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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-05-02
Silver Nutwood.

This well known combination horse
will make the season in Macon. Fee
$40; will not guarantee foal. but mare
can be returned next season for same
fee. All precautions taken but will not
be responsible for accidents.
S-2S z mo FRANCIS CoNNoR.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-05-02
Inge," No. 55Ss4. A. I. r.

This young registered trotting stall
lion will make the season for a limited
number OF mares at Dixie. He COM
biAes the splendid blood of an old Ken
lucky strain with the best E~lectioneer-
onward stock of Mississippi. Fee SIS
to insure. E. D. Scales.
Brooksville. Miss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-05-02
Plymouth Rocks For Sale.
| have six Plymouth Rock hens ard
one rooster for sale. H. E. DORRoH.
Notice Contractors

Notice Contractors
Sealed bids are invited on Monday,
May 9Th, 1918, at 200 O'Clock, p. m. fol-
furnishing supplies for general County
Roads, for a term of three months ac.
cording to specifications on file in Office
of Chancery Clerk. Bond of $1OO is re-
quired. The Board reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
By order Board Supervisors.
JOHN A. TYSON, Ch'y Clerk,
BY W. 0. BARNES, Jr., D; C.
This April 18th. 1918.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-05-02
Notice Contractors

Sealed bids r invited on Monday.
May 9th, 1913. at 200 o'clock, p. m. fos
the furnishing and erecting bridge on
Macon and Evansville road near Mint
Thornell's. according to plans and speci-
fications nov on file in the Office of
Chancery Clerk. Bond required in
penalty of bid. The Board reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
BY order of Board of Supervisors.
JOHN A. TYSON, Clerk, B. S.
By w. 0. BARNES, Jr.. D. C.
This April 18th, 1913.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
By FANNIE WARD

Star Of Madam President Copyright. 1918,
by international News Service.
U1 LOTHES. of course, may make
the man-but since first the
world began hats have made
the woman. and they always will
So runs the old song-and in truth
hats do make the woman-they make
or unmake her beauty; they add the
final touch of smartness and becom-
ingness TO her costume. so they spoil
the ensemble with false and Earring
note.
There are just few rules that all
women should master before going
out on a "hatting expedition. II you
master these rules and then proceed
10 keep your eyes wide open in the
millinery shop. you are likely to pos
sess yourself of hat that will belong
inevitably to you-instead of becom-
ing possessed of hat that ought to
belong either to your grandmother or
to your grandchild.
Make up your mind as to the type
OF hat you want. Don't start after a
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
HOW YOU MAY
THROW AWAY
YOUR GLASSES

The statement is made that thou
sands wear eyeglasses who do not
really need them. If you are one of
these unfortunates, then these glasses
may be running your eyes instead or
helping them. Thousands who wear
these windows may prove for them
selves that they can dispense with
glasses if they will get the follow
ing prescription filled at once. Go
to any active drug store and get
bottle of Optona; fill a two-ounce
bottle with water and drop in one Op-
tona tablet With this harmless
liquid solution battle the eyes two to
four times daily and you are likely to
be astonished at the results right
from the start Many who have been
told that they have astigmatism, eye
strain, cataract, sore eyeiids, weak
eyes. conjunctivitis and other eye dis
orders. report wonderful benefits from
the use of this free prescription. Get
you may SO strengthen your eyes that
glasses will not be necessary. Thou
sands who are blind or nearly so. or
who wear glasses would never have
required them If they had cared for
their eyes in time. Save your eyes
before it is too late, Do not become
one of these victims of neglect Eye
glasses are only like crutches and
every few years they must be changed
to At the ever-increasing weakened
condition, so better see II you can,
like many others, get clear, healthy
strong magnetic eyes through the
prescription here given.-Advertise-
ment.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
Little Bobbie $ Pa o
ss59.e!:.
BY WILLIAM +. KIRK

