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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-02-02
CHAPTER discontinued.

A long session of three hours follow
ed. The deciding factor was not the
big automatic pistol, but the gertrude
that Daylight would use it. Not alone
were the three men convinced of this,
but Daylight himself was convinced.
He was firmly resolved to kill the men
II his money vas not forthcoming. IT
was not an easy matter, IN the spur Of
lions in paper currency, and there
were vexatious delays. A dozen times
Mr.. Howison and the head clerk were
summoned into the room. On these oc-
casioDs the pistol lay on Daylight's lap,
covered carelessly by a newspaper,
while he was usually engaged in roll.
ing or lighting his brown-paper Gig
arctic. But in the end, the thing was
accomplished. A suitcase was brought
up by one Of the clerks from the wait
ing motorcar, and Daylight snapped it
shut OF the last package of bills. He
paused at the door to make his final
remarks.
There's three several things | sure
want to tell you.all. When l get out
side this door, you-allll be set free to
act, and l just want to warn you-all
about what to do. In the first place.
NO warrants for my arrest-savvee?
This moneys mine, and | amt rob-
bed you of 1t. II it gets out how you
gave me the double cross and how !
done you back again, the laugh II be
on you, and it'll be sure an almighty
big laugh. You-all can't afford that
laugh. Besides. having got back my
stake that you-all robbed me of, If you
arrest me and try ito rob me a Sec
ond time I'll go cunning for you-all,
and I'll sure get you. No little fraid-
cat shrimps like you-all can skin Burn.
ing Daylight. II you win you lose, and
there'll sure be some several unexpect.
ed funerals around this burg. Just
look me in the eye, and you-allll saw
e l mean business. Them stubs
and receipts on the table is all yourn.
Good day"
AS the door shut behind him, Ma
thaniel Letton sprang for the tele-
phone. and Dowsett intercepted him.
What are you going to do?" Dow
sett demanded.
The police. It's downright robbery.
! won't stand 1t. | tell you l won't
stand It,"
Dowsett smiled grimly, but at the
same time bore the slender f1nancier
back and down into his chair.
Well talk 1t over" he said; and
in Leon Guggenhammer he found an
anxious ally.
And nothing ever came of It. The
thing remained a secret with the
three men. Nor did Daylight ever
give the secret away, though that aft
ernoon, leaning back in his stateroom
on the Twentieth Century, his shoes
of, and feet on a chair. he chuckled
long and heartily. New York remained
forever puzzled wei the affair; nor
could 1t hit upon a rational explana-
ton. BY all rights. Burning Daylight
should have gone broke. yet It was
known that he Immediately reappeared
In San Francisco possessing an appar-
emily unimpaired capital. This was
evidenced by the magnitude of the en-.
terprises he engaged In, such as, for
instance. Panama Mail, by sheer
weight of money and fighting power.
wrestling the control away from Shelf
ly and selling out in two months to the
Hartman interests at a rumored enor-
wol.s advance.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-02-02
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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-02-02

A mar may have his price. but It
takes a to make him feel like
a bargain counter remnant.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-09-19
By ]. Campbell Cory,
The Famous Cartoonist.

It's a good many years since /
first felt justified in fixing the title
Sporting Expert" after my mon
iker, and I've had no trouble get
ting by in all classes as a double
distilled, post graduate regular
guy ever since-until l bumped
into this aviation brand Of up1to-
date Mysteries.
You can call awaiting sport if
you like, but put bridge jumping
and the gentle pastime of nayi7
eating Niagara Falls in ANAL key
down as child's play in compar-
ison.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-09-19

I've been lamping the game
here in Chicago for the past week
or so and, believe me, if this is
sport, give me a nice coy little
corner in the violent ward of
some respectable dotty. house
where l can make careful obser-
vations of the real thing.
Here have the good citizens of
Chicago been cruising around for
"a. week in an atmosphere thickly
populated with cylinder oil,
monkey wrenches and fragments
of disintegrated idiot, and getting
lame necks from looking up, and
black and blue spots and bad
names from humping into each
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-06

SEA FEVER.

