Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, November 23, 1917 Page: 2 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Colds^
Coughs
itarrh
A trinity of evils, closely allied, that afflict
most people, and which follow one on the
other, in the order named, until the last one
is spread through the system, leading to
many evils. But their course can be checked.
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It is of great value when used promptly for a cold,usu-
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Ample evidence has proved that it is even of more value in over-
coming chronic catarrh, dispelling the inflammatory con litions, enabling
the diseased membranes to perform their natural functions, and toning
up the entire system.
The experieuu: of thousands is a safe guide to what it may be ex-
pected to do for von.
Liquid or tablets—both tested by the public and approved.
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She Had a Kind Face.
Agues—No, I would never marry a
rnun to reform him.
Ethel—Well, I don't think myself
that harsh measures are the best.
DON'T EXPERIMENT
with your Liver or your Bowels. Avoid
strong purgatives nnd calomel. TJso
the well known genuine Liver Stimu-
lants, Bond's Liver Plfls. They are
Small-MUd-Effective and Reliable. One
pill at bedtime—you wake up well. Adv.
Quite True.
"Sniffklns, that Insufferable swell, Is
boasting that he saved n human life
when he was at Atlantic City."
"So he (lid. He saved his own by
getting out of town before the mob
caught him."
Dr. B. F. Jackson, Celebrated Physician,
handed down to posterity his famous
prescription for female troubles. Now
sold under the name of "Femenlna."
Price 50c and $1.00.—Adv.
War Behind the Llnea.
In the house of commons the state-
ment was made some time ago that It
needs a man and a half behind the
line to keep one man In the trenches;
and that Is only at the front. How
many men, women and children at
home are needed to keep going the
man with the riflo and hand grenade
we can only conjecture, but if we say
ten civilians to every fighting man
we shall not exaggerate.-—iilmon
Strunsky In the Yale Review,
HEADACHES
This distressing Aliment should be
relieved at once and save strain on
Nervous System. CAPUDINE gives
quick relief.* It's a liquid—I'lcnsant to
take.—AdT.
A Married Couple.
"We can't all be rich in this world."
"No. But Isn't it fine that we can all
know some one who hasn't quite so
much money as we have?"
LAST WORD IN MACHINE GUNS
Seven Hundred Shots a Minute Can
Be Fired From the Newest Colt
Automatic Piece.
Squatting in the saddle behind the
new model Colt automatic machine
guns, the men of the machine-gun
companies at the training camps feel
that Kipling's lines nppiy with abso-
lute truth to the Imaginary Boches
they see before them In an Imaginary
"No Man's Land," observes a corre-
spondent.
The gunner pulls the trigger. With
a stuccr.to stutter, appalling In Its
pure viclousness, a stream of leaden
rnig$i]Q£t 700 per nilnuto, pours from
the mouth of the automatic, and the
gunners grit their teeth and grin
with satisfaction as they think what
the result will be when they train the
"little black devils" on an advancing
German column.
The new guns are the last word In
rapid-fire death dealers. The model Is
entirely new and the weapons are the
first of this design produced by the
famous Colt Works. They are built
for either air or water cooling and are
exceptionally light in weight. Finish-
ed in a dull, businesslike black, the
new machine guns give an impression
of deadly concentration of power and
effectiveness.
With the distribution of the guns
among the various regimental and bat-
talion machine-gun companies, the
specialized work of training the em-
bryo gunners will be started in earn-
est. As this training is very different
from that given the Infantrymen, spe-
cial courses will be pursued by these
men. The new gunners will be re-
quired to learn not only the operation
of the weapon, but will have to be
able to take it apart and i^a^^niblo
it In the dark, put it In operation again
after it has Jammed, and locate und
repair broken parts In a minimum of
time.
Nerves AH Unstrung?
