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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30

W.. are wont to look forward 10 trouH,
with fears Of what they will inAict, but III
on them with wonder at what thew IN
saved us rom.-Samuel johnson. 10y
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30

1t is wonderful to think what the nr,,..
OF M human being can do for apotss
change everything in the world.-yStor
Wafam and Lucy Smith, George s. Il,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30

a man wearing a shirt and collar of diff.
ierent colors would look just as well wearing
one boot and one shoe.-Washington Demo,
crat.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30

Does your Head Ache? SomnifHCasu
cures Instantly. All druggists. 25 ceras. n
Paxton Medical Co., POI RiverSt. ,Troy.NY
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30

Nine times out Of ten a woman is promuta
to pay n debt than a man.-Wa shingtm 4
Democrat.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30
JOINT YOu Slceny

People who can't buy things good enovt
IN their own town often are the pooa
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30

I'm out of politics" said the man VIII
had grown wiser.
Got enough, have you?" asked the
sympathizing friend.
You bet. They pulled my leg so
nard nat ! almost lost my head."-In.
dianapoliS journal
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30

believe fiso's Cure for Consumption
saved my boys life last summer.-Mrs. Allie
Douglass, Leroy, Mich, Oct. 20. 'O4.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30

A mans way of expressing his utter CO..
tempt for a thing is by saying he woulN2
give a chew of tobacco for it.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30

A woman licEs the envelope to make the
stamp stick, and the man licks the stamp
Washington Democrat.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30

Many people get up early and do notha
else all day.-Washington Democrat. I
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30
He COurteJ Failure.

lsaacs-Do you tink marriage vos a vail.
ure?
Abrams-So hellup me If | dit, | would ged
married domorrows.-Up-to.Da Date.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30

We often wonder what some women would
do II they couldn't alk,-Washington Dem
ocrat.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30
MRS. PINKHAM TALKS ABOUT "CHANGE NJ 11F7,
o"en IT urged TO Prepare for this Wonderful Revolution in ua
Economy of Their Life Blood-Mrs. Watson
Tells How She Was Helped.

At no time is woman more liable 10
physical and mental dangers with houn
OF suffering than Mt the "Turn of Life
The great want in woman's system Is
aollityto properly adjustitselft to the new
conditions. The outlet, monthly, of blood
is now being diminished and carried into
the body for the supply food of its late,
years.
Daughters, you can nowt to some extent
repay your mothers early care. She must
be spared every possible excrtion. You
must helpher bear her burdens and ankle.
ties. This critical time safely over, she will
return to renewed health and happiness
That SO many women fail to Anticipate
= thischange thus happily, is owing not
J. merely to lack of care, but to igne
= rance. There is, however, no excuse
/, for ignorance when experienced at.
. vice can be yours free of all cost
Write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn,
Mass, she has helped great numbers
OF women successfully through the
Change of Life, and she will help you.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
pound is the best tonic for uterine
changes. 1t works harmoniously up
on all these overweight organs, in
vigorates the body and drives off tho
bluae
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30
COmmen

Maud-Cholly hasn't been quite himself.
of late.
Rose-1No? hadn't noticed any improve,
ment.-Puck.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30

To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. 4
druggists refund money If it fails 10 cure 4
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-30
Took the Money with n,

~ ~ MUMMY WIN Him.
biack-l hear Jones has left the
whlte-Yes; and from what I hear,
'nat was all he did leave,-Up-to-Dute'
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-02-12
The Retired burglar.

81 don't think | was ever very much
scared, F" said the retired burglar, "but
I have been as much scared by slight,
little things, that were of no real ac-
count, as by anything else. For in
stance, by the scratching of q rat, start
ing up suddenly and running around in
the wall. l vas never more disturbed
than l was once by the absolute still
ness of a room that l was in. 1t was
dead and oppressive, and 1 couldn't ac-
count for it.
81 swung my lamp around and saw
the usual things that you might expect
to see i'll such a room-it was a dining
room-including a clock on the mantel.
1t was a pendulum clock, one of the
kind that has a little clear space in the
lower part of the glass front, through
which you al see the pendulum as it
swings back and forth. The lamp SIM
ply swept across the face of the clock,
as 1 swung it around, but an instant
later | realized that l had seen no pen
dulum swinging back and forth behind
that clear space. 1t wasn't swinging.
The clock had stopped.
81 set my lamp on the shelf and
opened the door of the clock and started
up the pendulum, and then l heard the
regular ticking of the clock. And that
was all that was wanted. But what q
relief it was to hear it! 1 could sort out
the spoons now with a cheerful spirit. ,
New York Sun.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-02-12
A Fraud Exposed.

