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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-25
The Cost of Sickness and Death.

In these days when families
are compelled to guard most
carefully the expenditure of
money for the necessaries of life
the cost Of illness becomes tragi-
cally serious, At best the effects
of poverty are bad enough, but
no mental anguish is keener than
that produced by the feeling
that the strictest economy must
be practiced in the sick room,
and it is only a lack of money
which stands between a sick
child and recovery to health.
A few days ago the Kansas
preacher who wrote I'm His
Steps," called attention to the
experience of a country teacher
supporting family of four on
an income Of $50 a month. His
oldest child suddenly fell i'll, was
treated for ten days by the 10
cal physician, then taken to a
hospital and operated upon and
died seven days later. The ex-
penses of the doctor and the hos
pital amounted to $183. the GEM
etery lot $50 and the expense of
burial SIS, a total of 1858.
The sympathy of most of us
will go out to this poor country
school teacher doing great SER
vice in an humble way, but many
of our milIionaireS of the trusts
will say that the man should
have abstained from matrimony
or begged for help when his
child was stricken. Such view
of the case, however, will be re-
jected as neither humane nor
human. States.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-25

When a scandal occurs in the
smaller cities and towns, three
things usually happen in a news
paper Office in the place: First,
somebody comes in and wants the
editor to write up the horrible de-
tails in full and give it to them.
Second. interested parties call on
the editor and request him to say
nothing about the affair. Third.
the editor is charged with being a
coward for not writing it up in
full for fear Of hurting his bust
ness. Now, what are the facts ?
The editor usually hears all the
truth about the incidents and
more too. He suppresses a good
share of it or says nothing at all
about it because he does not care
to advertise the town in that way
and out Of consideration for the
parties, while if he considered it
from a business standpoint he
would not neglect anything of a
sensational nature, as that would
mean business rather than loss
of it.-Lexington Advertiser.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-25

City National. VS.. T. J. Evans
ct al. 1t was ordered that special plea
to the demurrer be sustained.
Jim Pullam, Mary Estes and Ben
Darling, charged with selling liquor
enter plea of guilty.
Jim Mathews, gaming, plead guilty.
Geo. Morton and Maria Tanner, plead
guilty to unlawful cohabitation.
Geo Ross, plead guilty to shooting
craps.
Case against Andrew Logan mol
prosed on payment of cost.
City National Bank VS.. T. J. Evans,
ct al Jury returned following YER
dict: "We the jury find for the plain
tiff as against defendants, T. J.::Evans,
Geo. Goussett, Tom S. Boggess, Leon
Dent and L. F, Cole, assess the dam
ages at $780, 95."
The grand jury returned into court
13 true bills
Ben Moore pleads guilty to gaming
in two cases.
The grand jury returned into court
eighty true bills.
Bank of Broo vile VS.. w. N. Haynes
ct. al. Ordered that the same be min
stated on the docket.
G. M. Flynn VS.. R. A. Wells and
Louis Graham-Motion substained and
judgment ordered set aside and held
naught against said Louis Graham.
Dolphus Logan, selling liquor. guilty
and fined $50 and 80 days.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-25
Deliverance.

Deliver us from the clacker of
tongues,
And from the acidity thereof,
Also from the injustice in
which delights,
And the falsehood that creeps
in during their clatter,
And the fault-fnding that re-
tards our progress,
And the sarcastic filings so
transparent to all,
Like the bitterness and the
acrimonious language born of
small envy and jealousy,
Also the depreciation Of others
with which he seeks to boost
himself into prominence,
And the rampant demagogy,
with it's violent appeals to hatred,
passion and prejudice,
And the false issues with
which he seeks to keep himself
perpetually in the limelight,
From all these, and other
mental and moral defects too
numerous to mention,
Keep us delivered, We sover-
eign voters of a proud and glo-
riOus commonwealth. -Ex
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-25

Strayed from Rock Hill place about
January Both, IL miles east of Macon,
small dark bay mare mule, about four
years old. left the place with piece of
rope around her neck. Any informa-
tion leading to her recovery will be re-
warded J. F. AMEs,
Macon, Miss,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-25

