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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-11-22
Ghe 1emurrat- Star
HIT OR Mss.

l, What miss is that whose com.
pany-no one wants Misfortune.
2. What misses are those whose
days a~re!all unlucky? MIs-chance
and MiS-hap
3. What,miss is always making
plumbers? Mistake.
4. What misses are of very jeal,
Gus temper! Mis-give and Mis-
trust.
5. What miss occasions a great
many quarrels? Mis- understand
Ing.
6. What miss is a very bad man
tua-maker? Mis-shape.
Z. What miss Is very diSobedient
and disorderly Mis-rule.
s. What misses can eve find a
thing W hnlhey want ii? Mis-lay
and Misplace.
8. What three misses are great
story tellers Mis,represent, Mis-.
inform and Mis.report.
10. What miss is awkward and
rude? Mis- behave.
Il. What miss plays more tricks
than a m 1nkey? Mischief.
II. Whattwo misses should trav-
ellers avoid! Mis-guide and Mis-
lead.
ID. What miss never studied an
arithmetic? Mis-reckOn.
IA. What miss is very eXtrava-
giant ? Mis-spent.s
Is. What miss will ruin a man?
Mis-managemenl.
16. What miss should never try
TO translate? Mis-interpret.
II. What miss should never re
peat what she reads or hears? Mis-
quote.
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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-11-22
lPuss Is all Right.
Chi@go Mail.

Chicago Mail.
NE cat has ever been regarded
as a-mysterious creature and ha'
of a consequence been Stunned, d
amateur swimmers avoid deep
holes, by the youth of our land ID
their literary efforts. The dog and
The horse are VIGOROUSLY what are
termed "old stand bys" as subjects
for composition, but il is n0lewOr'
thy that The cat, though even more
familiar to all than either of the
aforementioned animals, is neg
lected mall Friday afternoon liter
AZURE. The kitten is much beloved
by reason of lis frivolous and gay
nature. Its propensity TO amuss
itself with any light object or, IN
default of other movables, its OVa
heeting tail endears 1T 10 all young
persons, but there is an unnatural
gravity and air OF absorption ID
deep philosophical matters a6ou'
the mature cat which is lorbiddlnG
not 10 say awe-inspiring. 1t ma!
be that its uncanny nature nss
caused it be associated VIII
witches. Certainly its habit q
out at all hours Of the nig9.
gives color to the suspicion that y
Is a baleful beast. A cat acts asn
/ knew that The disclosure oil ~
secrets would result in death 70 ~
is kind at the hands of an enrageu
humanity. Now, there IS song
hingfrank and open hearted aDOus
dog. He may bite an enemy,DuAs
will scratch lis dearest irlenl
. dog cannoI keep a secret. A0"
ever tells one.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-11-22

Job Printing at this Office
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-11-22
{. w. Morrill,,
Insurance Agent, Civil Engineer
and Surveyor,
Biloxi, Miss.

Represents the best Fire aud Marine
insurance Companies, with aggregate
which have complied with the laws of the
State OF Mississippi, thus giving a perfect
guarantee to the insured.
CIVIL ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING
also attended 20. and maps Of Townsend
tracts Of Land handsomely and correctly
made.
nose desiring my attention in either
,lne Of business viii please address me at
Biloxi, Miss.
October -. 1ss2 S3-tv
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-11-22

Somebody claims to have ols
covered a substance that IS tpis'
hundred lines as sweet as sugs
Il is not known what the sueSiahOs
is, but il is supposed 10 be aoo1s
eighteen years old and 10 nav
a 1 Ondness for ice cream.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
IN THE VINEYARD.
1t Means Something for One
to LiUe q Consecrated
Life.
BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE.
A Sermon for the Little Folks Concern
ing the Faithful Discharge Of
Their Duties.
Think of.

1t means something to live conse-
Grated life. We cannot live as we did
in the world. We must live for other,
as our Master did-use our influence for
God, crying to him nightly to help us
and fit us for the work. Brothers, Sis
tiers, if you don't feel competent to the
task, remember it is not of ourselves.
Our sutficiency is of God. If you feel
your weakness, shrinking or timidity,
think of the souls around you that are
living in indifference, and all going to
a real hell, where the worm dieth
not, and the fire is not quenched!"
Think of it; contemplate the fearful
destruction they are Fastening to, and
then, if you feel your helplessness, get
down before God, and cry unto Him to
fill you with the Holy Ghost, with Him
self. Tell Him your need, wait upon Him
and let Him fill you; and then-go out
and act as if you believed it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
Blessings il. Disguise.

