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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08

In a very little case, the Interstate
Commerce Commission has rendered
a big decision. A suburban electric
railway from Washington to Mount
Vernon has been rendered TO reduce
certain fares from fifteen to ten cents
Not very exciting, considering tina.
there are Only nineteen miles Of the
entire road.
But the Commission ordered the
reductions on the sole ground that il
found that the road should be valued
at only $4,000 per mile, while it was
capitalized at and earning returns upon
S207.000 a mile, The Commission
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08
IN AN EMERGENCY.

Where many people dwell together
as in a family, scarcely a day or &
week passes that some member of the
family does not become c~onstipated or
has Indigestion, sick headache, heart
burn, Aatulency, etc. 1t is then that
YOU need a remedy like DR.. CaldweII's
Syrup Pepsin, which cures these dis
eases. Every family should have a
bottle always at hand. 1t is absolute
" guaranteed to do what is claimed,
and it you want to try it before buy
ing, send your address for a free SAM
pie bottle to Pepsin Syrup Co., 119
Caldwell Bldg, Monticello, Ill, 1t is
sold by All Druggists at Soc and 81 a
bottle.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08
THE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW

Last week Secretary Of Stale Knoa
refused a committee of Congress &C,
cess to certain books in his keeping
It had come to the knowledge Of Con
gress that there we're certain accounts
not Just in the shape they should be.
and an investigation was begun One
Rosenthaul bad painted a picture Of
the late Secretary Of State Day and
according 10 the data at hand had re,
ccived S2450 for his effort; but Rosen.
thaul ;old the committee he had only
received $3.50, leaving an unaccounted
expenditure Of $1,000. Then when
the committee asked for information
concerning this apparent or real graft,
the Secretary refused on the ground
that President Roosevelt had certified
to the amount and that to show the
books would disclose other items Of
expenditure.
1t is our idea Of this government that
it is a govsrnment Of the people, and
that all the officials are butthe% servants
or representatives Of the people. In
making request for these items the
committee asked just the question that
the people should be mostly Interested
in, What has become of the money
we have paid in as taxes 2 No Of.
fetal has a right to withhold any in.
formation regarding governmental ex.
penditures. To allow such refusal to
pass at hat is to open wide the door
for a general grazing business in public
affairs, Every officer who handles
public moneys should be made to give
a strict accounting for every dollar
passing through his hands and should
be severely punished for even an at
tempt to graft.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08

THICK AND THIN.

The plot thickened. The heroine
on the other hand, though many
years elapsed, remained thin
throughout the entire five acts of the
play.
"Ha, hat" she laughed buoyantly,
in the face of fate, for when, on ap-
pearing in her sixteenth gown, she
perceived that women in the audi
ence were about to expire of envy,
she felt that her future, was, on the
whole, safe.--Puck.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08
MRS. j. MORGAN.

Health is a valuable asset for rich
or poor. Mrs. J, Morgan Of Neosha
Falls, Kan, says she would not take
$500 to go back 10 where she was
before taking DR., CaIdwelIs Pepsin.
She suffered from chronic Indigestion
for fifteen years, and last winter she
thought she would surely die, but she
took this great herb Laxative compound
and was cured. 1t is absolutely guar
anteed to do what is claimed, and if
you want to try it before buying, send
your address for a free sample bottle
to Pepsin Syrup Co., I19 Caldwell
Bldg, Monticello, III. 1t is sold by
All Druggists at SOC and 81 a bottle.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08
FOLK SEES PRESENT CRISIS.

Former Gov, j.. w, Folk, Of Mis-.
souri,, speaking on Progressive
Democracy" said in part:
"A crisis has been reached in the
affairs Of tho republic. The news
papers are filled each day with
accounts Of theiyery and graft. What
does it mean? Is corruption becom.
ing a national disease? Is not the
government itself is in a large sense
to blame for this seeming general
: disposition?
When a government By means Of
a monopoly tariff attempts to take
from one class and gives to another, a
moral question is presented. Wealth
created by Legislation must be drawn
from the public. A tariff other than
tor eveuu is merely a legaIized
graft. The congressman who votes
tor protection on something produced
in his district cannot deny the de-
mands Of other congressman for a
larger share of the tariff plumber for
their districts.
1T is a quetion for us not Of found
ing Of a new party, but in the pre-
servation of the ideals of the old part.
Not the formation Of a new govern.
ment, but the publication Of a nations
life. Not the conquest Of foreign
foes, but the subsection of those with,
in News Scimilar.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08