Senator Jeffries Davis-please
don't commit the sacrilege Of call
ing him Jefferson Davis-gave an
other demonstration Of wild-eyed
asininity in the senate yesterday,
and succeeded in making himself
the laughing stock of the nation.
The fire eater from Arkasas
who, during the last senatorial
campaign came to Mississippi and
boasted that "when me and Jim
Vardaman get to the senate we
will certainly raise hell,' - made a
valiant endeavOr to burn up poor
old John D. Rockefeller in the
frey flames of his own oil, and for
an hour or so had a regular
Fourth Of July display of pyrot-
echnics under way in the senate.
And while the fulminator was
bowling like a coyote on bleak
prairie, his colleagues were quiet
ly drifting out to the cloak rooms
and lobbies, and Senator Davis
spoke to empty benches and a
weary looking bunch of newspa-
per correspondents in the press
gallery.
Doubtless the gentleman from
Arkansas-and you have to
compromise with your conscience
when you call him a gentleman
said some true things about the
Standard Oil magnate.
But it don't take any courage
to cuss out Rockefeller. He is
our most popular target for vitu-
peration, the safest man in the
country to cuss, and anybody can
do so whenever they feel like it.
The trouble is, you never get
anywheres by abusing Rockefeller.
Even $29, 100000 fines don't seem
to freeze him, or disturb the calm
serenity of his child like spirit /
Heaping abuse on his shiny pate
is like unto pouring water On a |
ducks back.
However, it is sincerely to be
hoped that the senator feels bet
ter since his eruption. Mounte-
banks of his type have to purge
their systems once in a while, or
they would blow up and burst,
and catastrophe of that sort in
the senate chamber would be de-
plOrable, mussing up the furni-
ture and imposing extrain labor
on pOrters and janitors.
And it must be awfully lone
some these days for Hepburn and
Davis in the worlds greatest de-
Lucrative body. They are the
sole and only survivors of their
type, as remote from modern man
kind as the ancient dodo, as rare
as the bat winged pterodactyl of
aeOns and aeons ago. They are
so odd, so bizarre, of unusual, so
unique, that when one
of them lifts himself for a moment
from the obscurity in which he
habitutlly dwells, we must Oh
serve him hastily, if at all, be-
fore he again relapses into obliv-
ion.
When Hepburn erupted a few
days ago he received but one vote
in support of his contention, and
that was his own.
When Davis Illuminated yester-
day he received but one vote in
favor Of his contention, and that
was his own.
Davis doubtless said some true
things about Rockefeller-even
can tell the truth
about Rockefeller-but he evi-
1ently lied about Senator Owen. !
The member from Oklahoma smil- !
ngly declared that ''the state
nent of the gentleman from Ar
kansas has no foundation in fact" !
md democrats and republicans s
alike believed him. Davis stood {
solitary and alone. His effort to
smear an honorable colleague with {
he slime of Standard Oil was an I
DoAootuo1 &c ov-GOv VardamoO'c 4
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-25
The Hepburn Speech and its Effect.

messages to the Mississippi leg
islature, the United States SEN
ate and the press of the north
have sent their messages which
should find a responsive chord in
the caucus which is now dead
locked on the question of elect
ing a man to fill the uneXpired
term of the late United States
Senator A. J. Mclaurin.
The message sent by the Uni
ted States senate was written
when that body recorded it's
vote solidly against Senator Hey
burn, of Idaho, who sought to
revive sectional feeling.
The vote of the senate on that
day was a message conveying
the information that no member
of that body could accomplish
anything by striking the section
al note.
Former Governor Vardaman's
plank in the political plotform is
sectionalism-the modification
and repeal of amendments that
were adopted on account of the
war between the state, and were
forced upon the south. If any
change in these amendments
will be made, the initiative must
come from the north, east or
west. If former Governor Var
daman's plain it followed there
will be a fearful revival of the
old feeling that existed for years
to the detriment Of the south
and the injury of Mississippi.
The vote against Hepburn
shows that the United States
senate wishes to bury that feel
ing for all time. No man from
the south should seek to keep it
alive.
In an editorial endorsing the
action of the United States SEN
ate in it's repudiation of Senator
Heyburn's sentiments, the Bos-
ton Traveller remarked that his
rebuke was bitter, but deserv-
ed" 1t is a safe prediction that
the lesson will be learned: never
again will there be a bloody
shirt oration on the floor Of the
senate.
Governor Vardaman is a
bloody Shirt, man.
The Introductory paragraph Of
a lengthy editorial in the Detroit
Free Press says:
ct had been fondly lelieved
that the fire of the Spanish
American conflict had closed all
cleavage in the ranks of Ameri-
can citizenship and brought forth
a perfectly welded composite.
But it remained for Mondays
incident in the United Stntes
senate to discover the fact that |
in some unaccountable way the
rotund Idahoan, Mr.. Hepburn,
had not been included in the pro-
cess of compounding."
At the close the Free Press
said:
Let it be hoped that the les
son taught by the vote in this
instance will last for more than
another score of years. In fact
for all time"
Can Mississippi afford to send
former Governor Vardaman to
the United States senate for the
purpose of agitating questions
that will hold his audience for no
other purpose than to vote
against him and to fight him on
every turn?
Let US thank the source of
brotherhood, says the New Ha-
ven Register, that the United
States senate, as representative
of an important sense the senti-
ment of the country, is no lon
ger moved to any deeper feeling
than annoyance by the waving
Of the bloody shirt, as has more
Than once heen said we are get
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29
DURHAM COUNTY PLATFORM.
Endorse Local SeIf-GOvernment-A
Reform i'm Election Laws Needed.
FayOrs Free School Books.
(Special to The Caucasian. J

