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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
NEW YEARS CALLS.
A New Drink to Replace the oId-Time
"Apple-Jack."

Twenty-Five years ago the custom Of
making New Years calls was a de-
lightful one for all concerned, until
some of the boys got more "egg-nog
or "apple-jack" than they could sue
cessfully carry.
Then the ladies tried to be charit-
able and the gentlemen tried to be
as chivalrous as ever and stand up at
the same time.
II anyone thinks there has not been
considerable improvement made in the
last quarter of a century in the use
Of alcoohlic beverages, let him stop
to consider, among other things, the
fact that the old custom of New Years
calls and the genteel tipping is nearly
obsolete.
The custom Of calling on ones
friends, however, at the beginning Of
the new year, is good habit, and an
other good habit to start at that time
Is the use of well-made Postum in
stead of coffee or spirits.
l
A Staten Island doctor has a sen
sible daughter who has set Postum
before her guests as a good thing tC
drink at Yule Tide, and q good way
to begin the New Year. Her fathel
writes:
my daughter and have uset
Postum for some time past, and W.
feel sure it contains wholesome foot
material.
II shall not only recommend 1t t
my patients, but my daughter will b'
most pleased to give a demonstration
Of Postum to our Christmas and New
Years callers" Read The Road :,
MELVILLE" In pkgs. There's reason.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08

II is doubtful if any royal consort is
more loved by her people than is the
empress Of Japan. Educated accord
Ing to feudal ideas and skilled in all
the accomplishments befitting one of
her social eminence, her majesty
strongly favors ne broadness OF the
new education for women and from
her private purse gives large sums
toward the maintenance of womens
schools and universities During the
war with Russia the empress visited
the hospitals many times and every
day passed hours making bandages.
The effect Of these bandages upon the
wounded soldiers has been of deep in
terest to medical and scientific men,
for the soldiers honored by them
seemed to rally under a peculiar men.
tai influence. All other bandages were
destroyed after their first use; those
made by the empress were sterilized
and used again for the simple reason
of their effect on the recovery Of the
soldiers.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
BABY'S AWFUL HUMOR.
Thin Skin Formed Over Body and In.
der It Was Watery Blood-cured in
One Week by Cuticura Remedies.

when my little girl baby was one
week old she had skin disease. A
thin skin formed over her body and
under it was watery blood, and when
she was washed it would burst and
break She was in that condition for
weeks, and tried everything l could
think of, but nothing did her any
good. When she was three months
old took her to San Antonio to see
doctor, but the doctor we wanted to
see was not at home, so my sister
gave me a cake of Cuticura Soap and
half a box of Cuticura Ointment, and
told me to use them, which I did in
time. l used them three times, and
the humor began to fade, and in one
week she was sound and we'll and it
has never returned since. / think
every mother should keep the CUT,
cura Remedies in the house. Mrs.
H. Aaron, Benton, Texas, July 8,
1905"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
Remarkable Crop of Japan Glover,

The spontaneous development OF
the Japan clover plant in the south
has been worth millions of dollars to
the people thereof. The Jackson
(TennD Daily Sun contains the sub
joined facts;
Here is a little experience Of Mr.,
H. Gilbert, residing on R. f. D. No. g.,
running out of Jackson:
Mr. Gilbert last spring was blowing
up a field to plant millet for hay and
as the ground was becoming hard and
dry he left about two acres in the cen.
ter unplowed and unseeded. This
two-acre patch sprang up with a
growth Of Japan clover. After the
heavy rains of a few weeks ago, which
damaged and destroyed so much pea
vine hay, were over, Mr. Gilbert put
his moving machine into the Japan
clover and cut and cured it. 1t made
70 bales, for which Mr. Gilbert found
a ready sale in Jackson at 60 cents
per bale The two-acre crop yielded
him $3.50 or $3.50 per arcre,
How is this for crop that comes
up like a weed and needs no culgiya-
ton?
Can our cotton growers beat it for
net profit?
In regard to the value of the hay,
Mr. Gilbert saws no has nuf II into tho
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
Make an Asparagus Bed.

