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The WORLDS CENTER,


Cities That Wish to lie Recognized as the
Mid-spot of Our Planet.
For several centuries different cities
in the Orient have contested with each
other for the honor Of being recognized
as the mid-Spot of our planet Quite
recently a London geographer issued
an elaborate work in which he tries to
prove the British metropolis to be the
center Of the landed hemispheres.
Jerusalem and Delphi, Notwithstanding
the fact that neither OF them is situated
on the equator, have for ages been the
two great rivals in this mid-spot discus
sion, William Simpson, Of the London
Society for Exploring Palestine, tells
us that Herr Schick has sent home
drawings of the Jerusalem center of
the world. 1t exists, of course, in the
Greek Church Of the Holy Sepulcher,
not in the Latin Church. The spot is
identified less by physical science than
by prophecy. 1t is written in the
Psalms: God is my king of old, work.
ing salvation in the midst of the earth"
This can only refer to the scenes of the
passion and Of the holy scpulcher, and
the midst Of the earth must, therefore,
be found whore the molly sepul-
cher is considered to be by the
Greeks. The belief that the center is
there, or thereabouts, is ancient, for it
occurs in a work by st, Ephrem. quoted
by John Gregory in referynce to Noah's
prayer. Here st. Ephrem says that
Adam was buried ''in the middle of the
earth" Homer calls Clypso's island
the navel of the world, the center Of
all the seas" In Hschylus a certain
round stone in the temple of Delphi is
the navel or center Of the earth, and
here does Orestes take refuge when our
sued by the Eumenides. Pindar has
anticipated Eschylus here, and, after
an era, Pausanius dixie Herr Schick)
had the pleasure of seeing the only gem
u ne central hub at Delphi. 1T is
made he says, ''of white stone, smooth
and polished, and is the middle point of
the whole world" Delos, as well as
Delphi, claims to be one of the sacred
places perforated by the earth's axle,
and probably other cities, in all ages,
have looked upon their places as de-
serving of the same distinction. There
can be no closer analogy, however, than
that which exists between the hall of
stone in the Church of the Holy Sep
ulcher at Jerusalem and the round white
stone at Delphi.-St Louis Republic.
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FIG. 9.

standard is brought above the wheel
by a stick passed through the rings.
Over the top of the stick, and secured
to 1t by a nail, is bent a hoop, the ends
passing through cleats driven into the
box. This holds tho fodder off the
wheels, Loading fodder on a wagon,
whether on tho box or hay-rack, is very
difficult, especially after the load is
partly on, unless a ladder of some sort
is provided. A very good one is shown
In Fig 1t is simply a wide board, to
which are nailed cleats at proper inter
walls, fastened to the rear of tho g
by two short pieces of ropes or chains.
As the wagon is driven along it drags
after and is atonce ready for use. Amer
lean Agriculturist.
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~ All There Il Between a Railroad Pas
Seu-er and Eternity.

hNAENE n ANA"As
81 tell you what it is" remarked an
old railroad man, 1t used 70 be that
they couldn't turn a wheel any too fast
Cor me, but its different naw. The way
these fellows run nowadays make my
| hair stand on end. We used TO think
that twenty-five or thirty miles an hour
was high running. People were Just as
we'll satisfied, If not more SO, than now,
and there weren't SO many accidents.
Those days when = man got on the
ground there was some chance Of his
getting away alive. but when you touch
ground on one OF these fast runs now
you're mighty liable tsstas there. Peo-
pie are getting % look upon a mile a
minute as a ccmmon thing, and are Just
bowling mad at a read that doesn't
make it, They never stop to think Of
the danger. All they think about is 10
get to the r destination,
"Why, when | stop and think Of being
whirled across the country fifty or sixty
miles an hour, down hills and around
curves with only an inch and a half o.
iron between ne and eternity, | get SC
scared | swear never 70 get on a coach
again, What do ! mean by an inch ana
a half Of iron? Well, you know what a
passenger coach is, don't you? You
know how they're built, A coach is a
pretty solid thing nowadays, and to
look at one a person would think they
were pretty sale, but that's because you
don't know any thing about it The
coach itself is all right as far as it
goes, but its tho wheels. Did you ever
look at the wheels? If you did You may
have noticed how they're made a good
size, broad enough and heavy enough,
and with a tire of the finest kind of
steel. But, on the inside OF the tire,
you see a sort Of rim or fange. That
DANCE is about an inch and a half thick
and about the same depth. 1t doesn't
look as if it amounted to much, that
little piece of steel, but that's Just what
the lives of all the passengers depend
upon. That fange keeps the wheel to
the rail and keeps the coach from run
ming off the track.
We'll, now, when q train is going
fifty miles an hour around q curve you
see how much depends on that nange.
The whole We ght and speed of the
train is against that flange on one side,
the outside of the curve, and it is all
that keeps the coach from whirlinr
from the track, Suppose the flange
broke, or, as is often the Gaze, was worn
down and had been missed by the car
inspector. The chances agn ten to n
that the Aange couldn't holt, but would
climb the rail and thcrc'd be another
accident The reporters ould be told
the rails spread or somett ing of that
kind, and no Il but the company would
know what caused the accident.
There are a good many accidents
that happen that way, but It doesn't APP
pear to b. any of the public's business.
As a general rule 4 coach wheel is
watched mighty closely, and the min
ute a flange begins to wear new ones
are put on, but many a time an inspect
or will miss a wheel and then the
chances are big that there'll be an acct
dent Kansas City Star.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
A FABLE ~DlSPElLED.
E~lephantine Memory of Faces Is in No Sens,
RnnIynlIn

