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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-03-24

boards arc used, they will practically make side boards, by
Making these stakes long enough and putting in end ones in
inc same way bulky material may be handled.
We are making this offer to show a sample Of our work. We
"antto show how nice athing We can make, and how reckless
weatel IN The METER OF prices. This Steel Truck is furnished at
ss99 cish q cents per pound, and 9 copies Of advertisement
NO. . as per conditions named in No. 4, This is adv. No O..
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-03-24

FTER al the Len
ten trial
II was wondrous
sweet denial
Not to wear that
Easter bonnet
Days and weeks
we're spent upon
it
All the potency OF
riches,
Woman's art that
so bewitches,
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sAunne,. ~ image IT an object or diagram or
. name viii ~ Il ri' sen by the agent may he
correctly dc ribed by the percipient simply be-
cause their hi.Lds ase set TO move In the same
direction. IL must be remembered that, how
ever unexpected and spontaneous they may ap-
pear. ideas do not come by chance, but have
their origin for the most part In the previous
experience Of the thinker. Persons living con-
stantly in the same physical and intellectual
environment are apt 20 present a close similarity
in their ideas. II would not he even prlma facie
evidence Of thought transferrence, for instance,
II husband and wife. asked 10 think OF a town or
of an acquaintance, should select the same
name. Investigation has shown that our
thoughts move In grooves which are determined
for us by causes moro decp-seated and more
general than the accident Of particular circum-
stances. IL has been found that individuals
will show a decided preference for certain geo
metrical figures or certain numbers over 9TH
ers, and that this preference tends to be tolera-
bly, constant. The American Society for Psy-
chical Research made some interesting observa-
tions on this point in 1888. Blank cards were
issued 10 a large number Of persons, with a re-
quest that each recipient would draw on the
card ten diagrams. Five hundred and one cards
were returned. and the diagrams inscribed on
them were carefully tabulated. The result was
that, Of the sol persons, noless than 900 drew
circles. ia squares, 1850 cquilatcral triangles and
crosses. while only three drew wheels, two can
dlesticks, and one each a corkscrew, a ball. and
a knife. II turned out that the sim pier geomet-
rical figures occurred not only most frequently.
but, as a general rule, early in each series Of
tens. It follows that in an experiment the sue
cess OF the pcrcipient In reproducing a circle, a
square, or a triangle thought Of by the agent
would raise q much fainter presumption of
thought transferrence than II the object repro
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To THE EDITOR or THE SUH-Sir: In q measur,
The SuS ts right in saying that "a little met 70
inventive genius TO perfect the mechanical side
Of record breaking may be relied on to bring no
IN the desirable goal" Inventive genius La,
done its part, but the horseman has not appre-
ciated the fact.
When the pneumatic tire was first used on the
%trotting sulky I stated in an interview in tho
philadelphia Press wide the enclosed elippinS)
that II was good for five seconds In the mileo on
the hest horse tracks. and 50 IL has proven 70 hel
but i'm the mean time the pneumatic tire itsclt
has been vastly improved in its speed quaItles,
and to-day Is seconds faster than. II was when
Introduced. Mr.. Hank Coinstock's estimate q
six seconds Is still too low. In proof OF this ~
Ia only necessary to refer to the bicycle
record, which has fallen from 2:20 4.5 on solla
rubber tires to | :53 As on pneumatics, q DIFF
ference Of 80 seconds. Some portion OF THIS ~
OF course, due to the Improvement In machines.
but the major part Is the direct result of the
Improvement In tires. The horseman; unlike
He uses the cheapest tire he can
buy, and ms n rule does not give Intelligent trCnts
ment either to II or the hall-teRrtf!gs OF MS
sulky. On more than one track have sen
sulkIes of which the tires were only partially
inflated and tho bearings so badly adjusted rs 10
destroy all their virtue.
The mi trotter Is not cOrninp..she is
here. Harness her up tO n perfectly buynStca
sulky, fitted with tires made Of he rieht kind
OF fabric and properly proportioncd TO the
weight they have to carry and the track they
are to he used upon, and she viii do her best
which is better than she has ever done. yet,
New YoRK, Sept. ~. KIRK Brown.
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The Honey Pot OF Davidson County.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: l see IN
your scintillating sheet an odious com parison.
