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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08
ROSY L
Produced by Postum.

when a person rises from each
meal with a ringing in the ears and a
general sense of nervousness, it is
a common habit to charge it to a de-
ranged stomach.
II found it was caused from drink
ing coffee, which I never suspected for
a long time, but found by leaving off
coffee that the disagreeable feelings
went away.
81 was brought to think of the sub
ject by getting some Postum and this
brought me out of trouble.
1T is a most appetizing and invig-
Grating beverage and has been of
such great benefit to me that 1 natu-
rally speak of it from time to time
as opportunity offers.
"a lady friend complained to me
that she had tried Postum, but it did
not taste good. In reply to my ques-
ton she said she guessed she boiled it
about ten minutes. l advised her to
follow directions and know that she
boiled it fifteen or twenty minutes, and
she would have something worth talk
ing about. A short time ago 1 heard
one of her children say that they were
drinking Postum nowadays, so 1
judge she succeeded in making it
good, which is by no leans a difficult
task.
The son of one of my friends was
formerly a pale lad. but since he has
been drinking Postum, has a fine color.
There is plenty of evidence that
Postum actually does make red blood,
as the famous trademark says"
Read The Road to MELVILLE" found
In pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine true and full Of human
interest
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08

well at night. I believe there is moth
ing like the Pinkham remedies."-
Mrs. CLARA FRANKS, r. F. d., No. 8.
Knoxville, Iowa.
The success Of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made from roots
and herbs, is unparalleled. It may be
used with perfect confidence by women
who suffer from displacements, infam-
nation, liberation, fbroid tumors, ir-
Irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
bearing-down feeling, f1atulency, indi-
gestion, dizziness, or nervous prostra-
ton.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has been tho
standard remedy for female ills, and
suffering women owe it to themselves
to at least give this medicine a trial
Proof is abundant that it has cured
thousands of others, and why should it
not cure you?
IF you want special advice writo
Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass, for tto
1t is free and always helpful
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08

Very few men know how to keep
still. The Italians have a proverb,
Hear, see, and say nothing, If you
wish to live in peace" The man who
is bent on telling all he knows, gen.
orally end in telling a good deal more
than he knows. The tongue is harder
to bride than the widest horse that
ever roamed the prairie. The Ger
mans say truly that talking by
nature, while silence comes of the un-
Outstanding.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08

At a convention held not long since in
Chicago it was urged that the increasing
lack of farmers now assumes the proper
lions of a menace to the United States.
Here is one small solution which will work
out properly: There are many home-sup-
porting women in the cities and towns of
this country who are working their lives
out for a mere ~pittance, widows with fam
lies to rear but who are compelled to let
their children run the streets without a
mothers care, and wives, daughters and
sisters who are sole supporters of families.
Many of these long for homes on a farm,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08

There is no nation that has begun to
develop the business Of advertising as have
the Americans. The art of advertising has
been carried to a pitch in the United
States that puts it in a class by itself, I
happen to know that it is a rare thing for
any of the big mercantile houses of France
or the continent to spend as much as $1O,-
900 a year on the newspapers. They have
not learned the value of printers ink as
have the Yankees. Some of your merchant
princes will expend on a single issue in tell
ing the public of their wares as much as
our leading establishments will pay out in
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08
Custom
Flowing
New Industry
in Western
Farm Country
By g. WELLESLEY BRABBIT