YESTERDAY afternoon Pa calm
Y hoam erly from the offs & Ma
said. Oh. deer, ] am SO glad you
calm hoam erly: now you will have
chanst to meet Mrs. Wheelington
Wainrite. the poetess.
Mrs. Wainrite was awful hoamly &
thin. l doant see how she evver got
to be a Mrs. unless her husband was
awful neersited & liked poetry. She
bowed to Pa. kind of cold, but Pa
dident cair; he had been out with
sum brother Elks or sumthing. l can
always tell by the way he smiles.
She dident offer to shaik hands. but
Pa shook her hand jest the saim g.
smiled as wide as he cud.
! am moar than charmed to meet
you, he sed to Mrs. Wainrite. How
is the old sport?
To whom do you refer? sed Mrs.
Wainrite.
To your husband. of course. sed Pa;
who else?
My husband is ded & has been ded
for yeers, sed Mrs. Wainrite: & wen
he was alive he wasn't a old sport
or yung sport or any kind of a
sport. He was man of butiful char
acter.
Oh, well, sed Pa, the good die
yung. Have you ritten many poems
laitly? ] am vary fond of poetry
myself. sed Pa, as / used to dash off
few lines of it now & then. Wait
till git me a cigar, sed Pa, & then
spiel us off a few divine thoughts.
I am gain for anything, sed Pa
cud see that Mas lady friend
diden't like Pa at all, but Pa cuddent
see 1t. Cum on, fair poetess, he sed,
doan't be bashful. You are among
trends, & If I do think sum Of yure
lines Is a littel to the brickstein
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12

of them you may get some valuable
hints for home millinery.
THE THEATER CAP
Take. for instance the little cap of
gold net 1t can be converted from
tilmy theater or dancing cap to a fas-
cinating little winter toaue by max
ing It's brim either of velvet or of
fur and by giving 1t substantial
crown to correspond.
The woman with scanty locks, with
very large features. or with a long.
thin face will do well to avoid the
tight banding of the brim on her
forehead. But If your hair is soft
and your face small featured and
oval or childishly round and full, this
little cap will be most becoming to
you. Develop it in a material and
color suitable to your use. perch a
bow of velvet above the left eye and
you have a hat for the winter sports,
a theater cap or a street hat.
The velvet Gainshorough forms a
wonderful background for almost any
face. Just have Your shadows fall in
the suitable place and the picture
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12

Kenneth saw the frayed white mass
at his feet. A bitter smile came to
his drawn boyish lips.
BOYS HEART
He crossed the room, and laid his
handkerchief on the pillow in which
Kitty was burrowing her head.
Kitty caught his hand and pressed
it TO her tear wet cheek
Kenneth she said. Kenneth |
suppose you want me to go now.
I've nowhere to go. I've got nobody
nobody but Dick. Maybe he'd under
stand-maybe he'd not want me al
ways to go on paying for-for what
| / didn't know when / was 16-
. She rose wearily.
| you said you didn't blame me.
You said. no decent man could. You
| said-well, maybe Dick won't blame
mer'
KITTY" said Kenneth. sit down.
Well have to get calm This needs
a bit of thinking over.
The girl sank petulantly to the
| couch again. The boy resumed his
place in the great winged chair he
sat staring into distant space as II
problem from afar of. He gazed into
space with burning eyes. Kitty sat
looking at him, and in her eyes was
| the glitter of coming triumph.
You asked me to marry you, Ken
You told your sister I was to be your
wife You said II you met the man
you'd make him pay. Well, you've
| met him, and you're making me pay.
Nothing has changed. / am still the
girl you loved--the girl you asked to
marry you
Kitty spoke slowly gently, measur-
| ing her effect.
| But she went too far.
The still quiet she had thought
meant her triumph ceased. The boy
leaped to his feet and began pacing
| the room.
He spoke in deep disgust. .Tt is
| different now. You must see that. I
| couldn't marry you--eureIy You would
not want TO marry me now that we
/ both-know.
Kitty began to cry aagin.
mol suppose you'll go and leave
me now-like he didr'
The boy shuddered. Then thought
| forced itself into his mind. Suppose
his father had left him here to test
his manhood by the reparation he
made. So he could pay his awful debt
to his father! His hysterical, half
crazed mind seized on the idea. Rep
aration!
mo. I'll stick" said Charles Nell
sons son. Those were the words
Kitty had said to the father on his
first reckoning day-a month ago!
THE GIRL GRATIFIED
You'll stick?" asked Kitty slowly
ceasing her sobs with fine adjust
ment OF effects. She smiled wistfully
| at the boy. Her eyes were the blue
| of the summer sea after a storm
She lifted her little face. that looked
now like a flower washed in dew, ane
said with a sort Of breathless won
i der:
i you'll make 1t all up to me, Ken
You do love me?''
I The boy answered almost gruf1iy.
mol Not that way! Not what yot
mean, Kitty. I'll be your friend--Tl
try to help you--I-I-Well. the Mel
sons owe you something!" he con
c1uded with such unconscious humol
that Kitty came near spelling he
whole effect by one wild laugh o
hysteria.
The boy WINGED She had 1ickes
him on the raw.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
I abloid I ales
BY FRANCES L. GARSIDE
Mother, is the idea of using

