Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-04-06

ger lor another Perkins Letter. Iou
don't seem to think that the supply OF
Tom FooIishness" may some day run
out, Your idea seems to be that you
have only to turn the pump handle and
that away down somewhere in the
echoIess depths Of nonentity the
stream, like Tennysons Brook, runs
on forever"
Well, the chief excuse your Uncle
Eli has for living in these latter days
is that he may add his mite 10 the sum
total Of human happiness in the world.
For if | breathe Gods fresh air, use
up His sunshipe and cat the good grub
prepared at the "Owl Holler" home,
must make some returns for it. Some
wise man said, He that makes two
blades Of grass grow where only one
grew before is a public be factor,
And say he that makes two smiles
grow where only frown grew before
amt no slow coach himself.
Some months ago | gave out to the
public that was going to retire from
literary pursuits and make an honest
living some other way, for | work tor
nothing and Gerusha boards ne, and
she saws it units me for garden work.
churning, and the like, but I've got a
busheI and a half Of postals asking me
to reconsider and did like Senator
Bailey, Of Texas-resigned one day
and took it back the next. One old
fellow said Il went home yesterday to
dinner and found my wife in bed; she
was down and out with so many aches
and pains that it ryould take . couple
Of doctors to locate them. | took GU
the paper and read her Perkins let
ter, she got in a good humor, gotup t'
dinner and went calling in the alter
noon, and | haven't heard anything
more about that rumatiz." That save'
him a So doctor bill and SO cents a
the drug store for some sweetene'
water for tonic. So when the dis
ease is in the brain and lmaslnaho
give one Perkins letter every day unit
relieved. Now, with these introductor
remarks will relate circumstanc
or two for the benefit Of those who ma
be interested.
A few days ago | saw young mai
with a new suit Of clothes on, crossln
the muddy street and looking back
pretty girl standing on the front pore
If her house. Before he had time
cav scat his foot slipped and he WI
laid out in the mud. helped him
his feet, scraped off about halt ac'
Of real estate and gave him good a
vice about walking one way and loo
ine another, and sent him on his wa
NOT rejoicing. That put me to phIlo
onbizine; he had made three impre
siops in half second without trylr
One on the girl. one on me and o
On ,he ground. and all of them bt
You have heard people say they wot
do as they liked without regard to wi
the world thought They ought to
in the asylum, because anybody W
that little sense ought not to run
large. The impression we make
the world as we go along IS what glN
nc character and fixes our place
society among our felIow-men and
low.women. Impression is a big we
and covers wide field and you y
run up against it. no matter which y
you turn.
When was young man, Just
enough to love a girl as hard as N
could kick, a young lady visited
cousin in The neiehborhood, and t
planned to rope me in and had
kinds Of entertainments to throw
with her She talked flowers S
and moonshine, but somehow couI
get interested; felt like there
humbug somewhere. When she y
away girl friend Of mine told me