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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-21

THE POULTRY YARD.

Poultry should have a certain pro-
portion Of salt in their food as well as
animals, as it is necessary to the pro-
motion of health and thrift.
Carefully gather the scraps from
the table and give them to the fowls.
There is no kind Of food which will
produce a more liberal supply of eggs,
Boiled eggs which adhere to the
shells are fresh; a good egg will sink
in water-stale eggs are glossy and
smooth of shell; a fresh egg has a lime
like surface to its shell.
Poultry will pay well as an addl-
ton to farm stock when they can OBJ
tain a good portion of their food for
nothing, but this is different from maxi
ing a specially Of them,
Always use a pure-bred male in the
flock, no matter of what breed it may
be, and your chicks will not only be
uniform, but as a rule superior to those
The the previous season.
For swelled eyes battle the head
with a warm solution made by dis
solving a teaspoonful of powdered bo-
racic acid in a pint of water, and anolnt
with a few drops of glycerine.
Keep everything about the poultry
house clean with plenty of fresh air
and sunlight; feed in a clearly way
with a great variety of food and water
daily. with pure, fresh water.
Care is that part of the routine of
poultry culture which bestows a kind
hand on the tender younglings, to sup
ply their little wants with a view OF
promoting thrift and good health.
The work of breeding in fine fowls
fancy fowls--of high merit is not a
business that can be jumped into all al
once, but rather n requiring study,
with effort, and this often for years.
Such diseases as flat eggs, eggs
within eggs, double-yelked eggs, and
other unnatural occurrences are often
the result Of the hens being overfat.
Reduct their condition by reducing the
ration.
Young goslings should be fed corr
meal, ground with the cob, and mixed
into a crumhly dough, to which a littl'
salt should he added. At the end r
The third week feeding wiro a d'v v
10 suiieient.-Tri-State Farmer,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-21
ACTUATED BY SElFISHNESS
Attacks Upon Patent Medicines Are
Made by Men of Mercen-
airy Mind.

No other business of q legitimate
character has ever been obliged to stand
such unwarranted and vicious attacks
as have been made on the patent medi-
cine" business by men of supposed and
professed intelligence and honesty who
have, in most cases, been actuated only
by a desire to further their own selfish
ends. The patent medicine" business
is n that had its inception in the dirs
necessity of the people, and one that has
grown to its present magnitude by rea-
son of the virtue Of the preparations it
has put out. At the present time the
patent medicine" business represents
the investment of many millions of dol
lars and the employment of many thou
sands of men.
The business of the "paten medicine"
manufacturers is to provide a system
of medication, for home use, that lacks
nothing in efficacy when compared with
doctors remedies, for simple and IA
miliar ailments, and which is, at the
same time within the financial reach of
all.
In the practice of medicine physicians
originated OF assimulated many spe-
cific remedies, Sometimes the knowl.
edge OF specifics was obtained from IN
old grandmother, who had practiced the
healing art with roots, herbs and barks.
Some of them have been devised by the
ingenuity of physicians, but many OF
them have been handed down from IN.
GRAFTON to generation: Those are the
simple remedies in every day use and in
constant demand.
These remedies were so constantly
used that their efficacy Lecame generally
known-they became the standards of
the medical world, the medical staples,
so to speak. Physicians who used them
and who knew their result producing
ability saw the demand for them and de-
vised means for their wholesale manu-
facture in laboratories great enough to
make economy and e%Xactness possible.
When the first physician started TO man
ufacture more of a certain remedy than
he needed for immediate use the 'patept
medicine business was born, and with
It's birth there came into existence the
system of family medication that is now
SO generally In vogue.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-21

