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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03
A speaking countenance is most ex
pressiYe when the mouth ia ahnt.

A speaking countenance is most ex
pressive when the mouth Is shut.
The easier it is to get a mar to talk,
the harder it is to get him to quit.
Many q farmer earns bis bread by
the sweat of his hired mans brow.
The prettisr a girl lie the more les
sons It takes to teach her to swim.
When people have nothing to do, it
is because they won't do anything.
A bachelor learns a lot by pretend
ing he has never learned anything.
In joint debate it takes q striking
address to knock out an opponent.
No wonder a mar kicks when It
comes to footing the butchers bill,
The angles Of avarice cannot be
concealed by the garment Of charity.
These amusing boys compositions
represent q great deal Of adult labor.
After so most men seem to think q
woman is nothing more than q nurse.
Every flower has q scientific name
with the exception Of the wall flower.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03
LIngerIng Sumner CoIds.

Don't let a cold run at this season.
Summer cotds are the hardest kind to
cure and IL neglected may linger along
for months. A long siege like this will
pull down the strongest constitution.
One Minute Cough Cure win break mp
the attack at once. Safe, sure, acts at
once. Cures coughs, colds, Group,
bronchitis, all throat and lung troubles
The children like it. Brown and Bear
den.
Ask about any new baby, and the kin
will reply: "It's all right, but it is be-
ing awfully spoilt.
Thetombstone manufacturer should
erect q monument to the man who in
vented the hip pocket.
II the men and heaven according
to their ideals, a good many women
viii refuse to 60 there.
The man who divides his last dollar
with q friend is generally the victim
Of one sided reciprocity.
1t lie hard to convince the average
equal rights advocate that he hasn't
more rights than others.
"He makes just ss goo-goo eyes as
she dOes,' we overheard q woman
say on the street today.
II is q great, misfortune that most
people who know all about raising
children never have any.
When q baby is very cross, every
one Is willing to agree that of course
il wants to 60 to its mother.
In making plum jam, leave the pits
in, and 1t will appear to the neighbors
that you have put up more.
1t may be all right for a woman to
marry in haste and repent at leisure,
but q married man has no leisure,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03

8@ A HANDSOME lor. - M#
6~GATHERED GEMS. 90

Enough lie az good IS feast, but
most Of Us want q surplus.
Nothing is more detestable than the
preiustices Of other people.
A dishonest man man suspects every
honest man be Encounters.
It lie easy to raise the devil, but of
ten a big Job put him down.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03

Every train OF disaster sh ould be
made up of buffet cars.
The chorlster believes in giving
very man his chants.
Selling ice ct 3 profit ct 100 per cent
J certainly q cold snap.
The political simeon Is always fol-
bwed by 3 severe frost.
You never miss the water till you
an't get anything else.
There is no legalprocess for collect
be- q debt OF gratitude.
Anything you get for nothing usual
is not worth that much.
There's enough trouble In the world
.ithOut looking for more.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03

Cheap notoriety generally has The
price-mark eomspicuOusly displayed.
II some amateur cooks we're to cast
their bread on the water it would sink
Nothing pleases a woman more than
TO be able to say to g man: 81 told you
So"
The world is better OF without the
people who think life isn't worth hv-
Ing,
Il is surprising how much surprise
the strict enforcement Of the law Gre
stes.
When a wise man hears q husband
and wife quarrsling It's him to the tan
grass.
"A woman always stops talking long
enough to give q man chance to pro-
pose.
Many q girl doesn't realize how well
on she was until after she gets q hus-
band.
The destiny Of a man is frequently
shaped BY what be puts in his sto-
mach.
The fellows who sre trying to get to
heaven on account Of the golden
streets, viii very likely miss connec-
tions.
If men realize what they are max
ing while they are at it, q better arti-
Gle would be fnrnisned In many cases.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03

Usually begins with the symptoms Of
q common cold; there Is chilliness,
sneezing, sore throat, hot skin, quick
pulse, h~oarseness and impeded respira-
ton. Give frequent small doses Of
Billiards. Horehound Syrup, 1.-THE child
will cry for it) aud at the first sign Of q
eroupy cough, apply frequently Bal
lard's Snow Liniment externally to the
throat. SOC at All druggists.
The plumber is addicted to pipe
dreams,
Many q mans goose is cooked in a
jackpot.
Happiness is never preserved in
family jars.
The FOOLS paradise lacks a lot of be-
ing eternal.
Pull as well as push is helpful in the
struggle Of life.
A self-made man never forgets to
boast of his job.
No man objects to being moderated
by the assessor.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03
''wlntor Homes IA summerI.na.,,

