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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-05
Hometown
LTHetpSY
STRONG PLEA FOR PARKWAY
Los Angeles Newspaper Condemns :
Proposed Plan as Not In Inter.
ests of Economy.

W. H. Humphreys of the Los An.
geles board Of public works has gone
on record as favoring narrower drive
ways in strictly residential districts,
and would lessen the street width and
widen the parkways Of many now ex-
istent. This from a purely economic
view Of the matter, says the Examiner
Of that city. Narrow streets cost less
to build and less to maintain than
wide ones and when there are to be, or
are paved such initial cost and up
keep Is no small expense.
But there is another side to the
question, the esthetic view of the
matter. How may we have beautiful
streets with but a narrow green rib
bon along each side from IS to 36
inches wide? Such a paucity of park
way does not in the least influence the
appearance Of the street. All that may
be said for 1t is that street trees may
be planted therein, though they can
not remain in vigorous health and
beauty except for their youthful years.
It may be possible for a tree to sur.
vive for many years under such hard
conditions, but what about them in
so or rs years, at the time when they
should be most impressive. The
trunks will then have filled any or
binary parkway from curb to walk.
Shall we then cut them out or shall
we cut a large half-circle out of the
cement sidewalk and also narrow the
driveway three or more feet on each
side by moving each curb toward the
middle of the street? Would 1t not be
better to start right and have fine Wig
orous, healthy trees for all time and
rest assured Of their enduring cen
turtles, to the continued Identification
Of our city? When shall we correct
admittedly wrong conditions? Do II
now.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-05

cocktail there, and two or three wher
he encountered men he knew. 1t was
after al hour or so OF this that he
dropped into the bar Of the Parthenon
for one last drink before going to din.
ner. BY this time all his being was
pleasantly warmed by the alcohol, and
he was In the most genial and best OF
spirits. At the corner OF the bar sew
eval young men we're up to the old
trick Of resting their elbows and at.
tempting to force each others hands
down. One broad -shouldered young
giant never removed his elbow, but
put down every hand that came
against him. Daylight was interested.
IT'S Slosson," the b~arkeeper told
him, In answer to his query. He's
the heavy.hammer thrower at the U.
G.. Broke all records this year., and
the worlds record on top OF it. He's
a husky all right all right"
Daylight nodded and went over to
him, placing his own arm In opposi-
ton.
I'd like to go you a %futter. son. on
that proposition" he said.
The young man laughed and locked
hands with him: and to Daylight's as.
constituent 1t was his W hand that
was forced down on the bar.
Hold on" he mutterpd "Just ona
more fiutter. | reckon | wasn't Just
ready that time"
Again the hands locked. 1t happen.
I'd quickly. The offensive attack of
Daylight's muscles slipped instantly
INTO defence, and. resisting vainly, his
land was forced over and down, Day
light was dazed. 1t had been no trick.
The skill was equal. or. If anything.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-05

the superior skill had been his.
Strength, sheer strength, had done 1t.
He called for the drinks, and, still
dazed and pondering, held up his own
arm and looked at 1t as at some new
strange thing, He did not know this
arm. 1t certainly was not the arm he
had carried around with him all the
years. The old arm? Why, II would
have been play to turn down that
young husky's, But this arm--he ron.
tinued to look at 1t with such dubious
p~erplexity as to bring a roar of laugh.
ter from the young men.
This laughter aroused him. He
Joined In 1t at first, and then his face
slowly grew grave. He leaned to.
ward the hammer-thrower.
Son." he said. let me whisper a
secret. Get out of here and quit
drinking before you begin.
The young fellow flushed angrily.
but Daylight held steadily on.
You listen to your dad. and let
him say a few, I'm a young man my.
self. only | amt. Let ME tell you,
several years ago for me to turn your
hand down would have been like com
hitting assault and battery on a kin
d%ergarten."
Slosson looked his incredulity, while
the others grinned and clustered
around Daylight encouragingly.
Son, | amt given to preaching.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-05
Women Travellers Expect Much.