he must-for the sake Of the South!
Go after this farmer who is stand
ing still; get him to moving; take him
out to the Farmers Institute; interest
him in the Farmers Union, and most
important of all, get him to reading.
Lend him the bulletins, lend him any
literature you can, but in any case,
get him to reading a good farm paper
as we'll as his local paper.
The South is marching forward, and
we need every man in Iine.-Starks-
vile (Miss.) Progressive Farmer.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08
No HELP

A 81. Louis travelling man, making
his FIRST trip through North Dakota.
woke up one May morning to find
the ground white with snow.
For heavens sake" he asked the
hotel clerk disgustedIy, when do you
have summer out in this God.forsaken
country
i don't know" replied the clerk,
Il have oily been here eleven months =
Success Magazine.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08

Young people who get into the
London prisons have been carefully
examined during the last ten years
by the medical authorities and they
are found to be two inches shorter
and IA pounds lighter than the av-
erage of the youthful industrial popu'
lation. Twenty-six per cent. of these
young offenders suffer from some
physical disease or reformation or
mental defect.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08


The Southern farmer is it! Nc
Corn Belt farmer, Wheat Belt farmer.
Eastern farmer, Northern farmer, Or
any other sort Of farmer on the
continent, is making things hum
(pardon the slang for once; We are
lndu'giug in a tit Of jubilation) like
MIR. Southern Farmer is doing,
Ibis IS no idle assertion, no mere
bombast, but a cold-No not cold, but
a red'hot, burning, statistical fact. It
is based on the figures Just given
out from Washington, showing the
crop value by States for 1910, the
total value Of the crops produced by
the farmers in each Commonwealth
last year. These show that one
Southern Sta'e-Iezas-bas cut
down eYerybody~els in the class and
stands head-and is going to keep on
standing head-and that every other
Southern State in The Progressive
Farmer territory has also moved up
right toward the head, excepting only
Louisiana which is going through the
boil weeyiI setback which wiII itself
only produce a healthy reaction in the
end.
Let's take tie record one by one.
Texas, as we have said, put out
Illinois which in 1909 was first in
crop values, and unless we are mis-
TeXes will be first on the roll
always hereafter.
South Carolina (.hree cheers for
our Palmetto readers!) which was
twenty-hrst in 1919, broke all records
by cutting down eight at a clip, and is
now thirteenth in the class.
Georgia, which was tenth in cron
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08
IF HAD ECZEMA

Id wash it away with that mild,
soothing liquid, D, D. D. Trial bottle,
25c. Relieves all kinds of skin
trouble, cleansing away the impurities
and clearing up the complexion as
nothing else can,
Yes. II | had any kind Of skin
trouble I'd use D. D. D.
R, H. LIGON, Druggist,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08

Dyspepsia is Americas curse.
Burdock Blood Bitters conquers.
dyspepsia every time, 1t drives out
impurities, tones the stomach, restores
perfect digestion, normal weight, and
good health.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08
Guide for Course In Life.

Parties, churches, clubs and all or
CARNATIONS have their uses, perhaps,
but they are to be used and are not to
be allowed to absorb US. The spirit in
mar is great and wonderful and above
all that 1t has made and all that has
been made for 1t. The more you love
and study men and the more you dis
count institutions in forming your
opinions the larger will be your heart.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08
Barred From lntoxIoants.

On the Babylon cuneiform tablets
are records of laws forbidding the use
of wine in any form to persons en-
gaged in public business, and assert
ing that no work done for the govern
ment by persons who used wine could
be perfect. All builders Of palaces,
officers of armies, and managers Of
public works were required to abstain
absolutely from all use of wine.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08

Itching, bleeding, protruding or
blind piles yield to Doan's Ointment,
Chronic cases soon relieved, finally
cured, Druggists all sell it,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08

Banker Ito new tutor)-"Always
bear in mind that in my children I am
lntrusting to you my most precious
possessions and give them your best,
And what is your lowest price?"-Flisi
gende Blaetter. !,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08
~Stradivsrius as Toy.

