The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-05-10
Editorial and Otherwise.

No man is good who behaves himself simply
because he has to.
This "Went via morphine route" is getting
to be quite prevalent.
Have nothing to do with the thing that bad
men are in favor of.
The hardest battles we fight are the ones we
have with ourselves.
There is more power in gentlencss than there
is in dynamite.
People who really want to do good will soon
or or later find out how.
Be content with little victories, whether you
are cripple or not.
A bitter tongue acts like cancer on the
aspirations Of its owners.
The millnner laughs fit to kill herself at the
untimely spring rain.
Even innocent acts can Ill afford to carry
semblance Of secrecy.
In ninety mine instances of every hundred
gossip is not worth repeating.
Kinds county will hold double primaries to
select State and county officers.
Yellow fever prevails to an alarming extent
among the Spanish troops in Cuba.
The mortal who refuses to look ahead will
never find much pleasure in looking back.
There is not so much failure to be charged to
'poor luck" as to bad management.
Life is too short for attempts of pretenc es
that end in nothing
The Grand Lodge Knights Of Pythias will
meet in Aberdeen on May IA, 1895.
Our duty rs to be useful, not according to
our desires, but according to our powers.
The Standard Oil Company thinks it owns
the earth, hence it objects to paving the in
come tax.
Idleness is the hot bed of temptation, tn.
cradle OF diease, the waste of time, the canke,
worm of felicity.
II requires the tnsks Of three elephants to
furnish a complete set of balls for billiard
table.
II we are ever in doubt what to do, it's .
good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish
on the tomorrow that we had done.
The Governor has appointed Hon. Leroy
Percy, Of Greenvlle, Trustee of the Stat,
University, vice Gen. g. Y. Freeman, de
ceased.
The new women of London are going to ge
up a new Bible. They propose to give w"mal
the right Of suffrage and make her superior t.
man in all things.
The sense Of the report of the Royal Com
mission of England to Parliament, is to til,
effect that opium, taken in moderation, is no
injurious.
Mr.. Cleveland will have to pay 1920 incom,
tax on his salary, much larger income in it
self than the majority of the fellows enjoy VIII
pay HIM his $4,000.
Two candidates for alderman of Evanston
H., who each received the same number O
votes, decided the matter between them with
dice box.
Canning horse flesh is prominent industr.
Of the far-off State of Washington. II i
shipped to France to nourish embryotic Ma
poleons.
A Vardaman Club has been organized a
Greenwood with some fifty members. Its OBJ
| ,aat ,,.;n hn 10 a. In hcu ,sra cc
K. yardaman for Governor.
Blindness is on the increase in the Unite
States. In 1850 there were but 400 blind pei
sons to the l,000, 900, and in 1890 the ratio ha
increased to 500 to the 100000.
A recent advertisement in a country news
paper reads thus: For Sale--A bull terrie
dog, 2 years old, will eat anything, very fon
Of children.
An exchange says there are three kinds
people IN the world, the wills, the won'ts an
the can'ts. The first accomplish everythin,
the second oppose everything, the third fail
verything.
Thomas Belch, of New York, has recovere
$4,000 from the New York Central for the 10.
Of hand. This is a pretty fair sum, but SON
poker players have received more than III,
for good hand.
Il According TO Senator Hill, the Monrt
doctrine is merely a bit Of bunco,nbc whic
means nothing to European nations, notwitt
standing the jingoistic construction some
times put upon II At home.
The New York paper which figures out o.
ability to lick The combined armies Of EuroI
would find il more profitable TO utilize u
talent Of the writer of that article in it's circu
alton department.
Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease, in the multiplicit
Of her sayings, sometimes gives man the "Ior
of creation,"s hit that is square from Il
shoulder. One Of her latest hits is this: "Tt
sight Of male creature on bicycle prove
to me that man is fast getting down on =
fours."
The manufacture Of stockings and gloves I
paper has been started. The articles are ligl
and very cheap. The fabric Is made Of paps
yarn, spun like other yarn, and then woven
the same way ss other cloth, . soft nap bein
given u Il IN the process.
"The blue Bells Of Scotland" wss the wor
Al Annie Mcvicar, aftsrwkfd Mrs. Grant. II
daughter II Scottish o@cer in'ths Britiu
Grmy. rhs melody was Iosg believed 70
Scottish, but is'ucv haowa Y h VI Englis
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