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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12
The Hoo That lie Always staple.

All admire a good-loolting hog, and
there is no reason why good looks
should not go with the highest useful
ness, but neither good looks nor fancy
breeding should stand for a moment
in the way of the hog that combines
vigor of constitution, growthiness, and
reasonably early maturity with form
pleasing to the eye. When we come
to the final test of beauty, pretty Is
as pretty does" The prettiest hog,
after all, is the one that is most profit
able; the one that makes the most
and best pounds of gain from hun
bred pounds Of the most inexpensive
dry matter; the one that makes the
largest contribution toward providing
for the family necessities; toward
meeting the interest on the mortgage,
and TO paying the mortgage itself; for
the addition to the house, the new
carpet, the piano or organ, the new
dresses for the girls, or their educa-
tion at school,
VIC plVSuSiS VI ,ethJ OASSu USPNAN
from the practical hog they make a
mistake, for sooner or later the com.
nonsense farmer will demand the
common-sense hog, and will waive any
preference he may have for particu-
lar color Of hair, curl Of tail or droop
Of ear IL breeders Of any breed de-
part from this for any considerable
length Of time farmers may say little
about it, but they will buy some other
breed that more nearly meets their
requirements. CT. d. Coburn,)
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12
stopping Washing on HiIIy Land.


Prevention is better than cure, but
there may be others, who like myself,
unknowingly broke the Wild sod across
the ravines or natural run-ways and
found out too late that they never
should have been plowed. Sometimes
on billy land a wash-out may start
on top OF hill where there is no
natural depression but one caused by
a dead furrow. These washes leave
unsightly bitches and often cover
large portions Of the best land in the
low places with sand and gravel, max
ing them unproductive, besides cut
ting the fields into irregular shapes,
making them hard to work have
tried many ways of stopping wash,
sometimes with success, sometimes
with failure.
If the wash is small one two or
three feet deep, it can be filled partly
full of brush, then straw on top, then
by blowing, throwing the dirt on the
straw, then sowing rye and June grass
seed, and If the rye gets a good start
before another heavy rain it usually
holds.
II the wash is large one and grad
ually breaking off at the upper end,
it Is harder to handle. We have tried
filling these with brush and straw,
but with little success; they keep
working back, breaking off as the
water works under the sod.
Now we build dam with pillow and
shovel across the rayine eight or ten
feet above the end of the ditch, leav-
ing a space in the middle for tlume
made of lumber so tight that there
will be no leakage, donenting it at the
end so that no water works its way
outside, and long enough to extend six
or eight feet over the ditch, first set
ting a long post in the ditch for the
end of the flume to rest on, then fill
in with brush for the water to dis
charge upon.
Another way we have tried with sue
cess is to thrash straw pile into the
head of the ditch, then make dam
around the head and down both sides,
seeding with rye and blue grass, in
this way dividing water and carrying
it down on well sodded runway,
and by sowing rye and grass seed on
the slope of the ditch it may be held
from getting any worse.
We have tried growing willows on
the bottom and sides of these washes
with but little success.
The farmer with billy land liable to
wash should pillow and cultivate as
little as possible, keeping the land
in hay and permanent pasture, and
keeping more cows and more sheep
will keep the land from washing and
the farmer from banlIruptcy.-(W CIV. c.
Bradley before Wisconsin Institute.)
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12
Farmers Educational
AND
Co -OperativcU Union
OF America
n-p y,ns.

II boys should get discouraged
At lessons or at work.
And say There's no use trying"
And all the hard tasks shirk,
And keep on Sinking, sinking,
TIL the boy becomes a man,
wonder what the world would do
To carry out its plan?
The coward in the conflict
Gives up at first defeat;
II once repulsed, his courage
Lies shattered at his feet.
The brave heart wins battle
Because through thick and thin
Neil not give UP as conquered
He fights, and fights to win.
So, boys, don't get disheartened
Because at first you fail;
II you but keep on trying,
At last you will prevail
Be stubborn against failure,
Try, try and try again;
The boys who keep on trying
Have made the worlds best men.
Selected.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12
DELICIOUS BANANA CREAM.

