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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
She GAVE UP
ALL HER WORK
On Account Of Her Weakness, But
Cardui, the Woman's Tonic, !.
Brought Back Strength.

Summit, Va.-Mrs. Leonora Walker,
Of this place, has the following to say
regarding her experience with Cardui.
the woman's tonic: Before / began
to take Cardui, suffered with woman
ly troubles, and, also, with what
thought was stomach trouble. l was
so weak, had to give up all my
Homework; and could not do any of
the cooking.
commenced taking Cardui, the
woman's tonic, and after the third day
began to feel better. Have now
used five bottles. and am well. and
can do all of my homework and cook
ing by myself. In fact, feel like a
new woman.
shall be only too glad to do any
thing ! can. to help praise the Cardui
Home Treatment, for it is so good for
suffering women. shall never be
without it"
For over half century. Cardui has
been helping to build weak, nervous,
tired-out women, back to strength and
health. It goes to the seat of the trou-
BILE and builds up womanly strength
where it is most needed.
Cardui may be the very medicine
your system has long been needing.
Get bottle from your druggist today.
1t cannot harm you. and should surely
do for you what it has done for so
many thousands of others.
N. B.--Wlae 10. Ladies' Advisory Dept, Chatta.
nooga Medicine Co.. Chattanooga, Tenn. for
ment for Women" sent in plain wrapper. ON
request. Adv.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
Appearance Of Streets.

The cleanliness, the neatness, the
beauty of streets and sidewalks are
influences in behalf Of good order and
exalted citizenship that are more pow
erful than prisons or parks. What a
city really is, is told by the character
of her streets-not her high or broad
streets, SO much as the streets out
where the population lives. What a
city government amounts to in estab-
fishing the character Of city is more
reflected in the cutters and crossings
than the proud parade on the public
occasions A foul or dirty street.
bad and dangerous sidewalk, gut
ter of standing, muddy water destroy
civic pride and undermine true citi-
zenship. (O) State Jour
nal
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
GOOD WORK IN CALIFORNIA
Recently Published Booklet viii Help
Citizens to Beauty Their Homes
and Their Town.

Under this title the state forester of
California has issued a booklet that
fairly teens with useful and disable in
formation, says the Los Angeles Times
The best trees for the various Sec
tons of the state are described, all IL
Illustrated and their relative usefulness
discussed for city and rural conditions,
In relations to soils, climates, general
conditions and environments. The
various injurious insects and tree dis
eases are given attention, also treat
ment of wounds, burns and all classes
Of injuries, making a wonderfully com
plete treatise of a very live and impor-
tant subject, booklet by the way.
that should be in the hands of every
tree-lover in the state. The author Is
Ben Y. Morrison, who for years has
made special study of California
trees as found along our streets and
highways. and is, further and beyond
all this trained and educated for.
ester.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
English ExcIuslveness.

The Englishman, as everyone
knows, is inclined to be individual and
Independent, If not exclusive. He is
happy with his family in his country
mansion, where high hedge insures
seclusion, and permits only the chin.
neys of his house to be seen from
the road. He does not crave excite
ment and conviviality. He prefers the
quiet and peace of the semi-rural SUI
burb to the whirl of the city He does
not like to be within too easy access
of the malestrom. The automobile
and the train and trolley care are
quite speedy enough With his family
about him, and the city and its bust
ness cares at safe distance, the Eng
lishman is ppy.-Suburban Life.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
PROBABLY BET WASN'T PAID
Youngster Undoubtedly Had Won IT,
but There Were Other clrcum-
stances to Consider.

1t was the day after the party. Nine
year-old Robert came to his mother
and said:
Mamma, how many Of those nice
cut-glass ice cream dishes of yours are
there exactly?"
!, "Twenty-four, my son."
"Will you bet me that you have
more than 23?"
mo. darling. Grandmother Brown
gave me one dozen and Grandmother
Sullivan another dozen. That makes
exactly two Dozen"
"All the same" persisted young
Robert, please bet mel"
Very well, I'll bet"
"Then you've lost. Cause I've brok-
en- one of 'em."-New York Evening
Post
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
Home b(uIl||
Y Helps Y /
ADMITS RIGHTS OF CITIES
English Parliamentary Committee Re
fuses to Allow Disagreement
by Railways.

