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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-08-07
FROM THE PEOPLE.
Letter from Dr.. Minor.

Columbus, Miss, August 8, 1914
Editor of Macon Beacon:
In the last issue of your paper, see
very appreciative article concerning
our friend, Hon. E. D. Cavett, alias
"Old Emmet," alias big Bud" ex-
member of Company A (the Macon
Company 10Th Mississippi Regiment;
ex-courier of Lieut.. Gen. A. P, Hill,
Army of Northern Virginia, c. 5. A.
The fellow that conceived the idea
Of putting into our Hall of Fame a
portrait of Confederate private had
an inspiration. Nothing could be
more appropriate. And the selection
of Emmett Cavetts face for the paint
ing was equally felicitous and appro-
pirate.
That he was member of Company
A, 10Th Mississippi Regiment, and
served long as General Hills courier
is evidence enough and to spare that
he was tried and true soldier. But
also remember that after the Civil
war we had another war on here in
Mississippi that lasted from 1865 to
about 1875, when the white people
ruled once more. On the one side
were the white people and OH the other
the scalawags and carpetbaggers and
the hordes of half-savage negroes just
emerged from slavery, and to help out
this devilish work were whiskey, pis-
tolls, gambling and all the rest of the
devils tools.
In Noxubee, as throughout the
South, there were bodies or companies
of white men, old men, young men,
men who were banded together for
the protection of home, wives and
children, and property and honor.
There were three of these companies
in Noxubee. Of two of them | will
say nothing, but of the third, Emmet
Cavett was leading, active, efficient
and untiring member-the Grand Cy-
clops.
How much this body of men ac-
ccmplished is not of record, but they
3.
sac.cl powerf'Js for erdar and white
civilization, and through them we
emerged into white mans rule in Mis-
sissippi
All of Noxubee county's Johnny
Rebs rejoice and congratulate old En-
met on this honor he has received.
We pray that he may for long time
live and enjoy the good things and
the honors of this world, and at the
last have a home in that blessed land
where there will be no war, no sorrow
or suffering.
Very sincerely,
H. A. MINOR, NJ D.
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A CARD.

Macon, Miss, Aug. 6, 1914
Editor of the Beacon:
Dear Sir-In the last issue of your
paper you had an editorial which stated
that Mr.. Gambler appointed his brother
postmaster at Corinth, who is lawyer.
the editorial said, and supposed to have
lucrative practice.
Now the facts are that Mr.. Candler's s
brother is not now and never was law
yer. Up until the time his father lost
his health he was simply typist in his
fathers office.
Mr.. Candler's brother owns a small
farm which he operates and was secre
tary of the Alcorn County Fair associ-
tion and did ssuch other work as he
could secure was the way he secured mis-
revenue before he was appointed post
master and Twas not from lucrative
law practice.
This card is written in the interest of
fair. play. as the editorial is calculated
to give the public an erroneous impress
sion of Mr.. Gambler.
Yours truly,
Advertisement FAIR PLAY.
we publish above az PAID adver-
tisement card from Fair Play" The
writer may want to be fair but he
seems to have no disposition to be ac-
curate. The statement he complains of
vas not made in an editorial, but in a
letter from Monroe county man.
The fact that Mr.. Gambler, the post
master, is not lawyer cuts no ice.
The thing is he was Congressman Can
dier's brother, And if he is small
farmer it seems that Mr.. Gambler must
have gone out of the city of Corinth to
pick his brother for the Office. There
are no small farms in that city.
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Notice to House Owners.

| have accepted the agency for this
territory of the celebrated "Powdr-
Paint" prepared by A. L. Rice of
Adams. N, Y. | will be pleased to
mail you price and instructions or call
upon you at any time and give instruc-
tions as to its application. This paint
will save you 33 1-3 per cent at least in
painting anything except smooth sur
face (which has been previously filled
with oil.
Nothing will excel it on any rough or
dried out surface. Cheaper than white
wash for painting when the lasting and
preserving qualities are considered.
Drop me a card if you are in need Of
such paint for your dwelling. barn,
stables. dairy building g-in fact anything
inside or outside. Samples of the paint
ing shown on application.
w. O. BARNES, SR.,
Macon, Miss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-08-07

