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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
Paid S. 600 for a Colt.

Those who had the mistaken idea
that the day of the horse is passing
must have received a rather severe
jolt when Walter Cox paid no less
than $4,000 for an ~undeveloped year
ling of standardized trotting blood.
While higher prices have been OBJ
tanned for y%earlings in other days,
there has always been a record at
tached to the natural breeding attrac-
tons of the youngster in question. In
this case, however, st. Frusquin, a son
of the noted San Observation-Disclosures
has never been driven against time,
and thus the price establishes a new
record on the sales market. 1t seems
rather a pity that the name st. Frus-
quin should have been chosen for such
a promising colt. 1t will inevitably be
confused, possibly at a disadvantage,
with the great running horse st. Frus-
~quin-owned by Leopold de Rothschild
which was the winner of the classic
1000 guineaS and was beaten only by
the sensational Persimmon, then
owned by the prince of Wales, in the
derby of 1S96.-The Spur.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
Woman's Winning Force.

The winning force in woman's life is
first of all, purpoSe-n purpose Whlch
carries with it the assent of reason,
the judgment of the mind and the APP
prevail Of conscience.
This purpose must be your own
not another's. The sorrowful expert
ences of many women is that they
are always children, With no plan of
life, no will by which their energies
are to be directed.
Don't drift, hut steer. Dare to be
singular. Scorn to degrade yourself
by yielding up your individuality to
suit the whim Of the worthless.
Now and then a woman stands aside
from the crowd, labors steadfastly and
straightway the world wonders, adj
mires and crowns the determined
doer, and yet it only illustrates what
IA growing and exhaustless force each
woman might become If she took hold
of life with a purpose.
Determine to live for something last
ing. Even goodness fails where there
Is no will.
You cannot dream yourself into
character. You must hammer ant
force yourself into one.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
SPOILS MANY LIVES
"5EST" TEACHER SCHOOL EVER
HAD A FAILURE.
She Refused to See the Opportunities
Near Home and Created a Spirit
of Unrest and Discomfort
Among Pupils.

The best teacher we eve had in
our old district school had a distinct
iy bad influence in the community,
says j writer in Farm Life.
Born and raised in the country, she
louged for the town with her whole
soul.
She despiscd the rural life.
She thought all the wisdom of the
world was printed in books, and that
all the worthwhile opportunities of
life were to be found in distant cities.
She did not openly deride and mock
our parents, of course, but we knew
without being told what her feeling
was.
She was full of enthusiasm, and She
found it easy to inspire US with her
own top-lofty ambitions.
Most of the girls in the neighbor-
hood wanted to be Jenny Linds and
Florence Nightingales. All the boys
wanted to be heroes-great soldiers,
poets, judges, statesmen.
None Of us, of course, wanted to be
great in his W neighbOrhood. Each
thought he had to get away from home
In order to have a chance in life.
Teacher could not, in fact, see the
neighborhood.
The eyes of her soul were afflicted
with that disease which the oculists
call hypermetropia. She could only see
distant objects.
The girls in the neighborhood, feel
ing the impulse toward wider hori-
zon," drifted away to the towns and
cities.
They escaped the "deadening monot-
ony" of rural life by becoming wait
resses in hotels and workers in fac
tories.
Some Jared a little better and some
q great deal Worse-but one of them
became a Jenny Lind OF a Florence
Nightingale.
The boys, too, were full of the grand
unrest. They turned their backs scorn-
fully on the old homesteads.
Each was 'the architect of his own
fortune" and teacher had taught him
to believe that all the building mate
rails were to be found in distant
places.
After they had failed as architects,
many of them came humbly but gladly
back to the old district and succeeded
as farmers.
Now as never before in the world
opportunity is found on the farm, and
every school teacher should know tnat.
There are more statesmen of real
worth and more genuine poets coming
from the tall grass than from the tall
buildings.
The wider horizon is the privilege Of
youth, but it is visible to everyone who
lifts his head at home, while it is too
often obscured by clouds of smoke to
the sojourner in the cities.
Do not let teacher fill the minds of
your children full of cheap romano
while she ignores nil the beauty and
dignity that should make rural life sc
satisfying.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
New Russian Oil Fields.