II is matter for more than con-
graduation, says the Town Planning
Review, published in Liverpool, Eng
land, that the Northern Junction rail.
way came to grief before the parlia-
mentary committee. The project failed
because of the strenuous opposition
that was aroused. The particular in
terest which attaches itself to the
defeat of the railway was not merely
the triumph Of the Hampstead Garden
suburb and the Finchley town plan
ming scheme.
1t Is the first time that the new
age OF transit has demonstrated that
there are considerations of pressing
Importance other than railways. The
vast importance of the road to the
modern city confronted the railway
promoters with unexpected difficulties.
The consideration due to town plan
ming schemes, embodying traffic ar
teries suitable for the requirements
of the immediate future, also infiu-
enced the decision Of the parliament
AIRY COmmlLCe6.
The railway promoters had to real
ize that the presidents of the nine
teenth century. insisting on every 9th
er public utility or amenity being made
subservient to the interest of railways.
proved to be no longer tenable. The
defeat Of the bill has, in fact, borne it
homo to all the companies that SINH
lar failure is likely to overtake all
those other enterprises which, with
out regard to modern conditions, seek
to perpetuate and repeat on the con-
fines of the modern city the disastrous
blunders, the inconvenience and bla-
tant ugliness which characterized the
efforts of railway engineers in ths
past century.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
Model English Town.

Burnville is one of England's model
towns. 1t was developed along scien
tific lines by the Garden Cities and
Town Planning association of London
The association went to great pains to
make the place perfect in every re
spect. in order to show the benefits
of well planned cities and towns. i
Is claimed to be the most healthful
and cheerful place in England. There
are 925 houses in the model town
Not more than nine houses are built
on an acre Kingsley road, which Ia
reproduced here. gives an idea Of the
place.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
MONKEYS EASY PREY
JUNGLE LEoPARDs HAVE NO
TROUBLE GETTING A DINNER.
Mere Clicking Of Animals Teeth
Brighten smlans Until In Their
Excitement They Fall From
the Trees.

How the leopards of the low coun.
try jungle of Ceylon capture monkeys
Is told by L. s. Woolf in letter to
the London Times.
Native Singhalese, who knew the
jungle WE'LL" he writes, always as
sured me that no form of food, except
perhaps the dog, is 80 acceptable to
the leopard as the large gray Wan
deroo monkey. have several times
found the remains of monkeys that
had obviously furnished the leopard q
meal In the caves which serve the
leopards for a lair-and the inside of
a dead leopard has shown further
proof.
THE Singhalese had often told me
that leopards do not attempt to climb
trees in search of their prey.
Whenever monkeys see leopard
Sinking under the trees they become
excited and all chatter. AS soon as
the leopard hears this he lies down
under bush and begins to click his
teeth.
This noise seems to fill the
monkey with terror and excitement.
They huddle together In the tree top
above the leopard's head, jumping up
and down on the branches, shrieking
and chattering. Below the leopard
waits motionless, clicking ito teeth,
until suddenly one of the monkeys
misses its footing and comes to the
ground with a thud-and then the
leopard is on it in bound.
Il had always received this infor-
nation with some doubt until / one
day saw, at any rate, the first acts of
the tragedy. I was travelling in thick
Jungle and my bullock carts having
gone on in the early afternoon, was
following later in the evening down
the same sandy track. l noticed that
large leopard had been following
behind the bulls and that be had sud-
denly turned aside down small
game track.
AT the same moment I became
aware of a tremendous chattering. of
monkeys In the distance. / had a
Singhalese with, me and we crept
through the thick jungle toward the
nisse.
After crawling about $50 yards
saw about fifteen to twenty monkeys
jumping up and down excitedly on the
top of small tree. They seemed to
be looking down at something on the
other side of a large bush which was
In front of me and when they saw us
they kept on turning their heads first
at us and then to something else, leap
ing UP and down and ehrieking per-
petually and-as it appeared to me-
gesticulating and reckoning to us
with their long. thing gray arms.
THE same thought came to the
for he whispered to me:
They are reckoning you to shoot
lay still for moment thinking which
side of the bush it was best to crawl
around, and then I distinctly heard
the click, click, click of the leopard's
teeth behind 1t. chose the wrong
side, for as l came around all l saw
was the leopard disappear in a great
bound into the thick jungle
beyond"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
NimbIe-Footed.

