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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-26

Violations OF the "Clean City"
ordinances are most fragrant In
the business district. Make your
husband save the time he puts in-
to denouncing the city govern
ment, by using it in reporting
violations to the proper officials.
And if this fails, influence him to
complain to the Alderman from
your ward and from the ward in
W h the violation occurs. Your
husband is voter, and the coun-
Gil is the employer.
THINGS TO DO
Let the week beginning May
18th, be known as cleaning up
week." and let the sun shine on
a clean Macon.
Keep your own premises in
order.
Keep your refuse in receptacles.
Keep your cans in receptacles.
Report nuisances of all kinds
to the police.
Report to owners of vacant
property nuisances committed
thereon,
Induce your grocery man, etc.,
to keep his walks and premises
clean.
You are a patron and have in
fluence.
Report your work to the chair
man of the Civic League.
DONT'S.
Do not throw your refuse on
streets, alleys or vacent lots.
These lots are part of the city.
Do not allow others to do So.
Do not forget that wrapping
papers need looking after. Have
a place for them.
The Civic League wishes to in
terest every housewife in the city
in the work of keeping the city
clean. Will you do this in your
own block and the one adjoining?
MRS. E. E. DANTZLER,
President Civic League.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-26

am willing to pay taxes on my pack of
fox hounds, my bird dogs, my chickens,
my horses and if necessary my wife and
children if they will use it in extending
roads like this all over the county;
would rather have my house and ten
acres of land on this road like it is now
than have my whole farm on the old
road like it was before the improve
ment."
Mr.. 9. w. Schamber. of the firm of
Meyer & Schamber, of Meridian, says:
''The good road has made it possible for
me to live at my country home and still
attend to my business affairs in Meri
dian just as easily as though lived in
town. The benefit that strikes me as
being most practical and far reaching is
the tremendous increase in real estate
values of country property located on
the good roods. have been especially
interested in this feature and have found
that in every instance have inquired
into farms located on the good road have
been enhanced il value from so per
cent to 100 per cent as result of the
buildinf of the good road. am hesrti.
ly in favor of good roads and firmly be-
lieve that evrybody would be so if they
had the opportunity of using one for a
short time.
In contrast to this Mr.. Charley Odum
who is farmer and merchant on the
Bonita road which has not been i'm
proved, says; "There hasn't been a
time since the first of December that
have been able to get anthing hauled 10
my place from Meridian, just four miles
for less than rs cents per hundred, in
the majority of instances it has cost me
as high as so cents and a good many
times it has been impossible to get it at
any price; the people in my community
have actually had to go without oil for
their lamps for week at the time be-
cause they couldn get it, if these con-
ditions are not heavier tax on the
people than paying for the construction
of roads then am bad Judge and a
bad mathematician"
The above commentator of good
roads is only few opinions that have
been gathered from residents along these
roads. 1t is impossible to get separ-
ate opinion from every person residing
on the roads, but they are, Without a
single exception as enthusiastic over
the improved conditions given them by
good roads as the parties quoted above.
Lauderdale county has five trunk lines
of good roads leading from Meridian
and without ex ,eption there is hardly a
person found who has travelled the good
roads, or lives on them, that does not
praise them to the skies.
Opinion in general holds that good
road building should continue as it is of
incalculable benefit to the section
through which it runs and is one of the
greatest blessings ever devised for the
rural resident.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-26

at ha'f staff until the close of the
day of the funeral; that the build
ing be draped in the mourning;
that the flags on all other Govern
ment buildings and offices be
placed at half staff on the day of
the funeral from sunrise to sun:
set; that the Bureau of Internal
Revenue be closed during the day
of the funeral.
The place and time Of the fun
eral will be. announced latter in
the public press.
w. CAMERON FORBES.
Governor-General.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-26
How Capt. Ellis was Regarded.