Since advertising the business Of the
Alaska Passenger and Prospecting Co.,
the HERALD is in receipt of the follow
ing self-explanntory letter to which it
gives ready space:
Stockton, Cal, February /, 1898.
Gentlemen Il desire to inform you
that the so called ALASKA Passenger &
Prospecting Co.." that have of late been
sending out their circulars from this
place, is an unmitigated fraud; the
principal operators have left for parts
unknown, after swindling some of their
c~oniding victims. have come into the
possession of their correspondence by
virtue of an order Of the secretary of the
so called company, who seems to have
been an innocent victim of their mis-.
representations.
This company like hundreds of Others
Of like representations, has no reliabili'
ty, and in fact no existance, not having
been formed according to the laws OF
the state of California.
Thomas Cunningham,
Sheriff, Stockton, California
p. ST. hold warrant for Jane.
Seaton the president of said company.
The HERALD il careful not to adver
tise business which is not strictly on thu
square, and whenever it is duped int
booming a fraudulent concern it lose
no time in correcting the error.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-02-12
Monarch Matters.

special correspondence of the HERALD
At a meeting held last Tuesday even
ing, it was demonstrated that the
Daughters of the Republic, Monarch
Memorial Lodge were not dead, neither
sleeping. Two new members were adj
mitted, Mrs. W. d. Delphy and Mrs.
Gervais. Mrs. Miebach was reelected
president, Miss Flora Gervais secretary,
and Mrs. Delphey treasurer.
These ladies have decided to give II
series of ten cent ~socials the first of
which, a valentine social, will occur on
next Monday evening at Mrs. Phippen's.
Lunch will be free but the ''boys must
all expect to pay 10 cents for a valen-
tine. 1t will be worth it. The pro-
ceeds will be used to buy Patriot Song
books for the order. A call will be is
sued for a meeting of both orders, Pa.
triots and daughters and it is hoped
there will be full attendance.
Next Friday evening the 1ith, the
Mason Patriots give a basket social and
dance at the Delphy ranch. John Ell
hot and James ~Srackangast are the CHIEF
movers in the affair which is sufficient
guarantee that 1t will be gotten up al
right and every guest made welcome.
The Kibbey Patriots made Il CRANE
success of their masquerade last Wed
nesday evening. A large crowd were il
attendance and there was but one yer
dict rendered by all, that it was tn
most enjoyable party ever given a
Kibbey. The Kibbey Patriots are talk
ing of recognizing and admitting til
ladies to full membership in their lodge
This is recommended and approved b
the national organization.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-02-12
Whist In the Church.

And that's what's the matter with
Emporia-too much whist. The paint
ed china set is married to cards. Women
have no higher thought from weeks
end to weeks end than winning head
prizes. They grow nervous, irascible,
bad tempered and ugly playing cards.
Little crows feet appear at the corners
of their eyes after an evening with
whist, and deep, vertical lines pillow
themselves just above their noses.
There are more plain women in Empo-
ria who lost their bloom at the rented
card tables than there are women who
have worn themselves out over the
kitchen stove. 1t is worry, not work,
that makes women fade, and cards are
sapping the juice out of the town. Only
the young people patronize the public
library. The old folks make whats
trump the chief end of man. Cards
have invaded the churches. One church
has a big fractional row looming upon
the horizon because the pastor has jump
ed cards. Another church narrowly
avoided it last winter. A third pastor
sees his best customers whooping it VI
in whist clubs and hasn't the nerve tt
say a word. In the meantime pokel
rooms, which are just as improving ant
elevating and just as helpful to thu
town as whist clubs, have opened OF
Commercial street, and the town is en-
joying the fruit of the seed the womei
have planted. -Emporia kan. Gazette
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-02-12
A Sermon With a Point to 1t.

