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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-09-09
CHILD 6RuTALLY MURDERED
Mother Arrested For Killing Baby Be
cause II "Was In the Way"

cause II WAS In the Way"
New York. Sept. "a confessed
accomplice In the murder OF her Q.
year-old daughter. whose mutilated
body was subsequently bathed and
neatly clad In It's best clothes and
then tossed into the open doorway Of
West Side tenement house. Agnes
Hyland. aged % years. was locked up
by the police.
Gustave Denser. plumber. with
whom the woman lived as house
keeper. is also under arrest. The
mother told the police that Denser
killed her baby girl Gertrude because
It was In the way" and that she
helped to dispose of the body.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-09-09
FEN From Wheel at state Fair.

ST. Paul, Mimi, Sept Tn the pres
ence Of thousands OF visitors at the
state fair. Mr.. and Mrs. F. Il. Seven-
thai. Of Eau Claire. Wis. fell from the
upper car Of an observation wheel to
the ground. a distance Of nearly 100
feet. Mrs. Seventhal was instantly
killed and her husband was 80 badly
injured that he died shortly afterward.
The car was descending. and the seat
In which they were sitting broke. The
accident created n scene bordering
on panic.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-28
FRUIT TREE NOURISHMENT.
What Is Taken Out of the Ground in
Growing and Maturing
the Fruit.

The Cornell experiment station bull
letin No. 1903 on "Soil Depletion in Re-
spect to the Care of Fruit Trees" shows
that the plant food contained in ~
crops Of apples Of ID bushels per tree.
and 80 trees per acre, when the leaves
that are formed are also taken into the
calculation, amounts to 1897 pounds OF
nitros en-, $40 pounds of phosphoric acid
and l S95 pounds of potash. Prof. Voor-
hees shows that 20 years continuous
cropping with wheat, assuming an aver
age crop Of Is bushels per acre, and
seven pounds of straw to three bushels
nitrogen, 211 pounds of %phosphoric acid
and 324 pounds of potash. We can thus
compare the results of 20 years cropping
of apples. after the production Of trees
capable of bearing such crops, has taken
large amounts of plant food from the
soil, for the 20 years cropping Of apples
has removed more than twice as much
nitrogen, half as much again Of phos-
phoric acid, and three times as much
potash as the wheat crops during the
same period. 1t is evident, then, that
an orchard will far more rapidly deplete
the fertility of the soil than the con-
%tinuous cropping in wheat. Any farmer
will understand that 20 years continu-
rus cropping in wheat would be baq
farming and would result in soil deple-
ton. How much more then does the
continuous cropping in apples deplete
the soil, Burn the hardwood Of an apple
tree and You will fully understand the
amount of potash removed from the
soil in the wood alone.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-28

Routt county, Colorado. contains
within its boundaries 72.770 head u
cattle, valued at sS17.G43. In this re-
spect it leads all the counties in the
state.
From 5000, 900 to $4,000. 900 more
tons CT freight will be shipped into
Denver this year than last, say the
general freight agents. who also add
that last year was considered the bar
ner year in the railroad history Of the
town,
Owners of 100000 acres of dry
lands in eastern Colorado and western
Colorado have formed the Colorado
Association for Scientific Farming. to
spread the knowledge Of the Cambell
system of dry farming to the world
and to induce the settlement Of tho
western plains.
Following the success which has at
tened the feeding OF field peas to
lambs in the San Luis valley. hundreds
of farmers who have made fortunes III
the process are now trying the sane
food on cattle, with equally good sue
cess. More than 600. 600 lambs are be-
Ing fattened there this year, and it Is
believed that in two years more ths
number of cattle fattcned per season
will exceed that number.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-28
THE STORAGE OF APPLES.
A Bulletin of the New York Agricul-
tural Station Which Is Full Of
Helpful Hints.

