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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-07
Mrs. J. J. Meeks

The funeral services over the body of Mrs. J. J. Meeks. who died Tuesday, morning at the family residence at Boyles, were held yesterday morning from the residence. Interment was in the family cemetery.
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F., and O ]. Waldrop, and number of grandchildren, among whom are Drs. William and R. w. Waldrop of this city.
 Owing to a delay caused by the gen. eral shortage in cars. the solid train load of pipe for san Diego, Cal, from the United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry company, scheduled to move last Saturday, will leave this city over the Illinois Central at o'clock to- morrow morning.
 At the coroner's inquest held over the death of the unknown boy who was killed Monday morning by an Ala bama Great Southern freight train, the verdict rendered was that of an un- avoidable accident. judging that the boy was asleep on the tracks at the time of the passing Of the train.
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MT. Victor Campbell has just returped from a two weeks visit to Savannah and Charleston, MT. Campbell was in Charles ton the night of the terrible hurricane, August 27, and describes the time there as being most thrilling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-07

For appropriate floral offerings. phone il. Sec Godden's Seed q Flower Store. aolS First avenue
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EYE WITNESS
 TO BEATTIE
 MURDER MAY
 REOPEN CASE
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ter for the defense the concludin g speech being made by l.. O. Wenden- burg of the prosecution.
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MT. Marcus Well returned yesterday from Waukesha, Wis. Mrs Well will re- main there until October. Her frienas will be glad to know that her health has greatly improved.
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PERSONAL

Dr. John D. S. Davis returned home from Tate Springs yesterday. He has entirely recovered from his recent ill., ness.
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BURGESS SWIMS ENGLISH CHANNEL
 IN STRONG TIDES

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LICE JOY. Undertaken. Phones 7A
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General News


 J. A. Estes, representative of the Bes- semer board of trade, returned last even- ing from Montgomery where he went Monday morning to appear before the railroad commission of Alabama at the hearing of the Bessemer union depot matter and reported that the commits sion granted the attorneys of the railroads involved further time that they might file written briefs Of their view on the situation. This leaves the decision of the decision of the question in the hands of commission, as soon as the railroads suo- init their written brief and an order for la union report, or at least better pas senger facilities, Is expected at any time. A branch office of the Physicians and Surgeons National Clinical association, a |new corporation with headquarters in Birmingham, has been opened in this city and will hold free clincis on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons from Ii until o'clock for examination con |stiltation and medicinal prescriptions. Dr. A. l.. Course of Birmingham will be the local representative and the suite of Of fees, formerly occupied by Dr. F. K Hanby in the Mcdonald building, have been overhauled and made ready for the new physicians.
 The first carload of Bessemer sweet po-
 
 noon and contained 420 bushels of Dooley yellow yams put up in new sacks, hack ed in double rows to half the depth of the ventilated car and under the personal supervision of Manager Vanderputte of the Truck Growers association.
 While alighting from a South Bessemer car at Lipscou1b this morning, Mrs. Milan of Birmingham was caught in the gates, and falling as she was released from them, sustained a concusson of the spine and. injured hip. Mrs. Milan, who Is presumably about 60 years of age, was brought to this city on the same car, and carried to the Robinson hospital, where she will remain for several days until she has sufficiently recovered from her in- juries, which are not pronounced danger ous by the attending physicians. to go to her home.
 The funeral of Mrs. Nancy Waldrop, the second oldest woman in Jefferson county, her age being 90 years. was held this afternoon at the home of her son, H. H. Waldrop and the inter- ment made in the Pleasant Ridge cem- etery. The deceased, who has been an invalid for some time. died at the home of her son Tuesday afternoon. She Is survived by four sons, H. H. B. B., R.
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CLAIMED UNIONS
 REFUSE SUPPORT
 TO AN I. c. STRIKE

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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21
TRY FERRO-CEMENT ROADS
Experiments With This Substance IT.
France Have Been Highly
Successful.

