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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-11
Clever Comment.

Judging by the present outlook the
closer George Perkins clings to the bull
moose the more money he'll save
Washington Post.
The recent activities of young heir
esses suggest that if you can't raise
your boy to play bridge the next best
bet is to train him for chauffeur. -
Pittsburg dispatch.
1t takes mighty rich man to grow
alarmed over currency imitation. --Dal.
las News.
Whatever may be the actual size of
the progressive party, so long as Col.
Roosevelt is with it it will sound large.
Washington Star.
The railroads have been making 80
much money lately that it's just about
all they can do to look oppressed by
legislation wherever they think any
body's around.-Columbus Ohio State
Journal.
We are certainly in earnest about
wanting to be close friends with our
South American brothers. Did you
notice that 81, 500. 600 gold shipment to
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Plain Dealer.
England makes light of the German
air raids and then tries to keep 'em
dark. Atlanta Constitution,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-11
Mississippi Farm Notes.

Humus in a soil increases the
water holding capacity, improv es
the tilth, prevents extremes in
temperature. makes a home for
the soil bacteria and is a store
house for plant food.
The object of terracing is to
get the water that is not needed
off the land and get it off slowly.
The terrace is a shallow ditch
with a bank that catches the
water and conveys it to an out
let or open ditch.
Keep the farm machinery new
by paint and protection from
weather. Have new plows each
Spring out of the old ones. 1t
costs little to paint the farm i'm
plements. Ordinary carriage
paints will serve excellent for
this purpose. They are inexpen-
sive and can be bought in every
town.
Soybeans seem to be one of the
most promising crops before the
Southern farmer. Every parti-
Gle of the plant has economic
values, and a great number of
commercial products are produc-
ed from the seed. 1t seems that
the machinery of our cottonseed
oil mills is suited to the manufac-
ture of soybean meal and oil.
The soybean straw is a good
stock food and the fertilizer re-
sulting from feeding the plant is
of much value, The roots and
nodules left in the soil improves
the fertility. Millions of acres
of land hitherto barren and un-
productive may be restored to its
virgin fertility by proper use of
this plant and a nominal expense
for prosphatic fertilizers,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-11
Thankful for John Sharp.

Every American can thank his
stars that John Sharp Williams
sits in the. United States senate
today to tear awake the veil be
hind which Senator Hoke Smith
tries to hide the motives that in.
spire him, about which the truth
has not been told in the senate
chamber. Senators Williams told
the naked truth when he laid the
blame for British infringement of
our neutral rights on the preced
ents we created during the civil
war. He also reminded us of the
futility of challenging the allies to
mortal combat with our scattered
little army of less than so. 900 men
and enough ammunition for our
coast defense guns to last three
quarters of an hour.-..ew York
Commercial.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-11
PRIVATE E. D. CAvETT.

