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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-12

HAT RACKS.
 Sold at S10.00. Now .....S O-So Sold at $12.50. Now ..............ss 8 s.25 Sold at $15.00. Now ..............s s10.7b Sold at $20.00. Now ........... .S14.2S
 PARLOR FURNITURE. 8-Piece Suite, sold at s15. Now. g. s.75 5-Piece suite, sold at $25. Now. .s18.50 PARLOR AND BEDROOM TABLES. Sold at SIPS. Now. w.................. .55c Sold at $2.00. Now. w..................O Doc Sold at s5. Now w................. $3.25 Sold at $7. Now .................. $4.96
 Rugs and Art Squares
 Administer Hearth Rugs, sold at s3.00. Moving 4 nE Time Price .... ...... ...... AeOO Pro Brussels 9x12 Feet-Sold at s12.00. Moving Time O OF Tapestry Brussels, Room Size- Beautiful Oriental and floral pat terms. Sold at $1s.00. Moving \ HE Time Prlce .............A A 1s v Lace Curtins-Nottingha curtains in white and cream, full size Sold at $1.50, s1.T5 and $2. Moving nEn Time Price. pair ............ OO( Bobinette Curtains-White and Arab colors, very elegant patterns.f DE Sold at $S. Moving-Time Pric 1sOO
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Bed Room Furniture

We made extraordinary purchases for this sale, and unloaded several car loads of this seasons tractive offerings.
 Seventy five different styles of bedroom suites in Mahogany, Golden Oak and Crcassan Walnut.
 We offering thIs furniture at prices which com buy. Here of the itemss Three-Piece Suite-Golden Oak finish Sold at% A $3000. Moving Time Price ................. 1JsAO e5000 Suite Moving Time Price ............. s3SSO Genuine Mahogany Suite with Napolean bed. very beautiful and substantial s7500 value. EO En MovingTime Price .........................Vk VkdeOV Moving Time prices.
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FIRE INSURANCE
 LAW IS NEEDED Complaint Is Made of Compa- nies to Commissioner PROTECTION FOR PUBLIC Legislator Asks Commissioner Wright About Assessment Companies and is Shown Where Remedial
 Law Is Necessary.
PROTECTION FOR PUBLIC

Atlanta September u.-(Special.)--A member of the legislature from one of the north Georgia counties dropped into the office of Comptroller General w. A. Wright this week and made com plaint about an assessment fire insur ance company which, he declared, had not been meeting its obligations. He wanted to know what the comptroller general. who Is also insurance com missioner, could do about 1t.
 Nothing" Captain Wright replied until it is shown to me that the com pany has failed to pay a valid claim against 1t, and then can withdraw it's license
 But someth ing ought to be done to protect the public against insurance companies of this sort which are not inclined to do an honest business" the legislator suggested.
 Insurance Commissioner Wright at once referred the legislator to his an nual report in which he pointed out that year after year, for the last 10 years at least, he has recommended and urged such legislation as will protect the public in matters of this kind
 The legislator in question said he had always looked upon such reports of state officials as mere formal doc uments which the law required to be made, and had never given them any consideration.
 But before he left the insurance com nissioner's office he declared he would introduce a bill at the next session of the general assembly which will have the effect of protecting the public in such cases.
 "What Is there to be done?" tho i'm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-12

fever and catarrh powders has become popular in the slums. Both these DOW ders (naming them) are blown up the nose by means of a glass tube and small rubber hose The rubber hose and glass tube sent out by manufacturers has been God-send to the coke f1ends Their use is at once more economical and more efficacious in debauchery than shifting the happy dust from the back of the hand, or with the help of a spoon. They have taught the fends their technique. The average patent medicine purchaser does not recognize the demon in the bottle when he is given a scientific name and will take a warning at nothing short of a skull and cross bones.'
 How science enabled science to plant the stars and stripes on the north pole, enabling Cook to improve on the. fatal mistakes in equipment made by Peary, Hansen and Greedy, is related by Cooks companion in the scaling of Mount Mo- Kinley, J. R. Ball of Chicago. 1T be- lieve that Dr. Cook found the north pole because he went after 1t right Ball said. NO man can get to the north pole with battleship and no man can reach the pole across the floating fields of ice if incumbered with a big pack
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-12
Tax on Corporations.
Yellow Legged Chickens.

