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Items From Shuqualak New Era.


Miss Bessie Patty, a charming belle
of Macon, left for her home on Monday
after visit Of a week to Miss Lanita
Jones.
We We're panied to hear Of the death
Of the infa0t son of Mr.. and Mrs. Wash
Campbell and extend to them our heart
felt sympathy
Mr.. and Mrs, T, c. Edwards, with
Miss Grace and Lamar, are luxuating
as guests Of the "Waukesha" in Hot
Springs, They will be absent some
weeks.
Thornton Many and John Maury, all
colored, were killed few miles west
of here last Monday night in a fight be.
tween themselves and Thornton's son
Ed. All used guns, The trouble grew
out of John paying attention to Thorn:
ton s daughter.
Messrs. z. T. Dorroh and S. NJ.
Thomas, two of this county's most
honorable and respectable citizens, were
down for the drama. Mr.. Dorroh was
entertained by his chnm the Rev. E,W.
Spencer aud Mr.. J, NJ. Edwards.
DR.. Hubbard has chosen location at
Cllftonyille, he has received some fiat
tering propositions from those people
and soon will be among them, dealing
out pills, liniment, etc, etc. The
friends Of Dl, and Mrs. Hubbard regret
to lose them and at the same time wish
for them abundant success in their new
home.
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Our Royal Rose Rye, 4 full quarts
50 80 delivered at your nearest station.
Mail us your orders
]. r. COURTNEY e Co,
Mobile, Ala.
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Memorial Services

All members of the |. Q. o, F are
notified that memorial services will be
held at the hall Monday night, June 9th.
A fnll attendance is desired.
J. O, FAsER, }, b. KLAUS
Spc'tv. N, It.
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Mrs, W. NJ, King and family are at
Ensley, Ala,
We regret to LEAN that MIR. Dan
Hutchinson is quite i'll.
Mrs. E. C, Patty has returned from
the l. I, & c. and is at Mr.. w. B.
Patty's.
DR.. and Mrs Hamilton and Miss Lal
ra Ruff Of Broobsville, are in Washing.
ton City.
Mrs, Chas, jackson AMI daughter
Miss Matte were shopping in town
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs Jno. Windham and Mr.
L. Oliver and daughter weae guests of
Hotel Macon Thursday.
Miss Matte Griggs is at home again.
She has been teaching art in the Gallo.
way College, Searcy Ark,
Mr.. Leon Dent of Center Point was in
yesterday land reported cotton blooms
on Mr.. Dayton Dents place.
Mrs. McCorquodale, living near Jack.
son, Ala, is visiting her son, who has
been i'll for several days, He is still un.
well, but is attending to business.
Dr.. and Mrs. Scales and Mrs. Noah
Scales are in Washington City. As a
surgeon OF the NJ. g. o. Dr.. Scales is
attending a meeting Of railway surgeons
in Washington.
Carl Herman, Mr. Heinrich s atten-
tive clerk, will enjoy vacation at Hat
tiesburg, Gulfport and other points on
the coast He promises to send us red
snapper in block Of ice,
Mr. J. C. Windhaln,of the Fairfield
neighborhood, was in town yesterday.
He says everybody needs rain, especially
on the hill con Unless rain comes
in a few days 1t will be lost.
Mr., Hugh Rush Of the steamer, Min
ME Lee, and Mrs Wyatt Bush and lit.
tie boys, Tom and Wyatt, arrived in
Macon yesterday morning and are stop
ping at their parents and Mrs Warrens.
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r1rArInN NOTICE


The Estate In Chancery Court of
2092 OF NoXubee County.
ii. W. FoOte
To Mrs. E,rma Patty, whose postotlice adj
dress is Atlanta. Ga, Eliza Foote and
Frances Foote. whose address is Louis
vile, KY. and Louis Patty, whose adj
dress is Little Rock, Ark
We command you to be aud appear be-
fore the chancellor of our said chanCery
court at his office in Philadelphia. NeShoba
county. on the LIST Monday Of August, A.
D., 1902 then and there TO show caus. if
auy YOU can, why the final account OF H D
and II. l.. Foote. executors OF SAID estate,
should not be allowed and approved. and
said executors discharged. Said account
is now on file in this office.
Witness my signature and seal Of snid
court affixed, this 9th day of June A. D.,
1902. u. T. D0RROH.
6-7-St Chaucefy Clerk.
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MRS. |. S. MOSLEY.

