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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
COTTON HOLDS
BRIGHT PROMISE
RECORD YIELD OVER TWO.THIRDS
OF THE AREA INDICATED.
Crops Good in Remainder-Every State
Better Than at This Time a Year
Ago-Local Complaints.

Memphis, Tenn.-Another week favor.
able to the cotton plant has put the crop
seven days further toward maturity. 1t
is two to three weeks earlier than last
year, and the prospect is better in every
single state than at this time last year.
Complaints are local in character and
are OF excessive rainfall producing rank
growth and damage by boil worms. Boil
weevils have done little damage, although
it appears that they will shortly become
a factor in Louisiana. Some rain is need
ed along the Atlantic seaboard, and moist
ure would be beneficial in Western
Texas. Elsewhere the moisture supply is
abundant.
The plant is very heavily fruited and
has matured an unusual number of bolls
for the season. The crop is generally
laid by and the fields are, as a whole,
clean, and the cotton has attained a size
that will prevent great growth of weeds
and grass hereafter.
Many of the reports received are bril-
liant, and over fully t%wo-thirds Of the
cotton area a record yield is indicated,
if present conditions are maintained.
Over the remaining third the crop is
good.
Cotton is opening rapidly in Southern
Texas and a heavy movement is fore
casted. Elsewhere, although the crop is
rather early, abundance of moisture has
retarded the opening Of bolls.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
Memorial for Lincoln.

Observation-Disclosures National CEN.
etery, across the Potomac river from
Washington, has been suggested by ex.
Speaker Cannon, a member of the Lin.
coin Memorial Commission, as a site for
the 50 100000 Lincoln memorial. A
joint meeting of the fine arts commit
tee and the memorial commission will
be held soon, when a site probably will
be selected. A location in Potomac
Park, opposite Arlington, has been pro.
posed and met with some favor. Mr..
Cannon objected, however, and suggest
ed Arlington as a more fitting place
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
COTTON Rates
CUT in TWO
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS IN HOUSE
RATIFIES MEASURE.
Vigorous Efforts to Prevent Adjourn
ment by Blazing Away With
Tariff Revision.

Observation-Disclosures OF the house
of representatives, after a prolonged
caucus Tuesday, ratified by more than
a two-thirds majority the cotton tariff
revision bill drafted by the Democratic
members of the ways and means COM
mittee, reducing by nearly one-half the
schedules of the Payne-Aldrich law on
manufactures of cotton.
The bill was not ratified without pro-
test, and a vigorous effort was made by
many Democrats to upset the party
legislative program and to prevent adj
journment of the special session Of con-
gress by blazing away with tariff re-
vision all down the line even if such
action would throw the session into the
late fall.
Representative Webb, Of North Caro-
lima, offered a resolution urging post
ponement of action on the cotton meas.
ure until the ways and means commit
tee should first report bills reducing the
tariffs on iron and steel articles, sugar,
meats and flour, brick and dyes and dye
stuffs. After his resolution vas voted
down, other members pleaded for extern
sion of the tariff program, urging espe'
cially revision of the iron and steel,
rubber. and sugar schedules.
Representative Webb, who represents
a district in which are ITO cotton mills,
made a plea for the manufacturer III
speaking on his resolution. d"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
IN COLOR.

There is a horror that lei have not
yet got onto, and that is the discord Of
colors. A man will put green and vel
low and crimson and gray and blue to-
gether, in any variety Of combination,
and think it is all right, but If there
are two colors that don't accord to a
woman 1t is a painful sight, says the
Ohio State Journal. A woman In town
suffered a pang when her husbands
stickpin did not tally with his necktie.
But the most emphatic of all events in
this line was that which occurred at
thhe Martha Washington hotel, in
New York, when a woman had been
assigned to a room, but Immediately
repaired to the office, where she com
planned that the green foliage in the
wall paper did not match her complex
ion, which was an olive hue. Il
want a room" she said, with a deco
ration that will harmonic with my
skin, and must have it right away or
I'll leave" That is a woman's hotel,
and she got what she wanted, II
It had been a mans hotel she would
have been told to go to Bedlam. Men
are not up or harmony; but they
might compromise on a Brindle wall
paper.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
WOULD SAVE H. C. BEATTIE
Consumptive Wants $4,000 for Wife and
Children.

