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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09
No One VIII See II.

whats The use OF advertising /;
no one will see it, is what many a
merchant says when asked to put
his "ad,' IN The paper. Later on
something occurs and that same
merchant finds that his name is
mixed up IN it. lie rushes to the
newspaper office 10 see if there is
anything about it. "Yes, there Is
only a line or twO," the editor
says. "Only line or two? Why
every one will see that and it will
be known all over town." the ap.
plicant for favorS responds. ''Im-
possible, y responds the editor "be-
cause no one would see your ad-
yerlisement." There is no gam.
mon about this. The above are
cold, hard, solid facts. Any news
paper man in the country will tell
you that this is so.
Men won't advertise because, as
they say, "people will not see their
'ad.'" But they have a different
opinion about one line in the pa
per that reflects upon their charac.
ter They have different opinion
when they want puff or a "send !
off" a notice for This, that and the |
other thing whereby they want to !
make some money for themselves. |
In such case, the newspaper is just |
the right kind OF a medium for
every one to see the notice, but !
when it comes 10 an sad it isn'l
worth thinkers darn" There Is
a good deal of humbng about tins
whole business. II man won't
advertise because no one will see
The cad" let that man distinctly
that no one will see The
line or two that he is 50 anxious 10
keep out of The papers. This is
business from the word 60 and
don't you forget it.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09
"LIDGEON IND DE NIGGER.p -
WILLIAM PAGE CARTER.

Fo you clam up ter de angels, yon got tel
Ief you sin,
Fo you holler in de mcetin' you mus be
borned agin:
Fo Jou gle de white man pledger you got
tel git up mighty soon,
An lo' you sop de skillet, you got tel
ketch up wild de coon.
Fo you rassel wild de Scriptur you got ter
be baptise,
An gle de watermillion charncc an lef off
telIn' lies.
Den you gin ter sniff tie Jreeses dat is long
de hebbenly parf,
Sillin' all de wheat out fer yourself and
'scusn dat what's chart
'Nowcr dyah is Brer Ableham from yon-
der cross de crick,
For zortin' in de meetin', he kin knock
de biggest lick.
Er shoutin' en- 'er trompin' tell he fyarly
fit ter bus,
Den know mer watermillion gwinter git
rite mp an dus'.
An when l hear him tote de chune 'ong
side er 81 ter Luce,
gwine ter keep my eye ball sOt squar
pun mer chicken roose.
An when he ramble Scriptur in de high
falutin' style,
! gwine straight home an chain mer dog
jam gin mer fodder pile.
Nowe dis is what de difFnnce is twix
Lidgeon an de ngger,
You got ter nus dis Lidgeon till hits big
gerer am bigger.
You got ter nus it in de church an IN de
tater row,
Er torkin' out yo' speunce an' er wuoI1en
wild de hoe.
Case dis Lidgeon er de nigger is er mon
sus Gurus thirg,
1t low you to de chicken roose, but not dc
pigeon wing.
So you got to nuss dis Lidgeon tell hits
biggerer an bigger,
An when he nigh de mllioA patch you
got ter nuss de nlgger.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09
SHALL OUR JUDGES WEAR GOWNS or
ROBES!
Moss PoiNT, Mss, Oct. Z, 1891.