A Clergyman in the west country had
two c~urates, one a comparatively old
man, the other very young. With the
former he had not been able to work
agreeably, and on being invited to an
other living he accepted it and took
the young curate with him. Naturally
there was a farewell sermon, and we
can imagine the feelings of the curate
who was to be left behind when he
heard the text given out, "Abide We
here with the ass, and I and the lad
will go yonder and worship"
Sterne once declared in regard to the
widely respected maxim, ode mortuis
nil nisi bonum,' that there was nothing
right about it but its Latin. This view
was evidently shared by a certain Edin'
burgh minister who, being asked tc
preach the funeral sermon of a misery
brother cleric, chose as his text the
words, "And the beggar died. Cham
bers' Journal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-02-12
IODINE ON
Treatment CT the Hands of Pianofort
Pupils Who Practice.

Treatment Of the Hands of PianofOrte
Pupils Who Practice.
A modest appearing young woman
entered "A drug store on Madison avenue
one morning recently, and, walking to
the end of the counter nearest the pre-
scription department., mutely held out
both hands toward a clerk who CHANGED
to be staining i'll that particular place.
The clerk, equally mute, reached be-
hind a screen and brought out a blue
glass bottle, from which a brush han
die protrudod. After stirring the con-
tents of the bottle with the brush for a
few seconds the clerk daintily brushed
the tips of the young woman's fingers
with the mixture, leaving a dark stain
around the top of each finger nail. With
a pleasant nod of her head and low
murmuring thanks the young woman
quickly withdrew from the store and
the blue glass bottle was put back in it's
hiding place.
Observing a puzzled expression on the
face of an old patron Of the store who
had come i'll to get a cigar, the clerk
said, iodine"
"What for?" asked the smoker.
Prevents the fingers from getting
sore" replied the clerk. "She is from
the musical conservatory, where she
practices on the piano three or foul
hours a day. In order to prevent the
finger nails from coming in contact with
the ivory keys she has them cut very
short, and we apply iodine to take the
oreness out of the ends of the fingers
after they have been subjected to three
or four hours of pounding. Most piano
players, you will observe, have theil
finger nails cut to the quick, SO that NJ
clicking sound is emitted when they
strike the keys. We keep a bottle of 10
dine and "a brush for the special use Of
the pianoforte pupils of the conserva
tory. They come i'll here for treatment
two OF three times a week and pay by
the month. New York Times.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-02-12
A Echo.

An east end man went down town in
a Euclid motor a few days ago, and by
the time the car reached Durham avenue
he was fast asleep. The conductor came
after his fare, but the citizen was obliv-
ious of the fact. The conductor reached
forward and shook him. The citizen
swayed slightly, but he didn't wake up.
Then the conductor reached forward
again and gave the sleeper a violent
push. The latter merely shook himself
and then growled in a distinctly audible
voice:
"Quit your pushing! There's plenty
of room on your side
The laugh that followed woke him
up.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-02-12
Defective Paper Making.

Paper makers are discussing the Pc
culiar fact that for many centuries there
have been periodical Investigations into
the deterioration Of paper. Recently
the Society of Arts in London appoint
ed a special committee to make an in
vestigatiOn of this character. Old rec
ords show that fault has been found
with the quality of paper i'll almost
every age, and most of the famous mu-
scum and libraries in Europe have
specimens of pure rag paper which
show decsy due to flaws in the texture.
Away back i'll 1886 Peter III of Spain
issued n proclamation commanding the
paper makers of Valencia and Xativa
"to restore the paper to its old good
quality, unless they wish 10 be found
guilty of fraud and punished according
ly." About 1920 an emperor of Italy
directed that all public documents on
paper should be declared invalid. All
records covering the previous two years
were ordered to be transcribed on parch-
ment in order that they might be pre-
served more securely.
1t is recalled that in 1875 the Academy
of Sciences III Paris offered a prize for
the best answer to this question, (Which
are the real reasons for the general de-
cline in the quality of paper and which
are h best means to remedy the evil?'
This prize was never awarded, for the
reason that nobody undertook to com-
pete for it. Experts disagree as to which
period in the history of paper making
produced the most durable and the best
quality of paper. Soon after the art of
making paper was ~transplanted from
Africa to Spain complaints were made
and recorded that the Christian success.
sors of the Moorish paper makers were
making an inferior paper. At first the
art was imperfectly copied. New York
Times.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-02-12
OLD Ma..l AND YOUNG WIFE.
A Washington Jehu Who Sees All Sorts.
Weary of the Jay With y Bride.

