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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
Proper Eyeglasses.

Everyone who knows that in using
a field glass it is necessary to adjust
it to a proper focus. Suppose that you
mt one of the tubes at your focus and
the other tube at focus that suit
ed some one else and then you looked
through both tubes. You should have
a more or less blurred vision, and II
you kept on looking the chances are
that you would feel giddy and get a
headache Now, the two eyes are sup
posed to have an equal natural focus,
and when by any chance that focus is
UNEQUAL a headache results, The rem
edy is a pair of glasses or a single
glass to make the eyes equal in power.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15

There's hardly a subject" said an
editor, that hasn't a paper devoted
to it, There is a hay fever paper, for
instance. full of cures and resorts
for the hay fever victim
Take dancing. Well there are 10
papers, some of them illustrated, that
treat of dancing alone There are
some 20 or 80 bee weeklies, one of
which has a circulation of $1,000.
There are a dozen journals that re-
late to nothing but the Marcel wave,
the box beard, the latest pattern
strop and chair and massage cream,
so it goes. The shoemaker has
his paper, the bricklayer has his, the
blind man has his in raised type,
the convict has his, the stamp col
lector has his.
AS soon as a new thing comes out
--automobiling, say-papers spring
up devoted to it. Even before a thing
has arrived it may establish its pa
pers-as, for instance, the flying ma
chine, which hasn't arrived yet, and
already we have quite half-dozen
papers devoted to flying"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
NO MEDICINE
Bit Change Of Food Gave Final Relief.

Most diseases start in the aliment-
airy canal-stomach and bowels.
A great deal of our stomach and
bowel troubles come from eating too
much starchy ami greasy food.
The stomach does not digest any of
the starchy food we eat-white bread,
pastry, potatoes, oats, etc.-these
things are digested in the small intes-
tines, and if we eat too much, as most
Of US do, the organs that should di-
gest this kind of food are overcome
by excess of work, so that fermenta-
ton, Indigestion, and long train
of ails result.
Too much fat also is hard to digest,
and this is changed into acids, sour
stomach, belching gas, and a bloaty,
heavy feeling.
In these conditions change from
lndigestible foods to Grape-Nuts will
work wonders in not only relieving
the distress but in building up a
strong digestion, clear brain and
steady nerves. A Wash. woman
writes:
about five years ago suffered with
bed stomach-dyspepsia, indigestion,
constipation-caused, / know now,
from eating starchy and greasy food.
Il doctored for two years without
any benefit The doctor told me there
was no cure for me. could not eat
anything without suffering severe
pain in my back and sides, and l be-
came discouraged.
"A friend recommended Grape-Nuts
and began to use 1t. In less than
two weeks ! began to feel better, and
inside Of two months ] was a we'll
woman and have been ever since.
4 can eat anything / wish with
pleasure. We eat Grape,Nuts and
cream for breakfast, and are very
fond of It," Name given by Postum
Co.. Battle Greek, Mich. Read the
little book, "The Road to We!lville,'
IN pkgs There's reason"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
Care of chlIdren's Teeth.

At Strasburg, Germany a dental
clinic has been opened at the uni
versity for the treatment of school
children. Hither all the school chill
dren are sent, in order, by their teach
ers. Each child is quickly exam
ined, as many as eighty children be-
ing dealt with in an hour, and nearly
800 a day, by a single doctor. Teach
ing goes hand in hand with treatment
The doctor tells the child how to use
a tooth brush, sees that he uses one,
and sends him home to practice with
it. The movement Is spreading. In
Wiesbaden and Mulhausen school den
tai clinics are to be erected.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
Worth Knowing.

That Allcock's Plasters are the
highest result of medical science and
skill, and in ingredients and method
have never been equaled.
That they are the original and gen
uine porous plasters upon whose rep
utation imitators trade.
That Allcocks Plasters never fail to
perform their remedial work quickly
and effectually.
That for Weak Back, rheumatism,
Colds, Lung Trouble, Strains and all
Local Pains they are invaluable,
That when you buy Allcock's Plas-
tiers you obtain the best plasters made.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
PUT DOWN DEDICATION" IDEA.
Farmers's Plea Had Weight Among
Brother AgricuIturists.