Moss PoINT Miss, Oct. Z, l39l
Editor DenIocrat-Star
see by the papers that IN future
The Uniled States District Judges
are TO wear robes or gowns. | be-
Iieve the United States Supreme
Judges now wear them, and per
haps the Supreme Judges of some
of The SllIes. If this thing is to
spread, as fear ii will, very soon
we will see in all ours courts men
in gowns sitting on "wooI sacks.n
Without any reflection as tn The
legal or moral abilities of our able
Judges, Terral and Evans, 1t
makes me smile to think how
each one of them would look
dressed up like a priest or an old
lady. Do you think i. would add
10 your respect for them can
not see how it would. Then TO
see Judges 0. Wood, Sam Oliver,
Krebs and Wigginton dressed up
like old apple veadcrs, would he
so amusing that il would require
more than one deputy to "preserve
The dignity OF the court" But
aside from this, | very seriously
object to any and all departures
from democratic or republican sim
plicity in any branch of our Gov
ernment.
1t is true, in public as well as
private vices, "we first endure,
then pity, then embrace" One Of
our wlsest men has said "eternal
vigilance Is the plice Of liberty"
In founding our government, our
lorelathers saw the necessity of
providing against any men or mat
terS that would tend back TO mon
archy. France has tried to do he
same. The greatest defects of he
great reIormations Of Calvin, Luth
er and Wesley are that they did |
not purge out all the traditions Of
men" held by the church of Rome,
and in after years these little seeds |
Of leaven caused even The protest
ant churches TO be "churrheS Of |
State" thereby rendering unto |
Caesar the things that we're Gods. |
We read in the bible thai God |
walked in the garden in the cool of
the day, Abraham entertained The
angels under the shades of the |
trees. Jacob, David, and others
testify that shady trees are some
Of Gods greatest bles sings. Yet
we find that God commanded !
lhe lsraellles that they should not
plant any grove OF trees near the
alter Of their God after arriving in
the promised land of Clnaan. (See
Deut. xvi, xxi; Ex. XxXiv. xiii;
First Kings xiv, XVI Now the
reason ,Or This command was be
cause Of the fact that the Canaan
lies worshipped their idols in
groves Of trees, and The lord, know
ing The weakness OF man, wished to
deliver them from this temptation.
| believe The wearing Of crowns,
gowGs and other official dpcora.
lions and distinctions are subver.
siye of our American institutions,
and tend TO centralizalion and
NJ. a. DEES.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09
CHANCERY COURT SECOND DIST.
SYLvANUs EVA W.. Chancellor.

In the county of Lauderdae. on the first Monday
of Ianuaiy and july ami continue twelve days.
In the county ot Newton. on the third Monday
of January and July, and continue six davs.
10 the county Of Iiaacoek, on the first Monday of
February and August, and contnue six days
In the county of Harrison. on the second Monday
Of February and August, and continue six days.
In the county of Jackson. on the third Monday
of February and August, and continue six days.
In the county ofClarko. on the first Monday of
March and September and continue six days.
In the county of Jasper, On the second Monday
of March and September and continue six days.
In the county Of Perry, on the thr Monday of
March and September, and continue six days
In the county of Marion. First District on the
third Monday Of May and November and continue
six days. In the Second District on the second
Monday Of May and November, and continue six
DAYS.
In tho county of Jones, on the first Monday of
April and October and continue six days.
In the county of Covinston, ON the second Mon
day IN April aud October and continue six days
In the county Of Greene, on the third Monday of
April and October and continue six days.
In the county of Smith, on the fourth Monday of
April and October and continue six days.
In the county Of Wayne, on the first Monday of
NAV and November and continue six days.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09

Those GcoD OLD TnIFs. The rea.
son why old-tlme farmers were bet.
ter of Than we are was that they
lived better, had things fixed up
better around them and made less
work for The women, lived on the
best of their productions and only
sold 10 the merchants and bankers
and other monopolisis The surplus,
and hauled it 10 them with six.
horse teams.
The proudesl man that ever step.
ped The ground was an old-lime
planter riding his favorile old-time
mare, behind his six horse team TO
town. Well, | reckon the negro
driver, Ned, could discount him
little, and then when 1 come to
think about IT, | believe The mill
tia captain of that day at general
muster, when he was draped in his
blue swallowtail withbrass buttons,
white panlaloons and tail hat with
a feather about two feet and a
half long, could discount them
both.
Don't have those things these
days, and you are all the worse off
FORT Farmer and Fruit GrOrer.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09
A MYSTERY.
Youths ComDaniOn.

