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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

A Missouri woman may wear the feathers OF do
nestle fowls II itwere Kentucky instead OF Missouri
we should doubtless be assured that with the feather
of tame and humble duck in her hat a Kentucky
woman from any other state though the other state
though the other women we're equipped with all the
feathers of bird of paradise Missouri women will
have to prove it. Missouri hasn't hypnOtzed the
nation into believing anything about its women
OF course when Missouri women get tired OF duck
feathers they turn, according to their new law,
to the feathers Of the chicken, of the turkey or Of
any other domestic fowl. They may even sport the
feathers OF certain wild fowls, Some women look
charming when they are wearing the feathers Of the
crow. And Missouri women are given spercial
permit to adOrn themselves in their adventurous
moments with the feathers of the horned owl.
The object Of the law is admirable. Ancient
umptuary laws in Greece, in Rome, aud in med
ieval Europe we're designed to check extravaganza
and to maintain distinctions between classes. The
law is nobler. 1t is mean TO protect song birds and
birds Of plumage. 1t has normal and esthetiC
purpose.
1t is passing strange, is it not that the moral and
esthetc should have to be cOerced in this wayi
Can it be that women don't mind having birds
butchered ii they don't have to see it dOnef II has
been suspected that we should have no beef il WON.
en- had to kill the steers Yet women have been
seen to enjoy beeisteaks.
This reflection, however is just By the way. The
PuAub 10 Uudb EouB duu pAumago OUkui
not just now to be shet because they being killed
out and even the basis Of selfshness the present
process is wrong Soon there will be no pretty
birds from which feathers can be taken. There
ought to be an armistice, Women ought to give up
certain kinds Of feathers for few years. They ought
to. But unless the policemen Of Missouri are quite
different from the policemen Of Illinois, law will
do any good. It is hard enough to arrest man for
splitting. When it comes to arresting women Tor
wearing feather the limit has been passed.
It might help to argue with the women. It would
help much to order other fellow to arrest them
The members Of the Missouri Legislature would hate
to be sworn in special policemen for the enforce
ment OF their legislative command.
But remember the song birds and the bids with
gorgeous plumage The woman with the feathers
Of such birds in her hat, law law, should feel
that she is setting bad example to her less ethereal
fellow human creatures Of the other sex.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12
UNREST VS.. RFSTLESSNESS.

One OF our most popular pastors delivered a SER
mon last Sunday in praise OF unrest, says the New
York Mail. The Inauguration Of our restless pTesi-
dent was the theme. We do not know what the
text was but it might well have been, "WhatsOever
thy hand fndeth to do, do it with thy might, for
there is no work, nor desire, nor knowledge, nor
wisdom, in the grave whether thou gOest." Upon
the sacredness OF unrest-upOn the doctrine that
Christ stimulated the desires Of men by widening
their religious and social hOrizan, and banished
their content forever by making them impatient Of
unworthy limitations, the minister founded his
praise OF our nervous civilization.
Unrest is surely good doctrine for the many, for
the race for the country, whether or not it is good
one for the individual. Nature freezes, starves,
scOurges the individual to make him do his best for
the race. he would be happier unirOzen, fed with
NATURES spontaneous fruits, unwhipped by the task
master. But il everybody about him we're happy in
easy cOntentment his race and kind and nation
would never 90 forward but would either slide
backward or remain in a state Of arrest
Yet there is a difference between the unrest Of
wholesome and iber-k knitting struggle and a good
deal OF hectic restessness that we Americans are
wrapped up in and are now beginning to regard even
as national virture. We have begun to replace
energy with 6dget and steady persistence with
frenzy Instead OF working for results, we are prone
to work Just for work. We like to think Of our
selves as the handspring Of watch forgetting that
although che spring is always on the push, always
straining it has to be we'll wound up every night;
aud that the strain is too great, the spring will
not last many years. We restore ourselves after
one kind OF fever By throwing ourselves into anoth
sr.
The restlessness that destroys pose that atrophies
patience that banishes meditation, s the parent Of
crime Crime is msdirected energy. It increases in
this country at more rapid rate than the pOpula.
iOn 1t is the overflow Of splendid restlessness
Lacking conscience, which means knowing oneself,
and which can come only with reasOnbe medita.
tiOn, the man is apt to turn from building up to
pulling dOwn-frOm doing to undOing.
It is only step from busybOdy restessness to
criminal restessness We hope the ministerial
eulogist OF unrest will preach on that theme, too.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12


