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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28

You will be a better farmer by tax
ing your wife's advice OCCASIONALLY.
You can't expect t. cultivate a
neighbours friendship by narrowing his
feelings.
A man who worries very little may
also be called a nan whose compla-
cency haS worried very many.
The sincerity Of 6 mans religion can
not be gagged by tho number Of but.
tons he puts In the collection plate.
The man who puts In a COED part Of
the winter studying bulletins and Farm
papers can be told by looks Of ma
fields next summer.
Some people are always complain
ing Of their poverty who ara rich
without knowing It. Money is not the
real gauge of wealth.
A farmer expects good workman
ship from the blacksmith and the car
penter, but is content to SLOUGH along
without having learned his own busi-
ness.
Texas cattle raisers have discover.
ed that there Is a difference Of 300
per cent. between the price received
by them and that paid by the con
sumner.
Few men would admit that their
wives know anything about business
but a great many will follow Their
advice, and then take all the credit for
themselves.
A man driving to town in the mud
was asked If he favored narrowing the
roads. Make them as narrow as you
please" he replied, "but for heavens
sake don't make them any deeper"
Don't think that you can peg away
day in and day out, and then some
time come to the spot where yDu can
have a good time. 1t is much safer
and better to take a little at a time
as you so along.
Whenever prices Of farm produce
advance g little the cry is set up
that the farmers have formed a trust
There is no man in this country who
is big enough to form q combination
Of 10000 farmers and operate 1t as
q single organization.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
100000 PLANTING FIRM
viii Install Modern Experiment Station
and Diversity Crops.

GreenwOod.-The largest and most
compresenhive corporation ever organ
lied in this section of the great Yazoo-
Mississippi valley delta, and the most
interesting organization of its kind, espe-
cially at this season, when this section
of the country is facing conditions that
will thoroughly evidence the survival of
the f%ttest, was perfected at Greenwood
when the Shellmound Plantation COM
pany, with an incorporated capital stock
of $1,00O,0O0, was organized and appli-
cation Immediately made for charter.
Many planters all over the state are
foolishly sacrificing their lands, allowing
purely foreign syndicates to gobble up
splendid tracts merely because a tempo
rary shadow is cast upon their condi-
lions. Lefore county men and the citi-
Sens Of the adjoining counties do not
seem possessed of this caliber, but are
determined through effective cooperation
to wage a relentless battle against the
invasion of the weevil, and when the
fight is won fully enjoy the blessings
of victory.
Intensified methods alone will be
adopted, and the one crop idea will be
completely isolated. Attention will be
concentrated upon the raising, of every
conceivable necessity within the range
of possibility, and then play on corn
and cotton for profit.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
SERIES OF FARM INSTITUTES
SYSTEMATIC AGRICULTURE TO BE
DISCUSSED IN MISSISSIPPI.
Under Auspices of Farmers Union, A. 8
M. College, Corn Clubs, Girls Do
nestle Science and Tomato Clubs.

Jackson.-G. H. Afford, special agent
of the farmers cooperative and demon
s~tration work of the national bureau
of plant industry, announces a pro-
gramme Of farmers institute and rally
meetings during January, which are ex-
pected to be of vast interest and Of con-
siderable help in stimulating the mind
of the people of Mississippi to the po-
tential value of cooperation in intelli'
gent and systematic farming. The meet
ings will be held under the joint auspi-
ces of the farmers cooperative and dem
onstration work, the Mississippi Farm
ers' Union, the farmers institute de-
partment of the Mississippi Agricultural
and Mechanical College, the boys corn
clubs, the girls domestic science and
tomato clubs, the state department Of
education, and other interests. The fol-
lowing itinerary has been mapped out;
Tuesday, Jan. 8, Tylertown, Pike
county.
Wednesday, Jan. 10, Columbia, Mari
on county.
Thursday, Jan. II, PopIarviIle, Pearl
River county.
Friday, Jan. 70, Purvis, Lamar county.
Saturday, Jan. 10, Ellisville, Jones
county.
Wednesday, Jan. II, LucedaIe, George
county.
Thursday, Jan. IS, New Augusta, Per-
ry county.
Friday, Jan. 10, Prentiss, Jefferson
Davis county.
Saturday, Jan. 20, Hattiesburg, For
rest county.
Wednesday, Jan. "a, Mendenhall,
Simpson county,
Thursday, Jan. 25, Collins, Covington
county.
Friday, Jan. 20, Forest, Scott county.
Saturday, Jan. II, Pelahatchie, Rank
in county.
Wednesday, Jan. 81, Heidelberg, JAS
per county.
Thursday, Feb. 1, Quitman, Clarke
county.
Friday, Feb. 2, Waynesboro, Wayne
county.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
BoNY BETS BADLY BRUISED.
Aged Mar Sustains Serious Injuries in
Runaway.

