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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-09

go-cart and the baby ate through a
long rubber tube.
Mrs, Herman left the baby in the
hall while she went to the living room
to get her purse and hat, She heard
the baby laughing and thought some
of the n%eighbors had dropped in for a
visit. She walked into the hall and
found two big blacksnakes eating the
milk III the baby's bowl.
Mrs. Herman ran to the baby and
carried it in her arms while she went
back to get her hat. She found two
more snakes In her hat box and an
other crawling up the leg Of the dress
ing table. Mrs. Herman was afraid to
leave by the front door where she had
seen the two snakes eating her baby's
milk so she started out the kitchen
door and found three snakes hanging
from the sill. Mrs. Herman escaped
through a window and went to her
mothers home.
When Mr.. Herman came by his wife
oIOppCu ulul anu IOlu VI Inc Shakes.
He went home, accompanied by his
wife's brother, to exterminate the
snakes. Herman picked up what he
thought was a stick and the first thing
he knew he had a snake coiled around
his arm and kissing in his face. They
killed 20 snakes that night and have
killed from six to thirty every day
since, but each day they find the
snakes as plentiful as before.
No n knows where the snakes
came from or how they happened to
appear in such numbers and in this
house. Killing them does not eradi.
cate them. so the states chemists are
trying to find something that will
drive them out. Fumigsting the house
with strong formaldehyde candles and
with sulphur failed to keep the snakes
u more than an hour. The Hermans
are living at the home Of Mrs. Her
mans parents.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-09
ERUPTION COVERED BODY

'Three years ago this winter l had
a breaking out that covered my whole
body. 1t itched so 1t seemed as if |
should go crazy. 1t first came out in
little pimples on my back and spread
till it covered my whole body and
limbs down to my knees, also my arms
down to my elbows. Where I
scratched it made sores, and the ter
rible itching and burning kept me
from sleeping. l tried several rene.
dies all to no purpose. Then | con-
cluded to try the Cuticura Remedies. |
used the Cuticura Soap and Cuticurs
Ointment, also the Resolvent, for
about four months, and they COM
pletely cured me of eczema l have
had no return of the disease since. l
never had a good nights rest after the
skin eruption first broke out till | COM
menced using the Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. had only used them a
few days before 1 could see they were
beginning to heal, and the terrible
itching was gone.
"Those that lived in the house at
the time know how 1 suffered, and
how the Cuticura Soap and Ointment
cured me. l never take a bath with
out using the Cuticura Soap, and l
do not believe there are better REM
edies for any skin disease than the
Cuticura Soap and Ointment" (Signed)
Miss Sarah Calkins, Waukegan, ILL.,,
Mar. 16, 1911. Although Cuticura
Soap and Ointment are sold by drug
gists and dealers everywhere, a sam
pie Of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to "Cuti.
cura," Dept. 5 K, Boston.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-09

Howard Jeffries, bankers son. under
the evil Influence OF Robert Underwood,
tellow-student at Yale, leads a life of dis
sipation, marries the daughter Of a gam
bier who died in prison, and is disowned
BY his father. lie is out Of work and IN
desperate straits. Underwood, who had
once been engaged to Towards step
mother, Alicia, 10 apparently In prosper
GUS circumstances. Taking advantage Of
his Intimacy with Alicia, he becomes a
sort Of social l~ighwnyman. Discovering
his true character, Alicia denies him the
house. He sends her a note threatening
suicide. Art dealers for whom he acted
as commissioner, demand an accounting.
He cannot make good. Howard calls at
his apartments in an intoxicated condi-
ton to request a loan of $1,000 to enable
MN 10 talU UP a business proposition.
Underwood ellis him he Is in debt up to
his eyes. Harvard drinks himself into a
maudlin concltion, and goes to sleep on a
divan. A caller Is announced and Under
wood draws = screen around the drunken
sleeper. ALICIA enters. She demands a
promise from Underwood that he will not
take his life. He refuses unless she will
and takes hgJ leave. Underwood kills
himself. The report Of the pistol ava
kens Howard. He finds Underwood dead.
Healizing his Aredlcament he attempts to
nee and is NIT by Underwood's valet.
aoward IS TUNED over to the police.
Capt. Clinton. notorious for his brutal
treatment OF prisoners, puts Howard
through the tn I'd degree, and finally gets
an alleged confession from the harassed
nan. Annie, towards wife. declares her
belief in her husbands innocence. and
eays she win 3lesr him. She calls on
S~efTries, Sr. He refuses to help unless
she will consent to a divorce. To save
Howard she consents, but when she inds
stand by, his sen, except financially, she
Vcorns his he!1.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-09
(To BE
Plant Breaking Up an Island.