In the Cliftonville neighborhood the
grasshoppers are doing considerable
damage to cotton, corn aud alfalfa.
The seriousness of this destruction of
crops is almost irremediable this late in
the seascl, haaAas@ the insects are
grown and like the army worm at ma
turity, it is difficult to poison them sue
cessfully. They don't eat it as readily
as when young, and, too, it takes a
stronger mixture to be effective. They
attain mature growth from 1st to 18th
Of August. deposit eggs in the ground,
then die.
The Colorado Experiment station
gives this advise to the farmers:
Use ID. of paris green or arsenate
of lead to so lbs. wheat bran, the Juice
from three lemons or oranges and one
gallon of cheap molasses. Use water
enough to wet the bran to make
dough, not too soft, Put this around
the infested fields in single handsful
about yard apart. Do this late in the
afternoon. All grass and weeds should
be cut off bitches, around field. and the
dead grass left where cut. The grass
hoppers can be driven about night to
dead grass and most of them will STAY
there for the night and will find the poi
soned bran as they enter the field the
next morning. Alfalfa should be clip
ped and the poison used around the
field. All grass should be cut and the
grasshoppers driven into these cut-over
fields, then poisoned.
In the section of the county, men,
toned above, there is SO much grass
land the pest is likely to become very
serious another year as most of the eggs
are deposited in the grass lands. Where
land can be plowed in fall or winter
these eggs are destroyed.
j. w. HADDoN,
Special Agent.
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name is called. There will be no
speech making, but / will invite one
or two old "Confeds" outside of the
county who will indulge in some ere
minescenses," as my old friend, Jake
Pierce, used to call it.
But here is the invitation:
81 hereby extend to each and all Vet
erans cordial invitation to hold your
annual reunion at my home, three and
one-half miles east of Macon, on Fri
day, the 14th inst. l have long wanted
to entertain the Veterans, and shall
take great pleasure in having you all
with me on that day, for | love the
cause that you fought for and the
memory of the flag that three brothers
died defending, shall ever be dear to
me. But fifty years have elapsed since
that dear flag was furled forever and
while | glory in the record made by
our dear soldiers, on so many bloody
battlehelds, all bitterness has passed
from my heart, and ] cordially invite
all veterans who wore the blue, who
are living or may be visiting in our
county, to be with us and help us to
make the day one long to be remem-
bered. am sorry that | have only
room to invite the veterans, as I would
like to have invited their wives also,
but will have to defer that pleasure
to some future time. | will be glad
to have all veterans who can do so,
drop me postal or phone me if they
accept this invitation, but if this is
not convenient, come on anyway.
Sincerely your friend
MRS. f. D. CAVETT."
Now, boys, you see "Sallie" has in
vlted us, so she means for you to
come, so be on hand promptly. NY
seven beautiful grand daughters will
act as maids-of-honor and wait on YOU
Truly yours,
f. D.. CAVETT,
Commander.
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OFFICERS OF ELECTION
To be Held in Noxubee County On Tuesday, Au
gust 18th, 1914.

gust 18th, 1914.
Deerbrook D Bell, J M Robert.
son, Alexander Mcintosh, managers.
Allie Swami, returning officers.
Cliftonville IS B Connor, R A Bryan,
Gus Cunningham, managers. T. j.
Glover, returning officer.
Prairie Point-J b Stewart, Walter
White, w Fl Smith, mgrs. w. E. Wy
att, returning officer.
Center Point-W r Bush, K T Nc
Leod, Leon Dent, mgrs. d, A. Will
Williams, returning officer.
Paulette-W w Goodwin, w A Pate,
T E Wilkerson. managers, L B Mar
shall, returning officer.
Cooksville-R L Holiday, j E Spark
man, Ben Little, managers. Ash Lock
returning officer.
Macon-W o Barnes, Wood Cockrell,
R E V Yates, managers. S M Bowen,
returning officer.
Shuqualak j w Jenkins, Geo. Clop-
ton, Prince Hubbard, manager. j Yat-
etzsky, returning officer.
Mashulaville-C P Sennett, S T Ham
mack, r r Jones; managers. ON Dor
roh, returning officer.
Summerville-JlJ Whittle, ] B Jar
Wis, fillmore Watkins, managers. Bob
Morris, returning officer.
Hashuqua-B F Whitehead, John l.
Read, T Ii Hurst, managers. HWJer-
nsgin, returning officer.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-08-07
JUDGE McCOOL AND THE ELEC-
TIVE JUDICIARY.
Very sincerely,
H. A. MINOR, NJ D.
ADVERTISEMENT

