Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-02-18

the term. When the school gave
a closing exhibition William was
selected by the teacher to speak a
piece commencing with the words,
"Kind teachers and schOOlmates. -
William, when he got through
school, buckled down to work and
neither bet his subsistence on a
flush nor did he monkey with the
flowing bowl. He saved his stuff
and was a member in good stand.
ing Of the Y. NJ. @. A. The peo-
pie who knew William best bank
ed on him and said that he was on
the high road to fortune. Ii
might have been supposed under
the circumstances that all the pink
checked maidens in the town
would have looked with favor on
William and that they would
naturally give John BunyOn Simp-
son the marble heart, especially
when they learned the sort Of gait
he had been hitting and that he
was probably headed for the pen,
but somehow or other it didn't
seem to work that way. The fact
was that while the pinked checked
maidens paid no particular atten-
ton to William Tecumseh they
kept the path up to the jail tolera-
bly, hot with carrying bOuqets and
messages of sympathy to John
Bunyon Simpson and when his
trial came on about half the wO-
men in the burg left their work
and went up and sat in the
court room and carried flowers to
the prisoner, while William who
val simply attending to his bust
ness and doing the fair thing by
the firm that employed him got
nary a bouquet.
Moral: A man must not expect
to gather in any considerable
amount of applause by simply be.
ing good.
One the second day of Feb 'ary
the ground hog trotted out ito
open and took a squint at the bdl-
letin issued by the government
weather bureau and then liked
back to his lair. Chow is it, old
mani" asked Mrs. G.. Hog as he
entered their humble dOmicile.
"Did you see your shadOwf"
Shadow" cOntemptuOusly echo
the ground hog, ''that old gag
will do to tell to superstituOus
jays, but it is a back number tale
me. What caused me to
hike back as l did was because
| noticed that the government
bureau predicts fair weather.
When / see that kind OF a bulletin
issued by the weather bureau l
know that it is time to hunt for
cover"
A man who was born with q
disposition announced when
he commenced business for him
self that as soon as he was able to
Accumulate enough he intended to
quit work and have a rattling good
time. Acting on this plan the
man bumped himself day after day.
lie hustled out at 4 o'clock In
both summer and winter morning,
and had his breakfast some time
before the lark aroused from her
slumbers. During all easOns he
put in from IA to Is hours out of
he "a in toll. He grew hump
shouldered and the skin of his
,Ountenance came to look wrinkled
ike q cOwhide that had been hung
Up on the fence to dry. He took
n an 80 on the north and also
brought out a quarter section that
oined him on the South. The
more land he got the harder he
worked, his teeth rotted and
,ame out, but he couldn't spare
he coin TO get a dentist to fix 'em
10 he "gummed" it in order TO
ave expense. The rheumatism
loOk a few falls out OF him and
hen settled down to steady bust
less, but he gritted his teeth and
worked on. By the time he was
10 he had gathered in enough good
and to make a fair sized township,
)ut there we're a few other pieces
dining him that he thought he
leeded in his business and he con-
inued to hump and save until he
lad the deeds to them. Finally
lie decided that he had enough so
hat he could take a lay-Off and
himself, but when he final
y decided that he would start in
N the vacation business he found
snwoa 40 blind That h.