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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10
THE COREAN CAPITAL.
At Shutdown Every food Citizen Retircs {
vflG IInuso

At Shutdown Every Good Citizen Retircs to
Ills House.
Seoul, the capital of the Corean
kingdom, is the only city where wide
streets are found, and the main street,
leading to the royal palace, is, indeed,
immensely wide, so much so that two
rows of smaller matched houses and
shops are built in the middle of the
street itself, thus forming, as it were,
three parallel streets of n street; but
these houses are removed and pulled
down twice or three times a year, when
his majesty, the king, chooses to come
out OF his palace and goes in his state
chair either to visit the tombs of his
ancestors, some miles out of town, or
to meet the ENJOYS of the Chinese EN-
peror, q short way out of the west gate
of the capital, and a place where q pc
culiar sort of triumphal arch, half
built in masonry and half in lacquered
wood, has been erected, close by an ar
tificial cut in the rocky hill, which, in
honor Of the Chinese messengers, goes
by the name of the "Pekin pass"
All the cities in Corea are walled,
and the gates are opened at sunrise
and closed with the setting sun. ]
well remember at Seoul how many
times ! have had 10 run so as not to be
locked ont of the town, and vivid be-
fore INC is yet the picture of hundreds
OF men, women and children on foot or
on tiny ponies, or leading laden bulls,
scrambling to get in or out while the
"big bell' in the center of the town an
nounced with its m%ournful sound that
witht the last rays Of light the heavy
wooden gates lined with iron would be
again closed till the morning.
How well ! remember the hoarse
voices Of the gatekeepers shouting out,
night after night, that time was up,
and h%urrying the weary travellers to
enter the precincts Of the royal city;
then the huge iron padlocks and bolts
were fastened, the gatckeepers retired
to the adjoining house to continue the
interrupted gambling which occupied
their day, and a few rusty old spears
standing in a row on q rack were left
to take care of the safety of the town
and of its inhabitants. With the sun
every noise ceased, every good citizen
retired to his house, and only an occa-
sional leopard now and then crawled
over the city wall and made ~peregrina.
tions in the darkness wei the capital.
-Fortnightly Review. q,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10

vice ! once gave you. You cannot write
love stories, dear, but you can be the
heroine of one If You will. BE my wife
won't You say yes, my little south
ern Daisy?"
Poor Ethel! Her face was scarlet.
Tears rushed to her eyes as she fall
tered
"Oh, Ray, how did you find me out?"
He lifted the flushed face and kissed
1t.
Quite easily, darling" he replied.
Here is Miss Daisy's tart little note,
and here are Miss Ethel's replies to my
invitations. Are they not written ex
actly alike?"
Ethel laughed rather ruefully. Then,
clasping both hands behind her, she
said:
Every well, | must execute my
threat, Now that you really desire a
few lines of my writing, l shall refuse
them"
Don't say that" pleaded Ray. "Will
not love avail! Ethel, you can't be SC
cruel? But l shall not request the few
lines Sim going south with you, II
you'll let me-"
She turned 70 u away, but he caught
her in his arms.
"You have notanswered my question
yet" he said.
II cannot" declared Ethel.
"Why?" demanded Ray.
Because = because | ought not tc
forgive you. Daisy's wrongs cry fol-
vengeance"
*'Then insure it, sagely counselet
Ray, "by marrying her dearest foe"
And Ethel took his advice.-N. Y
Journal. -
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n MlCROPHONE.
Wonders of n Li:tie Instrument for the
Magnifying of Sound.

