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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13

your medicines to all suffering women.se
Mrs. MARY HALsTEAD, Platea. Pa
Box SO.
Here is the report Of another genuine.
case, which still further shows that ~
dia =. Pinkham's Vegetable Compounds
may be relied upon.
Waieott, N. Dakota-"I had infiam-
nation which caused pain IN nav side.
and my back ached all the time. I've.
20 blue that ! felt like crying Il any 80
ven spoke to me. / took lydia n
fankham's Vegetable Compound. ard
began to gain right away. I continue.
10 use and now I am . well womau.ss
aIA AMELIA DAM. Walcott. N.
~ Jon want special advice vrita A.
Iydia 3. Pfnkham Medicine Ca Icc.ss
eentlaD Lynn, Mass. Yeur lettsr III
De opened. read and answered Nv
woman and held In strict -consaesos.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
ENGLAND ASKS ARBITRATION
Will Make Formal Demand Upon the
United States.

London.-lt is officially announced
that the British government will make a
formal demand upon the United States
government for arbitration of its claims
that the Panama canal toll act, as passed
recently by the United States congress,
violates the Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
The British demand will be made I'M
der the arbitration convention of 1908.
Great Britain's contention will be that
the question at issue does not affect the
vital interests, independence or honor of
the United States and therefore it is
clearly within the scope of the 1908 con
vention, since the matter to be a~rbitrated
is not an act of congress, but an inter
probation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
ROOSEVELT WINS CALIFORNIA
Progressives Are Assured Majority in the
Legislature.

Legislature.
Los Angeles.-Re$urns from the va
rious sections of the state indicate that
the Roosevelt ProYressives have swept
the state in the primary election and will
have a majority in the California leg;s-
lature. This has the significant meaning
that probably no Taft presidential elect
ors will appear on the ballot in this state
at the presidential election in November.
According to the peculiar provisions of
the California primary law, the candi.
dates for the state legislature who have
become the nominees of the party in the
primaries, meet and select the presiden-
tial electors. With the national political
significance in view, the Roosevelt sup
porters in California concentrated their
efforts in selecting at the primaries leg.
~islative candidates pledged to vote for
Roosevelt electors. With the success of
their campaign in primaries the only way
the Taft Republicans can have Taft
electors placed on the ballot at the gen,
eral election is through the Institution Of
legal proceedings.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13

The improved farm land area of this
country increased only 15 per cent. in
the decade from 1900 to 1910. That
Is not enough to satisfy social and
economic demands, or even to keen
pace with our Increase In population.
which was 81 per cent. To get the
right perspective one must differen.
uate between farming land and i'm.
proved farm land, says the Omaha
Bee, Half Of our territory is in hrm
land, but when II is stated that half
or all our improved farm land lies
within the states of Nebraska. Kan.
sas, Iowa, Missouri. Minnesota Arkan.
sas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and North
n South Dakota, the need for n
wider area OF cultivated soil NAV be
appreciated. Allowing land to Weld
less than 1t is capable of Welding ,s
rank waste, and this waste is one Of
h vital elements in the advanced
cost OF living. 1t is not altogether a
matter OF getting people back to the
farm;' that is important. but getting
those on the farm to adopt more erec-
i've methods of filling the soil 4,
quite as necessary.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13

On account Of the serious decline
In the birth rate Of Prussia-from 80
per 1000 in 1901 to so In 1910-all the
provincial governors have been in.
structed to make inquiries into the
causes. which are thought to be
economic and social. rather than
purely physiological. The more small
hats and tenements the fewer babies.
The increase Of prosperity in the
more fortunate classes, tho more
strenuous and nerve-racking urban
life and the spread Of education all
tend to lower the birth rate. The
chief cause OF fewer births in Prus.
sia and throughout Germany, where
the total Of 1000, 900 is the lowest in
the past Is years, Is believed to be In
the housing conditions. Recent sta.
tistics showed that 600. 900 Berllners
are living In tenements of one or two
rooms, with from 6 to 10 persons in
each room. Babies born in such an
environment naturally die early. Such
conditions conduce to race homicid,
as well as to a C suicide.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
EXCESSIVE TARE ON
COTTON IS ALLEGED
SERIOUS ABUSES IN AMERICAN
MARKET SUBJECT OF REPORT.
REGULATION is SUGGESTED
Iare~ Should Be Standardized by Making
% Amount to Be Used Upon Bale of
Cotton Readily Ascertainable.

