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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-27

The council refused permission.
May Thompson knew that certain OF
them who managed to control. had
blocked the plan for the purpose Of
CONTINUED on Third Page,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25

Miss Cattle could overlook a hun
bred vices in a Zulu queen nor easily
than a few in a fellow countrywoman.
She did not like Mrs. Jimmie, and she
was proud Of it.
When the porter said, "I'm afraid
you got this lady's seat" Miss Cat
tie shot one glance at the intruder
and rose stifiy. Then l suppose I'll
have to-"
ooh, please don't go, there's plenty
of ROOM" Mrs. Wellington insisted,
pressing her to remain. This nettled
Miss Cattle still more, but she sank
back, while the porter piled up ex-
pensiye travelIng-bags and hat boxes
till there was hardly a place to sit.
But even at that Mrs. Jimmie felt
called on to apologize;
81 haven't brought much luggage.
How I'll ever live four days with this,
J can't imagine. 1t will be such a ra-
lief to get my trunks at Reno"
"Reuo?" echoed Miss Cattle. "Do
you live there?"
well, theoretically, yes"
Il don't understand you"
I've got to live there to get It,"
ITO get it? Oh" A look of sudden
and dreadful realization came over the
missionary. Mrs. Wellington inter
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25

He waited with the genial smile OF
a famous man; the smile fro2e at
Lathrop's curt, Don't think So"
He tried again: Ever hear Of
well-known Chicago belle, Mrs, Jim
mic Wellington"
Yes, I've heard of her!" There
was an ominous grin in the tone,
Wellington waved his hand with
modest pride. We'll. I'm Jimmie"
Serves you right"
This jolt was so discourteous that
Wellington decided to protest: mis-
ter Latham!"
"Lathrop!"
The name came out with a whip
snap. He tried to echo 1t, "La-throp!'
~ don't like that Throp. That's a
kind of a seasick name, isn't it," Find
ing the newspaper still intervening be-
tween him and his prey, he calmly
tore it down the middle and pushed
through it like a moon coming through
q cloud. "But a man can't change his
name by marrying, can he? That's
the worst of it. A woman can. Think
Of a heartless cobra di capello in wom-
ans form wearing my fair name-and
wearing ii out. Mr.. La-throp, did you
ever put your trust in a false-hearted
woman"
Never put my trust in anybody"
Didn't you eyer love a wotnan%
mol"
Well, then, didn't you ever marry a
woman?"
Not one. I've had the measles and
the mumps, but I've never had matri-
mony."
"Oh, lucky man." beamed yelling.
ton. Hang on to your luck"
81 intend to-" said Lathrop, q was
born single and like it."
ooh, how | envy you. You see.
Mrs. Wellington-she's a queen among
women, mind you-a queen among
women, but she has the 'strayagance
of "a"
Lathrop had endured all he could
endure, even from a privileged charac
ter like little Jimmy Wellington. He
rose to take refuge in the smoking
room. But the very yigor Of this de
parture only served to help yelling,
ton to his feet, for he seized Lathrop's
coat and hung on, through the door
down the little corridor, always ex.
planning:
Mrs, Wellington is a queen among
women, mind you, but I can't stand
her temper any longer"
He had hardly squeezed into the
smoking-room when the porter and ar
usher almost invisible under the bag
gage they carried brought in a new
passenger. Her first question was
oh, porter, did a box of flowers, OF
candy, or anything, come for me?"
What name would they be in
miss"
Mrs. Wellington-Mrs. James Wei
lington,"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25
Constipation brings many ailment,