RlrAAG Ls ~ SANGAAs
We are in receipt of the official pro.
gram of the 25th Annual Reunion of
the Mississippi Division of the United
Confederate Veterans, held at Biloxi,
Miss. Sept. 2Sth, 1915, which contains
resolution by the United Daughters
of the Confederacy, commanding DR..
Dunbar Rowland and the trustees of
the Department of Archives and His
tory for the tribute paidto the private
Confederate Soldier by giving place
in the Hall of Fame to the portrait of
Private E. D. Cavett. The resolution
was heartily adopted by the U. c. VS..
Before accepting this portrait to rep
resent the private soldier of the Con-
federacy. DIR. Dunbar Rowland examin-
ed the record and found Emmett in
every way worthy of this honor that
he participated in every march, skirm-
ish and battle in which his command
had been engaged; that he never had
furlough until after the battle of Get
tysburg; that he was faithful to the
end, and his chivalrous deeds had been
commented upon by his commanding
officers. His furlough is in the Archives
of the State.
There have been many enconiums
written of Emmett; to say any more is
like carrying Goal to New Castle;;"
this prestige, however, excels all 9TH
ers. Emmett is, perhaps, the best
known veteran in the state. and he is
muc.. re?a5e Tor several terms he
represented his county in the Legisla-
ture, where he was considered by his
constituencies as forcible and fear
less advocate for good.
In the days of reconstruction, when
the carpet baggers were in control of
our commonwealth, Emmett rendered
valiant service in restoring white su-
premacy.
At the last state reunion. Emmett,
although absent, was elected by his
comrades Brigadier. General in the Or
ganization of the United Confederate
Veterans.
We do not want him to fall into a
state of desuetude; we want our poster
ity to know him. and his portrait in the
Hall of Fame will be factor condu-
Give to this. In the future, when our
grandchildren, some of whom are nat
i've Mississippians, may chance to be
in the Hall of Fame, will point to this
portrait and say. "He is friend of our
grandparents, and we have in our pos
session paper written by them, stat
ing his indubitable claims to this
honor"
when the shadows lengthen, and
the evening comes, and the busy world
is hushed, and the fever of life is over,
and our work is done, and then, ah!
then. like other men we cease to wand
er, cease to weep" Emmett will go
hence with the Cross of Honor ion his
breast, and the drapery of Confeder-
ate colors about him. he will be:
Like warrior taking his rest
With his martial cloak around him."
Mr.. AND MRS. ]. E. HIBBLER.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-11

''Mr. Bryan's conduct as head
of the State Department. smack
ed of disloyalty. y Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Oh, no, just plain, Lig-headed
and pig-headed vanity. and bow
legged, bandy-shanked pharisa-
ism. Pecksniff crossed on Amin
idab Sleek, with a dash of Uriah
Heep, on the side!- Courier-Jour-
nal,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-11
This Phase is Worth While.

Our new prohibition measures
proposes to limit the human
thirst to one quart every Is con-
secutive days-a half gallon ship
me mt each month.
Two years hence, perhaps, we
will have a prohibition bill put
ting the limit at one pint per
month.
In 1920 we may expect a bill
fixing the limit at one drink per
week. And no doubt it will also
prescribe whether that drink
shall be taken straight or mixed.
We are not protesting against
this restrictive legislation, being
a total abstainer. but it does
seem that our prohibition friends,
while displaying so much zeal,
ought to consider some of the
common sense phases of the Ques-
tion,.
For instance, why limit the
quantity and say nothing about
the quality?
Even prohibitionist ought to
know that there's a vast differ
ence in brands Of whiskey, and
that something ought to be done
towards improving the quality of
the stuff.
Why fix the limit at a half gal
lon when it is possible to buy
certain brands that, after imbib-
ing just one drink, a man is seiz-
ed with an irresistible yearning
to go out and chuck brickbats at
his grandmother's tombstone,
while one drink of another brand
makes him shed tears of. graft
tude or the shirt-bosom Of his
bitterest enemy.
In other words, gentlemen of
the Legislature, if you are going
to enact constructive legislation,
the question of quality is entitled
to just as much serious consider
alton as that of quantity. You
have been notoriously negligent
in dealing with this phase of the
matter. Pure food laws. feed
inspection statutes, and kindred
galore have been put
on the law books, presumably
for the protection of the people
but nary a syll;ble has been
written to improvGthe brand of
liquor consumed by the people of
our state. Persons who ought to
know whereof they speak solemn
ly declare that, because of your
negligence in this regard. the
quality of liquor sold in Missis.
sippi has been steadily growing
from bad to worse until it is now
next to impossible to buy a brand
that is not mixed with red ink,
furniture polish, hair oil and
aqua fortis. One drink of that
sort of stuff, if poured on a cou-
pie of dead cats, would imme-
set them to fighting each
other.
Get your minds off of the ques-
ton of quantity. gentlemen, and
give some serious consideration
to the matter of quality, Jack
son News.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-11
The Coming Canvass.