Washington.-Rules of foreign cottol
exchanges governing tare on cotton ex
ported from the United States have ere
ated a false standard of weights which
inject uncertainty into practically every
American cotton sale in the important
markets OF Europe, resulting in serious
abuses. indelensible practices and even
fraud on the part of cotton merchants in
this country, according to Luther Conant,
Jr., commissioner Of corporations, in a
report to President Taft.
The American producer sells his cot
ton gross weight and as a rule, accord
ing to the report, believes that he makes
a big profit on tare by receiving the
same price for bagging that he obtains
for cotton. This is untrue, the report
says, as the evidence demonstrates tina.
the buyer of cotton takes the tare into
consideration in fixing the price he of.
fers.
Cotton for export, on the other hand,
is sold net weight. 1t is in this oonnec
ton that complication and uncertainty
are injected into cotton sales. The
American exporter, by the terms of his
invoice contract with the foreign buyer,
must compute the net weight of his cot
ton by deducting S per cent from the
gross weight. The average bale of cot
ton, weighing 500 pounds gross, contains
about ATS pounds of cotton and 20 pounds
of tare as it comes from the producer to
the exporter.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
BLOWN FROM THEIR BEDS
Attempt to Exterminate Italian Family
Fails.

Birmingham, Additionally blown
from their beds by dynamite, Jake Mouli,
his wife and five children, suffered Sc
we're but not fatal injuries. The dyna-
hitting 10 said to have been the work
of the BLACK hand and is believed to
have been an attempt to murder the en-
tire family.
Mouli, an italian merchant, living with
his family in rooms over his store, said
he had no idea who could have fired the
place to kill him or for what reason.
A heavy charge of the explosive was
placed at the threshold of Mouths room.
The plastering of the room was Jared
off; window panes broken out and floor,
woodwork and ceiling in the little land
ing of the hall were wrecked.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
So LIVES LOST IN STORMS
Parts of Three States Are Swept by the
Flood.

Pittsburg.-Life toll of at least SO was
claimed by heavy rains and resulting
floods that swept West Virginia, Western
Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio Monday
night. Several persons are missing.
After "a hours of excessively hot
weather the storm broke last evening.
In addition to an extraordinary rainfall
the electrical features were most spec
tacular. Within a short time the water
has washed away railroad tracks in many
places and loosened tons Of narth, which
came tumbling from Surrounding mills,
choking thoroughfares.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
England Has Not Asked Arbitrs ion.

London.-A complete disavowal is
given by the British foreign office of
the so-called official announcement that
the British government will formally de-
mand arbitration on the Panama canal
tolls question.
The lines of action which lie before
the Briti- government are now being
considered, and any announcement of the
kind is premature"
This is the full text of the formal
statement given out by the foreign of.
flee in reply to requests for details as
to the reported demand for arbitration.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13

The Milwaukee Physicians ~associa.
ton. having formally decided that
kissing Is "a menace to health and
decency" as well as "a blot on civil,
ization," will attempt to secure fegIs-
lation making It a punishable offense.
This action is wholly in accordance
with the modern spirit OF regulating
the behavior Of other people, says tho
New York World. In the unenlight-
ened times before there were pro
gressives." any one who thought a
habit or custom Objectionable stopped
practicing It and left 1t to others to
90 the same or not, as they pleased.
But passive action Of the kind Is no
longer regarded as sufficient. Every.
body Is now the steward of somebody
else's welfare, and the proper thing ia
to prevent others by law from doing
.1eat Some Individual or set deems
pfeensive. Never before, in fact. was
there so muck prating about personal
liberty along with so little regard 70,
It In others.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
CUBA WILL MAKE PROTEST
Will Insist That Reilly Did Not Fulfil
Contract.

