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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-29
WHERE TALKING MACHINES
ARE MANUFACTURED.
Some Interesting Facts About an In
dustry That Furnishes Enter
tainmcnt tn the Entire civ
ilixrd World

Six years ago several philadelphians
organized a company 90 engage VA the
production Of an article that may be
regarded as one OF education and use
fulness as well as the greatest musical
instrument ever known
Within this brief period of six years
Since tho company was organized rs
trade has extended To the uttcrmost
parts OF the world In its shipping de-
pariment may be seen huge cases con-
signed 20 Bangkok I'm far-on Siam;
Nladivustok in equally distant Siberiai
Johannoshurg ga South Africa. Rio
Juneiro, Brazil. Honolulu, tiuwalia
ana other foreign countries
This article is the Victor Talking
Machine. and wherever men live I'm n
state OF civilization there comes am i'm
cessunt aud apparently Unsuitable oe-
mand for &C. and over S10.000000 is
added yearly 20 the wealth OF Phila-
delphia on account Of H.
While the Victor plant and offices.
which cover nearly four entire blocks,
Are located at Camden ~. j.. very
nearly an OF the more than 2.2OO em-
prlyes live Ia Philadelphia. right
across the Delaware river
The vast plant includes eight great
buildings IN Camden. running from
four TO eight floors In height and a
ninth building Is located I'm philadel-
phia- But even these are inadequate
to enable the company TO keep up with
the demand. and work upon several
additional huge buildings Is progress
Ing now as rapidly as possible
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-29
DEsERET EVENING NEWS FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20 1907

ucrc restless. and 81 course tho young
mans fnco was now and then busted
aud ticklcd As the cocks fcathcrs
pinved lightly about HIS arlstocrauo
Boston nose. looked for sudden
txit. but the hero sat under the fire
OF several pairs % laughing eyes Inn
movable us the sphinx
TWO sents alonr however tragedy
was imminent Two long p0oso's quilts
worn nt right angels Goo % young rirlu
head threatened damage to tive pairs
~ eyes. which moro than once cams
dangerously near extinction All three
v,.nrrrs of these feathers seemed ulIee-
gully unconscious of disturbing te
pcaco of thoir neighhors. There aecin-
ed to poe. however, judgiug from The
supply in the shops cocks feathers,
goose auills. and there ls nothing Co
go round. and there ig nothing to had
or the rest 0f us from armlnC om-
selves with these innocent weapons
ana iabbinr b8cc---Bostou Trans
cript
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-29

ed. This building ~ 20 be one 90 salt
Lakes greatest lifta towards becoming
the center Of the intermOuntain region. +"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-29

usually married. is unable TO give his
children the education they are entitled
60. because OF his inability 10 pay the
tuition required OF him In many school
districts. There being no schools for
the children of the enlisted men at gar
risons and as In many cases I'm the
west a per capita charge is exacted by
school authorities I'm certain sections
OF the country from non-residents the
children OF these men grow up like
weeds and with little or no credit 20
their parents. II would therefore seem
absolutely necessary 20 Increase the
pay Of non-commissioned officers in
order that their services might be re-
tanned by the army. for the better SER
geants are, the better is tho company.
Then again with the adjustment of
the canteen and the social life Of the
garrison being constantly diminished.
and with forced marches and increased
drills Tommy Atkins" has become
wholly dissatisfied and he IS leaving
Uncle Sans lighting force by deser-
tion, resignation and purchase until the
authorities In Washington have become
seriously concerned over tho future OF
the army.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-29
B0ST0N'S TROUBLES
WITH CAR PESTS.

Rldlng in "a street car this week. 7
saw three persons. young man and
two women. who excited my wonder
and admiration. j. was clear that
au came of good New England Stock
not far from the gilded dome. ana
would die rather than show annoyance
bv the CULVER OF pu cNCl1sh. for they
Sat stock still undW conditions which
were trying % not dangerous.
A Young man was wcdged back be-
tween two women. one a. beautiful
young girl. with feather dustCr worn
asten in her hat the Qtbcr q fair
fat and forty dame. with bunch OF
cocks feathers worn ditto; both women
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-29