From 1890 to 1900 the number Of
farms in the United States increased
from 4,5G4,G41 to 5,739,G57, and the
value of farms and farm property from
$l6.0S2, 2G7 900 to $s0,5l4,001 ,S3S.
The census is taken every ten years.
From 1870 TO 1880 the increase in farms
vas 1,34S,992, totals being 1853, 9S5 and
l,00S, 907, respectively. The number Of
persons engaged in agriculture on the
$685. 57 farms in 1900 is given at TO-
1929. During the past two or three
years, and mor especially the past
year, a great eXpanse of new farming
land vas opened up in the northwest,
so that by the time the next census is
taken it Is expected the total number
Of farms in the United Staes will be
close TO 1000, 900. With the rapid in
crease in establishing new farms and
methods tending to more intensive
farming, and the production of more
grain and product from every acre
titled by scientific methods that are now
being taught and practiced, the agri.
should be kept well apace with our
rapid increase in population. IntelIi-
gent methods of using the lands are
all that are required to provide album
dainty for our own and many foreign
consumers.-Tri-State Farmer.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-21
LEARNED OF LITTERATEURS.

Paul Bourgeois Paris home, in the
Rue Barbet-de-Jouy, is a rallying
point Of the French artistic and lit.
erary society during the season.
The son of the not sufficiently ap-
preciated novelist, Anthony Trollope,
has likewise turned to literature. He
is about to publish a biography of
Moliere.
Justin Mccarthy says that his three
objects in his life have been attained.
They were; To write books, to be a
member Of parliament, and to live in
London.
Capt. Orville j. Nave, an army
chaplain and author of "Nave's Top
ical Bible" is engaged in the com
p~ilation of a revised Bible which will
be a unique edition and the only one
OF its kind.
Edward Rostand has made so much
money with the products of his pen
that he has been able to engage three
popular Partisan artists, Jean Weber,
Henri Martin and Caro- Delvaille, to
decorate his Basque villa at Cambo.
Helen Longstreet, daughter of the
famous general, has written in Leo
and Longstreet at High Tide the
story of the battle Of Gettysburg in
answer to certain criticisms that have
been leveled at her Distinguished IA
ther. She has gone to the records for
her story, and has filled out sundry
gaps by reference to the memoirs left
by her father.
A. T. Quiller-Couch, better known
as 90" is the latest British novelist
to make an effort to get into parlia-
ment. He will stand" at the Oc-
tober election, and it is expected he
will win out, as he is very popular in
his native region. He lives in the
Cornwall he has made so famous in
his stories. Couch is AZ years of age,
and has written 90 books.
While he was yet a teacher in the
Jews free school, Spitalields, Lon.
don, Israel Zangwill, now famous as
author and playwright, composed
some verses, and timidly sent them to
the editor of an American magazine.
They were promptly returned. Some
years later, when fame had come his
way, the same editor cabled for a
poem. Mr.. Zangwill dispatched the
rejected verses, which were paid for
at a high rate, and doomed as the
work Of a celebrated author.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-21
FACTS ABOUT R

The people are miserably poor.
The country is %aristocracy ridden.
Game abounds; the soil is very fertile.
All the people are timid and peaceful.
The Korean men are tall and hand
some.
The women a.e squat, shapeless and
ugly.
Its landscapes are gems, winter or
summer.
The peasant is bled to the limit OF
endurance, .
The kings retinue is gorgeous in silk
and colors.
Justice is bought and sold. officials
buy their places.
The country is healthy and delightful
oil the year round.
Scouts mayor was chosen because Of
his skill in sorcery.
1t is considered, In natural beauty,
the Italy of the orient.
Taxes are farmed out like in France
before the revolution.
Korea has no religion. Buddhism was
disestablished years ago.
The better class of women are never
allowed to appear in public.
Seoul, the capital, is mean and
Gqualid beyond description.
Merchants who appear prosperous arc
tortured until they make loans" to the
nobility.
The king orders displays Of devils
End performances of magicians for royal
funerals.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-21

The plants are put In rows in the south
about four feet apart. and plants sir
inches apart in the rows. When
plants are ten inches tall, then they
can be banked with dirt to bleach. The
bank Is raised higher as the plants
grow-keeping the soil moist. In the
north the plants are taken up and put
in other beds for bleaching. but this is
not done in the south by the most ex-
perience celery growers.
Celery requires an abundance OF
water for its growth. Irrigation of Gel
cry beds has increased the yield more
Than Il hundred per cent. In Tennes-
see the irrigation Of the beds and the
raising Of The soil for bleaching should
continue during fall, so as to have eel
cry for early market. before the north
ern plants come south. Experience will
give more facts how to handle than we
can write in one article. The profits
are excellent, and sales in the south
VIII be rapid. Hereafter we will give
illustrations Of bleaching and other
facts that will be Of marked assistance
to those who wish to cultivate this
healthful ~plant-The State Farmer.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-21
SHE SAID 1T IN LATIN.
OF Which Language She Knew Quite
as Much as She Did
of Greek.

