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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1909-11-10

N. E. Sweat, Of Bolivar. Tenn. an
expert handle man. has taken charge
Of the Alert Handle Company factory
here. He and his lamily have already
commenced their residence here and
are welcome.
The pastor Of the Methodist Church
will preach Sunday morning on the
Parallels Of The Hidden Treasure.
and ihe Pearl Of Great Price" The
subject Sunday night will Be Re
Relation Of Young Women to Malri.
mony.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1909-11-10

Mr.. Earl Nichols spent Wednesday
in Columbus.
Rev. R A. Clark spent Wednesday
in Columbus.
Mrs. NJ. Tindall is visiting in Flous-
ton this week
Mr. and Mrs. j. L. Jones spent.
Monday in Memphis,
r. A. Westbrool. Of McCondy. was
in town Wednesday
Mr.. Jim Finley Of Tupelo, spent
Monday in Okolona.
Eugene Martin. of Tupelo. visited
his parents here Sunday.
Jim johnson. Of Houston, spent
Sunday with friends here.
Ollie Conner, Of Tupelo, spent Sum
day the guest Of his father
Miss Margaret Chambers is visiting
friends in Meridian this month.
Miss Alva Murphree is back from
an extensive visit in Arkansas.
Herman Cole and H. D. irwin
visited in West Point this week.
Miss Elma Stanford Of Houston. is
visiting FRIENDS here this week.
Miss Mabel Gillespie, Of Artesia. is
the guest Of Miss Victoria Gum.
Mrs. Holmes. Of McComb City is
visiting her people here this week.
@Dr. j. A. Donaldson made aproless-
ional visit to Memphis Wednesday.
EItching piles provoke profanity, but
profanity won't cure them. Doan
Ointment cures itching, bleeding or
protruding piles after years OF suffer
ing. AT any drug sio.s.
MISS Harris. Of Tuscaloosa, Ala, is
the charming guest Of Mrs. Frank
Harrell.
Miss Lorraine Shell, Of the !. l. and
c., spent Sunday at home with her
parents.
Charlie Smith a prosperous farmer
from near McCondy was in town
Tuesday.
R.K. Downing, an enterprising
planter Of Van Vleet was in town
Wednesday
A 6ne ten pound boy was born !
Tuesday night to Mr.. and Mrs. Pete
Cunningham. !
Geo. Cole, Jr. was in St Louis this
week buying horses for his new
Livery Stable.
John Schmidt, Of Egypt, one Of the
largest farmers Of the county paid US
a visi; this week.
A. T. Stovall left Monday night for
an extensive business trip to the West
and Northwest
A fine II pound baby boy was born
Tuesday morning to Mr.. and Mrs.
Clint Steiuberger.
Mrs. Laura Murdoch has returned
from an extensive visit in North Car
olina and Virginia.
A 6ne ten pound baby boy arrived
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Porter
Davis Saturday morning
Mrs. NJ. R. Herndon and Miss
Beatrice Nix spent last week in
Columbus with relatives and friends.
G. w. Bean spent Sunday and
Monday in Meridian with his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Tom Tatum. who is quite
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FOR RENT OR SALE-Tbe
Mecklenburger residence. furnished
Or without Apply to II. L, Morrison.
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LOST-Boy's Watch leather fob
Reward Tor return TO
GILBERT MORRISON.
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oKoLoNA. MISS NOV. 8 1903
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1909-11-10

"A combination pool and library 5le
for sale at bargain. Not merely an
ornament, but a fine piece Of furniture
10 wealhered oak.
Clint Steinberser.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-06
SPARROWS AND TURKEYS.

That the English sparrow in America is a nui-
sance is the general opinion of about everybody.
The state of Utah thinks so, at least, and other
states are of the same opinion, is evidenced by
the bounties offered for their heads. Besides be-
ing nuisance, DR.. Philip Hadey of the Rhode
Island experiment station declares that the Eng
fish sparrow is destructive of the great American
thanksgiving bird. The destruction wrought by the
sparrow is not by physical attack, but Dr. Hadley
asserts that the disease known "blackhead which
has been killing turkeys by thousands in Rhode
Island, is distributed by the sparrows among the
hocks.
If DR.. Hadley's Indictment of the English spar
row is proved to be well founded it may be safely
said that the war on the sparrow will be taken up
in earnest and that some more efficient method of
Kidding the country will be evolved than hiring
small boys to climb trees destroying the nests and
intoxicating cruelty to animals into their hearts, all
for the sake of a few pennies. No one questions
the fact that the sparrow is nuisance, but the
bounty system to exterminate them is worse than
that If we can't have turkeys and sparrows, the
sparrows will have to give way to the more valu
able bird but we trust the methods of destruction
will be more efcacious and less destructive of small
boys morals than has been the bounty system.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-06
"BEN BOLT"