Elephantine Memory of Faces Is in No Sense
Remarkable.
There is another fable of our early
childhood which a certain young man is
able to dispel with absolute authority,
having made a long and careful series
Of observations. This is a fable about
elephants and their wonderful power of
remembering faces and avenging in
iuries. The young man, who, ever as q
youngster, was Of a reflective and ex-
perimental cast of mind, began his ex-
periments at a very tender age by dis
respectfully twisting the nose of one OF
the elephants in Central park. Not the
whole OF this proboscis, you know, the
youth was too small for an army con-
tract of that kind, but just the extreme
tip Of the trunk, as it was held out to
him. in friendly salutation.
The big mass of meat roared and quiv-
cred with pain. 1t was evident that
wringing the end of an elephants pro-
boscis was like wrlnging the nose of a
man. Here was a new sensation both
for the boy and the elephant, and one
that the former proposed to follow up
as long as the latter was not at liberty
to demonstrate. The next day he tried
it again. Now here was a chance for
the elephants memory to step in and
protect him from a repetition of yester-
days ind ignities. But it didn't Just
as before, the trusting animal put out
his proboscis in greeting, and just
as before the bad boy gave it
a twist that brought tears to
tho eyes of the enormous creature
why not elephant tears" as well
as crocodile's?-and made him howl
with pain. Day after day this young
ster would go up to the park and prose-
cute his researches in the psychology of
the elephants mind and every day the
kindly creature assisted in his studies
by giving him his trunk to experiment
on.
Once during the month it happened
that the elephant did break his cage and
get away. The inquiring youth stood
near. Now, he was sure that tho ele-
plant had begun to remember and that
his own little special judgment day had
come. But the elephant rushed past as
If there were no such things in all the
world as inquisitive small boys. And
then for the first time the boy began to
doubt tho eternal remembrance of an
elephant But still he was not wholly
satisfied. 1t might be that there was
some mental popularity OF this particu.
lar elephant, the youth reasoned, and SC
from time to time he went on twisting
elephants trunks whenever he got a
chance.
And as he has travelled much during
these years that he has been gettinp
older, he has probably had more chances
and twisted more elephants trunks,
both in Europe and America, than any
other living being. Moreover, he ha,
set his friends to experimenting upon
elephants, whenever it was possible,
and OF no fact in life Is he more certa n
than that the beautiful story Of the Gle.
plants lasting memory is a clear and
unmitigated myth IN. Y. Evening Sun.
-Cbipaua Dbaacauto vrara i,tual-,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
A INTELLIGENCE,
Remarkable Evidence of Ad ,ptabiIity In
the Egyptian Lotus.

Remarkable Evidence of A d ~,ptabiIity In
the Egyptian Lotus.
An illustration of apparent intelli-
gence in plants is the behavior of tho
Egyptian lotus in this climate. In the
warmer countries, where it is at home,
the roots Of the lotus spread laterally
close to the surface. In this country the
plant learned, after a single years ex,
p%erlence Of a New Jersey winter to pre-
pare for this freezing season by aban-
doning its surface lateral roots in early
autumn and sending out a crop of roots
lower down-so far down that they were
below the reach of frost In this way
the plant kept up its life continuously
over winter, and when spring returned
the deep-level roots were abandoned in
their turn and the surface roots once
more sent out.
Then there are certain minute plants,
some OF them quite microscopic, which
grow in wayside pools and which move
continually in whirls and spirals with.
out any moving influence in the water.
In a myriad form of this minute life the
erudition of the %profoundest men of sci.
ence is required to determine whether
they are animal or vegetable in their
nature. And then who knows whether
the scientists are quite right? The
moral of the whole matter is that life N
the two forms is identical. But what
have you said when you have said
thatP Does the fact of the identity
prove that there is spirit in mat.
ter, or that animal, human intelli.
gence is merely a phase Of matter? You
pay The money of your education and
take your choice Of the two horns OF
the dilemma -Boston Transcript.
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unme senkcrs Excursions

