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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-09-08

Many republicans privately conceds
that majority Of the noxt House will
be democratic.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-09-08

Mrs. Augusta Fox, wife of Cong
ressman Fox, died at her home in
West Point Sept. g..
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-09-08

The most delicate constitution can
safely use CGUsEN' S HONEY OF TAR. 1t
is a sure and pleasant remedy for cough,
loss of voice and all throat and lung
troubles. Price 25 and 80 cts. at ]. F.
Jones drug store.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-09-08

Senator Bacon said Of the delay on
the part of the Senate committe.
charged with the duty Of investigating
official stealing in Cuba: what the
democrats ought to do is to bring be
fore the country the action Of the re.
publicans in refusing 10 take any step.
to ascertain the true state OF affairs on
the island. There is no doubt that the
apparent apathy is due to the fact that
the republican managers know sthat
rigid investigation of affairs would
disclose the existence Of frauds which
the administration would rather keep in
the dark until after the coming cleo
ton.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-09-08

Mr. Mckinley is said 10 fear that
Russia has been playing him for diplo.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-09-08

Gambler was nominated in the first
district for Congress. defeating Cox by
several hundred votes.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-09-08

Poisonous toadstools resembling mush
rooms have caused frequent deaths this
year Be sure to use emily the genuine.
Observe the same care when you ask for
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. There
are poisonous counterfeits. Dewitt,
is the only original Witch Hazel Salys,
1t is safe and sure cure for piles and
all skin diseases. T. s. Murphey.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-09-08

A late despatch says Hay, Sec. Of
State. has withdrawn from the Cabinet.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-09-08

The railroad magnates encourage Mr..
Mckinley's' imperial tendencies by
keeping private car at his disposal all
the time, as he has grown too big, in
his own estimation, to ride OF a car
that is open to the public.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-09-08

colo IN head and sore throat cured BY Ker.
m.ottsChocolates Laxative 2uinine As easy
70 take ~ candy. "Childfen CRY for them"
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ing Al persons ...,..,... ,....S o.
Mallard Il Co., repairing tools 900. 30
D Ferris printing ...,.. ...,.,.. 90
A Klaus, street ertfs..,.......,... 30 70
II Hauenstein, work on pump 6 10
J 7 Sargent, special police ....".... ID 90
H Holt, special police. u 90
II Showers, team on STREET ....,.. 30
Thos ElEin, team Oh street .......,.. Is 90
Accounts Of Election Commissioners
were continued for correction,
A, 7. Dent was appointed commit
tee of one to ascertain if enumerator S
report of educable school children can
be corrected, and if SO, to employ a
man at a cost not to exceed 8 cents per
capita to make a new enumeration,
The Mayor sent in a communication
stating that in view of the large attend
ance at Circuit Court he had appointed
two extra police, which was confirmed
by the Board as to one, Mr. II Holt.
j. O, FAsER,
E. B. BOYD, Mayor.
Clerk.
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Jury List August Term Circuit Court,
$4,000 to Loan.
DRETERMITTED.

Twill loan any amount desired on good
eeurity. Att &C, BOGLE.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-09-08
How To
Flesh

Persons have been known to
gain a pound . day by taking
an ounce Of SCOTS EMUL.
SION. Il is strange, but II often
happens:
Somehow the ounce produces
the pound, 1t seems to start the
digestive machinery going prop.
eHy. 50 that The patient Is able
to digest and absorb hi, ordinary
food. which he could not do be.
lore, and that Is the way tn. gain
Is made.
A certain amount Of flesh i,
necessary for health, II you have
not got It you can get II by
taking
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Case Goods

We wish to call attention
TO those sold by ats pe gallon
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-07