From the Queen
 Yellow legs and golden skin. although required in table chickens by the Ameri- can epicure, are not always appreciated upon British dinner tables. This is of course quite an unreasonable prejudice. because the integumentary color does not affect the flavor or quality of the flesh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-12

cannot build good roads fast enough for the people and they are preparing to vote bond issues to push the work. Glynn. Ware and other counties have already ar ranged for large bond issues for this purpose.
 Contrary to expectations, very little trouble has arisen as a result of having the convicts widely scattered in so many camps. and the reports all show that the health of the men is excellent.
 Alabama Beats Georgia.
 The fact that the Alabama team beat the Georgia team in the national rife con- tests, recently held at Camp Perry, O., has led to a proposal for the formation of Southern Interstate Rifle associa- tion, to include those of the South Att lantic and Gulf states which may desire to enter into such an organization.
 The Georgia men were. somewhat net tied over the fact that the Alabama team came out ahead of them. aud there was talk for time of challenging Alabama to contest on the ranges, with a view to showing the Alabamans that the Geor- stans could outshoot them.
 Nothing, however, came of the pro- posed challenge except that it was turned into discussion of the suggestion for the formation of Southern Rifle associa- ton.
 Adjt. Gen. A. J. Scott, who has talked the matter over with a number of the Georgia officers, Is strongly in favor of such an organization. An interstate shoot among the southern teams each year, he feels confident, would so accustom all of them to competitive shooting that they would make far better showing in the na- tional matches.
 The eastern states have such an or ganization and the result Is they get from 1t much more valuable practice each year in advance of the national contest than do the teams of the southern states. Con- sequently they do better in the competi- ton.
 Eastern teams led classes A and B, while the Georgia, Texas and other south ern teams trailed along in class c. Tax on Corporations. Internal Revenue Collector H. A. Ruck- CT has already begun gathering data and information preparatory to the collection Of the tax on corporations. enacted at the recent session of Congress. His deputies are securing information from the court records relating to all chartered corporations, and unchartered companies and associations are also being listed, as 1t is believed the law applies to them.
 Although there is no doubt the corpor- ation tax will be tested In the courts, gov ernment officials charged with It's collec- tion will proceed regardless of this fact, and 1t is said payment will be demanded in all cases except where the person held liable for such payment appeals di- rectly to the courts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-12
ATTENTION, RED MEN.

ATTENTION, RED MEN. Members of Wahouma Tribe No. GA and all Red Men in this reservation are requested to assemble at Red Mems Hall at 2 p. m. Sunday to attend the funeral of our late Brother, Past Sachem w. E. Baker, from his late residence, 919 2nd avenue, West End. h. torment at Elmwood cemetery.
 H. w. EGGLER, Sachem.
 E. E. WILLIS,
 Chief of Records.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-12
FOR RENT.

Front part of second floor on north 20th street for office or other purposes. Gall Bell phone No. 209.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-12
Mission Diningr00m
 Suite

Mission Dining Room suite-very elegant; consisting of large and massive buffet serving table, dining table, china closet and eight chairs
 Sold at $150. Moving Time Q 1n Price, Suite .............. @AAV
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-11-26
BIG PLANTER DIVERSIFIES.
DR.. Atterbury of Greenville Goes in
for Cattle Raising.

Greenville, Miss, Nov. 23.-
Some of the planters, of this Sec
tion at least, Will diversity during
the coming year. DIR. J. Z. At
terbury of Estell, who planted in
corn, has just returned from East
Mississippi with five carloads of
cattle and will go extensively into
the cattle business. He will re-
duce his cotton acreage considera-
bly, next year, planting a larger
acreage in corn, besides a large
acreage in oats, rape, peas and
such thing. He has also large
orchard and will have consider
able amount of fruit for the mark
ct next year. He is also stocking
the place with good hogs.
DIR. Atterbury has proven a
most successful cotton planter,
but is now convinced that the
time has come for diversifcation,
and while he will not abandon the
production of cotton altogether,
his purpose is to produce on the
plantation all the meat and bread
and feedstuffs needed to run the
place and then raise all the cotton
possible on the remainder of the
acreage.
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Ice PIantandC Coal Business
AT AUCTION.

