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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-26

In "old times' appointments of
Supreme Judges were lawyers
whose names and qualifications
we're familiar to members of the
profession all over the state. None
others were ever thought of. That
times have changed was brought
out yesterday through asking sew
eral members of the Vicksburg
bar, who in our new Supreme
Judge. AS all expressed inabili-
ty to answer the question, we
would state on the authority of
the appointee's home paper, the
Hattiesburg News, that he is a
graduate of the State University;
read law in the Office of his older
brother, the late Judge Forrest
Stevens; was elected chancellor at
the election in November; practic-
ed law in Lexington before becom-
ing a member of the Hattiesburg
firm of Stevens, Stevens & Cool
Vicksburg Herald.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-26
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

For Disfricf Attorney!
M. A. SAUNDERS.
GUY ]. RENCHER
For State Senator
HENRY A. MINOR
For Representative.
CLINTON e. DORROH
w. R. SWINDLE.
M. O'BYRNE
T. w. BRAME
For County Attorney:
d. f. ALLGOOD.
VIM. B. LUCAS
For Sheriff:
w. A. PARKS.
J. T. MCCLURE.
VERNON CLARK.
A. Fl. BUSH
For Circuit Clerk:
G. M. SCALES.
G. VERNON ADAMS
For TREASURER:
J. B. COTTON.
W. o. BARNES, JR.
VIM. WALKER.
j. R. EVANS.
For Assessor.
ROBERT G. PATTY.
LUCIUS L. COLE.
s. NJ. TOMLINSON
Superintendent Of Education.
JAS. G. CHANDLER
JESSE r. SPARKMAN
j. R. JACKSON
For Supervisor, District 8:
GEO. PAGAN.
JNO. P HUNTER.
r. T. MCDAVID
JAS. H. MURRAY.
SHELBY JACKSON
W. T. SHOWERS.
District One:
ROL BREWER, JR.
NELSON STEVENS
GEORGE A. HUMMER
Disfrict -Four:
w. L. THOMAS.
For Constable, District 3
J. HENRY HERMAN
s. M. BOWEN.
District Four:
]. A. REED, JR
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-26
THE GRAND JuRY's REPORT.

10 the Honorable Thos. B. Carroll judge of the
circuit court. Noxubee county. Mississippi:
The grand jury Of Noxubee county
OF the February term, 1915, respectful
" reports unto your honor that they
have sat for six days and haye made
diligent inquiry into the various mat
ters required by law Of them and point.
ed out to them in your honor's clear
and instructive charge. We have ex-
amined rs witnesses and have return
ed % indictments. With the exception
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-26

The state of affairs in Mexico
goes on daily from bad to worse,
and there is no relief in sight.
There is no law, no order, no
courts, no justice, no security.
Murder is rampant. Robbery is
prevalent. Misery, restitution,
hunger, cold and disease are deci.
mating the poor people.
We are paying highest cash price for
fresh eggs MACON CREAMERY Co.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-26
notice.

We carry a good stock Of, the follow
ing all the time Flour Meal Meat
Hams Bacon Lard Sugar Coffee
Rice Grits Corn Oats Chops Bran
Shorts Mixed Feed. Best sugar house
Wolasses lDbarrels, N, SCALES
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-26
D is c 0 v E R Y

Certainly does cure any and all Itch
ing SKIN Troubles such as Eczema, let.
ter, Ring. Worm. Poison Oak, Itch,
Fever. Blisters. Frost Bites, Chicken
Fox, Prickly Heat, Nettle Rash and
Old Stubborn Sores drought to be Can
GERS. Gives instant relief and cures
when physicians fail. Samples free to
suffers. Try one bottle on sale at
Ed. M. Murphey. Maconj Brooksvills
Drug Co., Brooksville; Q. r. Hamilton,
Shuqualak.
Eatman Manufacturing Co.
Grenada, Mics.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-26

We are paying highest cash price for
fresh eggs. MACON CREAMERY Co.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-26
Keeper Of Boun.ton Ferry

1915 at zoo o'clock. D. M, for keeper Of Boun.
ston Ferry from March LIST. 1915 to March 1st
1915. Successful bidder to furnish bond
CURED by law. Board reserves the right to
ject any all bids.
By order Of Board Supervisors this February g.
1915. JNO. A, TYSON. Chy. elk,
By w. o. BARNES. Jr., D. c,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-26