Richmond, Va.-An offer to save the
life of Henry Clay Beattie, accused of
numbering his wife because he loved
Beulah Binford, a beautiful hayward
child, has come from an entire stranger,
who offers his own life-"useless and
nearly gone" he calls tin exchange.
A more startling, more tragic propo-
sition than the one this unnamed
stranger has made, has never, perhaps,
been recorded outside OF fiction.
The mar who wants to be the victim
of the executioner is not a mad man,
not a crank, not even a loving friend
of the youth who is in Jail here await
ing trial for what is pronounced one of
the most amazing crimes this country
ever knew. So far as he can recall, he
has never even spoken a word to Henry
Clay Beattie. Yet his motive is tinged
with a high nobility, an almost unbe-
lievable spirit of self-sacrifice.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
Settle 10000 Claims.

Lexington, Ky.-Checks to r1O,5Oo
claim holders against the d%efunet South.
ern Mutual Investment and American
Reserve Bond Companies have been sent
out by j. c. Rogers, receiver of the
concerns. The amount represented by
the checks totals 800, 0 This is the
second dividend paid to investors. 1t is
not known when the next and final pay
ment will ue made, The claimants live
in practically every state in the Union.
The companies failed about ten years
ago FIJI more than u million dollars.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
KILLS CHILD, THEN SELF.
Another Daughter, Aged 6, Poisoned ant
Cannot Live.

Indiahoma, Okla.-Mrs. NJ. Gore, 40,
wife of a farmer living on an Indian
quarter, six miles from this place, late
Saturday administered strychnine to her
two little girls aged 4 and 6, after which
she took a large dose of the poison,
dying almost instantly, The youngest
child is dead and the other, it is said,
cannot recover.
Mrs. Gore has been i'll for some time
When she became worse yesterday her
husband went to town for medicine.
Shortly thereafter she called in her chill
dren, it is said, giving each a dose of the
poison, A man passing along the road
saw the oldest child in the dust, suffering
from a spasm. He picked her up and
rushed to the house. As he neared the
house the younger child reeled from the
front door and fell dead at his feet.
Stepping inside he found the mother
stretched across the bed dead.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03

The fact that good roads increase.
the value of farm lands is not the po-
tential argument in favor of good
roads. Good roads make farm lands
more valuable only because they make
farm products more valuable by bring
ing the market closer to the farm and.
because they keep the markets ac-
cessible to the farm every day in the
year. That is the reason why farm
ers should have good roads. To the
man who does not want to sell his
land at any price, the value of that
land is a matter Of secondary consid-
eratoin. But good roads give the mar
who does not want to sell his farm the
same advantage that they give the
man who does want to sell. They give
him an increased value for his prod
ucts and pay a dividend every time he
needs the market.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03

The Empress Eugene, a French con.
temporary says, intends to set up a
small museum in the house at Ajac-
clio, where Napoleon was born. At
present in spite of the fact that there
is little enough to attract, no visitor
to the town fails to make a pious pill
grimage to the house. With its green
window shutters and yellow painted
front there is nothing to distinguish it
from the n~eighboring houses except a
marble slab announcing the birth on
August is, 1869, of the man who after
ward became Napoleon l.. The best
preserved room in the building is that
which Napoleon, then a young and un-
known officer, used to occupy when
he visited his family at holiday
time.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
REORGANIZE FRENCH ARMY
This Event Will Crown Forty Years Of
Military Work.

Rambouillet, France.-At the conclu-
sion of the cabinet meeting Friday, two
official announcements were made. The
first was that Foreign Secretary De-
Selves, in explaining to his colleagues
the external political situation, had
said that the pour parlers between
France and Germany were proceeding
normally.
The second announcement was that
the cabinet had decided upon the re-
organization of the army, which repre-
sents the browning of the military
work pursued by the republic for the
last forty years" The statement of
Premier Asquith in the British house of
commons and Premier AilluaX's advice
to the French to keep cool and be pru-
dent, relieved the tension at a moment
when relief was most needed and the
discreet military preparations of the
government were giving rise to the APP
prehension that war was not impossible.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03

Ocean travel has now all the com
forts of home, combined with all the
luxury and pleasure of travel, with
danger and discomfort reduced to a
minimum. Less than a weeks time
separates the old from the new world,
and the wonderful inventions of wire
less t~elegraphy keeps travellers in
touch with the rest of the world in
midocean. And 1t may not be very
long before u present wonderful prog
ress, which would seem miracles to
Columbus and his codiscoverers, may
lapse by succeeding inventions into
the class Of old-fashioned methods, for
progress in this age is going ahead by
leaps and bounds.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03

T~hackeray was the gentlest satirist
that ever lived. AS an editor of the
Cornhill he could hardly bring himself
to reject a MS. for fear of hurting his
would-be contributors. The story of
his actually paying for contributions
that he never printed, in order to con.
ceal the fact hat he had rejected them,
may be true or false. We do not re,
member exactly how the evidence
points, says the London Saturday Re-
view. But even il 1t be a story, such
stories are not told of men made Of
the stern stuff of the Thackeray COM
monty misknown.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
LUCKY MISTAKE.
Grocer Sent Pkg. of Postum and
Opened the Eyes of the Family.