IN tho capital city r. ~ per cent higher.
Fresh eggs we're quoted on tho 18TH
mus at Is cents as against AZ IN wash
ington on the Same date In almost
every article sold In the butcher shops
the advantage is to the canal empioye,
and this applies TO nearly avery Item
IN the vegetable list aE well as 90 fruits,
both native and imported. But then
there is no rotall trust on the iathmus
while there appears to be one IN Wash
lugtou. e.. A. HAMILTON.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-29
AMERICAN TEA.

rN-f4 tfAfA ~ q 49,
Tabloid food has been tried and found
wanting, but tabloid tea is new de-
parture introduced from the tea farm
in Summervlle. $. G.. The government
OF the United States. through the de-
partment Of agriculture. has been eN-
perlmenting for years with the cultiva-
iiun OF the tea plant. Seeds and cut
tings from Ccylon Inrinan, China and
Japan have been tried with varied sue
cess il was found that the climate ~
the Palmetto state is apparently an
ideal one for tea cultivation and year
after year Congress appropriated sum
of money 20 continue the effort towards
making tea culture commercially su.-
cessiul in this country. II IS now some
thing over 20 years since the first at
tempt i'm this direction was made nm
der the auspices Of the then commits
sioner Of agriculture From the first u
was readily seen that the tea plant
would thrive I'm America but not until
o. year or two ago was American tea
placed on the market Today there are
III dozen on more varo-
ties that are offered 10 the ten
tinker and the quality Is excellent
But Il is the tabloid" tea which Is
the novelty. The Smnmerville farm Is
sending out small tin boxes OF tea COM
pound made into tablets. each Of which
Is sufficient 20 make one cup of the
cheering beverage. The box itself ~
in tho form OF a cube about two inches
ON each surface ana contains enough
tea 90 furnish an ordinary family for
month. The department OF agricul-
ture has distributed "a great many sam-
pie boxes, and 70 is believed that this
new form of compressed tea win be-
widely used af soon as its merits be-
come known.
ln the meantime tea culture D. being
extended ln Texas ana Florida. ana tho
prospects are that the United States,
win before many years have passed,
become Independent Of Che countries az
the orient FOR the component part of
chief value Tor afternoon gatherings
iu the drawing rooms of the socially
"a
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-29

Who Sings Exclusively for the Victor.
OPERA STARS WELL PAID
il costs a small fortune to get Mel
ba, Caruso, Eames. Sembrich, Scott,
Schumann-Heink and all the great
songbirds Of the world to sing for Vie
tor records. Al the end OF last season
Melba postponed her departure from
American FOR "a week in order to make
new series of records. for which she
was paid I'm am advance royalty rivallng
any amount which she ever received
in opera. Caruso was paid $4,000 FOR
singing 80 selections
But all these artists give value re-
ccivcd. In the contracts made with
them il is fully understood before they
sign IL that their singing must be per
feet. The records are merciless and
know no favOrites. The singers seem
10 enter into the spirit OF the thing,
and know that they are not singing
merely for one audience. which has
come quite as much TO see themselves
as Co hear the singers. They know
that they are singing not only for mill
lions now but countless millions in
the future.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-29

The Iuhmian canal commission pub
fishes weekly Newspaper at Ancon,
Canal zone. For tho purpose of mak-
ing public am sorts of interesting ln-
formation concerning lifc on the lsth-
mus and the progress 81 the work on
the canal There ls something moro
than "a column devoted each week to
price list showing the charges made
by tho oommiasary department for sup
pliss furnished Go tho employees 0u the
lsthmuN "a would appear from thla
price lief lu the latest issue of the
rapcr tp reach Washington that tho
omployo located on the lsthmuH is
moro fortunate than his fellow boo
Washington BOZ iho matter of market
supplies For instance. ln INC Canal
zone The housekeeper can buy "a fore
quarter uf mutton at no cents "a pound.
lie would hnye hard work On finding
market n Washington whore ho could
get n FOR lcaH than ls Fore quarters
OF lamb are n cents on me iFthmus
and 20 cents in Washington. A second
cut rh roast can be- had in Panama
on Colon al 40 cents while the price
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-29
BE FAIR TO
YOUR PHYSICIAN

And to the invalid by having
your prescription compounded
where exceptional care is ex-
eleI'ed' and where the medi-
olne' contain the properties
upon which the doctor de-
ps3d'' By selling at reason
able pnoes We turn our stock
over ''IIqulokly thus assuring you
The best goods absolutely fresh
lul what your physician
had in mind.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-04
The Palmist and the Typewriter.

