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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-02-20

Germany has f"~~
pies ahcg III .
for tie rrcra3-,igl AL .p.*4u 4
the destructive house moth tl.5,y-
phagus domesticus) according to cb-
servations recently made.
The discovery was the result Of a
plague of moths at Cries and the VII
lagos surrounding it. The larvae were
traced to the stores Of apples kept in
the houses and thence to the trees
themselves.
The larvae are found first of all in
the apple blossoms. AS the fruit grows
they cluster in the conical depression
about the stem of the apple.
When the fruit is taken into the
house 1t is laden with eggs. The
propagation of the eggs is said to be
prodigious.
When the fruit is taken into the
house the eggs find their way into
clothing, hangings, carpets and uphol-
stored furniture and the insect is
Matched out, with the well-known ru-
inous results. The eggs are also said
to be the cause of the white nothing
that is so often noticed on dried
fruit.
AS result of the discoveries it is
urged that apples never be taken into
dwellings without careful cleansing,
and even then they should never be
kept in living rooms, and the Feelings
should be promptly removed.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-02-20
Feathered Surgeons.

Certain birds seem TO possess a re.
markable instinct for surgery. The
woodcock, the partridge and some
others are said Ito be able to dress
their wounds with considerable skill
A naturalist observes that he has
seen several woodcock that were re-
covering from wounds previously re-
ceived. In every instance he found
the injury neatly dressed with down
plucked from the stems of feathers
and skillfully arranged over the
wound, evidently by the long beak OF
the bird.
In other cases ligatures had been
applied to wounded or broken limbs.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-02-20
Little MARTYR.

A minister's little daughter, who had
been to church for the first time and
heard her father preach, was ques
toned by him on reaching home as
to how she liked his sermon. There
was an embarrassed silence; then the
little maid, tired out with the long
strain of being good" and yet anx-
ious not to offend in any wise, made
answer with long-drawn breath OF
patient resignation:
you preached awful long, papa;
but I barred it.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-02-20

I had Catarrh for about fifteen
years, and no man could have
beOn worse. Z tried everything
au It then III be TTS B. s. g., ana md
GOULD see q little IMPROVEMENT
from the hrst bottle, and after
taking 10 q short while was CURED.
This was six years ago, ana I am
AB well today as any man. / think
Catarrh Is q blood disease, and
know there is nothing on earth
better for the blood than s. s. s.
Nobody thinks more of 8. s. 8.
than do. NJ. MATSON,
LRpeer, Mich,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-02-20

affected by this disease. It is waste OF
time to try to cure Catarrh with sprays,
washes, inhalations, etc. Such treatment
does not reach the blood, and can, therefore,
do nothing more than temporarily relieve
the discomfort Of the trouble. To cure
Catarrh permanently the blood must be
thoroughly purified and the system cleansed
of all poisons, and at the same time
strengthened and built up. Nothing equals
S. S. S. for this purpose. 1t attacks the
disease at its head, goes down to the very
bottom of the trouble and makes complete
and lasting cure. S. S. S. removes every
particle of the catarrhal poison from the
blood, making this vital stream pure, fresh
and healthy. Then the infamed mem
branes begin to heal, the head is loosened
and cleared, the hawking and splitting cease,
institution is built up and vigorous health
the stomach and digestion and acts as
If you are suffering with Catarrh begin the
tenent of your case and our physicians will
rh, and give you special medical advice
sale at all first class drug stores.
RFT SPECIFIC co., ATLANTIS Ga
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-02-20
PLAYING Poverty.

The little princess, Victoria Louise
of Prussia, was playing with her
friends one day, and longed for some
new, original play.
All the old games we're worn out
and exhausted If only they could
think Of something quite different
Her serene highness considered the
matter seriously until novel idea
occurred to her, and she cried with
enthusiasm:
I'VE will play poor people! Let us
play that we are poor, frightfully
poor, so poor that we have only two
lackeys!'
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-02-20
Knew What Was COMING.

The judge of the supreme court pol
ished his glasses slowly and with dig
nifty becoming a member Of so august
q tribunal
Judge not" he said, Judge not
and paused and sighed.
Lest We be roasted in the maya
zines" he added.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-02-20
Al ! plsadvantaoe.