vuYtiAT, Mother, is the idea of using
w dashes instead of words?
Editors use them, Little One,
instead of using the naughty words
that We're actually used. They do 1t
to save their readers shock, and
In reading they involuntarily stop and
mentally put in the words they think
the dashes represent.
X
Was the Spartan boy. Mother, who
made no moan when the stolen fox
gnawed at his vitals so very brave:
Tush. tush, my Child. He was not
brave at all. Every man suffers In
silence when a groan would call at
tention to a sin. When a mans pain
is an honest one, he groans so the
whole town hears him.
X
Does a woman, Mother Mine, begin
to know peace when the husband has
grown more settled in his ways?
Alas. Little One! after man has
reached the age when he is ready to
settle down and stop giving his wife
trouble their sons have reached the
age when they are ready to begin.
Why. Mother. do men make so much
sport over the women's idea of q
good meal?
Because, Daughter, after a man has
eaten of a meal prepared only foI
women he is hungry enough to go
out and rob the mouse traps.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
You Can Begin This Great Story Today
:; :; by Reading This First :; :;

Charles Nelson, a wealthy New
Yorker, on coming home on a certain
afternoon, discovers his son. Ken
meth, drunk. and in the scene that
follows, Kenneth accuses his father OF
maintaining another establishment
Nelson admits the truth of the charge.
His wife. a society leader hears the
discussion. and it develops that the
estrangement in the family has come
through the woman's indifference 10
her husband Their daughter, Alice,
sides with the father. and Kenneth
takes his mothers part. Mrs. Hard
ing, a mutual friend. tries 20 patch
the trouble. and contrives that the
Nelson's shall meet at the Alpine
apartments. where Nelson has gone
from his home. In the lobby OF this
apartment house Mrs. Nelson acci-
dentaliy meets Kitty May Claire, the
girl who had won her husbands s af-
lection. After his wife leaves, Nelson
has a talk with the girl He tells her
they must quit" The girl declares
she Will have revenge. She takes 1t
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
= Seeking a Husband =
BY CONSTANCE CLARKE

repulsing all his advances meant Sc
we're discipline. 1 guess he liked me as
well as the incest nurse, too. IL
wouldn't say goodnight in the proper
way" I'm not fond of having people
touch me, anyway. but 1 suppose the
right one WOULD make difference.
But how am I to know when the right
one does come along and when the
right time comes and all the other
hundred and one things that one has
to know. l suppose? Anyway, ! don't
think he's bit serious with me.
Come and see me again" 1 said, as
he was leaving
You haven't been so very nice to
me-" he answered.
Don't tell me that you have to be
bribed and do you still think I'm
very stranger"
NOT CHANGED
Il haven't changed my opinion of
you at ALL" he said decidedly.
And still 1 have my illusions" I
interrupted rather breathlessly.
What do you mean?" he said, his
fingers tightening on mine.
Nothing at ALL / said, drawing
back; that will give you something
| to think about"
It'll next time," he said under his
breath. And then the door closed. and
I went slowly upstairs. My pink lamp
was lighted in the den and my clock
was ticking just as it had been when
I woke up in the morning. / brushed
| back a lock of hair refectively. and
/, my hand had that same funny medi-
cine smell. Then / curled up among
the pink and white pillows of my
couch and had a good think.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
A velvet Gainsborough.

