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OKOLONA, MISS., APRIL 17; 1907
Announcements
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H HE MESSENGER Is authorized to urn
U. nounce the following as candidates for
ae respective omces of Uhickiusaw County,
ubject to the ensuin? Democratic primaries.
For the Legislature
N. W. BBADBORD
J. A. LEWIS
OAPT. FRANK BURKITT
For Sheriff.
' G. VV. BEAN
ELLIOTT PARKER.
For Chancery Clerk
JOHN W. HILL
T. W. HAMILTON
Circuit Clerk.
F. M. CARLISLE
I. V. ABERNETHY
JOEL. DAVIS !
OURT IVY
For Tax Assessor
J. W. B. VVELDON
JOE T. GRIFFIN
J E. DENDY '
" E. H. OdENAULT ;
FOR TREASURER
V.-'T JOIIIJSON Vvv i.
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ForSiipervlsor Beat ,3
Hon. Earl Brewer addressed, a
good sized crowd of representative
citizens at the courthouse Monday
morning in the interest of his can
didacy for governor. It was one of
the grandest' oration ever listen
ed to here and seems to have con-
Verted to his following, his hearers
r"!most as 4 body. Mr. Lirewer ap
peals to one's interests and heart
in many ways but the history of his
life is more so. As a friend of his
has said: "He is not one of the
pampered sons of fortune but ra
ther one who had the duties of
manhood thrust upon him while
yet a "beardless boy. One who,
unaided by wealth or influence, has
carved out his own destiny with
his bare hands in the sweat of his
brow. A man who in every walk
and avocation has met the duties
of life manfully and courageously
and performed them to the satis
faction of his people. A man un
supported by clique or clan, and
who, if elected Governor of this
great Commonwealth, will have no
kitchen cabinet behind him to dic
tate his appointments. A man
who is not the favorite of the rail
roads, nor the pet of corporate
greed, for he . believes in equal
rights to all and special privileges
to none, but who looks alone for
support to the great disinterested j
mass of the people. With noim-J
portant friends to reward and no
enemies to punish, he can, and will
if elected, be the Governor of, the
entire people. , ; '
''It seems to me that at this
time above all others, when the
dawn of a better day is -breaking
over Mississippi, we should ,select
as our standard bearer some young
man with the dew of morning oh
his brow and fresh aspirations and
hopes his hearty I believe I can
assure 'you that this gentleman, if
elec'ted, will- go into" the office of
chief .Executive with clean hands
and a cure conscience, and with a
heart"that beats alone for the hon
or and glory and material advance
ment of our beloved State." -;
He undoubtedly - is speaking at
all times from the bottom of his
heart,; and while a combined press,
with a leaning towards corporate
interests, is against him, he is bear
ing himsejf in a manful arid cour
ageous 'manner- His explanation
of the Scott episode at Greenwood
was clear, forceful and convincing.
In fact he peeled the cuticle from
Mr. Scott and the always-misleading
Memphis Commercial-Appeal
in large pieces., yet in a most gen
tlemanly manner.
If you missed hearing Earl Brew
er you neglected to hear one of the
cleanest and biggest men of the
New South. He was, introduced
by L. P. Haley.
service in the Confederate army. If
elected he promise! to fill the position
for the beniflt of his constituents and
to the beet of his ability. One conld
not ask any more.
In the afternoon Hon. T. U. Sis
son, candidate for governor, pre
sented his views to an appreciative
audience. But he told them noth
ing new, and he labored under the
disadvantage of having , had bjs
speech made and answered by Mr.
Brewer- However, Mr. Sisson Is
a most pleasing speaker, and a
brilliant lawyer; a perfect gentle
man, conducting his campaign on a
high plane and is one whom it is a
pleasure to hear. F. J. McDon
nell introduced him. .
Tuesday morning Hon. E. F.
Noel spoke in favor of his candida
cy for governor. It was virtually
the same one that he has made
since he first started running for
governora good clean argument,
such as any ordinary lawyer could
make "but. nothing' especially to
commend him as governor of Mis
sissippi, v H. h, .Morrison intro
duced him. ' ) ' ' ,
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THrtt all right about rrico, Othnrs
may TELLynn they have the lowest
prices but we can SIGHT you on any
thing fir the farm. ,
Adams & NkupeuT(
' , LEMON ELIXIR 1
An bid drngsiist. tol l todav hi
bad long looked for a substitute for
calomel, With all Its grd effects, that
Wonld not leave the nytem in m:b an
awful duiar"tis condition, and found
It in Lemon Elixir ":
Jasper, Fla. T. Ay Jenning.-' Drn
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All druggists fsA Dr. Motley' Lemon
Elixir.
We have the announcement, this
week of Mr, J. A. Lswls for .represent
ative. ' Hb Is one of our oldest citizen?,
having been a ttixpttyei in Chickasaw
county for mtire than 45 yewrs, He
has been on the board of supervisors,
county school bord and Is now a
member of the pepnion board. y In iho
dark day of the 00's h e a a w
Mud f-louaes Built By Wasps.
A naturalist has thus described the
habits of a species of wasp that makes
it's nest of mud, says the Dundee Ad
vertiser. The mud of which their
nests, are composed, he said. Is often
carried for some distance, and ft la
essential for them to use good, stiff
clay. At the edge of some pond or
stream you may see these insects roll
sticky little balls oat of the stiff mud
with their strong Jaws. With this
heavy load of mud they rise slowly,
and,: having gained some height, they
get their bearings and fly in a straight
line to their nest In this they resem
ble the bees; Indeed, all the wasps
and bees seem to have a wonderful
factulty for flying directly home from
any point. When the wasp has gained
the place selected for a building site
she puts the tiny ball of mud against
the wall of the buildingr and ribs it
tight by moving her head from side to
side very rapidly. The outer surface
of the nest shows a series of rings,
with sharply defined lines between
most of them, but the interior Is al
ways extremely smooth and almost a
perfect cylinder: While building her
nest the insect continually runs in and
out of the tiny cylinder, examining it
minutely with her "feelers." If a
rough place is felt on the inner, sur
face she carefully sets to , work and
rubs It smooth. When the cylinder is
finished the wasp goes hunting for
spiders. , . ;
Pecan Orchards In the South.
