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CHRISTIAN ENoEAvoR.


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Beginning July 81, 1910.
Topic.-My most interesting missionary
stem--Ps. xiv. Ia. Acts xviii. 23-ss Ed
tied by Rev Sherman H Doyle, D. d.
Every Christian Endeavorer should
be possessed of some Of the great and
interesting events Of missions. After
All, they are simply the stories of the
wondrous works of God in bringing the
world to the cross, using men and wo-
men as the agents In the work More
over, nowhere has God wrought more
wonderful works than in this particu-
lar field Of all His labors. either in ma
ture or In the government and devei-
opment Of men and nations. The story
Of missions is the most thrilling story
In the worlds history. Men have laud-
ed great generals, some OF whom have
practically conquered the world Of
their day. They have heaped laurels
and erected monuments at the graves
of millions of soldiers who have borne
sacrifices and endured hardships In
fighting for their country. But II they
only knew the sacrifices Of mission
aries, their fearlessness in facing hard
ships TO save the souls Of men rather
than kill their bodies, they would have
q higher regard for the missionaries
and their cause. Take the lives of
men Ike David Brainard, Marcus
Whitney, Mrs. Mcfarland. the only
white woman In Alaska for eight
To-
sionaries. Recall the great names Of
the men and women engaged In for
eign missions-Judson, Carey, Living
stone, Moffet, Patton snd scores OF 9TH
ers. Where in all the world are biog-
raphies more thrilling. more coura-
geous. more self sacrificing. to be
found? Nowhere, and as Christian En-
deavorers we should know not an In
teresting item. but the entire lives. Of
these greatest of the worlds heroes.
We should not only know the great
events In these mems lives. but tell
them abroad. Our children should be
able to say with the psalmist, I'VE
have heard with our ears. o God; our
fathers have told US what work Thou
didst In their times In the days Of
old" Since that God has done still
greater things on mission fields, and
these things should be made known to
all men. Ignorance is the chief source
Of missionary Indifference. Tell men
the story. the facts; tell them what
God hath wrought and what He Is
doing today. Interest will be aroused.
and active participation win be en-
gagged in by the majority Of those who
hear. And the timid ones might have
hesitated. but even they need no long
er do so. Our greatest men from per
sonal observation and knowledge have
paid and are paying their highest en-
comiums to missionaries and their la
bors.
Knowing the great labors and telling
about them will deepen our own inter-
est In Gods greatest cause. We will
want to be more and do more for mis-
sions.
BIBLE READINGS.
lisa Iii, II; Nah. l. Is: Matt. xviii.
1920; Acts i. Is; xiii. 1-3: xiv. 24-2s;
Xii, l. 2: xvi 1921: lisa. lii. 1; Rom. ri.
IA, Is, 1921.
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Ii may help you fill the column in these days
when il is so hard to End time TO write even .
letter, and though you may not be cooking
for hay-makers. you may be for summer
visitors, which state OF affairs presents the
same problems. with the odds in favor of the
hay-makers, IL the visitors chance 70 be the
kind who persist in staying in the kitchen
while the work is being done. OF all him
ORANGES, that sort Of guest is the worst, and
I've had serious intentions of having q large
motto printed bearing the admonition: Keep
out of the Kitchen" to hang in q conspicuous
place. Am alone in this experienced Sup
pose we have few remarks on what eonsti-
tutes an ideal guest. ESTHER.
A good idea, that last.
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Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure any case
of kidney and bladder trouble not beyond the
reach OF medicine. No medicine can do more.
u. A. PARcaER.
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DATES.

Friday, Aug. i2-Annual 6eld day OF
Hancock Pomona grange at Bluehili min
eral spring.
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advertisements.
AFTER
FOURYEARS
OF MISERY
Cured by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound

Baltimore, Nd. =" For four years
my life was a misery to me. suffered
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tBy r. e. l.. Bea1. b. s., assistant IN charge
eeonmic ornithology. biological survey, U. D.
Department OF agriculture.
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Q, what power hath white simplicity!
John Keats.
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Sent bg Sadi,
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lisa Ill. 1t; Nah. l, Is: Matt. xviii.
1920; Acts i. Is; xiii. 1-3; xiv, 24-2s;
Xii, /. 2: xvi 1921: lisa. lii. 1; Rom. xi.
IA, Is. 1921.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
RODENT HAS MONEY TO BURN