Liability to unforeseen interruption is
a most annoying liability to every one
who diligently pursues his vocation in
life. Interruptions are stops of our
train not provided for by the timetable;
they dissipate the accumulated momen-
tum of our progress, which would be al
most sufficient to carry us on by itself.
They not only throw us behind time for
a few minutes, but by our loss of those
few minutes we may be prevented from
making connections at the functions, and
thus be cut off entirely from the reach
ing of our destination, while the danger
of collisions in our engagements, and
the consequent wreck in our projects, is
thereby increased. And yet the I'M
avoidable Interruptions in our lfe's
work are providential, and therefore
work together with all other things for
our highest good in Gods service. The
callers who throw us off the track, or
the severe sickness which brings us to
a stop, may have been sent to put us in
better place than the track we were
on, or to reveal to us that we were go
ing wrong when we thought We were
going right. The interposition of in
ternal or external difficulties, of re-
fractory intellect, or Of inclement
weather, between ourselves and our OBJ
ject, may be the very best thing for us.
We may need to be stimulated, or we
may need to be hindered. In fact, life's
continuity needs to be broken up and
interrupted for US. We are to be not
one-sided, but many-sided. We ought
not to desire to devote ourselves so ex-
clusively to the pursuit of any one OBJ
ject as that thereby we shut all others
out. Hence it is that Interruptions,
even though they be unpleasant and an
noying at the time, are often blessings
in disguise. Sunday School Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
A Sermon. for the Little Folks.

IF ye know these thing, happy are ye
if ye do Them John xiii. IL.
I. "These things-that is your du-
ties wherever you are:
/. At home, obedience and respect
to parents, and kindness to brothers,
sisters, and servants.
2. At school, respect to teachers, and
faithfulness in study, fairness in play.
3. At church, be quiet, listen, wor-
ship, and give your hearts to the Sa-
viour.
4. In the streets, good manners,
kindness, minding your own business.
II. How should you do your duty?
l. Not for pay. That is low mo-
tive. Some always ask: what will
you give me?"
2. But from love. So the Saviour
did when a boy at Nazareth. So the
angels do Gods will (Which is only an
other name for duty.) This will make
pou do it cheerfully.
8. bettef every Gay. BY trying to
do your duties you will become more
skillful. So you improve in reading,
writing, and music. Peter says: "Grow
in grace"
III. Doing duty makes you happy.
Sin cannot make you happy. Sin did
not make Eve happy, nor Cain, nor Ju-
das. Disobedience at home does not
make you happy; idleness, unkindness,
bad manners, no kind of sin can make
You happy.
But happiness comes from doing your
duty. That is Gods reward. That is
the promise in the text. Think of this
every day for just one week, and see
how true it is.
Try, then, to know your duty. Be
faithful in doing it for love to God and
man. Then you will be happy every
day on earth, and forever happy in
Heaven. Words.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
CHOW SOON WE ARE FORGOTTEN
WHEN I'VE ARE GOMEZ

W AEN ~ d1CE UVN
The multitude dies and few people
are missed much, though there are sor-
rows and regrets in family circles. Ac-
quaintances think a kindly thought or
say friendly thing, and there is an end
Of the defunct, so far as this world is
concerned. II man pe useless, he is
we'll out OF inc way;if he has been doing
good work. nevertheless there are
score OF josSling canaidates eager to slip
into mis- place, and possibly competent
to fill it. The supply is everywhere in
excess of the demand; the labor market
is overcrowded in all its departments;
one individual is nearly as good as any
other; and that is the case even where
it is a question of talent and brains.
There will never be lack of legal
ability, and we suspect that clientiess
solicitors and briefess counsel would
willingly hazard the chances of an cpl
demic if it preached the barriers and
made q clearance on the course. The
practice of medicine, with the system of
running after the physician in vogue,
seems SO much a matter of happy-go-
lucky empiricising that, if you lose the
favored doctor who knows your consti-
tuition" it is likely, to say the least of
it, that it may be blessing in disguise.
The perennial flow of pulpit oratory is
never sensibly damned back by sim
gle decease. And, fortunately or un-
fortunately, it is scarcely once in
couple of generations that the demise
of the most distinguished statesman is q
national calamity. 1t is not only the
eminent leader of the opposite party,
paying graceful tribute to departed
greatness, who thinks that the defunct
is we'll out of the way. Colleagues and
subordinates who have been overshad-
owed or thrust aside, in their hearts are
much ofthe same opinion, while the
nation puts easy-going faith in the
Providence that from time immemorial
beg been driving tie machine.-Lom.
don SATURDAY, Revieav. -
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
DUTCH LULLABY.

