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The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1879-01-31
SPECIAL Notice.

All letters relating to the business of
Che {Iandsb0ro DcMO,ut should be ad-
dressed to 2. X. Mayors, Handsboro, Miss,
and all matters connected with the DEMO
en-, ,-srAR should be addressed to Mayors
a. Richmond, Pascagoul;., Miss.
The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1879-01-31

TORCH-A blessing to Steamboat men
and Planters. Wind or rain cannot ex-
tinguish them. Cannot explode. Can be
placed on II freight pile or moved at will,
without danger of sparks. A great thing
for Planters to destroy Insects.
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Fine Fruit Trees.

We offer for sale at extremely low prices
large stock Of Fruit Trees, well grown,
of the varieties best adapted to the South,
and We will guarantee that they viii do
better than trees brought from distance.
Send for Catalogue.
W. A. WHITFIELD & co,
Dec. 5, '7a-tf Bay st. Louis. Miss,
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HUNTERS PERFECTION ROTARY

HUNTERS PERFECTION ROTARY
FLOUR AND MEAL SlFTER--The great
est combination known. Eleven combina.
tions III one. Over 100000 now in use
Every family should have one. Each ar
ticle purchased separately would cost
81 so where these only cost IS cents
Only sitter in the world that can be taken
apart. Agents wanted.
REYNOLDS & ARMSTRONG,
80 Baronne street.
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Paper bags of all sizes fur
nished ut wholesale prices, with
business card printed on them for
nothing. A full supply on hand.
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80 Baronne street.

CLAYTON'S METALLIC HEAT RE-
FLECTOR-More heat. No smoke No
dust. Less fuel. Acts as "a ventilator in
summer. To fit all size CRATES. sure
cure tor smoky fire places. 25 per cent.
more heat thrown into the room that
would otherwise go mp the chimney with
ont one of the valuable Reiiectors. Price
only 81 each.
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New Inventions

BORED WELIS-A great Improvement
on the drove wells. Any one can sink
them. Guaranteed to get pure and fresh
water. CHEAP and INEXHAUsTIBLE.
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LIV RY 6 sTABLE,
E0scas0ssfg Depat.

b. F. PICKET informs his friends and
the travelling public, that he has estab-
lished his Livery Stable at the Depot,
where he is prepared 10 furnish horses
saddle or to harness, with vehicles, at any
time of the day or night. Also, hauling
of all kinds done at short notice on res,-
sonable terms. With prompt aud careful
attention, aud moderate charges, he trusts
TO merit the patronage Of the public.
dec2l-ly
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Towels at 5 cents a piece. Cambria
nocket Handkerchief for 10 cents. Jeans
Pants at as cents at G.. W. Hightower's.
The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1879-01-31

. ELECTRIC BELLS-No more trouble
of broken wires; can be rung by pressing
a knob. Warranted for one year.
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Choice Flour, S. so; eanyassed Hams,
~ cents choice Sugar, 10 pounds for 81,
at @. W Hightowers.
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NOtlce TO creators.
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
JACKSON COUNTY.
In the matter of the estate of j. +. Sar.
razin, deceased. Mrs. j. 2. Sarrazin,
administrative.
Pursuant TO an order of the Chancery
Court of said county, made at the Sep
tember term, 1873, thereof notice is here
by given to all creditors of the above es-
tate that at the March term, 1879, it be-
ing the first week of said month, all
claims registered against said estate will
be taken up for examination and allow
ance, at which time all creditors are re-
qucsted to attend said court.
A. G. DEMLAS, Clerk.
Scranton, Miss, Jan. IL, 1879. 434t
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New Advertisements. A
Notice TO Creditors.

THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. I
JACKSON COUNTY.
In the matter of the estate of David
Havard, deceased. G.. +. Ward, admin
istratOr.
Pursuant to an order Of the Chancery
Court of said county, made at the Sep
tember term, 1875, notice is hereby given
to all creditors Of said estate that at the
March term, 1879, it being the Sd day of
said last mentioned month, claims win be
taken up for examination and allowance,
at which time all creditors are requested
to attend said court.
....r. A. G. DELMAS, Clerk.
Scranton, Miss, Jan. II, 1879. 43-lt
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GAS-The best and cheapest Gas Ma
chine ever made; has no equal small
space occupied. Gas by this machine ON
ly % cents per thousand, where oil is Is
cents per gallon. 81 per NJ where oil is
30 cents.
The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1879-01-31