A pet red squirrel belonging to Otto
Speltz, farmer, of Bellingham, Wash,
has beer under surveillance ever since
he was discovered tearing a S. Canad-
ian bill to pieces. Speltz rescued the
money and sent it to Ottawa for re-
demptiOn.
He had no more than despatched
the letter containing the shreds of the
five than the squirrel was found play
ing with a piece of a United States
$40 bill.
Speltz garnered this money in be-
fore it was too damaged for barter,
and Is now watching the movements Of
his pet. 1t is believed the rodent has
discovered a hidden hoard laid away
in past years by a miser or cached by
a robber in a hollow tree and found
by the squirrel.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05

worst infected spots. Of two plants
In the small hill one may die and the
other live.
The disease reappears in the same
place each year cotton IS planted and
on a larger scale. This annual ap-
pearance and spread will distinguish
wilt from barren spots due to other
causes.
Wilt is most prevalent during June
and July, but some cases continue to
develop until the end of the season.
The standard varieties of cotton differ
considerably in susceptibility to wilt,
but none of them are sufficiently re-
sistant to be cultivated with profit on
Infected land. Extended variety tests
on infected fields have shown that as
Russell, Truitt, ETC., are more subject
to wilt than other groups or varieties.
The most resistant of the American
Upland varieties tested was the Jack
son Limbless, which produced about
As per cent. Of a crop where other
kinds failed. The original Jackson
was not sufficiently resistant to justi-
fy its general cultivation, but it has
been of value as a basis for breeding
better races.
Egyptian cotton, is more resistant
to wilt than Upland cotton, but it
has not as yet been found practicable
to utilize this quality, as the Egyptian
varieties do not succeed in our south
eastern states and 1t is easier to breed
resistance direct from Upland va
rieties than from crosses with Egyp-
tian cotton.
The use of resistant varieties has
been shown by experiments in most
of the southern states, to be a sat-
fsfactory method of combating wilt.
The illustration shows an enlarged
section of part Of a diseased cotton
stem, with vessels filled by the wilt
fungus. Normal water vessels are
shown CID in comparison with several
such vessels Cd plugged by the wilt
fungus.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05

should extend we'll forward and not
hang down. The milk veins should
be large and the farther they go the
better. The udder should be loose and
pliable, when empty-not f1eshy.
The eyes should be large and bright
and project we'll out from the face.
This is a strong indication Of the
nerve force needed for strong diges-
ton and large milk secretion.
The dairy cow should be deep and
wide from n to two as this gives her
large capacity for rough feed. The
back from one to four should be sharp.
With little flesh, when she is in good
condition. She should be we'll cut up
behind so that the udder can extend
we'll up, as at three. Her flank should
be we'll arched, as at five, to provide
room for a large udder.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
COTTON WILT LOSS
Amount Involved Probably More
Than 100000 Annually.
Extended Variety Tests on Infected
Fields Show That Large Boil Sorts
Are More Susceptible to Dis
ease Than Other Plants.

It is very difficult to estimate the
total loss from cotton wilt. The in
jury varies from the death of a few
plants to the destruction Of hundreds
of acres. Several factors are to be
considered in estimating the loss. We
must add to the actual shortage of
the crop in the spots where the cot
ton dies: % A diminished yield of
the surrounding cotton due to the
dwarf1ng Of the plants from partial in
%fections; CD a lessened income to
the farmers on account of the neces-
sity of planting on infected land some
less profitable crop, such as corn, or
of throwing cotton out of cultivation
altogether; CD the increased cost of
cultivation of ~wilt-infected spots due
to the foothold obtained by c~rab-grass,
nut-grass, cockleburs, and other weeds,
after the death of the cotton; (4) a
depreciation in the market value of
w~ilt-infected land.
These losses probably amount to
more than $4,000, 900 per annum and
are annually increasing.
Cotton wilt may make it's appear
ance on single plants in a field, but
its later and most characteristic de-
velopment is in definite spots of IT.
regular size and varying area in which
most of the plants slowly wilt and
die. Some plants partially recover
but remain dwarfed and bushy, often
one sided, while for some distance
around the w~ilt-infected area the cot
ton is more or less stunted by partial
root infections. Occasional plants are
found to remain healthy even in the
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
LIGHTNING CAME BY PHONE

