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The Starkville news., 1906-11-30

hold the pen firmly in the fingers, dip
same into the ink, and see that said
graphic automatism. After writing
said letter, said graphic automatism
will write ad libitum for plaintiff; ;
plaintiff must see to 1t that the pen
Is not allowed to wander OFF the line"
This Napoleonic trance Is vouched
for by a physician. Mr.. Chanler thus
describes it.:
I'm communicating with my X-fac'
ulty' by means of vocal automatism,
which is also one of my trance-llke
states, l was informed by my X-fac
ulty' that it would like me to go into
Napoleonic trance. 1t gave me to
understand that would represent the
death of Napoleon BOnaparte by SO
doing, and that my features, when my
eyes were closed, and face, would re
semble strongly those of the dead Ma
poleon BOnaparte. This was in Feb,
ruary, 1897, upon Or shortly after my
arrival at the Hotel K, New York
city
my 'X-faculty' did not tell me what
to do in order to produce the so-cailed
Napoleonic trance; it merely informed
me that when the time came it would
instruct me what to do to produce
the said trance. The distinguished
sculptor, Mr. S. G., called at the Hotel
K, shortly after my arrival. while
was in bed and in the evening my x
faculty gave me to understand, with
out Mr.. S. G. knowing it, that it would
be the proper time for me to enter the
Napoleonic trance; l was interested
myself from a scientific point OF view
to know just what l would do in
trance.
Entrance Into Trance.
Mr.. S. G. expressed keen interest in
seeing me in a trance. | then took,
under the direction of my 'X-faculty'
small hand mirror, which | used for
shaving, in both my hands, and hold
ing it rigidly above my head stared at
my eyes for several moments without
any result. | did not know but what
tie experiment was about to prove
anortive and ridiculous; it was one
of the most daring experiments | ever
entered, for that reason. After min
ute or two of complete passivity and
rigidity, for the first time in my life
experienced the entrance to
trance"
and of Bloomingdale thus:
Bloomingdale, is T. Eay as well be
admitted first as last, is run purely
for money, purely on business princi-
pies, and not on charitable ones. A
candidate for certificate of lunacy
is requested by his masters therein
the said examining doctors-to stand
up and then deliberately to throw him.
self off his balance by putting his feet
so close together, toes and heels
touching, that ones equilibrium Is
menaced He is then commanded to
extend his arms to their fullest eX-
tent. hands outstretched palms up
ward and close together. He is then
ordered to open his mouth, put out his
tongue and shut his eyes.
IF ne does not fall down on the
spot he is lucky. 1t is while in the
above described preposterous position
that the physical observation of the
examiners is taken"
Thus John Armstrong Chanler pre-
The Starkville news., 1906-11-30
Married to AmeIie Rives.

John Armstrong Chanler first came
into the public eye when he married
Amelie Rives, who wrote that bril-
liant erotic THE Quick Or the Dead"
in which is told the old love of a
beautiful widow for her dead husband
and her newer love for another man in
the flesh. Jock Dering, the hero, was
hanler.
Miss Rives was denounced ty some
persons as a rather imprudent writer,
but that didn't keep her book, which
appeared in 1886, from having a tre-
mendous sale. Her marriage to young
Mr.. Chanler only added to it's popular
ity. She was beautiful, erratic, inn
petuous. Soon their friends came to
realize that there was nothing in
common between the grave. polished,
rather mystic New Yorker and the will
full, gifted Virginia girl
There was divorce, which the hus-
band did not contest. upon the grounds
of incompatability and the Mrs. Chan
ler that was married Prince Troubet-
skoi, whom she had met abroad.
The more l know men the more l
admire dogs" is the way Mr.. Chanler
The Starkville news., 1906-11-30

Peruna is a
combination o f
Well-tried harm
| c S S remedies
that have stood
the test of time.
Many of these
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-28

"Why, young man, /" said the stern
parent, "you certainly don't think I
would be foolish enough to lot PEN
niless youth like you marry my
daughter, do your" "Well, it's up to
you,' rejoined the poor but nervy
youngster. "It's cinch that no rich
young man would marry q girl as
homely as she ISL
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-28
FISH IN OYSTER SHELL.
Singular Deep-Sea Animal That Had
Routed the Regular
Tenant

