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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-01-29

so last night l moved Over into Ar
kansaw.'
"But yo' took a hundred acres Of my
best land with yo!' seq he, and his eyes
fills with tears,
"'That was the doin's of the Lawd,'
seq |, as l winks at him with both eyes
and feels to console him.
Then he sees that he can't blum me,
and he wipes away his tears and
shakes hands over it and we ar the
best OF friends to-day. Yes, sab, it's all
the doin's of the ole Mississip. If she
hadn't cut that new channel and moved
me over into Arkansaw | should never
hev owned 4 foot GLAND. She jest sliced
me off a fun hundred acres, and no
body can drive me off EN-. When |
went up TO the county seat to git my
deed a Teller seq:
"'Abe Hope, who did yo' dun buy
that land Off
"'Nobody tall seq l.
"'Then how did yo' git it|
"'The Lawd and the ole Mississip
flung it at me one night fur a present,
and | reckons that title ar good huff
fur anybody around yere.'
"And so il ar" continued Abe, as he
shut up his jackknife with a click and
stretched his arms ana legs. I'm
thankin' the Lawd and I'm thankin' the
river, and if | git moved back into the
state of Tennessee some night with
about so mo- acres added on | reckon
nobodyT h'ar me complain to the end
of my days"
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NEW DRESS FABRICS,
The Latest in Dress Goods for IN,
ladies,

The Latest in Dress Goods for ,hc
Ladies'.
1t is announced that ginghams are
to occupy an important position in he
line of spring cotton goods. Small
plaids will be a favorite design.
What is called uncrushable grcnadine
is a most beautiful fabric that is sure
to prove itself popular to women who
like a soft yet really elegant silk toilet,
This new grenadine looks like fine
black lace, is silky in touch and en-
quisite in sheen. Grenadines will be
much worn in the spring, and this un.
c%rushable variety will retail at six dol
lars a yard.
In silks moires will be in great de.
mand for the coming season. Light
weight silks will be much worn and
the range of color and variety of de-
sign make it easy for one to select a
charming gown.
Mode color promises to be again pop
u!ar' Six new and especially pretty
shades have recently appeared in Paris
and were at once sought for because of
the beauty and softncss of their dycing.
Dress goods showing braided effects
are exceedingly popular. On colored
grounds the designs are black, in wavy
and zigzag soutache effects. The ma
terial is an all-wool satin finish. The
favorite grounds are brown, green,
heliotrope, blue and red.
In Paris, among the new color COM
binations in plaids, are seen fine lines
of dark shades appearing on lighter
grounds. Gray is seen on backgrounds
oil light blue, white, pale pink and
beliotrope. A novel plaid showed
threads of dark blue in combination
with bright green, red, white and clear
yellow.
Percales will be seen next season. No
end of pretty, odd designs will make the
goods unusually attractive, and it will
be used for shirt waists and children's
dresses.
Light, tissue materials in medium
qualities will be in demand another
season. Chitfons, gauzes, nets, liberty
blk and mousselines in endless variety
of coloring will soon be seen in the
stores, and for evening wear will prove
both satisfactory and stylish.-N. Y.
Tribune.
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Evening Shoes.

Beautiful evening gowns demand that
The details of the toilet should be cor.
respondingly beautiful. The high shoe
is for those who feel uncomfortable in
low ones, and there are many who do,
1t is cut out in scallops on either side,
the lacing thereby revealing the stock
ings. In another, worn with a colored
stocking to match the dress. a glitter.
ing embroidery of jet outlines all the
openwork strappings of the glace kid,
which radiate from a narrow central
strap also wrought with Jet. Another
lnces from the toe right up to the ankle
in such a way that the charms of q
pretty openwork stocking are dis.
played 10 exceptional advantage. The
prevailing fashion for baby ribbon has
resulted in the production Of a design
where scarlet baby ribbon is stitched
on to black kid in a fashion which, while
producing a very smart effect, takes
away from the apparent size Of she foot
in the most wonderful way.-Cincin.
natl Enquirer.
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POWER OF IMAGINATION,
A New Experience of II by Comedian
"Jimmy" Lewis.

