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Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
POMONA RELIEVED ALL
LUNG AND THROAT PAIN

Later effected permanent relier ana
warded of tuberculosis.
The case below is only one OF tnS
many dangerous cases that could Dc
avoided.
DR.. ]. H. Holman Of Little Rock
Ark, under date of March IL, 1sVS'
writes in part:
81 have prescribed your Consump'
ton remedy to a well developed Con-
sumptive. Her condition was OF eucn
character as to confne her to her BED.
She has used your remedy for only
two weeks, and l have no hesitancy
in saying that your remedy has MADE
a wonderful change in her condltlon.
1t is the one remedy that will In any
manner destroy the malady."
tuberculosis is merely an aggraVao.
ed weakness Of the weaker organs ana
If in the early stages or at first indl'
cations Of Consumption POMONA ls
taken the patient finds that 1t aids the
system on the scientific plan-hrst re.
lieves immediate cough or pain ana
then upbuilds the other organs and at
last expels all germs by the mere
strength Of the organ itself. PO-MO.
MA gives the system the same benen'
Of a western trip.
On sale by all druggists.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
PLAN TO CUT COTTON
CROP Is PER CENT
SOUTHERN CONGRESS WANTS UNI
FORM PLAN.
Executive Committee Recommends That
Farmers Rallies Be Held at Every
School House in Cotton Belt.

New Orleans, LATHE executive COM
mittee of the Southern Cotton Congress
adjourned after deciding upon plan
to secure a reduction in the cotton acre
age of the South to the extent OF 25
per cent next year and taking steps
to secure the uniform operation of the
plan in all cotton growing states.
The plan adopted is modification Of
the so-called "Rock Hill plan" which
was proposed to the committee by j. G..
Anderson of Rock Hill, S. c., and pro-
vides for securing signed pledges from
farmers through state and county organ
izations. In the declaration" adopted,
it is specifically stated that the organ
ization "does not wish to do anything
which may be in violation of the SAer-
man antitrust law"
The state organizations are to call
upon bankers and business men to as
sist the farmers in securing sufficient
organization expenses. Each state or
ganization, headed by superintendent
is to appoint committees in each county,
and in turn township committees are to
be organized. Paid canvassers are to
be employed to secure signatures OF
farmers to the pledges to curtail acre
age. The form of pledge authorized by
the Farmers Union was approved and
adopted as the form to be employed in
this work.
The reports on acreage reduction from
the various state superintendent are tc
be filed with E. ]. Watson, president Of
the congress, at Columbia, S. G., by
March l, 1912, and, after the figures
are compiled, they will be published
throughout the South.
The committee recommended thai
farmers rallies, intended to aid in this
movement, be held on January rs next
at every school house in the cotton belt
to be followed on January 81 by county
rallies at the various county seats.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
PERSIAACCEDES TO DEMANDS
Shuster Will Be Dismissed and Persia
viii Pay Indemnity.

London.-Persia yielded to the de-
nand of the Russian ultimatum that
W. Morgan Shuster, an American, who
holds the post of treasurer-general in
the Persian government, be dismissed
from the service of the Persian gov
ernment. The Russian ultimatum also
calls for the payment of indemnity,
which is to reimburse Russia for money
expended in sending an armed expedition
into Persia to force her demand.
Mr.. Shuster's administration of Per
sia's finances has been displeasing to
Russia from the start, and when he
caused the seizure of property belonging
to the brother of the ex-shah, over the
protest of the Russian vice-consul, Rus
sia at first demanded an apology, and
when this was not Forthcoming called for
the dismissal of Mr.. Shuster, and this
has finally been acceded to.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
GEN. REYES SURRENDERS
4 Called Upon Army and People, No
One Responded"

Linares, N. L., Mexico.-With none
of his arrogance left, Gen. Bernardo
Reyes, onte considered the greatest of
his ccuntry's military men, admits his
defeat.
Riding alone into the town, the gray.
haired rebel voluntarily surrendered to
Lieut.. Placido Rodriguez, commander of
twenty-five Rurales, the sole military
guard here. Permission was secured to
telegraph formal capitulation to Gen.
Geronimo Trevino, commander of the
third military zone at Monterey, and to
Trevino, long regarded as his personal
foe, Reyes frankly admitted that his
dream of another successful revolution
had come to an end, and placed himself
at his disposition.
81 called upon the army, called upon
the people" telegraphed the broken gen.
eral, "and no one responded. This atti-
tude I regard as a protest and I am re-
solved not to continue this war against
the government. l place myself at yow
disposition"
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
MASSACRE WOMEN
AND CHILDREN
RUSSIANS SHOW NO MERCY TO
PERSIANS.
People Are Stupefed in View Of Fact
That Persia Has Conceded All
Demands of Russia.