"~Ferro-cement" roads are being ex,
perimented with in France. The sub
stance is made of cement mixed with
straw. To make a slab or block OF
f~erro-cemeEt, a mass Of iron-straw is
placed in the mold, and there is poured
over it cement sufficiently fluid tc
penetrate into all the interstices of the
iron and completely cover it. When
he whole has set, the core of iror
thus intimately incorporated gives tc
he block a great resistance to break
age and to traction, at the same time
furnishing elasticity to compression
which enables 1t to stand superficial
shocks. A brick of ferro-cement 1 3-5
inches thick has supported during
crushing tests, a pressure of about IS
tons to the square inch. In breakage
tests, the resistance was ~quadruple
that of ordinary cement. Resistance
to wear vas no less remarkable.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21

up an education under town conditions
they are getting the town microbe
along with the education. They form
ciaI life of the school; they are not
willing to go back upon the farm with
its dreariness and isolation. No one
ought to blame them for this, in fact
they are to be commended in many
instances. The country lass and youth
must have the social life that natures
demand. This sociological fact must
be reckoned with.
The National Educational commits
sion, made up Of eminent educators,
thoroughly familiar with our condi-
tons, has been studying this subject
for a long time, and it says that the
solution is only to be found in the
consolidated township school, where
instead Of eight or ten isolated school
houses, placed at intervals at the cross
roads throughout the township-bleak,
dreary and uninviting-there should
be one central graded school at the
most convenient central point, and pro-
visions made to take the children to
and from the school. Good roads are
necessary if this is to be done. The
school ought to nave at least five acres
Of ground to serve as a miniature ex-
pertinent station for the study of agri-
culture, the cultivation of which will
increase interest in agriculture and
show that farming requires brains as
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21
GOOD ROADS IN NORTHWEST
Washington State Alive to the In.
portarce OF Having Service
able Highways.

The northwest is alive 10 the vaIue
OF good roads. III a recent Issue O.
the Seattle CNash.) IntelIigenceT the
statement is made that before the
sumner is owe Seattle and Tacoma
will be connected by a frstcIass a;-
c~adannized highway. In King county.
Of which Seattle is the seat, there
will be S320,000 available, including
site aid, for road improvement iris
year. Much of'tnis viii be 81 EFT CT
1 trunk line destined 30 conneut Seat
tie and Everett. From Everett tc
Tacoma an improved road is a mat
ter Of the GEAR future. This 10 q
work is part of a general plan TO bul.
a trunk lire from the northern to t.t
southern boundary OF Westminster
which in turn will become part CT Z
highway from the Great Lakes to t..
ocean, through the northern ter O.
state, and this VIII connect wish III
other trunk line from British CoIumhi
down the coast to Mexico-a Gr1- 3
OF that W~ide-aWake country tnat /.
certain to be realized in the 2ext lev
years.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21
Many Leave Treasury for Other Lines

TIE unofficial function Of the treas
4 ury department as a training
school for business life outside has
been demonstrated with striking force
within the last two or three months
No less thar five Of the most useful
employees of the treasury have re-
Gently been graduated into business
life.
The recent selection of Charles P.
Montgomery, chief of customs, to take
charge Of the customs affairs Of the
American Sugar Refining company. iB
q case In point. Mr.. Montgomery is
an older man than others to be men
toned, and had been longer in the
service, but his prize In the business
world appears to be none the less sub
stantial.
Only a few weeks ago George K.
Leete. a clerk in the Office Of Assistant
Secretary 4. Platt Andrew, was made
private secretary to Ebert H. Gary,
chairman OF the executive committee
of the United States Steel corporation.
A week or two ago Lawrence o. Muir
ray, controller Of the currency, re-
ceived an offer of the presidency Of
the First National bank of Pfttsburg.
and. declining that position because
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21
ELECTRIC MULES FOR PANAMA
Railroad to Be Built Along Panama
for Drawing Ships From Ocean
to Ocean.

