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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
ODD AND OTHERWISE.

A CIRCUS performance was in prog.
ress at Eagle, Wis, when a violent rain.
storm deluged the earth. The clrcu0
manager thought the tent would be
blown down and'drove out the audience,
SOME of the Philadelphia organ
grinders employ nice little colored girls
to accompany them on their street
tours, and the children amuse the spec.
tators by giving skirt dances.
THOMAS G. f. Dolby, of Elgin, Ill,
Is in business there, and keeps a gen.
eral store, with the aid of seventeen
partners. The style of his firm ia IDOL.
by & Seventeen Sons" He is the father
OF twenty-one children.
Mr.. W. I. SMITH, a White Plains IN.
~ business man, did not take a single
holiday for ten years. But the other
week he was induced to stop work for
one day and enjoy himself at the sea.
shore. He went in bathing and was
drowned.
A VETERINARY surgeon In Van Buren,,
Me-, was called a few days ago to find
the reason and remedy for an odd hard
bunch on a horses shoulder. He lanced
the swelling and found in the center OF
1t a silver dime. The corner grocery
clubs are now busy with the question;
How did 1t get there?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
WHEELS AND RIDERS.

Mrs. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON says
that women are riding to suffrage on
a bicycle"
CHAPERoNs who can ride bicycles are
In great demand in all Of the large cit
les of the country.
DocroRs have declared that the heart
Of Zimmerman, the famous bicycle
rider, is fully two inches longer than
the average size of hearts.
w. D. BACHELOR, of Cornell college,
Iowa, has gone on a trip, with two
companions, through Europe, Egypt
and Palestine oil wheels. They expect
to pay expenses by corresponding with
papers, the three having a list of forty
seven.
G. Z. PARDIdoN was the first man
seer on a bicycle in Richmond, Va. He
visited his old home in Paris about 1871,
and brought a very tall wheel back
with him. A conservative estimate Of
wheels In actual use in Richmond
would be two thousand.
REV. Mr.. FAIRBANKS, an American
missionary In India, attributes a large
part OF his success to the use of a
bicycle. Not only is he enabled to
cover a more extensive territory with
it. but the natural curiosity of the ma
tives brings large crowds to see "a horse
that needs neither grass nor grain"
1F I'M ~bicyclers will have tho
saddle directly over the pedals and SO
high that when the pedal is down the
foot must be bent to reach it, they will
make a much more graceful appear.
ance. This will, Of course, make
mounting somewhat more difficult, but
the Objectionable knee action will be
less obtrusiye.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
COWARDLY


Ing In Their Tents.
The republican league convention at
Cleveland lodges the two important
issues of the day-tariff and silver.
The report of the platform committee
leaves everything to the national con
vention of next year. This is lodging
extraordinary. The reasons are not
far to seek.
On the tariff question the republican
party is an attorney without a case. 1t
IA do only as the old lawyer advised
his son when you have absolutely
no defense o "a and paw dirt and dis
tract attention" But the reverber-
ating echoes of the blast furnace and
the din of reawakening industry and
~reestablished prosperity under a demo-
cratic tariff make republican roaring
and calamity-shrieks sing mighty
small.
On the silver question the republican
party Is a house divided against itself.
Here is a great question, to which a
great party would address itself. The
voters of the country expect political
parties to have the courage of their
convictions, il they have any, This is
a case where the sole conviction is a
mistaken conviction that spoils may
be had by %straddling and the fight won
by running away from the issues.
The people have no use for fawners
and towards, men who have no opinion
or dare not express one
On the two great issues of the day
the republican league has lost its
tongue, 1t stands mute. 1t is the 81
lence of hopelessness, of low political
cunning and generalization ALBANY
Argus.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
AN IDOL NO LONGER.
The Apostle of Protection Deserted b
His Followers.

