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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-10-04

In Europe has proved that the
United States has no monopoly bi
unfit public officials. The word
"grait' is new, but the fact is 90
Oldas the Garden Of Enden.
Tainted money aid graft are
older than our government itseli,''
said 3 Chicago professor last
month. "Even Faneuil Hall, the
cradle Of liberty, Was built with
money made BY Peter Faneutl
from the illegal sale Of whisky
There are many degrees Of graft.
We might call a baby CRATER
when it compels,u US to bride it to
be good when visitors are In the
house. In short, whoever takes
advante Of his position to make
others pay him for iavors, is like
|ly to hear the name ''graited"
whispered as be walks along the
street.
But, as Governor Folk says,
"ninety nipe per cent Of the Amer
lean people are honest. This dis.
honest Que per cent makes the
trouble, because it is the most &C.
tive in public affairs.' Politics
is not pure, but probably it never
was purer than to-day. 1t is
laundried and frogrant as ccmpar,
ed with the state, Of public affairs
in England under WAIpole, when
t.every man had his price" The
present hulIabaloO. made By r..
formers is not q sign that the
average American citizen has sud-
denly become indifferent to the
Eighth Commandment. It ia
more likely Ito mean that We are
getting higher standards Of public
honesty and demanding q better
grade Of public officials all along
the line.
There is also demand for a
higher brand Of reformer-One
who has a programme Of what i
/ to be done, one who can prevent
vice, not scatter it, ard whose idea
Of q career Of public service is moi
that OF bull in q china shop.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-10-04
INC President SECS \ Light.

Now that President Roosevelt
has finally resolved to go on his
great vote-hnnting tour Of the
South, cone needs no clairvcy ant
powers to discern the reasoning
that has moved him to decision.
Whatever his faults, Theodore
Roosevelt is esteemed for his stur-
dy Americanism. In his every
public pronouncement and preach
ment, the President has voiced
good Americanism. In many OF
the cherished policies which he
hopes to enact into law at the
coming session OF Congress there
runs so strong a vein Of true and
solid Americanism as to cause
them to appeal to all.
But, by the same token, these
| policies do not appeal to the Presi-
dents own party. The Allisons
and Lodges, the Cullums and the
Aldriches are Republicans first,
Americans afterwards. Some Of
the Presidents pet projects were
defeated In the Fifty eighth Con-
| gress because the high priests Of
the Republican party regarded
them as too much inclined to
benefit the whole American peo-
pie, too little calculated to perpet-
nate the power and the prestige Of
the campaign.fund raising inter-
ests.
Mr.. Roosevelt has been learning
wisdom for long time. His dis
covery that victory at the polls
10y the largest plurality ever given
8 President did not insure for him
the leadership Of his own party Or
the power TO dictate policies TO
that autocratiC body, the United
States Senate, Was . painful but
valuable one for him. His belated
appeal for Democratic votes in
the last Congress was made too
late to succeed, but ID came 30
successful that the President eyes
were opened. II be would zee
| good American laws enacted for
tue American people, be must ask
Tor the support 81 good Americans
III wnatever party they we're 70 Pc
found, and he must abandon the
party creed THAI II - undigni6ed
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-10-04
CURE PERMANENT

Mrs. Burgess writes Feb. IS, 1903:
my baby, who had Eczema very
badly ON her head, as / told you before,
after using the Cuticura Remedieswas
cured. She is now six years old, and
has thick hair and clean scalp"
y Instant relief and refreshing sleep
for skin-tortured babies and rest for
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This is the purest, sweetest, most
speedy, permanent, and economical
treatment for torturing, dis6guring,
itching, burning, bleeding, scaly,
crusted, and pimpiy skin and scalp
humours, with loss Of hair, of infants
and children, as well as adults, and is
sure to succeed when all other reme-
dies and the best physicians fail.
Sold throughout the world Cuicura Resovent &c., Tin
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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-10-04
Are We a Corrupt PeoHIe2