Strength is not a thing usually com
nected with maidenhair fern, yet If
Its roots have not sufficient room they
break the pot in which the plant
grows. Blades of grass will force
the c%urbstones between which they
spring up out of their place, and in a
single night a crop Of small mush1
rooms have lifted a large stone. In
deed, plants have been known to
break the hardest rocks.
The island of Aldabra, to the north
west Of Madagascar, is becoming
smaller and smaller through the &C.
ton Of the mangroves that grow along
the foot of the cliffs. They eat their
way into the rock in all directionsi
and into the gaps thus formed the
waves force their way. In time they
will probably reduce the island I'd
pieces.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-09

they felt at their kinsman's disgrace.
The small barred windows did not
permit of much ventilation and, as
the day was warm, the odor was sick
ening. Annie looked around fearfully
and hum5ly took her place at the end
of the long line which slowly worked
its way to the narrow inner grating,
where credentials were closely scruti-
nized. The horror of the place seized
upon her. She wondered who all these
poor people were and what the pris-
oners whom they came to see had
done to offend the majesty Of the law.
The prison was filled with policemen
and keepers and running in and out
with messages and packages were a
number Of men in neat linen suits.
She asked a woman who they were.
"Them's TRUSTEES - prisoners that
has special privileges in return for
work they does about the prison"
The credentials were passed upon
slowly and Annie, being the twentieth
in line, found it a tedious wait. In
front of her was a bestial looking ne.
gro, behind her a woman whose cheap
jewelry, rouged face and e~xtravagant
dress proclaimed her profession to be
the most ancient in the world. But
at last the gate was reached. AS the
coorkeeper examined her ticket he
looked up at her with curiosity. A
murderer is rare enough even in the
Tombs, to excite interest, and as she
passed on the attendants whispered
among themselves. She knew they
were talking about her, but she
steeled herself not to care. 1t was
only a foretaste Of other humiliations
which she must expect.
A keeper now took charge of hel
and I'D her to q room where abe wa
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-09
HypnotIsm and WIN Power.

People used to think that persons
who could be hypnotized were def
Client in will power, that It was some
thing of a stigma on their mental
equipment, The experts know better
now. A writer in the Woman's Home
Companion goes so far as to say that
tho more will power a person has thu
more readily he can be h~ypnotized.
DR.. Voisin, a French alienist, found
that he could not hypnotic more than
ten per cent. Of the inmates Of thu
asylum with which he was connected
Whereas an English experimenteI
named Vincent hypnotiEed with east
So per cent. of a large group Of nai
versitY men,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-09
ESQ You're the VIE Of yeHrIes. Whom They've cot tori Mura.r. Eh1n

vices of an able lawyer. There was
no doubt of Towards innocence, but
she recalled with a shiver that even
innocent persons have suffered CAPT
tai punishment because they we're un-
able to establish their innocence, 81
overwhelming were the appearances
against them. He must have the best
lawyer to be had, regardless Of ex-
pense. Only one name occurred to
her, the name Of a man Of interna.
tional reputation, the mere mention
of whose name in a courtroom filled
the hearts of the innocent with hope
and the guilty with dread. That man
was Judge Brewster. She hurried
downtown to his office and waited an
hour before he could see her. Then
he told her, politely but coldly, that
he must decline to take her case. He
knew well who she was and he eyed
her with some curiosity, but his man
ner was frigld and discouraging.
There were plenty Of lawyers in New
York, he said. She must go else
where. Politely he bowed her out.
Half of a precious day was already
lost. Judge Brewster refused the
case. To whom could she turn now?
In despair, almost desperate, she
drove uptown to Riverside drive and
forced an entrance into the Jeffries
home. Here, again, she was met with
a rebuff. Still not discouraged, she
returned to Judge Brewster's office.
He was out and she sat there an hour
waiting to see him. Night came and
he did not return. Almost Frustrated
with nervous exhaustion, she returned
to their deserted little fiat in Harlem
1t was going to be a hard fight, she
saw that. But she would keep right
on 20 matter at what cost. Howard
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-09

