Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-07-02

A woman q kiss q woman without
knocking her hat OF, but q man can't.
seashore engagements never
amount to much because Of the break
ers.
The more mistakes 3 man makes
the easier II is for him to invent ex-
ouses. -
Some husbands are devoted to their
wives and some are devoted to them
selves.
A man is seldom aoynic unless he has
something wrong with his digestive
apparatus.
When q man has stomach trouble be
Is never at q loss for something 10
occupy his mind.
It sometimes happens that when
one nan raises the "wind'' another
collects the "dust."
Some men make fortunes out Of old
things, and othes starve while trying
to invent new ones.
A funny sight to be seen on every
excursion Is a great big man carrying
a little bit OF a grip.
There Is q rich sound in closing a
hack door that only a few people have
opportunity to enjoy.
What has become Of the old fash
toned woman who bought wall paper,
and hung it herself9
What has become of the old fashion
ed woman who Iut straw under her
parlor carpet to make it sottY
What has become Of the old fashion,
ed woman who used to say to her
children, "I'n box your ears?"
Man attracts attention only at his
birth, at his wedding and at his funeral.
Three times and out,as it we're.
Apologies for careless work never
90 with some people, unless accom-
panied by an effort to do better.
Taxidermists are not collectors Of
taxes and are usually honest even
though they do work a skin game.
A man is always wondering what his
neighbor thinks Of him-and his neigh
Dor is probably wondering likewise.
The man who uses q small / instead
Of a capital may be lacking in educa-
ton, or he may merely be h~enpeeked.
When a man sits in the shade and
watches those at work in the sun, he
prefers being called "critic" to "loaf-
err"
The flag has been lowered in Cuba
but IL the beet sugar men continue in
their present course it will soon go up
again.
Speaking of big tasks: How would
you like to be a society reporter on a
London paper who writes up the coro-
nation.
How foolish it is to kick when your
neighbor calls you q Donkey That
would only tend to corroborate the
assertion.
II the Creator ever made a failure
it was probably due to an attempt to
make a man who could please his
neighbors.
After all, the coronation ceremonies
might have been interrupted by White
law Reid, so If the king RECEIVERS It Is
just rs well as it is.
Many a boy thinks he win be his
own boss when he reaches mans es-
tate, but then he proceeds to get mar
ried and it's all of.
Order is heavens first law, but many
q man never thinks of obeying It until
he is called upon to enact the star role
in q deathbed cen
"Nothing," says the New South,
"hurts q town more than jealousy. II
among doctors the medical profession
suffers; IL among business men, their
trade suffers; If among any number
OF citizens the whole town is actually
damaged. Unity Of action and a long
aud strong pull together for the great
est good to the greatest number
brings success and builds up a town."
It is being told that "Private" John
Allen says that once during the civil
war when he and another Confeder-
ate soldier got cut off from their COM
mand and were lying down behind 3
rail fence q big cannon ball plowed up
the earth and bursted uncomfortably
near them. The other fellow ssid:
"John, what chance have we agin
them yankees2. There was enough
stuff 10 that shell to kill forty men and
still they can afford to fire 1t at just
me and vou.O