The above is the little Of an attrac-
tive booklet just issued by the Passen-
ger Department of the Southern Rail-
way. It is beautifully illustrated and
fully describes the winter resorts of
the South. A copy may be secured by
sending a tWo-cent stamp TO Mr.. o. A.
Benscoter, Assistant General Passen-
ger AGENT Chattanooga, Tenn.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03

Popular airs-minionaires.
Fluctuations has It's good points.
It is 3 poor fool that works all day,
The calendars days are numbered.
Life is too short to miss any Of the
fun.
Even a coward is able to beat a re-
One way to obtain credit is MOTTO
need Il.
Smiles r merely little pneumatic
laughs.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03

90 Saw Pratt Gin-with revolving
heads-Feeders- and Schofeld
wrought iron press. All In working
order. All for $4,000.
o. Q. MOORE,
Thelma, Chickasaw Co., Miss.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03

Some men shoot 20 kin game while
others shoot merely to kill time.
You can't expect the owner Of an
automobile to have. horse sense.
A stoney stare may be expected
from the man with an agate eye.
The young man who is a slave to his
best girl Is a miss guided youth.
Bread may be the staff Of life, but
most people prefer the pay roll.
The automobilist seemsto have sup-
planted the man with the whoa.
A ringing In the head does not help
the man with water on the brain.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03
Fortune Favors a Texan.

Having distressing pains in head,
back and stomach. and being without
appetite, / began to use DIR. Kings New
Life Pills, writes W. p. Whitehead of
Kennedale. Texas, "and soon felt like a
new man. Infallible in stomach and
liver troubles. 25c at Hall & Lyles.
When two cats pull off a fight after
dark they scratch a match.
The day dreamer usually manages
to wake up about meal time.
Falling in love is painless; it's the
falling out again that hurts.
Detectives say that the way Of the
transgressor is hsrd-to find.
Don't say you haven't time. You
have all Of it there is on tap.
A mans good qualities may pass
unnoticed; his bad ones never.
A small boy is never so industrious
as when it is time to 60 to bed
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03
Raised from the Dead.

@. w. Lands, porter for the Orient
] Hotel, Chanute, Kansas, says: Il
new what it was to suffer from neu-
.algia. deed / did, and / got a bottle of
Ballard's Snow Liniment and / was
Baised from the dead / tried TO get
ome more. but before I had 'deposed'
4 my bottle I was cured entirely. / am
ellin' de truth too" %, SOC and S1.O0
t all druggists.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03
a sd Dlsappolntment.

Ineffective liver medicine is q disap
pointment, but you don't want TO
purge, strain and break the glands of
the stomach and bowels. DeWitt's
Little Early Risers never disappoint.
They cleanse the system Of all poison
and putrid matter and do it so gently
that one enjoys the pleasant effects.
They are a tonic to the liver. Cure
billiousness, torpid liver, and prevent
fever. Brown and Bearden.
Some people think that their fore
heads bulge more than most mems be-
cause they understand the game Of
chess.
Protection lie all right as 8 theory,
but project purity is seldom found
outside the banking powder advertise
ments.
Judging from the comic papers, most
men who go West to grow up with
the country, wind up by growing
Whiskers.
It may be true that some animals
are subject to rheumatism, but they
don't have to put up with people hav-
ing sure cures.
Politics produces many strange bed
fellows, but they usually know enough
to leave their valuables with the clerk
before retiring.
A young man likes to have his best
girl say "Oome often" but when she
abbreviates it to "COme On'a-well
that's different.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03
When two cats pull off a fight after
dark they scratch a match.


81 was treated for three years by
good doctors" writes w. A. Greer.
McConnel' sville, o., for piles and ifs
t1la, but when all failed, Bueklen'G
Arnica Salve cured me in two weeks.
Cures burns, bruises, cuts, Germs, sores,
eruptions, salt rheum, piles or no pay.
25c at Hall & Lyles.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03
A Parsons Noble Act.

