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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
GREAT THINKERS
IN CONVENTION
international Congress Of Arts and
Sciences Opens at St. Louis.
FOR INTERCHANGE OF
Many Prominent Men From Every
Cline are In Attcndance--Hnny
Different Languages are
spoken.

-
ST. Louis, Sept. 20.-Monday marked
The opening at the Worlds fair of what
is conceded to be the greatest congress
Of learned men that has assembled in
one place at any time since the world
began. This congress is to continue
throughout the week, and on each sue
ceeding day it is expected that addi-
tions will be made to the already long
list Of leaders in world thought and
progress who are in the city. Neces-
garily the congress is international in
membership, and its scope covers every
thing in the great field Of arts and sci
encc.
The meeting, Monday, was held at
three o'clock in the afternoon in Fes-
tival hall, and, while there was not
a large number of visitors present, the
membership of the congress comforta-
bly, filled the hall. The attendance was
between 1900 and 1000 people, the
greater portion Of the audience being
@ The addresses of the afternoon
were made by delegates from all parts
of the civilized world, and |applauded
by representatives of all of the great
Christian nations. -Four languages
we're spoken in the course of the rem
dition of the programme, and, strange
to say, the one of these which was
least understood was the n which
was received with greatest enthusiasm.
On the platform was a very distin-
guished body of mem Among them was
Simon Newcomb, president of the con-
gress; Sir William Ramsay of London;
NJ. CASTOR Darboux, of France; DR..
Oskar Backlund, of Russia; Prof. Theo-
dore EscheriCh, of Austria; Sig. Attillo
Brunialti, Of Italy; DR.. William K.
Harper, president Of the university OF
Chicago; Arthur T. Hadley, president
of Yale university; Rt. Rev. John L..
Spalding, bishop of Peoria; William 7.
Harris, United States commissioner OF
education, and a number of Others, in
Guiding the following exposition OFF,
cials: President David r. Francis,
Howard J. Rodgers, director of con-
crosses. and Frederick j. V. Skiff, di-
rector of the division of exhibits, TO
whom DR.. Harper gave credit in his
International congress Of arts and sci
enCes.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
How Another Sufferer Was Cured.

"DEAR MRs. PINKHAM: i cannot praise your wonderful remedies
enough, for they have done me more good than all the doctors have
had. For the last eight years and more suffered with female troubles,
was very weak, could not do my housework, also had nervous pros
tration. Some days | would remoiA unconscious for a whole day and
night. My neghbors thought could never recover, but, thanks to
your medicine | now feel like a different woman.
Il feel very grateful to you and will recommend Lydia IT, rink
hams Vegetable Compound to all. 1t has now been four years since
| had the last spell of nervous prostation. l only weighed ninety
eight pounds at that time now l weigh one hundred and t~Nenty-three,
81 consider your Vegetable Compound the finest remedy made.
Thanking you many times for he benefit | received from your medicine,
Iremain, Yours truly, Mns. II. FARMER, 2oO9 Elliott Ave, st. Louis, Mo"
Remember Mrs. Pinkham's advice is free and all sick women
are foolish if they do not ask for 1t. She speaks from the widest
experience, and has helped mulitudes of women.
AuAA - FORFEIT II we canno forthwith produce the orgnal letters and signatures of
VhILIIII Mot testimonials, which will prove thMra absolute gamnene~.
LnIuUu Lydia l.. FLnkham Med, 20, Lynn, Mass.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
REACHES SUPREME COURT
ADpcaI of "LOrd" In arlington. Con-
victcd of Murder, Will he
Heard In January.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Sept. 20.-The
appeal in the case of Lord f. Sey-
mour harrington, convicted Of the
riurder neal st. Louis of James p. Nc
Cam. the well-known horseman,
reached the supreme court Monday.
The appeal for a new trial will be
heard in January, as the transcript
and other papers reached here too late
to have the hearing at the October
term.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
Japan's ROYAL Doctors.

