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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-01-04

One thing which pleasantly sur
prised Gen. Wood during his recent
tour of inspection in Cuba was that
wherever he went the Cuban and
American flags were invariably
twined together in the public decora-
tions. In some towns were to be
seen specimens of the work done by
the children, among which were
drawings of two flags, the stars and
stripes and the Cuban flag, twined
together or side by side. These were
to be seen in drawings on paper, and
in one town, where the mayor was
taken completely by surprise and
was mortified to find that he did not
have time to properly prepare for the
reception of the governor general,
was to be found on the blackboard
of the school room fine specimens of
drawings of the two flags together.
The drawings were at the head of
the room, and all the children were
facing them.-Army and Navy Jour
nal
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-01-04

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, in
his annual report, places the total ex-
ports of animals and animal prod
uct during the last year at over $780,
100000. The department inspected for
export 3S5,000 cattle, 5000 sheep and
$4,000 horses and mules; $4,000 i'm
ported animals were also inspected.
In view of the danger of infectious
diseases the secretary suggests the
advisability of excluding live stock
from foreign countries entirely. He
says the meat inspection service in
the United States involves the in
spection at time of slaughter of near
ly 100000 animals. The record
shows American stock to be remark
ably free from disease. OF cattle the
condemned carcasses amounted to
about one-fourth of one per cent;
sheep one-tenth of one per cent, and
hogs one-third of one per cent.
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were, perhaps, 200 to 800 spectators at
the Snake dance, but five persons saw
the chief portions of the Lelentu or
Flute dance at Oraibi. OF these, three
were of the family of that Mennonite
missionary, Rev. II. r. Noth, who has
already made himself famous by his
wonderful reproduction of Hopl affairs
and groups in the Field Columbian
museum at Chicago. The other was a
Denver gentleman, and the fifth the
writer. To see the ceremonies cost me
10 miles of weary, hot walking over the
Painted desert, carrying heavy cam
era and my provisions. Butts beauty
grace and charm far more than repaid
me for the WEAKNESS of body.
After the secret Kiva ceremonies
(rites in the underground chambers Of
the fraternity of the Flute) the first
public rites of the day took place at a
spring near the home of Lololami,
the chief of the Oraibi pueblo, and
about five miles west of the town.
Here is one of the pitiful springs up
on which the people depend for their
meager supply of water. just before
noon men, women and girls might
have been seen vending their way from
the village on the mesa height, down
the steep trails, over the sandy way
trodden for centuries by their fore
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-01-04

The farms in this country are in
creasing in number and decreasing in
area, which means more far homes,
more good citizens and more safety
for the country. The increase in the
number of farms has been 1,140,000 in
ten years. Part of this increase has
resulted from the settlement of gov
eminent lands, and part from the
breaking up of the bonanza farms of
the previous decade and the encroach-
ments of the man with the pillow on
the holdings of the man with the cow.
1t is a happy reflection that all at
tempts to monopolize the arabic soils
Of the country have failed, and that
the small farmer remains the main
stay of the republic. We are glad
that bonanza system has failed, and
that the farm home has been a sue
cess.-Farm and Ranch.
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H0PI FLUTE DANCE.
Beautiful Ceremony Of a Purely
Religious Character.
More Attractive Than the BETTER
known Snake Dance-MenuIng
of the Sacred Rites Is Quite
Poeticnl
Especial Arizona letter.