At a meeting of the stockholders of
the Arctic Ice and Coal Co.. held in
Macon, Miss, on the 22nd day of Nov
ember, 1909. It was decided that the
company go into voluntary liquidation.
will therefore offer the entire prop
erty of the company for sale to the
highest and best bidder on the Both day
of December, 1909, at the front door
of the count house in Macon, Noxubee
county, Miss, at o'clock, p. m.
The property consists of one ten ton
Vogt make, complete in every detail,
with an abundant supply of fine water;
plant is good as new. only having been
operated a part of three seasons.
The entire output of the plant can be
sold in the county at good price, no
competition. Complete equipment for
the coal business; side track for loading
and unloading coal and ice direct to
and from the cars. One pair of good
mules, new two horse wagon and har-
ness, one good horse with new one
horse wagon and harness, Fairbanks
wagon scales, Office. stables and nee
essary ice and coal tools.
Out Of this sale we will reserve the
coal and ice in stock and accounts due
the company, also the soffice furniture
erty of the president of the company.
TERMS OF SALE.
Five hundred dollars t$5OO.OO) cash
at time of sale; one half of the remain
der within ten days, the balance in one
and two years with interest and secured
by trust deed or collateral to the salts
faction OF the parties making sale.
r The sale of this property and the
liquidation Of the eompany's affairs
done by order of the board Of directors
in meeting assembled November 22nd,
1909.
For further information, address
T. B. ROBERTSON, Pres,
Arctic Ice and Coal Company,
Macon, Miss.
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Mans Rights.

The Philadelphia Telegraph
has started a campaign for mans
rights. Some of the planks are:
The right to smoke anywhere
in the house built or rented with
the money we ourselves have
ealned"; "the right to one-fifth
space in all closets and bureau
drawers; the abolition of
spindle-shanked, giIded furniture
made to look at and not to sit
on; and the abolition of the
rule that we must go in the par.
lor and be nice to those of our
wife's callers for whom we cher
ish a mortal antipathy." May
we add:
The right to throw newspapers
on the floor.
The right to have ones desk or
table as untidly as one tarnatiOn
pleases.
The right (a) to wear a beard
or mustache; (b) to abstain from
Sunday shaving.
The right to decline to try to
ex plain a political situation.
And many others.
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ther-nOt any lodge in this dis
tTict but what owe practically all
to his love for the institution
which we should endeavor to so
honor.
Gifted with unusual fOrenic
powers and being a man with pos
tive convictions, standing like
adamant for principle but at the
same time overlooking with kind
ness and gently, it was only ma
tural that he should have exercis-
ed great influence over men,
which was no where better dis
played than in the East, where he
was always a commanding figure.
In the death of Bro. Welsh this
lodge has lost a faithful, jealous
and very efficient member, one to
whom we owe more than our pres
ent condition.
Bro. Welsh was leading mem
Der of this lodge for many, many
years and was always in good
standing and full fellowship and
we cherish the hope that he is
now enjoying, in the Supreme
Grand Lodge above, the reward of
a life spent in the service Of his
fellOwman. AS a token of our
fraternaI regard We recommend
that memorial page, properly in
scribed, be set apart in your min
ute book. And as further trib-
ute. That this report, be adopted
and be spread on our minute book
and a copy be furnished the fami-
ly Of our Deceased brother, and
published inS our town paper the
Shuqualak New Era.
j. YARETZKY,
j. w. JENKINS.
A. M. TYNES.
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Pay the Piper.

Ham is now 25 cents per pound,
bacon 80 cents, bulk meat 20
cents, leaf lard II cents, and
other similar necessities are
equally high. If this object les
son does not wake up the far
mers of Mississippi, then these
things should steadily advance
until they reach fifty or even a
hundred per cent, on present
prices. No matter how far they
go skywards, if it will only have
the effect Of waking up cur far
mers. In Mississippi meat can
be raised at from 3 to 5 cents a
pound. and it is a digrace to our
grand old commonwealth that a
single pound of it should ever
have to be bought outside her
limits. But we are learning to
live at home. Gradually the
ranks of home livers are being
added to, and in a few years
more only the shiftless fellow,
idler and poor manager on our
farmers, will ever have to seek
the staff of life beyond his own
doors. The most wonderful
prosperity awaits our State, and
will be realized when all our peo4
pie become RelfaBARtaininr on the
farm.
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Bouquets for the Beacon.