Wonders of n Li:tie Instrument for the
Magnifying of Sound.
One of the most curious instruments
which the development of electrical
science has brought into being is the
~microphone. 1t embraces within itself
almost the whole principle of the
modern telephone, and with it may be
performed Il series of experiments
which, aside from being interesting,
are wonderfully significant of what we
may expect from its development in
the neal future. BY its aid the foot
steps Of a fly walking on the stand on
which it is placed are clearly heard,
and give the sensation of a horses
tread: and even a hy's scream, especi-
ally at the moment of death, is easy
audible. The rustling of feather or
a piece of dressgoods on the board Of
the instrument, and completely inau-
dible under ordinary circumstances,
are distinctly heard in the microphone.
The ticking of a watch is rendered
very loud at quite a distance from the
receiver. A musical box placed in
connection with the instrument trans
mits SO much sound as to render it I'M
possible todistinguish individual notes.
A current of air blown sharply on the
instrument sounds like 4 distant
tricklc of water. And the rumbling of
a carriage outside the house is trans
formed into a very intense cracking
noise, not unlike the sound of the
burning of a pine log. 49,
The instrument in appearance as
sumies various shapes. inasmuch as the
very simplicity of its principle admits
of its being made of various substances
and almost any form. All that is
necessary for its simple working is in
having what is known, technically, as
loose contact'-that is. an electric
circuit whose continuity at some point
is capable of being varied. As an in
stance, then, three nails make one of
the best of microphones. Two Of the
nails are laid on a board parallel to
each other and say onc-half inch apart.
The other nail is laid across the first
two, the latter being meantime on
nected to a battery cell and a tele-
phone receiver. If Il fly, for instance,
he confined in a small boz, and the
latter placed on the board on which
the nails are laid, the slightest vibra-
ton caused by the movements of its
feet will render the unstable contact os
lie nails still more unsteady, and thu,
altering the force or amount Of tho
electricity which passes, will repro
duce in the telephone receiver an exact
but much ~magnifed fac-simile Of What
is taking place in the box.-llarper's
Young People.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10
ON q PORCH.

L -
Twas 400 far to walk TO meeting, ami the
horses had to plow.l
John won't take them from the iurrow for the
fourth-day meeting now:
So I've had to give up going. But l always
come out here
To keep the hour of meeting, an to feel the
Presence near.
I know I'm growing feeble an Maria is quito
right;
Though l hOin't been sick in meeting, vet
NEST any time l might
So Itidy frock and apron. and pat on my sheer
est cap,
And sit out on the side porch with the Bible
on my Jap.
III put the hard thoughts from, my heart. and
in the stiffness wait
For the comfort an the message to all who
mediate.
Tho Book falls open at the text; II will lit MP
mine eyes
Unto the hills, whence cometh help Why,
that is a surprise
Why. all the liyelong morning Two been thi.t-
ing Of the hills;
I was bonn and raised among en-, How that
mock birds carol trills'
There YVES one beside the spring-house when
Josiah came to me,
Where l stood a-churning butter, on that day
IN Tennessee
His father was a minister-haa preached for
Friends First-day,
In Lost Creek meetin' house; an they had
mount to ride away,
When Josiah. from the stirrup turned back TO
get a drink
From the old spring by the dairy with the
moss upon its brink.
l can see his eyes a-twinkle as l held the
dripping gourd;
"Thoc Is like Rebecca at the we'll Now, does
thee mind the word
(Which Elieaer brought herr" and I felt my
hot cheek blush
1t was Nta the mock-hird's treble broke the
early morning hush.
"Will thee come with me, Rebecca?' said Jo-
stab, in my ear.
I've IN inward drawing to thee. VIII thee be
my wife, my dear
A Eyes" u kiss. and then he went. We met no
more at all
TIL the week that We we're welded, ct Friends
meeting, in the fan.
Tut. tut, This is too foolish. Let me think
upon the Word;
Not let my thoughts 90 drifting OF at carol OF
bird
~ will lift mine eyes unto the hills Tn fiat
country lookei strange.
From my fathers porch we looked right up TO
the old smoky range;
/ could see lin as ne iourneyed up the noun
tain road they went
To attend a monthly meeting up to Pine Creek
settlement
We came way out to Ohio while l was yet a
bride;
Were living here nigh forty years, an then
Josiah died,
Il viii litt-laino-eyes-" At evening, when
the clouds mass In the west.
They look like the hills OF heaven nigh the
City OF the Blest-
whence cometh help" l like to think the
call win cone to me-
Josiah'S self the messenger. Come upi wo
wait for thee
Oh, there must be hills IN Heaven! He will
come dow from the heights,
And we'll climb up from the valley till we see
the heavenly lights
All, the weary years OF waiting But the time
will seem not long,
When we hear the mock-bird's carol mingle
withthe angels song,
Alice W. BrothertCn, In I~iarper's Bazar.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10
MENTAL. IMAGES.
The Tendency OF People to Put Their
Thoughts ia Material Dress.

