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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-12
John Sharp a GadAy.

Senator Williams is not only one
of the ablest philosophers in the
Senate, but in his lighter moments
he fulflls the function of a gadfly
and does it with a most accept
able combination of grace and
force, says Golfers Weekly. The
other day Senator J. Ham Lewis,
of Illinois, was debating the i'm.
migration bill. Senator Lewis
speeches are occasionally like his
clc.i.es anu his nIanner-highIy
ornamental. On this occasion he
adorned his argument with state
ment that Murat, the famous
French cavalry leader who be-
came King of Naples, was "a wait.
er in a restaurant, who
could not read the tickets which
were brought to him with the
meal charges.
Senator Williams, when he
heard this statement, slipped out
to the Senate library and came
back in a few minutes with two
books, one the Century Cyclope-
dia" and the other "The Encyclo-
pedia Britannica" From them
he quoted concerning Murat:
"Destined for the priesthood
obtained bursary at the Col
Iege Of Cahors, proceeding after.
wards to the University of Tau
louise, where he studied canon
law.n
The occasions when the word
laughter" punctuates the rec.
ords of Senate debates are not fire.
luent. This was one of them,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-12
Mr.. George Hummer.

Another candidate has announced for
Supervisor from District One in the
person of Mr.. George Hummer. Mr..
Hummer came to Noxubee county
about fifteen years ago and bought
some prairie land and made a notable
success as farmer and business man.
He put Noxubee in the newspapers ex-
tensively by winning the first prize in
1904 for honev at the Worlds Fair at
st. Louis. On account of his health a
few years ago Mr.. Hummer had to 20
to the western mountain country, but
ne could not remain away from Noxu-
bee, so came back to his farm here.
He is very progressive, broadminded
and capable and his friends think he
would make just the kind of Superyi-
sor the county needs.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-12

From farms in 1914 the United
States produced a yield worth
ten billion dollars. Could cotton
have been marketed as usual the
total would have been close to
half a billion more. Ten billion
dollars representing honest work! /!
Ten billion dollars untainted mo-
ney! And going mostly into the
pockets of the workers them
selves, with little reaching the
purses of labor exploiters. The
beautiful thing about this great
item of our national wealth, next
to its cleanliness, is the fact it
can be increased indefinitely by a
more general adoption of scienti-
fic agriculture. In fifteen years
it has been doubled; and still, on
our new soil, we farm only a
third as effectively as do many
foreign peoples on soil centuries
longer in use. The forest, cut
unwisely, is gone. The mineral,
once mined, is not renewable.
But on his broad acres the tiller
of the soil can take and take
again; and, though he has to fer
tilize, the more he does it the
more he earns. So, come war,
come pestilence, come anything
but continent-wide drought, here
is a broad base for our future
upon which we can build
expandingly and securely. The
man with the hoe is, indeed, the
best hope of the future.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-12

W M Rogers made bond as superin
tendent of roads in district 4.
DR.. 7. c. Afford was released from
payment of tax on dog.
t. j. Guy was refunded road tax,
same having been paid.
Following road overseers were ap.
polnted: E. L. Norwood in place OF
Allen Gray; Jno. Cole in place of T. F.
Harper; D. B, Cade in place of D. E.
Perkins; N. G. Stiles in place of W. E
Doyle; L. L. Cole in place of Allie
Swami.
J. j. Higginbotham was released
from road tax enormously assessed.
On petition of W. E. Stokes, two
mules and one horse assessed against
Charlie Neal, Sr. and Jr., was released
same having been doubly assessed.
On petition of ]. @ Poindexter, as
sessment against Henderson Bush was
refunded.
Petition of W. ]. Combs was con.
tinued.
Petitions of G. B. Tripplett and Rufus
Watkins for refund of poll tax was
granted.
Thc appointment of the following
deputy assessors were approved: ]. R.
Sparkman, district 2; W. M. Hunter
and Jno. M. Anderson, district 4; Geo.
M. Gilmore, district S.
Petition of Mrs. A. C. Tinsley for re-
lease OF taxes was rejected.
The following bridges were awarded
to E. O. Kirby and R. T. McDavid:
Bridge on Macon and Memphis road on
Martin place, $l2O; on same road be-
tween Dancing Rabbit and Hog Eye,
S55; on same road, Martin place, 500.
The requisition of W. N. Haynes,
keeping of county home was allowed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-12

