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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08
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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08

Mrs. Campbell, who has served as a
missionary in. Korea for ten or twelve
years, will speak at the Methodist
church at 7:SO p. m, Friday 10th inst.
Mrs. Champbell is a woman Of rare
ability and character, and will interest
all who hear her. I hope the public
will give her a good hearing.
n. G. AUGUSTUS.
Attention should have been called
last week to the new advertisement
OF Mr.. r. H. Lyon in this paper.
Mr.. Lyon has purchased the popular
south eide Drug Store, owned for a
time by j. E. Lyles. He is a clean,
careful, capable and conscientious
gentlemen, an excellent pharmacist,
aud his patrons may well have perfect
confidence in him.
Dolly Denton's Memphis Musical
Maidens played to a big house in this
city on Thursday night last, and every
body was well pleased. Mrs. Denton's
popularity in this city, her home, as a
lady as we'll as an artist on the stage,
assured her troup a good house.
Many of the little ladies did excellent
work on the stage, and their visit to
our city will linger among the pleasant
memories that are cherished.
II went my way homeward a few
evenings ago just for the walk" said q
man who likes nature in all her moods,
Twilight was coming on. The eve
ming lamps of the street fell upon cry
tal-covered trees, rivaling all art.
White glistening sleet covered roofs,
showing patches of red thing, height
ened in color, it seemed. What pleas
ed me most was a strong manly red
checked clean-looking boy who was
going his way throwing papers. From
one side of the street be fred his
shells-a closely rolled copy, and it
vas wonderful the way he could reach
clear across the street under limbs
onto the stoop or porch. At one home
which sets far back from the street he
made a clean throw away from the
sidewalk up to the portieo.
In regard to the story gwen out in
New Orleans the other day, by Gener-
al Agent Leach, of the Mobile and Ohio,
to the effect that a greater part Of the
freight export traffic of the Mobile and
Ohio would be diverted to that port
as the result of newly. acquired ter
minals there. Col. E. Z. Russell, Vice
President of the road, characterized
the statement as preposterous, and
that any arrangement affecting New
Orleans will not take away any busi-
ness from Mobile. The new business
is expected to be taken away from the
Atlantic ports not from q port which
we have already done much to build
up, said Col. Russell. To show that
nothing of the sort is contemplated
we are going to build another dock
and double-story warehouse in Mobile
and the engineers have been here to
lay out the work.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08
IN MEMoRlAM.

Chickasaw County has lost, by
death, within the last few days, three
of her noble Christian citizenship,
W. NJ. Carter, of Carter Station,
James H. Johnson, of Thelma, and J..
B. Cole, of CCleville, each leaving a
family and a host Of relatives and
friends TO mourn their departure.
They we're ministered unto by loving
ones and kind physician, but the ten
der loving Physician of souls claimed
them and called them to come up high.
They will be sadly missed, not only
from their home circle, but from their
christian walks ~ life. We have
known these Christian characters, to
love them. It is indeed sad to home
relatives, friends and country to loose
such noble Christian characters but the
blessed Lord works in a mysterious
way His wonders to perform.
"Blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord; for they rest from their labors
and their works of love follow after
them" ]. L. L.
t'The number of absurd theories with
which people burden their minds is re-
markable," said the man who liked to
be shown. "This morning I had the
pleasure Of seeing another Of the time
worn illusions d%isproved. Almost
every one had heard the statement
that a blown egg suspended by a silk.
en- thread cannot be broken by a pistol
bah. Those who imagine things have
gone so far as to. give the reasons for
this alleged phenomenon, by saying
the force of the bullet cause an air
current which thrusts aside the slight
obstacle. ''Some one mentioned this
old idea in a crowd of men this morn
ing, and a wager followed. Two eggs
we're blown, hung by threads to the
satisfaction of all parties, and the man
who didn't believe old time theories
smashed both shells in succession with
two shots from a pistol. All theories
about the egg being blown aside by the
force Of the bullet were absolutely dis
proven. The London society for
scientific research not long ago argued
az some length to discover reasons why
a dead fish weighed less than a live
one, it having been remarked that a
dead fish would float on top of the
water. After learned conclusions had
been drawn and the matter scientif-
cally settled, a young member of the
body proposed that the experiment be
actually performed. When this was
done the two fish were found to weigh
exactly the same. Theory is a good
thing, but it will not stand for a mo-
ment against actual experience.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08
pc rum Cures and prevents catarrh.

