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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1903-07-04
POLAND CHINAS.

| have a few choice Poland China
pigs for sale, five dollars each.
@. O. CLAY.
Deerbrook, Miss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1903-07-04

Don't forget the place. Avery Is
next door to J. F. Sheltcn's Furniture
Store.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1903-07-04
Mr.. and Mrs, Frank Skinner were
in town yesterday,


in town yesterday,
Mrs. T. ]. Wilkins OF Brooksville
was shopping in town yesterday.
Mr.. s. B. Conner and Mr.. C. c..
Acker had business in town Jester
day.
Miss Mary Kate Oliver left
Thursday to visit her aunt, Mrs.
King, at Scooba.
Mrs. Howard King returned to
her home at Scooba after spending
several days with her brother. Mr..
L. Oliver.
Miss Mary Hutchinson became
quite ill and tainted at Mr.. Noah
Scales residence Monday. She was
carried home and has been quite i'll
until to day.
Mr.. J. L. Clark came in with a
very fine load of beef cattle. He
was fortunate. His friends hope he
will have a good time, but it always
seems that when the good things OF
life come round John Clark is work.
ing IN the lead.
DR.. Scales and Mr.. Sam Feibcl-'
man leave tomorrow for Virginia.
The DR.. goes to the convention OF
Medicos at Old Point Cam ort, and
Mr.. Fiebleman will visit relatives
and spend some time at the springs
Mr.. H. L. Allen of Lyous, Miss.
is stopping few days with his friend
Mr.. Howard Scales. He is a Yale
student.
Our lady readers will notice the
tempting offer of Mr.. Durant Owens
in his great reduction sale.
Harry Ferris and Willie Dale
Carr have returned from Stone
Mountain, Ga.
Miss Maud Sheeks Of Ark, is
visiting her grand parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. III. Brooks.
Mr. G. M. Scales had little
business this week with the M. & q.
in Mobile.
MARRIED-Sunday evening at the
residence Of the bride near Mashu-
lavilIe by Rev. DR.. Mcleod, Mr..
q. S. Hull and Mrs. Annie Triplett,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1903-07-04

am located at this store next door to
]. F. Shelton Furniture Store.
w. e. AVERY,
Jeweler and Engraver.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1903-07-04
RaCketStOre

While in New York recently purchased the Racket
Store stock of the G. b Rous estate and at the time
bought large and entirely and complete line of upto
date Fancy Dry Goods which makes stock very much
larger and more complete than ever before
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1903-07-04
MUSIC! MUSIC I

Music here, music there,
Music In the air,
Music everywhere.
c. L. HEINRICH has received
40 Dozen HOMER HARPS.
This with his already very good stock OF
Harps makes 1t the
LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF HBRPs
ever shown in Macon. There is music for
all. Remember the place For sale at
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1903-07-04
UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

List of unclaimed letters remaining IN
Macon postofilce for week ending June 20,
1908:
Bowden Cornelius, BOwal Willie
Buchum Emma Bush Isaac
Uantzler Lendill Davis VI gicr
listers Corneans Horgan Mrs j +
johnson A Largey Sarkini
Ledbetter Caesar Mitchell Tom
Moore Henrietta owners Mary Jane
Parton I.inar Reshins Mary
Stewart Eddie
When called for please say advertised.
j. STEVENS. p. M.
per T.. b. CAvETT. A. p. M.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1903-07-04
The Tennis Game.

A spirited and interesting game of
tennis was played Wednesday evening
on Mrs. Bush's residence lot between
Brooksville and Macon players. Oscar
Dotherow aud .Tno. Latta Carpenter
against. H oward Scales and l.. A. Mich
olson. Brooksvi'le was victorious, win
ming two sets.
Several parties came down from
Brooksville. McGloyer Wilkins and
Miss McMorries, Jno. Latta Carpenter
and Miss Hall, Oscar Dotherow and
Miss Willie Dctherow and Wallace
Mcleod and Miss Rice. Rev. Mr..
Allen. Willie Bell Memories and Nell
son Redwood.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1903-07-04

Engraving or watch repairing at
short notice. W. q. AVERY,
Next door TO j. F Shelton.
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SODA FOUNTAIN FOR SALE.

Medium size fountain for sale. Terms
reasonable. ED, M. MURPHY,
iuly4. Macon, Mlss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1903-07-04

From Shuqualak this week we have
seen Mr. T. Q. Edwards and Mr.. Prince
Hubbard.
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6 per ct Money

$4,000 to lend. Can place loans
not less than $1,000 in next thirty
days. CHAs. STRONG.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1903-07-04
Music Class.

