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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-08-29
Race Improvement.

served recently that II society took
seriously to it's own physical re-
generation, mankind would not
only become freed from all disease,
but most forms Of crime would be
eliminated.
The famous scientist had in
mind, no doubt, his own success
in changing the various orders Of
plant life with the ultimate idea Of
developing perfection. Truly, his
accomplishments in this direction
warrant him in taking part in the
current discussion regarding race
Improvement.
One thing has always stood in
the way of mans physical ad-
vancement, and that is sentiment.
When a man starts out to breed
fine live stock he has in mind the
mere physical aspect OF the case.
The same principles obviously can
hot be applied to the human spe-
cies. We may develop a beauti
full horse or a steer Of exceptional
beef quality, with no concern re
garding the intelligence Of the ami
NAL; but in man the foremost idea
Is moral and intellectual quality,
esteeming this the highest benefit
that can be conferred on human,
ity.
But the human family is giving
more attention to it's own physical
we'll being. 1t has not been so
many years since the idea pre-.
vailed that it was an affront to ma.
ture to care for the body. In those
days life was considered merely
preparatory to translation, and
the modification of the flesh was
deemed a religious duty. The
more a man allowed himself to
suffer, the more certain he was OF
perfection in the future life. Then
physical exercise was considered
frivolous and athletic training was
sinful subversion OF the flesh.
There ia no question but that
the human family is improving
physically. Today meu and won
en- take better care of their bodies
than ever before. We are living
more in the out OF doors, we are
eating more carefully and we are
encouraging the idea that the Ro
man standard of "a sound mind in
q sound bony' will tend to the ul
innate perfection OF our race.
This very movement has been
provocative OF an era of fadism.
There are today all sorts OF health
foods, health baths, health drinks
and innumerable systems of ply
steal exercise. There is a scram
BILE for health that would have
been considered little short of
scandaIous few decades ago.
Busy men and women haunt the
golf and country clubs with the
purpose OF gaining physical
strength, and such indulgences are
20 longer frowned upon.
All this is not only improving
the present generation, but it ia
making for temperance and ration
alism in living that promises much
for our descendants. So far as
race improvement is concerned the
outlook is bright. To be sure, lit
tile or nothing is being done to re-
strict marriage among the physi-
cally and mentally unfit, but even
in this direction there is a growing
sentiment that has found express
sion in state laws, and it may be
only question of time until the
state takes a hand in marriage
regulation.
Thus some day the human famt.
~ may regenerate itself with the
result that Mr.. Burbank predicts.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-08-29
-(GatE1HIrHd G1lHnnls.

Even q cheap man may be dear to
some woman.
There will come threshing time for
those who SOW wild oats.
A woman isn't necessarily smart be-
cause she says things that smart.
In union there is Strengths many
. married man has learned to his sor-
row.
What lot Of stitches men drop
when they attempt to mend their
ways.
A man is soon forgotten after he ia
dead unless you happen to marry his
widow.
TCbacconist Duke has succeeded at
last in securing divorce from the
Duchess.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-08-29

eyes, | crawled upstairs on my
hands and knees last night" "Fooled
your wife, eh?" Eyes; she was away
at the seashore, and | had forgotten "
"Why don't you get an automobile?
GsMy dear sir, don't need 1t; have a
dog, three life insurance policies and
boil. have trouble enough"
Here, wait a minute" cried the
proprietor OF tho restaurant; this half
dollar is bad swell, y replied the Gus
toner as he hurried out, $50 was the
dinner itpays for. Good by
Pittsburg young bloods broke up a
performance at Madison Square Gar
den. What fuss would have been
raised if the disturbance had been
caused by visitors from Oklahoma or
Texas.
People are queer II mans neigh
Dor is kicked by horse, the neighbours
are serious and concerned for the in
1ured man; but ii the neghbor is
kicked by mule, the bAst the neigh
bors can do for him ia to laugh.
Mrs. Att must have been very
agreeable to YOU that / idn't come to
your coffee party yesterday" Mrs. B
20, not in the least; we should have
had quite enough to talk about in any
case. There were two other ladies who
didn't come"
Uncle Josh, +sh from UDcreek. had
been inspecting the family ice box.
<'Henry," he said, "you sold me you
was gittin' artificial ice. The Teller
that sells 1t to you is foolin' yon. I've
looked at it and teched 1t, and ii it
amt real ice, by gnm, / never saw
any"
Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar
A the original laxative cough syrup
and combines the qualities necessary
% relieve the cough and purge the
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-08-29