In the early forties, on certain
town meetin day in one Of the small
farming communities Of the Granite
state, there was more than the usual
interest and excitement Some auda-
cious Philistine had secured the inser-
ton in the warrant of an article ITO
see II the town will appropriate $500
for a new schoolhouse.'
The sturdy yeomanry we're out in
force to fight down this proposition.
The sympathetic moderator didn't
moderate them worth a cent. The
so-called "toney" advocates, conscious
from the start of their numerical
weakness, were conciliatory and PER
suasive in the hope Of thus winning
to their standard sufficient Of the op-
position to carry the day. These hopes
were dashed however, when a vet
eran farmer, the Nestor Of the guild,
got the floor, and shouted in foghorn
tones:
What do you want Of skulehouses,
anyway? This dedication talk is rails,
in the old Harry with the boys on the
farm! There's that Danny Web
ster-'s likely a young man S ever
raised in these ere parts! Got this
dedication idee into his head-left the
farm-neyer's heard of afterwardn
This was a settler. The "toneys'
fed the scene, and the noes" had it
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
VITALITY THE MAIN THING.
He Who Has It Pulls Through, the
Other Patient Dies.

Two men undergo operations of the
same character in a hospital. The
same Eurgeon does the work. The con
dItions are identical Equal care is eX-
ercised in each operation and each Is
successfully performed. Yet one man
RECEIVERS, the other dies. Or there Is
a tremendous business pressure which
does not let up for months. It puts
the men under a terrible strain. One
man goes to pieces and his business is
wrecked He can not keep the pace;
he loses control Of himself, His rival
has no better brains than he-perhaps
not so good-yet he pulls through sue
cesstully. We say that there is a diff
ference in vitality that one man has
more of it than the other, says a writer
in the Worlds Work.
l once saw a man in hospital who
was suffering from five fatal diseases
and yet he would not die He had
kept on living year after year in spite
of everything, He refused to succumb,
We find the same thing illustrated
every day In a shipwreck there are
men who seem to give up their lives
without a struggle, without any power
to resist; others cling to an open raft
for days without food, almost frozen,
constantly whipped by the waves, but
for some reason or other they survive,
The vitality in them is strong.
Notice how rapidly and surely one
man RECEIVERS himself after a nervous
breakdown, while another drags along
through years Of semi-invalidism. No
tice the results upon two men of a long
cold drench of rain. One of them
comes down with pneumonia, the other
suffers no i'll effects. How is it to be
explained?
He has a reserve somewhere-an
inner power of resistance; an aggres-
siye something that will not be downed
we call it vitality, A man can't have
a more valuable asset than that 1t
means joy instead of dumps, success
instead of failure, JOY, perhaps, instead
of death.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
Tea on the Down Grade.

Tea drinkers are finding scant en-
enlargement in a report recently
made by a large tea exporting house
in Yokohama to its American GUS
toners. Incidentally it indicates that
the United States is not alone in fac
ing increased cost of living. The re-
port says; Owing to the rapidly in
creasing cost Of living in Japan labor
costs more, and in consequence cul-
ovation of the tea gardens is less
generous and extensive than formerly,
and less care and skill are expended
in picking and curing the leaf. Hence
the average quality of the teas now
offered for sale is below that Of sea-
sons prior to the war, and for the
same reasons we are not likely in the
future to see any reyersion to the
excellence of former years."-New
York Sun.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
Rifle Shooting in Schools,

Rife shooting will hereafter be in
cluded in the curriculum of the ele-
mentary schools Of Great Britain. Mr.
Birrell, the president of the board of
education, who made the announce
ment in the House of Commons, said
that the educational authorities had
been given permission under certain
restrictions, to allow children of GER
tain ages to be taught to shoot at
miniature ranges, the instruction to be
paid out Of the public funds.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15

"Professor-I presume?' said he.
Eyes, sir"
Are you alone?"
yes, sir"
MAY l lock the door?'
And he did so; then, having satisfied
himself that no one else was in he
placed a large bundle done up in a
yellow handkerchief on the table and
opened it,
There, look at that"
well, said the professor, Il see
It."
What do you call that, professor"
81 call it iron pyrites"
What" said the man, isn't that
god?"
NO" said the professor; it's good
for nothing-it's pyrites."
And putting some in a shovel over
the fire, it soon evaporated up the
chimney.
Well" said the gentlemanly man
with a woebegone look, there's g
widow in our town has a whole hill
full of that, and I've been and married
her"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
Salt For Dairy Cows.