A newly verified Russian oil field.
with an area of about 10000 square
miles, or about twice the size of the
New England states, now energies
strangely from a mass Of explorers
data to suggest pretty strongly that
current pessimism over the decreasing
output of the oil fields of the Caucasus
is not well justified. This new field,
according to Russia, the monthly organ
of r. Martens 4 Co, is located in the
Ural province, begins at the Caspian
sea, taking a fanlike shape to the north
as far as the town of AlexandrovSky
Gal, runs nearly due east to the town
of Temlr and from there in a southerly
and southwesterly directions, following
the Emba river TO the Caspian sea
again. Although IN attempt was made
by the government to encourage the
commercial exploration of this coun-
try as far back rs 1899, no serious de-
velopment work had been done until a
very short time ago. Russia more now
than ever, is feeling effects of the high
prices of petroleum and its absolute
necessity has led to the discovery o.
these feldS.-Wall Street Journal.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
INSIST ON FREQUENT CHANGE
Winter Asserts Women Are to Blame
for the Variations of Styles
in Clothes.

Women want something e to wear
every few months. The absolute
truth Of this statement is what puts
the world of women against reformers.
1t is easy to read and write reams Of
theories rs to why women should not
indulge in the caprice of new
clothes and, with delightful ingenious
ness, these dress reformers put the
blame on the style-makers and shops,
ignoring the fundamental truth that
the blame should be placed on the
women.
Those who are sincere and those
who are insincere but want to be
heard crying aloud in the market
places, do not go far enough into the
clothes question when pleading for
dress reform.
What normal woman would want to
be robbed Of her privilege of seeing
new clothes and buying them when
V e it is possible? What healthy
minded woman would want to go
through life wearing the same gown,
cut on the same lines and preserved,
or copied, from season to season?
Mary Garden, the opera singer, an
swered this whole question once in an
interview on the deck of q steamer,
when she was sailing for Paris. 1t
MAS at the height Of the great hubbub
concerning the question Of American
clothes only.
The reporter called up from the
g%angp.ank. when, in your opinion,
will American women wear American
clothes only and show their patriot
ism?"
when they're dead" she called out
over the rail. "They can't protest
against an American shroud."-Ex'
change.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
Most Profitable "Ad."

Do you know what was the largest
harvest we reaped from an adver.
tiSement?
1t was the settlement in P~ennsylvae
mia of 100000 German colonlsts.
We know that at Germantown. this
city, was made the first German settle.
ment in America. We also know that
in fifty years double that many thou
sand Germans came to William PENIS
colony.
Furthermore, history tells us that
wars and religious prosecutions In
Germany caused this then unparalleled
exodus of men and women.
But what brought them to Pennsyh
vania and so made Of this the German
commonwealth? An advertisements
written by William Penn himself and
distributed among the Germans along
the Rhine who had been stricken by O
thirty-years' war.-Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
FORGET to Pay.

Patrons of Winchester barber shops
seem to have a mania for forgetting
to pay their tonsorial bills. In many
cases it is done Internationally.
One evening, recently, a former Win
chester resident who now lives In Cali
.fornia entered q barber shop for q
haircut and shave. He was in a hurry.
His business for the evening included
a lodge meeting, and, most important
of all, catching a train for his home.
Many OF his old-time friends were In
the shop when he stepped from the
chair. He babe them all good-by and
started to leave the shop. He had not
yet paid his bill.
did you forget something's the bag
Der asked as the customer was leavs
ing the shop.
"Oh, yes, l beg your pardon" the
customer replied. "Good-by, good-by."
And the bill still remains unpaid
Indianapolis News.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08

When Mr.. Smith-your intimate
friend Smith-awoke the other morn
ing he was greeted by his wife with
this:
"My sweet boy, do you know you
came home late last night, and that
you talked in your sleepY
"Great Scott No, did II" said Smith,
badly agitated. What did l say? Tell
me-"
II just couldn't make it all out, but
it ended like ante-up-iackpot stake"
"Oh, yes, yes, my dear, | was recit-
ing a little Esperanto that q friend was
teaching me; | intended to tell 1t to
you when / came home. 1t means
How is my darling girl tonfghtT"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
LITTLE ESSAY ON PANTS
Some Very Interesting Thoughts on
Those Worn by Male Of the
Species.

