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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19

II $. ENGINEER OFFICE, Mobile,
~ Ala, March 30, 1895. Sealed propo.
sails iu duplicate for furnishing plant,
crew and labor complete Cor Keeping
channel Of Mobile River aud Harbor clear
Of Timber, Logs and other distinctions,
for two years, will BIZ received here until
IL o'clock, noon, Tuesday, April 80, 1895,
and then opened. United States reserves
right to reject any and all proposals and
to waive any int0rmalities. Full iufor.
mutton furnished upon application to A.
n. DAMRELLy MajAr, Engrs,, U. :. a.
March 20, if95. 6.4i
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19
PEAR BLIGHT.

A Georgia pear grover writes TO the
Farmer and Fruit Grower as follows {:
If the trees are kicffer, LeC0nte.
CARRIER OIL any Of the Japan or Chinese
varieties let them alone. Give them
no medicine. Give them the necessary
cultivation to keep them thrifty aud
they will whip the fight. The best
known remedy for the race Of pear
trees is To let them fight their own
battles. Not one tree in a hundred
viii be killed or seriously injured. If
a branch or even a large limb should
be killed, another will soon take its
place.
Sometimes a LeContc tree will show
blight on a hundred fruit spurs, and
it will look like it will certainly die.
Never mind. Let it alone. 1t will be
all right next year.
There is a good deal in keeping pear
trees Of all kinds in a healthy, thrifty
condition. They should neither be
overfcd nor starved, nor cultivated or
fertilizcd after July /. Pear trees so
managed will frequently overcome
fungus diseases and insects enemies.
While pear trees IN our immediate
neighbOrh0od have been blighting
badly, not n tree in a hundred IN
Il orchard has had a diseased twig.
We run the Planet, Jr., cultivator
through our orchard twice a month
during April, May and June. The
other nine months We let the trees
take careo Of themselves, and they do it.
One encouraging feature about blight
is that while it exists in some part or
parts of the United States every year.
IL usually remains in any locality only
three or four years and then disap-
pears for a period OF ten to twenty
years.
On the whole, plant pear trees, ia
Bartlett OF "A Howell dies, plant a
Kieffer or "A CARRIER in its place.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19
GheDrmorat-S lat
FARMERS IN SILK HATS.

Visitors to the drought stricken dls.
trlcts OF Nebraska bring reports az
sights which ar otesQue and ludl.
crOus says the Chicago Tribune. F1,.
mcrs are seen working IN their fields
and coming to town clad in The ps,.
ments OF worn gentility. The sipA
of a farmer holding a pillow or sowin5
seed while wearing evening dress aaa
a silk hat Is not at all uncommo,
This clothing is slightly worn, but lis
often Of the best material. patent
leather shoes are seen everywhere, and
white vests and fancy vests are rr..
Quently observed. Next 10 the swaliag.
tall coat comes the Prince Albert. Ana
as only preachers wear Prince Alberfs
In rural Nebraska it looks like a wbot.
new race Of pastors suddenly sprlnu.
ing up.
But the women's z wa are most
striking. Closets ana
been evidently ransackeJ,
styles OF ten years ago are seen IA
Independently. Dresses With hustle.
and dresses for bustles without the
bustles are seen. Decollette costumes
are worn by women who never saw
such a costume before. Ball dresses
are seen in p~rofusion Of all sorts of
striking designs and colors. Some OF
these gowns are really elegant. and
will last for months by the most severe
wearing. Farmers wives 20 out to
milk cows and feed pigs with a dras,
which bears a gorgeous train, frum
which, In many cases. the lace has not
been removed. The great truuh,a
comes from the smallness OF waists
The women take these dresses g}adiy
and wear them goodnaturedlg. Al.
though laughing at their appearance.
it would appear that New York and
New England partisans have AZ last
solved the difficulty about the cam
paign hat after the campaign" for this
State has been deluged with campaign
hats OF all parties. Harrison, Blaine.
Cleveland, and Il few Garfield ami
Hancock hats are seen. The Cleveland
hats are by far the most numerous
and by the irony of fate miny Pom.
lists are now blowing their fields wear.
in5 That camo.aigD has aQd tue only
that "the fellows who voted for Gruycr
are anxions now to give away their
hats"
During the winter when the cold
was most intense and much suffering
prevailed it is a fact that box after
box of straw hats, straw bonnets, and
linen busters was shipped to the; e
poor unfOrtunates 1t made them an.
cry then, but now they see how it was
done and simply smile and say that
them down-Easters don't know any
better, | guess" They may use them
now. Besides the stylish and valuable
costumes sent there is of course, much
good serviceable clothing, but there
is also much that IS absolutely value.
less.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19
SALE OF LAND BY THE BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS OF THE SOLDIERS
lIAAIn

