Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-04-20
MAI. PERKINS
Attends a Religious Meeting in
Memphis, Tenn, and Has
Photograph Made

the right thing at the wrong time and
people would find that was only a
country Jake.
Alter hearing the Korean Prince
and the man who lived in Africa
where Roosevelt was hunting, |
remembered thai Gerusha had told
me to have my picture made to hang
up in the parlor by her other three
husbands. | told her then | didn't
want my picture put up in no rogues
gallery, but when saw the fire blaze
from her eyes suddenly changed the
subject for knew all debate had
been cut off and that picture had to
come. Her other three husbands had
been cremated and their ashes buried
in little wooden box in the garden, so
you see white SOlnt WOllltH Gan Lldll ~
at all. Gerusha had husbands to burn.
She likes that cremating business for
if they had all been buried the old
way, she would have been out at least
S100 in cold cssh and the new way
only cost about S1.5U and one little
tombstone answered for the whole
lot. With that $98.50> saved, she
bought young mule and has made
good crops with it. That's what she
calls economy.
But | am about to lose the thread oi
my discourse. soon found a place
and a young lady invited me in and
gave me a seat and told the picture
ia ker to come out to see me. ! asked
him if he could get me up hand
some picture. He said he would no
guarantee, but would do his best witt
the material he had on hand. H,
sat me down in chair and put q
little pair Of nippers on the back o
my head and another on my back ant
} then slipped three joints Of my back
) bone up four inches higher, TWISTED
my head around till Zekes new cola
was cutting my throat, took my lei
, number ! | and carried it across and lie
the heel drop on that big corn on m
; right toe and told me to look pleas
ant | knew | looked so ugly he wa
ashamed of me for he went bacI
! behind his machine and covered u
his head with cloth till he could ge
his mind composed. About that tim
5 a great big fly came buzzinI
: along and lit square on my nose All
S there | was. He kept saying "kee
D still" | turned my nose aroun
, until it touched my left ear and role
e my eyes around like dying calf an
!, then walIoped my ears like muI,
S but that fly just kept his seat FINAL
!. when | was about ready to give u
n the ghost and wondering what Cert
| she would do with the insuranc
1t money, he said that will do" H
, assisted me to lay down on sof;
threw some water in my face an
gave me two tabIespoonfuls Of Perun
n and came to life again and then t
j. add to the solemnity Of the occasion
,t he called for FIVE dollar bitl. | toI
~ him it was like robbing the dead, bt
'F it had to come, for he said that wa
T. the main object Of the meeting. Th
e pictures were sent on in a few day
- One of my eyes looked like the fu
moon and the other like half moo
peach pie. One ear was on top
% my head and the other hanging q
ar my chin, while that fly looked like
q. mud turtle perambuIaiing over II
il. countenance as happy as a June bu
u The picture man wrote that Barnu
- & Bailey's circus agent had seen
N and wanted to know what it was, ar
lg he told him it was the new amin
is Roosevelt had discovered in Africa
and that the agent said he would 81,
Sl00 a month 10 take it along to ac
al to his menagarie of wild ANNA
re Gerusha says | ought to 60 and 81
at would invest the money in Bill Jont
or 40 acre bottom land and it wou
:, bring an income to take care Of her
y her old days, while could 60 to i
r. Old Soldiers Home.
ok Yours truly,
ay ELI PERKINS,