Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-08-05


Manufactured into the finished product
II would make this the richest country
ever known in history. We cell cotton
at s cents apound. and buy q hack frcm
the New England mills at 40 cents to
800 q pound. We sell pig iron at SIG
per ton. The steel plant in Ohio and
pennsylvania get from $500 10 IS OO0
Tor 1t. 81 IL Il all the way through the
list of raw products Mississippi
Journal.
There is no reason why the good far
mers should not live in a lovely home
surrounded with all the comforts and
e%onveniences Of the city, without tho
heat and smoke and noise OF the town
while II is we'll known thar every far
mer can and q large nnmbrr If thin
DO live a great deal high rthan the cit,
folks. An investment on the premises
OF a country home is by no means
loss, bur on the contrary Il n source Of
pleasure TO the owner during his occu.
pancy and will enable him II really
more for his farm when he goes to sill
1t. More than this, a farming com
munity is often judged by The appear
ance of is nom S, and ON that accouut
1t behnQYes Uur good country folks in
Mississippi TO enhance their premises in
every way pos ible.--Dixie Press.
Clover in the North and COW peas in
the South are the most popular, be-
cause the best known clover crops for or
chards. The Canada field pea is to some
extent replacing clover for this purpose
in the North, aud probably will replace
it altogether when it's virtues are better
known. In the South nothing better
than field peas has ever presented n
claim for notice. The protection af-
forded to the soil is most complete, the
fertil'zing effects are all that lie needed.
and the pea crop is one of great value
grown without cost to the farmer and
with benefit to the land.-Mississippi
Journal.
When q man is kind to his friends, he
is accused of counting %favors; when he
is polite 50 the people generally they say
he want an Office; when he tries to be
clearly and wear decent clothes, he is
called g dudej when be goes to church
he is dubbed a ~hypocrite if he doesn't
y 20 he lie clH'sed with the heathens If
he speaks to a woman, tits said be wants
to marry, il he doesn't they say he
\ can't marry. Now how in the thunder
can q man conduct himself to avoid
Acensure ? Guess the only way ia to get
OF the arth.-Sulpher Springs Ga
zette.
Our wife says the editor Of the
Anthony, (Kan.) Bulletin, towns a
horse and q dozen hens. She has owned
the hens since last Christmas, but up to
this week the hens apparently had not
laid any eggs. The other day shs dis
Recovered that when a hen cackles their
Void blaze.face mare would Immediately
wake up, go hunting for the egg and eat
lit. Now she has a foot race with the
horse every time q hen cackles in the
barn lot. Sometimes the wife wins and
sometimes the mare wins"
Many an excerpt from the country
newspaper has found it's way to the
family bible where it rests between the
~leaves. a token Of some hallowed mem
Tory. Who ever heard Of a m%etropoli
tan paper being close enough to the
heart to enter its reading matter in this
sacred receptacle ? It is only the vii
lsge paper that gets close to the heart
throbs Of the people Garland News.
What on earth are You doing in here
X Tommy ?" asked a mother as she peered
into the hen house from which came a
series Of squaking and Tapping OF
wings. Il am trying" said Tommy,
who seemed to be doing something with
a knotted rope, Ito fix this old rooster
so his alarm won't go off in the morn
ing before Z o'clock. Ocean Springs
Chronicle.
According to an exchange, the man
who went out to milk and sat down on
q bowlder in the middle of the pasture
and waited for the COW to back up, was
3 brother to the man who kept a store
and wouldn't advertise, because he rea-
soned that the purchasing public would
back up to his place of business when
! it wanted something.
Don't forget that all county officers
now in the race are good men, bat ev-
eryone has his choice, go vote for the
man that is best fitted for the posi-
ton he aspires.
Wake up early tomorrow and march
to the polls and kin some body's vote
dead as q toe nail by voting for your
choice.
It always takes two to make a quar-