Miss Bessie Ferris desires to give
music lessons during the vacation and
in term time, Terms given on appli-
cation.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1903-07-04
FREE OF CHARGE.
The House Warming Edi'
ton o. Evening Scimitar.

It consists os 116 pages, handsome IL
Illustrated. bound and in colors. 1t gives
the industries. etc., and in factIa gen
eral history of this section Of the coun.
try.
This handsome production of art,
which has never been equaled by any
newspaper in the United States, will be
sent free of charge to any address with O
three months subscription to the Scim-
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1903-07-04

Miss Alice May is back from Mashu
laville. Miss Annie Scott was in the
store during her absence.
Mr.. p. F. Stephenson Of Decatur,
Ala, has been in Macon this week
came down to see his fine boy.
Miss Fannie May returned last Tues
day to the sanitarium in Montgomery !.
In September she will be DR., Fannie
May.
Mrs. Joseph Reynolds. of Memphis,
Tenn. a gifted pianist of whom the
South should feel justly proud. gave a
recital at the White House last Friday
afternoon. Jackson. Tenn. Wing.
1t is with pleasure we print the above.
as Mrs. Joseph Reynolds, nee Theodore
Carroll. when school girl. called Ma
con her home for five years and she still
has a wide circle of friends here who
glory in her great success as pianist.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-12-31
No lima for Kindness.

Don't you think the modern woman
is In danger of getting SO busy she
has no time to be kind?" asked a
sweet old lady the other day. I'VE
hear SO much about making every
minute count and always having some
work or course of study for spare
hours and systematizing our activities
that there is no room left for way
side kindnesses. We get SO tremen-
dously absorbed In our own affairs. SO
self-centered. so intent on not missing
anything that is going on, that we
pass by thousand little gracious acts
that, II we had been living fifty years
back, instead of now, we should have
thought of. 1t isn't only the lame,
the halt and the blind that need our
love. There are hundreds who never
fall by the way or ask publicly for the
cup of cold water, who yet are perish
ing for lack of 1t. think the old.
fashioned woman had the advantage
over the so-called new woman In
quickness of sympathy and respons-
iveness. New York Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-12-31
CHAPTER !.
The Rraxen Tongues.

The band major was a poet His
name is lost to history. but 1t deserves
q place among the titles of the great.
Only In the soul of poet, great
Hlen. could there have been conceived
that thought by which the music OF
triumph should pass the little pinnacle
Of human exultation, and reach the
higher plane of human sympathy.
Forty black horses, keeping step;
forty trumpeters, keeping unison;
tpis procession, headed by mere mu-
stefan, who none the less was poet,
q great man, crossed the field of Louis
burg as it lay dotted with the heaps of
slain, and dotted also with the groups
Of those who sought their slain;
crossed that field of woe, meeting only
hatred and despair, yet leaving be-
hind only tears and grief. Tears and
grief, it Is true, yet grief that knew
OF sympathy, and tears that rocked of
other tears.
For long time the lines of invasion
had frightened about the old city of
Louisburg, and Louisburg grew weak
or in the coil. The wheat lay green
upon the fields and the odor of the
blossoms of the peach trees hung
heavy on the air; but there was none
who thought Of fruitage or of harvest
Out there in front, where the guns
were pulsing, there went on that grim
mer harvest with which the souls of
all We're intimately concerned. The
boys who threw up their hats to greet
the infantry were fewer than they had
been before the blossoming of the
peach. The war had grown less par
ticular of its food. A boy could speed
bullet, or could stop one. There
were yet the boys.
OF all the oldtime families of this
ancient little city none held position
more secure or more willingly accord.
ed than the Fairfaxes and the Beau
champs. There had always been q
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-12-31
swept through the smoke. following
line Of steel-a line of steel that flick.
cred. waved and dipped.
CHAPTER III.
The Victory.