thirteen states. It's first settlement
dates back more than 200 years, and its
first American .cClOnists went there un-
der terms and conditions imposed by
a foreign state, TO whose language,
laws. and Institutions they were total
strangers. There never was. there new
er could be, any sympathy between
these first American coloniSts and the
Mexican government under the old re
gime. Separated by vast wildernesSes
from the people of the United States.
and unaided save by the individual eff
forts of sympathizing brethren therein,
those. colonists declared their independ-
ence. established it with the sword,
and for nine years maintained stable
republic.
-Texas was neither purchased nor con-
ouered for the union Annexation to
the United States wsss accomplished
through a treaty made by Texas rep
resentatives and ratified by the free
uffrage of the citizens, No other state
in the union has had such varied exper-
ienceg or sailed through such stormy
seas into the haven Of peace and pros
Derity.
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sibility Of our bodily organs funcuoning
apart, the conception of the life Of
man as something which does not eX-
pire with the dissolution of the body,
will gradually be re-established among
VI. If q part Of me is capable during
the life time Of my body of commune
eating Information which I exclusively
possess. TO another person at a dis
lance; if it is further capable Of IA
cilitating the transmission of these
communications. OF manufacturing a
body in shape, weight and substance in
distinguishable from my actual body
but which is nevertheless capable Of
vanishing into thin air the moment its
purpose is served. then it will seem
mora and more absurd TO question the
probability, not to say the certainty, of
the continuance Of the individual after
the decay of this earthly tabernacle,
which is even as q tent pitched for d
season for our temporary habitatiOn
during the time when we make our
brief pilgrimage through this wilder
ness of the desert Of sin. The Ego Of
each Of US is something indefinitely
greater, m0r9 marvellous, more multi
farioUs in its methods Of manifesto
ton and capacity Of expression than we
have hitherto imagined. It makes use
Of the body as kind Of temporary
tWO-legged telephone, tor the purpose
of communicating at short range with
other entities using similar two-legged
telephones: but its existence is no more
confined to the use Of that telephone
than the existence Of each of us is
limited to the communications we pass
across the telephone wire. After a
little time this twO-legged telephone
Will be switched but the entity behind
it viii pass on to complete the circle
Of its experiences.
W ~ CIT AN
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putting on the play to the lowest posi-
bic figure. I was tod TO paint some OF
the scenes.
"One of the incidents Of the play was a
little speech by Murphy in relation to the
beautiful roses that were supposed to
ding TO an old stone wall The author
was anxious to have plenty Of roses and
so was Murphy, as ne was TO turn 10 the
rOSe-cOVered wall and declare that they
we're this and that and al that was good
and beautiful. When I came to paint the
roses / found ] had enough Carmine to
paint only q few struggling r0seDuds. /
,old nv troubles to the manager and he
refused to buy more red paint, saying blue
was plenty good enough. I knew we'll that
I was not going TO invest my own money
in rose paint and so the opening night
Murphy turned and made his speech to
the roses. Instead Of the great clustering
vines the few weak rosebuds smiled at
him. Murphy was mad ana after the play
made his talk to me. explained and
Murphy said he would buy the paint him
. How much do you want2' he asked.
+ told him only about two ounces
Get out with your ounces! 7 want
rosesr he said, and hurried away to
drug store.
Give me a pound Of the best earmine
in the store demanded Murphy. The
clerks hustled around ike all mad. as an
order for a pound of carmine was an un-
heard-of thing. At last the package was
neatly tied uD and handed to him.
8. How muchT asWed Murphy.
Just S}2.J0.' answered the clerk. Muir
ryhy made grab for the showcase. stag
gered around in real acting style for
awhile and then managed TO gasp out;
- Cut the So and give Eos the 30 cents
worth. "
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CHE Bordenand Beyond Our Ken
Thought May From
Mind to Mind Telephone Switched
When

and the teleleCtTOscOpe, and there is no
reason to doubt that In the twentieth
century it may be possible for millions
of spectators in all quarters Of the civ
ilized world to watch over IN their own
homes the movement OF armies on the
field Of battle, the develODmCnt OF the
attack TO follow the fortunes Of the de-
feDse, to see men drop from the fire
line, and TO hear the thunder Of artil-
lery or the crackle Of small aims.
If the telephone has removed the bar
riers which renders it impossible for
human beings 10 be audible to each
other, the telelectroscOpe makes this
planet as transparent as crystal. The
possibility Of seeing through things,
which our forefathers used to believe
was possessed only by supernatural be-
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the coal bunkeTs and. when nearing them.
plainly heard noises such as the sailor
had described. As the party progressed
the SOUNDS grew fainter and finally
ceased. They are said to have been
heard since on several occasions
Another Fern ghost story is based on
the allesed apparitiOn of a strange beast
that rOamS about the coal bUnkers and.
when any one approaches. takes refuge
near the. propeller shaft. 1t is described
as a shadOwy creature. somewhat resemb-
ling a wildcat though larger, with two
big. yellow eyes that glare ferociOusiy
out of the darkness. Dogs have been tax
en- down TO attack this mysterious Great
ure several times, but they have fled to
the deck invariably with bowls of terror,
after nOsing around a few moments.
The coast survey schooner Eager, for
merry Commodore Garner yacht Mo-
hawk is also declared by the sailors TO
be haunted. Some twenty years ago the
Mohawk was lying at anchor off Temp
kiEsVille. Staten island. the present naval
anchorage. The weather was calm and
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UneIe Sans Baunfed UdrsbipS,
Their Flagship Receiving Huk-Inexpcabe DOgS
On the FrOic-The GhOsty
the Rats Will No Longer Dwell.