Thoughts in Material Dress.
~ man %converSing in earnest" says
Emerson, in his essay on Mature" IF
he watch his intellectual processes,
viii lind that "A material image, more
or less luminous, arises in his mind,
contemporaueous with every thought,
which furnishes the vestment of the
thought
This power of forming mental images
appears 20 vary in strength among in
diyiduals to a considerable degree.
Naturally we should expect to find it
powerful in poets and artists. Charles
Dickens has himself told us that he
actually saw his creations us he
wrote, and ", Tainc mentions u paint
cr who only looked at IN object while
he sketehed its outline, and was abb to
fill in the eolors from the imageof II i'll
his mind. On the other hand, there are
people of equal intelligence who, being
unable to see such mental images them
selves, have doubted their existence,
and Mr.. Francis Cation has shown that
habits of abstract thought, such as
men OF science and philosophers in
dulge in, are apt to weaken the capac.
ity of forming mental pictures. Mr..
Kirkpatrick, of Winona, MIMI, an "
detrimental psychologist. has made a
series of observations on this phenom-
enon with the help of his classes. The
scholars we're asked to write down
just what came into their minds when
certain familiar words such as book
tree" church" were called ont, and
the answers were carefully i%nvesti-
gated. He found that the majority of
the students formed distinct images
of the objects corresponding to the
words, and the rest formed indistinr.
images, with a few exceptions, who
seemed to have INDUCED in philosoph.
ical distractions. The word book"
for example, called up visions of
a Bible, Il dictionary. a novel,
in all but a few scholars, who
thought of food for the mind" or
the thoughts of some person The
word tree" was represented by some
kind of tree, more especially the illus
trious cherry tree which George WASH
ington cut down. The word church"
usually evoked a picture of some
church in the vicinity, but some of the
hearers thought of a religious organi-
zation." 1t is evident from his results
that most people are ''visualizers' in
thinking, while few are ''non-visualiz-
ers." The tendency to form distinct
images was very conspicuous among
the female students, and in both sexes
it reaches an abnormal development
about the ages of fourteen and sixteen,
or during the period of adolescence
which, it has been otherwise observed.
is also m of exceptional good health
and rapid growth. The tendency is
further checked or fostered by the oc-
equations in life.-N. Y. Ledger.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10
a Sad aIistnke.

IF 1t were not SO childish and out
OF date I could take a real good cry,"
said the woman with the short hair.
What is the matter, dear?"
II wore my husbands vest down
town shopping yesterday, by mistake,
and there were three great big cigars
sticking out of the top pocket. l never
noticed it till ! got home. Indian.
apolis Journal.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10
Donkey Riding.

Children who live in cities arc hct,e,
acquainted with donkeys than Young.
sters in the country. 1t was. therefore
with pleased surprise that | saw nj
Syracuse donkey riding was as ponu,ar
a pastime on the fair grounds as it is in
Central park. Why a bow or g;rl
mounted on a slowly Flooding donkey
should seem SO supremacy happy almost
passes my elderly comprehension, +
fancy it is for the reason that n don.
key seems so much like a horse ana
yet manifestly is not intended to ride
Riding it is, therefore, a kind of make.
oelicve' Ill a game with dolls-a dolrs
wedding or a dolls evening party. prt
at Syracuse donkey riding was more
nearly like real horseback eysroise
than it is in Central park, for bows and
girls rode by themselves and w;,bnrt
an attendant for each donkey. RI hs
led along and at the same time beld IN
the saddle by a careful attendant, mus.
most seriously detract eve from ths
m~ake-believe fun Of riding.-Harner,s
Young People.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10
Personal VANITY.

The reason a great many women &C,
complish nothing Is that they let their
personal vanity stand in the way Of
their advancement. They imagine thew
can do things they can not do. This
self-deception is a moral and mental
suicide. II prevents a strong grasp Of
the capabilities and limitations Of ones
self rs an individual, -'Womankiadr
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10

