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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01
Farm and Factory Share Export Gain

trade, against $145,O 900. 900 in 1910 and
$4s1, 900, 700 in 1907, the former high
record year.
Meat and dairy products show a
total of about $3.50, 900, 90, against
$131, 900, 900 last year, but materially
less than in certain earlier years, IN
which the total ranged as high as
1902, 0OO, 900 in 1907 and $211. 900, 900 In
1906.
Food animals show a total OF 49,
000, 900, against a little less than 3d.
000, 900 last rear, but much below the
figures of earlier years, when the total
figures Of food animals exceeded $43,-
900 900 in the high record of 1906.
Flour amounted to about $50,0O0,OOO
in value, against $47,5OO. 900 last year,
but much less than in certain earlier
years, the high record In -four exports
in 1898 showing a total Of $78,5OO 600.
In manufactures the increase in the
group manufactures ready for con-
sumption is bout 800, 900 900, and
in the group" manufactures for further
use in manufacturing" the increase Is
$40, 900, 900. The increase in manutac-
lures is apparent in a large number
OF articles. Agricultural implements,
as a whole, show an increase OF
about SIS, 900, 900.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01

calls instead Of fruits is criminal. To
begin with, what is soda water? First
of all, soda water does not and is not
supposed to contain any soda. The
name is a misnomer. A great deal
of the stuff that is sold under the
name of soda water contains saccharin
instead of sugar. That should be pro-
hibited by law. Saccharin is injurious
to every one and affects children seri.
ously. Much of the ~carbonated water
that is mixed with the favors con-
tains lead. Such a mixture should
be prohibited by law. A great per-
centage Of the flavor is made of vari-
Gus kinds of chemicals, all of which
are more or less Injurious.
Caffeine, which is being used so
generally by many INSCRIPTIONS soft
drink dispensers, should be driven
from tie market by law. It's effects,
especially on young people, compares
with the effect of cocaine and nor
phine."
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01
He CAN TWIST BIG SPIKES.

Michael Manson, a confectioner of
Wooster, o., although we'll along in
years, has just discovered that he has
wonderful strength in his hands. Man
sor watched a street fakir doing feats
with nails. He tried some of them
and vas astounded on finding how
easily he could twist and bend nails.
Their he tried the largest steel spikes
and these he was able to bend and
twist with apparent ease. Manson
made a chain of the spikes to show
what ne could do with his hands. A
strange part of Mansor's discovery is
that although be has seen tricks of
the sort performed he never before
Thought of trying to initiate any of the
performances.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01

~ HE war department for the first
i time in many years has a case Of
an alleged spy in the army. Capt.
James Watson, the army recruiting
officer at Indianapolis, Ind, has in
formed the department that he holds
af1davits charging Private George
Peters with being an Austrian secret
agent.
One of the papers in the possession
of Captain Watson is an affidavit Of
Miss Clara A. Dyer. She said Peters
was stationed at Fort Totten, N. Y,
in the 135th company, Coast artillery
corps, and that he was an Austrian
spy sent to the United States to obtain
the secret of manufacturing the pow
erful explosive used by the United
States government. Miss Dyer as
serted she had become engaged to Pc
ters. The girl turned over a number
of letters, in which he told of his
plans. Peters real name, she said,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01
Corporations Find Tax Law Is Strict

wv HILE the treasury department is
w not disposed to be unduly harsh
with those corporations which have
failed to file their returns within the
specified time under the corporation
tax law, provided the failure has not
been due to a deliberate attempt to
evade the statute, at the same time 1t
Is not given much leeway under the
terms Of the act.
That is why several bills have been
introduced in congress for the purpose
of relieving delinquent corporations
from the penalties of the law for the
current year. Just why there should
be so many delinquents 1t is hard to
understand, because this is the second
year that the law has been in force,
and the government officials think cor
porations and their officers ought to
be familiar with it's provisions by this
time.
The commissioner of internal rev
enue, who collects the corporation tax,
is busy sending out letters to corpora
tons and persons who write to learn
how they can be relieved of the penal
ties imposed by the law. He does
not give them much encouragement, for
the statute is stringent.
When a corporation neglects to
make it's return March 1, SO pei cent.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01
DUMB MAN SPEAKS.

