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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
SOME TENNESSEE FOLKS
TELL now THEY WON

Sick people want to De wen
hurry. al
A great many, perhaps most an
illnesses have their beginning IN ue'
rangemeuts Of the stomach and digeS'
tive tract.
Mayr's Wonderful Remedy starts IN
at the first dose to put stomach sur
ferers on the way to health. The nrst
dose proves it.
1t is taken with success everywhere
Here are the words OF two Tennessee
people who have taken It:
MISS CORA FISHER, 800 Saxon
avenue, Memphis-"Have taken your
medicine and it worked like a charm
has removed quite a number OF gan
stones. 1t does just as you said II
would"
MRS. w. j. WARD, Sparta, Tenn
81 can honestly recommend your rem
edy to all sufferers from constipation
and stomach troubles. Indigestion
seems a thing Of the past with me-"
Mayr's Wonderful Remedy gives per-
manent results for stomach, liver and
intestinal ailments. Eat as much am
whatever you like. No more distress
after eating, pressure Of gar in the
stomach and around the heart. Get one
bottle of your druggist now and try 1t
on an absolute guarantee-if not salts
factory money will be returned-AdV.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
PAYS NOTHING BACK.
This from Billy Sunday:

InlS from Billy sunday:
THE saloon comes as near being .
rat hole for a wage earne to dump
his wages In as anything you al find
The only interest 1t pays is red eyes
and foul breath and the loss of health.
You go in with money and you come
out with empty pockets. You go in
with character and you come out ru-
ined. You go in with a good position
and you lose it. You lose your posi-.
ton In the bank, or In the cab of the
locomotive. And the saloon pays moth.
ing back but disease and damnation
and gives an extra dividend in delir-
ium tremens and a free pass to per
dition. And then 1t will let your wife
be buried in the potter's field, and
your children go to the asylum, and
yet you walk out and say that the
saloon is a good institution, when 1t
is the dirtiest thing on earth. 1t
hasn't n leg to stand on and has
nothing to commend it to a decent
man. not n thing"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
HOW SHE ENDED TEN
YEARS OF SKIN-TORTURE

Oct. 28, 1877 had eczema on
my face for ten years. Little red PIN.
pies formed in a small spot on my
chin and then spread all over my face.
They itched and burned me awfully.
tried almost every remedy and treat
ment that could be used for this trou-
BILE, but nothing did me any good. l
used resinol ointment and resinol
soap, and was relieved in a day or
two. In one month l was cured. This
was six months ago and the trouble
has never returned."-(Signed) Mrs.
c. C. Roberts, Weatherford. Okla.
Every druggist sells resinol ointment
and resinol soap and doctors have
prescribed the resinol treatment for
more than twenty years.-Adv.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
FOR WHAT OTHER PuRPosE7

1.-THE moving picture show has be.
come.2 powerful factor in arousing the
prejudice Of thoughtless and weak
minded people against the liquor In
terests, and particularly against the
saloon" says the Liberal Advocate, a
liquor dealers organ.
I'm virtually every blood and thun.
der and crime film produced there Is
sure to be a depicting a bunch
Of lowbrows plotting some villainy
from burglary to murder while lick
ing up liberal libations Of liquor to
give them the proper amount Of cour-
age to accomplish their deed.
Each day thousands of these films
are portrayed to millions of men,
women and children in every part of
the country, and those who know no
better, and many who ought to know
better, soon become imbued with the
belief that liquor is only manufactured
and saloons established for the pur-
pose of increasing lawlessness and
crime"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
Monev Erom Snakes.

Lewis Anthony, well-known Ware
farmer, expects to take legal action
against a negro named John Ham
mond because the negro killed a large
rattlesnake on Mr.. Anthony's farm, ac-
cording to a Waycross (Ga.) CORE
spondent Of the New York Sun.
Mr.. Anthony catches all snakes in
his settlement and sells them, and he
figures that the negro has caused him
a loss Of at least $40 in killing the rat
tier.
Hammond was working near Mr..
Anthony's farm, and when he saw
a rattIer he lost no time in getting
1t out Of the way. The snake had
thirteen rattTes and a button.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04

Conducted by the National Woman'g
Christian Temperance UniOn.J
FROM MANY WITNESSES.