w w
"Jimmy" Lewis.
"The late James Lewis was at one
time starring in a repertoire of Days
successes. In one play he made his en-
trance with a bottle of whisky, which he
drank on the stage. The bottle was al
ways placed by the property nan of the
theater on a chair near Mr.. Lewis en-
trance. On one occasion through some
mistake the whisky bottle was removed
and a bottle marked turpentine sub
stituted. Not looking at the bottle, Mr..
Lewis made his entrance, but his first
drink from the bottle caused the audi
ence to howl with delight, for the wry
faces and grimaces made by Mr.. Lewis
surpassed anything ever seer by the
Oldest playgoer. Mr.. Lewis finished the
scene with the audience convulsed, and
when he staggered off the stage had to
respond to half a dozen recalls. The
stage manager met him as he came off
and said:
Jimmie, you outdid yourself;
you've made a wonderful hit
"'Hit,' exclaimed Mr.. Lewis. DO YOU
know what I've been compelled to
drink? Turpentine. Send fol- a ply
stefan at once.'
THE property man was summoned,
and an investigation showed that the
bottle contained the usual cold tea, the
only turpentine being the label. Mr..
Lewis said: Well, Imagination is a
wonderful thing. Every drink l took
from that bottle seemed to burn my
throat out. / could even smell tie tur-
pentine. After this I'll take no chances:
I'll have whisky And he kept his
word."-Detroit Free Press.
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LIFE ON JUPITER.
The Planet Would lie an Uncomforta.
BILE Place OF Abode.

The Planet Would lie an Uncomrorta-
BILE Place OF Abode.
Judged by our terrestrial experience,
which is all we have to go by, the mag,
nitude of a planet, if it is to bear life
resembling that of the earth, is linn
tied by other considerations. Even
Jupiter, which, as far as our knowl.
edge extends, represents the extreme
limit of great planetary size, may be
too large ever to become the abode OF
living beings of a high organization,
The force of gravitation on the surface
OF Jupiter exceeds that on the earth's
surface as two hundred and sixty-four
to me-. Considering the effects of this
on the weight and motion of bodies, the
density of the atmosphere, the laws OF
pneumatics, ETC., it is evident that Ju
piter would, to say the very least, be
an exceedingly uncomfortable place OF
abode for beings resembling ourselves
But Jupiter, if it is ever to become a
solid, rocky globe like ours, must shrink
enormously in volume, since its density
is only o.24 as compared with the earth
Now, the surface gravity of a planet de.
ponds on its mass and its radius, being
directly as the former and inversely
as the square of the latter. But in
shrinking Jupiter will lose none of Its
mass, although its radius will become
much smaller. The force of gravity will
consequently increase on its surface
as the planet gets smaller and more
dense.
The present mean diameter of Jupi.
ter is $4,000 miles, while its mass ex.
ceeds that of the earth in the ratio OF
three hundred and sixteen to one. Sup.
pose Jupiter shrunk to three-quarters
of its present diameter, of 64,S0O miles,
then its surface gravity would exceed
the earth's nearly five times. With one.
half its present diameter the surface
gravity would become more than ten
times that of the earth. On such a
planet a mans bones would snap be.
meath his weight, even granting that he
could remain upright at all! 1t would
seem, then, that unless we are to aban-
don terrestrial analogies altogether
and go it blind we must set an upper
limit to the magnitude of a habitable
planet, and that Jupiter represents
such upper limit, if, indeed, he does not
transcend it.-Appleton's Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
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SQUATTER SKETCHES. S
Il How Abe Hope, With the MisSlssip-
PTS Assistance, Got q Home.
Copyright. 1897. 81 NJ VOAO.