In less than six months the
voters Of the country will know
who will be the two leading can.
didates for the office of President
of the United States. Indeed,
they know now who one of them
will be, but as to the other there
is complete uncertainty, says an
exchange.
The known candidate of course
is that of the Democratic party.
No Democrat has proposed him
self, no Democrat has been
mentioned" by his friends. as
q possible opponent of the Presi-
dent. Individual Democrats of
high standing have disagreed
with some of the Presidents pol
icies or disapproved some Of his
actions; but none of them have
seriously opposed him. The ap-
proval of Mr.. VIII ms course bv
MS own party as a whole has
been unusually sincere and hear
ty.
On the Republican side all is
obscure. It is not yet even
known whether there will be a
substantially complete reunion of
the forces that in 1912 fought
each other so savagely. There
may be an artificial harmony;
there may be continued division
and rival candidates. Logically.
and in the interest of. pure poll
tics, there should be continued
division; for those who adhered
to the Republican party four
years ago, and those who broke
away from it, do not now, any
more than then, think alike on
public questions. If they should
act together on platform and can
didates, and dshould be successful
in the election, one wing or the
other would be doomed to disap-
pointment. The alternative is
that they should make a platform
and choose candidates so color
less as not to offend either wing
of the party. In that case of
course neither wing would he full
ly content,
But logic is not going to de-
termine the course Of Republi-
cans and Progressives in the COM
ing canvass. Political expedien-
cy will govern the conduct of each
wing of the old Republican par
ty. No one knows to what ex-
treme such expediency may lead,
There are many candidates for
the Republican nomination, some
eager and some reluctant. Five
of them are present members of
the Senate: Messrs. Bor ah,
Cummins, La Toilette, Penrose
and Weeks. Others who have
been mentioned" are former
Senators Burton and Root, form
er Vice-PresidentFa Gov
ernor Whitman and Mr.. Justice
Hughes.
There is another name that
of one who can never be over
looked when the presidency is
discussed Theodore Roosevelt.
He would be a rash man who
should predict what part Mr..
Roosevelt will play in the coming
contest, for not even he himself
knows what it will be. Neces-
sarily his course will be governed
by circumstances; but no one who
has the slightest acquaintance
with the political history of the
last decade win doubt that any,
thing is possible except that Mr..
Roosevelt will become the Dem
ocratic candidate. That position
is pre-empted.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-11

Good corn Galiod Seed corn for silo, make
JSCu NViN double the tonnage for so over any
other corn. Good drouth resistant. Also Silver
Mine early maturing corn. Price for Gaod 81 80
per bushel Silver Mine $500. J. +. AMES.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-11

Dacturo On Swallow place 3 m les south Of
IdStuiS Macon. Ready March lst Plenty
grass and good water J. C. AYRES,
Route g. Macon, Miss,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-11

NOTk MuleS or VIII, trade V's for me cattle Il e. Also Also
one young brood marc, GEORGE SHAVER.
Maetn, Mss,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-07
NOT KNOWN + THE
 CITY WILL APPEAL
 FROM LEA'S DECRE|
Failure to File Claims il Time Makes Decision on Liquor Fines of Little
 Effect, Says Sadler

It has not been decided yet wheth| the city commission will file an al peal from the decision of Judge Thomj R. Lea, of the municipal court, handd down last Saturday, which held th| fines imposed on persons convicted ul der the liquor inspection ordinand now declared unconstitutional by t1 supreme court, could be recoverl from. the city.
 It was stated, however. that Judd Leas decision affects only about S1I of the city's funds, as many of t1 persons convicted and fined under il provisions of the liquor inspection laI failed to file their claims in time enter suit to recover from the city. is now stated that the legal time file claims against the city for recoI cry of fines imposed under the proviI ions of the liquor inspection law hI expired.
 Regarding the refund of the $30,0I in fees collected under the liquor il spection law, W. H. Sadler, Jr., an al sistant city attorney who is in charj of the litigation on this ordinand stated last night that thefe was l chance for anyone to recover eel from the city unless the city commil sioners voluntarily offered to make Il refund Under the law, according MT. Sadler, the city commission WI entitled to all the fees 1t collected the workings of the liquor inspecti} ordinance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-07
HEAVY RAIN COOLS MILITARY CAMP TO
 THE JOY OF SOLDIERS
Continued from Page One,


