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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21
Two Senators for Each State.

Congress consists Of two senator's
from each state, the smallest state as
well as the largest, and a number of
representatives, according to popula-
ton. The basis of representation, OF
number of inhabitants for a represen"
~tative, is fixed by congress under each
recurring census so as to secure ade-
quate representation for every state
without making the house too large
and unwieldy. The Constitution of
the United States, adopted in 1889,
said the number Of representatives
should not exceed n for every 10000
Of population, and as no census had
yet been taken, 10000 was adopted 40
the ratio of representation and the
population of the different states was
estimated. By this process the first
house Of representatives consisted OF
IS members. Since then congress has
passed Is apportionment acts, under 1a
different c%ensuses, changing the basis
Of representation every time except
once.
In 1900 and in 1910 the ratio was
fixed at one representative for $4,000
population. In 1920 the ratio was In.
creased to $4,000, and it has been in.
creased every tenth year since till 1t is
now 211,S77, while the membership Of
the house has increased from 65 to 435.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21
Indians Best Walkers,

When 1t comes to feet civilized man
has a thing or two to learn from the
dog eating Igorrote or the pigeon toed
American Indian, says Prof. l.. J. Rich
ardsOn In a bulletin entitled 1.-THE Sol
der on Foot" and issued by the Uni
yersity of California.
Becoming q patron of the long
abused pigeon toed man Professor Rich
ardson says that the normal gait of
man is exemplitied by the American
Indian, who walks with his feet set par
allel or even with the toes turned
slightly inward. In this way all the
toes function and the lifting and pro-
polling power of the foot is at it's maxi
mum, he says.
While deploring the army regula-
tons requiring a soldier to stand with
his toes turned out at an angle of
about 40 degrees, because of the ten
dency to cause aversion of the foot
and weakness of the posterior arch,
Professor Richardson is sufficiently op-
timistic for civilized man to conclude
that in spite Of the inherited and ac-
quired bad habits he can reform and
learn to walk" with fair results.
Walking in tight shoes generation
after generation is the cause Of nearly
all the foot troubles Of civilized man,
the professor says. This condition, he
says, has left but a single strong toe
on either foot, the others being in some
measure atrophied.
Frequent washing, trimming the toe
nails and an avoidance of change from
high to low heeled shoes are suggested
as a e of obviating much foot
trouble.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21
CRADLE SONGS ARE ANCIENT
Words Often Seem Meaningless Jum-
Bile; Melody Always Within Com
pass of Home Voices.

Almost all popular cradle songs are
very old, some of them SO old that,
were they not familiar, they might be
considered the veriest curioSities of
literature. Through all the changes
of language they have held their
upon the lips and in the hearts of the
people. From mouth to mouth they
have come down through the years
with an irresistible swing of rhythm
and patter and jingle of words till
they seem to have been rather a nat
ural growth than a human invention.
In all the melodies, observes a wri-
ter, there is a certain likeness of
rhythm with a national, | might say, n
temperamental difference of movement
and q meter from the slow assured
major of the Germans to the wild plain
tive minor of the Scotch, characterized
by the short accented notes or the
weirdness of the Hungarian with Its
sudden changes.
That these old songs should have
embodied and retained the character
istics of the people among whom they
originated gives them an Importance
which their crude words and the ele-
mentary character of their melodies
scarcely seem to warrant. The words
often seem a mere meaningless jun
BILE, the melody is always within the
easy compass of home voices. No
doubt both express, in some supernally
wise way, the one unalterable senti-
ment of maternal love.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21
Big Oil Supply.

Last year the United States pro.
duced 341,S0O,0O0 barrels of crude oil,
approximately 68 per cent Of the
worlds consumption. In 1916 Its
share was about 65 per cent. A large
part Of the fuel oil used by the Brit.
ish navy comes from Mexico. Last year
Mexico produced 100000 barrels,
about 20,000,000 barrels wei the out
put the year before. Russia in 1917,
produced 70,000,00 barrels, a falling
off of about 2,000,O0 0 barrels from the
1916 production. In the Dutch East
Indies 100000 barrels were pro.
duced last year and 100000 barrels
the year before. Roumania in 1917
produced 100000 barrels as com.
pared with 100000 the year pre-.
vious. Most of the Roumanlan oil
fields are now under control of Ger
many.-The Pathfinder.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21
DEVIL WORsHIPING IN HAITI
Here the Savage Instincts Of the
Blacks Have Been Fed and Eos
tered for Centuries

