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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-08-02

No woman, at least in America has
anv such talent as a man has for spend
inc money. She spends for what n
believes TO be beauty[or raimenH
books, Jewels, decoration, furniture pc
lures, marble-rarely for what does her
serious harm. He spends most for his
vices, for the things that hurt MN
greatly. He is apt to gamble; to speeu-
late. 10 bring evil to others from ms
love of pleasure or of gain. Hewlll get
rid of more money in a month than she
would in wears. She would, however
ignorant of it, be appalled, by the sums
he d~issipates. She is constitutionaily
conservative, big statements OF any sort
are likely to alarm her. Unless desper-
ate O frenzied she invariably stops snort
Of extremes. She trembles ana
turns pale, whe he, in the flush of egot-
ism, moves undisturbed, Nearly allthe
talk of women's carelessness of money
is really idle. The opinion can not be
sustained. 1t is mainly the echo oil mis-
apprehension. Where she is even par
tally enlightened on the subject she Is
prone to be very cautious in its use. Her
temperamental tendency is to the OPP
posite of carelessness Ladies' Home
journal,
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woman's hand matched his own exactly;
and, finally, a confession was wrung from
him.
He had loved the woman, but she had
repulsed him. He soon found that she
loved another, and on the evening be-
fore the murder he had met her, by ac-
cident, and walked with her TO the
place where her body was subsequently
found. In a fit of Jealous rage he had
choked her to death, though he did not
mean TO kill her,
The sound Of a wagon approaching
had frightened him SO that he fed, leav
ing the body where it was found next
morning.
l believe the captain is serving time
in the p~enitentiary now.
1t was the first detective work had
ever done. and | hopeit will be the last.
| was not working for the reward, but
the mayor thought | deserved it, and !
was five hundred dollars better of in
bank when the case was concluded and
| left Brounield. F L. Stanton, in
Atlanta Constitution.
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CHOLERA lNFANTUM.


No other disease excites so much ter
ror as Asiatic cholera. Yet cholera in.
fantum far exceeds it as a destroyer OF
human life. The invasions of Asiatic
cholera have always been at long inter.
walls; the rayages Of cholera infantum
occur every summer.
In Philadelphia the average mortality
from all diseases during the more
healthy weeks is about three hundred;
but in 1872 there were in a single week
IN July, over five hundred deaths OF
children under five years of age. In
1876, again, during the hottest week in
July, there were four hundred and
thirty-four deaths of infants under two
years of age, and matters were still
worse in New York.
The connection of this disease with q
high temperature, and the special LA
bility to it of bottle-fed infants are uni
versally admitted. Still, physicians
are not agreed as to its precise nature.
DIR. Meinert, of Dresden, Germany, has
been making careful Investigations into
the subject, and thinks he has ascer.
tanned the following among other facts:
A high temperature with high wind is
not dangerous; but moderate tempera-
ture without wind increases the number
of cases and the mortality. Hot days
without wind are the worst. in a
period of uniform high temperature,
there is an increase of heat In the
dwellings, by accumulation, and a cor
responding increase of mortality.
insufficient ventilation renders the
inside temperature much higher than
the outside, and so invites and aggra-
Yates the disease, which, for this reason,
prevails in blocks more than in de-
tached houses. Less disease was found
in the underground tenements and on
the upper floors, the first floor faring
worst, apparently because of the heat
reflected from the pavement.
The great mortality of bottle-fed in
fants is due to their failure to be sup
piled with sufficient water, with which,
by its evaporation on the surface, the
normal temperature of the body is regu-
lated. The breast-fed child gets water
through its nurse, whose thirst induces
her to drink %copiously.
The cry of the bottle-fed infant fol-
water is met by giving it milk, which
Is really food, and not only fails to fur.
nish the needed fluid for evaporation,
but increases the feverish heat by dis.
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LIVE STOCK IN GERMANY.
The German Methods of Handling
Cattle,