And so the war whoop Of the
reiormer is heard in the land to
such an extent that Europe has
heard it and is propounding all
manner OF reasons, wise and other
wise, for american corruption"
AS a matter Of fact, we are not q
corrupt people. We are the great
est readers OF newspapers and
magazines and the greatest be-
levers in publicity. Every little
wrong doing is shouted rom the
housetops, especially If any public
official is concerned. We are
eighty millions Of people. We
elect three hundred thousand pub.
lie officials. We spend fifteen
hundred MILLIONS OF dollars on our
public affairs In one year. L this
vast amount OF business we're g
be transacted without q cry Of cor
cuption here and there, it would
be an achievement that has never
yet been accomplished in the his
tory OF the world.
There 4 no comparison between
the occasi al pickings and steal
ings Of our ofIice.bOlders and the
almost universal corruption Of
Russia, where Il proverbially costs
a'rnble to pay kOpek. Now and
then We find spots on the robe 81
one Of our jndges, but in Turkey,
says q recent book Of travel, HabS
Judge can be influenced By the gin
Of twenty Ave cents.'' Our re-
cent Insurance disclosures are bad
enough, but no wore than the
Whitaker Wright scsndal, which
furnished some proud names IN
Great Britain. Many 40 expose
& Z -t Z a.. al =
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-10-04
Facfa Ahout Baaeball.

The, Pittsburg National league club
has the record for the most defeats ia
one season, losing ia games IL 1850.
The largest score on record was
made at Buffalo In the late sixties
Niagara 300; Columbus. 10.
The longest game on record was
pIaved at Devil'e Lake. N. D., July IS,
1891. when Grand Forks and Fargo
played twenty Ave innings without .
rum.
Ia 1875 Boston won every game
played on the home grounds.
IL 1859 the Cincinnati Reds travelled
from Maine 70 Frisco, playing all
corners without losing single game,
| Bfatnard, pitcher; AllIsons catCher;
Gould, 6fst base; Swoeeey. second
base, George Wright, shortstop; Va
Herman, third base; Leonard len tieId ;
Harry Wright, center held. and Mo-
yey, right Geld. NJ.
The first regular game OF baseball
ltwibh few changes from the present
ltime) ever played was June IA, 1840,
4 10 the ElyeiAEr lleld, HOboken, N. III,
| KnickefboCkd ts ve. New York City.
Jim Tying, 4 HervaFd student, wal
tue frat player 10 use catcher'l
nesk ~ game.
Tho long oAt run of defeats was e1s.
tanned ~ aho LaouisVillss IA 1893 when
| thoy lost twenty elk straight game.
Pant Hines, Ia 1883; Harry O'HaRaE
iin 1902, and Larry Schafiey, this year
completed Tie only single hand d til
pc ever mace.
The dOnhla ahomI with iiret and thiri
bases occupied. oAmeintO prominence
1892.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-10-04
Top Of Head Covered with
Scales Which Peeled off
Taking Hair with Them.
CURED BY CUTICURA
Now Six Years Old with Thick
Hair and Clean Scalp.
Cure Permanent.

"My baby was six weeks old when
the top Of her head became covered
with thick scales, which would peel
and come Of, taking the hair with It.
Itwould soon form again and be asbad
as before. My doctor said it was
Eczema, and prescribed an ointment,
which did no good. I then tried cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment. washed
her head in warm water and Cuticura
Soap and gently combed the scales
off. They did not come back and her
hair grew out fine and thick. She is
now q year and half old, and has no
trace of Eczema"
MRS. c. w. burgess, Iranistan
Ave, Bridgeport, Conn.,, Feb. II, 1893.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-10-04