The Beacon receives a notice from
hey' Jno. R. D. King of the death, at
Bellefontaiue, Miss, of Mrs. L. S.
Mosley, formerly of Cooksville, which
occurred at the home Of her grand
daughter, Mrs Salhe King Arnold, on
June I'd. She was buried at Bellfon.
tame graveyard June 3. Her death
was caused by rheumatism and dysen-
terv
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PERSONAL"

urtbnyI.Ilor, to the Az M.Com'
nm. were " l. Featherston,
,ddar.h.,r At, Dent, Howard
,Nwtt Ioua-, Jr., Minor Dent,
H. md.ble Carr,
In Lo.Sn H0s accepted a position
1mtu. l0.sa good worker be-
hid omor and we hope the
IBilI bea neOit to him.
NaIyrtIe coleman is visiting
Lii Crawford
ri S Coleman speut Tuesday in
iii has noght a blograph show,
Id the h.,. -yhibition in Mashu-
hi night 1t shows many scenes
I'D Splu.h. American war, We
fsii. do we'll with it.
d. B.tgass has taken Mr..
N aroal the Rogers store.
shlbom-r will spend sometime
10 grul.uIlren III Mobile. She
uva last Wednesday.
Qht Ni.aolson is back again at
Al Smith corner
bal the pleasure Of meeting Mr.
HuD0rl and DR., John Hubbard
b. lH We learn the latter will
~ Sammaryille. DR.. Prince is
"a Hduaeds rest,
ID f Kennedy and daughter
pfe visit Mrs. Richards, near
q few days,
o. Richardson says he was
|beaaitted by his trip to Atlanta.
hnor Mayor Borders was among
w. had business at the Court
y adoy
Anily Ward, of Washington, il
zSrs Clemens.
v Russell and son Minor were il
" lneslly, MIR. II. came after
n meal he was looking for.
|fdIsey Of Warsaw, Ala, made
hnituye and dry goods bills il
Nuesday He met Miss BESSIE
Nj Leonard, Texas, and sht
a with aim to visit relatives.
\ Henderson, deputy assessor
nness in Macon with the assesso
4 Hunter WAS at home for a few
lie is still cutting through Ala
nllls to make a railroad.
" first time since her recover
long and serious illness, Mrs
fslnner was in town Tuesday.
A Wootten had business wit
A, last Monday.
Annie II Augustus, daughter o
" B Augustus. will be one
Rchers next seasan at the Eas
Fppl College at Meridian.
1Ihos, MclIenry of Scooba was ]
Monday.
''day Mrs. Sale Kellis and Mrs
Of ShuquaIak, were in Macon
\ W. I. Connor entertained tw
I THIS week, Miss Sallie Earl
pam and Miss Ruth Hambrick,
Pafty OF ladies came down frol
OInt Friday at noon, Mrs. TUT
Miss White and Miss Baptis'
\ II, Riyes entertained them an
'acon ladies at cards that ever
ne West Point ladies returned c
ply four o clock train.
r's' val Ames, Chesley Feathe
P''' MORRISON, VIM. Bush. Glei
per and R. 0.Cole haye return,
'ne a Il NJ, College. Chesl'
'''s'on graduated with honors,
4 nicholson of Pensacola is at NJ
''uSon $, visiting her hsother, wi
'''''Be OF the oil mill machinery,
Nellie Jones lett yesterday
GUF Hattiesburg to visit her siste
|oeo &c lauenstein.
! Ben Allen and his daughte
D y, b Ames. of Oklohoma Cit
SUNG relatives in Macon. 7
'OONS as Young as he did TWEEN
epo' and is just as gay,
=, flKennedy and son Foste
louisville this week TO visit N
' who is IN failing health.
"esN'e Ferris returned Mond
'uiueen, where she has be
~ us music the past session IN
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have takenup one light red COW, markeJ
with crop of the right and swallow fork in
the left ear, medium size, about years old
The owner is requested to prove property
pay charges and take it away.
W, T. MARTIN,
may2i-3t Alliance, Miss.
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Have vour furniture repaired at j. F.