lpHtN4hA ~ AAOhd i''AASAsl
IT. HE wonderful Snake dance of the
Hopi Indians of Arizona has often
been described, and such is its
thrilling attraction that hundreds Of
people from all parts of the world have
witnessed it. But many Of those even
who have been present at the Snake
dance ceremonials are not aware that
at other villages of the Hopi (there are
seven of them altogether), another
series of ceremonies occur, equally i'm
posing, far more beautiful and attract
i've, and, to the religious Hopi, equal in
Importance to the better known and
more exciting dance with the snakes.
II must not be forgotten that to the
Indian in his normal condition a dance
is never anything less than religious
ceremony. He may get pleasure and
enjoyment from its exercise, but, pri-
marily and chiefly, it is purely a re-
ligious act, and is always associated
with worship in one or another Of its
aspects. The Snake dance, for in
stance, is a prayer for rain and all the
consequent fertility of crops, etc, that
come from the beneficent showers that
water a thirsty desert land. The Flute
dance is closely allied to the Snake
dance. 1t is performed every alternate
year with it. This year the Snake
dance ceremonies were performed at
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about the filing of this honey jar. A
nest of bees had located in the wall of
the spring, and the chief priest, taking
it for granted that this was good sign,
had the nest dug out and the honey ex-
tracted from the comb, for his sacred
purposes. After he had prayed for
awhile the priests and women from
above all marched down, except the
flute players. As they stood around
the spring they sang and prayed, while
the chief priest stepped into the water,
bowling his face down over it, and wav-
ing his tiponi (the sacred palladium of
these ceremoniesl in and through it.
Soon it was a filthy, muddy mess, iu-
stead of a water spring, and when it
seemed mixed up enough he began to
dip his face deep into it while the men
and women around continued their
singing and worship.
Then he came forth, and now be-
gan a most beautiful professional
march around the spring, in time to
the weird playing of the priests above.
After three times circling around, the
group stood facing the west, and at
certain signals sprinkled large hand
fuls of sacred meal in the direction of
the water. This was followed by most
profuse scattering of bahos in the
same manner. Literally hundreds of
them were thus thrown, and gathered
(after the celebrants were gomez
scores Of them for my collection. The
bahos used on this occasion were
mere downy feathers to which cotton
strings were attached. The effect as
the meal and the feathers were thrown
was remarkably beautiful, and the
scene was most impressive; none the
less so for its strangeness and peculiar
ity.
These concluded the ceremonies at
this spring. In the meantime the chief
priest had gone to his house over the
hill, and from there had started out
group of young men who were to
race to the spring near the mesa-four
miles away. 1t was a scorching hot
day-as had found out in my own walk
and yet these young men bounded
over the sandy trail like hunted deer.
1t was glorious sight to witness them.
Ten or a dozen athletic youths, clad
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BATTING THE HOLE.
The Truck Farmers of south Texas
Have Good Thing IL They
Only Realize II.

1t is custom in many places, be-
fore beginning a piscatorial cam
paign, to bait the hole" the object
being to encourage an appetite on the
part of the fishes for the particular
kind of bait to be subsequently used
on the hook. This policy properly
handled is almost always successful
In similar manner and for a SINH
lar purpose, the south Texas truck
growers have been batting the people
of the great northern cities until the
appetite for fresh garden stuff in the
early spring has been greatly in
creased and now the craving begins
before the snow and ice have melted.
Our truck farmers have the means to
satisfy this craving and are preparing
to do it, partly for humanitys sake
and partly for the money there is in
it, The indications are that the com
ing season will load more northbound
trains than ever before, by many hum
dreds. The northern people are noted
for the size and capacity of their APP
petites and the south Texas truck
growers for the size of their early
cabbages, cauliflowers, beans, lettuces,
and so forth. This is a rapidly eX-
panding traffic, and there is no good
reason why it should not continue to
expand, as long as population in
creases, and a taste for wholesome
diet remains unappeased. We judge
from the number of new fruit and
truck growers organizations being
formed all over the state, and the en-
thusiasm that seems to possess the
people, that the campaign is only just
begun, and that hundreds of recruits
are focking to the standing of diver
sified farming, and that larger and
still larger areas will be brought into
subsection to the comparatively new
departure. There will be a meeting
in Dallas early in January of persons
interested in the campaign, men of
long experience, large intelligence,
and who know more or less about
how the thing is done. These men
will discuss every phase of the fruit
and vegetable growing business, and
everyone of them, no matter how far
advanced he may be, will expect to
learn something that will do him
good, and many who know but little,
but know that little WELL will have
opportunity TO swap a little for
much, profitable transaction for
both.-Texas Farm and Ranch.
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fathers, towards the location of the
spring.
Every face was as serious and wore
as grave and earnest an expression as
that of novice about to be confirmed
in her hottest vows. Arrived at the
spring, an emiuence just above it to the
southwest was the chosen site for the
preliminaries. Here an hour or more
was spent in prayers, sprinkling of
meal before and upon the altar and the
painting of the symbols of the~r1an
upon the participants.
Other priests durinT the whole time
were on their knees or in other pos
lures Of e1eerreSes, praying, singing or
chanting, and sprnkling the sacred
meal on or before the altar. A large
number of bahos or prayer sticks and
plumes were used. These are fea-
ture of all Hopi and cognate peoples
ritusl.
Al this time the chief priest left the
hillide and solemnly marched down to
thespring. 1t is circular in shape, and
with a rude wall built around it. At
thl opening in the circle three snail
gard vessels We're placed, two OF
which held .aered water from some far
| away Snrinp and the other was fuil
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-01-04
Do Not Note the Speed.

