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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
Uses and
Features OF
the Scrap
Book
By JOHN F. GETTING
Editor American Criminal Reports

ties for dispensing knowledge, making books more common and carrying
education to humber homes. The evOuionborn newspaper then made
its appearance-frst in a simple form; but, like a tender plant springing
from a fertile field, it has been nourished and favored until in more ma
tue form it reaches, II should reach every home.
A few years ago the small weekly newspaper and the annual almanac
were read, re-read and preserved for future reference; but to-day, with
the voluminous dailes-and we might say tr-daiiesa few chances at
the leading features are taken and the latest newspaper is CONSIGNED to
the waste basket. 1t would be folly to preserve these papers Astounding
with advertisements, Sensational and transient news and other matters
scarce deserving a serious thought; yet, how often it is that We vainly
endeavor to revive the recollection of something read, and almost forgot
ten, yet Hndistincdy floating in the horizon of thought, a record of which
could have been preserved by a clipping pasted in a scrap book O by a
condensed synopsis entered in a blank book kept for that purpose.
The scrap book, edited with discrimination, together with a para
graph book in which matters of Importance and interest are briefly re-
corded, should find a place in each home library. However valuable these
may be, brevity and precision should
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Constipation causes and seriously aggravates
MANY diseases. 1t Is thoroughly cured by DR..
Pierco's Pellets. Tiny sugar-cOated granules.
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be engaged

A marked distinction exists between
the literature of the ancients and that of
to-day. There was a time when a few
characters fixed upon stone OF terra Gotta
recorded passing events, and these, through
the flood of centuries, have triumphed over
the process of decay, bringing to US infor-
nation regarding nations and dynasties
long since ceased. In later yet ancient pc
RODS the manuscript rolls, written by hand
and Transcribed by the same process,
formed the libraries of scholars. This sys-
tenn in various forms continued until the
primitive printing press gave greater facili-
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

MPOSSIBL TO FIND ANYTHING
better for Sideache, backacheS or stitches thar
Perry Davis Painkiller. Get the large size, it is tho
cheapest. At all druggists, 25c, 35c and SOC bottles
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

Everyone can do his best thing IA
iest--Emerson.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
Financial.

Stella-Isn't Mabel going to marry
the duke?
Bella-No, he rejected the budget.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
TERRIBLY.
dow Relief from Distressing Kidney
Trouble Wa Found.

Mrs. Elizabeth Wolf, 3SS W. Morgan
St, Upton, Mo-, says: Inflammation
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
EventfuI
Day
Man May
Be Allowed
to Fix Time
BY HELEN OLDFIELD

ordains that the bride shall name the wedding day,
but, as with many another ordinance Of custom, her SO doing
is much more in form than in fact, a polite fiction to which
every one defers while knowing it to be fiction. The truth
is that no woman who obeys the convention of her sex can set
the date of her marriage until she is duly importuned by her
prospective bridegroom to do so.
She may delay her wedding day without good and suff-
cient reason, she may hang back with maidenly tinidity, or
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

It's one thing to run into debt and
another to crawl out.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
For Headache Try Hlcks' capudIne.

Whether from Colds, Heat, OF
Nervous troubles, the aches are speedily
relieved by Capudine. It's LiQuid-pleas-
ant to Immediately 10, q
and SIC at Drug Stores.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

to him than married to any other man, but if SO his
fault only is the greater for making such selfish exac-
tons Of one who loves him so we'll.
Perhaps it never occurs to him what may be said
Of his treatment of her. The woman is deserving of
sympathy, but she gets only ridicuIe. GLOW she does
hang on to him - and che doesn't care much for her,
but she can't see it!' are remarks which the idle and
ill-natured of both sexes level at the woman who is
waiting, but who is denied the right to demand her
due.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

Signature s1ase ne of &MMEzM
In Use For Over 80 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
Important to Mothers

Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, a safe and ure remedy for
infants and children, and e that it
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

rushed into matrimony by the passionate haste of her lover, but never,
no never, must any sef-respecting woman, however much in love she
may be, manifest eagerness to be married such haste only is a degree less
rprehensible upon her part than it would be for her to propose marriage
to the man of her choice, in place Of waiting for him to take the initia-
tive; neither is permissible o a weIl-broughtup girl.
Recently it seriously has been proposed to amend the marriage laws
of some states by the provision that n persons shall be allowed to marry
unless they previously have been acquainted for six months. No one who
knows anything about the matter "a doubt that if such a law we're pos
sibIe it greatly would diminish the matrimonial misery between irassorted
couples, much Of which is due to hasty marriages.
1t doubtless is sad for faithful lovers whose marriage indefinitely is
postponed for a cause beyond their control, but they at least have the
mutual satisfaction of patient love and endurance. It is far sadder for
a woman to feel that her youth is passing, her freshness fading, her faith
and courage slowly failing, while she waits for the man to whom she is
engaged, whom she loves and he makes sign.
He, perhaps, may fatter himself that she rather would be engaged
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

Better a poor man at large than &
rich man in jail.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

Mrs. WinalowAB Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, SofLens the gums, reduces IN
Aammatio1. auayS pain. cares wind colo. Sca bottle.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

If you would be happy, keep your
eyes wide open during courtship and
half closed after marriage.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-18
Mrs Washinctons
Rade Farewell His Mother

On the RappahannOck farm, or wheth-
er his body was taken back to the old
Washington family burying ground on
the lower Potomac is not known. He
bequeathed the old home place on the
Potomac TO his eldest son. Augustine.
To his son Lawrence he left the farm
on the Potomac between Hunting
creek and Dogue run, which Lawrence
subsequently named Mount Vernon.
To George. when he should come of
age, he bequeathed the farm on thu
Rappahannock.
This house was occupied by Mrs.
Washington until It burned after
George had changed his place of living
% his half-brother's home in Mount
Vernon After the fire Mrs. Washing
ION removed to a small frame cottage
n Fredericksburg, where she lived
many years, and where she died. II
Was in this house that Washington
ook his last leave OF his mother. four
months before her death. The house
still stands at the corner of Charles
and Lewis streets. 1t is owned by
The Society for the Preservation OF
Virginia Antiquities. and is furnished
much as it was when Mrs. Washing
ON lived there. The room in which
he died and her bed are preserved in
act.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-18
GOOD CHANGE
Coffee to Postum.

The large army of persons who have
found relief from many chronic all
nents by changing from coffee TO
Postum as daily beverage, is grow
ing each day.
1t is only simple question Of trying
It for oneself in order to know the joy
OF returning health as realized by an
Ills. young lady. She writes:
Il had been a coffee drinker nearly
all my life and IL affected my stomach
caused insomnia and l was seldom
without a headache. had heard about
Postum and how beneficial It was, so
concluded to quit coffee and try il.
Il was delighted with the change.
I can now sleep well and seldom ever
have headache. Ny stomach has gotten
strong and can eat without suffering
afterwards. / think my whole system
greatly benefited by Postum.
my brother also suffered from stom-
ach trouble while he drank coffee, but
now, since using Postum he feels so
much better he would not go back to
coffee for anything"
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich. Read THE Road to Well
ville," in pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above Ietterf A new
one appears from time TO time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-18

ter Elizabeth became the wife of Maj.
Fielding Lewis of Fredericksburg, a
revolutionary officer of distinction. He
built Kenmore in 1749 One of their
sons was intimately associated with
George Washington and became the
husband Of Nellie Custis, granddaugh-
ter of the wife of George Washington
and adopted daughter of Washington
The mother of Washington was
buried at a romantic spot in the Ken
more grounds. Soon after the death
of Mrs. Washington her widowed
daughter Betty moved from Kenmore
to live with her daughter, Mrs. Carter,
in Lancaster county. There she died
in 1897 and her children sold Kenmore
The purchasers laid out their family
burial ground close TO the grave OF
Mary Washington, and inclosed their
lot with high brick wall, leaving
the Washington grave outside. Mary
Washington's grave was long neglect.
ed. Various efforts to erect a monu-
ment failed, until in the early '90s a
Fredericksburg auctioneer offered the
land on which the grave was for sale.
This aroused Indignation, money was
subscribed and May 10, 1894, the pres
ent classic shaft that marks the grave
OF Mary, Mother of Washington" was
dedicated.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-18
The Peaceful Japs.