such demonstration the island had never before
known gave cheer upon cheer for the American nav
al officers present and for COlumbia's flag that had
gained them their independence. It was the Occa-
sion OF visit Of the American squadron to the cap
ital Of Cuba. It full Of genuine fluctuations
from the Cubans upon their complete emancipation
from colonial bondage and was the first great for
NAL expression Of gratitude to the American peO-
ple
AS one thinks Of the notes Of that beautiful song
Of freedom swelling out over the harbOr, his imag
nation pictures the apOthe0sis Of human liberty
above the blaekened wreck Of the ill-fated Maine
How different was the reception Of our naval officers
in that same harboF in the month Of February 1898
Then there were no patriotic demonstrations, no
music no flowers. The fair island Of Cuba, long
swept by revolution and rack by social disorders,
lay PROSTATE beneath the tyranny of Spain. Her
cities we're military garrisOns her fields were waste
her industries were parayzed and her patriots
refugees. Her cry Of anguish was heard in America
and our soldiers and sailors responded in a way
that drove the yrant forever from her shores. Our
protection was extended until the smiling island
paradise was again abloOm, IFS government estab-
shed and its people started on their career Of inde
pendence under iav0ring winds.
1t is not hard to understand why the people Of
Cuba could not at once accept the mOmentous fact
that great nation had to their relief inspired
by no lust Of conquest desire for gain, but only
in a spirit Of generosity, honor and patriotism
During al Of her previous existence as settled col
Ony Cuba had paid tribute to Spain. In this rela-
onship the cOlOnst learned the bitter lesson Of de-
pendence under a cruel, bgOted and debauehed gov
ernment. They we're dulled by servilily and their
natures were rendered vindictive and suspicious Of
every nation that cast it's eye in their direction So
the promise Of April 19, 1898, was asaccepted almost
without enthusiasm, for many we're extremely
doubtful that their alley would keep faith.
Today Cuba is q free nation Of the earth. Amer.
ica's honor is vndicated and her promises have
been kept to the last degree. Out in Havana har-
Dor lies gnarled mass Of steel and iron, and the
blood soaked slopes Of San Juan are many solemn
tablets that bear mute testimony to the cost. The
people Of Cuba now know that nation as we'll as
individual can keep It's word and act with integ-
rity and honesty Of purpose. No wonder then, that
the patriots Of Cuba. assembled in their historic
capital, with hearts overfowing with feeling joined
in the words:
.-ts the star Sprangio Banner. Q long MAY u wave
o er the land Of the Free and the home OF the brave
We should but add one thing to this pretty pic
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

In a speach at Sumter, S. c., ex Senator McLaurin
said: cit is time for the people to make platform;
the politicians have written them long enough.
Make one in accord with The commercial spirit Of
the age, that will appeal to every patriotic Ameri-
can citizen, North, South, East and West, who
doesn't want plut0cracy on one side or q socialism
on the ether put a Southers man on it. not because
he is Southern man, but because he is big, broad
Americrn; call it Democracy or what you please
and tell you that you elect him where you fail
with Western socialist or an Eastern monOpolist
on platform tinkered and doctored up with a view
solely to catching votes."
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

