Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-01-21

Aftsr . mar passes 50 be hnds that
his hopes have 30 be lacked up and
ropainted twioa aq often as ten yoars
4asQke
Tbs lingering guest would doubt
les - surprised TO learn that his long
going e often regarded as . short
coming
The man who is always taking shop
and the woman who Il always talking
shopping soon give q fhat tired
feeling. -
There m some people 90 particu-
lar that they think q widoWer has
quit mourning IL he brushes bis
clothes.
General Leonard Wood hit the
president over the head and still
lives. Where IL that boasted strenu-
ousneBs2
The past week was particularly
hard on circuses. An ossihed woman
and the smallest woman In the world
both died.
You all have kin you don't like,
although you consider Il q mark Of
good breeding to admit the fact to
only 9 few.
An Indiana farmer has dug up q lot
OF skeletons eight feet high. Some Of
them, no doubt, we're mothers law.
Just fancyl
"What are you doing now2" we
heard a man ask another man the
other day. "Feeding the stove," the
man replied.
When people haven't seen you for
three years, and say you have not
changed, they are liars, but what
agreeable ones.
1t is said that the fire which destroy
ed q Louisville whisky house Monday
night burned up $50 green monkeys
and 424 snakes.
Give people an inch, and they will
take q foot. A good plan Is to Jump
them when they take an inch, and not
wait for the foot.
A man never knows what a con-
science he has until asked to tell a
lie to shield some n he has never
liked very we'll, anyway.
A man came into our sanctum the
other day with an article entitled,
"What Killed Methuselah.n He claims
that it was some kind of a germ.
Every man is serving a sentence
which he has passed upon himself.
This sentence is the judgment with
which he has judged other people. II
it be severe, then the sentence which
he Is serving is a severe one. If it be
just OF generous, so will his sentence
be.
1t does not matter how rich a man
is, the world will not give him satisfac-
ton unless he has been the means OF
scattering satisfaction. 1t does not
matter how famous a man may be-
come, there is no Joy for him in this
world unless he has been the means
OF carrying Joy to others,
President Roosevelt will hardly be
able to justify his Indlanola and
Charleston action by apparently bal
ancing matters through the appoint
ment of a negro as assistant district
attorney for Boston. They can't
consistently protest up there after all
their expressed devotion for the ne
gro.
When one man is called to be a hero
OH some great scale, 10000 men are
called to be courteous, gentle, patient.
There are conspicuous virtues which
make reputation, and there are quiet
virtues, the virtues of private life,
which make character. It is not every
mans duty to all q large place, but Il
is every mans duty to ill his own
place well.
Sunday School superintendent
led the children Of Israel into
Canaan Will one Of the smaller boys
answer"
mo reply.)
superintendent (sOmewhat sternly)
-HOan no enc tell? Little boy on
that seat next to the aisle-WhO led
the children Of Israel into Canaan"
Little Boy(badly frightened)-"It
wasn't me. II just moved here last
week firm Mizzouri."
A minister passing along the
road one day, observed q number of
boys In q circle with q small dog in
the center. He inquired what they
were doing, when one said they
we're telling lies, and he who told the
biggest lie got the dog.
"Dear me-" said the minister, "I am
ashamed to hear of you telling lies.
When I was a hoy like you I never
told q lie."
"Hand him de dog" said one Of the
boys. "He's won de prize"