Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-04-15

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properties.
There is that ever restless feeling in
the breast Of many people suggesting
to them that they are not - happily
situated in their every day life IS they
would be under different clrcumstan-
ces. The man who lives on the farm
pines for the day when he can sell bis
farm, get away from its cares and dis
appointments In bad crop years and
unreasonable periods, and move to
town where he can live in q cottage
brightly painted and uniquely finished
with all sorts Of fancy carving on the
front gallery, get tie daily paper 81
soon az It is from the press, rest and
smoke his fine cigars while he reads
it through and keeps up with the
news Of the world. The man In town
whose daily struggle iS to keep up
with his banker and meet those who
are constantly drawing drafts upon
him for invoices which seem to fall
due before the goods are sold, or the
money for their sale has been collect
ed, goes YEARLY to his cottage after
the days annoyances have closed,
without looking at the handsome
carvings, sits down to his supper won
dering what the morrow will bring,
and when he goes to sleep q few hours
later, dreams of disasters Of every ma
ture, thinks over the incidents Of the
past day, finally awakening from his
nightmare just in time to avoid strik-
ing the bottom Of a we'll or cistern
which he has thoughtlessly stepped
into before he noticed that 1t was
standing open for him. Then he rises,
eats q few bites Of breakfast and
starts for his business or his Office
with a headache which is only re-
lieved when his little son or daughter
dances into his presence with a piece
Of paper from his wife upon which
she has written the names Of the
things necessary for him to send to
the home in time for dinner. He takes
the paper, glances over 1t, and If he
has sufficient change in his pocket,
goes out and orders enough for the
MONDAY meal, and probably some
thing to be held over for supper, and
thus, from day to day, he pursues this
"paper sack'' mode OF living, trusting
to luck to be able to continue the
same process on the morrow. he
wishes he could get out Of town and
on the farm, where he could raise the
things he must have to eat, being en-
abled to 60 to the smoke house and
take out q fine country cured ham, to
the bin for the potatoes, and so on
down the line Of required supplies for
the table. He is as tired Of his "pa.
per sack" living as the farmer lie tired
Of living away from the smell Of the
smoke from the railroad engines, and
where he must wait for the slow de-
livery Of his newspaper. And thus, ell
through the various professions and
callings Into which men find them
selves settled, that same dissatisfied
feeling creeps, and that same desire
for Dr. pining to be changed to some
other field of life peTmeates the hu-
man breast. But in few instances
would the desired change bring the
relief imagined or hoped for by the
dissatisfied individual. The farmer
comes to town and soon finds that he
has made q mistake. He cannot de
gest the "paper sack" diet he is
forced to gather from day to day, but
be hangs on until he has squandered
his means with which be might pur-
chase q farm and return to It. In the
event that he retains this much be
never feels quite the same, and his
~vacIlstlng has destroyed what might
have been made q happy and peace
ful life. Then he probably gets into
politics, gets q taste Of holding ONCE,
and bis end IL in sight in nine cases
out Of ten. The same rule often fol-
lows the town man who lmagines be
can farm. He finds that the fat hami
in the smoke house did not grow
there, nor were the fine potatoes
hatched in the bin. But human na
ture lie human nature, and to be salts.
fed with ones lot, a he finds It, anC
to make the best Of 1t and enjoy the
bitter with the sweet is one Of th'
most beautiful endoWments or attain
ments man can possess.
When in doubt a wise man gets on.
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