0no ss-f manufacturing concern
in LoweS Mass, has contracted
for an el' Yre year to manufacture
army boG for the French army.
1t is an e kclusive contract. The
plant will be operated night and
day. No American orders will be
solicited.
If this keeps up American mar
kets will 60 abegging. The Amer
lean buyer is already beginning to
play second fiddle. Wheat ship
pers look with scorn on American
purchasers when the nations at
war offer more for their product.
AS the war advances this de-
mand will increase. 1t means a
necessary advance in the cost of
nearly every American product.
President Wilson gave expression
to sound common sense when he
urged that there should not be an
idle plow,' an idle hoe nor an idle
implement of agriculture. He
spoke truthfully and plainly when
he said that it was up to the Tn.
tied States to feed Europe. This
is what war does. 1t is equal in
it's benefits to this country and It's
injury. It directs a supply of
gold to the United States, but it
places penalty on the American
consumer, who has to pay more
than he would under ordinary cir
cumstances for what he must use.
When giant armies march and
counter march they trample the
growing crops, they trample the
life from villages and arms, they
walk roughshod over the furrow-
ed fields and the roads made
smooth by labor. They trample
out the achievements of years OF
peace. They come as a scourge of
locusts leaving the countryside
desolate and bare.
Everybody who has followed the
present war of wars understands
this. Few, however, stop to think
how hard these soldiers must be
on their shoes. The heads of the
cOmmissary are not so forgetful.
They estimate the cost of shoes
and boots and this is a very i'm.
portant item when it comes to ap-
preparations. When the boys are
marching their footwear is short |
lived. The British army figures
that pair of boots will last a sol.
dier six weeks @nd each pair of
boots costs four dollars or more.
If this is an average rate, and it is
at least a figure to base an aver
age upon, a three-y year war would
cost Europe a billion of dollars for
boots alone.
A cable from Paris says that the
demand for army boots is now so,
600, 900 pairs year. An Ameri-
can shoe manufacturer says that !
this country can provide 30,0OO,
600 pairs a year, This is fine for
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-12

of Democrats, lining up with
bloody shirt Republicans and the
South haters OH the ship purchase
bill. His reason that 1t does not
commend itself to his good judg-
ment in every detail will hardly
satisfy his constituents. who have
cotton to sell, and which cannot
be sold unless bottoms are provid-
ed to carry it to Europe-Scimitar
ANGUS BULLS-Nins rsaisfsrsd
Angus Buiis, from 10 months to fou
ysdrs old for sole. CAVETT BROS.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-12

our shoe and leather industry. If
we can make and export 100, 900
pairs day we shall have done
something remarkable, but in the
meantime what are we unfortu-
mates at home going to do' 1t
seems that we are entitled to pri.
mary consideration. Commercial.
Appeal.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-12
Be Kind Now.

Dost thou intend a kindness to thy
loved one? Do 1t straightway before
the future comes, destroying thy op-
portunity.-Carlyle.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-12

Will wonders never ceasei Here
comes Senator James X. Varda
man, of Mississippi, a Democrat
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-12
Board Of Supervisors.
FEBRUARY TERM,

Board met in regular session. AL
members and officers present. After
proclamation by the sheriff, the follow.
ing proceedings were had:
The following accounts were contin.
ued: ]. A. Tyson, $1.75 for affidavits
W. M. Dowdle, So for damage caused
BY change of road.
i Prince Watkins, on petition, was re-
leased from road tax in district 4, hav.
J ing been a student at lthe time of as
\ sessment.
Harry Crockett, being over age, was
released from road tax.
j. A. McCuen was refunded tax on
$3.50 worth of personal property erron-
eously assessed to him.
Following were rejected. Berry
{ lker, for release from dog tax; Jack
Je, for correction of assessment.
pgg Jackson, being overage was
Hed from road tax.
A. Dunlap was refunded poll tax.
n. Stokes was released from poll
Md j. o. Faser was released from
n ~ dog.
yMEa E. Doyle was awarded contract
yNtH'nber for district s.
~ W. E. Avery being over age, was re-
h1ee- ID from poll tax.
III Following were continued: D. C.
h Nerris, three accounts against district
III W. N Roger, petition for change of
road; B G. Coleman, for refund of dog
tax.
The Committees appointed to inspect,
bridges built by L. F. Cole, Jr., across
Pumpkin creek and bridge on Misso
road built by R. T. McDavid, had both
been built according to plans and spec
iications and payment for same was
recommended.
All bids submitted to build a kitchen
for the poor house were rejected and
clerk was directed to re-advertise.
The following petitions were received
and filed: W. F. Permenter, communi-
cation as to Giles ferry; H. E. Blackes-
lee, commissioner of agriculture, as to
tick Inspector: ]. A. Tyson, as to treas
urer's bond; DR.. Stanley, health report
for December; Road Oversser's report;
". r. Jackson, superintendent of edu-
zstioa-
Z Contract for supplies for convicts
was awarte I'd tc Wilkins & Parks, and
j. E. McIlwain to furnish hay at SO per
\ On.
Supplies for County Home was
awarded to A. Klaus & Co.
D lhe following were rejected: W. A. |
Williams, petition for loan, insufficient
funds; Watkins & Sons and P. T. |
bethany, accounts for nails. no con-
tract; Tom Key, for release from tax
lbn personally; Num- & Co.. for lum-
/ per; R. M. Pruitt and L. S. Shumaker,
fS2 as clerks of election; Bill Stovall for
Release of poll tax.
\ ALLOWANCES.
lBeacon adv. Districts. 5 and | & 10 53
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-12
Virtue Follows AdversIty.

