Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-08-26
Editorial Pickup.


Edward Markham has doubtless dis
covered that the man with the pen
earns more than the man with the
hoe.
G. rmany is rapidly getting on to
American methods. In the last rail-
road wreck over there, 30 were killed
and so wounded.
A Delaware youth got his enemy in
shape to fight him by holding him
against a circular saw and trimming
of both his arms.
Indiana and Illinois should be DEM
oeratic next year as by that time all
the colored Republican vote will
doubtless have been lynobed.
If Mr.. Rockefeller desires to show
that he is an out-snd-out philanthro
pist he should endow a few oil plants
for mosquito killing purposes.
The post office scandals, the negro
question and Mother" Jones are al
ways live issues at Sycamore Hill. In
fact, they are sleep disturbers.
There are some post office officials
whose private lives leave much to be
desired, and they are doing a lot Of
'squirming for fear the press will make
the facts public.
King Menelik, of Abyssinia, is said
to have his own mint. Almost any
Kentucky colonel a go him one
better by producing the other essen
tial to the successful iulep.
There are nearly so, ZOO, 900 inhabi-
tants in this country and about nine
ninths Of them feel that they know
the very person King Menelik ought
to hire to run bis new mint in Abyssi-
mia.
That attempt to sssassinste M.
Combes in M~arseiles is more of al
international episode than was at first
suspected. 1t was Italians who shot
at the French minister and they used
an American pistol.
The solid South would like to even
up with Roosevelt for the knocks he
has given her, but when the PROPOSE
ton is made to vote for Miles for
president-well the South wants
another kind of club.
The sugar trust is taking advantage
of ante election session of Congress to
ask further protection against Europ-
can sugar. The trust knows how to
strike when the iron is hot.
There is a most exciting story going
the rounds of the press Of the discov-
cry of a mountain of gold in Idaho by
two brothers whose business it was to
hunt grizzly bears. The price of the
shares will appear later on.
The practice of putting tramps to
work breaking stone has worked we'll
wherever it has been tried, and is
certainly more rational and les ex-
pensive than boarding them in jails.
In declaring that he will wed an
American girl when he lifts that cup
Sir Thomas is merely giving out a
firm determination to remain single.
England and the United States are
getting so thick that by next Fourth
of July King Edward may be setting
of cannon crackers.
The colored emigration from In
diana and Illinois to Texas may be
accounted for on other grounds thar
that of personal danger. Texas ha'
raised 81 5000 carlsods of watermelons.
All together now, boys, for a statue
of George the Third to be placed al
the entrance of independence Hall IN
Philadelphia. We can't allow Eng
land to Guido US, don't you know, witt
her statue Of George Washington.
Since ths Hsrgis- Oardwell fueC
originated in Breahitt County, Ken
lucky, q persons have lost their lives
most of whom persisted through pre-
, medited murder, and not one of the
assassins has yet been punished.
Once upon q time the whole country
groaned. everytime Wall street had &
shake. We have outgrown such fool
ness now and 1t takes something more
serious than q clash between the bull
and bears to stir as up.
Chicago published a story that i
was so cold up there last week tina
rain fell in frozen chunks that chilled
the air, killed birds and made horseI
run away. California is telling how
there is so much fruit out there tina
ell kinds Of game is fat and tame, tn
people not having time to gather thu
game, because they are trying to saw
the fruit,
Hardly q Sunday passes but SOM
clergyman, whose sermons are plo
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