Starkville.-A serious accident &C.
'ident occurred at Double Springs, in
this county, fourteen miles from here,
in which Bony Belts, a prominent citi.
zen, was the victim.
Frank Love and Mr.. Belts were in a
wagon and at Mr.. Loves residence.
While both tried to take off the wagon
body the mules became unmanageable
and dashed away. Love endeavored to
stop the animals and prevent Mr.. Belts
from being injured, but became en-
tangled in the harness and had a mirac-
ulous escape from death.
Mr.. Belts was thrown between the
wheels and the heavy wagon ran over
him. His nose was broken, lips split,
teeth knocked out, body terribly bruised
and he sustained other injuries of a Sc.
rious nature, and on account of his
advanced age is in a critical condition.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
Shoots Son, Wounds Father.

Roxie.-Carl Middleton, aged IS years,
his father, Frank Middleton, a farmer
at Gloster, and Frank M. Collier, 9
farmer near Gloster, aged 25, met in
Hardy Dunn's store and after an ex-
change of heated remarks, Collier
whipped out a revolver, shooting Carl
Middleton through the heart and the
iugular vein, killing him instantly, and
shot his father, Frank Middleton, the
bullet entering just under the chin and
passing through and out the back of his
neck.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
RAILROADS IMPROVING.
Mississippi State Commission Submits
Its Report.

Jackson.-One of the most important
of the biennial reports is that of the
railroad commission of Mississippi for
the period of 1901.
In a general Introductory the commits
sion calls attention to the work and acts
of the period reviewed, and incidentally
to the development of the common car
rier and corporations service noted.
Among other things, the commission
says:
Railroad construction since our last
report has not been great in extended
mileage, only 1860 miles having been
added, but there has been a great deal
of improvement in and of the railroads
of the state.
Better bridges have been built and
by order of this commission new and
commodious depots have been erected,
old ones repaired and pagodas erected
for the accommodation of the public"
Similar physical improvements are
tersely commented on in the introduc.
tory, indicating a marked state of i'm
provements in general by other lines and
systems.
Regarding the quick communication
service, the commission reports a very
great degree of improvement by the
telegraph and telephone companies, point.
ing out the overshadowing Importance
of the telephone over the telegraph SER
vice. It is reported that there are over
seventy-five different telephone com.
panies doing business in the state, not
including the Cumberland Telephone and
Telegraph company.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
COL. E. G. DELAP E A
Was Known Throughout the World of
Masonry.

Natchez.-Col L. G. DeLap, native of
Green county, Wis, who came to Natchez
from the vicinity of Vicksburg, where
he served with Company B, Thirty-third
regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, U. S.
A., dropped dead at his home in this
city, aged IA years. In 1865, he was
initiated in Harmony Lodge No. l, Free
and Accepted Masons, composed of Con-
federate officers and soldiers, and in 1867
was elected worshipful master, and in
1887 he was elected grand master by
unanimous vote of the grand lodge. He
wrote thirty-three annual reports on
correspondence for the grand command
cry, knights Templar, and is known
throughout the entire world of Free
Masonry. He was accorded the highest
honors that Mississippi Masons could be-
stow.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
Farmers Union Movement.

1t seems strange that southern
farmers who have always been
thought by many northern farmers, to
be unprogressive, are the first to take
up cooperative selling. The Farmers
union has among its members over
5000 cooperative concerns, big and
little, and they are getting more for
their produce than ever before. This
movement is spreading over the entire
country slowly but surely, and farm
ers Of the north and west ought to
give it mor thought than they do.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28

Have enough bread soaked in cold
water to fill the turkey. AS o as
softened drain off all the water, press
fine and mix with the crumbs a heap
ing tablespoonful of butter or a little
raw chopped pork. Season with salt
and pepper, add sweet herbs, particu-
larry sage and parsley-just enough
ito animate the whole" An egg in the
dressing makes it smooth when cut.
A little lemon peel grated or a quarter
of a nutmeg added would be an i'm
provement.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
Ignorance Versus knowledge.