w
Keep box on hand at all times to pro-
vide for emergencies. For years the
standard, but followed by many imi-
tators. Be sure You get the genuine
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Sold by
St. Clair Wylie Drug co., Tupelo, Miss.
and all druggists.
Wireless telegraphy is comparatively
new, but the kick under the table is as
old as marriage.
Charity should always begin at
home, but there's no law compelling it
to stop there.
If Tom Platt regards himself as a
typical product of politics, no wonder
he holds politics in such poor esteem.
Away down deep in it's oleaginous
heart the Standard Oil Company doubt
less blames Miss Ida Tarbell for all this
muss.
Some people talk about the demor-
alizing influence of the theater be-
cause it costs more than going to
church.
Are the honest men all dead7-Buf-
falo Commercial. No; most of them
are working the Chautauqua lecture
bureaux.
The Department of Agriculture is
beginning its newly organized meat
inspection with careful inspection OF
the inspectors.
1t will be q bad day for the Gear
when all the little revolutions scat
tered through Russia succeed in effect
ing a merger.
Considering what it costs the aver
age New Yorker to visit Coney Island,
one fare surely is enough to pay for
getting there.
The Gear may intend to abdicate,
but there has been no announcement
that his determination is fixed or his
decision irrevocable.
The cruiser Milwaukee is another
one of the things which W Il tend to
make the city famous, but it will new
er equal the schouners.
It seems to have escaped the atten-
ton of great many anxious persons
that President Roosevelt has two ana
a half years yet to serve.
With deep sense of humiliation the
hold-up men acknowledge that Bunk
err Stensland's system makes their
methods seem pitifully crude.
A bad SIS bill is in circulation in Chi
csgo, and what makes it so hard TO
detect is that any kind of a $5 bill
looks good to the average man.
Secretary Bonaparte urges "death,
Jail and the la.h" as cures for anarchy.
Sounds pretty good; but wouldn't
soap, water and work be more effect
i've?
So they are going to call the Midway
at the Jamestown exposition "The
Warpath," are they? And because
there is where the boys are expected
to whoop her up.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-08-29
Does evil still, your whole life fill
Does woe betide?

Your thoughts abide on suicide?
You need pill!
Now for prose and facts-Dewitt's Lit
tie Early Risers are the most pleasant
and reliable pills known today. They
never grippe. Sold by st, Clair Wylie
Drug co., Tupelo, Miss, and all drug
gists.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-08-29

1t is always we'll to have a box of
salve in the house. Sunburn, cuts,
bruises, piles and boils yield to De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve. Should
Keep box on hand at all times to pro-
vide for emergencies. For years the
standard, but followed by many imi-
tators. Be sure You get the genuine
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Sold by
St. Clair Wylie Drug co., Tupelo, Miss.
and all druggists.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-08-29

Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar
AZ the original laxative cough syrup
and combines the qualities necessary
% relieve the cough and purge the
system Of cold. Contains no 0piates.
Sold only By st, Clair Wylie Drug co.,
Tupelo, Miss, and oil druggists.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-08-29

Horrid Thing-The bathing here ie
the best I've ever seen. Ethel-Do
you swim? Horrid Thing-No; l orly
look
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-18

sued denial to the newspapers that he
was in dangerous condition as result
Of a second attack Of paralysis. His
denial wGs supplemented by the state
ment of DR.. s. s. Stack in charge Of the
sanatorium where Bishop Spaulding is
taking the cure. Bishop Spaulding
said: ..-.- - ,.., @@s- ,.-r
IT have not been in such good health
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-18

for years and have been greatly an
noyed that such statement as this has
out foundation and I wish the papers
would deny it for me.''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-18

ELBOW LAKE, MINN-The Grant county
courthouse will be dedicated next Monday morn
ing with appropriate exercise:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-18
rs IN GOOD HEALTH

Bishop spaulding Denies All Recent
u Stories to the, Contrary.
Special to The journal. II ...''
Milwaukee, July j 18.-Bishop J. l..
spaulding Of Peoria, ILL.,, last night is
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-18

WEATHERED OAK ROCKERS
Large size Weathered Oak Rocker.
exactly like illustration. Frames
are exceptionally heavy. They are
upholstered In the best grade of
Chase leather Full spring seat.
$6.75. Special Clearance eA az
Sale price. - 81 II
Woodruff County news., 1906-08-02
New Court House for Boone.