The victory.
The bandmaster marshaled his mu-
sic at the head of the column of &C.
cupation which was to march into
Louisburg. The game had been ad.
mirably played. The victory was COM
plete. There was no need to occupy
the trenches, for those who lay in
them or near them would never rally
for another battle. There was no
longer need for hurry Before the
middle of the morning the lines would
start on the march of the few short
miles.
During the delay a young officer Of
engineers. Captain Edward Franklin
by name, asked permission of his
colonel to advance along the line Of
march until he came to the earth
works, to which he wished to give
some examination. joining his regi.
ment as 1t passed beyond the fortifica.
tions on its march. The colonel gave
his consent, not altogether willingly.
You may see more over there than
you want to see, young man." said
he.
Franklin went on, following as near.
ly as he could the line OF the assault
of the previous day, track all to bold
ly marked by the horrid debris of the
fight. AS he reached the first edge
of the wood, where the victorious col
umn had made its entrance, it seemed
to him that there could have been no
such thing as war. The air was soft
and sweet, just cold enough to stir
the leaves upon the trees and set
them whispering intimately. All about
was the suggestion of calm and rest
and happiness. Surely 1t had been a
dream! There could have been no
battle here.
This that had been dream was
the young officer advanced into the
wood. About him lay the awful evi.
dences. Coats, caps, weapons, bit of
gear, all marked and emphasized with
many, many shapeless, CHASTITY things.
Here they lay, these integers Of the
line, huddled, jumbled. They had all
the contortions, all the frozen ultimate
agonies left for survivors to see and
remember, so that they should no
more go to war. Again, they lay SO
peacefully calm that all the lesson
was acclaim for happy, painless war.
Some lay upon their backs where they
had turned, thrusting up knee in tho
last struggle. Some lay face down
ward as the slaughtered fall. 1t was
all hideous and cruel dream. Surely
it could be nothing more. 1t could not
be reality. The birds gurgled and
twittered. The squirrels barked and
played. The sky was innocent. I.
must be o dream. .....
Ito be continued.)
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-12-31
To Pay for Frlars' Lands.

Washington dispatch: Secretaries
Root and Shaw had conference with
the president concerning the settle
ment OK the Philippine friar lands
question. This government will pay
S.,239,000 to the friars for their inter.
ests. This sum is subject to a slight
variation on account of surveys. The
conference related particularly to the
issue OF bonds from the proceeds of
which the lands win be paid for.
Bonds to the amount named as the
purchase price will be issued and sold
in open market probably within thirty
days. The bonds will bear Az per
cent interest and will be redeemable
after five and within thirty years. The
lands involved aggregate 391 900 acres.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-12-31
ILLINOIS TAX RATE is
LIKELY TO BE so CENTS
Advance OF 20 Per Cent to 1e Made
Over Last Year to Replenlsh
state Funds.

Springfield, H., dispatch The tax
rate for 1908 will DO something over
so cents on $780,
The tax rate for 1903 will be more
than 20 per cent higher than the rate
last year, when II was fiat ~ cents on
800. Although the figuring has not
yet been done. It Is reasonably Ger.
tain that a rate OF more than so cents
on 800 will be necessary to meet the
expenses Of the state for the next
year.
The cause for the decided increase
In the rate is twofold. First, the
general assembly last winter increased
the appropriations of the preceding
general assembly. Second, the state
received $1,000.000 last year from the
federal government, and this amount
was applied to the current expenses
Of the state. decreasing the tax levy
In this amount.
Funds In the state treasury at the
present time have reached an alarm
Ing depression. In fact. It will take
considerable skirmishing on the part
Of State Auditor Mccullough to gather
In sufficient funds to meet the obliga-
tons OF the state between now and
the 18th Of next April. when the new
taxes will begin to como In.
In January and February OF the
year following session Of the legis-
lature, funds In the state treasury are
always at low tide. Next year, how
ever will find the cash scantier than
usual.
There Is only one source from which
funds can be derived to maintain the
state government for the next three
and a half months. That Is from the
various departments Of the state gov.
eminent. Several of these departments
collect funds which the law provides
shall be turned into the state treas
ury, hut up to the present time Secre-
tary of State Rose Is the only official
who has complied with the law.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-12-31

