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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01
viii Take an Alrlno.

An Ohio man claims to have invent
ed an airship that will stay up for
months" 1t will doubtless make hit
with men who occasionally find it
necessary to dodge their creditors.-
Whittier News.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01
Removing Acid.

Acid stains may be removed by
wetting the spots and laying on them
salts Of NORWOOD. Let this stand for
few minutes, then rub the stain with
out using more water.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01

Are you in pain. my little man ?"
asked the kind old gentleman. mo-"
answered the boy. "the pains in me-"
INDIANAPOLIS Journal.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01

VIII some exceptionally original
mind among the commencement day
yaledictorians kindly give us q line
on what lies this Slde Of the Alpsf
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01
Colon lnfluence peM

The deposit OF dew is greatly indu
enced BY color It VIII be found thick
est on board painted yellow, but not
a. all ion red and black.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01
BOY TORTURED
BY AWFUL HUMOR.

Almost Covered with Eczema No
Nights Rest for Nearly a. Year
Feared Lifelong Disagreement
All Treatments Failed and Limit
of Endurance Seemed Near.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01

II was Lady Mary Montague who In
troduced into England the principle
OF inoculation for smallpox. She
learned this ~ Constantinople, and
tlrst tried its enicacy on her own sor
bafore giving It to the world.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01
True Hapniness.

Half the world is on the wrong
scent in the pursuit of happiness.
They think 1t consists in having and
getting and in being nerved by others.
1t consists in giving and serving 9TH
ers.-Henry Drummond.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01

The farm, large or small, is inconk
plete without an orchard.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01
The good COW is one Of the farmers
best friends. ~

tits good practice to mix the graIO
ration with the ,silage.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01

To like cows and have good ONES
are two essentials Of successful dairy
ing.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01

Last call to get the wood pile built
up to last through the rush of the
summer work.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01

The hog even with his earning ca
pacity curtailed seems to be as popu-
lar farm animal as ever
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01

Don't trust to oral agreements. Get
It down In writing, It is the only
safe method for you and the other
fellow.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01

1t may be small aperture and a
little draft gets in, but it may lead
to a heap of trouble with the stock
stabbed there.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01

Soon you will be planting your corn
Prof. Ten Eyck suggests that on fer
tile land capable Of producing so to 81
bushels Of corn per acre in a ia
Torable season, plant three kernels
IN . hill. the hills being 3M feet apart
each way, OF in drill rows plant one
kernel every IA inches in rows az
feet apart. On land Of medium fer
tility. capable Of producing 40 to 50
bushels Of corn per acre, plant three
kernels per hill. IN hills feet 3
inches anart each way; or one kernel
n PHI te. 16 to Is inches apart. IN
rOVB ga ieet apart. On soil deficient
a fertility and moisture. On whicS
the Yields may vary from 20 10 10
burhslS per acre. plant two kernels IN
hilIp 3M feet apart each way: Or one
1EetneI every ~ % "a inches IN rows
3 g net apart - Tie more northern
D0rtloR0 Of the corn belt increase the
1hlclnsss Or planting By one kernel
or hill under The several soil eOndt
fionS named
m@W ~ ~ ~
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01

sometimes weeds are allowed to
grow along the sides Of the garden.
Cut them out as 1t IL in these places
that many Of the insect pests spend q
part Of their existence. II the weeds
are kept down, there is not so much
danger Of the crops being assaulted
BY the pests.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01

Cowy odor in milk is almost in.
SArtably due to uncleanly methods in
the barn. If the COW is not brushed
and cleaned before milking and par
ficles of manure get into the milk the
odor of the offal is sure to faint the
milk.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01

Don't try to get along without q
thermometer in your dairy. Your
churning operations will be more GER
tain and satisfactory If you test the
cream with thermometer. In the
winter the cream is apt to be too
cold and in the summer too warm.
Guessing at the temperature is to in.
vite partial failure at least.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21