FROM MANY WITNESSES.
In summing up a complete refuta'
ton Of the statements SEN out by the
National Wholesale Liquor Dealers as
sociatlon In an article on Facts About
Prohibition in Kansas" Governor Ar
thur Capper says:
Let US call the witnesses and see
what they think OF prohibition in
Kansas. II anyone should know, they
should know, for they live with 1t and
under 1t:
The governor Of Kansas says pro-
hibition is a great success.
Every state official who has spoken
out says prohibition succeeds.
More than 700 editors and newspa-
per men Of Kansas in state conven.
ton, unanimously endorsed prohibit.
ton.
Every political party In Kansas ia
vors the prohibition law.
No minister has ever opened his
mouth in favor Of return of license;
neither has any schoolteacher.
The president of Kansas Retailers
says prohibition pays.
The president Of the State Bankers
association believes that prohibition
is a tremendous asset to Kansas.
One hundred and sixty-six bankers
have filed their testimony In favor Of
the law with the Temperance society
Of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and only six could be found in all the
state who doubted the wisdom OF this
legislation.
The president Of the Kansas Medi.
cal society believes In prohibition.
The president Of the Commercial
clubs Of Kansas has said that prohibi.
ton has added real value to every
acre Of Kansas land.
The supreme court has testified In
the following strong language to the
benefits of the prohibition law:
THE prohibitory law is we'll en-.
forced throughout the state. 1t is as
generally well enforced as any other
criminal law. The enforcement of the
law distinctly promotes social welfare
and reduces to a minimum economic
waste consequent upon the liquor traf-
fee and allied evils. The saloonkeeper
and his comrades have been excluded
from effective participation in the poll
tics of the state"
And to completely settle the ques-
ton for all time the legislature of
Kansas, not by a majority, but unan-
imously passed at its last session q
concurrent resolution affirming in no
uncertain language its belief In the adj
vantage of prohibition.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
BILL BOARDS IN LINE.

BY its action in refusing to accept
further advertising contracts for whis-
ky or distilled and spirituous liquors,
the members Of the Poster Advertis-
ing association place themselves in
line with the $40 daily newspapers
and scores Of magazines in the United
States whose columns are closed to all
liquor advertising.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
M %atrimony's Cost,

Timid Youth-What do l have to
pay for a marriage license?
Facetious Clerk-Well, you get 1t on
the installment plan.
Timid Youth-How's that?
Facetious Clerk-Two dollars down
and most Of your salary each week
for the rest of your life.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
Safety Matches Running Short.

According to a Melbourne dispatch
to the Sydney (Australia) Herald, re-
produced in a commercial report,
strict economy in the use OF safety
matches is being advocated by mer
chants who know how limited the
stocks in Australia are at present, and
how difficult 1t is to procure further
supplies while the war lasts. AL.
ready prices have risen 1873 per cent
in the wholesale market, and only a
most careful use of these matches
can prevent an actual shortage. The
chief reason for this state Of affairs
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
Why Men Eat More Than Women.

Why Men Eat More Than Women.
That men eat five or six per cent
more than women-not because they
are gluttons, but because they actually
require that much more nourishment
appears as a result cf an investiga-
ton made in the nutrition laboratory
Of the Carnegie institute at Washing.
ton by Francis G. Benedict and l.. f.
Eames, says the Literary Digest. The
reason for the discrepancy seems to
be that women have a smaller proper
ton of active tissues than men of
the same weight and more inactive
material. such as fat, The investiga.
ton disclosed that the average WON.
an generates only 1856 heat units in
the "a hours, as against 1888 pro-
duced by the man, or about two per
tent more for the latter per pound of
body weight. When groups were com.
pared, after careful selection Of indi.
viduals of nearly the same height and
weight, the men were found to pro
duce about l? per cent mole heat than
women
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04

is said to be the regulation in force
in England that compels the factory
which supplies nearly all the Aus.
tralian matches to show no lights at
night, it being situated close to the
Thames estuary, Consequently, the
output is reduced to one.thirG Of
the normal quantity.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
WATER For CHRISTENING.

