The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1882-12-08

was started, aud II Ieaped from llp
to lip until everybody whom yoa
happened to owe wanted bis money,
and the business world, closed Ia
on you like a pack OF wolves. and
with assets more than enough TO
meet your liabilities crushed IN
everything. How many misappre.
tensions OF this kind business men
suffer! We discuss sometimes, 10
ministerial churches, why 50 many
com mercial gentlemen do not go to
church. One great reason Is that
by the time Saturday night comes
they are tagged out with annoy-
ances oil the week. They have
had enough meaness practised ON
them ID leave their nervous system
all a-twitcb. Many d. not under
stand why the audiences asssmbled
here on Sabbath differ from amy
Sabbath audience on earth IN hay
/ Ing a majority OF men. IL Is be
cause | preach 50 much to business
men, aud try never 10 let a SAB
BATH pass without in prayer or
sermon to utter sympathy torthose
ia commercial struggle, aud | re-
member now that nine-tenths OF
that struggle is made by tue sor-
slippers. Ii people would mind
their own business We would have
the millennium next week. These
gababouts, these tale-bearrrs, these
back biters, these everlasting
snoops-i hate them with holy,
vehement and ever increasing
hatred, aud love to hate them.
Que OF the worst of these creatures
Is the one who brings to your ears
all the harsh Things tuey have heard
said against your personal appear
ance, or against your family, or
against your style of business.
Taey gather il up and cackle while
they see you wrlthe under It. They
tell it in the worst shape, aud
leave out the extpnuating circun.
stances and first having made
your feelings raw, they take this
brine, this turpcntine this aqua for
luis, aud rub 1t in with a course
towel, and rub 1t in until it soaks
clear 10 the bone. They make you
a pin-cushion, into which they stick
all the sharp pointed things they
have heard. They beg you not Il
say anything about it. "Now dom
bring me into the scrupe." The,
aggravafe you to ths point OF proian
", aud then wouder that you don
go of singing psalm tunes. The,
} turn you on a spit before II hot tire
aud wonder that you are not al
: absorbed III gratitude TO Ihem 10
, turning you.
DEFAMATION OF A GOOD NAME.
1t would be quite an innocen
! aud cOmmemlaeie business 10 e
l around with matches III your poci,
ct and a razor in yonr hand, to se'
r how many houses you could bur
down aud how many .nroats yol
j could cut. A women at confession
r told the priest tnat she had bee
: guilty OF slanhering her neighDol
: The priest gave her thistle an,
Q told her to 90 aud scatter il oi
!. the fields, aud then come back
2 Ou her return the priest SAID. "G'
Q now and gather up all those thistl
!, seeds.r When she declared she coal.
not he said to her: "Neither Cal
|. YOU gather up the evil words yol
D have sroken.n There Is hardly
Y man or woman on earth but ha
D had the detractors after him o
Q ber. John Wes'ey's wife begun Il
Q whisper about him aud whispele,
Q all over England, aud whispered
| until they dissolved partnership
e Jesus Christ was CHARGED witt
/. drinking too much and keeping
1 bad company--s'a wine-bibber an,
1 u friend Of publicans aud sinners.
i, Take the best man IN the world al,
4 put u detective on his track an,
: watch him for ten years, seeinl
9 where he goes and how long b
d | stays, and when be comes aud al
|, he does, with a desire to desiro.
e him appear despicable. Bur ii |
is wrong to despoil 4 mans goo
Il name, how much worse to hamag
Q woman's reputation. That styl
t OF Infamous work is going on fror
e century, and always by whispers
) One whisper start a suspicion a
2 an established fact. Aud many
. woman as honorable as your mt
el ther or your wife has been viii,
!. pered ont of all kindly associati,,
l, and whispered into the gray,
It Now, there arr people who ssl
|e there Is no hell. But il there be II
g hell for such an accursed desp0il,
ls Of womau's good name, thea il
d high time chat We take up Il collie
ti0n and have one built. There
such y place already establishes
aud what q time they will hay
!. when all the VllisI,erers get togetl
\. er to rehearse things down ther
4 What an everlasting carnival
Z. mud! II II were not for their |
q sufferable surroundings they wou
Y enjoy .he new opportunity IN th