wynken, Blynken and Nod one nisrs
Sailed off in wooden shoe
Sailed on river Of misty light
Into sea Of dow.
"Where are you going and what do Won xc;s,,o,
The old moon asked OF the three.
That live in this beautiful sea;
Nets Of silver and gold have we,"
Said Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.
The old moon laughed and sung a song
As they rocked in the wooden shoe
And the wind that sped them all night long
Ru;f1ed the waves Of dew;
That lived in the beautiful sea-
Nov cast your nets wherever you wish.
But never afeared are we"-
So cried the stars to the fishermen three
Blynsen,
And Nod.
All night long their rets they threw
For the fish IN the twinkling foam
Then down from the sky came the wooden abo,
Bringing the fishermen home;
Twas all SO pretty sail, IL seemed
AS if 1t could nos be;
dreamed J
OF sailing that beautiful sea-
But l snail name you the fishermen three.
Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.
Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,
And Nod is little head,
And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
Is wee nne's trundle bed;
So shut .',.,,r eyes while mother sings
OF the 'ronderful sights that be,
And you shall see the wonderful things
As you rock on the misty sea
Where the old shoe rocked the fshermen threo
Wynken,
And Nod. Eugene Field
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
A sINECURE ABOLISHED.

British reform has brought to light q
forgotten parsonage known as "Chaff
Wax" His real title should be Chafa
Wax, and his duty was the preparation
OF wax for fitting the writs issued from
the Court of Chancery and for the off.
cial seals. He has long drawn salary
for doing nothing, but he has at las.
been found out and will be abolished
Boston Transcript.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
NEVER HEARD OF.

Farmer Homespun Con New York
Central train, to a fellow passenger)-
Ever been West?
Fellow Passenger-No.
"Great country, the West"
"Ive heard So"
"Tain't half appreciated yet"
"No?"
mo, sir! Greeley understood it,
though. Go West, young man, was
what he said, and he knew what was
good for young man"
"Guess he did"
Eyes, indeedy. Now, we had young
fellow up in Chemung County, where I
live. Smarter'n whip. Could do any,
thing. You'd orter see him speak in
the debatin' school. But, bless We, he
hadn't no sort O. chance around there,
All the good places filed"
"Why didn't he go West?"
"He did. That's what Tn gettin' at.
But he didn't want to go at first. He
kept hangin' round, thinkin' something
would turn up, but it didn't. Folks said
if he would only go West with his tai
lent he would knock the spots off'n
everything. He would be big man,
sure. So finally he went"
1T was the making of him, prob
ably?"
"This was only two years ago, and
now, sir (rising in his seat and speaking
with great animation), and now, this
young man who hadn't no chance in
York State, where do you suppose he
is?"
Il don't know"
well, I don't either. We haven't
heard word from him since he left"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
CARcoEs OF CRIMINALS.

