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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11
WANTED TO DRop The .s4op..
.Erofessor Complains Of MonotonouS
Repetition Of Titles.

''Ifave you ever noticed" asked the
professor, that because OF society's
decree, we are not only forced always
60 think of certain men as associated
with their occupations, but that even
I'm addressing them we must remind
them of their callings?
Take the doctor, for example. l
should think that he would be ever
7astingly tired of having his profess
sion brought home to him by every
body who speaks to him. Even the
wives of physicians fall into the habit
sof addressing their husbands by their
title of Office. 1t must be very wear
ing. On my way abroad last summer
I met a man who holds one OF the
chairs at Harvard. The first thing that
we did after becoming well enough
acquainted to feel a little freedom
with. each other was to stop using the
word professor You may call me
anything you like, he said one day to
me, so long as the term you employ
doesn't remind me of my work.
IuClueuIdlly, WudI uISdulul Aioho'
ony it must be for the holders OF
military or political Offices to be adj
dressed constantly as General or
Colonel or Captain, Governor or
Senator It's all right, at first; it
makes a man feel his Importance; but
the sameness of it, day after day,
week after week! A handle to a name
is sometimes necessary, but must it
always be used?"
kNo, indeed, professor" his friend
agreed warmly.
The professor looked sad and then
changed the subject.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11
Medical Training for Character,

AS school of character ii is doubt
full if any better could be devised than
the routine career of medical stu
dent. 1t is not claimed that every
medical student at the endjOf his five
yesr curriculum will be found to have
become saint. But If he has not de-
veloPed manly qualities of self-re-
straint. courage. gentleness and for
beara0ce. it is not for want OF oppor-
tunity Of practicing these virtues.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11

Wall street still clings to the idea
that the national treasury is its own
annex.
The announcements that the Moors
are 6ghtint hard among themselves
will no doubt suggest that which ever
side whips will be entitled to credit
for reducing the size Of the or p.
According to the report Of the grand
jury in San Francisco that city con
tinues to hold the belt in the contest
with Philadelphia and Chicago as
champion alI-round athletes in ini-
guilty.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11
A DANGEROUS DEADLOCK

that sometimes terminates fatally, is
the stoppage of liver and bowel func-
tons. To quickly end this Condition
without disagreeable sensations, Dr..
Kings New Life Pills should always
be your remedy. Guaranteed abso-
luhely satisfactory in every case or
back, at all drug stores. 25c.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11
Enn,lnh 80 tn snare

''And the name is to be"--asked the
suaye minister as he approached the
font with the precious armful OF fat
and fiounces. Augustus Philip Ferdi-
nand Codrington Chesterfield Livings-
ton Shocks" Dear mel" Turning to
the sexton: "A little more water, NJ.
Perkins. II you please -TitBitA
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11

They generally play baseball in the
strike districts,
Many a bad boy knows something
about felt" slippers.
Are the American eagles eggs
what you would call patriotic lays.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11

AS to becoming a Mrs. some maids
make miscalculations.
A man who hits the pipe may find
it difficult to stem the tide.
A dudes friends do not seem to
have mind above ordinary things.
Accommodation trains are not the
kind you get on in bathrooms.
There's no use crying: Hold on
there" to the man who cannot hold
his own.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11
HERE'S GOOD ADVICE.

O. S. Woolever, one of the best
known merchants Of LeRaysvhle, N
T., says: If you are eve: troubled with
piles. apply Bucklen's Arnica salve.
1t cured me of them for good 20 years
ago. Cures every sore, wound. burn
or abrasion, 25c at all drug stores.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11

The featherweight should not wear
borrowed plumes.
The card dealer cannot always
claim that it is his deal.
The cobbler isn't bankrupt just be-
cause he loses his awl.
You cannot become an easy speaker
by patronizing speakeasy.
To pump man, he doesn't have to
have a handle to his name.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11

Wagons. buggies and farm machin-
cry in carload lots--thafs the way we
buy; hence we can make prices that
cant help but sell our goods. All we
need to make you customer is to
look over our lines and hear our prices
Adams & Neubert
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11
Heard Enouuh.