that" she added, tossing a letter into
Mrs, Mull's lap. II wish I-oh. don't
know what wish" And, covering her
flushed face with her hands, she burst
into tears,
Mrs. Null slowly unfolded the letter
and read:
DAISY has asked our opinion con-
corning her ability as an authoress. We
advise her TO think no more of writ
ing. but turn her mind into some more
useful channel where, perhaps, she
may excel. Her talent Tor writing is
not apparent"
"Well." said Ethel.
"Why, that's a very nice little note"
returned her sister. HE thinks you
may excel in some other way. He
could not have softened his opinion
more kindly"
Louise, you don't sympathize with
me a particle. You know how many
years ! spent,on that last story-how
l worried over my hero until my head
ached. How many nights / ran the
risk OF spelling my good looks by sit
Ting up late to copy the manuscript!
And what did 1t amount to? All my
work for nothing! Iknowit was wor-
thy Of publication. Either the man
hates southerners or he does not I'M
derstand his business"
"Well?"
Aunt Carlton has been writing for
me to spend the coming winter in Bos-
ton. I'm going!"
HAS this anything to do with your
editor"
Everything. He lives in Boston
and I'll have my revenge"
"Do you intend to assault the lion in
his den?'
Ethel rested her face in her hands
and turned her laughing eyes on her
sister,
Yes" she answered. I'm going to
write two letters this evening, n to
Aunt Carlton and the other to that
grabbed editor" And with light steps
she left the room before her sister
could answer.
A few minutes later saw her seated
at her desk, around which she had
woven SO many love stories and dreams
Of future success. Before her lay two
letters. The first one ran thus:
"R. A. Moss-Sir: Many thanks for your
note declining my last story. No doubt you,
being O northerner, think q southern girl needs
only o few words Of Encouragement to quench
her ambition. You are mistaken. Tit time
may come when you will desire q few lines Of
my writing; but neither love nor money will
then purchase them. DAISY"
Now exclaimed Ethel, giving the
envelope a little tap as she sealed it,
hell see that the little southern daisy
Ia not SO easily trampled upon"
"A penny for your thoughts, Miss
Dacre!" exclaimed Ray Moss. ap.
preaching the corner of Mrs. Carl
tons drawing-room where Ethel held
court.
The girl started and blnshed.
First produce your penny, Mr..
Moss. No credit given here" she
saucily rejoiued.
And yet they say the commercial in.
stinct 10 dormant in the hearts Of
southern girlsF" he retorted.
1T soon springs to life whom famed
by northern winds"
"Yes? Tn afraid you haven't a very
high opinion OF the north"
ION the contrary am delighted
with It."
I'm glad to know that / have an
tasn that southern Made do not regard
v with too much favor"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10
Raised Mufins.-T.La -.

-kaised Mullins. Stake a Quart O,
wheat nour and mix it smoothly with
a pint and a half of lukewarm mill.
nail a teacupful of yeast, two erss,
Wen beaten, two teaspoonfuls Of msl,'
cd butter and a little salt. place tha
oa,ter where il is warm TO rise. When
light' bake on a griddle in mufin
rings.--Boston Budget.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10

Historic C~oNuNDRuM. Boston Girl
why was Shakespeare like Queen Eliza
beth.sn They Alive give it up" Boston
Glrl-"He was the greatest wonder of the
age and she was the greatest Tudor!' And
slowly the pun percolated their craniums.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10

LuLr, aged two and onc-half years, had
been out playing and came in with a dirty
face, Her mamma said: "What a dirty
face! We will have to call Lulu mammals
little pig. Come, dear, and have your face
washed" But Lulu objected stoutly,, say
ing: pigs don't have their faces washed"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10

LIKE Oil Upon Troubled Waters
Honey Of Horehound and Tar unau
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure iaups
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10

New York was named for N. A..
title OF the duke Of York. aftsr,.a u u =
lanes lame H. who took the city from the
New amsterdam. 'a'iea ~
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10

People overlooked the importance Of per-
manently beneficial effects and were salts
fled with transient action, but now that u
is generally known that Syrup of Figs Will
permanently cure habitual constipation,
well-informed people vii not buy other lax
atives, which act for a time, but finally In
lure the system.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10

That vapor creeping up from the marshy
.owlands. 1t is ladened with the seeds Of
chills and fever, Do you think you can
breathe these without daugerl Not much.
Protect yourself with Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters and Won will be safe. ORR il You find
dyspepsia, rheumatism, inactivity Of the kid
news or liver, or constipation coming on
apace, use this thorough and beneticentsafe-
guard.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10

PEaGY-"Now, I've told you all about it,
and | want to know what you'd do if you
were in my shoesp Mary with u glance
OF Peggy's feet)-'I wouldn't stir out till /
had got a pair four sizes smaller.n
DON'T talk about yourself when you want
10 bo ,ptn,.ngtin~ Dn,,,, Hun
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10

A CLASS in grammar was roci,;,.
of the younger boys was asked y
"sicl." He began thouehtfnllv~,
paused while his brain str,oais;
problem = hentinished triumaSssoa,,
worse, dead"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10