=. BY N. QUAD.

About this squatter bizness," said
old Abe Hope, as he sat on a log in
front of his cabin and whitfield away at
a soft stick with his knife-"thar' amt
40 great shakes to make a story. When
( cum hons from the wah | found the
ole woman livin' in a cave in Tennes-
see.
LETS git seq l, as looks around.
"'Whar to- seq she.
"'Can't say, but let's be a-gittin' to
git
81 picked up the feather bed and the
baby, and she picked up the skillet and
the coffee pot, and we got. We kept a
walkin' and a-gittin' and we finally hit
the ole Mississippi just above yere on
the Tennessee side. Feared like a good
spot to make a b%eginnin', and sol draps
the feather bed and the baby and seq:
"'Yere we squat
And we squatted. l put up a bresh
shanty, scratched up airth with a stick
and planted some con, and nobody
didn't come a-nigh us to make trubble
fur two Vars. Then along Gums a man
one day and looks about and seq:
I'm the perlitest and tenderest-
hearted man in all Tennessee, and I'm
akin yo' in the very properest way, and
with the tears ready to fill my eyes, to
pack up and be a-gittin'.'
"'And fur why?' sell,
"'Bekase this ar my land seq he.
"'But the Lawd made the sile OF Ten
n~essee,' seq /.
81 knows he did, seq the stranger,
but he sold out long ago, and I've got
a deed of all this land around yere. In
the very properest sort of proper way
I'm akin yo' to be a-gittin. I'll gin
yo' two weeks to move on
"When a squatter squats," said the
old man, as he looked up at me with
a smile in his eyes, "he jest considers
to reckon he's right thar fur life, He
fggers that the Lawd made the sile fur
the use of man, and he don't bother
about deeds and lawyers and SIGH.
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,rIs OFTEN THUS
when Two Chance to Meet They want
Something to Say.

" =
Something to Say.
They had been boys together, had
crown up to manhood's years together
and had vowed that their Damon and
Pythias-like friendship should never
waver nor weaken in its constaney.
Ten years had passed since Joe had
seen Jack, and when Jack dropped in
OF Joe the other day Joe nearly twisted
Jacks arm of in the effusiveness OF his
greeting aud exclaimed:
'Hel-lo, Jack, old boy, where under
heaven did you spring from? How are
YOU, old boy?"
"Fine, Joe! How is II with you""
"Oh, $3.50. Awful glad to see you,
Jack. World treat you pretty wellY'
"Well as | deserve. How's the wife
and babies?"
They're well. How's your wife and
the little tots?"
They're fine. Lemme see, how many
babies you got? I've heard, but I've for
gotten"
"Two-boy and a girl. How many
you got?'
"~Three-two boys and a girl"
THAT'S so? One ahead of me. Stout
er than you used to be, aren't your
"Yes-some, about 30 pounds. You've
gained some, too, haven't your"
"Yes. | tip the beam at about 16S
now"
THAT sop
Conversation flags after this, both
Jack and Joe racking their brains for
something TO say, Finally Jack says:
slows everything in general, Joe?"
'0h, kind o. $685."
Business pretty good?'
Fair. How is 1t with you"
well, fair to middling."
Have a cigar, Joe?"
Don't care if | do. Thanks"
Another lull longer and more painful
than the other. 1t is broken by Jack
saying:
Seen any of the boys lately"
"No. Hardly ever see any of them
now"
Another lull of five minutes at the
end of which time Jack looks at his
watch and says:
Guess I'll have to be going, joe
mo! What's your rush?'
swell, I've got an engagement at four
and it's after three now"
This is a lie, but it is the only excuse
Jack can think of for bringing the in
terview to a close.
well, don't want you to break
your engagement, Jack, but l wish
you'd stay longer"
This is also a lie, told for the sake of
%politeness.
81 guess l can't stay any longer this
time, Joe"
Cant you? I'd like to have you first
rate, and I'm awfuily glad you came in.
Come in and see me again next time
you're in the city, won't you?"
Eyes, | will, joe"
That's right, old boy, see that you
49,
do. Glad to see you any time. Sorry
you can't 60 out home with me and see
my wife and the babies"
I'm sorry, too. Remember me to
your wife"
81 will, thanks. Drop in and see me
if you're ever out my way"
"Of course | will"
That's right. Good-by."
"Good-by, Jack, old boy. Awful glad
you came in"
Thanks; good-by, joe"
"Good-by, Jack"
"Good-by."
"Good-by."
And they separate-to the relief of
both.-Detroit Free Press
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY,