On October last, the 3Oth, ult.,
the Macon Beacon reached it's
sixtieth volume. It was estab-
lished in 1849 by Edward w.
Ferris, who was succeeded by
Phillip T. Ferris, just after the
civil war. In 1905 it passed into
the hands of the present editor
and proprietor. Thus it has
been in the Ferris family during
all these years, and it would not,
therefore, be inappropriate to
say it has constantly been under
one and the same management.
The Beacon is an excellent pa
per, and by virtue of that ex-
cellence, has the field to itself in
that city. Doubtless, in the es-
timation of the Macon people. it
fills the bill, and therefore no
other newspaper enterprise is
encouraged or maintained
West Peint Leader.
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A, & M. Worth Million.

The appraising committee of
the A. & M. college has COM
pleted it's inspection of the prop
erty at Starkyille and report that
it is valued at 1902, so. Three
branch experiment stations not
by this estimate will
raise the amount to over a mil
lion dollars. The appraising
committee is composed of Sena-
tor Lee of Carroll county, Repre-
sentatives Walker Wood, Tate;
A.. C. Anderson, Tiopah; J. H.
Welborn. Oktibbeha.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-11-26

Miss Estelle Smith, actuated
by the noble sentiments and spir-
it that have characterized all her
actions and expressions since the
terrible Artesia tragedy forced
this sweet. modest woman upon
the vulgar stage of publicity.
and despite the protests of her
irresponsible father and able at
torneys, last week paid $4,000
to the heirs Of E. A. Laurant, to
compromise a suit against his
slayer for $50, 900 pending in the
Lowndes county court, the col
lection of which by legal pro-
cess, her lawyers regarded as
impossible. Miss Smith insis-
ted upon following the God-giv-
en- suggestions of equity and
humanity rather than the letter
of the 'aw or the cold interpreta-
ton if it's tribunals. Aberdeen
Examiner.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-11-26
ANNIHILATE THE PEST.
Cattle Ticks Lessen Yield of Beef and
Milk.

A cattle tick that has reached
the engorged state weighs about
5 grains, and about 1,5OO such
ticks weigh about a pound. AS
cattle in the tick region often
carry many thousands of these
blood-sucking parasites, and as
each tick during the period of it's
attachment to an animal draws
considerably more than it's own
weight in blood, it can be seen
that these ticks continue an
enormous drain on the cattle
which they intest. This accounts
for the fact that under such con-
ditions it is impossible to fatten
cattle even on rich pasture with
an abundance of good feed. A
large part of the nourishment
that should go toward producing
beef and milk is consumed by
the ticks, so that the existence
of the infested cattle is beset
with continuous suffering, and
this of course also tends to keep
them in poor condition.
The sh1inkage in the milk pre-
duction of a COW harboring many
ticks will average one quart a
day, and the loss occasioned
thereby at 3 cents a quart for
the $4,000 ii ky dairy cattle out
of more than 4,O00,0O below the
quarintine line would amount to
$26, $50 a day. Counting 300
milking days for each cow to the
year would make the loss from
this cause 81, ,875, 900 per annum.
Full information as to how to
get rid of the ticks, including
directions for the preparation of
dips and sprays, the arrange
ment of pastures, etc., may be
obtained free upon application to
the Bureau of Animal Industry.
Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.
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IN MEMORIAM.

Again the death angel has come
and stood in our midst and touch
ed with his finger one whom we
greatly beloved. On Friday Au-
gust, 9Th, 1909.
GEO. l.. WELSH.
our Past Master, answered the
sermons to pass out the East Gate
after long life of unusual use
fullness and activities. Born at
St. Stephens, Ala, August 25th,
1925, and moved with his parents
to Kemper county, Miss, in 1884,
fifteen years later, 1S49, he was
married to Miss Mary Ellen Bell
in DeKalb, Kemper county.
While a citizen of DeKalb, he was
initiated into the secrets of Free
masOry.
AS Master Of this, Slaughter
Lodge No. 295, for a number of
years, he was not only an ide Il
Master, but an ideal Mason and
Brother, known over the state
among the fraternity as authority
on secret work which he had OBJ
tanned through a thorough applica-
tion to it. Among those of us
who knew him most Intimately,
having sit in his lodge often and
carefully noted the dignity, rev
erence, justice and respect with
which he presided, we could hard
ly realize that he was raised to the
sublime degree of a Master Mason;
by mere man.
AS a neighbor, competitor Or in
public or private life he comman
ded the highest respect of all he
came in contact with. Such q
man cannot fail but to leave his
Impress upon the community in
which he lives and Brother Welsh
was no exception for over the
large radius of country in which
he was a central figure, he was al
ways active in every good work,
regardless of personal comfort or
discomfort.
In MansOry, as in everything
else which he undertook, he was
the foremost in action and his zeal
and energy knew no bounds, ex-
eept those placed upon him by a
wise discretion.
He loved Masonry, an institu-
ton. founded upon the purest
principle. of mortality and virtue:
possessing great and ineStimable
privileges, if there was any one
thing in which there was more
pleasure to him in, while among
US, than another, it was the Civ
ing away of his wonderful store of
knowledge pertaining to the Sc
crets of our ancient and honorable
institution, to those who sought
them in the correct way; we have
not among US; scarcely q brother;
who dots not owe all his khowl.
saas Of Masonry 70 Aim| aud fur
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-11-26