This recipe Is highly recommended by one Of
Peel Ave large bananas, rub smooth with Ave
teAspo0nfuls Of sugar. Add one teacip sweet
cream beaten TO a stiff froth, then add one 10c.
package Lemon EIlL.0 dissolved in / u teacups
boiling water Pour into mold and when cold
garnish with diedcherries. Servewith whipped
cream or any good pudding sauce. JELL-O Is
sold BY all Grocers at 10c. per package
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12
Poor Old Country Butter

An Iowa grocer says that he cannot
sell to his customers more than 20 per
cent of the butter he took from the
country. Fifty per cent was sold to the
renovators This is not speaking well
Of the care taken In making a large
proportion Of the butter that goes to
market. A great many do not take
care enough in making butter. Some
Of the best butter makers have private
customers and they sell but little to
the grocer. 1t doesn't pay to trade
butter for groceries. Make the best
then get the best price for it.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12
. new
MORPHINE
CURE

There. are large number Of treat
ments and ,so-caIled cures being ad
veatised. but they are only substitutes
as they contain morphine, opium, CO
cain and other injurious habit-formins
drugs. and such treatments never
cure.
MANlNE is the only remedy Oh
medicine in the whole wide world to-
day that positively will cure that d.
seased condition Of the nerve system
caused BY the use Of morphine, Iau.
danum or opium. The new discover,
MANlNE is not a substitute, but is ar
honest remedy and a cure, and does
not contain any morehine, opium, CO.
caine or other injurious habit-forminQ
drug.
Mr.. James Cain, Adams Station
Miss, says: Il used moaphine for
fifteen years, tried large numbea Of
treatments which proved to be worth
less, was completely discouraged and
did not believe there was any hope
for me, for | was So years old and tn
very feeble health. | tried that new
discovery, or cure, called MANIAE,
and it cured me and | have been cur
ed now for moEe than a year, and ]
know from experience that MANlNE
is an honest remedy, and cheerfully
recommend it to those who are slaves
to morphine. laudanum or opium"
Mrs. A. L. Shannon, CampbelIsyills
Miss, says: 4 used morphine for
twenty-five years, and when | com
menced taking MANINE was using
about twenty grains Of morphine per
day. am cured and free from the
drug after twenty-five years of bond
age, and have been cured now for
more than year"
Mr.. John C. Yost, Henry, w. Va,
says: 4 thank God that took your
remedy. MANINE. and hope every
person who discs morphine, Iaudanum
or opium will take it and be cured"
Mr.. j. S. Vinson, Dexter, Ca, says:
I used morphine for sears, was using
over twenty grains daily, and was cur
ed by MANINE. | tried many other
treatments but found MANINE to be
the only cure. 1t removes the cause
and completely destroys all craving or
necessity for the drug"
Mrs. Mile E, Smith. .Sedalia, Ind,
says; i used Morphine for twenty
years, tried all the treatments and was
finally cured with MANINE."
Mr.. John N, Shed, r. F. D. No. 3,
Box 95, Canon, Ga, says: q used
the drug for years, was using fifteen
grains per day, and was cured with
MANlNE after all other treatments
failed.
Those who usemorphine, laudaeum
or opium or any substitute or so-called
cure, should write to the MANINE
MEDICINE COMPANY, 1906 Lo-
Gust ST., St. Louis, Mo-, at once and
they will gladly send full Information
about this great discovery and will
tell you how to get cured at home
without sickness or pain or detention
from business.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12
Honey May Be Easily Raised.

Honey on the farm is a luxury that
can easily be obtained by every fam
lily. The care of bees by the house
wife and daughters is A pleasure 1t
requires some reading as to the man
agement as well as what kinds of
plants produce the pollen and honey
substances White clover is the first
plant to bloom in the early spring,
and it produces the whitest and purest
honey. This plant should be on every
farm, as it not only feeds bees, but
1t is enjoyed by all kinds of stock.
We also recommend the sowing of
Japanese buckwheat as feed for bees
Mn making honey 1t is crop that
should be found on most Of the farms
in the south. Seed should be sown
in July and it produces from thirty to
forty bushels of grain per acre. 1t
blooms for long Period, and after the
bees have filed their homes with de-
licious honey, the buckwheat can be
ground on common water mill,
bolted and make first class cakes for
the family. Get out of your ruts and
do something this year you never did
before-grow your pan cakes and hon
ey at home The women will tlke care
of the bees and make the cakes il the
husband will furnish the bees and SOW
the buckwheat
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12
Product Of Six Ewes.

