Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-24

the money for It.
You have noticed that some
very nice people are weak when
itcOmes to gOssiping.
Okolona is after the business
this fall, and it is certainly going
to get its share oft.
How strange that people who
are 90 much afraid Of getting their
feelings hurt do not keep them
under cover.
The immense fires in the oil
fields Of Texas, near Beaumont
during the past week, have been
something simply fearful.
When the revenue officers at
tempt to raid the moOnshiners in
West Virginia, the fight that fol
lows is a spirited one.
Furio's forest fires are raging
in Wyoming, and the immense
pine forests are being swept away
like a tidal wave was rolling over
them.
There is plenty of fun yet in
store for Vermont. The legisla-
ture will have to elect the COVER
nor and lieutenant governor, be-
cause the voters failed to do so.
So many people prefer to jam
their heads up against a stone wall
rather than to 60 arOupd it, that
the wonder is there are not more
sore heads in every community.
The Baptist church is evidently
not running the Democratic party
in Arkansas, else they don't vote
the way they shoot on moral ques
tions, as evidenced by the re-elec-
ton of Governor JEFF Davis.
Baldwin's reports as to his fail
ure to reach the north pole are
simply the waste Of that much pa
per-. The people don't care
whether the old pole is ever dis
covered or not. Nobody wants it.
The war is still raging among
the little islands on the South OF
us, but in these days of sensation
al newspaper work it is difficult
to know whether the fatalities are
as great as reported or not.
This is the season of the year
when every shrewd business man,
who aspires to making a success
Of his business, redOubles his ef-
forts in an advertising way, and is
usually repaid largely for his ef-
fort.
An Iowa lad Of twenty has sued
a young lady for twenty thousand
dollars damage to his heart, when
everybody knows that q young
wOman's scars on a male heart Of
that age is usually worth not to
exceed fifteen cents.
According to the returns made
the increase of taxable property
in Mississippi this year over last
is over six millions of dollars.
There is doubtless also a big in
crease in personal property valua.
tiOns. Pretty good showing.
The Republican tariff certainly
needs some surgical attention, and
the people are reaching a point
where they will insist upon an Op-
Grafton. OF course such practice
comes high, but expert work is
always worth its cost.
According to ROosevelt's idea
that it is better that some should
prosper much rather than that
none should prosper, seems al
right for ''the sOme," but makes
it a little tough on the balance.
But that's Republication.
The coal strike seems to be no
nearer an adjustment now than it
was the nrs6 week after the walk
out. A good many people who
have hard coal burners this sea-
son will probably be compelled to
burn corn cobs.
We will sOOn be favored again
with long winded platforms which
''point with PRIDE" and with 9th
ers which "view with alarm" and
others "pointing the way out"
You pay your money and take
your choice, and after choosing,
you wish you had taken the other.
There are so many fellows car
rying tacks in the toe Of their
shoes now with which to puncture
presidential boOms. Even ROOse-
welt is never certain when Hanna
or some other big gun in his party
is likely to let the air ont OF his
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