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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
WOULD REPEAL ARTICLE NINE
Railroads Want Ban Lifted From
Their Monopolies.

Guthrie, Okla.-The filing with the Sec
rotary of state of petitions containing
over $4,000 names, asking for a repeal of
section 3, article tx, of the state consti-
tuition, marks the beginning of one of
the most spectacular fights the South
west has ever witnessed. That article
of the constitution forbids the monopoly
of railroads. No other state in the
Union, it is said, has such a provision
in it's constitution, and it is expected
thai speakers for the railroads will be
sent here from all parts of the country.
The State Federation of Labor has
come out boldly against the proposition
to repeal the section, and one after an
other members of the constitutional con-
~vention. Commercial clubs, assisted by
railroad officials, are leading the fight
for the repeal.
Gov. Haskell probably will call an
election to take place on the regular
November date next year. Every al
didate for state office in the campaign
next year will go on record on the repeal
matter.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
MASSACHUSETTS MAN CLAIMS
THIS SPEED FOR AIR SHIP.
His Machine Is 1875 Horse Power
and Weighs 1850 Pounds.
Assembled 1000 Feet.

Worcester, Mass.-A remarkable as
sertion of the practicability of aviation
is embodied in the announcement here
Sunday by Wallace E. Tillinghast, vice
president of a Worcester manufacturing
company, who claims to have secretly
invented, built and tested an aeroplane
capable of carrying three passengers,
and in which, he says, he has flown from
Worcester to New York, thence to Bos-
ton, and then back, a distance of 800
miles. A speed of 100 miles an hour
was attained at times, he declares.
The test was made on Sept. 8, at night,
according to Mr.. Tillinghast, who says
he circled the Statute of Liberty at an
elevation of 1000 feet, and was seen on
the return trip by u coast guard on
Long Island, when flying low, the fact
being recorded in the newspapers at
the time.
MI. Tillinghast say the machine is
a monoplane, weighing 1850 pounds,
equipped with a 12O-horsepower gasoline
engine. He refuses to tell where the
machine is at present, but says he will
bring it to Worcester in February for q
public demonstration.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
Fishino Extraordinary.

Representative Flood of Virginia
tells a good story in which one Of
the characters was Gen. Reuben Lind
say Walker of the confederate army.
On one occasion the general was wait
ing for his breakfast, and his faithful
negro servant had gone to catch some
fish for the feast. When the serV-
ant was away an unusually long time
the general called to him impatiently:
why don't you come here with that
fish, Sam"
Sam in the meantime had caught
a founder, which is white on one side,
with a Wilderness hat loks like raw
fish meat.
All right, Massa Reuben!" called
put Sam. Use comm des ez sOOn
ez l kotch de uvver hat O. dis here
ish Standardization Times.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
SAVE THIS RECIPE FOR COLDS

Mix half pint of good whiskcy with
two ounces of glycerine and add one
half ounce Concentrated pine COM
pound. The bottle is to be we'll shaken
each time and used in doses of a tea
spoonful to a tablespoonful every four
hours" Any druggist has these ingre-
dents or he will get them from his
wholesale house. The Concentrated
pine is a special pine product and
comes only in half ounce bottles, each
enclosed in an alright case, but be
sure it is labeled Concentrated" This
is one of the best and quickest RENE,
dies known to science.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
TEXAS FARMERS QUIT UNION
Object to Action Taken by Las
National Convention.

Houston, Tex.-Because of alleged eX-
brilliant salaries proposed and the mis-
construction of the constitution, the
Texas Farmers Union plans to secede
from the Farmers Educational and Co
Operative Union of America, the national
organization which grew from the Texas
original union.
Objection is voiced to the recent &C
ton of the national convention at Biz
mingham, Ala, in September, proposing
an increase in the dues of from s to 10
cents per annum, a raise in the salary OF
the president of the national union from
5000 to $1,000 per annum, an increase IN
the salary of the national secretary
from $1,000 to $1,000 per annum, and
some donations, despite the fact that the
membership last year voted down the
now proposed advances. The circular
adds:
"The national convention thus
usurped the authority to appropriate
money contrary to the constitution and
against the expressed will of the mem
herShiD.7
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
Give Cuba Time.