An unusual case was that Of Harry
Wiltze, a dumb patient, in a New Ha-
e hospital, who greeted the visiting
physician the other morning with
Hello, Doc!" 1t was the first word
he had spoken for nine months, and
the first sane u~tterance in many
years. An operation was performed on
the patient, a section Of his skull
which had come in contact with the
brain being removed, with the result
just recorded. There is every indica-
ton that the remarkable operation
will be perfectly successful
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01
BOYS REMARKABLE ESCAPE

A seven-year-old boy, Walter Gus
tavage, had a thrilling experience at
Girardville, Pa, n day lately. A
chum dared him to jump over the
mouth Of an air shaft at one of the
colliery mines, and on making the at
tempt he miscalculated the distance
end went whirling down the chute 47O
feet into an excavation. He escaped
with nothing more than a few bruises.
When the boy disappeared into the
opening his companion spread an
alarm and %rescuers were owered into
the hole with ropes, but could get no
response to their calls. An hour later
when those on the surface had given
up the boy for dead. a loader boss ap-
peared on the surface with the lad IN
his arms. He found him on a gang
way platform crying from fright, but
practically unhurt.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01

WASH1NGTON.-The farmer and the
w manufacturer shared about equal
ly in the remarkable growth il ex-
ports which characterized the fiscal
year recently ended. The total in
crease was 1904, OOO, 900 when COM
pared with the Immediately preceding
year., being a larger gain than ever
before shown in a single year of our
export trade.
Of this gain manufacturers as a
whole supplied $40, 00O, 900; cotton
about $135, 900, 900; meats n dairy
products about $19, 900, 900; corn, $1O,-
100000; food animals, 81, 500, 900; flour,
about 50, 800, 900, while wheat shows
a marked decline.
Cotton is king in the exports of
products Of agriculture, the value ex-
ported during the year being $5S5, 0O0,-
600 in 1910, by far the largest
total ever shown in the cotton export
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01
Danger i'm Dishonest Soda Fountains

THE soda water fountain Is as great
i a menace to femininity, In many
cases, as the barroom to masculln1ty,
according to DR.. Harvey w. Wiley,
the government pure food and drug
expert. Let it be understood hat Dr.
Wiley is not defending the barroom-
While not a prohibitionist, he is fer
ninst" strong drink, and has said so
officially numerous times.
DR.. Wiley is not opposed to soda
water in itself, nor to the gayly be-
decked fountains from which it issues.
He Is strongly opposed to dangerous
ingredients which are hidden in the
foam-covered glasses which are hand
ed out to young and old alike.
81 am a friend of the soda water
man." DR.. Wiley said. The honest
soda water man who sells real soda
water is a godsend today. 1 would
not part with him for the world. It's
the man who sells injurious chemi-
Gals and habit-producing drugs in
soda water glasses to whom 1 am OPP
posed and whom l would like to see
driven out of business.
ITO be pure and healthy, soda wa
ter should contain three ingredients
pure fruit f~1aEors, pure carbonated
water and sugar, not .saccharin or
some other Injurious sweetening. To
sell faEors that r made Of cnemt,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01
Spy Charge Arouses Army Officials

was Count Windisch-Graetz and his
home is at Prague, Bohemia.
The country probably will keep
tranquil in the face of the report that
his Austrian spy has been examining
it's defenses and ~offenses for five years
as a private in the army ranks. He
is a fine specimen of the stable-mind-
ed spy. He gave the first fruits OF
his labors into the keeping of a
woman.
1t annot be conceived what Austria
wants with maps of our forts and with
rosters of our regiments.
1t is suggested that the spy in the
ranks, whose steady company" gave
him away, wants to learn how to make
dunnite, our most powerful explosive.
He has been serving at posts where
they neither make dunnite nor use 1t.
Moreover, we have a well-defined
thought hat the inventor of the dead
ly stuff, Colonel Beverly w. Dunn, has
safeguarded his secret. Colonel Dunn
is a veteran of thirty-twO years active
service. He has thought enough of
the country and the army to give
two sons into their keeping. Private
George Peters, or Prince Windisch-
Graetz, whichever he is, has some
thing to do when he tries to undo
Dunn.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01