COMMISSIONERS OF THE SOLDIERS
HOME.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
OF Representatives of the United States
OF America in Congress assembled, That
the Board OF Commissioners of the Sol
diers' Home he, and they are hereby an.
ihorlzrd 10 sell the property belonging TO
the soldiers Home STATED on pascagou-
!" Bay, Mississippi, and known as the
'AsylIm lott
Section ,. That said property shall he
sold IN the premises and Ia the highest
and best bidder on a day Ia lie fixed by
the Board of Commissioners, after they
shall have advertised the time, terms and
place of sale for thirty DAYS in two or
more papers published in the vicinity of
The property provided, that the COM
missione,s shall be, aud hereby, are au-
~tliorize 10 withdraw said property. after
It shall have been offered, on the day Of
sale, if a satisfactory bid shall not be re-
ceived, aud to leadvertIse from time to
time AS may be necessary said property
for sale MS above designated should there
he 4 failure of sale from any cause.
See. 3. That the said Board of Commits
SlulViS VIZ Futi IIoDttiN lOt CuSu III
hand, and that an immediate payment
OF five hundred dollars shall be made by
the purchaser at said sale, to be deducted
from the cash payment to be made by
him on delivery oi he deed, from which
sum all the expenses Of the sale shall be
deducted in case said purchaser fails 70
comply with the full terms of the sale
within thirty days from its date. the bal.
ance, if any, to be returned t) the person
making such payment and when the
purchase money shall have been paid TO
said Board of Commissioners they are
directed to make to the purchaser a deed
ot conveyance for said property; aud
when said deed shall have been
made and properly acknowledged
the United States shall be Invested
Of The title to said property, and the
purchaser shall be invested with the full
title to the same. Approved Feb. 8, 1895.
Office OF Purchasing Commissary of
Subsistence, $50 Gravier street, New Or
leans, La, March 80, lS95.-Uuder the
provisions Of the above quoted act OF
Congress, and by direction of the Board
of Commissioners of The Soldiers Home,
| will offer for sale at public auction, on
TUESDAY, May 7. 1895, at 10 o'clock, Il.
m, on the premises. for cash, all that
piece or parcel of land described in said
act of Congress aforesaid, together with
such improvements thereon as NAV be.
long to the said Soldiers Home. A more
full and complete description of said
property can be seen at this office and on
the premises before and on the day o.
sale. A lpOOyit Inv cartitirl phack nj
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19

The Trilby craze has reached it's
limit in indianapolis, where the police
are looking for a man who has gone
daft on the subject. His delusion S
that he must find the perfect type of
the human foot for art purposes.
Accordingly, he has called on a mum
Der of ladies in the city and has re-
quested them to show him their bare
feet. If they very properly refuse this
strange request, he endeavors to hire
them to pose as models, which serves
only to increase their confusion and
Indignation. He will be committed to
the asylum when he is apprehcndcd,
and an effort will be made to over
come the effects of too much Trilby.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19

DR.. Sawyer;-After suffering four
years with female weakness ] was
persuaded by a friend to try your Pas
titles, and after using them n year
| am entirely well. ! cannot recon-
mend them too highly.-Mrs, NJ. S.
BROOK, Bronson, Bethel Branch Co.,
Mich. At Scranton Pharmacy, Scran-
ton, and ]. W. Stewards, Moss Point.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19
LAND NOTICE.
LAND OFFICE AT JACKSON, MISS,
Mnrnh OS lRns