The preacher was a young man and
nervous, but interesting. He was max
Ing an eloquent plea for the home life,
and was descanting eloquently on the
evils of the club telling his congre-
cation that married men in particular
should spend their evenings at home
with their wives and children.
Think, my hearers" said he. "of q
poor, neglected wife. all alone in the
great, dreary house, rocking the era
die of her sleeping baby with one foot
and wiping away the tears with the
other!"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
She should Not contradict.

An officer in the Indian service, who
was not particularly noted for good
looks, one day turned to his wife's
ayah and said:
do not look like a monkey?"
Expecting that she would, of course,
hasten to reply in the negative. He
was rather taken aback, however,
when she replied:
THE Protector of the Poor is
pleased to say so, and how can his
slave dare to contradict him?"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
More About That Coolest Winter.

"Ptu!-just sol" Endorsed Uncle
Lazzenberry, when old Oracle Onken
had concluded his meteorological
"reminiscences. That's a-ptu!-fact!
remember myself how cold twas in
eighteen hundred and suthin'. Recol-
lect pertickerly that live Goals froze
solid right in the fireplace and the
flames of the candles would freeze and
US children would break EN- off and
eat 'em for strawberries. Eh-yah.-
twas middlin'-ptu!-co that win
ter"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
Waste Of Powder.

Waste of Powder.
A man who had never been duck
hunting shot at duck in the air.
The duck fell dead to the ground.
We'll, you got him!" exclaimed
the amateurs friend
Eyes," replied the amateur. 'but l
might as well have saved my am
munition-the fall would have killed
him"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
MANY children are STARVING

not from lack of food, but because
parasites-worms-are feeding upon
what ought to go to nourish the child.
Trey's Vermifuge will quickly correct
this. 25c. at all dealers.-Adv.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
Queer Human Nature.

People are funny"
How now?"
I'm this Van Million divorce suit
they divided $25.OOO,OOO amicably and
they scrapped about the custody of a
pug dog"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
It Would Be Apparent.

Mrs. Bleecher (upstairs) Bridget,
have you turned the gas on in the
parlor, as told you?
The new domestic jewel-Yis,
mum; cant ye smell it?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
Not That Kind.

DO you eat much meat. my dear
sirr'
No. indeed. doctor; am valetu-
dinarian"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06

or doses 666 will break any case
of Chills G. Fever, Colds G LaGrippe;
1t acts on the liver better than Gallo
mel and does not grippe or sicken.
Price 25c.-Adv.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06

Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills put
the stomach in good condition in q
short time. Try them for Sick Stom-
ach, Riliousness and Indigestion. Adv.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06

Many a woman suffers from In
somnia because her husband talks In
his sleep NJ
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
Misunderstood.

German-vat l can do, l will do
Wag-Here, we've had enough Of
that vatican controversy.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06

Astonishing Tobacco Remedy Guaranteed
70 instantly remove taste for cigarettes or tobacco
in any form, or money cheerfully refunded. Send
Address Desk Tobacco Cleanse Co., wichita,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06

It's awfully hard for a girl with
pretty ankle to keep her shoe laces
tied.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06

If you have to walk, distance doesn
lend enchantment to the view.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06

"Serenaded my girl last night"
ANY member of the family come
outf"
only the cat
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06

Probably spinster remains Miss
because she was unable to make hit.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06

Nearly every man is willing to do
his duty-as he sees 1t.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
Very Near II.

