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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-05-13
l'OstUflice and Malls.
PERSONAL. GENERAL,
And Other Notes Gathered From Various
Sources.

Refreshing rain Monday evening.
MI. W. Fred. lIcrrin was in Mobile
last Monday.
The fish, yfend is abroad, and liable
10 be scel every rainy day.
Mrs. Kate V. Moore, of Eastabutch-
lie, arrived at her old home Sunday.
Hon. ID. Webster Mcleod, of Greene
county. is here this week on log bust
ness.
Large supply of shingles, lime, c.
ment, sash, doors and blinds, for sale
at JOHN +. KREBs'.
Clarion: Miss May Dantzler, of
Moss Point, is visiting Miss Ethel
Mounger.
Don't forget that Cowan Bros. are
the only ones in Moss Point selling
cigarettes.
Capt E. Castcnara has purchased
the splendid steam tug Magnet which
will continue in this trade.
Miss Lizzie Atchison left Sunday
for Healing Springs, Ala, for her
health, and to visit relatives.
Mr.. E.W. Manahan is up OH the NJ. &
o. Il. II. this week looking af;cr his
new plant at Duckatuna, Miss.
All kinds of shoes hayc arrived at
John Il. Krebs' Variety Store at rea.
sonable prices.
Last Friday was a gala day for the
young people here. 1t was a day
pleasantly spent, and hugely enjoyed
by all.
DR.. VIM j. Gillespie, Of Jackson,
Miss, a regular graduate, has located
at Escatawpa for the practice of his
profession.
Miss Annie Sebastian, one of New
Orleans most charming ladies', was
the welcome guest OF the Misses Blsh.
op, on Monday last.
DR.. L. A. Bedgood, Dentist, will
visit Moss Point every Saturday.
Those needing any work in his line
will make Il note of this.
Messrs. II. X. Hickman, Frank
Lott and W. S. Culpepper, all of Har-
rlson county. are here this week look.
ing after their log interests.
The Union Sunday School picnic,
Friday last, at Martins Bluff was an
enjoyable affair for the children, as
well as the grown up folks.
Mr.. l. Il. Payne is still very Ill. lie
is in his 92d year, and it is hardly
probable that he will last many DAYS,
as he is growing weaker every day.
Rev. G. W. Knight, of Wayncs-
bot", 80 preaching very forcible SER
mons al the Baptist Church to very
large congregations. Much interest is
being manifested.
Another barge load of oyster shells
are being spread OH the Telephone
road. This is the last that will be put
on the road until next fall, as the sup.
ply is exhausted.
The church festival al the residence
OF Mr.. J. j. Mcintosh, on Monday
right, was an elegant success. The
cash proceeds were about $50, to say
nothing Of the great amount of pleas.
urc derived.
Chas. s. Collard, one of our enter.
prising colored citizens, is erecting a
new building ncar his residence for a
store house, where he will keep a gen.
eral assortment Of general mcrchan-
disc.
The following schooncrs loading
with lumber at the l.. N. Dantzler
Lumber Company's mills this week
are : Rolling Sandford, with 10000
feet otlumbcr for Key West; Cora,
Adalaska, Almira, Cecilia, with 90.
200 each tor Mississippi River.
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u. S. RouRKE, Clerk.