During the recent strikes in New York
city, when it was an even thing between
apprehension as to what the strikers might
do and apprehension as to what the green
hands pressed into service by the railway
management might fail to do, passengers
On the Subway and elevated roads felt
that they were taking their lives in Their
hands whenever they boarded a train,
In the nervous throng descending one
morning from a Ninth venue elevated
station was a woman whose pretentiaus
and inappropriate attire would have in
formed a Sherlock Holmes, even before she
opened her mouth, that she was another
one of the first cousins of Mrs, Malaprop.
As she reached the bottom of the stairs
and her feet touched the solid ground, the
anxious look that her face had worn
changed to one of relief and satisfaction.
My. She exclaimed to the persons
round about, "mebby you think | amt
glad to git my feet On terra Gotta once
more!"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-21
THE MERITS or THE MULE.
A Fact About the LOnS-Enrcd AMI
maI That the Average Farm
CIR Doesn't Know.

The average farmers probably Is not
aware of the fact that an average mule
sells for $40 per head more than horses,
Such is the case, and the price has been
gradually rising for a number of years.
There has never been what would be
called an overproduction of mules, while
the market has often been unable to
fully supply the trade.
The ability of the mules to endure
great heat had brought them into most
general use in the southern states,
where large farms are'devoted entirely
to raising them.
The mule natures more quickly than
the horse, and can be placed on the
market from one to two years sooner
than the average horse; this means a
large profit to the producer and quicker
returns for the investor.
A well-fed mule can be worked at
two years of age with safety, if proper
judgment is exercised by its driver,
They are much less nervous than a
horse, thus not so liable to accident
or blemish. A blemish that would
make a fine horse unstable would take
but a trifle from the price of a mule.
They sell simply for the work they
seem able to do, rather than for their
appearance. The mule buyer carries
his measuring stick, and gives probably
S. above the regular price FOR each inch
the young mules measure above four
feet at weaving time.
Large herds of so and 100 are safely
kept in a small Enclosure, They are
much less subject to disease than
horses when kept in large numbers,
Accident rarely occurs while the mule
is being borke to work, because they
always stop when in danger Of being
hurt, Much less care is exercised thai.
with the care of horses, yet one seldom
sees a mule blemished by accident,
The grain ration for the mule is much
less than that required for the horse;
this is quite an item to be considered
with the present high prices of grain.
We have had a large export trade for
mules. besides their use in the southern
plantations. Large numbers will be used
each year in the constructio.! of the
Panama canal, and good prices may
be expected for some years to come
Live Stock Journal.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-21
COFFEE NEURALGIA
Leaves When You Quit and Use
Postum.

A lady who unconsciously drifted
into ervous prostration brought on
by coffee, says:
81 have been a coffee drinker all
my life, and used it regularly, three
times a day.
"a year or two ago l became sub
ject to nervous neuralgia, attacks of
nervous headache and general nerv.
GUS prostration which rot only in.
capacitated me for doing my house.
work, but frequently made 1t neces-
sary for me to remain in a dark
room for two or three days at a time,
Il employed several good doctors,
n after the other, but none of them
was able to give me permanent relief.
Eight months ago a friend sug-
gested that perhaps coffee was the
cause of my troubles and that l try
Postum Food Coffee and give up the
old kind. l am glad l took her adj
vice, for my health has been entirely
restored. | have no more neuralgia,
nor have had one solitary headache
in all these eight months. No more
of my days are wasted in solitary con
finement in a dark room. l do all my
own work with ease. The flesh that ]
lost during the years Of my nervous
prostratlon has come back to me dur.
ing these months, and l am once more
a happy, healthy woman. l enclose a
list of names of friends who can vouch
for the truth of the statement" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek
Mich.
There's a reason.
Ten days trial leaving off coffee and
using Postum is sufficient, All gro
Gers,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-21
WOODS FOR PAVING.
REVIVAL IN THIS FORM or
STREET COVERING.
Experience and Research Have Con-
WINGED Municipal Engineers
of Its Superior Quail
tiles.

