Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-01-27

River 10 70 be damned.
Ninety DAYS after date the note OF
the baseball umpire is due
The Hon. Jerry Simpson, we are
credibly informed, wears 'sm now.
Dowie is Just going to slip around to
. what this earth OF his looks like.
The bobsled lie at present the chief
means by which the small boy slides
into trouble.
How superior you feel because you
have kept New YEARS. resolutions 80
far, don't your
The only rubberlng that is excusa-
BILE is that attending the effort to look
on the bright side.
The price Of anthracite lie to be
boosted again next month. Looks q
little like a coal deal.
Patti has never had any summers or
winters TO pass over her head. With
her Il is always spring.
Someone has said four boxes rule
the world-cartrldge-bo ballot-box
jury-box and handbook.
According to reports Russia and
Germany are sufficiently intimate to
use the same dress suit.
Some Of the Senators say they want
3 canal on q sea level. The people
want IL on the level, too.
It sometimes happens that the par
son who gets a $40 marriage fee profits
by the mistakes OF others.
Let's dig the canal and leave the
other questions to be debated by the
College Literary societies.
The quietude marking the Senate
sessions indicates that our statesmen
have gone out Of training.
Japan and Russia appear to enjoy
the sensation OF 81 ting around on the
edge of a smoldcring volcano.
OF course they jockey a little, but
when a preacher receives a call, or a
woman a proposal, they accept.
The train robbers who looted the
Sunset limited we're considerate
enough to leave the railroad ties.
The human race is probably SO call
ed to distinguish 1t from the horse
race-which, as a rule, is inhuman.
Japan and Russia are still rushing
troops and warships to the place
where they mean to keep the peace.
If Senator Hoar ever has to cross
the isthmus after the canal is dug, he
will likely get of the boat and walk.
Andrew Carnegie has brought a
Highland bagpiper to the United
States. What's Andy up to, anyway
Ohio can't be kept out of the central
current of politics, even if half q
dozen giants gets killed in the present
fight.
A member Of the German R~eichstag
has gone to prison for fifteen months
for fogery. The Missouri idea lie
catching.
Perhaps after reading about the
theater horror the car barn murderers
may feel that they we're hopeless
amateurs.
It seems impossible TO punish the
sheep killing dog without idcludiDg
old Dog Tray, who wasn't with the
expedition.
The feeling OF Columbia is likely to
change, of course, but IL the Panama
canal we're open tomorrow she would
not recognize 1t.
When q woman attempts to work OF
8 ten word compliment on g man she
alWays spoils the effect by making q
serial story Of 1t.
Representative Williams doesn't
know what a straight flush is, but be
knows how to play a strong hand In
politics all right.
Russia is complaining of Korean
soldiers causing trouble and the old
fable of the wolf and the lamb immed-
comes to mind.
II Nebraska gets encouraged It will
soon be as hot and varied Ia politics as
Indiana. It has the raw material and
the experienced leaders.
The republican managers are al
ready beginning TO cast GOO goo eyes
ct those who are expected to contri-
butte to a campaign fund.
Gop0EU IRON EulAAuoApuAA are 20 tuc
effect that peanuts are very scarce.
There r plenty Of peanut politicians,
however, to be found there.
Mr.. Bryan's o~ratorical department is
as active as when be wa paw
ing the way for two overwhelming
defeats for himself and his parry.
Gnlfport lie growing in importance
as g seaport city. There were twenty
seven vessels from all parts OF the
world in her hRrbor on News Years
day.
There isnow mention OF Elihu Roots
name in connection With the Republic
can nomination. He would probably
appeal to the support Of the baseball
cranks.
As long as Mississippi farmers make
the raising Of their home supplies and
feedstuds their fret object and then
raise AL the cotton they 81 they will
prosper.
"Royalty Shows Wonderful Intelli-
genee" Is the heading OF an article In
the Chicago Journal. Il is worthy Of
note that the article omits TO mention