Although the emperor of Japan is in
excellent health, he is always attended
by physicians. There are four eminent
gentlemen attached to the imperial
household, one of whom is within call
at all times, night and day. His ma
jesty's pulse and temperature are taken
four times every "a hoursin the presence
of two of the doctors when they relieve
each other of duty, and the results are
carefully recorded, just as il he were a
patient in a hospital. The prince i'm.
perial and his baby son are subject to
similar medical surveillance. He has
two and they have two physicians always
in attendance and a log book is kept Of
their physical condition like that of the
mikadO,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
EDUCATIONAL BUREAU
Under Direction OF KATE MARKHAM POWER

/ versity's School of Education) consid.
cradle space is given to a comparison
Of the illiteracy among the people OF
the Southern States. The editor, in
commenting on this says:
Mississippi recently made a liberal
appropriation for popular education,
although it already has the smallest
per cent Of illiteracy among the
whites, and the negro majority in the
State is in the neighborhood Of 10000.
It might be thought that the small per
centage of illiteracy among the whites
in a "black State" such as Mississippi
is due to the fact that in such a State
the white employer class Is relatively
larger and the white laborlng class
relatively smaller than in other
States. But the figures for South
Carolina, another black State. show
a larger percentage Of white illiteracy
than Is found in Virginia, Georgia,
Florida or Arkansas, all OF which have
considerable white maior,ties. Great
interest in education would therefore
seem to be the main cause of Missis.
sippi's enyiably low percentage OF
white illiteracy.
Most OF our teachers, particularly
those In the primary departments,
will agree heartily with the editor OF
the kindergarten Magazine, who says:
"The book has been for too long a
time the sole instrument of education.
To admit its ~inadequacy is not to I'M.
derrate its value. Time was when ed
u~cation in a very large sense was pos
sible without it. It Is not yet an in
fallible agent, even II used with the
highest intelligence and skill; much
less If its use be limited TO the ca.
pacity Of a passive recipient subject
ed to the 'pouring-in' process. Chill
dren prefer action for a good and SUI.
ficient reason. They learn to do by
doing. To do Is better for them than
to say 'twere good TO do. Any kind
of hand training is probably better
than none. 1t need not crowd the
book work out. The testimony is all
to the effect that 1t does not. II
arouses an interest which reacts fav.
orably upon all other interests. Motor
activity is a necessity. Rightly Ii.
rected 1t promotes intellectual growth;
wholly restrained, mental life, even,
would doubtless be impossible. To
keep young children at a desk six
hours a day working solely with books
is the ultimate educational blunder.
1t Is not only a false pretense; it is an
outrage on nature"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
Avoiding Dilution.

A Kentucky colonel, who in every other
way showed his enjoyment of his Bour-
bon, always shut his eyes az he lifted his
glass TO his lips, As this is the way chll-
dren are usually advised t. take I'M
savory medicine, his frien rs wondered
that the colonel should show such an
aversion to looking at the beverage that
all the rest of Kentucky likes to gaze on
only less than to taste. Some one asked
him at last why he always shut his eyes.
lie replied; 'Ah'm afraid if All looked
at it nah mouth would watsh and dilute
nah liquah, Chicago Chronicle.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
A Question In Grammar

"Will some one in the class" asked
the teacher of rhetoric, give a better
form to the sentence, John can ride
the mule if he wants tor"
John can ride the mule if the mule
wants him to-" said the boy with tho
bad eye.
Teacher Tin spelling classO-John-
ME, spell fail.
Johnnie cant
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24

The Hague, Sept, 20,-The municipal
council has rejected the measur pro-
viding for utilizing part of The Hague
woods for the Carnegie Palace of Peace,
The council, however, is willing to pro-
vide another site for the arbitration
Headquarters.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
Charged with numbering Father.

Decatur, Neb,, Sept. 20.-Henry Gut
tar, a half-breed Omaha Indian, is un-
der arrest, charged with the murder,
Sunday night, of his father, Stephen
Guitar. The killing is said to have re-
suited from a quarrel over a bottle Of
liquor.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
Sayings Of Little Ones.