c&lG2SZ Birmingham news something
like this is true about politics. It's hard to tell
what politics will do next. You can't depend on
politics. Now you see 'em, now you don't. No
longer than few days ago Oyster Bay went demo
cratic. Oyster. Bay has only about two thousand
inhabitants. A good many Of the people play check
eTs, dig bait and decide the hte OF nations. But
Oyster Bay has come to be looked upon as some
thing OF political center for the reason that it is
the summer home Of the President and sort OF
summer capital for the United States. The Pres
ident has done great deal for Oyster Bay. The
place would be practically unknown but for him.
he gave it position on the map.
And now while the President is of his vacation
hOb-nObbing with the rOugh-riders and getting in
touch with the Southern people, The announcement
comes that Oyster Bay, which gave him big ma
ority in the presidential election has turned right
around and gone democratic; and while he wasn't
looking, too. The returns from Oyster Bay show
that every local Office except that Of town clerk
captured by the democrats. One Of our contem-
porairies humOrOusly suggests that $50 far as is
known the municipal ownershipers made no attempt
to confscdte the horsecar that from the beach
out towards Sycamore Hill," and adds that the
town has no ''side ssues." This same contem-
pOrary regards the matter profound mystery and
says:
t'The only way to account for the change logical
ly is by the analogous case Of OF the Snowman who
was exhibiting a strange and perVerse bird Ladies
and gentlemen" exclaimed the Snowman, this long
legged bird has one peculiarity. He viii walk out
into the water until It is up TO his neck and them
ladies and gentleman, he viii walk ashore again.
Why be does it the Lord only knows
The truth OF the business, however, is that If
there were no '.siGe issues" there doubtless
influential personal equation. That same thing has
carried many a local election especially in small
town where individual popularity counts for much.
At the time it is hard to resist the conclusion
that there we're local questions that really cut
figure than national or international questions and
in which Oyster Bays returns would have more in
huence Massachusetts, gave Roosevelt big
iorty in the last election, and elected democratic
governor with votes to spare. Missouri did the
same thing as did Minnesota. The truth is local
politics as rule gets closer to folks, and especi
ally in flag stations like Oyster Bay than national
politics, and that's about what's the matter with
Oyster Bay.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

worlds coal production and use gives an index to
the nature Of the foundations Of national power.
Industrial and commercial power is generally al
mitted to be the basis of all other powers For ex
ample that nation is admitted to be most capable Of
either conquest or defense which has the greatest
ability to arm and feed its fighting men. And as
society is now organized the production and use Oi
coal is evidently the index to industrial and com
mercial power. The United States leads all other
nations in the production and use OF coal. Out Oi
S64 900 900 tons Of coal produced in all the world in
1903 the United States produced 319, 600 600 TONS
or nearly 81 per cent, and used all but per cent Of
this Great Brittan produced 2SO, 600, 600 tOns oil
% per cent but used only SO per cent Of this Ger
many produced 100, 900, 900 tons, or Is per cent
From these figures the leadership of the United
States ia industrial and commercial power is plain
The British navy is stronger than the American,
and the German army stronger than the American,
and either nation could make things very uDpleas
ant for the United States fOr considerable time
But in the long rum il it's people were willing tC
fight the United States.wOuld prevail, because O
it's greater industrial and commercial power
The conclusion is plain. So long as the Ameri
can people are willing to fight and die if need be for
their country and preserve their present industrial
and commercial supremacy, the United States will
remain, as it now is the strongest Of nations. But
only on condition that the American people remain
willing to fight. for strength abides in those who
are not content with merely having 1t but are viii
ling to use it.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

The other day Major McClannOn Of New York
sent letter to the commissioner Of street cleaning
rec Nesting him to stop the work OF street cleaning
on The Sabbath. Commissioner WoOdburo has re-
piled that il will be impracticable for him to act in
accordance with the mayors suggestion, since there
are not less than three Sabbaths in each week''
observed in New York city. The Syrians observe
Friday as their Sabbath, the Hebrews observe Sat
uriay and the Christians observe Sunday. "If we
we're to observe all Of the Sabbaths," writes the
commissioner 1--WE would have to stop cleaning the
streets three days out Of every seven" he pointed
out, however, that the cleaning forces worked only
half day on Sudays.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