Have you asparagus on your table?
If not, listen to this talk, act and you
may enjoy one of the great luxuries
of eating.
Asparagus is one of the first yegeta-
bles Of spring; it is a hardy plant,
and when established will last for
years. An ounce of seed will plant
about so feet of rows and furnish 400
plants Fertlize the handmade as
rich as possible-drill in rows 1G
inches apart so a pillow can be run be-
tween rows The plants will be ready
to transplant the second year to their
permanent places. Transplant in April
OF the second year
Set plants six inches below the sur
face Of the soil Set the plants four
feet apart in rows so as to cultivate
with plow or bull tongue. Put plants
every 20 inches in rows, The tops
can be cur the second year. Cutting
should cease about the first of June.
Conoyer Colossal is among the best
varieties to SOW.
In North Carolina experienced gar
deners have made an acre produce as
high as $780,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
To Increase Depth Of Soil.

Turning two inches of fresh subsoil
on top is the proper way to Increase
the depth Of the soil The advantage
of putting the subsoil on top is that
those two inches exposed to the at.
mosphere increase the circulation to a
greater depth in the land and add two
inches to the cultiyatable land. An.
other benefit Is that the two inches
thrown on top will receive elements
of fertility from the air that will add
nitrogen to those two inches which
will be worth as much as S. per acre.
Nature does contribute a small
amount to the nitrogen fund of the
soil, and it thus slowly improves a
poor piece Of ground, The ammonia
escaping from different sources diff.
fuses itself through the atmosphere;
nitric acid is formed by the electric
sparks passing through the air during
thunder showers, which will be absorb
ed by the two inches of subsoil on
the top, capacitating it for plants. The
atmosphere will affect the two inches
on the top similar TO clover roots, in
creasing the heterogeneous nodules un.
der the soil.
Turn at once your land two inches
deeper than ever broken before, and
let the mineral subsoil on top become
Observation-Disclosures by the rains
and freezes, and your land will grad.
ually grow deeper and richer.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
A BRIDGE OF MAHOGANY
Valuable Wood Used In Mexican struo.
ture for Pedestrians and Teams.


AS mahogany is among the most
costly woods in the world, Il may be
inferred that this tropical material
is not very extensively employed in
the construction of buildings, etc. A
bridge constructed of solid mahogany
is certainly a rarity, a curiosity
There is one, claimed to be the only
one in the world, built of that mate
rial. This structure is located in the
department of Palenque, state Of Chi
apas, republic of Mexico. This dis
trict lies in the extreme southwestern
part of Mexico, near the boundary line
of Guatemala.
The mahogany bridge is construct
ed entirely of that valuable wood,
except some iron hEaces and nails that
are necessary. The bridge spans the
Rio Michel and its total length, IN
Guiding approaches, exceeds $50 feet,
while the width is Is feet. 1t is used
by both teams and pedestrians and,
though somewhat rude and primitive
in construction, it is very substantial
None of the timbers Of the flooring
were sawed, for in that region there
are no sawmills, but were hewn and
split.
In that section of old Mexico there
are several very large rubber planta-
tons. and mahogany trees are quite
common, In clearing away the trop-
ical forests for setting out the young
rubber trees the mahogany growths
are also cut down and removed AS
this wood is quite abundant, some of
1t was used in building the bridge
American Inventor.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
Alsike Clover and Tall Meadow Dat
Grass.

Gattman. Miss.-When fields are
seeded with alsike clover or tail mead
ow cat grass for winter pasWrages,
do seed from the grass or clover not
sprout and interfere with the spring
and summer crop? How should al
sike clover and tall meadow oat grass
be planted and when TO plant? Do
winter turf oats yield as much grain
as red rust proof in the state OF Mis-
sissippi2
EMMETT WILLIAMS,
If there is any obpjection to seed
falling from the alsike clover or tall
meadow oat grass in the fall and ger
mating in the spring, We are not aware
Of it. All animal plants do the same,
and that is their way of keeping up
the family. Turn the land deeper than
usual, putting under the trash, leaves
and weeds as much as possible, to
nirify during winter, These may add
Sc worth of humus per acre to the
land In March, in Mississippi, disc
the plat three or four inches deep and
SOW the alsike and tall meadow oat
grass, narrowing the seed into the
land. Two borrowings win not be too
much.
The yield of all kinds Of oats in the
south have been very low, being from
twenty to thirty bushels, but we have
known sixty to eighty bushels to be
grown in North Alabama per acre
There is little difference in the yield
of the winter and the rust proof yarie-
ties. The secret of success is in the
fertilization and the preparation of
the land,-Southern Agriculturist.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
GAINED So POUNDS
Persistent Anocmia Cured by Dr.
Wnliams' Pink Pills After Other
Remedies Had Failed.

