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The Macon Beacon PIHUIUED WEEKLY. MACON, i i a MISSISSIPPI Eggs can oecome so cheap ai to arouse suspicion. The harem skirt has displaced the bobble skirt, and It bids fair to become popular. Radium 13 being boosted fcr heating purposes, and thre is no telling how high its price vill go. Men do not mind how much women mimic their clothes so long as they remain womanly in action. Seattle Is to have a 41-story build ing. It wants something Tacoma can ee and put in Its pipe and smoke. Chicago Is becoming excited be cause so many of Its marriageable young men go west. But can you blame them? Jail sentences for women smug iflers seem hard, especially when the women smugglers can better afford money than time. An American has Just paid $500,000 for one of Rembrandt's paintings. In mphasizing the artistic temperament that is going some. Germany's rapid increase in popula tion leads us to believe that the stork continues to be more popular there than the military bird. A theatrical manager says there are no pretty girls in New York. We can afford to pity the poor metropolis. There are no ugly ones here. In spite of the fact that a prisoner in a Washington jail earned $12,000 while behind the bars, we still hold that jail is a good place to avoid. The government has ruled that tho trousers of an official cannot be pressed at public expense. We look for more baggy trousers in ofllco henceforth. A domestic in 52 years of service aved $32,000. It would bo interesting to know how much her employer able to accumulate in the same pe riod. The news that the kaiser has in creased his string of motors cars to thirty causes one to suspect that Wil liam intends to go some In the near future. Another college professor has come to the front with a plan to regulate marriages. What has become of the old fashioned professor who taught In school? The news that radium Is to be the future competitor of coal as a heat pro ducer inspires the coal dealers with considerable confidence in boosting their prices. The auto truck may be commercial, but It is also humanitarian, as any one will witness who has seen the struggles of an underfed horse with an overloaded wagon. There is no more delightful reading than the story of a romance In real life that ends happily; no more dis tressing reading than such a story that ends the other way. One of the aviators recently went up several hundred feet in the dark. He probably had an idea that it wouldn't hurt any more to fall in the dark than in the daylight. An eastern club woman who claims o have investigated, reports that men ove fluffy girls. Perhaps they do, but they generally want the girls to get along with their own fluffs. Tho New Hampshire legislators are trying to stop eavesdroppers on party telephone lines, and they may become bo foolhardy as to ask congress to request postmasters not to read postal cards. New York doctors are preparing to diagnose disease by studying the pa tient's dreams. The phantasmagoria caused by an injudicious mixture of lobster Newberg and mince pie would indicate defective judgment, or we have eaten things in vain. A New England sea captain died as the result of being jabbed with a hat pin worn by a Boston woman. What an irony of fate It was that after fac ing death on the waters for many years he should be impaled on tha point of effeminate fashion. A Brooklyn widow who advertised that she was a good cook of both plain and fancy dishes, and wanted a husband, got 145 proposals. This looks as If the cynical clubwoman's recipe of making a happy home by "feeding the brute" is near the mascu line ideal of wedded romance. One of the Johns Hopkins professors announces that poverty will be abol ished. It will not be possible, how ever, to get everybody to be pleased on account of the abolition of pover ty unless work can be abolished along with it. A man in a Massachusetts town was arrested for kneeling on the sidewalk and offering prayers. The magistrate before whom he was brought decided It is no crime to pray In the streets. The executors of the law certainly have some Queer ideas of wrongdoing. MAY GUT PRICES OF PATENT MEDICINES SUPREME COURT RULES ON PARK "CUT RATE" CASE. Justice Holmes Believes There is a Ten dency to Overvalue Benefits of Competition Washington. The attempt to put the ban on "cut rute-!' in proprietary medi cines received the disapproval of the supreme court of the United JStates. That tribunal declined in an opinion by Justice Hughes to give it aid to ueh an attempt on the ground that it would aHord tho manufacturers of medicine an unlawful monopoly. The question of