A lady writes from Brookline, Mass:
"a package of Postum was sent me
one day by mistake.
II notified the grocer, but finding
that there was no coffee for breakfast
next morning I prepared some of the
Postum, following the directions very
carefully.
1T was an immediate success in my
family, and from that day we have
used 1t constantly, parents and chill
dren, too-for my three rosy young
sters are allowed to drink it freely at
breakfast and luncheon. They think 1t
delicious, and l would have a mutiny
on my hands should l omit the be-
loved beverage.
MY husband used to have a very
delicate stomach while we were using
coffee, but to our surprise his stom.
ach has grown strong and entirely well
since We quit coffee and have been on
Postum.
Noting the good effects in my fam
ny wrote 10 my sister, VINO was a
coffee topper, and after much persua-
sion got her to try Postum.
"She was p~rejudiced against it at
first, but when she presently found
that all the ailments that coffee gave
her left and she got well quickly she
became and remains a thorough and
enthusiastic Postum convert.
Her nerves, which had become
shattered by the use of coffee have
grown healthy again, and today she. is
a new woman, thanks to Postum"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich, and the cause why" will
be found in the great little book, 1.-THE
Road to MELVILLE" which comes in
pkgs.
Ever read the above Ietter9 A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
interest.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
STARVED CHILD KILLED.
Mob Then Attacks Motorman Who Ran
Over Him.

New York,-Three-year-old Morris
Goldberg, weakened by a seven days
fast, was run over by a trolley car in
front OF his home Sunday. Two thou
sand persons thereupon stormed the car,
captured the motorman and conductor,
laid them on the tracks and were about
to run over them when q lone policeman
seized the ~ringleader at the controller,
1t was ascrtained later that the nine
msGlbers Of the Goldberg family were in
q starving condition
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
WILSON'S REPORT ON WILEY
If Not Acceptable to the President 1t
Can Be Changed.

Washington.-Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson brought the papers in the case of
DR.. Harvey W. Wiley to the White
House Tuesday. lie refused to say what
recommendations he had made to the
president regarding the charge against
the pure food expert, whose resignation
from the service was recommended by
the personnel board of the department
and by Attorney General Wickcrsham.
Mr.. Wilson said that he did not know
whether his recommendation would be
acceptable to the president. He declared,
however, that there could be no clash
between him and Mr.. Taft, because if
the recommendations made were not
agreeable to the president, he could
change them.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
IS FIREMEN INJURED.
N~eighboring Cities Send Aid to Brock
ton, Mass, Fire.

Brockton, Mass.-Thirty-ive lremen
were injured in fighting a fire here Sun
day, which destroyed the public market
building, the Woolworth Company's
building and two tenement houses.
The fire was the worst in the history
of Brockton and caused a loss of about
$4,000. Many of the tiremen were
overcome by the fumes of ammonia that
escaped from the refrigerating plant in
the market. Others were injured by
falling timbers and stone.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
None of Public's Business.

Chicago.-"It is non of the public's
business or any concern Of the govern.
ment how much an express company
may earn, how big its dividends or how
swollen its profits so long as traffic
will move and there is no discrimina.
ton" This was the argument put
forth by Attorney Stockton of the
Wells-Fargo Company at the inquiry into
express rates in Chicago. Railroad Com.
missioner Erickson asked whether it
would make any difference if the trans.
portation interests earned 20 per cent
and the shipper only 3 per cent, due to
Yates.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
SCALES RECOUPS LOSSES
Bull Leader Sells Short, and Makes
Cleanup.

New York,-By a Enthusiastically
shrewd move Eugene G. Scales, who has
few peers as a cotton market manipu-
lator, is believed to have reeouped near
ly all of his estimated loss OF 81, 500, 900
to 100000 sustained about ten days
ago during a tremendous slump in the
price of futures. At that time Scales
o~verplayed his hand on the bull side and
was forced to liquidate a long line of
cOtton-placed at from, 100000 to 3OO,-
900 bales.
He recognized the fuGility Of remaining
a bull in the face of a prospective rec
ord-breaking crop, but because of past
convictions hesitated to become an ag-
gressive bear.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
FOR MEMORIAL TO LINCOLN
Monument in Potomac Park Recon-.
mended BY Commission.