Nervousness and nerve pains often
come from wesik kidneys. Many a per-
son who worries over triiles ana is
troubled with neuralgia, rheumatic
pains and backache would find relief
through a good kidney remedy. If you
have nervous attacks, with headaches,
backaches, dizzy spells and sharp,
shooting painB, try Doan's Kidney
Pills. They have brought quick benefit
in thousands of such cases.
A Texas Case
Mrs. J. .T. Coker,
S. North St., Na-
cogdoches, Texas,
says: "I felt mis-
erable all the time,
had no life and
lacked ambition.
My back was weak
and seldom stopped
paining. Dizzy
ppwlls nnri head-
aches annoyed me
constantly and I
felt nil out of sorts.
It didn't t a k
Doan's Kidney
Pills long toi
strengthen my kid-
neys and fix me up all right. I have
had very little kidney trouble since."
Get Doan'a e» Any Store, 60c n Bos
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Try it. Trial treatment sent FRtC. by mull.
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Take Grove's
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
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known conic properties of QUININE and
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up the Whole System. 60 cents.
Not Bread Alone.
A Japanese newspaper, In emphasiz-
ing the gravity of the responsibility
resting on Japan and America on ac-
count of the fact that the world ac-
tivity is shifting from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, suys that these two great
nations are bound to exchange more
and more of their products and de-
clares that they must come to agree on
high principles. "Man cannot live by
broad alone," quotes the editor—which
is perfectly true; but, as the old
darky remarked, observes an exchange,
"It keeps er man hustlin' fo' a little
piece o' meat."
9 With the Pacifists.
"Terrible about the Smith de Puy-
sters, Isn't it?"
"What's the matter now?" o
"Oh! they are constantly fighting
about which one Is the more peaceably
inclined."
Acid Stomach, Heartburn and Nausea
quickly tllsappt-ar with the use of Wrlght'i
Indian Vegetable; Pllla, Send for trial box
to 372 lYuii St., New York. Adv.
Cumulative Expenses.
"It costs three cents to send a let-
tor."
"Yes," replied (ho man who has been
sued for breach of promise; "and if
you are not careful that three cents
a day may be only the starter."
Every Woman Wants
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SSL
COVETED BY ALL
but possessed by few—a beautiful
head of hair. If yours is streaked with
gray, or Is harsh and stiff, you can re-
store It to its former beauty and lus-
ter by using "La Creole" Hair Dress-
ing. Price $1.00.—Adv.
Amateur inventors bear a striking
resemblance to their models; neither
are at all likely to work.
Granulated Eyelids,
Sore Eyes, Eyes Inflamed by
Son, Duit and Wind quickly
relieved by Murine. Try It In
your Eyes and In Baby's Eyes,
1 No Smartin|, Jmt EyeCmfort
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A»kMnrlaoEji Remedy Ce.. Cklnm<
WAR DN CATTLE
TICK IN SOUTH
New Area of 65,520 Square
Miles in Nine States
Cleaned.
state of mississippi free
Territory Released During Year 1917
Through Efforts of 8tates and
Department of Agriculture
70,764 8quare Miles.
Washington.—With a broad wedge
driven through the cattle tick army
right to the Gulf and with a new area
of 65,520 square miles In nlno states
cleaned from tick to be freed from
federal quarantine, December 1 will
bo a red-letter day for the cattle and
dairying Industry of the South.
This release breaks all records in
tick eradication. The total territory
releused during the year 1917 through
the co-operative efforts of the states
and the United States department of
agriculture amounts to T0.T54 square
miles, or 20,000 more than were re-
leased In 1912, until now the record
year.
List of Counties Released Dee. 1.
The order signed by Secretary
Houston provides that the following
counties shall be released Dcccm-
ber 1:
Alabama.
Baldwin, Barbour, Chambers, Choc-
taw, Clarke. Coosa. DeKalb. Houston,
Russell, Talladega, and parts of Chero-
kee and Mobile. Total relcaoed la
state, 9,869 square miles.
Arkansas.
