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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
ONCE THERE WAS A MAN
Who Had Something to Say About
Politics and Who Learned
Something.

Once there was a man who complained
hat unworthy men were too frequently
elected to office, relates the Chicago
Tribune.
DO you attend the primaries:" asked
his hearers.
II do not he said.
Then you have no right to kick" they
told him. Its the duty of every good
citizen to attend the primaries and see
that the best men are chosen as candi.
dates
Whcrcupon he began attending the pri'
maries.
lie worked faithfully for the nomina'
ton of sober, honest and reputable can
didates.
But It did no good.
The other fellows turned out in greater
numbers and outvoted HIM, and bad men
were nominated and elected to office, a;
before.
lie felt that he had q right TO kick this
time, and he complained again.
DO you attend the primaries his
hearers asked him.
u do
Then you ought to keep your mouth
shut" they said. You are a part OF The
crowd that dominates bad men, and you
are responsible Tor them
Moral: Do you get Oft here or wait TIL
the car stops?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29

While the cor crop is the basis OF
the wealth of the nation, yet few of the
producers thereof have a correct idea
Of its cost per acre. Some will say
about S., others 81, and so there ap-
pears to be no defined mode of esti-
mating the cost to produce an acre.
Western people have rich lands. and
estimate a yield Of 40 bushels per acre,
which is the average yield of the south
ern states. In the corn belt states with
all average of 40 bushels, at the ay-
erage price in the large markets, 40
cents a bushel. farmers figure that they
net 81 an acre for the crop. If a man
can tend and gather the corn on 20
acres, as many do, he clears $275, be-
sides getting paid for his W labor
and that of his teams, for this goes into
the cost of growing the crop,
Farmers should make careful state
ments of blowing, narrowing, cultiyat-
Ing and gathering their various crops
so as to know What they can afford TO
sell for to realize reasonable profits,
Let him keep books against each crop,
and then he will know where he Is
at. Southern AgriCulturist.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29

The boys working in the field OF a
morning, when there Is a current OF
wind blowing at the rate of len miles
an hour enjoy the breeze because 1t
carries the perspiration from Their
faces. They little think that the same
wind is carrying the water-tertility or
the land away as rapidly as II does
from their faces. The boys can not
prevent tho winds from blowing, but
the Agricultist wants TO teach them
that they can run a pillow over the land
that will destroy the effects of the
winds. 1t requires 400 pounds of water
to pass through the corr roots to make
one pound of dry corn, therefore any
loss of that moisture cuts short l1e
corn yield in proportion. Frequent,
shallow civilizations are equivalent to
saving the fertility of the land, the
laws of nature are wonderful reveaIers
of hidden facts.-Southern Agrlcultur'
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
THE LABOR PROBLEM.
Efforts Being Made TO Promote
white Immigration 10 the
Mississippi Delta.

The Illinois Central Railroad Co.
has industrial agents In Holland and
Sweden for the purpose of colonizing
white labor in the Yazoo-M Mississippi
delta, Last year some fairly success
full experiments were made with Ital-
ians and with Mexicans, and the COM
pany Is now convinced that white la
Dor can be ~colonized in the delta with
The greatest success. 1t is their pur-
pose, SO it Is understood here, to bring
over here this fall several hundred i'm
migrants taken from the farming dis
tricts Of northern Europe and colonize
them in the delta. These farmers are
regarded as the most expert tillers of
the soil in the world. They are thrifty
and frugal in their habits, and the
splendid returns which the delta soil
yields TO even the most inferior labor
will, it is believed, induce many fam
lilies to cast their fortunes in this sec
ton.
Year by year 1t becomes more and
more manifest that the negro labor Is
growing more and more independent of
farm life and Is drifting gradually into
the cities and centers Of population,
where he becomes incident. as a rule,
and swells the death roll and the GRIM
inal population. Much of the condition
Of the present cotton crop is attributed
IN thn unp4 nf 1nhnr mud ia Inc NM
liability OF the negro. II sufficient la
Dor could have been commanded by
the farmers Immediately after the long
rainy spell Of the early spring, the >Ot-
ton crop could rave been redeemed al
most entirely, but field after field is
now grown up with grass and many
acres have been abandoned. The towns
ard cities have been secured by labor
agents, but the general demand for la
Dor on public Improvements now so
general throughout the south and I'M
mense building bOoms makes II impos-
sible to secure farmhands az hereto
fore.
OF course the railroads are vitality
interested in the labor problem, as they
are the heaviest sufferers from a short
crop. Higher prices tend TO compensate
the planter in a large measure. but
freight rates can not be run up and
down to suit over and under prOduc-
ton. The Illinois Central officials are
therefore determined to meet the prob
lem promptly. and the delta planters
will doubtless cooperate with them in
every possible way.-Press dispatch.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29