"Just as the people of the north eat
peanuts in great -quantities so do the
people of the south eat pecans," re
marked Allan Dupre, a merchant of
New Orleans. "On the streets of New
Orleans are many venders who sell
iftem In all sorts of ways shelled,
HTishellod and In candy form. Pen
j) tit's are sold, too, but pecans have a
far greater sale.
'Tk'?o meet the demand for them,
which is growing, pecan orchards are
how being laid out In the, bottom lands
cf Iho far south. When old timber is
Nit down pecan trees are 1 planted.
'Many 'pecan orchards are graduallly
growing up. They are of slow
Ci'S'.vth, requiring about 15 or 20
years to reach maturity, - if thoy are
pnifitable.-' . 'The main supply comes
! i oin Mtfxlco; some 60 carloads of
..V.ctlod 'pecans .being -; shipped from
Jh'ere every year, for the most part to
Do consumed in the south, but in a
decade the main supply will come
Horn the southern states, which will
thus gain a new Industry."
LEFT EVIL LEGACY
MISFORTUNE BANS TREE PLANT
ED BY BAD MAN.
Superstitious Mexicans Believe Im
plicitly in Story of Misspent Life
and Its Punishment Tragic
Deaths Have Been Many.
The tree of Tula and the tree of Sad
Night are known throughout the world
but there Is a tree in Mexico which
has acquired a local reputation some
what shady.
El Arbol Maldito is said to have
been planted by a 'gentleman who had
the misfortune to be swallowed up by
Mother Earth on account of his crimes.
He was known throughout the country
as unhombre muy malo. He never
went to mass, never confessed his
sins, nor did he have the image of a
saint In his house, wear a rosary
around his neck or make the sign of
the cross as a respectable man should.
He never gave a beggar even a centa
vito, and when he met a padrecito on
the street he did not deign to remove
his hat
Now ft was rumored, say Modern
Mexico," that this gentleman was , re
sponsible for many murders and atro
cious crimes of every description, but
he was never confined in jail because
it was known that he had a compact
with the devil, so that whenever he
invoked his Majesty he was rendered
invislble'.to the human eye,, or at least
so small that he could easily escape.
He was shunned by all, and he had
neither friends nor relatives. '
But a peculiar thing, about this man
was that he loved the trees, the birds
and all , the animals. He planted a
great many trees and fed a flock of
birds every morning. ,
. It was " many years ago that the
eyent of his departure took place, but
is still remembered by the ancient in
habitants of the neighborhood. Every
body on the Haciendita ranch had at
tended the , religious services of the
morning, and' they were returning
homo when a terrific noise was heard.
They rushed to the street where it
came from, and there they saw how
the earth had opened up under the
reet of that hombre muy malo.
was enveloped by thick flames
smoke and quickly disappeared
neath the surface of the earth.
This was considered, a just punish
ment in view of the situation, and
every ," one was exceedinly pleased.
While the faithful had been attending
the services of the church the cursed
One had nothing else to d6 but place a
buxnins cinarelta batwnan iJw -Hun
He
and
be
an" Image oli 'a &ig crucifix, carried by
an altar on the street. It was then
that the convenient cavity opened up
and he was engulfed by the earth.
That very day all the trees which
he had planted, except El Arbol Mal
dito, dried up and died and so did
the birds which be had fed from his
own hand. An attempt was made to
cut down the tree that did not dry
up, but the foolish man who made the
attempt dropped dead on stepping un
der the shadow of the foliage. As no
one had the temerity to approach and
remove -it the man's body had to be
left there to be eaten by the crows.
Since that day many have met a
tragic death under the tree. A pedes
train who went under it for shade on a
summer day was bitten by a snake
and died in tow hours. Three men on
different occasions sought shelter from
rain under its . branches and were
struck by lightning.
A woman hanging some clothes to
dry from the trunk of the tree was at
tacked by a goat tfcat came from no
body, knows where and was never seen
again. Three years ago a little boy,
riding a burro, led his animal to the
tree. He was thrown off and kicked to
death. "',
The last victim of this fatal tree
was a man by the name of Melquiades
Arevalo, who ran under it for shel
ter during a rainstorm a year ago, and,
like his predecessors, he was struck
by lightning.
The antipathy that the peons have
for this tree is such that they refuse
to work In the fields for half a mile
around it. Some time ago Prosper
Garcia, proprietor of the ranch where
El Arbol Maldito grows, resolved to
have it blown up with dynamite, but
no doubt he has been unable to find a
ban brave enough to venture near, a
tree which shows such symptoms of
a haunted life.
"Spoiling a War Story.
There is a certain war veteran in
Boston whom we will call William
Brown. He has an honorable record
and is fond of relating Incidents of
the rebellion. He often tells how he
got a cut on the head from the sword
of a confadersvte cavalrymun. There
Is a Bmall bare place which he says
was the sear of this wound. Many
a time we. who work in the same office
with him have heard this story.
Brown has a brother Charles who
came into the office the other day
to make a call. Bill was at his desk
vrltlug when Charlie walked up be
hind him and g! ing him a slap, on
the shoulder, said jocosely: "Well.
Bill, I Bee yott si'il have that scar on
your head when? Sutler's dog bit you
when we wero boys!" From that
lime one 'of -Bill's war stories gets
little credence from us.