"The court fortune teller is going
20 resign said one Russian official.
"Yes." answered the other; The is
ct a disadvantage. If he predicts bad
news he comes into royal disfavor.
and II he predicts good news, 1t
doesn't come true"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-02-20
The Lar straw.

Van Millyun is completely ruined
financially. He was even compelled
to sell his automobile"
Umphi Hasn't a scent left. ehY'--
Judge.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07
Refused a Senate Seat.

Refused a Senate Seat.
Ex-United States Senator Benson of
Kansas is peculiar man. He actually
refused an election to the United
States senate. True, it was only a forty
day fragment of term but it was an
election nevertheless. 1t will be re-
membered that when Senator Burton
Benson to serve till the meeting of
the legislature, which would elect for
both Burton's unfinished term and for
a term of six years. Benson was
candidate for both the short and long
terms. When Charlie Curtis walked
away with the long term it so disgust
ed Benson that he refused the short
term. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Hon. Richard Franklin Pettigrew has
been in and about Washington much
this winter. 1t is said that he is rich
again. He has been rich two or three
times before and on his uppers-his
physical, not his mental uppers, for
his mentality is never exhausted. 1t
is also said that he is going to be a
candidate for the senate again Wish
he may not only be a candidate, but
be elected. He would stir up the Re-
publican menagerie at a great rate,
and goodness knows, it needs stirring
up. Dick Pettigrew is a radical of
radicals, but man doesn't have to
indorse all his ideas in order to wish
him we'll
If by recent resolution of inquiry
which Senator Clay of Georgia intro
duced into the senate he can actually
find out how much our idiotic course
as to the Philippines has cost us, he
will have rendered the country a most
valuable service and will elicit infor-
nation which will cause American
eyes to bulge out so that they can be
knocked off with a stick. If old Ben
Franklin could come back to earth, his
verdict would be that we have paid
dearly for our Philippine whistle
AS soon as President Roosevelt laid
his big stick on their backs the re-
bellious and voluble CalifOrnians be-
came mild as sucking doves on the
Japanese question and even went so
far as to vote for their own efface-
ment. The Democrats in the house,
with five or six exceptions, voted
against giving the president carte
blanche to do as he pleases in immi-
grafton matters and against mixed
schools, but the Californians were
quiet as lambs.
CHAMP CLARK.
y b b.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07

~ oSAAS@1AO
1t would seem that that of reciprocal
free trade in coal between the United
States and Canada is one, but the
stand patters would have none of it.
The Williams bill is as follows:
That there shall not hereafter be
levied, collected nor paid any duty
on coal the product of the Dominion
of Canada when shipped or carried in
to the United States.
This act shall take effect, however,
upon the issuance of proclamation
by the president of the United States
setting forth that the government of
the Dominion of Canada has removed
the duty now levied and collected by
it upon coal the product of the United
States shipped or carried into the Do
minion of Canada from the United
States.
1t is hereby made the duty of the
president of the United States to is
sue the said proclamation herein pro-
vided for upon the official ascertain
ment of the fact that the Dominion of
Canada has removed the duty on coal
ing the Dominion of Canada.
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Proposition to Reform House Rules.
A great many members are weary
of the stringency of the house rules.
Among these is Judge Dorsey w.
Shackleford, of Missouri now coming
to be what the late Charles Fremont
Cochran of Missouri would have call
ed IAN old and experienced member"
The general complaint is that the pres
ent rules give the speaker entirely too
much power. This is claimed by most
Democrats and by few Republicans.
Before Colonel William P. Hepburn
was made chairman of the committee
on interstate and foreign commerce he
would deliver philippe in each con-
gresS against the rules, but since he
was made chairman of that committee
he has omitted that speech. Whether
the Craftsmanship caused him to quit
or whether he came to realize the fu-
tility of it, | know not. First and last,
Judge Shackleford has made several
speeches on the subject himself-ex-
cellent speeches, too, full of fire and
vigor. The judge evidently learned to
spell out of Webster's old blue backed
speller and took to heart the story of
how an old man tried to scare boy
out of his favorite apple tree by throw
ing tufts of grass at him. Finding it
had no effect, he began to throw rocks,
whereupon the boy came down. So
the judge, finding that his speeches did
not change the situation and with hope
still springing in his breast, intro
duced resolution which will do the
work If he can get it passed. His res
olution is in words and figures as fol-
lows:
Resolved, That rule 10 of the rules
of the house of representatives be
amended by striking out the following:
Unless otherwise specially ordered
by the house the speaker shall appoint
at the commencement of each congress
the following standing committees
viE.," and insert in lieu thereof the
following:
There shall be selected at the be-
ginning of each congress a standing
committee, to be called committee on
organization and order of business
nh
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07