A Stradiyarius worth $4,000 has
been purchased by a violinist at Stras,
burg, Germany, for $3.50 from a little
COY who was dragging it about full
Of sand as a toy cart.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08
Easy to Flint Fault.

1t does not require any genius OF
talent to find fault; but to give credit
where credit is due is indicative 0. a
good heart and sound judgment.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08

An inventive WashingtoniaD has pat.
ented a combination stepiH,der, iron,
ing board and clothes rack. which
folds into small space when not in
use.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08
Announcements

We are authorized 10 announce the
following gentlemen as candidates Tor
the different Offices, subject 10 the
action Of the Democratic Primary:
For District Attorney, Bird Judicial
District
r. H. KNOX
For State Senator
W, F, BUCHANAN
FRANK BURKITT
For Representative
FREDIJ. MCDONNELL, JR.
j. A, LEWIS
w. T, JOHNSON
r. A. HAWKINS
J. NJ. HALEY
7. W. KINARD
For Tax Assessor
III. il. CHENNAULI
J. H. PARKER
i. E. DENDY
JESSE GILLIAN
A. P. SEAY
F. j. WALKER
j., N. LOVELACE
For Sheriff
H.. w. NELSON
JNO. W. HILL
HENRY L, HARRINGTON
B. M. SMITH
For Chancery Clerk
WA. WILKINSON
H. E. BRANNON
For Circuit Clerk
JOE L. DAVIS
For Treasurer:
j.. w. MAJORS
JACKIE. THOMPSON
R. T. HOLDlNGSWORTH
For Superintendent Of Education
r. B. WALDROP
GEO. D. RILEY
For. County Attorney
ELLIOTT PARKER
j. L. LYON
JEFF BUSBY
For Superyisor--Third District
JOHN H. STONE
E. B. BUCKINGHAM
|. v. ABERNETHY
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08
New STYLE In PIneers.

Plncers that lock when closed and
which require considerable force to
open have been patented by a Cali
fornia inventor.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08
Restorative Nervine

soothes the irritated nerves, and
assists tie nerve cells to gener-
ate nerve force.
Or. Miles NerVlne Is sold by all Drug
glsts' II the first bottle falls to benefit,
you druggist viii return your money.
MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08
THE DIFFERENCE

Fanatics starve to death while
bigotS die Of govt. Otherwise thsy
are much alike.-Iife.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08
Instead of Liquid.
Ants ptics uPeroxide
many people are now using
Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic

The new toilet germicide powder to be
dissolved in water as needed.
For all toilet and hygienic uses it is
better and more economical.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08

Money is the root Of all evil and
Wall street is the PUP that hangs to
It.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08

Justice is exalted, strengthened and
honored by the judicious praise Of
Mcrit.-Wintel.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08

Doan's Regulets cure costipaIion
without gripping, NAUSEA, noa any
weakening effect. Ask your druggist
for them. Is cents per box.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08

10 remove nicotine from the teeth and
purify the breath after smoking.
10 eradicate perspiration and body
odors by sponge bathing.
The best antiseptic wash known.
Relieves and strengthens tired, weak.
ini!amedeyes. Heals ~sorethroat, wounds
and cuts. rs and so cts. a box, druggists
or by mail postpaid. Sample Free.
THE PAXTON TOILET CO, BesroN, Mass.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08

10 cleanse and whiten the
teeth, remove tartar and
prevent decay.
To disinfect the mouth, de-
stroy disease germs, and
purify the breath.
To keep artificial teeth and
bridpewOrlS clean odo,.laes
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08

Advertising rates furnished on re-
uest.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08

ntered at the Post Office in Okolona,
liss., as Second Class Mail Matter.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-08
kOLONA MESSENGER
ESTABLISHED 1872.

ascRIPTIoN PRICE 800 PER YEAR
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-03-18
Other Fights.