The first shipment of steel has been
made from New York for building a
unique electric railway along the Pan
anna canal for drawing great ships
from to ocean. The enormous
volume of shipping across the isthmus
will be drawn on the ancient towpath
system, so hat it will be unnecessary
for steamers to proceed under their
own steam. In place of the mules, on
this curious towpath, powerful electric
locomotives will draw the largest
ships smoothly and swiftly across the
continent. A steamer of, say 20 0
tons, which the canal will readily
accommodate, is obviously a very
heavy burden, and the electric loco
motives will be geared to the tracks
by a middle rail in the form of a
rack. The canal commission has ad-
vertised for 1000, 900 pounds Of steel
ties, slots and covers and 1900, 900
pounds of steel channels. This rack
railway will be built by the commits
sion, and will be in working ordnI in
less than two years, in time for the
opening OF the canal.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21

UST as the government Is sitting In
y for the biggest legal game 1t ever
played the discovery is made that 1t
is bound to lose and the Southern Pa
cifc railroad to win $5O0,000 900 If the
play goes on.
The stakes are a great area Of Cali
fornia's richest oil lands. They were
granted to the railroad with a clause
II the grant expressly excepting all
mineral lands save those containing
coal and iron. Most Of these lands
were patented to the grantee more
than six years ago.
The Joker in the situation is a spe-
cial statute Of limitations, slipped
through congress in an act Of March
8, 1891, and perfected by another act
If March 2, 1896.
The effects Of these acts, as con-
strued by the United State Supreme
court, is absolutely to bar proceedings
by the government to annul a patent
of land to a Immigrant railroad after
six years from the issuance Of the pat
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21

Of his desire to complete a series Of
reforms he had instituted, the place
was given to o. L. Telling, chief Of
the national bank examiners. S. Ha-
zen Bond, who. appropriately enough.
had charge Of the bonding Of govern.
ment employees in the department,
has left that position to go with one
of the great surety companies. Ed
ward P. Currier, until within a month
private secretary to Assistant Score
tary of the Treasury James F. Curtis,
Is now second secretary to Vice-Presf
dent Frank A. Vanderlip of the Ma
tional City bank of New York.
Assistant secretaries of the treas
ury appear to be always In demand in
mercantile life. especially If their
service has taught them familiarity
with fiscal matters.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21

VKT ASHINGTON.-Fakes made while
w oil wait! The government ought
to be ashamed of itself, but instead OF
that it retains a man especially to per-
petrate them. 1t is no ~near-fak1ng
either. the government work is exact
ing and when the duplicate specimens
are completed there Is no telling
which is the original and which the
Imitation. There are probably few
men Of similar calling in the world,
and fewer still who are as clever in
that line.
The National museum has dug up a
son of Wizard Jack Hendley, who in
his day was the premier imitation
man of the United States, and they
now keep young VIII Hendley busy
all the time making something lOok
Nike something else. 1t seem to be
a peculiar gift, and is valuable in a
museum.
He works chiefly in plaster, making
casts of anything and coloring them
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21
Senate No Longer a Rich Mans Club

kY . longer IL the United States SEN
IL ate the leading m~illionaires' club
Q America. The number Of million
aires IN the upper branch Of congress
has been decimated, and the time may
be far distant when the senate
viii become known as the DOR mans
club.
No less tina $50. 900. 900 worth OF
senators has been ripped from the
upper branch by an operation as SIM
pie as the one that left Adam without
one of his ribs. The late Democratic
cyclone had much TO do with it. From
present indications there will have TO
be formed an association for the con-
%servation of our m~illionaires in the
Senate unless it is to become the poor
mans club.
The death of Stephen B.. Elkins Of
West Virginia carried $15,000.0 900 out
of the senate. The retirement Of Mel
son w. Aldrich of Rhode Island, car
ierd 500 0 900 away. Four million
went with Eugene Hale Of Maine,
when he made way for Senator John
son, elected by the Democratic legis-
lature.
Chauncey NJ. Depew of New York.
director in 80 different railroads,
walked off with $1,000, 900. 1t was his
own and he had a right to walk of
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21