London.-A massacre has been going
on in Resht since Saturday, according
to official Persian kilograms received in
London. These state that on Sunday
500 Persians were killed by the Russians,
many of them women and children.
The people, it is said, have been ex'
horted not to fight and not to give the
slightest provocation, but the massacre
still continues.
Resht is the capital of the province OF
Chilan and has 10000 inhabitants. The
government house has been bombarded
and many government officials and po-
lice killed. Many private houses have
been demolished.
According to other dispatches, the Rus
slams killed four unarmed Mohamme-
dams in the Armenian quarter OF Tabrlz
during the fighting in that city
"The people of Persia" says one dis.
patch, "are stupeied at the attitude OF
Russia, especially as these outrages have
followed Immediately on the acceptance
by Persia of the second Russian ulti-
matum and when Persia has shown every
desire and disposition to conciliate Rus
sia and establish friendly relations"
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
wIIIum Was a "cement.n

William, three and half years Ok
had noted and had become interested
In an arrangement of his father with
an older brother, Dick. BY this ar
rangement the older brother was call
ed lieutenant, and 1t was his end Of
the game to salute and then obey
without question and promptly any Or
der father gave. The arrangement
seemed to please father no less than
It did william, who, after watching
the military affairs for day or two,
without being observed, sprang one
himself. Father, looking up suddenly
from his paper one evening, was sur
prised to see his youngest with hand
held in rigid salute. He had evidently
been waiting patiently for some time.
"Hullo, there" said the father,
hardly prepared for a new recruit,
what is this? Another lieutenant?' r
Nope; amt lefenant." said viii.
lam, saluting with the other hand.
Dicks lef'enant Willum's a ce
ment."
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
RObber Shoots Cashier.

Chicago-An unidentified robber shot
and seriously wounded c. L. Mccoy,
cashier of safe company, in his office
here and then escaped with $3.50 cash,
which Mccoy had been counting. When
Mccoy went to lunch he left the door
to his office unlocked. During his alb
sence the robber secreted himself in the
office. Mr.. Mccoy was unaware Of the
robbers presence until he was covered
wish revolver. After shooting Mccoy
the robber obtained the money and fled
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
CONDITIONS DEMAND REFORM
Disturbances In the Neighborhood Of
Schools Draws Warm Rsbuke
From Writer.

In Brooklyn a school reported that
on one side It had stone yard from
which issued shrill whistling sounds OF
cutting accompanied by blows OF mall
let's used in chipping the stone. On the
other 1t had junk shop Of iron from
which came the noise Of the continual
dropping of metal On the third was
q wheelwright where hammering on
the heated rims went on most dis
tressingly. A fourth source Of dis
turbance was the number Of street
Venders who infested the neighbor-
hood; fifth was the passing before the
door of a line of trolley cars. An
other principal wrote that the school
was surrounded by garages and sta
bles, and that the noise incidental
10 the repair Of vehicles was al
most unbearable. In still another
neighborhood where garages abounded
the street was turned into huge re-
pair shop, and there, undlsturbed by
the police, the noisiest kinds Of work
were carried on for hours. Other prin-
Hipals reported factories, car barns
and taxicab stations as unpleasant
neighbors. whose noise was deploE-
able.
AS for the annoyance Of street sing
erB and musicians, push cart peddlers
and cash-clo'es men, German bands
and Italian ragmen, vegetable huck-
lsters and other yenders, few schools
apparently were free from them
And these are the conditions under
which we permit our children to study
TO our shame be it said!-Mrs. Isaac
l. Rice, in the Forum.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
EnaIand,. Army Of stIit.waIker..

Thousands Of men in England earn
their living during considerable por-
ton of the year by their ability to
walk and work on tall stills. Most Of
them are employed in the hop fields Of
Kent and other districts, where they
have displaced the high stepladders
formally In use.
During the pole-stringing season the
silt walkers. 12 feet from the ground,
perform the work with ease and with
out loss of time or motion. A trained
stiltman will do the work of four or
Eve men working with stepladders.-
Exchange.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
New School of Burglars.

