Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-02-04

BY forward people.
A man can't marry every woman
be falls In love with.
Most Missouri card players say Il IL
all right 10 cheat on low.
One thing q physician gets with q
good practice is criticism.
Somehow false reports seem 10
echo longer than any other kind.
Everyone pities the mother Of twins
and thinks Il . good Joke on the
father.
In the modern age, q man is more
likely to entertain q criminal unawares
than an angel.
It Is said that the Lord tempers the
wind to the shorn lamb, but this does
not cut any ice.
Don't have such . good time on
your skates that you fail to watch for
cracks in the Ice
One Of the prettiest girls In town is
so dull in her talk that people scream
and run from her.
The 400 has been increased to $50,
and there are q great many people not
in that number who are anxious to get
In.
A twenty-five dollar night gown is
one dollars worth Of night gown and
twenty.four dollars worth of fussi-
ness.
This has been the kind of a day when
we wish we were q bird and could fly
throegh the air with q straw in our
beak.
A man can be happy with q tooth
brush and a pipe; his unhappiness be-
gins when he adds q valet and an
automobile.
The mayor Of Memphis has under
taken to tell why the streets Of that
town are so bad. He must be a very
re%sourceful man.
The insurance rates will hardly be
increased on account OF the threat Of
the Richmond negro to apply the
torch to the South,
D. o. Mills, Of New York, offers a re.
ward of 800 for the return of an
overcoat. 1t probably had a lump Of
coal in one Of the pockets.
It is a misfortune for a public man
to acquire an Office before he is ripe
for its duties and responsibilities.
Puzzle, find the President referred to.
Senator Hale declares that Senator
Quay co~niscates the time of the Sem
ate. Mr.. Hale should be grateful that
the gentleman from Pennsylvania is
kind enough to leave the Senate 1t.
self.
The arrival of Prince Cupid, of Ha-
waii, In this country Is expected to
bull the matrimonial market Just at q
time when forty days of pennance is
in order.
The dispatches announce the inau-
guration Of a new governor In South
Carolina, but fail to record any re-
marks that he may have made to the
governor of North Carolina.
The wild rush on the part Of Afro
Americans to advise the President Of
} bis official duties has not yet reached
the point of convincing Mr.. Roosevelt
, Of the necessity Of an Afro-Americar
cabinet.
We will shortly have q case like
this: A widower asked q woman Il
|. marry him. She refused, and he
asked another woman, who accepted
him. Now the first woman wants
him, and there is going to be trouble
You will be called upon to take sides;
begin to argue.
Now that the senatorial matter Il
out Of the way in most Of the legisla.
lures the regular grafters will demand
an inning. Part Of their work is t.
make IL hard for the uninitiated Il
[ tell whether 3 measure is introduced
for hold up purposes or In the inter
[ est Of the public.
Votes like almost everything else
appear to have advanced In price
? since the present era Of prosperity Gel
In. A congressman who was offered
but 5000 for his support Of q meas
I ure became so indignant after think.
{ ing about it 8 few weeks that he told
, the whole story to his committee.
r In paying her taxes Miss Susan B
Anthony filed her annual protest witt
the county treasurer at Rochester
New York. II read as follows:
: Dear Sir: Not 3 man In the state
ever 80 poor, ever 30 ignorant, evel
, 90 drunk, ever so debased In any form
! outside Of prison doors, who is, Of
who is not, a taxpayer, but is vel
coined and urged to cast his ballot
: toward the making Of laws 81 suit hin
t best. Every woman IN the state, b
she yer so intelligent, ever so sober
, ever 30 moral, ever 30 large q taxpay
: esis denied that right. 1 pay the In
closed county tax, $685., for 1902
under protest. Pleare 30 REGARD 1t.
A puny child is always an anxiety
to the parents. There Seem gener'
ally no reason why the little ont
: should be weak when It lie so well fed
But the fact is that IL does not matte
how much food the child takes II thl
q stomach cannot extract the nourish.
. ment from It. No benefit can be de.
rived from just eating. That is thI
condition of many q sickly child. Th'
; stomach and organs Of digestion anl
I nutrition are not doing their work
and the body is really starving. It /
: little use TO give lsh foods, Ike COZ
g liver oil or emulsions, In such 8 case