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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02

Try GOODS. Clothing, Boots and Shoes.
- Hats. etc. Our prices. quality OF o o is
considered, are the lowest In the city. BY fair
dealing and honest business methods, We az
way rely On holding y customer whenh he has
once favored as with his trade. OkolOna.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02
Low RATEs TO the MoRTHWEsT

Mobile & Ohio Coupon Ticket
Agents win sell daily TO November 80,
one way second class colonist tickets
20 Oregon Washington British
Columbia, Idaho & Montana 81 very
low rates. JnO. n. Beail, A. q. P. A.,
81. Louis.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02

Even with HE wonderful memory
the oldsat inhabitant Il apt 70 feFget
that he hes inflicted HE reminiscencea
on everybody be knows.
Ramon's Liver Hills and Tonic Pei
Iets-s complete. pleasant, scientific
treai ment for constipation and bilious
ness. Is, doses, two medicines csc.
Columbia seems disposed TO regard
our protection OF South American re-
publics somewhat IN the light OF that
accorded to the hen BY the fox.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02

,oNNER. ". H. PHARsOl
CONNER

GROCERIES and Produce. OkOlonn. Miss.
NJ Stock fresh and always cared for. Prices
that satisfy cur customers and that will suit
al. Try our special brands OF Flour. Head
auartefs o rnne Coffee, Including the famous
French Market brand.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02

r. ". CHANDLER.

EURNiTURE and Undertaking. stOcklargeR
than In any n~eighburing town, and kept
fully up-to-dste. Fine line OF wall paper and
decoration supplies Undertaking and I'm.
baimlng with modern equipment.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02

Money e. loan on imUroved farms,
8 per cent interest and easy terms.
L. p. HALEY.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02

TIE easy to love your nelghboFs as
yourself, provided they mind their
own business.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02

See our Samples OF Imported China.
Remember one-half price.
WALTER SMITH.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02

Liver spots have SPOILED many pretty
compIexicus. aud nothing 90 complete
II removes them as Ramcn's Tonic
Regulator. Just a mite at thi- pleas
ant vegetable powder ~ retiring paints
the bloom Of health on the cheeks.
Large tin boxes CSC,
IfMr. Carnage would exchange his
hrat mortgage Steel bonds for com
m,n atock he might realize his wish
81 die pror New York World.
There is no hatred so violent a
4 hat which a man who can't even
heep 4 cook feels toward the mai
who talks about bis chief.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02

No man Is really q plutocat until he
is rich enough to buy . title for his
daughter.
One Of the proudest young men in
town has easO to be proud. He Is
supporting bic mother, and doing Il
well.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02
COTTON.
agWauRoER COTTON 90.

RUNAR8 and importers OF COtt0u. dighegi
price paid for staples. District Odlcas II
QkoiQn4i branch once at every station on II.
80. kailroad from Baldwin to Macon, The
seller males 3 mistake Il he doesn't see AS.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02

aIs my bat on strSigbtR" asks Pana'
ma
You can't burn your money and col
lect Insurance on IL.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02

kidneys themselves break down and waste
away cell b. cell.
Bladder troubles most always result from
a arrangement Of the kidneys and a cure is
obtained quickest BY a proper treatment Of
the Kidneys. II you are feeling badly you
can make no mistake by taking Or. Kilmor's
SwamP-ROot, the great kidney. liver and
bladder remedy.
ltcorrects inability 10 hold urine and scald-
ing pain In passing II. and overcomes that
unpleasant necessity Of being compelled TO
60 often during the day. and TO get up many
times during the night. The mild and the
extraordinary effect Of Swamp-Root is soon
realized. It stands the highest for its won
denul cures Of the most distressing cases.
SwamP-Root is pleasant 10 take and sold
BY all druggists in hfty-cent and one-dollsr
sized bottles. You may Ek
have 4 sample bottle Of nEFs@Jf4As
this wonderful new dis hstssHss .
coYery and a book that
tells all about It, both Home Of swampRsot
sent free by mail. Address DR.. Kilmer & Co.
Blnghapton, N. Y. When writing mention
reading this generous offer in this paper.
Dm't make any mistake. bnt re-
mem ~ tn name. Swamp-Root. DR..
GilmeT's Swamp-R0ot. and the address,
Kinghamton, New York.o N every bottl-
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02