MIR. X. W. Wiggings, with his
family, Il IA pound boy, are at Shu-
qualak. lie will not return here. but
will move in a short time to Florida.
Success TO You, Wilton.
The Mayor and Aldermen of this
town ought to pass an ordinance at
their next meeting requiring all stock,
such as horses, cows, hogs and goats
to be kept of the streets.
Mr.. NJ. V. B. Carey is getting up
a petition 10 retail liquors under the
! new law. Ills present License expires
on June llth. This will make four
under the high license law.
The Scranton Exchange, by Capt.
V. Brown. is closed, as the license cx-
PRED on the Isl inst. lie will receive
new license on the 7th of June at the
regular meeting of the Mayor and
Aldermen.
Mr.. NJ. L. Ward, of TIatiicsburg,
dropped to chat us Friday last. lie
says his town is improving rapidly,
and is destined to be one of the largest
towns on the Queen and Crescent.
lie thinks Joe Jones did much good
there.
The schooner "Snowdrop," Capt.
Davis, Master, has been heard from
al Dalczc, British Honduras, which
relieved the fears entertained for her
safety. No news had been received
in three weeks, and the heavy winds
since that time caused the friends
mnch uneasincss.
We received a pleasant visit from
Col. Newconb Clark, of Ocean
Springs, on Saturday. lie informs
us that he has sold his residence out
of town aud purchased on Porter
avenue, which he expects 10 improve
and put IN nice shape. Col. Clark is
a progressive citizen.
One of the most enjoyable events
of the season vas the impromptu So
cial at tie residence OF Mrs. E. b.
blackwell, on Wednesday evening
last. The room was crowded to It's
utmost capacity, and the smile of con.
tent and pleasure was c%onspicuously
depicted OH the faces of all who par
ticipatel.
-Ilcv. j. Ii. Nall, D. d., will hold a
series of Gospel meetings IN the Pros
bytcrian Church at Scranton next
week, beginning at II O'Clock, A. NJ,
Sunday. Services also at night at
7:45. All are cordially invited To at
lend these meetings. The co-opcra.
ton of all Christians is earnestly de-
sirn1
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BUSINE SS LOCALS.
Notices 10 Gents Per Line for Each Insertion.

There will be a SPECIAL meeting of
the Fire Company at their Hall on
Monday night, May Is, 1892. by or
der Of the President, G. T.. Chidscy.
TEMPERANCE AND RErRESHnENT
HOUSE.
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We're After That Man,

About one man in ten can't be ex-
pected 10 know that we arc headquar-
ters for goods in our line, because he
hasen't entered our store:
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We're After That Man

with a big stock, with big bargains,
with low prices, with fair dealing,
and we expect to get his trade. Are
you The tenth man?
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We're After That Man.

About one man in ten doesn't know
that his neighbors arc saving money
on every deal, because they trade
with Clark:
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

Mr.. Martin Turnbull is no longer
connected with the DEMoCRAT-STAR
as reporter, solicitor and collector.
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HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE,

A house with four rooms, kitchen
and dining room, and lot 70xl07 feet,
Oh Pickett's Lane opposite Mr.. o. A.
Johnsom's residence is offered for sale
at a bargain. Price, 1926 cash.
Apply at DEMocRAT.SfAR office.
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Moss POINT DEPARTMENT.
LOCAL DIRECTORY.
Churches.

OuuTftIeS,
MErHODIsT-Rcv. &. A. Powell, pastor.
Preaching every Sunday. Prayer meet
ing every Wednesday evening.
PkEsBYTERIAN-Rev. ID. 0. Byers, pas
tor. Preaching every Sabbath. Pray er
meeting every Wednesday night.
Preaching at Scranton every third sun
day at 1880 p. m.
BAPTIST Rev. j. o. Green, Pastor.
Preaching every first and third Sabbath
Ut ii A. NJ. and 7 P, n. Prayer meeting
every Thursday night. Missionary meet
ing every first Sabbath ut $3.50 ?. N.
POstUfIice and Malls.
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
From Scranton--- Arrives at sam. and
l:4o pm. Departs at 1915 am. and
4:4o pm.
Ledkesrile Route---Arrives on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays at IL m, and
departs same days at 1890 am.
+. b. CASTANERA, P. NJ.
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THursddu, Man. 26. 1892.