Hiram j. Dunlap, formerly editor of
the Champaign Qll.) Gazette, now
Consul to Breslau, Germany, in the
course of an interesting letter to his
paper has this to say Of live stock in
that country:
| have already mentioned the fact
that all domestic animals here are
taught to lead. There being no fences
anywhere, it is therefore necessary to
have them very docile so that they can
be tied together and prevented from
running into the growing crops. When
cattle are taken to market they are tied
together by the head in files of three.
four, or more, and a man goes along to
lead each file. This would be rather eX.
pensive in the United States. | saw IL
lot of cattle going through the streets
here a few days ago, There were nine
teen steers in the drove and most OF
them had a hole in the left ear through
which a cord was passed and tied
around the horns Of the one alongside.
There were five leaders and one man en-
horseback. Hogs, sheep, and goats all
lead, though generally they are mar
keted in wagons. The hogs are not so
hog fat as American farmers like to
get them, and all that | have seen have
long shouts, coarse bristles, and are
white in color.
Last winter a cargo of American cat
tie was landed in Hamburg, and many
were sold to German farmers who de-
sired to fatten them, When the cattle
were delivered they were driven into
chutes and a rope tied around their
horns. Then the gate was opened and
the purchaser and his steer became &C.
quainted. There was never before such
excitement in Hamburg. Away would
go the steer, with two or three Dutch-
men holding on to the rope, at a e:4O
gait, running over ~dog-carts, pedeatri-
ans and every thing else that got in the
way. Many of the streets IN Hamburg
are very narrow-too narrow to even
drive acart through; others wide enough
to permit one to pass at a time. These
narrow streets were the seem of hair.
breadth escapes, they being unusually
full of ONE and children. The men
holding to the rope were slung here and
there, and generally let 60 after the
first mile. The 'Donnerwetters" that
fell in Hamburg that day exceeded
those OF the English army in Flanders.
1t took two or three days to gather up
the lost cattle, and people have not got
over talking about it yet. Since then
they have learned that the American
steer is not used to being handled in
that way.
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sINGLE.rosr GRAPE TRELLIs.
and protect the ends of the pr~otruding
arms slender vertical strips &xl inch

and protect the ends of the protrudlng
arms slender vertical strips 4xl inch
are added as shown.
In training the vines for this trellls
a single cane is grown the first season
which is cut back pretty lowin autumn.
The second year two canes are trained
up, each of which is cut back in the fall
to two buds, The third year, four canes
are grown, and if the vine has done
we'll these are allowed to bear two
lunches each,
In the autumn of the third year these
canes are cut back to not to exceed two
feet in length, and serve as bed canes
for the next year. At the close of this
season these are cut back to the ane
nearest the fork Of the trunk, which
cut off at two feet long serves as the
bed cane for the next year. The length
of the bed canes is of course regulated
by the strength of the vine, but it does
not exceed two feet. The growth of
spurs neal the forks of the trunk is en-
couraged to develop future bud canes.
If the vines are planted eight feet
apart both ways, and the arms of the
trellis extended diagonally, as shown
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-08-02

COMPLETE ~SELF-CONTROL.
One of the Fundamental Qualities in ANY
Large and High SnCcpss.

lstELt SHu Ilku NuNNtSN
There are few qualities which lie so
directly within the reach of every man
and woman, because so Immediately the
result Of education, as self-control; and
yet there are few qualities which are
SO generally lacking. Everybody has
a certain amount of s~elf-control, but
there are many people who compensate
themselves for the repression of their
energies on one side by giving them
full play on another. Self-control means
the entire mastery of ones nature;
ean always having in hand all ones
powers; means sitting IN the box and
driving instead of being driven. The
absence of self-control is seen in many
small ways: In the unconscious rising
of the tones OF voice in earnest talking:
in purely nervous g%esticulation and
restlessness; in the inability to drop a
subject when we have gotten
through with it; in i%rritability,
and that subdued violence shown,
not in outbursts of temper, but in
little gusts of passion escaping here and
there. These are small things in them
selves, but manyof them are exceeding
ly irritating and d~isagreeable, and they
all involve a really serious result-a
loss Of nervous force. The heightened
tone of the voice, the |incessant gesticu-
l~ation, the physical re~stlessness, are not
only unpleasant, but they involve Just
so much needless expenditure Of a force
OF which few Of us possess a super
abundance. Complete self-control is one
of the fundamental qualities in any
large and high success; for complete
self-control mean that one has ones
self completely in hand and is able to
address ones self exclusively to what
ever is necessary TO be done at the mo-
ment. 1t is a great mistake to infes
power from any'kind Of violence or rest
lessness. True power is allied with
oomposure, with calmness, with %self-re-
s~traint; and real power is manifested
in restraint and composure and not
in violence of speech or action.
A man of nervous organization re-
Gently said that he had gained
immense benefit by simply watching
the modulations of his voice and per-
sistently resisting the inclination to
run into high tones. He had found not
only relief for the vocal chords, but a
steadiness and calmness of thought and
feeling which made him conscious of
the great blunder of wasting nervous
strength by suffering the vocal chords
to sympathize with an excited condition
rather than keeping them under steady
control. This is one illustration of the
possibility of overcoming the common
forms of nervousness To ''let ones
self go" is not only to lose force at a
particular point, but to invite a reaction
along the whole line of physical express
sion, and so to continually stir up and
agitate, instead Of continually restrain.
ing and calming. There are a great
many people who lay these minor faults
on the shoulders of a nervous tempera.
ment, and who do not know that a nerv-
II temperament, under control, is a
tremendous force, and that it is Just as
susceptible of being governed by the
will as the grosser appetites or passions.
Christian Union.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-08-02