The town was quite agog last Sunday
afternoon with the news that Mr..
Brame's type-writing machine, which
had disappeared at the time his office
was burned sometime ago, had been re
covered through the occult powers of
Thelma the palmist who had been ex-
hibiting here the past week with the
street fair. The facts so far as they
can be ascertained, are as follows:
Sunday morning Thelma requested
Mr.. Brame to come to her hotel as she
had something of interest to tell him.
In response he called and was informed
by Thelma that she had examined the
hand of young man the day before
and had charged him with the theft of
a typewriter the record of such a
crime being written on his hand so
plain that she could thus read the facts.
At first he had denied the charge with an
oath but on being threatened with an
open charge of the theft he quoted
down and went away.
Thelma informed MIR. Brame that the
typewriter would be returned to him,
and it was found in an clubhouse back of
the office an hour later evidently having
been placed there during Saturday night
Mr.. Brame was also told by the palmist
that several parties were implicated in
the theft and the burning of his office
but she could name no names, though
she could describe the parties. If she
did describe them no one has located
them from her description.
With the typewriter was manu-
script note to the effect that as the
typewriter could not be used it was re
turned. Various theories have been
expounded to explain the incident, but
none acceptable to many besides the
theorizer has been lighted upon. Some
people believe that occult powers were
exercised and others pooh-pooh the idea
One effect Of the mode Of the recovery
of Mr.. Brame's machine is that a good
many persons would rather attempt to
steal red-hot stove right now than a
typewriter
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-04
The New Negro Auditor.

The Washington Post correspondents
speak of the appointment of Ralph
Taylor of Columbus, Ohio, to be audi
tor for the navy department as IAN in
novation, the first negro appointment
ever made to an authorship" They
should be better posted. The entering
wedge was driven by President Harri-
son, when he appointed John R. Lynch,
Mississippi negro, to the very posi-
ton.
By the way Mississippi negroes have
broken the ice all along the line: B. K.
Bruce was the first long term negro
senator, and first negro to hold the
great office of Registrar of the treas
ury, Lynch was the first negro ever
called to temporary craftsmanship of
national Republican convention; the
first negro ever appointed auditor, and
the first negro ever commissioned as
major and paymaster in the United
State army, position he now holds.
This is largely due to the fact that Mis-
sissippi boasts of the best negroes as
well as the best white people in America.
There are many clerks in the audi
tors office who threaten to resign when
the negro takes hold, but they won't
do it. We heard the same threats in
the days of Bruce and Lynch, but there
was mo output" Government clerks
seldom vacate their posts except when
better things are in sight-Aberdeen
Examiner,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-04
As a Political Ressurectionist.

The Mobile Register, in speaking of
the useless agitation of the Fifteenth
Amendment, remarks with its usual
sagacity: ut seems to us that the bet
ter way is to leave the war amendment
alone. They are like sleeping dogs now
and the less they are disturbed the less
harm we should suffer from them.
The South, that has suffered so much
from the Haunting of the "bloody
shirt, should beware of resurrection
of the ensanguined garment that assu-
aging and obitering time has forced
our sectional and fanatical enemies to
consign to the laundry of arbitration.
The Registers comment reminds US
of the remark of Napoleon at St. Hele-
ma in regard to the British movements
in India: why is Britain rousing
that slumbering lion. Why not let it
sleep on forever?"-Aberdeen Exami-
ner.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-04
Captain Boyd for Legislature.

We believe that there are a great
many people in Macon and the county
who would like very much to see the
above named gentleman sent to the
Legislature. Among the many can
didatcs for the lower house there is not
one who comes from the ranks of bus
mess men. One Of the three men our
county is entitled to should come from
the ranks of commerce, and We believe
no one could better represent that ele-
ment among US than Captain E. B,
Boyd. He is young and energetic, yet
experienced and conservative. Both
his character and his attainments fit
him for the place, and together with
his popularity will elect him if he will
make the race, We hope Captain Boyd
will consider with attention this call,
and become a candidate. VOTER
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-04
A Serious Charge.

