The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-11-01
NUMBER 81.

proselytizers when met with, say In d
hotel, or friends honse, where you
cannot escape! Are they nocOnform.
lists and Is there Romanist among
them? Never do they let the sins
and errors Of the elder church fall
into oblivion for want Of routing out
and setting In array, like so MANY
cocoanuts to be knocked down by d
skillful hand. Are they Romanists In
the midst OF PrOtestants 7? Then, do
they insist on the claims OF authority,
tradition, succession, denying the
validity Of all orders outside their
own pale, and refusing to the poor
shivering souls before them so much
as shred Of the wedding parchment.
So with all the rest-that wise liber-
ality which allows to others the free
dom and sanctity Of conscience 1t
takes for itself having no place in the
Irrepressible's repertory Of virtues.
The Irrepressibles have no delicacy..
We may take that as an axiom proved
and sure. Ifyour nearest and dearest
have offended their susceptibilities,
they will abuse them to your face with
unstinted measure and unrestricted
breadth. In vain your show Of dis
pleasure by glacial reserve or warm
defense. Your Irrepressible cares
naught for either attitude. He is an
elephant crushing down the young
sapling-as hard-hcaded Ounce chas-
tised by peacock's feather. Full OF
his wrongs, real or fancied, fevered by
that false wrath which comes from
personal antipathy, they one and alb
pound away at that kit OF personal
enmity; and no bride fashioned by
man or morally, by good manners or
consideration, restrains them In their
onslaught. Perhaps the most embar-
RAISING position that a man can be
placed In is when one OF this blatant,
noisy and intemperate tribe falls foul
Of near relative, who, by his account,
Is nothing less than scoundrel, while
he himself is injured innocence in
person and spotless victim Of perfdy
and villainy.
On line with him, II at slightly
different angle, stand those blunder-
ers whose social mistakes are among
the stock of chestnuts of anecd0tists.
THAT fat frowsy wOman"-whO Is
your wlfe-"that painfully hideous
foOl"-who is your daughter; your
"flsh-eyed" husband your ''goat-like"
father. Who does not know the whole
roll-call Of social enormities commit
ted by those headlong Irrepressibles
who neither read faces nor understand
accents? Indeed, they understand
nothing Of all which others take as
their guiding principles though life.
They have no perception Of the true
shape or color Of the circumstances in
the midst OF which they stand, no
provision Of consequences, no thought
Of the future. Not looking before
they leap, with shut eyes, and all un-
conscious Of where they are going or
what they shall find on the other side,
they take the jump and plunge into
that caldron of boiling water stand
ing ready for them, or into the social
analogue of that SerbOnian Dog
"where armies whole have sunk"
Sometimes, indeed, they suffer pun
ishment so severe as to prove their
virtual redemption. For like the child
who has burnt itself, and thus learned
not to play with the fire, so do the
Irrepressibles at last learn a little
caution and some reserve An action
for libel, for instance, is a famous
bride for unruly impulses-as good as
the old "branks" which tanned the
ancient sculd. And when our Irre-
pressibles not only lose friends and
lovers, offend relatives, and are cut
out OF wills because OF their indiscreet
utterances, but also have to stand In
the defendants place in court, Be
severely lectured by the judged and
cast in damage besides, then maybe
they "tak' thocht and mend," to
which worse creature than they was
once so powerfully entreated.
A few years ago the State Board
decided that the actual attendance Of
a child IN school necpSsarv IN haipu n