Little Freddie-Did God make every.
thing?
Saplelgh-Yaws, Fweddie; he made
evwything fob ome-aw-purposc, don,
cher know.
What do YOU s'pose he made you ior!"
st. Louis Republic,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24

For Murder Of His Wife.

Charlottesville, Va, Sept. 20.-The
grand jury of the Charlottesville cor
poration court has returned a true in
dictment against ex-Mayor McCue, OF
this city, for the murder OF his wife,
Fannie NJ. McCue, on September 4 last.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
Farewell Audience with Pope.

Rome, Sept, 20.-Pope Plus re-
oeived in audience, on Monday, Arch
bishop Agius, the newly-appointed
apostolic delegate to the Philippine ISL
ands. The archbishop will go hence
to England, and on November 10 will
sail for the United States.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24

The New York woman who left direc.
tions in her will that she should be
buried in a plain and simple cream
colored silk dress, with real thread lace
rutlles round the neck, and sleeves of the
same color, with sash to match, was an
old maid, Of ourse.-Boston Globe.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24

"Do you believe that marriage Is q
lottery?" she asked.
YES" he replied, "and l also be.
lieve that every m is anxious tc
take one or more chances, Chicago
Daily News,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
A QUICK RECOVERY.
A Prominent Topeka Rebecca Offices
Writes to Thank Doan's Kidney
Pills for II.

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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
In Manchuria.

First Correspondent-Say old man, I've
Just got a bundle of newspapers from
home.
Second Correspondent Thank good
ness. Now we'll be able n learn some
thing OF what is going on at the 'front.'
Houston Chronicle.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
Justice indicated.

The ~bicyclist from the city was
wheeling leisurely along the side path
In the outskirts Of the little town,
when the policeman, the only one the
place afforded, arrested him and took
him before the local justice of the
peace, says the Chicago Chronicle.
What is the charge against this
man. asked the justice.
tongue and an awful look Of horror
by ridin' on the sidewalk"
What have you to say, young
man."
Il suppose I'm guilty, yoUr honor"
said the prisoner. But | didn't know
| was violating any ordinance"
Ignorance of the law excuses no
one"
Il know that, your honor, but as
the road was bad, and ! saw other
wheel tracks on the walk. | thought
it was all right
IF the officer had seer the men that
made the other tracks it would have
been his duty to arrest them. | see
nothing to do but to impose a fine Of
S., as provided by the ordinance.
Your honor" said the prisoner,
"this is the first time | have ever been
hauled up before a magistrate on a
charge of any kind, and | can't help
feeling that it's a hardship, | shall
not appeal the case, but I'd like to
have one chance to get off. ! propose
that we flip a coin to decide whether
the fine be $40 or nothing. That gives
me one loophole Of escape. What does
your honor say?'
The proposition seemed 10 appeal
to the sporting instinct latent in the
mental constitution of his honor,
"All right" he said after a minutes
hesitation, 81 don't know any law
against that. You may flip the coin"
What shall it be, your honor.
heads or tailsE
Tails" hazzarded the court.
The coin vas Tipped,
His honor glanced at it as it fell,
covered II with II hand, and extend,
ed the other to the prisoner,
Il congratulate you, young man.
he said. "You are discharged-on the
ground that this is your first offense,
But don't let 1t happen again"
The bicycler wendell his way, leav.
ing the coin in possession of the court,
and nobody to this day knows whether
1t really fell tails up or not.
When Fate tells you that you can
not have certain things, laugh in her
face and tell her you are going to have
them anyway. Then, nine times ont
of ten, she will back down under
your bluff and give you all you ask,
and more.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
Had Few Competitors.

Every man has some fad" said tho
quiet man. Mine is minding my own
business"
"Ah, | see" rejoined the philosophical
person. You are one of the m%onopolists
Ne read SO much about.'-Stray Stories.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
News frnm Home

Gladys--What do you hear from Clar.
Fence? How is he doing in Wall street
now?
J~erroIJ-Great! He writes that the
market is SO dull he amt losing 4 cent
Puck.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
DismantIing the Lena.