had said goodbye to the women of
their kin, began to learn what war
might mean. 1t had been heretofore
distant, unmeasured, undreaded
thing, conquerable, not to be feared. 1t
seemed SO sweet and fit to go forth,
even though 1t had been hard to say
goodbye.
Now there began to appear in the
woods before the trenches the figures
Of men, at first scattered, then becom-
ing steadily more numerous. There
came men bearing other men whose
arms Topped loosely. Some men walked
with hand gripped tightly to an arm:
others hobbled painfully. Two men
sometimes supported third, whose
head, heavy and a-droop, would now
and then be kept erect with difficulty,
the eyes staring with CHASTITY, sheep
ish gaze, the face In a look of horri-
fed surprise. This awful rabble, the
parings of the defeated line In front,
dropped back through the woods, drop.
ped back upon the young reserves, who
lay there in the line. Some Of them
could go no farther, but fell there and
lay silent. Others passed back into
the fields where droned the protesting
bees, or where here and there wide
tree offered shelter. Suddenly all the
summer air was filed with anguish
and horror. Was this, then, the War?
And now there appeared yet other
figures among the trees, a struggling,
broken line, which fell back, halted,
stood and fred always calmly, coolly
at some unseen thing in front OF them
But this line resolved itself into In.
dividuals, who came back to the edge
Of the wood. methodically picking their
way through the abattis, climbing the
intervening fences, and finally clamb-
ering into the earthworks to take their
places for the final stand. They spoke
with grinning respect of that which
was ont there ahead, coming on. They
threw of their coats and frightened
their belts, making themselves com
Portable for what time there yet re-
NAMED.
At last there came a continued,
hoarse, deep, cheering, roaring wave
Of menace made up of little sounds.
An officer sprang up to the top of the
breastworks and waved his sword,
shouting out something which no one
heard or cared to hear. The line in
the trenches, boys and veterans, re-
serves and remnants of the columns of
defense, rose and poured volley after
volley, as they could, into the thick
and concealing woods that lay before
them. None the less, there appeared
soon a long, dusty, faded line, trot-
ting, running, walking, falling, stumb-
ling, but coming on. 1t swept like
long serpent parallel to the works,
writhing, smitten but surviving. 1t
came on through the wood, writing,
tearing at the cruel abattis laid to en-
trap 1t. 1t writhed, roared, but 1t
broke through. II swept over the rail
fences that lay between the lines and
the abattis, and still came on! This
was not war, but Fate!
There came cloud of smoke, hiding
the face of the intrenchment. Then
the boys Of Louisburg saw bursting
through this suffocating curtain few
faces, many faces, long rows of faces,
some pale. some red, some laughing.
some Mortified, some shouting, some
swearing-a long row OF facas that
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-12-31
Nsw Chief Of Division.

George Winfield Scott. class OF 90
Of Stanford university. has been APP
pointed chief OF the newly created
division Of law Of the library Of Con-
gress at Washington. The position 10
an administrative one and the salary
has been fixed at $4,000 year. He
will go to Europe in the interest OF
the government and will remain there
about ten months, after which he win
go to South America. While abroad
he will be chiefly busted with law
work and the gathering of books for
the library of Congress. Mr.. Scott Ia
a New York man and has held schol.
arships In Columbia, Cornell, Chicago
and the University of Pennsylvania.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-12-31
WANTS MILLIONS
FOR ARMAMENT
Secretary Moody Asks Con-
gressfor Large Appropria-
ton for the Navy.
ARMoR MAKERS HURRY ORDERS
Manufacturers Propose to Increase
Their output--Requests 100000 to
Pay Cuba for Naval Station and to
Enclose II With Wall.

Washington dispatch: The navy
department is rushing the new ships
to completion with such rapidity that
Secretary Moody has transmitted to
congress an urgent request for an APP
preparation of 100000 for armor
and armament to be made without
delay. The last appropriation for
armor and armament was based on
the amount expended month last
year, which was $7S9,70S,
To Increase Output.
Since July this item has amounted
to $1,109,9S0 a month, and after Jan.
l the manufacturers of armor have
notified the department that o materi-
al increase Is to be made In their out
put.
Secretary Moody also has asked for
an immediate appropriation Of $780,.
600 to enable payment to be made to
Cuba for the land acquired by the
United States for the Guantanamo ma
val station and TO inclose the same
within wall or fence, according to
the terms of the treaty.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-12-31

