The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1878-03-08
THE RESTLESS ESCATAWPA.
Somebody Goes for Nobody md Rend
Him n Lecture-The Lords of
Creation Receive Il Drub-
hing, Etc.


EDIlOR U.s.
We have at last succeeded in reach,
ing the end of the very erudi,e con
munication signed Nobody in
your last weeks edition. Aud al
though oul lord OF creation" thinks
he knows so mach, he has got to
learn "brcvity is the soul of witt
His text is too threadblre to admit
of further parley. 80 we will not
worry your patience or your read
ers nerves in trying to enlghten
in :egard to it tut we do want to
offer Nobody" a little advice
through your columns. Frs, are
there two or more Nobody's ? or
does the same hand hold the quill
or the same head dictate ; methil Ks
| can see a vast difference in the
first and last effusion. The first we
passed By in silence not knowing
how to place it, Tor apart from the
quotations, no n could have told
who was his rriend-;he mi lmqn
or the miilmln's wife-but in the
last he has come out denohnc;ng the
whole sex over Misslssippi's shout
ders. Surely, some of our fair friends
have been practicing their little
coquetteries on this verdant youth,
who is so full Of metaphors and sen,
timent, with Shakespeare and my.
thoIogy thrown about in such con
fusion, you have no idea whose
words he will use in making his
stroke tell.
Mississippi, weak as she is-and
we will acknowledge her weakness
in iorsaking her colors so deplorably
--hastouched some tender part Of our
lord" 1t must have been his self
esteem, from his swagger and impor>
tarce. When you once start our
lords" on that point, you may as
well told your hands and submit to
the inevitable, for tie pronouns, |
and mine, are ratified around your
ears like q hail-storm. This is one
weak point | will not pause to
define others. So Missi> sippi is
tanned and did your laundering
first edition tame her ? Oh self con-
ceit thou art named man Why,
apart from your quotations, you
biased to her side. and il | had been
a millman | would certainly not
have thanked you for your officious
pretended assistance. Why didn't
You quote it all? you would have
been tluer to your "lord, king and
governor" Cieave to your quota
tons, Nobody" and if they don't
make a plagarist, maybe they'll
make a writer Of you. Do give US |
some new ones next time turn over
a little further in Shakespeare and
find something else applicable to
woman besides Katherine, or is that
the onl, play you arc %conversant
with. Perhaps Shakespeare was
recovering from a dose of woman's
when he composed that
delightful preamble on paper, where
he would like to have played PetrO-
chic to a bright, hayward Kather-
rlne. Oh, poor, verdant Nobody"
SO many oil "our lords of creation"
have felt the weight OF woman's
.fickleness, and had revenge by CALI
ing her tie weaker vessel" Sweet
balm for a mans wounded pride
they are allowed that return. Re-
member now, if you cannot give US
something original next week, give
US something new, at any rate, that
does not sound too much like a
parsing lesson, ETC.. and a little
brieier. Weask this Tor the editors
benefit. By the way, can you cons
pound that harmless poison Mis-
dipped her shafts in ? If you
can, send US the recipe, for we want
10 see such an unprecedented Curl
ositv Yours ptc