Fresh Garden seed. onion sets, rape
and flower seed at Herbert Drug Co.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-26

BARRED RoCK-Eggs for Matching, 81, 90 per
R II. w. MARTIN,
Brooksville, Miss
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-02-26

JERSEY CONFESSIONAL high-grade Jersey
COWS, fresh with first calves. for sale
Lutte MINOR, Route 2. Macon, Miss.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
A DOCTORS S DEVOTION TO DUTY

Physicians as class are noted for their willing
ness to go almost anywhere at almost any time to
lend their services to the suffering 1t is impressed
on the prospective doctor when he still is in the
medical school, that part of the doctors duty
to sacrifice his own comfort and to brave great
dangers to serve his fellow-man in professional
capacity, and the medical student who does not
indicate disposition to accept this part of his
bounden duty is seldom encouraged to continue in
the training that will make him-a Doctor
Stories are common of the country doctors who
get out of their beds in the middle of the night to
drive miles through billiards. to minister to dying
patients patients threatened with DEATH and
even the heroic roles in which they often are de-
picted on the movie screens are seldom exagger
ationS. We frequently read, too, of the bravery of
the city doctor and how he responds to the call of
the distressed, no matter how much of hardship
it imposes on him,-the ambulance surgeon, for
instance, who arrives at big fire as soon as the
tiremen get there and braves great dangers to
render professional service to those who have fallen
in smoke-lled cellars or who are in need of first
aid in tottering fire-swept ruins
Such stories are or less familiar to the news
paper reading public, but comes the news of
what is perhaps brand role of danger to be
filled by doctor. We refer to the dispatches from
Fire Island, n Y, telling how DR.. W. Franklin
Wood of Bay Shore, rode through storm in a
breeches buoy half in and half out of the ceeapped
waves, to reach the stranded bark Hougomont
whose skipper was too i'll to be brought to shore
in the rope-rgged apparatus in which his crew had
been removed.
The winds and the waves would have meant sure
death to the skipper had he been exposed to them
by trip in the breeches buoy and it would have
meant death, too if he deprived of the services
of physician So the plucky DR.. Wood, land
lubber'' though he was, without hesitation threw
off his overcoat, slipped into the buoy belt and was
shot out through the foam to the top of a mast
whence he made perilous descent to the deck
Then, lodging waves that were breaking across the
vessel, he made his way to the cabin below, gave
the aid that the sick man needed and returned by
the perious way he came. '
Yet DR.. Woods brave act is only what almost
any doctor would have undertaken if called upon
to do so. More is the credit to the good and true
fellows who make up the greater part of the ranks
of the medical men.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08

Christian church in action among the students. The
,422 members of The association are drawn from
student body representing forty nations and
twenty-five religious denominations and all are
working one harmonious organization.
1t has been pointed out that the college students
interested in religious activities are to large ex
tent made up of the best athletes, the keenest stu
dents and the most popular fellows of the various
institutions These boys, far from excluding Bible
study and devotional exercises from among their
other activities, regard such work as a oppor
tunty to do good.
When boys leave their homes for colleges and
universities they leave behind them any religious
influences which may have been operating upon
them, through their homes and their churches, but
in the institutions of higher learning these days
they invariably come into contact with good nflu
ences which may be even more effective than the
old ones-nfluences arranged especially to act
upon young men of their own sort
A college football game provides an example of
enthusiasm that can be manifested by crowd of
boys having a common interest and it is not diff
cult to understand how there can be developed
ardor for religious work among many of the same
boys when they gather in Christian organizations
specifically for that purpose
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
Tonaue-End Topics
Making British Officers

The question of military training in
the schools is now live one in all parts
of Britain, and the chief agitators are
not army men but teachers. Lack of
proper material for officers to take the
place of those killed and injured at the
front and to supply Kitchener's huge
new army and the inadequately officer
ed territorial force, is one of the most
serious problems of the war. All of the
higher schools have been called on for
suhalterns, as the British "Tommy'
objects to serving under any officer not
born gentleman. The teachers feel
that they were in a sense to blame for
not having given their students some
elemental preliminary training further
than that of the small student officers
corps.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
Swiss Military Training

