TheMaconBeacon
D. C. Varrll
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Yesterday's Socialism .
SUBSCRIPTION . ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
Six Months 60o
Thraa Months 85c
FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1915.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For Diotrtct Attortuy :
M. A. SAUNDEES.
For Shtrlff:
X7. A. FATJKS.
J. T. McCLTJRE.
VERNON CLARK.
For Tnatttrtr:
J. B. COTTON.
W. O. BARNES, JR.
TO. WALKER,
For Saptrvttor, District 3 i
GEO. PAGAN.
JNO. P HUNTER,
The Political Pot.
The 1915 political pot in Noxu
bee is beginning to simmer and
appearances indicate that it will
soon boil. It seems that there
will be no lack of patriots willing to
serve their couuty. Only a few
candidates have formally announc
ed, but many have had their ears
to the ground and have been talk
ing matters over with their friends.
Taking the offices as they are put
down on the ballots, the following
is the present line up:
For the Senate, Henry Minor h
an avowed candidate, and J. Q
Poindexter and Walter Stokes,
and possibly others, are consider
ing making the race.
For the House, it is understood
that Eramett Cavett and T. "N"
Brame will run for re-election and
M. O'Byrne and V R. Swindl.
are about decided to run. Stron;
calls are made on James Jenkins,
of Shuqualak, who made such s
splendid race before, to run again
It is said that in time there wi!i
be a dozen in this race.
For Chancery Clerk, no opposi
tion to Jno. A. Tyson has develop
ed.
For Circuit Clerk, C. 51, Scales
will be opposed by Vernon Adams.
The Sheriff race promises to bi
hot and heavy; WT. A. Parks ami
J. T. McClure have already an
nounced, and probable other can
didates are Vernon Clark, A. 11
Bush, U. W. Mullius and possibly
B. F. Whitehead; Nelson Stevens
has many friends who want him
to shy his castor in the ring.
No opposition has developed to
D. F. Allgood, Couuty Attorney.
For Treasurer, William Barnes,
Jr., W. A. Walker and John B
Cotton have announced, and Max
Williams is only waiting to let
them get a start before he an
noimces.
The hard job of assessing taxes
will be sought by the present As
sessor R. C. Patty and Mark Tom
linson.
No opposition has developed to
J. R. Jackson for Superintendent
of Education, nor to Mr. Hubbard
for Surveyor.
For Supervisor, it is said that in
the Macon District, W. T. Stow
era will runTor re-election and will
be opposed by George Pagan and
John P. Hunter. Elmer Sennet
will run from District Four, and
Leland Hines, John Bell and Wirt
White are spoken of as candidates
from District Five. Sam Cock-
rell is being strongly urged to run
from District One but is undecid
ed; no candidate has appeared for
District Two.
If any names are omitted from
the above lists it is in advertent.
From them a Noxubee county vot
er can come very near getting the
kind of man he wants.!
Noxubee County School Children
Noxubee county has 10,024
children between the ages of 6 and
20 years, and 6,089 or C 12 per
cent of them attend school, ac
cording to a recent census bulle
tin. The data contained in the
report relates to tho year 1910 and
has only recently been made pub
lic The distribution, by age
groups, and the number attend
ing school is as follows:
AGS TOTAL NO. NO, ATTENDING
6 to 9 ...3,174 2,176
10 to 14 3,896 3,103
15 to 17 1,991 ...... 1,071
J8 to 20,,,,, ,.,1,803 339
We have had occasion to point
out in the past and hereby we
take occasion to point out in the
living present, that what was
"crazy socialism" yesterday is
today merely conservative pro
gress. The Hon. William Jen
nings Bryan could tell talcs to
this effect, as many of the 'isms'
for which he stood in the remote
political past are now embodied
in law and not, so far as may be
ascertained, to the mortal injury
of the country. But it is not
Bryanism which causes us to take
our typewriter in hand, but Wil
sonism. What a wail of pessimism went
up when the President signified
his intention to push Currency
Reform! Groan after groan, sob
after sob. The well-known dogs
for which the country was head
ed were liberated once more from
their kennels, and the shadow of
Socialism again blotted out the
sun of Joy. Now that it is all
over, and the Federal Reserve act
is a working lact. everybody is
almost happy, including the erst
while gloomy ones. "Prominent
financier," who was thinking of
going to the dogs along with the
country, has decided to stay
awhile. The Federal Reserve
Act, that harbingor of Socialism,
he announces to be a boon to
business." And yet it is what it
always was Wilson currency re
form. In the language of the
poet Poo, "Only this; and noth
ing more, r rom ruck.