Gov. Morris, now living in Detroit,
is a great-grandson Of the patriot Rob
ert Morris, whose financial backing
helped TO make the victorious termina-
ton of the revolution a possibility.
Mr.. Valbert, in the Revue de Deux
Mondes. tells how Renan received every
year from a province in France an
anonymous letter, saying, simply;
Don't forget that you are going to be
damned"
james G. Blaine. Jr., is once more
a newspaper man, having just been en-
rolled ON the staff of the New York
Tribune. 1t is said that Editor White
law Reid has issued orders that Jim
my" be treated kindly,
DR.. Tristram, chancellor of the do
cese OF Canterbury, at 4 consistory
court held in st. Paul's, London, the
other day, ordered that the crosses, the
picture of the Virgin Mary and the
crucifxes in the Church of st. Mark,
Marylebonc, be removed, for the rea-
SUI mat tHSN udu oSCu ustN lpi super
stitious purposes.
Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, re-
Gently celebrated his silver wedding an
niyersury, and the invitations men
toned the place simply as "Thorwold."
y number of the senators thought that
this was the name of an apartment
house in Washington, but found out
that it vas the name of Senator Thurs
tons home in Omaha.
DR.. Haase, a noted Prussian derma-
tologist, announces q new treatment
and III of cancer. In Virchow's
Archives of Medicine" he reports that
he i%njects alcohol about the growth.
His experience, he thinks, encourages
him to assume that his experiments bid
fair to promise perfect cure and ex-
emption from temperance of the
dread disease.
Miss Hamilton, NJ. D., the English
doctor at the court of the ameer of At
ghanistan, says that a few of the chief
ladies in Cabul can read and write, but
hardly a single one outside the capital
can do so. 1t is considered a great ac-
comp!ishment, and the princesses and
a good many little girls are now being
taught. But they make little, if any,
use Of their knowledge when they have
acquired it.
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dificult to preach, and concluded "a ~,
cherry cctoral. The FIRST bottle
gave me great relief; the second, which
anu now taking, has relieved me aimost
entirely OF all unpleasant symptoms. 70
man,sters suffering from throat troubles.
! recommend DR.. Ayers Cherry Pectorai.
Prevention is better than cur.n
bottle Of DR.. Ayers Cherry Pectorsi
n, roo ,as house 81 : so WI IL. etfsstually prevent lie
opement into some dangerous rre usv
This remedy has no equal In Bronchissi
, x;eldas The most stubborn cases have
TOR Asthma, Group, whoopins coup !. nnd
every disease that attacks The throat or
torai has been put up onlv in lazy r rs.
insIsa at q price Of sIca, TO meet an
nsctsssnn demand for a smaller sired
n hsit.size bottles. at half price-so cents.
S Seu i1f Dr.: Ayers curebook 0feel and
value Of Or. Ayers Cherry P%ectorsis Isss
dress J'c. Ayei Co., Lowell, Mass. A.
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lists were NJ. Jules Brame, a former
minister of public instruction, under
the second empire, and NJ. de D., a
w%ell-known journalist on the staff of
of the most influential newspapers
in the north of France. When the duel
occurred both were studying for the
bar. One Shrove Tuesday they, in com.
pany with friends, had repaired to a
restaurant on the boulevard, with a
view of enjoying a good dinner, and
afterward of going to the masquerade
ball at the opera. They all agreed to go
as Pierrots. AS they all wore masks,
some one suggested that they should
adopt some distinctive sign by which
they could recognize one another in the
crowd. d. D suggested that they
should pin a label bearing a number to
their backs. The idea was UNANIMOUSLY
adopted, and D. D-prepared the label
accordingly. While so doing diaboli-
cal idea came into his head. 1t was
carnival time; why should he lot have
his little joke? When it was Jules
Brame's turn to have n ticket pinned to
his back, his friend D. D. had writ
ten in letters beneath the number: II
am Jules Brame." One can easily
imagine what was the result. No soon
err had Brame set foot in the main pas
sageto the premiere g~allerie than he was
followed by a lady wearing a mask,
who, on his preparing to enter a pri,
vate box, cried out: 81 wish you sue.
cess, Jules Brame." Later on, on re-
entering the passage, he was surround
ed by a group of masqueraders, who
with one voice shouted out: "Good day,
my dear Brame." That proved to him
that he was known to everyone, al
though he was puzzled to understand
how it could be.
Passing in front of a box opener, the
girl burst out laughing. He inquired,
angrily what she was laughing at.
why" she replied, 81 am laughing at
the funny idea which led you to pin
a label on your back with your name on
it," And, suiting the action to the
word, she unpinned the label and hand
ed it to him.
Jules Brame considered the joke not
only in bad taste, but insulting. He
sought out his comrade, and, finding
him in the saloon, he reproached him
angrily in the hearing of the crowd, in
sisting that he should apologize openly
then and there. De D., resenting his
friends attitude toward him, declined
to apologize; a duel, therefore, in ac-
cordance with French habits and GUS
toms, was inevitable. Seconds were at
once chosen; short swords were pro.
cured, and in their Pierrot costumes the
antagonists started for the Bots de
Boulogne. Fortunately, the duel did
not end fatally, as seems to be the case
in Gerome's picture, for. although
Brame ran his sword right through
De D-'s body, no vital organ was
touched. He recovered very quickly,
and the two antagonists became fast
friends acknowledgements Gazette.
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Why II PIeased Him.