AS an evidence of the high re-
gard in which he was held by his.
fellow officer, we print belowtke
order of the Governor-general Of
the PHILIPPINES regarding his
death:
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHIL
PINE ISLANDS.
With deep regret | announce
the death on Feb. 18th, OF Ellis
Cromwell, collector of internal
revenue of the PHILIPPINE Islands.
Born in Oktibbeha county, Mis-
sissippi, Aug. Is, 1875, he was
appointed in the federal civitser-
vice on June 1, 1893, and held
various positions there. On April
%, 1898, he was commissioned a
captain, second Mississippi volun-
tee1 infantry. On December 20,
1898, he was mustered out on
completion of the service of his
regiment. On Aug. 81, 1899, he
was commissioned first lieuten-
ant of the thirty-ninth volunteer
infantry and from May Z, 1900,
to June 80, 1901, he served by de-
tail from the United States volun-
teers as deputy collector of inter-
nal revenue of the PHILIPPINE Is
lands and on the latter date was
mustered out of the military SER
vice.
On Aug. 7, 1901, he was ap-
pointed chief deputy collector of
the city of Mal,ila. which posi-
ton he held until October 8, 1904.
On October 10, 1904, he was ap-
pointed city assessor and collec-
tor of Manila. and served as such
until November. 13, 1905. From
November IA, 1905, to December
81, he servec as assessor and col
lector of the city of Manila. From
January l, 1906, to December. 20
1909. he held the position of
deputycollector Of internal reven-
ue of the PHILIPPINE Islands. On
December 81, 1909, he was ap-
pointed collector of-internal rev.
enue of the PHILIPPINE Islands,
which position he held until the
time of his death.
From the time of his arrival in
the Philippines he took a deep
and personal interest in the Fill
pino people and by his sympa-
thetic understanding he. gained
the admiration and affection of all
those with whom he came in con-
tact.
His services with the Govern
ment of the PHILIPPINE Islands
were so notably efficient as to
gain at once the confidence of
official superiors and merit the
the signal promotion in the
Government service which came
to him.
In sorrowing testimony of the
loss which has fallen upon the
service direct that the flag on
the building occupied by the bu-
reau Of internal revenue be placed |
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-26
Civic League Notes.
OUR MOTTO
| pledge myself to help the league

OUR MOTTO
pledge myself to help the league
In every way / can.
To help the beautifying of the town
And the betterment of man
| pledge myself to keep our yard
So neat and gay with flowers.
That every lady in the block
Will pattern after ours.
pledge myself to keep our alley
So clean and free from dirt
That not fly will harbor in it
To do my neighbor hurt.
| pledge myself to use my influence
With my groceryman and butcherman
To keep the fruit and ali the meat
And all the other things we eat
Away from the flies and dust of the
street
y All they possibly can.
The lack of knowledge on the
part of the majority Of people as
to their rights as citizens of the
municipality is astonishing.
They think that public officials,
the common council and the po-
lice are superior beings to whom
private citizens are subject, that
all are merely the servants of the
people, paid to do the work of
the people, seems to be lost to
thought.
Have | any right to ask the
marshal to abate a nuisance next
door to met asks one of our most
active workers. We answer:
that is what he is there for. ?"
Probably your neighborhood af-
fords few robbers, fighters, or
rioters to be looked after, and one
of his chief duties is to see that
violation of city ordinances
against nuisances is stopped.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-26


"As a property owner, resident
and taxpayer on the Poplar Springs
road, what is your opinion of road i'm
provement such as you have as an in
vestment to the taxpayers of the
county,"
The replies made were as follows:
Mr.. ]. B. Sharp-'It is impossible to
enumerate the advantages of such a
road as this; it is the only time in my
life that l have ever realized any direct
benefits from taxation, but paying tax
es for road improvement with nae after
seeing and realizing what it means to
the whole country is pleasure; and l
don't think you can burden man With
taxation when he gets results like this
from it"
Mr.. T. ]. Rainer, an ex-treasurer of
this county-''I have heard compulsory
education agitated, but If | was men,
ber of the legislature l would offer a
resolution advocating compulsory road
construction, for man that is opposed
to it is either ignorant of what it m cans
to him or is fool, and l think the state
ought to look after such people; get
pay over and over every week of my
life for what it costs me by watching
the school children pass my house to and
from school, perfectly comfortable re-
gardless of weather conditions. l am
one of the trustees of our school and
just day or two ago I signed the school
report. showing total enrolment of
100 and an average attendance during
the month of December of 109. AS you
know, December was one of the worst
months we have ever experienced in
this county. Now if there is anything
else that can say to more fully express
my appreciation of it would be glad to
say it."
Mr.. J. ]. Houston7"I have never
made an investment for which have
cotton as much financial returns and
satisfaction out of as I have out of this
road; the advancement in property alone
has been sufficient to four or five times
pay the whole cost of construction, and
don't think the county could make an
investment that would bring in as much
returns as to bnild network of them
all over it; it is such good thing that
want every man in the county to have
one just like it, and | am willing to pay
my part of the taxes to help him getit.
Mr.. Joe Clark-"I live four miles
from the city and two miles from the
school; this has been the worst winter
that | have ever seen, but there hasn't
been a single day that my children
haven't walked to school and not single
day have they come home with wet
feet; and to think, they walked down
the middle of the rood; not one of
them has been sick with even a cold,
while heretofore my doctor bills have
been more than my road tax. Talk to
me about paying taxes to build roads,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-26
MUST BE SOLD