the right of a manu facturer to control the price of his arti cle to the consumer arose in a suit beg a by the Dr. Miles Medical Company of Elkhart, Ind., against a wholesale dealer in medicines in Cincinnati, John D. Park & Sons Company. The manufacturer sought to enjoin the Cincinnati firm from inducing deal er who had procured medicines from the manufacturer to sell in violation of a contract with the manufacturer and from selling medicines procured in this way at "cut rates." Justice Lurton, then a judge in the circuit court, announced the opinion of the ciruit court of appeals of the Sixth cucuit denying the injunction sought. He said that while the manufacturer of niedicines under a secret formula had a right to a monopoly of manufacture until the formula was discovered by fait means, yet courts could not insure him the "unnecessary monopoly" of con trolling the price to the consumer. Justice Hughes quoted approvingly fiom Judge Lurton's opinion and stated that the medical company had made the mistake of considering its monopoly of manufacture to be a monopoly of sale. Justice Holmes, in a dissenting opinion, said that he believed in the policy of letting people manage their own business in their own way as much as possible. Futhermore, he stated that he believed there was a tendency to over value the benefit of competition to the public. None of the other justices con curred in the dissenting opinion a stated from the bench. OKLAHOMA SEEKS LANDS Continues Contest to Secure 210,000 Acres From Government. Oklahoma City, Okla. The state of Oklahoma plans to continue its contest to secure title to 210,000 acres of gov ernment land due the state under an act which gave each state 30,000 acres for every congressman and senator upon the state's admission to statehood. Okla homa has two senators and five congress men. A letter received by the attornejf-gen-cral from the interior department states that in the opinion of that department congress did not intend that Oklahoma sf-.hould receive this land because other concessions were made to Oklahoma which other states did not get. MUST ENFORCE OWN LAWS Supreme Court Refuses to Enjoin Railroads. Washington. Oklahoma must enforce its own liquor laws, said Justice Harlan of the federal supreme court, in sub stance, when he handed down an opinion in which the court declined to enjoin all the railroads entering the portion of the state which formerly was Indian Ter ritory from introducing or conveying in toxicating liquors in any form into that section. The state had asked the injunction on the ground that congress had required that an anti-liquor provision affecting the old Indian Territory be incorporated in the Oklahoma constitution, which was done. Justice Harlan held that relief under the provision must be produced in the state courts. Physician Falls From Window. Louisville, K. Pitching from the third floor of a Fourth avenue office building, the body of Dr. C. C. God shaw landed on the street curb below, I'lniost in jthe midst of a crowd of pedestrians. The plunge resulted in death for the physician. Investigation shows that Dr. Godshaw, overcome bv a pell of dizziuess, went to an open win dow, and, losing his balance, careened out and down to the street below. WOMAN ROBS STORE In Broad Daylight Uses Gun in Wash ington Grocery. Washington. Hiding a revolver be hind a long black veil which she wore, a woman in broad daylight entered and robbed a grocery store here. Pointing the weapon at the young woman clerk and at another woman who was in the store at the time, the robber ordered them out. She opened the cash register, robbed it and escaped. An arrest hat been made. Canada Wants No Blacks. Ottawa, Ont. The movement of ne groes into Western Canada to take up free homestead was brought up in par liament by Mr. Thoburn, who declared that hundreds of negro settlers had emi grated from the United States and at the rate the movement was growing there soon would be thousands of them planted in the Northwest. He asserted that they would not make desirable settlers. The government, he said, should do something to discourage the movement FIX IT FOR - -mmim J T3 HIOHTIrtt. 16 VZCtQt 01 WE CnU-P MA4 A bUjcS4 TO 06 e 011 rwfc. l , MT "PHI- t Q 4 iCopyritrht. 