A movement is on foot to secure for Boone county a new court house. It is urged by those favoring the move ment that the county needs new court house and modern jail, both to be a credit to the county. The present offices of the court house are not sufficiently large for the officers. The vaults, used to hold records which are priceless, are unsafe. The vault in the circuit clerks office is not fire proof in any sense. The vault in the county clerks office is better and more modern, but is very doubtful as to it's security. Both vaults are too small for the present records. In the county clerks office the vault is just sufficient to hold the tax books. all valuable papers being outside the vault in small wooden boxes, alike vulnerable to fire and theft.
Woodruff County news., 1906-08-02
Arkansas Postal News.

The following changes in postoffice sites have been made: Omega, Car roll county; Pastelle, Phillips county; Rogers, Benton county. Service from Wellington to Pedro, Washington coun- ty, will be changed August 1, supply to Rhea Service has been established between Park Place and Marianna, six times a week. Service has been changed, Iuka to Devero, supply Iuka; Wake to Iuka, supply Iuka. The fol lowing schedule changes have been made: Trafalgar to Snyder, three times week; Willow to Lono, six times a week; Junet to Sheridan, three times a week; Redbird to Migfork, three times week. Service has been established from Tip by way of De View to McCrory and back, six times week. Service six times a week has been established between the fol lowing points: Widener's to Klinton, Lakehall to Lake Village, Noble Lake to Ladd, Optimus to Hoyden, St. James to O'Neal, Jumbo to Mt Olive, Juka to Devero, Center to Hardy, South Fork to Mammoth Spring, Culp to Vero. Black is now supplied on the route between Cleveland and Solgo- hachia.
Woodruff County news., 1906-08-02
ARKANSAS 4 A STATE NEWS
The World Grows as It Gets Older.

The World Grows as 1t Gets Older.
 While firm Of diggers was engaged In putting down a well in Paragould, a cypress log at depth of 30 feet was struck. The place is not near any creek bed or slough, and is about a mile from the business part of the city. The wood is in a fairly good state of preservation, and had clinging about 1t when brought to the surface a large number of small shells, something like the common periwinkle shells. Before reaching the log as many as a dozen different kinds of earth had been pass ed through, and the formation of the earth shows that it had been built up by the action of water, from the shells and other materials composing the stratum in which the log was found. Cypress is known to be almost inde- structible to the usual methods of de- cay, but it requires a violent stretch of credulity to believe that a cypress log has lain where it was found since the time the Mississippi valley was 40 feet lower than it now is.
Woodruff County news., 1906-08-02
DIDN'T BELIEVE
That Coffee Was the Real Trouble.

Some people founder around and take everything that's recommended but finally find that coffee is the real cause of their troubles. An Oregon man says:
 For 25 years I was troubled with my stomach. I was steady coffee thinker, but didn't suspect that as the cause. I took almost anything which someone else had been cured with but to no good. was very bad last summer and could not work at times.
 "On Dec. 3, 1902, I was taken so bad the doctor said I could not live over A hours at the most, and made all preparations to die. I could hardly eat anything, everything dis tressed me, and I was weak and sick all over. When in that condition cof- fee was abandoned and 1 was put on Postum, the change in my feelings came quickly after the drink that was poisoning me was removed.
 "The pain and sickness fell away from me and I began to get we'll day by day, so I stuck to it until now I am well and strong again, can eat heartily, with no headache, heart trouble or the awful sickness of the old coffee days. 1 drink all 1 wish of Postum without any harm and enjoy 1t immensely.
 ''This seems like a strong story, but I would refer you to the First Natl Bank, the Trust Banking Com. pany, or any merchant of Grants Pass, Ore, in regard to my standing. and I will send sworn statement of this if you wish. You can also use my name" Name given by Postum Co.,, Battle Creek, Mich. Still there are many who persist ently fool themselves by saying "Cof- | fee don't hurt me" A ten days trial of Postum in it's place will tell the truth and many times save life There's a reason"
 Look for the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
Woodruff County news., 1906-08-02
CONFESSIONS OF DoDD eAsToN.