Prohibition and War.
FROM THE PEOPLE.
The Prohibitionists must have
come to the conclusion that Mars
is an ally of theirs, as he has al
ready greatly extenued the dry
territory. It will bo remember
ed mat when me present war
bejran the Czur if. sued a procla
mation pi-'hibiti'ig the sale of
vodka, which lie had found very
demoralizing to his -troops. Il
vas an easy m
Kit this prohi'i
13 vodka is a e.
It-
r tor mm tc
n into effect,
mr.ont mono
poly; and a.i lietiViuall lli3sliop
lie can eio.-ts t!en at any time
vvithout trouble. It was argued
that Russia would never do this;
that it could not a I ford it, as it
leeds the money so much now,
on account of the wa: and could
not sacrific the five or six hundred
millions it receives in revenue
from this source.
The French government has
reached a similar conclusion in
regard to the use of absinthe.
And the Cabinet hns sub.-: ilted
to Parliament t he proposition that
the sale of absinth.; and similar
liquors ha made permanent, as it
finds that the military decree
forbidding the sale has b,:en
heneficud to the entire popula
tion. It is well, however, to note
that the French prohibition is
only as to absinthe, n3 wines are
not only permitted but are made
a part of the rations of the sol
diers. Tinicu-l'i'eyune.
Judge Teat Quits Attala County.
A Jackson d'spateh of recent
date says: Judge Jas. A. Teat
who until January 1, 1915, pre
sided over the circuit courts of
the Fifth district anil war, suc
ceeded by Judge II. II. Uod'ers,
with whom he ran an exciting
and memorable runoff race in
the second primary, ha:? reached
Jackson, where he will practice
his profession and will make hi:;
home in the future. Judge Teat
was considerably in the limelight
by reason of being called in ' by
Judge Henry to preside at the
summer term of criminal court
here, at which the case of Lieut.
Gov. Theo. G. Bilbo was tried.
It was a rather thankless under-
t.l 1 ! . .
utKing out ne came, sat am
tried the case, the result of which
is recent history. Judge Teat is
a son-in-law ot Judge II, C.
Niles, judge of the United States
district court in Missisaipii, and
has practiced at the Kosciusko
and other bars in the Fifth judi
cial district for some years.
In the beginning of the distress
the war brought to America, and
especially in the cotton stales,
The Herald expressed the opinion
that there was no occasion to shed
tears over the small farmer of
Mississippi that it was the big
cotton growers who were entitled
to sympathy. To the many cor-
oborations of that view the fol
lowing from the Neshoba Demo
crat is added: "The Delta made
more cotton this year than ever be
fore but they can't get much fol
ic. We have little cotton here
but an abundance of peas, corn,
hay, oats, molasses and meat. A ft
er all we are living in the best
section of the state. Let's es
chew politics this year as much as
possible and make it better. There
is more money in it." Vicksburg
Herald,
:t-
Editor the licncon; ' -
In the present crisis in agricul
tural allairs in the south we are
looking toward diversified farm
ins as a preventative ot a recur-
ence of a similar state of affairs
in the future. We re practical
ly all agreed that the one-crop
system meets with disastrous
sooner or later, and that in times
of financial distress like the pres
ent, tne farmer who practices a
diversified system of farming and
Makes his living at home, is the
one that suffers least.
The benefits of diversified farm
ing are being ably set, forth in
your paper by Mr, J. W. Iladdon
and are too numerous to be enum
erated here; but I wish to cite a
concrete example a3 a means of
comparing diversified with spe
cialized or "one-crop" farming.
During the month of October
I was one of a party of 22 men
who made a farm business survey
of Frederick county, Maryland.
In this survey we made a record
of every farm, its size, value.
acreage, yield and receipt of each
crop; an inventory of stock and
machinery equipment, the year's
expenses, taxes, etc., and from
these determined the farm in
come, and the labor income of
the farmer. Frederick county is
a community of thrifty, hard
working, home living farmers.
Over ninty per cent of the farm
ers are following the same crop
rotation, namely, corn, wheat,
meadow. The meadows are us
ually cut for hay one year and
pastured the next.
Nearly every farmer operates
a small dairy, but as this is a new
industry for that section their
dairy stock were not of a high
grade; only a few had silos.