While the sun was shining the other
day at Clinton, N. j., and there was no
indication of an electrical storm, a
bolt of lightning struck a liberty pole
in front Of a hotel shattering the shaft
and soaring a team of mules SO badly
that they ran two miles. The team
was tied to a ring attached to the pole.
which was thirty feet high. After the
animals had been stopped 1t was found
that the bolt Of lightning which had
shattered the pole had also melted the
iron shoes from each Of the mules.
Otherwise they were uninjured. The
source of the lightning bolt puzzled all
h local electrical experts and me-
t~eOrolOgists, but after investigation 1t
was found that a telephone wire run
ming from Singac passed so close to
the flag pole as to touch it. At the
time the pole a struck a fierce thun,
der storm was raging in the vicinity
of Singac. and the theory is that
lightning striking the telephone wire
in the storm zone, travelled over the
cable until it encountered the unin-
sulated liberty pole, where the, full
force Of the bolt was spent.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
CROPS FOR. GOOD ROTATION
Excellent Method of Succession to
Support Herd of Fifty Hogs With
Piqs-The Plan.

My field is 20 rods in width and 40
rods in length, divided into five sec
lions, each four rods in width, con
tanning one acre. Along the division
fence are mulberry trees for shade.
Beginning in April, lot No. 1 was
planted in sorghum, to be followed by
turf oats and vetch in October. No. 2
was planted in sweet potatoes, also to
be followed by oats and vetch. No. 3
was planted in peanuts; No. 4 is plant
ed in sweet potatoes; No. S Is planted
in artichokes.
The following year, lot No. 1, which
was in oats and vetch through the
winter, is planted in sweet potatoes,
to be followed by oats and vetch in
the fall; No. 2 also covered with oats
and vetch through the winter, is
planted in ~artichokes; No. 3 is planted
In sorghum or kafir corn, to be fol-
lowed by oats and vetch in October;
No. 4 is planted in peanuts, and No. s
in sweet potatoes, both to be followed
by oats and vetch. This succession
and rotation is to support so hogs
with pigs, etc.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
WHEN THE DEAD RETURN

This is a story Of mistaken identity
of remarkable character. Mary McGon-
lyle was struck by a trolley car in
New York last April and died shortly
afterwards in a hospital. On noti1ca-
ton from the oroner, her relatives
came to view the body and she was
identified by her son, her sister, her
brother and a cousin; a burial permit
was issued in the name Of Mary Nc
GOnigle; an insurance company paid
$117 on the life of Mary McGonigle;
the traction company paid $3.50 for the
funeral of Mary McGonigle; the body
of Mary McGonigle now lies in Cal
vary cemetery.
Late one night recently Mary Nc
Gonigle in the flesh walked into her
sisters home.
To say there was surprise at her
visit would understate the emotions Of
the relatives. The sister screamed;
the brother dropped his ley clay pipe
and a small niece tainted. Mrs. Nc
Gonigle herself was surprised but
placid; she had not read the newspa-
pers, and did not know that she was
supposed to be dead.
Then came explanations. Mary NC
Gonigle had been buried all right, but
it was the wrong Mary. The living
woman is in private service and her
address f1uctuates with her employ
ment. The dead woman who bears
such an extraordinary resemblance to
her was no relative, but had known
her, and had given her address to the
hospital. The undertaken who buried
the late Mary, was summoned to view
the living Mary. Il never saw such a
resemblance" he gasped, and I've
buried many"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
GENERAL FARM NOTES.