The Apostle of Protection Deserted by
His Followers.
Where is Mckinley? He has not been
inuch In evidence recently, and other
booms have been booming while his
has been dropping and apparently dy-
ing out.
But the people want Mckinley now.
They want him for a terrible example.
They are anxious to hear from him.
They desire to know what he has to
say about the Illinois Steel company,
the second in extent of business in the
United States, which is running day
and night to meet demands and posts
at all its works the gratifying notice
that the wages of its seven
thousand workmen are voluntarily
raised ten per cent. from date.
Will Mckinley give the world his
explanation of this good news? Will
other calamity howlers let the people
know just what they think about this
action of the Illinois Steel company
Doubtless some Of them will attrib-
ute the raising OF the wages to a dem
ocratic trick to hoodwink the country
with the belief that our troubles are
over and prosperity is returning.
Probably some will charge it to the
dark and desperate iutrigues of the
Cleveland administration. Maybe 1t Is
due to English gold. Unfortunately,
however, the company is under control
of stalwart republicans who have here
tofore been fire-eaters of the ~tiercest
kind on the subject of high tariff, and
to whom Mckinley was u little god.
Now he is Il broken idol in their eyes.
N. Y. World.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

GEoReIA's fruit crop this year Is esti-
mated to be worth s3, zoo, 900.
A cANARY seed trust has been formed
in Marklane to control the price in
England.
THERE are zoo, 900 factory girls in
London, one twenty-second OF the
whole population.
CALIFORNIA; peach crop, in'the cen
trial and northern parts of the state,
promises this year to be the largest
ever raised.
THUS will be a very successful beet
sugar year in Nebraska. The crop is
unprecedentedly large and fine in
quality, and there are twice the num-
Der of growers there were last year.
CALIFORNIA raises some big and nota-
bic crops other than peaches and pears.
A hundred car loads Of red onions, each
car containing $4,000 pounds, have
lately been shipped from Stockton
alone at the rate of ten or a dozen car
loads n div.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
INCAPABLE OF THINKING.
Republicans Remain Inert" In the Hands
of Their Rosses.

of Their Bosses.
Having decided that it is debarred
from telling what it thinks about any
living issue, the republican League
stands as an organization whose only
occupation is to elect its own officers.
At Cleveland the league discovered
that by the terms of its constitution 1t
has no right to think. The members
seemed pleased with the discovery of
their situation as political infants,
without the privileges and responsible
tiles of freemen.
The republican party can always be
reckoned upon to show the legitimacy
of its descent from the federalist body
which distrusted the American people
and wanted to secede that it might re-
new allegiance to the British monarchy
and ar~istocracy.
The federalist of 1900 was either a
boss or a slave. The born federalist is
always willing to surrender his own
independence of opinion and defer to
the mogul he acknowledges as his mas
ter. Admission that he is unfit to thinl;
or act except under orders comes to
him easily. 1t would not strain his
Americanism much to give up the bal
lot altogether and let n privileged few
do the voting and governing unchecked
and hereditarily.
We democrats are prone to wrath
and strife in the great political
struggles which affect the welfare of
the people, but ii is the strife out of
which flow accessions to the happiness
of the masses. The docility of the re-
publicans under the management of
their bosses is symbolical of the order
of things under which all accessions
accrue to the powerful few and all the
losses fall to the share of the toiling
many.
Democrats fall from power or miss
getting it through their houest di-
visions over what is right, Federalists
fall or fail through their inevitable
abuses when in power or the certainty
with which they assume the wrong
side of any question which concerns
the free and equal participation of all
citizens in the benefits of government.
Democrats are having some trouble
among themselves this year, and may
have more before they have less, But
they are engaged in hunting for the
truth, and when they unite upon it, as
they will, the republican Shermanism
will be swept out into the garbage
heap as the federalist alien and sedi-
ton laws were in the Jetfersonian ont
burst at the opening of the century. -
ST. LnuiS Rnnnhlic
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
OUR MINERAL RESOURCES.

ALABAMA, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
New York, Minnesota and Wisconsin
produce over four-ffths Of the iron
manufactured in this country,
In Reproduction Of steel the United
States stands first, largely exceeding
the output of Great Britain, and being
nearly double that of Germany.
In 1890 our product Of natural gas
was estimated at $50, 100000 cubic feet,
d~isplacing for heating and Illuminating
purposes al least 9,774,4l7 tons of coal.
THE lime produced in 1891 was esti-
mated at co. 900, 900 barrels, equal to
one to each inhabitant, male and fe-
male, old and young, and was valued
at e35, 900, 900.
In 1890 the United States produced
$50. s4S, 900 OF gold. OF this total a lit.
tie over two-Hfths came from Cali
fornie, which is still the principal gold
producing state.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
PRESS OPINIONS.