1t is one of the peculiarities OF travel
by balloon that you do not feel any
thing; all is still with you, no matter
how fast you may be going. You see,
you are riding with the wind; you
move as fast as it moves; you are part
and parcel of it, whether you wish
to be or not. 1t takes you in its en-
brace so firmly yet so softly you do
not know it is there. You may be in
the teeth of a hurricane, but you never
know it; all is calm and placid with
you.-Science.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-01-04

Catarrh is an old cold. Even the
strongest and most robust are liable
to colds during the winter months.
A cold, if neglected, is almost certain
to cause catarrh Of the head, which
rapidly spreads through the system,
setting up catarrh of the throat, lungs,
stomach or pelvic organs. What a
host Of winter ailments would be pre-
vented by preventive as well as a cure
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-01-04
4NDPLANTER.
FERN BEEF CATTLE.
why The Southern Cattle
ouId Not Produce n Fine
ne OF Beef Animal

en- in the south should
There is no reason why
| Id not produce a fine type
|nimal. The blood OF the
he Holstein and other dairy
which is one rea-
| the south produces so lew
animals. The aggressive
le dairy cattle breeding as.
and the neglect of the beer
associations are responsible
condition in the south. At
Nashville, Chattanooga,
| n and other cities have their
live stock shows, and at
dairy breeds outnumber the
| dis i've to one. The same
/ produce the richest and
ndant supply of milk in the
les win produce the frame
ness Of constitution in the
Is. Prominent dairy breed
recognized the south as
nrofitable field, Why, then,
beef Breeders spread out
section?
low Of several shorthorn
Embellishments in Mississip-
and North Carolina
reds are raised on a
The rich delta lands and
as Of Mississippi produce
pastures of Bermuda and
The writer visited a beau
k farm at Coldwater, Miss
hes south of Memphis, where
was green and knee deep in
There were thirty head OF
IS, and the owner said that
is bull calves in his state Mt
lging from $50 to $500. 9th,
As Of the south are as well
% raising the beef breeds
,ore farm of Asheyille, N. c.,
rise its Jersey herd and buy
is.
is in the lead of all south
with the exception of Ken
Virginia, in the production
eds. The farmers find it a
Investment, and their bust
rowing rapidly. Louisiana
begun. The experiment sta
ted at Baton Rouge, has
several fine bulls for eX-
l purposes. The results Of
,eriments will be given to
rs Of thai section, that they
Of the profits to be derived
sitter grade of cattle than
been Needing.
i farmcrs can easily pro
grasses necessary to bring
is up ID a fattening stage,
ave their cotton seed meal,
clover for finishing pur-
e fat beef industry has a
re in tic south. There is n
IS down there for the bull
I'd will Only go after>it and
ab. 1t Dan not be built up in
r a yenr, but will require
Al work on the part of the
$ that represents the
Shorthpln, Angus and 9th
Chicago Droyers' journal
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scantily, their bronzed figures in per-
feet proportion, revealing their
strength and power, their long black
hair waving out behind them, darting
off like strings from a bow across the
desert.
Slowly we followed them, and when
we arrived at the other spring found
they had long ago passed it, and the
victor received his reward. Racing
constitutes large part of the sacred
ceremonies. for it is a religion to them
that each man shall develop his physi-
cal powers to the utmost.
Similar ceremonies were gone
through at the nearby spring as at
the one further away, and when they
were completed the whole party
formed in procession, and as solemn
ly as if it were funeral march, pro-
ceeded up the steep trail TO the village
and there repeated some of the cere-
monies already described.
The purport of all this it is compare
lively easy W uuutl i ne DuuhC
dance is a prayer for rain, which, ac-
cording to the Hopi's ideas, is stored
In vast reservoirs in the heavens. He
also believes that there are vast water
supplies under the earth, and so, every
other year, he petitions the powers
that govern and control these subter-
ranean reservoirs to loosen the waters
and let them flow forth into the
springs. In one of the dances they
symbolic the water from above and
the water from below by linking the
first fingers together. This gives us
the Greek fret, and when this symbol
is copied in their basketry, we see this
classic design, purely the result of imi-
tation, and having as clear a meaning
to the Hopi mind as the cross has to
the Christian. This is an interesting
fact that writers on the origin Of this
symbol have not yet noticed.
G. WHARTON JAMES
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The reason why farmers can not do
thorough experimental work at
home, is because many experiments
are failures, and farmers can not af-
ford the cost; and most experiments
are not directly profitable, and to live
the farmer must work for profits.
Farmers can not afford to demon
strate Improbable facts, and yet he
has as much use for such demonstra-
tions as for profitable ones. 1t is as
necessary to know what not to do,
as what to do-Farm and Ranch.
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WOMEN OF THE
UNITED STATES
Regard Peruna as Their Shield Against Catarrh,
Coughs, Colds and Catarrhal Diseases.