Washington.-Secretary Of Wa Dick
:nson told the house committee on mill
tarv affairs that the United States gov
eminent has not called on Cuba to reim-
burse the United States for the $6,OOO,-
ooo expenses incurred by the military
occupation of Cuba, but that the claim
would be pressed whenever it seemed
that the Cuban treasury could stand
sch a draft. The statement was IN
reply to questions of the committee who
wanted to know what the government
lad done In the matter
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
REVOLVING CONDITIONS
PASSENGERS SUBJECTED TO IN
DECENT TREATMENT.
xisncss Almost Beyond
Belief.

Westinghouse report on steerage
conditions based On information obtained
by special agents of the immigration
commission, travelling as steerage pas
sengers, was made public Monday
through presentations for legislation to
better conditions.
Conditions found in many of these
vessels are described as appalling.
The general report of the commission
contains the reports of individual agents
giving their experience on board steam
ships where they posed as steerage pas
sengers.
A woman agent who was herself mis-
erably insulted and compelled to with
stand repulsive privations said:
During these twelve days in the steer
g l lived in a disorder and in sur
roundings that offended every sense.
Only the fresh breeze from the sea over
came the sickening odOrs. The vile Ian
guage of the men, the screams of the
women defending themselves, the crying
of children, wretched because of their
surroundings, and especially every sound
that reached the ears irritated beyond
endurance. There was no sight before
which the eye did not prefer to close.
Everything was dirty, sticky and dis
agreeable to the touch. Every impression
was offensive. Worse than this was the
general air of immortality. For fifteen
hours each day 1 witnessed all around
me this improper, indecent and forced
mingling of men and women, who were
total strangers, and often did not under
stand one word of the same language.
People cannot live in such surroundings
and not be influenced"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
HABITS CHAIN
Certain Habits UnconsciousIy Formed
and Hard to Break.

An ingenious philosopher estimates
that the amount of will power neces.
sary to break a lifelong habit would,
if it could be transformed, lift a weight
of many tons.
1t sometimes requires a higher de-
gree of herOism to break the chains of
a pernicious habit than to lead a for
lorn hope in a bloody battle. A lady
writes from an Indiana town:
From my earliest childhood I was a
lover of coffee. Before | was out of my
teens l was a miserable dyspeptic, suf-
fering terribly at times with my stOm.
ach.
Il was convinced that It was coffee
that was causing the trouble n yet
l could not deny myself a cup for
breakfast. At the age of SO I was in
very poor health, indeed. My sister
told me 1 vas in danger of becoming
a coffee drunkard.
But 1 never could give I'D drinking
coffee for breakfast, although it kept
me constantly i'll, until l tried Postum.
| learned to make it properly according
to directions, and now we can hardly
do without Postum for breakfast, and
care nothing for coffee.
Il am no longer troubled with dys.
pepsia, do not have spells of suffering
with my stomach that used to trouble
me so when 1 drank coffee"
Look in pkgs. for the little book. "Ths
Road to MELVILLE" There's a Reason"
Ever read the above Ietterg A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine true and full of humRR
Interest.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
Stated in Cold Figures.

1t costs on an average about $3.50
to cure an incipient ~consumptive or
to care for an advanced case of tuber-
~culosis until death. If he is left in des-
titute circumstances without proper
attention he will surely infect with
his disease at least two other persons,
and possibly more. Considering that
the average life is worth to society
in dollars and cents about 81 1900, the
net loss which would accrue to a COM
munity by not treating its poor con-
5umptives in proper institutions would
be, for each case, including those who
are unnecessarily infected, at the very
lowest figure, $4,25O. On this basis, IL
the poor cOnsumptives in the United
States who are now sick were segre-
gated from their families, and either
kept in institutions until they died, or
else cured of their disease, the saw
ing to the country would be the enOr-
nous sum of $1,275, 600, 900.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
CIWL WAR RECORDS FOUND
how Straits to Which Union Army
Was Driven.