New York.-Graduate of the newer
school in burglary operated on safe
in five and ten cent store in Harlem
and got away with nearly $4,000 in
cash. The men entered by way of a
skyhght, drew electricity from live
wire to operate their drill and with
nitro-glycerine easily blew off The safe
dosr. Beside the safe were found kid
gloves which the burglars evidently had
used to avoid leaving finger prints, which
recently have led to the arrest and in
dietmept Of several alleged burglars.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
MINISTER MURDERER
CUTS SELF IN JAIL
WITH PIECE OF TIN SLASHES HIM
SELF IN THE GROIN.
Physicians Finish Act-Trial Set for
January 15-Tnjury Will Not In
terfere With the Trial.

Boston, Mass.-Cries and groans
breaking the stiffness of the early morn
ing hours at the county jail led to the
discovery that the Rev. Clarence V. 7.
Richeson, awaiting trial on the charge
of having murdered Miss Avis Linnell,
had mutilated himself severely in the
groin with a piece of tin. So serious
was the wound that it was found neces'
sary to perform an operation imme-
diately. Later in the day the surgeons
said the operation was entirely sue
cessful, and that unless blood poisoning
developed the prisoner probably would
recover within two weeks.
County authorities, jail officials and
counsel for Richeson all refused to COM
ment upon the possible mental processes
which led the accused man to the deter
mination to injure himself, or what in
iluence his act might have upon future
legal proceedings in his case. District
Attorney Pelletier, who will have charge
of Richeson's trial, set for January Is,
asserted that the trial would begin on
the day assigned.
The district attorneys declaration
that Richeson would be strong enough
to appear in court on January Is was
corroborated by DIR. Howard A. Lothropi
one of the surgeons who attended the
prisoner.
Although Richeson's counsel would
give no intimation whether the defense
would seek postponement or take any
other action because of Richeson's act
they did say definitely that the accused
clergyman had wounded himself in an
attempt at emasculation.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
TWO BRIGHT WOMEN DEAD
Martha Baker and Margaret Potter Get
Higher Inspiration.

Chicago.-Art and literary circles in
Chicago were shocked to learn Friday of
the death of two of their brightest
lights, both occurring suddenly.
Shortly before midnight Martha Ba'
ker, declared by Sorolla, the famous
Spanish artist, to be the greatest min
iature painter of modern times, died at
Hahnemann Hospital of peritonitis, su-
perinduced by an operation for appen'
dicitis.
Scarcely was the news of her death
known when the newspapers announced
the sudden death at the Chicago Beach
hotel of Margaret Horten Potter, the
brilliant and gifted novelist, recently d.
vorced from John Donald Black An in
quest developed the fact that Mrs. Pot
ter died from morphine poisoning.
Both women were known all over the
world, Miss Baker for the work of her
brush, Mrs. Potter for the work of heI
pen.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
Burr Brothers Get One Year.

New York.-Shelton c. Burr, presI.
dent; Eugene q. Burr, secretary-treas-
urer; Charles II. Tobey, vlce-president,
and Edwin w. Preston, field oil manager
of the Burr Bros, Inc, bOnl brokers
and promoters, we're each sentenced b.
Judge Holt to serve one year in she
penitentiary on Blackwell, Island after
they had pleaded guilty to a charge of
using the mails to defraud prospective
investors. 1t is said the men gained
SIS, 100000 by their swindling opera.
tions.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
Women Again in Trouble.

New York.-Three of the fashionable
dressmakers involved in the Sleeper
trunk smuggling conspiracy" in 1909,
when the government was defrauded out
of duties aggregating $5,OOO,OOO, are
again in trouble with the government.
The three women-Augusta Wick
strom, Kate O'Connell and Annie L. Nc
Burnie-were ararigned in the United
States circuit court here, charged with
undervaluation of goods from Paris.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
Record for Sheep Hsrdlnu.

Henry Gayton, shepherd for over 60
years on a farm near Brayfeld-on-the
Green, Northants, England, has prob
ably established record for long
service In his line. He has worked
on the same farm for Ga years, having
begun at the age Of 6 as a bird scarer.
He still minds the sheep, harVests,
and does odd jobs, and is happy with
a weekly wage Of 16 shillings. His
wife still lives. They have 13 chill.
dren born to them, rearing them ALL
The Argonaut.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
GREAT BEEF COUP FAILED
Hartman and Kuhn-Loeb Did Not Fur,
nish $90,00o,00O.