In which you go out OF your way In order to
contrast tho oratorical powers of Shcp Digger,
the Genius Of the Blue Ridge. with those Of the
Hon. Windy Billy Henderson of Davidson
county. You say:
Mr. Digger is as powerful on the platform
as with the pen. He is undoubtedly the first
orator in that State North CARDINAL and we
have no patience with the cramped provinciah
who rank him rs second only to the Hon. Windy
William Henderson, the Honey Pot OF David
/ arm a warm friend Of Shep Digger, yet ! cam
not consent TO see him overloaded at the expens
OF Windy Billy. can only regard your attempt
man when he is old and feeble, and. to use one
Of Mr.. Henderson's own most ielic!t9us express
sions, when he Is all emaciated In health" l.,
therefore, resent 1t, both as Il Tar Heel and. as
an Anglo-Ssxon. Upon one occasion. sir, Mr..
pass, and was led thereby Into a feeling DISGUST
ton on the suPeriority, Of Caucasian, blood to
the puising veins il his ARMAND. hammer brand
right arm, he said: Il tell you there Is no blood
i IsySs sf e is h Al SsrGe we STs II Sir a9 G a, aHs 8! 70 ,b Prss
Angles" I resent your slur upon Mr.. Hender-
speeches, and then take back your hasty. intern
perete, Informed Judgment. Mr.. Henderson
coiSr sarT peopRs in sSHsih% 81 ' He G S@sn thinning Hs
for office on the Republican ticket; and neces-
did not lien think as highly. OF unshed Anglo
Saxon gore as lac does now. He said:
"Colored Fellow Citizens: II was upon this
suspicious occasion, in the year l492, that
Christopher Columbus, sailing across the seas,
landed on Plymouth Rock, and there pro-
claimed liberty. freedom. and intelligence 10 all
nations. But, my friends, what was they a-doin'
down In Virginia ut that timer Why, the
Democrats was in power. and they had their
feet on the niggers' neck u-hollering sic SEM
pire tyrannis !" Look at Rome colored fellow
citizens, When the Democrats got In power
there, Rome fell, and to-day il is nothing but a
bowling wilderness, peopled by Greeks, Cana
dams, and other savages ~
Read this a second time, Mr.. Editor, and then.
the hit hound, acknowledge that shep Dugger,
the Genius of the Blue Ridge, is nowhere alons-
side OF the Hon. Windy Billy Henderson,, tho
Honey Pot OF Davidson county
ONE or THESE ANGLos.
DERITA. N. c., Sept. 90, 1894.
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Over against the immobility OF China and the
sour mistrust OF Corea, we find a people eager
for civilization. What is the history OF this peo-
pie OF Japan, which is unquestionably ancient,
but which yet shows all the signs OF vigorous
YOUTH Although a complete answer TO this
question would take NJ. Lefevre altogether be-
yond the bounds OF his linguistic inquiries, he
manages TO throw, in IA few paragraphs, much
light upon 1t. There is no doubt that Japan was
inhabited before the dawn OF its recorded his
tory, or even legendary history. Instruments
OF stone and OF bone have been discoy-
cred In different parts OF the archipelago.
in tumuli and kitchen-middens. mingled
with the bones OF monkeys. bears, boars, and
deer, and also of other animals, some of which
are now extinct. Human bones, fractured and
split longitudinally, seem TO point 10 cannibal-
ism. II Is not known what this aboriginal race
was, nor whether 1t Is represented by Negritos,
who transmitted their wOOlly hair to some OF
the inhabitants OF kiu-Siu. or by the Anus, a
hairy race which undoubtedly long occupied the
great island Of Nippon. At a very early period
an invasion from Corea. reaching Kiu-Siu by way
OF the islands OF TsouslmA, drove back to the
northeast a majority OF the Anus. These
primeyal Corean invaders, the so-called Knlaco,
appear to have been plebeians or country folks
OF the Mongoloid type; the face was wide and
lozenge-shaped, the forehead was retreating.
the eyes were narrow and Oblique. the nose was
short, the cheekbOne high. and the skin yellow.