1t al with a sinking heart and a
dull, gnawing sense of apprehension
that Annie descended from a south
bound Madison avenue car in Center
street and approached the small por-
tai under the forbidding gray walls.
She had visited a prison once before,
when her father died. She remem-
bered the depressing ride in the train
to Sing Sing, the formidable steel
doors and p%onderous bolts, the narrow
cells, each with its involuntary occu-
pant in degrading stripes and closely
cropped hair, and the uniformed
guards armed with rifles. She remem-
bered how her mother wept and how
she had wondered why they kept her
poor dada in such an ugly place. To
think that after all these years she
was again to go through a similar ex-
perlence.
She had nerved herself for the or
deal. Anxious as she was to see How
ard and learn from his lips all that
had happened. she feared that she
would never be able to see him behind
the bars without breaking down. Yet
she must be strong so she could work
to set him free. So much had hap
pened in the last two days. 1t seemed
d month since the police had sent for
her at midnight to hurry down to the
Astruria, yet 1t was only two days
ago. The morning following her try
ing interview with Capt. Clinton in
the dead mans apartment she had
tried to see Howard, but without sue.
cess. The police held him a close
prisoner, pretending that he nigh:
make an attempt upon his life. There
was nothing for her to do but wait.
Intuitiyely she realized the neces.
sity of Immediately securing the ser.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-09

could not be left alone to perish with
out a hand to save him. Judge Brew
ster must come to his rescue. He
could not refuse. She would return
again to his office this afternoon and
sit there all day long, if necessary,
until he promised to take the case.
He alone could save him. She would
go to the lawyer and beg him on her
knees if necessary, but first she must
see Howard and bid him take courage.
A low doorway from Center street
gave access to the gray fortress. At
the heavy steel gate stood a portly
policeman armed with a big key. Each
time before letting people in or out
he inserted this key in a %ponderous
lock. The gate would not open mere
ly by turning the handle. This was
to prevent the escape Of prisoners,
who might possibly succeed in reach
ing so far as the door, but could not
open the steel gate without the big
key. When once any one entered the
prison he was not permitted to go out
again except on a signal from a
keeper.
When Annie entered she found the
reception room filled with visitors,
men and women of all ages and ma.
tionalities, who, like herself, had come
to see some relative or friend in
trouble. 1t was a motley and interest
ing crowd. There were fruit peddlers
sweat shop workers, sporty looking
men, negroes and flashy looking wo
men. All seemed callous and indif
ferent, as if quite at home amid the
sinister surroundings of a prison. One
or two others appeared to belong to q
more respectable class, their sober
manner and careworn faces rejecting
silently the humiliation and shame
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-09
Fever's On.

There's no fever like the football
fever" said George H. Earle, Jr., at
a dinner party in Philadelphia. Let
me tell you about a brokers' boy in
Third street.
"A Third street broker sat at his
desk the other morning when his Of,
fee boy entered and said respectfully:
of you please, sir, my grand
fathers dead and I'd like to get of
early to go to the funeral match
mean the football ceremony-that
is
"And then, blushing scarlet, the boy
withdrew"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-09
II They ALI Knew.

A woman speaker told a New York
suffrage meeting that I'VE women
haven't concentration. Our minds Just
go flirting around and don't get any.
where" Considering which, is it not
supertluous for mere man to muss
about in women's affairs when they
know themselves so well?-st. Louis
Post Dispatch.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-09

the last two years. I think from your
description of internal catarrh that |
must have had that also. 1 suffered
very severely.
Nothing ever relieved me like Pc
runa, 1t keeps me from taking cold.
with the exception of some deaf.
ness | am feeling perfectly cured. I
am f~orty-six years old.
81 feel that words are inadequate to
express my praise for Peruna."
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-09
NEGRO prayman Turns Whit.

Bloomington. Ind,-William Arnold,
aged sixty, u negro drayman, is grad.
ually turning white. Following an Ill.
ness which was believed to be tuber.
c%ulosis. white 1pots appeared on his
hands. The skin became tender and
the white spots grew larger. At the
same time Arnold improved in health
until he is now in excellent physical
condition. His body is covered with
large white srot5.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-09
uraent Necessity.