vitation and in few minutes upward of hundred
total strangers seated round veritabe ships
table, the racks all in position, and Alexander
sitting in the Captains place, the picture of hos
pitaty.
most plentiful supply of provisions had been
provided, and there was also practicable ships
odor which was pumped into the air by atomizer
concealed under the table
DURING the progress of the merry meal it leaked
- out that the Mystery motorman that had
formerly been sailor, and just before away
his engagement to Miss Andrews announced.
All present invited to the wedding, and
when at twelve O clock, we made our way out into
the street, gave three rousing cheers for Aexan
DER and agreed that pleasanter way of spending
informal day and evening together could not
have been devised
The last remark that I heard on board
made by clerical looking man. who talking to
very lashy woman, ablaze with diamonds. Is that
really so?' said he. Why, my mother Julia
Meredith of Waterbury,"
Then you're my cousin Walter said the blazing
lady. The world is not SO large, after all.
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been pacing back and forth for the last few minutes
hes old friend of ". !. Bryan's and he's almost
as great talker the Colonel.
Lets call him the Mystery, then, said the pretty
young woman. Il wish some of you would introduce
him
We waited until he came round again, and then
I said, How many laps to the mile?"
He stopped, looked at his watch and said very
pleasantly, - Nine, l believe"
Thanks What really stopped you for was to
introduce you to Miss Andrews here. She's from
Iowa.
Said the man in the sombrero, I'm from Missouri,
myself l wish you'd show around the ship"
Miss Andrews, laughing at the idea of his having
to be showed like the rest of his countrymen, rose
and asked me to look after her rug. Then she and
the Mystery began to circle the hurricane deck,
while l. folding her rug and placing it on her steamer
chair, went to likely looking group Of women
and said:
Easy motion. isn't it? Are you from New
York;"
Eyes, what made YOU think so?" asked the
youngest one making place for me at the foot of
her steamer chair.
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JUNE FL. 1905

Something in your general get up. By the way
l saw your names on your chairs. Are you related
to the Chapins of Rhode Island?'
Melville Chaplin is my brother"
why, he's been my lawyer for ten years The
world is not so large, after all, is it"
lust then some mechanism was set in motion There
> sound of roaring wind and we began
to pitch and roll violently. l good sailor but
I couldn't stand that pitching. l could see by the
white faces of the three ladies to whom talking
that they too were very sick so left them
to mind the motion, and some forced themselves to
stand it; but Miss Andrews and the Cooradoan lay
side by side on rug which they had spread on the
deck and looked with lack uster eyes at each other
l felt that this too painfully realistic to be
pleasant and rushed below, almost knocking
young boy in sailor costume who blew summons to
supper on buge.
There's no pitching in the dining saloon ladies
and gentlemen!" shouted Alexander through
ner."
There general acceptance of his cordial in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21

Lady Alma-T adema is an artist too; so is her
eldest daughter And Miss Alma Tadema is poet
! know that fifty years of thought, of world travel
of delicate art, have gone to make home the like
of which does not exist for charm and taste and utter
restfulness.
Such home the dream of the Dutch notary's
than half century ago (Alma-Tadema
was born in the Fresian village of Dronryp), when he
left the uncongenial study of law to Stake at the
Antwerp academy his burning thirst for the beauti-
full. And Lord Leighton, John Sargent, and dozen
decorate this house. An undistnguished address,
"Thirty-four, Grove End Road, St. Johns Wood
London, N. W." 1t sounds banal and bourgeois
vet it combines oddly the charms of town and
country. For Alma -Tadema, classcally accurate
in supreme degree, must not wander far from the
treasures of the British Museum Not gem on the
finger of Roman matron maid not bracelet
about her rounded arm, not design carved in the
marble couch she reclines on, but has its model in
some rare antique original 1t may be an ornament
from Pompeii, an implement cunnngly construed
from passage of Horace Suetonius Alma
Tadernas home, then, must be in the metropolis
palace in Suburbia; no heavy scented languorous
haven like Pierre Lofts but rather hive of strenuous
labor after the beautiful.
No photographs of this home appear in newspaper
magazine; there no illustrated interviews
with Alma adema, "a world artist of great dignity
and reserve, big, stalwart, broad shouldered man
who has lived his life in strict accord with the motto
engraved by Cpriani on the diploma of a Royal
Academician, Labor ct Imgeninnl'
But the man has not built in pencil and color only.
This great silent home is much his work his far
famed Shrine of Venus " whose glorious color note,
by the way, Tadema owes to the wondrous translu
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By WILLIAM 6. FITZGERALD