An Iowa sheep grower says;
zone lamb to the eve, and that is
certainly low estimate, would mean
six lambs at SO per head, or SIS for
the lamb crop. One dollar and fifty
cents per head is certainly not too
high for an estimate on wool, which
would amount to SO fer six ewes. Add
ing this to the SIS for lambs gives a
total of $27, and as proof that | have
given the sheep the worst of the es-
innate, could cite YOU many fiocks
that have given double these feturns
from a merely market standpoint. !
will venture the statement that not
d fiockmSster will agree TO contract
the income from his flock at these
AGgures."
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12

him to doctor and tried half dozen
other treatments, all with the same
result: no improvement at all. The
disease gradually spread until nearly
every part Of his body was quite raw.
We had to strap him down in bed, for
he used to tear himself dreadfully in
his sleep. The agony he went through
is quite beyond words. No one thought
we would rear him. The regimental
doctor, very clever man, pronounced
the case hopeless; at least, he said the
only hope was that he might, If he
lived long enough, outgrow it to some
extent. We had him in hospitals four
times and he was pronounced one OF
the worst cases, if not the worst, ever
admitted. From each he was dis
charged as incurable; in fact he got
worse under the successive treatments.
At one hospital they incased him in
plaster, and this seemed to Rggravate
the soreness terribly. He looked so
badly that no one liked to go near him
and his life was burden to him. We
kept trying remedy after remedy, but
we had got almost past hoping for
cure. Six months ago we purchased
a set Of Cuticura Soap, Ointment. and
Resolvent Pills and persevered with
them. The result was truly marvellous
and to-day ne Is perfectly cured, MS SKID
not having a blemish on it anywhere.
Mrs. Lily Hedge, 81, Vaughan Road,
Coldharbour Lane, Camblewell Green,
Eng, Jan. IL, 1907"
Send to nearest depot for free Cuti-
cura Book on Treatment Of Skin Diseases.
Cuticura Remedies are sold throughout the world
Depots: London, p. Charterhouse So Paris 8. Rue
de la Paix, Australia. R. Towns Co.. sydney;
So. Africa. Lennon. Ltd, Capetown etc.: u. S.A.,
Potter Drug q Chem Corp. Sole Props. Boston
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12

A little planning before building
yards and putting IN gates win some
times save miles Of travel III doing
chores; Ia fact, the chores on many
farms could be reduced from ten to
Infty per cent BY having the buildings
ana yards properly arranged.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12

Three of as good colts as ever laid
YES on saw the other day in neigh
yboring field, and from dams that had
been worried in the field constantly up
10 the time the colts were foaled,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12

MIX quietly, clearly quickly and
thoroughly Cows do not like unnec.
essary noise Or delay. MIX at nearly
the same hour each night and morn
ing, and milk the cows In the same
order
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12

There. is, only one thing that is more
discouraging than every other thing
combined, and that is to have land dur.
ing the crop season continue to remain
under water Land subject to over.
tlow always has been and always VIII
be most trying proposition TO han.
die.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12

Send congressman 70 Washington
who think more Of the advancement
Of agriculture than Of building Of war
ships. We want business men at
washington, and not mere politicians.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12
PRONOUNCED HIS
CASE |NCURABLE
Whole Body Raw with Eczema
Life was lntoIerable Was Even
lncased in Plaster g Discharged
from Hospitals as Hopeless.
SUFFERED IA YEARS
CURED BY CUTICURA
From the age of three months until
fifteen years old, my son Owens life

my son owen s lie
was made intoler-
able by eczema in
its worst form. He
was all right until
a red rash broke
out on his fore
head, but we were
not alarmed at first.
Very soon, however,
the rash began to
spread over his head
and shoulders, and
it caused him great
discomfort. I took
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12