ooh, don't you remember sweet Alice. Ben
Bolt?" Everybody does remember sweet Alice, but
how many remember the composer? Here is the
admirable writer, Lawrence Marshall, telling us
all about Thomas Dunn English, the author of "Ben
Bolt" and, among other interesting incidents of his
life, that he was born in Philadelphia, June &c.
1819-the son of an English father and mother The
writer was we take it, misled by George Du Maui
rier, who, in his "Trilby" vaguely refers to "Ben
Bolt" as an old English song. Yet it is not Eng
fish, only in so far its composers name is SUCH
DR.. Thomas Dunn English, who wrote the immor-
tai ballad seventy years ago, was an Irish
American, member of congress, and, in his day,
very popular man. He died April 1, 1902. "Ben
Bolt" first appeared in the New York Mirror, ed
tied by the poet, N. P. Willis, Sept rs, 1S43 The
song Caught on" and became for time as popular
as "The Mocking Bird" 1t had passed out of pub
lie memory until Du Maurier's "Trilby" was staged,
when it once again became popular ballad. More
than million of copies of 'Ben Bolt" were sold
between the years 46 and 81. Dr. English told
a friend Boyle O'Reilly) that the song was sug-
gested to him from reading Goldsmith's Deserted
Village" Here is the version revised by DIR. Eng
lish few years before he died:
BEN BOLT
Oh, don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt,
Sweet Alice with hair so brown?
She wept with delight when you gave her smile,
And trembled with fear at your frown.
In the old churchyard in the valley, Ben Bolt
In a corner obscure and alone,
They have fitted slab of granite so gray,
And sweet Alice lies under the stone
Oh, don't you remember the wood, Ben Bolt,
Near the green sunny slope of the hill,
Where oft we have sung meath its wde-spreading
shade
And kept time to the click of the mill?
The mill has gone to decay, Ben Bolt
And quiet reigns all around;
See, the old rustic porch with its roses so sweet
Lies scattered and fallen to the ground
Oh, don't you remember the school, Ben Bolt
And the master so kind and SO true
And the little nook by the clear running brook
Where we gather'd fow'rs as they grew
On the masters grave grows the grass, Ben Bolt
And the running little brook is now dry,
And of all the friends who were schoolmates then
There remains, Ben but you and l.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-06
FIRES.

The United States spends $300,000000 annually
in the maintenance of fire departments in the cit
les, to say nothing of what people living in the
country spend for hand grenades and other means
of extinguishing fires It would seem that with this
enormous preventive expense, the loss by fires would
be comparatively small, but that such is not the
case is indicated by the figures showing the loss by
fires. The average fire loss to the nation is $780,,
100000 Added together, the expense of fire de-
partments and the loss by fire, we have total of
half billion dollars, per capita expense of some
So year. more than half of which is absolutely
dead loss to the nation.
Compared with other countries, this fire loss is
enormous. Italy's expense for fire protection and
loss by fires is about u cents per capita: that Of
Germany is about 40 cents. The reason for this
vast discrepancy is said to lie entirely in the quail
ity of the buildings of the different countries Italy
and Germany build not only for the present gen
Grafton, but for future generations In America a
house is out after thirty years, and if not
worn out it is so hopelessly out of style that its
usefulness is seriously impaired. Perhaps it is
economy for the owner to have his house burn
down, that he may collect the insurance and build
anew. But such view of the case would be a Sc
rious imputation of unfairness, not to say Grim
inality. On the other hand, might not the quality
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-06

NO notion of economy among the people. Ihe de-
ire is not to save or to make provision TOR time
en the earning power must of necessity decrease
but to crafty the desires of the flesh.
The experiences of mankind however, all point
to the necessity of economy if the declining years
of life are to be spent in comfort or reasonable Sc
curity. To mention economy in these days. now
ever is to read yourself out of polite society Econ
omy and frugality are CALLING terms to the reck-
less To Give" is to spend your money like drunk
en- sailor; it is better to be dead than deny ones
self whatever ones income will bear. However, not
withstanding this popular conception OF ones ou-
ties to himself, or to his family, if he has one II
is well at times to remember that no lie Is all
sunshine. that inevitably the storm will appear.
There are moreover, opportunities open to the man
or woman who has accumulated a little money
which never come to the man or woman VINO spenoS
his last red cent before the next payday rolls
around. If the salaried employe or wage Garner
would only remember that every time he saved $lOo
and puts it at interest it is earning him from one
to three days work year, the thought ought to
furnish him some compensation for the self-denlal
which makes the saving possible.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-06