On the front page Of this paper is
published a short account of Hon. Earl
Brewers speech. What is written is
not said in praise Of him; but to give
some idea of his speech to those who
did not hear him. Indeed We can not
see how anyone could praise him when
he brings against an opponent the grave
and improved charge that the latter Is
in league with the railroads because he
is acting or has acted as attorney for
one of them. Such 4 charge might
have gained votes in the past for the
man making it, but no fairminded man
can be influenced now by such ,oN dem
agoguery.
When Mr.. Brewer charges that Mr.,
Sisson or any other candidate is not
making. promises because the railroads
do not want them made, he is put down
as a demagogue unworthy of serious
attention, unless he can prove such a
charge. wh.clhe made NJ attempt TO d.
1t requires no intelligence to make an
assertion rejecting upon the character
or motives Of another, and we regret
to know that it has been done in tn S
campaign. Houston Post
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-04
Impression of BroOksville.

Mr.. Burton A. Lincoln, an enthusiast
tic member of the local Pythian lodge,
thus writes of the trip to sBrooksvllle
which a number Of the members of the
order from this city undertook some
time ago, Mr.. Lincoln's article, appear
ing in the currant number of The Pyth-
ian. or the trip he says;
"On the evening of April Is, 1907
Brother /. L. Dorroh, district deputy,
assisted by w. A. Sessions, grand pre-
late. together with a number of broth
ers from Noxubee lodge of Macon,
Shuqualak lodge and the Tombigbee
lodge Columbus. instituted a new lodge
at Brooksville, Miss, known as Brooks
vile Lodge No. 1875.
1T was joyiaI crowd of brothers
assembled on that occasion, and the
memiment furnished by the candidates
for initiation WIS all that could have
been asked,
Brother Sessions, in his masterful
way, exemplifed the secret work, and
not only was it instructive to the or ?;
-, ~ -. - -~.no Of us older Pyth-
land, who perhaps had become rusty in
the work; it refreshed our memory,
] and was most instructive.
ut is always a pleasure to have
Brother Sessions in the Lodge. En-
dowed with the true spirit Of Pythian-
ism, he puts enthusiasm into any lodge
in his presence.
"'Too much cannot be said in praise
of Brother Dorroh, A true Pythian in
every sense, never letting an opportu-
nifty pass without doing something flor
the order untiring in his efforts to pro-
mote its interest living up to the fun
damental teachings of Pythanism. al
ways eXemplifying the friendship of
Damon and Pythias, he indeed reflects
credit upon Pythian knighthood.
"The roster of Brooksville lodge CON
tains the best citizenship of that town
composed Of men who will make true
and worthy knights and exempify the
teachings of our order.
The brothers of Mississippi wei
come the members of the Brooksville
Lodge No, 1875 with open arms to the
rank of Pythianism, and we hope and
pray that happiness and prosperity will
follow its pathway as down the vista
of time the great order of Knights of
Pythlas continues to march. Nav each
one OF them so live that when they
come to the river that marks the I'M
known show their hands may be filled
with deeds of kindness, the golden keys
that open the palace of eternity. Col
nmbus Dispatch.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-04
Peculiar Accident.

A peculiarand fatal accident occumc d
during a thunderstorm at the home
of Tom Phurrough, who lives on the
Cook place. near Sycamore. While the
cloud was passing over the farm a bolt
of lightning struck the wall of the
house. A shotgun was hanging in a
rack on the wall. The weapon was
loaded and the bolt justlod the gun
from the rack and fired it while in mid
air. The entire contents of the gun
lodged in the body of an infant child Of
Phurrough, which was playing around
the room, killing it instantly The gnu
fired before it stuck the floor, showing
that it was not the jar that discharged
it, but the electricity exploded the
power as it fell. Birmingham News.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-04
PATTY BROS. Cash Store
An Open Letter.

Macon, Miss, May 3, 1907
To the Hon, L, p, Cayett
Dear Sir;-ln reply to your letter in
the BEACON to Walter Barker Chapter
U. D. c., wish to thank you for the
and decided to provide tickets
for three Of our worthy Veterans, and
we hope they will enjoy the trip as
much as we do in providing for them.
Yours truly,
Mrs. J. E. RIyES,
Mrs. L. F. HoLBERG, Pres.
Sect'y.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-04

T. T, Gore, the blind boy orator of
Webster county, now a member of the
Democratic senate from Oklahoma, and
a candidate for the United States SEN
ate, He formerly led the populite faith
in his section, and was once a power in
the State. He, like Frank Burkitt and
many others. have returned to the fold
and is welcomed, Columbus Dispatch
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-04
Truth Fifty Years Ago.