Columbia, Crawford, Lonoke, Mon-
roe, Nevada, Ouachita, Pope, Prairie,
Union, White, Yell, the remainder of
Baxter, Independence, Izard, Jackson,
Lee, Phillips, St. Francis, Sebastian,
and parts of Conway, Desha, Faulk-
ner, Jofferson, Pulaski, and Van Bu-
ren. Total released In state,
square miles.
Florida.
Monroe. Total released hi state,
1,100 square miles.
Georgia.
Bibb, Brooks, Burke, Butts, Coweta.
Dougherty, Bouglus, Gwinnett, Jeffer-
son, McDtfffle, , Muscogee. Spalding,
Taliaferro and Troup. Total released
In state, 9,559 square miles.
Louisiana.
Caddo, Concordia, Kant Feliciana,
Franklin, Jefferson Davis, Lincoln,
Polnto Coupee, Washington, West
Feliciana, and parts of Orleans and
Ouachita. Total released in Btate,
5,888 square miles.
M!ss!a»lppli
Cnlhoun, Choctaw, Covington,
Franklin, George, Greene, Hancock,
Harrison, Itawamba, Jackson, Jeffer-
son Davis, Kemper, Lamar, Lawrence,
Lincoln, Marlon, Montgomery, Pearl
River, Perry, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Simp-
son, Smith, Stone, Tishomingo. Wayne,
Webster, and the remainder of Jones.
Total released In state, 18,600 square
miles.
North Carolina.
The remainder of Northampton, and
parts of Columbus and Pitt Total
released In state, 1,079 square miles.
Oklahoma.
Okfuskee, the remainder of Dela-
ware, and ports of Adair, Cherokee,
McCliiln, Mayes, Okmulgee and Osage.
Total released In state, 8,240 square
miles.
Texas.
Coke, Concho, Cooke, Dallas, Irion,
Montague, Runnels, Stephens, Sutton,
Taylor, Young, the remainder of
Shackelford and Throckmorton and
parts of Crockett, Jack and Tom
Green. Total released In state, 11,835
Bquure miles.
Total Area Released.
The quarantined area after Decem-
ber 1 will Include 349,258 square miles,
compared to 728,565 square miles quar-
antined July 1, 1906. The quaran-
tined territory will be divided as fol-
lows: Alabama, 19,918; Arkansus, 20,-
952; Florida, 40,961; ueorgia, 85,824;
Louisiana, 37,824; North Carolina, 9,-
671; Oklahoma, 22,877; South Caro-
lina, 8,619; Texas, 142,918; Virginia,
1,686.
To Celebrate Tick-Free Day.
Throughout Mississippi and In 90
countlos and parts of counties In eight
other southern states, local officials
and citizens are arranging locnl cele-
brations to mark the dipping out of
this costly parasite of Southern agri-
culture.
The governor of Mississippi, by spe-
cial proclamation has declared Decem-
ber l, when by the release of 28 coun-
ties, his entire state will be freed from
quarantine, a day of special rejoicing.
At the state house he will receive the
congratulations of the United States
department of agriculture for the
state's effective co-operation in dip-
ping out the tick and driving a wedge
of free territory through to the Gulf.
Congratulatory messages are to be
sent also to the governors of the other
states and be transmitted to each
county ctflebrating Its entry Into the
free cattle territory of the nation.
What Tick Eradication Means to
Freed Territories.
Before the ticks were (lipped out,
these parasites annually killed many
cattle with tick fever, steadily sucked
out of cattle vast quantities of blood
which should have gone to make meat
or milk; wasted, therefore, much of
the grain and forage fed to cattle;
and, finally, prevented the Introduc-
tion of non-Immune breeding stock for
the improvement of local beef and
dairy herds. The presence of the
tick barred shipments of local cattle
from the open competition of the free
pens at the packing centers ond forced
their owners to sell them at u disad-
vantage from quarantine pens for Im-
mediate slaughter only.
Tick Now Dipped Out of 379,312
Square Miles.