An oyster opener at a local bar,
made discovery much out of the or
binary while prying open bivalves for
customers seated at counter in
front OF him, reports Houston spe-
cial to the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
1t is not altogether uncommon to To-
cate valuable pearl in an oyster shell.
but the find he made was most remark
able
In well-rounded oyster shell, with
nothing in outward appearance to in
dictate phenomenal interior, a live fish
was found. There was no oyster and
the fish exactly fitted the space the
oyster had evidently once occupied.
AS the oysters had been on ice, the fish
was cold and seemingly lifeless, but
after being examined for few mo-
ments it tluttered its TAIL Water was
procured and after a short time 1t be-
came lively enough and is still alive.
It is striking In appearance, and a
number of old fishermen who have seen
it are unable to classify it. 1t has an
artistic fin that runs from its nose along
Its backbone to the end of its tail.
other markings are also unusual. 1t is
believed to be deep sea species that
lives entirely among the rocks or oyster
shells ON the bottom Of the deep.
Many theories are advanced as to
how the fish supplanted the oyster.
Some believe It was taken by the oyster
when the fish was much smaller than
now, and that it grew, killed the oyster
and fed upon it, and continued to in
crease in size until It filled the entire
cavity. It's period Of growing was at an
end, for there was no additional space
for 1t to occupy. One man advances the
theory that the oyster admitted a fish
egg into its shell and that 1t Matched
ana produced the present fish
Mr.. Lewis Is an old oysterman and
has been in the business for many
Years. He says he has found some
strange things in oyster shells. but
never before a live fish.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-28
THOSE EXTENDED FINGERS
Popular Misconception of Long
Standing at Last Cleared

A social philosopher has discovered
that an act very commonly regarded
as an affectaIon of gentility, as found
in the manner of holding drinking
glass when drinking from 1t, is not
an affectation at all but really an un-
conscious automatic act, says the New
York Sun
This supposed affectation consists in
extending the third and fourth fin
gers of the hand clear of the glass
when it Is lifted and tipped forward
with its brim to the lips and while
the glass is held there in the act Of
drinking. No doubt it would common
ly be considered that people do this
for the sake of greater elegance, or
at least from an instructive desire to
give to the hand such an appearance,
which 1t would not possess if they
closed the entire hand around the
glass-if they clutched it, so to speak,
a manner of holding that would seem
to SAVIOR of rudeness.
But this observers says that really
people hold those two fingers clear OF
the glass in drinking because that is
the way that is most convenient. II,
he says, person should grasp the
glass with the whole hand closed snug
ly around 1t he would find that the
act of tipping the glass SO held re-
uuired more muscular effort for the
muscles extending from all the fin
gers would then be called into use.
Whereas if the person drinking holds
the glass between the thumb and the
first two fingers he not only relieves
entirely the tension on the muscles
of the two other fingers, but also in
way he pivots the glass and makes 1t
easier to tip on that account. Thus
the separation Of the two fingers from
the glass is perfectly natural act.
This philosopher comedies that the
act may be exaggerated; that fingers
thus extended might even be seen
raised and extended more than was
really comfortable for the better dis
play of rings adjoining them, and he
comedies that sometimes when we see
our fingers thus raised as we lift our
glass. in clear view of all, we may
seek to crook the fingers in attitudes
or curves of greater grace, and so he
comedies that in some cases the rails
ing of the fingers in lifting the glass
may show affectation in some meas
ure; but his point is that in its origl-
nal inception and in its practice by
the many the elevation of these two
fingers is not an affectation, but an act
quite unconscious and automatic.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-28
IN a HAUNTED CHAMBER.
Readable Tale Of the Transformation
Of an English Buffers Fat
Calves.