One registered Berkshire boar, about
Is months old. First check for $25gets
him.
One very good wagon SIS
One vacant lots close in.
One Brostrom farm level, hf price $6'
One saddle and bride, comparatively
new, half price.
If you want bargain see me.
4-l9-3t, GEO, B. CLEMENT.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-26
HORSE STRAYED.

From the Will Taylor place, six miles
west ol Macon, one bay horse, about
FIVE years old, white h'rd feet. Disar-
peared Thursday. April 9TH: Reward
will be paid for any information.
P. w. .ReyKIN; "a
F.D> No. ], Mace, Mise.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-26
Benefits to be Dertved from Good Roads.

Messrs Carleton and W. Tate Of Brook recent
inspected the madamzd
vicinity Carleton that every
heartily the roads and greatly pleased after hard
experience opinion given below taken
Star ere evidences of the appreciation which
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-26
STRAYEp.

Straying in the pasture Of L, E.
Eiland, small bay nisFe. white streak
in face, IA hands high, about 3 years
old. branded on left shoulder. The
owner can have same BY proving owner
ship and and paying al charges. Or
win be sold ~ the Inv Directs.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-26
NuMER ~

l have SO bushels of Simpkins Cotton
seed for sale at $l.0O o bushel.
J. E. HIBBLER,
Mcleod. Miss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11
The Blues
You have the blues ?'

You have the "blues?"
 The chances are you have no good req .-or Tor your bluish feeling.
 1t may be caused by bad liver. or an insurgent stomach Or 1t may be your "temperament.p Or there may be some adequate reason.
 But
 These things aside. your case. is cura- ble
 The cause of your trouble is inside of vou-in your thinking. You think the world is all wrong, but you are some what like the drunken man who thinks every one is intoxicated. The world is not wrong. You are wrong.
 Now for the cure:
 | put the prescription in two words and will write it, not in Latin, as the doctors do. but in English. It is this: fS Do something. s. tt4 Ii is not important twhat 4you do, but ii is important that youNuuit your brood ing over fancied troubles and do some thing that will change your point of view.
 Yonr mind has been hypnotizing itself. The will power has been broken down, and some of your. faculties are running without a governor You have permitted your mind to delude itself.
 l5o somethng Get your mind in shape 10 overcome its inertia. Do something, if Ii is only to clean your teeth or brush vour clothes or carry in coal.
 Change the current of your thought Give your will power chance to assert and right itself Look at your troubles from a different point of view.
 Smile if you can. -
 Smile at yourself and the worst is, over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11
How She Got Fresh Eggs

From the Christian Herald.
 a. A young lady living in small city had impaired her health by too confning work in a city office. Her physician ordered her to a sanitarium for, rest and upbuilding, and when she returned to work he in- strUcteG her to eat four fresh laid eggs daily: two eggs for breakfast and the others raw in milk. Finding it difficult to obtain dependably fresh eggs she per suaded her mother to pe1mit her having a small flock in the home yard port able house was purchased and 10 bullets installed in it. A small brother was paid 10 cents a week to feed and care fof the flock, two bags of ready-mxed food were bought and the result of the venture was not only all the eggs the young lady needed and supply for the family, but there was surplus which found ready market at the corner drug store, bringing ten cents above the market price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11