CARGOE OF Slt1MN <aDSs
The acknowledgement is an iron
steamship of about three thousand eight
hundred tons burden, and is specially
fitted as convict transport. With
full complement of convicts the vessel
carries 652. The officers and crew num-
Der eighty, exclusive of marine con-
voy escort of sixty-two men specially
chosen for this duty. The iron-barred
compartments or cages in which the
convicts are confined run parallel, fore
and aft, on either side the upper and
lower tween decks. The iron bars, an
inch thick, of these cages and the wood
work in which they are set, is heavily
and solidly constructed. The cages are
of unequal capacity and length, but
have uniform height of seven and
half feet. The more desperate charac-
tiers are manacled and chained to iron
staples in their berths, from which they
are released when necessary. The
greater number, although retaining the
waist and ankle shacllles, of light con-
struction, have the freedom Of travers-
ing the length of the compartment,
which may vary from twenty five to
forty feet. Between the outer bars and
the two plain plank shelves or hunks
running from end to end of the COM
partments which afford sleeping room
for the occupants, there is free space
of about four and half or five feet.
Except during the distribution Of ra
lions no culinary vessels are left with
the convicts. Even the drinking water
is obtained only through an india rub
Der mouth-piece fixed in an inclosed
water-tank and through which the
drinker sucks his draught. Immediately
outside the cages, and attached to the
underpart of the deck overhead, is
steam pipe connected with the ships
boilers. Into these pipe are fitted screw
MOBILES at intervals Of twelve feet. The
object of the steam pipe is to suppress
any dangerous outbreak among the in
mates of the, cage. By means of a short
hose, specially made to resist the steam
heat, quickly attached to one of the
steampipe nozzles, the turbulent con-
victs are readily quieted or parboiled.
Strong water jets have been found next
to useless in allaying those occasional
tumults.
After the ship has passed the canal,
but not before, patches of convicts are
in turn brought upon deck for shower
bath and short exercise. A strongly
constructed iron railing, eight feet high,
crosses the vessel amidships, in order
that the convict, during his bath and
while unmanacled, cannot by any sud-
den rush evade the guard and reach the
quarterback. Some of the more des-
perate convicts, who stubbornly resist
all disciplinary control, are confined to
the cages during the whole voyage.
Both the upper and the lower tween
decks are open and airy, the system Of
ventilation being excellent, and the
cages themselves are kept scrupulously
clean. The cages are reprinted every
voyage. Every convict, in addition to
having his hair cropped short, has the
left half Of the head from front to back
closely shaved.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
A HAUNTING MEMORY.
BY STANLEY WATERLOO.
-l5s' 49,
It Is little think Of the old oaken bucket,
The old oaken bucket which hung in the well,
Though Oh tiptoe I've stood and endeavored to


It Is little think Of the old oaken bucket,
Tho old oaken bucket which hung in the we'll
Though on tiptoe I've stood and endeavored tc
suck it,
And could of its moss and pollywOgs tell;
For my own recollection an object persistent
More often encounters with sentiment dire,
An object with form-life as truly consistent
The old oaken woodbox that stood by the
The old oaken woodbox the never-full woodbox,
Tho terrible woodbox that stood by the fire.
What visions of long, weary days in the winter
When the boy chopped away that old wood
box to fill
Now rubbing his hands, now extracting splin-
And envying other boys sliding down hill
Or at tho creek skating and tempting him,
rather,
Though seldom he dared to fulfill his desire,
For an earnest and muscular man was his ia
Their
And the woodbox was waiting for wood by the
fire
The wide-open woodbox, the ravenous woodbox,
The yawning old woodbox that stood by the
What visions of summer days-schoolboys in
swimming
, While he in the woodward was chopping away,
csars OF rage end annoyance his eyesight half
dimming,
For he didn't like work and he did like to play;
But the farm hands were hungry and dinner
was cooking,
And heavy the strap that was used by his sire.
The hired girl for fuel to him would be looking
When empty the woodbox that stood by the
fire
The ghostly old woodbox the 'fend of wood
box
Tho hobgoblin woodbox that stood by the fire.
Most memries old Time in his kindness will
mellow,
As man becomes gray-haired and placid and
DID,
Forgotten the trials of summer days yellow,
Forgotten. the troubles of winter days cold;
But clear to the vision stands out the grim
picture
Through life, and the memory still provokes
ire,
OF that grisly old woodbox containing the mix
ture
OF grief for the youth and OF wood for the
fire
The ghost of the woodbox, the old oaken wood
box,
The boy-haunting woodbox that stood by the
fire.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
In Town and Hamle,

The seeds of intermittent and bilious remIttA,+
fever germinate and bear evil fruit. No com.
muntty has altogether escaped it. In populous
wards OF large cities bad sewerage causes it. and
III their suburbs stagnant pools in sunken lots
breed 1T. There is at once remedy and means
OF prevention It's name is Hostetter's Stomach
bltters, which is, without peradventure, the
most potent nntidote in existence to the malarial
virus Fortified with this Incompatible, saving
specific, miasmatic influences may be encounter
ed with absolute impunity. Disorders Of the
stomach, liver and bowels, begotten by miasma-
tainted water, or any other cause, succumb to
the benefcent corrective named, and rheumatic.
kidney aud bladder troubles are surely remoy.
able by its rse when it is given persistent
trial.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
HIS UNCLES, HIS COUSINS and
HIS AUNTS IN A NEW ROLE.

