Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-05-13
UP.TO-DATE FABLES.

calm and even temper sent in his
application for membership In a
secret society, and some members
Of the push which vas running the
society concluded that here was
the chance to have a large and va
riegated collection Of fun. The
planners of the enterprise said
that the candidate was the most
patient and good natured man
that ever sOiOurned in this vale OF
tears and that he would stand for
ANYTHING. 1t was therefore agreed
that what they would do to the
new member would be a plenty,
and they got busy thinking up
schemes that would add to the
general hilarity OF the occasion.
It was finally decided that it
would be a pleasing thing to
blindfold the candidate, while he
was being initiated into the mys'
teries Of the order, and seat him in
a tin bottOmed chair with a lamp
under it.
The initiation proceeded all
right up to the chair act. For a
little while the candidate stood it
without a kick because he sup
posed that was necessary to the
Initiation into the secret mystic
ries. But when the chair got red
hot, and his flesh began to sizzle
like fresh meat in q hot skillet he
concluded there was something
wrong with the heating plant, and
that the janitor must have let it
get away from him. When be
couldn't stand it any longer he
ierked the bandage from his eyes
and when he saw the men who
were supposed to be initiating him
into solemn mysteries rolling
about in glee his temperature
arose with great rspidity, and be-
ing a large and husky man when
he got into action, suddenly there
was a good deal doing. As a mat
ter Of fact there was the greatest
surprise party the lodge had ever
known, and within two minutes
after the candidate had cleared his
decks for action a large majority
of the people who had been hav'
ing fun with him we're out OF it.
Then the candidate started for the
door and az he went out he past
ed the dOOrkeeper on the jaw and
put the outside guard to sleep OVeI
in the coal box. And when the
leader of the initiators who had
planned the fun they intended tC
have with the candidate, got so he
was able to sit up and take notice
and get a general idea Of the size
of the knot on his head where The
chair leg had hit him, he said: 81
would seem, gentlemen, that Their
is such q thing IS playing owe
the limit with a good natures
man."
A chinch bug sat shivering will
her family under the imperfec
shelter of a bunch Of grass Will
the late April snow fell down upOl
her uncomfortable abiding place
GAN this talk of prosperity make
me tired" said the chinch bug
stHere it is nearly the first OF Ma,
and we haven't had a chance t
get action on that big field {
wheat over there at all. The ma
who talks about this being
prosperous season is a liar by
Waterbury watch"
Moral: Individuals are apt t
Judge of general conditions entire
ly from their own standpoint.
A large, green tobacco worn
seeing a young fellow trying I
learn to chew, said prOudl!
s'There are lots of bugs and bu
terhies and birds about here VII
look down on me and cut me o
their visiting list, but there is
member of the human family 20
will notice who is willing to mai
himself sick to get into my elias
I will Just call the attention OF
lot of these highhyers to this 80
to convince them that they are n
so many as they suppose"
There is not a little speculate
now on the proposition that ii
Governor of Mississippi should
a man who has demonstrated th
he is a successful business ma
A mar named Bailey, born in Mi
sissippi, but now a United Stat
senator from Texas, has be-
poor as a church mouse all b
life, until the other day he recei
ee a 5000, 900 fee in a law So.