The cause Of sunstroke is when the
spinal column of the animal becomes
So heated that the heat penetrates the
brain. The farmer who thinks much
of his good plow animal car easily
provide against sunstroke by placing
a large sponge on the crown of the
head of the animal. The sponge or
wet rag should be placed mex to the
tCp of The head. Enlarge the bride
so as to cover the wet rag, If the rag
he laid on the neck for a foot or more
it will be a great relief to the animal.
The first signs of sunstroke will be
discovered in the hind legs, and 1t will
continue TO go toward the head until
it draws the head so straight that 1t
will look like there were no head, but
all neck, Don't wait until You lose
a fine horse, but apply these prevel-
tiveg oacn hot mornins,-Southern AZ
liculturist.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.

Iron, the first metal found in Amer
lea, was discovered in Virginia in
17t5.
Moscow's orphan asylum. founded
by Catherine H., is supported by a tax
on playing cards.
The earliest auction sale known ws3
held at oxford, England, February 2S,
1856, for the disposal of a lot OF books.
The first insurance company was es-
tablished in 1906. 1t was called the
Amicable, and its headquarters were
in London.
One hundred and thirteen years ago,
on June IA. 1892, the Hartford Bank
was organized under the charter grant
ed by the state a few weeks before. and
its doors were opened for business
on August s, 1902. 1t has had a con-
tinuous business existence since that
date.
At one time the word gent" was a
equitable term for general use. A re-
Jectable writer in 1864 tells of IA
upper to divers gentlemen of the
Gray's lime, for the great amitie be-
tween them and the Middle Temple
gents" The diarist Evelyn speaks of
he noise and tumult occasioned by
three or four wild gents In drink"
soon after Queen Victorla's accession
gents became vulgar. T~hackeray
speaks of It in 1912 as an "affectionate
diminutive at present much In use
among commercial persons"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
OVER THE OCEAN.

M. Aumont, a Belgian farmer, ha5
committed suicide owing TO the loss OF
valuable securities. Rats gnawed their
way through a wooden deed-box and de-
stroyed the documents.
Tho shock of being s~prinkled with q
solution OF nitric acid in mistake for
holy water restored to normal health
Nine. Nalthaire Of Aabe, France, who
was lying as was supposed, on her death
bed.
1t Is estimated that the Indian army,
as reorganized by Gen. Lord Kitchener,
will require an increase of $10,0 600, 900 for
maintenance. The expenses of the es-
adjustment last year were 81 900 900
more than for any former year.
Harvard house, at Stratford- on-Avon,
which was built in 1896 by Alderman
Thomas Rogers, grandfather OF the
founder of Harvard university, has just
been sold at auction for $4,000. 1t is the
best example of the architecture of the
period of Stratford.
Announcement Is made in a recent is
sue Of the South China Post, printed in
Hong-Kong, that ION the Sth of the third
moon the Chinese empress, accompanied
by a retinue OF 46 ladies of the palace,
went TO worship at the shrine Of the
goddess of silk-worm culture"
1t is becoming fashionable In Paris TO
leave cards at the cemetery. An oak box
placed on a tombstone is intended for
the cards of those who visit the rest
ing place of a departed friend. In this
way the near relatives find out those
friends who still cherish the memory OF
the dead.
Military honors were bestowed on the
late Marie Langanky, mother superior
of the Gray Sisters at Tut, Prussia. at
her funeral recently. Before serving
for nearly Two decades at the Tutz hos
pital, she had earned the iron cross and
a medal as nurse in the wal of 1901.
Her funeral was attended by all the
military organizations of the neighbor-
hood and three salvos were fired over
her grave.
Sawa Morosoff, the Russian wool
king" is dead, aged only A. lie I'M
ployed in his factories over 10000 work.
ers. At the beginning of the war with
Japan he made the government a pres
ent of 100. 600 blankets. but these never
reached the army in Manchuria. Off
cials tried to sell them for their own
profit and n of them, not knowing
whence they had come, actually offered
them to Morosoff al q greatly reduced
price,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
NAMES BEST DOCTOR
MR.. BAYssON PUBLISHES RESULTS
OF VALUABLE EXPERIENCE.