Dairying with inferior animals
was the weakest point in their
'arming system and this will be
reniidied as they learn to appre
ciate the value of good stock and
silage. The only crops sold were
,vheat, sugar corn, clover seed
and occasionally some surplus
corn. Practically no feed is ever
nought except some concentrates
fur the cows.
Now as to profits from this
kind of farming. The farms are
small, ranging from GO to 100
acres. Land value runs from 75
to $200 per acre, and taxes were
very high. In spite of high pric
ed land, high taxes, etc., these
farmers were making labor in
comes from $1,000 to
ye:.r; By labor income, I meani
the amount a tanner has left for
his laLor aft :r deducting all of
his expenses and interest on his
capital from the farm income.
A volume could be written on
the agriculture of this communi
ty, but the few points mentioned
wiil show what a well diversified
sj stem of fanning has done for
one section, I.s mere any logical
reason why it would not do as
much more for this section? We
have many advantages in long
growing season, climate, cheap
er land, etc. over Maryland, but
how many farmers here who are
following the one-crop system,
can show an annual net income
of from r-1,000 to $3,000 on CO to
1G0 acres. M, A. Crosby, '
Agriculturist
Car Diminishing Death Rate.
A recent Washington
says the Census Bureau
ently published some
cou raging figures she-win;
dispatch
has ree
very en-
; that the
death rate is steadily falling in
the registration area of the Unit
ed States, a pretty fair test of the
whole, ;ts it includes ." per cent
of Uk- p in:':itim.
In r.ii;; .'.-., :. 'h rate was 11. l
for each thons.u...; -' i'h- estimat
depopulation, which i 'I cv: :"e
oi j.) per cent, or one Uraiii :::
eight, from Ki.2, the average from
1S!H to 1!)0.1. If the .same rate
had prevailed in lPL.'i as in the
years 1!)01 -I ior, there would have
been l,)2."i,-14(i deaths instead of
S!io,s2;, ixn excess of i;31,(i2;i.
The death rate in- the rural dis
triets was 12.7 and 15 in the cities.
Farm Facta.
Give tho Agriculturist ample working
capital and you increaso the national
stability.
Tho workl ia one great corporation of
which the farmers are the hiro-rsi
shareholders.
lte farmers can never L.tio. to be
come a .factor in public ofTuii'H unless
they work through organized channels.
The average farm yields a net income
on the investment of 4 per cent and the
average business 10 to 30 per cent.'
Tho seifiah days of the independent
farmer are rapidly passing and we are
beginning to catch the vimon and share
the profits of organized efTorU.
The problem of organizing and sys
tematizing agriculture ia one which the
farmers invite assistance of all lines of
industry friendly to their interests.
Cantata at Baptist Church..
An unusually elaborate and beautiful
musical programme was Bplendid car
ried out at tho First Baptist! church
last Friday evening1. The choir assist
ed by other local talent gave Gabriel's
b. sutiful cantata "The Nazarene,
twenty voices taking part.
An audience that filled the church to
overfbwing heard the music and many
expressions of pleasure and.apprecia
tion heard since testify to the success
of the evening.
The cantata starts with the ancient
prosphecies of the coming of Christ and
after depicting various "scenes of His
life, closes with the Resurrection. Mr,
Wyatt Jones' excellent redition of the
"Prophecy" was greatly enjoyid. He
has a voice of marked sweetness of
tone and it was excellently suited to
this solo. Dr. Barclay gave an artis
tic interpretation of his trained solo
work in "Blessed Ia He," which called
for triumphant notes, and again in
pathos when he sang, "The Man of
Sorrow." Mrs. McMillin sang with
her usual skill and taste "Be Not Af
frighted" and "Thou Art The King."
Her voice and stage presence are both
attractive and always please Macon
audiences. This was followed up by
a pleasing tenor solo, "The Great
Commandment." b y ' M r. Joe J.
Scott. Mr. George Richmond fine
ly rendered 'jXhe Graves Are Opened"
and "The God of Abraham both
songs exhibiting the organ -like rich
ness of his voice. Mrs. Herzberg, al
ways a favorite, sang splendidly a boIo
depicting the death on tho cross, and
in a quintette, took tho solo part.
Solos were also excellently sung by Mrs.
Dunn and Miss Bonita Purser. There
were duets by Mrs. McMillin and Dr.
Barclay, and Mr. Richmond and Dr.
