Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-09-12
Eli Perkins Takes
inthe Sights at
Chattanooga

Mr.. Editor: our asst letter we
left ourselves Just landed in the city
of Chattanooga, where everything and
everybody was on the Jump but me.
didn't know how to Jump. nor where
to jump. So much noise and confus-
ion kinder unsrung my nerves toc
The time and it was hard to get three
IDEAS in a row and keep them that
way. These people seemed to think
time was going to run out, all at once
and every fellow was trying to draw
his part before the time ma ker should
shut down the shop, put the key in
his pocket and 60 up on Look out
mountain TO take his summer vacation
Now | wish | had time to tell you all
about time. when it begun, and who
began it. Like Tennyson it runs on
forever" Forever means all the time
you can think Of, backward and for
ward and then some more. When
God made the heavens and the earth
and pronounced the job a good one
and set down Saturday night to rest,
lime had not been divided up any
more than to say the morning and the
evening we're the first day and SO on
down the line, but some wise guy who
didn't want to work all the day with
out stopping to eat. divided it up into
hours, minutes and seconds and its
very convenient when you want to
use it in small doses. For instan ce
when scaled 6 foot fence getting
out Of the way of Bill! Jones big bull
dog as he took 2 yards of the South
ern end Of my coat tail, didn't need
out one second and didn't hesitate
| forgot all about my roomatiz Tor
had heard that the world needed men
Of decision and was on the spot
with the goods. You would not have
doubted it if you had seen the per.
formance. Time is a good thing tc
have around and is valuable accord
ing to the use you make of it. Wise
people use it just like they thought the
supply would run out Saturday nigh
and have everything in order to &C
or stay. If you are fixed to 90, yo,
are in good shape to stay.
want to raise my humble pei
against misspent time It is the hid
den rock upon which so many peopI,
60 down Trials, tribuIations ant
yano>ys all come 10 The man or woman
who misreats time. Sooner or late
! it will have its revenge. 1t neve
sleeps or forgets. So as you move
along through life take care Of tim,
and it will take care Of you" past,
that in your hat and charge it to you
Uncle Eli.
Now after giving this little send OIL
to time, let us get back to the threa
Of our discourse.
he'd my little green trunk sot on
on the platform all tied up with plo,
lines to keep the top from coming o
9TH State here for information to pos
teriIv that it was the same little trun
that Jerushas great grandpa brougI
over from Ireland in the year lIO
and forgot what.) Forty thre
hackmen made a grab for it, and
was the buslsst man you ever see
trying to keep them from carrying
away. They wanted to charge me
half dollar to carry it to Missionary RiC
&c miles out told them if was
Owl Holler | could get a darkey
carry it for dime, | tried to borry
; a wheel barrow but there was nor
to be had, so put it on my should'
: and stepped off in the face Of II
whole bunch, but by the time | he
got lost II times and make IA fam
lies mad by waking them up to ii
auire and arrived at my daughters a
tired out at 2 o'clock at night, wisI
ed had paid the money and rod
But | always look on the bright sid
| got lot of experience and dor
need any more along that line.
walked Jerusha and the kids and "
talked till the streaks Of dawn peepe
Il ..l.l - Il