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The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
WORDS OF

There never is much good in "good
enough"
A mans religion never dies SO long
as it is doing something.
The ignorant may be foolhardy,
but only the wise are brave.
Everything is possible to those who
do not fear the impossible
You can not hurl Satan from his
throne by hurting adjectives at him.
Among other things frequently
missed as we journey through life is
the last car.
No, Cordelia, a mar doesn't neces-
sarily have paint in his eyes when he
is color blind.
There are times when words fail a
man-but if he has q wife it doesn't
matter much.
AS a rule, a married mans sugar
coated sweetness wears off with the
waning of the honeymoon.
No, Cordelia, the cloak of friend
ship and the mantle of charity are
not made from the same piece of
cloth.
A woman is apt to make some very
striking remarks when she has occa-
sion to hit her husband for a little
pin money.-From Pointed Para
graphs" in the Chicago News.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
The Unnatural Hen.
BY BILL NYE.

1t Is not alone the fact that the
amateur carver misses the joints and
tries to cut through the largest bones
that fills him with regret and his lap
full of sage and onions. 1t is the
horrible thought that the entire com
pany is looking at him. No matter
how the perspiration may trickle
down between his shoulder blades, or
how the hot flashes may chase the
chills up and down his spinal column,
or how much his eyes may be
dimmed by unshed tears, the rest of
the company never allows it's inter-
est to flag a moment. We remember
n time we were called to assume
the management of a f~ree-for-all
carving tournament at the home of a
dove-eyed dumping, whose kind re-
gard we desired to catch on to as
far as possible. How clearly come
back to us now the smiling faces of
the guests, the ripping laugh, the
bald-headed joke, the thanksgiving
marriage bell. We call to mind the
girlish laughter of that one whose
very existence, as she sat on our left
that day, seemed cemented and glued
to u own. AS we sharpened the
g%littering blade on the ringing steel,
we felt bouyant and proud-proud
to think how we would slice the
white, calm bosom of that deceased
hen; proud to think how, in our
mind; we had laid out the different
pregnable points about that old
cackler, and in the anticipation of
applause glad and free, when we had
accomplished the warfare and victory
and stuffing had perched upon our
banner. We softly jabbed the SHIN
mering fork a-straddle of the breast
bone, tore off a goose pimple from
under the wings of the late lamented,
gouged out a few shattered frag-
ments from the neck, and tried to
cut a sirloin steak off the back. An
oppressive gloom seemed to pervade
the air. The old hen didn't have
her joints where WI had them laid
out in our mind. She was deformed.
She seemed to be a freak of nature.
1t ratified us and unnerved us. We
gouged wildly at the remains, squirt
ing the gravy right and left, and
filling the air with fragments of
bread-crumbs and sage. By some
kind of omission or miscalculation,
we made a wild stab at the back of
the late lamented hen, and with a
frenzy born of repeated defeats and
depressing failures, the knife struck
the platter with a loud crash, and
ceasing not in its untamed fury,
glanced aside, and in an instant
buried itself with a sickaning thud
in the corset of the hired girl. With
difficulty we drew out the glittering
blade, now ensanguined with the
gore of a fellow-creature, wiped it
on the table-cloth, and fed out into
the cold, unsympathetic world, out
into the crash and confusion of strug-
Cling humanity, to battle on through
life under an assumed name. That
is why we tremble and< turn pale
when our past life is inquired into
by biographers. That is why a baked
fowl makes us quail.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
Nobody Ever "at" London.

A case of irregularity occurs in a
eablegram that announces from New
York the residence of a certain &C
cused person "at London" You will
perceive at once the a%bsurdity OF
those words-"at London" A New
Yorker may want to get at London.
but those who live there live lin Lon
DON" And it is n of the triumphs
of London and language Though
most ~irregular) that no one is ever
"at" London. You can drop off "ata
Paris on the way to anywhere, and
you may spend the winter "at" st.
Petersburg or "at" New York. You
may change cars "at" Chicago. But
there comes a moment when the Eng
lish language gets Irregular. Is it
when the fifth million is passed? No
English was ever 4at" London. 1t
would be as irregular as being Tat"
Asia or "at" Heaven. - London
Chronicle.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
HOME WEEK IN BOSTON.
Sons and Daughters Of New England
Capital to Visit Scenes of Youth.