tailored hat to wear on the street
and become enamoured of a fluff OF
chiffon and lace that is meant for the
theater or the garden party.
Make up your mind as to the type
of face you possess. Don't put a
piquant little girl hat on Burne
Jones face. Get a hat that Is your
own type.
One side of your face Is almost GER
tain to be better than the other. Tilt
your hat to throw the poorer side of
your profile in shadow and to throw
your best features in high relief.
Now If you buy none but hats that
are meant for the occasions when you
want to wear them-if you get good
material that is simple rather than
elaborate-if YOU choose none but
colors that you can we'll afford to re-
fleet down on your face-and above
all, If you buy hats that fit on your
head instead of perching on your hair.
your millinery ought to be so becom-
ing that you will fairly long to wear
hats even at dances or in the thea ter.
/ am illustrating for you two very
charming chapeaux-and from study
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12

hat will surely make a picture Of
you. Feathers have a softening ef-
feet on womans face, and so they
are coming into their own again and
replacing some of the fantasies" that
were so suitably named
The hat | picture for you is short
Of brim at the front, left side and
back, and widens into a great lifted
flare at the right. Here are massed
any soft. becoming colored plumes,
extending up to give height and
dropping down to soften the line of
the brim The chin strap is OF inch
wide velvet. matching the piumes In
color.
The only rule for the chin strap
is to study the rhyme of the little
girl who was .horrid" when she was
bad. If the line of velvet bridied
under your chin is becoming 1t Is raw
ishingly pretty, but unless you are
! quite sure that you look young and
sweet and daintv-DON'T For the
little bride makes some women look
like horses and some more like DON
KEYS.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12

won't spill any talk to that effeck.
sed Pa.
can think of nothing at this
time that / care to reesite. sed Mrs.
Wheelington wainrite.
Read him the butiful poem you jest
read to me. sed Ma.
I cud see that her friend dident like
the idee, but she likes Ma, so she red
these verses to Pa:
| Think you the moon, all siivery white,
Is fair to see?
know a vision of delight
Moar fair to me-
Think you the sun is brilyunt now
Ger vale & hill?
l know pair of ewes 'neeth a white
brow
Moar briter still.
| Wait minnit. said Pa, you have
stubbed yure toe thare, Mrs. Wainrite
Wheelington. You shud newer say
'Moar briter still You shud say
'Moast britest yet or sumthing moar
superlative than comparative, as it
were. said Pa.
I do not see why I shud defer to
yure judgment, sed Mrs. Wainwrite, &
my last name isent Wheelington.
That was my deer husbands naim,
Wheelington
Did you use to read that kind OF
poetry to the old boy beefoar he
kicked out of this vale of teers? sed
Pa. All. well, perhaps he is happier &
better off on the other sife Of the Jor-
dan. Thare are no poets in heaven,
sed Pa. Only musicians, with harps
But tare us off other poem, one with
moar class in 1t. he sed.
Indeed not, sed Mrs. Wainrite. Then
she kissed Ma goodby, but you bet
she dident kiss Pa. She went out OF
the door with her he'd up. Me & Pa
dosent git notised much by the wim-
men folks.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12

by having the son. Kenneth. fall in
love with her. He moves to an apart
ment house In which she has lodgings.
There settle upon the boy as leeches,
Jim, Kitty's father. whom Kenneth
believes to be only her chauffeur and
Die lie Roy. Kitty's former dancing
partner In vaudeville. When Ken
meth proposes marriage Kitty frankly
tells him of her experience with a
man she does not name. Kenneth
insists that she tell who 1t was. This
the girl refuses to do. His inQuisi-
ton is stopped by the arrival of his
sister Alice and her iance. Tom
Harding. In the middle OF scene
with that group Charles Nelson ap-
pears Then Kenneth learns from
Kitty that his father was the man
who had made her what she is. Ken
meth, in blind passion, strikes his
father in the face. The blow is for
given by the father. Kitty may had
witnessed the attack.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
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The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
Now Read On

