Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-05-25
MAI. PERKINS
Life, a Game of Deceit.
The Maj, Is Well Supplied---W Will
Claim a Royalty on It's Sale.
Copyright 1911 by j. NJ. Haley olsolona, NJ IS.

1911 by j, NJ Haley, okolona Mss.
Editor Messenger:-You said
ONE kind things about your Uncle
Iii, some few weeks ago and | hav-
It gotten over it yet, for time nor
distance, things present or to come,
shall separate me from my friends.
The object in writing a letter is to
ell man something he don't know.
and an editor is supposed to know
everything, though ! have seen some
hat didn't, so have wondered it there
was anything you didn't know, but if !
you are like all the other redheaded
freckIed nose men that J F..
ever saw, you think you know it ell.
My family physician alarmed me
very much not long ago by saying
if my mind continued to grow as it
has in the last two years, | would
soon know every thing worth know
ing and that would be awful. AIe<-
ander the Great wept when he
learned that there were no more
worlds to conquer, so | shall slow u5
a little, as don't want to get to the
point where there is nothing lett tot
the mind to feed on, nothing to think
about. sometimes wonder il theI
ri Il 1re-c H144ys--1deQ Hfs TT tiTed
s own thoughts, as there IS to
h, no un-expored fields, in all the
aIms Of thought. A man or woman
at has any mind to think with, need
lever grow tired of life, for each re-
kurring day adds something to
khe store house Of knowledge,
and knowledge is power and
Epower is the influence a superior mind
Fexerts over others. We all wan
power over our fellowman, and there $
only one way to get it and that is t(
know more than he does. In every
community the best informed man il
always looked up to. Down at Ow
& HolIar, on them skates all come to mi
for any kind Of information and
have to tell them something whethe
| know or not, it don't, | will los
my rep YOU see. If man don't tax
care Of his Rep he will soon lose ou
provided always that it is good ont
II he has a bad one, silence is go
den" Repatriation is what the pee
pie think you are, character is wh'
you really are, and will take care
itself, but your Rep has to be locke
after all the time. If you have tt
people fooled, you will have a Job
keep them that way.
Life is one grand game Of dece
our own wives don't know us, if thc
did they would kick US out in le
than "a hours, | know an 0
fellow that will brag about what
has and how we'll he manages and
that kind Of talk, and if his hone
debts we're paid, he woulhn't ha
enough left to buy a sick nigge
breakfast know a young la
that is all smiles. and the most low
creetur you ever seed when she is
dress parade, but they say when $
takes off them good clothes and
turned loose at home with the fami
the devil himself would leave
kitchen to get away from her, yet S
will rope some good fellow in {
some people Judge mostly by
clotbes) and lead him me
dance through life. Some people
hard things about deception, but it
sometimes a necessity. There is
I. kinds, good and bad. If you
deceived to beat you out Of y
money or your character that is
bad kind. but if it is only for
purpose Of keeping the wheels
society creased, that's the good k
suppose you should ride up 10