sbeltos's He will do itpromptly'
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The following accounts were rejected
J r Dugan, lumber, Lum Kinard.
building bridge on Brooksville and
Louisville road.
Reports of W II Stewart, S NJ Thomas
and W D Clark were received and or.
dered filed
Report of sheriff regarding convict
farm was read and ordered flied.
W. Marvin Jones and Lewis Daily
were released from payment Of poll tax.
Petition of Citizens Long Distance
Telephone and Telegraph Co. to erect a
line through the county was continued
until next meeting,
The sheriff was ordered to sell some
land for taxes on first Monday in July,
1892, the same having been overlooked
at the regular sale in March.
Petition Of j. F. Edwards for reduc.
ton of back tax assessment was con.
tinued to communicate with the revenue
agent.
Petitions of Mrs A T Wooten and & T
Heard for reduction of back tax assess
ment were rejected.
The following were appointed trustees
of school lands to June, 1903: W S Per.
menter, j & Downer, Simon Smith for
7. 13. r. 10, and w. A. Pate, J. I,
Sparkman and Joe Aust for r. 10, R.
Is.
Tuesday, Jane 3.
ALLOWANCES:
W V Stewart 100 additional nssess'ts 10 50
II L Dare, bridge on Bugs ferry road 50 20
W w shannon. lumber ............. 96
Cole. Branoby Il Holberg, repairing
ing floor on jail ....... ,,.,. ... 60 90
Petition of D B Cade for change of
road wos rejected.
Petition Of Mrs. A l. Blewett, B, f..
Barnhilt, V. E, Barnhill Mrs A. r.
Wooten and G. T, Heard for release
from back taxes were continued until
next meeting
The clerk was directed to advertise
for sealed bids for bridges, one across
Plum creek 3 miles east Of Macon, and
one across Woodward 5 creek, miles
east Of Macon. See adv.
J. W. Phillips was appointed oyer
seer of McCaskill road.
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CANARIEs Several pairs canaries for
sale. Fine singers. Address, LOCK
Box 100, Macon. Miss.
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Macon Lar Co o. q,
= ~ -'Gtn' special police. .,...,.... . 90
slokes'Eyaus, nails.... "a
W D CLARK Jail account 80 80
" v Rogers d Co, grocerIe. &c "a
a Klaus, certificates .... ,roo
Out Of School Fund: "
u l, = Ferris, printing programs An
NJ y Bank, Insurance premium o
p Shelton, hauling chairs oo
out Of School Fund Special:
s'umpi a sieurer advertising sale
p 49,, ..'.''',.'..... ,,.. .... 10 90
" ~ Yates, treasurer, bonds for
John Nuyeene, Rec ......... IOoo M
EBBOYD, JoFAsFR w
Clerk, N,yor
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We defy any competitors $500 or
s. % goods with our famous Royal
Rose Rye 50 90 delivered. Four full
quarts. We want your orders
J. R. COURTNEY & Co.
Mobile, Ala.
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alopat,y Dry Goods Company
o0is for dr cash
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=. w. sRAMG HI. ]. BARNES
BRAME Il BARNES,
Attorney at Law,
MACON, MISS.

Practice in all state and Federal Courts
Money to Loan, Office formerly occupied
byT W. Bra me. novl-6m
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to sell them pretty bad for the money.
come in and give us a call All our $3.50
Pants for So IS during the rest of this seas
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Proceedings Board Of supsrylso..

Monday, June ., 1902.
A regular session was held, all the
members present.
Smyrna times., 1902-08-27
He Wns Dead.