Copyright. 1890. by s. S. Mcclure & Coz
Though steam and steel have displaced
bellying sail and sturdy oak in the navies
OF the world, Jack Tar is still q sUpersti-
tious soul on every sea And young and
modern though he be, Uncle Sam himself
Possesses a Zee. Of haunted ships. The
natural flagship of this squadron is the
famous old Constitution, a relic of the
days when the tlying Dutchman was as
much reality in the minds of many
mariners as any craft that ever plowed
the waves.
Tt is eighty-seven years since the Con-
stitution whipped the British frigate
Guerrero, and the staunch old Yankee
craft has long been used as a receiving
ship in the navy yard at Portsmouth.
Nevertheless. some of the seamen at
tached to her say she is still haunted by
the shOSt of Captain Isaac Huh; every
midnight, they auege, the wrath Of the
gallant old sailor may be seen pacing the
quarterback, arrayed in d uniform coat,
shining cooked hat and the famous white
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lishman. Slatin and Emin were both
Austrians.
In more recent years we have had
General Holmes. an eX-majOr in the
German army. who landed cargo OF
Mannlicher rifles for the Gillian con
gressiOnalists. drilled their troops ana
defeated Balmaceda. General Ronald
McIver. a ScOtchman who has served
under fourteen flags, from the conted-
crate to the Carlist, is another roaming
Rriton. like Kaid Maclean, an eX-iieu-
tenant in our service, who is now COM
70 uBlns 9Ul 10 HuJe 9ql 10 I9puBU
Morocco. General Digby WillOughDy.
who commanded lin blue and silver the
Hova army, has since fought for the
Chartered company in RhOdesia. but
has not turned to the arts Of peace.
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Rather Expensive.
fCbicago News.)

