Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-05-06

The Macon Beacon
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
MACON. . : MISSISSIPPI
Women's eyes are the only weapons
left her in Chicago.
What causes divorce? Bum grub"
shouts the army of ~dyspeptics.
Poorly cooked food often drives
men to drink and ONE to suicide.
Every hen will have to be taught to
lay her egg under an automatic dating
stamp.
The comet with two tails is doing
nicely in getting past the nature fake
detectors.
San Francisco ought to take that
~ COL A4A0A~ 0S g NAOV
to be good.
Get into the new census by all
means. All our best people are head
ing for it.
Buy your own home in the country,
and become a perennial instead of a
hardy annual.
Paris enthusiasts who are planning
to prevent the slaughter of African
fauna are a ear too slow.
No fight against the hat pin will
gain enough of a victory to send femi-
nine fashions back to bonnet strings.
There is no way for the house fly
TO get arbitration IN the war the b
cago health department is making on
It.
Passengers in France who stayed
aloft two hours in an ~aeroplane found
the earth still running nicely on their
return.
When the pocket wireless really
comes into use a man nc longer will
b. able to forget to mail his wife's
letters
Poultry farmers can point proudly
TO the fact that SO far as they know
there is no such thing as eggine on
the market.
Messages from Africa are to the eff
feet that Col. Roosevelt is as hard as
nails. This explains why the tsetse
fly was stung.
Science is pretty good, but it has
not yet identified the whooping-cough
germ, to say nothing of ~isolating it out
of the small boys reach.
What is sometimes paraded as a
heart-warming international romance
generally proves to be nothing more
than a sordfd commercial affair.
Somebody has enunciated the the
DRY hat sleeping in church is a dis
ease. Well, it will gradually diminish,
now hat the golf season is coming on.
Incidentally, AXE note that the Ia
test life saving signal, which O may
summon one take a drink or lend a
dollar, is not &C. @. d., but IS. O.. S."
n LII Vi CVNS1ly a OOSA
arrested and held in Washington for
running a poker game. Which shows
that one is never too old to enjoy the
good old American anne.
One of the latest wrinkles in Ar
kansas is to raise large quantities OF
rice by an improved American meth
cd. Every state can do something
new and valuable to increase the food
supply.
One of the oculists announces that
few people are able to see things as
they are. This is perfectly true, es-
pecially with regard to the ability of
people to see things which affect them
personally.
AS defense in a separation suit a
tax chauffeur alleges that he makes
only eight dollars a day. The wife
cIaims that he draws down $110 a
week. OF either sum any railway en-
gineer and most college professors
might be envious.
Swearing IN the New York subway
was punished by a $40 fine. New
Workers will please take warning and
get out of the subway before express
ing themselves. Swearing at and not
in the subway is the more economical
as we'll as appropriate.
Texas is coming out strong in many
ways, and particularly in onion cul-
ture. That state reports an extraor-
binary expansion In railroad building,