The English papers tell this story of
an incident in a revision court:
A certain person who figured on the
register was objected to by one of the
agents on the ground that he was dead.
The revising barrister declined to ac-
cept the assurance, however, and de-
manded conclusive testimony on the
point.
Thereupon the agent of the other
side rose and gave corrOborative evil
dence as to the decease of the gentle
man in question.
"And pray, sir, how do you know the
mans deadY' demanded the barrister.
"Well," was the reply, 81 don't know.
It's very difficult to prove"
GAS l suspected" returned the irate
barrister. "You don't know whether
he's dead or not"
The barrister glanced triumphantly
around the court. His expression grad
ually underwent a change as the wit
ness coolly continued:
Il was saying, sir, that / don't know
whether he is dead or not, but l do
know this-they buried him about a
month ago on suspicion"
Smyrna times., 1902-08-27
siamese Tobacco.

The best tobacco in Siam is grown at
Petchabun. 1t is planted in open fields
near the town after the floods in Sep
tember or October, and the first crop,
or tips, which is considered the best
quality, is gathered about February
and the last about the beginning of
May. The very best quality cannot be
purchased, as it is reserved for the
special use of the king and sent down
to Bangkok, where it is smoked in the
palace and distributed to the chief Of
fcers of state.
Smyrna times., 1902-08-27
DOnkeys In Mexico.

There are two classes of dOnkeys in
Mexico-one with four feet and the
other with two. Each is a kind Of
competitor of the other. Sometimes
they are partners. They are both
bearers of burdens and the subjects of
brutality. Everywhere you see the
donkey loaded down with sacks of ore,
baskets of dirt, cans of milk, sacks of
water, and you find his driver very
often loaded in the same way. These
combinations sometimes go two by
two, and sometimes there will be a
band Of ten to fifty thus loaded, com
ing down the mountains with ore,
charcoal or wood, corn or whatever
may be needed in the villages or cities.
1t is indeed a medieval life in middle
and southern Mexico.
Smyrna times., 1902-08-27
The Way of the Frontier.

The way Of civilization in a new land
passes comprehension. Its motto seems
to be ruin first; there is time after
ward to save" Civilization is a good
deal like a wild, full blOOded boy-it
must first SOW wild oats. waste its pat
rimony, disgrace its antecedents: then
It is ready to begin the serious work
of life. That has been the history Of
the range country-swift ruin for thir-
ty or forty years, with a resulting
wreck that it viii require a century Of
hard work, perseverance and self con-
troll to save.-Ray Stannard Baker in
Century.
Smyrna times., 1902-08-27
Total
4,S25.OOO,OOO

The first and last of these are the
largest crops on record. The second
is the next largest. This is not all.
The cotton crop is large. The hay
crop is above the average. Potatoes
are far above last year. The apple
crop is good. Tobacco may be poorer.
All the food crops are among the
largest ever known.
Cheap food is now certain. Meat
will fall. Nothing can be done with a
corn crop like thlp but raise the Ameri-
can hog. The cereal crops are about
onehalf of the worlds yield of grain
aud may run close to six-tenths. All
grown inside our ring'fence.
A big crop like this would have big
results any year. This year it falls
with big crops abroad. European
wheat crops are about, at an estimate,
175,000,0 900 bushels bigger than last
year and may be larger. France has
10000, 600 bushels more, Hungary 30,
900, 900, and so on. Other cereal and
food crops in Europe are in proportion.
This makes certain a very low level OF
price. The year will be the first in
five in which prices for wheat and corr
may, and probably will sink to the low
figures of five and eight years ago.
Smyrna times., 1902-08-27
Ene,and.s EARLY Coal Trade.