SEA FEVER.
1 must go down to the seas again, to the
lonely sea and the sky.
And all I ask is a tall ship and star to
steer her by;
And the wheels kick and the winds song
and the white sails shaking,
And a gray mist on the seas face, and
gray dawn breaking.
must go down to the seas again, for the
call of the running tide
Is a wild call and clear call that may
not be denied;
And all 1 ask is windy day with the
white clouds flying
And the flung spray and the blown spume
and the seagulls crying.
I must go down to the seas again, to the
vagrant gypsy life,
To the CULTS way and the whales, way
where the winds like whetted
knife;
And all 1 ask is a merry yarn from a
laughing fellow rover,
And quiet sleep and sweet dream when
the long tricks over.
John Masefield.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-06
AYHAWKER JOTy

E. M. c. of the Ottawa Republic puts
it this way: Salaries are wages with
Sunday clothes on
Talk not of grief, advises Walt Mason
in the Emporia Gazette, until you get
so fat that you can't tie your own
shoes.
One good thing about a motor car,
thinks the Ottawa Herald, is that 1t
takes more than one measly fly to
make it run away.
There is some cause for congratula-
ton, observes the ottawa Republic, in
the fact that honeycomb isn't any high
er in price this year.
Said Jonathan Whang to the Atchison
Champion the other day: "A picture
without a woman in it has to go some
to attract much attention"
In these days of modern food can
ming and packing, says the Harrington
Times, almost any man can get along
as bachelor until all of the dishes
are dirty.
Excellent advice from the Eskridge
Tribune-Star: A political dispute is
waste of time and often causes hard
feelings. If you must talk politics,
talk with those who agree with you.
The law against drinking liquor on
railroad trains seemed to hold a GER
tain terror for a passenger on No. IL,
Monday, reports the Alma Signal. AS
the train passed the depot he stuck
his head out of the car window, tip
ped up a bottle and was in fair way
to quench his thirst. But the way of
the transgressor is hard. A thirsty
Sturgeon standing on the platform
grabbed the bottle, and the train was
gone.
AS Mrs. Esther Nve, of the Newton
Journal. advises: When the thermom-
eter gets UP to SO and higher and you
can't sleep for the heat, just say,
Now 1 lay me down to Sleep" and
keep on keeping on" saying it with
no crouch against the weather. The
corn is growing. The farmer is lying
awake to listen to it grow. He is not
awake because of the discomfort of
the heat, but because he wants to keep
his grin of appreciation going on so
that the Lord will see 1t.
The Democratic stampede to Will
son when Illinois changed its vote, re-
minds the Alma Signal of the follow
ing school teacher story. Johnny"
she said, IF there are ten sheep on
one side of a fence and one jumps
over, how many are left ?'' None re-
piled Johnny. Yes, there would be
nine" insisted the teacher. Nope"
declared Johnny again. The argu
ment grew heated until Johnny said:
You may know how to teach school
but you don't know much about
sheep"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-06
by THE WAY
81 HARvrx PAnsoNR

At least no one can say that a Noble
Effort was not made to keep part of
the ge-lorious Fourth's fight honors
on the pale-skinned side of the plate.
Nothing could stop the Big Gloom IN
his joyful jaunt, but they stole one
from the little Mexican, and presented
it 10 a busted champ.
The fight game is on the fritz, and
it's time to pass national laws against 1t.
The bare knuck1ed rough-house staged
by Jawn L. and Jake Kflrain was a
beastly affair, but it was not so much
national disgrace as the game played
at present In those days, the fighters
skinned their knuclkles; now they E:m-
ply skin the patrons.
The Missouri Chautauqua circuit
has Cancelled some dates 1t made with
Hon. w. Jennings Bryan. Missouri
not only has to be shown. and is hard
to show, but has to be pacified, and is
hard to pacify.
Some people mistake a short MEM
DRY for a clear conscience.
Lots of people knock on the prac-
tice of buying foreign titles, but more
of them would be doing it if they
could be purchased on credit.
A friend who has been spending a
week at famous mineral springs re-
SORT IN M1SSOurl, mas SpTedQ the re-
port that the waters do not mix well
with booze-in fact that said waters
are next things to a Kelley cure. And
now a number of cooks who had
planned to spend their vacations at the
same place have decided upon Milwau-
kee as substitute.
A man named Eugene Schieffelin,
who used to live in New York, IS
charged with having first introduced
the English sparrow into America.
Since that time the sparrow has been
introducing himself.
foreigners at Stockholm, which APP
pealS to us as better object lesson
to foreigners than outrunning them.
A reader wants this department to
take up the campaign against hat
pins. We are not against hat pins
just now, but have been in crowded
street cars.
REGARDLESS Of antitrust laws and
agitations for lower prices, 1t seems
that all efforts are fruitless. Every
thing is going up-even the mercury.
Outsiders who write in and suggest
new ways to run a newspaper, may
rest assured that their suggestions will
be carried out. The janitor is not
permitted to burn them in the edi-
torial department
Speaking of moss-grown jokes, can
you remember ever having seen man
use a Glove for a chaser?
1t was a quiet Fourth. About the
only noise was when another white
hope blew UP at Las Vegas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-06
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHIsOT GLOBE.