Youths Companion.
One Of the mo,ttslartling myste
ries OF nature is the phenomenon
known in India as ''lhe Barisal
gun" In part Of the delta of The
Ganges detunaliOns that sound as
If caused by The discharge of heavy
artillery are heard booming
through the air at irregular inter
walls, rising from none can tell
where and caused 10y none can say
what.
They have been heard during at
least 400 years, as is provel by
local history, and tradition does
not reach lime when they were
not heard. Nevertheless, they
have never been explained.
Barlsal is a little town on the
western bank of the Barisal river,
SIXiy-hye miles north Of the Bay
Of Bengal.
Although its name has been
used as though the sounds were
PECULIAR to the place, the sounds
are familiar TO the people of Dac-
ca, seyenty-fve miles northward.
They sometimes occur at Chilta-
gong, 100 miles east wardly, and
occasionally starlle folks at equally
great distances away toward The
west and south. They have even
been heard with great dislinctness
al Cherra Punji, which is nearly
200 miles north of the Bay OF
Bengal.
AT times they seem TO come |
from The south or southwest, and |
again from the north or east.
Whenever one hears them they al |
ways seem to come from some
where else. No one has ever been
known 10 be near them, but they
are never so remote as to leave
doubt in The minds of those who
hear them that they are accurately
The sounds of cannOnading.
The natives, ever ready 10 eN.
plain what they do not understand
by giving 1t supernatural origin,
had two versions OF the cause OF
the detOnallOns-one, that they
were The sound OF The opening and
of The brazen gates of The
the mythical palace of Rsvrnna,
on the island of Ceylon the other,
hat the aerial beings-devastas-
produced them by the firing of
cannon in honor of Khanja
Al or Khen Jahan, who was Tab
sildar OF Baeirant 400 years ago.
or course, when matter of fact
got into The country
they said: "Pooh poohl' to all
hat. and slraightway set 10 work
10 find scientific explanation for
he sounds.
But they have TO admit that they
have not yet found it.
Colonel Ii. 5. Olcott, after de-
rolIng much inquiry and study 10
he matter, averred that so far as
ne could see the ghostly artilleries
IF the Indian story were as proba- I
Die as anything that the most ad-
ranced modern science could sug-
yest and maintain by way Of ex ,
Now, during more than a year. {
he Asiatic colony of Bengal, after |
and studying the facts,
inds these mysterious aerial dem
,nstraiions as deep a puzzle as
,ver.
Fully 10 appreciate The strange
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09

We would like TO know how a
newspaper man can afford to boom
every enterprise that comes TO The
town and do it for nothing. We
have been doiag our level best to
advance the interests Of Greenwood
and Leflore county, and certain en-
terprises that have made Green
wood headquarters, which we have
given our columns io freely, when
asked 10 put a card in The paper,
have said that mo, they did not
care for it," Our paper is our lIv-
ing, we have 10 pay our printers.
office rent, paper bills, etc, and
hereafter if we know ourselves the
AID. will come frst then boom af
tericards.-Deitd Flag.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09

WHAT A kNoUT REsEMBLEs.-A
knont, says Petrowsk; is not mere
ly a lash or whip, but an ingen-
lous and refined instrument OF tor
ture, consisting Of very long and
narrow strip OF leather with thin
edges. This leather is first boiled
IN certain essence (confccted for
the purpose) and, after being boil.
ed, is soaked in a preparation of
iron. in order 10 make them hard
and heavy. Before allowing them
to harden, however, the thin edges
are doubled over along the whole
length of the knout, and in such 4
manner as TO make them very
sharp, so that the knout on the
concave side is like two long hexi-
bic knives. Prepared in his man
ner it becomes really terrible. One
end is left soft and supple, that the
may wind it round his
wrist, the other end is terminated
by an iron hook. The knout falls
Ton IFS concave side) on the naked
back OF its victim, and he sharp
borders cut in 10 the flesh like
knife. The eyecutioner does not
then lit the knout; he draws it
horizontally 10 ward him, and in
so doing lhe hook detaches long
strips OF flesh from The lacerated
back. Should the executioner per-
form his task conscientiously, the
victim usually swoOns away after
The third stroke, and often dies un-
der the fifth. Peter the Great fix
ed by an "ukase" the maximum
mum ber Of strokes at 10l, and when
hat number was really inflicted it
was usually upon "A dead body,
since il is next TO impossible for
human being 10 survive more than
twenty honest strokes of the
knout. Therefore, it is very rare
for The regulation number Of
strokes 10 be inflicted, unless with
intent 10 kill Chicago Journal.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09
The Farmers, Democrat in Il