Neutrality-suspicious. is contemplating q
formal protest to the United States
against her recent payment of the $685.
900 claim of Hugh Reilly, the contractor
on public work at Cienfuegos.
1t is understood Cuba holds that the
Reilly contract was a private affair, UNI
satisfactorily executed and that it wished
to hold back the final payment Of $685.
900 to protect itself against rival claims,
two of which threaten.
One of the sequels to the Reilly pay
ment was an assault upon Hugh Glib
son, charge of the United States lega-
ton, by a Cuban newspaper man. Cuban
officials here intimate that the investiga-
tion of the Reilly claim will develop facts
OF a startling nature.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
Sudden Anger Costly.

Chicago.-Mrs. Ruth Mcbride caused
the arrest of her husband, Burton Nc.
Bride, on a charge of wife and child aban.
donment, then regretted her action to
such an extent that she sat in front of
his cell for forty-eight hours, leaving her
vigil only to carry his meals from a res.
taurant. She was compelled to quit her
post from exhaustion. After her husband
had been locked up Mrs. Mcbride was
unable to find any one who would sigp
the prisoners bond.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
RATS

It is doubtful II anybody will dis
bute the general agreement that rats
hre noisome creatures. Nobody wants
them around, says the Philadelphia
Press. They are voracious, they are
destructive, they are dirty-they are
nuisance generally wherever they
eongregate. They plague the farmer
whose feed bins they invade; they
gnaw holes where there ought not to
be any holes; to men below decks
they constitute one OF the few draw
backs OF life at sea; to women who
encounter them in dark corners at
home or abroad they are a source OF
terror. though not necessarily Of dan
ger. In short, they are unquestion-
ably M OF LIES pests, serving no
useful purpose-useless, or at best
supernuous, even as s~cavengers, for
they prefer good food to bad and thus
play a not unimportant part In boost
Ing the cost Of living, They sustain
life and health at the expense Of their
betters. Therefore from the stand
point Of social economy. to say moth
Ing OF the public health and comfort,
to exterminate them is a public as
well as a private duty. There are
amply good and sufficient reasons for
warning against rats. They ought to
go. AS has been fully demonstrated
In the past, they perform no useful
service any more than do flies, an
equally pernicious pest. But appar.
emily they are not so g%rievous a men.
ace to health as some have feared
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
=. Reprpdues Riot Scenes

The recent riot at the Federal build
Ing, Les Angeles. WIN be reproduced
st the trial Of those arrested by mo-
hen picture films, and shown to the
fury On q screen. It will be the firss
time in the history Of Jurisprudence
that such evidence will have been In
reduced. While the riot was at ftA
height q moving picture company.
with the newest model machine, had
an operator on the scene, and his films
show the entire actions of those per
sons who are charged with having
caused disturbances.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
Hold Up on l, & N.

New Orleans.-A lone train bandit
held up the north-bound express of the
Louisville and Nashville near Michaud,
twelve miles from here, looted the mail
car, robbed the passengers in five Pull.
mans and a club car, and then, just as
ne was about to leave the tender, was
struck over the head with a torch by
Engineer Baer and captured. He was
taken to Bay St. Louis and may die.
The booty, except for one mail bag
thrown from the rain, was recovered
The bandit would i've no name.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
Morse Back in Harness.

New York.-Predictions that Charles
W. Morse would resume his business op-
cartons since his sentence in the Atlanta
penitentiary has been committed by Pres
ident Taft were fulfilled when Morse
rented a small suite of offices in 43
Exchange place, in the heart of the inan-
cial district. Announcement was made
that Mr.. Morse world again be active in
affairs at the heal of the Morse Sc
curities Company. Vt the time he was
liberated his health was exceedingly poor
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
Order Big Battleship.

Portsmouth, England.-The most pow
erful battleship yet ordered is to be laid
down here in November by the British
admiralty. She is to be 700 feet in
length and is to displace 10000 tons,
while her ~high-powered turbine engines
are to develop a speed of twenty-nine
knots. 1t is reported that the new ves-
sci is to be armed with fourteen-inch
guns, the first tried in the British nayy
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
Proclaim Martial Law.