II you DO not derive prompt ana
satisfactory results from the use OF
Peruna, write at once to DR.. Hartman,
giving a full statement Of your case'
and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio,
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Wants His Pills sugnr-Coated.

An Evanston man has gone from the
Methodist to the Presbyterian church
because he couldn't have his preaching
done to order, says the Chicago Record
Herald. There's nothing like know
ing what you want and going after it
If it isn't handed to you.
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for colds.
Peruna is such a remedy. If taken
at the first symptom Of catching cold
it heals the catarrhal condition before
it becomes established and makes i'm
possible a spread of the disease.
Should the cold be neglected and re-
suit in catarrh, Peruna viii cure, but
it will take much longer and willresult
in much unnecessary suffering.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-01-04

He had worked for many years in a dry
goods store, but fate placed him behind the
counter in coal office, and that was the
cause of his undoing A lady entered the
coal office one day and said she needed two
tons of coal at once
"All right" said the clerk, tipping the
ashes from cigarette in dreamy fashion;
will you take it with you or have it sent,
madam H"-Nonkers Statesman
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s-----s---l------7--l---a-7
Our Presidents Danger.

All of the presidents of the United States
have been in the habit of mingling freely
with the people, but the danger Of this pro-
cedure was very emphatically pointed out
in the tragedy Of few months ago 1t is
also dangerous to trihe with unknown med
icines for Indigestion, dyspepsia, fatulency,
and ague. The safest medicine to take is
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. 1t will posi-.
lively cure these diseases. Try and see.
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entitled to more praise than any other
and to the confidence and good will
of every woman in America. Last win
ter caught a severe cold, which set
tied all over me, and as l at first paid
but little attention to it l soon found
that it had a strong grip on me which
no medicine could cast off. / became
weak and irritable. l felt nervous
and mentally and physically exhaust
ed. l relished nothing l ate, and med
icine only nauseated me. In my trou-
Bile I read in the paper of PERUNA.
l sent for a bottle, and it proved god
send to me. l improved slowly but
surely, and in less than two months
perfect health was restored to me-"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-01-04

Willie, aged five, appeared at the
main Nentrance to the circus tent hand
in hand with venerable graybeard.
"Grandpaa wanted to see the ami
mails" he explained to the doorkeeper.
sand | had to come along to take care
Of him. Chicago Tribune.
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The Hnndsomest Calendar

of the season lin ten colorsj SIX beautiful
heads Ton six Sheets l0xl2 inchesl, repro
auctions of paintings by Moran, issued by
General Passenger Department, Chicago,
Milwaukee 4 St. Paul Railway, will be sent
on receipt OF twenty-five cents. Address F.
A. Miller, General Passenger ASeh. Chi
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Hnh Hernme a Hahit-