NAuVeIllStllltHl.J
For the first time since 1869, the
people of Mississippi are to enjoy
the right to elect their own judges,
and notwithstanding the fact that the
appointive system was foisted upon
us by the carpet baggers, this old
relic of the Reconstruction days has
been perpetuated by the politicians of
the State.
During all these years, there have
been a few men among the leaders
who have fought this embezzlement
of power and have done their utmost
to wrest the appointive system from
the politicians and put it back where
it belonged-in>the hands of the COM
monwealth.
At last the boon of Democratic
government has been recovered and
Mississippians have come into their
own.
To Judge James F. McCool, as much
as any man in the State, they are in
debted for the enjoyment of this God
given right.
Ever since he entered public life he
has worked earnestly and steadfastly
in season and out of season for an
elective judiciary.
For the first time in fiftyyears we are
to vote for our own judges, and Judge
McCool comes before the people and
asks their support and endorsement
Tor Chancellor of this district.
AS we see it, the people owe it to
themselves, they owe it to Judge Nc
Cool, to vote for him for this Office;
not only because he has made good
public servant and his record is clean,
and low to strike him down armed
with ballot that he has done as much
as any man in Mississippi to place
IN their hands smacks strongly of in
gratitude, and we do not believe the
people of the district are going to do
it, for whatever their faults may be,
is not one of them.
At the proper time they will show
their sense of appreciation TO Judge
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-08-07

MeCool by electing him Chancellor of
the. Sixth Judicial District
This is the first time he has asked
their support for this office and will,
doubtless, be the last, and we feel
confident that his appeal to the peo-
pie will strike a responsive chord.
6ertainly it would be poor encour-
agement for .the future statesman to
advocate and work for popular gov
ernment by the people, if the ballot
thus placed in their hands is to be
used as an engine of Instruction.
Kosciusko Star-Ledger.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-08-07
By DANE COOLIDGE

Brooksville-T S Gay, W D Dothe-
row. c 7 Hambrick, managers. 7 j
Conn, returning officer.
Lynn Creek-A J White, S W Heard.
Walter Cade, manager. Joe White, re-
turning officer.
Fairview-E H Smythe, J r Carpen-
ter. F Edwards, manager. j 0 Cook
returning officer.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-08-07

We went up to the Caxton building
the other day to call on an artistic
friend. We found him dsing a war
dance about his studio. What on
earth has happened?" we asked.
I've sold that painting" he cried.
"Fine!" said we. What are You 60
Ing to paint next?" THE town." And
he did. you know.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-08-07

FOR SALE Having bought elsewhere, l
now offer for sale my farm of 256 acres on Co
lumbusl road four miles north of Macon. Best
equipped dairy.farm in the county. price $55 per
acre.
Also my entire herd Of cows. all prime dairy Of
stock.
Two brood mares with colts
One two year old colt.
Two sows with pigs
Some farm machinery
quantity of Red Rust Proof Oats. free from
johnson Grass seed. M E, COFFMAN. Fl
Route 2, Macon, Miss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-08-07

Now is the time to have your Wagon
Body built for fall use. Can be done
reasonable by The Macon Carriage,
Wagon and Machine Shops. 4l.2
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-08-07

STOCK FOR SALE-20head of Mu.es from
one year old to coming four. Also Ave horse colts
out of WELL bred.mares. and one Starlight Jenret.
years old with femate colt months old. Calien
or address W. h. SMITH.
7.10-4t Prairie Point, Miss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-08-07
PENSION NOTICE!

The Pension Board of Noxubee Co.,
Miss, will convene on
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th, 1914
at 10 o'clock. a. m, at the chancery
clerk g Office.
All applicants for pensions should file
their applications with the Undersigned
before the time.
1t ID NOT NECESSARY for pensioners
whose names are already on the roll to
file new applications
This July 81, 1914
JOHN A. TYSON,
Chaucery Clerk of Noxubee Co.
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LIST. OF JURORS.
First Week.