at l2 o'clock, NJ, in frort of the Court
house door of Jackson county, Mississippi,
in the town of Scranton, sell to the high
est and best bidder for cash, to pay and
satisfy the note and trust-deed aforesaid,
the following described tract OF land, sit
uated in said county and State to- wit Be-
ing in the town or village of Pascagoula,&
bounded on the north by Lot No. AZ, be-
longing to Mrs. l.. G. Krebs on the south
by property OF the estate Of Adelaide Lee I;
on the east by property of Miss L. W.
O'Connell, and on the west by Bucna
Vista street, being the same property said
Mrs. Mary 4. Olsen resided upon as a
homestead before moving into the house
she now occupies as a homestead.
W. NJ. DENNY, Trustee.
April %. 1892. 9-5t
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NEwNANsvILLE, FLA, June B, 1891.
MEssRs. LIIPMAN, Bros, Savannah, Ga.
DEAR SIRs-I wish to give my testimonial in
regard to your valuable medicine, p. p. p, for
the of cure rheumatism, neuralgia, dyspepsia,
billiousness, etc. In 1861 | was attacked with
bilious muscular rheumatism, and have been
a martyr to it ever since. | tried all medi-
cines ! ever heard of, and all the doctors in
reach, but ! found only temporary relief; the
pains were so bad at times that | did not care
whether | lived or died. My digestion became
so impaired that everything | ate disagreed
with me-. My wife also suffered SO intensely
with dyspepsia that her life was a burden to
her she would be confined to her bed for
weeks at a time she also suffered from giddi-
ness and loss Of sleep. Sometime in March |
was advised to take p. p. p, and before we
(my wife and J. had finished the second bottle
Of p. ?. p, our digestion began to improve.
My pains subsidized so much that | have been
able to work, and am feeling like doing what |
haven't done before in a number of years. We
will continue taking P. P. P. until we are en-
tirely cured, and will cheerfully recommend it
to all suffering humanity.
Yours very respectfully,
j. S. DUPRISS.
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ABOUT ONE MAN IN TEN
WE'RE AFTER THAT MAN !

About ono man IN Ten doesn't Know
that the other nine of his fellow NOR
tails have come TO the conclusion that
IFS ALWAYS safest 10 trade with Clark
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Trustees Sale.
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, I
JACKSON County.

At the request of Messrs. Greiner Il So
derstrOm, and by virtue of the authority
vested in me as trustee in q certain trust
deed, executed by Mrs. Mary L. Olsen to
Grejner n Soderstrom. on July %, 1891,
to secure the payment of a note for the
sum of $le0.70 with interest thereon ut
the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, which
said trust-deed is of record in Book No.
IL, pages 81 and 372. of the record of
deeds of said county, l, as such trustee,
will, on
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-05-13

liyou want to keep up with your
n~eighbors,
Advertise in the DEMocRAT.SrAR
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-. ABERDEEN, o., July 81, 1891.
MEssRs. LiPPSAN Bros, Savannah, Ga.
DEAR SlRs-I bought a bottle of your p. p.
p. at Hot Springs, Ark, and it has done me
more good than three months treatment at the
Hot Springs.
Have you no agents in this part of the coun-
try, or let ne know how much il will cost to
get three o six bottles from your city by ex-
press. Respectfully yours,
JAS. NJ. NEWTON,
Aberdeen, Brown County. q
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MISS f. BOWMAN, Secretary.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-22
IN THE NURSERY.

bow their heads and repeat in concert
very simple grace, beautiful and child
like, something like this: Lord bless
my food, keep me from all harm and
make me good. Amen!" Then how
some of them do eat! Wholesome food
this; no bakers bread, but good home
made food, meat and vegetables and
fruit Of some kind is always served at
dinner. The matron, teachers and
nurses all eat at the same time TO teach
them by example-which is the best
way-to be orderly and neat in eating
as in all things else.
The mothers of the smaller babies
usually come in to nurse them at noon,
while some Of the infants are fed by
the bottle.
In the afternoon they are given
crackers or cookies as a. "piece," and
at'five o'clock light supper Of bread,
milk, butter and fruit is given them.
They are all allowed an afternoon nap,
and during this time the cot-room pre-
sents a pretty scene: twenty or thirty
little white-coverleted cots or cribs,
each clean little pillow pressed by a
rosy, cherub face.
They are rarely rocked to sleep, ex-
cept in cases where child has been
used to rocking, but these are not
many, for few of these poor mothers
have time or cradles in which to rock
the baby to slumber.
At six o'clock the mothers come flock.
ing in after their little ones who are
bright, fresh and rosy instead of the
weazen-faced mites they were before
entering this institution of mercy. At
7:30 o'clock the house Is cleared and
quiet reigns.
This is all done free in cases where
the parents are unable to pay toward
the support of the little ones, but
small tax of five or ten cents a day is
required when they are able to meet it,
not that it is any material assistance,
but to make the parents feel independ-
ent, to make it less under the guise of
charity and to engcnder feelings of
self-respect.
The nurseries are supported by the
churches, donations of money and cloth
ing, and by subscriptions. Instances Of
desertion are rare, although sometimes
mother is heartless enough to leave
her offspring; but If the baby is not
called for in week. it is sent to the
orphans home or the foundlings' hos
pital.
Mothers meetings are held every
month, and the matron, during the calls
she makes every week, always soliaits
the attendance of every mother. The
solemn duties of motherhood, and the
necessity for cleanliness and system are
earnestly impressed on the woman's
mind, SO the day nursery is IN incentive
to industry and the leading of honor
able lives. Some of these nurseries
also have employment bureaus attached.
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THE CRECHE.