ana WORSE BuNu uH8kcB9 LOT Uue
President TO appeal TO the minori.
ty for help.
Undoubtedly, Mr. Roosevelt has
seen : light. Quite likely his
reasoning was this: ~ desire the
enactment into Law Of certain sub
stantial and abiding American
principles fol- the good Of the
whole American people. Mo-
where in the country can I find
such pure and unadulterated
Americanism as in the South.
Ergo, / will make my appeal dis
rectly to the South
For the discovery Of this truth,
known for long to those who have
watched with sympathetic and
understanding eyes the evolution
OF the South, the President de-
serves credit. Only few Of his
political faith have seen SO truly.
Mckinley was one Of these, but the
assassin's bullet cut Mckinley
down before he could avail himself
or the fruits OF his unusual vision.
But for Buffalo and Czolgosz Nc
KinIey might have gone far
toward chastising rampant Repub-
| Iioanism with the rod Of the South
ern Americanism. Maybe McKin-
ley was too good . politician to
make the most OF the knowledge
he had acquired from close study
OF the Southern people. Mr..
Roosevelt may be bolder.
Mr.. Roosevelt Is ardently, one
might say desperately anxious to
make a great and enduring name
for him during the few years that
remain to him in the White
House. He is too good Q student
of history to think he can secure a
lasting fame by playing nothing
but partisan politics as President.
Mr.. Roosevelt has decided to
visit the South. There he expects
to find and will find . ready re-
ception for American ideals and
American principles; there he
may hope to get serious hearing
for any plans he may offer that
SAVIOR OF true Americanism.
For the South is to-day the very
/ shot bed" OF Americanism. In
the South; as in other sections o.
the country, are the fundamental
principles and convictions O
lAmericanism revered and cherish
led. It is the Southern people WHIT
moss truly and emphatically typify
the ideal Americanism. Th'
President, seeking the American
veal and the re-establishment Q
some neglected American ideals
goes not to New England, nor t.
the thrifty Northland, nor yet t.
the developing West; but to thu
ardent and living South, pulsatini
with true and lofty ideals, tillet
with the love Of the Flag aud th'
Constitution, the twentieth Cen
tury home Of true Americanism
as it is and ever has been thu
home Of chivalry and courage.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-10-04

cures made BY Dr.
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Il is.the great medl-
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covered after years d
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Or. Kilmer, the emf
nent kidney and bad
Il. .~Ama-ffA - a.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-10-04
Word and Works Magazine.

Rev. Irl r. Hicks. the noted weather
forecaster Of st. Louis, Mo-, has for IL
years past edited q monthly journal OF
rational reputation, Word and Works.
We have received Word and Works at
this office and can testify to its value
az . family monthly. Prof. Hicks has
Just decided to change his family
monthly to magazine form and with
the October number the monthly will
be beautiful magazine profusely IL
Illustrated with half.tone engravings.
One Of the early fall numbers of this
magazine will contain Prof. Hicks'
weather forecasts for the tlrst six
months Of 1905. The January, 1905,
number will contain the weather fore !
casts for the second six months Of
1905 These two nuwbers OF the mag
azine will take the place OF the Hicks
Almanac, which viii be discontinued.
The matter that has heretofore been
published In the Hicks Almanac each
year will now be found in the maya.
zine and much more. The price Of the
Word and Works Magazine is 10 CENTS
per copy Or &1.OO per year Send 10
cents for copy fthe October nuns
Der, which gives you full particulars
Of how the Hicks weather forecasts for
year in advance VIII now Be given
to the public. Word ana Works Pub.
Itching Co., 1901 Lccpsa st., ST. Louis.
Mo.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-10-04

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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-10-04

Luther Burbank, the noted CaliEor.
MIA hOrticulturist, says HE one great
ambition ii to apply to the rearing Of
children the, scientific principles
through which he has wrought stich
wonders with plants. He believes man
conld be- como physically, spiritually
and morally perfect, il subj 10
the same care and training that be 4
giving to plants. d
IA woman may never learn anything
Ia q cooking school, but she can turn
up her nose g the ones who haven't
been.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17

aires On one occasion he heard they
succeeded in blackmailing a son OF
one of New York's best known fami-
hes u of several hundred thousand
dollars He further said he first met
the present Mrs Duke in a house In
West S~ixty-fourth street, where he
was called In for a professional con-
~sultation. He said when he was first
called to the Winton Hotel he found
Mr.. Duke In a terrible condition. He
succeeded in arousing him after a
prolonged effort.
District Attorney Jerome was still
waiting today for the appearance at
his Office Of Mrs Duke. Mrs. Duke
sent word today to the district attor-
neys office that she was unable to
appear. and not long after this mes
sages was sent she hurriedly left the
Hotel Winton at 10th street and
Madison avenue where she was stay
ing. and is now in seclusion.
The attorneys for Dukes relatives
say that they have submitted all the
Facts In the case t Mr.. jerome, and
that 1t Is for him to decide whether
Or not a criminal action will ensue.
1t Is considered probable that the
grand jury will be asked to consider
the a 8 40
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17
THE YELLOW JACKET.