Slow Waiter Have ] ever been in
the coilutry, sir? No, sir. Why do
you ask? Tired Customer II was
j lst thinking how thrilling you'd find il
to sit on the fence and watch the tor
toises whiz by. (Pick-Me.Up,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-10
ARIZONA

RIZONA, eaten up by Republican
n carpetbaggers, leeched by the OF
"A ficeholders of the great Repupll-
can national machine, is clamoring,
working and praying for change OF
administration, hoping to receive from
Democratic Americans the just rights
withheld from it for the sake of plum
der, by pharisaical Republican para
sites. 1t is charged that "officialdom," !"
which is to say, practically the entire
Republican party in Arizona, is work
ing to defeat the popular will and re-
tain Tory privileges. The promises
and platform of the Republican party
both national and territorial, have
teemed with falsehoods.
The national Republican platform for
many years contained a plank pledg-
ing it's party to the admission of Ari-
zona and New Mexico, and at each ses-
sion Of congress the Republican party
refused to carry out it's pledges to the
people of the territories. Following in
the wake of national conventions the
territorial Republican conventions
would incorporate statehood plank
for Arizona and every federal official
in Arizona shouts for statehood in Ari-
IONA and in Washington does his level
best to prevent the passage of such
bill.
Republican speakers in Arizona are
"orating" on the necessity of electing
Ralph Cameron to represent Arizona
in congress "in order to hold the Re-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-10
Golfers Says Hearst Is
TreacherONS and DebdSi1lg

only characteristic of the mans whole
make. His pursuit of Chanler is due
to CHAMBERS independence. Jerome he
slandered for refusal to receive in
structions. Roosevelt he maligns prin-
cipally from jealousy Mckinley he
bounded from debauched taste for sem
sation. The only public man unceas-
ingly and eloquently praised by the
Hearst papers is William Randolph
Hearst. In a public speech, accusing
both Hughes and Chanler of dishonesty,
Mr.. Hearst observed that he himself
was the real race-tracl- gambling re-
former; he who feeds his readers daily
with pages of gambling news, adver-
tisements, and best BETS; he, the
former ally of Murphy in New York
and of Hartman in San Francisco The
Independence party, standing between
the partizan organizations, ought to
be of the highest usefulness. but it,
like the Hearst papers, is, unhappily,
but a pander to the Hearst ambition:
and Hearst is treacherous. cruel, de-
basing. He is a blight to any cause
with which he is identified, because, as
soon as that cause ceases to feed his
personal ends, he turns, to vilify, to
lie, to rend.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-10
Mr.. WHITE SHOWS WHAT Is
AND WHAT is NOT CLEAR

POMONA, Oct. S.-[Editor Herald]:
Student asks me il that, where he refers
to Herbert Spencer, is mud. cannot
see why he asks, as there is nothing
muddy about Spencer there. 1t is
where Spencer says that under the
present system laborer can stay or
go as he pleases, and that the proposed
system of socialism Il suppose he
means that of Marx and Engels)
couldn't be worked If the laborer were
allowed to go as he pleased.
Spencer would be clear had he told
us why it is that under the present
system the work can be done though
the laborer can go or stay as he pleases,
and why under Socialism the work
cannot be done should the laborer be
given the same freedom.
If he must be forced to work under
Socialism, why is it that his work is
voluntary now?
am told by Socialists that Under
Socialism the laborer can "Do this, or
leave your place and take the conse-
uuencies"; and that the consequences
will he the same as now minus chain
gang and the competing army of un-
employed that is now clamoring for
work. And that by quitting his work
he cuts off his cwn living only. There
can he no incentive to do that. He
NAV work four hours day or more
IL he likes. and work according to his
strength and efficiency, and that his
pay will be accordingly. M
Who is one to believe concerning So
cialisn. the Socialist or the critic
whose criticism is not clear?
G. u. WHITE.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-10
SHOULD "TRY" ACCUSED, NOT
"coNFEss" THEM INTO JAIL