Vallejo, Cal, Sept 20.-The work OF
dismantling the Lena commenced Mon
day at the Mare island navy yard, I'M
der the direction of Gunner Shuttle
worth.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24

Fits stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 80 trial bottle g.
treatise. DR.. Kline, 93l Arch st., Phila., Pa.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24

People who pitied the Koreans at the
beginning Of the war because so many aw.
full battles were going to be fought around
them, gave the Russians too much credit
md didn't give the japanese enough.-Bos-
ton Globe.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24

piso's Cure for Consumption is an %infalli-
Bile medicine for coughs ard colds.-N. w.
Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. j.. Feb. II, 1900.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
Easily Remedied,

Guest-I can hardly find this beefsteak
on my plate.
Landlord calling a waitcr)- jean, bring
a smaller plate -Meggendorfer Blaetter.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24

1t would help some if the Japs and
Russians would fight a battle now and
then at some place that is marked on the
mar .-Rochester Post. Express.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24

The superintendent OF schools in
Fort Wayne, Ind, is Prof. Study, and
yet some people will ask what's in a
name?"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24

(signed) Mrs. C. f. Bumgardncr.
A FREE TRIAL-Addrcss Foster
Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. Y. For sale
by all dealers. Price, so cents.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24

None but a pretty woman can af-
ford to pout.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
Miss Cannon, Secy Detroit Amateur
Art Association, tells young women what to
do to avoid pain and suffering caused by
female troubles.

"DEAR Mrs. PNKHAM:-I can conscnntiously recommend Lydia
Pinkhams Vegetable Compound to those of my sisters suffering with
female weakness and the troubles which so often befall women. sui
fered for months with general weakness, and felt SO weary that had
hard work to keep up | had shooting pains, and was utterly miserable
In my distress was advised to use Lydia u. pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, and it was a red letter day to me when took the first dose,
for at that time my restoration began. In six weeks L was q changed
woman, perfectly well in every respect. ! felt SO elated and happy that
l want all women who suffer to get wcla as dd."-M1ss GuLA CANNON,
1853 Jones St, Detroit, Mich, Secretary Amateur Art Association.
It is clearly shown in this young ladys letter that Lydia IL.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will certainly cure the sutferlngs
of women; and when one considers that Miss Gann0ns letter IS
only one of the countless hundreds which We are continually
publishing in the newspapers CT this country, the great virtue OF Mrs iink'
hams medicine must be admitted by all; and for the absolute cureo o all kinds
of female ills II substitute a possibly take its place. Women, should bear
this important fact in mind when they go into a drug store. am! be sure not
to accept anything that is claimed to be - just as good" as Lydia II, Pink
hams Vegetable (OmpOund, for no other medicine for female ills has
mad 81 manya actual cures.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24

When Fate tells you that you can
not have certain things, laugh in her
face and tell her you are going to have
them anyway, Then, nine times out
of ten, she will back down under
your bluff and give you all you ask,
and more.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24

In a recent issIe of the School Re.
view published by the Chicago Uni.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-11-30
Train Robbers Captured.

Las Vegas, N. NJ, November 17.-Rock
leland Officer w. O. Mcintosh and two
deputy United States marshals from tho
Indian Territory, have arrived in tho
CITY with John and Jim Black, twin
brothers, and John Murphy, who arc
charged with having committed tho train
robbery ut Fort Logan, n. NJ, last July.
Mcintosh trailcd tho men to tho Indian
Territory and with tho MD of United
States officials arrested them there. LII
tho latter part of July four mon s.oppod
tho Rock Island passenger train and
bicw up tho express ca and tho safes
Tho Rock Island people say tho robbors
got little booty. Tho fourth man was
supposed to DO Tom Boswell, who, ton
days ago, was shot and killed. while load
ing q break from tho Unitod States
prison ut Fort Leayenworth, whero ho
was serving sentence for horse stealing.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-11-30
May Locate SILK MIL In sou.a Carolina.

