Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-17

Come again. football friends!
The revolution season has opened -
again i'll Central America. LID
Prosperity is still waxing and will an
set a hot pace for the country. iste
" ed,
Terrible battles are happening PUP
over the Nicaragua cable. Both sides and
are winning. The
Some persons express their op- D.
timism by eating chicken croquettes 90
in restaurants. 49,;
Paris is a woman's town." sings a nuT
Boston Globe poet. Other American OF
gents have made the same remark. 70
It is clumsy to break laws when 1t
Is easier to evade them. but that is r
not a good excuse for evading them. 70
Berlin wants an immovable date for Prlz
Easter Sunday. Let us hope they will mel
also get a removable Easter Sunday sta
hat. vii
Messina is alarmed over signs OF ton
further earthquake shocks. Messina Upt
seems a good place to keep away will
from. and
The American Dreadnought is the sho
greatest of all. Others do well; we .ert
do better. They do better still when ing
we do best.
Aeroplanist Farman flew for over RI,
four hours the other day. The coming of
aeroplane will have to have a dining Lee
car attachment. an
RiA9on +riboemon cond word IN met
Snain that tbov have only started TO ing
fght. Madrid will get little s~atisfac- ma
tion ont of tbo+ feet
" sch,
A Washington man says he owes
his longevity to pie. but few poll I
ttc4ans can hang onto the pie counter ninj
q whole lifetime. nro
During the past year our raternal I'm
government planted Bit, 900, 900 fish, sue
which statement is the biggest fish Va
story of the year. U
This discussion whether or not there tax
are insects on Mars is chopping con- and
troversy pretty fine. Wait till the Wa
hOokwOrm gets settled.
Orville Wright says that flying is
easy to learn. Few doubted that; it ~ n
is the coming-down process which the oPl
majority want made easy. "Pi
The German dirigible air squadron Chr
d DcGH 0A0CulluS HldL6uNSIS, anu IdIe
another war scare is due in the right to
little, tight little British Isles. and
The germ family are in hard luck. L.,
Mrs. Sage is combating the tubercu- -
losis germ, Mr.. Carnegie the p~ellagra,
and Mr.. Rockefeller the W
crel
What are said to be the highest falls was
on this continent have been discov- pos
cred in Labrador. Maybe Canada was epil
tired of owning only half of Niagara.
In her suit for divorce a Sacramento +u
woman charged that her husband cha
would not even buy her ice cream. in
Still. he may have loaded her down fon
with fudge and chewing gum. VII;
That Hartford 15-year-old boy who Def
insisted on being taken TO school after fine
he had broken his leg, because he did rep
not want to spoil a perfect record for
attendance, may be counted on to ap- L
preciate the value of an education and w.
to turn it to good account. sho
Writing of the evils of ear strain. nor
to which the people of a large city are MOI
always subject, a doctor says: when bee,
the ears have been strained by the cas-,
noise and confusion of the day they fats
may be refreshed in the eveing by lis und
thing to music or to such other sounds
as are reStful to them" Perhaps you !
have noticed the restful effect after a Wa
hard days work when the clock in the a f
street strikes six and the hurdy-gurdy rem
comes around. five
o- - yiel
lesson in water power. An enormous ~
volume can be turned to account by p
modern methods. And now progress "u
sive Americans and Canadians are "1
uniting in an effort to utilize this ~
power. A plan has been formulated "0
which looks to the erection Of a dam
at Brockville which will drown out u
the Long Sault rapids and raise the wen
stream at that point IS inches, afford Aho
ing several hundred thousand horse "el
power. Competent engineers have oIo'
pronounced it wholly practicable. OF
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The preliminary report of the de- sale
partment of agriculture shows hat nett
the corn crop this year is up to a high