at the present day, are ably and COM
prehensively stated in a recent article
prepared by the distinguished statisti-
cal and public economist who con-
ducts the Baltimore Manufacturers
Record. The following paragraphs
from it are so full of interest and so
much to the point that they are given
here:
During 1906 the wealth of the
south increased $7,3O0,000 for every
day of the year, Sundays included, or
a total of $2,690,00000O. The actual
increase in assessed value was $1,076,-
479,788, and this was on the average
of 40 per cent of the true value. The
amazing magnitude of this gain of
$7,300,O00 a day is strikingly shown
by the statement of the London Ex-
press, which, bemoaning the inability
of Great Britain to keep pace with
Americas growth, put the increase in
Great Britain's wealth at $7,000,0O0 a
week.
Contrast the south's increase of ST.
100000 day with Great Britain's ST.
100000 a week, and then think of the
future.
Great Britain, with comparatively
few natural resources, dependent upon
the outside world for nearly all
it's foodstuffs, for much of it's iron ore,
for all Of it's cotton, and a large part
of it's lumber, and with only 10000
square miles of coal, of which large
portion has been worked out, has 40,-
100000 people crowded into an area
equal to that of less than half of
Texas.
"On the other hand, look at the
south, with the worlds cotton trade in
it's absolute domination, with $4,000
square miles of virgin coal fields, with
iron ore sufficient to duplicate for
years to come the whole iron and steel
trade of all Europe, with almost limit
less soil capabilities already pEoduc-
ing over 800,000,000 bushels of grain a
year and several hundred million dol
lars worth of diversified farm prod
ucts, able to produce foodstuffs for
hundreds of millions, able to clothe
the world, able to do more manufact-
uring than that of the whole country
today, with millions of available water
power, 100000 horsepower for electri-
cal transmission being already under
development, and when you have cata-
logued these you have mentioned only
a few of the south's strong points.
who can measure the limitless pos
sibilities of the south? Who can fully
grasp the fact that the south is rapid
ly pushing forward to the time when
it's own wealth will exceed all of the
vast wealth accumulated by Great
Britain through the ages, and by which
it dominates the finances of the world?
Given few more years of this rapid
advance by the south, and it will be-
gin to pile up vast accumulation of
capital, whereas now it's business is
increasing so rapidly that it requires
all of its earnings for active business
operations. Surely the vision is one to
stir every southern heart, for it is, in
indeed, reality"
Let it be understood that the develop
ment of southern resources, energy
and enterprise has gone on in a con-
stantly and rapidly multiplying ratio,
and at a corresponding rate of growth
in thn future and thnrn iG &C far &c
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07
RELICS OF CARPET BAG DAYS.

San Salvador, Feb. 27.-The ma
tional assembly today refused a dona.
ton to Salvador, made by various per.
sons in the state of North Carolina.
to the amount of $5O0,OO0. In reject.
ing this proffered donation the assem-
bly, expressed the opinion that it
would be undignified for Salvador to
accept the gift.
Simmons on the Donation"
Washington, Feb. 27.-The dona-
tion of the 100000 of North Carolina
bonds to Salvador which was declined
by the national assembly of that coun-
try according to Senator Simmons.
was made by New York syndicate.
headed by Bird S. Coler. Senator
Simmons says that the bonds were
issued by the carpet bag legislature
of North Carolina in 1868 and that the
state has never received one cent for
the securities. The New York syndi.
cate, he says, has purchased almost
the entire issue, amounting to many
millions of dollars, at about two cents
on the dollar. The bonds have been
offered to a number of states and indie.
pendent governments in order that
suit may be brought against North
Carolina and the validity of the securi.
ties passed upon by the supreme court
of the United States.
South Dakota Keeps Money.
Pierre, s. D., Feb. 27-The bill or
dering the return to North Carolina
of $4,000 obtained from that state in
gratis bonds, was defeated In the sen.
ate today by a vote OF 25 to 16.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07
THE BIG SEVEN.