Sonny-Pa. what is split infini-
tive?
Pa-Something like this, Alabama
ought to love Mobile.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06

Sore Eyes, Granulated Eyelids and stiea
promptly healed with Roman Eye Bal.
sam. Adv
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06

DR.. Peery's Vermifuge dead Shot, kills
and expels Worms In q very few hours.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Groves
The Old Standard
Groves 7aSfekeSS
chill Tonic

Equally Valuable as General Strengthening Tonic Because Acts on tho
Liver, Drives Out Malaria Enchss the Blood and Builds Up the Whole System.
You know what taking when take Groves astes chill Tonic
the formula printed label showing that contains the we-nown
tonic properties QUIE IRON has equal for Malaria Cs and
Fever Weakness General Debility and Loss Appetite Gives life and g
Nursing Mothers Pale Sy Children True Tonic and Sure Appetizer
For people and children Guaranteed Druggist We meant 800
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-06

Putnam Fadeless Dyes are the
brightest and fastest. Adv.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-12-06

the Arabs, who al this period brought
them into the fold OF the Mahometan
religion
Mahomet was born In Arabia in
5d9, and though Of wealthy parents,
early devoted himself to the study Of
religions reading both the Christian
and Jewish books on that subject, His
own people then professed system Of
polytheism, but the reformer attacked
this, preached that there was but one
God ana that Mahomet was his
prophet, says the Washington star,
From a few followers his believers
grew into the thousands, ana when
Arabia had been converted these Mos
lens, with ire and sword, entered
Turkestan and obliged the Turks TO
accept the Mahometan religion. They
soon became its most ardent eXpon-
ents, and so great was the growth that
today there are 100000 600 people
who believe in the Koran the Maho-
metan Bible, worshiping God as Allah
and MahOmct as his prophet
The green silk trousers of MahOmet
were for a long time borne AS the
banner of the MOslcm army, The in
cursIons of the Turks into Europe won
for them many Christian provinces at
various times among them being Ar
menia, Seria and the Balkans.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-12-06
THE WAR As viewed
By GERMAN SPEAKER
REV. ANDREAS BARD TO
SPEAK AT LUTHERAN
CHURCH OF TULSA.
TALKS HERE TONIGHT
Address Promises to BE a Gem 4;
Unusual Opportunity for
Tulsa People.

The first public talk in Tulsa on the
European war from a German view
point will be given tonight at tho
Lutheran church, corner Fltth and FL
wood, by Rev. Andrcas Bard. tho
noted Lutheran minister of Kansas
city. who viii deliver the principai
address at the Elks' memorial ser.
vices here this afternoon.
Those who are not personally ac>
qualnted with Rev. Bard's ability as
Il public speaker and international
student can appreciate the treat that
Is IN store for those who near his talk
tonight on the subject. THE European
War"
Rev. Bard recently delivered this
address In Kansas city 1t was 50
forciblc and so entirely different from
anything else that had been said or
written In this country about the war
that It attracted wide attention ana
was published In scores or prominent
newspapers about the country, as well
as being commented upon by many
prominent persons throughout the ma.
ton.
Rec. c. W. .Siffcrd. pastor Of tho
Lutheran church here. has announced
that he will be glad for the general
public to attend the services at his
church tonight in order to avail them.
selves Of the opportunity 20 hear Rev.
Bard
Rev Bards father Is a bishop in
Germany and Is very close TO tho
kaiser himself what he will have to
say about Gcrmany's part In the war
will therefore be doubly interesting.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-12-06
GERMANY GIVES OUT
news ABOUT Allies
But NEGIECTS TO SAY ANY
THING ABOUT HER OWN
FORCES.

BERLIN, Dec, 5.-CBy wireless to
SalvilIe, L. D-Among the news
items given 10 the press today by
the German official press bureau
were the following:
1.-The Russian newspaper Novoe
Nremya demands the occupation of
the island of SpitZberEen by Russia
irrespective of Swodcn's and Nor
ways interests
Reports from Rotterdam say that
the English war loan is in the
market below the issue price.
"The French socialist, Pierre Bon
nier, in letter to the Socialist Heroe
strongly condemns the verdict hand
ed down by "A French court martial
on the German military surgeons
Collins and Wohlfert, who were SEN
fenced to a years imprisonment for
alleged pillage BONNER calls the
verdict a deed of infamy.
Eye witnesses of the entrance OF
the French and English troops into
Kameruns, a German colony of
western equatorial Africa, say that
the British caused the German wom-
en- to be captured in their apart
ments by armed negroes and that
they later were driven through the
town
"A great number of professors
have protested against the charge
that the Germans are conducting
barbarous warfare.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-12-06
Thought Rules Men,
He Went to the Limit,