A distinguished theologian was in
vited to make an address before a
Sunday school. The divine spoke for
owe an hour and his remarks were of
too deep a character for the average
juvenile mind to comprehend. At the
conclusion, the superintendent, accord
ing to custom, requested some n in
the school to name an appropriate
hymn to sing.
Sing Revive Us Again. shouted 3
boy in the real of the room.-Life.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-09
Lightning spoIIs Girls Joke.

Atchiso1, Kant am going to
stand here and lot the lightning strike
me-" FlOssie Hartman said jokingly
while she stood On the back porch Of
her home near Parnell. A second later
lightning struck the lawn 20 feet from
where she was standing, rendering her
unconscious some time and leaving
her in a dazed condition the rest of
the afternoon.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-09
COLDS
BREED
CATARRH
Her Terrible Experience Shows
How Peruna Should Bel Every
Home to Prevent Colds.

Mrs. q. 5.
Sa g S e r,
1871 Wood
land Ave,
X a n S a s
G y, Mo-,
writes:
Il feel it
a duty to
you and to
h that
may be af-
hicted like
myself, . to
speak f o r
Peruna.
my trou-
b e frs
came after
la ri p g
g h t or
nine years
ago, a gath
/. ering in my
| head a n d
neuralgia. /
9 u fl e e d
most all the
t m e. Ny
nose, e a r 8
and e y e s
were badly
oEan4nl c.
The Detroit times., 1911-03-03
.T|GERETTE IS
IN A.BUG HOUSE
"Stiffyr Smith Retires From Baseball
To Resume His Position in New
York Nuttery.

MONROE, la, March Sunny
Smith 10 total loss TO the Detroit
baseball club. He has retired from
the game TO assume position In
New York insane asylum, and the De-
troit club Is out pitcher who, al one
time promised TO develop into a stage
OF full bloom which would make him
a real posy I'm the patch.
"Stiffy" Ia not TO be for a moment
confused with w. w. Smith. the pitch
err. who Is now working out In the
south with the Tigers. "Stify' Is the
New York city semi-professional VINO
went part way around the eastern cir
cult ON one occasion with the Tigers,
and who has signed two or three De
troit contracts at various times
Smiths gameness was questioned
when he jumped the Tigers for the
first time but his ability as a natural
athlete was SO great that allowances
were made for his peculiar disposition
Last year he threw out his arm III
New York semi-professional baseball
however,
He finished the season In the out
field for a team that gave the AlEStars
of the American league lively beat
ing. In the combat "Stiffy" got just
exactly Ave two-base hits. This reused
In Manager Jennings breast the hope
that "Stiffy" might develop class as
batting outfielder. These have been
rudely crushed TO earth by "Stiny's'
return to the bug-house.
The Detroit times., 1911-03-03

batting order was McGraw himself
and II was up TO him, with two down.
He went up and started talking to
Mercer.
"'You think you've got this game
won, but you're wrong. he told Win
I'm going to lift this ball and you're
going to put II over where can reach
IL. You don't dare pass me 20 frst
base, for there's little, fellow coming
up after me who's a lot worse than
/ am Pitch the balll'
Well. they argued back and forth
until the count was two and three.
Keller was ready 10 bat next. But
Mercer was game and curved the ball
over. McGraw clipped IL neatly down
the third-base line and both runs
scored. The game was over.
In the orloIs Club House.
"McMahon, in the meanwhile had
taken of his uniform and gone into
the shower bath He was glumly
dressing when the other members OF
the team strung in, laughing and
singing. or course, everybody had
forgotten McMahon's share in the
game until he finally grouched out
The Detroit times., 1911-03-03

EAST LANSING, Mich, March g.
Ion j. COPYRIGHT. of Mason. has been
elected captain Of the M. A. c. base
ball team. The election was hotly
contested by Put" Patterson, who is
signed up with the Terre Haute Cen
trail league club for next season.
Court" Ia a senior forester and
was captain of the football team last
year. This makes his second year on
the team. He devoted the first two
years here to track work and last
year played short stop and put up a
cracking good game. COPYRIGHT re-
places Stephen Orr of Wyandotte.
who was elected captain Of the team
last year but who failed TO return TO
school this spring.
The prospects for this years team
are good.
The Detroit times., 1911-03-03
Nv PAUL HALE eRusKE.