and hot milk. After breakfast he IL
given over with perhaps a half dozen
others to the care of neatly-dressed
nurse. The nursery keeps whole ward
robes for children whose parents are
too poor to clothe them properly. But
all the aprons are taken off at evening
and laid aside, and baby goes home in
his own old clothes.
1t is pretty sight to see twenty or
thirty babies, all clean and happy, COO
ing over the toys which are contributed
by kindly disposed ladies. Many, very
many, of these children, prior to their
coming here have never seen a really
clean room or known what it is to be in
an atmosphere of love and sunshine.
One little girl, on the first morning
she came, after sitting and gazing
around her in wonderment for some
moments, asked, in an awe-struclx voice:
"Are the angels around here? 1t must
be Heaven" And indeed to many of
these poor little waits the bright sunlit
rooms and the all-pervading cleanliness
are perfect revelation. Coming from
homes, the interiors OF which seem a
horrible parody on that sweet and ten
der word, where coarseness, harsh words
and too often vice reign supreme, these
noble gentlewomen, who teach Thorn
better things in the ways of life and
give TO them the precious pearls Of
knowledge. neem to them angels of
goodness.
Poverty, however, is the least of the
evils to be met Drunkenness is some
thing worse. The mother of two of the
children in one of these creches was
known TO the police of that vicinity.
She was hardly out of Jail day at
tire, for If released on Monday, she
was intoxicated again on Tuesday and
went back TO prison. The father was
the driver of a 'ragbag and bottle
cart" and the little ones were left to
care for themselves as best they could
until searched out by the good matron
of a nursery in the neighborhood and
brought to the school Every week she
would go and talk to the mother, and
finally, after two years of patient en-
deavor, the woman was induced to re-
form. work was procured for her, aud
now she is a sober Industrious mother
to the little ones who are vet in the
nursery, this making the fourth year
since they entered
Most of the nurseries have a kinder
garten attached. and such of the chill
dren as are old enough are placed dur
ing the loren 1ons in the kindergarten.
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TEMPERANCE SPECIALS.

GRAND temperance work is being
done in the English navy through the
efforts of Miss Agnes Weston and 9TH
ers. On some ships ten per cent Of
the ship company are enrolled as total
abstainers.
THE wife of United States Senator
Spooner, of Wisconsin, is credited
with saying in recent interviews:
THE woman or girl who offers one of
my sons glass of wine will personally
affront me-"
DR.. KELLEY says the white paper in
which the tobacco of the deadly cigar
cite is incased is bleached with arsenic.
He finds it even more difficult to cure
the cigarette smoker than the con-
firmed drunkard. Herald and Pres
byter.
the subject of tobacco is well expressed
in the following letter to recent Chi
cago daily: king Tobacco rules the
country, ON land and sea. Our nation,
our intelligence. our life is clouded by
the tobacco delirium."
THE slums and the saloon are insep-
arabic allies. We are accustomed to
think of London slums as being not
only the darkest spots in darkest
England" but surprising in misery
and crime anything in our own coun-
try. But good authority asserts that
in the poorest district of London there
is one saloon to each one hundred and
thirty-six persons, while in less pow
erty-stricken section of Chicago there
is che saloon to each sixty-five persons.
Az eminent surgeon gives the fol-
lowing opinion: Few people outside
the medical profession have any idea
of the large number of deaths which
occur every year, and are certified ac-
cording TO the organ or organs princi-
pally diseased, but which are in reality
attributable to alcohol The loss to
the country of persons in the prime of
life from this source is enormous Fat
" degeneration of the tissues OF
the body, or. as it might other
wise be called, premature old age,
is one of the most frequent physical re-
suits of taking alcohol. even when
taken in what some might call modera-
ton"
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sent you?" he asked rather grufay, as
Susie unfolded it.
Nobody sent me. Nobody knew I
was coming. 1 knew you were sick,
and there isn't any medicine, only this,
will cure you. Won't you please sign
it? and then I'll put my name down,
too"
Mr.. Bartlett's eyes grew very wet
and tender He lifted the little girl on
his knee.
''Susie, willsign it, and, with Gods
help, keep it, too. and you shall put
your name right after mine have
been myself ever since you left me at
the gate, and have resolved never to
touch another drop of liquor"
Mary" he called to his wife, as he
put the pen back on the table, ''come
and see what Susie and / have been
doing. Help me, all of you, to keep it.
Kiss me, Susie, now, and run home
and tell your mother what you have
done"
And Susie did run as fast as she
could. You see there was use in
trying again." she said, in her grave,
old-fashioned way.-The Look Out
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a DYING TRADE.
The Art of Weaving Rag Carpets Fast
Disappearing.