While The Messenger mas not the
honor Of being on the exchange list
of The Yellow Jacket, we have been
aware of the fact that there was pub
lished somewhere in the mountains of
North Carolina a newspaper bearing
this name which had established some
what of a reputation, but we were not
prepared to give it credit for such up
to-dateness as is shown to be the case
in the following clipping which we make
from The Charlotte Observer. We must
confess that when we first read The
Observers account Of The Yellow
Jackets plant We were inclined to
think that Brother Caldwell was perpe-
trating a huge joke on his brethren of
the press, for we did not think that
there was such a plant in existence in
the mountain Businesses of the state.
not another such paper on the Ameri-
can continent. If all the facts as relat-
ed by The observer are correct, and we
have no reason to doubt them, for that
paper is not given to mistaking facts
The Yellow Jacket is a most re-
markable publication. Of this paper The
Observer says:
The spectacle of a print-shop off the
railroad using a linotype machine and a
Hoe perfecting press, capable Of print
ing many thousand copies per hour, is
now presented at Moravian Falls, a
.postoffice six miles from North Wilkes
boro, the nearest shipping point, and
noted as the home of The Yellow Jacket,
that unique bimonthly periodical pub
lished by r. Don Laws of which men
ton has heretofore been made. 1t is
stated that the paper now has a circu-
lation of 125, 900 copies, extending over
the entire country. 1t is republican
in politics and. a partisan of the most
pronounced type. In the issue of jan
uary 9Th, "A History of the Yellow
Jacket" appears, from the pen of James
Larkin pearson, and is an interesting
narrative. The editor of The Yellow
Jacket is a native of Wilkes county anC
a mechanical genius. The yellow Jack
ct was started, on a capital of a few dol.
lars. in 1895, and has doubled its sub
scription list every year since. The
plant of it's own. located right in the
Office, and at night the building is beau
tifully Illuminated by electricity. The
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17

editors residence, a few hundred yards
away, is also lighted from the same
source. The Office IS connected by tele-
phone with all the surrounding country.
and 1t also has a system Of house
phones for the convenience Of h m
ployes. A series Of electric bells. oper-
ated by push buttons, also adds to the
convenience OF the employees in calling
ZACH other while at their posts Of duty.
Last year a linotype was installed and
now a Hoe press, using stereotype
plates. is in operation, and it is stated
that IAN issue Of the paper, which kept
the three smaller presses grinding away
for a solid two weeks, a be turned
off on this press in less than a day"
There are numerous freak publica-
tons in various parts Of the country,
but it is doubtful if any ever attained
the popularity reached by this Wilkes
county journal, which probably has the
widest circulation of any paper in the
south.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17
COMMENCEMENT AT TRINITY.
Programme Has Been Practically
Completed-BishOp Galloway to
Lecture.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Trinity Park, Durham, January II.
To a possible annoyance on &C
count IF a conflict of dates of some
of the speakers and as a matter of
convenience and progress, the author
tiles of Trinity College have at this
early date practically completed the
programme for h annual commence
ment. securing for the OCCASION speak
ers of national reputation. The COM
mencement will begin June 4th, with
the baccalaureate address by Presi-
lent John c. Kilgo. The commence
ment sermon will be preached by Rev.
DR.. Richard Wilkinson, pastor of the
Rayne Memorial Methodist Episco-
pal church, at New Orleans, La. The
event of probably the most interest
Will be the annual address to the
students, which will be delivered by
Albert Shaw, Esq, editor Of Review
of Reviews, of New York. At the
alumni dinner the annual address to
the Alumni Association will be deliv-
cred by Rev. H Gilbert T. Rowe, Of
Concord.
Bishop Charles B. Galloway. of
Jackson. Miss, will deliver a series
of lectures at Craven Memorial Hall,
March 2Sth, 29th, and 30th, under
the auspices Of the Avera Department
of Biblical Literature. This series of
lectures was made possible by a fund
donated to The college for the purpose
in honor of the lateMr. W. 1T Avera,
by his wife. These lectures have been
of unusua interest and have attracted
quite a little attention. The public
is invited. The previous lectures
have been delivered by Bishop w w.
Duncan, Bishop Warren A. Chandler.
Chancellor j. III. Kirkland and Bishop
A. w. Wilson. +. 7. L.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17
Nlessengrr.
ELECTRIC AGAINST STEAM
POWER.