Columbia, November 49, a result
OF a conference to-day botwoon Commits.
sionor Watson and L. b. plumor, Of
Plumor aud Co., Now York and passaic,
NJ j., 1t is probable that a silk mill will
DO established in South Carolina. Mr.,
Plumer camo hcro strongly endorsed and
he represents oliunts who will erect as q
beginning $4,000 silk mill, provided
enough cncouragemont is given. IIo
stated to night that thero is shortage of
silk and his clients desire to build at
once.
Mr. flumcr seos tho possibility of
growing tho raw material in South Caro-
lima as n result of instructive articles
writton by Miss Honriotta Aikcn Kelley,
who visited Italy and studied tho method
OF growing and raising silk producing
material. Ho has boon given letters of
introduction by Commissioner Watson to
prominent people in Chostor. Rock Hill,
Spartanbnrg, Anderson and Groonyillc,
aud ho will visit tho Chambers Of Com
merce of each Of those cities. He will
go back to Now York for Thanksgiving
ana on h!B return will visit and look
over opportunities in Charleston aud Co.
lumbia.
Whilo in Chester ho will have a con-
ference with Miss Kolloy, who is now
starting for q Charleston lady silk
growing farm. IIo has gono over tho re-
suits of experiments iii this line now in
possession Of Mr. Watson and is highly
gratifiod with tho specimens shown. Mr..
Plumcr represents interests with whom
favorable report will moan much for
tho State in this limo. Io states that ho
asks local cooperation, not because of
tho money, but because of tho local
interest and protection for the industry.
Commissioner Watson has looked into
tho matter and is very anxious that the
plans be carried out.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-11-30
Killed Himself In Court Room.

Hold before Polico Justice O'Donoghuo
in tho West Chicago police court, for
abusing his wife, Charles Shyck, in tho
presence of tho Court and surrounded
by policemen, shot twice at his wife and
then found instant death when lie sent a
bullet into his own brain. Mrs. Shyck
was sitting with her sister, Mrs. Sanborn,
ten feet from hcr husband, with hor H.
mon,hs-od baby cooing in her arms. The
first shot aimed at tho mothor struch the
baby on tho right arm and grazcd its
right side. This DETECTION OF the bullet
saved the mothers lfe. Mrs. Sanborn
was not hit, but tho second bullet went
through another woman's hat and
grazed a policeman's ear. Three police
mon attempted to seize Shyck, but before
they could ho put the muzzlo OF his
weapon in his own mouth and fired. Sur
gcons say tho baby will recover, although
it lost much blood. Shyck was 35 and
his wife 80 years of aye.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-11-30

julius Brown, son Of tho late Joseph
-. Brown, Georgia's war Governor, il
out with card which proposes that
electors of all Southern States vote for
Roosevelt and make tho election unau
nous. lIo makes tho proposition bc
cause, he says, Roosevelt has been un.
Justly attacked on tho negro question,
about the Philippines, md in fact, on nil
pubic questions. lie conc ludcs his card
thus: "lIe is y good man and half
Southern, and we Of the South ought 10
he able to trust him.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-11-30
Reduction Of Repro senta.lon.

The Washington Star is ono Of tho few
American newspapers that always sides
with tho "powors that DO" at Washing
ton. 1t now appears to be in sympa by
with the proposed reduction of tho
Sonth's representation in Congress. X
Tho Washington Post, always calm
aud fair ovon to tho point Of friondliness
and sympathy, declares that tho consti-
tntionality Of tho suffrage laws of States
will not be OF cannot DO decided by a
partizan majority of Congress-, but that
If tho question is decided at all it must
DO by tho Supreme Court. Aud in tic
hands Of that tribunal tho South will
doubtless bo fairly treated.
Undcr this plan of reduction, formerly
proposed by tho Republicans, the result
would be-:
Arkansas, 9 now, 8 thon.
Florida, 3 now, thon.
Georgia, II now, thcn.
kentucky, II now, II then.
Louisiana, now, thon.
Mississippi, 8 now, thon.
North Carolina, 10 now, 7 thon
South Carolina, 7 now, 3 thon.
Tcnnesseo, 10 now, then.
Toxas, 1G now, 13 thon.
Virginia, 10 now, Z tl,cn.
That would moan reduction of SO
members.