than 1t does over good ones; how with
good roads the farmer can market his
produce at any time he desires to do
SO and take advantage of market o n
ditions and get the most for what he
has to sell.
Bad roads are a serious handicap
to social conditions, and sometimes for
weeks at a time dwellers in the fa1mr
home r marooned by stretches Of
impossible roads. They cannot get
out to see anybody and nobody can
get to see them. The town that is
FIVE miles away might as well be twice
that. We know that man Is a sociable
thing-it is part of his nature-he can
only grow and develop by meeting his
fellow men-touching elbows-and by
social and business intercourse.
We know that bad roads have been
responsible in a very large degree for
driving the young people from the
farms to the cities. The census for
the last thirty years has shown an
ever increasing drift of the best brains
and blood Of the farm to the city. This
Is true Notwithstanding that there is
no better business in the world than
farming, If it is done along up-to-date,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21
Good Faker in the Government Museum

SO they look like the original, and he
seems able to reproduce a counter
felt of anything from a raw oyster TO
a stone idol. There are a good many
tricks in the trade that have been
handed down from father to son., such
as reproducing the bloom of a peach
or scraping an apple to get the veg
etable wax that will make the surface
of a plaster apple look like the orig
inal fruit.
There are always new problems
coming up in the curious art Of max
ing something out of something else.
One of the features of the big ethnoE
ogic collection that Is now being In
stalled in the hall of the new museum
building is a series of groups. These
include the various families OF man.
There are Patagonians, Hawaiians,
Eskimos, all sorts of Indians, a family
of Igorrotes and altogether about 20
groups. Each of them Is shown en-
gagged in some characteristic tribal
work. The Eskimos are loading a seal
on a sledge.
II there Is anything the museum
cannot get in the original, from a rare
trilobite to a Cortnthian fresco, 1t can
turn Hendley loose with the original,
and he will make an imitation that
would fool an expert
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21
sIlVer-Eyed 6eefsteak

The London cop calls his half-pen.
ny herring his s~ilved-eyed beefsteak.
and there are hundreds cooking every
minute In London town where n is
eaten here. Any time of the year a
big part Of this city would profit by
eating fish for a spell instead Of beef.
With no open air exercise beef Is a
heap harder than fish for the body to
get rid of. because there Is a good deal
more water In fish han In beef or
pork. Fish are fat or lean. Eel, sal
mon, herring are more than i've per
cent. grease. Halibut and mackerel
are two tt Ave per cent. fat; cod,
whiting, paddock, even les than tvs
per cent-NOw York PresBA
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21
Uncle Sam May Lose Valuable Lands

ent. Until these acts are repealed,
the government has not a chance on
earth to get back its lands.
Announcement has been made that
within a few weeks the government
will file suit as to these lands with
Special Assistant Attorney General
Townsend in charge. The oil men Of
California are thoroughly aroused and
alarmed by the discovery Of the joker.
They are advised by some of the
ablest lawyers that the suits can re-
suit only In confirming the railroads
title and so they are appealing to
Washington with all the force they
can command to hold off the litiga-
ton until the "toker" act can be re-
pealed. This they believe congress
will not hesitate to 60, nee 1t knows
the inwardness and gravity Of the
situation.
Suits already have been Instituted
with respect to lands patented to the
railroad company less than six years
ago, and as to these there is 40 ques-
ton. The special statute Of limfta-
tons cannot affect these proceedings.
The area of land bestowed upon
these railroads and now claimed by
the Southern Pacific reaches the enor-
nous total of 26,177, 518 acres, a prin-
cipality carved from one Of the rich.
est sections of the country.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21

progressive lines. 1t renders a surer
and larger return than anything else
in the worlds work, yet the fact re-
mains that the boy is not satisfied
with farm life. With good roads, SO
he could get out whenever he desired
to with his best buggy and girl, or
perhaps an automobile, country life
would take on an entirely different
aspect.
The handicap Of the bad road is GER
tainly a heavy one and Is farreaching,
Education has suffered greatly by rea-
son Of it. The country schools are
little, If any, better than they were
forty years ago.. It Is an open question
whether they are as good. The wages
paid the teachers are small. The
number Of pupils is very limited
sometimes three or four-often not
over a dozen or fifteen. There is no
school spirit; there Is NO anything
but dreariness and drudgery with little
progress toward education. When b
boy and girl get old enough to realize
this condition and the parents e 1t,
there is nothing to do but send Johnny
or Lizzie to the nearby town or city,
where the schools are better and
where there is an opportunity getting
he rudiments OF an education, and
while Johnny and Lizzie are picking
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21