To decide properly to which kind OF
storage the grower or buyer shall send
his fruit requires the best of judg.
ment, for many factors must be o n
sidered in making the choice and upon
their just balancing will depend, to
quite an extent, the profit or loss in
handling the crop. Growers, general
ly, are more interested in storage this
year probably than ever before; for
there seems to be a deadlock between
growers and buyers on the question
Of price; and many orchardists have
determined to hold their crops them.
selves rather than to sell them at
prices which promise little profit. To
all such growers, to those who usual
ly hold more or less of their fruit for
winter sale or home use, and to the
buyers who must plan for the best
keeping of the purchased fruit, Bulle-
tin No. 24S of the New York agricul.
tural experiment station, at Geneva,
will be- Of interest and value, suggests
the Ohio Farmer. 1t discusses critic
ally the factors which influence the
keeping quality of apples, as ascer-
tanned through many years experience
at the station or by correspondence
and interviews with the leading apple
handlers of the country. It also gives
detailed results Of the storage Of 165
varieties Of apples, in the ordinary
temperature room Of the station fruit
storage building, with notes upon most
Of the varieties as handled by prac-
teal storage men. The bulletin will
be sent without charge upon request
to the station.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-28
TOLD OF THE TITLED.

"A rose Of roses bright, a vision OF
embodied light is an Indian poets de-
scription of Lady CurZon.
one Of the fads of the princess OF
Wales is to impress on every n in
Great Britain the importance Of learn
ing to swim.
The countess of Jersey is described
as being a clever. cultivated woman,
who reads and thinks, and who has
been one of the most energetic Of So
ciety globe-trotters,
The duke of Argyll was 60 years OF
age recently. During the last 81 years
he has produced upward Of a dozen
books, including the opera of "Diarmir"
in the great jubilee year.
Lord Carew, the English noble
man, is a farmer Of renown and owns a
herd of Jerseys of rare strain. His
wife delights to go "a-milkin' in a short
skirt and low-cut bodice, and is said to
put most Of the expert milkmaids to
blush.
King Edward is to review the Scot
fish volunteers at Edinburgh. But un-
less the war Office consents to allow the
volunteer regiments outside of Edin-
burgh more than As per cent. of their
travelling expenses, 10000 expected vol
unteers will be absent from the review.
Ex-Empress Eugene visited the Kiel
harbor a few weeks ago in her steam
yacht Thistle. She is IS years old ana
still quite active. She wanted to see
the town which had so rapidly Lecome
world-famed, and was Ghown'the prin-
cipal streets and sights. She speaks
German fluently. From Kiel she pro-
ceeded to Stockholm.
Queen Alexandra of England is, like
many women, i'll at ease on the rostrum.
Her voice is low and sweet, with Just
the suspicion of foreign accent about it.
There is an almost pathetic note in its
tones that fingers in the memory
hauntingly. However. her subjects
loyalty declare that she is a most charm
ing speaker and that the foreign tinge
is but an added charm to the voice.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-28
ODD FACTS ABOUT GOLD.

Few people know the real color Of
gold, because it is seldom seen ex-
ccpt when heavily alleged, which
makes it much redder than when it is
pure.
The purest coins ever made were
the $50 pieces which ICE were in
common use in California. Their
coinage was abandoned because the
loss by abrasion was so great and be-
cause their interior could be bored out
and filled with lead. They were oc.
tagonal in shane and we.c the most
valuable coins ever minted and cir.
culated.
All gold Is not alike when refined.
Australian gold is distinctly redder
than that taken in California. More
over, placer gold is more yellow than
that which is taken from quartz. This
is one Of the mysteries of metallurgy,
because the gold in placers comes
from that which IS in quartz. The
gold in the Ural mountains is the red
dest in the world.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-28
NATURALIST WAS AT FAULT
Mar OF Learning Failed to Identify
Very Common Animal from
Description.

