The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1885-03-27
LETTER FROM MOBILE.
From Our Special Correspondent
afopup March u fS-.

often wonder what We would do
without it. And living in a city
requires vast amount of faith.
Ne are required 10 exercise a great
deal of it in making purchases. If
-four was down 10 one dollara barrel
we don't believe that ten cent Loaf
of bread would be one bIt larger or
heavier than it is now, the same
old com bination of wind, ammonia
and saw dnst. We don't know how
much bread the baker gives us for
our money-we don't know wheth-
er there is LOO or 1900 pounds in
ton of coal, and we have no way
nor time to stop to find It out. SO
we require a great deal OF faith,
but it amt profitable TO have too
much of it in Mobile. But did you
ever notice how one by one the old
/ faithful traditions OF eur bOyhoOd
days disappear. The sentiments OF
history as we read them years ago,
getting knocked into Il cooked hat
/ by hard facts. There is the story
OF William Tell They tell us now
that he never did shoot an apple
oft his boys head, but we always
believed he did, when we were "A
boy, but looking at it through the
spectscles of time, we think he'd
have been a darn'd fool if he had.
Then there is the Ratchet story
about Washington when he was IA
hoy. We always believed that, in
fact we knee it, We don't know eX-
actly how, but if any one bad ex-
pressed a doubt about it Ge should
have thought him traitor at Ouce.
But now we are told by hard facts
that he didn't have Il hatchet, that
he didn't cut down a cherry tree,
nor another kind Of tree when he
was Il boy. And it occurs to me
that if G.. w. was a genuine boy
and bad cut down the tree, and
told bis father OF it, and that he
couldn't tell u lie, aud had been
freely forgiven for the cutting there
OF, aud he really had a little hatch
ct, he'd hacked every tree be could
get a crack at, or else he'd been
very different from boys ] used to
know. | think its Il Sunday school
story anyway. But of all the idols
Of our youthful days, that were
with us in manhood, aud have kept
company with us in the shady side
of lite, who could imagine there
was danger in kissing. We all
know what IA kiss is. Webster very
calmly defines a kiss as a "salute
with the lips.' Did he ever on a
Sunday night in winter sit on a
lounge in the best room, with nc
light bat the hickering fire that
throws fantastic shadows all around
with one arm thrown around Il lit
tie earthly divinity by bis side, and
did lie ever press his lips to hers
aud feel rs il he bad partaken OF a
feast OF melted ruiubUws and ice
cream, while an electric shock ran
down his back ! No sir, II | want
10 find the dehuition OF cabbage,
| IN consult Webster Gut he cau'l
tell ne anything about kissing
And now this last idol is shattered
The doctors say that "lives mc
daily sacrificed, and diseases are
daily communicated by the promis
cuOus habit of kissing" They de.
clare that kissing the dead is liable
to produce Septicdemia, which is
SIMPLY putretaction, that in this
way consumption is infectious, etc.
These conclusions of the doctors
are |oIthy Of attention, and should
not be forgotten even by he young
coupe who spend their evenings
upon the lounge. We have always
had a faith that we ought to have
pleasant weather by this time OF
the year, that it shoald be spring.
like, but the weather OF the past
few days ought to be ashamed OF
itself. 1t looks as though we were
getting the ragged edge OF all the
billiards., while the rain falls, and
the winds blow from every point OF
the compass at once, and about the
only people that are not mad clean
through are the coal and wood
dealers, aud their drivers make up
for them.
| don't like to speak about bnsi-
ness for its disrespectful to talk
about the dead. But speaking
of business, serves to remind us
Mobile has one business house that
adds to her credit both at home
and abroad. | refer to the exten-
sive snd elegant jewelry house OF
E. o. Zadek & Co. 1t is the 'sTi Z
fany' of the South, for it has nc
equal this side OF the Ohio river
They carry the best and largest
stock of watches, jewelry aud dia.
mOuds to be found anywhere South,
and what is still better, they carry
the reputation, Justly earned, OF
giving you eraetly the grade aud
quality OF goods represented. So
ii you are no judge ct the goods
and want good article, you are
perfectly safe in relying upon their
representations, for they keep no
bogus goods, nor misrepresent any
thing in the house. All kinds of
repairs TO watches or jewelry is
cOuscientiously attended to by the
very best of WOrkmen. ChronOm-
eters are rated, and all things be-
longing TO a first class establish
ment are attended to promptly.
Within the past few months they
have added another store to their