Disappearing.
Among the lost arts, such as the tenn
pering of bronze, making flexible glass
and the manufacture of Tyrian purple.
we will soon have to number another
namely, the weaving of rag carpets To
be sure, you can still buy the factory
made article, but that is not the sort
that we associate with recollections OF
an old-fashioned room, with its high
post bedstead, whitewashed walls, dia-
mond-paned windows and claw-footed
cheval glass in the corner In those
days the rags were cut out and sewed
by the fire in the long winter evenings,
and often the carpet was woven on the
old wooden loom up garrett but usually
the material was sent to the old town
weaver, who was as important per-
sonage as either the butcher, the baker
or the candlestick maker.
The old weavers are dying out through
lack of patronage, but the other day a
Star reporter found where one still
works, down by the waterside. 1t is a
queer old one-story house with squares
and panels of carpet hung tapestrywise
over the front by way of advertisement.
The proprietor is a little, dried and
withered specimen, much bent by stoop-
ing over his loom. He came from the
low countries in Holland nearly fifty
years ago, There he was fax weaver
by trade, but American machinery
threw him out of work years ago, and
he has been carpet weaving ever since.
ut used to be a good trade" he said,
but now it is dying out" He still has
work enough 80 keep him, but Ameri.
cans do not use many rag carpets now
he sells the most to his own country
men. He works twelve hours day,
winter and summer, and turns out
about sixteen yards day. Weaving
costs twenty-five cents yard. and he
furnishes the warp. II he furnishes
the rags, too, 1t costs about twice that.
Bags of rags were standing around un-
der the shelves, and in one corner was
pile of balls, made from strips his
wife and children sewed at night.
The loom was the most primitive
model known; yet on one but little
ruder the Navajos make their famous
waterproof blankets and upon one but
little better the Hindoo produces the
famous ''woven wind" of India. 1t was
really so ancient-looking that it was
disappointing to find that it was built
as late as 1855. The working parts,
from much oil and handling, had taken
on the rich tints of seasoned meer-
schaum, and the rest was smoke
Drowned to a deep sienna With the
background of dark shadows and the
bright warp threads running through
the center it made study worthy of an
artist.
There are no longer any apprentices
at the trade. No one wants to learn
hand weaving now. The old man said
the last pupil he had was during the
| spinning-wheel craze several years ago,
One society girl came down and insisted
on learning to weave, but her enthusi.
asm soon gave out, and since then the
old man has had his trade to himself
| Washington Star
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-22
where the busy little brain. and flnvrr,

where the busy little brains and fingers
are given proper employment and the
foundation for broader education Is
laid. For after they arrive at the age
OF six years they leave the nursery and
are placed in the free schools.
The improvement in these children In
the kindergarten since they first came
u very great. Tangled hair, dirty faces
and hands and ragged garments were
common enough sights at first. They
have not wholly disappeared now, but
the little ones are learning the need of
cleanliness and carefulness of dress.
They are taught how to sew and many
Of the older children now wear dresses
made by themselves.
What a hive of industry the school
room presents between the hours of ten
and twelve.
At noon school is over and the babies
are brought down from the nursery up
stairs and all are ushered down to the
dining-room, their faces actually shin
ing with cleanliness and pleasure. 4,
They take their places around the lit
tie widespread tables in very order
~ manner, and fold their little hands,