Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

ease again this winter?
Many football players are now
emerging from the arnica stage.
In looking into the political future
the blind nan is under no handicap.
Kindly note the few fatalities
among the biIliardists this season.
IS S S." the new wireless call for
help, may mean Send five simoleons."
In arranging uniform divorce laws
the whispering variety should be cut
out.
November broke a record, but wait
until we get the official returns from
December.
A load of tobacco slipped on a a
on and killed two men in Virginia. A
fatal weed.
The man who wears n weight OF
underwear the year round should not
brag about it.
A man of experience would say that
It depends on the barber whether he
Is an artist or not.
King Rameses, the 5000 year old
mummy, ought to create a furore in
Philadelphia society.
When a man dies his expenses stop,
but whether or not his experiences
stop is another question.
The high cost Of living is not re-
duced much, probably, by the unprs-
cedented sales of automobiles.
Aeroplane height flying contests r
all right providing the contestants
come down-of their own accord.
When aviation becomes general the
repair shops needed will have to De as
spacious as q one-story cotton mill.
Extremely stout ladies should be ap-
preached with caution when they are
to be invited to attend fat stock
shows.
In order to get the most satisfactory
thrill out of a series of football vic
tories it is best to ignore the fatal.
ties altogether.
The taxi-balloon is due to arrive and
aviate next season. The rate will,
however, be higher han in the things
that cannot fly.
Because his baby disturbed him, a
college professor committed suicide.
What a selfish, narrow-mfnded individ-
ual he must have been.
The boy who hanged himself be-
u he couldn't attend a football
game probably will be listed as an
other victim of the brutal sport"
The crying need of the times is the
invention of an appliance which will
cause an automobile to stop automat-
ically before it hits a telegraph pole.
Says a Chicago minister-"They
don't raise big men in flats" Mild
statement-they're not allowed even
to raise little babies there, nowadays.
New York is threatened with a
shirt-waist famine, but that does not
necessarily suggest a season of beau
ty unadorned, for sealskin weather is
due.
Unless they are prepared to prove
themselves justified, Central Ameri-
can republics should execute Ameri-
a citizens only by the thought-wave
process.
All the history of the past and all
the conditions of the present are elo-
Quent with the argument that a poet
should always have some other occu-
patton on the side.
The Kansas baby crop numbers
1000 less than last year, but as Kan
a generally has a bumper corn crop,
she can't expect to lead il every
household necessity.
A terrible mine disaster Is D
ed from Japan. 1t would be a great
blessing to mankind If necessary heat
and power could be obtained from
something else than coal.
A minister in Chicago wants COM
pulsory marriage by the state Just as
1T enforces compulsory education He
also advocates women's proposing
when the men hesitate. This is a rad
ical age, but not SO radical as to turn
iconoclastic concerning things too
deeply ingrained in the best impulses
of human nature ver to go out of
fashion.
The United States is not the only
country in the world where the cost
of living has advanced in recent years.
The complaint is so great in Austria
that a demand Is being made that the
government take yer through an ag-
rarian bank, the cattle and meat bust.