Constipation brings many ailments
in its train and is the primary cause of
much sickness. Keep your bowels
regular madam, and you will escape
many Of the ailments to which women
are subject. Constipation is a very
simple thing but like many simple
things. it may lead to serious conse-
q%uences. Nature often needs a little
assistance and when Chamberlain S
Tablets are given at the first indica-
ton, much distress and suffering may
be avoided. Sold by all dealers,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25

quite misunderstood my purely pla-
tonic interest in Sammy Whitcomb, a
nice young fellow with a fool Of a
wife. Did you ever meet Mrs. Sammy
Whitcomb-no? Oh, but you are a
lucky woman! Indeed you are! Well,
when Jimmie got jealous, l just gave
him up entirely. Pm running away TO
Reno. | sent a note to my husbands
club, saying that l had gone to Europe,
and he needn't try to find me. Poor
fellow, he will. He'll hunt the CONT
uent high and low for me, but all the
while I'll be in Nevada. Rather good
joke on little Jimmie, eh?"
"Excruciating."
"But now l must go. Now l must
go. I've really become quite addicted
to them"
"Diyorces"
cigars, Do stay here till l come
back. l have SO much to say to you"
Miss Cattle shook her head in de-
spair. She could understand a dozen
heather dialects better than the
! speech of so utter a foreigner as her
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mrs. Jimmie
FASTENED away, rather pleased at the
shocks she Lad administered. She en-
joyed her own electricity.
In the corridor she administered an.
other thrill-this time to a tall young
mana stranger, as alert for Irritation
as a weasel for mischief. He huddled
himself and his s~uitcases into as fiat
a space as possible, %murmuring:
These corridors are SO narrow
aren't they?"
Aren't they?" said Mrs. Jimmie
$50 sorry to trouble you"
Don't mention it."
She passed on, their glances fencing
like playful foils. Then she paused:
Excuse me. Could you lend me q
match? They never have matches In
the Women's Room"
He succeeded in producing a boz
after much shifting Of burdens, and he
was rewarded with a look and
phrase:
you have saved my life"
He started to repeat his Don
mention it," but it seemed inapproprl
ate, so he said nothing, and she van
ished behind a door. He turned away
saying to himself that it promised t.
he q p1aocopt iourray ua Uor holtof
by another voice-another woman
voice:
Pardon me, but is this the car TO-
Reno?"
He turned to smile, 81 believe 50!
Then his eyes widened as he recoa
nized the speaker.
Mrs. Sammy Whitcomb!"
1t promised to be a curious journey
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25
preted it with a smile of gay defiance:
DO you believe in diyorces?"

preted it with a smile of gay defiance:
DO you believe in diyorces?"
Anne Cattle stuck to her guns, Il
must say I don't. l think a law ought
to be passed stopping them"
$50 do l." Mrs, Wellington amiably
agreed, and ! hope they'll pass just
such a law-after I get mine" Then
she ventured a little shaft of her
own. you don't believe in divorces.
l judge you've never been married"
Not once!" The spinster drew her.
self up, but Mrs. Wellington disarmed
her with an unexpected bouquet:
ooh, lucky woman! Don't let any
heartless man delude you into taking
the fatal step"
Anne Cattle was nothing If not hon
est. She confessed frankly: 81 must
say that nobody has made any violent
efforts to compel me to. That's why
I'm going to China"
ITO China!" Mrs. Wellington
gasped, hardly believing her ears.
my dear! You don't intend to marry
a laundryman?"
The idea! I'm going as a mission
ary."
"A missionary? Why leave Chica-
go?' Mrs Wellington's eye softened
more or less c~onvincingly: ooh, love
ly! How l should dote upon being a
missionary. | really think that after l
get my divorce l might have a try
at it. / had thought of a convent, but
being a missionary must be much
more exciting She dismissed the
dream with an abrupt shake of the
head, Excuse me, but do you happen
to have any matches?"
Matches. never carry them!"
They never have matches in the
women's room, and I've used my last
one"
Miss Cattle took another reef in her
tight lips. DO you smoke cigarettes? %
Mrs. Welllngton's echoed disgust
with disgust: ooh, no, indeed. I loathe
them. l have the most dainty little
cigars. Did you ever try one?"
Miss Cattle stiffened into one excla.
nation point: Cigars! Mel"
Mrs. Jimmie was so we'll used to
being disapproved of that 1t never
disturbed her. She went on as if the
face opposite were not alive with hor-
ror: Il should think that cigars might
be a great consolation to a lady mis-.
%sionary in the long lone hours Of
what do missionaries do when they're
not missionarying?'
THAT depends"
There was something almost spirit
ual in Mrs. Jimmie's beatific look: az
can't tell you what consolation my
cigars have given me in my troubles
MI. Wellington objected-but then Mr.
Wellington objected to nearly every
thing | did. That's why l am forced
to this dreadful step"
Cigars"
Divorces"
"Divorces!"
well, this will be only my second
my other was such a nuisance.
got that from Jimmie, too. But il
didn't take. Then we made up and re
married. Rather odd, having a second
honeymoon with ones first husband
But remarriage didn't succeed any
better. Jimmie fell off the water
'~"coa r''th er awful splash, and he
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25
v.
A Queen Among Women.