Fire Alarm" Foraker appears 20
be all that there is left of the republi-
can party in Ohio. Chicago Chronicle.
The republican keynote will not
be sounded until next year. Mean
while the party organs will contine
themselves to footing the horn. -Bos-
ton Herald.
The meeting of the republican
clubs at Cleveland was advertised as
1.-THE first gun for 90 Impartial his
tory must record that the first gun
flashed in the pam. Y. World.
The man who is willing TO sacri-
dee his democracy in order to help some
particular candidate is not a democrat
to hurt. Candidates are nothing when
great issues are at stake. louisville
Courier-Journal.
The verdict of the republicans at
Washington on the dumbness Of the
league convention is that it was sound
politics" 1t ought to be unsound pol
tiles to be afraid to speak for sound
money!. Y. World,
For that tired feeling, compli-
Gated BY acute chagrin, high tax fever
and a low, titful treasury pulse, the
popular doctor will prescribe a good
tonic of sound democracy, with legis-
lative decency after taking.-Albany
Argus,
Farmers who are harvesting
t~hirty-tive bushels OF wheat per acre
on land in Dakota worth twenty dol
lars an acre cannot be persuaded that
even sixty-cent wheat is an unmiti-
gated democratic calamity
Chronicle.
The Free Silver league of Phila-
delphia is made up of some of the most
pronounced protectionists In one of
the strongest protection states in the
union. This tends to upset the re-
publican claim that free trade and
free silver go together, Detroit Free
Press.
A republican newspaper says that
it is one of the strongest testimonials
to the character of the late Judge
Gresham and an evidence Of uncommon
honesty that he left an estate amount
ing to only about forty thousand dol
lars. This is true and just. 1t should
be remembered also that this modest
amount of wealth was accumulated by
great industry and economy during a
profigate republican Doodle period in
which fortunes of millions were made
by men who never had a hundredth
part of the opportunities that fell in
the way of Judge Gresham, If he had
possessed the corrupt vision to see and
the corrupt purpose to improve them.
Chronicle.
In August, 1894, the Wilson tariff
bill, reducing the tariff duties, became
a law. Immediately factories opened.
Idle men were set at work, wages in
creased, mills we're crowded to the ut.
most capacity to supply ordera In the
including iron and wooden
goods the reductions were greatest.
In iron the average reduction was
thirty-seven per cent. and in woolens
fifty per cent Yet in iron and wooden
factories is the greatest increase in
noted and in these two
branches are the advances in wages
general. The lesson is very
plain. 1t does not require a solomon
or q Newton to discover It. 1t Is
this: Hi h tariff leads to low
wages; low tariff Is accompanied by
high W ,es. The proof Is overwhelm,
|ng.--Utica Observer
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
THE STAGE,

W. s. GILBERT is coming to New York
soon to superintend the production OF
His Excellency."
MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL and Mr..
Forbes Robertson will open the Lyceum
season in London next September with
"Romeo and Juliet"
SARAH BERNHARDr has been fined q
In q Paris police court for employing
two children under 10 after 0 o'clock ct
night 81 the Renaissance theater.
LONDON is about TO see the earl OF
Rosslyn on the stage as a professional
actor. The first earl Of Rosslyn
earned the title by being lord high
chancellor under William Pitt,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
HOT WEATHER HINTS.
A Few Words OF Advice Concerning tn
Rest Diet.

