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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09

The awful fire OF 1871 which swept
over Chicago Destroyed $4,000 build
iugs, caused 200 DEATHS, made home
less 70 900 p DIe sn' destroyed prop
erty TO tn vain" IT $2N0,00O,000. Yet
Chicago has been rebuilt, and its die.
as-er forgotten.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09

Tommy-Papa, what 10 consulting
physician? Paaa-He is a d CTR no
is called In at the last momruL to
share the blame.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09

bat not sisterhood. She contributed
$1,000 TO California
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09

Sometimes the things we do the
best are the things that are not worth
doing at all.
The biggest fool thing land we all
do it's shaking hands with trouble
before you meet it.
Love after several sights is worth
three times as much as love at first
sight any time.
A wife's yearning capacity should
never be larger than her husbands
earning capacity.
It Is the woman with a new hat who
never complains because the sermon
Is long drawn out.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09

While ye're argutyiu' with q fool
jest figger out thar's two OMEN.
Adversely is apt to bring man oul
especially at the knees and elbows.
Everybody would have more money
If it really wasn't any use to them.
A miser was created to prove how
little real comfort can be got out Of
money.
II is hard to climb to the top OF the
ladder, but 1t is easy enough to slide
down again.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09
COLLIER
Pure White Lead
tMade BY the Old Dutch PrOcessl

Send for booklet containing several hand.
some reproductions Of actual houses. offering
valuable suggestions for a color scheme in
painting your house. A test for paint purity
is also given.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09

The announcement that Americans
won the swimming honore ct Athens
suggests again that Americans are
usually in the swim.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09

Don't tie a cough or cold up in your
syetem by taking q remedy that binds
the bowels. Take Kennedy's Laxative
Honey and Tar. It is different from
all other cough syrups. 1t 10 better.
It opens the bowsls-expels all cold
from the system, relieves coughs, colds
Group. whooping cough, etc. An ideal
remedy for young and old. Children
like it. Sold by st. Clair Wylie Drug
90. Tupelo, Miss, and all dealers.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09

Japan is planning to spread ont
We hope she has accurately taken hel
own measure.
A guaranteed Investment Is not al.
ways made by man who takes q
matrimonial risk.
A visible typewriter with attractive
outlines is often the cause Of bust
ness mans downfall.
The wheels of Progress will do some
wonderful revolving In Frisco during
the next few months
The Frisco relief committee Is maxi
ing good use of the telegraphic lines
in obtaining ready cash.
An automatic raz II 10 said to be the
greatest barber in the world. Yes,
provid it can not talk.
A magazine of cheerfulness is said
to be wanted by readers who have
been buying the existing kind.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09

Living indoors so much during the
winter months creates sort OF . stuff.
~, want-of ozone condition In the
blood and system generally. Clean up
and get ready for spriug. Take few
Early Risers. These famous little pills
cleanse the liver. stomach and bowels
and give the blood q chance to purify
itself. They relieve headache, sallOw
complexion, etc. Sold by st. Clair
Wylie Drug Co., Tupelo, Miss., and all
dealers.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09

NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY
Clark Ave. and 10th ST.. ST. Louia. Nc.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09

The red blood of ones heart throbs
for justice, but the Judiciary Of this
country is busy with other matters.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09

II is reported that Reed Smoot has
given his salary for the year to the
San Francisco Sufferers. Being q
much-married man he knows what It
means to suffer, and his sympathy de-
partment is stimulated accordingly.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09
A politician in landing 4 lob d ve,

A politician in landing Job Is very
much like woman who is landing q
husband. he puts In all his work be-
fore he gets the job and forgets to
keep up appearances after he has got
it.
"The man with cough" has been
released from prison and is prenaring
to teach wealthy gentlemen how to
cough up. In other words, the man
with tho cough is after the man with
the dough.
10 PROBABLE that. the world Will
manage to hold ont for many CEN
turtles, but there is . dead moral cor.
tainty that the people OF this day will
not. Don't worry about the world,
but do concern your+elf about Your
personal welfare and happiness.
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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09