A Former Pronounced Dyspeptic He Now
Rejoices in Perfect Freedom from
Miseries of Indigestion.
Thousands of sufferers know that the
reason why they are irritable and de-
pressed and nervous and sleepless is be-
cause their food does not digest, but how
TO get rid Of the difficulty il the pnzzling
question.
Good digestion calls for strong diges-
tive organs, and strength comes from q
supply Of good rich blood. For this
reason Mr.. Baysson took DR.. Williams
Pink Pills for the cure of indigestion.
"They have been my best doctor" he
says. II was suffering from dyspepsia.
The pains in my stomach after meals
were almost unbearable. My sleep was
very irregular and my complexion was
sallow. As the result Of using eight
boxes of DR.. Williams Pink Pills, about
the merits OF which l learned from
friends in France, / have escaped MI
these troubles, and am able again totake
pleasure i'll eating
A very simple story, but If it had not
been for DR.. Williams Pink Pills it
might have been a tragic one. When dis
comfort begins with eating, fills up the
intervals between meals with pain, and
prevents sleep at night, there certainly
sGnnot be much pleasure in living. A
final general breaking down must BIO
merely n question Of time.
Mr.. Joseph Baysson Is a native Of
Aix-les- Bnins, France, but now resides
ut No. 2439 Larkin street, San Francisco,
Cal. He is one of a great number who
can testify to the remarkable efficacy of
DR.. WILLIAMSBURG Pills in the treatment
of obstinate disorders Of the stomach.
If YOU would get rid Of nausea, pain or
burning in the stomach, vertigo, ner-
v~ousness, insomnia, OIL any of the other
miseries Of Il dyspeptic, get rid of the
weakness OF the digestive organs by the
use Of Dir. Williams Pink Pills. They
arc sold by druggists everywhere.
Proper diet is, Of course, a great MD in
forwarding recovery once begun, aud a
little book, "What TO Eat and How to
Eat" may he obtained by any one who
makes a request for it by writing to tho
DR.. Williams Medical Co., Schenectady,
NY. This valuable diet book contains
an important chapter on the simplest
means for the cure Of constipation.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29

Lydia L. Pinkhnm's Vegetable Compound
made mo n well woman, and feel so CRATE
full that | am glad to write and tell you or
my marvellous recovery. 1t brought me
health, new life and vitality"
What Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound did for Mrs. Ainsley it will
do for every woman who Is in poor
health and niling.
It's benefits begin when its use begins.
1t gives strength and vigor from the
start, and surely makes sick women
well and robust.
Remember Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound holds the record for
the greatest number of actual cures OF
woman's ills. This fact is attested to
by the thousands Of letters from grate-
full women which are on file in the
PinlIham laboratory. Merit alone can
produce such results.
Women should remember that n euro
for all female diseases actually exists,
and that cure is Lydia Il. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, Take no substi-
tute.
If you have symptoms you DOM
understand write TO Mrs. Pinkham,
Lynn, Mass, for special advice-it 10
free and always helpful.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
DISSIMILARiTY OF VIEWS.
Those of the Optimist and the Pessi-
mist Expressed in Metrical
Measure.

The Optimist-I love the spring for it
does bring fresh brcezes from the distant
Adriatic.
The Pessimist-B the wind east, TO
say the least, oft gives one pains some
what rheumatic.
The Optimist-When summers here, |
hold 1t dear, for OF flowers It's a gener-
GUS glver.
The Pessimist--Yet one is not, when it's
quite hot, free from toruIres of a sluggish
liver.
The Optimist-Then autumn hints, with
wondrous tints, OF Dame Nature in the
role of weaver.
The Pessimist That sounds well yet,
the truth TO tell, it savors strongly OF hay
fever.
The Optimist-The winter white, is my
delight-the beautiful everywhere doth
greet us,
The Pessimist-But, alas, there are
colds, catarrh, quack doctors, asthma
and bronchitis.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
BEAUTIFUL SKIN,
Soft White Hands and Luxuriant
Hair Produced by Cuticura
Soap.