Paving with wood, in one form or
another, has been experimental with
in the United States for nearly rs
years. The first experience was so I'M
satisfactory that municipal engineers
for a long time looked upon wood
pavement with disfavor. 1t was quiet,
cheap and comfortable, but it soon
wore into holes and ruts, and the alb
sorption of street filth rendered it I'M
sanitary, while the wood speedily de-
cayed and had to be replaced. In re-
cent years, however, both knowledge
and practice have improved. 1t has
been discovered that, with the right
selection and treatment of woods and
the right method Of laying, wood paw
ing can be made successful; that q
good pavement, like a good house,
must be built IN a sound foundation,
and that both absorption and decay
can be prevented in the wood by prop
er chemical treatment. Consequently
a revival in wood paving has begun,
and many of the largest cities are
again trying it.
Few people realize the enormous cost
and Importance of street pavements.
Measured by the money invested,
street paving is probably the most i'm
portant of any single class of engin-
eering construction except steam rail-
roads. the amount invested to date
being estimated by a competent au-
thority as approximately $5l5, 900 900
for the United States. Wood pave
ment is now made almost exclusively
Of one or two of the best construction
woods, and if it should become popular
the drain upon these woods would be
seriously increased.
The forest service wishes to ascer-
tain if there are not among the va
rious cheaper and more abundant spe-
cies some which can by proper treat
ment be substituted for the more
valuable kinds now in use. This study
will involve three principal lines Of
inquiry.
The experience of cities which have
wood pavements will be compared as
to the kind Of wood used, the form Of
block and the kind of construction, the
qualities of the resulting pavement and
the cost.
Laboratory tests will be made, first
to determine to what mechanical quail
tiles woods which have given good
service seem to owe their success, and
then as to what woods among our
cheaper varieties either possess or can
by given these qualities. The wear to
which a pavement is subjected is a
very complex one, which it will be
difficult even to approximate in labora-
tory tests. The final test will be
actual service, but the laboratory can.
at least, give the basis for an intelli-
gent solution in place of an "unfounded
guess.
Finally, the supply and location OF
promising substitutes will be consid-
cred.
The forest service hopes to make
its inquiry of direct benefit to the pub
lie. 1t Is especially DESTROYS of com
pleting a list of the manufacturers of
wood paving in the United States, and
would be glad to be advised of any
such manufacturer with whom it Is
not already in communication.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-21

Every mother possesses information
which is of vital interest to her young
daughter.
Too often this Is never impaired Or Is
withheld until serious harm has result
ed to the growing girl through her
ignorance of natures mysterious and
wonderful laws and penalties.
Girls over-sensitivcness and modesty
often puzzle their mothers and battle
physicians, as they SO often withhold
their confidence from their mothers
and conceal the symptoms which ought
to be told to their physician at this
critical period.
When n girls thoughts become slug
gish, with hcidachc, dizziness or n dis
position to sleep, painsi in back or lower
limbs, eyes dim, desire for solitude;
when she is n mystery to herself and
friends, her mother should come TO her
aid, and remember that Lydia Il. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound will at
this time prepare the system for the
coming change, and start the menstrual
period in a young girls life without
pain or irregularities.
Hundreds of letters from young girls
and from mothers, expressing their
gratitude for what Lydia T.. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has accomplished
for them, have been received by the
Lydia l.. Pinkham Medicine Co., at
Lynn, Mass.
Miss Mills has written the two fol,
lowing letters to Mrs, Pinkham, which
will be read with iuterest:
Dear Mrs, Pinkham:- 0'irst letter.
Lam but fifteen years ofagc, amdeprcssed
have dizzy spells, chills. headache and back.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-21
SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE.
CHURCHES.