Ill tie gear ronna; you may
relv upon DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery to purify
the blood and invigorate the
system, It's not like the
s5rsaparillas, that are said to
be good for the blood -, in
March, April and May, The e
Golden Medical Discovery
works equally well at all !
times, and in all cases OF
blood %taints, or humors, no
matter what their name or
nature. :.
It's the ehcabcst blood-puri-
fer, sold through druggists,
because you only pay tor me
good you get. :,
Your money is returned II
it doesn't benefit or cure YOU
Can you ask more!
Golden Medical Discov-
cry" contains no alcohol to
inebriate, and no syrup or
sugar to dcrange digestion,
It's a concentrated vegeta-
bic extract; put up IN large
bottles; pleasant to the TASTE
and equally good for adults or
children.
The Discovery" cures all
Skin, Scalp and Scrotulous
affections, as Eczema, letter,
Salt-rheum, Fever-sores, White
Swellings, Hip joint disease
and kindred ailments.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-08-02
HOUSEHOLD sREvITlEs

Whenever you see a rat hole pour .
little tar in it The rats will not come
f; near it
Picked Spring Chickens Boil six
young chickens until done; pick the
meat from the bones and put in a stone
jar; pour in a pint Of the liquorin which
they were boiled, with a pint Of strong
vinegar, a dozen pepper-corns, a blade
Of mace, a dozen cloves, and a dozen
aflspice. Cover and set away for three
or four dsys.
Sausage Patties-0ne cupful sour
milk, one egg, a spoonful each of salt
and soda, and -four to roll out Cut out
pieces the size of a bowl; place a fat
piece of sausage in each and pinch the
paste over it Place on a plate in the
steamer and steam one hour, Serve
with mashed potatoes and apple sauce.
Western Rural.
Creole Pudding,-Beat eight eggs
with half a pound of sugar, half .
pound of butter and the juice of mi
lemon. Line a deep dish with puff
paste, cover with ounce preserves,
pour over a little of the mixture, lay on
more preserves, then more of the mix
ture, and preserves, Bake and eat with
sauce Ladies' Home Journal.
Acids as Food. Fruit acids are
wholesome, but acids which are the re-
suit of decomposition, as vinegar, for
instance, are very unwholesome. Fruit
acids are sort of peptogens or appetizers
and as such serve an excellent purpose;
still one can live entirely without acids
of any kind and not suffer if the food
taken be of proper quality.-Dr. j. Ii.
Kellogg,
Blackberry Sponge.-Cover half a
box of gelatine with cold water, and
soak for half an hour; then pour over a
pint of boiling water, add half a teacup
of sugar and stir until dissolved. Mix
in a pint of freshly-strained blackberry
juice, pour in a tin pan and set on ice
until thick and cod; then beat to a stiff
froth, add the whites Of four eggs, we'll
beaten, pour in arnold and set to harden.
Serve with whipped cream.-The House
keeper,
One Way to Cleanse a Carpet
Having busted and removed such ar
ticles as can be carried from the room,
wiring a flannel mop out of hot water
and wipe the carpet thoroughly, wiring
ing the mop from clean water as often
as it may become soiled. Now, sweep
with a broom, as you ordinarily would,
and when you have finished you will
have a bright, clean carpet, with little
or no dust, and all at the expense of a
very little hard labor, Those who have
moi tried this mehtod are sceptical about
its merits; but one trial will convince. -
Boston Budget.
Prof, Angel, of Michigan Univer-
sity, furnishes the following as a test
of purity of water for drinking: Dis
selve about half a ~teaspoonful of the
purest white sugar in a pint bottle COM
pletely full of the water to be tested,
and tightly stopped; expose it to day
light and a temperature up to 70 degrees
f. After a day or two examine, holding
the bottle against some thing black, for
whitish floating specks, which will
betray the presence of organic matter
in considerable proportion" Microbes
in impure water are killed by boiling
and it is recommended to also boil milk
before drinking it, in the warm season
nsnpcialy.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-08-02
Novelties in Jewelry.