Millions Of Women Use Cuticura Soap,
assisted by Cuticura Ointment, the great
skin cure, for preserving, purifying and
identifying the skin, for cleansing the
scalp of crusts, scales and dandruf, and
the stopping of falling hair, for softening,
whitening and soothing red, rough and
sore hands, for baby rashes, itchings and
chafngs, for annoying irritations and ul-
c%erative weaknesses, and many antiseptic
purposes which readily suggest them
selves, as well as for all the purposes of
the toilet, bath and nursery.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29

Tickets at one fare plus 25 cents for the
round trip will be on sale July %, "a, aug.
5, 0, 7 account Bible Training School,
limit Aug. 3lst. Also July %, 81 and
Aug. lst account Woman's Congress, limit
Aug. 10th, Monteagle is one of the most
delightful Summer Resorts in the South,
located in the Cumberland mountains, over
1000 feet above the sea. Write for N, G.
& St. T.. Summer Folder. w, i. Danley,
Gen'l Pass. Agent, Union Station, Nash
vile, Tenn.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29

These We're especially severe when
STOPPING to lift anything and often |
could hardly s~traighten my back, The
aching was bad in the day time, but just
as bad at night, and I was always lame
in the morning. | was bothered with
rheumatic pains and dropsical swelling
of the feet. The urinary passages were
painful and the secretions were dis.
colored and so free that often ] had to
rise at night felt tired all day. Half
a box served to relieve me, and three
boxes effected n permanent cure"
For sale by all dealers, Price 80 cents.
Foster Milburn Co, Buffalo, N. Y.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29

GLep all The way hacll.

bN'P al Ab' way VAN
Don't block the doorway. Other
people want to get out.
Sing out before you get TO your floor,
60 the boy won't have TO reverse his
machine for you.
II you want to be regarded as a man
of mind, keep your hat on when all
the other men in the lift have theirs
off.
Take off your hat in honor Of an
ancient lady, for a pretty girl is sure
TO step in next, and then how chigal-
rous you will feel.
Don't gouge, don't push, don't scowl
and say mean things. If you object
to being showed up against you ought
to take the stairway.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
Explained.

New Boardcr-Look here! Why can't
have a full cup Of tea?
Waiter Girl-rhat was a full cup when
I took it outer the kitchen, but, ye, see,
this here teas SO weak it Jest lays down
in the bottom OF the crp Philadelphia
Ledger.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
The Modest Maiden.

May--Don't you think Jack Is a
very modest boy?
Belief don't know. | never was
immodest enough to find out,-Town
Topics.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29

A woman may be convinced in after
years that she drew a blank in the matri'
monial lottery, but she clings to the be.
lief that her husband drew a prize.-Chi-
racn Sun.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29

"I manage to keep my boarders longer
than you do said the first landlady,
ooh, | don't know" %rejoined the other.
you keep them 30 thin that they look
longer than they really are.'-Chicago
Daily News.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
eb.LA into your Shoes

Aliens Foot Ease. Il cures painful, swollen,
smarting, sweating feet. Makes new shoes
easy. Sold by all Druggists and Shoe Stores,
DOM accept any substitute. Sample FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted, lie Roy, n. Y.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29

by the Clark method could be a most
profitable part Of the rotation on a
cotton farm, and made to largely in
crease the cotton crop.-W. M. Massey,
North Carolina Experiment Station, in
Progressive Farmer.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-

ever since my child was born 7 have suf-
fered, as ] hope few women ever have, with
inflammation, female weakness, bcaring-down
pains, backache and wretched headaches. 1t
affected my stomach so that | could not en-
joy my meals, and half my time was spent
In bnd
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
The Important Point.

Edna-I dreamed last night that I was
fishing and landed a %whopper.
May-What was his name?-Dctroit
Free Press,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29

Classics are the books that travel along
with us in time. Popular successes mere
Nv cross our path-Life.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
Inevitable,

lneVlldDle.
Had your auto a month and haven't
run into anything yet?'
we'll, nothing but debt."-Houston
Post.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
1t All Depends.

