Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-09
Christmas OOmeso on Friday,

And Uncle Aulal talts - "
and check this rising tide Of In
perialisml
Even the eOfhu tpnst thinks It
can squeeze the unfortunate inst .
little harder.
The venerable Mr.. Fitzsimmons
doesn't seem to be in any hurry to
settle down in q home for the
aged.
Well, at any rate, Carrie Nation
cannot make the cause OF the
political PrOhibiliOnist any more
hopeless than it 10 atpresent.
A total Of 241, 900 labOrers are
needed in South Africa. Now is
the time to turn immigrants head
ed for American ports SOU BY
SOU east.
The struggling Standard Oil
Company is able to pay q dividend
Of only ga a share this year. MI
Rockefeller, however, has some
other interests.
The bachelors Of Montana have
ordered a carloard Of Virginia girls
II the demand should prove as
good as expected future shipment
will follow.
II the sting could be removed
from football people wouldn't pay
to see the game. And the same
is true OF prize fights. The more
stings the more money.
A man in Germany who went
to sleep in 1888 woke up this
week. That's nothing; there are
many men who show no signs oil
waking up who went to sleep even
earlier than 'S8.
Great has been the progress Of
the Middle West in the last TWEEN
ty-fve years, it has been enor'
mously exceeded by that OF the
cotton States. And this forward
movement in the South has just
begun.
A Chicago bridge tender has
been showing financial ability OF
high order. He sublet his job tC
another man and made $500 a veal
by the transaction, while drawing
another salary of $4,000 a yeal
from a labor union. SchWat
should look out for his laurels.
The last pack train to be int
the Thunder Mountain country fol
the season consisted Of forty ami
mails. One carried a bathtul
while thirty. nine were loaded will
whisky. The people up Their
seem to take more kindly 10 inter
nal bathing.
While M. Quad has writer
many ''iunny'' articles that havI
attracted wide attention, his low
letters to his typewriter, that haVI
recently been exposed to a crue
public, are creating more interes
than anything else that has eve
come from his pen
In the center of Kildine, 81
island in the North sea, is perhap
the most curious lake in the world
The surface of it's water is quit
fresh and supports fresh waite
creatures, but deep down it is a
salty as the greatest depths OF tn
sea, and salt water fish live 10 Il
Before matches came into con
mon use the average man waste
ninety hours a year in kindlin
fires with the finder box. Sever
ty years ago nearly every hOus
hold lived in gloom after sundowI
What would you say If you had
dispense with so common a mOdeT
luxury as the matchi
American capitalists who haV
large interests in the Isles Of Pine
are making a vigorous fight againI
the ratification Of the treaty whiC
gives Cuba possession Of the il
land. They made their inves
ments with the expectation th'
the island would continue undo
the control Of the United State
and claim that they are being d1
Criminated against end taxed 9
most beyond endurance by Il
Cuban government.
What was probably the grea
est journey ever made BY 9 tC
bOllOOn has just been recorde'
A little balloon was sent up ct Il
fair at Bloomsbury, thirty mile
from New York, last Ssptembe
On It was the address OF ii. {
Giger. A few days ago be r
ceived q letter from BiddeiOrI
Maine, saying that the write
Henry Ainsloo had found the be