II want all the world to know, writes
Rev g, J. Budlong, Of Ashaway, r. l.,
what a good and reliable medicine l
found in Electric Bitters. They cured
me Of jaundice and liver troubles that
had caused me great suffering for many
years. For a genuine, all around cure
they excel anything / ever saw. "
Electric Bitters are the surprise Of all
for their wonderful work in liver, kid
ney and stomach troubles. Don't fail
to try them. Only 80 cents. Satisfac
ton guaranteed by Hall & Lyles,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03
by Worms.

Children often cry, not from pain, but
rom hunger, although fed abundantlY.
The entire trouble arises from mani
ion, their food is not assimilated but
ievoured by worms. A few doses of
Whites Cream Vermifuge will cause
hem to a crying and begin to
thrive at once, much to the surprise
md Joy OF the mother. 25c at all
druggists,
Life seldom looks rosy to the man
With bloodshot eyes.
The woman who longs to talk usu-
lily talks too long.
Fret love breaks heart and second
bve mends them.
It's funny that girls who don't fancy
york do fancy work.
The sea seFpsnt will now register
pa until next season.
The theatrical book agent is q
Of attraction.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03
Millions Of People

IMIIIlOnS o. OOPbO
USE CUTIcURA SOAP, assisted by CUTICURA
OINTMENT, for preserving, purifying, and
identifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp
OF crusts, scales, and dandruh, and the stop
pingOf falling hair, for softening, whitening,
and soothing red, rough, and sore hands, for
baby rashes, feelings, and c~hanngs, and for
all the purposes Of the toilet, bath, and nurs-
cry. Millions OF Women use CUTICURA SOAP
in the form OF baths for annoying irritahOns,
inhammahOns, and excavations, or TOO free
or offensive Precipitation, in the form Of
washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and for
many sanatve, antiseptic purposes which
readily suggest themselves 70 women.
CUTIoURA RnOLvENT PILLS Chocolate
COated) are q new, tasteless, Odorless, eco
nOmical substitute for the celebrated liquid
CUTICURA RE8OLvENr, as we'll as for all other
blood purifiers and humour cures. In screw.
cap walls, containing 80 doses, price Csc.
Sold throughout ne world. Soar, Ee, OrNrNnET,
~, PmLs, sc. Bdiah Depoti Yea Chaterhouae So
London. French Depot 3 Rue de Ia Plix, Pada. PoF-
ER DnUa . CaHMs CoERs Sole Props4 Boston, U.6A
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03

For Infants and Children.
he Kind You Have Always Bought
s;:s; 'e OF lLmNzz@

4 Pare Vegetable Preparation.
We guarantee the Complexion Beau
der to give satisfaction and respect
|lly ask the ladies to give it q trial.
BEAUTIFIER MANUFACTURING Co.
For sale by all Okolona drugglsts.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03
A Boys WiId Ride for Lie.

With family around expecting him to
die, and a son riding for life, rs miles,
to get DR.. Kings New Discovery for
consumption. coughs and colds, W. II.
Brown, Of Leesville, Ind, endured
deaths agonies from asthma, but this
wonderful medicine gave instant relief
and soon cured him. He writes: al
now sleep soundly every night Like
marvellous cures Of consumption, pneu-
monia, bronchitis. coughs, colds and
grip prove its merits for all throat and
lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles SOC
and $1.OO. Trial bottles free at Hall &
Lyles.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03
TRY oNE TON

my CahsWba coal. No cinders,
mixers, slate, or rock, but g clean
Pm. Cheaper than any other coal on
& market. Try Il and be convinced.
J. W. MCCARLEY.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03
Beware Of the knife,

No profession has advanced more Of
late than surgery, but it should not b
used except where absolutely neces
sary. In cases Of piles, for example, II
is seldom needed. DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve III quickly and perma-
nently. Unequalled for cuts. burns,
bruises, wounds. skin diseases. Accent
no counterfeits. II was so troubled
with bleeding piles that / lost much
blood and strength" says J. G. Phil
lips, OF Paris, III. 'DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve cured me Ia q short time. 2
Soothes and heals. Brown and Bear
den.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03