MONROE, La. Mar. 3.-Were II
possible TO combine a sort OF com
posite of the great American bal
player. the type would unquestion
abIy he Irish. It would also be q
shade above medium height. athleti
caily built, reasonably confident oil
its own ability, slightly doubtful In
its adherence to training regime, and
very chary of It's conversation among
strangers.
II would be hard to imagine a more
perfect example of such type than
Ia Mickey Corcoran, the Buffalo ath
lete who Is one of the most promis
ing OF the Detroit recruits this year
Corcoran Is almost certain TO sticR
with the Tigers this year. In 1act
we're a wise bookmaker TO draft ODDS
against all the recruits now with the
club. Corcoran. would probably be the
fayorite. regardless OF the fact that
the club contains this year a more
than usually promising array OF tat
ent.
Corcorau Is that unusual genius, the
all.round ball player Last year he
divided his time almost evenly be
tween the inner works and the outer
gardens. In the inheld he played sec.
ond base, short stop and third All
the outfields looked alike TO him and
the best part OF his play was his
ability TO keep batting well and run
ming the bases with speed and judg'
ment. regardless OF the position
which he happened TO occupy IN the
field.
In the minor leagues --Corcoren
played last year In the fastest OF
these organizations, the Eastern
Corcorsn vas always, when in shape.
The Detroit times., 1911-03-03
KlRkE Steals
MARCH ON Pals
Gigantic Infelder Has Been Prac-
ticing Baseball for Weeks and
Is Hard a Nails.


MONROE, La, March S.--At the
close OF the first practice, the Tiger
kits crowded around Jay Kirke and
joculariy threatened to throw him
into the salt lake. clothes and all.
Jay had started his work I'm a way
that suggested such recent familiar
ity with the stick and the pill that
some explanation was demanded. He
finally admitted that, for seven weeks
prior to the start south, he had been
playing ball at his home in New
York He and his pals had entry TO
a big, light warehouse, where they
gathered daily, the entire baseball
population of F1eishmann's doing its
best to get its favorite son into shape
for corking bid for big league fame.
In the big building which fetish
mann's heated especially for the occa-
sion, the big boy threw, caught and
batted, and the result was apparent
today.
The other men were Indignant.
when they ascertained the deception
which had bean practicsd. on. than,
but they VIII have TO make the best
of II and walt until the. time comes
when their own sore spots wear away.
for. an opportunity to get even.
BRUsKB.. !.
The Detroit times., 1911-03-03
Short Lengths

Art sehaefer, Giant player. hss been
showing the Japs inside baseball. May
be he will display bit OF IL on the
Polo grounds this year.
Some of these spring bioo1ers who
are summing In the training camps Will
be cut blossoms about a week after
the season opens.
LeacAez Gross ee.tinues to returu
again (come back barred) at the ex-
pense OF New York lightweights-
pIas hss been proposed TO gfvs
the player in the southern Michigan
league with the highest bOtttnk aver
age. an electric runabont.
The Normal basketbalI tear defeat
ed the strong Olivet hve Thursday
evening at Ypsilanti by a score OF ~
TO 50.
The m. A. G.. BASKETBALL team Thurs
day night defeated the Hope college
quintet al East Lansing. Score % "a
svic- Villa, who was signed ia
pitch for the Cubs this season, has
purchased a hotel at Newark, N. j.,
and will retire from baseball
II, TIE roundup game OF ITS schedule
the Uniyersity Of Detroit basketball
team Thursday night. defeated the
Loyoia club. of Toledo. TO the tune OF
20 TO is.
-ssmoo sup SuIunId usuA spvst
eos 50 peAoILoy 90 Q, ems sis SIS
-xsIa Usq ava Suews sass eAes sIL
The Detroit times., 1911-03-03
MATCH AOOERS
AND sPALDInGs
Three Game Basketball Series Be-
ginning Wednesday Have Been
Scheduled.

A series of three games between
spaldings and the Burroughs basket
ball teams was scheduled late Thurs
day, according TO an announcement
made by Manager Jackson of the
Sport shoppers. The first game VIII
be played Wednesday night, but the
dates for the other games have not
been fixed
IL has not been decided yet II the
Y, NJ. c. A. Ave and Spaldings VIII
play on the third OF their series. Spalnl
ings declare that they are badly hand,
icapped by playing in the formers
gym, declaring that the lights are
poor and that the floor Is not the best
Spaldings want the "Y'' men to con-
sent to play at the armory.