Full assortment of Patent Medicines
just received at Chidsey's.
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Pay for the DEMocrAT-ST STAR.
The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1879-01-31

If you want Calico aud Domestic at 5
ceuts yard, so to &. w. Hightower's.
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Capcine plasters
at Chidseys
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-Dover's Powders at Chidsey's.
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FALI WINTER GOODS
{. v. HltH!0TER,
ED0Scns0ssIa street,

| Scranton ... :. MisSisSipDi.
l have just opened a new and complete
stock of Fall and Winter Dry Goods, No
tions, Ladies' Dress G6Dds,' Men-and Boys
Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, etc.
Also always on hand a full supply Of
Choice Family Groceries, Feed, Crockery
and Hardware, Tobacco, Cigars, Saddles,
Bridles, aud everything except. Liquors,
which | do not keep. | would call the
special attention of the ladies to my Well
selected stock of Calicoes, Dry Goods, No
tions, Shoes, etc, which will be sold
cheaper than ever before in this place ?
Call and examine my goods and prices be-
fore purchasing elsewhere.
G. W. HfGHT0WRR
Scranton, Nov. 81, 1S7S-7.1y
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JAS. III. REYNOLDS,

General House " Steamboat
smith. Plumbing Gas, ~
Steam Pipe FITTING, Store
Ranges y Pumps,
30 Baronne st,
NEW ORLEANS,
Louisiana.
Between Union and Perdido streets.
Jan'y 81, 1879. 45-ly
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REYNOLDS d ARMSTRONG.
80 Baronne street.
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Notice to Creditors.

Dry goods, groceries, tinware, etc, TO
sale at low rates by NJ. A. Dees.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18
Hurtful Reading.

A bad book, magazine, or newspaper
is as dangerous to your child as vi
cious companion, and will as surely
corrupt his morals and lead him away
from the path of safety. Every parent
should set this thought clearly before
his mind and ponder it well. Look to
what your children read, and especially
to the kind of papers that get into their
hands; for there are now published
scores of weekly papers with attractive
and sensuous illustrations, that are as
burtful to young and innocent souls as
poison to healthful body. Many of
these papers have attained large circu-
lation, and are sowing broadcast the
seeds of vice and crime. Trenching on
the very borders of indecency, they
corrupt the morals, faint the imaglna-
ton. and allure the weak and unguard-
ed from the paths of innocence.
The dangers to young persons from
this cause were never so great as at this
time,5 and every father and mother
should be on their guard against an
enemy that is sure to meet their child.
Look to it then that your children are
kept free as possible from this faint.
Never bring into your house a paper or
periodical that is not strictly pure. See
to it that an abundance of the purest
and healthiest reading is placed before
your children. Hungry lambs will eat
poison, but if well fed on good food,
they let the poison alone. If you wish
to save your own children and the chill
dren of others, do all you can to sustain
and circulate healthy religious litera-
ture.-1he Christian. -..
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18

is enfeebled, the nutrition of the body
is degraded in every part. Then the
vital organs, on which life depends, and
in which the activity of nutrltlve
changes ought to be most rapid and
regular, are the first to suffer, while
even such passive parts as those which
make up the skeleton do not escape
scot-free. See, then, what modifica-
ton of healthy life may be easily effect
ed by one apparently trifiing error OF
recreation. Let that error be repeated
MANY times, or let some equivalent er-
Tor be performed and repeated many
times, and what is the almost necessary
result ? The almost necessary result is
the institution of that feeble body, in
active form, of the phenomena of dis
ease toward which it had prOclivity,
Oh which the feebleness depended.
1t will possibly be urged by some
that the process of making these feeble
bows complete with stronger boys is in
tended to invigOrate the feeble. For a
similar reason, these same naturally en-
feebled children are often sent out OF
doors in cold weather "tO harden them. "
The ignorance is beyond pardon. AS
you cannot gather grapes of thorns nor
figs of thistles, so you cannot out OF a
weak animal frame extract strength
except by taking it out of the bank OF
life, to the premature shortening OF the
inherited store of life. r .--7-.
Mothers know of these facts better
than fathers, and mothers are often
laughed at because their knowledge is
the knowledge of love and passion and
anxiety rather than of cold, calculating,
had almost said CONNER
But the mothers are
none the less right, and, indeed, men
know better when they are dealing with
lives that have to be bought and
sold. The great breeders of flOcks and
herds do not try to harden or OvertaX
the young lower animal they want to
perfect. They use wise discretion,
and they succeed in whatever they do.
At the same time they are often indis-
criminate about their children. A cOun-
try surgeon, whom 1 much esteemed
for his quick insight, once brought to
me for consultation feeble boy with a
cOnsumptive tendency, in order to set
tie the question whether the mothers
fostering or the fathers hardening sys-
tenn should prevail. "The father" said
my friend, sis a clever man he is most
successful in the management of cattle,
and if he would be only half as clever
in the rearing of his children all would
be well. But he is very hasty on this
point, and the other day-a day bitter
ly cold-he did two of the most incon-
sistent things 1 ever knew a man to do.
He quarreled like a fury with his poor
wife for sending Charlie to skate with
his legs in warm stockings, and five
minutes later dismissed his groom for
taking a colt out for exercise without
clothing it in a hOrse-clOth."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18
Statistics for Girls.