New York.-In a rusty tin box, which
had reposed undisturbed in the vaults
of the subtreasury here since the Civil
War, a number of musty old documents
of great historical Importance have just
been discovered. They will be gone over
carefully by experts and preserved,
either here or in Washington.
One of the more interesting documents
is a record which shows to what expedi-
ents the government was sometimes
forced to resort to obtain funds with
which to defray the expense of the
army during the Civil War. Through
this paper fifty New York bankers
turned over to the government IN a
single days notice the sum of 81 200, 900.
At that time, the document says the
success or failure of the Northern army
seemed to depend on a speedy moving
forward of the sinews of war. The pa
per bears the date of November II, 1862.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
Nissi5sipW
Aews

The superintendent of education Of Ok
tibbeha county has started a new plan
for enforcing the farmer boys to take
an interest in farm life, to-wit.: A reg
istered pig club. The plan, briefly stat
ed, is this: Any white child who is a
pupil of some Oktibbeha county school,
and is unde IS, may enter the contest.
The pig must have been born on or since
Oct. 1, 1909, and must be registered.
Pigs to be shown on first day of the
county fair, when they are to be
weighed, and their weight divided by
number of days in pigs age, the owner
of pig making the greatest gain per day
to receive S25; second, $3.50; third,
$3.50; fourth, S..
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

Writing of the evils of ear strain,
to which the people of a large city are
always subject, a doctor says: when
the ears have been strained by the
noise and confusion of the day they
may be refreshed in the eveing by lis
thing to music or to such other sounds
as are restful to them" Perhaps you
have noticed the restful effect after a
hard days work when the clock in the
street strikes six and the hurdy-gurdy
comes around.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
Safe Place for the Author.

I'm a small town where the audi
ence calls for the author of the piece
to come before the curtain, he al
ways feels better if the curtain has a
lot of local advertisements on it," said
the manager.
Why so?" asked his friend.
why, the people in the audience
are not going to throw eggs and take.
a chance on spelling their own adver-
tisements, are they?"-Yonkers States
man.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
Exports Show Increase.

Washington.-The monthly statement
of exports of domestic products issued
by the department of m and la
Dor for November shows increases of
SIT, 900, 900 over the corresponding
month in 1908, but a decrease of $751;
100000 for the eleven months of 1909.
For the month the valuations of exports
of wheat, corn and mineral oil show the
leading increases. While the decrease in
the number of bales of cotton exported
WIS several thousand, the increase in
value was &c., 600, 900. Wheat, flour,
meat and dairy products, cattle, hogs
and sheep show slight decreases
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
F1FrY-N1NE DIE IN LAKE STORM.
Million in Property Lost-Four Boats
DESTROYED.

Cleveland. Ohio.-The storm which
passed over Lake Erie Wednesday and
Thursday reaPed a deadly harvest and
laid waste. more than S 1000, 900 worth
of vessel property. Late reports showed
that ffty-nine lives were lost; that TWEEN
ty sailors were rescued; that four boats
wero destroyed, and that one is aground
and sustained heavy damages.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
His Retort.

Newzance-Do you know, young
man, that five out of six people who
suffer from heart trouble have brought
it upon themselves through the filthy
habit of smoking?
Karmley-ReaIly! And possibly
you are aware that nine out of ten
people who suffer from black eyes
can trace the complaint to a habit
Of not minding their own business
Parsons Weekly.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
IN TAR.
Three Men Watch Flames Creep Nearer.
Burned to Death.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Entrapped in a lake
of flowing tar, four men were held fast
at the McClintock s Irvine ~Company's
roofing plant when it caught fire Satur-
day, and were compelled to watch the
gradually approaching flames. Three of
them were burned to death, but the
fourth managed to extricate himself and
escape the horrible fate of his compan-
ions, although he was seriously burned.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
Gives Out Comet Data.

