Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-10-01

AOA us mNIn NAlAcu huuul uUlc
relative TO Roumania.
Meridian Is crying for a canning
factory, which we presume win
also mean the use Of bottles. Me
ridian is getting to the front.
There is yet some doubt wheth-
er New York will elect a ROose-
welt delegation to the next Re-
publican national convention.
II Roosevelt was in earnest in
his fight against the trusts he
would split the Republican party
wide open, but there is little dan
ger Of a split just yet.
The future Of China does not yet
look as bright as it might hope to
be. Every few days a new Boxer
outbreak is reported to mar the
work of reconstruction.
Two congressional conventions
in Louisiana have resoluted to
stand by all the tariffs on sugar.
Louisiana ought to join the Hanna
party and be done with it.
Governor JEFF Davis, of Arkan-
sas, has accepted the invitation Of
the Sons Of Veterans of Missis,
sippi to be with them in their
reunion at jackson on the 10th Of
October.
The crying man is like the ours
ing woman, no comfort to himself,
and an unpleasant companion for
others. If yOu spill your milk set
about to get more and don't whine
about 1t.
The telegraph brings the news
that in many sections cotton has
been much damaged by frost,
though the general crop condition
Of the South and West Is reported
as good.
Two companies of the Eighth
Infantry has reached San Francis
co with an epidemic of colera on
board their transport ship. The
soldiers have been ordered to pro-
coed to Alaska.
The man who sent two dollars
to the fellow who advertised to
send a fire escape prepaid for that
amount, and received in return a
copy of the New Testament, will
probably get his moneys worth If
he reads it through.
A good many of us would like
to merge our troubles, like the
great railroad companies are
doing, and turn them over to the
surety companies. Even a small
er salary than is usually stipulat-
ed would be acceptable.
The South isnot worrying par
~ticularly about that coal strike,
since they are not interested large
ly in the output Of the kind of
coal that is being withheld from
the markets. The rich old pine
knot is good enough for us.
John Wanamsker says you had
much better take down your sign
than to discontinue your adver-
tisement. There is q man on
earth who has made a study Of
advertising and prOited by it, that
man is John Wanamaker.
Memphis is having much fun
now hObnObbing with railroad
magnates. It is always this way,
when q city has something the
f. magnates want, and there are sew
eral interests reaching for the
same plum.
A number Of Mississippi towns
Will more than double their pop
ulatiOn during the next ten years.
OkOlOna by all means should be
one Of them. Il has every nat
ural advantage to do so, and
should permit nothing to stand in
its way to accomplish the feat.
Every week some paper sug.
gests that some citizen Of its
county who has been urged by
friends to become q candidate for
some Office or other has finally
yielded to the opportunities and
viii not longer resist the pressure.
Twas ever thus. The earnest
appeals Of bosom friends are so
very hard to resist.
The Compress companies Of the
state are arranging with insurance
companies in New York to write
blanket policies on all cotton
stored with them In order to get
around the ultimatum issued by
the comnauiaa d0fnO huainaaa In