The greatest event for Boston and
Tor all New England this season will
be the homecoming week in Boston.
This will occur at the end of July,
and will attract thousands of persons
from every part of the country to the
city and the section of the country
where their ancestors lived and
where their affections are centered.
The citizens of Boston have made
liberal preparations for a grand cele-
bration of the history and achieve
ments of Boston and the Common
wealth of Massachusetts. There will
be a week of midsummer reunions of
families and of public festivities. The
time selected is from July % to Au-
gust 8.
The homecoming week in Ken
lucky attracted half a million visit
ors to Louisville and the home-com-
ing for Georgia was likewise CRATE
fully accepted. There is no doubt of
the attraction to Boston of a far great
er humber of SON. and daughters who
cherish the traditions and the sue
cesses of the people and who venerate
the history of the famous city which
is the leader in the literature, art and
the civilization OF America.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
Cures Woman's Weaknesses.

We refer to that boon to weak, nervous,
suffering women known as DIR. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription.
DR.. John Fyfe one of the Editorial Staff
of THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL REVIEW saws
of Unicorn root tHelonids Dioica) which
is one of tho chief ingredients of the VA
vorite Prescription y:
eAremedy which invariably acts as a utter
Inc invigOrator = = = makes for normal ac-
glyity Of the entire reproductive SYSTEM
ment which more fully answers the above
purposes than any other drug luith tUhtch | am
acquainted In the treatment OF diseases pc
culiar TO women 1t is seldom that a case is
seen which does not present some indication
Tor this remedial agent" DR.. Fyfe further
says: "0The following are among the leading
indications for Helonias Unicorn rooth Pain
atomic tweaN conditiofM OF the reproductive
reliability. aesociated WITH chronic diseases OF
b reproductive organs of women; constant
sensation N heat in the region OF the kid
neySi melJbrrhagid ~(1ooding). due to a weak.
ened condition ofithe reproductive systemt
SsTfod3 .%2lss 4Tom o. or acc sSssns mpa'h *
abnoFhA condition OF the digestive organs
and hhamic Chin bloody hahits dragging
senssSons ir the extreme lower part Of the
II more or less of the above symptoms
are pTeSehG no inYalld -WQmau can do
better Than take DR.. PierceYs TaYQrite
PreScrIptI0n, n Of the reading ingredi-
ents OF Which is Unicorn root, or Helonias,
and the medical properties of which it
most faithfully represents.
Of Golden Seal root, another prominent
INGREDIENT of "Favorite Prescription"
Prot. Finley Ellingwood, M. D., of Ben
nett Medical College, Chicago, says:
VT is an important remedy in disorders of
the womb In all catarrhal conditions = y
AND general enfeeblement. it is useful"
Prof. John NJ. Scudder, M. D., late of
Cincinnati, says of Golden Seal root:
Yin relation to it's general effects on the
SYSTEM there is no medicine IN use about ,rhtch
there IS such general unanimity of opinion, 1t
Is aafversdlly regarded as the tonic useful In
all debilitated states"
Prof. r. Bartholow, M. D.. of Jefferson
Medical College, says of Golden Seal:
valuable in uterine h~emorrhage n1enora
rhagia O1ooding) and congestive dysmenor-
rhUa painful menStruationl."
DIR. Pierce'S Favorite Prescription faith.
fully represents all the above named in
gradients and cures the diseases for which
they are recommended,
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
The First oil Well.

With the death Of James P. Smith
of T~itusville last week there passed
the last of the group of men who ap-
pear in the famous Drake well pic
ture, taken in the autumn OF 1861
by John A. Mather, the noted oil re-
gion photographer The group in the
picture included Col. Edwin L. Drake,
the man who drilled the well; William
and James P. Smith, practical d%rillers,
who assisted with the work; Peter
Wilson, Titusville merchant and stead
fast friend of Col. Drake, and Albridge
Locke. The five men are dead. This
picture adorns the Offices of hundreds
of oil operators and refiners and is the
only photograph of the first oil well.
The only person now living connected
with the picture is John A. Mather,
the Observation-Disclosures Rec
ord,
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
The Boss's Character.

