Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-01-20
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The next holiday February %.
The people want to know the truth
Freshness Of youth often spells the
man.
Il takes a big man to eatcrow grace
fully.
Cupid never bOthers about the re-
suits.
Clean wOrE cannot be done with
dlaty tools.
That canuOt be manly which Is not
moral.
The Bible promises no lOaves to the
loafer.
Let's dig the canal and argue after
wards.
He who would be leader must go
before.
SANDER is always most dirty at the
handle.
Self love is not the same a. self
respect.
Modesty lie not so easily shocked -
prudery.
Senator smOOt is as full of fight as a
game cock.
Only an enemy viii judge q mar by
his failures.
There is nothing more slippery than
smooth smile.
The mau without reverence cannot
win respect.
No man Is in business for himself II
he is married.
A mans virtue does not depend on
his vocabulary.
1t is all right to aim high II you have
the ammunition.
Girls, be careful how you leap, even
II 1t lie your year.
Pesslmism is merely a case OF intel
lectual indigestion.
A demonstration Of religion Is better
than any definition.
Sometimes a comedians divorce is
his first serious part.
n some men were worms they
would be too lazy to turn.
what's bred in the bone is pretty
apt 10 come out in the soup.
Searching women who cometo court
is the latest Chicago novelty.
II you would avoid temtation busy
yourself with your own affairs.
A philosopher can explain almost
anythlng-execpt his philosophy.
Laziness ia a disease that is respon.
sible fox q lot of chronic invalids.
There are many churches In which
the preacher is only a gas fixture.
II the -four trust should water its
stock there'd be plenty of "dough."
Society women are like Salads
great deal depends upon the dressing.
No man ever yet went out looking
for misery who came home without 1t.
1t takes a man q long time to realize
that God is not waiting for his advice
Perhaps the reason a dog is such q
good friend is because he can't talk.
The light Of success needs to be
trimmed with the shears Of humanity.
A girl who likes to wear a bathing
suit can always show her reason for
it.
It is not considered to mans credit
to merit If he doesn't obtain
It.
Facts are stubborn things-unless
they bump up against q shrewd law
yer.
Many a woman employs q private
detective when she looks into q mir
ror.
Leading one man may be 8 much
greater thing than leading q big meet
Ing.
People who live in glass houses
ought to take pains not to cast rehec-
tions.
Very few men understand women
well enough not to try to understand
them.
The cotton crop is safe now. Con-
gress gives $4,000 to fight the boil
Weevil.
We shouldn't mind woman having
the last word il she'd only get to It
sooner.
A school girl never graduates until
she has learned to stab pickles with q
hairpin.
The heather In his blindness uses a
club; the civilized Christian q repeat
ing rife.
II we were to give the devil his due
the rush Of business would swamp the
old fellow.
Most astonishingl A Chicago man
has sweIled Uncle Sans conscience
fund $3.50.
Some men never discover that they
are on the wrong tack until they sit
down on IL.
Maybe 1t is the corns on q mans