III you will come with me over the
state and note the pitiful ignorance
Of the first principles Of correct dairy
practice, as it is observed in the com
mon, everyday life on the farm, you
cannot deny the call for leadership
and assistance. The childlike sim.
plicity of faith with which the aver.
age farmer follows methods and
tees Of his father and forefathers ia
astonishing I've to the most careless
observer. Obsolete methods, careless
Indifference marks much Of the labor
applied to the production of milk.
cream and butterfat PROT. John
Bower. before the Nebraska Dairy
Convention.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
DIR. EICHELBERGER RETURNS.
After Attending National Anti-Saloon
League Convention.

Jackson.-Rev. G. w. E~ichelberger re.
turned Thursday from Washington, D..
C., where he attended the national con-
vention of the A%nti-Saloon League. Mr..
Eichelberger thinks there is little doubt
that two bills will pass congress this
winter. One is to subject foreign ship
ments of liquor into dry territory to
the laws of the state just as soon as
it enters the state. The other is a re.
fusal OF federal certificates in dry terri
tory. He says these two laws with two
more from this state legislature will
put Mississippi in fine shape for law en-.
forcement.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
ARBoR DAY JANUARY 10.
Trees and Shrubs Will Be Planted
Throughout Mississippi.

Jackson.-The programme for Missis-
sippi Arbor Day, for the observance of
which the department of education has
designated Friday, January 10, 1912,
has just been issued. As a foreword the
pamphlet carries the circular recently
issued by State Superintendent Powers,
in which the attention of teachers is
called to the code section authorizing
the observance of We day "by the plant
ing of trees and otherwise improving the
school grounds"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
Seed Supply Is Short.

Jackson.-A majority OF the cotton oil
mills in Mississippi will close down for
the season within the next six weeks.
Some of the larger mills that draw seed
supplies from a large territory have
enough seed in sight to keep them run
ming until the latter part Of February,
or the early part Of March, but the bulk
of the crop is already in the mill sheds,
and, since the crop is admittedly the
shortest for several years, It will be
impossible for a majority Of the plants
80 operate much longer Than thirty days.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
Crops in Orchards.

Professor Stewart of the Pennsyl-
vania State college holds that from
the standpoint Of the trees, the least
harmful are titled leguminous inter.
crops, such as peas and beans, on &C.
count of their favorable nitrogen and
moisture relations" Grass is gener-
ally regarded as highly Objectionable,
drawing upon the water supply of the
soil. Early sweet corn is probably the
best form in which to plant this
crop. Melons, cabbage, tomatoes and
early potatoes are used by many. But
we must feed both the cSops and the
trees.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
Molasses Candy.

One cupful of New Orleans mo-
lasses, n cupful of brown sugar, a
teaspoonful Of vinegar, al ounce of
butter. Mix together and boil, being
careful not to stir until the syrup
hardens in cold water. Stir in a tea
spoonful Of baking soda and pour In
to buttered plate. When cool enough
pull with the ends Of the fingers.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
Want Union Market.

Meridian.-Talk Of the necessity Of
a union slaughter house and a meat
and milk inspector of Meridian has
been revived to ON extent and it is
understood plans are on foot with an
end in view of the early establishment
of the slaughter house.
This necessity is brought about be.
cause of the increased home production
of hogs and live stock. Some place
must be provided to keep the beef after
%slaughtering and this will be done in the
erection of the slaughter house with q
cold storage plant in connection.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
SprinkIing Eggs in Incubator.