LAND OFFlCE AT JACKSON, MISS,
March IS, 1895.
Notice is hereby given that the follow
lug named settler has filed notice of his
Intention to make final proof in support
OF his claim, and that said proof will be
made before the Circuit Clerk of Jack
son county, at Scranton, Miss, on May
rs, 1895, viz:
Louis N. Howell. of Cross Roads, Miss. a.,
Homestead No. 2l734. for The net net and
u set section "a, township 9 south, range
7 west, adjoining farm to set net section
"a, township 9 south, range 7 west.
de names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation Of, said land, viz:
Alexander +. Cochran, Henry Coff.
Thaddeus I. Childress, Reddiug Rouse,
all Of Cross Roads, jackson county,
Miss. '
ROBERT Z. WILSON, Register.
April 5, 1876. 7.6t
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19

Ground oyster shells were given by
She medieval doctors 10 children SUI
fering from ricketts, and scroffula.
Now Drs. Muntz and Chatln tell the
Paris Academy Of Medicine that the
old fellows were right. The shells
contain lime, nitrogen, iron, sulphur,
manganese, magncsia, -four, brominc,
bhosphoric acid and iodine, all excel
lent for feeble children. They say
that " nurses and children we're Ia
take powdered oyster shells in their
1000 teeth Would se better.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19

Under tue Belgian law unmarried
men over twenty-five have one vote.
married men and widowers with
FAMILIES have two votes, the priests
ana other persons of position and
education have three votes. Severe
penalties are imposed on those who
fail to vote.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19

"Yes, Sir" said the l~ong-haired
boarder, 81 am fully satisfied In my
own mind that women should be
vested with all the privileges of man."
II don't see why she shouldn't be
vested" Clipped IN the Cheerful Idiot.
"She has been coated the same as
man, and If this bicycle business keeps
on she will be trous---." The din.
ner bell rang, and in the mad rush en-.
suing the rest Of the Cheerful Idiots
speech hit the empty air.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19

The number of new papers being
started now verifcs the truth of
Pope's assertion that "Hope reigns
eternal In the human breast:" but be-
fore summer is over some of the pro-
prictors will be hoping for a new scat
in their trousers.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19

A new little girls composition on
woman is out. 1t says: Boys are
men that have not got as big as their
papas, and girls are women that will
he ladies by and by. Man was made
before woman. When God looked at
Adam, he said to himself, We'll, |
think i a do better if | try again.
And he made Eve. Boys arc a trouble.
They wear out everything but soap.
Ii l had my way the world would be
girls and the rest dolls. My papa is
SO nice that l think he must have
been a little girl when he was a little
boy. Man vas made, and on the
seventh day he rested. Woman was
then made, and she has never rested
SINCE"
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19

Judge Klein, OF st. Louis, has de-
clded that If a man wants to commit
suicide he must not make the at
tempt in the presence of his wife. If
he does and fails, the fact furnishes
good ground for divorce.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19

Isaac Brennan, OF Upton, Ind, ar
Ter thirty years of hard study, has
completed a machine that furnishes
It's own power and will run without
assistance from any attachment. The
principle is a system Of compound
leverage with reciprocal action, which
propcls a roller placed on tracks,
from which he gets an oscillating mo.
ton.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19
A HEN CATECHISM.

What is a Hen Dinner?
A Hen Dinner is the feminine gen.
der of a Stag Party.
or what is it composed
Bluc-bloodcd pcacocks from New
York, millionaire turkey gobblers
from the West, learned owls from
Boston, titled geese from abroad,
divorced pigeons from nowhere in
particular, with Il long line Of lad
vanced" hens bringing up the rear.
What arc they congregated here
for?
TO cacklc, of course.
What do they cackle about
About a mile a minute by the stop
watch.
What is the source OF their inspira-
ton?
Russian tea.
What is Russian tea?
-Four fingers of gin to two Of tea
floated with a lemon wafer.
What do they discuss?
They discuss Man-with a strong
accent on the "cuss."
What is the object of "A Hen Din.
nCr?
To go the old club chappieS one bet
tor NJ tLoir n,yn Nnn,n
Will Hen Dinners become popular :
They hope 50.
Who are they?
The florists, caterers, milliners, etc,
who get most out of the Hen Din
ncrs.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19

Children with pale, blush COM
plcxions, indicating the absence of
the requisite red globules in the blood
should take DR.. Sawyer's Ukatine.
Sold by, Scranton Pharmacy, Scran.
ton, and j.. W.. Stewart, Moss Point.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19

Eggs are a standard dish and are
particularly in demand at this season
Of the year. Many are the ways Of
serving them, SO that they form an
endless variety of dishes, palatable
and nutritious. There are five hun
dred ways of serving them, it is said.
We will attempt to give "a few only.
Steamed eggs are delicious. Butter a
deep pie tin and break carefully into
it as many eggs as needed. Sprinkle
them with pepper, salt and bits of
butter; place in a steameroyer boiling
water until done. This will be found
better than poaching them, especially
if cooked for an invalid.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Award.