Extensive tests and Investigations
have been made by the experiment
stations to determine the adyisability
of adding salt to the ration of dairy
cows, AS a result of these trials it
is recommended that dairy COWS be
given at least one ounce of salt per
day. Exceptionally heavy mixers will
require more than this. The uniform
results obtained with all cows en-
ployed in these trials indicate that
salt in addition to that obtained in
their food is absolutely essential to
the continued health of a dairy COW.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15

The following rule has been found
of considerable value in determining
the weight of cattle when actual
weighing is inconyenient, but in all
the rules given the weight will vary
widely with animals of the same girth.
Cattle girthing five feet ordinarily
weigh from $50 to $50 pounds, accord
ing to form and fatness; for each ad-
ditional inch of girth add 25 pounds,
up to six feet and for each inch after
six feet, add so pounds.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
WHY MANY Chicks Die.

Great numbers Of chicks are lost
particularly in incubators, through the
chicks being unable to get out OF
the shell Many reasons are given,
as for instance weakness Of the par
ent stock, improper temperature or
moisture in incubators, etc While
these faults are undoubtedly the cause
of many deaths among chicks, still
it is natural to suppose a chick in a
very thick.shelled egg will have a
harder time to gain his freedom than
one in an egg with a normal shell. II
the shells are hard or thick, regulate
the supply OF crushed oyster or clam
shells.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
TERRIBLE ITCHING SCALP.
Eczema Broke Out Also on Hands and
Limbs--An Old Soldier Declares:
"Cutcura Is a Blessing"

AT all times and to all people l
am willing to testify to the merits of
Cuticura. 1t saved me from worse
than the tortures of hades, about the
year 1900, with itching on my scalp
and temples, and afterwards it com.
menced to break out on my hands.
Then it broke out on my limbs.
then went to surgeon whose treat
ment did me no good, but rather ag.
gravated the disease. | then told him
would so and see a physician in
Erie The reply was that l could go
anywhere, but a case of eczema like
mine could not be cured; that l was
too old (S0). l went to an eminent
doctor in the city of Erie and treated
with him for six months, with like
results. l had read Of the Cuticura
Remedies, and so l sent for the Cuti-
cura Soap, Ointment and Resolyent,
and continued taking the Resolvent
until I had taken six bottles, stopping
it to take the Pills. was now get,
ting better. | took two baths day
and at night l left the lather Of the
Soap dry on. l used the Ointment
with great effect after washing in
warm water, to stop the itching at
once. I am now cured. The Cuticura
treatment is a blessing and should
be used by every one who has itching
of the skin. l can't say any more
and thank God that He has given the
world such curative VIM. H. Gray
1908 Mount Vernon St., Philadelphia,
Pa, August 2, 1906"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
BIRD TRAVELS WITH GIRAFFE
Red Billed Weaver Constant Compan.
ion Of Animal Skyscraper.

The red-billed weaver bird is a con.
slant companion of the giraffe, perch.
ing itself upon the withers and flying
along when It's host takes to flight,
and Immediately alighting again on
its back at the first opportunity. The
only means of defense or offense by
the giraffe is by means of its hoofs,
and the blows it can deliver by kick
ing are of tremendous power. The
old males during the breeding season
fight in this manner a good DEAL and
the female employs the same means
in defending her young against car
nivorous animals.
Giraffes are very swift Of foot, and
1t requires very fleet horse to run
them down Experienced hunters,
however, charge them at full speed,
aud by this means are often able to
run into them, and if the giraffes are
fat they will soon become blown"
When running, the tail is twisted in
a corkscrew fashion over the back and
the hind legs at each step are thrown
on the outside Of the forelegs, giving
q very grotesque straddling appear
ance The giraffe is mute, but he has
very keen sense of hearing and of
smell.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
Wash Fruits.