Judge-DO you think You could give
verdict in accordance with the evil
dence7
WouId-be juror--l do
Lawyer (for the defense. hastily
challenged for cause!--New York
weekly.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11

Years ago. perhaps. coffee also
made sleepless knights.
In Chicago, especially, there may
be some good in an i'll wind.
Keeping time to funeral march rs
not necessarily dead beat.
The woman in the case often gets
the best Of the Judge and jury.
1t is as much as some people can
do to keep from being done.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11
BADLY MIXED UP.

ABB ahaa. Brown, Of Win.eiton. N.
T.. had remarkable experien e; he
says; Doctors got badly mixed up
over me; one said heart disease; two
called it kidney trouble; the fourth,
blood poison, and the fifth stomach and
liver trouble; but none Of them helped
me; SO my vile advised trying Electric
Bitters, which are restoring me to per-
feet health. One bottle did me more
good than all the FIVE doctors prescrib.
ed" Guaranteed to cure blood poison,
weakness and stomach, liver and kid
ney complaints, by oil druggists, SOC.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11
IN MEMORIAM.

NlGG '. stream x !; |.
narrow tide,
The known and unknown worlds di.
vide,
Where all must so.
Its waveless waters, dark and deep,
Mid sullen silence downward sweep,
With moanless flow"
His sudden death recalls the words
Of David to his friend Jonathan ::
There is but a step between me and
death" and admonishes us to take
heed, for daylight is fading and soon
The night cometh when no man can
work"
In the death Of our brother Tatum,
the fraternity has lost an honored
and faithful men Der and his family
has suffered a sad bereavement and
irreparabIe loss. To them we tender
Masonic coincidence, our warmest
sympathy and fraternal love.
May the Fathers blessing be with
them now and abide with them for
ever. AS one by one our brethren
pass over that river, we cherish their
memories here, and cover their foibles,
whatever they may have been, with
the broad mantle of Masonic charity,
hoping and trusting to be reunited in
an indissolusble chain Over There"
where the Grand Master over all pre-.
sides in everlasting glory.
Adieu, brother, until we meet
again.
Passing out Of the shadow;
Into purer light
Stepping behind the curtain,
Getting clearer sight;
Passing out Of the shadow
Into eternal day
Why do we call it dying,
This beautiful passing away?"
Let the Junior Warden's chair be
suitably draped, the Secretary furnish
the family Of our late brother and the
city papers with a copy of this me-
rnorial
Respectfully submitted.
B. F. Jamison,
F. M. Elliott;
S. E. Adams,
Committee.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11
AT REST.

Y the morning Of
the 18th day Of
November, 1907.
our b elo v e d
brother, William
Gibson vail
winged his flight
to those realms
beyond the skies
where an ge | 8
dwell and men
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11
ThdE OF T7Hi":G AT
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06
Spiked.

Joe Cannon's toy presidential boom
has been punctured by the same knife
that stabbed the Oglesby primary cleo
ton law in the senate.
Uncle Joe" Cannon is a bright man,
a clever politician, a shrewd politician
among politicians, but he lacks one
thing that is very essential in such d
presidential campaign as that of 1905
will be.
He is not essentially fighter for
peoples rights. He is unwilling to spurn
the machine and turn to the PEG
pie. He "straddes."
A striking illustration of his strad
ding is his interference with the pri
mary bill in the senate. He was one
of the Influences to which may in par
be attributed the e:nasculation of that
very important measure.
Had Joe Cannon been essentially ;
fighter in defense of the rank and file
ia champion of the people, a defender
of the people against boss" rule. ht
would not have gone to Springfield t.
trifle with the Oglesby primary bill
but he would have gone there to hell
pass it.
AS to Cannon's nomination, if re
publican machine man is nominated
it will be some one closer to the thron,
than Cannon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

say you have forgotten mel know
better"
rs it Elias Smith," Eliza Jane could
scarcely make the words distinct for
the thrcbbing i'll her throat.
mo longer Elias 3. Smith, but z.
Browning Smith 1t reads better in
print You, however, may call me as
you WILL
You found the basket, but how
could you guess
THAT it was yours? Had | not seen
in our gossip column that Miss Eliza
Jane Robinson was visiting our city?
The writing was identical with that
in certain letter | sometimes read to
this day-above all. which of us could
forget
Loves kiss in the pine woods of Maine?"
"Dont-piease don't" Eliza Jane
buried her face in her hands. But
even so she could not hide her
bushes. They crept up TO the very
rims of her small ears, from which her
tidied. Elias Smith took her by the
wrists and firmly uncovered her face
STOPPING till his eyes were level with
hers, he spoke almost in Il whisper:
Il Lad lost you, Eliza Jane, and it
seemed forever. But in the woods |
have found you again. and this time
l shall never let you go.'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06
Yesterdays Elections.