Miss Anne Cattle, seated in Mrs.
Jimmie Wellington's seat, had not
heard Mr.. Jimmie Wellington's sketch
Of his wife. But she needed hardly
more than a glance to satisfy herself
that she and Mrs. Jimmie were as
hopelessly an~tipathetic as only two po-
lite women can be.
Mrs. Jimmie was accounted some
thing Of a snob in Chicago society, but
perhaps the missionary was a trife
the ~snobbisher Of the two when they
met.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25
CHAPTER VI.
A Conspiracy In Satin,

The tall man emptied n hand of
its suitcase to clasp the hand the new.
conner granted him. He held it fast
as he exclaimed: Don't tell me that
you are bound for Reno!" She whim,
pered: "Tm afraid so, Mr., Ashton"
He put down everything to take her
other hand, and tuned his voice to
coincidence: '"Why, l thought you and
Sam Whitcomb we're"
"Oh, We were until that shameless
Mrs. Wellington"
Mrs. Wellington? Don't believe ]
know her"
Il thought everybody had heard Of
Mrs. Jimmie Wellington"
Mrs, Jimmie-oh, yes, I've heard
Of .her!" Everybody seemed to have
heard Of Mrs. Jimmie Wellington.
what a dance she has LED her poor
husband" Mrs. Whitcomb said. "And
my poor Sammy fell into her trap,
too"
Ashton, jealous comforter, took a
wrathful tone: 81 always thought your
husband was the most unmitigated-"
But Mrs, Whitcomb bridled at once
"How dare you criticize Sammy! He's
the incest boy in the world"
Ashton recovered quickly. That's
what I started to say. VIII he contest
the-divorce?"
"Of course not" she beamed. The
dear fellow would never deny me any.
thing. Sammy offered to get it him
self, but | told him he'd better stay
in Chicago and stick to business.
shall need such a lot of alimony."
TOO bad he couldn't have come
along" Ashton insinuated.
But the irony was wasted, for she
sighed: yes, I shall miss him ter.
ribly. But we feared that if he were
With me It might hamper me in get
ting a divorce OF the ground of de
sertion."
She was trying to look earnest and
thoughtful and heartbroken, but the
result was hardly plausible, for Mrs
Sammy Whitcomb could not possibly
have been really earnest or really
thoughtful; and her heart was quite
too elastic to break. She proved II
instantly, for when she heard behind
her the voice Of a young man asking
her to let him pass, she turned to pro
test, but seeing that he was a hand
some young man, her starch was in
stantly changed to sugar. And she re
warded his good looks with a smile, az
he rewarded hers with another.
Then Ashton interviewed like a dos
in the manger and dragged her off t.
her seat, leaving the young MAJ t
eXclaim:
Some tamarind, that!"
Another young man behind hin
growled: "Cut out the tamarinds anC
get to business. Mallory will be herr
any minute"
Il hate to think what he'll do to III
when he sees what we've done tt
him"
On, he won't dare to fight in tn
presence of his little bridey-widey. d.
you see the porter in there?"
Eyes, suppose he objects"
well, we have the tickets. Wei
claim it's u section till Mallory ant
Mrs. Mallory come"
They moved on into the car, wher,
the porter confronted them. When h,
saw that they were loaded with bun
dies of all shapes and sizes, he wayet
them away with scorn:
THE emigrant sleepa runs onll
TOosdays and Thuzzdays."
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25
Colds.