This, relates the New York Sun, is the
tale she brought home of the haunted
chamber of the English country house:
ut was late in November" she said,
when went to stop for few days
with Lady c., In Kent. The Pines
was renowned old place both for hos
pitality and picturesqueness.
"The house, a two-story rambling
structure which stood IN among the
great pine trees and was almost covered
with Ivy was haunted, 30 every one
said. Two little girls had been brutally
murdered. some hundred years before;
their cries could be heard at twilight,
and sometimes the little figures were
seen in the library, also hurrying
through the corridors.
The servants were afraid to pass the
library at that hour. AS l am not
nervous person, | had no fear, although
Esther had told some thrilling tales as
she combed my hair in the morning.
1T happened on this particular after
noon of which am writing that Lady
c. took her guests out riding. l
pleaded headache do not ride-as
had some important letters to write
and 1t seemed the only opportunity. The
letters written, sank into one of those
great-grandfather chairs to doze.
"a splendid log fire burned on the
hearth, and the cracking sparks chased
each other up the wide old chimney.
The weather was quite chilly, and the
evenings closed in early at this time OF
year. lost myself in Sunderland
Presently, for it seemed only mo-
ment since sat down, l awoke with the
terrible feeling of some unknown pres
ence being near The room was almost
dark A few embers still glowed on the
hearth and shed faint light
II pluckily peeped through my half
closed lids, for, really, was afraid to
open my eyes, truly afraid-of what? I
knew not. Esther's stories seemed to
burn themselves into my brain in an In
slant
"At this moment discerned two
little figures dressed in white fitting
across the room. The spirits!' l
thought. Unable to bear the agony
any longer, I screamed.
"'Pardon, mum, said Simmonds,
the butler, I am just going to light
the lamps. | have brought the after
noon tea 1.
Now l understood the situation
perfectly. Simmonds' white silk
stockinged calves were the figures |
had seen moving about as he put the
tea things down, and thus ends my
belief in the tales of haunted houses"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-28
DRY GOODS ANp CLOTHING.
r. s. ELLIOTT 4 SON.

TRY GOODS, Clothing, Boots and Shoes
~ Hats. etc. Our prices. quality of goods
considered, are the lowest in the city. By fair
dealing and honest business methods, we al.
ways rely on holding customer when he has
once favored us with his trade. Okolonas
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-28
TERRIBLE ITCHING.
SCALP HUMOR
Badly Affected With Sores and
Crusts - Extended Down Behind
the Ears = Some Years Later
Painful and Itching PustuIes
Broke Out on Lower Part Of
Body-Son Also Affected.
A TRIPLE CURE BY
CUTICURA REMEDIES

"About ten years ago my scalp be-
came badly affected with sore and
itching humors, crusts, ETC., and EXTEND
ing down behind the ears. My hair
came out in places also. ! was greatly
troubled; understood it was eczema.
Tried various remedies, SO called, with
out effect. Saw your Cuticura adver-
tisement, and got them at once. APP
piled them as to directions, etc., and
after two weeks, think, of use, was
clear as a whistle.
Il have to state also that late last
fall, October and November, 1904, /
was suddenly afflicted with bad erup-
ton, painful and itching pustules over
the lower part Of the body. ] suffered
dreadfully. In two months, under the
skilful treatment of my doctor, con-
Joined with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment, ] found myself cured.
"Six years ago my son was laid up
with a severe cold, a hard cough, and
finally painful eruption all over the
body. procured the Cuticura Remedies
as soon as possible, and after his faith
full use of same was as well as ever in
two weeks, as well as can recall. He
has never had return of the illness,
as far as ! know.
81 have always been pleased to COM
mend the Cuticura Remedies, and testify
as to their efficacy. I am veteran Of
the late Civil War, '6l!65, between
seventy and eighty years of age. Yours
truly, H. M. F. Weiss, Rosemond,
Christian Co., ILL.,, Aug. 81, 1905"
Complete External and Internal Treatment for every
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consisting Cuticura Soap 25e, Ointment 50c Resov-
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B9- Mailed Free, " How to Cure Eczema" and AL
About the Skin, Scalp, Hands, and Hair"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-28
To. BUCHANAN

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Office next door ~
IA the Okolona Banking Company. OkOlo
na. Miss. Practices IN Federal and State
courts
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-28
CHEAPER FARM LAND.
Southwest Offers Best OppOrtun-
tiles For Securing Homes.

Many farmers in the Northern and
Eastern states are selling their high
priced lands and locating in the South
west. Many who have been unable to
own their homes in the cider country
are buying land in the new country.
Unusual opportunities exist along
the lines Of the Missouri Pacific Iron
Mountain Route. The rich, 'alluvlal,
delta lands and river bottom lands Of
Southeast Missouri, Eastern Arkansas,
Louisiana and Texas, capable Of pro-
ducing 90 bushels OF corn, Q bale OF
cotton, 4 to 8 tons Of alfalfa, 100 bu-
shells OF potatoes, and other grains,
vsge tables and hay crops, can be
bought for $3.50 to $500 per acre.
When cleared and slightly improved
will rent for "a 90 $500 per acre cash.
Uplands more rolling, lighter soil,
adapted to fruit growing peaches,
pears, plums, grapes, berries also
melons, tomatoes and other vegeta-
bles, can be boughtfor $500 to 5000
per acre IN unimproved state. Many
places with small clearings and come
Improvement can be bought very
cheap. This IL fine stock country.
No long winter feeding. Free range,
pure water, mild climate. A healthy,
growing country, with great future.
Write for map and descriptive lit
erature on Missouri, Arkansas, Louis
lana, Texas, Kansas or Indian Terri
tory. Very cheap rates on hrst and
third TuesdaYs Of each month,
II. d. WILSON. A. g. p. A..
Memphis, ~enn.
H. q. TOWNSEND. @. y. e r. A
ST. Louis. Mo.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-28
SOAP IN BURGLARY.
HELPS TO GET INTO SAFES AND
OUT OF 1aLsoz.s.
Its Use Discovered by Wisconsin
Post Office Inspector-Some
Instances of Its En-
ployment.