 battalion in the brigade have had a days work on the range and then the First battalion of the Fourth will be sent out again.
 While the First battalion of the Fourth is shooting on the range the other two battalions of Colonel Graves command and the three battalions of each the First and Second regiments will be in large field near the range being drilled in close formation and extended order. lis work will be the order for each da- 'lis week until Saturday, when the men be kept within the grounds for the Ter far Saturday regimental in spection.
 General ! ten has not yet been ad- vised by tx department in regard to the courtm tN before which Harry Goldberg wi |, tried on a charge of re- fuS1ng to of officer and cursing the United Stat and the President of the United j.. Before this court also will app% he men who have left the camp wit J leave, but who nave been brought bs Will Williamson, who was captured M Syla cauga Saturday morning by the wn marshall together with Marion Gas els, was returned to the mobilization camp Sunday. Iassels however, succeeded in escaping from the officer of the law while at Calera. Both of these young men are members of Con- pany H Alexander City), Fourth regi- ment, and charged with deserting their commands. When they face the courtmartial, however, they will not fac this serious charge, one which, if guilty, would result in their being sentenced to Leavenworth penitentiary, but will mere- ly be charged with being away from the camp without leave.
 General Bricken Sunday afternoon said he had written the war department in regard to his appointing the courtmartal and that he expected a reply not before Tuesday. when Goldberg faces the court, he will be represented by an attorney, who will base his defense on the senti- ment in regard to the case outside of the state of Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-07
DECATUR

Decatur, August 6.-(Special. )-Dr. W. L. Dinsmore has announced for
 mayor of Decatur, the election to take place in September. It has been un- derstood for sometime past that Dr. Dinsmore would be a candidate for mayor, hence his announcement was not unexpected.
 James A. Nelson has been mayor of Decatur for the past two years and he has made a progressive official. He as the head of the ctys affairs, has done much for the betterment of the city. While MT Nelson has not as yet officially announced. it is understood that he will be a candidate for mayor to succeed himself.
 In New Decatur there are already three in the race for mayor of that city. They are A. A. Hardage, who is the present mayor, Capt. Charles Bassett and E. c. Payne. John Patterson has an- nounced for president of the city coun- cil of New Decatur and several have announced for chief of police of New Decatur
 Several aldermen are to be elected in both of the Decaturs in September but up to this time there is not a single announcement for councilman in either of the Decaturs.
 The warmest contest in the city elec- tion in September will be the election on the change of name of New Decatur to that of Albany. The indications at present are that the change of name to Albany will carry from two to one to three to one.
 Postal authorities here are hot on the trail of the person who a few days ago wrote night rider letter to c. Y. Les ster, a farmer who lives on the Deca- tur and Moulton pike few miles out of Decatur.
 The letter read: e. Y. Lester, if you don't leave here we will fix you. We will burn you out. We are men not boys. Be in hurry"
 The letter contained two matches. The letter was mailed at Decatur.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-07
Feast of Good Things
 at Baptist Encampment