Numbers of people are suffering
just now from irritating colds in the
head. A very simple home remedy
which brings almost instant relief is
to pour half a pint of boiling water on
to a dram Of ~pulverized camphor, and
to inhale the vapor for about ten to
fifteen minutes. The annoying fits OF
sneezing, running eyes and heavy
feeling in the head will quickly yield
to this remedy.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25

CHAPTER Lieut. Harry Mallory IS
ordered 10 the Philippines He and Mar
1f taxicab prevents thair seeing minister
on the way to the train,
CHAPTER u.-Transcontinenta train
Is taxing on passengers. Porter mas a
lively time With an Englishman ana Ira
Latarop, d Yankee business man.
CHAPTER IfI.-The elopers have an
exciting time getting to the train.
CHAPTER Iv.-"Llttle Jimmie Wei
lington, bound Tor Reno TO get II divorce,
boards train in maudin condition. Later
Mrs. Jimmie. appears.
right hand did not let his left know
what it was doing, but proceeded quite
independently to grip as much Of
Lathrop's hair as it would hold,
Then as Mr., Wellington shook with
Joy at the prospect Of Dear old
Reno!" he began unconsctously to
draw Ira Lathrop's head after his hair
across the seat. The pain Of it shot
the tears into Lathrop's eyes, and as
he writhed and twisted he was too
full of profanity to get any Il word
out.
When he managed 10 wrench his
skull free, he was ready to murder his
tormentor. But as soon as he con-
fronted the doddering and blinking
topper, he was helpless. Drunken men
have always been treated with great
tenderness in America, and when We'll
lington, seeing L~athroy's white hair,
exclaimed with rapture; why, hello,
Pop! here's Pop!" the most that Lath.
rop could do was to tear loose those
fat, cropping hands, slap them like a
school teacher, and push the man
away.
But that one shove upset Mr.. Wei
lington and sent him topping down
upon the pit Of the Englishman's stom.
ach.
For Wedgewood, it was suddenly as
il all the air had been removed from
the world. He gulped like a fish
drowning for lack Of water. He was a
long while getting breath enough foI
words, but his first words were wild
demands that Mr.. Wellington remove
himself forthwith.
Wellington accepted the banishment
with the s%orrowful eyes of a dying
deer, and tottered away wagging hi:
fat head and wailing:
"m a broken-hearted man, and no
bod gives e." At this point he ca
romed over into Ira Lathrop's berth
d was welcomed with a savage roar;
What the DEVILS the matter witt
="
I'm a broken-hearted man, that's
all"
ooh, is that ALL" Lathrop snapped
vanishing behind his newspaper. The
desperately melancholy seeker for {
word of human kindness bleared a
the blurred newspaper wall a while
then waded into a new attempt at &C
tquaintance. Laying his hand on Lath
rop's knee, he stammered; "Ess
cuzhe me, Mr.-Mr-"
From behind the newspaper came
stingy answer; "Lathrop's my NAM
If you want 10 know"
pleased to meet you, Mr.. Lothrop.
"Lathrop!"
"Lathrop! My names Wellington
LII Jimmie Wellington. Ever hear Q
-~o"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25

Don't look well, eat well or feel we'll
with impure blood feeding your body,
Keep the blood pure with Burdock
Blood Bitters. Eat simply, take
exercise, keep clean and you will
have long life.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25

Hives, eczema, itch or salt rheum
sets you crazy. Can't bear the touch
of your clothing, Doan's Ointment
cures the most obstinate cases. Why
suffer. All druggists sell it.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25
impossible to Please rheorlsts.