Princeton, N. J.-Fifty-six million
miles from the earth, one hundred and
forty-six million miles from the sun and
more than three times as large as the
earth in diameter-thes are the facts
determined by Zaccheus Daniel, 1908
graduate student of Princeton Univers-
ity, about the comet which he discov-
cred on December 6. Mr.. Daniel holds
the Thaw fellowship in astronomy, the
annual income of a gift of $4,000 by
Mrs. William Thaw, of Pittsburg. He
has ben absorbed in astronomy ever
has been absorbed in astronomy ever
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
SHE IS LEGALLY DEAD.
Insurance Company Must Pay Policy On
Kidnapped Girl.

st. Louis.-Nellie Burns, who was
sidnaped eleven years ago when she
was 7 years old, was declared legally
dead by Judge Winthrop, of the circuit
court, Monday. He rendered judgment
against an insurance company for $235.
the amount of two policies on the girls
life. The girl lived with a foster mother
and was kidnapped on her way home
from school. No trace of her ever was
found.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

That Hartford 15-year-Old boy who
insisted on being taken to school after
he had broken his leg, because he did
not want to spoil a perfect record for
attendance, may be counted on to ap-
preciate the value of an education and
to turn it to good account.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
MAKE EXAMPLE OF ZELAYA
Rayner Denounces Nicaraguan as
Despicable Character.

Washington.-Vigorously d~enouncinG
President Zelaya for having ~"murdered'
Cannon and Groce, officers of the revo-
lutionary army, Senator Rayner of
Maryland Monday advocated the passage
of his resolution authorizing the presi-
dent of the United States to apprehend
and try the president of Nicaragua for
his crime against these two American
citizens.
The private life of Zelaya, almost I'M
speakable in it's enormity, said Mr.. Ray
ner, should be made public by the state
department in order that the people of
the United States might know the kind
of man ZeIaya was.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

Dewitt Lundy left today for his trip
to Washington, which came to him as a
prize offered by DR.. Knapp of the govern
ment agricultural bureau at the recent
state fair at Jackson, Miss. The trip
will be of two weeks duration and the
time will be spent mainly in Washing
ton, ID. c., seeing the sights there.
Upon his arrival in the city a guide
will be turned over to this young man,
and will devote his entire time to him,
showing him the various points of in
terest in and about the city of Wash
ington.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

The Turkish parliament. which will
reconvene next week, will consider a
naval program that will involve the
expenditure of 500, 600, 900. This sum,
it is estimated, will build and equip
seven battleships of the North Da.
kota type and at once advance the
Ottoman empire to at least a secoud.
rate position as a sea power.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17
Inventor of "Good Time" Dead.

jackson, Mich.-William l.. Seaton,
former warden of the State prison here:
and credited with being the originator
Of the system of giving convicts credit
for good time is dead at his home
bore He WAS Sc years old.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

The German dirigible air squadron
has been executing maneuvers, and
another war scare is due in the right
little, tight little British Isles.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

~Aeroplanist Farman flew for over
four hours the other day. The coming
~aeropIane will have to have a dining
car attachment.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

J.. E. Branton, a prominent planter of
Washington county, has finished picking
a field of cotton which has made a most
remarkable yield. This field comprises
five and one-fourth acres and the total
yield of cotton is over $500 pounds,
enough for two standard weight bales
per acre. At prevailing prices for cotton
and seed each acre of this land, which
was planted in the Simpkins variety of
cotton, will yield him q gross return of
about $17S.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

Some persons express their OPP
timism by eating chicken croquettes
in restaurants.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

What are said to be the highest falls
on this continent have been discOv-
cred in Labrador. Maybe Canada was
tired of owning only half of Niagara.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

During the past yea our Taternal
government planted 3.117, 000,O 900 fish,
which statement is the biggest fish
story of the year.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