Though the records of the incipient
coal trade are scanty, they show that
traffic in coal first sprang up be-
tween London and the Newcastle-on-
TYNE coalfelds. A lane in a suburb of
the metropolis where the burning of
lime appears to have been carried on
was already known as "Sea Goals
lane" in 1923. A particular notice also
occurs of the arrival of shiploads of
sea coal in London in 1851, and small
purchases of it were made for forging
iron at Westminster palace in 125S-59.
II was usually sold by the quarter. At
Billingsgate, in the time of Henry Ill,
every two quarters of sea coal paid a
duty of a farthing.
Sea coal was likewise bought at
Berwick in 1865, so that by
the middle Of the thirteenth century a
small trade in coal was evidently being
carried on along a large stretch of the
eastern seaboard The growth of the
trade is reflected in the increasing rev.
enue Of Newcastle-On-Tyne, which,
from being G100 a year in 1913, had
risen to f2O0 in 1891 owing to the cOal
trade of the port.
From smiths and lime burners the
use of coal extended to artisans whC
used furnaces in their trades In Not
tingham, situated on the confines of {
great coalfield, this movement appears
to have commenced very early. Queer
Eleanor was unable to stay there IL
1857 on account of the smoke of th'
sea coal.
Smyrna times., 1902-08-27
A cheerful wait.

A laborer applied to the foreman at
some buildings workshop for job:
"Can yez do anything fur poor fella
at all In the shape ave workP
Foreman-Oi hev nothin' the day.
Cum back agen. There is drunken
garpenther workin' on the top, and
OPm waitin' livery mint till he falls
and gifts Killed
Smyrna times., 1902-08-27
Cemetery Monuments.

What is more sadly comic or incon-
gruous than the imposing medley Of
stone and marble in Il great cemeteryf
The towering columns loom over the
resting places of such small citizens.
The "dove OF peace" alights where it
would never have brooded Of its free
will. The guardian angel bends over
the vixen's tomb, while mediocre bits
OF slate denote the graves Of many
sanity and gifted pilgrims.-Atlantic.
Smyrna times., 1902-08-27

my wife pro tem., believe" said
Crawford, as, hat in hand, he regarded
curiously the young woman whose fea-
lures were clearly the original of the
photograph he held.
81 guess l must be, if your name is
Crawford" she assented, with a nerv-
Gus laugh. mine is Vanceton-Eunice
Vanceton. Mr.. Sholt told me You would
be looking for me-" And she gave him
her hand shyly, yet trustingly, for
Crawford had a face which inspired
confidence, and even the strangeness
of the situation did not blind her to
that fact.
Three months before Eunice had
graduated from the Wheatcroft ORA
Smyrna times., 1902-08-27


ASKED.
matte school, and her playing in the |
one act comedy which marked her con-
tribution to the graduation exercises |
had attracted the attention of a fa-
nous stage manager and dramatist. |
The latter's praise had induced Joe
Sholt to engage ner for his San Fran
cisco stock company.
Il will pay fares" he told her when
the contract had been signed, 'but
from Chicago you will have TO go west
with Guy Crawford, my new leading
man."
Eunice murmured some polite little
speech about it being nice to have
some ole to look after her, thereby in
creasing the confusion which was al
ready crimsoning Sholts face.
"Well-you see,'' he began awkward
ly, Crawford is not the worst part of
the job. He's a great boy, big heart
| ed, tender as woman and as-as de-
cent as actors ever come, but it's this:
! Crawford has friends in the railroad
offices in Chicago, and he's got passes
clear through to the coast for himself
and wife. Now, you can save me a
lot of money if you will travel as his
wife"
Sholt awkwardly lit his cigar to
cover his embarrassment. By no means
had he a reputation for bashfulness,
but this novice might not understand
the situation.
Eunice blushed more rosily than he
had done, and there was a tremble in
her voice as she spoke. Il suppose you
mean all right, Mr.. Sholt," she said,
''but I'm already engaged, and you
really can't expect me to break my
word and marry another man for the
sake of a few dollars. Why-why, I'd
rather pay it myself!'
Sholts laugh made the windows
rattle, but seeing that his companion
was on the verge of tears he sudden
ly sat up. my dear child," he ex
planned, you don't have to actually
get married. All you have to do is tC
, act as though you had known Craw
. ford for a few years; no honeymoon
. you know-just pure business. and only
the porter and the conductor will know
, you as Mrs. c. You are Mrs. Craw
ford from Chicago to Oakland. YoI
enter Frisco as Miss Vanceton."
So it had been arranged, and though
her fiance objected Eunice convinced
+ him that it was no worse than beinl
Z a mans wife on the stage, and Jac
? Hamilton was even disposed to jolS
g about it as he saw her off in the Fri
!. station. Remember" he cried as h
t waved adieu, tits only a wife pr
e tem.r
It
$ Here in the Chicago and Northwes
y ern station it was something Of
shock to look up at the tall, handsom
fellow and to realize that she woul
be Mrs Crawford for the ensuing thre
1t days But she followed the man I
b: the train rather pleased that her con
la panion should do such credit to h
supposed taste.
y. 1t was late in the afternoon whe
IN the train pulled out The Lake Shoi
i'd fsain was late in getting In, and Il
Is western train was held. Finally Il
heavy laded cars swung slowly o
of the station and, gathering spec
started on the three day run. Euni,
a was tired and Immediately after su
ot per had her berth made down, and 81
ng saw little Of Guy until she stepped Z
lis the car at Omaha the next morning
at take a short stroll on the platform.
Id Guy was already ont, and he ha
tened up. Good morning, Eunice
Smyrna times., 1902-08-27
A HARD HEADED FARMER.
The Way lie Held Up "A Prince With
a PitchfOrk.