Now comes a lecturer who declares
that "the old-fashioned mother" who
stays at home by the Preside, Is i'm.
moral. 1t is getting Increasingly dii.
fcult for mothers to please all the
theorists. Some of the most success
full ones don't even try.-Syracuss
Herald,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25

Don't use harsh physics. The re-
action weakens TIE bowels, leads to
chronic constipation, Get Doan's
Regulates. They operate easily, tone
he stomach, cure constipation.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25

Wonderful Imagination.
II a girl has a figure like a clothes
pin she imagines she is slender and
graceful.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25
Cultivate Prudence.

A mar who is not prudent is borrow
ing his pleasure today at the expense
Of his brother tomorrow.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25
Az Revised.

New York surgeons have restored
a Juvenile offender TO normal boyhood.
Spare the knife and spoil the chIldL.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25
Only the Belief Of snobs.

The Idea that trade is vulgar is n
of the silllest ideas that ever came
into the brain Of man.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25
Sherlock Holmes.

Drowned! Evidently the poor feh
low couldn't tire.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25

through his own curtains into his own
berth.
Finding himself on his back, he de-
cided to remain there. And there he
remained, oblivious Of the carnival
preparations going on Just outside his
canopy.
To be continued.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-25

CHAPTER u.-Transcontinental train
Is taxing on passengers. Porter has a
lively time With an Englishman n Ira
Lathrop, ii Yankee business man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-29
NIGHT RIDERS BURN
 GEORGIA TOBACCO
Three Barns Destroyed by Band-Detectives Are
 Working on Case

Bainbridge, Ga.. November 2S-in- vestigation was instituted here today at a meeting Of several prominent tobacco growers of the burning of S20,0oO worth of tobacco in Decatur county last Tuesday by night riders. Three largo barns were totally destroyed by fire In the Georgia county and two barns of tobacco were consumed by fire across the Florida state line, 20 miles distant. The loss sustained in the latter state Is not known.
 All of the tobacco barns destroyed were owned by members of an associa- ton formed three years ago by large growers to hold the tobacco.
 Al the meeting today 1t was said the tobacco interests hostile to the as- sociation were responsible for the al- legged incendiary fires At the time the barns were destroyed watchmen were stationed in their vicinity. Since the fires it is said none of the watchmen has been seen.
 Evidence showing that all of the barns were destroyed by moented body of night riders is said to have been found and detectives are now working on the case. All tobacco barns in this vicinity are being heav- fly guarded
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-29
ACID POURED INTO LONDON MAIL BOXES

London. November 2S The ings. nui1y of Che militant suffragette party has broken out in new direction and in manner likely to cause incon- venieuce and loss to thousands Ii took the form tonight of an organized raid upon the pillar letter boxes through out the city of London, in the west end and many of the suburbs, and also in several provincial towns. including Birmingham and Nottingham.
 When ihe postmen went on their evening rounds to collect the letters they discovered in the boxes acids and black sticky fluids of some kind in some cases inflammable. The outrages were carefully organized The method generally employed was the thrusting into the boxes of a long unsealed en- ve1ope containing an open bottle of
 fluid. Another method was to pour acids and varnish into the boxes by means of rubber tubing. In few eases the contents of the boxes were set on fire. Not an arrest had been made Up to a late hour tonight but police have been detailed to watch all the boxes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-29
AFTER SHOOT OFFICERS ARE ELECTED FOR COMING YEAR. NEXT MEETING TO BE HELD AT vICKSBURG