Walter ". Burridge. the scene painter,
was telling Horatio Lewis of the QUO
Vadis company and an Interested group
Of friends IN the corridor of the Auditor
giles as a painter
Il recall an incident that is a joke on
Tim Murphy" said Mr., Burridge. The
manager OF the show that Tim was sup
porting with his wit AMI jokes was about
to launch new play. This manager was
as anxious over the almighty dollar as
anybody you would find in a days travel:
s-s idea was to cut the expenses OF
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two bells in the middle watch and beck
oned him away And. as a matter Of fact
he died in a DAY or two
About three months after this passed,
Assistant Paymaster s. joined the ship.
He was lively young chap. He had no
superstitions whatever, he said, and he
cheerfully installed himself in room NO ,
on the port side. The evening of April .,
I'M. was one of unusual merriment in the
mess. The ship was hOmeward bound with
a fair WING and the past assistant pay
master was the jOlliest man on board
About two hours after everybody had
turned in the entire wardroOm was awak-
ened by an unearthly yell, followed by a
noise as of a man falling. The officers
turned out, lights were struck. and theirs
was s., doubled over an upset chair and
meaning uninteiligibly. When asked what
was the matter he pointed TO the door Of
the room.
It's there. it's there" he murmured.
What's there, old man?' was the
query.
a dead thing. A corpse in my berth
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leVeling il at the horizon as If in search
Of an enemy'S sail
Ghost or Somnabulist?
The Frolic, an Old-fashiOned craft of
about zoo tons that was used Tor years as
a dispatch boat and tender, was long
alleged to be haunted, because OF certain
extraordinary noises heard in the ward
room about the beginning OF the mldhl8hl
watch every night so persistent ana
grueSome were these sounds that none OF
the wardrOom boys could be persuaded TO
enter the apartment unless accompanied
BY a commissioned officer, alter III o CLOCK.
when lights were put out Even the ON
GERS were annoyed. since the noses nyI
only interrupted the slumber of men liable
to be called for duty at any hour OF the
night, but also increased the Natural su-
perstftfon Of the sailor. Mr.. Y, the JUNIOR
watch officer, protested to have been Kept
awake several hours one nlgnt; anu on
his motion. a party was formed the Iol-
lowing evening with the intention OF sur
urisine the ghOstly visitant- The officers
sat up to an unusual hour. maintaining
perfect silence. but nothing nappeneu Dy L
O'Clock and they turned in.
About forty minutes later the first lieu
tenant was Wakened by the SOund on a
heavy body moving StSaItnliy around tue
wardrOOm to the accompaniment OF a
muttering voice. The lieutenant arose
and stepped out into the light that came
dimly from a single lamp over the center
table on the table itself he baheld the
T. A.
and moving in d circle on hands ana
knees over the polished Mahogany Mean
while he repeated over and over an sepul-
chral accents a mystic phrase: Little
Dieces of orange peel; little pieces or
orange peel" Being reused Mr.. y. eE-
pIaiued that he had dreamed he was on
the verge of an important scientific dis
c0very. The disclosure that fIr. X. was
sleep-walker was thought TO solve the
mystery: but though he was carefully
watched thereafter. the noises continued,
and on the Fr0lic's arrival in New York
she was sold and broken up.
Is the Fern Haunted?
The newest of our haunted ships is the
Fern. used throughout the Spanish war
as a, supply vessel, but now turned over
as a practice ship to the naval militia or
the District Of Columbia
After the Maine disaster the Fern was
the first United States vessel 20 visit
Havana: several o. the injured sailors
were taken aboard. and two of the VIC
tins died on her deck. Now 1t is STAYED
that the ship is peTvaded by a pecuilqE
and iuexDlicable mystery Being an Oh
wooden vessel she never went - ses
hafora her WISH to the Names wreck
without carving a large cargo OF rats.
On her return from Havana II was no.
tfced that the rats were deserving her.
singlv. in groups of three or four, or IN
rnultitudes Little attention was paid 10
This until one night a water-tender. VINO
had been sent down into the coal bunkers,
came I'D trembling and white as a sheet.
This man. a Maine survivor, affirmed that
while below he had distinctly heard the
voice of one of his Old shipmates groan-
ing. Several officers started down toward
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one-eved Paymaster's Ghost.

Down to 1850 when the ''wardroom
country of the old corvette Monongahela
was overhauled and reconstructed. the
second room Of the port side of the vessel
had been left vacant for three cruises. 1t
was the MOnOngahela that was washed
ashore in Peru IN the SOS by tidal wave
and then washed TO sea again without
suffering serious injury, and with the loss
OF only single man, but this has nothing
10 co with the ghost story and mentioned
only to identify the vessel. Years after
the tidal wave incident there was a one
eyed paymaster with a red beard on the
MonOugahela. He was known throughout
tho navy as one of the three or four hest
StOTy-tellers in the entire service. He
was also famous for his love of whisky
The former made him q general fdvOrite
ana the latter ultimately brought MN TO
his end When told that he was going to
die be summoned his fellow officers to his
Dear boys" he said. you have liked
me and love you fer it I've often heard
YOU say the wardrOom mess wouldn oe
d mess at all without me, and so I'll tell
you what L m going TO do: III be around.
as usual in my old room. No. on the
port side. so that you can't say, old fel-
lows mat l ever left the snip.
More than one veteran seaman wiped MS
eyes two or three days later when the
paymaster was dropped overheard, anu
two OF three youngsters IN the mess Idli-
" blubbered aloud. Nobody believed that
if the paynaster came back, as ne prom
ised. it would be with the intention Of an
moving any one But his alleged reap
peaTanCcs caused intense CUilSt efileDtlo :,
Thay began the day following his burial
and years afterward every officer VINO
was quartered in no. 2 en- the port side OF
the MCn0ngaheia's WaTdTOOm sought an
early opportunity OF relinqushlng tiie
berth though few were willing to admit
anv qhostlv experiences. But among the
sailors Of the ship talk of the payrnaster s
ghost began within a few weeks OF has de-
T3art51re THE earliest yarns were spun tor
the mon on duty in the store rooms ana
pavmaster's office. Nearly every Hi8nU
they reported that he was seen poUterlng
aroi1nd among the ships stores and fiSur-
ir.- mn accounts on the desk by the safe.
ore Of the men. the pay yeoman, was sent
to the sick bay His illness was trlidhg,
but he told the doctor one morning thdt
his time had surely come. for the dead
pavmaster had stood by his bedside at
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THE LONE STAR STATE
Texas Has Paid Allegiance to the
FLAGS Of Six Nations.
(St. Louis CIobe-Dem0craI)