1SU.I , ANYONE WHO WISHES TO REGULATE HIS GROWTH, NEED ONLV TO HAVE HIS PITUITARY GLAND ATTENDED TO, SAYS PROF. AR THUR KEITH OF LONDON. CITY IS BLAMED FOR FIRE DEATHS MASS MEETING IN NEW YORK ADOPTS RESOLUTION. Meeting Receives With Applause Con demnation of City Government by Prof. Seligman. New York. "Administrative ineffi ciency" as the direct cattle of the Tri angle Shirtwaist Company fire, where the lives of more than 140 women, girls and men were sacrificed, was charged at the citizens' mass meeting by Prof. E. A. F. Seligman, of Columbia University. The tremendous throng which filled every seat in the house interrupted this fear less statement with bravos and cheers and continued applause. When Comp troller William A. Prendergast, a few minutes later, spoke in support of Prof. Seligman's remarks, there was a second demonstration. This public meeting, which was called by a citizens' committee, t the instiga tion of the Women's Trad Union League and Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of J. P. Morgan, was for the ireiiounced pur pose of devising future security for workers and to prevent similar disasters. WitJi almost unanimoud accord the speakers evaded any atter.pt to place the direct responsibility,Abit when Prof. Seligman suddenly brauTnto out in his discussion of the economic side of the matter to declare that this city admin istration "is now weltering in chaos," and a moment later termed the condi tion that of "adiminstrative impotence," the large audience was aroused to a re markable demonstration of approval. These were the first statements that had brought them out of their seats. DR. S. A. KNAPP DEAD AT 78 Foremost Expert With Department of Agriculture. Washington. Dr. teaman Asahel Knapp, one of the foremost experts of the department of agriculture, who has made investigations in many parts of the world, died at his home here, aged 78. Dr. Knapp's work in the Orient and in connection with American rice pro duction in the South and in promotion of various Southern crops made him famous among agricultural investigators. Dr. Knapp introduced the Improved Japanese rice in this country after ex tensive travels in Japan, China and the Philippines for the department of agri culture. His investigations stimulated the rice industry in Louisiana, Missis sippi and Arkansas, as he frequently made prolonged lecture tours in the in terest of farmers. Boy Robber Confesses. Fort Wayne, Ind. A boy of 16 years, tvho gave his name to the police as John Rahnor, when arrested late last night, today admitted that he is the youth wanted for the theft of $1,300 and val uable papers from the Union Hill Na tional Bank of Union Hill, N. J., early last December. Rahnor was recognized from a photograph. When arrested he was working as a messenger boy and had only 5 cents of the small fortune he says he stole. He implicated an Italian boy in the robbery. Pastor Famine in Boston. Boston. The fact that thirty churches in greater Boston are without pastors, that several have been permanently closed and turned into moving picture theaters, and that several consolidations of churches are now under consideration has stirred the local religious world to thinking. Boston pastors agree that in dustrial contntions, if they are not re sponsible for the small congregations, at least affect the supply of the pulpits. Young men coming into the ministry cannot get salaries adequate to the cost of living. Model Discharged. Chicago. Mamie Blanha, artist's model, because she refused to pose un draped before a negro in a life class at the art institute, was discharged when she again refused to appear before the class if the negro were permitted to re main. Flies 77 Miles in Hour. Paris. Pierre Vedrine made another remarkable flight Suncay. He left Issy for Pau and landed near Moulin, cover ing the distance, 212 miles, at the rate of 77 miles an hour. YOURSELF II ft ftj id likje to .see THE KD PCCOMt A 6RIAT BS- wi)lp you eATrtte Be a ;je sau pitcher o- a frC-VSO OPERA SirCjEe- A fASCBAuL- PrrcrER-UAOoi JUSTICE O'GORMAN SUCCEEDS DEPEW NEW YORK'S NEW SENATOF STRONG TAMMANY MAN. Insurgent Democrats Come Into Cau cus and Defeat Effort to Reindorse Sheehan. Albany, N. Y. Supreme Court Justice James Aloysius O'Gorman, Democrat, of New York city, was elected United States senator Friday by the legislature after the most protracted struggle over this position ever held in the Empire state. On the final ballot, the sixty fourth, he received 112 votes to 80 cast for Chaancey M. Depew, whose term ex pired March 4. At the close of a day of almost con tinuous negotiations, the insurgents ca pitulated and Justice O'Gorman was elected. A few minutes before the bal lot was cast Justice O'Gorman's resig nation from the bench was filed at the office of the secretary of state, as a con stitutional provision would have prohib ited his election while holding the office of justice of the supreme court. Wile' applause marked the end of the long contest, and the legislature adopted a resolution adjourning