No less than forty-two eargOes Of corn left New
Orleans during march, and seven Of these cargOes
we're wholly Of that cereal. The ports to which the
grain was shipped include nearly al the leading
commercial cities Of Europe-Antwerp, Belfast,
Bordeaux, Copenhagen, Fiume, Galatz, Genoa,
Hamburg, Havre, Liverick, Liverpool, London,
Queenstown, Rotterdam, Triest Venice and half a
dozen minor ones. Every country in Europe was
fed to the American farm with grain shipped
Though New Orleans.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

believe to be mainly concerned in the development
is far too deeply involved in high finance to engage
in any operations which would have an unsettliug
effect uqon the currency" This assurance is
thoughtful and timely.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

For the first time in history, it is said, one Of the
pyramids has been struck by lightning The pyr.
amid struck is thatOf Khephren and the fact is
another illustration Of the gradual change Of Egypt
BY the great dam ct Assouan and the irrigation
works made possible since British occupation Of the
Nile valley.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

ture, negro invariably soon iOrgets iavOr aud
Cuba is a negro Republic.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

That Chicago heiress who married q poor hotel
lerk at Hot Springs probably viii be happier IN
Ohe long than some Of the girls who went abroad
and selected husbands from noble birth.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12
A SONG IN HAVANA.

SUGGESTION to our ministers:
Issue free passes and see how
quickly their pews will fill. With.
in the hall Of the National theater,
Hsvanna, last Thursday, a great
native band played "The Star
sprangle Banner" and an audience
composed Of thousands OF Cuban
patriots rose to its feet and amid
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

F. NJ CockTell, Jr., son Of ex-senator Cockrell,
ia the inventor Of a sugar cane cutter that promises
to revOlutonize the sugar planting industry Of the
South, and at the same time to make its inventor
millionaire. His machine will do the work Of more
than one hundred men. L CUTS strips and tops the
cane, and is pronounced By experts who have seen
it in operation wonderful machine that will mean
as much to the sugar cane industry as did the cot
ton gin to the cotton business.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

girl in giving evidence in an English police
court admitted that she had called her father -
bald-hoaded Welshman." When asked if there we're
any disadvantages in being a Welchman. she said:
Eyes, they are all deeeiIInIn
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

New York restaurateur has sued customer to
racOver a valuable pearl which the latteE found in
oysters served him "on the she'll the complain
ant claiming that he sold only the oysters to his pat,
ron, and not the shells or anything else. In a sim
liar case il Hamburg, Germany, the court held that
pearl valued at $3.50 found ia plate Of oysters be-
longed to the person who had bought the oysters.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

There are more suicides ir Berlin every year than
10 any other European city, and the figures show
steay increase growing from 434 il 1900 to 620 ia
1904. This is about 80 for every 100000 inhabt
tants. Paris has Is. Vienna %, Rome is and
London 13
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

The news cabled to this country few days ago
that viOets cure cancer is n reality the ediscoveTy
Of an exploded myth. Ia 1902 q similar story went
the rounds Of the press The only active medicinal
agent in the violet is an acIid poison named By its
discoVerer, BOulay, viOine. It acts as a tonic In
small doses, but as purgative and emete in larger
quantities. The violet was used as medicine in
ancient Rome.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

Vienna court has condemned TWO men 70 pay
monthly allowance to the widow Of a man whom
they told "a joke" that his vile was not true to
him. and who committed suicide il consequence.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12

Caused By the presence Of millions Of tiny insects
In The atmosphere, black snow has fallen at Coire
the capital Of the Swiss canton Of Grisons.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12
THE STRONGEST NATIONS.

as to which is the
strongest nation are generally idle,
says the Chicago Inter Ocean, be.
cause in comparing fleets, or armies
or wealth, or population, they do
not go to the root of the matter nor
reach the determining factors.
However, a recent bulletin of the
department OF commerce on the
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12
FEATHERS in MISSOURI.

BE old Roman law used 20 specify
the number of guests a man might
entertain at dinner. Give Missouri
time. 1t will reach that point af-
ter a while. Just at present it has
gone only as far as telling It's WON
en- citizens what feathers they may
wear in their hats.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-12
MATTER WITH OYSTER BAY.