There is a story about a COMPANY
promoter who advertised for an Office
boy. He received 100 replies. Out
of 100 he selected ten, and with the
writer's of these ten replies he had a
personal interview. His final choice
fell upon a bright youth, to whom he
said: my boy, | like your appearance
and your manner very much. think
you may do for the place. Did you
bring a character" %No, sir" said
the boy, II can go home and get it,"
VERY we'll; o n back tomorrow
morning with it, and if it is satisfac-
tory l dare say l shall engage you"
Late that same afternoon the inanc-
Ter was surprised by the return of the
candidate. WELL he said, cheerily,
have you got your Character"
NO. answered the boy, "but I've got
yours-an' / amt coming."-Argo-
naut. w
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
DOCTORS GETTING TOGETHER
Dr.. Sisca Says the Homeopathic ane
the Allopaths Are Conversing.

DR.. Sisca Says the HomeopatnS ane
the Allopaths Are Conveying.
DIR. N. Sisca, an allopathic physical
If Queensland, in discussing homeo.
pathy. says in the Medical Brief thai
"the most striking evidence OF the
progress homeopathy is making is the
vas amount of material it has accu
mulated in it's materia medica during
the last thirty years or SO.
thine was, and not very long age
either, when all the materia medica
which it was thought indispensable
for a homeopathic practitioner tc
know was enclosed within the 265
pages of a small book entitled THE
Principal Uses of the Sixteen Most
Important and Fourteen Supplement
tary Homeopathic Medicines"
Now a mere glance at the three pom
derous volumes of the Dictionary OF
the Homeopathic Materia Medica' or
at the four still more ponderous vol
umes of "The Cyclopadia of Drug
Pathogenesy" is quite enough to be
wilder any would be student of homeo-
pathy. For the matter of that, the
homeopaths themselves are beginning
to groan under the weight of their
own wealth."
DR.. Sisca goes on to say that while
homeopathy on one side has for over
a century stood with its feet on tae
immovable ground of its fundamental
principle, allopathy has been slowly
but surely turning around until today
a very important part of what no
mnopathy has always contended for
is in substance, if not in as many
words, plainly and fully recognized by
allopathic lecturers and authors"
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
Color Blindness.

II one thousand men gaze at a gar
den of flowers, fifty of them will see
the colors falsely. If one thousand
women view them, nine hundred and
ninety-six or sever will perceive the
hues correctly. OF the six colors OF
the rainbow, which, mingled in thous-
ands of combinations, give all the
varying hues of sky and sea, of noun
tain and valley, ONE are never seen
by the color blind, or are felt only as
light and shade of black and white.
Very few persons are totally color
blind, yellow, blue and violet being
rarely lost. To the totally color blind
all landscapes and objects are like an
engraving in black and white.-Cen
fury.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
CHILDREN o 1T.
Effect of Their Warm Drink in tho
Morning.

IA year ago I was a wreck from
coffee drinking and was OIL the point
of giving up my position in the school
room because of
II was telling a friend about it and
she said, we drink nothing at meal
time but Postum Food Coffee. and it
is such a comfort to have something
we a enjoy drinking with the chill
dren.'
81 was astonished that she would
allow the children to drink any kind
of coffee, but she said Postum was
the most healthful drink in the world
for children as well as for older ones,
and that the condition of both the
children and adults showed that to be
a fact.
my first trial was a failure. The
cook boiled it four or five minutes
and it tasted SO fiat that 1 was in de-
spair, but determined to give it one
more trial. This time we followed
the directions and boiled it f1fteeI
minutes after the boiling began. Il
was a decided success, and / was
completely won by its rich, delicious
favour. In a short time / noticed
decided Improvement in my condition
and kept growing better and better
month after month, until o l an
perfectly healthy, and do my work IL
the school roo with ease and pleas
ure. / would not return to the nerve
destroying regular coffee for an.
money"
There's a Reason" Read the ia
NOUS little Health Classic" "Th'
Road to Melville" In pkgs.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
No HaYseed.