The American school boy cart gel
up much patriotism nowadays by
reading the lives of Washington
statesmen.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09

Never mind the ruins OF Pompeil,
take trip to Frisco, see what havoc
has been wrought, aud spend your
money in the United States,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-09

Every man and woman should re-
solve himself or herself into com.
mittee of one with instructions to
patrOnize home meEchante.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-28
CITY NOTICES.
NOTICE TO IMPROVE.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMON
Council Of the City Of Astoria: That
said Council hereby declares its deter
mination and intention to improve Ex-
change street from the west line of
9th street to a point eight feet west
of the east line OF Sth street. Said i'm
pWvement shall be made by grading
said street to the established grade to
the full width thereof, constructing ce-
ment side walks on both sides thereof
with cornera on sth street and with all
necessary drainage. The side walk shall
be six feet wide with a two foot park
space between the curb and the edge Of
the side walk, and from curb to curb
the street shall be graded nine inches
below the sub grade with sufficient
crown in the center and filled in and
macadamized with crushed rock 10 the
depth Of nine inches when thoroughly
rolled and cutters shall be constructed
on both sides of the street.
In matters OF detail said improve
ment shall be constructed according to
the plans and specifications therefor to
be prepared by the City Surveyor as
hereinafter provided and general ordin-
ance No. 1901 and any matter Of con
stmction and drainage found necessary
to make the improvement safe or or
substantial shall be done by the con-
tractor whether specified or not, with
out extra charge.
That the costs and expenses of said
improvement shall be betrayed by spe-
cial assessment upon the lots, lands and
premises benefited by the same which
said lots, lands and premises are in
cluded in the special assessment district
including all lots, lands and premises so
benefited, to-wit Lots |, 2, 5, and 4
in block AZ, and lots 5, 6, 7 and s in
block AZ, in that part Of the City Of
Astoria laid out and recorded by John
Mcclure, and extended by Cyrus o.
ney in Clatsop County, Oregon.
OL0F ANDERSON,
Auditor and Police Judge of the City
of Astoria
S-2s.l0t
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-28
ORIENTAL FRUIT BATS
They Descend Upon Orchards with
Devastating Fury.

DCbuStA1luk r. uEg.
The big oriental fruit bats, or flying
foxes, so familiar In India. Ceylon and
the Malayan region. feed on all sorts
Of soft fruits excert acid ones, such as
oranges; are especially fond of figs
and guayas and are destructive pest
to orchards and gardens. In some
parts OF Java. for example. no delicate
fruit car be raised except Wy protect
ing the trees with nets and fighting
of the nightly sorIys of bands OF
kalongS.
They live and travel in vast compa-
nies, roosting by day on chosen trees.
where they hang by one hind leg, each
protected from the suns glare and
from rain in the closely wrapped man
tie of It's wings. and large branches fire.
Quently break uader the weight. at
sunset they fly away to their feeding
grounds, scattering over wide area
Where fig tree or banana thicket
attracts crowd the toughest fighting
begins over coveted plumber, each one
screaming, clawing, biting and strug-
Cling to seize something and get away
to a secure retreat to enjoy it. There
he hangs By one foot, and, grasping the
fruit he has secured In the claws and
oppoSable thumb of the other, he hasti-
" reduces it to Jumps, with which he
stuffs his cheek pouches until they be-
come distended like those OF a monkey.
Later he chews and swallows this food
at leisure,
At dawn all return to their roosts
and, says Tickell, hook themselves
along the branches, scrambling about
hand over hand with some speed, bit
ing each other severely. striking out
with the loag claws Of the thumb,
shrleking a>d cac&llng without inter-
mission"
No do sa squabbles are rem
dered cat BY the disgrace
fully q. habits In which the
bats iadra : l.,.ring their nocturnal
expeditions, tor, according to Fran
els Day aal other observers, they
often pass tie night drinking the tod
dy from the chatties In the cocoanut
trees, which results either in their re-
turning home in the early morning in
a state Of extreme and riotous intox-
lcation or in being found the next day
at the foot of the trees, sleeping off
the effects Of their midnight debauch."
Ernest Ingersoil's life Of Mann
mails"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-28
A Bridge THAT Surprises.