That water from the first flow over
the spillways Of the great Roosevelt
dam in Arizona will be used to. chris.
ten the launching Of the new battle.
ship Arizona Is the decree Of Governo,
Hunt
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
Sarcasm In the Box.

Judge--Then when your wife seized
the weapon you ran out of the house?
Plaintiff-Yes, sir.
Judge-But she might not have used
It.
Plaintiff-True, your honor. Maybe
she picked up the flatiron just to
smooth things over.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
DRASTIC HooPESroN.

An ordinance has been adopted in
Hoopeston, ILL.,, providing that any
member Of the city council, mayor, or
any other city official who, when in
Hoopeston, drinks intoxicants shall
be removed from office.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
A Bad Guess.

Panhandler Mister, l appeal to
YOU
Passer-by-Not in the least, DO! Ex-
cuse my dust!-Puck.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
Easy.

How did you manage to win the
hand Of an heiress," asked the en-
vious friend of a dancing man."
"Oh-er-I glided into her affec-
TONS"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04

Camille S~aint-Saens, the famous
French composer and the first dele.
gate Of the Franco-American commits.
sion for the Development of Political,
Economic, Literary and Artistic Rela-
tons, photographed as he landed in
New York. The composer, who Is
eighty years old, looks forward with
uncommon pleasure to revisiting the
United States. He will be entertained
extensively by the French societies
in the many cities he expects to visit
during the three months of his stay
here.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
Select Circle.

Don't any of your friends come to
e you on visiting days." asked the
kindly old lady, "No'm," responded
No, 777,444; they're all here wit
me-"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04

More So Than the Panama.
Bix-Which do you consider the.
most, important canal. in the world?
Dix-The alimentary Is, to, me. 4'
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04

There was an increase of. nearly
700, 0O0, 900 in the cigarette output in
the United States last year.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
The Prescription,

II have broken down from over
work, doctor. What cure would you
recommend"
"A %sinecure; three dollars, please"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-04
No Great eaIth.

Tom-She has a wealth Of hair.
Bess-Oh, I don't know. You can
buy those switches new for Sc.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-17
PACIFIC FLEET SAVED

THANKS to the enterprise of New
York financiers, more patriotic
and far-seeing than the men,
bers of Congress who passed the dis
astrous LaFollette ship law last win
ter, the remnant of the Pacific Mail
Company's fleet on the Pacific is to be
saved to this country The purchase
of the seven remaining vessels of this
corporation by the financial interests
Identified with the National City Bank
of New York is the first step toward
the creation of an extensive American
line trading between west coast and
South American points. The enforced
desertion of the trans-Pacif1c trade by
the Pacific Mail, due to the operations
of the new shipments law, is a sad
blow to United States shipping, but the
enterprise of the New Yorkers who are
stepping into the breach to preserve
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-17
CAPITOL PARK EXTENSION

ME statement of Governor Brum-
baugh with relation to the de-
velopment of the Capitol Park
extension will be received with pleas
ure by all Harrisburg people.
The new area can be made a thing
of beauty and a Joy forever to the
people of the State at large as we'll as
to those of the city, or it can be
spoiled almost beyond remedy. That
the State and the city are working in
perfect harmony and that both will
rely largely for their final decisions
upon the reports of experts of world
wide experience and note assures the
people that the public money ex-
pended for the enlargement of the
park will not be expended in vain.
1t is good news, also, that the State
approves the city's recommendation
that plans for the improvements be
made without delay, so that when
the Legislature provides the required
appropriation no time may be lost in
beginning the work. rne Capitol
Park Extension promises to be the
great material monument of the
Brumbaugh administration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-17
BAGDAD THE GLORIOUS
By Frederic ]. Haskin