THE SOMALi.
Peculiar Head Dress Of These Lazy

Peculiar Head Dress Of These Lazy Mo-
hammedans. q
BY nature, Somali are alternately
docile and savage. nearly always
merry, and ~habitually idle. Even in
busy Alden, they work as little as pos
sible, and then do no manual work, for
their inherent pride forbids that Cab
driving, boat-manning and grooming
are the general crafts Of the Alden
Somali. In the interior of his own
country his principal occupation is
plundering and cattle lifting, at which
latter pursuit he is said to be unparal-
leled in skill. In religion they IRE all
Mohammedans.
The great popularity Of the Somali
is, however. his hair--for, contrary to
the custom of most races protesting
Islam, he does not shave his head, but
allows his locks to run Wild. Nor is
his hair the wool of the negro, for, an
stead of growing in one dense cluster
all over his head, as is the case Of the
Gala, for instance, II tangles into long
cords, not unlike those of o. poodle,
which, parted over his forehead, hangs
down on both cheeks, often projecting
almost as far as his shoulders.
Not content with the show OF hair
that nature and neglect insures him,
he plasters his head with q peculiar
light clay, which has the Elect Of
bleaching its blackness to q light red
dish hue; and a Somali in a new tobe-
as their winding sheet of q garment Is
c~alled-and a freshly.clayed head is the
very acme of dandyism. -Backwuod's
1T is a saying that idleness Is the
mother Of all vice. At least IL Is Ger.
tain that laziness is the Inheritance Of
fools; and nothing Is so despicsble DIS
a sluggard. Cato, the censor, On old
Roman Of great virtue and much wis
dom, used to say there were hit three
actions of his life which he ~roo4etted.
The first was the having told secret
to his wife; the second, that ~ had
inc gone by ssa when he might have
gone by lands and the thru, having
passed one day without doing anything.
-chosterasld,
~ ANA .NH|
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-10

TRYING to obtain happiness simply to have
IL, is nothing more than s~elIish1ess.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-06-15
Trustees Sale,

by virtue OF u deed of tiust made by A..
l.. Moore to the undersigned, trustee. for
the benefit of The British American Trust
Co., on the llrh day of November, ls9l,
TO secure the loan of Sl6G9. as evidenced
ny two promlssory notes given by the
SAID A. l.. Moore IN favor Ut the British.
Ameiican Trust Co., on the llih day of
November. 1852. payab 10 four and six
months after date, which said deed of
trust and notes are now held and assigned
to w. l.. Moore, Jr. And the under.
signed, at the request Of the said W. r..
Moore, Jr., will. on
The 23d Day Of July, 1894,
at the front door of the courthouse of
Jackson con,fy. Mississippi, between
legal hours, offer ut public cutlery to The
highest bidder for cash, the tollowin.
real estate, lying and being situate IN
Jackson county, Mississippi, and dc.
scrihed us follows. tO-wit:
That tract described by the survey of
Thomas Bilbo, as follows: Township :,
range D we~i beginning in the fractional
Scct'on NO and at the northwest corner
OF the claims of Mary l.. Dupont, and run
IRON a post east and at s chains and -
Inks to a bayou northeast ; thence 80 10
INKS to the east boundary of said Mary
L.. DnpOnl's claim; thence nnrth five
chains and - links to Il post thence il
VIII run west to the place of beginning.
having such shape and form natural and
artificial ~ is represented N the plat at
tlched to deed from Mary Krels, dated
the 10th day OF May, lo32, to Elizabeth
Dupont, wife of Celestin Dupont.
Also that tract or parcel of land IN
township No. 7, range No. 6, section No.
~, beginning at the southwest c)rnrr OF
BaaIle krcbs' premises. 1t being the north
west corner of the land hereby conveyed,
distance . chains and u links, more or
less, irOm the southwest corner Of section
No. ~ ON The waters of the bay thence
from the aforesaid place OF beginning
running southerly. and measuring )
chains aud 81 links, more or less thence
running east to the section lins in the
rear; thence following north said line
and measuring in front ) chains and II
links. more or less !; theuce running west
to the watels Of the bay.
Also that certain tract or parcel of land
conveyed by Thomas Ellison and Hin.
polite Ellison, his wife, to Antonio Raby.
IN section Sc, township I, rannc Nod
west, beginning ut the southwest corne,
OF Cor'ne krehs' premises; thence south
= chains 90 links TO the northwest corner
Of Antonio Raby's premises /; thence east
to tue section line; thence month along
said section line = chains and 60 links !:
thence west TO the place of beginning,