The Brooklyn Eagle has divided the
United States into seven transnorta.
tlon provinces, for each one of which
it names railway magnate as it's con.
trolling figure. 1t credits these indi.
viduals with immense political infu-
ence in their respective regions by
reason of their ability to control the
wealth and actions of others in addi-
ton to their own.
James J. Hill, Edward H. Hartman,
j. Pierpont Morgan, James McCrea,
William K, Vanderbilt, George J.
Gould and William H. Moore own or
control per cent of the entire wealth
OF this country, or rs per cent of the
whole railroad mileage, with a total
capitalization and funded debt of S.
65,l32,5S6. The annual net earnings
of these roads amount to $525,986.748.
or 66,78 per cent of the net earnings of
all the railroads of the country. While
the control of these seven men is not
absolute in the whole of the 100000
miles of roads credited to them. thev
largely influence the conduct of 33.549
miles which they partially dominate.
The great sway WHICH these seven
men exercise in the industrial pur-
suits can be realized when it is re.
membered that the sale or exchange of
products of the country depends al
most entirely upon facilities for dis.
trlbution. Statistics h1 the year 1905
show that the value of manufactures
in this country was $4,000. 900 900:
farm products, $23,O00,OO0 i'm
ports $2,OO0,OO0,000. In this aspect of
the proposition it will be seen that
the nearly $9,0O0,OOO, 900 of railroad
values momentously affected the S4O,-
OOO,OOO,OO0 of other industrial wealth.
Although the processes of consolida-
ton which have brought these men
into control of so vast situation have
been going on for years, it is only of
late that compilations Of their i'm.
mense individual manipulations have
been possible, for the reason that un-
I'll lately these concentrations had not
been completely developed.
When consideration is given TO the
fact that millions of toilers are en-
gagged in the operation of the railroads
and in the business of agricultural pro-
duction and manufactures, some idea
can be had of the mighty power which
these seven magnates hold in the in
dustr1al and commercial life of the
country, and incidentally in politics.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07

ing the rules, joint rules and order of
business. Said committee as soon as
selected and organized shall proceed
to the appointment of the following
standing ommittees-viz'
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07
soUTH's WONDERFUL FUTURE.

At the close of the terrible civil war
which had shaken this great nation to
it's foundations, the southern section
which had been engaged in the tre-
mendous conflict emerged from the
struggle overwhelmed by the vast ma
terial forces against which it had con-
tended, with it's lands laid waste, not
few of the cities reduced to ashes,
hundred thousand of its best and brav-
est sons cold in death, and all it's
wealth destroyed by the havoc of war
or reduced to the simplest elements
from which only by the most unremit-
ting and laborious eXertions 1t would
be possible to secure a bare subsist-
ence.
Forty years have passed away since
the south laid down it's arms and
promptly addressed itself to the arts
of peace. From that day to the pres
ent hard work and devoted exertion
have not ceased, and the result is that
the south is growing rich, richer than
ever 1t was before, and richer than It's
people dreamed 1t could become. It's
development In those forty years, and
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07

When man is known as a confirm
ed bachelor it means that great
many girls have assisted at his con-
firmation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-29
PROGRESSING SLOWLY.

Northeast Australia develops very
slowly. Farmers grow maize in the old
fashioned way. The maize crop in
Queensland this year Is a record one
Canning pineapples is becoming an i'm
pOrtant industry in Queensland. Opal
mining is growing steadily.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-29
JURY ARRAIGNED
BY COUNSEL PUGH