Subsequently, toward the seventh century be-
fore our era, tradition testihes to the arrival.
again, seemingly from Corea, OF a legendary con-
querOr and OF a new race, the Yamato, which
furnished the aristocratic element, the type DOS
sessing an oval face, a straight forehead, a mar
row and often aquiline nose, horizontal, almond
shaped eyes, and olive skin, a type which recalls
in miniature the Malay Polynesian. The Yam
alto, landing on the southeast of Kiu-
Stu, drove back by degrees their fore
runners, the KmAeO, toward the north
east. The fusion between the two races
was slow; the strife was prolonged 10 the middle
OF the second century OF our era. The Anus, ex-
PEELED from Nippon in the seventh century A. d.,
held their own from the ninth TO the sixteenth
in the island OF Ysso. Then they lost their in
dependence and retreated toward the extreme
north OF YesO and into the little Kourile ar
chipelAgo. They now number less than 20. 900:
but here and there Atayism reyiyes some Of
their characteristics In their ancient homes.
We have seen that Japan was twice cOlonized
from CoreA; the civilization OF Japan, which
was tardy, came from the same quarter. and
WAS Coreanized Chinese. Il was not until about
the sixth century A. d. that the doctrines OF
Confueius, Buddhism. and the Chinese written
character all penetrated 70 Japan by way Of the
CoreAn peninsula While the MikAdo, the
sacred Emperor, remained faithful to the an
sasnt nAtosA religion, shintOism. ks Leu
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ALL EIGHT AFTER ALL.
The Mas OF Moderate Means Manages with
Hls Old CndercIOthInE.

when ] got my summer underclothirg out
OF the canphor chest last SPRING said a man
OF moderate means, and looked il over with .
view 10 wearing il in the summer then APP
preaching, ! found that Il wouldn't do; that Is,
II wouldn't have done under ordinary c.Tcum-
stances; but when | came 10 take the financial
cyclone into account | thought that possibly l
might make il do, for Just one more summer,
with a little patching; 50 started IN with IL.
Well, As the summfr waHed the patches grew
uuul-Gutl | anticipate.
Day before yesterday uushACkled the
cedar chest, and got out my winter underClOth-
ing, Humphl Well, plainly that's what |
should have worn laot summer. / said 10 my
sslf that II certainly wouldn't do Tor neat vim
ter. but here my old and esteemed friend. Mr.F.
Cyclone, LOOKS in and says; 'MhatF and (
know IT'S still his cay hut observe: / turn nov 10
NV summer wear. and find that that LA come
glalually TO be twice us original thickness, and
Is now entirely suitable 10 the winter season.
don't need any new winter wear, I am al
ready supplied. 50 | look out my old and co
teen,ed friend. and l say n him: Eye. old hoy,
y Use not Ina II any more, and you might l1st =
ssu ~ aud PACK Your dress-suit 49,"
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WHERE OLD FURNITURE GOES.
Furnished Flats Absorb Much that Csed -
GO 60 Second.hand Dealers.

What becomes OF all the old furniture 2"
said an auctioneer In response to a question.
"Sccond-hand stores get some of II, but not az
much as they did formerly. The auction rooms
have the call nowadays. There are a hundred
auction rooms in New York whose wagons ara
continuously busy hauling second hand furniture
from houses and flats. The people have recog-
niZCd that the secondhand dealers won't pay az
much for IL as they are likely To get from auC-
ton sales. Within the last lew Years "A certain
class of persons have gone into the business az
renting read furnished flats aud apartments. I
know OF one woman who has lorty OF these on
her lands, and she Is getting rich fast. Her in.
~vestments In this liae pay her on an average over
100 per cent,
Take, for instance, a nat in the cheaper
neighborhOods. An SIS or $50 a month Nat ~
five or six rooms can be furnished plainly for
S75. That il, you can buy secondhand mrui-
turc enough for that sum 10 furnish the place
throughout. You pay SIS for tile rooms untur-
nished end rent them for from SIS to SIS furnish
cd: And when the tenant leaves and yOudcsire TO
sell You can realize almost a. much at auction
as sou paid. New furniture becomes second
hand as soon as used and sells ~ such. For
thar reason all furnished Hats contain secOnd-
hard furniture, which may have passed through
the auutioneer's hands a dozen times"
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The PatroImnu's Old Wade Mecum n Piiiss
OF strength and Discipline.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Having
read the article written by A. w. j., Patrolman,
in The Sun Of Sept. 90, ! would like to say. with
the permission Of The Sun. that his statement
is OF solid fact. and would also state that we are
indeed handicapped by Superintendent Byrnes'
taking our night sticks away from us and giving
us the whistle to call for assistance.