A young English statistician who was
paying court to a young lady thought
to surprise her with his immense erudi-
ton. Producing his note book, she
thought he was about to indite love
sonnet, but was slightly taken aback by
the following question
seHow many meals do you eat ?"
"Why, three, of course but of all
the oldest questions !"
"Never mind, dear, rll tell you all
about it in a moment"
His pencil was rapidly at work. At
last, fondly clasping her slender waist:
"Now, my darling, Pve got it, and if
YOU wish to know how much has passed
through that adorable little mouth in
the last II years, l can give you the
exact figures"
Goodness! Gracious What can you
mean ?" aa-us. -
"Now, just lsten," says he, "and you
will hear exactly what you have been
obliged to absorb to maintain those
charms which are to make the happi-
ness of my life"
'EBut ] don't want to hear"
"Ah, you are surprised, no doubt,
but statistics are wonderful things. Just
listen. You are IL years old, so that in
Is years You have absorbed oxen or
calves, 5 sheep and lambs, Ia !; chick
ems, 1877 ducks, 2O4; geese, IL; tur-
keys, 100; game of various kinds, 824 /;
fishes, 100; eggs, 3124; vegetables
(bunehes,) 700; fruit (baskets,) COB (;
cheese, 102; bread, cake, etc. Tin sacks
of flour,) 40; wine (barrels,) II water
gallons,) 30O0."
At this the maiden revolted, and
jumping up exclaimed:
81 think you are very impertinent,
and disgusting besides, and l will not
stay to listen to YOU" Upon which she
flew into the house.
He gazed after her with an abstract
ed air, and left, saying to himself:
''If she kept talking at that rate IL
hours out of "a, her jaws would in 20
years travel a distance of 1882, 124
miles,"
The maiden, within two months,
married well-to-do grocer who was no
statistician.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18
Don't Salt Hay.

There is no excuse for sailing hay.
except to follow in the errors and follies
OF the past. 1t was believed that few
pounds of salt would preserve ton of
wet or half-cured hay. And even some
old fOgies yet, who never reason from
cause to effect, follow the traditions of
the past in this respect. But salt is
injurious to any hay. Instead of dry
ing and preserving it, the salt absorbs
moisture, dampens and blackens the
hay, and in no case preserves it.
Animals will eat small quantity OF
salt winter and summer, and it is bene-
hclal to their health. But it is i'm
proper and injurious to compel them to
eat it beyond the demands of the an.
petite. Teo much salt is a violent
lrritant of the bowels, causing fever
ana overdoses sometimes produce fata
Inflammation. Cattle that eat salteC
hay drink too much water, which bring
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18
Hardening" Children.
SENSIBLE WORDS FROM A NOTED PHYsI
CLAN.