One of the professors at a great university
in Scotland recently wrote to an eastern
university TO the following effect;
walking in the dusk through the grounds
of the university the other evening, my at
tention was arrested by a low murmuring
sound near me, which was neither a hiss nor
q whistle, On looking | saw a creature lying
on the ground, larger than a cricket, Two
antennalike protuberances projected above
the eyes, 1t had no wings; and the covering
OF its body VS. varlegated, though certainly
not like down,
Mindful of the danger to myself, | did not
venture to turn it on It's back, so a, to count
the legs. On the ground lay a small quantity
of snow-white substance. which had evi.
IDENTIFY exuded from the body. Can any OF
your professors identify the creature from
this imperfect description
The naturalist connected with the eastern
university fell into the trap-bNltcd, prob
ably, especially for him. He wrote learn.
edly about various insects, and concluded
that the one observed must be one OF two
whose long Latin names he gave.
"The a%ntenna-like protuberanccs are
used for burrowing in the ground he
wrote, "and these insects s]ecrete a fluid
which they have the power Of eiecting TO
protect themselves in case Of attack
The tutor wrote again to thank the nat
uralist for his information, and to say he
need not trouble him further, as he had for.
t|unately observed The creature again more
closely under exactly similar circumstances,
and was able now to identify it himself as
the Vacca vulgaris, or common COW.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-28

years, and there has been but little sat-
isfactory information on this point.
However, it is the popular belief that
the Chinese originated the art. As early
as 80 years before Christ the orientals
are known to have made impressions
upon paper, from engraved wooden
blocks.
England first became acquainted with
printing through William Caxton, whose
name has become immortal through his
introduction of the art into the British
Isles. He printed several editions of
Chaucer S works, and these are now
pointed to as the first printed books
which the Britishers ever read. John
Gutenberg holds for himself the honor
of establishing typography. However,
he has a strong rival in l.. j. Cos
ter. a Hollander who acquired some fame
through his inventions of wood type and
later metal, He printed several small
books. Early in the fifteenth century
his types are said to have been stolen by
his workmen and conveyed to Mainz.
Germany, where the thieves intro
duced the art. However, Gutenberg
really established the art, for he worked
for its practical establishment and was
successful.
The system employed by early Chi
nese is interesting in the extreme. The
work which it Is intended to print was
put on thin transparent paper. Each
Of these sheets was then pasted down.
ward upon a block of wood and an en-
graver with suitable tools cuts away
the portion of the block and paper upon
which nothing is drawn, thus leaving
the characters in relief and producing
a printing block, To print the block
is linked and a sheet of paper placed over
it. A brush is run over the paper and
the proof is pulled" The Chinese are
credited with having used movable type
as early as the twelfth ansd thirteenth
centuries, and such types are now used
extensively by European missions in
China. The chief difficulty in using
movable types for Chinese work is that
each word requires a separate charac-
ter instead as in European languages, of
being composed of letters. which resolve
themselves into an alphabet.
WILLARD w. GARRISON.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-28
THE SECRET OF YOUTH.

De Soto looked fer the secret Of
youth in a spring Of gushing, life
giving waters, which he was sure he
would find in the New World. AL
chemists and sages thousands of
them), have spent their lives in quest
for Il, but it is only found by those
happy people who can digest and as
simulate the right food which keeps
the physical body perfect that peace
and comfort are the sure results.
A remarkable man of 81 says:
For many long years | suffered more
or less with chronic c%ostiveness and
painful indigestion. This condition
made life a great burden to me, as
you may well imagine,
1.-TWO years ago I began to use
Grape-Nuts as food, and am thankful
that I did. 1t has been a blessing to
me in every way. | first noticed that
it had restored my digestion. This
was a great gain but was nothing to
compare in importance with the fact
that in a short time my bowels were
restored to free and normal action.
''The cure seemed 10 be complete;
for two years | have had none of the
old trouble. I use the Grape-Nuts food
every morning for breakfast and fire.
quontly eat nothing el9e. The use has
made me comfortable and happy, and
although | will be 81 years old next
fall, | have become strong and sup.
pie again, erect in figure and can walk
with anybody aid enjoy it," Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich. There's a reason"
Read the little book, THE Road to
MELVILLE" in every pkg.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-28
FROM SCIENTIFIC SOURCES.