Feast and your friends are
many; fast and they cut you
dead; they'll not get mad if you
treat them bad, so long as their
stomachs are fed. Steal, if you
get a million, for them you can
furnish bail; its the great big
thief who gets out on leave,
while the little ones get to jail.
Advertise and the dollars come
to you; quit and they fail to come
in, for which care the men who
have money to spend, for the
men who don't care to see them,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-11-26
GOLD MINE FOUND.
Hunters Discover What is Believed to
Be One Of Famous Treasure
Spots.

Little Rock, Ark, Nov. 24.-It
is authentically reported from
Benton, in Saline county, that
what appears to be a genuine gold
mine, worked perhaps hundreds
Of years ago by the Indians, in a
crude way, and later by the Span
iards. has been discovered on the
property of Lee Thomas, three
miles from the town of Benton.
So strong is the belief that the
discovery is genuine and that the
handmade cavern is the home of
rare treasures in ore, that modern
machinery has been ordered from
this city to pump the mine dry
and enable the examination to
proceed in other parts of the mine
than those already explored. Ex-
pert assayists have been engaged
from st. Louis to test the quality
of the gold ore said to have been
taken from the mine.
The discovery Of the mine was
unusual. Last spring, when the
terrific storm that blew away the
city of Brinkley visited this Sec
tiOn it also did damage in the way
of uproOting standing timber in
other sections of the state. North
of Benton a tornado uprooted a
number of large trees. A few
weeks ago, some hunters pursued
their game to one of these "cIay
roots" where it disappeared: ap-
parently hiding in a crevice made
by the tearing out of the huge
tree roots. The dog of the hun
ters followed the game and also
disappeared.
The opening created by the fall
ing tree was large enough to ad-
nit a man, and one of the hunters
followed, to assist the dog in re-
trieving. An instant later there
was a splash, and he found him
self standing nearly waist deep in
water, after a gentle tumble of
several feet.
An examination showed that
he had fallen into large opening,
away from the tree root, and that
the cavern was made by picks
OF, some sort and not by nature
The covering above was of heavy
timbers, originally, and in falling
the trees had torn up the edge Of
these timbers, discovering the un-
dergrOud chamber.
Further investigation was made,
and in parts of the cave not under
water, a variety of ancient uten-
sifs we're found, indicating that
the place had been worked long
before the white men came.
Ore said to contain a large per
cent of gold was discovered.
This fact was coupled with the
stories and traditions of early In
dian and Spanish mining in the
Ozark region of the Mississippi
valley, and the conclusion was
reached that the new find is none
other than one of the famous
Spanish mines.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-11-26

We congratulate our old friend
and compeer, the Macon Beacon,
on its Goth anniversary. 1t has
always been under the control of
its founder Edmund w. Ferris,
or one of his worthy decendents,
and has ever been noted for it's
ability, reliability, local patriot
ism and clean journalism. Long
may it be a Beacon of light to
good old Noxubee, Aberdeen
Examiner,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-11-26
For Sale.

Rhode Island S. C. Reds, / have for
sale 100 S. c. Rhode Island reds, the
best in this country. Good layers
large birds. good colors. Price $40
to S.. 90 each. N. SCALES.
Macon, Miss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-11-26

I6O acre Prairie farm, FIVE and a a
miles east of Macon. 20 acres woods,
70 corn land, 80 acres cotton, balance
pasture and worn. set'ls. improve
ments, 2 cisterns $4,000 down bal
ance to suit with interest, or trade for
property il. Oklahoma or Texas, or rent
for 1910. Apply at this office.