of which sparkled at her feet, would just fit into
the panel.
And in this way it was that Lord Leighton first
sketched his far famed Bath of Psyche or rather
the original design for it.
Charmed with the final result, the President of
the Royal Academy later asked his friend whether
he would mind If the idea worked out more fully
in another way for a more ambitious picture. Sir
Laurence gave his consent, and then Leighton set to
work celebrating the columns and cutting away the
reflection in the water to produce the great picture
known the world
Panels by Immorta1s
SEVERAL of the panels by Immortals of the Brit
~ ish Academy have interesting histories. One
shows sweet restfu spot in the hills of Asoo. where
Robert Browning loved to sit and rest; and all along
the sinuous road the hedges bright with cenatis
travellers joy
Another is wonderful perspective representing
view from the gold of the house into the
paneled hall The principal features of this painting
are the sixteenth century Antwerp window, now
adjoining the Flemish bed room which forms the
annex to Lady Alma Tadema's studio and the price
less collection of old blue and white Delft, which is
the pride of the artist housewives heart.
Unfortunately much of this destroyed
years ago through most curiou accident. The
Tademas then occupied Townshend house, huge
Georgian mansion in Regents Park, which was ut
terly wrecked one day by the explosion of barge
load of gunpowder on the stream that ran through
the park just across the road
Sir Laurence's Gratitude
CIR LAURENCE has returned the compliment,
~ so artistically paid him by his friends. the
greatest painters OF this generation. Thus he gave
Lord Leighton tiny picture depicting corner in
his studio. The model in the graceful garb of old
Rome, reaching out her hand for glorious rose.
This tiny, picture shows all the exquisite skill of
Alma Tadena as colorist and craftsman; and at
the Leighton sale the famous set of Corots
more eagerly competed for than this lovely
of the Royal Gallery at Dresden, which owns the
greatest painting in all the world the Sistne Ma
donna of Raphael, made repeated bids for the
miniature treasure but it was knocked down to
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high but varying in breadth from three to
inches.
John Sargent's panel is gracefully inscr
ITO my friend, Alma-Tadema." 1t is
veously striking Renaissance of the Jaw;
dancers that created SO great a sensation a
Paris Exposition of 1880. These quaint and G
full creatures used to paint their arms and shou
a bright yellow, and this the great master of
has done also with most remarkable result
The panel by Val Prinsep is the study he
when he went to India to paint his great pi
of Queen Victorias proclamation as EMPIRE
India. 1t depicts an Indian maiden coming
a steep fight of rock cut steps to the Gang
fill her great pitcher from the sacred flood.
Their Difficult Task
TN all the cases the artist has triumphed owe
astonishing technical difficulties of render
ing a worthy work of art in so narrow a
recess as these hall panels.
The difficulty was comcally suggested to
Alma-Tadema by the late Lord Leighton.
who also offered to fill one of the panels of
these wondrous walls.
The two famous artists met one night at
dinner given by the Duchess of Devonshire,
and Leighton, turning to his comrade in art
and holding up long, narrow bladed dessert
knife, asked with assumed petulance, My
dear Tadema, what sort of subject do you
expect me to paint on this! ?"
And yet Leighton himself overcame all
obstacles with masters hand. He looked
long at the narrow slip, in the shape of
appraised ruler and no doubt pondered great
ly how best to cram into so limited a space
of those noble compositions so famous
in engravings the world over At last he
decided that the slim figure of young girl
gracefully disrobing for her bath, the water
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21

THERE was time when l
i thought the distinction of
possessing the most beautiful
home in the world belonged to
Pierre Lott, that poet in prose,
one of the "Immortals" of the
French Academy. Certainly the
wondrous house at Rochefort-
en-Mer is a dream of beauty,
exotic and gorgeous. Oriental
saloons radiate in bewildering
succession from the central
mosque, where the poet loves to
mediate and pray, loaded with
jewels, robed in costly silks of an
Arab prince. The court is paved
entirely with pink and white
marble. Fountains gush from
the blue and gold mosaic walls
and marble floors, and their
soothing plash mingles with the
calls of strange birds,-not rest
full, but glowing with Eastern
splendor.
l say l thought Pierre Lofts
house the most beautiful; but
that was before l saw that of
Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema.
And then my mind was made
up; for it is but fit and proper
that so consummate an artist,
man for whose lovely pictures
the worlds galleries eagerly
compete, should have a most
exquisite home.
my house is my picture,
Sir Laurence tells his visitors;
and one may add that it is
surely his MASTERPIECE realized.
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cent blue of the Portland vase in
the British Museum.
Let us enter the huge inner
hall, one side of which opens
up a vista into the magnificent,
arching foliage of an immense
palm house. The great table of
onyx in the center of the hall is
a bower of fragrant blossoms sent
as tributes from admirers of the
artist in SUMMER chimes. Over the
fireplace is Shakespearean in
scription selected by Sir Laurence
as a motto for his hospitable
house:
l count myself in nothing else so
happy
AS in a soul remembering my
good friends.
And these good friends have
made remembrance easy; for in
panels along each side of the great
hall are inlaid tall, narrow can
vases, and on each an eminent
artist has painted a lovely picture
peculiarly characteristic of his
work,-a gallery unique indeed
with each panel specially de-
signed and executed for a certain
definite place and none other.
The conditions, it must be re-
membered, were rendered very
difficult, because of the shape
long, narrow recesses uniformly
thirty-one and half inches
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-18

especially New York, would lose
great deal of their banking power,
but it would be a constructive stcp
in American finance, and a move
against speculation.
1t has been suggested by more
than one eminent financial authority
that the country banks should be
required to keep in their own vaults
a reserve of at least ten to twelve
per cent of their deposits, and that
the reserve required of city banks
should be, at least, eighteen per cenr,
and, possibly, twenty per cent. The
legal reserve OF twenty-five per cent
in actual cash has all along appeared
to have been equal to all demands
made upon it.-Saturday Evening
Post
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-18