Especial to The Caucasian.)
Durham, n. c., Sept. 28.-The Re-
publicans Of Durham County have
made a declaration of principles on
which they will stand during the
present political campaign and en-
deavor to make an issue against the
Democrats. This platform or de-
claration is essentially a local one,
and strikes at the base of some of
the abuses that have been allowed
to prevail in the county under the
Democrats. The platform follows:
We heartily endorse the local self
government plank contained in our
State platform, and demand the ap-
plication of this time honored prin-
ciple in the settlement of all ques-
tons affecting the rights of the peo-
pie; and We denounce the Democratic
party for their desertion of same.
We favor the election of the coun-
ty board of education and the coun-
ty superintendent of public instruc-
ton by vote of the people
We favor the election by the peo-
pie, of the city and county boards of
health, and the city and county health
officers.
We favor the election of the Re-
corder of Durham township. also the
clerk and prosecuting officer of said
court by vote of the people of Dur
ham township.
We favor such changes in the Rev
enue Act as will protect the humber
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29

early age to help support his family.
While at work he began studying the
law and by the aid of prominent men
of his town, who admired the perse-
verance and abilities Of the young
man, he was enabled to begin the
practice of law in 1889, at once be-
ginning to make his mark.
Mr. Meares is a writer Of ability
and has contributed largely to the
economic literature of his day. On
the death of the late Judge Purnell,
he was strongly urged for appoint
ment on the Federal bench by his
fellow lawyers of the Wilmington
bar in a most fiattering communica-
ton to the President.
AS an orator he has few equals in
the State. By his ability, learning
and thorough acquaintance with the
needs of his locality, he is an ideal
Congressman and the State will have
cause to be congratulated if the
voters of the Sixth District send the
brilliant Wilmington attorney to the
National Congress.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29
A BRAZEN RECORD.
Continued from Page ~

tCOntlnueQ from rage l..
by private monopolies, determined to
make criminal certain practices by
which monopolies often practice their
eXtortions. A bill was prepared en-
bodying the combined wisdom of
leaders, known as the Reid-Justice
Bill. Among other things, that bill
contained six sections, declaring six
different practices unlawful and pro-
viding punishment. After a cele-
brated debate, that bill became law
in all it's essential features save one.
Five of the six sub-sections were ap-
proved by the Legislature, and one
was rejected-the famous Sub-Sec-
ton A"
The Governor further on in his ad-
dress, referring to the legislation of
1909, said:
"The Blow-Bassett amendment
passed the Senate. In the House of
Representatives, A. P. Kitchin, Chair
man of the Committee having charge
Of the matter, reported the entire
Texas Antitrust Law as a substi-
tute for the Senate bill. The House
voted down the substitute and pass
ed the Senate bill"
This Texas statute was the law
| which had just been upheld by the
Supreme Court of the United States
in which the Standard Oil Company
was compelled to pay in the way OF
fines $1,623, 800, and the constitu-
tionality of the rights of the State to
enact and enforce antitrust laws was
established.
In the case of the Grenada Lumber
Company VS.. the State of Mississippi
decided May 2, 1910. reported in the
PIT q. S.. page 43S, upheld the anti.
trust statute of Mississippi. The Su.
preme Court in this case said:
Whether it would be an illegal
restraint at common law. is not now
for our determination. 1t is an il.
legal combination and conspiracy un.
der the Mississippi statute. That ii
enough, If the statute does not In.
fringe on the fourteenth amend
ment."
On the same day the Supreme
Court Of the United States handed
down a decision in the case of the
Standard Oil Company of Kentuck,
against the State of Tennessee, wher
in the Tennessee statute against con
spiracies in restraint of trade wa.
sustained.
With these decisions clearly blaz
ing the way there can be no excus,
for the failure on the part of tn,
States to enact and enforce such law
as will put an end to trust extor
lions.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29