peFuha cures ana prevents Catarrhs
Any one who wishes perfect health
must be entirely free from catarrh.
Catarrh is well nigh universal; almost
omnipresent. Peruna is the only abso-
Lutte safeguard known. A cold is the
beginning Of catarrh. To prevent colds
to cure colds, is to cheat catarrh out Of
it's victims. Peruna not only cures
catarrh, but prevents it. Every house
hold should be supplied with this great
remedy for coughs, colds, and so
forth.
II you do not derive prompt and
satisfactory results from the use Of
Peruna, write at once to DR.. Hartman,
giving q full installment Of your case
and he viii be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman s~anitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08
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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08
First issued in the Messenger, Eel. 9Th, 19o5l
Notice Of First Meeting Of Creditors.

In the District Court OF the United States for
the Northern District of Mississippi, In the
Eastern Division, in Bankruptcy.
In the Matter Of
HENRY b. RAY, I'm Bankruptcy
A Voluntary Bankrupt.
Z NO the Creditors of Henry D. Ray, Of Lester,
II In the county Of Chiek asaw, and District
aforesaid, q Bankrupt:
Notice is hereby given that on the 9th day Of
February, <. b. 19O5rthe said Henry D. Ray
was duly adiudged to be q Bankrupt and the
first meeting of his creditors win be held at
OkOlona. In said county, on
the ooh Day of February,A.D 1905,
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at which time
the said creditors may attend, prove their
claims, appoint q trustee to examine the Bank
rupt, and transact such other business as NAV
properly come before the meeting
Thisrthe 9th day OF February, A.. ID 1905.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Referee In Bankruptcy,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08
The quarterly report Of the Illinois

The quarterly report of the Illinois
Central Railroad Company for the
quarter ending Dec. 81, fled with the
Mississippi Railroad Commission this
morning. shows total receipts from all
sources for the three months period to
be SO, 2S4, 5000 The operating ex-
penses were $3.50, 9O7. 80, and the net
revenue, after deducting all payments,
Was s 1,006, 1884. For the correspon-
ding quarter last year the net revenue
wa $s96, 1921, an increase Of S1O9, 4O5
%. The construction and equipment
expenditure for the quarter decreased
$3.50, 939.6 {. In every respect the con
pany shows an increase OF business, as
compared with the previous quarter,
the only decrease shown on the re-
port being the payment Of taxes,
which were So less than for the pre-.
vious quarter. The report OF the va
zoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad
for the same quarter shows total re-
ceipts from all sources to be s2,SS8,-
325 A, and operating expense we're
1 ,611, 1914, and the net revenue af-
ter ~deducting all expenses was $780,
300 % an increase Of $317, 245.2s over
the net revenue for the corresponding
quarter last year. The reports of the
two system shows that eleven persons
were killed and fourteen injured by
trains during the period of three
months.
The legislatures in more than half
the states in the Union are now IN ses
sion, each grinding ont a new grist
of laws Laws, more laws, and what
do they amount to. Every year we
are taxed in this intelligent country
millions to pay a lot Of fellows to get
together aud make us more laws.
Aud Of what use are they to the
Try? Not one in 8 thousand amounts to
as much as the paper upon which they
are written. Here and there some
laws which probably never should have
been enacted, is rigidly enforced for q
time, but the great bulk lie dead upon
the statute books. Brought down to
the real meat in the cocoanut. except
to operate as lever in the hands Of the
favored few that the less favored may
be legally oppressed or punished at the
whims Of some vicious would be dicta
Tor, few Of our millions Of laws r
operative. The strong 60 around
them and smile with contempt upon
them. What we need Is more common
sense, more common humanity, more
brotherhood spirit, and less laws. II
every legislature in the country should
be abolished for ten years, they would
be little missed, except 70 the schem-
ing CRATER.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08