She turned her eyes to the boy. They
were inscrutable pools of cobalt blue
no sunlight. no ripples marked their
smooth surface. Suddenly they dark
enec-and a little forked tongue of
hatred lifted its head.
She looked at the soft mass of torn
linen in her hand-she clenched that
hand over the filmy cobweb that had
been whole before her fingers began
their devastation. She cast the white
ball before her and set her cruel lit
tie heel on it. She writhed about a
moment, digging the sharp leather
into the soft mass at her feet. Then
a cruel smile began to tremble out
and lift the corners of her mouth.
She shrugged her shoulders airly
and then gave them a little swagger-
ing shake.
NOT FINISHED
Her eyes turned to the figure at
the table. They frightened to points
of light. She was smiling very
sweetly now.
After all there was Kenneth. And
she was not done with him yet!
Kitty stood watching the boy with
little smile of calculation on her
face. He was not thinking of her-no
one was thinking of her. She began
to be very sorry for herself. OF
course. she had to think Of herself
who would protect her il she did not.
she wondered. Her lips began TO
tremble She sank down on the
couch and buried her face IN her
hands. Ken was still oblivious of all
but his own horror of himself. Kitty
began to smile dolefulIy.
'Have-have-you chandelier
-t-s
She sounded very young and for
lorn- She looked very small and help
less.
Ken! Ken! I'm so frightened"'
she sobbed.
The boy looked up-his eyes were
still glazed and dull. He wanted to
be left alone with his dead pride.
Kitty managed to peek through her
interlaced fingers. She began to sob
with intaken breath - with long
weary exhalations like a little lost
child.
The boy heard her. A woman was
suffering because of him! He had
caused one human being anguish to-
! listened to the girls sobs This was
1 what he and his father had done be-
/ tween them. The men of the Nelson
| family had hurt a woman-one OF
! those men would shoulder his re-
sponsibility-prove himself a man
| and then. Further than that the
| boy did not dare look.
He stood up rather wearily-and
tried to shake off the vision Of all he
| had been through. He felt dizzy
weak. his head whirled. He mostenec
his dry lips and tried to speak.
What is it, Kittv?" asked a monot-
onous voice from far away.
ssN-nothing," walled Kitty dole
fully Il wa-want handkerchief
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12

~ HIS morning I woke up in my lit
that something out of the ordinary
was going to happen. My little French
clock was ticking vigorously out in
the den on my desk. the pink and
white pillows on the couch were
rumpled up just as / had left them
last night. and suddenly I remembered
Doctor Hammond was coming down,
and I was quite excited. I was Curl
Gus, and / did think he was adorable
when he told me quite plainly that he
was coming down to see me. ! guess
girls are all the same. We all like the
stormed in castle feeling that some
men use toward us quite as a matter
OF fact.
That was this morning. and now
here am IN the library rejecting on
the good and bad possibilities of my
latest caller. 1t isn't as IL ! had the
chance to put out my hand and take
him-that would be absurd on my
part--it's just to be able to meet any
kind of difficulty that might arise.
You're the strangest girl" he said
to me tonight
Why am 1 stranger" I answered.
"You mi ght not like me to tell you"
he said.
Yes. I would: please go on"
We'll, can't quite make you out.
You are a combination of frivolity and
seriousness that it's quite enough to
keep any one guessing
"Are any of the nurses like me?"
said fippantly, "and why am I frivo-
lous?'
| SOME PLAIN TRUTHS
! Well, no, to your first question. al
| though I have a pretty good time
with them. And why are you frivo-
lous? Because you like to dress wei
and everything you wear is out OF
the ordinary
Not very good proof I rejoined
Il don't see why l have to be dubbed
frivolous for that How would yol
like to hear few things about your.
self"
He laughed Well, in the frs
place" went on, you are conceited
IL think the nurses spoil you. In the
second place, you are somewhat sci
fish: you do only what you like to do
and in the third place, you really
ARE nice
Well. that's something like III
said eagerly. pulling his chair closer
now let's get down to business"
"Business?. / queried politely. AND
he laughed.
Gee, you ARE indifferent" he saie
again, running his fingers through hi
hair in a funny, boyish way he has.
Il believe you said that before,
sale demurely. drawing away from
the hand that was suddenly stretches
out for mine. And then I knew that
really did like him.
I'm afraid" I said severely, tia
those nurses spoil you worse thai
even imagined. You really need SOM
very severe discipline. / think | shall
begin right now" And did, If sternl!
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AN
AUTOMOBILE THAT is AS GOOD AS
NEW FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN RE-
FER TO THE CLASSIFIED SECTION
OF THE CALL.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
The
PostrnistreSS
Lost Her Job

after 20 years because she de-
layed the mails to help her neigh
bors. Partners" is Margaret
Deland's new book about this
girl, about her mother-and the
neighborsl A wonderfully SYM
pathetic story it is, and there's a
man, too, or else the book
couldn't be called Partners