Ell Paso, Tex.-Conditions bordering
on panic reign almost throughout Nor
thern Mexico at present. Stirred by
the belief that the revolutionary move
ment has reached critical stage, the
insurrectos in the states of Chihuahua
and Sonora are reported to have re.
newed activity in tearing up railroads
and telegraph wires. Numerous towns
according to reports, are under selge
by the insurrectos and thousands of
women and children, cut off from sup
plies, are rendered helpless.
Following the receipt of corrected
details concerning the battle of Casas
Grandes, town of perhaps 500 people,
about $50 miles southwest of Ell Paso,
where 80 men were killed last Mon
day, news reached here of fight at
noon Saturday at Aqua Prieta on the
border across the river from Douglas,
Ariz. Five hundred insurrectos at
tackled 800 federal troops but were re-
pulsed with total of 35 dead and
wounded on both sides. The fighting
was short and the insurrectos armed
only with rifles, soon scattered under
the fire of machine gun.
What is believed to be reliable re-
port Of the casualties at Casas Gran
des says that Is Americans were killed
and II Americans were taken prison
erS.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-03-18
NEWS AS IT HAPPENS
NATIONAL. STATE, FOREIGN. or
INTEREST TO READERS,
The WHOLE WEEKS OOiNGS
snoet Menticn Of interesting Happen
snes From Day to Dav Through
out the World.
WASHINGTON.

Plans for the reform of the currency
laws will be prosecuted with great
deal of vigor by the members of the
National monetary commission during
The summer and fall. A campaign of
education will be started. within q
few weeks in the hope of creating SEN
timent in favor of a bill which probab-
Of congress when the regular session
is convened in December next.
The old guard of the senate is in
great embarrassment over the persist
ence of the head of the powder trust,
Senator du Pont, that he be made
chairman of the committee on military
affairs. The question, aside from any
fine point of propriety, appeals to the
senate leaders as one OF grave political
expediency in that the public might
send up a cry of indignation at the
head Of the powder trust fixing apprc-
priations for the purchase OF powder
for the army This view has not yet
appealed to Senator du Pont, who still
insists that he should succeed Senator
Warren, who goes to appropriations.
By affixing his signature to the con-
tract for the manufacture and print
ing of stamped envelopes and stamped
newspaper wrappers, Postmaster Cen
eral Hitchcock put an end, for at least
four years, from july | next, to con-
test that has waged intermittently for
more than quarter of a century.
Speaker-elect Champ Clark is au-
thority for the statement that one OF
the first acts. of the sixty-second con-
gress, as far as the house is concern
ed, will be to pass joint resolution ap-
proving the Arizona constitution, the
vote which led Senator Bailey to ten
der the resignation which he subse-
quently withdrew. Mr.. Clark believes
that the resolution sent to the senate
with the overwhelming approval OF the
house democrats will not fail to re-
ceive the same strong democratic sup
port that it received on the closing DAY
of the senate's exciting session.
The resignation of of>Richard A. Rallin-
ger Of Seattle as secretary of. the msi
terror Tuesday was accepted by Pres,-
dent Taft and Walter L. Fisher OF
Chicago was appointed as his success
sor
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-03-18
For Special Rice Meeting.

Crowley-The Rice Association OF
America has taken steps to call meet,
ing of American rice interests at Beau
mont to be held at some time prior to
the special session of congress, the
object being to decide on the course
to be pursued relative to the rice
schedule in the new tariff bill. 1t is
anticipated that the rice schedule will
be scrutinized by the ways and means
committee in the preparation of the
new tariff measure, with a possibility
that it will be changed to the detri-
ment of the industry The object of
the consultation of interests is to de-
termine whether the industry shall be
represented before the ways and means
committee and to provide for such rep
resentation if it is deemed advisable.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-03-18
SEWERAGE District Created.

Opelousas-The Board of Aldermen
have adopted an ordinance creating
sewerage district which practically
embraces all the property within the
lines of the old town, but excluding
the new additions and the outlying por.
tions of the city which are not thickly
inhabitated The ordinance author
izes the mayor to call an election for
March % for the purpose of electing
a sewerage board of five commission.
ers, who. under the law, will provide
for holding an election 10 take the
sense of the property taxpayers resid.
ing within the district and otherwise
qualified as to whether or not special
tax will be levied to support the neces-
sary bond issue.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-03-18
Texas officers Eager.