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct 9.-[Editor
Herald: 1 want to quote from a Los
Angeles paper of good many months
back: ITO lynch negro is easy, and
it has become an affair of small I'M
portance in, the public mind. only
double and triple lynchings or lynch
ings of peculiarly fiendish cruelty at
tract much attention nowadays i.
But they do not bring us any nearer a
solution of the problem"
I'll article, which was entitled "The
Genesis Of the Fiend." went on to the
root of the matter. 1t said: 1.-The
negro, like the white man, is subject
to I, laws of physical. mental and
moral effect. He came to these shores
unwillingly, stolen from his native land,
and was made a slave. The men toiled
in the fields and the women-ALL
THROUGH THE SOUTH AND IN
THE NORTH, TOO--HAVE AP-
FEARED GENERATIONS OF LIGHT
COLORED' NEGROES. 1t is hard
thing TO say, but the first hends OF tne
type we are talking about existed
in the days of our own grand
fathers, and were NOT BLACK, either.
If there is anything in hereoity, surely
these degenerates have some just claim
to charitable consideration" And the
article closed with this scathing SEN
tence: THERE ARE NO FIENDS
OF THIS SORT IN AFRICA"
But quite apart from the question OF
color, 1 want to poin: out the terribly
grave danger involved in the deplorable
precedent set us the other day by the
sending up for life sentence of the man
Martin, virtually without trial, rail-
roaded by a rush of (more or less gem
eraD public indignation. Public indig-
nation is a fine-sometimes a noble
thing but like lynching, which the
local papers have taken a strange fancy
for Suggesting" lately, it is about the
worst possible foundation on which to
run system of criminal Justice
the most misleading and the most un-
just.
In all cases where a woman's "hy-
steria" may have played a part-as 1t
often does-a cool, searching trial. is
essential. What fair-minded, thought
full person is convinced by sweat box
confession by frightened, ignorant
man who was pro. ably told he would
get it "ten times hotter" If he didn't
confess. THESE THINGS ARE DONE
and not once nor twice only, but
right along" VAL STONE.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-10
THE SOLID THREE

D VICE within the past thirty days
some good citizens of Los Angeles
Il county have had to come to the
rescue of the good roads bonds from
the predatory onslaught of the Solid
Three of the board of supervisors.
First, the good roads advisory COM
mittee found it necessary to intervene
to prevent the private deal made by
the board of supervisors for the sale
of these bonds going through. After
the matter was tied up in court So
luton of the situation was found in
the sense of fairness and decency of
the bidders for the bonds, which inf1u-
enced these gentlemen very properly to
declare the deal off.
Then, apparently to pay political
debt, the job of printing the bonds
was awarded to a bidder whose bid
was several hundred dollars higher
than those of other responsible bidders
which had been filed with the board of
supervisors, and now a couple of patri-
otic citizens have interviewed in another
action to prevent this looting of the
road fund.
After these two exhibitions on the
part of the Solid Three of course no
body believes that any part of the good
roads fund would for moment be
safe in their hands. 1t is to be hoped
that some way will be found for tying
up the whole matter until majority
of the Solid Three who were refused
denomination by their party shall have
vacated their places and two new men
have succeeded them.
Who these two men shall be is a
serious proposition now up to the vot-
ers Of this county. If they see fit to
elect candidates who owe their nom
nations to the same Southern Pacific
Republican political machine that nom
mated the present members of the
Solid Three organization they may of
course expect a repetition of the scan
dals to which that infamous aggrega-
ton has treated us, and they will most
likely not be disappointed in such ex-
pectation.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-10
PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE TO
FAIRNESS OF THE HERALD

LOS ANGELES, Oct. S.--[Edtor
Herald: If there is a fairer, squarer
or cleaner newspaper than The Herald
nublished I have not discovered it,
Aside from any mere partisan bias, it
stands for all that is good and clean,
and | can recall nothing in it's policy
ar makeup since it's rehabilitation un-
der the present management but what
is commendable. Broadness OF view,
modesty of tone and honesty of pur-
nose are the guiding characteristics
manifested.
/ was highly edited by your article
in issue of 9Th inst. entitled Hearst"
and believe you have a true line on the
tsignificance of his present attitude. OBJ
serve how deferential is the manner Of
the Republican press toward this mod
ern Judas, William the Worst. They
refer to him now as Mister Hearst and
why should they not show signs of
gratitude? Verify, politics covers a
multitude of sins when the interest is
mutual, and illustrates the complexity
of human nature. r. N.