A Washington Jehu Who Sees All Sorts.
Weary Of the Jay With y Bride.
"But of all married couples the old
Jay with the young wife makes me most
tired. The old duffer tries to put OH a
dignified air when many people are
around, but wait until he gets a chance
to smile at his young bride. It's awful.
The smile is that of a possum which has
been freed and knows there is no escape.
/ mean that it's sickly. Half of them
may be putting on with the innocent
girl. Three days ago | had one of these
old jays in tow. What do you suppose
he said to his wife? l was taking them
from the White House to the treasury
and passed by the fountain which con-
tains SO many pretty goldfish. ooh, look
at the beautiful little things, he said,
with a grin at his wife. You are pref
tier than any fish in that pond She
said, OH Well, | wanted to throw
him in, but of course | was looking out
for the coin.
Here ome a newly married couple.
Anybody could tell that. You see, he
has his wife by the arm and is looking
uOWh ihto HUI ldCo Will oil dlI VI COLI
tentment that is enough to make my
blues leave me to see. I noticed that
couple coming up Pennsylvania avenue
20 minutes ago. He was holding her
arm then. He will stick to the job until
they reach their hotel this afternoon.
He is not afraid she will escape, but be
thinks that is part of a new groom's
business. You see, he helps her up the
steps and points out things to her. He
tells her that is so and so. Nine chances
out of ten it is something else. He feels
that he is bound to say something. ]
have seen many of these young know
alls point out the Corcoran Art gallery
as the patent Office and pass the state,
war and navy building off as the resi-
dence of General Miles or as the new
city postoffice. The innocent bride stares
in wonder and thinks it's SO. She be
lieves her darling Henry knows al
about it.
cts very different with the mar
who has been married several years. HI
and his wife see for themselves. HI
stops and looks at a thing which inter
ests him. She goes Oh and stops to lool
at something which interests her. They
are generally 20 yards apart. If he tell
her that a building is such and such, sh'
disputes the point and thinks it's some
thing else. Washington Star.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-02-12
His Own Uncle.

A few days ago a young medical stu
dent came suddenly face to face with a
dear, kind, old, fatherly looking gentle
man of highly respectable appearance.
They both stood transfixed. The same
idea flashed across both of them.
your face is familiar to me-very
familiar, but l can't remember where
we have met so often.
However, the friendly impulse was
carried out. They shook hands warmly,
partook of a friendly glass and departed,
still ignorant of each others name and
occupation.
But the young man was determined
to solve the problem, and he seized on a
waiter.
"Who is that distinguished stranger
with the long white hair?"
And the waiter whispered Slowly:
eff you please, sir, that's the pawn
broker. London Answers.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-02-12
The Mixed Menu.

The travelling men in eastern Maine
have added Il new story to their roper
tory, a Hancock county man being the
subject. During the musical festival at
Bangor, they say, John stepped into a
Bangor hotel for dinner. Now it hap
pened that the hotel man had leased the
off side of his bill Of fare to a local car
riage manufacturer, who placed an
"ad," thereon, with illustrations. John
sat at the table. The waiter, being in
something of ii hurry, by mistake pass
ed the bill wrong side out. John saw
the wheels, put on his speotacles, curl
ed his mustache with his left hand,
Strengthened up, looked at the girl and
said: IN take scrambled eggs, a BAN
gor buggy. q couple of punts and a road
cart. Got any wheelbarrows?" The girl
dew.--Lewiston Journal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-02-12
THE MAHNlMAH.
A wonderful Iarrot of India Which, the
Natives Claim, Thinks.