I have noticed that about the only place silver threads among the gold" are really popular is in a song.
 I feel reasonably sure of one thing: Whom l die nobody is going to claim that 1t was the result of overwork.
 I do not much mind playing against a visiting man, but I do hate to be booked in competition with a baby.
 Nothing would so completely recon cile me to death as the appearance, at my bedside, of some of my relatives.
 l would really like to be fatter, but realize that I cannot afford it. Being fatter would mean a new dress suit.
 I find that every young girl has a wild desire to wear her Hair up" and every old girl has the same desire to appear with down"
 1 have noticed that the only time the banana does much business is at a season of the year when it has Ro competition.
 I find that one of the hardest duties of the dramatic critic is to reconcile the average society play with the aver age stage furniture.
 About all the ambition I have left is to grow rich enough to have hack waiting for me while I lounge around inside smoking and "gassing. To peka Capital.
Woodruff County news., 1906-08-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AM EPlToME OF THE MOST I'M PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digested and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
SITUATION IN RUSSIA.

"strongSanded reform" is laid down by M Stolypin, the Russian nremier as the keynote of his admin istration.
 Premier Stolypin says that the req son the members of the late parlia- ment who signed the Fiborg manifesto were not arrested was because 1t would have conferred mild and much-desired martydom on them.
 The question Of a general strike hangs fire, from various causes. The peasantry in the famine district, it is asserted, would resent the tying up of the railroads upon which they de- pend for grain to keep them, from starvation.
 The police of St. Petersburg and Moscow are becoming active in break ing up meetings and making domicil- iary searches.
 It is now said that the immediate impelling cause of the dissolution of the duma was the discovery of the ex- istence of a gigantic organization for a general revolutionary strike in Oc- tober next, the plans for which have been perfectly prepared.
 The constitutional democrats appear to be afraid of compromising them selves, and one wing is said to have been won over to the side of the min istry against the programme of open revolution.
 The printing establishment of the Echo, in St. Petersburg, where thou sands of copies of the Viborg man ifesto were being surreptitiously print ed, has been closed by the police.
 Cronstadt has been declared under martial law and announcement made that meetings and demonstrations oi all descriptions will be disbursed by armed force.
Woodruff County news., 1906-08-02
President Burnett Makes the Call.

President B. H. Burnett of the Ar kansas Division, Southern Cotton As sociation, has issued the following call: "The membership of the Southern Cotton Association and all who are friends to the cause of the people in their efforts to free them selves from the dictates of Wall Street cotton gamblers, and thereby secure fair prices for the South's great mono poly, are hereby called to meet Ut their respective county sites or such other places as they may choose, on Saturday, August 4, 1906, at 2 p. m., for the purpose of passing strong reso- lutions condemning future dealing in all it's forms, and renewing their pledge to support the Southern Cot ton Association, and also perfecting stronger organizations in our State. All county presidents and secretaries are required to call meetings in their respective counties on the above date, and to send notice of the result of said meetings to this office, that l may have same published in that valuable paper, the Cotton Journal"
Woodruff County news., 1906-08-02
MISCELLANEOUS,