The Farmers Democrat. in dis
cuSsing he political outlook, says :
When the next Legislature meets
there will probably be a re district
Of the Congressional Districts, and
there being only a few negroes in
the wood pile. 1t will not be sliced
up into shoe strings and rail-fence
districts, but will commence on the
Tennessee line anc take two tiers
of counties for first district entirely
across The Srate, and next two Tiers
for next district, and so on down 10
the Gulf; and when next election
of Congressman takes place yon
will see railing of dry bones
among The old time politicians, and
new men will he brought TO the
front.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09

An old lady in Mississippi river
town was practically philosophic
soul aud was satisfied with things
as they existed. Her old man was
drowned in The river, and his
body was not recovered for a long
while. when it was discovered by
some bOalmen. One of them went
10 her and said Madam, we've
found The body OF your husband
and taken it out of the river, and
lis chock full of eels. What shall
we do with iti'' well" said the
old lady. II reckon you had better
secure the eels aud set it sgain."
Chicago Herald.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09

The women who are parading
up and down the country speaking
in favor of a Third Party, would
be much better of and do the
country a greater service by STAY
ing at home aud rearing a family
of stalwart sons 10 look after the
politics oflhe country.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09

The story comes from Louisville.
Ky, OF young woman who bears
The marks Of the crucifxion. On
every Friday since May she falls
into trance, and a spot appears
in the palms of her hands, The in
steps of her feet aud OH her left
side. Drops of blood ooze from
the-unbToken skin. She is a de-
vouL Catholic and believes the
Divine hand has marked her.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09

ness Of phenomenon it is necessary
TO understand something OF the
country in which il takes place
and the conditions under which il
is heard.
The land in all lie district men
TONED is IA flat, alluvial plain, in
ttrsested by a network of almost
innuncrable streams and channels
OF the sacred Ganges. That is the
general character ot AT least 10000
square miles Of tie Ganges and
Brahmapuotra rivers.
The nearest hills are 100 mics
away from BarlsaI toward The east
and nearly double that distance
northweslerly, so there Is no'echo"
hypothesis, even if IT were possible
to find anything that might cause
such echoes.
There ale no military canton
ments and no heavy gunS in that
part of the delta where these
noises occur. so they cannot be
cansed by real, material guns.
The detonatiOns are always
heard at their best in the cIearest
and drycst weather, and never
during storms, so atmospheric
electricity cannot asonably be
held responsible for them.
They have not been known TO
occur simultaneously with earth
quakes.
The attempt al explanation are
III many cases rather amusing than
satisfactory. Ii certain things
were true which are not true, e,smore
than one Of these explanations
might be thought not wholly i'm
probable. But as the explanations
are positively contradicled by
facts it rs not worth while even TO
mention them.
All over the territory in which
the phenomenon occurs the Asiatic
Society Of Bengal has caused to be
distributed printed lists of ques.
tlons and blank forms TO be filled
out with data which it is hoped
will, when collaled, sustain some
hypothesis, or demOish by un-
questionable evidence all that
have been or may be advanced.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09

Ii is strange to see neighbor-
hood get in such an uproar.
1t is strange 10 see the prejudice
that Is in The country.
II is strange that people will
work against their own interest.
Ii is strange that they will vote
10 enslave themselves aud families.
II is strange to see good men up
hold low down meanness.
1t is strange that one man will
try to rule or ruin a community.
Ii is strange 10 see the difference
between the present and len years
ago.
Il is strange 10 see and hear re-
liglous people lie aud talk about
their neighbors,
L: is strange TO see the good per-
secuted AMI slandered.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09

The cedar casket IN which Con
gresham w. l. Scott, Of Pennsyl-
vania, was buried, was ornament
cd and trimmed with 76 pounds OF
solid silver, 80 yards of brosdcl0th.
20 pounds of silk ard 10 pounds Of
eiderdown.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09
THE COURTS.
THE REGULAR TERMS.
CIRCUIT C0URT--SECoND DIST.
SAMUEL II. TEERAL. Judge.
JAMES H. NEVILLE, District Attorney.