A TTORNEY AT LAW. Once next door to
"A the OkolOna Banking Company, OkolOnA
Mis-. Practices In Federal and State courts.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02
The Cause Of Many
Sudden Deaths.

s because 50 decep-
tive. Many sudden
deaths arc caused BY
It - heart disease.
pneumonia, heart
failure or a~poplexy
are often the result
Of kidney disease. Il
kidney trouble is al
lowed 10 advance the
kidney7poisoned
blood will attack the
vital z or The
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02

PROFESSIONAL MEN
W. IS. FRAZEE.
III. RuoAAMAN

A TTORNEY AT LAW. once upstairs over
"A pOstofice. OkolOna, Miss. viii practice
I'm all the courts OF Miss. Federal and State.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02

SID DoItIcs. Iou may
have 4 sample bottle OF
this wonderful new dis
coyery and a book that
lalla al ahnnl A Ill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
For Three or Five Years.

Arbitration, the best of all known methods for settling disputed matters, is now we'll advanced in the mine is- sue In this district; and The Age Her aid desires to express the hope that the arbitrators will bring in an award fit for longer period than one year. It is unseemly to distrubs all business in this great district every year over the settlement of single wage scale. There is no reason why the award should not cover period of three, or even five years, on a sliding scale basis. The arbitration in the hard coal districts stretched their fine and satisfactory award over three years, and surely the arbitrators of our coal industry can do as we'll They could do better by making the term five years in the interest of both operators and operatives.
 The general public would applaud such action, and The Age-Herald be- lieves the arbitrators would earn the gratitude of all, if by their tact and good sense they would devise scale elastic enough to stand all strains of the next five years. This ought not to be difficult task, and is not, and if the arbitrators will even suggest it The Age-Herald is confident the local unions will welcome it, for it will give them a sense of security and perman- ence. As things stand, the miner hes itates, as a rule, in making an invest ment of any kind, because he may in less than a year be out of employ ment. The operators could also make extensions and plans covering con siderable period w..n no fear of soon- coming strike before them. As busi- ness proposition longer term than one year is in every respect desirable and valuable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

tiees of the peace are concerned and Alabama has many such magis- trates-but changes arc needed that will reduce to a minimum the efforts Of bad men in that office to oppress and wrong the helpless. The records of justices Of the peace are not rec ords at all in the full sense of the word, and their acts arc scarcely sub iect to casual review by the student. The ignorant and penniless- cannot. of course, avail themselves of review by a higher court. At present such Ct izens of the state are the victinis= of designing justices of the peace. This should be changed, and the next legis- lature cannot afford to put such changes over to 1907.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
DON'T WANT AMERICAN CHIEFS.
AmaIgamated Engineers Make Trou-
 ble Over Plans for Invasion.