Beauty Is not always skin deep. It
81 often painted on the outside.
II Il the hshiness Of stories that
keeps them ahoat,
An old. maids convention will be
held Ia Jasper county, No., this week.
An old maids convention is something
81 cd maid never attends.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08

A Havana policeman, disguised with
the performance. hombarded the actors
with 3 pistol. This is proof that the
Cnbans are ready for aeli'government.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08

Next week will be a gala one ct
Parchman Brothers big hardware store
in this city no matter what the wealth
er is or what the price of cotton. The
Majestic Range people will have on
exhibition al week one Of their fine
stoves upon which cooking viii be
done and everybody is invited TO drop
In and have coffee and lunch free.
The ladies are especially invited, as
they are most interested in q good
cook stove.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08

Note-If you want only The Twice-a.
Week Republic the price is csc a year.
The price ofFarm Progress alone is 10c
year.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08

Wanted-Lady or gentleman Of fair
education to travel for a firm Of $3.50,
10000 capital. Salary s1,O72 per year
and expenses; paid weekly. Address
with stamp, Jos. A. Alexander,
Okolona, Miss.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08

I have a good Violin in good order,
viii sell same cheap. Enquire.
ALFRED JOHNSON.
AT G. F. Richards Jewellery store.
A weather. beaten tombstone in an
old Virginia cemetary bears this in
scription:
Await My Husband.
May go, 1910.
HereI Am.
Dee n, 1861.
A wag passin y added: Late, as
usual"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08

For Sale-Full blood Single Comb
Brown Leghorn Eggs, s1.OO per setting
Of is eggs. j. s.. WILKES,
Martin, Tenn,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08
sTRAYEp.

Three hogs, n black SOW, weight
about $50 o. 800, and two male shoats,
weight 100 each. Reward for any in
formation. R. NEUBERT.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08

The whipping post will not hurt any
self-respect. No man with any
s~elf-respect viii get near it.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08

Confidence in yourself Is half the
battle Of llie-and fooling people is the
other half.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08
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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-08

soothes while it stimulates, heals as it
expurgates. Peruna is not a purgative,
or cathartic, or sedative, or stimulant,
nor a vegetable or mineral poison. It
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-20

a cash surrender value in policies and
the limitation of the loan feature.
Tatlock expressed somewhat of
different sentiment from other life in
surance officers in that his experience
had been that only about per cent Of
loans were ever paid up and that loan
was but a deferred surrender Of pol
icy. He viewed life insurance as such
and not as an investment.
According to the witness 100000 in
advances to agents had been placed
upon the books of the company thus
far this year.
These. he explained, were a legacy
from the former management. No
contributions for political purposes had
ever been made by the Washington
Life as far as the witness had been
able to learn and the only thing in
the nature of legislative work was
retainer to w. s. Walker who, the wit
ness thought, was Chicago newspa-
Derman.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-20
EVERY SOLDIER KILLED
Mob Wipes Out Whole Force il
Tukun1

TUKUM, Courland, Russia, Sunday,
Dec. II, via Stettin, Prussia, Dec. 10
A special staff correspondent of the
Associated Press learns that mobs of
Lithuanians and Esthonians yesterday
attacked a hundred CossackS and dra-
goons, the only military force stationed
in Tukum.
The mobs, after wild fighting, killed
the soldiers to the last man, cut off
their arms and legs and ripped their
bodies. The streets were strewn with
bodies and dismembered parts.
Six hundred troops arrived here this
morning with three guns, shelled the
places and charged the mob of peas
ants. who surrendered or were dis.
persed. Order has now been re-estab-
lished and the soldiers are burying the
bodies of the slain and caring for the
wounded.
In all $40 soldiers and peasants were
killed and many wounded. Most of the
population have fled to Riga, which
now is the safest town in this part of
Russia.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-20
pIsposEs OF CANAL BILL
Senate Accepts Report Of Conference
Committee on Measure
Bv Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-The SEN
ate today accepted the report of the
conference committee on the Panama
canal emergency appropria ton bill
and thus, so far as it is concerned,
finally disposed of that matter. The
acceptance of the report was preceded
by brief discussion Of the restora-
tion of the bond provision to the ap-
preparation bill and of the action of
the house in resenting the senates ac-
tion in separating those two questions.
Speeches were made by MeSSrS. AL
drich, Spooner and Teller. all express
ing the opinion that the senate had not
contravened the constitutional provi-
sion requiring that all revenue legis-
lation shall originate in the house of
representatives. The house message
was referred to the committee on
finance with instructions to report
upon the senate prerogatives on the
question involved. Several minor bills
were passed during the day.
Conferes on the part of the house
and senate on behalf of the canal
emergency appropriation bill agreed to
restore to the bill the provision relat-
ing to the issuance of bonds for canal
construction.
The senate struck out the house pro-
vision concerning the bonds and passed
as a separate measure bill agreed
upon by the senate finance committee.
This measure was Incorporated in the
canal bill as section /, taking the place
of the bond provision adopted by the
house.
This has the effect of placing the
canal bonds, amounting to s130, 900, 900,
on a par with the existing 2 per cent
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-20
NOT ENOUGH TROOPS
Russia Unable to Send Sufficient
Force to Baltic Provinces