Aside from warlike considerations,
people have become so accustomed to
being safe that 1t is something Of q
shock to learn that only a few hum
dred miles from the centers of Amer
lean culture there is an almost savage
country. The islands Of the West In
dies are, as a rule, the abOdes of en-
hghtennRnt where any one, man or
woman, may travel without fear of
molestatiOn. But such is not the
case in Haiti" says A. Hyatt Verrill in
'The Book Of the West Indies" "Here
the shortcomings, the failures, the saw
age Instincts of the blacks have been
fed and fostered for centuries. From
untamed jungles they were brought in
reeking. pest-ridden slave ships to
serve beneath the lash. DECEASED, un-
taught, they rose, and in a resistless
wave of black swept the dominating
whites from the land. Then were
loosened all the pent-up hatred, the
undying lust for revenge, the sup
pressed savagery of the African races,
and slaughter, rapine, incendiarism,
torture and %debauchery stalked naked
through the stricken land"
Haiti has improved considerably
since then, but there is yet much room
for improvement. "The only wonder
is that any vestige of civilization re-
mains, that there is the semblance of
rule, of industry, Of order in the re-
public" Among the barbarisms now
prevalent in Haiti are voodOoism and
obeah, the former a kind of devil
worship, and the latter a form Of
witchcraft. I'm it's most fanatical
form vOodooism requires human sacri-
fees, which are accompanied by caff-
nibalistic feasts and unspeakable or
gies. . Obeah, on the other
hand, is merely witchcraft with no re-
ligiOus significance whatever. and In
its most malignant form consists of
poisoning with devilish ingenuity, and
In its comm0nest and least virulent
form amounts merely to a lot of nom
sense, hOcus-pOcus and mummery."
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21
THE MAKING OF
A FAMOUS
MEDICINE
How Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Is Prepared For
Woman's Use.

A visit to the laboratory where this
successful remedy is made impresses
ever the casual looker-on with the reli-
ability, accuracy, skill and cleanliness
which attends the making Of this great
medicine for woman ills.
Over $50, 900 pounds of various herbs
are used annually and ell have to Be
gathered at the season of the year when
their natural juices and medicinal sub
stances are ct their best.
The most successful solvents are used
TO extract the medicinal properties from
these herbs.
Every utensil and tank that comes In
contact with the medicine Is sterilized
and a. Q final precaution in cleanliness
the medicine Is pasteurized and sealed
in sterile bottles.
It IL the wonderful combination Of
roots and herbs, together with the
skill and care used in its preparation
which has made this famous medicine
20 successful in the treatment Of
female ills.
The letters from women who have
been restored to health by the use Of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound which we are continually pub.
fishing attest to its virtue.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21

Straighten you right Up and make you
feel fine and vigorous by morning, |
want you To so back to the store and
get your money. DodSon's Liver Tone
is destroying the sale of calomel he
cause it is real liver medicine entire
ly vegetable, therefore 1t can not Sall-
vate or make you sick.
l guarantee that one spoonful Of
DodSon's Liver Tone will put your
sluggish liver 10 work and clean your
bowels of that sour bile and constl-
pated waste which Is ~clogging your
system and making you feel miserable.
! guarantee that u bottle Of DodsOn's
Liver Tone will keep your entire fam
lily feeling fine for months. Give II 10
your children. Ii is harmless; doesn't
grippe and they like its pleasant taste.
ADV.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21
old GOTHIC BARN!
Great Structures in EngIanl
Similar to Village Churches.
UnaPproaehabIe In Dignity; Beautifu
as cathedraIs; No o~stentation Of
the Builders Art

