The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1883-04-20

decent lying. 0uI | saw one yester-
day which played il bolder and big
ger than all the rest. Il said:
SEARS FOR THE MILLION.
Foo Cbo0's Balsam of Sharks Oil
has never failed in a single instance
to cure deafness. THIS oil Is ex-
tractetl from the white shark of the
yellow sea and known as Charcha-
rodon Rondeleth. Its cures are SO
miraculous that the Chinese En-
peror ordered all his deaf subjects
to use it, and there has not been
single case OF deafness among 4O0,-
900, 900 OF Chinamen tor 80 years.
Price Que dollar . bottle.p
Now the world is tull of fools and
lots OF 'em will send for that stuff.
| thInk / see the heathen Chinee
catching them sharks in the Yellow
sea. Every drug store in the land
is crammed with Just such frauds,
and every newspaper gives 'em u
left.hauded Endorsement by adver-
tising 'em. Our lawmakers ought
to pass a law forbidding it unless
they were indorsed by the medical
faculty OF State. Guano and kero-
sene has to 70 through the crucible
and be tested, but these frauds aud
poisons go free and take millions
away from our credulous people.
All these tricks are to dodge work
and get n living without earning
1t. Gambling is forbidden by law,
but gambling is q respectable and
Innocent business compared with 1t,
tor gamblers just sway for Que an
others money aud keep 1t changing
around. Sometimes brains get low
down aud anxious, and goes to buy.
ing lottery tickets as last resort,
/ can always tell how bad of poor,
fellow is whcnl see him investing In
lottery tickets. He Is har,l mp sure.
He wants something for nothing
mighty bad, aud gets nothing for
something. A long time ago |
bought a quarter ticket for two dol.
lars and u half. 1t was numbered
2401 and saw it could be'divided
by u mystic number, aud SO |
thought had the deadwood OH the
lottery, but it just went along all
the same aud gobbled up my money.
Gard players say there is luck under
a nine and over deuce, hut to my
opinion there il no lucky number
to u man who does not give value
received for what he gets. Brains
arp sly and restless, and have lots
OF secrets, but muscle Is open aud
candid and content with little. The
workingmau is satisfied with the
necessaries and reasonable comforts
OF lite. but brains are never salts
fed. The more they get the more
they want; aud Cobe says there
are some men who, II they owned
the whole world, would want a tater
patch outside. But brains and
muscle put together make 4 good
team. Educated labor make the
best farmers aud the best mechan.
les. Educate man for his trade
or calling. There ought to bc a
school for farmers, and one for ar
chitects, and one for engineers, and
one for geology and minerology,
and ono for book keeping aud SC
forth, aud the boy oughtn't to be
crammed with too much Greek and
Latin and rhetoric, and logic, and
astronomy before be begins bis
business education. TWAS all very
we'll before the war to give our aris
tocratic young gentlemen an accom-
plished education; but business Il
business, aud now the average boy
must go to work. II be is to be d
farmer he don't want more than 8
peck of belle letter and syllogisn
aud hyperbole and calculus and
Romulus aud Remusand charybdis
and The like, bat he wants a bushel
of lime and phosphate. aud acit
and alkali, aud sand and gravel
and clay aud subsoil, aud grass and
drains and implements aud sucl
like, and he wants plenty ofmuscl'
to go along with 1t. Brains ant
muscle mixed make the best men
know and the most useful to th'
State.