The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-11-01

commence ana maze Tree OF Lnier SELL
inflicted sufferings. They can no
more repress the desire to tell out
their woes than they could control the
impulses which led to them. The one
is but the converse Of the other, even
as Loves shadow is Hate. AS with
their trouble within the home, so Is IL
with their enmities, their quarrels,
their misunderstanding without.
When an Irrepressible is in the midst
OF social war, he rushes hot-foot to
all his friends and associates, making
his own case good-till the other side
is heard. That other side generally
puts different complexion on the
face of the matter; and perhaps the
irate Irrepressible himself is proved
in the wrong-shown to be the one to
whom is owing the whole germina-
tion. growth, Towering and seeding of
the poison plant. This Is sure to be
so when he is dour, susceptible, self
tormenting person, who sees insults
where none were meant, and sights
in the airiest nothings. For this sui.
len kind of irrepressibility is as true
to life as the more bright and bub-
bling, the more buoyant and gassy.
And when we have dealings with
these uneasy-tempered and suspicious
Irrepressibles, we have a very fair
notion of one Of the pains Of that
Malebolge where sinful souls explate
in torments the crimes committed IN
the flesh.
Irrepressible are the fond-and fool
ish-hopes which have no root work
In probability, but which are just
possible without miracle, and no more
than this. AS irrepressible are those
equally foolish fears which see dan
gers where none exist and destruction
in the smallest risk. Certain people,
more especially women, 60 through
life IN one unending terror Of evil
dreams and fatal results. When they
drive their horses will run away, lame
them for life and smash the carriage
to smithereens. When they walk,
every honest old Joe, going to and
from his work, is a footpad with a
hedgestake beneath his rags. When
they sit at home, they are always
smelling fire and hearing burglars.
When they travel by rail, they make
more sure Of an accident than of safe
arrival at their destination. Fear
dominates them at all four corners.
In the twilight, ghostly visltants pass
and waver in the cold gray air; at
night, "airy voices syllable mems
names" and call to them from the
depths Of the unseen world. When
the morning breaks, it brings a pre-
sage of disaster during the day and
all this misery is as uncomfortable as
the laughter Of happy child, as the
rain of tropical sky, as the frost of
the ice-bOund North. Governed by
their fears, they suffer in their self
made, substantial and non-existent
inferno, just as their brothers and
cousins rejoice in the FOOLS paradise
where they have taken up their lodg.
ing-paying rent by their nationality
and good sense.
Irrepressible In familiarities, so are
these folks in discussion. Nothing
will stop them when they have
a mind to talk, and for no ones
opinions have they respect or consid-
Grafton. At the table of home ruler
they bring forward their strongest
imperialist views as that of a stanch
Conservative they will advocate home
rule and down with the house OF
lords, one man one vote and fly
for that stake which once represented
stability. The bated breath and the
courteous phrase have no place in
their controversial armOry. Had they
more rcticence Of manner they must
needs have less irrepressibility Of
nature-again that flame of fire not
being the product of an iceberg. As
with politics, as a religionist he is a
fanatic pure and simple. A second
Peter, he carries the fiery cross
through dale and hamlet, and on to the
tops Of the far-reaching hills; or, as
Jenny Geddes, he filings his "creeple
stool" at the officiating minister, and
blasphemes such doctrines as he may
not like. II he does not approve OF
what he hears, irrepressible and in
considerate, he lashes out In disdain-
full contradiction, as II he we're the
only person whose opinions had to be
consulted, and the one whose inallen-
able possession was the key to truth.
Whatever is different from his creed
is wrong, and whatever he thinks
wrong he attacks. His acquaintance
is an embarrassment at all times, but
never so much as when he seeks to
convert and to controvert, to prose
lytize and to turn from the error Of
their pernicious ways those who have
been born and bred 10 their present
faith, and those who have thought
out the matter from end to end and
stand where they do by force Of reas'
oned conyictiOn.
The Irrepresslbles reck little Of
these reasoned convictions. Their sole
desire IL TO press their own views, nt
matter at what cost or through WHOSE
pain and when they have made somt
angry, others perplexed, and all IN