1
Recent visitors to ranch in New
Mexico were invited to neighbours for
the well-known farm high tea. The
ranch is celebrated for it's fine straw.
berries and rich cream.
The ranch high tea has often been
described, in which large display is
! made of its various home products, viz.
homemade bread, sun-dried pies, and
various brands Of cakes and fruits. At
such events you are expected to have a
large appetite, and locate quarter Sec
ton of each variety, as it is passed
around, or you otherwise give ofense.
On this occasion milk and cream cheese
were also passed around, when the old
lady of the ranch remarked that this
ranch was celebrated for it's cheeses.
and Immediately added, addressing one
Of her guests:
"Do you like cheese?"
Eyes, l am very fond of cheese"
"Well, we'll. Does your brother like
cheese?"
Eyes, my brothers tastes lie in that
direction"
sWell, well. Does your father and
mother like cheese?"
"Yes, the liking for cheese was hered-
itary in the family.
well, WELL Does your uncle and
aunt like cheese?"
YES, they are also partial to cheese"
well, we'll. Sarah, we can find an
outlet for our cheese, right here.-De-
t2.Oit Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
"CUSS."
A Coal Country Sketch.
BY w. H. S. ATKINSON.

@Cuss by name an Cuss by nature
s:lasSs wass ns Z. No earthly use TO
NOBODY don't peionS 70 no5o<:y, saS
nobody wants sion as rim. Ee cont
know nothir', neither. God bless my
soul, that there kid can't tell coal from
slate nor yit slate from rock. Put him
to job O. sortin'-over this very day, an
he got things SO 'tarnally mixed up that
the mine boss says he'll dock me four
ton, an told me to get shet of Cuss.
Tell yer what I've notion to do, Jane
Ann: Next payday I'll buy that there
boy ticket to Philadelphia and
give him couple O dollars.
Mebbe he kin hustle an make
Twin for hisself down there;
ono things sartin sure-he niver will at
Punch Haven, nor at no other place
along the Lehigh, with his awk'ard
ways an Everybody dead set agin him."
The speaker was big Joe Ham, one of
the oldest miners at Punch Haven,
whore was located an enormous coal
r,h2 e-perhaps the largest mine in the
.Lddgh Valley. Old Joe was one of
: those good-hearted, easy-going fellows
whose bark is much worse than their
bite. For although Joe Ham was vexed
with the lad of whom he spoke (and
perhaps justly SOY, there wasn't boy in
Punch Hayen-no, nor any other per-
sor OF either sex, Mrs. Joe Ham not ex-
>>,epted-of whom old Joe was more fond
than this same unlucky Catss.
Mr.. Ham was addressing his better
half. who all the time fitted to and fro
at her housewifely duties, while the sub
ject of his remarks was astride fence
at the back end Of the lot-out of sight
and out of hearing for the time-being.
Times had changed for Cuss Jones
since when, ten years before, eccentric
Lawyer Darnley had gone down to
Mauch Chunk for farewell visit to his
dying friend Ulysses Jones. Squire
Darnley, who was a character" at
Punch Haven, brought back to his
bachelor home his friends little 6-year-
old boy, a curly-headed youngster who
bore the rather unpoetical name of
jamie Jones.
3Not much" said the Squire, who
prided himself on his scholarly acquire
ments, his classic lore and general APP
probation Of culture and refinement.
"No Jamie Jones for me. Your father
was called Ulysses it is fitting, then,
that we call his son Telemachus-
'Telemachus, the son of Ulysses"
So jamie Jones became to the Squire
Telemachus Jones. But, alas for the
classics; for the boy himself and the
untutored denizens of Punch Haven.
Telemachus proved too much. The
last syllable was amply sufficient for
ordinary purposes and people, and at
last few dreamed but that the youngster
was really christened straight Cuss.
He grew up Cuss, and after the old
lawyer (who was poor as O church
mouse9 died, leaving the boy to the ten
der mercies Of Punch Haven and the
world at large, he remained simple, I'M
adulterated Gauss.
At Dc the lad was conundrum to all
who knew him. He had good qualities;
he was kind to little children and old
people; he had an affectionate DISPOSE
tion, was invariably cheerful, and ever
willing and ready to lend a helping
hand. But Cuss was unfortunately
awkward; if there was right way and
wrong way Of doing anything, you