The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1881-06-24

| tell you, Bill Arp, them fellers up
there beat all creation tor inventin'
ways to get our money and live
witlicnt work. A few years ago
two tpllers come along here with a
pasSel of apple gratis aud they had
samples of The apples with 'em aud
books lhll OF beautiful pictures OF
all sorts of frnit, aud they talked
so cOnhdin' aud aiieciiOnate | let
'em cnt my old trees all To pieces,
and they stuck in a hundred gratis
az twenty cents pieeei al,! ! paid
'em and they went on 10 the next
house aud done about the same
thing, and | found afterwards that
they hrOusht my gratis from Mack
Crawford's old trees aud carried
some they cut from my trees over
To my next nabors, aud so on ard
So forth, world without end, aud
here they 20, and ii they can't beat
the world, the flesh aud tue devil
lynn aud svlhtlin', then | am mis-
taken, that's all. used to think
our people were good, strong,
healthy people, but these fellers
have got about halt the men and
most all the women to believiu' they
are busted mp and broke down IN
the lines, or got heart disease, or
BrightS dist 'sc of the kidneys, or
tape worm, or internal sugges.
tious, and they so to dosin' aud
dOSin' with patent medicine tell
they get shore euuf sick, and then
30 to bed and send for the doctor,
I've been thinking about all this
business, anL at the next session
rm soin' Ia Introduce a bill that a
teller shant sell his medicine nor
advert ise it in a newspaper until it
has gone through the sweat box and
been pronounced a harmless thing
by board of medical examiners OF
this State.
We make the euano mcu 90
through the buro aud get cirtih
Gates, aud that concerns property
only, but our health aud our lives
are concerned IN these pizen medi.
clnes, and oub ht to be protected.'
My friend John seems sorter de.
moraized, but he has got sense, he
has, aud I'm IA bettin' on bin. The
credulity OF our people is most
amasin. When they get sick they
experiment with aI, sorts of hun.
bugs that's got certificates, forged
or genuine, with Alex Stephens
or Alex any body else's name to
en-, and it they don't get will some
OF EN- go to conjuIiu'. Some OF 'em
carry buckeyes ia their pockets,
aud now they've got 10 carrying an
Irish potato as an antidote TOR
rumatlsm. | was n wonderin what
made potatoes so high aud scarce,
aud a man told me in Rome the
other day that about half that pop.
ulation carry Que in the breeclies
pocket, and that Polk county was
infested IN The same way. In fact,
The remedy was discovered by Col.
Seab Jones down there, for be bad
observed tor forty years that Irish.
men dideut have rheumatism, aud
consequently Irish potatoes was
the remedy. Jesse: you must
carry one TIL it dries up or sprouts
aud then take another. | saw a
big fat man in Rome the other day
with n sprout six inches long stick.
lug ont of his pocket. Sich is life.
Your, BILL ARP.
J. Sit looks like our people
run after tile turrincrs Just as bad
as they do after the Yankees. Sal
Bernhart come down here and
fooled 'em in French, and now l
see that Sal Veny she is comm to
fool them in Italian. And they'll
20, see il they don't, aud after
awhile Sal somebody else will sing
TO 'ciii III Portusee, aud they will
never stop going till they get sal
livated | reckon. Lord help us,
Pm Altered we arc a nation OF
foois.- Constitution.