The Importance Of soap in the raids
of yeggmen from the time the crime
is committed to the day the prisoner
escapes from Jail has been demon
strated in single case in Wisconsin.
Soap not only made the robbery OF a
post office safe possible, but it was the
principal factor in the escape OF the
leader of the band after he was arrest
ed for the robbery.
The discovery of this use of soap
was made by E. E. Fraser OF La
Crosse, a post Office inspector OF the
Chicago district
The safe in the post Office at Stod-
dard Wis, was blown open and three
crooks were arrested for the crime.
They were held in the La Crosse coun-
ty Jail pending trial in the United
States court. Two of the trio escaped.
An investigation was made OF the
circumstances in connection with the
robbery 1t was found that the safe
had been blown open with nitro
glycerin. The explosive had been
poured into the safe lock through a
funnel made by carving out a cake OF
common laundry soap.
Not long after the arrest the first
prisoner, Homer Earl Trainor, escaped
from the Jail by saving the bars OF
his cell. How he got the saws was a
mystery only until the turnkey of the
jail, j. NJ Childers, was convicted OF
assisting in the escape.
The noise of the saving was not
heard by the other attendants, and the
incisions made in the bars by the pris-
oner were not discovered in the daily
inspections of the Jail. 1t was found
afterward that soap had been used to
deaden the sound of the saving, and
soap had been rubbed into the open
ings made, leaving the bars apparent
ly intact during the operation.
The most remarkable use of soap
was made in the escape of Andrew
Cunningham, alias Patsy Flanagan, q
bank sneak. He was killed January ~,
1906, in a running fight with a sherih's
posse after robbing bank at Mon
tague, Tex.
He got tools from his confederate,
the turnkey, and cut a hole in the
stone floor Of his CELL The work was
discovered, but in an effort to get evi.
dence against the turnkey the authorl,
ties delayed interference, They M
tended to stop Cunningham before the
hole in the floor was made large
enough to permit the passage OF his
body.
Cunningham learned that he was be-
ing watched, and here the soap figured
again.@ Though the hole In the floor
was only about eight inches In diam
eter. Cunningham escaped. According
to the story told by a fellow prisoner
on the witness stand In Childer's trial,
Cunningham covered the edges of the
opening with soap, lathered his naked
body and slipped through.
So besides the innocent uses OF the
toilet. soap has properties which sneal,
thieves and robbers appreciate. Since
the affair Of Trainor and Cunningham
Inspector Fraser has found that soar
has tirst place In the cracksman's kit
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-28
\ Withdrawal OF Havana
Limited.

Effective with train leaving st. Louis
Friday, March 9th, southbound, and
Mobile, Wednesday, March 14th,
northbound, the "Havana Limited"
will be discontinued for the season.
The IS. s. Prince George" will also
be withdrawn after sailing from Mo-
bile March 18th and from Havana
March 21st. Business for Cuba will be
handled on regular Mobile & Ohio
trains in connection with the Steam
ship "MobiIa". sailing from Mobile
Tuesdays and from Havana Fridays.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-28
Adulterated Oil.

Hitherto cotton seed oil, both the
summer and winter grades, has been
regarded as the cheapest possible oil
used for purposes of God, but unscrupu-
lous manufacturers and dealers saw a
way of doubling profits by the use of
corn oil and eagerly grasped the OPP
portunity. 1t was declared that prac-
tically all of the cheaper and medium
grades of what is sold as salad oil OF
olive oil now ON the market is com
posed of cotton seed oil as the base
and adulterated with from 20 per cent,
to so per cent. of corn oil.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-28

"When you stepped upon that gem
tleman's foot, Tommy, hope you
apologized." ooh, yes; indeed did, .
said Tommy, "and he gave me 10
cents for being such good boy. :
"Did he? And what did you do then?''
"Stepped on the other and apolcgized,
but it didn't work.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-28
PROFESSIONAL MEN.