But for an interesting, discriminate
ing and all-round exacting proposition
the lady patron is doubtless the win.
ner. She must always have a parlor
floor room, with bath, fronting the
street; plenty Of closet room. The
room must be large enough to accom-.
modate a couple of box-cars she calls
trunks. She will 8 three times as
many towels as a man; keep the bell.
hops in perpetual motion to answer her
calls, and make more complaints
about the temperature Of her room in
n day than a man would in a month
Hotel World.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-05
In a Bad Way.

Stranger Tin train)-A man in your
business can't get home very often, I
presume?
Concentrations? should say
not. Why, sir, l get home so seldom
that I can't remember half the time
where l live. Have to telegraph to
the firm to send me my address.
Stranger-You don't say so!
Commercial-That's true. Why, one
time l was away so long that / forgot
I'd ever been married and | took
such a fancy to a pretty woman l met
IN a strange town that I elOped with
her.
Stranger-My! My!
Commentaries, 1t would have
been a terrible thing; but when l
called on the firm during my honey
moon and introduced her the old man
told me she was my wife before
London Tit-Bits.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-05

ELAN Hsrnish. known MI through Alas
a an Burning Daylight" celebrates his
10Th birthday with a crowd OF miners at
the Circle city Tigoli. The dance leads
10 heavy gambling, In which over 500. 600
y stak.d Harnish loses his money and
his mine but wins tho mail contract. He
starts an his mail trip with dogs and
sledge. telling his friends that he will be
~ the big Yukon gold strike at the start
Burning Daylight makes n sensatioualiY
rapid run across country with the mai,
appears ~ the Tiyoli aud s now ready
to Join HE blends in n dash to the new
gold nelds. Deciding that gold viii be
found IN the up-river district Harnish
buys two tons OF flour, which he declares
will be worth It's weight in gold. but
when he arrives with his -four he finds
the big Nat desolatr. A comradc discov-
ers gold and Daylight reaps a rich har-
vest. lie goes 10 Dawson becomes the
most prominent figure IN tho klondlke
and defeats n combination OF capitalists
In a vast mining deal. He returns to
civilization. and, amid the bewilderIng
complications OF high finance. Daylight
fnds that he has been led to Invest his
eleven millions In a manipulated scheme.
He goes 10 New York, and confronting
his dlsloyal partners with n revolver. he
threatens TO kin them II his money is not
returned They are cowed. return their
stcallngs and Harnlsh goes back 10 San
Francisco where he meets his fate IN
itue mason, n pretty HtenOEfhpIer. lie
makes large Investments and gets into the
political ring. For n rest he goes to the
country. Daylight gets deeper into high
finance IN San Francisco. but often the
longing FOR the simple life nearly over
comes him. Dcde Mason buys n horse and
Daylight meets her In her saddle trips
One day he asks Dede To go with him
on one more ride, his purpose being to
ask ncr 10 marry him and they canter
a~ay shr trying to analyze her feelings.
Dede tells Daylight that her happiness
could not lie with Il money manipulation.
Daylight undertakes to build up n great
community. He Is Inslstent
That she marry him and yet hopes to win
her.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-05
Happiness Postponed,

An awkward p%redicament in which
a sailor bridegroom and his bride were
placed in st. Mary Majors church, Elk
eter, D~evonshire, England, recently,
caused the p%ostponement Of their wed.
ding. The banns had been duly called
at the church, but when the parties
presented themselves at the altar the
bridegroom, who had been recently
paid on from his ship at Portsmouth,
was unable to produce the necessary
permission from his commander. The
bride swooned, and eventually re-
turned home. while the bridegroom
ieft Tor Plymouth to get the required
document.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-05
European Model VILLAGES,

The plan of garden cities" has been
taken up with great enthusiasm in
France and in many industrial centers
Efforts have been made to follow the
English example of establishing model
villages for work people. A big coal
mining company near Douai has laid
out a splendid garden village and now
Is rendering more beautiful the ap-
proaches to the mines, masking the
unsightly shafts and engine houses
with rose gardens.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-05
Mexican PLAQUE Of Field Mie.