TINE British advance up the Tigris
River, which has been checked
before the walls of Bagdad. is
an operation of the Eastern campaign
second in importance only to the
struggle in Galipolli. Bagdad is the
key to the Euphrates valley route al
ready partially traversed by the Bag
dad railway, which is known as the
shortcut to India" The fall of the
city would mean a big victory for the
allies and it is being stubbornly de-
fonded by the Turks.
Bagdad is used to sieges. She has
known them in almost every gener-
alton for thirteen hundred years. No
city has had a more stirring history,
seen more of the pomp and splendor
OF the East, or occupied a more i'm
portant position commercially and
strategically. Few people realize that
for centuries Bagdad was the most i'm
portant center of literature, science
and art. as we'll as the busiest and
wealthiest hub of commerce in the
world.
Though Bagdad to-day is a city of
10000 people and capital of Turk
ish province, she retains hardly O sha-
dow of her former greatness. There
were two million souls within her walls
when London and Paris were no
larger than Washington. The very
bricks in the houses of modern Bagdad
have been used over and over again
as the buildings were sacked and razed
TO the ground by victorious besiegers
and laboriously rebuilt. Some of them
bear the stamp of Nebuchadnezzar,
who ruled six hundred. years before
Christ.
If the English take Bagdad, they
will enter typical Oriental town, with
a labyrinth of unpaved streets, some
of them so narrow that two horsemen
cannot pass abreast, a town that Is
an island during the Spring floods of
the Tigris and the Euphrates, where
the restless river waters gnaw contin-
ually at their banks until whole rows
of houses topple into the stream, where
the lack of all sanitation makes the
death rate so high that In times of
epidemic most of the population leaves
the walls and camps i'm the nearby
desert. The streets have curiously
forbidding and inhospitable look,
due to the fact that few houses have
outside windows, and loom up to the
passerby as a solid bank of dead walls.
The typical native establishment
consists of two STORY building with a
small garden in the rear. Kitchen and
servants quarters are on the ground
floor, while the first floor is given over
to the family. The roof makes n third
floor, where the native of Bagdad
really spends more time than in either
of the others. In the hot season.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-17
RADIUM sANATORTUM

The first radium sanatorium in the
United States has been opened in New
York for the reception of cases OF
cancer and other diseases treated by
the use of the element for which the
sanatorium is named. 1t will be con-
Quoted along lines similar to those
followed by the Radium Institute of
London, and while 1t win have many
of the features for which the London
institution is noted there will also be
in addition some that are distinctive
Iy American. Three hundred milli-
grams of radium valued at $4,000
have already been delivered, and con-
tracts for $4,000 worth more have
been signed. The institution is sup
ported by philanthropists, nd its object
is not only to fight malignant diseases
but also to carry on research work
with the X-ray and in surgery. as well
as in the use of radium. The staff of
the institution is composed of we'll
known specialists, but any physician In
good standing is to be permitted TO
bring his patients to the sanatorium for
treatment. If preliminary surgical
work is decided upon, the surgeon hav-
ing the case may perform the oper-
alton, and the sanatorium staff will at
tend to the radium treatment which is
to follow. Several patients have al
ready been received and others are on
the way. The institution will be open
to rich and poor alike. to those able
to pay and to those without money,
and it will have the first radium dis
pensary in New York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-17
HARRISBURG THE PLACE

IF, as declared by Governor Brum-
baugh last Fall. the headquarters
of the referee districts in the State
Workmen's Compensation system are
to be located so that they will be
easily accessible, q mistake was made
by the Workmen's Compensation
Board in designating Lancaster as
the headquarters of the district COM
posed of Dauphin, Lebanon, Lancas-
Ter, York, Adams, Franklin, Perry and
Cumberland counties. The reason
given is that Lancaster is the home
city of the referee assigned to this
district.
In the first place, Lancaster is not
the most accessible point in the dis
trict, and Harrisburg is the center
most easily reached from any of the
eight counties as compared to Ian
caster.
Secondly, the point that the referee
will only have headquarters in his
home city and travel around to hear
Seventh district. whose referee lives
in New Castle, but who was required
to mako Erie his headquarters.
Thirdly, this city is the center of
more diversified industry than Ian
caster; 1t is a railroad center, which
Lancaster is not, and it is the official
center of Pennsylvania.
Lastly, the convenience of no State
Official large or small, should be taken
into consideration against the service
of the public.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-17
Carlisle, Pa, December ID, 1915. "
THE LAW
BY Ella Wheeler Wilcc