A Washington man says he owes
his longevity to pie, but few poll
tioians can hang ont the pie counter
q whole lifetime.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

The American Dreadnought is the
greatest of all. Others do well; we
do better. They do better still when
we do best.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

Paris is a woman's town." sings a
Boston Globe poet. Other American
gents have made the same remark
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

The germ family are in hard luck.
Mrs. Sage is combating the tubercu-
losis germ, Mr.. Carnegie the pellagra.
and Mr.. Rockefeller the hookworm.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

The post office rules that boxes of
candy may be sent through the mails.
Uncle Sam and Santa Claus are get
ting ready to pull together in this
matter. Sweets to the sweet.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

1t is clumsy to break laws when 1t
is easier to evade them, but that is
not a good excuse for evading them.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

This discussion whether or not there
are insects on Mars is chOpping con-
troversy pretty fine. Wait till the
hoOkworm gets settled.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

In her suit for divorce a Sacramento
woman charged that her husband
would not wen buy her ice eam
Still. he may have loaded her down
with fudge and chewing gum.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

Rifian tribesmen send word to
Spain that they have only started to
fight. Madrid will get little satisfac-
ton out of that.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

over the Nicaragua cable. Both sides
are winning.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

OrviIle Wright says that flying is
easy to learn. Few doubted that; it
is the coming-down process which the
majority want made easy.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

The revolution season has opened
again i'll Central America.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

Berlin wants an immovable date for
Easter Sunday. Let us hope they will
also get a removable Easter Sunday
hat.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

Messina is alarmed over signs of
further earthquake shocks. Messina
seems a good place to keep away
from.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

Prosperity is still waxing and will
set a hot pace for the country.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

The preliminary report of the de-
partment of agriculture shows that
the corn crop this year is up to a high
level and comes hear to record-break-
ing figures. The yield is placed at 2.
T67.916,O00 bushels, which is nearly a
hundred million bushels more than
tina of 1908. The largest crop of
corn ever gathered was that of 1906.
which aggregated 2,927,416.O 900 BUSH
els. At the prevailing prices the corn
crop is estimated to be worth more
than 81, g GOO. 900. There is no doubt
that King Corn" doe his part toward
creating national wealth.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

DIR. R. j.. Brown killed two hogs that
weighed in the aggregate 682 pounds.
Another citizen of Iuka killed two that
weighed 600 pounds, and Will Also
brooks, a farmer living ten miles east
of luka, killed eighteen hogs from one
pen and brought six of them to Iuka for
sale. They weighed 1871 pounds and
Melted him the sum of $16O.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

A number of prominent citizens have
formed a fruit growers association, to
be known as the Ridge Fruit Farm
Company. TIL purpose of the organiza-
ton is to raise fruit and operate a gen.
eraI truck farm. Fruit and vegetables
will be shipped
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

The ST. Lawrence river is an object
lesson in water power. An enormous
volume can be turned to account by
modern methods. And now progress
sive Americans and Canadians are
uniting in an effort to utilize this
power. \ plan has been formulated
which looks to the erection of a dam
at Brockville which will drown out
the Long Sault rapids and raise the
stream at that point IS inches, afford
ing several hundred thousand horse
power. Competent engineers have
pronounced it wholly practicable.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

Come again. football friends!
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

Congressman Dickson of the Sixth Mis-
sissippi district has written a letter to
the papers of his bailiwick in which he
tells the farmers that he will render
them every possible assistance in build
ing up a market and creating a demand
for their cane syrup-the best in the
way of molasss that is to be had in this
section of the country, and which seems
to find its natural element in the coun-
ties to the southwest-those now in
tested with the boil weevil.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

Claims for back taxes alleged to be
due by the banks of Vicksburg, extend
ing back to 900 and running up to
several thousands of dollars, were filed
for collection with City Tax Assessor
and Collector Kiersky, by Deputy State
Revenue Agent Adams, at Vicksburg.