Pants are Of two kinds human and
dog.
The human pants Of commerce are
worn mainly by males.
But equal rights prevail among
dogs.
Human pants are worn thicker in
winter and thinner in summer
The dogs pants come thicker in the
summer.
The dogs lungs are the seat Of its
pants. Datc 1875, Hostetter's Al
MANAGE
White pants are not a garment. They
are 4 business TO themselves.
The man who wears them doesn't
work at much else ut the time.
When | was small and on a farm, 1
wore pants that were not new.
50 far us could find out, they never
had been new.
When they had been first worn out,
by the first ~tailless ancestor | had,
they had been patched at all the ven
tilatcd places.
When The original goods wore out
between the patches, the first patches
were connected by other patches,
And sew on.
Where they overlapped-the patches
the goods became about an inch
thick.
And when human legs made Of any
material less durable than vulcanized
flint are incased in "A set Of inch-and-a-
quarter Deer Island jeans trousers
patched with every kind of heavy
goods from horse blankets to rem
nants of rag carpet-when, | say, any
human neither limbs are incarcerated
in these bendless tubular garments in
q wheat field on a southwest hillside at
two o'clock on a clear, still day when
the temperature Is no in the shade
and there Is no shade, the owner of
said legs thinks longingly of the bas-
tile, the stocks, the pincers, the gull
lotine, the pilIory, the thumb-screW,
the rack, the stake and other religious
plcasantries.
l have gone long days in the wheat
field in a pair Of such asbestos pants
lined with sandpaper or barbed wire,
and now death or public speaking or
fashionable dinners-nOne of those
things has any terror for me.
| playfully inquire of death as 10
the location of its stinger.-Farm Life,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
The First LADY Barber.

Samson snored peacefully in the
chair while Delilah shipped at his
locks.
"Do you want 1t cut round or square
on the neck?" she asked.
No answer.
"Would you like a sea-foam or sham
poop"
No reply.
Hair is getting q trifle thin on top.
Would you like a little tonic?"
Silence.
"Have your whiskers trimmed?"
More silence.
Next I"
Whereupon Samson climbed out OF
the chair. gazed into a mirror, then
rushed into the street and pulled down
a temple.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08

Calomel makes you sick; you lose a
days work. Calomel is quicksilver
and it salivates; calomel Injuries your
liver.
II you are bilious, feel lazy, sluggish
and all knocked out, If your bowels
are constipated and your head aches
or stomach is sour, Just take a spoon
full of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone
Instead of using s%ickening, s~alivating
calomel. Dodson's Liver Tone is real
liver medicine. You'll know it next
morning because you will wake up
feeling fine, your liver will be work
ing, your headache and dizziness gone,
your stomach will be sweet and your
bowels regular. You will feel like
working. You'll be cheerful; full OF
vigor and ambition.
Your druggist or dealer sells you a
50-cant bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
What She Wanted.

Lydia Virginia was having her fifth
birthday prepared for her. Grandma
baked her birthday cake and made her
a little sample cake. Lydia Virginia,
on breaking the sample apart, e1-
claimed: why, grandma, this is not
the kind Of a cake l want" CUES.
toned what kind she wanted, she IN.
swered: "Why. I want my cake when
you cut a piece Of 1t to look like q
spotted cat" Her grandma baked Q
marble cake and when cut Lydia Vir-
ginia was delighted, and said: This
is it, grandma this Is the kind of 0
| cake l wanted."-Cleveland Leader.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08