No fruit, especially if it is to be
eaten uncooked, should be served
without washing. 1t catches the dirt
from the highways and the fields
where live stock congregate and from
the barnyard, and is loaded with all
kinds Of uncleanliness, and it may
have been handled in picking by hands
that are, to say the least murky. Dis
ease is easily introduced in this way.
Moreover, some fruits are in danger
of having been treated to spraying
with insectides which are poisonous to
humans as well as insects.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
Churn Frequently.

When family has but one COW the
butter is frequently bad, no matter
how carefully the churning may have
been done. This is due to keeping the
cream too long before churning.. The
new cream is mixed with the old and
the butter is not good. This can be
avoided by churning more frequently.
Cream should be churned as soon as
1t reaches the proper stage of ripe
ness, and where there is mixture
OF cream Of different ages 1t is i'm.
possible to have butter of good quail
ity,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15

only TWO seSN9 ~ ~'''
There IS sun time to send to Lord
G TAYLOR. Broadway 9TH avenue and
gOth street, New York for copy OF
their catalogue, and from over 500 aru'
Giles shown, select some remembrance
for the one You have in mind. Don {
imagine that it costs more to purchase
your gifts from a house of the hlsh
standing of Lord & Taylor, because II
doesn't; in fact it's the most eeonom-
ical method not only in money saved
but in the satisfaction which comes
from buying your goods from ilrm
whose reputation is second to none In
the country.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
A Farmer Should Be Educated.

A farmer should be educated in his
calling and If he has any industry he
will be successful. There can be no
question that the lack of enterprise
in farming is one of the great draw
backs to the progress of agriculture,
but 1t is not the greatest by any
means. The great clog to improve
ment in farming is the lack of informs-
tion-of that knowledge necessary to
skillful and well-directed labor. Every
spare moment should be spent by the
farmer in reading and studying agri-
culture
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15

One Of the main schemes n, q,
railway board is to have rolling s,o ,.s
built up partly in India. which r.I,
give manufacturing firms in g+
country an opportunity for tenders ei
the construction of wagon Francs 40. ,0I
bodies. The experiment will algo S
extended to state lines. tenders hotSo
received up to 20 per cent part 4, \
India, which will give the total rn.' -
Der of wagons sanctioned for coa
struction yearly, while axles wbooIa
etc, will be obtained by each raiIu,,
administration on indent from No.
and be supplied to contracting frms
Indian World.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
Limits That Guide Mariners.

"The coastwise lights of England"
Of which Kipling sings, have been in
creasing in brilliancy as well as II
number ever since the dawn Of the
nineteenth century. In that dark age
weary mariners crawled into port by
the pickering glare of rs beacons ana
six floating lights; now they may glide
safely into haven under the powerful
beams of $50. Lighthouses are as an
cient as civilization The Pharos Of
Alexandria flung its light on the decks
of oriental barges 2,237 years ago,
The Romans, who loved the light, have
left the ruins of one Of their light.
houses on a cliff at Bouogne, while at
Dover may still be seen all that re.
mains of another. Petroleum and the
electric light have made the early
nineteenth century beacons ridiculous
On the summit of the tower an open
CRATE was fed with billets Of wood and
later with coal Scotland abandoned
coal altogether for more up-to-date
methods in 1916 and England six years
afterward.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
lndia,s Gotten Tree.

London Commercial Intelligence re-
Gently printed a letter from J. K.
Spence, at Wallas Cotton, Plantation,
Deese, who claims TO have discovered
variety of cotton tree, Indigenous
to India. capable of revolutonizing the
cotton industry of that country. lie
says the tree grows in various parts
of Bombay and Madras prasidencies,
which produces cotton infinitely supe-
rior both in classification and staple
to American cotton and in classified
ton alone can not be eQualed by
Egypt 1t is an astonishing fact that
the value of the trees product has not
up to this time been discovered by
anyone in the cotton trade, notwith-
standing the fact that the tree has
been known to exist since the time
Of the mutlny and probably for hun
dreds Of years previously The only
uses the cotton it produces has been
put to are the manufacture of wicks
for lamps in Hindu temples and the
stufhng of beds and pillows. After
careful examination of the Cotton, Mr..
Spence unhesitatingly expressed the
opinion that it would probably revolu-
tionize the cotton industry of India
and largely resume the European de-
mand for American cotton.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
a Misunderstanding,