until April 17. Gov. Dix expressed gratification at the result. "The state of New York," he said, "has elected tor its representative in the fed eral senate an eminent jurist, a man of pronounced ability, of great attainments and of the highest character. The elec tion of Judge O'Gorman can not but meet with tho approval of the citizens of this state, regardless of party. lie will rank with tho ablest statesmen the senate has known, will well represent the Em pire state and bestow honor upon the party that elected him. I am gratified at this solution of the problem which has contronted the Democratic members of the legislature for the last ten weeks." BLOODIEST BATTLE OF WAR. 700 Rebels and 1,000 Troops Fought to Death. El Pao, Tex. The bloodiest and most important battle of the Mexican insur rection thus far in the state of Sonora ended after two days of stubborn fight ing, which began near the town of Ures and San Rafael. Although the insurrectos outnumbered the federal forces, their ammunition be came exhausted in the continued engage ment, v. hile the federals were able to obtain l enforcements and additional am munition from Hermosillo and the insur rectos were compelled to abandon tha fight. It is known that not more than 100 were killed on both sides. The report that the federals had gained decisive victory in the first day's fight ing has been denied by advices from Her mosillo. Hoist on Own Petard. Xenia, O. Prosecuting Attorney John son, who is at the head of a movement to stamp out blind tigers, was arrested Monday on three charges of furnishing intoxicants to voters at the primary at which he was nominated. $12,000 FOR SONS RANSOM. Las Vegas, N. M. Twelve thousand dollars in currency was paid as a ran som at a lonely spot in the mountains near Las Vegas Friday midnight, for the return of A. T. Rogers, Jr., the two-year-old baby of A. T. Rogers, wealthy Las Vegas attorney, who was kidnaped. The baby is the grandson of Judge Henry I. Waldo, a multi-millionaire of Kansas City, Mo. Had the money not been forthcoming at the time mentioned the baby would have been put to death Earthquake Shocks at Pine Bluff. Pine Bluff, Ark. At 11 o'clock this morning two severe and distinct earth quake shocks were felt in this city and at all surrounding towns. The shocks were so severe that within a few min utes after the buildings rumbled and swayed hundreds of excited residents crowded the streets in a panic. Many oi them feared to return to their hemes, and in the downtown district the excite ment wkp intense. Occupants of the yx' story Citizens Bank building ran down stairs irto the street. 4 A " u t J V, H NEW YORK CAPITOL WRECKED BY FIRE DAMAGE TO BUILDING EXCLUSIVF OF RECORDS $5,000,000. Building Erected at Cost of $27,000,001 Militiamen Pressed Into Service to Fight Fire. Albany, N. Y. Five trillion dollars probably could repair the damage done by lire in the state capitoi Wednesday, but money can not restore the historical records which were the pride of its stata library. Alter examining the exterior walls with a transit, ttate Architect Ware declared that the massive pile of granite was as plumb and true as ever. The flames licked up the state library, the court of claim the assembly libra ry and document rooms, most of the offices of the excise and the quarters of the senate finance committee and water and smoke took up the work that the flames laid down and the dam age from this cause extends to every part of the building. The state library, containing $400,000 volumes, among them the most valu able genealogical works in the United States, together with relics, priceless documents, some of them dating back to 1776 and irreplacable. The capitoi, a gigantic structure of white granite with red capped towers, which cost $27,000,000, stands perched upon the highest of the several hills upon which the city of Albany is built. It is 300 feet north and south by 400 feet east and west and covers three acres. The first stone in the foundation was laid July 7, 18CD. It was first occupied by the legislature on Jan. 7, 1S79. Writers upon architecture say that tho white building with its towers remind them of the famous Taj Mahal in In dia. Others call it a superb rellectiou of French architecture. Militia men were pressed into service to remove the records, relics and flags from the adjutant-general's office and in policing the fire lines. BLACK HAND DARING Threatens Federal District Attorney in White Slave Case. Chicago, 111. The arm of the Black Hand, which has not hesitated to go into the United States court in eflort3 to silence its victims by fear, went past the courts to the federal