Prosperity doth best discover vice,
but adversely doth best discover VIZ.
tue.-Bacon.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-22
If BACK HURTS USE
. SALTS FOR KIDNEYS.
Eat Less Meat if Kidneys Feel
Like Lead or Bladder
Bothers.

Most folks forget that the kidneys,
like the bowels. get sluggish and clog
ged and need flushing occasionally,
else we have backache and dull misery
IL the kidney region, severe headaches,
rheumatic twinges. torpid liver. acid
stomach, sleeplessness and all sorts Of
bladder disorders.
You simply must keep your kidneys
active and clean, and the moment you
feel an ache or pain In the kidney
region. get about four ounces OF Jad
Salts from any good drug store here,
take tablespoonful in glass OF wat
er before breakfast for few days and
your kidneys will then act fine, This
famous salts is made from the acid OF
grapes and lemon Juice. combined with
llthia, and is harmless to flush clogged
kidneys and stimulate them to normal
activity. II also neutralizes the acids
in the urine SO II no longer irritates,
thus ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts is harmless; inexpensive,
makes a delightful effervescent 'lithia-
water drink which everybody should
take now and then to keep their kid
neys clean, thus avoiding serious COM
plications.
A well known local druggist says he
sells lots OF Jad Salts to folks who be-
flieve in overcoming kidney trouble
while 1t. is only trouble.-Advertise
fnent.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-22
Between Germany and Austro-
Hungary and Conferences
Are Being Held.

; Correspondents of tho Associated press)
ZURICH, Switzerland, Dec. 22.-
important conferences between Ger
man and Austro-Hungarian politicians
and leading representatives OF finance
and commerce. are now going on in
Vienna and Berlin, for the purpose
OF finding basis for establishing
closer economic relations between the
snllied empires. Although several
meetings have already taken place no
definite results have yet been obtained
The industrial and commercial inter-
ects of the two countries are 80 diver
gent that 1t is difficult to see how an
understanding can be reached, which
Will prove satisfactory TO both Sides
And SO far every conference seems only
to have discovered new troubles In
the way OF reaching an agreement
-Hungarians fear,-that Just as
at present they are under the domina-
ton Of Germany in military affairs,
30 later their financial and economic
Independence will also be lost before
the persistent and powerful monarch
of Germany. The whole question is
one of the most vital Importance for
the future welfare Of tho dual mon
archy, and excites far more interest
In the business community than the
progress of the war.
Agrarians in Majority.
Since the Franco-Prussian war Ger
many has become an industrial state
while Austria-Hungary has remained
essentially agricultural. With the ex-
ception Of Bohemia, Moravia and Low
er Austria. which includes Vienna, all
the other provinces of Austria are
purely agricultural. and Hungary is
overwhelmingly 80. In both parlia-
ments at Vienna and Budapest, the
agrarians always possess q large ma
jority.
Nevertheless both politically and
smilitarily, closer union between
Germany and Austria is generally re-
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-22
CLOSER ECONOMIC
RELATIONS DESIRED