A special federal grand jury will convene in Chicago August 6 to probe the methods of the Standard Oil Co., in the transportation of it's products
 Frank Kern, wno, with Miss Bertha Bowlin (since dead), was murderous ly assaulted in Kansas City, Mo, has finally regaine0 cocsciousnessl and definitely accuses Albert M. Crons under arrest charged with the mHr der of Miss Bowlin, with having first abused them and then assaulted them with a lead pipe.
 Spain is said to be irritated over the action of the United States in the affair of Guatemala and Salvador The Madrid journals declare that Spain was the proper arbitrator.
 Judge Quarles, in the United States district court in Milwaukee, released Joseph Black, John c. Black and Au gust Anderson, of Shawano, Wis, on habeas corpus proceedings. The men were indicted at Portland, Ore, in connection with alleged land frauds but Judge Quarles did not consider the evidence warranted sending them there for trial
 The supreme court of Georgia ee nied the motion for a new trial for Jesse and Milton Rawlings, convicted Of complicity in the murder of the Carlis children, near Valdosta, over year ago.
 John Black and William Reagin, ne groes, charged with the murder of Ed Granger, write turpentine operator were lynched by a mob near Fort Gardner, Fla.
 Judge Landis, in the federal court m Chicago, has placed Zion City in the hands of a receiver and ordered that an election be held September ls' when the people are to choose an R oVerseer by ballot. Meanwhile Dowie retains possession of Sniloh house and US appurtenances.
 Secretary of State Root was given an enthusiastic welcome on his ar. iiVal at Rio Janeiro. The historic Aorantes palace was placed at the ulsposal of himself and party A,grand
 HI Ailo l1CnOI was Slf0n Dy President Ayes.
 russell Sage, in his will, bequeaths all or his estate to his widow, Marga- aet ollvia Sage, after the payment. of S1o,ooo to each of MT. Sage's nephews anu nieces, and $10,OO0 to his sister, Nrs' Fanny Chapin, of Oneida, N Y now dead.
 Henry c. Brockmeyer, former lieu tehaht governor of Missouri and one foi 'he Dest-known business men, writ CTS aud politicians in the state, is Soeau' after long illness. He was one 'ne founders of the Concord school of philosophy.
 when shown a statement made by = hamilton to the effect that Harry
 Ihaw is insane, District Attorney seiome of New York remarked: This propably another one or the ex. e"eiy numerous cases in which Dr. tanliiton tnall will be afforded an oppor 1uity to revise his opinions"
Woodruff County news., 1906-08-02
Kiss and Make Up.

Trouble has developed in Cherokee Tent, Knights of the Maccabees at Fort Smith, which has already result ed in split. The tent is the largest in the state, and within the past six months, through class organizations, the membership has been raised from $50 to 400. Some of the older mem bers became dissatisfied with the con- duct of the tent and have seeded to the number of 31, and will organize an opposition tent. About two years ago there was split, and for year or more there were two tents, but com promise was effected, whereby there was a consolidation, and the members got along tremendously until within day or two ago, when the split oc- cured.
Woodruff County news., 1906-08-02
SENTENCE SERMONS.

Fear and fret makes lifes friction Heaven helps those who help oth CTS.
 Heaven despairs of the man whc despises men.
 True religion nourishes the roots of right doing.
 The church that courts the rich loses it's riches
 Sometimes hiding another's faults heals our own.
 The man who is too previous Is sure to get procraSSinated
 The hardest work some folks do is telling how buey they are.
 You cannot keep your eyes on your watch and your heart on your work.
Woodruff County news., 1906-08-02
The Pigeons Are Coming.

It is most welcome news, if the re- ports be true, that the wild pigeon has been seen in some parts of the West ern country. It is many years since those immense flocks which were a wonder to the beholder disappeared all of sudden. and no man could tell the cause of their disappearance nor the place to which they had flown. One year during the Civil war they were numerous in the South, the heavens often being darkened as they flew in armies of tens of thousand. Let them come again to Arkansas. There is, even now an odor. of pot pie in the air.
Woodruff County news., 1906-08-02
A New Button Factory.

corporation is being organized for the purpose of locating a button factory at DeValls Bluff Almost all the capital stock has been taken, some of which has been sold to capitalists in the East. The plans of the organ ization will be completed within the next ten days, and it is assured that the factory will be in operation with in the next sixty days. At first not less than fifty machines will be install ed, and this number will be increased from time to time, according as the demands require.
Woodruff County news., 1906-08-02
Will Soon Be United.

The Fort Smith Light and Traction Company have begun the work of lay ing a cable across the Arkansas river below the Frisco bridge at Van Buren. The company expects to finish the work and have the two cities connect ed by August l.
Woodruff County news., 1906-08-02
A Forlorn Hope?

The Craighead county Republicans have nominated H. H. Houghton for representative to make the race against Speaker w. w. Cate, who is the Demo cratic nominee for reelection as rep seSentatiye.