Manzanillo reports that a plague Of
mice has visited the fields in that sec.
ton Of Colima and almost DESTROYED
the corn and rice crops. The rodents
have gnawed away at a rate that
alarmed the farmers and they have
appealed to the authorities for some
meal TO exterminate them. Whole
fields OF corn have been moved down
and the farmers are at . loss how to
check the advance OF the mice to ore
vent further loss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-05

this was Dede's own thought. II vas
what she had meant VIXEN she prayed
ne would go broke. lie held up his
OFFENDING right arm. 1t wasn't the
same old arm or course she could
not love that arm and that body as
she had loved the strong. clean arm
and body OF years before. He didn't
Ike that arm and body himself. A
young whippersnspper had been able
to take liberties with Il. 1t had gone
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-05
CHAPTER XIX.

Daylight awoke with the familiar
parched mouth and lips and throat.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-05

The Playwright-Honestly, now.
what do you think of my new play?
The Critic-Don't ask me. You're
80 much bigger and stronger than
I am.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-05

lnere's room at the top because
somebody is always coming down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-01
GRAY-DAVIS OPEN
 SERVICE STATION HERE

Gray & Davis of Amsbury. Mass, the most extensive makers of electric .itraters and lamps for automobiles have opened a service station in Birmingham. Their station is in charge of o. D. Piersol all expert from the Peerless factory. and the station will be at the Drennen Motor Car company on South Twentieth street. The purpose of the agency, which is the only one in this state. is to take care Of the starting devices on Peerless cars or any other cars that are equipped with Gray & Davis starting devices. The service sta. tion will be operated absolutely free of charge to the owners of cars equipped with Gray x Davis goods. In that re- spect the agency is unique in this dis trict.
 MT. Piersol in charge of the agency has been with the Drennen Motor com pany for some time, and was placed at the head of the Gray X Davis station be- cause of the fact that he served F years In the Peerless factory and Is thoroughly familiar with the details of that car. His qualifications for the work rendered t unnecessary for the company to send an expert here as is usually the case where new service stations are opened up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-01

derned hogs--and--Ugh It's mighty foggy up the Creek this mawnin.' Bevans re- marked that maybe a good drink or whiskey would warm Fruit up and asked him if he wouldn't have a glass?
 Between jerks and shiyering and teetn- chattering. Bill quaked: Well, don't care if I do, though I wouldn't have thought of 1t if you hadn't named it first. I wouldn't think of tetching drop or lik- ker this early in the mawin' if 1t wash [ so powerful foggy up the creek. tell you man. it's mighty foggy up the Creek this mawnin!'
 But I want to tell you boys of funny niger trial that I had in my court the other day. The defendant was husky nigger trial that had in my court the sitting between two fat nigger women, each of whom claimed him for husband. It was to be a preliminary trial for Big amy, which, as you know, is charge of having two wives, and both them wives was on hand with proof higher than a cats back that the Dusky son of Ham had married them both at different times, and both them ngger women was mad as hornets and glaring at each other to beat the band. When I asked the Defendant if he was ready for trial he got up and says: Yer Honor, I applies for change of vengeance in his case; I want dis case moved erway from dis Court, and l pint edly object to one ob desc here nigger women swearin in dis case--kase she is prejudiced agin me-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-01
Insurance Agent Talks

"A queer thing about nigger is that he will use a great big dictionary word and use it wrong, getting it twisted up and yet we can understand what he is driving at," cut in the insurance agent. "Old Sam Hogan, crippled nigger down my way, was once testifying as to the details of fist fight Sam felt that he was occupying the center of the stage in the court room, and it was difficult lo keep him from rambling off on irrelevant matters. Finally the Judge told him if he did not reply to questions and state exactly what he saw of the fight that he would put him in jail Sam replied on dat auspishious accession I saw Mister Bill Wicker situated right on top of Mis- ter Neeley. just a culpicating ob his cir sumstances wid his fists
 "Niggers aint the only ones that lites to use big words. All you fellows know Colonel Hamilton Spodgers. If he can't find a word bigger than you are using he won't join in the conversation. Ne e saw any man so fond of jaw-breakers as Hamilton. There ain't any word ci five or six syllables that Colonel Ham fails to get acuuainted with. and he hits you with fl when you aint looking. His sesouipedaiian words roll off of his tongue like bricks falling of of a scafold I4e can rive the best imitation of pump l-'ns roll'u< over n barn floor of any man this side of the State Game Warden
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-01
The Coroner Recollects

