Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-03-02
ELI ADVISES THE EDITOR


duty as an educator of editors to give
you lew dots so that you may tai ke
due notice thereof and govern
yourself accordingly. | have put in
good time and thought in helping ed
itors. Gerusha and me cher name has
to always come FIRST, as she is head of
the 6rm) counted it all up and if | can
get the time added to my natural ex-
pectations in life it will make me SO,
and by that time | guess the world can
get along without me.
Well, that reminds me when a young
man about "a, | read sign in New
Orleans, Come in and have your
past present and future told, That
was a subject was interested in and
| stepped in, deposited a five dollar
bill and was shown back into a cur
tanned room, with candles burning and
a little lady CLOSELY yelled, sitting by
table. She examined my hand and
proceeded to tell me what she thought
| wanted to hear. She hit the truth so
often got little shaky and tod her
if she knew when | was going to die
r.. to tell me. She said, oh, you
will live to be SO, and you ought to be
willing to go then
So if | get the time spent on editors
put in | am sure to make it. The ed
itors are providing a sinking fund to
build Perkins monument to hand me
down to posterity in good shape. FIav-
ing a mind that always goes to the
bottom Of lhings, | began to wonder
how a county editor could spare the
money to lay by for that monument
bSag4-why SO many Of ther got rich,
5eAis an Easy problem when you know
the facts. A girl baby is born in the
neighborhood The doctor gets $40
and the editor gives the loud lunged
youngster and happy parents a send
off and gets SO. When she is christ
ened the minister gels $40 and the
editor gets 500. She grows up and
marries, The editor publishes a long
flowery article and edges all around
the truth about the beautiful and ac-
complished bride. The minister gets
S25 and the editor gets S000 After
while she dies and he publishes q
two-column obituary, Sunday schoo
resolutions and poetry and free card
Of thanks, and the doctor gets $50, the
undertaken SIS and the editor, always
remembered, gets $4,000, and the
whole thing is explained to any mine
capable Of adding all these figures to-
gether.
Now. Mr. Editor, bear in mind onI,
promised to give you some dots bou
the town-not all. If had made W
my mind to tell all | know about thi
town would first make my will ant
then buy three thousand mile tcke
and take the night train for-echo an
swers where? would tell Gerush,
to have a grass widows sale, close Oh
all our earthly possessions and NEE
me in the Philippines.
hope you will come out better thai
did when started a paper in Ar
kansas. for have done near y all kind.
ofA work, or, TO be more accurate
nearly everything to keep from work
don't mind seeing the other fellow
work, but my talent in that direction
has been sadly neglected. Year
ago, while bumming around for some
Thing easy and sure, struck lttl,
own in Arkansas. They wanted
paper and | wanted a job, so | le
hem put up the money TO buy the out
= and | was to furnish the brains
called it the Arkansas Videte an
1aoHo was Truth is mighty an,
prevail" My mother had alway
me that if | would always stick tt
ole truth the Lord would stick to me
So in our FIRST issue concluded t.
bring ourself into notice and produc,
Something sensational. ! would jus