Okolona Professional & Business Men.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-28
strictly Speaking.

stubb-Yes, thought | could eel
him to join our marching club By
giving him some OF the clubs choice
cigars,
Penn -Ah, trying to rope" him n.
IN chicago Daily News.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-28

sized bottles. You may
have a sample bottle Of
this wonderful new dis
covery and a book that
tells all about II. both
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-28

1t is declared John D Rockefeller
cannot figure OUT his income. He
ism ! cutting very attractive figure in
the role of fugitive from Justice, eitl er.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-18
TO GRANT. POLE PRIVILEGE
City Council May Accept $1,000 Of
fered for Right to String
Wires in Park

If the council has the legal authority
to accert tn, $1,000 donated by the Edi-
son Electric company for the privilege
of placing steel towers in Griffith park
to carry power wires, it will probably
be gladly accepted and the money
turned into the general cash fund.
The council yesterday referred to the
city attorney the question of determin-
ing the legality of such a procedure.
A few months ago the Edison COM
pany Offered the park commission $1,000
cash and agreed to light Griffith park
free for the privilege of maintaining
steel towers in the park. These towers
we're to be ornamental and wires would
be attached to them to carry power
from the Kern river. When the coun-
ell hard Of this the city attorney was
asked if the parl; board had a legal
right to grant this concession and he
replied that it did not. Acting on the
advice of the city attorney the park
board turned the money over to the
council yesterday
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-18
GIRL DISAPPEARS;
MOTHER ANXIOUS
POLICE FEAR MAN MIXED IN
CASE
Was Last Seen in Company With Tall,
Good Looking Stranger, Who
May Be Able to Tell Her
Whereabouts

Where Is Florence Patterson, aged
10, daughter OF Mrs. E. T. Patterson,
who lives In tent near 916 State
street?
This is a question the police and the
mother have been trying fruitlessly to
solve since week ago Monday.
The girl disappeared at that time and
has not been seen by her mother since.
An acquaintance. however, reported
yesterday that he had seen her Satur-
day, but that she had fastened away
from him without speaking. Mrs. M.
D. Fox of 742 East Seventh street also
said she had seen her Saturday as she
was about to board a car at the corner
of Fourth and Main streets. She had
no time to speak with her, however,
as the car started off Immediately.
Mrs. Fox said the girl had been work
ing for her as a housekeeper until
Monday a week ago, when she left
suddenly, telephoning that she would
call later for her clothes. But the girl
never communicated with her employer
after that, and her friends and relatives
were wondering if she had been MUIR
dered.
Man in Case
1t is now believed that the girl was
abducted by a notoriously bad man
with whom she had lately been seen.
He is said 10 ne OF very pTepossessliS
appearance, tall and we'll dressed, The
girls little sister says she was intro
duced to the man one night last week
when he was i'm company with her sis
ter, but the child, who is quite young,
cannot remember the name or give a
very clear description of him.
The mother is distracted over the
unexplained absence of her daughter.
She says the girl has always been
hoa
given her cause for such concern.
The investigation will be riogorusly
continued by the police and the friends
of the girl, until some trace of her is
found and the cause Of her disappear
ance known.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-18
News Notes

The fomous Arcadia hotel at Santa
Monica has been leased TO the Califor-
mia Military academy. Major E. II.
Baker is the superint endent; Captain
], w, C. Stirck, principal, and Captain
a. j. Copp of Los Angeles, representa-
tive. The fall term will open tomorrow.
Arthur F. Gilmore has paid William
Ferguson 100000 for lot 7Ox15O feet
on the southeast corner of Pico and
Flower streets. The lot is improved,
the property paying a monthly income
OF 5000, The purchase was made as an
investment,
Frank Vale, broker and real estate
operator. has taken a suite of rooms
in the Union Trust building.
George B, scammell. veteran mining
operator I'm Arizona, with headquarters
at Prescott. Is temporarily located in
Los Angeles. handling mining propo-
sitlon.
James p. Low, instructing superln-
tendent of buildings in the employ Of
the government, will arrive In Los An
geles Friday to take charge OF the
new Postoffice building. the excavations
for which are now under way.