Austin, Textile adjutant generals
department has been notified by the
secretary of war that Instructions as
to attendance of officers at maneuvers
will be given as soon as the schedule
can be worked out The adjutant gem
eral has requested that Texas be per-
mitted to fill any vacancies caused by
other states not availing themselves
of their quota, and that II unable to
care for all Texas officers at one time,
they be allowed to rotate for as long
a tour of duty as may DE found advis-
able.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-03-18
Fear Carpenter is Suicide,

Shreveport.-Clar Tremain, age
80 years local carpenter, who
threatened several weeks ago, on ac-
count of ill-health, to commit suicide,
but lost his nerve after going into
the woods, and returned home a few
days later, has disappeared again,
and his friends and relatives are afraid
that he carried his threats of self.
destruction into execution. In note
addressed, Feb. 26, to his friend, Ted.
dy Vaight, local sanitary officer, who
just returned from New Orleans, Ire.
revolver with which to kill himself,
as there was no hope of regaining his
health.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-03-18
DOMESTIC

In a nip-and-tuck game San Antonio
won from Austin Sunday in the ninth
inning by a score of to 6. A walloE
by Third Baseman Thrailkill in the
ninth brought the winning run across
the pan.
Word was received at the Swiss le'
CATION in Washington Sunday OF the
death of DR.. E. Brenner, member OF
the Swiss federal council. He was
elected to the council in 1897 and was
president of the confederation in 1871
and 1908. He was So years old.
According to a statement given out
by the Oliver Mining company OF Du'
luth, Mimi, Sunday five bodies had
been taken from the Virginia mine,
eight known dead were still in the
mine. one was accounted for and four
were injured.
Winfield Jewell, private OF the
Fourteenth coast artillery from Fort
Moultrie, S. c., lying in the hospital,
Private Alfred Bookhaulder of the One
Hundred and Twenty-seventh in the
county Jail on charge of assault to
murder; Police Officer Patrick Eegan
at home suffering from several PAD
cuts on the back and shoulders and
one house partly burned and two
h. ~40 n q
riot which took place Saturday night
at Galveston.
Great American financial interests
have perfected their plans and are pre-
pared to issue an ultimatum to the
Diaz government in Mexico looking to
tho retirement of President Dlaz and
the establishment of Senor Jose l.
Iimantour, now minister OF finance. at
the head of the government.
After seeing her 5-year-old daughter
Esther, crushed to a pulp by being
struck by an automobile, picking up
the mass of mangled flesh and bones
and running four squares to the City
Hospital, Mrs. Mary HOFFMAN OF Cln-
cinnati. Ohio, went violently insane
Sunday. when informed by the officers
of the institution that the child was
dead A riot was narrowly averted
by the timely arrival of the police dl-
rectly following the accident.
The senate Thursday adopted the
bouse concurrent resolution providing
for sine die adjournment of the legls-
1ature at noon on March IL.
The weather is fair and somewhat
cooler now over the greater portion
os Texas and the western cotton belt,
hut if is warm and generally cloudy in
the East. with light rains in many To-
calities. Moderate precipitation has
also occurred over the middle and
southern plateu.
The stores of M. Rigg, j. B. Small
E. Sons, l. Freedman and J. NJ. Siaven
were burned Friday at Rock Island,
Texas. The two-story building owned
by N. C. Rigg in which was the post
office and telephone exchange was al
so lost. Loss is estimated at $4,000.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-03-18

Mandeyille.-The lecture on dairying
delivered by ]. H. McLsan of the dairy
division. United states department Of
Agriculture, was well ended, both by
local dairyne sEisitors from
Lewisburg, kAbita Springs, Slidell and
Coyington. He argued that the princi-l
pal needs for dairies in the South
were to supply the demand for milk
and butter, and as means of enrich
ing and improving agricultural lands.
He spoke of the natural advantages,
especially in this immediate vicinity,
in the way of climate, water supply
and the ease with which feed can be
produced. The advantages to the dai-
rymen consist of regular employment
for laborers, regular income and
cash returns for the proprietors. He
said that with proper care herd
should increase from so to 70 per cent
per annum, and hogs and poultry could
be raised lon the skinned milk, and
the value of the fertilizer for improv-
ing the soil was of great importance.