Special Correspondence of the Sunday Post.
 London, July 1.--Trouble is brewing in the ranks of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers here over the determination of the American Consolidated Tool company, who are erecting works in Scotland, to in- troduce Americans as heads of depart ments Some members of the executive committee of the society say that 1t Is a reflection on the competency of English men and Scotchmen, and 1t Is maintained that English and Scotch workmen should not encourage such condition of things.
 The members of the society in Scotland have never got on well with the executive committee which has it's headquarters in London.
 As the Scotchmen show no disposition to object to American supervision, it is believed that a permanent split is immi- nent. G. s. Barnes, who Is the general secretary of the society, and who accom- panied the Mosely commission to the Unit ed States last year, does not object to the proposed arrangement of the Consolidated company but he has to deal with a lot of irreconcilables, Some of the English work men are threatening a boycott on tools made by the company in case they cannot persuade the Scotch to make trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
LyNcHlNo AND THE COURTS.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 The press and the pulpit do well 10 train their protests on the mob; but they will do well also to train their remon- strance and rebuke on the trial courts themselves, and on the bar associations which fall to vindicate their profession and to avenge It's degraded honor and its impaired efficiency on those responsible for the wrongs wrought in laws name. The fact that lynchings tend to increase is as shameful to courts as 1t Is lamentable to civilization. The fact that lynchings shock more by the violence which they work to legal forms and securities than by any violence which they wreak on their victims Is a startling one to bear in mind. The number of innocent men lynched Is far less than the number of guilty men legally "acquitted." The wrong method as rule takes effect on the right men. The method is employed at all In most cases only because the existing powers of courts to make themselves terror to evil-doers and praise to them that do well are not employed in the interest or with the result of sure. swift and exem- splary justice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
NEW ICE MAKING MACHINE.
From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
 August Peter, of Chicago, who is tenn porarily located in Brooklyn, has a mod ell of a novel ice making machine on ex- hibition at No. s2 Bedford avenue The machine does away with the. use of am- monia, which is used by the majority of dealers in manufacturing ice and rock salt and ice are used instead. The salt and Ice are placed in large tanks on both sides of the compartment containing the water to be made Into ice. The walls of the compartment are non-conductors of heat. By means of a pumping appara- tus cold air Is forced through series of coils arranged in the compartment under the vats containing the wate<. The in- ventor claims that in this way he is able to make ice in ten hours In the summer time and in five and ont-half hours in the winter
 The invention. it Is claimed, will mate- rially reduce the cost of manufacturing ice, as it can be made for fifty cents a ton.
 Attached to the ice-malxing machine is cold air pump. which can be affixed to an ordinary boiler and supply cold air by means of veive to apartment hous- es and offices in the warm weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
TwentY.fIrst street Pavlna.

There has been so much adverse com ment on the Twenty-frst street pavement that it seems to me 1t Is up to the city fathers to take some action to remedy the matter" said a Northside resident.
 If the suit now in the Chancery court holds good and the board of mayor and aldermen are enjoined from collecting as- sessments from the residents along that street to pay for the pavement, they will be forced to do something. It occurs to me that the present pavement would make the finest kind of foundation for an asphalt surface. There is no asphalt pavement in the city now and 1t Is time Birmingham was trying it anyway. It has proved so successful in all other cities where 1t has been tried that we seem a little behind the times in not having some. The asphalt would effect ually do away with the noise nuisance that exists on that thoroughfare now, and residents would have no reason to bring suits to enjoin collection on the ground that the value of their property was depreciated in value because of the pavement rather than enhanced"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
OUR SCHOOL INCREASE.

From the Homiletic Review.
 The cost of our school system, public and private, is probably not less than O,OOOOOO a year. Our public common schools, which provide for more than 15- 0OO0OO children, cost $213,27 S54 in 1900. Of this $3SOSS,55S went for sites. buildings. furniture and apparatus. s1s6 O31, ,s3S was paid in salaries to teachers and superin- tendents, and the rest went chiefly in care of buildings. grounds, etc. There are 247- s21 buildings in the United States used for school purposes, and their value, includ- ing land and contents of buildings, is placed at $53S, 623, ,736.
 Today there is enough schooling sup piled to give every citizen 99S days of solid education as his life supply. Fifty years ago the average was but 42O days, and when the nineteenth century opened the average was but eighty-two days. To- day Uncle Sam gives his children more than twelve times as much schooling as he did 100 years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
WHAT R. R. PRESIDENTS EARN