Remedies Had Failed.
When I began taking DR.. Williams
Pink Pills, " SAYS Mrs. Nathaniel Field,
of st. Adams, Somerset county, Maine,
IL was the paleSt, most bloodleSs person
You could imagine. My tongue and
gums We're colorless and my fingers and
ears were like wax. l had two doctors
and they pronounced my trouble anPmia.
Ihad spells of vomiting. could not eat,
in fact, did not dare 10, ! had such dis.
tress after eating. My stomach was filled
with gas which caused me awful agony.
The backuche | suffered was at times
almost unbearable and the least eXertion
made my heart beat SO fast that l could
hardly breathe. But theworst Of all was
the splitting neuralgia headache which
never leftme for seven weeks. About this
time l had had several numb spells, My
limbs would be cold and without any
feeling and the most deathly sensations
would come over me.
Nothing had helped me until I began
taking Dr. Williams Pink Pills, in fact,
/ had grown worse every day. After |
had taken the pills a short time l could
see that they We're benefting me and
one morning I awoke entirely free from
pain. The distress after eating diSap-
peared and in three weeks / could eat
anything wanted and suffer no incon.
yeniencc. also slept soundly. have
taken several boxes of the pilsand have
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
Forty Years Or More Ago.

Tennessee has fallen from her high
position that she held forty years or
more ago. She then raised a greater
number of hogs than any state in the
Union. She then drove hogs by the
thousan DIS to Alabama and Mississip.
pi which were sold to farmers on
the roads, slaughtered, cured and con.
sumed upon the farm and in the
towns. Every farmer then raised some
hogs, cured and smoked the hams
and was a good liver.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
Keen In Good Health.

There are many thousands Of peo-
pie all over the world who can at.
tribute their good health to taking one
of two Brandreth's Pills every night.
These pills cleanse the stomach and
bowels, stimulate the kidneys and
liver and purify the blood. They are
the same fine laxative tonic pills your
grandparents used and being purely
vegetable they are adapted to children
and old people, as well as those in
the vigor Of manhood and womanhood
Brandreth's Pills have been in use
for over century and are for sale
everywhere, plain or sugar-coated.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
The Hogs In Demand.

Hogs can be grown in ten months
to weigh 200 pounds each at a cost
OF about 2R cents per pound. Light
hogs are now in demand, and the
profits thereon are greater than on
heavy hogs weighing 400 pounds. In
former times the heavy middlings
were wanted for the negroes of the
south, but now the lighter weights
with more lean flesh is wanted for
white consumers. Listen and act on
this talk, farmer friends!
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08

Weather is charming here and re-
cent rain was a great benefit to our
fall growing crops Of eggplant toma.
toes, turnips, string beans, cucumbers,
lettuce, sweet peppers, etc, all OF
which We grow for northern markets
The sugar cane is developing rapidly
and will soon be ready to grind
Oranges and grape fruit, as we'll as
kuaquats and lemons, are turning vel
low and will soon be sweet and
good for those shipped in September
were entirely too green. Many new
people coming in looking for homes
and tourists making inquiries as tC
cottages for winter,-W. E. Embry
Dade City, Fla.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
A New Irish Potato.