Natives Claim, Thinks.
A little bird in town did a surprising
thing the other day, though that is the
middle of the story. The first of the
story is hat a woman who had lived
many years in India and who has a love
for all things Indian was walking along
the street and saw in the window Of "a
bird store a green parrot with red spots
OH its wings.
THAT bird" she said to herself,
''came from India. l will go in and
speak with it. Perhaps it speaks the
vernacular.
So she went in and spoke to it in the
vernacular of India.
"Do you speak the language" she
said. 1t is the common question which
the people ask of a parrot in the land
from which the bird came. But the
reature made no answer. 1t stared at
her with dull eyes and was not inter
ested. Still she persisted.
"Come," she said. Surely you speak
the language? What do You want? Are
you hungry? Is, poor Polly lonesome
away off here? Come, come, you speak
the language.
Still the bird made no answer, but
from away back i'll the dusk of the room
came a clear little bird voice in Hindoo-
stance:
81 speak the language. l also, l speak
it."
The birdseller did not notice the cry.
1t is merely the chattering OF a foolish
little bird to him. But the woman who
loved India said
"Where is that bird?"
"It's back there" said the bird seller,
pointing to a remote corner. So the wo-
man went there, and in an old cage she
found a neglected looking mahnimah,
standing erect on it's perch, all its feath'
ers ruffled, looking this way and that
as it quivered with excitement. This
bird of all talking birds is the most
wonderful-nay, in India they main.
tain that it thinks. 1t learns, i'll fact,
the tongue of the people, they say, and
does not speak by rote, but it converses,
| At any rate the mahnimah cried:
81 speak the language. l speak it,.
Here | am, brother" cried the wo
man. Il am one who speaks it toe
The bird fixed one sharp eye on her.
"You are little, " he said disdainful
ly, putting his head down in his feath
ers to indicate how little she was
"You are little, but l am large" ant
then he stood erect with his heat
thrown back and looked down on her.
1t said other things, too, while tn
%bewildered bird seller stood by and lis
tened, astonished that the bird had an.
value or that any one conld understant
it.
"How much will you take for TIL
bird?'' asked the woman
Twenty dollars" said the man
The price had gone up i'll the last tel
minutes.
where did you get it?"
"a sailor brought it here, and | bough
1t of him. He had come from New Yorl
and was going to San Francisco. H
said he was tired of Juggling it over til
country"
He must have come from some plac
where there are Lascars.
81 do not know. Will you take til
bird, ma'am?"
But the woman could not afford that
80 she called back:
"Salaam, little brother"
"Salaam," said the bird. -Chicag
Chronicle.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-02-12
Enough.

1.-The feelings of woman are far deep
er and finer than those of man., cried
the lady orator in a fiery tone. "We
are told by those who style themselves
the stronger sex that we are much infe-
rior. Is that SOP
A loud chorus of moi from the Ia
dies greeted this question, and the ora
tor went IL
II say that woman feels where man
thinks
SIS that the reason your husband is
bald?'' inquired one of the few male
members of the audience.
1t was lucky for him that he got two
seconds start in the race for the door,
Pearson's Weekly,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-02-12
Edw. Dunston and family have moved

Edw. Dunston and family have moved
to Belt for the winter.
Mrs. Roehl and daughter Lucy were
in Great Falls over Sunday.
Mrs. Robert Barker is visiting her son
J. C...and wife at Great Falls.
Dan. Lenny's little baby was sick a
few days last week, but is all right now.
Rev. Alfred Brown is in Neihart and
will hold his regular monthly service to-
morrow at If a. III. and 80 p. M.
The Elite Studio man, Mr.. G. Skage,
returned to Great Falls Tuesday after
having done business here for about ten
days.
Mrs. A. j. Vance returned home to
Great Falls Tuesday. She had been Wis.
iting her daughter, Mrs. r. G. Vaughan,
for the past two weeks.
Last Saturday witnessed the formal
opening of Jack Wilson'S Neihart Ex-
change in the stand once occupied by
| the Combination saloon.
Thos. Dryer has linked his fortunes
temporarily with our sister camp of
Barker, and will spend the remainder of
the winter there. He has some good
mining property in the Nci,art camp.
Last Saturday evening the grocery
house of J. T. Taylor gave the prize
draw of the season, which was partici-
pated in by all his customers holding
tickets which represented purchases.
The first prize, a gold watch was won
by Ruby McIlveen and the second, a
silver set, by Charles Crawford.
DR.. Sievers leaves Neihart today
to take up his residence in Butte. Hc
will be associated with DIR. Wells and
will superintend the noted Wells hos
pital. His departure is deeply regretted
by our citizens who recognize in him al
able and conscientious physician, and
good citizen. We wish him every sue
cess in his future undertakings.