The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-11-02
LETTER FROM HANCOCK co.
Editor Democrat. Star:

an article that appeared IN llIt
GuD Coast Progress, OF October 4ih
last. The nom deplume of the in
famous writer is Scribler. lie
thinks to lead us mic an ambus.
cade with his heart Of corruption
and tongue of double dealing aud
lips Of lying. He reminds MS of a
snake we once heard of trying to
catch a lizard. The lizard, in
trying TO make his escape, ran
around a large stump, and the
snake seeing he was left, proceeded
to lay his head up against the
stump and ran his tail around 1t,
and there renamed, shaking his
tail IN order 10 scare the lizard
into his mouth for safety, as he SAID,
until some men who were passing
by cut his tail off, and as he peeped
around and saw them, and suppos-
ing they were cutting government
timber he cried out with a loud
voice, saying, II am your friend
and any man who says il is wrong
to steal government timber ought
to be stoned TO death" And they
replied, I'VE know you not as a
friend, and trust no snake, for some
day You will bite Us, and next time
YOU undertake to deceive us we
will cut your head off" And he
again reminds us Of a small animal
that inhaGits this country which,
as a general thing. have a small
white list AROUND their body and
both ends black. He is very sus-
picious, and his only weapon is "A
very offensive kind of musk which
he emits, He sometimes gets out
Of his den and frisks about, and
should a limb happen TO fall near
by he will at once send some of the
musk in that direction. He never
fails 10 stink his friends to death
instead of his enemies.
Now we leave levity aside and
cone down TO square facts. We
are not much farmer, practically,
but theoretically we have learned
that there is a thing grows among
wheat that is called cheat, and is
not the genuine artlcle by any
means. We never have denied
anything we have written, but
when such skunks as the above
mentioned circulate false reports
about us we never fail to give it
the lie. We know him well, but
IN order not to personate we Will
call his name Flap Doodle, and
give HIM a chance to crawl back
in his hole before he is better
known TO the readers Of the DEMO
CRAT.STAR. Flap Doodle has not
failed to strike the chord that will
point to his true index in a former
article IN the Guf Coast Progress.
He says The happiest time of a log
mans lite is when lie is hauling
loads orlal bacon and flour from
the mills which he pays for when
he floats his logs down to The mills.
We know Flap Doodle delivered
logs last spring, so he must have
had a happy time previous.
Section 1851 of the Code of 1880
means something. Has Flap Doc
die acted in accordance Herewith?
1t doesn't take IA Solomon to see
from the tenor OF his chin music
that he advocates dishonesty so far
as timber stealing is concerned.
If there is so little government
land in Hancock county as Flap
Doodle pretends, why is it he takes
such jealous interest in what we
say about st0ppingtimber stealing!
Answer us to the point Mr.. Flap
Doodle. We know your idea is to
draw something out 10 try to build
up a popularity, but you will not
fail to dig something rp you don't
want 10 see. If you will look
right, in the right place, you will
see there is more than one hun
bred and siXty-five thousand acres
of public lands now in Hancock
county ard more than thirty
thousand acres of State and school
lands yet public in the county,
making an aggregate of about two
hundred thousand acres of public
lands in this county to the last as
sessment. Flap Doodle places
heavy stress on the US. Marshals.
The grand jury of the county may
perhaps catch him il they do their
whole duty. Why don't they de-
mand of the Chancery Clerk the
rafting record prescribed by Sec
ton 1851 of the Code of 1880, and
see if Flap Doodle has complied
with said section. VIZ don't say
all men who are engaged in the
rafting business steal timber, but
knowing many do lets suppose
Flap Doodle and myself go to q
mill man and contract with him tC
carry on a rafting business with
the understanding that we ENJOY
that happy time at which FlaI
Doodle says log men 7 happiest.
hauling great loads Of fat meat and
-four home. We will suppose that
Flap Doodle cuts enough govern
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