Wnen writing advertisers. please
mention this paper.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29

n. R-Tas soiiowtas s.s,.
pnblishsd only % iasor=Asse, =
are not guaranteed:
No. III. west. ace q = -
ham and Greensboro: haaals, -
man sleeping car Raleigh to Wa
Salem. which h opsa q; zee
Union statioa Tor ooeupase,
meeting at 0rssaseoro 20. ell -
North. South and wss,
No. IL. vest. s:ss o. u. 49,.
train With chair car for Dz-A.~
Greensboro. Salisbury. and AsA.vT-.
connecting at Durham. With sra,. :.
Oxford. Henderson,. Norfolk. x.~
VILE, Richmond. and washinK,oa !.
Greensboro tor points NORTH A.,
South.
No. l3s. west. <:es p. II. Aasa
through Pullman sleeping car 70. A.
lanta. connects with train a. D.-A,.
for Oxford and Keysville. a. Gas...
boro with through train for g.A
ington. Baltimore. PHILADELPHIA. A..
New York: also connects a, Cree.
boro for Ashevtlle. Knoxville. CLARA.
natl. Louisville and St Louis
No. liz. east. 1880 o. N. Tor "a.
ma and Goldsboro. connecting a. -.
ma with A. c. l.. Railway foE Wfl.o.
and Rocky Mount. At Goldsboro p.
Wilmington: also for Kinsion. We.
Bern. and Morehead City.
No. IA. east. 1880 p. m. for 81
ma and Goldsboro. connectirg Al sci.
ma with A. c. l. for points SOM
and north: also at Golds3oro -
Wilmington. Kinston. and Nes Der,
No. %. east. $50 p. IN. Cor Seln,
and Goldsboro, CONNECTING at Seiz,
for points south on A. c. l. Rallsay
and at Goldsboro for Wilson asa
Rocky Mount.
For further Information as "a
schedules. Pullman accom- III atioas.
ETC.. address the undersigned
w. Fl. PARNELL.
Travelling Passenger Agent,
Raleigh y E
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29

Gratis do not like TO hear aAs A1aa&
said shout t.
Iuxt after IL became known that
Maine han gone Democratic. cotton
declined n cents On the pound IL
the country should 70 Democratic.
look out for s-eeaf cotton again
Democrats want iow prices for the
farmer.
How many Chatham County farm
ers are there who want TO 30 into
scent cotton fields again. The DEM
ocrats are complaining about the
high prices the farmers are getting
for their produce The farmers are
In the saddle now. but IL they VIII
listen to Democratic lawyers and pol
isIcians they viii soon be down and
out again.
A dozen eggs now sells for about
as much as a bushel Of corn brought
when the Democrats had control OF
the National Government
In former days. when the Demo
Gratis had full control OF the county
government county orders were only
worth 80 cents on the dollar Sheriff
Jenkins, backed by an anti-Demo-
cratic government restored the value
of county orders to 100 cents on the
dollar. When the Democrats came
into power again in the county they
had TO pay 100 cents on the dollar,
for Jenkins had set the example, but
they have had to issue $4,000 worth
of bonds to do it.
AS Chatham is an agricultural
community entirely, the Democrats
in their county canvass, will have a
pretty hard time making the farmers
believe that they ought not TO get
good prices for their produce. In
various sections, the Democrats are
growing over the good prices that
the farmers are getting for what
they have to sell.
The Democrats are badly scared
in this county and are calling upon
kitchen, Aycock, Overman, ct al, for
help. After the election they will
cry for the rocks and mountains TO
fall upon them.
The death trap scaffolds, called
bridges, at Cumnock, Woodland and
Moore's are monument to the bust
ness capacity of N. ]. Wilson, Demo-
cratic candidate for the House of
Representatives in Chatham.
Taxpayers in Chatham will find a
new item on their tax receipt this
year, that for Interest on bonds"
The amount you pay for interest on
bonds" represents what you are pay
ing for Democratic extravaganza, or
at least a part of it. How do you
like it?
There is not a Booze Artist" on
the Republican ticket, in this county.
Selah!
A bushel of cotton seed now is
worth as much as bushel of wheat
under the Cleveland Administration.
Wheat sold right here in Chatham
County for 40 cents per bushel.
/ At one voting place in this county,
at the election in 1900, where thieV-
cry was the most fragrant, two of the
election officers died in a short time
and the other is serving a 5-year
term in the Alabama penitentiary.
vengeance is mine; I will repay,
saith the Lord"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29