The central feature of yesterdays
elections was the triumph of Mayor
Tom l.. Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio,
over the republican national admins
tration, which sought through every
means at its command to unseat him.
The result makes the victor prom
inent if not a dominant figure in ma
tional politics. Admittedly one of the
foremost municipal executives in
America. a man who has stood valiant
ly for the peoples cause for years, a
man who has not only advocated, but
has done things, the opposing party
undertook to retire him because of
his power and popularity. President
Roosevelt took a-personal hand in the
election. He insisted upon Congress
man Burton, one of the most distin-
guished members of the lower house,
making the fight against Mayor John
son, and, backed by the influences of
the administration favorites presiden-
tial candidate, William Fl. Taft, Bur
ton had at his command every resource
possible to array, politically and 9th
Ierwise, and the fight assumed the sig
nificances of a national election. Tom
Johnson's great popularity in the city
where he was best known was put at
stake. The issue was Tom Johnson
and good government. and Tom John
son and good government won
Mayor Johnson is a representative
democrat. He stands for all that is
democratic in principle. politically,
and as the term is applied in its gen
,eral sense. He is a man of the peo-
pie He is of the people and for the
people, and he has given to Cleveland
"a government by the people. 1t was
which he is the exponent, that impress.
ed the national administration with the
duty of attempting to remove him
But it was too big an undertaking
Johnson remains where the people
placed him, and he will not be dis
turbed. unless it be to go higher as
the representative of their principles
their interests and their cause.
In San Francisco. too, the cause OF
good government was victorious. Rot
teEness and graft were once more re
pudiated and the city, cleansed of its
iniquities, took another stride along
the white way
In New York City, Tammany took {
crimp in William Randolph Hearst'S
aspirations, and in New Jersey ant
the other democratic states the part!
more than held its own, while in Ne
braska. the state of Bryan, it made
, notable gains.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06
Bhe Hrgus Daily Short Story
Language of the Woods"-By Ethel Darlington.
Copyright,

that Other holiday. Again she caught
the murmur of hope in the swish of
tall naples. drowning the sigh of re-
eret among dark pines. The bridal
white of the dogwood rose against
cloudless sky. White, wind swayed
anemones, great purple violets and
creeping pologala. thrusting frail
heads high through decaying leaves.
all spoke of imperishable youth and
love. A couple of lines in her little
verses brought faint tinge Of color to
Eliza James pale cheek:
Amid lightning and hailstones and rain,
Came loves kiss in the pine woods of
Maine
She let them remain because, like
an echo of the language of which she
wrote, they seemed to belong here.
Presently the rhymes were completed.
and, dropping both pad and pencil into
the basket that she had brought to
carry home such mountain treasures
as she might find, she rose and
stretched her arms with luxurious
abandon. 1t was wonderful to be free
from the cramp and irksOmc strain
Vi EOullHe she DredlHeu lOi!S anu
deeply of the invigorating air.
81 wonder. Elias, do you. too. remem-
Der? But of course not; you're Il man
don't myself. except here. where one
feels as if actually coming alive again
after being petrified. | shall forget
my dignity when go back. It's only
the language of the woods after all"
Eliza Jane' laughed half regretfully.
1t was not unnatural that the place
should stir sentiment in her 1t was
the same town to which Elias Smith
had come after their misunderstood
ing, before they quite lost track of
each other. Once, writing to her
cousin, she casually inquired for her
old friend. But Mrs. Hart answered
that. while she heard of numberless
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