with it, but the senate In b aggre
gate became just that much poorer.
Then there was John Kean Of New
Jersey, who while scarcely in the class
of Elkins, was worth $4,000, 600. When
he left, another five-million iron man
bit the dust, so far as the senate was
concerned.
In the broad, sweet fields Of private
life wandered Nathan B. Scott Of West
Virginia. with his 81, 1000, 900. With him,
along the rose-bordered byway, went
James P. Taliaferro Of Florida with
s 100000. Hughes of Colorado died,
removing another 81, 000, 900.
There was $50, 900, 900 right at n
clip. The men elected TO replace these
millionaires are Virtually poor men, or
at least, what the world considers poor
In these days of big fortunes.
Watson of West Virginia, who re-
placed E1kins, is about the only mil
l~ionaire in the batch Of baby members
He is worth 81. 100000.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21
BAD ROADS BURDEN
ONWARD MARCH OF PROGRESS rs
RETARDED BY MISERABLE
HIGHWAYS.
BIG HANDICAP TO PEOPLE
Costs Much More to Haul Produce
Over Bad Roads Than IL Does Over
Good Roads-Effect of Good Roads
on Social Life.
BY HOWARD n. Q

When one makes a study of this
great subject and sees in how many
ways the march of progress Is re-
tarded by miserable highways the
country over, and realizes what a
burden this handicap places upon the
people, it is surprising that the Whole
population does not rise as one man
and demand that the highway condi-
tons shall be improved to the standard
required for the twentieth century.
Road advocates have shown for
years and years how much more it
costs to haul produce over bad roads
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21

per year over and above what IL
would cost to perform the same service
over roads hat are uniformly good.
One Of the great world questions Is
that of good roads, and the sooner the
people wake up to the fact the faster
and surer will our progress be toward
higher and better things.
There is a widespread clamor for a
parcel post n strong influences are
at work to get the federal government
committed to it. The indications are
that it will be tried out on a moderate
scale. Whether the parcel post will
prove a blessing or otherwise is an
open question, and one we will not at
this time discuss. We may say, how
ever, that any attempt at the parcel
post that contemplates extending the
service to the rura mail routes will
prove a disappointment. The Condi-
lions Of the public roads are such that
for weeks at a time it would be phy3i-
cally impossible to make delivery. The
carriers are taxed now to he limit.
If he starts out with fifty pounds over
bad roads it is a heavier burden thai
i've times the weight over a good road.
Given the parcel post in full swing
and without doubt the weight the car
rier must handle will be many times
what it is now. Any one familiar with
conditions will say that without good
permanent highways the delivery OF
packages over rural routes will be a
physical iEpossibility. The first thing
10 strive for is good roads; let the
parcel post come later.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-21

question whether we are not establish
ing here in the central west the con-
ditions that have been the curse of
Ireland foC three hundred years. The
result Of this condition is that the soil
is losing it's fertility; h farm is be-
coming foul; noxious weeds are grow
ing; the landlord sQueezes the tenant
for all the rem that is In sight and
the tenant takes it out Of the farm; he
cannot afford for the short lease of
n or two years to buy fertilizers;
he must simply rob the soil for all
he can get and turn it over to his sue
cessor in worse condition than he
found it. He cannot go into stock
farming on short land tenures, SO he
must be what is known as a grain
farmer, and this takes the life out of
the soil. The greatest economic men
ace OF the world today, bar nothing,
Is the depletion of soil fertility, and
this will go on as tenantry increases.
Thus we see a few of the very many
drawbacks that are directly and in
directly due to bad roads, and we may
add to the list, as stated by the de-
partment OF agriculture, that the cost
of moving farm products to the market
and getting supplies back to the farm
over bad highways cause an extra
expense Of at least $3.50 per person