He-Is marriage a failure?
She-You can seldom tell till you've
seen the wedding p%resents.-Cassellis
Journal.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29

Most of those VINO nave tried it report
that marrying the landlady is a poor
way, after ali, to pay a bill for board
Boston Globe.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
AN OLD MANS TRIBUTE.
An Ohio Fruit Raiser, rs Years Old, Cured
of a Terrible Case after Ten
Years of Suffering.
Sidney Justus, fruit dealer, of Mentor,

Ohio, says: 81
was cured by
Doan's Kidney
Pills of a severe
case of kidney
trouble, of eight
or ten years
standing. ! suf-
fcred the most
severe backache
and other pains
in the region of
tla I. IL
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infalll-
bic medicine for coughs and colds.-N: W
Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. j., Feb. H. 1900.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29

The fellow who runs down other peo'
pie generally manages to save a few
words to sung his own praise.-N. \.
Times.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29

household, and too often all the doc
toring does no good.
If a woman finds her energies are
tagging, and that everything tires her,
dark shadows appear under her eyes,
her sleep is disturbed by horrible
dreams; If she has b~ackache, head
aches, bearing-down pains, nervous
ness, whites, Irregularities, or despon-
dency, she should take means to build
her system up at once by a tonic with
specific powers, such as Lydia Il. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
This great remedy for women has
done more in the way of restoring
health to the women of America than
all other medicines put together. 1t is
the safeguard of woman's health.
Following we publish, by request, a
letter from a young wife.
Mrs. Bessie Ainsley of GIL South 10th
Street, Tacoma, Wash, writes:
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
III IDEAL WIFE
Shapes the Destiny of Men-The Influence OF q
Healthy Woman Cannot Be Overestimated.

Seven-eighths of the
men in this world marry
a woman because she is
beautiful in their eyes
because she has the quail
ties which inspire admira-
ton, respect and love.
There is n beauty in
health which is more at
tractive to men than mere
regularity of feature.
The influence of m
glorious in the possession
of perfect physical health
upon men and upon the
civilization of the world
could never be measured.
Because of them men have
attained the very heights
of ambition because of
them even thrones have
been established and de-
stroyed.
What disappointment,
then, to see the fair young
wife's beauty fading away
before a year passes over
her head! A sickly, half
dead-and-alive woman,
especially when she is
the mother of q family,
is q damper to all joyous
ness in the home, and u
drag upon her husband.
The cost of a wifc's con-
slant illness is q serious
drain upon the funds of n
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29

The war has had very little effect on
the attendance in the theaters of st.
Petersburg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18
REFUGEE TRAVEL
 LARGE YESTERDAY
MANY PEOPLE WENT THROUGH BIRMINGHAM ON THE QUEEN
 AND CRESCENT AND THE LOUIS WILLIE AND NASHVILLE TRAINS.

The refugee travel on the Queen and Crescent and the Louisville and Nash vile yesterday was unusually heavy. The Louisville and Nashville especially had an unusually large movement.
 On the Louisville and Nashville train last night at 9:18 o'clock there were prob ably 60 to 75 refugees, many of whom came from points between Mobile and New Orleans in tSe neighborhoo1 of the Ilaces where yellow fever has bacn dis covered in the past few days.
 The travel was very heavy yesterday morning on the Alabama Great Southern which brought the total for the day mp to something over 175 people. The en- tire day passed without any trouble and the officers were not compelled to send any one out of the state under arrest.
 Chief Inspector Barnes Morgan yester- day received information from Mont gomery that in the future the Montgom- cry officers would protect the through trains on the Louisville and Nashville from Montgomery to Decatur. and that he need not place inspectors on these trains in the future. He issued orders to that effect yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18
VANDERBILT EGGS FOR SALE.
BiItmore Hennery Is Not Provlnu q
 Financial Success.

From the New York Press.
 It has taken long time for the pre- diction to be fulfilled-it was made seven years ago-that George w. Vanderbilt would abandon his Bltmore farm. The family told him he never could make a success of 1t, and they spoke truly. for the farm was really so dreadfully and fearfully scientific that 1t was over-capi- talized with knowledge There is no doubt the Vanderbilt piggery and it's buttermillx fed hogs and the hennery with it's spec ially dieted hens were the finest things of the sort in North Carolina, but the ham was not much superior in flavor to the ordinary sugar-cured product, and the eggs were no fuller of meat than the eggs laid by the common barnyard fowl. dollar a dozen to produce eggs was just trihe too scientific. The superin- tendent of the hens got bigger salary than most bank clerks, but he couldn't keep the hens from striking in mid winter The farm will be sublet