Women without hats are not to be
admitted hereafter to Canterbury
cathedral in England.
Pope Plus X. has sent the papal bene-
diction to the members of st. Liborius
church choir, st. Louis, in recognition Of
their consistent and sustained observ-
ance of the regulations regarding church
music.
As a memorial to the late Jay Cooke,
one of the founders and rector's warden
of ST. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church
of A|shbourne, Pa. a memorial hall will
be built there. The plans for the build
ing. which will cost $4,000, have been
accepted. The funds will be provided by
Mr.. Cookies children.
Twenty-Five years ago, says a religious
worker, the ruling idea Of the church
was that children should be seen and
not heard. The result was that few were
seen and none heard. The growth of
young peoples societies in the churches
In the last quarter-century means that
the truth is realized that the young are
the most efficient builders of the King
dom Of Heaven on earth.
DR., Adolf Fritzen, bishop of Stras-
burg, has again issued an edict forbid
ding priests within his diocese TO use
bicycles. He Is sharply criticised there
for by the newspapers, which call at
tention TO the fact that bicycling ceased
long ago to be a mere secular sport, and
that priests often find the wheel most
useful, especially those who have to
visit members of their congregation In
remote country places.
Notwithstanding the French people are
demanding the separation of church and
state, the Roman Catholics of France
have given more to the worldwide
propagation Of their faith than all other
countries combined. Out of n total of
$1,352,O17.07 given for that cause last
year France contributed SOL ,00S. GA.
while American Roman Catholics gave
only sl5G, 942, 90, about on%e-eighteenth
as much as was given to missions by the
Methodist Episcopal church alone.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-21
FARMER AND PLANTER.
WANTED--LONG LEASES.
Leasing Land In the south n rob
lem For the Landlord and
Tenant as Well.

Leasing land In the south Is a prob
lem for the landlord and for the ten
ant, as we all know the most Of the
land Is bound up by capital. We have
In the state OF Alabama plenty OF men
that have anywhere from 1000 to 49,
600 acres Of land, and they are always
bothered to get good tenants on this
land, and at the same time they are not
willing to lease their property for more
than three years, and they tell you they
had rather not lease it at all. They
had rather rent it from year to year.
| cant see why this Is 50. At the same
time they want the land improved and
brought up to a high states of fertiliza-
ton, and on the yearly leasing system
the land IS growing poorer and wash
ing away, and each field Is growing
smaller year by year. Now, If the land
lords would put on these lands reason
able improvements, and lease this land
for anywhere from five to ten years,
then the tenant would fully realize that
he would get the benefit of the land
after he improved It. | am satisfied he
would have a much better tenant. Ev-
erybody is saying, improve your land,
SOW pease and it will add so and SO
to the yield the next year, which is
correct, but where is the man that is
going to do this unless he knows he
is going to get the fruits Of his labor
The landlord will tell you his reason
for not leasing ten years. He hopes to
get better rent. lie will never get bet
ter prices till his land is made better,
Everybody always hates to move, and
rs the old saying is, two moves are
equal TO one fire, and when you get a
man to feel that he is settled, he is a
much better citizen. If Montgomery
county could get every negro in il in
n state of thrift every white man in
the county could get rich in ten years,
but as long as it takes all he can make
to pay his rent and his supply bills 1t
would take a lifetime to get anything
out of him. Hard to get blood out of
a turnip. | would like TO see a longer
lease system tried, and | think once
tried would stay for all time TO come.
We have plenty Of land in Montgom-
cry county that, If a man were to put
I 900 pounds of fertilizer TO the acre
in less than five years would yield one
bale of cotton to the acre, and now the
same land is not making more than one
bale to three acres. On land that makes
one bale to three acres its costs to grow
one bale $50, and on the II acre that
! 600 pounds of fertilizer put on, you
can grow a bale for $40.
Now, it is a demonstrated fact, if we
live in this country We have got to i'm
prove the land, and the tenants are not
going TO improve on short lease. Ala
bama can be brought up to a state of
high fertility, and could be made to pri-
duce under proper cultivation double
what it does to-day. NJ. Stuckey,
Montgomery. Ala, in Southern Agri-
culturist,