Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-05-20
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. %NN-


Work alone makes good roads.
Spring mattresses are coming up.
Most people are all right in theory.
Money talks and whisky makes 9
ma laxative.
The gold reserve is equaled only by
want situations.
1t can't be said that figures Of
speech won't lie.
The canned article that goes quick
est is a dogs tail.
Many a fat pocketbook lie filed with
u~nreceipted bills.
The natural gravity OF mankind Is
toward the grave.
Almost any fool can be fairly sue
cessful as a cynic.
A dentist gets right down to the
root of the trouble.
Forest fires are giving the people
their annual
There is no economy in going to
Florida to eat oranges.
There is no fool like the old fool ex-
cept the young father.
Cupid is not so blind as those who
can not dodge his shots.
Can the new disease called scat
fear be catniption fits?
Women are unanimously opposed to
new wrinkles Of any kind.
There are friendships between men;
between women federation.
Unbalanced books are never i'm
proved by d%octoring them.
Lady-fngers are the prevailing
fancy in or Engagement rings.
An n eponsive ante has driven
many a n'au to his "uncle.'
Some wen never tire of doing good
-becau>e they never do any.
Even The march of progress is often
followed by by April showers.
In order to be sure you are right
you must 60 ahead and find out.
Common sense is plentiful, but it's
the uncommon kind that counts.
Might doesn't make right-but it
usually succeeds in making good.
The "nay" of the political dark
horse is seldom heard in the land.
When a man gets tired of doing
nothing there is no hope for him.
Some women would rather be di-
vorced than never to be married.
This is the season when people say
to their friends: "Whee! Onionsl"
Many a man has graduated into OBJ
scurity from the political platform.
It is far easier to escape a shower
than it is to dodge a sprinkling cart.
The swindler finds it difficult to
secure a partner that is trustworthy.
Love that runs to lantern jawed
bullpups is a love that needs claiming.
From a feminine point Of view a
bird OIL the hat is worth two IN toast.
The dentist is one man who believes
that it pays to hurt peoples feelings,
Men love to hear of their power but
dislike to be reminded of their duty.
The beauty about diplomacy is that
1t enables both sides to claim a victory.
Rou can't get divorced from a crop
of wild oats without paying alimony.
Any man can get married when
ever any woman makes up his mind
to.
The swindler believes that II a man
is worth doing at all he is worth doing
we'll.
You can't tell much shout a family's
religion from the size of the family
Bible.
One treble with some men is that
their upper and lower lips so seldom
meet.
The season is rapidly approaching
when you would rather fish than
work.
The unexpected seldom happens to
the people who are always looking
for it.
Paradoxical though it may seem,
every time a gun goes of it stays right
there.
In after years it makes a man feel
sad when be thinks Low fresh he used
TO be.
It is just as disastrous to live beyond
your reputation az beyond your
means.
A girl may wear her heart on her
sleeve and still wear diamonds on her
fingers.
a bad habit grows like a week; a
good q requires rs mucA care as an
orchid.
A woman never PTS anything in
her pocket that she en- hold in her
mouth.
Happy is the suburban dweller who
is the general manager of a small
garden.
just as tho average man is about to
ger "a atranCio hold oh tame his pipe
gQea out-
Some men never disc yer that they
are on the wrong track till they sit
down on -.