The Alabama rifle team captured the Southern Interstate Rifle association trophy for the fourth consecutive time at the annual shoot of the association held in Birmingham yesterday after noon.
 Pope of Alabama won the skirmish trophy, the highest aggregate medal cision of the court. The opinion was written by Justice Anderson.
 The court also affirmed the Mobile circuit court in the case of Alfred Rose vs. James A. Lewis The case grew out of an alleged breach of contract In the delivery of 1,92O,000 feet of lumber, for which Rose claimed damages. The lower court held that Rose had not furnished sufficient proof of his abil- ity to pay for the lumber when de- livered and rendered a Judgment in Ia vor of the defendant.
 Another alleged breach of contract. sent up from Jefferson county, was passed upon by the supreme court in the case of Joseph ?. Lee vs. ]. s. shannon. Lee claimed of shannon S5O0o for failure to comply with contract entered into between them on Feb ruary f, 1907, involving the sale of land in west Alabama, for which Lee was TO have received, according to the com plaint, 50 cents per acre if he found a purchaser for the land. The lower court awarded the plaintiff s1225 and an anpeal was taken The supreme court sent the case back for a new trial.
 In the case of E. w Fucker vs. Helen Jackson ct alS appealed from the Wal ker law and eds court the supreme court decided in ia 3r of the appellant. Fucker claimed mineral rights to some land in Walker county and his claims were contested by the heirs to the property.
 Other cases decided by the supreme court were as follows:
 Dowdell, c. J.-Bains Brothers 1n- vestment Go. vs. R. F. Walthall, appeal from Jefferson chancery court; af- tlrmed.
 Southern States Fire and Casualty Insurance Go. vs. Winner Store Co.,, appeal from Jefferson chaneery court; affirmed.
 Anderson, J.-winiam cowley vs. William B. Shields, appeal from Mobile chancery court; affirmed.
 Mayfield, J.-E. F. Wheeler vs. Con rad Strickland, appeal from Madison circuit court; affirmed.
 Sayre, J.-Z. D. Winters vs. Lige Powell ct al, appeal from Coosa cir cult court; affirmed.
 Somerville, J.-R. l.. King vs. Live ingston Manufacturing company ct al, appeal from Sumter chancery court af- firmed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-29
HOWARD LOSES
 4 HARD BATTLE
 ID MISSISSIPPI

Hattiesburg. Miss, November 2S.-(Spe- cial.)-1n a game remarkable for brilliant forward passes. Mississippi college de- feated Howard college here today 20 to Q. For the first quarter Howard col lege held the AIississippians seoreless and by means of a completed pass and an end run got in close quarter of the Mississippians' goal line.
 The first touchdown came in the sec ond quarter, when with d long pass stringer for Mississippi went across for a touchdown. Lowell kicked goal in the third and fourth quarters by means of long forward passes and end runs Missis- sippi made two more touchdowns and kicked another goal Howard college played well, Cook and Fulington doing star work, but they were powerless be- fore the matchless machinery of cole Miss The forward pass work of Afssis- sippi was the best ever seen in. the state and the end runs were features.
 The work of Ballinger, the Mississippi star quarter, again showed up in many fast plays, as it has in alp games this season. The completion of several hard passes by Stringer was a feature. About a thousand spectators witnessed the game.
 The line-up:
 Mississippi College-Luke, left end; Jones, left tackle Browning, left guard; Henson, center; Laird and Thomas. right guard; Lowell, right tackle; Stringer and Batson, right end; Ballinger and Lip- sey, quarterback; Milton and Cowan, left halfback; Dale and Fate, fullback; Gum and Fate, right halfback
 Howard College-Stodghiss left end< Moncrief, left tackle; Taylor, left guard {: Davie, center; Gaines, right guard; Gar ner and Gallant, right tackle; Bake and Cook, right end; Gallant, quarter; Tins dale, left half; Fallington and Causey, full back; Hayes and Duke, right half back.
 Referee, Hayes of Michigan: umpire, Ivey of Virginia; head linesman, Blank enship; timekeeper, Lowery. Touchdowns, Stringer, Dale, Ballinger Goals, Laird and Lowell