According to the Scientific American,
the cost of running an electric furnace
capable of producing the extraordinary
heat of 5000 degrees Is so cents a min
ute, $4S an hour, or about $500 a day.
At the recent Roentgen congress in
Berlin a special committee adopted
the following Technology for the new
science; Rontgenology is the study CT
Rontgen rays; Rontenography is pho
Biography by the rays; Rontgenoscopy Is
observation by Rontgen rays; ortho-
rontgenography in place Of orthodia-
graphy. Rontgonotherapy and the verb
to |rontgenize in their obvious mean
ings.
The new quartz vessels so valuable
for their endurance Of temperature
changes, have disadvantages. They
leak at high temperatures and Berthelot,
using tubes with walls one-thirtieth Of
an inch thick, lost u third of the oxygen
and a sixth Of the nitrogen in one hour
at 1900 degrees Centigrade, The sealed
up gases were originally at about air
pressure. Permeability for hydrogen is
quite marked at 800 degrees, but with
hydrogen chloride and carbon dioxlde
it is scarcely appreciable below 1900 de-
grees.
The old idea that changes are taking
place on the moon has been carefully
investigated by NJ. Puiseux, a French as
tronomer. Going over all records, from
the earliest observations to the latest, he
concludes that the reality Of the sup
posed changes has not been proved, and
that the varying sensitlveness Of the ret
ina for faint objects is sufficient to ac-
count for differences seen, while differ
ent conditions of exposure might ex-
plain all appearances in the photo
graph.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-28
POINTERS FOR DAIRYMEN.

Soft, white butter comes from hot
'ream-
Too much sourness in cream causes
white specks in butter.
Keep the fresh, warm milk separate
from the old. 1t keeps better.
Test your milk. 1t is not quantity
SO much as the qaality that counts.
Keep the heifer, intended for the
dairy, in thrifty, growing condition.
If you are buying new milk utensils,
see that all joints are smoothly sol.
dered.
Set milk after milking before 1t be.
comes as cool as the atmosphere. The
crean will rise better.
Have the milk for the calves sweet
and Of the same temperature as when
1t comes from the COW.
Give the cows plenty of pumpkins.
f fed with the grain ration they will
increase the milk flow.
The nervous, restless COW, always
tossing her head, should be dehorned
before she hurts somebody or some.
hing.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-28
STRENGTHEN The STOMACH
Or. Williams Pink Pills Really Cure
Indigestion Instead Of Merely
Relieving SYMPTOMS.

There are plenty of remedies by which
you Il relieve for the time heartburn,
pain and gas on the stomach and can
smother nervous sensations and induce
artificial sleep. You can humor your
stomach by giving it predigested food.
But when you take your next meal all
your trouble begins afresh.
There is only one sensible thing to do.
Strengthen the stomach and do away
with the necessity for drugs and arti-
fetal foods. The best remedy ever found
for this purpose is the one that was used
by Il. Il. Strong, OF Capleville, Shelby
county, Tenn.
"For years. he states, 81 suffered
| greatly from Indigestion. tried many
different remedies and some OF them
would relieve me for n time, but the
trouble always came back. About six
months ago / had IN unusually severe
attack. aud while / tried everything |
had ever heard Of, ] found that none OF
the ordinary remedies would reach the
difficulty this time.
Zone dav / read in n Memphis paper
how DR.. Williams Pink Pills had cureda
| Michigan woman, asuifererfrom chronic
dyspepsia of n most stubborn type. l
then tried the same remedy and 1T
proved just as successful i'll my case. |
took only three boxes, aud was cured. l
have not had the slightest symptoms Of
Indigestion since"
The tonic treatment has a sound prin-
ciple as its basis, and abundant s~uccessin
actual use. Multitudes of cases that had
defied all other remedies have been cured
by DR.. Williams Pink Pills. The pills
actually make new blood and strike at the
root of all diseases caused by bad blood.
They contain no harmful stimulants or
opiates. Every dyspeptic should read,
What TO Eat and How to Eat. Write
the DR.. Williams Medicine Co., Schenec'
tady, MY, for q free copy.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-28
CURRENT CURI0S.