I've been looking for my husband for
the last two hours, said an agitated WON.
an to a calm one
Don't be excited, madam" replied the
latter. I've been looking Tor q husband
for the last % years "-Tammany Times.
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.ATCHENG SHEDS.
y Raiser Should Not over
ne Scratching shed In
Ing Tor His stock.

talk Of warm, comfortable
uses and overlook the
shed, we have left out the
i the arrangements. ] hold
DRY thai it is tom-foolisl-
lid warm poultry houses
Wis run out in the cold as
y 1t is also nonsense to pen
a warn poultry house ard
j no room to exercise. We
and theorize as much as
e, but the scratching shed
30 stay. 1t don't nee / to be
nor elaborate, just a plain,
that has a tight roof and
tead OF windows in the
cent muslin soaked in lin
Ill do. After it has been
it out q day or two to dry,
ch it on the front of the
MT like the open shed, it's
'twhen The wind is in the
unfortunately we have lots
irritable south winds. and an
is almost equivalent to out
stingy with room in the
she'd they can get along
ed room in their roosting
It better than they can in
cising place; its costs but
/, to build a shed 16x16 than
to build one 12x12. A
IS contains 256 square
floor room, with n
title additional expense
space can be nearly double.
the sAme principle that n
,ipe VIII hold four times as
er as . one-inch pipe. Too
$ want 10 make two dollars
len at Ten cents worth of
It's no 20, and we should be
18th a two-dollar hen and a
pense. ut don't make any
what kind of paint you use
elegant stripes you adorn
with, you will find the hens
blind; they seem to have a
position in wanting to feel
lie, regardless of all adorn.
whole lot of us theoretical
build poultry houses to suit
ms be d. ID, and what are
/ to do about it, etc. If we
hens more and ourselves
I'D be more appreciated by
They don't care a CONT
tat we may know about
i'd mechanics, all they want
bout is comfortable and
uarters and plenty of grub
, When II comes right down
lard sense, the common ev-
n can rtand any of us off.
inge we Saw a chap figuring
tom Tor 100 hens. "Yes," he
n is about six inches wide
lches long, that will do for
m, and about twice that
be- ample for floor space,
Q exeRc1se." The writer is
ong inyears and has dis
lat mortal man is a curiosi-
and / made no attempt to
mans mental calculations.
w there's an old gag about
urians need to be showed,
= apply To the chicken man
pd at figures; he just won't
and that is all there is to
won't lie neither will he,
Uncle Jack will bet a coon
he fizzles in the poultry
1t takes more than figures
" poultry business
RN>,nent and
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HnHardinG a Gne.a

Delia-Phwat is this copper company that
the man O. the house does be tslkin about
SO much?
Bridget-Shure, Oi suppose It's s polss
mans union, no less.-Philsdelphis Press.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-01-04

Old Gentleman-Are you sure you
love my daughter, sir?
Young MAXWELL, If | don't, sir, she
is the worst fooled girl in this esArn!-
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Willing 10 Dodge IL,

I've got a notion to knock you into
the middle of next week." growled the
belligerent person.
"Go ahead said the other man. Eve
got date with the dentist for mex.
Saturday" Judge.
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When He Forget..

When young lover figures on whether
be can support wife, he counts in every.
thing except the rent, butcher and grocer,
clothes. and incidentals y. Y Pres.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-01-04

Freeman-They say that Keteham has an
iron will
Norman Then his wife must be black
smlth--Pnnk
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Very few people talk WE'LL very few peo-
pie are graceful. We wonder they do not
cultivate these accomplishments instead
OF studying German and art.-Atchison
Globe.
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Necessarily.

Sne-Really, my husband is quite philos-
opher.
Her Aunt-Well, a man might as well
bow to the ineyitable-when he's married
to itl-Chicago journal.
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Fame is something that makes a lot Of
fools want to shake your hand,-ChioaEo
Daily News
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A careful analysis Of the results would
probably show that Chance most fayors
those who leave the least to it.-Puck.
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Why doesn't mans face become bald,
instead Of his head, and thus save him the
trouble and expense of shaving?-Atchson
Globe.