garded as an absolute necessity, and
VIII doubtless continue to be SO long
after the war is ended. But tho prob
lem as to how this is to be brought
about lis exceedingly complex.
j By high protective duties Austria
has long maintained an economic
existence. independent of Germany,
and indeed even opposed to German
interests. In Austria everything is
much dearer than In Germany, from
twenty TO even fifty per cent. The
difference in prices is especially great
in heavy wares, such as coal, iron,
steel and machinery. II is only through
these protective duties that Austria
has managed to develop growing In
dustry. and prevent the country from
being flooded with cheap German prod
ucts.
For some years Austria has almost
monopolized the trade in the Balkans
and the Levant, but latterly German
merchants have been creeping In
thehre and capturing customers. This
has been the case more than ever
sonce the annexation OF Austria-Hun-
gary and Bosnia and Herzegovina in
1903, when both Turkey and Serbia
boycotted Austrian goods. The rapid
lily with which Germany seized the OPP
portunity to enter these markets
caused intense irritation in Vienna and
budapest at the time. Nor has this
feeling diminished since German trade
has steadily grown In southeastern
Europe while Austrias has as stead
lily decreased.
Heavy Obligations.
How all these matters will deyelop
after the war nobody can foresee. I'm
doubleday Austria-Hupgary Is placed
under heavy obligations to Germany
Tor its military aid in the war. How
and in what form will Germany re-
quire payment for such service? Prob
ably through preferential customs tar
ms, or perhaps by n customs union.
In either case 1t is declared Germany
stands to gain all the profit and Aus
tria to suffer all the injury. For then
German wares would swamp Austrian
competition for the trade in the Bal
kans and Levant would be hopeless.
Hence 1t Is easy to understand the
covert opposition, In nearly ali parts
of Austria. to Germany's efforts to
bring its ally in closer commercial re-
lationship. 1t is feared that economic
dependence will surely follow mill
tary. For since the war begun many
things have occurred which indicate
Hungary under its commercial sub
lection. Only short time ago the
big banks in Berlin sent circulars
to the principal Austrian investors
in the first and second Austrian war
loans. Offering to advance them ninety
per cent OF the face value of their
holdings provided they would use the
money for investment in the third
loan. The Austrian banks were only
advancing. seventy-hve per cent of the
former loans. Such incidents have
created much distrust in the Austrian
capital, and shown the necessity for
exercising the utmost caution before
entering into any new kind OF econ
oimc arrangements with GERMANY,
which may be fraught with the most
serious consequence for tho future of
the dual monarchy.
Shoes have doubled in price In
Vienna in the last few months, and
this largely through the wearing OF
the short skirt, which calls for higher
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-22

ed as to the manner in which the expert
surgeons locate bullets that have struck
these poor fellows. Ingenious ways of
tinding bullets and pieces of shrapnel
are resorted to by French surgeons with
the aid Of powerful electro-niagnets, but
the Sutton method, Of American origin,
is becoming universally used,
Another American whose name will
be writ large in the medical history of
the war Is DR.. Kenneth Taylor, who
discovered. the antidote for gas gan
green. When it was not yet known
whether his experiments were successful
or not, an unknown American girl-a
ntirsc at the front-inoculated herself
with the deadly poison, though no one
knew of her heroic deed till later. The
antidote worked and she was saved, but
her act deserves mention as one of the
brayest of all time.
TN removing bullets By the Sutton
method, the wounded man Is
placed on table. beneath which
is an X-ray machine, and over
is placed the tube of light used
in the photographing process. The
bullet then is shown on, the plate,
which is placed beneath the pa
tent The X-ray has demonstrated that,
like nearly everything else in France, it
is somewhere near a certain locality
But how deep? The tube then Is placed
at another angle. The shadows are
made to cross and the bullet is again
detected. To find how far to probe
the surgeon resorts to mathematics and
works out his calculations by the simple
principles of triangulation.
The surgeon tthrusts hollow, needlc-
like device into the body, finds the bull
let, and puts a piece of slightly barbed
piano wire down TO hold to the tissue
around the bullet. Then the patient is
wheeled to the operating room, where
the work of removing the bullet is
quickly accomplished. I have known of
cases where triangilation has been done
within 1--WE minutes. ~
It is the bravery of these poor men,
however, that wrings anguish from the
heart. No complaints, no bitter words
against their cause which led. them to
sacrifire. Shattered limbs, serious flesh
wounds, blindness, deafness from the
great dctonations-but no word of COM
plant. Itsai
Man Is a queer creature who quickly
adapts himself to conditions. The quick
ness with which war was grasped meant
also that human understood as quickly
wars by-products, and pain and dealt,
and suffering and poverty are some OF
them. And that Is why il is so difficult
for one who has been in the midst TO
obtain perspective. The most hopribIc
things become COMMONPLACE always SO
10 remain.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-22
QUICK HELP FOR r.
D A CROUPY CHILD
{ 5|MPLE.HaRMLESS