A patrolman may stand-on his post during his
first tour Of duty 20 to IL p. NJ and blow his
whistle for assistance and not get an answer for
some time, for the whistle cannot be located, as
II Is very deceiviny.
Another case is II a patrolman Is running after
a person who has committed o crime, he tries TO
blow his whistle. but cannot blow II as his wind
Is all given out by his running. and the person
gets away, when II we had our night sticks we
could rap on the walk as we ran along aud no
person could get away.
There is also more clubbing done now. In fact
more dangerous clubbing, than there WAS when
we had our night sticks. AS IL IL, a patrolman.
when he clubs a mar nowadays. does not hit
on the body, but hits OH the head of the person
he Is clubbing.
Superintendent Byrnes' tax ing away our night
sticks. pleases the upper ten and the lower five.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. e.. =. Patrolman.
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LETTERS rnoM TIE People.


To THB EDITOR or TBE SUN - Str: l won.
der II IL ever occurred 10 his sapient highness
the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General that
others besides himself and a country Postmaster
can have an interest in the changing OF a name
20 interesting as that Of Arpomattox, and
especially a change at once so commonplace in
its conception and 80 insulting to a section in ~
application as Surrender.
While al 10 why don't he change Bull Run, In
tbc seme State, 20 "Skcdaddle ~
n would be In fully as good taste, and would
even mn things. Such n man would change
Waterloo 70 Bugtown, Trafalgar Bay 20 Max.
wells Greek. and Yorktown 70, Smithviue, ana
think he'd done n very clever thing.
God help us when such s~mall-minded. pud-
dIng-hcaded men have the running OF things.
UNI WI LAURENCE.
RtvpRsIpE. Conn, Sept. 90.
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II Is pointed out in the first chapter OF the sec
ond part that to the seven or eight hundred mill
lions of men Who speak infected languages China
opposes a motionless and compact mas OF mono
syllabism, a form of language which has suflced
from time immemorial for about five hundred
millions of human beings who have attained by
themselves TO a certain degree, sometimes a
high degree. Of civilization. II Is a ~civiliza-
ton of a singularly detached, original and
idiosyncratic kind, and two OF the main
obstacles to am profound change in II are the
monosyllabic language and a written character
almost as ancient as monosyllabism itself.
which, adapted TO the monosyllabic form, has
preserved II from much alteration. The writer OF
this book relies on the authority OF VI. Julien VIM
son for the statement that, according to tradition,
the first Chinese characters were rude draw
ings OF material objects. A circle with a dot in
the centre signihed the sun; a vertical stroke
with two lines on either side at an angle indi-
Gated a tree. and so on. To express complex
ideas, several Of these symbols were put to-
gether. The signs for sun and moon together
represented light; those for woman. hand and
broom meant a married woman; to hear
was rendered by the sign for ear and
door; TO follow by three symbols for
man placed one after the other. Then GER
tain symbols were taken, OF which the pronun-
citation only, without the meaning. survived.
Pewhite, together with the sign for tree, took the
sense of cypress; Fan with earth or mountain
meant dixie. There are about 100 OF these signs
which have become phonetic, and of which
many are no longer employed singly. The Chi
nese characters often have variants borrowed
from an earlier period, from a system now out
OF date; the written character has. in effect,
varied considerably since the date 295O b. c.,
when. according TO the legend. Fou-Hi in
vented tho pictorial script. The variations have
been classed in six different styles. In the or
binary style, the characters retain little of the
ideograms as originally drawn. They are COM
posed of strokes, the number OF which Is made
the basis OF an artificial classification OF the yo-
cabulary. There are PA type words called keys;
six formed with one stroke, twenty-three with
two strokes, and so on up TO seventeen strokes.
But this classification varies according TO the
grammarian. IL is asserted that these articles
allow as many as 43,495 words 20 be written,
all monosyllabic or compounds Of monosyll tables,
about one-third Of which compose the ordinary
current vocabulary. NJ. Lefeyrs has heard il
said that an educated ChinamAn could not boast
OF knowing how 70 read before he reached the
age Of 40 years or more. One can see how great
= part ealisraphy must play In Chinese sduea-
ton, and II seems amazing that such . system
OF writing should have been adopted b. the An
NANTES and The J~Hpansss. We note IN passing
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III.