"Yes," remarked the Coroner, q recol- lect the time that Colonel Hamilton Spod- gers defended a nigger. preacher the Rev. Welcome Jones, for hog-stealing. That was certainly one time when the English Language was ripped into strips no big ger than doll-rags and flung to the breezes of the Western Hemisphere. But the proof showed clear as print that the Reverend Welcome Jones, colored, had been totally color-blind as to the mark of his neighbours hog.
 There was hog-hair under the bed of the Reverend Welcome Jones, there was fresh pork cooking in the pot of the Rev erend Welcome Jones, and Colonel Reuben Wofford was shy one hog. Colonel Ham defense that the Reverend Welcome Jones slaughtered that hog in self-de- fense didn't seem to work with the Jury, so that notwithstanding they were knee deep In mutilated fragments of Dictionary words, they brought in verdict of Guilty just about as quick as it could be written. The Judge called up the Rev erend for sentence. His sorrowing Con- gregation lamp-blacked the Courtroom with lugubrious countenances as the Judge wound up a lecture by giving the Parson two years in the State Peniten- tiary
 Well, gen-ermef.' said Welcome with a long sigh, I reckon I'll have to go dar. Looks like dere ain't no udder chance but what I wants to know is what's gwine to become of do Gospel while I'm in dat Pen-i-ker-ten-shuary .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-01

have come from owners of large office buildings, who complain that their ten ants and others cannot get into the build iugs and out again if they use a car be- cause of the blocked curb space It the entrance and along the ways
 MT. Exum has studied the problem con siderably, not only here, but in other large cities, and while he has not in'il- cated what he intends to do, it is be- lieved that he will offer to set aside cer- tain spaces downtown on what is termed dead sides for the use of car owners. It will then be strictly understood than that no cars are to be placed in front of any buildings where others may wish to drive up and alight, nor shall any cars be placed in front of stores where ladies are apt to enter for shopping purposes, but find the places blocked by unused auto mobiles.
 The proposition of regulating traffic downtown during the holidays the dan gerous condition of which is fully real ized by the commissioners by reason Of the crowds, the torn up streets and other reasons will also be taken up and threshed over by the official body.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-01
Yarns of the Courthouse Gang
By WELLINGTON vANDIvER

When he talks Old Noah Webster's Die tionary takes an acute attack Of back ache Colonel Hamilton Spodgers was down in Peckerwood Beat this past Sum- mer, and he stopped at a Piney-woods cabin to get drink of water. The woman on the porch remarked as she handed him the gourd that crops was needing rain badly. Yes replied Colonel Ham, Rain is the great desideratum at this juncture The woman immediately bawled out, oh Mandy, come here' when a tow-headed girl came out of shed room in response to her call. Said the woman, Look at him good, Mandy, for he is cer- tingly curiosity He don't look as if he knowed enough to blow cotton, and yit he has just spit out a word as long as from here to the hog-pen. and from the
 looks of his face he is holding on to an- other one, in his innards, and likely to let it come at any mint Mandy, do he appear to you to be one of them Piscalo- plans we've been hearing about? The Colonels old horse wondered why he left that cabin so fast, and why, all the way home, the Colonel gritted his teeth, and made sounds like bees swarming for ten miles," |.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-01
The Justice Tells One

Funny how fellow will lie about a drink of whiskey'' suggested the Justice of the Peace. "One of these here Human Sponges who is always thirsty and out of scads, won't tell you the truth when he is grating you for a drink of booze. This is trait of human nature that | have often unused about, and I am unable to account for it. Even some truthful men, when you ask them to take drink will prevaricate about wanting it. Take Old Bill Pruitt, for instance. He was about as trifling as the Lord ever made a White Man. His normal condition was that of bankruptcy and thirst. The Desert of Sahara was a wet place on the map as compared with Bills stomach. He was always and eternally dryer than q covered bridge. His nearest neighbor, Sam Bevans, kept a dram shop, and many nights sleep was lost by Pruitt in the endeavor to think up some way of beating Sam out of a free drink. Be- tween the homes and farms of these two neighbors there was tract of bottom land belonging to Sam Bevans, which was known far and wide as the best tract of corn land in that section. Just at dawn one bright hot morning in August, Bevans was awakened by the familiar voice of Bill Pruitt at the door, and with out raising out of bed he called to Pruitt to come in
 "That individual entered with should CTS bumped over, teeth chattering and his whole body apparently shaking with cold.
 Said he: sam, it's mighty foggy up the Creek this mawnin'. l saw lot of hogs in your bottom field and I put the dogs in after them and went in myself. The blamed hogs wouldn't go out at the gap, and I waded around in that young corn and grass. and cussed and flung clods, and got wet in the dew after them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-01
DREAD CATARRH
Quick Cure in Kings
 Royal Germetuer
Take Internally and Gargle Through the Nose and Throat-k'Hawking
 and Splitting Stops at Once