Japan will not allow a purely Local
question, such as the status of Japan.
csc residents in California, to disturb
the feeling Of amity toward the Uni.
ted States which has been growing
ever since Perry's expedition half a
century ago" Baron Koga Takahira
Japanese ambassador to the United
States. thus put into nutshell the
Japanese attitude toward the recent
race troubles on the Pacific coast.
Japan will consent to any action the
federal government may care 10 take
regarding the situation in California"
continued the baron she has never
in any way, through me or any other
official representative, protested to
the United States government II
must not be forgotten that when dis
pleasure was shown in this country
at the number of Japanese immi
grants. We at once consented to re-
strict Immigration TO the minimum
figure.
The japanese are educated TO be
patriotic. They are loyal TO their
country, but they are not forgetful of
the rights OF other nations
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-18
TIE
\ Exceptional
Equfpn7er1f

of the California Fig Syrup Co. and the
ie1nti6c attainments of it's chemists have
rendered possible the production of Syrup
Of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA, in all of its
excellence, by obtaining the pure medic
inA principles of plants known to act most
benefcially and combining them most
skillfully, in the right proportions, with
it's wholesome and refreshing Syrup OF
California Figs.
AS there is only one genuine Syrup OF
Figs and Elixir of SIENNA and as the gen.
uine is manufactured by an original
method known to the California Fig Syrup
Co.. only, il is always necessary to buy the
genuine to get its beneficial effects.
A knowledge Of the above facts enables
one 10 decline limitations or to return then,
4, upon viewing the package, the full name
of the California Fig SyrupC is not found
printed on the front thereof.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-18
LATE HAPPENINGS
AND TAFT TALK
TAFT TELLS THE SOUTH OF THE
WORK ON THE PANAMA
CANAL.
HOLD UP AT DENVER
Current Topics Of the Day That spe.
cialIy interest Readers Are Briefly
Told.

While in the south since his re
turn from Panama President-elec'
Taft spoke forcibly of the work or
the canal, showing his utter contempt
for what he termed the baseless and
hurtful criticisms of the work being
done. The Panama canal is going
to be built" he declared, land what
want you to do, and what / want
every American citizen 10 do, is tC
stand by the. men who are building
ii. (Voices: We will do IT'D Don'i
set fire in the rear; don't distrusi
those that are giving up their strength
and energy and enterprise TO put that
great work through. ! do not care
whether you are Democrats or Re
publicans. YOU want the work done
and when the army engineers who
are doing this work, are giving al
their time to the carrying out of this
work, You are not men To go back
on them or to believe every idle story
that comes from the mouth of some
politician who is seeking TO make
himself prominent or 10 give himself
the advertisement of little unbound
ed story. | know what the people OF
the United States want in that re
gard, and insofar as / have power, as
the executive of this country, am
going TO push that work and | am
going TO stand behind the men who
are doing 1t. And now, gentlemen
you have gotten me into more heat
than | expected hut | thank you very
much for your welcome"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-18
Train Robbers Got ss5. 600.

That the hold-up of the Denver &
Rio Grande passenger train No near
Denver early Saturday morning was
the work of three instead of two rob.
bers, and that the robbery of the mail
car gave them a loot of possibly $685..
600, is indicated by the investigation
of the police and railroad officials.
Eighteen packages Of registered mail
were secured. One of these packages
is said TO have contained large sum
or money, but until thorough check
ing up of the missing package is pos
sible the exact amount secured
by the robbers cannot be ascertained.
The robbery was remarkable for
its originality and daring 1t took
place within eight miles of Denver.
within less than two miles of Fort
Logan, the United States military res
ervation, and at the spot where habi.
tations are plentiful Yet so thor
ough was the work of the robbers
and SO well were their plans laid
that they had fully an hour and a
half start OF the officers.
Search of the vicinity Of the hold
up indicates that a third man and
possibly fourth were engaged in the
robbery, that buggy was in wait
ing, and that torpedoes and red sig
nal fires were used unsuccessfully in
an attempt TO stop the train before
the automatic revolvers of two men
on The engine tender succeeded in do
ing this
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-18
MONEY MADE IN LIVE STOCK
IN CENTRAL CANADA.