The great old stone barns Of Ems
land, dating, many of them, from tn
fourteenth century, are, comparativeE
speaking, little known to the genera
public, says the Christian Scisnc
Monitor. The beautiful architectur
to be found in the English villag
churches has received its full need o
appreciation, and so, though posSibl
in a slightly less degree, have tn
fine old manor houses which dot tn
countryside and provide a most inter
esting study in the local variation
which occur in the generally prevail
ing style at any given period. The
barns, however, have been rather neg
lected, and literature on the subject is
practically nonexistent.
Yet the barn is intimately bound up
with the history of the neighborhood
In which 1t stands, and where, for pos
Sibly nearly 500 years, 1t has been full
filling practically the same eminently
important functions, with little change,
for the benefit of the folk in its neigh
berhOOd. The methods of the farmer
may vary, but the general routine of
the countryside goes on, much the
same, century after century, and the
great barns still stand ready to house
the peoples food as they have done,
summer and winter, for so many hum
dred years.
These old Gothic barns are very
dignified and very beautiful buildings,
comparable in some ways to the viii
lage churches whose contemporaries
they are, and If they are less ornate,
they are, in their simplicity, hardly
less imposing. Indeed, some people
would give the balance In favor Of
the barns In this matter.
1t Is by no means always an easy
matter to tell the precise date Of
these barns at first sight, but seme-
times there is a little carving, q bit
of tracery OF a final which will supply
the clew, or possibly again, the form
of a buttress may afford an indica-
ton but fortunately there are gener-
ally local records 70 which access may
be had containing details of the origin
and foundation of the barns.
Among the famous fourteenth GEN.
fury barns Of England are those az
Glastonbury, Wells and PiltOn in Som
ersetshire, Great Coxwell in Berkshire
and AbbOtsbury in Dorsetshire. These
are all what may be described as barns
Of the first magnitude; great cruel
form buildings which may we'll vie in
size and dignity with many churches.
OF the barn at Great Coxwell, Will
liam Morris said that 1t was "unap-
prOachable in its dignity, as beautiful
as a cathedral, yet with no ostentation
of the builders art" and he always
declared that it was one Of the finest
buildings in England or anywhere else.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21
Tonight! Take .DOdSOn'S Liver Tone!
Better Than CaIOmeI For Liver
Calomel siekens! If bilious, constipated and head
achy read my guarantee.

Listen to me, Take no more Sicken-
ing, %Salivating calomel when bilious or
c~onStipated, Don't lose a days work |!
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver,
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel, when 1t comes into contact
with sour bile, crashes into IT, break
Ing it up. This is when you feel that
awful nausea and cramping. If you
are sluggish and "all knocked out" If
your liver Is torpid and bowels cOnstl-
pated or you have headache, dizziness,
coated tongue, IL breath is bad or
stomach sour, just take n spoonful of
harmless Dodson's Liver Tone.
Here's my guarantee-Go to any
drug store and get a bottle of Dodson's
Liver Tone for n few cents. Take n
spoonful tonight, and If It doesn't
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21
Celluloid That Won't Burn.

The soy bean, whose merits have
been widely proclaimed, may rid eel
luloid of its serious drawback. high in
f1ammahility. a celluloid substitute
which will not burn has been made
from this useful vegetable, according
to 0dyiccs from Japan. 1t is called
'Satolitc,' being the invention Of Prof.
5. Sato, and is produced by %coagulat-
ing the glucine of soy beans with for
maline, a company has been formed
and will build a factory in Toxic,
from which production will begin next
autumn.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21

Nothing better than Cuticura Soap
daily and Ointment as needed to make
the complexion clear, scalp clean and
hands soft and white. For free sam
pies address "Cuticura, Dept. X, Bos-
ton" Sold by druggists and by mail.
Soap IS, Ointment rs and 50.-Adv.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21

Motorcycles are being shipped
abroad with wooden tires instead of
those of rubber. The former answers
all purposes in some localities, but no
rubber is allowed TO 60 abroad now ex-
cept for war purposes.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21
Natural Idea,

"POp, is an abyss anything that's
sleepy%
"Of course not, child. What put
that into your head?"
"Well, people always talk about 1t
as yawning."
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21
Experientia Docet.

First Bach-Let's ask Peck. Hes
married and will be able to SPEAK
from experience.
Second Bach-On the contrary, he'll
keep his mouth shut from experience
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21

The occasional use of Roman Eye Balsam
ct night upon retiring will prevent and re.
lieve tired, watery eyes, and eye strain. Adv.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21
Same Home.