st. Louis Globe-Democral-)
Scarcely another state in the union
has as remarkable and interesting
history as Texas. In one respect at
least it occupies a unique position in
the history of American states. Since
its discovery six different governments
have at different times claimed its al
legfance, and as many different flags
have waved ovea- it-those of France.
Spain. Mexico. independent Texas, the
United States. and the Confederate
States.
The foundations of Texas statehood
were not laid as a British colony, nor
under the grant or control OF the Brit
ish crown, as were those Of the origina
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Copyright. 1900, by the Author)

tCOpyrlgnt, I5UU, Dy me AutnOr.)
The closing century has enabled man
kind to surm0unt many difficulties in
the way Of nteTcOmmunication which
at the beginning Of the century had
appeared insUrmOuntable. In fact, it
may be said that the great triumph Of
the nineteenth century has been the
subsection Of time and space by the
mind OF man.
The introduction of steam and later
Of electric transit has changed every
thing. Tt has been a record breaking
century, both on land and sea. We al
ready think nothing Of express trains
travelling at sixty miles an hour as
their normal speed. Occasionally trains
are run at eighty miles an hour and
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one eye and red beard-cold and horri-
'.The moonlight coming in through the
port woke me- he continued. after
pause I was very cold and at first /
thought I had a chill. / raised myself up
on my elbows to get better view Of
with something cldmmy and icy cold By
the dim light I saw that / had a bed
feltOW'-a dead man. ms one eye staring
and his red beard tangled with seaweed.
The thing is there nOW-lying in my
bed"
The officers crowded TO the door of No.
2 Nothing was fOund-abSOUtely moth
ing. though there is a weird but improved
tale that when they examined Mr. SIS
berth they discovered two or three small
pieces Of barnacled SeaWeed. After that
strange occurrence the story Of which Is
an established legend III the navy room
No. on the port side of the MOnOnganela
was unOccupied until the recOnstruC-
tiOn -.l-Lai
Assistant Surgeons Ghost.
Few officers are alive today who served
with the Monongahela- on that memoir
able cruise; but the following story con
corning strange happenings on the Iicon-
deroga has been told by an officer of high
rank now i'm the department of naval In
Ue.IgencG and another at present connect
ed with the bureau Of ordnance. The IT,
cCnd6TCga was OF the NOGOugahela class.
a wooden steamer of 2.GaJ tons Clsplace-
TQenL. ana Sile naQ seen 5000 service uL-L-
ing the civil wal among ner officers on
a cruise in the South Atlantic during the
early EOS was a young assistant surgeon
named W. He had q firm belief in the
supernatural and the ridicuie that was
hGaped upon him by the other members Of
the mess made him very bitter.
An right" he would say. You tei-
lows can laugh at the truth as much as
you please. but if I should Gle while any
Of you are attached to the TiconderoSa,
III come back and haunt the blamed Old
lUgger until you'll all be glad TO apply
for other dut-r''
Wen, the young officer died suddenly of
heart disease one night IN noWllns
storm off the coast of Brazil Ills DO0y
was committed to the deep next day ana
that night the trouble began. Strange rap
pings were heard from VS. stater0oIn-
and though the officers who went there
to investigate discovered nothing; they
were seized by an OverpOWeTing feeling OF
dread In the sick bay that night q sailor
started from his sleep win scream on
terror. He declared that "a shadowy hand
had felt his pulse with the familiar touch
of tho dead ships doctor. VIM had az
tended him so long The nantes tatlon5
continued while the ship was at sea. anu
did not stop until after she reached New
York a day or two following her arrival
a dinner party was giVe-. on board III tilS
course of which one Of the officers relat-
ed the story Of the recent strange occur
reuces As he conclur cd q nuSn zen over
t7a company. and in the mids- OF the hush
crash came suddenly from the haunteu
staterOOm.
The cause Of the noise could not be dis
covered bv the most careful investigation
but there was no similar manifestation on
the vessels subsequent cruises.