0'hA aA'S SASSNu
construction, and is mostly all scroll
work.
In the upper story six folding doors
open every ten minutes and the apos-
ties appear marching in time with an
air played by a large music box that
is governed by the clock, each one
bowling before the Savior as they
pass. except the fourth one (which
represents Peter turns his back upon
the Savior and the devil comes out
Of the top Of the clock and blows a
trumpet in honor of Peter.
The second story is in the form OF
mansion with double doors in front.
which also open every ten minutes;
Lazarus appears at the rich mans
door and on Bonded knees asks for
charity, the dogs licking his sores, and
the rich man stands in the door
swinging his arm in representation OF
throwing crumbs from his table. All
these movable figures are run by ma
chinery of his own make, which is
connected with time movement, so
that it all works on the minute, as It
is so arranged. The bottom is n very
handsomely designed foundation OF
dne inlaid work.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01
HEATING VALUE OF CLOTHES
German Scientist Demonstrates How
We Keep Warm by Adding
More Garments.

Berlin.-Of course, as every school
boy knows, we wear clothing to keep
ourselves warm, but it has remained
for a German scientist to prove exact
ly how clothing does warm us and to
what extent each layer Of clothing
adds to the warmth of the person
properly clothed.
When the temperature of the air IS
so degrees Fahrenheit the tempera-
ture of a normal person on the uncov-
cred Inc is 81 degrees, a reduction
OF IA degrees from the normal blood
heat which is 90. If, however, the
person is wearing a simple tricot un
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01
MAINE MANS CLOCK WONDER
Took Him Six Years to Make Il, but
Il Is a Most Wonderful
Marvel.

Skowhegan, Me. 1t has been q
known fact that James Galway or
Skowhegan, was, for the past six
years. building a clock Of some de-
scription. but no one had the least
idea what kind of a clock it vas or its
design, as he only worked on 1t by
lamp light. at night after all were
asleep and quiet. night after night.
month after month. for six long years.
with the trials Of good patience, until
at last completing this handsome and
beautifully designed piece of ingenui-
ty. designing it himself, drawing hiB
own plans and building It. 1t stands
z feet and 10 inches in height and is
in three stories, being made of various
kinds of wood, finished in their natural
color. 10000 pieces being used in its
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01
WORLDS BIGGEST A 3

IN James Adolph Cody, two years
and three months old, Mount Airy, Ga,
boasts the biggest baby in the world.
James now weighs 122 pounds and is
growing every day. The looming
aiant already stands 40 inches, meas
ores Sc inches round the waist, and
takes a 12-inch collar. James sleeps
well, is perfectly healthy and very
strong. His appetite is more like a
grown persons than a baby's. For
breakfast he will eat three or four
large biscuits, with bacon. gravy, but
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01

1ershirt and a wooden coat the tenn
perature is found to vary at each lay
er added to the body. The thermome-
ter placed on the outside Of the coat
IS affected by the heat OF the body
within and registers 10 degrees. II
now the thermometer is laid between
the coat and the undershirt it viii
register 7Sh degrees, while if It is put
upon the skin under the shirt It VIII
register 80 degrees, not quite blood
heat, because the cold air from the
outside affects the skin and its tenn
p~erature even through the wooden coat
and the shirt, but the loss Is only
eight degrees from that of the blood
The unclothed body therefore loses
IA degrees of its normal heat and,
wearing ordinary clothing, 1t still
loses 10 degrees of It's heat. OF
course when furs are used still more
of the blood heat is retained, but not
many are wearing furs In this neigh.
bOrhood just nov.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01
NOW THE ELECTRIC CARPET

The latest electric invention is the
electric carpet for heating rooms. 1t
was originated in Paris. The under
side OF the new carpet consists of a
network of steel wires through WHICH
the current is equally distributed in
all directions. 1t is said that the cost
of the new form Of heating will be
less thar that of any known system;
indeed it is estimated that a room
fitted with one Of these carpets can
be heated at a total cost of a penny
an hour.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01
SCOTLAND HAS A KLoNDIKE

Scotland now has a little Klondike
all it's own, but there has been no rush
of gold-seekers because it is all on the
property of the duke of Sutherland.
Considerable gold has been found in
the Suisgill burn, a typical Scottish
stream flowing amidst wild ard barren
country, and the duke has established
a mining camp with a score Of labor
ers under the charge Of an experienced
miner from the real Klondike. Placer
methods are being employed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01

ter and syrup, two glasses OF butter
milk and if allowed will drink two
cups Of coffee. For dinner he will eat
a big plate Of green's or vegetables
with boiled bacon, corn bread biscpits,
a whole pie if he can get it, and two
glasses of buttermilk. He eats again
between dinner and supper, and his
supper is in keeping with breakfast
and dinner.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-01
TWICE BURIED BUT ALIVE