The latest form Of marriage con
tract is said to provide for an even di-
vison Of the wedding presents in case
Of disagreement.
A woman is so naturally clever about
some things that she can propose to e
man and make other people think she
is rejecting him.
a red hot election such as was held
In Alabama and not q single fight Oo-
curing Is q record Of which the State
may wen be proud.
It Is the men who never have anv
regular employment who can give YOU
the most pointers on how the govern
ment should be run.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03
Price $I.00

cUTIcURA SOAP, to cleanse the skin
Of erusts and scales and soften the thick
snsd euticle, cUTIcURA OINTMENT,
to instantly allay itching, inhamma-
ton, and irritation, and sOothe and heal,
and CUTICURA RES0LvENT PILLS,
to cool and cleanse the blood. A SINGLE
SET Of these great skin curatives is
often sufficient to ure the most tOrtuE-
ing, disfiguring, itching, burning, bleed
ing, eTuSted, scaly, and pimply skin,
scalp, and blood humOurs, with loss Of
hair, when all else fails.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03

Prepared only BY 3. O DHWIF1& 90, Ohicago
The 81 bottle contains SO tlmsa thos0G sisa
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-19
Mystery of Lost Sounds.

An eminent scientist noticing the
mysterious way in which sounds
sometimes are lost in space recently
undertook an interesting experiment
in a balloon. He found that while
still within talking distance of earth
all sound of the human voice was
quenched in the mere indistInguish-
able hum of the human hive. Equally
lost was the striking of clocks and
ringing of bells, but a dogs bark rang
out clearly. So, also, the below of
COW far out in some field would pene-
trate above the babel of busy town,
while screeching of railway whistles
pierced the sky up to three miles
and, gathered in from vast areas.
often reached an intensity positively
painful.
The strangest of all acoustic phe-
nomena is the unaccountable silence
which sometimes ensues when sound
is to be expected. In many cases it
has been proved that. speaking liter
ally. the lost sounds issuing from a
point on a seacoast were not eXtin-
guished. for they were heard distinct
ly farther out at sea. Heavy salutes,
unheard by people within twenty or
thirty miles have been plainly aud
ible at a much greater distance, and
this apparently not in a direction
favored by the wind. The scientist
who conducted the balloon expert
ment offers the theory that condi-
tions of the aerial currents rather
than the direction of the wind are
responsible for these phenomena.
Through a certain upper stratum,
measured by many hundreds of feet,
he found streamlets of wind, wild,
strong and biting, and dead opposed
to the main broad current. The
copious commingling of dry, colder
air with the warmer and moister wind
the scientist maintains, was necessar-
lily an Opaque sound barrier, and
whhn allowance is made for casual
but powerful up-draughts there would
seem no difficulty in accounting for
fcAeness in the travel of sound.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-19

there was a grain of truth in the
story he had heard, surely the prison
er of the Iron Mask must be found
in such an unused quarter.
Charlie began to feel a bit anxious.
He was about ready to confess that
for one he had quite enough of 1t,
and only figured on how he might
manage to curb this insatiate ambi-
ton on the part of his companion.
The task was taken from mis- hands.
however, and in most unexpected
manner.
Artemus was eagerly urging. him on
to fresh fields and pastures new"
while Charlie held the other in check,
fearful lest they fall into some hor-
rible pit, with rusty spikes at the bot
tom, such as they had discovered in
one dungeon, when, suddenly, with
out warning, there came to their ears
a sound so strange in this uncanny re-
gion, so utterly out of sympathy
with their surroundings, that both
men stood still. as though paralyzed
and the sound was as of woman
weeping!
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-19
Result 0f LlahtnIna Stroke.

On the night of May storm pass
ed over Gaithersburg, Md. the light
ming striking a large red oak tree that
stood about thirty feet from a vacant
house. A large slab was torn from
one side and was broken into six
large pieces and hundreds of small
ones, some thrown a distance of forty
yards. One piece, twelve feet long,
went entirely over the house: one
struck large tree near by. and the
heaviest, ten feet long and weighing
about seventy pounds, struck against
the closed shutters of a window.
broke through shutters, sash and
glass, carrying all away, tore a large
hole in the ceiling then crashed into
a window frame on the opposite eide
of rne room. The timber doing the
damage was a stump piece" and
had part of root to it, the ground
end having struck the house first. To
do this it was thrown upward at an
angle of abb ut thirty-five degrees, as
the hole in the ceiling shows. This
seems to prove that the lightning
passed upward from the earth to the
clouds and not in the other direction.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-19
When Father Spears for EeIs.