Father-I want my daughter ID
have as good a home after marriage
as she had before.
Suitor-I want her to have thu
same.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21
Higher Still.

Hes Il king among men,"
"That'S nothing. My daughter
knows an American aviator who is an
ace"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21

An effective system for treating govt
with electricity has been developed by
a German physician.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21

The Gallcian oil fields are especially
rich In parafiin.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-19
w of enthusiasm.

zy of enthusiasm.
 The picture opens with the scene laid in the quaint Belgian village or Louvain in the summer of 1914. The world is at peace; sunshine, laughter and the glad business of every day rule, Here is Marcas, the mighty blacksmith of Louvain, who lives Tn faith and friendship with his people, with his pretty daughter and with his little son. In palace in Berlin lives another man. He was twice a King, eighteen times duke, twice prince, nine times count, besides being a bishop, William of Hohenzollern, em- peror of Germany.
 Then comes August, 1914, when the "maddog Of Europe spoke the word that set the world afire. Comes the crash, titanic. colossal, staggering. Joy died, hope fled, desolation became supreme. Upon that day the world passed into twilight.
 . It is NOT war picture-"The kal- ser-The Beast of Berlin'-nor did 1t cost a, million dollars, but when you
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-W. 5. S.-- THE SLOWNESS OF AMERICA.

Americans have invented many a
 good thing which they have not ap-
 preciated. This seems to be especi- ally true of farm tractors. This year, says the New York Times, Maryland bought four American tractors, France
 took 15OO. Michigan took 1000, while
 England, not much larger in farming area, took 4OOO and expects to take 5000 if she can get them. Pennsyl- vania allowed $50,000 to further trac- tor use, and New York bought 61, but
 Canada took 1000 American tractors besides what she could make herself. In the matter of food-saving, it is said that 1S,OOO,0O0 horses on 6,0O0,- 900 American farms eat enough grain to feed 40,OOO,O00 people. Tractors eat
 neither corn nor oats.
 America is short of labor, either tc grow the grain or to care for the horses which do the work. The ans
 wer is-machinery, and more machin-
 cry. Shall America, so quick to see future need and to fill it with an invention, allow all the other nations ! to beat it at the game of using it's own labor savers?
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-19
WHAT HAVE YOU GIVEN UP!

Have you given up your job and let your business future take care ot itself?
 Have you said good-by to your fam ily and friends and all you hold dear?
 Have you begun an entirely new ca reer that may end, if you live, with health impaired. an arm off, leg gone, an eye out?
 Have you given up your business fu- ture and said good-by and taken chance on coming back alive and well, and done it all with cheerful heart and with a grim determination to do all you possibly can for your country?
 And do you only at times-in the evenings, perhaps, when the light in the sky slowly fades away-feel so homesick and so lonesome that you are fearful you will not have the courage to do your part after all?
 You have not done these things? You are not one of our army or navy boys; you are stay-et-home person.
 We'll, there have to be 20 or more stay-at-home persons for everyone who goes, and soi certainly no disgrace attaches to being one if you fully ap- preciate what those boys who do go have to give up and if you support them to the limit of your ability.
 National War Savings Day is June 28. That day gives you the oppor- tunity of showing in a practical way that you do appreciate what it means to the boys who go. Pledge yourself on or before that day to save to the utmost of your ability and to buy War Savings stamps that there may be more money, labor, and materials to back up those who fight and die for you.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-19
American
 Casualties
 Are 8,085
3,192 Dead From all Causes, 4,547 Wounded; 346
 Missing.

Washington, June 18.-Seven hun among the American eXpeditiOnary forces during the week ending today brought the total since the American troops first landed in France nearly a year ago to S,0S5.
 The second weekly summary of cas- ualties issued today by the war de partment shows that the total num- Der of deaths from all causes is 3.192. while 4,547 men have been wounded in action and 346 are missing in ac tion, including all men held prison CTS in Germany.
 The summary, which includes to- days list, follows: Killed in action (including 291 at seal, 1,172; died of wounds, 364; died of disease. 1,23t: died of accident and other causes, 42s; wounded in action. 5,457; missing in action, including prisoners), 346. To tai casualties reported to date, S,Gsi
 Convoy System Efficient.
 With more than S00,000 soldiers sent overseas. officials pointed to the small number. 291, lost through op- erations of German submarines as showing the effectiveness of ths con voy system. The men lost were on the torpedoed Tuscania taoln 1rdlu the torpedoed British steamers Hus- cania and Moldavia. The former was taking troops from America to Eng land and the latter from England to France.
 The comparatively small number of men dying from wounds is poinfe to as indicating the efficiency of the am 'bulance and hospital systems, while the fact that only 1,234 men have died of disease is accepted as :roof of the excellent physical con'l'-icn Of America's fighting men.
 Another satisfying consideration is that of the wounded men, a ve-, high percentage return to duty at the front in less than six weeks.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-19