Apropos of a misunderstanding on
the canteen question, Gen. Frederick
D. Grant said at a dinner in Washing
ton:
at is like the case of my friend
Maj. Green Maj. Green said to his
servant one morning:
James, have left my mess boots
out, want them soled.'
Ives sir the servant answered
THE major, dressing for dinner
that night, said again
az suppose James, that you did
as l told you about those boots?'
James laid 35 cents on the bureau.
eyes, sir said he and this is all
could get for them; though the cor.
poral who bought EN- said he'd have
given half a dollar if pay day hadn't
been so far Off"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15

Here is an item that farmers will
be interested in: A test at the Iowa
experiment station developed the fol-
lowing facts 1000 pounds Of ear corn
were husked and stored in crib con
structed to make the storage condi-
lions normal In the first three months
the loss was $50 pounds, or 9 per cent;
for the next three months the loss
was 300 pounds, or ) per cent; for the
third three months, 22O pounds, or 3
per cent, and for the last three months
1870 pounds, or 1871 per cent. The
aggregate loss was 1870 pounds, or
more than 20 per cent.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15

Under the old English law a per.
sonal chattel which had caused the
death of person was declared a
"deodand," or forfeited to God. The
crown took charge of it and it was
sold, the proceeds to be distributed by
the high almoner in pious uses. Thus
a cart which had run over and killed
a man was "deodand;" so was a horse
which kicked its master to death. All
things, animate and inanimate, which
caused the death of a human being
were forfeited as "deodands."
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15

French walnut is the finest wood
we have" said the cabinet-maker. 1T
comes from Persia, but it is prepared
in France. l have seen French wal
nut wnrth SIS a pound, and it is a COM
mon thing to pay 50 a pound for it.,
OF course it is used principally for
veneering. Only millionaires could
have chairs and tables of solid French
walnut
Mahogany, wonderful as 1t is,
rarely fetches such high prices. From
50 to SO is a very good price per
pound for this wood
Ebony, if it is in a particularly
large piece, so that it will cut well,
will often bring s. a pound in the
wood market"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15

While excitement regarding the Ho-
henlohe memoirs is still rife in Eu-
rope, there is subdued talk in British
military circles regarding the forth
coming appearance of book which
will contain some of the late duke of
Cambridges yoluminous correspond
ence. A diary kept by Emperor Fred
erick of Germany is in safekeeping in
England and the day may not be far
distant when it also will be published.
Correct answers to numerous histor-
ical enlgmas may be expected from
such publication.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
Growing Cold.

whats the matter, dear?" her
mother asked, seeing the trouble in
the young wife's face.
She had just received a telegram
and sat with the yellow paper crum
pied in her lap.
ITS from Douglas she replied.
HAS anything happened to him? !
hope he hasn't been in railroad acct
dent"
NO. He says he's well and will be
home tomorrow, but he only uses
seven words when he might have put
in three more"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
Bees In Winter.

Bees live but short time. the av-
erage life of a worker being only as
days, and to keep the hive supplied
the queen is compelled to lay hun
dreds of eggs daily, as birds, spiders,
storms and other causes thin out the
number. 1t is best to prevent swarm
ing, so as to have strong colonies,
and this may be done by allowing
plenty of room in the hive by adding
sections. During warm days in win
ter the bees may be tempted to come
out, on which occasion they clean
the hives of dead bees.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
Museum Gets Fine Pulplt.

King Frederick August OF Saxony
has given to the Germanic museum at
Harvard a full-size reproduction of the
sandstone pulpit of the Church of
Wechselburg, near Leipsic. This gift
is regarded as the most important
made to the museum since the fine
collection of casts was sent by the
German emperor. The pulpit be-
longs to the beginning of the thir.
teenth century, and is massive struc-
ture, 10 feet high, resting on Roman.
esQue columns.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-15
Man Extensive Traveller

Lord Ronaldshay, though only
thirty years of age, probably has done
more travelling for his age than any
man living. Few people know more
than he about the Himalayas and Per
STA He has also found time to eX'
plore Kashmir, Baluchistan, Ladak'
Thibet and the Persian gulf, to say
nothing of Ceylon.