Tho South since 1906 has succeeded
In releasing from quarantine 379,312
square miles or over 51 per cent of
the originally quarantined area. Mis-
sissippi Is tho fifth state to be de-
clared entirely free, tho states of Cali-
fornia, Kentucky, Missouri und Ten-
nessee previously having been re-
leased. Special credit, however, Is due
to Mississippi because much of tho
area freed was heavily Infested with
tick. There remain In the entire South
349,250 squnre miles yet Infested and
to be cleaned and releused from fed-
eral quarantine. The example of Mis-
sissippi, however, it Is believed, will
serve as a strong incentive to neigh-
boring states to widen the wedge to
the Gulf until the tick Is eradicated
from the entire South.
To Make New Record in 1918.
That this year's rccord will be ex-
ceeded In 1918 nnd that tho tick will
be banished from the nation by 1921
are strong probabilities. The states
of Arkansas and Louisiana, following
the exumple of Mississippi, have
passed state-wide laws making the
eradication of the tick compulsory In
every Infested county. The legislature
of the stale of Texus hub recognised
the Importance of tick eradication, al-
though Its laws do not muke erudlcu-
tion compulsory in its various coun-
ties for $ouie time to come. Indica-
tions from all the tlck-lnfested states
are that In many sections tlie people
have grown thoroughly tired of the
toll tho tick is taking unci patriotical-
ly are building dipping vats and mak-
ing preparations to free their cattle
during the coming year.
SUCCESS WITH SUDAN GRASS
Affords Hay Crop to Upland Farmer
Equal In Value to Alfalfa on Bot-
tomland Farms.
Where other tame grasses cannot be
grown Sudan gra°° can be used suc-
cessfully. Although tho gross Is pri-
marily a hay crop, tests from the
Staiidpolut oi u pustule crup have
been made by many persons and the
results have been promising.
Sudan grass will add thousands of
dollars to the profits every year, since
It will afford a hay crop to the upland
farmer that will mean as much to
him as alfalfa does to the bottom-land
farmer. Experiments have shown that
under normal conditions two crops can
be depended upon. The yield is larger
than that of millet, being from four
to six tons an acre. Horses and cattlo
are fond of it and will leave almost
any kind of roughage for Sudan grass.
They clean up heads, biadesnnd stalks.
Where a seed crop Is desired, the
best practice seems to be to let the
first crop mature for seed and harvest,
the second crop for hay. Planting Is
usually done three weeks later than
corn In the same locality. One person
reports that form planting June 14 he
harvested the llrst crop the last week
In August, making six tons to the
acre. The second cutting was made
October 1, and a yield of two tons an
acre was obtained. This particular
crop was grown on bottom land.
ANGLE OF PLOWING PROBLEM
By Timing Work to Habits of Prevail-
Ing Insects Most of Them Can
Be Starved Out.
There Is an angle of the plowing
problem worthy of consideration and
which bears on the "when." By timing
both fall and spring plowing to the
habits of the prevailing insects of our
fields we can destroy or starve out i
most of them, while thoughtlessly mak-
ing onr plowing seasons to suit our con-
venience may actually encoi'rage the
multiplication of the Insects and cost
us dearly In our crop harvest.
ImraoNAL
StiNMTSOiOOL
Lesson •,
(By REV. P. B. F1TZWATER. D. D..
Tniu'hor of Ensllah Bible In the Moody
Bible Institute oi Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1917, Weetern N^wipapei1 TTnlnn. >
CLEANLINESS ON DAIRY FARM
Far Cheaper to Keep Cows In Well-
Appolnted, Sanitary Stables
Than to Neglect Them.
If there Is anything—next to good
cows—that Is needed on a dairy farm,
it is clean, well-kept, sanitary stables.
If we are to keep cows, it Is far cheap-
er to keep them in a well appointed
stable.
LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 25
A PSALM OF THANKSGIVING. -
LESSON TEXT—Psalms 103.
GOLDEN TEXT-Bless the Lord, O my
Soul, and forget not all his benefits.—Ps.