w. ]. Henderson, visiting Seattle,
writes the Canadian Government
Agent at Spokane, Wash, and says:
Il have neighbors in Central Canada
raising wheat, barley and oats for the
past 20 years. and are now getting
from the same land 20 to 80 bushels of
wheat per acre, 40 to go bushels Of
oats.
1T was the first week OF May when
got my tent pitched, but the farmers
all around had finished putting in
their crops, so only got fifteen acres
broke and seeded. They advised me
as 1t was late not to put In much
wheat, SO / put in five acres of wheat
and ten acres oats, one-haR acre pota-
toes and vegetables. All kinds of veg
etables grow well up there, sweet corn,
tomatoes, onions, carrots, peas, beans.
cabbage. My wheat yielded about 20
bushels per acre, for which l got 76
cents, others got so cents; oats
threshed 80 bushels per acre, for which
| got 35 cents per bushel. You see l
was three weeks late in getting them
in, still l was satisfied.
From my observation, there is more
money made in stock, such as cattle,
horses and sheep, as prices are high
for such, and it costs nothing to raise
them, as horses live the year around
out on the grass. In fact, farmers turn
their work horses out for the winter,
and they come in fresh and fat in the
spring. Cattle live out seven or eight
months. They NOW the prairie grass
and stack it for winter and give oat
straw My neighbors sold steers at
$40 each, and any kind Of horse
that can pillow, from $4,000 up. raised
60 chickens and pigs, as pork, chick
ems, butter and eggs pay well and al
ways good market for anything a
man raises, so / have every reason to
be thankful, besides, at the end of
three years / get my patent for home
stead. | heard of no homestead sell
ing for less than $4,000, so where I'M
der the sun could an old man or
young man do better?"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-18

One Of the original Washington
houses is standing about 100 yards
from the Corson cottage. Only the
weather boarding has been renewed.
II is frame shanty, and the story
goes that il was used as an Office of
the estate when the Washingtons lived
there.
OF the zoo acres surrounding the
house two are in garden and orchard,
rs in oak timber and the remainder in
farming land, planted this year in
wheat and corn. When Corson bought
the land it was deeply SCARED with
Burnside's earthworks, there being 13
gun pits near whore the house stands.
These pits have been obliterated, with
the exception of one, which has been
lett as relic.
Fredericksburg has grown south
ward till part OF the city is directly
across from the Washington home
site. The steamboat landing on the
city side is within easy pistol shot OF
wind blows from the northeast the
whistle of steamboats, on the Potomac
river, 10 miles away, may be heard.
TO the north of the Washington
house, but still on land that was the
Washington farm. is Chatham, one of
the noble places Of Virginia During
the union operations against Marye's
Heights, Chatham was Burnside's
headquarters.
Across the river IT the upper end
of Kenmore George Washington's sis
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-18
a Darky's Letter.

A New York business man was
cleaning out his desk the other day
and tearing up his old letters when
the colored porter, who was in the
Office, spoke up and said: Boss, gim.
me one oh dem letters?"
What do you want it for?"
II promised to write letter to my
old nanny in Norf Car-lina. but, as i
hasn't lahned to write yit, / can jess
send her one OBJ dem letters you hahn I
got no use for. Hit will make her
feel good, hit will"
The gentleman gave the affection
ate son a patent-medicine anti-fat cir
cular. which was duly mailed and ad-
dressed.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-18
Easy Come, Easy Go.