When pork an lamb an steak an ham
An other meats run short,
An there amt nothin' in the house
To eat NV any sort,
Tnen dad will git his eel spear out,
Me taggin' at his heels,
An go way down upon the crick
An poke an jab for cells
He drops his basket on the ice
An cuts a big round hole,
Then shoves his great big eel spear in,
Hitched to a twelve-foot pole,
An then he jabs 1t in the mud.
Sometimes not more than twice,
An out will come a two-foot eel
A-squirmin' on the ice.
Then pa will jab an poke an 5ab.
An walk around the hole.
A smile upon his grizzled face.
Contentment in his soul
An by an by he'll give yank,
Whenever one he feels.
Until he's filled his basket full
Uv frozen coated eeis
An father says he pities them
Ez can't go out an spear
meal NV vittles threw the ice
Like we can do down here.
Pa seems contented with his lot,
An never wants for meals;
Gus when he amt a-helpin' ma
He's out a-spearin eels.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-19
The "Taxameter" Cab.

Public automobiles operated in
Berlin run at the same tariff as the
droschkies. which go by horse power
that is, about seventy-five cents an
hour
Like most of the Berlin public We
hicles and those of other German
cities, it is equipped with a taxa
meter. This device is a clock whose
speed is accelerated by an odometer
attached to the axle of the cab. The
revolutions of the wheels mark the
distance Travelled, and according TO
this distance you pay for the use of
your cab.
The clocks face is divided into
spaces, representing one hundred
pfennigs. The minimum face is fifty
pfennigs. and the clock hand starts
at the fifty pfennig mark. When you
have travelled a distance which ac-
cording to the legal schedule is
chargeable at fifty pfennigs the clock
hand jumps to fifty-fve, and it con-
tinues to move as the wheels revolve.
II your cab stands still the hand still
goes, but at a slower rate of speed.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-19
Costly Nest For a Rat.

From a double handful of tattered
pieces of green paper Major j. F, Fin
ney. the head of the sub-treasury in
New York, is trying to determine
whether the government owes the
papers owner a fortune or nothing at
all.
The fragments are all that is left
of a hidden store of greenbacks
which V. H. Lavigne of Riverside, N.
j.. found the other day in a barn
he had just bought. He was looking
over the building wheu a big rat
jumped across his feet. He found the
hole it had come out of and looked
into it. To his amazement he saw a
large pile of bills fiattened out against
the sides of the hole, as though the
rat had been nesting on them. He
reached in and pulled them out, but
they fell in pieces in his fingers.
Mr.. Lavigne brought the pieces to
Major Finney for redemption. He
thinks they are worth about Sc, 900
1t is possible, however, that the
money is too badly torn to be worth
anything.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-19
Oriental Paper-Makinq.

In the matter of making and using
paper W" are not in line with the Chi
nese and other Asiatics, who not only
make the finest paper in the world,
but apply it to all sorts of uses, max
ing window panes, fans, umbrellas,
sandals and even cloaks and other
garments of it.
The art of making paper from
mulberry bast is said to have been in
vented in China in the second century
B. c. Afterward bamboo shoots
straw, grass and other materials were
also used. The manufacture spread
to the adjacent countries.
The Arabs learned it in Samarcand,
and their learned men carefully kept
secret the process by which they
made paper for their own use The
crusades made Europe acquainted
with the art, and the first paper mill
in Germany dates from the twelfth
century.
To this day the process of paper
making in the east is simple and ap-
parently crude. the fibres being torn
apart with the fingers and the pulp
pressed in some such primitive con
trivance as the one here illustrated
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-19
Rain of Rats.

A very strange phenomenon has oc-
CURED in Algeria, in the district
round about Bougle, during the pas
sage of a cyclone, which wrought
much damage. The natives who had
come into the town relate that during
the storm there was a regular hail of
rats and mice. The story, on the face
of it, appears improbable, but the
witnesses who testify to its truth are
SO numerous that some amount of
eredence must be attached to it. 1t is
stated that the rodents fell in such
great quantity that during the quar-
ter of an hour that the phenomenon
lasted all the fields we're infested.
Some Of the rats and mice were found
impaled on the pointed stakes EN-
ployed to separate one piece of land
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-19
Parti-Colored Sheen.

In the Camaroon district of Africa
are thousands of remarkable sheep.
and the Germans who have settled
there say that they are useful domes-
tic animals.
There are two species. one being
black and white and the other white
and yellowish brown, and they all diff
fer from the ordinary sheep in the
fact that they are covered with short
smooth hair instead of with wool. the
rams being the only ones among
them which have a thick fleece
around the neck
A few of these animals were re-
Gently imported into Germany, and
are not attracting much attention
there.