The Duchess of Marlborough, born
Consuelo Vanderbilt has not realized
the hopes of her early girlhood She
has recently made her first visit back
10 this country since her separation
from the. duke. London society is
very sympathetic toward the young
duchess, who is not only general
favorite, but a personal friend of the
Queen as we'll Life has not dealt
as we'll with her as it promised. Ten
years ago she was full of enjoyment
of everything; now she is saddened
and not strong, and she seeks re-
tirement that her deafness almost en-
forces. By arrangements with her
husband she has her two sons for
half the year, and she has many inter
estes; her embroideries, her books
and her spaniels; but it is all very
different from what seemed before
her. Rumor has it that she was
greatly disappointed at her husbands
failure to achieve distinction in poll
tics, and that she hated to see the
untitled husband of Mary Letter.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-18

call on the-customers for whom they
have been buying. If the customers
cannot produce the money they are
wiped out" and lose everything they
have put up. Often the big operators
are caught, too. incidentally, the big
banks suffer if they cannot realize
on their loans made under these un-
certain stock-market conditions.
In many instances big banks have
been very much embarrassed through
this very kind of injudicious lending
for speculative purposes. There was
a very glaring example of it last Oc
tober in those stirring events which
brought on the panic. 1t grew out OF
corner in United States Copper
stock, which was manipulated by the
Heinze interests, who also controlled
national bank. These interests
worked up the price of this stock.
AS the price scared they kept on bor-
rowing money from the banks in in
creasing amounts.
Then, all at once, the price col
lapsed, and the banks found them
selves with lot of bad loans. In
other words, the good money of ma
tional banks, including part of the re-
serve of other national banks in re-
serve cities, and the country banks,
was used by spectators.
The Remedy for the Evil.
The remedy for the misuse of the
great mass of national tank reserve
deposited in New York lies in the re.
quirement of larger actual reserve
in the vaults of the banks all along
the lire. Such a step was practical
ly recommended by the Secretary Of
the Treasury in his annual report,
which was sent to Congress in De-
cember. He advocated an amend
ment to the laws so as to divide the
country into geographical reserve
sections. In this way it would be
possible to retain a large amount Of
reserve money within a given area
In case of panic, emergency or any
other demand, there would at once
be a considerable amount of money
available. The result of this would
be that the central reserve cities, and
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-18
THE BANK AND THE GOVERN
MENT.
The Reserve and Its Incentive to
Speculation.

iOiih VI StSW Ills
consists of compelling the banks to
keep in their vaults all the time a
certain sum of money known as the
reserve. This reserve is, in a way,
a sort of emergency fund in case
there should be any unexpected de-
mand on the part of the depositors,
or the people and firms who have
loaned the bank money, for their
funds. The present reserve system,
however, offers large temptation
for speculation, as will be shown later
in this article. But first as to the
operations of the reserve system.
By the provisions of the National
Bank Act the legal reserve required
of national banks is twenty-five per
cent Of its deposits. This means that
if bank has der osits dggregatins
four hundred thousand dollars i:
must constantly keep on baud the
sum of one hundred thousand dol
lars in specie and currency (coin .,r
legal tender bills). 1t is the business
of the National Bank Examiner 70
count the legal reserve every time
he examines the bank
But this rule does not apply to
every national bank. 1t apple. only
to the national banks located in whit
are known as the central reserve
cities, which are NV York Chicago
and St. Louis There arc forty 9th
err sites known as reserve cities, anil
in these places the national banks,
while being required to maintain
legal reserve o. twenty-five per cent
are at the same time permitted to de-
post half of that legal reserve in the
banks. of any one of the central re-
serve cities The banks in reserve
cities are called Getty banks. In
cities that are not reserve cities the
national banks, or Country" banks,
as they are often known, are required
TO keep reserve OF only fifteen per
cent of their deposits, and of this
amount they may deposit three
ffths, or nine per cent, in the banks
of the reserve cities. Any city may
become reserve city by the appli-
cation of three-fourths of its nation.
al banks, and with the approval of the
Controller of the Currency.
The Golden Stream to New York.
According to the latest report of
the condition of the national banks
of the United States the amount of
reserve held by them was $I,I2I,358,-
$685. The total amount of money
held by the banks of the three cen
trail reserve cities, and which was
due to national banks, was $427,ooo,-
600 Thus nearly one-half of the de-
posts of other national banks in the
banks of the central reserve cities
consisted of funds designated as re.
serve by banks in reserve cities.
1t is evident, therefore, that there
il constant stream of money flow
ing from country banks to city banks.
H.. l. H..