From the New York Commercial
 A. J. Cassatt, president of the Penn sylvania railroad, probably receives the largest salary of any rahroad official in the United States. He Is credited with receiving $75.OoO year. While no other railroad official is believed to receive as large a salary as President Cassatt there are a number of presidents who receive s5o000 a year. James J. Hill is under stood to draw a salary of $5o,O00 year as president of the Northern Securities com pany. In addition he draws nominal salary as the head of the Great Northern railway. Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern railway. receives $50.000 a year.
 Frederick D. Underwood was appointed president of the Erie railroad at the re- quest of James J. Hill. The story is told that Mir Underwood, who had done so much to build up the Baltimore and Ohio. was requested by J. P. Morgan to make an Inspection of the Erie. After he had made the inspection he was requested to call at Mir Morgan's office. He was asked in regard to what he had found. He answered that with free sway he could save 20 per cent of the cost of op- erating the Erie. and put it on par with the other trunk lines. He added that it would take the hardest work of his life. and that he would stake his reputation ion 1t for s5oOoO a year. His terms were accepted.
 Among the other railroad presidents who are understood to receive salaries of $5o.0Oo year are E. R, Ripley of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe; William H. Newman of the New York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
FISH CLIMB TO REACH WATER.
Old Angler Tells Story to Prove Pisca-
 torlaI Reasoning Power.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
 Fishes have more sense than they are credited with having" said an old angler, "and my experience has taught me not to put much faith In the statement that they only know things from the vibration due to ooncussion I think they reason in some way or other. I don't know just how 1t Is. I am satisfied that nature has not been particularly extravagant in the matter of giving fish intelligence. Be- sides. know that their eyes are flat and they can see but very little. sup pose the eye of the fish Is worse, if any thing, than the eye of the reptile. But taking all things into consideration, I am convinced from little things I have observed that the fish Is a pretty wise member and that he at least knows what is good for him when he Is confronted by the blunt issue of surviving or not survlv- ing. Why is 1t that fish always fioun- ders toward the water? That's the point have in mind, and it is the one fact above all others that has convinced me that the fish has more sense than we httiiihs haNo hNNNA SOth o iASAA eAioe would not founder toward the water
 T know two answers will be made to this suggestion. One Is that there Is gen. erally slope toward the water, and that hence the force of gravity determines the direction of the fish's movement. And the other is primary reason-the matter of instinct as distinguished from reason These explanations do not satisfy me. In the first place, I reject the theory which makes a difference between instinct and reason. I cannot tell the difference be- tween the attributes, SO much are they alike, In the second place, I want to tell you that have seen fish fioundering up hill Why? Simply because they are forced to founder up hill in order to get back into the water. Does a fish know anything about direction and distance? I think so. I have seen them jump and founder up hill. inch after inch. until they got back to the edge of the. stream out of which they had been Jerked. It may be what some of the writers call instinct, but to save my soul I cant tell this so-called instinct from what we are accustomed to regard as reason In higher forms of life"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

The figures in this table represent prices on May 4, 1897 and 1901, and on July 21 of the present year. Pres ent prices are by no means panic prices. They are values freed from speculative fever and an unhealthful boom, and perhaps some water
 The late esteemed boom culmi- mated on September g of last year The decline from that point, says the Wall Street Journal, in representa- tive railroad stocks, averages about $32.26 a share, but heavy as this fall is, it is only one-half of the rise from i 1897 to September of last year. Tn other words, prices must lose fully as much as they have since September of last year before prices will stand where they did in 1897, after four years of great depression
 Stock liquidation is progressing, but tiV OhoAAC0S Ol luC COullfy pays lllllG attention to 1t. It does not develop panicky features. It is simply what the public calls rich mans panic. Rich men are throwing overheard surplus holdings, and the speculative cliques throughout the country are compelled to unload by the repeated slumps As for the undigested se- curities, James J. Hill says they should now be called "indigestible se- curities" and charged off to profit and loss"
 The business of the country Is sound, and it is growing such great crops that already the northwest is anticipating a car famine. We arc growing more wheat, cotton and corn than we can move, and while we are doing that there is no danger that the country at large will concern itself over what occurs in Wall street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