No slop work is turned out by the
DEMOCRAT-STAR Office. All its job
Printing is frst-claSs.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19

A New York woman, forty years Of
age, has been married eight times.
Husbands, like other blessings (?) are
~unevcnly distributed.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19

we are now prepared to purchase all RE-
Fuse FISH OF the fnny tribe caught In the
Mississippi Sound. from a Sardinc To a por.
polse; delivered ut our wharf Mt LOng Beach.
actual weight. "'" ~
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19
PRICES PAID:
30 Cts. n Barrel or ~ a Ton.
CASH ON THE SPOT.

w. b. STANSBURY, Gen1 Manager.
March 10, 1895. Aim
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19

Diseases unfriendly to women arc
positively cured by DR.. Sawyer's Pas.
TILES. Ask your druggist for a free
sample package. 1t heals and cures.
Az Scranton Pharmacy, Scranton, and
j.. W. Stewards, Moss Point.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19
SPRINGS HOTEL,

OPEN ALL the e
Buy tickets to Buckatumua Station.
Mobile u Ohio Railroad, where you will
lind u. P. HearOn with free hacks to
Weekly Boardeis, to convey yon to the
Springs.
Tho Water is a positive cure for all
Stomach, Liver, Bowels. Kidney, Bladder
and Skin Discusses, aud Piles.
Being better prepared to accommodate c
those seeking health, than ever, with
nice for 80 guests. A trial Of this
water is all that Is asked.
For further information. address.
II. ]. PETTUS. Proprietor.
Healing Springs. Als
Way n, le'i. Atm
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-19

DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-11
PRESBYTERIAN Church,

Both morning and evening Rev.
Lee W. Beattie preached to full
houses.
Both sermons were along line
leading up to the week of prayer,
which began with last evenings
services.
The attendance, singing and gen.
eral interest gives promise of a large
spiritual blessing for that church.
Meetings each evening this week at
1880. Mr.. Davis, of Pennsylvania,
who sang ''The Handwriting On the
WalP' SO effectively last evening, will
aid with his voice in some of the
meetings, perhaps all. Everybody in
vited.
In the morning the services were in
part as follows
Text, John IL. IA. an the begin
ming was the word" and ''the word
became flesh and dwelt away up, full
of grace and truth"
Christ is the voice of God speaking
to men. Every man has some con-
ception of God. But no idea of God
is SO complete as the idea set forth by
Christ.
The catechism definition of God
is defective in that it leaves
out the idea of love, and that
is the faith of the Christian
religion. Christ came to show us
what the rocks and skies and flowers
and birds cannot show, namely, Gods
fatherhood and love.
And Christ shows us this love of
the father by being a man-'was
made flesh" He does not come to
tell us of this love-angels could have
done that-but He came to sho it to
us by loving "Dwelt among u.s." be-
came part of us, came in contact
with man, not as one stone laid by
another stone in the wall; but the
contact of life, of the leaven. The
permeating contact that caused every
part of humanity that it touched to
thereby live with holy life.
Christ was not an anchOrite; not
one of the race. He anticipated the
present sociological age. Yea, more,
He SO set forth the principles of the
divine fatherhOOd of God, which ne
ceSSitateS the brotherhood of man,
that there could in time have posi-
bly, been nothing else but a sociolog-
icdl age.
AS Christ took on Him the flesh of
humanity, and made humanity feel
the power and loveliness of grace and
truth, SO His church filled with the
Christ spirit is to be the great socio-
logical force in the world of human
ity in causing man to feel the power
and grace of God.
Personal contact of the Christian
with the world to be not of it but in
ito permeate it with the grace and
truth of Christ, is the great demand
of the hour. Without this there can
be no revival, no gathering of society
to the better life.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-11
Excellent Church Attend
anCe Yesterday.
(" The Imitation of Christ" and Mans
Ideal Character by Rev. Washburn
Rev. Beattie Discourses From
John-Rev. Stout On "Faith.''