Win leave Chicago and Milwaukee via the
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE u ST, PAUL RAILWAY
for points in Northern Iowa, Minnesota,
South and North Dakota, ~Gncludlng the
Sioux Indian Reservation in South pa
kota), Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska
Sept. 9th and 23d and Oct. l4th, 1870. Hall
rate Excursion Tickets good for return
passage within 30 days from date of sale.
For further information, circulars show.
ing rates of fare, maps, etc, address A, V,
II. CARPENTER, General Passenger Agent
Milwaukee, Wis.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

The bottom Of tho rack should be
three and one half feet from the stable
floor.
For the bottom, use two planks Okla
inches, which leaves a Pinch space
through which to let the lining boards
down. Use a 2x4 scantling to nail the
upper ends to, and make the trough
eight inches deep, Cut the boards the
slant you want the trough to be, and let
them run clear through to the othcrsilc
to make the end of the trough on the 9TH
err side. Make the grain-spout Xxi inside
and cut it off even with the back Of the
rack, as shown in Fig. ., dotted lines.
Let the lower end of the spout stand out
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Home Seekers Excursions

Ar HALF RATES, via WABASH LINE, will be
run September 9th and sd, and October
l4th, to points in Southwest Missouri, Kan
sas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Indian Territory,
Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico,
Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Southland
North Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota,
RATE-One Fare for Round Trip FOR
time tables, tickets and other particulars,
apply to the nearest ticketagent Of the Wa
bash or connecting lines.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

when the farmer has only one wagon
and daily hauls some green fodder to
help out the pastures. In such case it
Is better to use the wagon with the bed
on, laying the fodder lengthwise in the
bed until it is full, and then crosswise,
as the kind wheels project above the
bed on the ordinary wagon the arrange
ment shown in Fig. l is necessary. The
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Much Needed Reform

In the condition Of Il disorderly or torpid
liver is no sooner instituted by Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, than the headaches, pains
in the right side, ~yellowness of the skin, fur
upon the tongue, and constipation, which &C.
company this malady, take their departure,
Dyspepsia, also, twin brother Of biliousness,
vacates the ranch, Kidney troubles, ma
larial affections and nervous complaints
also succumb to the Bitters.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
THE FARMING WORLD.
HORSE HANGERS.
A Handy and Efficient Plan for Feeding
Horses.

A Handy and Efficient Plan for Feeding
Horses.
send you a plan of arack for feeding
horses, which We have had in use Tor
over a year, and which has given goot
satisfaction both for feeding hay ana
grain. This rack Is two and ono nan
fee, vide by ten feet long and feeds
four head Of horses.
Fir. ! shows a front REV for ono
horse. 1t is in sections; each section
combines a hay-rack on n side and a
trough on the other side. Fig. gives
an end view Of one section, showing the
way the grain-spout comes into the
trough, and the way the hay is put into
the rack. This rack can be built by
any person that can work with tools.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

On Tuesdays, September Q and 80 and Dc
tober IA, 1890, agents Of the Chicago, st,
Paul and Kansas City Railway will sell
H~ome-Seekers' Excursion Tickets to prin-
cipal points in the West, Northwest, South
and Southwest at rate of one fare for the
round trip, tickets good returning thirty
days from date of sale. For full particu-
lars call on or address agents of the Chicago,
st. Paul and Kansas City Railway.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

For washing .hanuels, Dobbins' Electric
Soap is mdru6louS. Blankets and woolens
washed with it look like aetc, and there is
absolutely no shrinking. No other soap in
the world will do such perfect work. Give
it a trial nor.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

Old Lady lat Tampa Bay)-"My
daughters want to 60 sailing. Can you
swim?" Yacht Skipper-."No, num-"
Old Lady-''My goodness! What could
you do II any thing should happen"
Yacht Skipper-''Please, mum, wen
the man wot does the sailin' can't swim,
he's mighty kereful not to let any thing
happen. Good News.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

ing fodder on a
wagon, the hay-rack
is best; but to use
it would often re-
quire shifting from
box to rack and back
again each dav
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