A passerby at Broad and Lombard
streets in Philadelphia once heard
the following dialogue between la
borer who was digging in sewer and
a stout, beaming lady with capacious
market basket on her arm:
'Ah, good marnin' to you, Pat" said
she leaning over and looking into the
pit. And what are you doin'?"
Good marnin', Bridget" he replied,
looking up. I'm a-earnln' alimony for
yees. And what are you doin'?"
Sure, I'm a-spendin it," replied
Bridget airily, as she trotted Off
Lippincott's.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-18

house in which Washington was born
is Blenheim house. built by William
Augustin Washington, nephew of
George Washington and son Of George
Washington's elder half-brother Au.
gustine. Lena Washington Hunger
ford. great. great-grandniece or George
Washington. dwells there to-day
Fredericksburg by the Rappahan-
mock was the boyhood home of George
Washington. There he attended school
to Mr.. Hobby, and there the apochry-
phal cherry tree incident was laid;
there he subdued the wild colt,
and there he threw Il silver dollar, or
other object, across the Rappahannock
river The colt incident is believable
and the pitching story is plausible.
1t was at Fredericksburg that Wash
lngton was initiated into Masonry. 1t
was there that he took final leave of
his mother before assuming The Office
of president i'm New York. ard it was
there that Mrs. Washington. success
sively known in that city and the
country roundabout as the Rose of
Epping Forest Belle of Lancaster
the Roman Matron" and old Ma
dame died August %. 1889.
George Washington's father died
April y, 174S, leaving large landed
possessions. Whether he was buried
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-18
IN AGONY WITH ECZEMA.
Whole Body Mass of Raw, Bleeding
Torturing Humor - Hoped Death
Would End Fearful Suffering.
In Despair; Cured by cutieura.

Words cannot describe the terrible
eczema / suffered with. 1t broke out
on my head and kept spreading until
1t covered my whole body. |
was almost solid mass of sores from
head to foot. | looked more like a
piece of raw beef than human be.
ing. The pain and agony endured
seemed more than could bear. Blood
and pus oozed from the great sore on
my scalp from under my finger nails.
and nearly all over my body. My
ears were so crusted and swollen
was afraid they would break off
Every hair in my head fell out.
could not sit down, for my clothes
would stick to the raw and bleeding
flesh, making me cry out from the
pain. My family doctor did all he
could, but / got worse and worse. My
condition was awful | did not think
i could live, and wanted death to
come and end my frightful sufferings.
I'm this condition my mother-in-law
begged me TO try the Cuticura Rem
edifs> / said l would, but had no hope
OF feeoyery. But oh, what blessed re-
lief experienced after applying Cuti-
cura Ointment. II cooled the bleeding
and itching flesh and brought me the
first real sleep had had in weeks. 1t
was as grateful as ice to a burning
tongue. | would battle with warm
water and Cuticura Soap. then apply
the Ointment freely. ! also took Cuti-
cura Resolvent for the blood. In a
short time the sores stopped running.
the flesh began 10 heal, and / knew
was to get well again. Then the hair
on my head began to grow, and in a
short time | was completely cured
j wish / could tell everybody who has
eczema to use Cuticura. Mrs. VIM
Hunt, 1876 Thomas ST., Newark, N. j.,
Sept. %, 190s.'
Potter Drug Chem. Corp Sole Props, Boston
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-18
The Secret Of Poverty.

DR.. Woods Hutchinson OF New
York unlocked the secret Of general
poverty in an address at the Ameri-
can Museum OF Natural History in
New York early this month, when he
said: What Is killing the people of
this city may be stated as overwork,
undertaking and overcrowding; and
two of these may be included under
the one word 'underpaid.' The mes
sage OF the church and OF medicine
to-day to the community is not Give
to the poor but Don't take so much
away from them. The Public.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-18

The eight-year-old son of ientist
showed a sudden interest pho
Biography.
Dad" he said, they photograph
comets and meteors and flying birds
and lightning flashes and all sorts OF
moving things without any trouble,
don't they?"
Yes, my SON."
Then how is it they can't pho.
tograph a boy without putting his
head in an iron frame?"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-18
Hls thirst Cor knowIedae.

The American Magazine published
a complete account of Lincolns boy
hood. as related 10 Mrs. Eleanor AT.
kinson OF Chicago by Dennis Hanks.
Lircoln's playmate and cousin.
you bet he was too smart 10 think
everything was in books. Sometimes
a preacher r circuit.ridin Judge. r
lyyer r stump-speakin' POLITICIAN r
a school teacher'd come along. When
one O them rode up. Tom'd go out
and say: Light stranger. like il was
polite TO do. Then Abe'd come lopin'