Parson SANITY (excitedly)-Ha!-
the great philanthropist Giveaway is
dead-and has left his entire fortune to
local charities and foreign missions.
Stranger-Ahl God bless him. God
bless him! ! like to see money left like
that.
Parson Saintly--Pardon me sir; but
are you one Of the cloth?
stranger-oh. no! I'm q lawyey,-
Puck.
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now published another article about it in
which the original reports are completely
verified, the cure is permanent, and they
publish a fac simile of the check given by
the Canadian Mutual Life Association for
81, $4,000 amount Of total disability claim
paid by them to Mr.. Petch.
The first account stated that the patient
(see address below had been a paralytic for
five years, and there was such a total lack of
feeling in his limbs and body that a pin run
full length could not be felt; that he could
not walk or help himself at all; for two
years he was not dressed; Furthermore, that
he was bloated, was for hat reason almost
unrecognizable and could net get his clothes
on. The paralysis was so complete as to affect
the face and prevent him from opening his
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A Total Disability Claim Of $1,65O Paid
Man who was AfterWard Cured.

mouth sufficiently wide to take solid food.
The doctors called the disease spinal sclero.
as and MI said he could not live.
For three years he fingered in this eondi,,
lion. Then BY some friend he was ADVISED
N take DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People. He took them and there was
a slight change, The first thing noted
was a tendency to sweat freely: This showed
there was some life left in his helpless body.
Next came a little feeling in his limbs.
This extended, followed by p~rickling sensa'
iions. until at last the blood began to course
freely. naturally and vigorously through his
body, and the helplessness gave way, to re-
turning strength, the ability to walk re-
turned, and he was restored to his old time
health.
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A DUEL IN THE SNOW.
The Story That Is Back OF GerOme's
Famous Picture,