Lovely Daughter-"Papa, why do
ysu object TO Mr.. De Poor. Is it not
better TO live in a cottage with one you
love Than 70 dwell in a palace with one
you hate?" "Ycs, my dear-very much
better but hs hasn't the oottage.n
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

ALLcases of weak or lame back, backache,
rheumatism, will find relief by wearing one
of Carter's Smart Weed aud Belladonna
Backache Plasters. Price % cents. Try them.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

REV. II. P. CARSON, Scotland. Oak, says;
1.-TWO bottles of Halls Catarrh Cure com
pletely cured my little girl.n Sold by Drug
gists, 75c.
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4 depnrtatre

NtPN"''"'S
from ordinary methods has long
been adopted by the makers of DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
They know what it can do-and
they guarantee it. Your money
is promptly returned, if it fails to
benefit or cure in all diseases arising
from torpid liver or impure blood.
No better terms could be asked for.
No better remedy can be had.
Nothing else that claims to be a
blood-purifier is sold in this way
because nothing else is like the
&C. M. d."
SO positively certain is it in its
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makers in selling it, as they are do
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It's especially potent in curing
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Enlarged Glands, Tumors and
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ical Association, 663 Main Street,
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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

NATURE has wisely arranged matters so
that a man can neither pat his own back
nor kick himself.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

BEFORE you do any thing wicked, remem.
Der that the papers will probably want to
mention it.-Atchison Globe.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

EVERY trace of salt rheum is obliterated
by Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, so cents.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

~ CAM and saw a saw said the face
tlous tramp, "but l didn't saw."-Boston
Herald.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

what is a noun?" asked the teach
OF, The name Of a person, place or
tning'' replied Willie. Give an ex-
ample" 'Organ-grinder." "Why do
you choose that?" Because it's the
name OF a person who plays a thing"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

WITH the angler 1t Is more a matter of
knowing just when than just where to draw
the line.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

WHEN o man Is convinced that he owes
any thing to himself he is always very anx-
ious to pay it-Blnghamton Republican.
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Hauling Fodder,

In autumn, before the sled can be used,
the appliances illustrated herewith
will commend themselves. For haul
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
THE

MANY fine dinners are served in d coarse
way.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

IT requires courage to acknowledge to
gray hairs, and that is why a brave man
dyes but once.-Texas Siftings.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

"A Chicago furniture manufacturer
says tina mahogany, oak and walnut
VIII soon be left behind ior chambe,
suits Metal viii superseds them, he
says.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

Chinese pheasants were introduced
Into the woods OF Oregon only eigh,
years ago, and there are now said to be
nearly Q million Of them there.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
ONE ENJOYS

Wv" -
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-04-29
How He Lost His Hair.

Opie P. Read is an inimitable story.
teller, and his story of the blotting out
OF one country paper that he started
shows how the most minute circum-
stance has its influence ON the destinies
of nations. 1t seems that his landlord
was violent man, with a head of hair
that was not only long but thick, black
wiry. The landlord slept ON the ground
floor, while the printing office was
above, with stovepipe hole between
the two floors. The landlord got drunk
and went to sleep below, under the
stovepipe hole, and Read and bis part
ner slept upstairs. After working off
their edition and washing the forms
they retired, when a cat got into the
room and Read threw boot at the
cat, which tipped over crock of
concentrated lye," used to wash
forms with, stronger than aqua fortis.
Of course, the lye went down the
stove-pipe hole and dripped on the
wonderful head of hair of the landlord,
with the result that when he woke up
in the morning and run his fingers
through his hair, the hairs all came
off, leaving the landlord as bald as a
two gallon jug. The landlord opened
fire on the printers and they got out
of town on the first stage, alive, and
had their press and type sent to them
by mail. To hear Read tell the story
is worth the full price Of admission
Pecks Sun.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-04-29
A scrap Of Paper Saves Her LIE.

1t was just an ordinary scrap Of
wrapping paper, but it saved her lie
She was in the last stages of consump-
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paper she read of DR.. Kings New
Discovery, and got sample bottle; il
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it helped her more, bought another
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use and is now strong, healthy, rosy
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Eupepsy.

This is what you ought to have, in
fact you must have it, to fully enjoy
life. Thousands are searching for it
daily, and mourning because they find
it not. Thousands upon thousands OF
dollars are spent annually by our
people in the hope that they may at
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