"A PitchfOrk.
When Edward VII. Of England was
an UNDERGRADUATE at Oxford universe
ty, he had an adventure which led
newspaper of that time to describe the
prince as a prisoner. 1t said that
mot very far from Oxford, at a place
called Steeple Barton, there was
farmer named Hedges, a man of much
independence of character, commonly
known as Lord Chief Justice Hedges
ION one occasion the prince and his
friends were out with the South Ok
fordshire hounds, but, meeting with
Indifferent sport, they resolved on rid
ing home across country. This they
did, gallOping over the lands of Farm
er Hedges and presently riding into his
farmyard. There they were confront
ed by the farmer himself, armed with
a fork. He closed the gates and in
formed the party bluntly that they
had been trespassing on his ground
and trampling on his young wheat and
that he would not allow one of them to
leave his farmyard until he had paid
a fine of a sovereign for the damage
done.
'They whispered that the prince
himself was of the party. Prince or
no prince he replied shortly, I'll have
my money There was little glory to
be had by fighting a resolute farmer
armed with a fork. They therefore
made up their minds to pay, prince and
all. When he had the money in his
pocket, and not till then, Lord Chief
Justice Hedges opened the gates and
] let them go."-Philadelphia Times.
Smyrna times., 1902-08-27
A YOUNG LADY's LIFE SAVED.
At Panama, Colombia, by chamberIain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.

At Panama, Colombia, by Chamberlain
Collie, Cholera and DiarrhOea Remedy.
DIR. Chas. II. Utter, a prominent
physician, of Panama, Colombia, in
recent letter states: ''Last March had
as a patient young lady sixteen years
Of age, who had very bad attack Of
dysentery. Everything / prescribed
for her proved Intellectual and she was
growing worse every hour. Her parents
were sure she would die. She had be-
come so weak that she could not turn
over in bed. What to de at this criti-
cal moment was a study for me, but
Thought Of Chamberlain Collie,
Cholera aud Diarrhoea Remedy and as
a last resort prescribed it. The most
wonderful result was effected. Within
eight hours she was feeling much bet
ter; INSIDE of three days she was upon
her feet and at the end of one week was
entirely we'll. For sale by Clifton a
Raymond.
Smyrna times., 1902-08-27
Enough as Good as a Treast.

What real good does an addition 70
fortune already sufficient procuref Not
any. Could the great man by having
his fortune increased increase also his
appetites, then precedence might be at
tended with real amusement. - Gold
smith.
Smyrna times., 1902-08-27

A scarcity Of peach baskets has re-
suited in some inconvenience to ship
pers on the Eastern Shore during the
past week.