w. T. White, F. O. Byrne, A. Nc
lntosh, w. B. Gavin, D.. T. Rife, J. A.
Dpsmore, Jr., John M. Robertson, J.
S. Carpenter, w. A. Cheatham,, M. R.
Love, G. S. Dinsmore, w. E. Skinner,
L. G. Oliver, J. E Watt, L. S. Shep-
herd, Kenneth Hill, ]. E. Aust, c. L.
Cole, c. c. Clark, M. c. Carter, J. B.
Elkin, J. T. Sargent, E. F. Hardin, w.
N. Haynes, Mat Holberg, Clifton
Hunter, w T. Martin, T. J. Young,
Gus Mcleod, ]. P. Swami, p. D. Hub
bard, J. w, Doharty, ]. E. Davis, R.
NJ Knight, N. L. Cotton, T. F. Cole
man, B. 7. Reed, N. L. Hairston, Eric
G. Eaves, J. A. Guy, J.>K. Wilkins, N.
G. Stiles, T. w. Madison, B. c. Moore,
w. H. Cade, john T. Morgan, |. N.
Anthony, ]. N. Boykin, J. O. Cook, J.
L. S. Garden.
Second Week.
w. V. Rogers, c. c. Higginbotham,
c. E. Lindley, Arthur Jernigan, P.
Gousset, d. H. Adams, S. T. Penning-
ton, T. J. Maxey (Gholson), J. L.
Bass, S. E. Hale, P. G. Lucas, w.
Nicholson, c. L. Richie, J. R. McNich-
OILS, G. H. Young, V. S. Jackson, f. E.
V. Stewart, G. M. Richardson, C. ].
Butler, H. w. Jernagin, G.. B. Rey-
nolds, c. ]. Byrd, John Johnson, R.
M. Morris, B. Underwood, w. M
Colbert, c. M. Bell, c. c. Kinard, D.
E. Perkins, w. B. Butler lynn
Creek.
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Chancery Clerk of Noxubee Co.

Oh! You Calomel get out of the way
and let Liv-Ver-Lax do the work. Pure
ly vegetable. Ask MURPHEY DRUG
STORE.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-02
SMELL SAWDUST2
YEP, SHE'S COMING!
Boys Feel Approach of Cir
Gus Day and With Bands
and Clowns.
Feel the electricity in the air?

Feel the electricity In the air?
Feel a sort of happy something Turk
ing around in the atmospheric sort
of promise of blaring bands and clown
faces and hulking elephants and saw
dust and lemonade and schreeching,
bowling ballyhoo men?
Notice it? Yep? Circus is coming
coming September 18- circus and
wild west and Buffalo Bill and riders
and clowns-and-wel1 a good many
things. For let it be known right
now that on Friday, September 18,
there will come rolling into town the
long trains of the Sells-Floto circus
and Buffalo Bill thimselD here for
one days engagement, with perform
ances afternoon and night.
When the Sells Floto circus was
through this section of the country
last year it carried only that part of
it's name. But now the name as well
as the circus has been augmented,
for the reason that Colonel William
Cody buffalo Bill has joined as the
chief feature, and has brought his en-
tire retinue-even to the old Dead
wood stage coach-with him.
Colonel Cody will appear in the per-
formances here to give his famous sa-
lutte from the saddle, and also will lead
the parade when the show comes here.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-02

many's industrial productions, accord
ing to American statistics, is now over
three thousand millions Of dollars. So
this is an industrial war and Germany
is only striving to hold her place
against the commercial jealousy of
England, France, Russia and Japan.
The great shame of it all is that each
of these nations is appealing to its
particular God for help!
Overwork Industriaiism.
But Germany has not escaped the
penalty of over-worked industrialism
any more than we have, or England
and Japan. We see even there the
terrible drama of pauperism; shame
less exploitation of workingmen and
their wives and children; overcrowd.
ing in unhealthy surroundings; star
walton wages; crises of unemploy.
ment which reduce whole districts to
despair. Germany has not escaped but
she has suffered less than England be.
cause a determined opposition on the
part of the German public conscience
has grappled with the problem. Bis
marck and Baron Won Sturm, support
ed by the Catholic Party, started a
system of workmen's protection. AT
ter years of struggle, the triumph oil
this idea came and Germany is justly
proud of her great laws of social in
surance-insurance against sickness
accidents, invalidity and old age.
The modern industrial creed is that
business belongs to anyone who car
get it," Based upon diligence, indus
try, honesty, service, and a free field
it is a true axiom, but based upon the
power of great capital backed by ar
mics and navies, it is false PROPOSE
ton and becomes highway robbery
Germany entered the field with indus
try, honesty, service and a profound
brain-power. The German people ad
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-02
BY EDGAR LIFE.