I0»;8.
This Psnlm is man's response to the
goodness and mercy of God. It ex-
presses the joy and gratitude of a for-
given sinner as he worships before
Ood. There Is too much in this Psalm
for one to attempt to set it forth, so
we must be content to display some of
its most prominent notes.
I. Man's Entire Being 8hould Sing
God's Praise, v. 1. The true worship-
per praises Ood with every faculty of
his being; his Intellect, emotion, de-
sires, affections all unite In praising
Jehovah. Tho entire being responds
In a song of harmonious praise. Some
praise God with their voices but not
with their hearts; some with their In-
tellect but not wlili their ultecLlous;
some with their emotions but not with
their wills. That praise which involves
the entire being alone is pleasing to
God.
II. The Benefits Granted, vv. 2-0. The
Psalmist exhorts man nrtt to forget all
God's benefits. This seems to be need-
ed now as well as then, for most of us
arc better at remembering our troubles
and adversities, our losses and our sor-
rows, than we are at remembering our
mercies nnd blessings. It would be a
good thing for some of us to keep a
record of the good things of life and
see that, after all, our blessings out-
weigh our burdens. We have more
days of sunshine than of clouds, more
Joys than we have of sorrows, more
hours when we are free from pain than
we suffer with pain. If God were
as forgetful of us as we are of Him,
life would be nnrd Indeed.
(1) Forgiveness of sins. v. fl. In
forgiveness we are freed from the
curse of sin and its Might and burdens
are removed. We . are not only for-
given, but we are b^aled of sin's dis-
ease 1 not only freed from the burdens
of sin but of its effects, so that we do
not go after the things of this world.
To be saved for heaven means that
we are saved from the world.
(2) Redemption, v. 4. We havi
been saved by Christ giving HImsel
as a ransom for our souls.
(3) Satisfaction, v. 5. When God
redeems, He so thoroughly renews the
man that the good things which he
gets from God satisfy mm. His bless-
ings are so real that he finds satisfac-
tion in God. Men and women of the
world are reaching out after fleeting
things. They are ever grasping after
something, but ore never satisfied. Not
so with the redeemed soul; he finds
absolute satisfaction In the things
which God gives him. Worldlngs may
be satiated, but God's redeemed alone
arc satisfied.
(4) Executing judgment In behalf of
the oppressed, v. 6. lie Is always ou
the side of the oppressed. God under-
takes for his own, and sooner or later
Ho will meto out justice to all. There
is o. reckoning day for the world com-
ing. Those who have done evil shall-
suffer loss; those who have done goo'
shall he rewarded.
SI I. Attributes of God for Which f
Should Be Praised, vv. 7-18. Thes;
attributes have been displayed In God's
dealings with Ills chosen people.
(1) Merciful and gracious, v. 8. He
is slow to anger and plenteous In mer-
cy. An example of his mercy Is seen
In the father of the prodigal son run-
ning to meet his son and kissing him.
A very little thought will make very
evident how God withholds his anger
and waits patiently tor an opportunity
to extend his mercy.
(2) He will not always "chide," vv,
8-12. AVhen God forgives he forgives
forever, Men say they forgive, but
how often they "chide" and "keep
anger." God has not dealt with us ac-
cording to our sins, for, as the heav-
ens are high above tho earth, so great
is his mercy toward them that they
fear him. So really has Uod forgiven
us that our transgressions are ns far
removed from us as the East Is from
the West, an Incalculable distance.
(3) He Is compassionate and tender,
vv. 13-14. This reveals God'o fatherly
heart, ne fully knows our weakness.
He does not deal with us us though wo
were strong. He knows how weak and
fallible we are through the full. It is
consoling to know that God considers
our "frame"; He knows that we are
"dust"
(4) Ills mercy is everlasting, eternal,
vv. 10-17. Man Is at best transitory,
but God Is eternal. The one who rests
his hopes la God is eternally safe.
This should encourage us to lean not
Uppn man bat apou God,
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