Washington" EE,.e commission on fine
Irts recommended that the $4,000, 900
memorial to Abraham Lincoln in this
city take the form of a monument in
Potomac Park Oh the same axis as the
tapitol and the Washington monument.
at is impossible" reads the report,
ITO overestimate the Importance of Civ
ing to a monument of the size and sig
n~iicance OF the Lincoln memorial COM
plete and %undisputed domination over a
large area, together with a certain Dig
nifed isolation from competing struct-
ures or even from minor features I'M
related to it,"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
Artist Promoters.

New York.-The exploitation of an
alleged new process for tanning leather,
which induced several thousand persons
all over the country to invest $4,000
in stock Of the American Tanning Com
pany, was abruptly ended when post
office inspectors raided the ~company's
offices here and arrested four of its pro-
moters.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
Fraud Melted $500, 900.

New York.-An offer of $4,000 reward
will be sent broadcast over the country
by the Swedish Iron and Steel Company
of New York and New Orleans, for evi,
dence that will convict two or more al,
legged swindlers of a fraud by which it is
charged 100000 has already been clean.
ed up, and which is still hourishing.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
II Germany has done nothing else
for Morocco 1t has put Agadlr on the
map.

A Boston man has written to the
Kansas City Star to say that the east
ern magazines print no real witty
verse, while the western papers con
tain rhymed humor of merit" Now is
the time for Boston people to sub
scribe for some good western paper.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
CHOLERA DANGER SMALL
Another Italian Steamer Arrives in New
York With All Well.

New York.-Further encouragement
to the belief that the danger of an
invasion of cholera is now small can
with the arrival of another Italian liner
Sunday reporting 'all we'll" The vessel
is the Duca di Genoa, from Genoa and
Naples, with seventy-one passengers in
the cabins, 546 in the steerage and a crew
of 1873 men, and it was reported that
none of the sos passengers on board
had been sick during the voyage.
The steamer was held at quarantine,
however, for the psychological exam
intion of the steerage passengers.
The steamers Berlin and Verona are
still held at quarantine. The patients
in the Quarantine hospital are improving
and there are no new cases.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03

A New York Judge found 1t difficult
70 understand how a plumber became
so financially embarrassed as to neces-
state his stealing a ride on the cars.
And so will most other people. Still,
strange things are happening all the
time, and 1t is conceivable that this in
applicable thing might occur.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
WHAT is BEER
Amount of Alcohol Contained to Be De-
termined.

termined.
Washington.-The interesting alcoholic
question of "What is beer?" is up for
the last time. DR.. Harvey w. Wiley
and his associates on the board of food
and drug inspection will meet the brew
ers of the country snd compel them to
answer it. The answer viii lthen be
put on record and there will be no more
argument for wives, daughters and
sweethearts on the n hand, and occa-
Eional tipplers on the other
1--WE propose, among other things, to
learn how much alcohol is used in the
beer made in this country" said DR.,
Wiley Sunday. "The less the better. l
would be glad if we could get it down
to the proportion found in the German
brews-about three per cent"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03

1t appears that the Ascot races are
held in England for the purpose of CIV
ing the king a chance to meet peo-
pie whom he doesn't viva to invite
around to the palace.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
First Bale Grorgia Cnttnn

Savannah, Ga.-The first bale of Geor
gia cotton of the season of 1911-12 was
sold Wednesday at auction in front Of
the cotton exchange for 26 cents . pound
1t GRADED middlinc
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03
Wants Pardon for Bow.

Washington,-Victor Berger, the So,
cialist Congressman, asked the President
to pardon Dewey Carter, a youth of
Beaumont, Texas. Carter is serving a
Gve-year sentence for stealing S. while
employed by the postoffce department,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03

What do you think of the plot?"
asked the theater manager.
THAT isn't a plot" replied the man
who had paid two dollars to see the
show, "That's a conspiracy"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-03

A mans life a be no larger thar
the objects to which it is given.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-12
SAN FRANCISCO RESULTS.

