Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-04-27
MAI. PERKINS
Gets Some Hard Jolts. Voters
Show Painful Lack of En-
thusiasm

Of the ovation | would receive as soon
as | let EN- know who was.
The first man met was young
fellow about 22, going to mill
stopped him and told him | was Maj.
Eli Perkins, of Owl Holler, full Of sci
enti6c knowledge and literary under
standin' and expected his vote and all
his kindred. He said, yes, Paw said
there was some derned fool old Teller
over at the holIer who was scribblin
for the papers, but he didn't think he
had sense enough to 60 to the legisIa-
ture, and after seeing me thought Dad
was right, good morning, and oil he
went. | sot for full FIVE minutes won
derng how the fool killer had missed
that fellow in his monthly rounds
through the country Old Politician
said | might expect some jolts, so |
marked that No. and drove on. The
next | saw was man blowing a gras-
t sy piece Of cotton with an old contrary
4. mule that walked everywhere except
} in the right place, the weather was
e hot and he was as mad as a wet hen.
] told him my story and added that |
S was the farmers friend and always
It svmpathized with them. He said sym
o pathy didn't kill no grass, work was
what he wanted, and that | must plow
p round or two to let him get cool, SO
IS that he could give the subject mature
IS reflection. So told old Sorrel to gee
k. up, and with him on one row and
~ trying to hold the p low on another
so we come ding mig kivering up all the
IS cotton. He said, Hold on, it you ain
1t no better legislator man than you are
ID a pIow hand you had better stay a
home; but I'll promise to vote tor "
~ it there aint nobody else er runnin
in You look like you would be sting
H. enough to bring back all the none
N, you got, and that would be some hel
ne to the county. | marked that dow
SIS as jolt No. 2. Being a man Of ur
,xt daunted sperit, | put the chaw OF tel
he hacker on tother side to change m
ne luck, and moved on, rejecting on th
ial uncertainty Of human events, ! sal
Mt to myself, any old man can run, br
se geuin votes enough to be elected
ow where the rub comes in.
is The next man was pIowin a yok
ed of little steers in "a new ground; the
ere we're hot as the devil, and with the
tongues out: had lost control Of the
ng minds and SO had he, for he was Gus
Ike in and s1ortin' to beat the band.
So' When he came out to the end | to
an him in as GENTLE manuer as cou
'eO (lor didn't want to agitae him WI
es who was and what | wanted; al
u"' then | thought | would give him
little lecture on cussin as the go
''rt book say s, Do good unto all men, ,
and pecialIy those you expect to get sol
red favor out of; but it didn't strike
hat he wiped about a quart Of sweat lr,
ace his noble brow and said, you get
use Of that old ramshackled buggy a
hlle pow these steers two rounds and
the you don't cuss III vote for We, &
TX a bring in 7 more. Old Politician |
ped told me to do anything they asked
my and accepted, thinking how cas-
pas would make 8 votes in Is minutes.
t in patted the little steers on the b
and told them | was friend to
Ge- mankind. especially the cattle,
man started them off quietly. Buck
ID all right, but Ball had the devil in
red and would run out Of the Eurrow
th spite of all the christian talk | C
ltch, give them. Finally the plow strut
root and the handles struck me in
fr;eI short ribs and almost tux my bre
The As soon as got my breathing al
g fo,. ratus in running order again, t
,,yed to pull the pIow from under the
mice and them dern little rascas would
,aeht set to il so could not bulge !