n EtW VuTub VI kAutiCc SuuCtTuluK inc
Best Diet.
would say, in a general way, that
diet in hot weather should be princi-
pally of a fluid nature, because excess
i've heat leads to a waste of the fluids
in the body. Hence the ideal diet is
milk. | favor all the pure water one
wishes to drink, and have no objection
to ice water if it is drank slowly. But
termilk is also a good drink.
The use of alcoholic drinks, particu-
larly beer, l think is harmful. There
is a temporary satisfaction from drink
ing beer which is grateful, but the Sec
ondary effect is to raise the tempera-
ture of the body, and fermentation
in the gastro-intestinal tract is likely
to occur. OF course, | am aware of the
prevalence of the beer drinking habit
among the Germans, and of the bene
fetal effects which they, as a nation,
appear to derive from that beverage;
but my experience in treating them
when sick is that their tissues arc soft.
and they have less vital resistance to
disease than those who abstain from
alcoholic beverages.
In regard to the use of fruits, they
are beneficial if not overripe, and
should be eaten principally in the
morning.
AS to solid foods, meat should be
partaken of sparingly and should be
well cooked in order that any possible
existing disease germs in the meat
may be rendered harmless by heat.
Plenty of we'll baked light bread, all
the butter n wishes, potatoes, and
other fresh vegetables should form a
substantial part of the diet in hot
weather. Acidulated drinks-lemonade
in particular-are desirable.
The mental attitude of the individual
toward heat has a marked bearing as
to his comfort or discomfort from a
high temperature. If we could all
realize that we are powerless to change
the temperature, and hence would
make the best of it, much Unnecessary
mental friction could be avoided.
There is a direct physiological relation
between worry and the facility with
which the processes of digestion are
carried on. Through excessive irrita-
bility the most physiological meal can
be rendered harmful.
This strained mental state, through
disturbance of the nervous system. can
produce such ~irritability of the dipes-
tive organs as to render them incapa.
BILE Of carrying on their functions,
Fermentation of food may result with
Its attendant gastro-intestinal irrita-
tons, and disease ensues, wholly from
the primary factor Of a nervous irri.
liability.
One rule il is absolutely safe to fol-
.low-never to eat unless you are hun
cry; not the hunger Of . capricious,
overfed appetite, but . positive long.
ing and need of food. 1t is hardly
possible for q meal 70 be undi1ested Il
one has . decided and definite longing
for the articles Of food partaken OF;
hence, in a general way, eat about
what you crave, but make a distinction
between the tastes which.arc natural
and those which have been artiHcially
cultivated through dissipation. Or.
Homer NJ. Thomas, D. D., in Chicago
gimes-Herald.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
OUR PUBLIC MEN.

SENATOR BRIoE has rented the vii.
liam W. Aston villa at Newport for the
season, paying $4,000 for II.
DAVID BROWN rounded out his ffty.
eighth consecutive year Of service in
tho Philadelphia health Office a few
days ago.
JUSTICE FIELDS recent trip from
Warrington to San Francisco was the
forty-ciGhth transcontinentsl ride the
venerable 1urist has taken. He stood
the latest journey with comparatively
little fstigua-
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

IN LONDON TOWN.,

The flower trade OF London Is esti.
mated to amount to s25, 200 a day.
In Southwark, London, an old hos.
telry, THE Crossed Keys" Is about to
be torn down, which belonged to John
Harvard In 1887, before he emigrated
to America.
IT Is claimed that, owing to the good
work done by the Improved Industrial
Dwelling company, Of London, the
death rate Of that city has been re.
duced from forty to only eleven in a
thousand.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

The North Western Line Chicago e.
North: Western R'y) is now selling excur-
sion tickets at reduced rates to St, Paul,
Minneapolis, Duluth, Ashland, Bayfield,,
Marquette, Dead wood, Dakota, Hot Springs,
Denver, Colorado Springs, Manitou, Salt
Lake City, and the lake and mountain re-
sorts of the west and northwest. For rates
and ful~linformation apply to Agents of CON
Meeting lines. Illustrated pamphlets, Civ.
ing full particulars, will be mailed free upon
application to w. B. Kniskern, G. p. d T.
A., Chicago & North Western R'y, Chi
cagO. Ill.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

We are waiting for some remarks
from the Mckinley organs explanatory
of the fact that the Trenton potteries
which reduced wages Immediately
after the Mckinley tariff had given
them more protection have now raised
the pay of their men, notwithstanding
the fact that the new tariff has ma.
terially reduced the duties on earthen-
ware When the explanation 10 forth
coming we shall take great pleasure in
it--Boston Herald.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
Tobacco Users Sore Throat.

It's so common that every tobacco usyer
has an irritated throat that gradually CO.
yelops into a serious condition, frequently
consumption, and it's the kind of a sore
throatthat never gets well as long as you uss
tobacco. The tobacco habit, sore throat and
lost manhood cured by No-To-Bac. Sold
and guaranteed to cure by Druggists every
where. Book. titled Don't Tobacco Spit
or Smoke Your Life Away" free. Ad. Ster-
ling Remedy Co., NewYork City or Chicago.
A ROOM hung with pictures is room hung
with thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

