Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-29

is not surprising they have been back
ward many years in civilization.
We would be glad to know that
every nan who gets into a hole could,
in some way, come out of 1t whole.
It's still a bit early to pack up for
the country, but one too soon to plan
for it-that is, if you have a country
place to go to.
That man who enters Harvard at
the age of As ought to have some bully
good times with his classmate Will
lam James Sidis.
English apers speak of a man in
the birmingham hospital for skin dis
eases who is turning to marble. He
appears to be a hard case.
If Kermit were not a well trained
boy it would be hard to hold him aft
er he comes back from Africa with all
his laurels thick upon him.
Says a dressmaking authority:
Men fall in love with the best
gowned woman" Here is a question
for a pleasant freside debate.
If something doesn't stop that civil
war in Nicaragua soon, there will not
be enough left of the country to be
worth any dictator's while to tax.
The market reports assure US that
"4,774, 800 eggs were taken by Chi
cage in a single day without a sign
nf lnnaC inoGG " I OF TO hnno fh0v UoPo
not fried.
A Cincinnati man has retired from
business with 81, 200, 900, which he
says is as much money as any man
has the right to posses. How he must
dislike trouble.
Germany has cut it's naval estimate
for this year. English alarmists will
regard this as another cunning trick
to get the British government to quit
building warships.
A wife murderer in Georgia. par
doned by the president, refused to
avail himself of the clemency and will
remain in charge of the p~enitentiary
pharmacy as a trusty. This would
appear to be a case where the zeal
of friends rather overran itself.
Recalling that the gold production
OF the United States last year was
$99, 600, 900, the Boston Globe fnds evil
dence of the renewed vitality of New
England in the act that it collected
twO-thirdS as much from summer
bOarders. But is it fair to give no
credit to the visitors who furnish the
money?
A New Yorker plunged into the icy
river last winter to rescue a young
Iady's merry widow hat, and now she
has married him. 1t is possible that,
having thrown the hat away in order
to secure a later model, she concluded
the chap who thwarted the plan by
rescuing the old hat should be COM
PEELED to buy the new one?
Now a university scientist asserts
that any desired characteristic can be
produced in human beings at will, and
that character is only a matter, after
all, of chemical combinations. Some
may object to the elimination by this
theory of the sOu and spiritual in
fuence from it, but the theory has it's
compensations if cranks can be re-
moved from their present sphere Of
pernicious activity.
New York's state highway commits.
sion is proceeding with a vigor which
will excite attention and cause pro-
gressive legislators in other states to
study her highway construction sys-
tenn. The commission has Just adj
Vertised for proposals for the improve
ment of 81 miles of state roads and
145 miles of country highways. The
total cost of the roads covered by the
contracts of February and April Is
$5,242, 900.
II n court Injunction will actually
stop the family in the fat above from
running a boiler factory on the prem
Uses the department stores should be
prepared to handle them in dozen lots.
Several times has 1t been reported
IN the current news of the day that
a trolley or steam car has jumped the
rails and plunged into some dwelling.
This is all wrong. Houses never dis
pute he right of way on tracks with
cars, and cars should not be allowed
TO challenge the stationary status of
houses.