At Culross abbey, in Fife, Scotland,
a tombstone has been found which is
believed to date from the fourth zen.
fury of the Christian era.
A partridge shot by a sportsman in a
field near cambridge, England, the
other day, dropped into the smokestack
of a passing locomotive and was lest.
Bishop Mora, of Hidalgo, Mexico, re-
Gently celebrated mass l,500 feet below
the earth's surface. at the bottom of a
silver mine which has been worked tor
centuries.
Il might as well be dead as alive, for
| have nothing to live for" said an I'M
known tramp to another tramp whom he
had met a few minutes before IN the
road near Leigh, England. Don't say
that, mate" replied the other, At that
moment a bolt of lightning killed the
first speaker.
When a Dover IN. h man finished
painting his pole beans, he left the bag
containing the leftover seed in the
grass beside a tree. He found the bag
the other day firmly rooted to the
ground, The bottom layer of beans had
sprouted, and the roots embedded them
selves in the turf.
Il was walking across field with my
dog at my side when a young rabbit
emerged from a wood close by says a
writer. Suddenly it fell to the ground
and was to all intents dead. The dog
shifted it and | watched 1t for about ten
minutes, thinking it absolutely dead. ]
walked away about so yards, when |
ooked back and saw the rabbit rise and
run rapidly into the wood whence it
came. 1t is evident that it saw the dog
and dropped down out of fright"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-28

Seeding. Tongue-graft was the style
used, | have tried top-grafting larger
trees, but without success. | have
been told that top-graItIng proved sue.
cessful near Moorestown, N. j. Can
anyone in that vicinity give us a re.
port?
In response to this question Mrs.
j. Kay says. Take a small imb on
j. Kay says: Take a small limb on
it, girdle it around with a bud in 1t.
then go to Black walnut tree and CIR,
die it where you want to insert the
bud. Now remove the bark and fit the
bark from the English walnut neatly
into the stock; tie it up with a string
until you find the saps have united.
The bud will be dormant till next
spring. The diagram explains the
process.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-28
OLD PRINTING PRESS
HAS BEEN IN USE IN THIS
COUNTRY SINCE 1888.
1t Was the First Printing Machine
in Use in the American Col
onies-Did Good Work
for Harvard.

The ancient Daye printing press,
which up to a recent date had been in
use at Harvard university, is now on ex-
hibition in the ooms OF the Vermont
Historical society, al Montpelier. This
press has seen service since 1893 and
was the first instrument Of its kind in
use In the colonies. 1t was brought from
England and set UP in Cambridge,
Mass, the same year that John Harvard
founded the university that bears his
name. Stephen Daye saw prospects for
the establishment of a prosperous print
ing business in the colonies, and with
such plans in view he left England and
set himself up in the college town.
The first American books, the earliest
editions of state laws, colonial money
and early newspapers were printed upon
this ancient press, and for more than
$50 years has remained in fairly good
condition.
Its first production was a b%roadside
of the Freeman's Oath. then the Alma
nae circulated for New England, and in
due course the Bay psalm book.
Daye carried on the printing business
until 1919. when Samuel Green and
Marinadalle Johnson came into possess
sion of the Office and press and con-
Quoted the business.
The Daye press passed into the pos
session of Harvard college in 1886. In
INA it became the property of Timothy
Green, a Boston printer and descendant
y. .4H,nel Green. who removed TO New
London. Conn, ,dn'aS tnc press thence.
The press remained in the Green fam
lily until 1772. when it was purchased by
Alden Spooner and set up by him at
Norwich. Conn, in the printing Office in
which Alden Spooner, Judah Paddock
Spooner and Timothy Green were part
ners. 1t was next moved TO Vermont
and set up in Dresden.
According to the best obtainabls in,
formation the first printing done at the
Dresden Office on this press was a pam
phlet containing the sermon preached
by Rev. Aaron Hutchinson before the
constitutional convention at Windsor.
July 2, 1777. The pamphlet bears no
date. but it is reasonable to assume
that the sermon was printed soon after
the Spooners became state printers"
Although the story of the career Of
this ancient press is practically the his
tory of early colonial printing itself, the
colonies were comparatively late in
adopting the art. with regard to its in
PRODUCTION in other parts of the new
world.
. The first press in the new world was
established in 1910 at the City of Mexico.
and was followed by n at Lima. Peru,
"A years later. Stephen Daye estab-
lished the printery at Harvard uniyer-
sity and although late improvements
have been added. the old University
press. as it was known at the time, exist
to-day.
The question, Where did printing
originate?' has remained open for