Copyright, 1915, Star Company.
Your path may be clouded, uncertain
your goal:
Move on. for the orbit is fixed for your
soul.
And though it may lead into darkness
of night,
The torch of the Builder shall give 1t
new light.
You were. and you will be, know this
while you are;
Your spirit has travelled both long and
afar.
1t came from the Source. to the Source
1t returns; ,
The spark that was lighted eternally
burns.
From body to body your spirit speeds
on.
It seeks a new form when the old one
is gone,
And the form that 1t finds is the fabric
you wrought
on the loom of the mind, with the
fiber of thought.
Somewhere on some planet. sometime
and somehow,
Your life will reflect all the thoughts
of your now.
The law is unerring: no blood can
The structure you rear you must live
in alone.
You arc your own devil. you are your
own god;
Your fashioned the paths that your
footsteps have trod.
And no one can save you from error
or sin
Until you shall hark to the spirit
within.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-17

when the south wind blows from the
Arabian desert and the thermometer
climbs to 122, he takes refuge in the
GOODNESS of the cellar.
Palaces Filled With Treasurs
The royal palaces in the old days
were divided into twenty-three build
ings decked out with treasures from
every corner of the globe. A whole
palace was given over to the Silver
Tree, one of the wonders of the world,
whose branches were pure silver,
weighing $4,000 ounces, with leaves of
gold, on whose branches sat golden
birds studded with jewels. which sang
loudly by virtue of mechanism con-
cealed within. The scientific mind
might trace here the beginning of the
phonograph The singing birds were
regarded with high favor, and the
caliph used this particular palace as
q prison for his closest relatives.
Municipal government in those days
was the unmethodical personal affair
dear to the heart of the East. Tyran-
ny and injustice fiourished side by
side with lenience and benevolence.
The caliph would often interpose per-
sonally between his officers and some
unfortunate offender, giving the Grim
inal moral lecture and purse of
gold Instead of having him cricified
head downward on one of the Tigris
bridges.
Bagdad was noted evenhn the Orient
for the cruelty of tho punishment
| practiced within her walls. The
bridges of boats over the Tigris, were
continually decorated with the heads
| of offenders, and this. too, was a favor
lite place for crucifiXions. Specially
| ingenious instruments of torture were
devised in the city. One grand vlzier
invented q steel shell to fit a mans
body, studded with spikes within,
where offenders were shut up for
days, unable to move without impaling
themselves until death set them free.
The Vizier had an excellent opportun-
ity to appreciate the fine points of his
invention, for he himself was eventual
ly put to death in it.
Long Tale of Battles
The story of Bagdad through the
centuries is one long tale of battle
and siege, in which the present bloody
assaults of the British are only an in
cident. The English Tommies and the
Turks who fall to-day mingle their
bones with the dust of the fighting
men of every great warrior-nation
that the Eastern world has known.
Arabs. Turks, Persians, Mongols cap
tured and recaptured the GLORIOUS
City," as Turkish official documents
still name Bagdad. Though enervated
by wealth and luxury, the capital has
always resisted stubbornly, and to-
| day is no more than sustaining her
age-old reputation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-17
A LIVE REpUBLICAN OLUB

n NEWS item in last evenings
n issue of the Telegraph called
attention to resolutions passed
by the East End Republican Club,
urging the commissioners of Dauphin
county to adopt the Mothers Pension
Law, so that the benefits of the State
appropriation may be obtained for
needy widows in Harrisburg and the
county at large. The East End club
is one of the livest Republican organ
izations in the State. It's scope of
vision is wider than the mere politi-
cal horizon. 1t is doing things that
are making name for itself, not only
in the Allison Hill district, but in all
parts of town and it is deserving the
support of every loyal Republican in
the district east of the railroad.