Chicago.-Two developments stand
out like pOtter's thumb in the story
of the trial of the beef packers. The
one tells the details of how E. H. Harri-
man and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. failed to
furnish $0O,OOo,OoO and live up to an
agreement in 1902, which was to have
given the Armour, Swift and Morris in
terests absolute control of practically all
the packing industry in America.
The other contains the frank admis-
sion on the part of the packers that a
pool" existed prior to 1902, in which
the beef barons met on Tuesday after
noon and parceled out the business which
each would do in the different parts Of
the country.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
ROW OVER FAMILY TREE
Dan BOone's Descendant Divorces ThOs
Iefferson's Grandniece.

st. Louis, Mo.-John T. Boone, Jr.
descendant of Daniel Boone, obtained a
divorce from Ethel Edwards Boone,
great grandniece of Thomas Jefferson.
One of the allegations Boone made
on the witness stand was thai his wife
repeatedly told him that her family tree
was superior to his.
She considered Thomas Jefferson a
more distinguished ancestor than the
great Kentucky pioneer and Indian hghs
er, and that she repeatedly declared the
Boones looked like washerwomen wher
compared with the Jeffersons.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
Shakespeare FoOtnote.

Ole Nanny Lie was busting the
Southern womans drawing room. She
came to a small bronze bust OF
Shakespeare and began carefully go
ing over him with her rag.
Mis- juliet chile, who am dis yerS
gemmun?"
THAT is Shakespeare, Lie, a won
derful poet who died centuries ago."
dat him, missy? Lor', Use done
hyear O. Mistah Shakespeare a lot OBJ
times. EVERYBODY seems to know him.
Deed, l done hyear so much bout
him dat 1 allus thought he was white
gemmun."
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
Exports Exceed Imports.

Washington.-The exports of the
United States to the countries of the
rest of the world during the eleven
months of the current year exceeded the
imports by somewhat more than $475,-
100000. The value of the exports was
81, ,S67, ,614,51O, while the imports were
worth $1,392,55O,928, according to sta.
tistics issued by the department of com
merce and labor During the correspond.
ing period last year the exports exceeded
the imports in value by abort $211,-
100000.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
WEALTHY SUN WORSHIPER
12-Year-0ld Boy Removed From Temple
and Given to Juvenile Court.

Chicago. - Twelve-year-old George
Lindsay, heir to the millions of his
father, the late W. H. Lindsay, of Phila-
delphia, has been foralbly removed from
the "temple" of the sun wcrshipers here
and placed in custody Of the juvenile
court.
Young Lindsay had been confined in
the "temple" six months or more and
compelled to live on diet of grapes and
beer. 1t is declared he was placed with
the sun worshipers BY his mother, who
is known to the cult as "Vahdah." The
lads uncle released him after the dis
covery that resulted through nation
wide search.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28

Miss Elisabeth Marbury, New York'a
noted theatrical agent, was condemn.
ing at the Colony club the scolding
type Of woman.
"You can always tell her." said Miss
Marbury. "If you can't tell her in one
way, you can tell her in another
Il said to woman the other Sun
day:
why. my dear. how hoarse you
arel
Yes she answered angrily. MY
husband was out late last night
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
The First Thing.

The schoolmaster said: "You arc
very slow, George. Now, if you don't
answer the next question in ten min
utes, I'll give you taste Of this cane.
If you put 40 eggs into an incubator
and nine-tenths of them hatched.
what would you get?"
The master had only counted four
when George said:
We'll, first thing, with all them
chickens about, I'd get a brick and a
tring and drown our cat"
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
OUTSTRIP AMERICANS
Foreign Born Children Make Better
Records in Public Schools.

ACIOAuo AA NbAAS ONANN~1'
Harrisburg, Pa.-Warning that chill
dren of foreign born parents are outstrlp-
ping American boys and girls in the
public schools of the state is contained in
the annual report of DR.. N. c. Schaetfer,
state superintendent of public instruc-
tion. DR.. Schaeffer's mfavorable con-
trast between the attitude of American
children and those of foreign born par
ents is drawn in the following para
graph:
"Children born of foreign parents real
ize the advantages thus placed within
their reach. Many Of them study with
zeal and earnestness, which will make
them winning competitors alongside OF
American youth, who waste their time
at social functions and in the gratiiica-
tion Of self, instead of practicing the
self-denial, which lies at the foundation
OF all true success"
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
600 MOROS CAPITULATE
Supplies of 600 Cut Off Before They
Finally Give In.