1t Is often said that love is blind,
and, judging by the experience of a
newly married couple, it hasn't much
sense of taste, either.
A few weeks after the wedding q
friend dropped into the bridegroom's
studio and found the artist and his
bride laughing heartily at some joke.
"What ever Is amusing you 80
much?" he asked In amazement.
"Oh, it's been so funny" gurgled
the young wife, as she wiped the
tears of joy from her eyes. MY hus-
band painted and I cooked this morn
ing, and now we are both trying to
guess what the things were meant
for"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08

old homes. They have built runVNys and bridges and gang planks, strung
electric light wires about te ships and the dock and one may walk from M
ship to another or make n tour of inspection in the captains launch,
They have expmpifei intensive farming in a manne which the New eng
lander might well copy From a mudhoe, an old wharf the soil of which IS
about as poor as The sands of Cape Cod, they have Wrung as fine a lot OF garden
truck as son Of the farmers in Lexington raise under glass or ON their highly
fortified acres.
have shown that they know how to get from the earth many OF the neceSHues
of life Aboard the liners they raise chickens, keep hens and ducks. ON the
wharf they have planted n garden from which the crews of the liners pluck
fresh vegetables for the officers table.
Here ant there in the garden the men of the crews have built lattice
work summer houses and screened them in to keep out the flies ana the
MOSQUITOES. There are tables and chairs about, and a number of empty beer
kees piled II in n ecorncr. Herr Skipper must have his beer, you know.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
CALOMEL SICKENS! It SALHAIES!
DON'T STAY BILIOUS, CONSTIPAIED
| Guarantee "DodsOn's Liver Tone" Will Give You the Best LNer
and Bowel Cleansing You Ever Had-DOnt Lose a Days WORK.

under my personal guarantee thai u
will clean your sluggish liver better
than nasty calomel; it won't make you
sick and you can eat anything you
want without being salivated. Your
druggist guarantees that each spoonful
will start your liver, clean your bowels
and ~straighten you up by morning OF
you can have your money back. Chill
dren gladly take Dodson's Liver Tone
because it is pleasant tasting and
doesn't grippe or cramp or make Them
sick.
lam selling millions Of bottles OF Dodr
sons Liver Tone to people who have
found that this pleasant, vegetable, Nv
er medicine takes the place OF danger
GUS calomel. Buy n bottle on m
sound, reliable guarantee. Ask yo'
druggist or storekeeper about me. 40
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
The "Maiden,s PraNer.n

An elderly bachelor and an equally
elderly splnster sat in a concert hall.
The selections were apparently en-
tirely unfamiliar to the gentleman,
but when the wedding march of Men,
delSsohn was begun he pricked up his
ears.
"'rhat sounds familiar he ex-
claimed nut I'm not strong on those
classical pieces. That is Il good un'
What is itT The spinster east down
Ter eyes. THAT she told him, de
Ourely, as the 'Maiden's Prayer"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08

VeNtrNI FNrk NVSI IHUIVU(t UNI VIVV
have been giving some nocturnal vocal
exercises in Central park, IL. Strow-
bridge, q guest at the Hotel Majestic,
was awakened at four O'Clock by what
he supposed TO be the cry of n lost
soul.
1t was the pirate leader, evidently
striking the key, for, by the time Mr..
Strowbridge was thoroughly aroused,
the entire band of pirates was singing
in Catonese, "Yo, Ho and Il Bottle of
Rum - He looked out the window and
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08

Grows nUmNprrN lNOfC tIlul Z,UUV, NUI
these have dwindled to less than 800.
The men have drifted away. Some OF
them have been admitted as cmigrants.
Since the liners have been bcrthed
in Eust Boston the officers and crew
prepared for a long stay and have
worked hard to make their sojourn In
Boston MS pleasant as possible under
the circumstances. There in their
miniature village they have surrounded
themselves with many comforts and
many things to remind them of their
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
No Comeback

81 received a letter from Aunt Matil-
da asking if we would like to spend
our vacation out on her farm"
1--WE can't possibly accept her In
v%itation, George. If we do, Wen have
to ask her to visit us next winter
THAT will be all right. We can
move into a two-room apartment In
the fall, and then there won't be room
for her."
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
Costly Remark.