At meeting of the Incorporated As
sociation of Headmasters in the Lon
don Guildhall, F. H. Templar said in
regard to the New Zealand system of
universal military training in the
schools:
"While conseription produces mill
tarism. national training destroys it
The citizen soldier is man whose
every interest is bound up with the
maintenance of peace.
Another speaker pointed out that
military drill and rifle shooting are
compulsory in the Swiss schools, yet
he asked who could accuse the Swiss OF
mi!itarism. resolution declaring that
military training in the schools would
save the country from having to i'm
provise an army in war time by pro
viding reservoir of partly trained
men, was passed with only few dis
senting votes.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08

great economic value, we are glad to
have this type of immigrants. They
make splendid workmen; therefore, it
would seem that in return for their
value to us in our industry, we should
be of service to them in their homes.
1t has been found from many ex-
amples that, in towns where good hous-
ing has been supplied to the foreign
residents, together with--and this is
the more important matter--a program
of social education, great satisfaction
exists among the foreign group; they
show great ambition to live up to
American standards, and to keep their
homes in the good condition suggested
by their American brothers.
In one town the houses occupied by
immigrants were cheaply built and in
bad repair. There was so much drunk
enness and disorder and consequent dis
comfort and sometimes even danger, to
the rest of the people, that an expert
enced social worker was called in from
another State to make survey of con-
ditions in order to ascertain how things
could be remedied. The first condition
his experienced eye saw in need of cor
rection was the houses. They had been
so cheaply built and so badly finished
that through the winter they were in
adequate protection from the weather.
According to his suggestion, the houses
were all refined with plaster board
This one correction of conditions imme-
diately raised the standard of living
more than fifty per cent. The people
became at once more eontented and
filled with a satisfying spirit that the
American people were trying to help
them.
PHYSICAL comfort is at the basis of
contentment of spirit, Since the safety
of our own people depends to a growing
extent upon the contentment existing
among the great masses of foreigners
that are living in our country, we need
TO see to it that they are made com
Portable. 1t has been found that the
expense oceasioned by providing immi-
grants with good housing has been
more than repaid by the gain in their
standard of living and the growth of
the spirit of confidence among them
that the American people are their
friends.
The Investigations conducted by the
Department of Labor and Industry
show that in communities where for
eigners are made contented by COM
Portable living conditions, instead of
being menace in health and safety
to the rest of the town, they are up
holders of civic standards.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
y A "self Made Clergyman

The Rev. H. S. McClelland,- B. A.,
B. D.. who has been called from the
East Finchley Congregational church to
the leading church of that sect in Glas-
gov, Scotland, began life as an office
boy in Fleet street on salary of five
shiAings a week. As men who have
worked up from s1.25 a week and paid
their way through the university are
less numerous in England than in the
United States, his promotion has at
tracted considerable notice in the Lon
don press. McClelland was born in Bel
fast in 1882. His fathers going on the
stage early caused an estrangement in
the family, and when his mother died
he and his brother were adopted by
their grandfather, Belfast linen man
ufacturer. The grandfa ther was sternly
religious and punished the future pastor
on one occasion for whistling on the
Sabbath. The boy was sent to a Quaker
school. On his grandfather death, he
went to London to make his own for
tune when IA years old.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
PIGEON CROSSES OCEAN
Bears Message Presumably From Sol
dier in BELGIUM to Wife

Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Feb. S.-A car
rier pigeon dropped from the roof of a
building here and Fred Jacobs, who
found it, discovered a paper tied about
the bird s neck, which evidently was a
message of German soldier in the Bel
9ium trenches to his wife. The mes
sage read as follows:
Dear wife, | am alive and we'll in
the trenches of Belgium, but your
brother has been khled'' There was
no signature to denote the identity OF
the man who wrote this little tragedy
of war.
The pigeon showed evidences of LONG
flight, and the injury TO the wing
seemed tO-have been received shortly
before the bird was picked up. The mes
sage was written in English and wrap,
ped in the heading of German news.
paper, and the date line of the pape,
was Saxony, December, =, the day OF
month missing.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
RELIGIONS PLACE IN COLLEGES