The time will soon come when elec-I
trio power will take the place OF steam
and water power for stationary engines.
At several places in this state the ma
tural water power is being developed
and is found to be OF such force that it
can be utilized for transmission of
electric power that it WIFI pay TO devel-
OBJ the latter by means OF the former
for the purpose of running the cotton
mills and other factories in the vicini-
ties. Charlotte has two sources Of this
power. On the Pee Dee river there are
two plants being installed for the pur-
pose of generating power for the run
ming of mills in the n~eighborhood. At
the Narrows on the upper Yadkin and
at Bluet's Falls lower down on the
river preparations are being made for
establishing plants from which mills
and factories in the surrounding coun-
try a be supplied with motor power.
The falls at these two places furnish
power enough to run all the mills now
in existence in the state and also those
which may be established in many
years to come. If the men who are in
terested in the Bluet Falls Power COM
pany are successful in bringing about
what they expect we will at no far dis
tant day in the future see the factories
and mills of this city run by electric
motor power furnished from this plant.
1t is only about one hundred and TWEEN
ty miles from our city to the seat of
this plant. With the rapid growth Of
modern inventions the time will soon
come when that distance will be made
of no consequence because Of the string
Ang of electrical wires. In the course
of a few years Wilmington will be get
ting her motive power from the ~electri-
cal plant at B1uet's Falls, or perhaps
from some nearer point. Electricity is
the coming motive power and we should
recognize that fact for all our factories
and other industrial enterprises will
soon have to depend on it. The sooner
We recognize this fact and prepare to
meet the new conditions the better it
will be for us.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17
Football Brains.

A Chicago dispatch to The Kansas
CITY Journal says: Football players,
according to Jere Delaney. trainer of
the northwestern eleven. are subject
to an ailment similar to s~oftening of
the brain. which leads not only to the
making Of peculiar statements but
causes strange actions which. sometimes
are amusing.
The exact cause of the trouble. Train
er Delaney said, he is unable to fathom
He declared, however, that it results
more from the long continued physical
ana nervous strain to which the men
are subjected during the three months
OF rigid training which they are forced
to undergo than from the blows, kick
bumps they receive on their skulls
during games.
1T is KNOWN" said Delaney. that
every player of the game fights his
games over again in his dreams, but
only by the men who are in close touch
with the players it is recognized that
they are given to constant dreaming,
during which they make TRANCE mo-
lions, as if struggling with an Inagi-
nary opponent"
According to Delaney, the athletes
are given to almost childish methods
of play when at rest. An instance re-
lated by the trainer was of a man who
during more than an hour pored over a
map of the United States, drawing lines
with his index finger, and imagining he
was travelling over the country which
his finger crossed.-The Commoner.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-17
WHY DOES
A BABY CRY?

Because it is either hun
CRY or in pain. Properly
nourished it will usually grow
up right and be comfortable
that's the principal thing
for e baby. If its food lacks
strength and nourishment
add SCOTS Emulsion at feed
ing time. A few drops will
show surprising results. If a
baby is plump it is reason
ably safe. SCOTS Emulsion
makes babies plump.
Wen send you a sample free.
Scott & Bovine, 400 Pearl ST., New York.