President Taft has repeatedly declared that econ.
omy will be the dominating feature of his admin
istration. and In this he has the moral support of
the entire country. In spite of his declarations
however, it seems that the demands upon the ma
tional treasury will be greater than ever. While it
is practically settled that internal improvements
have become one of the legitimate activities of the
national government, the rapid growth of the de-
mands upon the national treasury are such as to
give rise to the oldtime opposition to internal I'M
provements in any form. In one of his addresses
on his present tour of the country President Taft
is reported to have declared his intention to ask
the congress for an authorization of bond issue
of $1OOOOOOO to furnish funds to complete the rec
lamation now under way, and this has furnished
the advocates of other improvements with the need
ed incentive to urge their claims The fact that
the president will urge the completion of the reca-
nation projects is taken an indication that the
economy of his administration will be confined to
a reduction of the extravagant expenditures in the
ordinary conduct of the government rather than
to a curtailing of expenditures for improvements
from which future generations will draw the great
est benefits At the same time opponents Of the
many schemes to gain the support of the govern
ment will no doubt the presidents expressed
desire for economy to defeat them. 1t will be diff
ficut problem of the administration to be econoi-
cal and yet satisfy the demands to be made for
money at the next session.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-06
DRAINAGE.

Results of experiments in drainage carried on
in Utah during the last five years are contained in
Farmers Bulletin 81, on the Drainage of lrrl-
gated Lands" issued by the United States depart
ment of agriculture. Oct 2, 1909 The experiments
were carried on by the office of the experiment sta
tions at Washington in cooperation with the Utah
agricultural experiment station. Experimental
work was performed in Box Elder and Cache
ties on the north, to Washington county on the
SOUTH and on lands different in composition and
variously affected, some with excess of water
only, some by an excess of both water and alkai,
and others affected by of alkali only. The
results were uniformly successful in retaining the
lands so affected and making them productive.
The bulletin says there are in Utah approx
mately 100000 acres of land once productive that
has deteriorated under irrigation until it is fit
only for wet pasturage, and in some instances it
is entirely abandoned. Salt Lake valley has about
"a 600 acres of such land and other valleys in the
state have from 10000 to 10000 each, In
some localities as much as so per cent of the irri-
gated land is unfit for cropping for lack of under
drainage
AS the use of irrigation has become more gen
era and large tracts have come under irrigation
vast sums of money and the enormous yields of the
first few years dwindle gradually until the land be-
comes unproductive the experiments carried on are
of the greatest value to irrigation farmers. If it
true that irrigated lands deteriorate in value
with hope of preventing that deterioration irri
cation must inevitably be proclaimed failure. But
the experiments carried on here in Utah demon
strate that land rendered useless through unnteli
gent irrigation can be restored to their original
productiveness by constructing drainage systems,
and this at a cost of $12 to SIG an acre. Land that
was very productive when first put under irrigation
and subsequently became totally unfit for any ag-
ricultural crop, was brought back into such condi
ton that so bushels of wheat 100 bushels of oats
and Is tons of sugar beets were raised, subsequent
to drainage, to the acre.
The bulletin is issued for the instruction of
farmers who use irrigation in their farm work 1t
contains maps showing the reclaimed portions, the
plans of construction of the drainage systems and
how much the work cost. A copy of the bulletin
can be secured by addressing the department of ag-
riculture at Washington.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-06
GETTING ALONG.

1t may be said without fear of contradiction,
that 80 per cent of the people would like to be bet
ter off in this worlds goods than they are The
man with a steady income of 800 month would
like to make it 5000, and the man with 5000 would
like to make his income $400. And if we are to
judge by the conversation of our friends their am
biton to increase their income is very strong with
in them 1t is peculiar fact that the men with
steady incomes get to living up to the limit of that
income, and sometimes they have desires which
lead them to spend more than they make It seems
to be the spirit of this day to let the future take
care of itself. large earning power naturally
leads to large spending power. Our desires are
always little expensive than our income will
afford, but if we able to squeeze out one more
dollar week. the incentive back of it is to CRAFTY
ourselves in the possession of something which had
hitherto been denied u.s.
This condition may not belong peculiarly to the
present day, but it is fact that the present is
tine OF reckless extravaganza among all classes of
people from those of the plethoric purse to those
of the most meager financial resources Our ma
ton has become notorious in the world as one with
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-06

of our houses indicate similar conditions fire
insurance who has given the subject thought
advises us that an added expense of from 10 to 20
per cent to the building of houses of all kinds to-
day would render them reasonably ireproof. Ii
this is true and it probably is in our larger build
ings, though we must confess we do not see how
$1,000 cottage could be made reasonably freproof"
by adding $3.50 to the cost of building, it is high
time the American people we're waking up to the
enormous cost of shoddiness in building our Ameri-
can cities. Fire losses twelve times great Ger
manys and fifty times as great Italys ought to fur
nish sufficient object lesson for intelligent peo-
pie as Americans. Let us build better houses
than we have been doing. 1t will be cheaper in
the long run.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-06
ECONOMY AND BIG DEMANDS.