When the Dakoas, Montana, Canada and parts of Texas
T were opened to agriculture the farms we're so large that horses
4 IS could cot supply the motive power necessary for the blowing
HqMN9shs of the great land tracts. Traction engines yer substituted
AT4H3H and they dragged the plows over the vast stretches of land.
~I4ES Thus power blowing had its beginning. From this, too, sprung
- custom blowing, al occupation numbering many hundreds
Of men with an invested capital of several million. These men
do not own the farms upon which they work, but pillow them with their
especially made outfits for so much per acre.
An up-to-date outfit or rig costs $4,000 and consists of a 20 # 80
horsepower traction engine and a series of plows, usually in groups of 10,
II or II, called "bottoms." They are rated as 10, II or IA bottom gang,
according to their number, are attached to an angling platform on wheels
and arranged in pairs diagonaly along the back, with each pair slightly
in advance of the other. Levers are attached to all, so that they may be
raised Or lowered at discretion. When going from one field to another
the pows are elevated. With this outfit the engineer owner goes forth
and breaks up the soil at from So to S. per acre, according to the char
acter Of the land. If it be new, more is charged; if old, less. The farmer
in both cases furnishes the coal.
during the threshing season in Illinois, only it is larger, with exaggerated
back wheels. They travel at the rate of two miles per hour over even
ground and can turn under 25 to 80 acres daily. From five to seven inches
is the depth of the furrow.
The cost of running IN of these blowing outfits per day is as fol-
lows: Man to steer, $3.50; water hauler, 81 board, SO; feed for one horse,
so cents; sharpening plows, $3.50; oil, 81. About Sc worth of coal is
burned.
The good custom plower is bringing up the standards of his craft.
Having full knowledge that old world blowing methods re superior to
those on this side of the water and realizing that the American farmer
often sacrifices quality for quantity, he has set about to reduce blowing to
European standards and has for the most part produced satisfactory
results, With his steam engine he can secure quantity; with practical
knowledge he obtains quality.
There are breakers ahead of him, though, that will give him worry
unless he besirs himself at once to avoid the trouble; and that is price
cutting. Owing to its extreme youth the occupation has no organization
to speak of; 10 power to maintain a standard wage for blowing, and the
result has been a lowering of wages until now in some portions of the
west no money is made at all by it. The farmer is glad and willing to pay
as high as S. an acre for breaking his land and why less than this should
be asked is a mystery. Threshemens trade papers, conventions and meet
ings will change this and if worked out in time the breakers may be
avoided.
S--D Custom blowing does not last the year around,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08
Yankees
Learn
Value of
Printers
Ink
By JULES LATOUR
Of MarSeilleS

three months. Not only do your storekeepers use the press Oh a big scale,
but their way of telling the reader about their goods is the most plausible,
the most delightful, the most winning thing in the line of literary coax
the thousand.
During my stay here I have become fascinated with the advertise
ments seen in your daily newspapers and l read them with unalloyed
world.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08
Lack of
Farmers
BeCOlnin6
Menace
By MRS. S. n. RANDOLPH

but have not the means. However, the federal government, or ever the
rich corporations, who have such lands could advance the use of a few
acres to such as n worthy, adding to this in each case a small house,
furnishings, food, fuei, seed, agricultural implements and W a small
sum of money, if needed, all this fully covered by al honest mortgage.
IF this were done there would be very few foreclosures and many good
farms and farmers added to the credit of this country.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08

WTOI0 10 MIS-. IIlhs
ham and took Lydia
E. Pinkham'S Vege-
table COMPOUND
and Liver Pills, and
am glad to say that
your medicines and
kind letters of di-
rections have done
o for me than
anything else and I
had the best physi-
a here. / can
do nv wOrk and rest
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08
AFTER
DOCTORS
FAILED
Pinkham's Vegetas
bic Compound Cured Her

Knoxville, Iowa. -"I suffered with
pains low down in my right side for a
year or more and was SO weak and ner-
Vous that l could not do my work. 1
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08

Custom blowing does not last the year around,
though, but that matters little. For by simply unship-
ping the gang pillow from the tractor the latter may
be used for t~hreshing, road working, and in the winter
time for hauling. In Iowa, for instance, it hauls corn
for miles from crib to elevators and from the country
to railroad points. In fact there is employment to be
be found all the time, and where there is nothing else
to do lumber may be cut.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08
THOUGHT so LITTLE.

ChollyChumpleigh-T'm not afraid,
dontcherknow, to say what 1 think.
Miss Cutting Hintz-You may not
be afraid-but you ought to be
ashamed.
Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13
Is Wholly English.