That old expression about the side
walk coming up and hitting man in
the face takes on an actual expression
the first time one sees the bascule
bridge over the Gowanus canal in OPP
GRAFTON, On approaching the bridge at
a moment when some barge or schoon-
er Is about to pass through it one sees
the gates swing to. ana then suddenly
the roadway rises Up and stares the
wayfarers in the face, tracks and all.
remaining there until the vessel has
passed through. when the whole thor
oughfare drops back into place again.
The operation of raising the wings Of
the bridge is performed so quickly
that the surprise Is all the more sud
den.- New York Press.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-28
A Kings Rcbuke.

The queen of Wurttemberg was one
day walking in the streets of Stuttgart
attended by maid of honor. when she
met body Of students who refused to
make room for the ladies, and thus
compelled them to walk in the gutter.
The queen reported the matter to the
king, and the next day the captain OF
the corps Suevla was summoned to the
palace. A servant led him into room
where there were no chairs, and there
the unfortunate student had to wait
full hour. AT last the king appeared
and finally the young man was dis
missed by him thus: Il cannot demand
that every student should know my
wife, but | do demand that the Corps
Suevia give place In the streets to
ladies'"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-28

Morning Astorian, 90 cents per month
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-28
CITY NOTICES.

a point ten feet east of the west line
of 9th street to point 100 feet west
of the west line of 9th street. SAID
repairs shall be made by taking up the
old drain and placing in new tiling
where the same are broken and eplac-
ing the rock and refilling the excavation
after the drain is repaired.
In matters of detail said improve
ment shall be constructed according to
the plans and specifications therefor to
be prepared by the City Surveyor and
any matter of construction and drain
age found necessary to make the i'm
proyement safe or substantial shall be
done by the constructor whether speci-
fed or not, without extra charge.
That the costs and expenses of con-
structing said Improvement shall be de-
frayed by special assessment upon the
lots, lands and premises benefited by
the same which said lots, lands and
premises are included in the special as
sessment district including all lots,
lands and premises SO benefited, to-
wit; All of blocks 72, rs, IS and 80
in that part Of the City of Astoria Land
out and recorded by John Mcclure and
extended by Cyrus olney.
OLOF ANDERSON,
Auditor and Police Judge Of the City
of Astoria.
s,2s-l0t
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-28

During the Tessfn Il EGcSard the Con-
fessor Of England the practice Of EN-
ploying surnames began.
Lord Avebury. otherwise Sir John
Lubbock. was the first person in Eng
land to have his photograph taken.
The first ship was brought from
Egypt to Greece by Danaus in 1855
B. G. The first double decked ship
was built by Tyrians, 1856 B. G.
The first woolen cloth made in Eng
land was manufactured about 1890.
though it was not dyed and dressed by
the English until 1867.
The first record Of coal Is about 800
years before the Christian era. Coal
was used as fuel in Europe as early
as So.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-28
His LittIe Jolxe.

"Yes," admitted the drummer. there
are great many skins In my busi-
ness"
"What is your iine% asked the port.
ly passenger
Leather" answered the drummer as
he lighted fresh paper coffin nail
Chicago News.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-28
SPECIAL ROUND TRIP.

Excursion rate for Labor Day cele-
bration, at Portland, Ore, September
8. The A. 4 9. R. R. will sell special
round trip excursion tickets from As
toria to Portland and return on Septem-
Der End and Srd, at rate Of $2,7O, tickets
good to return up to and including
September Ath. S-25-6t.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-28
NOTICE TO IMPROVE.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
the Common Council Of the City Of
Astoria; That said Council hereby de-
clared its determination and intention
to repair the drain in McClure's Astoria
known as McClure's Drain No. |, from
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-28
BEAurY RULES OF THE BEAUTIES.

Breakfast early. little walk, a little
talk, luncheon, an hours rest, and at
niUht HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
Teo or Tablets, 35 cents. Frank Hart.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-28
SOME FIRST OCCASIONS.