Barclay. Another solo much e ijoyd
was Gethsemane" by Major Boyd.
"The Watered Lillies" by Misses Yates
and Jordan and Mrs. Dunn, and "Faith,
Hope and Love" by Misses Holt, Pur
ser and Dorroh were trios finely rend
ered and much enjoyed, as was "Rock
of Ages" by Misses Clemens, Bonita
and Mattie Purser. There were many
other features that deserve mention
that lack lads of space denies.
The whole programme was gotten up
bv Mrs. L'Estelle Barclay, who train
ed the singers and directed the music
and presided at the organ. The per
formance reflected the greatest credit
on her. Mrs. Barclay is a graduate of
the Milwaukee Conservatory and has
studied also in New York and abroad.
Her coming here has been a great ad
dition to musical circles and her work
is markedly affecting music in Macon.
Hon. Frank Foote
Address Rotarianai
The federal reserve banks are
not being beseiged with requests
for loans, according to IIou. F.W.
Foote, of Ilattiesburg, director of
the federal reserve bank for this
district.
In an address before the Rotary
club, of Jackson, at its meeting
yesterday, 31r. Foote stated that
the reserve bank for this district
has resources of about $9,000,000
and the loans thus far made do
not exceed 700,000.
At some length Mr. Foote dis
cussed general financial conditions
in the United States, and his
views were of a hopeful nature,
En forced economy, he said, is go
ing to have a wholesome ellect on
the tmblic generally, while the
crippling of European industries
as a result of the war will give
American manufacturers a decid
ed advantage in the light for for
eign trade.
Mr. Foote also spoke of the
plan of operation adopted by the
federal reserve banks, referring es
pecially to the character of secur
ity required The bank will con
sider only "liquid paper" as col
lateral, and under no circum
stances will it accept mercantile
paper that has been renowed from
year to year.
"It's a good idea to make every
man pay his debts occasionally,''
said Mr. Foote. "The man who
is careless aJUout paying up, even
though he may be perfectly solv
ent, is usually the fellow who
does not require others to pay
him, and that class of mercantile
paper will not be accepted by the
reserve banks. " Clarion-Ledger.
To the Voters of District Three:
I am a candidate for Justice of the
Peace in place of I. W. Smith, resign
ed. Election to be held January 29,
1915. Your vote will be appreciated.
Respectfully,
Jan. 14th. W. O. Uaknes, Sh.
Notice! Notice!
j
! When in need of ,
Plumbing
Pipe Fining
Sanitary Sewer Work
' set
Jno. S. McDavid
Ha will do it for test
A FAMOUS NOXUBEEAN.
Few people of Noxubee know, that this county
has produced so eminent a scholar and noted a poet
as the author oftho lines accompanying this article.
Thomas Albert Smith Adams was born ia'Noi
ubee county in 18:50, and educated at Salem school.
Ho was a brother of John K. Adams and the late Mr.
Lem Adams.
lie early showed marked literary tastes and abil
ity, and was sent to the University .of Mississippi.
Ho later graduated with high honors from Emory
and Henry College in Virginia. He then enterod the
Methodist ministry, ' Mobile conference. Later he
was transferred to the North Mississippi conference.
. He was chaplain of the 11th Mississippi Eegiment,
- volunteers. ' . ; .
Mr. Adams early won eminence in his churchy,
filling important stations," and serving at the head of
church educational institutions, notably Centenary
college. lie was mad? a Doctor of Divinity by Ox
ford. He died suddenly of apoplexy in Jackson, in
1889.
Asa preacher, Mr. Adams was brilliant and pro
found. Poetical, philosophical, spiritual and logi
cal, scholarly and original, as a teacher and preacher
he was distinguished. He knew Greek, Latin and
Hebrew, and several modern languages. He was an
able controversialist. But poetry was his passion
and his luxury. "Eascotidio,n, or the Shadow of
Death" was his chief work, though he wrote much
sliort verse of great excellence.
In Enscotidion there, are appoaches to Dantean
realism and suggestions of Miltouic sweep and gran
, deur. The poem received high praise from able
critics.- It was published in 1876. It is believed
that only the unpropritious times in the south pre
vented the poems receiving the fame it deserved and
tho author the literary honors due him.