Colonel Fairfax, the leader at the local
bar, perhaps the representative in the
legislature, or in some position of yet
higher trust. The Beauchamps had
always had men in the ranks Of the
professions or in stations OF respon-
sibility. They held large lands, and
In the almost feudal creed OF the
times they gave large services in re-
turn.
It was considered matter Of course
that young Henry Fairfax, son OF
Colonel Fairfax, should, after COM
pleting his studies at the ancient insti-
tuition of William and Mary College,
step into his fathers law Office, even
tually to be admitted to the bar and
to become his fathers partner; after
which he should marry Miss Ellen
Beauchamp, loveliest daughter Of a
family noted for its beautiful women.
So much was this taken for granted,
and so fully did 1t meet the approval
of both families, that the tide of the
young peoples plans ran on with little
to disturb It's current. Young Fairfax
seemed 80 perfectly to represent the
traditions of his family, and his future
seemed to secure; and Mary Ellen her
self, tall and slender, bound to be
stately and of noble grace, seemed so
eminently At to be Beauchamp
beauty and Fairfax bride.
For the young people themselves 1t
may be doubted II there had yet awak-
ened the passion of genuine, personal
love. They met, but, under the strict
code of that land and time. they never
met alone.
For two years Colonel Fairfax had
been with his regiment, fighting for
what he considered the welfare of his
country and for the institutions in
whose justice he had been taught to
believe. There remained at the old
Fairfax home in Louisberg only the
wife of Colonel Fairfax and the son
Henry, the latter chatting at part
which seemed to him so obviously ig-
noble. Spirited and proud, FESTIVE un-
der comparisons which he had never
heard but always dreaded to hear,
Henry Fairfax begged his mother to
let him go, though still she said, mot
yet"
But the lines Of the enemy frightened
ever about Louisburg. Then came
day--a fatal day-fraught with the It'd
ings of what seemed double death.
The wife of Colonel Henry Fairfax
was grande dame that day, when she
buried her husband and sent away her
son. There were yet traditions to sup
port.
Henry Fairfax said goodbye to Mary
Ellen upon the gallery of the old home,
beneath solemn, white-faced moon,
amid the odors of the dropping honey
suckle. Had Mary Ellen's eyes not
been hid beneath the lids they might
have seen a face pale and sad as her
own. They sat silent, for 1t was no
time for human speech. The hour
came for parting, and he rose. His
lips just lightly touched her cheek.
It seemed to him he heard faint
goodbye" He stepped slowly down
the long walk In the moonlight, and
his hand was at his face. Turning at
the gate for the last wrench of separa-
ton, he gazed back at dropping form
upon the gallery. Then Mrs. Beau
champ came and took Ellens head
upon her bosom, seeing that now she
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-12-31
FRANK ANDREWS
LEAVES PRISON
Detroit Bank Wrecker Is Re-
leased by Governor
Bliss
DEposIToRs REQUEST PAROLE
Belief Exists That Former President
viii Be Able to Realize on Assets
Of the Institution to the Benefit OF
the Creditors.

Detroit. Mich, special; Frank c..
Andrews, the Detroit bank wrecker,
has been released from the states
prison at Jackson after serving only
sixteen months OF a fifteen years SEN
tence. Gov. Bliss action in paroling
him has already become the subject
OF criticism and denunciation. Prose
cutor Hunt severely arraigned the
governor.
1.-THE peoples side of the case was
not consulted by the governor at ALL"
said Mr.. Hunt. 1T seems that IL a
man can make steal big enough he
can get almost anything. think this
action Of Gov. Bliss will do more to
bring the administration of justice in
this state into contempt than any
thing else"
Governor Explains.
In explaining his action, Gov. Bliss,
in an interview at Lansing, said he
had received petition signed by l..
600 of the depositor of the wrecked
City bank and many personal letters
asking for Andrews release He also
declared an investigation had con.
WINGED him that If at liberty Andrews
could be OF great service in settling
up the affairs of the bank and benefit
ing the deposltors. He acted indie
pendently OF the pardon board, which
took no action in the matter.
The parole was taken to the prison
by Attorney Groesbeck. Andrews ex.
pressed the confident opinion that the
governor would never regret giving
the parole.
Andrews History.
Less than fifteen years ago An
drews came to Detroit poor boy
from the country, and shortly before
his downfall was reputed to be worth
millions. He was made police COM
missioner of Detroit by Gov. Bliss.
was talked of for governor and owned
a controlling interest in a Detroit
newspaper. Amalgamated Copper
caused his downfall and the collapse
OF the City Savings bank, of which he
was an officer. ..s. e.
Since the bank failed the savings
depositors have received dividends
amounting to 35 per cent and CONNER
cial depositors 1914 per cent. Some
thing over $s50.0O0 has been paid out
by the receivers.
May Be Tried Again.
Prosecuting Attorney Hunt of
Wayne county said that three other
charges were pending against An
drews, and that he would begin at
once an investigation as to whether
Andrews could be placed on trial on
them. The pending charges are for
misapplication Of bank funds and GER
tifying a false report to the banking
commissioner.