The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-07-17
"CYPRIAN" EXPLAINS.
Editor Demoerat.sta !.

Ebh<hN ia N1kAAINOa
Editor D~emocrat-Stari
| hope the our Coast Pr00reS,
man will excuse me for not cnlight
enimg him Don as to whether
WAS strrally one of that class OF
not" The GWg Coast Progress hal
not made very great progress in III
circulation among the good people
of this county; and If every copy
is as worthless as the two | have
seen-tIe Issue inst after the vi
man trial and the a of the 2Jtl
of June, 1885, containing the para
graph, the subject of this commnn
ication-iIo community will be any
the worse off if the Progress re.
mains dormantthe remainder of its
days. Had it not been for "RuUes'
kind friend-whO mentioned it in
All article to the DEMOCRAT STAR, 1
would never have known that my
anonymous had been defled by an
insertion into the columns OF the
Gulf Coast RetrOgrGde. But the
good book tells that it is never too
late TO do good ; therefore, l will
endeavor to give the Progress a
faint idea of the Kind OF a daInsel
lam: | try to attend to my own
business aud let my neighbOrs' bus
mess alone l never owned a news.
paper and run it IN some other per-
sous name, in order to give myself
the opportunity of filing its col
umns fnlI of matter laudatOry of
myself. If ever l do invest in a
newspaper for the purpose of adj
vertising myself, | will run it more
economically than u ] know of
on this Coast, filed with patent
medicine advertisements and prai.
SEES OF its owner, | will just print
across the little sheet in large CAPT
tails,
EGOTISM,
and send it abroad in the land, and
sign my name to it, it will accom-
plIsh the same amount of good, and
disseminate the same knowledge
and cost less than it | were to hire
some ssfellel" TO allow his name TO
remain at the head of the editorial
column, while | edited the paper
and filled it's columns with praise
of myself. "That Is the kind of a
girl | am" | would have more
sense than to think that the
reading public could be made to
believe that tile publisher OF a
newspaper would devote twO.thirds
OF the space in his paper to the
speeches, dialogues, and general
praise OF Col. ''Cyprian," unless
Col. "Cyprian" owned the paper
and wrote the articles himself.
One is led to believe from the
reading Of the Progress mans para
graph, that l had made ii mistake
between the word "Cyprian" and
"Cyperian," or that ! did not know
the difference. but such Is not the
case, "Cypriau" IS the word | sc.
lected. Mr.. Percy Bisshe Shelley
gave the name 10 II OF tie most
conspicuous characters in his
"Magic ProdigiosO," aud tor sixty
years the poetical works of Shelley
have been read by the world. Shel.
ley's poems we're Published at a
period when London abOunded witt
the ablcst critics OF any age; and
the name run the gauntlet then.
AMI has continued TO remain in
print ever since, and but for the
mOdesty ~ of the Progress man
the world would have remained in
blisSful Ignorance OF there being
any harm in the use of the word as
"a proper name !; and it the wise
acre of the Progress will consult
the history OF ancient Greece he
will find that the name OF "Cyprian"
was considered respectable by the
ancients. Let him cast his eye over
the list of martyred saints AMI he
will fluid that on the Goth day OF
September A. ID. 304 Saint Oyprian
was put to death for his adhere
ance to his religious opinions.
A great lawyer ought to know
that custom makes laws, that sixty
years is long enough to legitimatize
the word "Cyprian," as "A proper
name; but il l was SO egotistical as
10 assert that | was a great civil
or that | never ~Disstated
facts to u jury | would be idiOtic
enough to think most anything.
CYPRIAN.