read Arthur H. Adams book, "A Touch of Fantasy
 The hero, Hugh Robjohn wears a pe- culiar brand of spectacles of German
 crystal and he looks upon the world through these lenses with a keen and in discriminating vision, perceiving the dom-
 inant qualities in all with whom he comes
 in contact,
 These were magic spectacles, for they made of an unromantic, prosaic, ein- ploye of the Austrian government. pure and simple lover assidlousiy seeking for
 the one woman who met his hearts fancy She was the last woman that anybody would have ever thought he would have selected. but then that's so frequently the case. This woman was very plain. of common parentage, the daughter Of a deceased plumber waitress In tea
 room with many men friends and none too rigid a code of morals.
 When everything went to pieces. and the world was topsy turvy and every
 thing was going down hill, the magic spectacles did the work and revealed Hugh's wife beneath his reproach and scorn. as she was-a true wife-a good woman at heart. and after all, his mate. There is a deep, underlying plea TOT faith and charity in the book and MT.
 Adams has presented his views on the
 subject in a most convincing way
 AMONG OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. (REVIEWS LATER). "DANNY'S OWN STORY" By Don Marquis. Illustrated by P. w. Kemble. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York. "A PERSONAL RECORD" By Joseph Conrad Harper Brothers. New York.
 THE STORY OF COTTON, AND THE DEVEI. .OPMENT OF THE COTTON STATEs.' By Eugene Clyde Brooks.
 Rand, McNally & Company, New York'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11

You will begin to sec the silver lining of the clouds.
 On the other hand, if you continue to nurse your blue feeling it will grow into grouch. You will not only make your self more miserable. but cause discom- fort to every one about you .a
 Do something. Get out of the rut.
 Conditions are largely what we think them to be. If you think blae thoughts you will have blue feelings.
 You can make your thoughts to suit yous If blue thoughts are not to your taste change them to suit.
 The best way to change your thoughts is to do something.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11
COUGHS, COLDS, CATARRH,
 GROUP and CATARRHAL DEAFNESS
Hvomei Will Give Satisfaction in Any of the Above Named ' Diseases or Money Refunded-Just Breathe
 It-No Stomach Dosing

You can use this Istter if you like for I certainly think ft saved fts cust many times in doctors hills.
 -HYOlIEI Is made of purest Australia n Eucalyptus and Historian Antfseptics. Tt does not contain a particle of CO., cafne, opium or other injurious drug
 Breathe 1t for colds, coughs, catarrh, cro,rp, catarrhal deafness and bron- chitis and the soothing antfseptic air will quickly heal the soreness and ban ish all misery HYOMEI outfit. inc1ud ing inhaler $1.o0, extra bottles 30 cents. Sold by druggists everywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11
Good for Men and Women povs Girls and Little Children

Do as Mrs. Bred Robinson Hsrtwfckr N. Y. K. F. D. ?, writes she oio" fSeAu'
 q have a MYOMEI outht ana use i' ror my little girl She has always h@
 such stubborn colds that we were badly Frightened whenever she caught one. We never could get anything that would break up her cold until l pur- chased rtYOMEI. Now don worry sav vocre when we have 1t in the house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11

giving him an independent income for life as the girl was big property owner and amply able to support husband.
 Ellsworth soon begins to realize how attractive his wife is and is rapidly fall ing in love with her, when suddenly she is whisked off from him and taken to tne Lor6 knows where-but at least far from his society. all of which leads him te many adventures and peculiar surround ings in his search for her.
 Villiany deep dyed and cruel, such as you'd never suspect, is revealed and the action is very rapid and engaging during the search for the lost wife, who is final ly restored to her loving husband and the troubles of our hero and heroine are at an end.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11
9THE LIKABLE cHAP.a

|
 By Henry McHarg Davenport. Sturgis & Walton Company, New York.
 Boys who are looking for a readable book dealing with Prep School life, can spend a delightful and profitable hour in the pages of Henry McHarg Davenports story, "The Likable Chap John Jackson Biggs the hero, will af- ford every boy an opportunity of study ing the fellow who, when he goes to col lege encounters clique of boys who "have it in for him. just because he hap pens to be independent and with the cour- age of his convictions.
 John Jackson Bggs Is a hearty west erner, big and free and fine.
 He is as square and as honest as a boy ever gets to be. and throws his whole heart and soul into everything he does. He is a great athlete besides that and is as game as they make them, being a good winner, but better loser. In the long run his fellow classmates appreciate him and he wins the hearts of all the boys in school through sheer pluck and character, which every one admires.
 "A TOUGH OF FANTASY" "A ROMANCE FOR THOSE WHO ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO WEAR GLASS ES." By Arthur H. Adams. The John Lane Company, New York.
 After all, those who regard the wear ing of glasses as misfortune will have their opinion slightly changed when they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11
"A BIG HORSE TO RIDE