The first lucifer match was struck
In 1884.
The first steamer built in England
appeared In 1915, 8
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-28

I nav no taxes-I pay no rent,
Often busted--without cent;
put a king among men--from disease
I'm free,
since taking Rocky Mountain Tea
Frank Hart.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-28

There are $4,000 people in the United
States who are blind and $1,000 Of these
are women.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-28
NOTICE TO MILK CONSUMERS.

The undersigned milk men of Astoria,
hereby notify our customers and the
general public, that beginning septem-
Der |, 1906, the price of milk will be
restored to its former rate, as follows:
Single quart ..................$ .$O.07
| pit. daily per month. th.............. l.25
! at. daily per month. th.....,"... 200
2 at. daily per month. h........,..... S.75
gal. daily per month. ,.....o,,. 0.75
All intermediate measurement at per-
portionate rates.
Acme Dairy Co., successors Sloop-
letters Co. & K. F. johnson Co.
Henningson 3 Son.
j. Bumgartner
Z. Young.
A. Hess & Co,
Dean h Foote.
]. w. Reith.
Numberg \ Bartoldus,
j. Erickson s-26-5t.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-04
NATURALIZATION.

In the numerous qualifications into
which prolific insurance investigations
have been turned there seems to be Il
disposition to overlook the basic evil
that was first exposed as the chief cause
of mismanagement-the centering of all
the power of so-called mutual organiza-
tons In the hands of small self-per-
petuating coterie of paid officers. The
theory of mutual organization is that
members are all proportionately repre-
sented in the control and direction of
their own affairs, although it has been
proved that in practice the policyholder
has seldom had anything more to say
about how his funds should be invested
or spent than an entire outsider
The demand for naturalization, how
ever, is hardly to be suppressed by
dvertlng attention into other channels.
On this side a bill drawn by Wlsconsin's
insurance commissioner, Zeno NJ. Host,
ito prohibit by law the use of proxies
and permit policyholders to vote either
sideratlon, 1t goes on to provide that
at the annual election of directors and
trustees of every mutual life insurance
company every pollcyholder with paid
up premiums shall be entitled TO vote
in person or by mail, but that no proxy
voting whatever be permitted. To facili-
tate the participation of policyholders
/ it requires the directors to appoint a
nominating committee of six, three OF
whom shall be pollcyholders not men,
hers Of he board who shall recommend
suitable persons for election, while other
candidates may be recommended as well
on petition of twenty-five or more mem
bcrs. The names are then all to be
placed upon an official ballot in form
similar TO our Australian ballot and
! sent by mail, one to each pollcyholder.
not later than thirty days prior to the
/ date Of election. These ballots. when
returned after being marked. go at once
into a ballot box i'm the custody of the
canvassing committee, which on the
/ designated date is TO open the box and
record the votes, declaring the results
In accordance with the figures and sub,
hitting disputes or contests to arbitra,
| ton.
Such scheme Of election would make
! an insurance association thoroughly
| democratic and provide for true mutual
ization. With the possibility Of the
policyholders taking control into their
] own hands any time by turning out an
old board and commissioning new
one the managing officers would be
very careful TO guard against waste
and extravaganza and be constantly
| spurred on to keep expenses down and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-04
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Atchison Globe: 1t is funny how man
will get up in church and confess that he
is the chief of sinners and deny it at home
If anyone accuses him OF simply being an
outside guard at the sinners club.
Boston Transcript: One hardly knows
whether to admire the ingenuity or grieve
over the lack of humor in the Indiana
clergyman who has gravely invented "a
Bible yell" for the use of his Sabbath
school.
Washington Post Rev. Cassius NJ. Rob-
erts of Philadelphia says young man
should pattern his life after any other
man. When you think Of a number of
models that have been shattered recently,
the parsons advice seems good.
Springfield Republican: Some of the vic
tins hereabout of Rev. Prescott Ford
Jernegan, who will long be remembered
for the sea water swindle, may desire to
hear the latest news regarding him. His
wife has filed suit for divorce in st. Louis,
and thee is likely to be no opposition to
her getting 1t. The last time we recorded
the whereabouts OF Rev. Mr.. Jernegan he
was teaching school in the Philippines He
left that job for awhile and worked in
sawmill in the state of Washington, but
has now gone back to the more easy and
congenial task Of telling the young Fill
pinos what's what
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-04
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