ST. PETERSBURG Dec. 19.-De-
spite the statement that two army
corps are being sent to the Baltic prov
inces, it is learned that no such num-
ber of troops is available. The gov
ernment has sent two regiments from
st. Petersburg in reply to the frantic
appeals for reinforcements, but 1T is
considered too dangerous to deplete the
GARRISON of the capital any further
during the present crisis, and the gov
ernment can only await the arrival Of
the Cossacks and other troops which
are being hurried forward by Gen.
Linevitch from Manchuria. In the
meantime the governments fear is that
the rebellion, which is extending south
ward to the Polish frontier, may arouse
the Poles to an armed uprising.
Reliable details regarding the estab-
lishment of the so-called republic of
Kharkoff have at last arrived. The
workmen's socialistic organizations,
joined by 300 troops, took possession of
the city, and with the aid of the mill
tary, armed with pistols and axes, es-
tablished a government or federated
council" as the executive committee
was called. This council issued de-
crees which the authorities were per-
fectly powerless to resist The council
turned off the electricity from the
houses on the ground that it only bene-
fitted the rich, while allowing it to burn
in the streets, where 1t benefited the
people, and declared war on the thieves
who have previously been terrorizing
the city.
When a robber was captured he was
placed under trip-hammer with the
threat that it would be dropped unless
he revealed the whereabouts of the
booty. This usually was effective in
each case, and the recovered plumber
was returned to it's owners. Two no.
torious robbers were hanged in the
public square.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-20
INSURANCE. THE
LEADING TOPIC
MAIN FEATURE OF DEBATE IN
THE HOUSE
Managers Of Companies, Federal Cow
ernment and State Authorities
All Receive a Share OF
Criticism
BY Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-The house
today continued debating under the
guise Of referring the message of the
president to committees. topics of i'm
terest local or national. The subject
of the federal control of insurance was
the main feature and nearly all the
speakers began their remarks with
reference to 1t. The managers OF the
big insurance companies came in for
criticism, the government was criti-
cised for its lack of control In mat
ters where IT has jurisdiction and the
states were reprimanded for lax meth
ods Of control.
The day was passed without legis-
lation and ended with an amusing de-
bate on the question of appointing q
tanitor at $50 a month TO the reception
room on the minority side of the
chamber The minority refused the
offer of the majority In this matter.
and with their aid the janitor was
rejected
The house today refused to consider
O resolution to ask the secretary OF
the interior the results of experiments
in ascertaining the mineral value OF
black sand.
Reviewing the various propositions
which have been advanced for insur-
ance control, Mr. Bonynge of Colo
RADIO drew the conclusion that no plan
presented showed a clear way. There
was ample opportunity to enact law
providing what shall constitute crimes
in federal elections and IN provide pen
alties against their violation. Such
laws were, he said, demanded by pres
ent conditions.
Mr. Macon of Arkansas was inter-
rupted in a speech on insurance in
order that the report on the canal
might be heard. Mr.. Williams, the
minority leader objected to action on
the report until tomorrow as he did
not wish the precedents in such mat
ters to be broken. This objection car
ried the report over a day.
At Ass the house adjourned until
tomorrow.