Feed the slop to the hogs before
the grain is fed.
Never attempt to keep summer but
ter for early fall prices, because it
will not keep.
Look out for all breeding places for
mosquitoes and flies; abolish them.
Sow a good patch of carrots for
the horses this year If you never have
before.
When two horses become accus-
toned to working together, don't
change them.
If the incubator does the Matching
you a keep the hens laying all the
time.
Put a shallow box of buckwheat
shorts near the calf. It will soon be-
gin to eat It.
Any enterprising farmer living near
a town of 5000 or more can sell
every pound of his butter at fulA retail
prices or little above, the year round.
If the ewes are young they may not
let the lambs suck until they are held
once, so that the lambs can get at
them. There is no trouble after that.
Goats do not fatten on pasture as.
fast as sheep. They prefer brush, but
brush is not a fattener. They ought
to take kindly to straw.
There is great room for more dairy
work in the south. Millions of dollars
are sent north for cheese, butter and
other dairy products that ought to be
made at home.
Making the hens do all they are
capable Of doing and then through
selection and breeding, growing bet
ter hens, will put n poultry plant
on a paying basis.
When the vigor of the flock is low
productiveness cannot long be kept
up, therefore the profit will be very
little, if any, so it pays to keep the
flock vigorous.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
HOARD IN A FLOATING LOG

A party Of campers from Seattle
were hauling a gigantic cedar log up
on the beach of Lake Washington to
be converted into frewoOd When what
appeared to be a huge plug attracted
their attention. One ran for the axe
and the log was split into two pieces.
The plug acted as a door of a safety
vault where some logger twenty years
ago had hidden his savings. There
we're 5000 in gold, $68 in silver and
$500 in currency. The name, though,
dim, on the post office money orders
appears to be Claude Parsons or Par
ker, and they are payable in the post
office at Eau Claire, Wis. The money
riders are dated April. 1891.
Efforts Will be made to find the
rightful owner Of the hoard. Many sto-
ries are told Of the pr~Odigality with
which loggers handled their money
in the halcyon days Of logging. A
favorite bank was to put a boom
augur hole in a big stump. Into this
hole was put the gold, silver and pa
per and a big plug driven into the
hole. The plug was then sawed off
plumb with the bark and the wealth
left until wanted. Many Of these i'm
prOvised banks were swept away by
floods or destroyed in forest fires.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
Tho Return Of Ferguson.

A night clerk in a hotel sat doing
at his desk at about 1 a. m, when a
man In evening clothes came in as II
laborlously trying to walk a crack,
and said:
I'm Ferguson; key to room A"
The guest disappeared in the direc-
ton Of his room, one flight up. In a
few minutes a man in his shirt sleeves
with a f1attened silk hat on the side OF
his head, and with one shoe on a foot
and the other in his hand, came in and
said to the clerk:
I'm Fershon, key to fOr-for."
"Mr. Ferguson just took his key and
went up"
Mr.. Ferguson just fell out window
n left key inside. Kindly lemme
have NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
The NeapoIitan Pepper.

The Neapolitan pepper should be
grown more largely by gardeners
where conditions are not especially
favorable for peppers. It is much
easier than other varieties of the
same type and attains a size which
satisfies market requirements. Pep
pers are grown most extensively
southwark, in New Jersey and other
prominent trucking regions, but they
might be produced proftably at high
attitudes which are comparatively free
from late spring and early fall frosts.
The grower should be assured of q
market before planting largely.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
CHILD WITH TWO HEADS

A most wonderful child is the six
year-old daughter of John o. Nelson
of Brooklyn Hills, N. Y. She has two
we'll developed heads; and though un-
able either to sit up or walk, her gen
eral health is good. and she possesses
normal Intelligence.
When the child was born the doc
tors said she could not live. but Mr..
Nelson, possessed of considerable
means, engaged the best physicians
and gave the little one the most care
full attention, sparing no expense in
trying to make the delicate infant a
healthy child. According to her IA
Their the child speaks English and Ger
man with equal fluency, using both
mouths when she speaks.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
Menace to Health.

Owners Of country homes some
times forget that the manure pile Is
a menace to the health of the family,
particularly is this the case when
within easy reach of the dwelling.
Although a most excellent fertilizer
there is nothing that will breed flies
more quickly or certainly than stable
manure and if 1t be true, as no doubt
it is, that they carry disease. then the
unsightly heap should be removed to
the garden or field where it's value 10
appreciated.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
PATRIARCHAL WEDDING PARTY

There was a gay gathering of Merry
veterans at a wedding ceremony in
Rome the other week, the happy cou-
pie being Signor Gaspare Finale, the
Oldest member Of the Italian senate,
who is ninety-five, and a charming
widow of some eighty-s1x summers.
The official witnesses at the ceremony
were Senator Grefh, the late ambas-
sador, who is ninety-three, and Sena-
tor Farani, who is in his ninety-frst
wear.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
FIFTY-POUND HAILSTONE