King Alfonso might we'll pull down
the blinds. We have some affairs Of our
own.
Mr. Rockefeller made a good investment
when ne bought wig. The attorney gem
eral of Missouri is unable to recognize him.
The gas companies of Chicago aver that
they cannot supply gas for IS cents and
compete successfully with the city council.
Grover Cleveland speaks of doctors as
'veiled prophets" Now let the doctors
shed their whiskers and discredit the sage
of Princeton.
Press agents of rival resorts have the
greatest job of a lifetime in picturing a
grade of winter weather as charming as
the real thing in Omaha and vicinity.
There is one railroad in Pennsylvania
which rarely furnishes a line for the
mortuary clerk of the Interstate Commerce
commission. Only one train year runs
over il.
Philadelphia seems to have relapsed into
it's former somnolent condition. Burglars
blasted a burglar proof safe in building
without awakening anyone of the nine
sleeping occupants.
A leading citizen" OF an Alabama town,
convicted of wife beating, was promptly
hitched to the chain gang and set to work
on the public streets once in while the
punishment really fits the crime.
Truly the policemans lot is not a happy
one-in st. Louis. First all the rake-offs
were raked off, then the lid was screwed
on, now they are forbidden the privilege
of swearing-outside the court house Life
is hardly worth living on the west side Of
the river.
Alderman Coughlan, poet and sartorial
statesman Of Chicago. commonly known
as "Bathhouse John" is wooing the muse
as a gentle relief from the exacting cares
of the city. Although deeply involved In
the struggle for Immediate municipal own
ership" Of everything in sight, his mind
rebels against sordd affairs and irresistibly
attunes itself to love and romance. Here
is verse of his latest flight of fancy;
Oh! for q voice like n nightingale to charm
this Spanish maid;
ia sing the songs of old CASTLE, the songs
that never fade,
But, alas and alackl / cannot sing; I'm
troubled with catarrh,
And all | can do is to sit and dream and
thrum the light guitar.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-04
A HOME PRODUCTS EXPOSITION

The Bee ventures the suggestion that
Omaha manufacturers could not make n
better stroke of business than to get to-
gether with, the Auditorium managers
for home products exposition that
would Illustrate the varied scope of
manufacturing industry in this city. 1t
has been years since we have had an
exhibition partaking of this nature in
Omaha. People who have been living
here continuously have not the slightest
idea how many different articles of mer-
chandse are turned out by our factories
and newcomers to the city are in still
greater Ignorance.
The impression prevails that Omaha
is not suitable to manufacturing in
dustries and that it's natural sphere of
growth is in other directions, when, as
matter of fact. nothing could be much
farther from the truth. Omaha is al
ready manufacturing city of no mean
proportions and is destined steadily to
enlarge it's activities as manufacturing
center The number and variety Of
manufactured articles produced by and
in connection with the great meat-pack-
ing plants at South Omaha would make
a small exposition in themselves. The
creamery industry centering in Omaha
is the nucleus of great manufacturing
enterprise and the smelling works and
its offspring, the white lead works. are
supplying markets far and wide. A
host of smaller manufacturing plants
have been located in Omaha during the
past few years and those already here
have branched out into many new fields
of which the public is almost wholly
unaware.
A home products exposition to serve
its purpose best would, of course, de-
pend largely upon its completeness as a
display Of all of Omaha's manufacturing
lines 1t would thus give our own peo-
pie an opportunity to talk up Omaha
as a manufacturing center, with full
knowledge of what they are talking
about 1t would also be a stimulus to
the preaching and practicing of the
"Patronize- Home-Industry doctrine and
if the gate receipts paid no more than
would return large profits in spreading
the name and fame of Omaha's growing
manufactures