King George Y. is the first English monarch since the Stuart days of whom il is possible te say that be is wholly and indisputahly English. Even his grandmother. Queen Victoria, spoke English with q German accent. al- though she was intensely English in sentiment. The pro-German inclina- tions of the first four Georges were no torious. and most of them could hardly understand the language of the coun- try over which they had been called to rule. King Edward. while he spoke English perfectly. was a cosmopolitan in taste ard sentiment and never se happy as when enjoying holiday at some continental health CT pleasure re- sort. He spoke almost ali the Euro penn languages as well as his own. and he made his reputation as the most astufe d siornaf in Europe large ty owing to ilts ahii.tx to deal oil equal terms with tie diplomats af every ua- tien
 King Georve '. does not feel N hoale in any Iaaeuaee but HnraiSh He had the usual drifting at ssha9l in the Ea= roaean faHaates. bat aS seaa as tis formal education was finished h. drna- ped their study. declaring thal Eng. fish was good enough for him lie much prefers his own conntrymen to foreigners and in choosing his lntf= mates has selected his friends from among the old English nobility or from those who have made their mark in the development of the empire
Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13
HE AMUSED THE CUES.
Then the Young Lions Took Turn at
 Amusing Him.

Amusing Him
 A negro attacbed 10 an African hunt ing party met with ! curious adven- ture. says an English paper. Wander ing one day from camp. he surprised two lion cubs at play and theaghtiess' ly commenced 10 amuse them. He WAS ouly too suceeSsful The big cubs gam boled fearlessIy about him and to bis dismay refused 10 desist when he wished to leave them.
 Realizing the danger to which he would be exposed should the mother appear. he began to run. but the cubs refused to be shaken of and tn their play scratched his legs In fearful fashion.
 enjoying themselves was evident from their manifestations of delight. and before long their unusual cries brought a iioness leaping to the spot.
 Trembling in every limb. the negro faced the growing animal while the cubs continued to jump up at him, eager for further caresses. The en- ragged lioness moved round uneasily in a circle, man aud beast keeping their eyes steadily on each other ses. eral times the lioness croaehed to spring, but the man. from fear. never shifted his gaze.
 At length, after what seemed an age when the negro was ready To drop from exhaustion. the animal suddenly called her cubs away and disappeared into the surrounding scrub.
Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13
The King as a Sailor.

Summing and tennis. boating. rid in rickes and every form of healthy tffl5aaeF exercise formed regular i,aFi Of their carly training For eighteen years the two brothers were rarely II eFer apart for a single day. Together they were educated as boys at home Together they were 10 be ever seen fh1lng upon their two ponies swift and slewcoach either across country and along the broad. grassy reads near sendringham or else in the park when In London.
 When the time came at which most boys go to school the two princes be came naval cadets on board H. M- $. Britannia at Dartmouth The present monarch had not quite completed his twelfth year when, with his brother. ee passed the examination at the Roy al Navai college. Greenwich From this date. June. 1871, he dates the De ginning of his naval career. The then Prince of wales took both his sons to Dartmouth. where the Brttannta. undr the commana ef Cnpenin FalrfAx. Was neoreA The un6on ek thetf panoSs eAo1cs q the 1n4ags tEnlAing ue1p ss tAs bsst q sc1os6 wss aooa abaadant- V DsUse4 U - 1senosa thaf tA psiAsss annlo = ehesaGA sanef'U ens
Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13

same course as the other cadets. the only exception made in their favor be- ing that they were accommodated with a private sleeping cabin shared be tween them on the upper deck. In every other respect the lads conform ed to the regular discipline of the ship. His friends trace back to the life oa the Britannia that love of the sea which gave the king. like his great. uncle William N. and his uncle the Duke of Edinburgh. the title of eur sailor prince This. the first time the young princes had associated with boys of their own age. must have pos sessed all tho charm of novelty. but in spite of q hardy training it must have been q great change from Sandring ham to the Britannia. The morning bath, generally over the side into the sea. Prince George leading, would be followed by half an hours drift: then prayers would be read at $ o'clock before the ships company, breakfast following.
 The duties Of the ensuing day in- eluded. besides instruction in books. initiation into the mysteries of knot ting and splicing. The two princes were placed i'll the starheard watch and had to work their way up. Prince George evinced considerable aptitude for mathematics. Simple fare and open air life eendueed to vigorous develop menf In 1879 both brothers passed out Of the Britannia and went away to sea together under Lord Charles Scott in the Baechante. On one of the stops made ashore Prince George won the hearts of the populace by feeding with cake little child whose father. ! cooly. had been holding him up pa i;ently for two hours in order that he might see the princes.
 His First Command.
 Prince George was appointed 10 the Northumberland h 1889. A few months later he was given his first
Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13
PLANET PROBLEMS.
Ws Really Know Very Little aseus the
 Celestial Bodies.