Everyone has seen the engraving of
Gerome's beautiful but sadly effective
picture, "a Duel in the Snow" Through
the mist of early morsing one antago-
mist is lying on his back on the sward,
while his adversary, leaning on a
friends arm, is slowly walking from the
scene of the encounter. Both are wear
ing the masquerading costume of a Pier
rot. In a thicket a carriage waits to
drive off with the successful opponent.
There is every reason TO believe, from
recently disclosed information by NJ. AL
fred Darimon, that in portraying on cam
vas that impressive episode, the artist
was not influenced by solely magma
tive caprice, but that he has reproduced
a scene in real life.
The facts are as follows: The duel.
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That stranger was a very proper man,
but | goes over to the ole woman and
seq:
Eliza, whar' ar we at fur con meal
and sorgum|
"'Got heaps she SEE.
"'How much powder"
"''Bout two pounds
"'Was we ever licked in a far fout?"
"'Never, ole man.
"'Shall we be a-gittin' or fight it out?'
Flight, of co'se!'
THAT settled it," said the old man.
81 jest loaded up the rifle and the shot
gun, heaped some logs together fur a
fort, and | didn't pay no mo- tenshun to
the proper stranger, Mebbe it was
two weeks befo' he cum along agin, and
he takes off his hat to me and tenderly
seq:
"'Abe Hope, it's my natur' to be a
proper and a tender-hearted man, and
I've cum back to call on yo' in a proper
and tender-hearted way
81 kin also be proper when | tries,
seq |, and | takes off my cap and bows
to him.
"'What's that heap O. logs out thar?'
SEE he, as he looks around.
Its my fort seq l. When me and
the old woman ar licked in a far fout
we'll go, but not until
Then it's no use to be proper and
tender-hearted lords yo', Abe Hope?.
"'Not If yo' reckon to drive me of
this squat
"He signs and looks sorrerful and
tender-hearted, but at the same time he
gives me notice to leave in a week OF
he'll call out the law to make me. ]
signs and looks tender-hearted, but
tells him to bring on his law and I'll
fight till dies. The ole Mississip was
boomin' jest then, but l was full O
trubble and l didn't pay much tenshun'
to her. One night, when half my week
was up, the ole woman wakes me IN
and seq:
"'Abe, the ole Mississip is jest rippin'
things all to pieces over to the south
of u.s.
"'But I can't stop her. sez l..
II laid awake fur awhile and heard
the waters roarin' and gushin' and
chawin' up the land, and then fell
asleep agin. 1t was mawnin' when ]
woke up next, and the old woman was
Jpn dressed and stood in the doah
shoutin':
"'Abe Hope, yere's our cabin and
yere's our truck-patch. but TO- the Lawd
we've dun bin a-gittin' into sum
strange kentry! Git outer bed and tell
me whar' we ar att
II got outer bed" said Abe, as he
looked away across the river, "and
looked and fggered and fggered, and
1t took me a hull hour to make 1t out.
Bimeby l sees how it was. In the night
the river had cut a new channel TO the
south of us. We went to bed in the
state of Tennessee, and we woke up in
the state Of Arkansaw. The land
hadn't moved any, but the river had
jest cut off about a hundred acres OF
that proper strangers land and
throwed 1t Into another state. When I
had got 1t Aggered out I throws down
my hat and jumps on It and yells fur
glory. I was yellin' when the proper
stranger Gums across in q rowboat and
seq:
ABE Hope, I'm too proper and ten
d~er-hearted to git along in this world.
] said I'd call the Law on We. but meb-
be ~ Gin " go to 60 away peace
fully!
s'nht I've goas., ses / 4 suuatted
~ yos ssaa N ysaususse and 10 wss
gutn' q 1sine M law o. ms id turn
~ " ls'att wsat nv KshMh ID