One of the experiment stations has
found that by s%prinkling eggs during
the last three days of artificial incu-
baton, one-third more eggs were
Matched, and the eggs that were
sprinkled from the third day on gave
about 10 per cent better hatch. Sub
merging the eggs did not seem to
increase the hatch as much as sprink-
ling. It was also found that while 1t
is easy to develop chicks in large,
t~hick-shelled, dark, Brahma eggs, II
Is very difficult to get a good hatch.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
State Will Get Funds.

misunderstanding to State Treas
urer Edwards, the gross amount of state
funds with which the Peoples bank of
Summit was charged as a state depos,
itory was $7O.44 at 4 per cent interest.
which is covered by a guarantee bond
equivalent to $4,000 or more. He is
satisfied that the state will come into
its own without undue delay.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28

When beets are left from dinner
wash them and rinse In boiling water
to free them from butter or sauce, and
drop into weak vinegar. In this con.
dition they may be kept for a long
time and can be used as needed for
salads and garnishing.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
Kill Cotton Boil WeeviI.

DISCOVERIES Of an Egyptian worm
that will eat the cotton boil weevIl
have been discouraged by Iearnlns
that it is %cannibalistic in its tendon,
cies and will eat its companions ne
readily as weevils.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
Selling CUT Over Lands.

Hattiesburg.-E. L. Thompson has
opened Offices in this city to handle the
$4,000 acres of land owned by the Lamp
ton company in Jackson county. This
company is among the large land own.
ers of the state.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
Use Cold Water.

Silk stockings will wear twice as
long If washed out in cold water each
time afteg wearing. The cold water
does not fade them az warm water
doee.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-28
Rarely Sick Fowl.

A busy fowl is rarely u,ck.
The evening times., 1911-08-24
EVERY MAN A POLITICIAN.

Woodrow Wilson has not abandon
ed any of the new isms he embraced
upon entering politics year ago,
but just the same light has burst
upon him. If the initiative, referen-
dun and recall are to bring about
the great governmental reforms de-
manded by conditions, every man
must be a politician. And before a
man can be classed as politician
he must master the genius of the
new political system. Then, and not
till then, will it be profitable to
bring public opinion to bear on legis-
lative action.
This is Gov Wilson's scholarly
way of stating the fact that wrong
start has been made The people
were not really in a state of pre-
paredness. politically speaking, for
the millennium he saw approaching
The evening times., 1911-08-24
AFTER MANY YEARS.

It is one of the peculiarities Of our
political administration that there is
q widespread claim OF aggressive pro-
gressiveness in the proposition of the
postmaster general to cut down the
expense of Transporting the mails by
paying the railroads actual cost plus
six per cent profit. While the meth
cd by which the actual cost is to be
ascertained is not stated, the action
seems to aim at a reform about a
quarter Of a century after the exist
ence Of the abuses was charged.
Long before the name ".muckraker"
was invented, papers and public men,
not timid about exposing evils back
ed by influence and power, charged
in detail that the government was
paying for carrying the mails largely
in excess Of reasonable cost and
very much more than the railroads
charge for similar service, like that
on express shipments.
The debate over the postal rate on
periodicals emphasized the import
ance Of this allegation. If the cost
Of carrying second class matter was
swollen by an excessive railroad
charge, the remedy was plainly in
The evening times., 1911-08-24
washington Dispatch to New York
Worldly