During the session of congress that convenes
next month, there will undoubtedly be presented
many great and worthy enterprises for the consid-
Grafton of the Observation-Disclosures which will re-
quire vast expenditures of the public funds The
great reclamation projects of the west will be
pressed, and funds will be asked to complete those
that have been started, and still more money to
inaugurate new irrigation projects which will re-
claim thousands of acres and make productive a
vast area of land that now lies useless in many west
states The advocates of the drainage of swampy
territory in the east and south will also be on hand
with demand that this work receive the financial
support of the federal government. Inland water
ways will also demand attention and the advocates
of general system of canals and the deepening
river channels will press their claims to recoe-
milton with all the fervor that the merits of their
enterprises demand. In addition to these projects
which have the endorsement of everybody who
hopes to profit by the favorable action of the con-
gress, and which in themselves have many points
of merit, there will be advocated the adoption of
enterprise which has for its object the connect
ing of the bays, sounds and rivers along the At
lantc seaboard from Massachusetts, to Florida thus
furnishing a safe and convenient means of trans
porting freight along that coast.
The demands of these internal improvements
will probably exceed billion dollars, without TAX
ing into account the usual running expenses of the
government, the army and navy appropriations the
pensions bill and the ever-increasne EXPENSES Of
the civil departments of the government Of course
some of the enterprises will be put off until some
future time. 1t is impossible for the government
to take up all the good things which are urged upon
it. The west is of course most vitality interested
in the irrigation enterprises and the reclamation
of the arid regions of this section The fact that
the government entered into this work forms one
of the strongest appeals of the advocates of other
enterprises that they should be given the assistance
which only the federal government is in position
to give.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-06

these men than to walk with Jesus Christ And
our Lords answer would be to them what it to
the scribes and the Jewish doctors of learning:
'eYou have made void the Word of God through
your learning falsely so-called."
With infdelty in the ministry, higher critics
in one Protestant pulpit, and vaudeville entertain
ment in another religion as revelation need no
longer be sought. Upon all the vessels of your tenn
pies, upon your mascot, the Bible, and upon the
pulpits of the house where your fathers worshpped
there is written the ominous word "Ichabcd" C"Our
glory has left us.').
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-06
CARD FROM BISHOP sCA-IAN.

feel It my duty protect Catholics and the pub
lie generally from fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time to time that no person bearing the
name garb of priest sister, anyone else ID
authorized or permitted solicit collect in this
diocese for any purpose whatever connected with tbs
Catholic Church without having from permission
in writing, bearing my seal and signature Should
anyone be found engaged In doing this unlawful
work or collecting without such document, he or.
she as the case may be- should be regarded by all
a fraud and imposter. L. SEAMAN,
TIshop Of Salt
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-06
MEDICINES.

Doctors disagree, and sometimes the patient
covers and sometimes he doesn't. A physician of
the highest repute once told us that no doctor could
use more than half dozen remedies in his prac-
tice and be successful. Further than this, he in
sisted that large per cent of his patients got along
admirably when they followed his directions as to
diet and exercise if he gave them some innocent
potion to take at regular intervals. Especially was
this true among those who sought his advice when
they only Thought" they were i'll. However, when
we "think" i'll, our first call for assistance
is from the doctor, upon whose broad shoulders we
shift the responsibility to pull through" So
far he has been successful and we may be pardoned
the hope that his success may be continued for
many years to come.
If a physician of the highest repute can use
only half dozen remedies in his practice, RENE
dies the effects of which upon the human body
have been observed for many years, the absurdty
of the layman attempting to doctor himself from
formulas handed out gratis in the form of "pure
readers" in the newspapers is at apparent. The
public should be warned against this new fraud.
The advertisements are cunningly devised and de-
ceive. You can get the remedies at any we'll
stocked drug store and mix them at home. Usual
ly there are several ingredients To cure a cold
you go to your druggist and get pint of good,
pure whiskey (the spelling of whisky in the adver
tisement is sufficient evidence of its being an adj
vertisement), add much glycerine and so much
"bogus" compound. The bogus" compound may
be only powdered rock candy, but in the original
package (and be sure the package is unbroken),
the innocent purchaser pays about Is cents an
ounce for it. Then there are remedies for stomach
troubles, kidney troubles, and about every i'll
under the sun. which the prescription given will
cure. According to the advertisements they
old standard remedies. According to our physician
and our druggist they are all frauds
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-06
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.

The Intermountain Catholic goes into nearly every
Catholic home in this diocese Its circulation In Mon
tana Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming. Nevada and many
other states is very large. Only reliable firms and
business advertise in the paper. All subscribers
wifi find to their advantage when about to invest
purchase consult business matters to read over
the list Of advertisers. We not only recommend.
but ask for them the patronage of all readers.