Some hybridizer Of new vegetables
has created a new Irish potato called
Noroton, that is in several particulars
ahead Of any Of the older potatoes.
Mr. w. D. Cartwright, the manager Of
the farm at the Central Tennessee
hospital for the insane, last spring
purchased a barrel of Noroton, paying
$3.50 for it, He planted the barrel Of
new tubers the middle of July. He
has dug and put away for seed for next
spring thirty-fve bushel Of the Moro
ton, refusing to sell any. This was an
increase Of about twelve bushels to
one planted. If the next spring crop
should succeed as well as the second
crop this year, he will have about 500
bushels, which will again be used for
seed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
PHOTOGRAPHY AND FINE ART.
Camera Pictures Much More Than Mo
chanical Reproduction.

Few persons could be found who
would deny the claims of photography
to rank among the fine arts, when
skillully used and properly controlled,
since the photography of of to-day is
something more than a mechanical re-
production. The individuality of the
photographer is being expressed in
his work almost as much as is that of
the painter. The painter still has the
advantage, for while he may give us
an impression fuller than that made by
nature upon the eye, the photographer
can deal only with that which is OBJ
served with such unerring fidelity and
skill by mechanical eye Compost
ton is therefore one of the necessary
principles to the photographer, who
thus supplies the mechanical eye with
a mind, yet he must study lighting at
different hours Of the day and varying
weather conditions that he may know
the best effects to be obtained. Many
otherwise successful photographers
need to realize that scientific accuracy
is not necessarily artistic truth, so
that, while one actualizes, the definite
sharpness may be softened and the ef-
feet ennanced.-Home Magazine.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
Checked Attempt at Monopoly,

Trusts were sometimes dealt with
summarily in old England. For In
stance, the records of the Brewers
company show that ION Monday, July
30, 1922, Robert Chichele, the mayor of
London, sent for the masters and Il
Of the most worthy Of our company to
appear at the Guildhall for selling dear
ale. After much dispute about the
price and quantity of malt, wherein
Whityngtone, the late mayor, declared
that the brewers had ridden into the
country and forestalled the malt, to
raise its price, they we're convicted in
the penalty of $50 ($1OO), which OBJ.
jectlng to, the masters were ordered
to be kept in prison in the chamber.
lain's custody until they should pay u,
or find security for the payment
thereof"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
Sounded Praises of SOAP.

In a guide to etiquette published
early In the last century the writer
says that Soap does not irritate the
complexion; some Of the finest COM
plexions we have known have been
regularly washed with soap every day."
The same authority remarks that "the
daily bath is now the rule rather than
the exception, and common sense has
triumphed over the decision that wash
ing was injurious" And then the
writer has dig at her great-grand-
mother, whose only additions con-
sisted in wetting her cheeks with a
cambria handkerchief dipped in rose.
water" In all our direct ms With re-
gard to the BATH" adds this early Vic
torian dictator, 1T must be borne in
mind that we only refer to those in
sound state Of health"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08

While Senator Chauncey M. Depew
was enjoying his long rest at Ardsley-
on-the-Hudson he did a good deal of
work on his "reminiscences, He is not
sure that they will ever be published,
his idea being that they might be of
interest to his son. In his fifty years
of public life Mr.. Depew has known
a great many prominent personages
and his "reminiscences can hardly fail
to be exceedingly readable
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
AND PLANTER
BACTERIA BLIGHT.
Why Tomatoes Can Not Be Grown On
Some Southern Lands.

The southern tomatoes are subject
to what is called bacteria blight The
bacteria, like seed, have been left in
the land from year to year. until it
becomes a permanent pest and it
must he starved out before il will
grow healthy plants. The application
of 300 pounds of German kainit per
acre would be very beneficial in aid
ing to kill out the bacteria, Examine
the stems of the tomato vines and
small knots will be found on them,
and in cutting those elevated spots
on the vines they will be found full
of liquid substance resembling water
core in apples. The older leaves turn
yellow and hang down the stems. The
green stems become brown and the
lower leaves become yellow and Shiny.
This same disease attacks the Irish
potato.
The remedy is in spraying the
plants about three times with Bor-
deaux mixture Don't wait to see the
disease upon the plants, but spray
with sulphate of copper and lime when
the tomatoes are in good growth about
two weeks after transplanting. In
two weeks, if there is a rain. spray the
second time with Bordeaux mixture
and this will destroy the bacteria,
The spray is more a preventive, as 1t
will check the disease, and the plants
may remain perfectly sound and ripen
their crop il sprayed about four times,
The turnip is subject to a disease
called downy mildew, which is a fun
gous disease, but has a different name
from that of the tomato. by making
a spray of five pounds of sulphate Of
copper and five pounds of quick lime
and sprinkling over the turnips the
fungi will be destroyed These are
the best remedies known for killing
all fungOus diseases.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08

