Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-06-10

8K AHANOSONR LOT OF - M8
q ~" GATHERED GEMS. Mo#

political manipulation,
John L. Sullivan is relapsing into
that state OF obsCurity where be is In
danger Of being suggested as q candi-
date for the Presidency.
When q man can't 90 TO an after
noon tea with his wife because be has
a directors meeting It Is a sign that It
is the horse-racing season..
Perseverance and grit will accom-
plish wonders, but the individual Is
happy who recognizes bis limitations
and arranges his business accordingly.
The all-important question In con.
nection with the P~ostof1ce depart
ment In Washington is not 90 much
the formal t~echnicalities rs who got
the Doodle.
And they say the reason that Fora.
ker threw that brick ct Uncle Mark is
that he expects to be In the Presiden-
tial watermelon patch himself In 1904.
It makes no difference what good
reasons q woman has for showing
confidence In her husband, there are
those Of her kin who viii say It is
blind.
Kentucky centenarian died In his
bed; but, after all, he may have been
shot. The item conveys no intelli.
gence as to the manner Of his taking
of.
A woman with sewing, cooking,
cleaning and baby tending accom-,
plishes q great deal, considering that
she has no private secretary, aide,
confidential clerk or buyer,
Tom Higginside married, you say,
on s1O a week p That took nerve any
how. What was no working at?'
Nothing. It was the girl that was
earning the S10.'
1t is said Postmaster General Payne
now wear a lean and hungry look,
but while the fraud was going on in
his department those who raided the
funds doubtless looked fat and pros
porous.
The shart- shooting division Of the
Amalgamated Order Of Assassins OF
Breathitt county, KY, are understood
to be adjusting their globe sights to at
the case OF any individual thirst for
gore.
A Texas paper declares that red
bugs in its neck of the woods are big
enough for fish bait. II they are that
large and very plentiful they will own
the country as soon as it gets real
warm.
The meanest creature on earth is
one that has succeeded In climbing
out Of poverty and obscurity to wealth
and social position and now looks
down on his former associates and
friends.
The man who recently advertised
for q cook and a music teacher re-
ceived nine answers for the former
job and three hundred and eighty nine
for the latter. This shows one thing
that is making the servant girl a prob
lem.
The railroad companies of Missis.
sippi have won the suit brought by
the Robinson Land and Lumber Com
pany to prevent the railroad company
from raising the freight rate on lum-
Der two cents per hundred. Judge
Niles dismissed the Injunction.
If the contest between the Lee Line
and the independents on the st.
Louis Memphis route keeps up till
next summer, Mark Twain's sugges-
ton of revival of steamboat races on
the Mississippi will be carried out (as
now without any expense except to
the fighting steamboat companies.
"No," said Maude p~ensively;
"neither Henry nor Charles for me.
That's clear. l will not let Henry pro-
pose because he hasn't got the "dust"
and I can'tget Charles to declare him
self because he hasn't got the ''sand.i
However, there's old Mr.. Richtellow.
III keep my eye on him. He's got the
Crooks"
A tower $50 feet high, about 200
feet higher than the Washington
monument, Is part of the plans for
the terminal the New York Central
road lie to build on and around the site
of the Grand Central station at Forty
second street, New York. A tower
has to be that high to look like any
thing in the city Of ~skyscrapers.
The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt,
President of the United States and
the public school pupils Of America,
will get back to Washington Just as
the overhauling OF certain govern.
ment business appears to need the
services of somebody who has a rep
utation for aggressiveness.
Those Boston fanatics who are go
ing to solve the negro problem by in
ducing 5000 of them to emigrate, af-
ford another example of the informa-
ton derived by them from a thorough
study Of Southern conditions. OF
course, il 5000 negroes could be sent
away everything would be lovely.
Did President Roosevelt really say
OF Governor Taft that, although he
had unlimited chances to make money
by footing, t'the heroic man remained
pOor?" Would 1t be dignihed to sug-
gest that the Chief Executive should
carry with him IN bis travels some
sort OF nonsense exterminator2
The United States Treasurer
Roberts turned over the s%ubtreasury
cash Wednesday to Assistant Treas
urer Fish and took 3 receipt for S227,-
207 .4l9.4g. The count OF the case lie