prosecutor him self. Disdaining the caution attaching to unsigned letters, the telephone was used and a threat of death made to the prosecutor of a "white slave" case. As sistant United States District Attorney Alfred B. Hurlburt, who has assisted in prosecuting xrs. Santina Pizza on charges of luring an 18-year-old girl to America from Italy, was called to the telephone, and a voice, in broken Eng lish, threatened: "When the case is culled you are to quit it, see? If you don't, you will re ceive a stilletto in the ribs. We have spoken." EASTERN COTTON TAKINGS Tapan and China Have Bought Twice as Much as a Year Ago. New Y'ork. Japan and China has this year taken American cotton to more than twice the amount of a year ago to date. Exports to those two countries to April Avere 141,559 bales, compared with (iG,G94 bales last season, or an increase of 112 per cent. Recent advices from Japan mention freer buying with reces sions in the American spot market. Japan depends largely upon India for raw cotton. The larger takings of American cotton are regarded as re quired by the development of the Japa nese industry in higher qualities of goods. Progress of the spinning industry in China also accounts for improvement in the demand from that country. Con sumption in Japan at its highest was reached in 1907, when 911,000 bales were consumed, of which 484,000 were East Indian cotton, 252,000 American and 175,000 bales of Chinese cotton. Recovers Sanity After Years. Washington. Convinced that W. H. Ledger, an inmate of the government hospital for the insane, who eight years ago killed two men and wounded three others while defending his gold mine in the wilds of Alaska, has now recovered his sanity. Dr. William A. White, su perintendent of the institution, has ap plied to the United States parole board for the parole of the prisoner. KILLED OVER BEEFSTEAK Customer Says Steak Is Fat and Is Killed. ! Cincinnati. An argument as to the merits of a beefsteak resulted in the killing of Joseph Asbury. Adam Beck man, a butcher, was endeavoring to sell a steak to Asbury. The latter contended that the steak was fat. Beckman took an opposite view. The men finally came to blows, and during the scuffle Beck man seized a butcher knife and plunged it through Asbury's heart. Woman Agains Suffrage. Springfield, 111. Snapping eyes and an Indignant toss of head from time to time evidence the displeasure of Mrs. Cath erine Waugh McCulIough, Miss Harriet Grim and other suffragette leaders as they listened to the address of Miss Phoebe Cousins of Washington in the capitoi Wednesday morning. In language keenly sarcastic, Miss Cousins excori ated equal rights and votes for women. Her address was the first argument pre sented in the session against woman suP frage by a woman I BELIEVE CARDUI CURED Mrs. Chapman, of Branchland, Tells About Her Serious Troubles and Mow Cardui Helped Her. Branchland, W. Va. In a letter from this place, Mrs. Elizabeth Chap man says: "I Buffered from womanly trouble for nearly five jears. I tried all the doctors in tho country, but they did me no good. 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"Home Treatment for Women lent In plnln Trrajiper, uq request. Preponderous of Evidence. "Sorry," said the constable, -'but V have to arrest ye you been drivin' along at the rate of 50 inllos an hour." "You aro wronp:, my frlon.l." paid the driver. "I wasn't, and here's a ten-dollar bill that srays I wasn't." "All right," returned tho constable, pocketing tho money. "With 11 to mo against me I ain't goiif to subject tho county to th expense of a trial." Harper's Weekly. Popular Publicity. "That tall waiter seems to bo very much In demand." "Yes; he never opens a bottle of champagne without attracting tht at tention of everybody In the room." VHTt ALLEN'S FOOT-EAKE Qm AntlsopUo powder to be nhuken Into tho rhnt for tired, aching feet. It takeg tho stlntf ont of corn and bonlona and makes walking a delight. Solil Yerywhere, 2&c. tfut tulmtituts. Kor VHvy trial package, addruM H. OIuibUhI . Lo luy, K.Y. A Sign. "Is your wife still treating you coldly?" "Is she? 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A few drops will over come Pip, Gapes, Roup, Canker, etc. Mr. Sadi Dunn, Idlwld. Fla., write i "I am using1 your Mexican MustanK I-n-lmt-nt on my chickens. I had one chicken with canker in th throats I d'd not notice her at first. When I commenced to doctor her I had no idea that she would ever live; it took me ncarlj three weeks bat I red her. I hare another now with sort head and am using the Mustang on her." 25c SOe. $1 a bottle at Drug & Cenl Store. m rr kjV o i V TTii-1iilMIH' -