and investigating mind, an earnest
seeker after knowledge, ard above
all, possessed of a wonderfully sympa-
thetic nature.
In 1s43 she married Isaac Pinllham,
a builder and real estate operator, and
their early married life was marked by
prosperity and happiness. They had
four children, three sons and a
daughter.
In those good old fashioned days it
was common for mothers to make
their own home medicines from roots
and herbs, natures own remedies
calling in a physician only in specially
urgent cases. BY tradition and eX-
perience many of them gained won
derful knowledge of the curative prop
critics of the various roots and herbs.
Mrs. PinlSham took a great interest
in the study of roots and herbs, their
characteristics and power over disease.
She maintained that just as nature so
bountifully provides in the harvest
fields and orchards vegetable foods of
all kinds; SO, if we but take the pains
10 uuu Jutul, III luC lOOlS anu llGl 10
of the field there are remedies OK
pressly designed to cure the various
ills and weaknesses of the body, and
it was her pleasure to search these out,
and prepare simple and effective medi-
cines for her own family and friends.
Chief of these was a rare combina-
ton of the choicest medicinal roots
and herbs found best adapted for the
cure of the ills and weaknesses pecu-
liar to the female sex, and Lydia L, Pink
hams friends and neighbors learned
that her compound relieved and cured
and it became quite popular among
them.
All this so far wasdone freely, with
out money and without price, as q
labor of love.
But in 1873 the financial crisis struck
Lynn. Its length and severity were too
much for the large real estate interests
of the Pinkham family, as this class
of business suffered most from
fearful depression, so when the Centen-
NAL year dawned it found their prop
erty swept away. Some other source
of income had to be found.
At this point Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound was made known
to the world.
The three sons and the daughter,
with their mother, combined forces to
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08
LIKE A FAIRY TALE.
The Story of Postum Cereal in Words
and Pictures,

The growth Of the Postum Cereal
Co. is like a fairy tale, but it is true,
every word of it.
"The Door Unbolted' is the title OF
a charming little booklet just issued
by the Company which tells, and il
illustrates, the story of this remark
able growth. It takes the reader from
the little white barn in which the
business was started Jan. l, 1895,
through the palatial offices and great
factory buildings of the white City
that comprise Postumyille, Battle
Creek, Mich.
The little white barn, so carefully
preserved, is a most interesting build
ing, for it represents the humble be-
ginning of one Of the cOuntry's great
est manufacturing enterprises OF to-
day, an enterprise that has grown
from this little barn to whole city
of factory buildings within but little
more than ten years,
No less interesting is the quaint Of
fetal home of the Postum Cereal Co.
The general office building Of Mr. Post
and his associates is a reproduction Of
the Shakespeare house at Stratford-
on-Avon, and upon the house and its
furnishings has been expended vast
sums Of money until the rooms are
more Ike the drawing rooms Of the
mansions Of our muld.millionaires
than like Offices.
That Mr.. Post has believed thor
oughly in the idea Of giving to his
employees attractive and healthtul
work rooms is proven not only by the
general office building Of the Company
and its furnishings, but by his fac
tories as well, and of all Of these
things this beautiful little booklet telli
the interesting story. 1t will be sen
to anyone on request
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08

The great value of green manures
for the light and humuslacking soils
of the cotton region is now generally
appreciated by all the more intelligent
farmers. 1t is well known that the
soils lacking in humus burn out in
dry summer weather, rarely giving
over half the crop that similar soil,
well stocked with humus affords,
when both soils get the same amount
of fertilizer and tillage. There is an
unfortunate tendency among cotton
growers to depend too much upon fer
tilizer Tor making the crop.