tricts Monday, June "A, and th. ,,. e; mlttee consists H of three members TifI TitI exception of Pulaski county. The 'si " amlnlng committees were all T ,.,s n pointed d with one exception. ~ laass Isa, Marcellus Davis, of Dardanelle t,Is, is, the place of Col. Sellers deceased rI''s x
 The committee for Little Ro,t which is in the Sixth district is s,, ssn posed of R. E. Wiley, Ashley CoeISH I,r T. D. Crawford, J. F. LouphbomnsII and Geo. Vaughn.
 The court announced that 1t sum- mer vacation would begin on Jujy , The criminal appea, docket is prs. < tically up with the exception of saw recently filed, and civil docket is alv up.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-19
MOVIE PLAY SHOWS 1
 GREED OF KAISER

Denver, Colo, June 22.--The city of Kaiser" is the worst indictment of nations ruler than was ever dis played on the screen or in story. It shows the kaiser for what he is-a mad brute whosplqngedy the world ia blood and sorroWSt lie might sat isfy his own lust for glory. It is d pie ture that caused the life of the pro ducer to be threatened, that caused attempts to suppress it by wire-pull- ing in Washington, that caused Ger man agents to attempt to destroy it and yet which has triumphed over all objections.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-19
Our Specially Is A U TOM B LIE
 1NsURA ANCE Service Yhexcelled. R. Fl. M. MILLS & SONS

ing more and more rapid. In 1915 one might estimate that the increase in not circulation was due to- exten- sion of territory in Poland and Serbia. But in 1917 the monthly increase of circulation was so enormous that it alone would serve to explain the great rise in prices.
 In normal times the Austro- Hun garian banks issued notes on gold cov- CT or against discount of commercial bills. But since the war commercial bills have become a negligible item, and the gold cover has decreased from 22.9 per cent at the end of the 1914 to 1.6 per cent at the end of 1917.
 This imitation of the currency means, of course, diminished buying power. The only efficient methods of stopping the watering" of the cir culaticn would be high war tax or big war loan. In nation so con- stituted as Austria Hungary, both these expedients would seem impos- sible. The alternative would appear to be financial collapse, and that at no very remote date.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-19

have seen it you will know WHY we are fighting and you know that Amer ica will never yield to peace until Prussian autocracy has been stamped out forever.
 Such interest has been created by the announcement that the Rotary club is bringing this great picture to Pine Bluff for two days-June 2l and 25-and will show it at p cents that the Orpheo theatre is expected to be crowded at each of the performances.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-19

Viewed from another standpoint, "The Kaiser" is the most stirring specta- cle that could he given the American
 people at this hour-a fighting tonic that makes the blood boil. It is pie ture that set New York wild. picture that helped to beat the LaFoilette forces in Wisconsin, a picture that has
 stimulated recruiting, a picture that is dead sure to arouse any American audience that secs 1t to very fren'
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-19
WHY MEAT IS so HIGH.

Several days ago committee re- presenting local organization had oc- casion to purchase about 200 pounds of veal, which they secured from a farmer. Later, it was found that they would have no use for this meat, which retails for from 35 to 50 cents per pound. They offered the meat to several local butchers. All but one said he "couldn't use it." The one offered cents per pound.
 Considered with the complaints of meat shortage, and the high prices charged for packers products. isn't this strange. Doesn't it appear that what we need in order to cut the cost of living is to shake off the grip some corporations have upon the re- tail trade, and do little purchasing of products of this territory? This purpose can best be achieved by pub lie market, or by the inauguration of market days.
 Give the people chance.