rag girl She is more faithful te her powder rag than she is 10 her golf club, a.ia That is saylng a great dest
 Ali this does not mean that sic emaxes upg h these days she puts on her peaches and cream complexion by natural means-outdocr exercise, A generous diet cf we'll. cooked food and plenty Of cereals and fruit The powder rag IS only small but important necessary in the making of her toilet It helps to kep her the dain- ty. sweet, wholesome gil that she Is.
 A powder rag is a piece of old soft linen handkerchief - perhaps whole handkerchief if it is small. or q scrap of thin. soft chamois. It's every pore Is filled with powder just in the right condition to take the shine from an over warm face but not enough to spill uneomfor- tably
 The people who cater to the fads and fancies of the summer girl maid md matron. have tried to oust the powder rag They have brought out the dearest of little powder puffs and found the squaintest places to hide them in. Ob- serve the girl wearing on her long chin ball of gold silver or gun metal, and nine times out of ten 1t would contain tiny puff and a little round mirror. Or it might be an English walnut shell of gold or silver made on the same lines. though the ball has usurped this to some extent.
 If the girl isn't wearing an ornament, don't be deceived. Ask her to unscrew the flat round top of her umbrella han dle. Or she has a nnt-sukie purse with one of the same flat round knobs, and that also holds her powder puff. She may have tiny jeweed box in the hand bag that she Is seldom without, and that might be a bonbon box but it is more likely to contain another miniature puff.
 But the tiny powder puffs are only pleasing because they are pretty. For away -from-home use the girl clings to her powder rag and here is the secret of where she usually carries 1t. It must be whispered at the last minute under the breath If any one should chance 10 sur prise the summer gir making a dive for it. he would see a fiutter of many frilled skirts, and while he is wondering if this Is a new dance step the summer girl will have Tipped the bit of linen from the top cf her silken stocking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
Justices of the Peace.

The testimony of Justice of the Peace Cross in the Franklin peonagt case before Judge Jones is sufficient evidence that Injustice has it's roots ir the lowest grade of the judicial ser vice. Magistrate Cross swore that he permitted Franklin's lawyers to ma nipulate the minutes of his court to suit themselves, and that he had fined certain negroes in order to get back certain moneys that had gone in transportation expenses.
 If the legislature desires to stop such work as this throughout the state-if 1t has any intention of pro- tecting the weak and humble, it will give careful attention to the laws re- iating to justices of the peace. All justices of the peace are not in humane and unjust but all may be inhumane and unjust under the cover of the laws of the state The changes needed are matters of detail, and the legislator who works out those de tails carefully will deserve well at the hands of this state. The presen; legislature Is the first upright and thoroughly deserving body of lawmak CTS the state has had since the war and it can cap its fine record by ren dering injustice> in the offices of jus tices of the peace well-nigh impossi ble.
 Peonage has its very root in the offices of justices of the peace. It is there the weak and ignorant are car. ried, and the sum total of injustice Committed there would, if fully known, astonisb and shock all good men in the state. No changes in the laws are needed so far as upright jus-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
A GREAT STATESMAN.
Recent Discoveries at Susa of the
 Earliest Code of Law.

Dr. William Hayes Ward in July Century
 It must have been some four hundred miles by the old road and canals from Sip para to Susa; but 1t was easier travelling in that region 4000 years ago than 1t is now, for Hammurabi was a strenuous ruler It had taken him thirty years to throw off the yoke of the Ialamites.- with their capital at Susa, and the remaining dozen years of his reign he devoted to consolidating his empire. which now for the first time in history united under one rule the whole of Babylon and added to 1t the suzerainty of Elam, or Southern Persia, with Assyria to the north, and even Syria and Palestine as far as the Mediterranean sea. Being a great states man, as well as conqueror, he built roads, dug canals, and was the first to collect and formulate into code the decisions which the civil courts had rendered and which had grown out of judges law
 This full code, the most elaborate mon- ument of early civilization yet discovered, he engraved on great stone stelae, and set up in the principle cities of his realm, where they could be read by all his sub- jects. There were about 2SO separate de- cisions, or edicts, covering the rights of property, inheritance, marriage divorce, injuries to life or person, rents, wages, slavery, etc On the stele, following the text of the laws. Hammurabi told his people why he had set up and published this code. It was that justice might be established, and that any one who had a complaint against his neighbor might come and read the law and learn what were his rights.