Gov. Mckinley scored q point in
Kansas by allowing his feelings to
overcome him when.he met Gov. Nor
rill. II Messrs. Reed, Harrison, Nor
ton and Allison have any tears to shed,
the time has come to show it--St
louis Globe Democrat RspA
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
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.s TIE end Of a novel (comure.,.,|
editor owing to lack of spacel ssed
took a small brandy, then Ii, |
parture, besides no notice If H. nat
meantime a revolver out of H. MS pg
lastly his own life,"-Dentschns PocI
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

p THE factories of Indiana furnish en-
ployment to 24,S49 persons, the out
put being 1920, s25, OS2.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

KANSAS has 32,S43 mill and factory
hands, making every year a product
valued at sl10, 2l9, sos.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

PILLOW slips should be ironed length
wise, instead of crosswise, If n wishes
to iron wrinkles out instead of in.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
A Happy Woman,

CRASH makes good kitchen aprons
and washes easily.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

The quiet tenderness Of Chance.
you almost seem to hear the h", ' 81
ing, and the simple, choking w vOr ~
out.-LoWell, "orus
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

LITTLE GLADYs-"Granny. go down on
your hands and knees for a minute, plea,c."
Fond OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES am | to do that
for, my pets" Little Gladys -"'Cause ]
want TO draw an elephant"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

BELIEVE Piso's Cure for Con.,I
saved my boys life last summer,IN1
LIE DOUGLASS, Leroy, Mich, Oct gl
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

No SPECIFIC for local skin troub,s.
Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whistler Dye. 50 81
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

A BRIGHT lDEA.-Lady of tho /
"For goodness sake, what arc 'u uen \
ing on that sofa, Maria" Serv,avutt
tard, please m, to keep the cat ri
ting on it, Alterlei Heiteres ny
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

IT is hard to believe that sin well
Is the same as sin rolling in the >,
Rams Horn. "o y
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
Old Heads and Young Hearts

You sometimes see ~conjoined in elderly in
dividuals, but seldom behold an old man or
woman as exempt from iniirmities az in
youth. But these intirmities may be miti-
gated in great measure by the daily and reg
ular use Of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, an
invigorant, anti rheumatic and sustaining
medicine of the highest order, which also
removes dyspepsia. constipation, biliousness
and kidney trouble. 1t is adapted to the
use of the most delicate and feeble.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
The True laxative pu,..

The True Laxative PrincIn,l
or the plants used in manuf,o.r1
pleasant remedy, Syrup of Figs r9
manently beneficial effect onthe bnI1
TEN, while the cheap vegetable ex xu.
mineral solutions, usually sold as mo
are permanently injurious. Beinn
formed, you will use the true rsw.]
Manufactured by California Flo NJ
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
Appleby, Texas.

STILL DIssATIsFIED.-The man who signs
for the happy day
When a barefoot boy he ran,
IL the same old boy who used to say:
II wisht l was q man"
-Philadelphia Record,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

WHAT is the legal expression for
letteri--A writ of attachment.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

J%ackson's Indian Eye Salve n.v.,|
40 this; Zoe at ell drug stores,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

THERE is something in the shane n
as though they had been made By 4
Bailey.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20

DIFFICULT Mistress-"Bridget | have o
new bell that | want You to ring al meal
times" Bridget-"Shure, ma'am, how kin
Oh, when Oi have to wait on the tablel'-
Brooklyn Life.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-08-26
$500. Il - IIa.nIla.

Mr. Halal.n was a tue gcEtieraa.L
Pnnctilis1 hsl0.alf ii tiae observance Of
all the rlqGinmeass of eci4s e1aaisly in
tercourse. Ae was equally ex-.atng u
every courtesy due him from others. He
permitted nc man 70 lie rude 70 MIN Or
to assume the attitude IF z sars~ior. On
one occasion one If the able men and
leaders Of the senate, distifgui shed for
a self conscious, Iordly air ia his leport-
ment, in the change # seats which &C.
ours once in two years III the senate
chamber had gained a seat by the side
Of Mr.. Hamlin and began at once to
practice upon him these little exactions
and annoyas. rs which he had been ac-
customed 10 impose upon others After
a few days Of yielding 10 these encroach-
ments Mr. Hamiia tanned and Ia a tone
that did not require repetition, said,
"Sir, if you expect 70 be treated like q
gentleman, you must prove yourself
one. There was never occasion after
ward to repeat the admonition. Henry
L. Dawes in Century.