T has been said that under ordinary
conditions an Observant man can
tell what an Englishman, a German
or an American is going to do next,
but that It is very bard to predict
what a Frenchman will do, said the
Birmingham News. Something
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
HORRORS! NEW sun
SWOOPS ON EARTH
In About a. Thousand Million
Years Our Descendants Will
Be Annihilated.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
Chicago, Aug. 18.-A new theory as
to the origin Of the earth and other
bodies Of the solar system is advanced
by professors at the University of Chi
cago. It is called the spiral nebular
hypothesis and makes things look
gloomy for posterity one thousand mil
lion years hence, for then, according to
the professors, a monster sun, thousands
OF times larger than our sun, will sweep
thru the solar system, stirring things
up much like the way railroad train
stirs up the dust along the track.
The professors who have evolved this
theory SO important to the astronomical
world are Forrest R. Moulton of the
department of astronomy and J. G..
Chamberlain, head of the department
of geology. They have been expert
menting in space since 1898, and have
just made public their conclusions.
Another and Greater Sun.
| Instead Of earth and planets having
been formed by rings thrown off by the
sun, as has been the general belief since
1896, they claim the bodies Of the solar
system owe their existence to great
sun, which swept thru these parts some
millions of years ago and created such
a disturbance that our sun threw off
! spiral ClOuU Oh OuSL. ln1S DUST, Wllrl-
ing, around in the heavens, condensed
and formed planets. Jupiter, Saturn
and Neptune, it is declared, were formed
this way, while the smaller planets,
Mars, Mercury, Venus and the earth,
were merely single specks of dust.
This, it is said, accounts for the solidity
of the earth. The professors believe
the earth has been solid and rigid since
a it was the earth. The larger planets
are supposed to be in more nebular
condition
According to the nebular hypothesis
Of Laplace, which has been accepted
since 1876, the solar system extended to
Neptune, the farthest planet. AS con
traction occurred rings were thrown off
by the sun, one for each planet The
planets in turn threw off rings, form
i ing satellites. In the case of the earth,
the moon was thrown off.
1 New Sun an Anarchist.
The new theory declares that the dis
4 turbfng sun kept stirring things up
around our sun for 30,000,00O years,
i when it finally got far enough away 50
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
$4,000 IS MISSING,
AND so IS MESSENGER
New York Sun Special Service,

Chicago, Aug. lS.-With a brown
leather valise containing more than
$4,000 in currency and checks belong
ing to his employers, Gus Bobbs, 20
years old, a messenger at Charles A.
Stevens & Brothers dry goods store, is
believed to be on his way to New York.
He departed when sent to make bank
deposit. Detectives have traced the flu
gitive to the railroad station, and have
ing the police there to detain him.
Playing the races" is said to ex-
plain his downfall.
Bobbs, who was bookkeeper in the
store, was acting in the place Of the
regular messenger, who is away on a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
LAWS0N'S BOSTON HOME
LISTED FOR TAX SALE

New York Sun Special Service.
Boston, Aug. 18.-Because Thomas W.
Lawson has not paid the taxes on his
Back Bay property for the years 1909
and 1908 Tax Collector Mcdonald has
advertised it for sale at public auction
on Sept. IL unless the taxes and accrued
interest and charges are paid on or be.
fore that time. The amount Of the
taxes due is n$5,540. The property,
which is in the name of Mrs. Jeannie
A. Lawson, includes his Back Bay home,
and stables and some vacant land, and
was transferred to Mrs. Lawson by her
husband few years ago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
New Fall Footwear

Mems patent enamel Shoes medium weight oak tanned
solos, shapes and lasts the newest which affords
pair, retailed everywhere at 81 and So. Special,
$3.50. IN
Men bal and blucher shoes Two large tables for to-
morrow. superb assortment of styles, dressy and
Durable giving service beyond comparison with any
Men Russian tan shoes and ofords worth up $500
pair, all styles and szes reduced for this sale to
1926.
Boys Puritan calf Shoes medium thick rock oak bot
toms, leather throughout Special, $1.5O
Mems Canvas Shoes made Of homespun fax uppers
leather soles, heels and counters values to $780,
Special Saturday only ST. 90.