SENSIBLE WORDS FROM A NOTED PHYsI-
CLAN.
IDr B. W. Richardson in Gentleman's Magazine.
| was at swimming bath, where
some twenty boys, all under twelve
years of age, were swimming or learn
ing to swim. There was no comparison
between these lads in matter of physi-
cal outline. One, a short lad, had
narrow and pointed chest, Il fragile form
and almost transparent skin, chilly
surface of body and blue lip; another,
IA tall, broad, shouldered, broad chested
youth, had full and ruddy complex
ion, warm surface and n firm muscular
build. The others varied between
these two standards. Such were the
physical conditions of the swimmers
and so constructed physically they COM
menced their recreation. Swimming is
Il healthy recreation, when properly
carried out, as well as useful and neces-
sary. But here was the mischief from
it in the case of the boys in question !;
there was no discrimination in the
amount of the recreation. The boy with
the pigeon chest and blue lip had quite
as much of it as was safe for him at the
end of five minutes; but, to keep him
up to the same standard as the swim
mer with the broad chest, who had such
buOyant lungs that he could hardly sink
even if he tried, the boy was encour-
aged and almost driven to go on and
keep on, until he had passed through
the same ordeal as his more favored
cOmIade. The result was that the weak
boy came out of the water blue al
over, an hour later was as blue as a bill
berry in the lips and cheeks, and was
cold, shivering, feeble and sleepy.
could see those boys as plainly as if
had followed them, going back to schoo
and at the afternoon work. | could bt
as sure as l could be of any physiologi
cal fact that it would require six hours
under the most favorable of circumstan
ces in relation to food, rest and warmth
to fully revitalize that feeble boy up t,
his own imperfect standard, while n,
number of hours would ever bring hi
vitality up to the standard of his NOR
fortunate fellOw-student.
Look now at the error, at the lon
series of errors, committed by this mod
of recreation on the feeble boy. Hi
animal warmth had been robbed undu
ly, and he was therefore languid an,
S unhappy. His blood was aerated les
' freely than it should be, and he wa
f therefore circulating blood more slowl
e than he ought, and breathing with ex
] cess of labor. He was more susceptible
I to every depressing influence, and hi
$ nervous system was dulled in the sam
= manner as it would be from sitting in
S close and badly-ventilated room. Fl
e would be drowsy, and perhaps the mas
ter of his school would say idle or apa
It thetic. For this he would be rated q
: his lessons, compared with other boy
: who got on better, and if not punishe
o corporeally, made irritable and anxiou
: IN mind, which is another form of pun
It ishment. This nervous lad, never ovel
strong, would be again nnduly take,
Al And now, what else must follow as r,
d suits When the nervous system
Is low aud depressed, the digestive pow,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18
Tact.

A very necessary and very desirable
quality, if one would be useful and pop
ular in society, is that which the little
word tact defines. What is it ? -. .-
1t is easy to say what it is not. 3 1t is
not insinceTity. 1t is not mere policy.
1t is not habit of hollow politeness.
1t is not varnish of compliment which
is always at hand to sOothe hurt sens-
bilities. 1t is not fashionable conven-
tionality, nor superficial elegance. So
much for the negative. .,i ...s
Now for the affirmative. 1t is del
icate and subtle gift, almost like a sixth
sense, which enables its possessor to
grasp situation, and say and do the
best thing, in the best manner, at the
right moment. 1t never rushes in too
soon, nor arrives on the ground too
late. 1t is never off guard. 1t never
Offends by that bluntness which is al
lied to rudeness. 1t is not brusque nor
harsh. 1t never gives n cold "Thank
you" for a kind wish, nor turns its
cheek to be kissed when friend offers
the lips. 1t is quick, sensitive, tender,
merry, atfectionate and sympathetic.
1t does not tell blthe stories to those
who mourn, and weary aching hearts
by laughter and frolic. 1t does not
carry a fearful face to the wedding, nor
propbesy sad things over the baby's
cradle. ... ..-..
The woman who has tact may have
no beauty, no grace, no learning and
no wealth, but she shall be charming,
and everybody shall own her charm.
Let her enter what company she may,
all will be glad to see her. Let her en-
terrain guests, and they will go away
declaring her praises. She will, as with
a OWNERS wand, call forth the best
that is in everybody, and all will feel
happier for her influence.
Do not think that the person who
has tact is not IA person of truth. The
finest tact cannot exist except in the
soul and in the manner of one who is
true and pure and tender, through and
through. .... .-....1...
Do not fancy, either, that it is gift
of nature, and not trait which can be
cultivated. 1t is susceptible of culture
as almost all good and noble things are
If you are deficient in it, set to work a
once to see how and why, and to looI
for a remedy. Remember that the PEG,
pie noted for tact-real, beautiful, un.
erring tact-are always unselfsh peO
pie. They are not set upon havin.
their own rights first of all. They ar,
not touchy. They are not naughty
and given to cherishing their own dig
nifty. They are not easily affrOnted
They do not ALLEVIATE hearts which Low,
them by suspicious and jealOusies an,
envies and misunderstanding.
The tact which blossoms into til
lOveliest living has its root at the Cros.
Every day the dews of heaven water il
Every day Gods sunbeams fall on i
and it grows like flower in the ligt
of Christian at Work.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18