FIRST RACE-Sn furI1rS% Doride. g tSelden).
I 10 = won; Zinkand l0 CBOreD. s to l, second
Lovely Nary 10 CTSylorl - to l. third Time :ls
Donald. SCaccast Queen Alamo. Camera. RolhckinS
Boy NOME Princess Of Wales. and Sir Bon also ran.
SECOND RACE-SN funlcT - Miami IL NC
Intyrel to l. wen: AlChemIst. IL Taylor, 10 70
l. second; Thomas Calhoun, ll5 (S6ldenl. TO l.
third Time. LII. HiaGko Bucolic. Cantem. Hal,
Waner. Military Man. SuSlr Maid, and Frieze also
THIRD RACE-Futurity CRUISE. Roy. jr-, lO6
tSeldenI IN 3 won; Fernando. 100 CTaplin), to
S. sccord: No Quarter 100 Woods. 10 TO l. third.
Time. l:l2 IL. Metropolitan. Aunt Polly, Icarian,
Ihdge Cabiniss and Buckthorne also ran.
FOURTH RACE-Two and one-quarter miles.
MArSie NJ. IG Asrtinl. II 10 5. Azo. lH mic
IntyreI to l. second Fuetta, los (Sclden1. to l.,
third Time iG2 IS. Sir John and Clamor also ran.
FIFTH RACE-One mile and seventy yards Endy-
mion los (TaplinD. 3 to l. won; Raleigh lo9 rid
dleJ. to l. second: Eddie Graney. IS (Seldcnl. Is
to l. third. Time 80 35 NorbeIlino. Godfather,
Bansrzllo RoSsTale. ard Tavsra also ran
SIXTH RACE-SiK furlorgS Silver Knight. ll2
CTapIn). Is To 5 won Ben Stone ll2 (McIntyrel. }
To l. second: AbeIla - (Seldonl to /. third Time
Il IS. lucille ManlCy. Quick Trip lex, Burning
Bush. Swede Sam. anil Adena also ran.
SEVENTH RACE-Scven furlCnSs. MOSshack 10
Fisher). to . won; PhilliStina, 40 MARTIN. to
l. second; BurnelI ITO tKirS bauml 10 .. third.
Time. lis 3S Yellow Foot. Prince Winter. Ex-
chcqueT Caralepa Incentive. Great Caesar. RcCiusc,
Lofty Haywood. and Tog also ran.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-12
JUAREZ RESULTS.

FIRST RACE-For f1rlonGS. Great Frar. IL
(Mctiee,, . to l. Won; Thistle Roe. 100 tKeOgh,,
; to l. secund Zspnter. III (hcnnedy,. to |,
third. Time. O4s -. Bell Lamb. Lady Dolora,
BooGer Battle Tod Harrington. Wild West. Dearie,
and Jack Wainwright alsD ran.
SECOND RACE-Onc mile Mike Jordan. IL
Denny. 2 to l. won Judith Page lO5 Mccullough,
% l. scDnd Agility % MOOrel. ) tn ]. third.
Time. l:59 4-5. Plume Alma Boz. Projectie, Par
ton. St. Hilds, Owenita. Doughty. and Col. Bron-
ston sko ran.
, THIRD RACE-Si1 frlongs. Creston. 1l2 INC
Gel. . to |, won; Roberta. G Rooney. % to l.
sccnDd Soma lO3 tHenpedyi. 10 to l. third. Tine
| :l3 2-5. Hidden Hand. Lena LcCh, Tom Mcfirath'
New Capital NIiliIitas. and Esther Allen also ran
FOURTH RACE--SU fIrlOngs. Foile Levy. L
CNCiccI. % /. won: RcuUd the world, llt
CKenShI tn ). secDrd: Helen Barbee. 10 tGarnerl
4 to !. third. Time. I'LL "a Sebago. Prank Mul
lins and Trlncr alSp ran.
FIFTH RACE-Six furlonGs. Nara Nick los
Denny. I to l. won; ChaPultrrcC. los tBenschotenl
10 to l. secupd Dr. Smoot. lC5 tMCCSeei, % to /
third. Time. I'LL 35 Vrceland. Intrinsic. Bobby
Bower. Colinet and Stanley also ran.
SIXTH RACE-One mile Cardleberry. ITO ben
schotenl to 10. won; Lady Elizabeth l0 Noun
tain, 6 tn l. second Salian. lo' tMcCulloush).
TO l. third. Tine. 20 Is Lista, Buna, Sir I'd
ward. Ed Holly and Sink Spring also ran. IDdiar
Mild finished third. but disqualified for foul
in-