Supposed to have been ground to
death beneath a freight train at New
buryport, and to have been twice
buried, once in the potter's field and
again in Swampscott, after his body
had been so positively identified that
an insurance policy on his life was
paid, Raymond Smith is back at his
former home in Lynn, Mass.
The Detroit times., 1911-07-17
WOMAN JAILED AS
YEGG AF TER FIGHT
WITH OFFICERS
Police Lay in Wait for Her and Two
Men When They Come To Spot
Where Kit of Tools Is
Hidden.
Open Fire on Them and One Man
Is Wounded and Captured, But
Another Escapes.

BENTON HARBOR, Mich, July IT..
I'm an exciting battle between yegg.
men and posse OF officers here last
night one man was shot, and q ses-
ond got away, although II Is believed
the officers winged" him and wo-
man was captured as q confederate.
The injured man was shot by
Sheriff Johnson who, with other Of
ficers, laid In wait for the yeggmen
who had hid a bag of tools in a pile
of lumber behind the Masonic temple
here.
The battle between the yeggmen
and officers came as a sequence TO
the robbipg local store, Saturday
night, SaAC K Glavin's furniture
place hayins been entered and the
safe cracked for nearly 5000.
No trace OF the burglars was found
until kit of yeggmen's tools was
discovered In lumber pile a block
away from the scene OF the robbery,
early last evening.
With the finding of the tools the
officers decided to lay in wait. The
tools were placed where they were
found and In the immediate vicinity
half a dozen officers headed by
Sheriff Johnson and Chief OF Police
Foeltzer secreted themselves. Two
hours wait was rewarded by the ap-
pearance of two men and woman.
They entered the alley where the Of
fcers were hiding and cautiously
crept to a lumber pile for the tools.
Getting them, they started out OF the
alley when they were halted. A fus-
ilade of shots met the officers COM
mand. Two men separated, one
throwing the tools away and making
a dash toward town. He was fast get
ting out of range when Sheriff John
son stopped him with load Of buck
shot.
The second man stumbled when
Chief Foeltzer shot at him. II Is be-
lieved he Is slightly wounded.
The woman was captured and a
quantity of money, some of which
was identified was found on her per.
son. The wounded captive will re-
cover. though his back is perforated
with small shot.
Both prisoners refuse to give
names.
The battle between the yeggs and
officers occurred just on one OF the
main streets OF the town and several
citizens had narrow escape from
bull s.
An all-night search for the third
party. who escaped, proved fruitless.
II is believed he Is hiding somewhere
In the city.
The Detroit times., 1911-07-17
SPO0NERS FAVOR
MIDNIGHT BRIDGE
But Commissioner Says He Will Need
More Light and More
Policemen.

At what hour shall the Belle Isle
bridge be closed?
That is the question that will con-
front the common council committee
on parks and boulevards when it
meets. Tuesday morning. on the call
OF Aid. Thompson.
Aid. Garvey, at the last meeting OF
the council, put through resolution
instructing the committee to consider
the advisability or extending the time
for closing the bridge from 11:30 p. IN.
to 1880 a. m. This, Ii is argued. will
give people chance TO get home at
their leisure. The proposed change
is heartily indorsed by the spooners.
The committee probably will compro.
mise on IL o'clock, midnight.
II have no objection to the time for
closing the bridge being extended a
half hour or an hour Ii can have
more light and more policemen on the
island" said Park Commissioners Hurl-
but. Light and police surveillance
Is what we need over there IL we are
to keep proper order at night, and we
will require more of both II we allow
people to remain until 1890. That
is all l ask"
The Detroit times., 1911-07-17
CAMPAIGN PUBLICITY NEEDED.
Root Says All Honest Senators Should
Favor II.