In the county of Winston on the third Monday
of Jouuary and July and continue six days
In tho county of Lauderdale on the fourth Mon
day Of January and July and continue eighteen
days.
In the county of Noxubee. on the third Monday
of February and August, and continue eighteen
lays.
In the county of Kemper, on the second Monday
of March and September. and continue twelve
DAYS.
In the county of Clarke on the fourth Monday of
March and September, and continue twelve days.
In the county of Wayne, on the second Monday
Of Anril and October and continue six days.
In the county of Greene. on the third Monday of
April and October and continue six days
In the county Of Marion, First District, on the
third Monday of June and December, and
tipue six days. In the Second District. the
fourth Monday of June and december, and contin-
re six days
In the county of Hancock, on the first Monday
Of MAY and November, and continue twelve days.
In the county of Harrison, ON the third Monday
Of MAY and November. and continue twelve days.
IN tho county of jackson, on the first Monday of
jane and continue six days and December and
tvntinue twelve days.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09

IL all the drink shops in the
United States were combined they
would make two cities larger than
New York.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09
POPULATION OF MISSISSIPPI BY RACES.

The Census Bulletin containing
the above looked for with so much
concern and interest, Is at last is
sued and is herewith given:
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09

DR.. Kelley, of Dwight, H., the
famous expert of the cure of drunk
enness, is over in Europe studying
intemperance there. A Herald cor
respondent, who saw him in Lon.
don, says "The most remarkable
thing about The long chat which
had with Dr. Keelev Yesterday was
the stress he laid upon The fact
that drunkenness is not a vice and
not TO be approached or considered
as anything but disease, to be treat
ed as malaria or any other physical
maIady. lie is a gray-haired, keen
eyed man Of the West ,!who has in
twelve years, cured over $500
drunkards and Opium takers, and
With all the experience that such
record implies, he turns his back
on remedies offered by legislatures
and churches. irit were a vice,
law and religion could prevent or
remedy il, but as 1t is disease,
physical remedies are the only
means of checking it. The doctor
says that from the time he left Eng.
land until the time he returned to
London, two DAYS ago, he saw only
two drunken men. Those two
were al Naples. One was drunk
en- boatman, The other was young
fellow returning from Sorrento in
a pleasure boat. He attributed the |
general sobriety of all continental
nations 10 habit of light wine
and beer drinking, which,
so to speak, begets The power of re-
sistance that makes stronger alco.
holic drinks unnecessary. This is
On The principal of vocc!naiion as
preventive of small pox."
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09

Foreman Ito editor): You'd
better look out Old Jones is red
hot
Editor (calmly): When did hc
die
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09

lie who refuses 10 surrender
never fails.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-10-09

The wise lerson welcomes every
thinker.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-19
GAMBLERS AT OUTS.
One Has Himself Arrested and Fined,
Then Starts a Crusade.
EVERY FINDLAY HOUSE PULLED.
1t Is Left for the Law Breakers Themselves
to Enforce the law,
MINOR NEWS FROM THE THREE STATES
'turc1AL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsrAroH.l

'spFCIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH,l
FISDLAY. Oct ia bitter war has
sprung up among the gambling fraternity of
Findlar. Where the strife originated, or
what were the causes from which 1t sprung,
is a mystery. but the war has taken such an
active form that the courts have been ap-
pealed TO, and the gamblers are all rushing
around swearing out warrants against each
other and determined to break up each
Others establishments.
Last night Warren d. Bakenan, an old
time sport, had himself arrested and fined
as a common gamblec, and then he started
in on n crusade against number of institu-
lions lie swore warrants for the houses
Of Joseph Ingersoll, George W. Shoemaker
and Rox Altman, and had them arrested.
lie then sworc out search warrant and
had all their rooms raided and their appli-
aRces captured by the officers. Later Will
lam Shenkle, another gambler, swore out
warrants and had the house of James Nye
pulled aud their apparatus secured.
The bondsmen of the ten men arrested for
gambling on the fair grounds then surren-
dered them. and new bondsmen had to be Sc
cured. The proceedings kept two Justices
or the Peace up almost all night. The city
has been overrun with the green goods gen
fry who have been unmolested by the muni-
cipsl authorities, but now that the gamblers
themselves have started to fight one another
the prospect of eradicating this evil is