"A BIG HORSE TO RIDE By E. B. Dewing. The Macmillan Com pany, New York.
 Here is a story of remarkable ingenui- ty. "A Big Horse to Ride"
 In it Elizabeth Dewing presents very remarkable character in Rose, a dancer, the greatest of her time, around whom, a very dramatic set of circumstances are woven.
 Besides being a dancer Rose is better fsfif1 a philosopher, and given. strength and endowed with beauty and full of the joy of living, she comes to a req liza tion of life and it's meaning and what she does with her own, and the power she exer- eises, forms the sum and substance of the story, it's climax being very interest ing and unusual.
 There is a radiance of freshness in the authors viewpoint of the intricacies of moods and complexities of introspection and restrospection which might be easily taken for monologue of Browning s done into prose, which reveals the pri-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11

ture.
 The dancers perfect physique, necessi- tated by her professon and her tremen- dous energies, which she uses in the ser vice of her life and art, are an interest ing theme which the author has dealt with in a well defined manner
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11

both in his story of "The Money Moon, v for it is thing of beauty dealing with an everlasting truth.
 There is really only one fault with the wholesome little story and that is 1t is all too short fault that cant be found with many of the present day publica- tions.
 An American millionaire, Mir George Belew, ''lately sof-er-other places in America and in Nowhere in particular,
 is the hero of "The Money Moon. He is stalwart young Harvard man, squara of jaw and blonde of mead, with busy imagination and a keen sense of humor, that drives dull care away and shows tsei worthy when any demand is made of it.
 Nobody could help liking the heroine, Miss Anthea (with whom Bellew is very much in love- and her nephew, Small Porges," whose faith in The Money Moon is permitted 10 waver until it really produces the fortune that saves the family homestead from sacrifice
 In England the millionaire hero finds himself with the English peasantry as background and with innumerable other scenic effects the story is charm ingly arranged aud the fact that the girl he loves seems To prefer title to him and his millions causes him to search for solace amid all sorts of adventures and wanderngs.
 There is touch of Locke's lnintable poetic fancy in Mr. Farnels book and something that recalls MT. Barrie in his most fanciful moods, all of which MT Farnel has expressed most delicately and convincingly.
 A Tn the end our hero of "The Money Moon" achieves his hearts desire, but before he gains it he has to show much ingenuity and contrive devious methods which he does very eleverly. 4
 "The Money Moon is one of the whole some, readable books recently published and couple of hours can be delightfully."- spent perusing it's pages.
 1.-THE MAN IN. THE BROWN DERBY" By Wells. Tasting. The Bobbs Merrill
 Company, Indianapolis.
 That "it pays to advertise might be easily corroborated by the hero of Wells Hastings novel, "The Man In the Brown Derby" r- s.s
 Mason Ellsworth. down and out" comes across an advertisement in. a New York paper which reads as follows:
 IA gentleman capable of deciding on the instant max become financially inde- pendent for life. N1appIcant will he considered who is bound by any ties whatever, .or 3who has not had a. college edueaton. ApplY in person between the hours of sA and 5 D. rI., at 4A-5,, aA--5,,, Lexifis- tona avenue today # 5 s.l ss , ., s <. ys
 Ellsworth. who has run Ftiie entire gamut and is willing to do anything eX- eept commit crime in order to assure himself of "a living .peruses the adver- tisements with much interest.
 He answers the "ad," reporting at the proper time and place, and when he ar rives he discovers that the task mapped out, for him is to marry a girl whom he has never seen before in his life.
 Stranger even than that was the fact that she. was willing and ready to marry him. andsso before. he knows 1t he and the girl are man and wife, this alliance