WASHINGTON, July 17.-"All hon.
est senators should accept drastic reg
ulations In order to prevent contain
nation" said Elihu Root, (Repn., ",
" in discussing the campaign pub
licity in the senate today. That much
corruption now existed. he added, was
indicated by what had already occur
red in the senate.
The senate adopted an amendment
by Burton (Repn.. Ohio) requiring ac-
counting from all those 10 whom can.
didates have delegated authority to
make pledges or promises.
Senator Reed. (Dem.. MOI, recited
the election OF Senator Stephenson, OF
Wisconsin, as an example of his con-
tention that publicity did not prevent
the Use OF -enormous- sums In elections.
Senator Burton declared ehat the
proposed law was great improve.
ment on existing statutes and partic-
ularly commended the inclusion OF
primaries.
The Detroit times., 1911-07-17
CITY WILL SELL
BOOKS TO PUPILS
Mayor Will Not Veto School Board
Action, But Book Dealers Are
Opposed.

Mayor Thompson will not veto
School Inspector Mumfords plan to
sell text books to high school stu
dents at cost. which was adopted by
the board OF education last Thursday
night. Under this plan the board will
buy the books on the credit Of the city
as there Is no fund 10 provide for their
purchase. and will pay for them with
the money realized from their sale
to the students. The board will sell
the books at discount or 20 per cent.
In other words, students will be charg-
ed only 80 cents for books that or
dinarily cost them 81.
The plan was vigorously opposed by
the local book dealers at q hearing
before the mayor. Monday morning.
Representatives OF Macauley Bros. and
john ". Sheehan & Co. were present
and protested vigorously against the
city engaging In competition with
them in the sale oS school books. II
would be just as sensible, they argued.
for the city to engage In the meat or
the grocery business. They pointed
out, also, that the board was bound
to get in hole on the proposition.
That Is, they would not sell all the
books purchased and could not pay
for them without taking the money
out OF some other fund.
IF that happens. let me know and
Fllyeto it, said the mayor. He was
not inclined, however. TO turn down
the plan without first giving the board
or education an opportunity to try IL
out The plan was adopted last year,
but was vetoed by Acting Mayor Ell
lis on the ground that there were no
funds for the purchase of the books
Inspector Mumford explained to the
mayor that his purpose was simply to
make the public school system In De-
troit as free as 1t Is possibleito make
It. The plan also calls for the furn-
ishing to high school students OF all
text books which the law says shall
be supplied free, but which they have
not been getting heretofore except as
they paid for them.
John v. Sheehan, of Sheehan &
e. Co., was also opposed to this phase
OF the Mumford plan as unfair.
About half the tax payers OF this
city are Catholics, who send their
children to parochial schools he said
yet they are called on to help Duy
books for the pupils In the public
schools. Look at the people who live
I'm fats and pay no taxes at all, who
will benefit by this plan"
The Detroit times., 1911-07-17
SAYS ANTI-B0YC0TT UNION IS
BACK OF FIGHT ON LABOR MEN
Judge Parker. Counsel for Gompers
ct al, Makes Charge Which ls
Practically Admitted.

WASHINGTON, July 17.-Charges
that the American Anti-Boycott as
sociation and not the Bucks Stove and
Range Co., had been the power behind
the prosecution OF President Gompers,
Vice President Mitchell and Secretary
Morrison were made to Justice Wright
of the district supreme court, and
practically admitted by Attorney DAN
lei Davenport, when the contempt
hearing OF the three labor leaders was
called today.
I'VE offer to prove" said Alton b.
Parker, counsel for the federation.
that Attorneys Davenport, Beck and
Darlington, who appeared against
Gompers and his colleagues, were In
reality paid by the Anti-Boycott As.
sociation and did not receive cent
from the Bucks Stove and Range
Co."
Davenport says he was counsel for
the association, and that James M.
Beck, former administration trust.
buster" had been employedsrby It.
Attorney Darlington said he was as.
sociate counsel for Beck
These three lawyers formed the
committee which reported to Justice
Wright that Gompers, Mitchell and
Morrison should be held for contempt
of court. Wright overruled all motions
TO dismiss the charge on the allega-
tions that this committee was preju-
diced.
Attorney Ralston. counsel for the
labor leaders interrupted to demand
that the case be certified TO another
court on the ground that Wright had
disqualified himself for fair trial by
expressing himself as 10 the alleged
guilt of the men on trial. Wright
overruled the motion and denied such
expression.
A further hearing Of the case was
postponed until Monday.
Gompers. Mitchell and Morrison
we're in the courtroom and showed no
inclination to apologize.