resignation can be read" yellow and
blue.
Many people will believe a rumor, but
not enough to bet on it.
dogs notion of enterprise is to find
a good deal to bark at.
veteran of three wars sure must have
been a glutton for glory.
A sixteen-year-old girl is usually sub
ject to arrest for cruelty to adjectives.
AS rule the greatest ambitions require
a lot of outside help to put them over.
We will say this much for good English:
1t sounds lot better over the telephone.
1t is a peevish printers notion that an
EN- dash Is a poor substitute for real pro-
family.
Many men have attained eminent sue
cess without showing any regard for the
split infinitive.
When no other way suggests itself, q
man sometimes attracts attention by eat
ing catSup on pie.
If a man should win a medal and wear
it, probably most people would mistake
him for delegate.
After a man has had his vacation, he
can hear of a surprising number of tho
finest places on earth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-06
SAYS UNCLE CAV

Next to the man who prides himself
upon his dissipation. the cheapest thing
in the world is he who boasts that he is
a good hater. 1t is not well to insist
that men particularize too closely in
applying the principle of universal
brotherhood. Some brothers are hap
pier a little way apart, and we may at
once love all mankind and have very
little use for some few individuals. Yet
he who is proud of his hatred has mis-
taken for a virtue a quality that his
friends mention only by way of apol-
ogy. Nobody loves a good hater, and
the phrase is seldom used save by way
of excuse.
There is more than a pet aphorism in
the saw that all the world loves a lover
Similarly, all the world hates a hater.
Primitive as are most of the basic prin-
ciples of civilized society, expression Of
hatred breeds disgust IL not a shudder
He who nurses hatred for the least
or the greater part of his fellows is to
a commensurate degree an enemy of
society. Hatred is the essence of the
anti-social, and it is no mere finespun
theory that the hand that is against
any man is more or less against the
race, save when it be lifted in service
Moreover, hate is the most exhaust
ing of the passions. effectively anti
social, subjectively it is destructive.
1t WarpS the judgment, unSeatS the
reasoning power, burns up energy
that might be devoted to good cause
and makes an incompetent, sorry sort
of victim Of him who boasts it as a
crime. He who gives himself over to
hatred, who worships his passion for
revenge is insane.
This is no world for moIlycoddles,
neither is it designed as a habitation
for maniacs. AS strength and cour-
age and the willingness to fight
when battle is necessary, are at a
premium, so also there is a premium
upon self-control and forbearance.
The little man is the good hater; the
big one. he that can deal a blow in
his own defense without rancor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-06

their cots under the pungent shades of
the Black Forest as about Doctor
Trudeau's camp in the Adirondacks.
Then there are the devotees of indiges-
ton and the nervous wrecks, bilious,
alcoholic. and society wrecks, drug
fiends. bridge hends, and everybody;
that is, everybody who can spend the
time and money to come hither for the
forest cure. Naturally In Germany, as
in America, folks who have to work
and support families cannot afford 10
be cured. They can't even afford the
disease in the first place.
ut is curious how friendly the for
ests are to sick and discouraged people.
The trees reach out their arms TO
shelter them. In the stiffness of the
morning and through the long nights
they whisper reassuringly to everyone
who listens
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.1
Two can live almost as extensively as
one.
Some men arc honest-just as some
women are silent.
To the victor belongs the spoils-if he
can find them.
The height of a girls ambition is SCI
dom less than feet 6.
The average man dies before reaching
the age of discretion.
Anyway, the man who parts his hair IN
the middle is seldom profane.
All men are equal-as long as they can
keep from under womans thumb.
Too many men try to get what they
want before they know what they want.
Good deeds always speak for themselves
If they call for valuable real estate.
Keep your mouth shut; you can never
tell when the microbes are swarming
It's poor law that won't work five or
six ways in the hands of q skdllfuI law
yer.
No. Cordelia. girl isn't necessarily
Jewel just because she is set in her ways.
In Irritation between a woman and
man she always thinks he is in earnest
because she isn't.
If hubby is old and ugly and WHEY is
young and beautiful, it's a sure sign that
he has more dollars than sense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-06
EVENING CHlT
By RUTH CAA4ERoN.