Pelham Heights, August e.-(Special.) Today the Baptist mountain here is i throbbing with life The spirit is differ ent to that purposefu student atmos-
 phere which has prevailed in all the for
 mer meetings, for no one is here to
 stIdy-though all will find that they have
 absorbed much at the end of the nine
 days camp life. The schedule is full of good things
 These good things have already begun, and not many believe what the posters
 and other advertisements say about their growing better through the week. Dr.. H. l.. Winburn's opening address, based
 on The Spirit That Wins" was of the
 popular type ands much enjoyed by all.
 The opening songs servie Friday evening,
 led by MT. Gates. Twas most lively and in- spring. MT. Ga tes, who claims some 25o
 smile. has the jgift of winning his con
 gregation to his assistance. and all the
 people here. seem to be good singers Saturday, Dr. Winburn's topic was
 The Swan Song-a Pure Conscience."
 He elaborated the piece most effectively,
 stamping tfe lesson of honesty with one s Sttl liluSisdy OH the I1llHuS Ol HIS HedT-
 CTS. pr. VVinburn also had charge of the quiet hoxT' in the afternoon. At 10 o'clock Saturday a. m., Mir. J. c.
 Bourm, secretary of the state B. Y. P. U,. heh, a conference of these work CTS. Mn Borum is a live worker, and his committees cooperate with him in effective extension work.
 Hon. J. Fritz Thompson. a specialist on tloes business side of morality, a very eioquAnt speaker, addressed the encamp- ment fat Il o'clock on Christian Citizen ship fin Relation to Law Enforcement" 1 The fdiscourse was instructive and power full.
 l In the evening at o'clock. Dr. Eaves de livered his celebrated stereopticon lec- uiIe on The White Plague" with new ower to his appreciative audience Dr. 4 Gaves thinks tuberculosis ist far more \ to be feared than many of the diseases yfpractically new, that are causing so much }excitcment that people forget the more 4 formidable and dangerous plaques that I we have had for ages
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-07
Honor Roll of Good Speakers Brander Matthews, in the North Ameri


 can Review.
 No competent observer could fail to find the speech of the average Briton or American of fair education less open to adverse criticism than the speech of the average German of equivalent instruc- tion To say this is not to deny that there are dialectic and personal peculiarities audible both in Great Britain and the United States. The New Workers are as prompt to detect what we call the Brit ish accent" as the Londoners are to rec ognize what they term the American twang." Yet there are not a few speak, CTS of our tongue, born on one side of the Atlantic or the other, who are almost altogether free from localisms of intona- ton and pronounciation. The tongue they speak is English at it's best-not British and not American. l recall that I first noticed this a third of a century ago. when l attended the dinner given in London to Henry Irving on the eve of his first visit to the United States in 1883. Lord Coleridge presided, and Lowell made one of the happiest of his addresses, and while either of them was speaking the ears of the listeners were delighted by an English exquisite in it's choice of words and delicately harmonious in it's intonations. What Lord Colerdge and Lowel spoke was English pure and sim pie, not betraying itself as either British
 
 Of course. spoken English of this ulti- mate excellence is not common, any more than the spoken French of Coquelin or the spoken German of Barnay; it could not but be rare, and therefore the more precious. Probably because my opportu- mites have been more frequent in the 1 limited States than in Great Britain should include more Americans than Brit ons on the list of those who have achieved it. I should enroll the name of President Eliot and not that of President McCosh. should include John Hay and George William Curtis and not Matthew Arnold (who sighted his terminal g's> or Andrew Lang (whose early lowland Scotch was overlaid by later linguistic habits acquired in Oxford). I should leave off Henry Irving a $ having been too | individual, and I should put on the name Morris and Lawrence Barrett and should include Agnes Booth and Hernn n Nezin. From among the more prominent actors and actresses of today it w0ul be impossible not to inscribe. upon 'tae roll Ellen Terry. Julia Marlowe~ Flo aess- Robertson, John Drew. Otis SkinneN nc George Arliss But I must beg tio he excused from the invidious task oft sin eing out certain other contempora ny {ac tors and actresses of Great Britain iano the United States who fail conspicI .ouslA to attend to this international standard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-07
STATE COMMITTEE
 10 HEAR CONTESTS
Chairman Graves Has Called Special Meeting of Body
 in Montgomery Today

Birmingham and north Alabama mem- bers of the state democratic executive committee will leave here early this morn- ing for Montgomery. to attend special meeting of the committee. The meeting was called by the chairman, Bibb Graves and is for the purpose of considering cer- tain election contests. It is understood that the principal business will have to do with the contest filed by G. L, Conner of Eufaula, who was defeated for a cir cult judgeship by Judge J. H. Williams according to the face of the returns
 T understand that the principal busi- ness to come before the executive commit tee relates to certain contests, including the Conner Williams case" said James F. Hawkins, one of the Jefferson county members of the committee last night Some other contests were originally filed but l think several o~ them have been adjusted. It is probable that sub con- mittee will be named to handle these matters and report to the state commit tee at a later date"