Nature in no place teaches us that
it is wrong to kill. War Is the rule of
animal and human life. This is not
said in justification Of either murder
or war but offered as a pure fact. Up
to this very hour, man has always
been at war with the elements, with
animal, plant and mineral destructive
agencies, and with himself and his
fellow-men. At his waking hour he
arises and declares war against dis
ease, against the elements, against
poisons, against the thousand and one
enemies of his existence and survival.
swat the fly!" is a declaration of
war. To live man leads to the bloody
shambles millions of innocent lambs,
calves and sheep every year. The
modern sacrifice of animal life, the
bloody affairs of civilization upon
which they are slaughtered, the end
less and eternal procession of lives
given up in the name of civilization,
make the refined and tender souls of
earth shudder in contemplation. All
through the animal kingdom, all
through life of any species or kind,
the motto is Survive"
Life Struggle.
Life is constant struggle with anil
NAL and man to exist, and to exist
both man and animal must prey upon
the weak. There is this difference be-
tween man and animal, however. The
beast or bird of prey seizes and kills
just enough to satisfy his hunger. Man
is not satisfied with taking enough
each day from his fellow-man to salts
fly his needs. He takes everything
from his brother If he can and keeps
it piled up somewhere and calls that
by the modern hateful civilized term
Success"
War, in the history of mankind, has
assumed many phases and always
takes on the color of the social, politi-
cal or religious creed of its age. The
old marauder loved to kill for the sake
of killing. He loved to enslave women.
He loved to destroy with all the inten-
sity of his savage instincts. The creed
of the sea wolves, the pirates, the buc-
cancers and free-booters, was plumber.
The Crusade wars were religious, with
the desire to rescue the sepulchre Of
Christ from the foul hands of the inf
del. Our Mexican war was waged to
extend human slavery. Our Indian
wars were wars of determination. Our
Civil war was a contest between free
labor and slavery, and the result was
one consolidated free government on
the western hemisphere. Our Revolu-
tionary and 1872 wars were fought out
on the right to compete in industry,
and foreshadowed the coming indus
trial system which now governs the
civilized world. In our early Colonial
days, England forbade us to manufac-
ture anything, even horseshoe nails,
because we competed with English
trade. England succeeded in destroy
ing every Irish industry and reduced
the once flourishing people of Ireland
to pauperism and despair.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-02

,anced rapidly and alarmed all COM
especially England and ia

vanced rapidly and alarmed all COM
petitors, especially England and ia
pan.
Montesquieu said long ago. liberty
was discovered in the wild forests Of
Germany" Herodotus said ages ago
of the Germans, they love to ride and
shoot and tell the TRUTH" and III they
could unite they would be irresistible"
They had physical strength and mar
tial heroism and we owe representa-
tive government to their ancient tri-
bal assemblies.
Threatens Commerce.
These were pleasant things to read
in England's historical textbooks I'M
til Germany did unite and threaten
English commerce. 1t makes all the
difference in the world whether we are
gored or are doing the goring. AS ear
ly as 1885, Bismarck alarmed England
with these words in a speech in the
Reichstag:
1.-THE German nation is absolutely
peaceably-minded and wishes to live
on terms of peace and friendship with
England, just as much as with all 9th
err nations. But Germany must and
will develop and expand. Whoever
wishes to live at peace with Germany
must recognize that fact. The ques.
ton is a vital one for Germany, an
absolute need of it's existence. Ger.
many cannot turn back without risk
OF deterioration, of mutilation, of des
truction, and therefore. without a life
and death struggle. The whole world
must reckon with that fact. No one
can deny that the interests of England
and Germany create friction. That
friction may have far-reaching cOnse
quences; Done can say before hand
whether or how, but the possibility is
there. Is the necessity also there?
Are such conflicts insoluble? Must
England and Germany, as many de-
clare, conduct themselves as enemies
Cannot both nations find elbow-room
in our world, so immensely vaster to-
day than in former ages? Can they not
acknowledge each other according to
their nature and extent?'
England could not see it that way
Her jealousy, her love of supremacy
blinded her. England could have pre-
vented this war. The blame is all at
her door The fight is between Ger.
many alone and England and her
tools.