President Alberger of the Transpor-
tation Club, who is traffic manager Of
Borax Smiths new railroad into Ne.
vada, had a sag%ebrusher for his guest
the other day, and as an incident to
the entertainment of this prospective
shipper took him up to the rooms of
the club in the James Flood building.
Next thing | want ter seen them
chutes you was telling me about"
remarked the stranger, drawing forth
a big watch and consulting it.
Jay Adams, of the Nickel Plate road.
one of the directors of the club, hap
pened to be standing close by.
J1st then another member approach
ed with a grin.
How yuh, Jay? How's the Nickel
Platter"
Don't you try no cracks like that
on me, young Teller. l raise alfalfey,
but 1 amt the greenest thing ever
struck this town. An let me tell yuh
this here watch is solid silver
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
SURGEONS Provided New EyeIids.

Arthur Zimmerman, of 325 Frank
lin avenue, West Side, a young man
who was burned by tar and to whom
surgeons gave new eyelids by skin
grating, was able to leave St. Mar
garet's Hospital, where the operation
was performed, yesterday afternoon.
The operation proved successful, and
after being unable to close his eyes
for several months, he is now able to
do so. Zimmerman has no ~eyelasheS
for the surgeons couldn't supply them
Kansas City Times.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
The Fourth Dimension.

The report that T. B. Murdoch will
Bell his paper and leave Eldorado is
not true. He says in the Eldorado
Republican:
ut is announced that I am to leave
Eldorado and engage in the newspa-
per business in a wider field. This
is the first l have heard of it. Eldor-
ado is long enough, wide enough,
broad enough, and thick enough for
me, and when l leave the town it will
be for the boneyard.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
The Manatee.

A few years ago the manatee was
thought to be neal extinction, now 1t
is often seen and is increasing. am
personally acquainted with about fifty
specimens, a fair proportion of which
are calves. Their shyness protects
them from the rife Of the tourist. A
heavy penalty for the wanton destruc-
ton of the manatee deters some, and
lust a germ of public sentiment on
the coast restraints others from seek
ing to kill them.-Century-
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
safe. Mo Alliastors.

An English tourist in the West In
dies had been warned against bathing
in a river because of alligators, says
a writer in Punch, so he went in
swimming at the river mouth, where
his guide assured him there would be
none.
How do you know there are no alli-
gators here?" he as.,el, when he had
v<aded out neck deep.
'You see, sah," said the guide, 'dey's
too many sharks here. De alligators
is skeered out. Dis amt no place for
dem, sah.'-Youth's Companion.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
Science at School.

The education of our young IN
science at school is another hope Of
the future of our race, for the seed
Is more readily sown, and has a bet
tor chance of bringing forth much
goodly intellectual fruit when 1t falls
on the fertile mental field of youth
than when it finds before 1t an older
soil, already much occupied with
worldly affairs.-Illustrated London
News.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
Physical Strength and Deseneracy.

Never in the history of the human
race-not even in the gladiatorial
days of Greece and Rome, when physi-
cal strength was ~worshipped almost
like a fetish, has so much study been
devoted to bodily development and we'll
being. In spite of all this, however, we
cannot shut our eyes to the fact that
vide medical reports-whlle the STAN
dard Of health may be going up with
a section of the people, it is steadily
going down with others-in a word,
that physical degeneracy is alarming
ly on the increase.-Cooperative News.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
A Pennsylvanian's Descendants.

Jacob Buck, who died recently near
Newport, Perry county, held the rec
ord. SO far as known, for living de-
scendants. He was 81 years old, and
was the father of nine children, with
40 grandchildren, 1873 great-grandchil-
dren and 16 Observation-Disclosures
The father and grandfather of Jacob
Buck were among the first settlers I'D
Bucks Valley" Perry county.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
Birds wages.

In the garden there are a thous-
and small offenders hat he who tills
the soil for pleasure would willingly
forgive. If it be granted that the
thrush and the blackbird steal a Ger.
tain amount of frait, still their pres
ence is 50 beautiful and their song
So sweet that what they take may
gladly be accorded as wages.-Couu.
try Life.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
Pennsylvania Tobacco Profits.