Smiths, Sic had yet to come across
one. called Elias, which. in her judg
ment. was a mercy. since it was an
ugly name. Scripture or no Scripture;
hence when Eliza Jane accepted the
invitation she had done so confident
she ran no risk of meeting with her
boy lover.
Catching sight through the tangle of
underbrush of glowing mass OF
azaleas. she pushed her way through,
eagerly filling her hands. From one
shrub TO another she wandered, some
times higher up the mountain side.
sometimes dropping back. but always
adding to her blossoms. When she
could carry no more Eliza Jane paused
for breath. The flash of scarlet and
glossy black of a tanager caught her
eye. and she held herself GREATNESS
so rs not to scare him away.
When the green tangle swallowed
him up she realized her own fatigue
and retraced her steps to find her baS-
kct. Search rs she would. she could
not come upon it. Back and forth she
walked. now climbing afresh the
rocky incline. now descending with
greater speed. AT times stray bits of
aZalea caught on alien shrubs made
her realize with disgust that she was
covering ground already troddeh. Her
watch proved the hour late: dinner
would be over and her cousin anxious
at her nonappearance. OF small value
in itself, the basket could be easily re
placed, but the little spinster did not
relish leaving her inspiration of the
woods to the mercy of any stranger
passing that way. In the end she was
| compelled to do so.
Usually self possessed she STAN
mercd while explaining her misfortune
on her return. Her cousin paused il
setting the warmed over dinner before
her to express her disapproval.
AT your age. Eliza Jane, to take &c
rhymes. You'd better stick to teach
ing. There's some use and more money
in that"
SHOULD any one find it," suggested
| Eliza Jane uneasily.
"Is your name on it? No? Ther
| they'd never lay such nonsense at you
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

Spring held sway over the spurs OF
the Allechanies. Around Eliza Jane
was the breadth of moist earth. the
pungent odor of cedar, green shoots
and wild pink azaleas. Below the call
of the robin came the purring of the
mountain stream. Il little to the left.
as it crawled over its STONY bed. lap
ping tender MOSES on either side and
stirring ferns and tiny white violets
into active growth.
Eliza Jane. seated on decaying log
her feet deep in dry brown leaves. was
conscious of all this, though her eyes
and fingers We're busy over the writing
pad resting on her knee. She was writ
ing verses. Back of her consciousness
was little silent laugh at the foolish
ness of such an occupation for her. a
staid teacher in New England school.
Ten years had she held the position.
Never in all that period had she so
wasted precious hours. 1t was as if the
past had been suddenly recalled. A
certain memorable day spent i'll the
Maine woods seemed by reason of her
present environment but yesterday,
whereas in truth it dated further back
than the mOnotonous grind of school
routine that now enslaved her. The
teacher salved her self respect for such
n frivolous impulse with the reminder
that it was vacation time. Work of
any sort had been prohibited on pain
of nerves. already severely taxed. fail
ing in the coming winter.
She had inscribed the title above her
effusion in her neat, stiff writing.
Language of the Woods" and the
simple words faulty enough as poetry
were illumined with sincerity. The
language of the woods. unheard for
years. now in a different section of the
country came clear and ,insistent as on
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

door, A schoolma'am is not supposed
like that young man we saw in the
play last winter
Two days later while slipping her cof-
fee Eliza Jane glanced cIrelessly over
the morning paper. Prominently On
the editorial page WAS printed Il small
poem. The title seemed fairly TO jump
out of tho column at her. Language
of the Woods
The cup clattered as she set it in the
saucer. ana Mrs. Hart looked up re
proachfully.
Tor. Eliza Jane. what scared you
now"
"My-my verses
For lands sake Her cousin ap-
propriated the paper. and. adjusting
her glasses carefully. read in mono
tone. regardless of-all punctuation. the
verses Eliza Jane had penciled in the
woods. she cast Il suspicious glance ut
her relatives bent head on reaching
the cOuplet:
Amid lightning and haiIstones and rain.
a
Maine.
Perhaps womanly sympathy for any
thing bordering on romance held her
tongUe. for she made no comment then
or ever. till it no longer matterel.
Listen. Eliza Jane" she continued.
with growing interest. heres some re-
marks by the editor himself He de
sires the author 10 go down to the of
| flee for Il check. Do tell, Money FOR
that rubbish, Not that | want To hurt
your feelings. l guess yours are nc
| worse than lots of others"
Perhaps writing would answer
began Eliza Jane.
Personal application is what it says
here. If you can make money that
easy the least you can do is to go aft
| er it,
So Eliza Jane did go and was usher
ed into the august presence of the cai
tor. That gentleman proved tall. broad
shouldered and z trifle bald. but wit
eyes that twinkiSd as at some peculiar
| ~ pertinent joke.
| Il was right felt was right. Blu
you have changed little more tina:
your verses. Eliza Jane" The sdito
took his visitor by the hand. seatin:
her in the wide armed chair. Don
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06
Wednesday, November 6, 1907.
Governor Deneen Exposes the amend
ment eliminating the party machin-
cry from the control Of the pri-
mary election law.