The teacher of a certain primary
school in indianapolis has always
taught her pupils to be kind to ami
mails Now, as the majority Of these
pupils are children of the Latin races,
and as they adore their teacher, It
follows, says Harpers Magazine, that
they have, in the Enthusiastically inn
pulsve way of their ancestors, gone to
extremes to please her in this as well
as in other ways.
one afternoon a lad named Gio-
vanni Geraci fingered after the close
of school. Seeing that he had some
thing on his mind and did not know
exactly how TO unburden himself the
teacher asked what the trouble was.
mo trouble, teacher" said Gio-
vanni; "T only wanted to tell you how
] was good to dumb animals yester-
day."
The teacher expressed her pleasure
and inquired as to the particular way
In which the lad had practiced her
teachings.
Giovanni proudly drew himself up,
and said, IL kissed the cat"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-12-06
BRITISH AND ITALIAN AM.
BASSADORS FORMALLY
PROTEST TO L, S.
BRYAN WON'T COMMENT


WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-u the
absence Of Official adyiccs, Secretary
Bryan refused To- comment tonight on
Governor Hunts message announc-
ing his decision 10 postpone the
proclamation OF ArI2ona's new anti
alien employment law pending fur
thcr communication from the state
department. Formal protests against
the Arizona law were lodged with tho
department today by the British and
Italian ambassadors and a message
was sent to Governor Hunt asking If
ho had authority to postpone action
Mr. Bryan listened with interest to
| the text of the EOyDruOrs reply as
carried in Associated Press dispatches
from Phoenix but would not discuss
the matter
The state department is not advised
as To the fun scope of the Arizona
ant-aliCn law, but II is known that
It requires "a minimum Of so per cent
of the employees Of any person or cor
poration in the state to be citizens OF
the United States
The British protest attacks the law
as in violation Of the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution of the
United States, which provides that no
state shall deny to any person with
in its jurisdiction equal protection of
tho laws"
The Italian protest cites the COM
mercial treaty between Italy and the
United States. ratified in 1874, which
provides that citizens of each nation
resident in the other shall have HI
erty "to do anything incident or nee
essary for trade upon the same terms
as natives of the country"
In reply the stale department no
titled both embassies 1t had taken
steps to obtain complete information
as to the alien act.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-12-06
Chief OF POLICE TO
feed FIFTY CHILDREN
BtRNS WILL PLAY SANTA CLAUS
TO POOR CHILDREN
CHRISTMAS.

Chief OF Police Foster n. Burns
will feed so children with Christ
mas dinner. according to informa-
ton received last night. He requested
the salvation army authorities to as
sign him fifty Of their applicants and
children whom they should select to
accompany him to dinner on that day
Mr. Burns. In planning the affair.
asked tho proprietress Of the cafe
how many people she could seat at
one time. When he was informed
that fifty was the capacity of the
place, he made his report to the SAL
walton army.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-12-06
Origin of the Turks.

Now that Turkey, the sick man OF
Europe" has seemingly entered into
the war, the facts of the early origin
of that nation are of interest. With a
population of 25.000.00O directly un-
der the Sultan of Turkey today. II
seems strange TO reflect that when
the Turks first appeared in history
they were wandering Tartaric tribes,
rowing about the plateaus Of Asia,
and generally known under the name
Of Scythians.
They asserted that they were de-
scended from q person named Turk,
who was grandson of Japhet In
the sixth century they left the barren
tablelands of Central Asia and spread
into tho steppes of the country now
called Turkestan.
Their religion was a barbarous pa
eanism, and owing to their roaming
life and savage nature there was Moth
Ing of gentleness in their worship. not
even a temple Hence they presented
an inviting field for the incursions of
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-12-06
No Place Like Home.

A henpecked looking floorwalker in
one of our department stores was
standing in the aisle with a panied and
faraway look in his eyes suddenly
a woman bustlcd up back up him and
demanded: "Wherc are the childrcn's
dresses sir?"
"In the bottom bureau drawer,
Maria" said the floorwalker, hastily
turning around. And then he fled,