Kings Royal Germetuer is a wonder ful germ killer. Apply it to a fester-
 ing, running sore and you see the .pus matter washed away-the pain stops and the germs, which cause the pus, are killed.
 Catarrh affects tlYe mucous mem branes, many times causing the patient to discharge large Jumps of yellow matter. Hawking and splitting, foul breath, decay of the bones, and the dis ease Is so distressing that 1t frequently
 u..es debility or insanity. 'ucn q condition should have attention at once. Take a dose of Kings Royal ,iermetuer before and after meals and
 tt bed time. Snuff Germetuer up the nose and gargle the throat. You will note happy change at once. You don't have to wait week or ten days to see results. You actually see and feel the medicine at work. The pus discharges are cleaned out and the ul- cerated membranes made clean by the killing of the. germs fine inter nally change also takes place. The ap- petite is increased. the brain becomes more active; ambition is. stimulated. md the hawking and splitting stops. You don't feel ashamed of your breath my more. Don't lose any time, but
 ,rocure bottle of Kings Royal Germ tuer and begin taking IL at once. Costs only $1 per largo bottle at rug stores or sent by express prepaid. ,irculars and medical advice free. El- lis, Lillybeck Drug Company, Memphis, enn. s.Id in Dlrmlngham by Collier Drug Company, Twentieth street. Call or write.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-01
The Evolution of the Hospital

The modern hospital is a sanitary
 work shop. Until a few years ago 1t
 was a place where sick people could be
 kept until they recovered. Today it is
 work shop where they are made we'll
 A few years ago the adequately equipped hospital was a clean house with
 clean floors, clean walls, clean oed, in-
 differently trained nurses and doctor
 whose sole means of diagnosis were his ear, his eye and his touch at the bedside
 of the patient. Today the modern hos
 pital has a laboratory of pathology to
 aid the surgeon or physician in his diag-
 nosis, laboratory of bacteriology de-
 pertinent of physical therapeutics for
 various forts of exercise. department Of
 dietetics in which patients may be fed
 by the doctor's prescription and their
 food measured in exact terms; an opera
 ting department, aseptic, with all which that term applies; milk laboratory Tor
 infant feeding, and a vast list of machin-
 cry, such as blood pressure apparatus. instruments for measuring and micro scopes and instruments for counting the blood cells. X-ray outfits. apparatus for introducing normal salines and other fluids into the blood, and so on down the list almost ad infinitum.
 Yet this change is more one of degree
  ingale published a book on the hospital of that day. Her plans down to the mi- nutest detail show the hospital unit almost precisely as 1t Is today-the ward fianked by the service-room, the bath. the toilet. the slop-sink room. the con- valescents' dining-room, the linen room. the surgical dressing-room. the supply rooms and the medicine closets.
 Today, says pr. w. B. Russ, in recent issue of The Journal Of the American Medical Association, our units are the same, but our construction is steel and concrete; we have no carpets and dust catchers; our furniture is of white enamel. We have forsaken the old time heat registers with their dust and soot; we have steam radiators that give noth- ing into the sick room; we have screens on our windows to deny admission to the fly and the mosquito and other in- sects that may carry the organisms of disease. We know that sunlight is one of Gods ways of curing disease and that fresh air is one of The greatest physi- clans ill the world. so that we build our modern hospitals with windows facing to the sun, with air space measured in terms of cubic feet for the sick.