Dr..
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets are q
preventive and cure of these disorders.
They are prompt, sure and effective, pleasant
to take, and positively harmless.
THr counterfeiter, no matter where he
goes, is seldom wei lodged At least, it is
believed that wherever he il he has bad
onnrtare- - Rosfo, EourisT
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompsop's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. DC.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07

TIE girl with the highest hat Is reclloned
at the lowest figure. -Nev HdDeA NemS.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07

form hive become q trade NAL
good h has done is illustrated IN
Ing mS elous instance: IA,
George osgood & Co.. dr1es,
Mass, vote: "Mr. Lewis NM
Moody St. desires to RECOMMEND .
Oil to an. afflicted with rhprr..
desires especially to say that 0rr !
Of GrantH q, Mass, a boy of d !.
10 his hdve IN the summer er,si
upon crutues, his left leg hayiD, |
OF the knee for over two mop,S,
not be bentback. lie could mn !,
it. Mr.. Denis had some St. a.
the house I'D gave it to him n !.
knee, In sN days he had no \,
clutches AM went home well Mil,
and he has ben wei, sinceS st, Ram,
him" In Jny, 1857, inquiry wa,~
Messrs. OsgCld 10 ascertain the n,
the little cripple, which brought h
Ing response Lowell, Mass, jvlrr
The poor cripple on crutches. a..
son, cured hr st, Jacobs Oil in +
NAMED cured. The young mpa
and is nov 1t work every day
labor. Dr. George c. Ossood, N
other remedy an make the same /.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07
Nothing without Its Sting,

Ir is the shop pie that often furnishes the
piece that pas5eth nnderstanding.-Ana
LJlifOrnin
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07

If you want to be cured OF q cough, use
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07

MONEY just now is like many men who
have it-close -Ierds SittingS.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07

II You wouid secure Il fresh share of life
seek the fresh air. -I,Gas SJiiHgS.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07

THERE is a great deal of blow about the
signal service officers -Boston Post
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07
EEa TIE HEAD.
II yhu would removo IN ey;, s,,,,,, =, =,

ROOT. As the. rrehiSrcsiug or real cause o
catarrh IL, in the majority Vi Cgis,as, sunte
weakness, impurity, or otherwise faulty
condition OF tho system, in attempting to
pilr,a tho llsnnan our chicf MIN ,n,.nt L.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07
HIS PHOTO.

Theva,
factor d
intcutum
works ii
we SEQ 3
His f,,,r
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-07

The Golden Medical Disco ery Ia 4
"helpmato" OF DIR. Sage's letnrrh II
49, S--s Nass.'sNs, r,,erire, c.N9apvu. A.
up the system 10 "A healthy standard. \
Qucrs throat, bronchial, and Nung comrl
when any such exist. hut from lis
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-04
DRIFT OF OPINION.

BGWhat is the difference between
P. T. Barnum and Grover Cleveland?
Barnum has frst-class show-Cleve-
land has no show at Chicago Iri6-
Uiae.
Be-" hold it to be true that when
ever the market price is so low that
the man or the woman can not get a
fair living out of the making of it, it
is too low. "-Benjaniin Harrison.
gWith Mr.. Thurman physically
wrecked and Cleveland Intellectually
incapable the Democratic party's Pres
idential ticket is in very poor shape to
do any battling for itself.-Pitts6asrgh
Commercial Gazette.
RGrIf free trade were universal. wa
would be more agricultural as a peO-
pie, while England would supply US
with manufactures. But as it is now,
we are absolutely independent of al!
the world. while Great Britain is de-
pendent. Milaoaukee Sentinel.
RJrWe are not likely to be called
upon to make present choice between
the surrender of our protective system
and the entire repeal of the internal
taxes. Such a contingency, in view of
the present relation of expenditures to
revenues, is remote. General Hdr-
rison's Letter of Acceptance.
B%Mr. Harrison expresses his
proper Indignation at the campaign
lie to the effect that he had said: "A
dollar a day and sow-belly is good
enough for a working-man. Every
intelligent man, or every ordinarily
intelligent man, knew it to be lie It
was palpable. plain and apparent lie,
and therefore with but little power to
do harm.-San Francisco ALtG Dem. }.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-04
CLEVELAND'S POLICY.
The Entertainment to Which the Eol
bons Invite the Country.

The entertainments to Which the Eour-
bons Invite the Country.
There are two sharp points that
should be driven under the finger-nails
of the Cleveland crowd of classifying
and clustering politicians whose blum
dering has distinguished this Presi-
Dental campaign:
l. The policy of Cleveland's Deem
Der message (Which was his bid for a
second term) and the Mills bill, and
the St. Louis platform of the party, is
to keep UP the tax on whisky and to-
bacco-that is to say, the war taxes
and on sugar and miscellanies, leaving
the ''taX reform reduction of taxa
ton and all that sort of thing to come
exclusively out of the protective duties
This is on ats face simply scheme to de-
StrOy protection, and is the rudeSt and
most radical and reckless free trade
,. The President, in December,
adopted as the foundation fact upon
which his policy was to be built to con-
fer upon him second term of the
Presidency, the estimate that the an
nual surplus revenue was $113, 900, 900.
The Mills bill was framed to reduce
this by the sum of $75,0O0.0OO. This
measure received the support of the
utmost eXertiOn of the extreme power
of the Administration. The figures
showing the amount of income over
expenditure for the current fiscal year
were called for by Democrats, and, to
their amazement and horror, the sur
plus dwindled from S113, 100000 to
$4,000, 600, showing that the Cleve-
land campaign for reelection was run
upon a miscalculation exceeding one
hundred millions. With this before
him Cleveland stuck to the old story
In his letter of acceptance, after hold
ing it for three months, and he de-
mands, therefore, as measure of re-
form, according to his own figures, an
annual deficiency in the National
Treasury of sixty millions of dollars,
or that we shall spend five millions
a month, under a - frugal and eco
ncmical" Administration, more than
our income.
This is the entertainment to which
the Democratic party invites the coun-
try.-CincinnGti Commercial Gazette. .
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-04