When your child is croupy, cross,
feverish, full of cold. restless and ir-
ritable. try this:
Get small tube of NoSTRIoI4A
OF your druggist apply to nostrils and
on chest and throat-also under arm
pits and on soles OF feet. NoSTRIo-
La is absolutely harmless formula
on every package) and this simple
common-sense treatment Will clear
the head, instantly stop that terrible
chokey. croupy cough and quickly
change half-siclt. fretful child into
a happy playful one. p
y. The old method OF dosing the
stomach for colds and Group is
wrong and harmful. Get a small tube
OF your druggist today and you'll wish
you had tried NosTR1oLA sooner
Advertisement.
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all of the following described lot or
parcel of land, situate in Coal district,
Harrison County, West Virginia. de.
scribed as follows: All that certain
lot fronting on Poplar street, known
and designated as. lot No. AZ, on a
plat of said property known as Alex
andria." which plat is of record in the
Office Of the Clerk Of the County Court
Of Harrison County, in Deed Book No.
-, page -, being. the same lot that
was conveyed to Domenick Serrao by
Adah Alexander Stout and husband,
by deed dated October 23rd, 1915, OF
record in the aforesaid Office in Deed
Book No. PAS. page. 1913.
Terms Of sale: Cash on day Of sale.
CORNELIUS C. DAVIS,
Trustee.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-22

L-lEnfyH1 - AbH wv UtOlittEs slilSG J.
STSlIl5D last saw through fearful, un-
,NNlthsSj happy eyes tlfrobbing and
NE war-swept Europe. Through
ssNIts1 the haze of early morning
my last vision OF that land
of strife and woe will re-
main clear picture-Ersver to be for
gotten.
Moments in life when we are expert
encing the biggest emotions frequently
are made indelible m our minds by rea-
son of the tiny incidents recorded in
memory. As ! turned from the steam
ship rail, when the litti strip of land
they call England disappeared from
view on the horizon, / noticed beside
me woman wearing life-preserver
and standing close 70 e liteboat. which
swung incorcernedly on its dayits.
So, when ! think of Europe passing
from view, think also of the little,
stout person at my side who, with some
reason, no doubt. still maintained GER
tain sense of fear whiIe we steamed
swiftly through the submarine war
zone on our way back 10 America.
Now, ! am writing on mission desk
IN little cabin in the mountains of
southern California. 1t IS autumn on
thu ln!lsides. The mountains and fc.t-
hills are covered with vari-colored fol-
iage. What contrastl Here L see
crimson as nature paints with It; far
away in unhappy Europe / saw it as
man reeklessly farnts It. II Is too big,
too wonderful for the human mind to
grasp. And yet, / should say, my life in
the past year IN Europe and In peaceful
America has providedsexperienees prob
ably no other American woman has had.
As a nurse in the field hospitals I did
all that could TO relieve the suffering
around me. But I was only one. Ny
efforts were so small in effect. was
bet spec, on the horizon of the world.
Then one night ! saw a wonderful
thing A motion picture show was
giyea 81 the hospital wlsere ! was at
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-22

TWAS in London during those
eventful weeks which preceded
August ], 1914. That seems ages
agol What excitement it was as the
penny papers screeched the headlines
through the streets. at can't be-"
some person observed, "that civilized
Europe is about to plunge itself into
war; Others said, "The inevitable
has come" The latter were right.
Then came an interval when the Brit
ish capital was wild with excitement.
Belgiuni's neutrality had been violated,
and in succession the great counties OF
Europe plunged themselves into war, so
swiftly as to stagger the imagination.
-!sier .tteY 10 AIMS women. ever calm in
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-22

work. For the time being the wounded
forgot their hurts and the well forgot
the terfors of the raging conflict. They
thought only OF the drama on the screen
before them. It was amazing. A long
strip of celluloid in little round tin
box nursed thousand men back to
health. Did | then do wrong to desert
my post when the chance came to ap-
pear before the motion picture camera?
| think not. To those soldiers my first
photoplay will be shown as soon as it is
completed, and know that in round
tin box / will do more good than ever
l could in nurses uniform.