The tobacco farmers of Lancaster
county turned a pretty penny last
year. During last week the leaf TO-
bacco packers resumed active buying
of what remains of the 1906 crop.
estimated at 5000 cases, and paid the
prices which they declared they would
not pay-14 to 16 cents a pound. Al
these prices the entire crop will re.
alize Observation-Disclosures Record.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
SORES AS BIG AS PENNIES.
Whole Head andNeck Covered-Hair
AL Came Out-9uffered 6 Months
Cured in 3 Weeks by C%uticura.

after having the measles my whole
head and neck were covered with scaly
sores about as large as a penny. They
were just as thick as they could be. My
hair all came out. | let the trouble run
along, taking the doctors blood remedies
and rubbing on salve, but it did not seem
to get any better. 1t stayed that way for
about six months; then / got a set of the
Cuticura Remedies, and in about a week !
noticed a big difference, and in three weeks
it was well entirely and have not had the
trouble any more, and as this was seven
years ago, l consider myself cured. Mrs.
Henry Porter. Albion, Neb., Aug. IS, &C."
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06

The sum and substance of the rail
road situation is, these corporations
have been sowing the wind. Natur'
ally enough they are disinclined to
reap in accordance with the rest OF
the proverb, comments the Portland
(Ore.) Telegram.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06

The average person who, through
ignorance, is disposed to regard with
compassion the harmless and, to him,
useless hobby of the stamp collector,
will no doubt be surprised to discover
how much of interest and instruction
there is in the pursuit Of stamp col
lecting. You will invariably find that
the schoolboy who is also a STAMP
1end' knows more of the geography
Of the various countries, their rulers
and distinguished citizens, than any
other pupil in the class.-St. Nichol.
as.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06

Do not dare to live without some
clear intention toward which your liv-
ing shall be bent. Mean to be sonle-
thing with all your might.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06

Are cured without pain in one day BY Leon
ardi's Golden Eye Lotion. There is no 9TH
or eye remedy 50 soothing, healing, prompt
and effective. 1t makes strong eyes. Guar.
anteed or money refunded. Druggists sell
1t at as cts. or forwarded prepaid on receipt
of price by s. D. Leonardo d Co. Tampa Fla.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
1t Was in Him, All Right.

"That young man is no account. l
thought you told me there was good
stuff in him."
"Well, l saw him eating lobster
and drinking champagne."-Clevelsn
Leader.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
Servants Paradise.

If domestic servants had every night
out and two half-holidays in the week,
domestic service might come to be
the most popular, as it is probably
the best paid of any form of women's
work.-Review of Reviews.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06

Conversation, as a fine art, is more
difficult only in the sense in which
life is more difficult, and proportion
ately more worth having. It's supreme
success demands nowadays in the
proficient a, wider view of things, a
more delicate sense of proportion.
greater social genius, sympathy, and
self-restraint than ever.-Guardian.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06

the Plains IN 1870,
y Give years
ago the doctors
said l had diabetes.
My kidneys were
all out of order, l
had to rise often
at night, looked
sallow, felt dull
and listless and
I'd lost 4 0-pounds.
NV hank anhe6 and
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06

king Edward has decided to grant
the widow of Sir William Howard
Russell, the war correspondent, a
suite of rooms in Hampton Court
Palace
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06

I had spells of rheumatism and dizzl-
ness. Doan's Kidney Pills relieved
me of these troubles and have kept
me we'll for a year past. Though Is
years old, l am in coed health"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box
Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06

Probably no man in Maine has held
a town office longer than j. @. A.
Butts, of Canaan, who died recently,
after ffty-two years continuous ser
vice as town clerk.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06

Some one asked Thomas A. Edison,
Don't you believe that genius is in
spiration?" "No," he replied; "ge.
Mus is perspiration.'
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06

OF every 100 gallons of illuminating
oil used in the world, h~ftyfcuf gal.
Ions are produced in the United
Etates.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06

To see an object on the earth's sur
face 100 miles away the observer mus.
be e,667 feet above the level OF the
sea,
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06

FITS, st. Vitus'D Dance IN ervous Diseases per
manently cured by DR.. Hines Great Nerve
Restorer. 50 trial bottle and treatise free.
Dr. II. r. Kline, Id, 031 Arch st., Phila., Pa
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06

One of the unexpected results OF
~anti-railroad legislation, to the Phil
adelphia Record, is the promotion OF
honest politics.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06

A man is regarded as of greatest
value to his country at the we Of
tW~enty-four.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
collectors Learn Geooraphv,

Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's
Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-06
A GAIN.

A Utah Pioneer Tells n Remarkable
Story.
]. W. Browning, 1011 22d ST.,
Ogden. Utah, a pioneer who crossed