ocratic o. tie contrary, as in al or
CARNATIONS composed of men. there is
much of strength and beauty in both
these great parties, and very much il
each OF them that good and wise men
are struggling to destroy. But ii the
young man will read the history of the
country from the revolution to the pres
ent time he will learn one thing-that
the Democratic organization is tradi-
tionally reactionary in its policy, and
has always been opposed by party of
progress. In its early history the
Democratic party, clamoring for the
rights of ''the people" in their name
strangled safe National currency and
replaced it with the wildcat output
of irresponsible private and State
banks. Later on. this same party
threw its entire strength against the
policy of extending Governmental aid
to internal improvements, and but
for the discovery and Improvement of
The steam engine, a close adherence to
that policy would have left the spot
where we live to-day still in the saw
age wilderness. It is only repeating
its early history in this year 1885 in the
advocacy of free trade, and yet every
line of our National history proves that
the brief eras of protection have been
the only prosperous seasons enjoyed
by the people of America.
1t was the party of slavery antedat-
ing the war, and stood always as the
sponsor, advocate and protector OF this
crime against the spirit of eternal
justice. until the demon of war was
turned loose in the land by its leaders;
and then, in the South it stood as the
active element of National destruc-
ton, while at the North it became
the dead weight OF passive obstruc-
ton which the patriotic sentiment of
National life was compelled to carry
as it battled for very existence with the
South.
1t stood firmly planted against the
policy of free homesteads for free
men,, which policy since 1860 has cov-
cred the West with happy homes,
schOOl-houses and churches, and liter
ally compelled the wilderness to bios
som like the rose"
1t arrayed all the strength of its in
tellect and its money against subsidiz-
ing companies to construct railways
across the Western plains and mount
ain ranges to the Pacific coast, and
now seeks to rob the enterprise that
created them of their honestly-earned
reward.
But the worst is yet to be said. Not
only is it the opponent of every move
ment toward the material and political
advancement OF the race, but its gil
gantic strength is used ceaselessly to
cripple, obstruct and kill every aspira-
ton toward higher moral and spirit
ual life. 1t hates temperance, and is
the attorney of the curse of alcohol.
Let young men pause and ponder
these facts-reason upon them, and |
then decide whether their first ballot |
had not better be cast for the party of |
growth of progress, rather than for |
the organization of reaction and death. |
Minneapolis Tribune.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-04
BROOKS SENTIMENTS.
What Judge Tourgee Thinks of the
beIlious Prohibitionist.

What Judge Tourgee Thinks of the Re-
beIlious Prohibitionist.
Slavery, the climacteric sin of
Christian barbarism, eliminated in
rebellion, and the Bystander does not
hesitate to say that the man who can
look back at the CHASTITY results of that
political crime, knowing himself to
have been active in promoting it,
without a shudder, is not man who in
any case should be intrusted with the
National destiny. However honest he
may have been, he has shown himself
too easily blinded by prejudice or self
interest to be safe political leader.
A man who boasts at this day of
having been Shareholder and Con-
FEEDER ate may be considerable of man
at the South; but in the civilization of
the North he is as much out of place as
a man who should step into the pulpit,
boast of murder, rape and the other
crimes of the decalogue, and then say:
''but l thank God never caves dollar
to the missionary causef'
1t is popularity of the Southern
politician that his speeches are not all
calculated for the same meridian. The
man who extols Abraham Lincoln in
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-04

New York viii somehow iken JEFF
Davis to Christ in Georgia Now he
/ says that he ''had no civil or military
connection with the COnfederacy, but
sympathized with the South, though he
now sees that the South was wrong
and is glad slavery was abolished. This
is indeed cheerful news. So far as
heard from, Mr. Brooks is the only
Southern Democrat who has been
heard to say above his breath: 1.-The
South was wrong" Perhaps, if he
lives twenty-five years more. he may
screw himself up far enough to utter
that pregnant corrollary: The Repub-
lican party was right"
Our correspondent seems to find
great consolation in the fact that Mr..
Brooks only preached and prayed for
the Confederacy. The Bystander free
ly admits that his prayers are not like
" to have done much harm, but, for
himself, he freely admits that ne has
quite as much regard for an able
bodied Confederate who had nerve
enough to fight as for one who could
only raise wind enough to pray for
the triumph of wrong.
To-day eight millions OF the slave
descended are the mighty monument
of its glory. More than one million
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-04
Two CAMPAIGN POEMS.
Growers Revere.


Once upon a midnight dreary,
While rordered weak and weary,
Wondering IL the busy teilers yet had counted
up the vote,
While ny an1 ious fears kept rising
With haste most enterprising
How cursed the fate that placed ne in the
Democratic boat.
For knew that II was sinking.
That if spirit then was sinking
UP the shores OF old Salt River the-e forever
more to be.
AND my gentle heart was broken
By those words as yet unspoken
That would tell me that the people mad about
enough OF me.
Sol waited, TIL tapping
AS of some one gently rapping.
Reused me from ny dreary slumber as ne'er
was reused before.
And rubbed my eyes and started,
Sick and faint ard weary hearted,
And leaned against the mantel IS 1 opened
wide the door.
There upon the threshold standing,
In an attitude commanding,
Was black and som ber-looking species o. the
genus crow.
And it said in tones OF sorrow:
Grover, darI-n- on the morrow,
From the regions Of the White House you for
eVermore must 60"
-ToJeGo Blade.