If you would relish food, labor for it
before you take it; if you would enjoy
clothing, pay for it before you wear it
if you would sleep soundly, take clear
conscience to bed with you.-FrankIin
A cat less than year old, at Livonia
Station, caught a snake over fifteen
inches long, and while playing with it
big rooster came along and seized the
snake by the head and by. degrees
swallowed it all but less than two
inches of its tail, which wiggled lively
about his bill. The rooster stood still,
not seeming to know what to do about
it, but after scratching his bill with his
claws few times the snakes tail took
on a retrOgrade movement, and in a
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18
PATENTS.

r.. H. E ID d Y
No. IS State Street opposite Kilby Street Eo,tor
Secures patents in the United States also
Great Britain, France and other foreign cOuntrs
Copies of the claims of any Patent furnished b,
remitting dollar. Assignments recorded a,
Washington. No agency in The United States poD
seSSes superior facilities for obtaining Patents OF
GceTtdining the pdtentGbiLity of inUeIltiOns. H. II
EDDY, Solicitor of Patents.
TESTIMONIALS.
Il regard Mr.. Eddy as one of the most success u
and capable practitioners with whom l have had
official intercourse. CHAS. MASON.
Commissioner of Patents.
inventors cannot employ person more trust
worthy or more capable of securing for them an
early and favorable consideration at the Patent o.
BURKE, late COMMISSIONS nj
Patents"
Boston, October 49, 1876
r. Fl. EDDY, Esq.-Dear Sir: you procured for
me, in 1910, my first patent. Since then you have
acted for and advised me in hundreds of cases and
procured many patents, reissues and extensions
have occasionally employed the best agencies in
New York, Philadelphia and Washington, but
still give yOH almost the whole of my business in
your line and advise others TO employ you.
Yours truly, GEORGE DRAPER.
Boston, Jan. l, 1S79.-1y
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18
BUILDING MATERIALS

For sale;. timber, joice, boards, clapboards and
laths, cedar and spruce single, doors, windows
blinds, mouldngs, brackets, ladders, hardware for
building. lime; paints, wall paper and everything
necessary for building. 1 will not be undersold
9nderbid by any one that will pay 100 cents on the
dollar Give me your plans and let me job and
you will not have any more trouble about it. Blinds
in the white, or painted, trimmed and hung to or
der. For want of space will not name the bull
dlngs that have built, being over 80 in number,
mostly dwelling houses: stores, and horse barns,
scattered all over this village. So my references
are all the leading business men and the men
have built for in this town. deliver lumber and
material to all parts of the city.
Thanking my numerous friends for their liberal
patronage, 1 am now prepared to do all kinds of
work by the day job at prices to suit the times
will furnish all the materials for building or not
as desired by parties wishing to build take jobs
from the bottom of the cellar to the top of the
chimneys. Plans and specifications furnished when
desired. By being prompt and attentive to bust
ness, hope to merit continuance of your past
favors, and share of the public patronage.
WANTED-Fifty Thousand feet of clear dry
spruce, bass and pine lumber.
Residence on Railroad street, opposite Portland
street.
st. Johnsbury, March, 1879.
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Guardians Sale.

Having received license from the Probate Corr.
L will sell at auction, on SATURDAY, the 5SI
day of July, 1879, at o'clock, D. m on the prr,i
ses, the place now occupied by Hiram Jones y,
Paddock village consisting of a twostorv hone
with ell, shed and barn, aud about One-haf aero :,
good land. Buildings in good repair and desirabIl
location. Also about acre good land near bri%
yard The whole will be sold without res,rrI
Terms made known at time of sale. w.
1891 B. F. ROLLINS, Guardian
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Gods Presence with His People.

Thou shalt make a mercy seat of
pure gold. And l will meet with. thee,
and | will commune with thee from
above the mercy seat. Elk. 25: IL, %.
In all places where record my name,
/ will come unto thee, and l will bless
thee. Elk. 30: "a.
Where two or three are gathered to-
gether in my name, there am in the
midst of them. Matt. Is: 20.