Charleston, W. W.-Martial law was
proclaimed in the strike-atfected district
along Vacant and Cabin creeks, extending
considerably the section where civil law
recently was set aside. During the first
twelve hours of martial law guardsmen
contiscated 100000 rounds of ammuni.
tom, seven modern machine guns, 1900
rifles and a bushel of revolvers.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
Asked TO Testify.

Washington.-William Loeb, Jr., and
George B. C~ortelyou, each a former pri.
vate secretary to Col. Roosevelt when he
was president; William Randolph Hearst
and John D.. Archbold have formally been
asked to appear before the senate COM
mittee investigating campaign contribu-
lions.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
WIRE FENCING.

, Both welded and wrapped for stock.
pigs, poultry, garden and lawn, all sizes
per rod. Send trial order. ROOFING of
al kinds. galvanized and painted steel
rubber and gravel coated. We have q
good rubber roofing for &c square. all
complete: Send trial order. Mention thin
N. I'd St.. Memphis. Tenn.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
Electric Light Thirty Years ola

New lork.-Wednesday marked the
shirtIeth anniversary of the beginning
OF commercial incandescent lighting. On
september 4, 1882, Thomas A. Edison
started in operation the worlds first cen.
tral station in an old brick building in
lower New York.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
Revenues Increasing.

Washington. Treasury figures for An
gust Indicate that the government rev
enues are jumping over the retu us for
he same period of last year. Customs
receipts for August and July, the first
two months of the present fscal yecr,
ran 100000 each above the figure,
for the same two months of 1911.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
OPEN ANARCHY REIGNS
United States May Be Held Responsible
for Foreigners.


Washington.-Condition in Nicaragua
are so rapidly approaching open anarchy
that England, Germany and France in
tend to demand protection for the sub
lects and collection of indemnity for prop
erty damage and loss of life from the
government of the United States. accord
ing to advices received by the demand
from Minister Weitzel in Managua. 4
British, German and French consular
officials in Nicaragua have informed their
governments of conditions in the south.
ern republic declaring that while the Mic.
araguan government is doing all in it's
power to give protection to foreigners, it
lacks troops to guarantee safety eithe'
to lives or to property.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
Wed In Lions Den.

Oakland, Cal.-Surromded by a wed.
ding party which included a ~lioncss. a
leopard, a puma, a panther and a jaguar,
also a trainer armed with whip and re.
volver, Miss Ruth Kavanaugh and George
W. Loewenstein We're married in a den
of lions.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
Lumber Increase Held IN.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. increases IN
the transportation rates on lumber, rang.
ing from one cent to six cents a hundred
pounds from points in the South to des
ti%nations in Canada, were suspended by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
from September l to December 30.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
WEEDS at.1ll.

Helena, Ark.-PhilEps county boasts
OF the Oldest Bened' k in this state, this
fact being settled WI N Sandy Alexander.
aged III years, applied to the county
clerks Office fer the proper marriage
certificate.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
100 Looms IDLE

Lowell, Mass.-Seventeen hundred Of
the 2,ao2 looms in the Appleton cotton
mill are idle because of a strike of 200
weavers. The strike was ordered BY
che Industrial Workers of the World to
compel the company to recognize the or.
ganiEation.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13

Los Angeles. Cal.-Nat Goodwin, se
riously injured several weeks ago in a
boat accident, will be able to return to
the stage in about a month, according to
his physicians statement.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13

That 1t is an Ill wind which blows
nobody good was proved in a mort
startling way by the experience of n
Connecticut cottager who lost a wal.
let and then found 1t deposited at his
door by a storm which blew It three
miles across the water to Its owner.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
New Equipment for 7 r

Chicago'-More than $4,000, 900 is be-
ing expended by the Illinois Central rail.
o a for new equipment. A part of tho
additional rolling stock already has been
received.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
Flood in Michigan.