"What do you think, Miss Chenille,
a friend of mine got a three-karat i
mond ring for only twenty dollars!'
"Why don't you look out for Il bar
gain like that, Mr.. SlowguyF
And presently 1t dawned upon him
that the remark was going to cost him
money.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08

trmpeted In pure elcplAnune satisfaction. If she had been a cat she would
have purrel.
Then the boy spoke.
mister" he said, hesUmted,. then forced himself to go on. "Mster-coud
you-give us Il ride just a little oneT'
The keeper laughed. Minutes temper, uncertain at best, had OF late grown
n thing to be reckoned with care. The thing was impossible, of course. Still,
the children were mighty pleading and the keeper had youngsters OIL his own.
He was irving TO frame a refusal that would be gentle. Then he happened to
glance at Minnie.
demurc.
"Dopced if | don't believe she understands and want to ride en-" the
Lc,r,r musrd Then: Guess I'll take a chance. Come on youngsters"
So the boy and girl were hosted to Minnies back, and once, twice, three
tmes she carried them about the elephant yard, her little button eyes almost
motbrrIy her every mtncng step Indicative of the pride that passes all under.
standing Ter bad temper was gone-uttery. You couldn't have found a
moreg gentle elephant In a days travel
For the children had said that Minnie was pretty.
And Minnie was vain.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08

saw the heads of many other guests at their windows and all along Central
Park West the heads of residents ut their windows.
Timothy Ebbitt night house detective at the hotel formed Il posse, con-
sshng of benboys night clerks kitchen men, anda few scrubwomen with mops
Near the Seyeutysccond street entrance to Central park they saw two balls of
fire. They approached and sure enough the fiery balls were The eyes o wang
minus his tail aud in Il devitmayeare mood,
He was surrounded by about 30 other cats who seemed to regard him as
their leader. AS soon as Wang saw the invaders he arched his back and
showed fight. Ebbitt picked up a stone and hurled IT at angs head hut II
miwedn and Wang and his followers started, pel nell, down Central Park West.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08

In the elephant yard a keeper took Il
stiff backed brush and scrubbed the
slate-colored sides of Minnie, oldest of
the herd, until they almost shone.
Two children, a boy perhaps eight.
and q beribboncd girl who could not
have been more than seven, passed
then stopped, and with big eyes,
watched the keeper.
oh said the little girl, and
pointed a chubby finger. "Oh, Tommy,
look at the pretty elephant
Minnie raised her trunk and
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
The Rod,

Knicker-Smith says he whipped the
stream.
Boeker-But the stream doesn't
know 1t.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
ON FIRST SYMPTOMS

use "Renoyine" and be cured. Do not
wait until the heart organ is beyond
repair. "Renovine" is the heart and
nerve tonic. Price soc and $1.00.-Adv.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
East Boston Has an Attractive Bit OF Germany

n OSrON-Thercs a little bit of Germany over in East Boston, where seven
d big German liners and ne Austrian ship are tied up to the I'D wharf,
These ships are valued at S12Oo00O0 When they were first interned their
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
Wanu and His Pirate Crew Invade Central Park

ANEW YoRK-wang a tancss Formosa cat pirate, and his hungry crew
~ which have been making the nights hideous In West Eighueh street have
moved down nearer to the White Light section. Reports from residents along
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
FIattery Wins Minnie, Washington Zoo Elephant

AZ ASIIINGTON-From Venus to the Black woman, ptnng behind the mud
w walls Of Rham Krihnas hut, vanity, sent by the gods, pervades the
fnninLun on Ilnl Witch cnmes with the love moon hung over the zoe out
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08

Comparatively little work can con-
vince q man that he needs a rest.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08

Noise is not the strength Of ma.
chinery.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08

How a girl dislikes riding in q
buggy with a one-armed man!
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08

Go ahead when you think you're
right, but don't expect the crowd to
follow you.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-22

complaint of Albert Palmer, paymas- ter of the New Haven road, who was the loser by the formers operations. He has been sought by the police since August, but not until Monday were the police able to establish his where abouts to effect his arrest. He disap- peared from the city immediately af- ter the alleged forgery and is said to have spent week in Meriden. From there he went to New Haven and en- tered the employ of the Winchester Arms plant, where he worked under the name of Malloy Sheldon. 1
 Monday the police obtained a tip that the much wanted man was work 'ing on the night shift at the Winches- ter plant and Sheriff Martin and Pa trolman Murphy went there. With the. assistance of Chief Ryan of the Winchester plant police, they located their man and placed him under ar rest, returning to New London about midnight.
 Little is known of Chapman, except that he halls from Indiana and has served one enlistment in the army. He resided for some time on Shaw street after his discharge from the army.