w dSuulSlOu DlSpdlCu 10 NvW 1OTh
WORLDLY
Any tourist in Washington who
happens to be in the vicinity of the
house Office building at 8 o'clock
these summer mornings is certain to
see smart-looking electric runabout
drawn up. Regularly, with the hour
an Unusually early one for congress
sional activities. the little electric
makes its appearance, and the strang-
er who possesses curiosity is sure to
wonder who the fine-looking man
and the vivacious lady are who are
! its invariable occupants. Some en-
ploye Of the big building, seeing the
approving glances of the stranger, is
almost certain to say, That's Mr.
Oscar Underwood and his wife"
Mrs. Underwood is almost as much
of a parsonage as her husband in
Washington. The two are unusually
chumlny, not only in their diversions
but in the more serious business OF
their lives.
+ Mrs. Underwood is a real helpmee,
to her distinguished husband, and he
acknowledges that her interest in his
career has been its greatest inspira-
ton.
/ Horror to W0man's Clubs.
! She has spent every congressional
season in Washington, and is always
a standpatter when it comes to en-
during the torrid heat of a Washing
ton summer in order to be with Mr.
! Underwood.
! Paddy feminity cannot include Mrs
Underwood in its ranks. She even
confesses that she personally has a
horror Of women's clubs. 1t was a
paper on architecture that completely
scared Mrs. Underwood from the fem.
mine rostrum. Yes" she says, that
paper completely cured me of VIC
mems clubs. AS far as l am person.
ally concerned, want none OF them
1t happened when l was in Paris
studying some years ago. had look
ed forward with almost frenzy ol
enthusiasm to the pleasures of my
! stay in the wonder city But, alas!
for me. Just before l started l hat
agreed to read a paper on architec.
| ture before my club at a meeting
which was to be he'd Just after my
| 4tIulu W AMcl1Cd.
The Blight of Paper.
We'll, that paper on architecture
blighted my whole visit to Paris,
dreaded it by day and dreamed of i
by night. / had given my word tina
l wou! write it and write it l did
but before it was finished l though
l did not care to live to complete it
With grim, youthful conscientiousnes
I 'boned' and dug. knew just abou
as much about architecture as tn
average girl does. and any one cal
guess just how much that is.
II burned the midnight oil studyin,
books on architecture, for intende,
to make that paper masterpiece
There we're weeks at a time when
might as we'll have been in the Des
ert Of Sahara as far as seeing any
The evening times., 1911-08-24

a year ago. Even in New Jersey, un-
der Gov. Wilson's personal auspices,
the direct primary-that pathfinder
and pioneer of progressive policies
has not yielded the flattering re-
suits we were led to expect. while,
from Mississippi there comes stall
more discouraging news-a big vic.
tory from certain point Of view. it
is true, but as a famous general re-
marked, III we win another victory
like that we are lost" What oc-
Cured in Mississippi appears to have
profoundly shaken Gov. Wilson's con-
viction that the lower downs" are
more to be trusted than the higher
ups"
So, hearkening to the true signih-
cance Of developments along the l.,
r. and R. route to political saliva
ton, Gov. Wilson exhorted some 20,-
900 assembled New Jersey farmers to
make a study Of politics as being
the "one big important central part
of life," and fit themselves for that
most important Of all habits, nom
partisan voting" Gov Wilson took
occasion to deny the charge that he
was trying to break up party organi-
zation in the state, although just
how parties are to be held together
should all voters become nonparti-
san was not elucidated. Inevitably
the parties must go to pieces, with
the party that happens to be in pow
er the first to lose its hold and van
ish
The evening times., 1911-08-24
THURSDAY, AUGUST "a, 1911.
LABOR PEACE AT ANY COST.

The terms Of settlement OF the
British railroad strike. which had
assumed such a threatening aspect,
disclose 10 our view the fact that
American capital and labor are much
nearer Il solution Of the problems
that make for antagonisms than is
the case over there. The chief point
gained, in the estimation of the
strikers, was the recognition of the
unions, which hitherto has been
stubbornly resisted by the railroads.
This point Of difference was adjust
ed in America years ago, and now
adays rarely cuts figure outside the
open shop or where women employees
have been unionized
Another important concession, and
one which ought to be rated first of
all, because it concerns the public
interest, is the agreement TO submit
questions in dispute TO arbitration,
together with plan to recast the un-
workable conciliation law, which has
been in force several years. and
which the men contend has been the
source of their troubles with employ
ers. Arbitration has been in vogue
with us all along, and it has come
to be generally applied Since the
passage of the Erdman act the gov
eminent has become the great paciti-
Gator, and that method has yet to fail
in bringing employer and employe to-
gether.
The anomaly Of the members of the
British cabinet working night and
day as Intermediates between the
parties in conflict has never been
witnessed in this country But as it
was due to their efforts that a settle
luelI was arrived at dQQ worse Sit
uation averted, it may be said that
the end justified the means. What
would be thought of our cabinet ap-
preaching the railroads with a prom
tse of an increase in rates If they
would meet the demands Of the strik-
ers? But it was up to the govern
ment to conciliate the men or lose
the support Of the labor party, which
Is vital to the Liberals hold on pow
or. The exigency was great, and no
sacrifice OF dignity was too great. The
situation in London suggests the Chi
cago railroad strike of 1884, when
President Cleveland lifted the block
ade on United States mails by dis
patching federal troops to the scene