The excerpt from the poem is taken from the
Library of Southern Literature and from the biogra"-"
phical and critical review in that publication the
above sketch is gathered. His genius and ability is
given high praise and prominence. The description
of war and its evils is timely just now and aptly pic
tures present scenes in Europe. N
ENSCOTIDION, or SHADOW OF DEATH
"And art thou ignorant," Ambition said,
"Of all my mighty deeds, despotic Death?
Go ask you spectral armies of the dead
Who sent them hither. Yes, I wear a wreath,
In winning which I dared thee to thy teeth;
And having won, I wear. No boasting vain
Has ever once been uttered by my breath.
To truckle to the proudest I disdain,
And here hurl back defiance to thy teeth again."
At this the monarch smiled a ghastly smile,
And, in cajoling accents, thus replied:
"Hold, noble spirit 1 but reflect awhile -How
honors scatter in a storm of pride.
Pause now, and all resentment lay aside,
And say not what thou wilt, but what thou hast
Accomplished. Mark, thy worth is not denied;
But show thy trophies of achievements past,
And let all know the worth of them, from first to last."
Pleased at his speech, Ambition took his crown
Of flowers from his brow, and, bending low
Besides the monarch's throne, he laid it down;
Then next his armor proffered to bestow.
He then proceeded pompously to show
What meant the various marks and scars it bore; '
These served to let a race of dastards know
The matchless prowess of the man that wore,
And those were made by foots who ne'er should battle more.
"And, lo!" said he, "where I have been and hurled
Princes and palaces together down, .
And wrought the ruin of a peaceful world,
. To build a temple or gain a crown.
Are nations haughty or luxurious grown? ' ;' .
I give them up a war, rapine, and sack; '
The people's household gods are overthrown;
Their pillaged homes and temples, charred and black,
Are guide-posts to Diseases rnd Eamine on my track
"Mf trophies thou wouldst see? Lo, yonder lie
Ten thousand putrefying carcasses I
Breathe their sweet odor, reeking to the sky, ' "
And feel the gnawing of thy hunger less !
Go to that mother, in her deep distress,
And marked her tears, as I have often done;
Go heal her broken heart, her wrongs redress,
By telling her of the valor of that son ,
Whose face divine she never more shall look upon.
"Ask yonder wretch, whom unrelenting Fate
Has dragged from wealth to utter penury,
Why now he wanders homeless, desolate,
Begging his bread of earth's cold charity. '
Ask of that broken-hearted maid if he
She loved returned, but, base, betrayed her trust.
Her sobs will answer 'No,' most bitterly;
He fell a victim to Ambition's lust,
And in a nameless grave he moulders back to dust.
"Ask of the sorrowing father, whom rude Time
Has left hut hoary looks, and furrowed cheeks,
And tottering steps, and withered hopes, behindj
Aspiring manhood's miserable wreck;
And if he heave a sigh, and fail to speak,
Ask of that pale-faced widow why that child
Ne'er looks for father now; and she will break
Her silence with the voice of wailing wild
The wail of heart once happy in a land that smiled.
"The ruthless steel my right hand steeps in blood,
The left the fagot brandishes on high;
With one I ponr on earth a crimson flood,
And with the other light the midnight sky ''
With horrid conflagration. Hark 1 a cry
Rises amid yon ruins, as they fall; -
It is a hopeless people there that die
To leave a niche within some temple's wall
For such as Alexander, Caesar, Hannibal.
"The blooming earth becomes a wilderness - '
Where'er I tread. Behold yon distant skies,
Where Lucifer, disdaining to be less,
Dared e'en against Omnipotence to rise !
There first confusion in the symphonies
Of seraph-harps I made, and angels fell;
Down came the host, and, passing paradise,
Dragged man along, with all his seed, to swell
The mighty avalanche, upon its way to hell.
Mercy weeps sadly o'er her daughter, Peaoe,
ho, murdered by my hand, before her lies;
Love the lust rite performs at her decease,
1 hen lifts the dewy curtains of her eyes
Cerulean, drops a tear, and heavenward flies,
lo join her sisters in that region where
No hitter enmities, nor tears, nor sigh,
Nor blasted hopes, nor comfortless despair,
Waits on the wretched race whose heritage is care."
He ceased and proudly waved his hand, and War
Called up his millions in a serried host
And Famine led a train extending far '
O'er many a weary league of that drear coast;
Murder came up; and then the pallid ghost
Of Pestilence breathed foulest odors o'er
The moving multitude. "These I can boast
As mine, O Death ! I thou demandest more.
My honors and my sword I here to thee restore "