This following article was the leading
editorial in the MACON BEACON of Au-
gust 18th, 1857 1t will not only well
bear re-pubHshing now; it is as timely
and opportme now as them:
PROSPERITY OF TOWNS.
We are not of those who believe that
wealth and prosperity are identical, any
more than that wealth and respectable
ity should be regarded as synonymous
terms; yet it is plain that, both in the
one case and the other, there is prone
ness to confound the two and we view
this error with indulgence considering
it as originating in the better feeling of
our nature. Wealth certainly presents
the individual opportunities to acquire
or maintain responsibility which are de-
MED to him who is obliged to struggle
with poverty; it is therefore a good ma
tured view of the case to take for
granted that the man who can be easily
respectable avails himself of his adj
vantages and is what he ought to be-
Prosperity implies an abundance of ma
terial comforts, and, its higher sense,
a good degree of moral and intellectual
advancement, and it is reasonable, or,
at least, hopeful, to believe that men
whose wealth enables them to seize
those advantages will not neglect to
grasp them. Nevertheless it is true,
that a rich man may groyel in infamy,
and that community overlooking with
gold may be miserable; while, on the
other hand, true self-respect viii raise
the peasant above che level of the vul-
gar millionaire, and energy operating
with limited resources, will outstrip
sluggish wealth.
That community is then in the high
est degree ineXcusable, which, when by
any course of events it finds its natural
advantages enhanced, consents to stand
still, or retrograde, or even permits
those new resources to become the in
struments Of its ruin; yet such notori-
ously has been the case with many
towns, when to their formeradvantages
the convenience Of railroad communica- |
ton has been added; indeed, so gener- |
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-04
Our Senatorial Candidates.

The article in our last weeks paper
under the caption "Our Candidates for
the Senate" has evoked so much favor
able comment that the general public
naturally want its author. Credit
should have been given the author at
the time, but through inadvertence it
was omitted. The contribution came
from the pen of Mr.. J. Q. Poindexter,
one of the leading men and largest
planters of Noxubee county, a thought
full student of the times, and it is bound
to exert large influence upon the
questions at issue in the present con-
test. Columbus Dispatch
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-04

Hon. Earl Brewer, candidate for gov
ernor. spoke to a small audiente at the
court house last Friday night. While
we were deprived of hearing him, from
expressions we have heard since his
speech, he made a favorable impression
on many, He is an orator Of some
ability, and has his little story down
pretty fine, and of course catches his
proportion Of followers. Winston Jour
nal
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-04
Coolest April Ever Known.

Washington, April 80. The month
ending today was the coolest April in
the last twenty-six years, and within a
degree of the coolest April ever expe.
rienced, according to the weather
bureua. The bureaus report tonight
says:
1.-THE month was characterized by a
succession of cold spells which swept
southeastward over the northeast
Rocky mountain slope and gradually
spread southwark and eastward over
the entire country east of the Rocky
mountains. The cold was almost con
tinuous except for brief intervals of a
day or so of warmer weither, and it
closed with a remarkably low tempera-
lures in the interior valleys and the
southwest"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-04
Home Sweet Home.

Henry, DEAR you are the
best thing in the world to me. am
especially reminded morning noon and
night of your goodness and thoughtful
ness.
Darling, | always loved
you, but what have | done to deserve
this burst of praIse?"
Wife" why, you bought me such a
splendid range from the Noxubee Coun-
ty Hardware Co. 1t cooks in half the
time the old one did and makes work in
the kitchen a pleasure. y
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-04

Mrs. Jones---"l see Mrs. BNM
her husband have made up, ! ta
she had applied for divorce n
charge of neglect, "
Mrs. Smith---"Yes, that is true
was charged with neglect in iaa
get her a Bucks cook stove hts
formed, and last week boush; q
these splendid household necesais
NoXubee County Hardware Cot
now all is serene in the home, sa!i
ration is impossible"