We turn to the languages spoken In Corea and
Japan. which are agglutinative idioms. and
here IL may be needful to draw a line OF de-
narration between these and monosyllabic
tongues. This line has not always been made
clear by philOlogists, and II has even been main
tanned that absolute monosyl. abism exists no
longer. The majority OF Chinese words consist
OF two or three syllables, while, on the other
hand. agglutinative dialects are found. es-
pecislly ia the Tongus group, the gram
maj of which is yet so undeveloped that
II has no case or verbal endlngs. NJ. Le-
fevre, however. puts his finger ON a positive
distinction by noting that the common char
s~cteristic OF all the agglutinative languages Is
the change and gradual atrOphy OF the subordi-
nate roots. The syllAbles which the Chinese call
empty, as opposed 10 the full syllables, lose, in
part, their significance. but they retain their
form; while the sense is effaced. the sound re-
mains invariable. The result Is that they can
neither constitute examinations nor serve as con-
Meeting links between roots and sutixes denot-
ing case or person. The words. therefore. even
when polysyllAbic, remain sterile, and cannot
produce others by derivation; no Chinese. An
Mantle, or Burmese word gives birth TO a
series Of verbs. nouns, and adJectives de-
rived from q common root. In the az
glutinatiye languages, on the other hand,
the root, that Is TO say the full or prin-
cipal syllable, alone remains invarlable; the sub
ordinate roots, those which amplify OF modify
the meaning Of the full syllable, are susceptible
Of change in form and In sound. as well as In
their primary sense. Sometimes AtrOphied by
their close connection with the root Ia name
which the subordinate roots change for that of
SUNK, sometimes with their initial cOnsOnant
or their central vowel affected by the influence
Of the root, they furnish a certain number OF
signs applicable respectively to the different
parts OF speech. OF else they form with the root
An indiyisible whole, and a new root OF theme.
susceptible in its turn Of acquiring other suf-
hXes and giving birth 10 = greALsr or less num-
Der OF deriyitabls terms.
Thus mOnsyllabism and Sg~glutlnAtion have in
common the inalterability OF the root or fun
syllable, and the alteration in the sense OF the
subordinate or empty syllable; 10 AgElutination
alone belongs the change in the form OF the
subordinate root. Injected languages have. In
addition, the power 10 change the root syllable.
From one class TO another there Is but a stem;
the barrier Il 80 slight that certain peoples have
crossed It without knowing it; 20 impsresptibls
that others have not sought 70 cross L, 20 az
elaiVe, nevertheless. that IL sharply divides the
shEss St-sss Of AAguAss ThsEs = Apparently
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A.t,aE the spirit. to Fr.a . su.Ls. Wreck.

DUSKIRK, Sept 26.-Nearly a year ago. dur
ing one Of the most terrific gales that ever
swept over the lakes, the steamer Dean Rich
mond went down In Lake Erie, tai.
ing down with her every soul on board. The
exact spot where the steamer was lost was not
known, but it was thought that her position
could be apprOximated. She was heavily In
sured, and during the past year ths underwear
nave searched the bottom Of the lake over An
AREA OF LOrty square miles In hope OF hndinR the
wreck, out nave tailed 20 md any trace OF nj
They have now entered into an agreement viii
= number Of S~ptntuAlists. who sAy that thev wii
% able 70 locate the snnken steamer BY The ~
of sPlHt4-. They ell hold their hrst slanes ~
invoke thh AID On = tugbOat nexI Nssk.
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The Language. OF China, Corea. ..d Japan


inc latest addition 70 the international Scien-
tine series puoisheo by the Appietons Is a dis.
cussion OF Race ana Language by NJ ANDRE
LEFErRE, professor In the Anthropologica
School at Paris The authors aim $50 give at
once a concise ana a complete conception OF MS
subject. He begins with a review OF the embry-
ology OF speech the formation OF words, and the
structure OF languages and passing to the geo
graphical distribution OF Languages and races,
he points out the remarkable spread OF the in
fected languages Us contrasted with the
stationary position OF the monosyllabic and
agglutinative idioms OF Central Asia. Last
ly, a good deal OF space is devoted
to n special consideration OF the lndo-
European organism and Its various linguistic
outgrowths. With regard to the fundamental
questions whether man thinks because he speaks
or speaks because he thinks. the author thinks