1T THINK this amendment is a
/ mistake. The purpose of a
primary election bill is two-fold.
First, to give the right to members
of the party directly to determine
who shall be its nominee; and, sec
ond, to enable the members of the
party to control the party machin-
cry.
The original bill provides for the
selection of party committees by
direct vote of the members of the
party in the same way as for the
nomination of candidates. This
gives a full and fair opportunity to
the members of the party to con-
troll it's machinery. l fail to see
any valid objection to this. This is
of great advantage to the party. be-
cause it makes the party machinery
responsive to it's sentiments and
subservient to its wishes; makes it
truly representative of the party.
THE amendment prevents the
members of the party from having
such control. Should this amend
ment be incorporated in the bill.
there will be no law providing for
the selection of committeeman of
the several parties, nor for the Sc
lection of delegates to the state and
national conventions. The selec-
ton in many places will degenerate
into soap box primaries and mob
rule. 1t will restore the credentials
committee which had fallen into
such disrepute and will impair the
confidence of the party in its man
aging conventions. 1t is a distinct
backward step.
Il hope that the bill, when it be-
comes a law. will not be married by
this amendment.
CHARLES S. DENEEN."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06
tary hospital at the Preside, near San
Francisco.

No matter how one may attempt To
disguise or sugar-coat the situation, if
Roosevelt is nominated and elected
next year the result will be a third
term for this particular individual :.
The serving of the unexpired term
caused by the death of Mckinley
counts as one term in law and in logic,
and no hair-splitting or chip logic can
get around the fact. The term which
the president is serving is his second
Should he receive another election, ii
will be for a third term
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06
Automobile Sales.

Automobile sales in 1906 amounted
to $45,000,00C, according to Colonel
Pope, and in the first nine months of
1907 they have exceeded $4,000, 900,
and will reach $G0.000,0c0 by the end
of December. 1t is confidently expect
ed that 1908 will surpass 1907. AS a
business note indicating the state of
trade and the commercial outlook, this
statement has considerable interest.
The stock slump has for the most part
affected the capitalist class. The in
vestors will not be touched till divi-
dends are reduced, and that has rarely
occurred SO far. But the capitalist
class shows no evidence of going
broke" that the automobile makers OBJ.
serve
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

In the best governed city in America
they think there is nothing too good
for their oft elected mayor, Tom l..
Johnson. Even all the powers of the
national administration cannot upset
their faith.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06
A Reliable Remedy for Group.

Mrs. S. Rosinthal of Turner, Michi
gan, says: 1--WE have used Chamber
lain's Cough Medicine for ourselves
and children for several years and like
it very much. / think it is the only
remedy for Group and can highly
recommend it." Fer sale by all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

If it. is possible that the press and
people of the state have driven Joe
Cannon out of Springfield and put the
state senate in retreat, they have ac-
complished a great victory regardless
of the success or defeat of the primary
election law.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

There is serious epidemic of the
bubonic plague in the cities of the Pa
cific coast. A hundred cases are re-
ported in San Francisco alone. A
strenuous effort is being made to
stamp out the disease. Men are hired
to kill rats and a revenue is paid for
the rodents. There are a number of
eases of the dread disease in the mill
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06
JOHN P. ALTGELD-1eo3-1697.

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-06

The Pennsylvania capitol gang are
still in the eyes of the public, but
they have not touched their hearts.
On the contrary, it was their pocket
books