Manila.-The Moros, who several days
ago retired to Bud Dajo peak, in the
island of Jolo, which they had fortified,
capitulated to the American troops. The
Moros numbered 600 and defed an ulti-
matum issued by Brig.-Gen. Pershing,
ordering the disarmament of natives in
the district. Their supplies were cut off,
and they were surrounded in their
stronghold by American infantry. Final
ly, they were forced to yield through
hunger, and marched out and laid down
their arms.
Prior to the surrender desperate
band of twenty tried to force an outpost,
but were repulsed. Several Moros were
killed, but there were no American cas-
ualties.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
Pipe Causes Epidemic.

Lincoln, Neb.-A pipe, its use and
source unknown, but with one terminal
opening into the largest of the wells
which supply the city with water, is be-
lieved to be the cause of an epidemic Of
gastro-intestinal disease, resembling choE
era, which has attacked 500 persons in
Lincoln.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
Money Saved Is Money Made.

DR.. VIM. Self, Of Webster, N. G., an
old practitioner of medicine, tells US
that after many years experience in
medicine he finds it money saved to
his patients to use Taylor's Cherokee
Remedy Of Sweet Gum and Mullen
for coughs, colds and consumption
Whooping Cough, etc.
At druggists, 25c., SOC. and $1.00 .
bottle.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
RIcHEsoN MARRIED AVIS L1NNELL.
It Is Alleged He Performed Weird
Ceremony.

Boston.-That the Rev. Clarence v.
T. Richeson, who is recovering from
wounds inflicted by himself with a
Jagged piece of tin, was married to Miss
Avis Linnell in wierd ceremony in
which he also served as the officiating
clergyman is to be the claim upon which
the prosecution will base its case when
the accused minister comes up for trial
for the murder of the pretty choir
singer
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
S. B. McHenry in Asylum.

Chicago-Samuel B. McHenry, who
recently was arrested in Washington for
annoying Miss Katherine Elkins, daugh-
ter of the late Stephen B. Elkins, was
Friday sent to Dunning Asylum by
Judge Owens. McHenry explained that
he wrote letters to Miss Elkins while in
q trance, and he was on his way to call
on her and apologize to her for his con
duct when he was detained.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
Another French RevoIutlon.

A number of girls have demanded
admission to the French military
academy.
The time may be coming when the
daughter of the regiment will give
way to the son. and when the roman
tic canteen bearer will wear whiskerR.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
WASHINGTON ANXIOUS.
Fears Russian Tariff Discrimination
MAY Cause III Feeling.

Washington.-While the initiation OF
retaliatory measures by Russian legis'
lation is viewed with apprehension as be-
ing likely to develop ill-feeling between
the two countries, the good temper
shown by the Russian foreign office in
diplomatic exchanges leads state depart
ment officials to more than hope their
efforts to secure a new treaty will be
successful.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
a Rlak.

you ran a great risk when you
proposed to your fiancee OF noun.
tain gorge"
why so?"
Think of the consequence Il she
bad thrown you over?"
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
Egg Prices at Top Notch.

New York.-The extreme high price
of eggs-a figure beyond anything ever
known in New York at this season Of
the year-was partially explained by
the statement that there are 100000 900
dozen of eggs in cold storage here, upon
which the owners hope to make "kill
ing"
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
Slew to Get Property.

Muskogee, Okla.-William Irwin was
convicted of the murder of Herbert and
Castella Sells. They were children and
owned land worth quarter of mil
lion dollars. The children were killed
while they slept, dynamite being used.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
Apropos Of TrIpoII.

Apropos Of the war in Tripoli, Col.
Henry G. Hamilton said the other day
in Monterey:
"A man asked me this morning
whether you dispatch troops or de
spatch' them. l answered:
If they are your own troops you
despatch" them; but If they are the
enemy's. you dispatch" them, with
the accent on the di.'"
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
Abnormal Bachelor.

"Do you know Binglehofrerf"
"Yes."
He's positively uncanny."
why do you think so?"
HE keeps his socks in the same
place all the time"
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28

Don't waste time trying to kill two
birds with one stone. Stones arc
more plentiful than birds.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28

Dr.. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-cOated,
easy to take as candy, regulate and invigor-
ate stomach, liver and bowels. Do not grippe.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
Storm Note.

Little Harold Hillside looked out OF
the window at the snowstorm last
Monday morning and exclaimed, "Oh,
look at the ster!"-Newark News.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28
TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA

AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM
Take the Old Standard GROVES TAS,rEL LHaA
CHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking
The formula Is plainly printed on every bottle
showing 1t is simply Qulnine and Iron In tasteesS
form, and the most effectual form. Bor grown
people and children. 90 cents.
Okolona messenger., 1911-12-28

Most women like the villain better
than the hero.