Rev. +. Nj. Washburn introduced
his series of Sunday evening talks on
''The Imitation of Christ" last
evening, using II. Corinthians 3:10.
''We all, with unveiled face beholding
as in a mirror the glory of the Lord,
are changed into the same image
from glory to glory, as by the spirit of
the Lord" Everyone has his ideal
character. 1t may be the burly
bruiser, whose sole ambition is to
beat somebody into the dust whence
he came. 1t may be the hideous
highwayman that holds up trains and
waylays stage coaches and sandbags
the honest and Industrious business
man on his return home in the dark
ness of the night. 1t may be any
fend in human form who constitutes
the ''herO'' of some yellOw-backed
novel, gaZed upon by the eye of folly
until the silly reader becomes trans
formed into demon of like charac-
ter. 1t may be some ideal man of
higher type in some one of the varied
phases of human character and life,
either physical, intellectual, moral or
spiritual development. One of the
most profitable exercises is the study
of men with view to observing and
attaining lofty type Of manhood. A
man never reaches his highest ideal,
though if he be eXercisedt along that
line he will continually approximate
it. AS we ascend toward the
achievement of our noble ambition
our ideal continually enlargeS upon
us and rises above us.
The only perfect model and true
ideal of what constitutes true man.
hood and womanhood is Christ. To
study Him, to behold His glory and
aspire to be like Him is the nOblest
ambition of the human soul. To thus
inspire mankind, to restore to fallen
humanity the divine image, lost in
the fall of Adam, Christ came to
earth, took upon Himself the form
and nature Of man, lived and toiled
and suffered and died for us, that in
the power of His resurrection He
might accomplish in us complete
restoration to the divine glory. Now,
the open bible is the mirror that re-
fleets the glory of Jesus Christ, which
glory lie ueSlSuS lOf us, anu WHICH III
is ours to obtain, if we but gaze upon
the divine image with adOring love
and longing desire to be like Him,
to have wrought in us the grace and
glory of His character. To attain
this we must lose sight of self and
yield ourselves up to the will of God
in Christ Jesus, and thus gazing upon
the blessed Saviour we shall undergo
the lOnged-for transformation
changed into the same blessed image
reflected in Gods word.
We cannot do this of ourselves, but
when we yield ourselves to the gra-
cious process of denying self and be-
holding the image and glory of God
in the face of Jesus Christ, then it is
that the spirit of the Lord gloriously
accOmplisheS the work in us. 0,
who would not be like Jusus?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-11

and evening. The revival service at
night was very impressive, and three
came to the altar seeking Christ
Miss Esther Grannis sang "Ninety
and Nine" at the close of the evening
service. At the morning service the
pastor preached on "Faith For Re-
Suits" taking for his text Mark 11:22
"Have faith in God"
The text is preceded by the miracle
of the withered fig tree, which is an
object lesson on the exhortation given
by the text, and followed by words of
explanation showing the relation be-
tween prayer and faith. There are
two kinds of faith mentioned in the
New saving faith, which
is the name of that confidence used
by the seeker in coming to God for
pardon, and faith for results, which
names the confidence of the worker
in attempting to overcome the obsta-
cleS in his way. 1t is this latter kind
of faith mentioned in the text, and
to study of it's features as seen in
both the object lesson and the follow
ing explanation your attention is
asked. The various facts can be put
in the following propositions.
Faith apprehends the need of
the work about to be attempted.
u.-Faith canvaSSes the grounds of
confidence and assures itself of the
reasonableness of the hope which it
attempts to work out.
1lI.-Asserts it's confidence, having
become assured of the need and the
favor OF God through His promises.
lV.-Acts on the assumption that
God will give His promised aid and
make successful the work to which
He has called His children.
These teachings were applied to the
case in hand, the work in Mankato
and the people were urged to fulfill
the conditions on which power will be
given and success will result. AS
Gideon assured himself of need, salts.
fed himself of the divine favor by
test after test, and then went forth
to conquer host with a handful. As
Thomas, having dispelled his doubt
by a sight of the wounds of Jesus,
cries ''My Lord and my God," so we
may satisfy ourselves, and then move
out on the assumption that He is
with us.
Revival services will be held every
night this week, and all are invited.