A ragged portion of a peanut she'll
represented in old gold forms a unique
scarf pin Of recent make.
Alligator skin represented in a lady's
square silver belt buckle by oxidized
etching promises to become fashionable
this season.
The forefeet Of a horse curved into a
horseshoe with diamonds and rubies
mounted alternately is a gold scarf pin
that is meeting with favor.
A pretty and attractive wedding pres.
emit consists Of a pair Of silver s~altcel.
lars, each representing a pineapple and
resting in a pulled, silk lined case.
The ace Of clubs formed by a double
tape Of black enamel and having a clus-
ter of white pearls in the ccnters Of the
projections fo.ms a pretty lace pip.-
jewellers Weekly
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N IDTS GONE.

Sence Idy's gone somehow you see
The hours is ~lOnger'n they usto be,
An days, an skies are duller; an the night
Drips ont in oozin' seconds drearily
At every hollow clock tick. till the light
Ltps up the murky fancies YEARLY;
And fever'd dreams AT come long after dawl
Mis- up the happiness l hoped 10 see
18th that great sor:ew which is hauntin' me
AT Idy's gone.
Sence Idy's gone l dist can't stay
Indoors; il seems like ev';y way
l look l find some doin's at az her'n:
Her apern, mebbe, or the last croshay
She done before she went; at ev'ry turn
run acrost her mem'ry; SOS / say
i keep outdoors dist kindo's il Is drawn.
An hang around the crick here ev'ry day,
But even it keeps singin' in its play
At dy's gone
Go into the town, er to the store,
It's all the same, I hyur the roar
The crick is maxim as it reshes past
The bend; l know it's sayin' somepin more
N folks believe an more'n most folks dast
Less they believe at spirits crosses DER
An talks 18th us; the housework don't git on
Keeps gittin' tangleder'n twas before,
Dist like my head ats tangled TO the core
Sence Idy's gone.
Kansas City Star.
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The Secret of Beauty.