The amount of ignorance not yet removed concerning the planets Is very great writes l. $ Grew We do not know. for example. whether the pIanet Venus ro,ates. If il does il max possibly have life and vegetation like cur own. though we suspect that 1t is clothed in eternal cloud of Satarnss rings we cannot SAS whether they consist ef millions Of tiay moons like briekbats or whether they may be even smaller stilI--a veil of shining dust. Of Jupiter we can only say that it is covered with clouds. though of their substance VIC know nothing. and. according to Professor Lowell and Sir William Huggins, some of the bands we see on 1t may be rifts in the clouds revealing the body of the plan ct Little lines crisscross these bands Photographs of Jupiter taken al Flag sfad observatory seem te indicate that these lines. too. are the upper clouds ef Jupiter.
 But whenever we see a planet we see it badly. Even Mars. the most clearly revealed of them all. is con stantly obscured by refracting haze. so that even of the famous canals. though nearly 500 in number. only a few are pereeptibie at time. and an uaskiHed observer would probably not make them out at all. SandStorms. sometimes snawstorms. sweep the sur. face of the planet. and because the winds Of Mars are very gentle and slow moving these occurrences take a long unle to pass hy. London Family Ifarala
Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13
A Democratic Monarch.

The new king has been exceptionally popular among the English people as Prince of Wales and has been noted for his democratic ways An incident In illustration of this was his acting as steker on board the lndomitahle on the return of that warship from the Quebec tencentenary in 1908 Having been brought up sailor. he was quite at home in the rough surroundings
 He had known what it felt to be half smothered in coal dust As sailor
Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13

and their father was always studious- ly anxiaus that his boys should grow up as simply as possible All the re- tainers al Sandringham were forbid den ta show the lads uBusual defer ence. and they were carefully shielded from the public gaze Prince George Therefore enjoyed the advantages Thiot most country gentlemen can sixe tHelr sons. but little more than theSc With the Rev J N. Dalton as their governor the two princes spent hapay English boyhood and it was de- eiip8 thaf neither of them should pass though public school experiences 1t the fie time care was taken to avoid effplDiflssav
Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13
tersA ,n smte of t,,e fact t,,s, sAe |.

tessk in spite of the fact that sAe Ia an extremely busy woman socially. She is Hever without some kind of nee dlework and. ii is said. not only knits aN her husbands socks. but sees that he wears them. Quite recently after long days shooting the prince re turned heme tired and wet The prin- cess WIS having tea. and the spcrtsmen were quite ready for 1t. The careful wife however. would not hear of her husband having his tea till be had changed his wet stockings and boots. and he. though protesting. had to obey his spouse
Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13
An Artist. ssrAaels..

Professor von Herkoner. the famous painter. had such a struggle to gain a living In his early days that had Il not been for his inexhaustible stock of patience and self confidence he would probably have abandoned ar' entirely He sold his first picture for ? guineas and later on eariied Tor short time couple of pounds weekly for woodcut which be supplied to a comic paper This modest salary coming to stop, he was al his wits end to know what to do. He applied to a troupe of minstreis for an en. gagement as zither player. but in vain and then took to designing carpets For some years he battled with pov' .erty. achieving no suteess until he obtained employment on q weekly IL illustrated djournal.-Londoa Globe.
Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13
First Oil Well.

In the year lSa9 E L. Drake of ritusville. Pa. drove tbe first oil well. Like other pioneers, he was regarded as dreamer or fool. and people laughed ai he Idea of tapping sub terranean oil iake II wa> only by pretending that he was In search Of q bed of sah that he was able to get lrillsrs to work for him When the borer had reached depth of about seventy f.ef brake found his antiri. l,arlons reaiizs-a and hs was The l'os- ss.s~of of All ni. well whifh with The aid of naiid pump Nielsisd him twenty fire barrels T day New York American
Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13
.Jefferson. Iowa,