There are many people in this world
who are naturally and unavoidably
more, who are deliberately stupid.
That is the conclusion to which I have
come after many experiences with people
who VIII not understand
Surely you have met such people
Everyone has. But perhaps you do not at
once recognize the classification. Let mo
this species
In the first place, there are the people
who try not to understand what you say.
These usually belong to your own family
or to that inner circle of friendship in
which it is allowable to be disagreeable.
Only in his relationship with his family
or his dearest friends, does this specimen
of the species exhibit his unwillingness to
understand things. Out side of this he is
sufficiently quick and intelligent. which
proves that his stupidity is the deliberate
and not the avoidable kind. If, in mo-
ment of Observation-Disclosures or hurry, you
say just the opposite fom what you mean,
this type of person always picks you up
and makes you correct yourself. Or if you
speak out suddenly, and rather blindly
about some topic which you have been
mulling over in your mind he pretends not
to have the slightest notion what you are
talking about. In both cases he could
have known perfectly well what you
meant if he had tried to know. But he
didn't On the contrary, he tried not to:
This is one example of the people who
do not understand. Another division is
that of the deliberately stupid folks who
will not understand intentions. Perhaps
pie who are determined to misunderstood.
Suppose you and one of your friends
have talked over the possibility of taking
some little excursion together. No definite
plans are made and the business is left
in the air. 1t is much her place as
yours to take up the matter again. You
are busy and do not refer to it. When
you finally call your friend UP you find
that she is hurt because you did not
want to go. In the bottom of her heart
she knows Just how things are, but she is
determined to misunderstood and conSe-
ouentIy you must spend a lot of energy and
time soothing her injured feelings.
Or perhaps you are in town for a very
call on your friend. She knows of your
visit and although she ought to know just
how busy you are, she insists on misun-
Outstanding your reason for not coming
to see her.
There is hardly time enough in life to
fully understand each other when we try
our best There is no time to be wasted
in deliberate misunderstanding.
Let's be sure that we do not in any way
belong to those who will not understand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-06
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
TFrom the Philadelphia Record.

From the Ph1ladelpnla RecoEu.J
About the only time some fellows al G
ready is when it's time to quit.
Virtue may be it's own reward because
we spend too much in advertising it.
Even the woman with a high instep
may come down on fellow pretty flat
footed.
All things may come to those who wait,
but they are apt to come from the dis
card.
Maybe the reason women are lacking in
humor is because they nate to laugh and
grow fat
The thief always suffers in the en1.
Many a fellow who steals a kiss is
obliged to marry the girl.
Hoax-"Is q cigar always heavier at one
end?" Joax-tI suppose it is when it S
light at the other end
Wigg-"That fellow Bjones is awfutiy
conceited. He thinks he knows it all >
wagg-"Oh, he'll soon get over that. He's
going to be married next month"
Sillicus-"If you should get married
would you call 1t taking the fatal
plunge?' Cynicus-"Wel, should at
least consider that I was putting my foot
in it,"
Misery loves company" quoted the
Wise Guy. Yes agreed the Simple
Mug. Its the woman who is unhap-
PLY married that sneers most at old
maids
Blobbs-"We are a nation of runts.
Prehistoric man was much larger than we
are" SIobbs-"Wel1, for my part 1 would
much rather be runt than be-er-pre-
historic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-06
WOMEN AS AvIAroRs.

The death of Vaniman and his fell
low navigators of the dirigible balloon
Akron, before the eyes of hundreds
of spectators, was SO appalling that it
has undoubtedly distracted attention
from the fate which, the day before,
befe1 Harriet Quimby the first wo-
man to win an aviator's license in
America. Yet her death was invested
with a horror and sadness peculiarly
its own.
The world is accustomed to see men
risk their lives. They do it every day
in their work and in their play. They
have always done it. 1t is in effect
regarded. even if illogically, as a nee
essary part in the scheme Of life. But
as regards women the feeling is diff
ferent. No normal man can regard
the risking of her life by a woman,
unless It'll in an act of heroism or pa
triotisn, without a strong feeling of
disapproval and protest.
There can be no denying the fact
that women possess the highest order
of courage. That has been demon
strated thousands of times. No man
ever attempted a feat of daring that
some woman was not willing to share
with him. But where there is danger
the man usually compels the woman
to stand back.
The spirit which kept the men of
the Titanic on the decks of the sink
ing ship while the women were being.
taken off in lifeboats is more than q
chivalrous sentiment. 1t has its
source in the very foundation of hui
man life. The preservation of the
race is an ineradicabIe instinct. "Wo-
men and children first is always the
cry among men of the civilized nations
when peril impends. So while there
has been little open criticism of the
participation of women in aviation,
deep down in the hearts of men there
has been strong disapproval of it.
The fate of Miss Quimby will have
the effect of preventing other women
from engaging in the dangerous sport
of aviation. But, more than this, it
will tend to crystalline public senti-
ment against aviation for women I'M
til it has been made much safer than
il is now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-06

and punishment for the gas company
whenever the winter supply of gas
gets below normal. However, the best
way for the consumers to combat
with a gas shortage is for them to
have sufficient supply of coal and
wood on hand for any and all emerg-
encies. No city ordinance, regardless
of its provisions and the possibility of
its enforcement can compel the gas
company to maintain an adequate
supply if it hasn't one in its posses
sion. And that seems to be the chief
difficulty with the gas company in
the winter time.