The secret of beauty is health. Those
who desire to be beautiful should do all
they can to restore their health II they
have lost it, or to keep it If they have
1t still. No one can lay down specific
rules for other people in these matters.
The work which n may do, the rest he
must take, his baths, his diet, his exer-
else, are matters for individual con-
sideration; but they must be carefully
thought of and neve neglected. As a
rule, when a person feels we'll he looks
well, and when he looks i'll be feels ill.
There are times when one csn guess,
without looking in the glass; that the
eyes are dull and the skin is mottled.
This is not a cas- for something in a
pretty perfumery bottle, or for a lotion
that advertisements praise so highly.
To have a fresh complexion and bright
eyes, even 10 have white hands and a
graceful figure, you must be we'll.
Health and the happiness which comes
with 1t are the true secrets of beauty
N, Y, Ledger.
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uer great excitement, tney reporleu lue
matter to the authorities.
All B~rounfeld was excited over the
terrible news. Never in the history of
the town had such a tragedy occurred.
The woman was we'll known in the com
munity as a young widow whose nus
band had led a somewhat reckless life,
but who had left her well provided for
at his death, which occurred after two
years of welded life.
AS was most natural, with the added
attraction of a snug fortune the pretty
young widow was quite popular, and it
was rumored that she had half a dozen
suitors.
But this is in the nature of a digres-
sion. | have introduced you to the
woman-dead, and the principal object
of this story is to u@nravel for the reader
the mystery of her death.
The mayor, the five councilmen, the
town marshal, and perhaps fifty citizens
of Brounfield, after they had heard the
story of the two laborers, followed them
TO the spot where the body lay.
1t was a fitting spot for a murder, The
sandy road, arched by meeting trees
that shut the sunlight out, led abruptly
to a covered bridge which ~spanned a
bleak and sluggish stream; and just
fifty yards from the water, in a clump
of bushes by the roadside, the body lay.
Why did the murderer leave it there?
was the question we i~nvoluntarily
asked ourselves, as the white face and
staring eyes met our gaze. Why did he
not seek to conceal his crime by throw
ing the body in the river?
The woman had been strangled: the
print of human fingers was visible on
her white throat. The fingers of the
right hand were closed tightly until
the blue nails seemed to pierce the
bloodless palms. Evidently she had
not died without a struggle,
Look" cried one of the men, point
ing to the closed hand, and we saw for
the first time that it held a little tuft
Of coarse, black hair.
This may be aclue to the murderer, "
said the mayor. Justice Brown, you
will hold the inquest, Had we not bet
ter remove the body at once to Broun-
field?'
The justice assented, and we formed
a little funeral procession, and bore the
dead oma to the town.
The two laborers who had discovered
the body were held as witnesses, but
the inquest developed nothing, except
that the woman was fond Of taking long
walks / n the afternoon, and that on the
evening preceding her death she had
been seen leaving her house by a col,
ored woman, who testified that she saw
a man, who wCre no coat, join her in
the little town park and enter into con
versation with her. There the witnes,
lost sight of them and thought nothing
of the incident. She could not describe
the man in his shirt sleeves, for she was
not near enough to distinguish his feat
ures, She remembered, however, tina
ne was a tall man, and seemed to have
stick or walking zane in his hand.
Who could have committed the crime,
Robbery was not the object, for the
woman's purse, containing seven dollars
was found by her side, or rather a littl,
satchel which she carried suspended
from her neck.
My business kept me in Brounfield
week after this event, but when | lef
they were no nearer to solving the mys
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Arnved there, I made inquiries con-
corning the murder. A reward had
been offered for the murderer, but as
yet he had not been captured.
My room was in the second story of
the little hotel. 1t was hot night in
July; and although fatigued by my
journey, l could not sleep. 1t was, per-
haps, near twelve o'clock, when the
stiffness of death seemed to reign in
the house, hat | arose and resolved to
seek the balcony for a breath of fresh
air.
As | walked out saw a man, in his
shirt sleeves, bareheaded, sitting at the
far end. with his feet on the railing.
He gave an involuntary start at my
approach.
"Ahr' he said, with something like a
sigh, "out for a breath OF fresh air, Ell?
1t was so plagued hot in the house, |
thought I'd try il out here myself"
do not know that the mans manner
would have impressed me ii | had not
seen him in bis shirt sleeves; but put
ting this and that together-the way he
started at my approach-his nervous,
jerky n Of speaking, and then
his being in his shirt Sleeves-but
pshaw! l wore no coat myself. Who
could on such a burning July night2
do not know whether fate or prov
idenoe led me to this man, but | do
know that a half hours conversation
with him made me suspect that he
knew something about the murder of
hat poor woman whose body | had seen
on that memorable morning by the
roadside,
| naturally led the conversation to
the murder. He did not seem inclined
to talk of it, and soon changed the sub
ject
But brought him back to it by easy
stages, until at last, with a gesture of
Impotence, he said: 81 don't care to
talk about it; the authorities are at
work on the case and | guess they'll
ferret out the murderer in time"
The estdetectiyes sometimes blunder
in their work. | was an amateur in the
buoIitoS, ucIlNc my Slcdt |COullutlct III
my theories. "A tall man." the woman
had said. Here was a tall man. A tuft
of coarse black hair clutched in the
dead woman's palm, Ny friend in his
shirt sleeves had just such hair. These
were the mental notes l made while |
was talking with him there on the
balcony.
Are you a stranger here?" ! asked.
Not exactly" he replied, 1--WE been
in business here a little more than
three months. I'm a surveyor"
We parted for the night. and before |
returned | decided to dismiss my fool
ish impression Of the man and turn ny
attention to other matters.
But | could not quite rid my mind of
the idea that in some way or other he
was connected with that murder.
In the morning, after breakfast, he
walked across the street to the post
office in his sh~irt-sleeves and got his
mail.
saw him a dozen times that day-al-
ways in his shirt-s!eeves. All that
week, whenever | met the man, he was
coatless. 1t seemed to be his habit to
go that way.
was strangely attracted to him, and