That college students in this country, with their
studies, their athletics and their social diversions
have no time for religious activities is a mistaken
impression Judging from accounts which come at
times from institutions of higher learning regard
ing the growing interest being manifested by the
boys in devotional exercises and Bible study. con-
Quoted generally by the college Young Men s Chris
tian Associations
At the University of Pennsylvania, for instance
the Y NJ. c. A.. which has become the Christian
organization of the school, has charge of chapel ex-
ercises, conducts Bible study classes which meet
regularly in dormitory rooms, directs the Philadel-
phia university settlement, maintains medical
school in China, and, in short, is regarded as the
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHO Is KISSED

Washington man has brought suit against a
theatrical company for 1900 damages, charging
that during performance in playhouse -four
actresses committed assault upon him with intent
to kiss, and that of the so-caed ''Rosebuds y
actually accomplished her purpose. He says that
his wife was sitting by his side and that the affair
caused him great mental pain and distress.
We can readily understand that respectable
married man who, with altogether honorable nten.
tionS attends show in which there are Rose
buds, " would not by any means welcome the pitt
less publicity which must accompany 'the bestowal
upon him of of the kisses Easier still is it to
realize that man so situated would resent the
favor shown him if he felt himself penetrated
through and through by the emphatic disapproval
of the spouse at his side
1t was certainly not the nature of the show girl s
kiss that caused the Washington man mental pain
and Distress since that is not what pretty girl s
kiss is calculated to produce, but it must rather
have been the understanding that his wife was
manlfeSting diSfavor and that the audience could
see it and was enjoying it.
Clearly the ''Rosebuds'' are to blame for having
selected victim of their assaults well-traned
married man instead of some susceptible youth
nearby who probably feeling inclined at the
time to sue the producing company because the
kiSsers had missed him.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08

GUNDER AN ARRANGEMENT WITH
THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR MD
INDUSTRY THE STAR-INDEPENDEN
PRINTS EACH MONDAY PRACTiCA.Li. Z. |.
ARTiGLE &c. BEARiNG ON THE "SAFRTn NRP TX
BRANCH OF THE STATE GOVERN
MENr, OF WHICH COMMISSIONERS
JOHN PRICE JACKSON is THE
HEAD)
During the past year, the Department
of Labor and Industry has made
study of immigrant conditions in the
State. 1t has been found that in the
great majority of towns having con-
siderable number of immigrants, the
latter have practically neglected as
component part of the town body. They
have only been noticed when on occa-
sions they have interfered with the
safety and comfort of the American
group of residents.
If safety means anything, it means
safety for all, and especially safety for
those most in need of protection. There
is no group of people in our State in
greater need of protection than our inn
migrants. Foreign workmen, newly ar
rived, settle in town according to the
possibilities for jobs. For long periods
of time they live unnoticed by the rest
of the community until extreme condi-
tions of disorder or sanitation in their
homes arouse the other group to action
for self-defense.
At the first arrival of immigrants in
a town, it has been temptation to real
estate owners to house them in build
ings in worst repair in the community
The excuse is that the worst housing
here is better than that which the for
eigners of our present immigration have
at home; also that there is no need of
housing them better, because they abuse
the privileges of good housing, and,
therefore, it is q careless waste of
money to put them into houses that will
rapidly deteriorate because of their
presence.
When there is not the deliberate in
tention to give foreigners the leavings
of town properties, perhaps off-cast
mansions, broken-down factory build
inlgs, or old mills, etc, there is found a
lack of preparedness that gives the
same results. Sometimes immigrants
come in large numbers to town be-
cause of good industrial opportunity.
The employers DO not provide in ad;
vance for these w'orkmen; so upon their
arrival, they must find accommodations
wherever possible. Their social disparity
from the majority of the residents of a
community forces them into its worst
quarters, usually into slum districts, if
the town is large.
There is no denying that the foreign
ers coming of recent years to this coun-
try and to our State, are of type so
different from us, that they do, from our
standpoint, abuse the privilege of good
housing. However, because of their
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
BANDITS ROB ONLY THE MEN
Four Mask Wearers Hold UP Palm
Beach Train in Florida