Mrs w. III. BURGER, 5O Cnerry St.s Jefferson. Iowa.
 Another Woman Curcd.
 GlenwoOd, Iowa. = " About three years ago 1 had falling and other fe- male troubles, and was nothing but skin and bones. I was so sick ! could not do my own work. Within six months was made sound and we'll by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound I will always tell my friends that your remedies cured me. and yOu can pubIish my letter. Mn 0. ". DUNK. GIenw0od, Iowa
 If you belong to that countIHse army of women who suffer from some form q leuuAle iliA just try Lydia E Pink hamfs veGstab1e Compound.
 For thiFty yeArs this famoue remedy hAo hooo t6e standart for All forms q lepnnIs fI)A and has cured thcue11dc q VouGp Uko havo beeu trouben4 with oneh otllnsnte as dtsplaoo0e0t4 0ocoto 1nmoea uleogat5on. in6amDn&too, r. unGUn1o1fG4 e111neooL eeo
 teyoa yl11lloeial o1voooLgo1g ess sss, assss s;s sss se.
Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13
For Sale

The property at l7e Church stree consisting of txo tenement house and iof. steam heat and bath. also building used as shop that can be made into nne or two family house. Apply tc MRS. K. r. MOORE, 176 Church street Putnam f,onn. 1l--14
Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13
Altoosthsr Different

Suitor-I have come to nsk you Nor your daughters hand. FafhfT-W We'll the fact is we are pretty crowded here as ii is. and l. SuIfor-Oh. ] intend to take her away from home h mar xy her. Father Oh. well. In that case But you did give me an awtul start. my boy Boston Transcript.
Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13
msisees Sticks.

The most c"~giy walkine sticks come from t;ie Aiaiat ar-isiIt-lago. and the nosF highly prized stick k the uaiaeca zane Ie insure strairhfneS~ fnese .,fick~ are reared in giaSs tubes A good maatra should be q yard long. not ls<- fban an ipeh m diameter at ghe upl,ef end. isrfes.iiy straishi and smooth and of very dark chfnoiate ,-olor. slightly inotfied lt should De used delicafeiy for ine lacquer which gives h ff- beaufiful gloss h easily chipped : London Graphic.
Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13

if TOfu nus AdltEt RnOhotsIsttti+l who served on the Indomitable put 1t. Hes no ornamental sailor. but q sea- nan down to his boots" As the h. iomitable's coal shoveller the prince wore a stoker's kit consisting of a white ,uit. white headgear and white gloves.
 His character as a sailor may be in- dicated by a sentiment he wrote in the Duchess of Flies album:
 T am a sailor. and every sailor loves a lass Don't show this to the duch- ,ess) Give me a good dinner. . goo1 companion. a good smoke. good Eaass ,f grog. and then dislike nothing aud in the world"
 The new king was the favcrste .grandchild of the late Queen vicceria ,snd bears a striking resemblance e Iifis aunt, the empress dowacer of 9Ds- Aa.
Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13
2. rnwARp tiAlr BRUSH.

-ur uew ruler of the British em= Y pire. his majesty King George Y. is recognized as a man of
 . sblIliy and common sense and
 r-;nce of Wales has been ene of .ss most popular members of the royal .-r,lsx especially at home and i'll the .~.,,sh colonies. King George Y. was - Inne 3. lSG5 He was ehristened r,,,re Frederick Ernest Albert and .a- he became Prince of Wales bore. ' asaitian 10 that title. the honors and -.ns ef Earl of Chester. Duke of Corn ~-n and York. Duke of Rothesay. p-g.ea nf Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and ,.,ts of Saxony. Earl of Garrick and ,-rsraess and Baron of Renfrew and r,r,arnev. lord of the isles and great .,suarl gf Scotland. He also aequir A tge following titles in the course of .is career IS prince: k. c.. K. J.. K. P. L. G. (. Nj. c.. C. c. l. F.. #c z. \ o.. |. s. O.. general and ad= ,r;rsl A kinS ke is monarch by the r~,ea of Gad of the United Kingdom sf ereai Britain and Ireland and of ,ta British d0minions beyond the seas, s,pa defender of the faith. emperor of lpdia
 Shielded From Public Gaze.
 As boy the new king from his ear Hest days enjoyed good health The first eighteen years of his life were sneut ID close and constant eompan- isnsbfn with his brother. the late Duke of Clarence But even in the nursery inc younger of the two boys took the lend and as they grew bigger in the banpF simplicity of their fathers Nor folk home. where. with the exception of, sbert visits to Osborne and Aber- geIdie their childhood was almost wholly spent. il was Prince George vho was first and foremost in fun and games. From the public much of the home life of royalty is carefully hid,