You swear that you will well and
truly try and true deliverance make
Of the cases on trial here and then you
trifie with the cases when they nre
given to you for a verdict You tribe
with them in such a manner that we
have to try them three and lour times.
The Government does not care
whether you give a verdict in favor OF
the Government or the defendant, but
We do want verdicts."
This was part Of a sensational criti-
cism OF the jury by Corporation Coun-
sci Pugh in his closing speech in the
case of John J. Connolly. who was
charged with having failed 10 have
proper drainage in two houses situated
at 200 and 2O4 B street northwest, which
he owned. The case was tried in Judge
Kimbalrs court.
Standing before the jury, his face
flushed with excitement. clutching in
his right hand the notes he had made
during the trial. Mr.. Pugh scored the
jurors for what he called their .'trifiing
methods"
1.-THE court" ne said. represents Tho
machinery Of the law. We are put here
Instead you force us to try our cases
over again and again. Give us verdicts
gentiemen--whether in favor Of the
Government or the defense. We do not
care so long as we get verdicts."
The jury brought out a verdict IN
less than five minutes finding Connolly
guilty. He was fined so by the court
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-29
LAYS ABUSE OF JAPS
TO LABOR TROUBLES

The situation in San Francisco, re-
sulting from the attacks made upon the
Japanese restaurant and bath house last
week. during the street car rioting. and
the assault made by japanese upon two
white men IN that city Monday pre-
sumably in retaliation. Is holding the
serious attention of the Washington
Government.
The President had laid before him at
Cabinet meeting two kilograms on the
situation, one from Gov T NJ. Gillette.
of California TO Secretary Root. and the
other from United States District At
torney Devlin, at San Francisco. to At
tOrney General Bonaparte.
Governor Gillette In answer to Secre-
tary Roots telegram, asking that prompt
steps be taken by the State authorities
OF California to afford proper protection
TO the japanese. as guaranteed 70 them
by treaty rights, replied that he attrib-
uted the clash TO disturbed labor con-
ditiOng-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-29

Tho United States Department of Ag-
riculture will soon issue Farmers Bull
letiT POI. entitled Methods OF Destroy
ing Rats" prepared, under the super
vision Of the chief of the Bureau Of
Biological Survey. by d. Z. Lantz, as
sistant biologist.
One rat is much like another so far
as destructiveness goes. but IL is of in
terest to note that three kinds have ap-
peared in this country. all immigrants
from the Old World.
The black rat was the first to reach
our shores, which It did nearly three
hundred years ago. The common
species. known as the brown. or Nor
way, rat, arrived about the year l775
and at once proceeded to drive out its
weaker rival, until almost everywhere
il has supplanted It. The third species
known as the roof, or Alexandrine. rat
of Egypt. is a great mariner, and In
tests every ship; hence. naturally, it Is
common along our coast, especially II
the South.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-29
BALLOT FOR LOTS
AND FREE OUTING
Valley Realty CompanyInau-
gurateS Generous Scheme
at Benning Heights.

Balloting for free lots and free James,
town trips TO the music of a big brass
band viii be the magnet TO draw the
multitude to Benning Heights on
Decoration Day, the campaign OF votes
to begin at 10 o'clock and TO termf-
nate as soon after o'clock as the
judges OF the occasion can finish the
count of ballots. An added attraction
OF the occasion will be the generous
dispensing Of sandwiches and lemonade,
and general "hoorah'' time for every
body, the greatest care being taken to
fOrestan Objectionable characters.
The Valley Realty Company, which IS
exploiting Benning Heights. described
as The Paradise across the Eastern
Branch in sight OF the Capitors dome.
has sprung surprise upon Washing
ton In the matter OF booming desirable
property for Investment or home pur-
chase. They announce that the values
which will be given away absolutely
free, and without reservation, except
such as is prescribed for the balloting,
amounts to more than $1,000
In order TO awaken widespread local
interest In this new addition TO the rest
Dental attractions In the eastern sec
ton of Washington. II. J. Stallings, the
sales manager fox the Valley Realty
Company, originated the scheme OF
awarding a free lot each TO the most
popular church denomination and labor
organization IN the District. and also
provided for a free trip to jamestown
with SO a day allowance for expenses
for five days, for the most popular po-
liceman and letter carrier in Washing
ton.
Ballot booths VIII be provided and
the merry war OF votes will be decided
as soon as the judges can make thu
cOuDt No candidate will be considered
that polls less than fifty votes. Th'
magnitude OF this booming bencfactioT
| can be gathered from the fact tina
/ the. lots to be given away are eacl
valued at 500, and the cost Of eacl
/ jamestown trip will average about 500