West Palm Beach, Fla, Feb. s.
The Palm Beach Limited train of the
Florida East Coast Railroad, bound
from Jacksonville to Miami, was board
ed by four masked men at Stuart, Fla.
early last night and male passengers on
the observation platform were robbed
Of money and jewelry.
No attempt was made to molest
women passengers. They were forced,
however, 10 enter the car.
After completing their search of the
men, the robbers made their. way
through the car, where they found that
brakeman hatl locked the front door.
Revolvers were turned on the brake
man and he was ordered to pull the bell
cord to stop the train. When it was
slowed down the band jumped to . the
ground and escaped.
1t is not known how much money
and jewelry the robbers obtained, but
it is not believed the amount is large.
Posses are searching for the men.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
BAN ON SUNDAY SKATING
Pittsburgh Residents Arrested
Mayor Armstrong Order

Pittsburgh, Pa, Feb. S.-By placing
ban on Sunday skating in the city
parks, Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong has
stirred up a hornet s nest among the
open Sunday advocates.
Carnegie Lake and Panther Hollow
Lake. crowded by skates on Sundays
heretofore, were deserted yesterday, al
though the ice was in excellent condi.
tion for sport. The permission given
formerly was revoked Saturday by the
Mayor ON representations made by the
Rev. DR.. George w. Shelton, pastor of
the Second Presbyterian church, and
other ministers. DR.. Shelton said the
committee was self appointed, and its
action resulted from resolution adopt
ed by the Ministerial Association. Dele
cations representing ti-Sabbatarians
will visit the Mayor.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
WHAT coNsT1rurEs AM EIK2


What constitutes an Elkf Pause
And ponder well the lofty cause
Of Elkdom and its aims of high
Endeavor, ere you make reply
The ribald jestf The cynic sneer?
The tongue -of malice and the ready eare
Vhe mind that grovels in the mire
OF sodden and low desireg
Are these the making of man.
Are these in keeping with the plan
Whereby the marvels grand wrought
OF noble act and tender thought
The purest and noblest, the highest and BEST
Should e'er be the goal of true brothers quest
Great things that abide the things to be earned
And the things that degrade the things be spurned
Revere yourself, look aloft, persist,
And soon shall disappear the mist
OF doubt and cant, ignoble aim,
And virtue be famed to golden flame
Then opens the soul to humanity's need,
To the feet that falter and the hearts that bleed
To the frai and the weak, to Poverty S call;
And sweet charity hand is extended to all.
Alas! the many who dread the morrow
Because to-day is weighted with sorrow;
So unlock the door of your heart, my brother
For the deed that will tighten the loan of another
Who measure the limitess plan
Of the deeds do for fellow mani
Mankind S high tribute to B. p O. L.
Shall endure through time and eternity.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
THE BALLAD AuToMoB1I1ous,

The gas tanks full of gasoline,
The crank case full of oil;
From top to tire, the whole machine
Springs eager to its toll.
The top and windshield both are down,
In rush the sun and wind;
They smooth away my furrowed frown !
And drive care from my mind
4
The engines purr, the hum of gears
All blend and make me feel
newer music of the spheres,
symphony of steel
Before me lies the broad highway
Through village. wood and farm;
1t lures me on, and 1 obey
Its overwhelming charm.
No more l sigh, like Mercury,
To fly on winged heel,
For Vulcan with new sorcery
Has forged me wings of steel.
Cleveland Plain Des
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
INDEBTED TO UNCLE SAM

Boston tourist who staying at Sratford on Won
said to his landlord morning:
who Is this Shakespeare of whom hears so much
in this town' Was he very great mani"
Lor, sir, the reply che warnt thought nothing on
few years ago. It's the Americans as has made i'm what
e s'-Pittsburgh Gazette Times
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
Got Wide Business Experience

As S1.25 a week was not>enough to
keep him, he found family willing to
board him on credit. Soon he found a
job as salesman in a book store at 15
shillings week, then with big firm
of tea merchants, where he became a
secretary to one of the partners. This
suggested the tea business for himself.
He found he could make more as a
drummer for wholesale perfumery
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08

The church folk of Reading have become so bitterly
divided on the subject of the location of Slough tab
ernaeie IN that city that must be concluded
rare opportunity in the Bsks county metropolis for the
evangelist teach the principles of brotherv love