vacations OF life 60 the extent in2s
"a. eonsrzrtor, plumber. sagn paint
e. ctr. wIII not 70 Required 70 pAs
a license far In excess o. the pFisn-
ex. tar required Of lawyers doctors.
ga ether professional classes - -
nov the case
We favor some method OF voting
similar to the Australian ballot Us-
ten. that viii guarantee TO eaen voter
III. right 10 exercise his suffrage.
without interference from any source
whatever, to the end that there may
Be absolute freedom OF the ballot
We are heartily In favor OF = sys-
tenn Of rotation by which no county
officer shall hold the same once Tor
more than two consecutive terms
We favor . system OF rotation In
the selection OF county commission
ers that will give to each township
representation on the board at rea-
sonable intervals OF time.
We most heartily approve the
plank In our Republican State Plat
form declaring for free text books
for the public schools. and we de-
nounce as extravagant and unjust
the too frequent changes In the text
books that now prevails. and the ex-
orbitant charges made therefor under
the contract made by the State OF
North Carolina with the school book
trust.
We favor the election OF the audi
tor OF Durham County, by the popu-
lar vote of the people, believing that
the usefulness of the Office is totally
destroyed by making the Office an ap-
pointive one at the hands OF those
over whose accounts he is to admin
lister.
! We condemn the present board OF
county commissioners for their fail
ure to carry out the recommended
tons Of the grand jury of this coun-
+ ty, that an accountant be employed
/ to examine the books OF the present
county officials, which the grand jury
found in such condition that they
could not examine them.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29
SEABOARD AIRLINE
Schedule Effective Jan. ), 1911

Trnins Leave Raleigh
Direct line with Double Daily service -
West through Atlanta. BirmingnAm
Memphis.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29
CHATHAM COUNTY POLITICS
Special to the Caucasian.

Pittsboro, Sept. 2S.-There is a
prominent Democrat, going around
over the county offering money and
brandy for votes for a certain candi-
date on the county ticket. Look out
for him for he is very busy.
Now isn't it pretty spectacle to
see a Chatham County Democrat,
and a prohibitionist at that, going
over the county trying to buy votes
with "a jug of brandy" We have
the evidence against this fellow
It is sore subject to Democrats
to say anything about the speaking
and barbecue in this county, at
rhrailkill Store. on the 18th, last.
1t was such a frost that the Demo-
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29
HON. IREDELL MEARES-
Republican Candidate for Congress
From the Sixth North Carolina
District.

District.
Hon. IredeIl Meares. one OF the
leaders OF the bar in North Carolina.
comes of a long line OF distinguished
forebears. His father. Thomas ID.
Meares, was long one OF the legal
lights OF the State and an orator OF
exceptional brilliance. His mother,
Jane Moore Iredell, was daughter
Of James Iredeli. the younger, Gov
ernor. Senator and leader OF the
State bar for years.
The subject of this sketch was
born in 1856 and Is consequently at
the fuIlness OF his strength and
powers. His father becoming i'm
poverished by the civil was and dy~
ing In the early 70's, young Meares
was compelled TO go TO work at an
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29

;.ors = minister Of the Church OF Eng
ard.
Fellow sitisens. them yuz curious
ines In the history ov our country
N I hope We wilI not have 10 90
through any sech experiences ergain-
Az ever.
ZEKE BILKISS.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29

Local Sleeper ON No. a d g between
let and Wilmington. Berth rate sl-o@ -,
For rates. schedules. time tables 80 sul,.es-
ether Information Desired apply 70 j. Hrsle,
OH. City Passenger and Ticket Agent
phone No. III.
NoTICB.-Above schedules publisnco o1
information and are not guaranteed
J.E MITCHELL. Pass. AGENT
Fl 8 LEARD Division PAe0 Atens
No. 4 W. Martin St.. Tucker BunomnE.
Opp. North Entrance Pos.T C.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29

THE CAUCASIAN FOR ONLY IOc.
The Caucasian will be sent from
now until after the election for only
10 cents in clubs of ten or more.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29

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