Traverse City, Mich.-Cloudburst and
flood damage in this section will amount
to several hundred thousand dollars, it
is estimated. No loss of life is reported.
On many farms crops were completely
destroyed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
nervous
RESPONDENT
WOMEN
Find Relief IN Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound
Their Own Statements
So Testify.
Platea, Pa.-"When I wrote TO you
hrst / was troubled with female veal.

hess and backache,
and was SO nervous
that / would cry al
the least noise, it
would startle me 50.
| began to take Ly-
dia E. ~Pinkham's
remedies, and don't
have any m o cry
ing spells. I sleep
sound and my ner-
vousness is better.
will roNA~~>.A
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
No Chance.

Omcer-What's the trouble here?
Mrs. Rooney-There's no trouble!f
Ne ould man started in to try and
make some. but he found he could not
10 i'll Z
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13

1t is a shame to think what Ameri.
can athletes may be expected to do
with the Olympic games when this
country gets a chance to entertain
she champions Of the world.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
Maltreated Americans.

Neutrality-suspicious. Captain Delaossa
of Panama was forced by his government
to resign because of pressure brought to
bear by American Minister Dodge. Chief
OF Police Quijano resigned recently foy
the same cause.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
Heat Causes Three Deaths

Cincinnati, O.-The excessive heat in
which Cincinnati sweltered Monday was
the cause of three deaths and a dozen
prostrations.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
Two Marines Killed.

Panama.-Reliable information from
Managua received here is to the effect
that two American marines have been
killed there.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13

The Main impression.
What did the minister talk about
In his sermon this morning?"
About an hour"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13

It takes more than a fur-lined over
boat to protect a would-be actor IN
The hall of fame.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13
s OF 6 doses 666 q

y 49, any case Of ChiIls q Fewer: and
u.Aken nen 90 . tonic the revsr vIr,
not return Pic
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-09-13

cannot afford to give up the sura
ground of a principle.-Plato.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-05-08

not to weep for her. to take comfort
in the reflection that they had left
nothing undone for her happiness and
welfare. and that she was happy and
glad TO go. because she could never be
we'll and they would meet again.
Blessed, blessed. assurance Through
all the trying stages of her long ill
ness, she was comfoI ted and sustained
by the faith to which she had been
loyal ali her life. To her the crossing
of that mytsic river that separates this
brief life of ours from eternity was
not entering to the great unknown. /"
She had imprinted in her heart testi-
mony of all the ages. that God so
loved the world he gave his only
begotten Son that whoseoever believeth
in him shall not perish. but shall
have everlasting life"
Through fast falling tears and
dropping rain they buried her. The
multiplicity of her friendships, the
sorrow for her untimely departure,
the esteem and sympathy of many
were manifest by the great profusion
of floral tributes. and the attendance
that filled the Catholic church of this
city. Thursday 25th. where Father
Wambold delivered beautiful and
eulogistic sermon. Many were
present from Patch Grove, Blooming
ton and Liberty.
William of Sitter, Thomas and
Leo of Mcintosh, S. D.. brothers,
we're all present. The two latter had
spent some of the months of the winter
with their sick sister, but had
returned to their claim in Dakota
before her release. A bereft husband
with sad face and aching heart and
a widowed, stricken mother,
in the desolated home, are trying to
resume the threads of life's work, but
they feel no courage for labor now.
In every room are reminders of the
object OF their united love and care,
her piano. her books, her blooming
plants, and discarded work. The
girlish form is gone, no light
approaching foot steps are heard and
no opening door ushers in their Nellie.
But her own sweet patience and
trustful resignation taught them to
look forward to that other SPRING
ii ne, when the flowers so early
withered here shall bloom anew when
all things shall be revealed, and we
shall know, and have supernal joy in
the knowledge. why God doth so
bereave his children here.
GOD does not send strange flowers every
year.
When the spring-w1nds blow over pleasant
The same dear things lift up the same fair
faces;
The violet is here.
so. after death. winter it must be,
God will not I ut strange signs in heavenly
places:
The old love shall look out from the old
faces
veilchen shall have thee"
B D. s.