The ~notoriety of setting a new stan
dard for all stories Of big hailstones
befell William Dittenhafer, a cellar
digger of York, Pa, entirely unsoli-
cited. He found a mass of many hail
stones CONCEALED or melted together,
t~hirty-six inches long, fourteen inches
wide and five inches thief, In a deep
depression in the lawn. This mass
weighed more than fifty pounds.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
WILD GEESE ATTACK GIRLS

Wild geese, which William Stabley,
of FELTON,, Pa. thought he had do
mesticated, proved still unframed when
they attacked and frightened almost
to death Miss Ophelia Paine and Miss
Araminta Sentz. who were gathering
arbutus. The flock surrounded the two
girls, picking at them and kissing in
an alarming manner. The girls fed,
but the geese continued the chase al
most to the town.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
He Knew the Kind,

Little Edward, aged four, was an
only child. He was anxious for a
baby sister, and was talking of it one
day with a friend of the family. In
the friends family was a baby girl or
one year. The lady said: Edward,
you may nave my baby; she Is pretty
and sweet"
oh" said Edward, 81 don't want an
old baby. 1 want a bran new one wifi
noffin on but tacum powder."-Red
Hen.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05

Some ingenious man in Europe has
invented a typewriter so small that it
can be carried in the waistCoat peck
ct. This tiniest of all w~r1ting-ma-
chimes is made in the form OF a watch.
The letters make their mark under the
pressure of the knob within the ring
and the writing is lone on a narrow
strip of glued paper.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
CAT BRINGING UP ROBINS

A cat on the farm Of Fred Schmetto
near M~arinette, Wis. is bringing up
two young robins with her litter Of
kittens. The fedglings were found
there one morning and the cat was
~caressing them.
1t is believed that she killed the
parent bird and then took the little
ones out of the nest and brought them
to the box in which her kittens are
stored.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
SELECTING IDEAL DAIRY cow
There Are Several Essential Points 70
Be Taken Into Consideration
Few Important Ones.

In selecting COWS for dairy herds
there are several essential points to
consider. The GOV should have great
stomach capacity; avoid a round
bodied COW whose ribs are short, and
a fat ribbed COW. There should be
ample room for the udder, which
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
The Mare With Colt.

II takes a good deal of the mares
energy to nurse a colt. Light work
should be her share or she will be
pulled down to skin and bones.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
At Rehearsal

Fan-What happens when the bases
are full?
Mana discOrd.-StanfOrd Univer-
sity Chaparral.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05
The Shortage in SWINE.

We can't import swine to make mn
u shortage. This is tbs great swine
country.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-05

Many a budding genius has devel-
oped into a blooming idiot.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-26
Who VIII Wear Heavyweight CrOWn-Jeff or Johnson?

latter has naturally lost power. No
doubt JEFF has trained hard for the
mill and IL able to wrestle for an hour
with his helper, stiIl be has done very
little beslng, one Of the most important
things for 3 man HE JET who has
been SO long out Of the game. He rnsy
stiil have the punch and strength, but
his hitting eye. his Judgment Of dis
tance, may perhaps be lacking. Il is
too bad that the big fellow did not
have al actual ring fight under his
belt. One or two contests OF the real
article would do more 20 bring these
back-his hitting eye and Judgment Of
distance--than months OF boxing at
the training camp.
Hard fighting round after FOUND IL
the only way man can find how much
stamina he possesses, whether his hit
ting eye is good or his Judgment Of
distance poor. Jeffries has not taken
part in q real fight since he defeated
Jack Munroe Aug 20, 1904, and there
has been no chance for such a strug-
gle at his training quarters, no mat
ter how hard his sparTing partners
try TO hit him, The bitter luminosity.
the mercilees smuggling and the test OF
courage are always lacking in such
trial affairs at the training camp. 30
Jefrries Will have to depend largely on
his physical condition when he faces
the negro.
Jefr's best chance to win lie 70 go after
Johnson just as soon as the bell rings
and get 70 the latter's midsection early