The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-12-11

the Spanish Hover garden.
Cuba cannot aad should not be sold without
the consent Of the Cubans.
There is only one way to be Christian, and
that is to be one all the time.
The devil laughs when he sees Christians
making war upon each other.
A professor of history is not necessarily a
person incapable Of telling the truth.
The barber often has n close shave to make
a living, even when business is good. :,
The Vermont Legislature has passed bill
prohibiting Sunday excursion trains.
Men are managing Niagara, and yet some
men are incapable Of managing II wife.
Some people would rather cast shadow all
around them than to send out sunbeams.
What is the use Of giving suffrage to the
women? Don't they suffer enough as it is?
The Confederate pensioners in this State
number $500. The appropriation is $4,000.
The sword may somet,p,es be mighter than
the pen. But never in the hands Of a butcher.
Don't be selfish. If you are holding to
strong plank, let some other poor telluw catch
hold Of it.
Keep your head up. but not so high that
you canuot see the poverty and distress all
around you.
The average politician is backbonelcss. He
Is all things to all men. lie can be "good
Lord" or good devil"
Usually it is not the man who has wronged
vou whom you cannot forgive, but the one
whom You have wronged.
By recent order Boston policemen are pro-
hibited from leaning against any upright OBJ
ject during working hours.
When You find Yourself fretting and worry
ing, ask, "What good will it do?" and then 60
on il you find that it pays.
The ordinary game Of football is about as
dangerous to life and limb as the old gladia-
torial games Of ancient Rome.
Since the war $4,000, 900 have been ex-
pended by Protestant sects in educating and
chrstianlzing the colored race.
The greatest need of the world to-day is
men and women whose whole lives are dom
mated by great moral purpose.
The official vote Of Louis,ans is: BRYAN
Il, ,O9G; Mckinley, 22,Ol2; Palmer, 1910; Bry-
ans plurality, 55,os4; majority, 1924.
Mark Hanna, with a club, is looking for the
consummate rascal who said he was ineligible
Tor the position of Secretary Of the Treasury.
William Pepn says: "Sense shines with a
double luster when It is set in humility. An
able and yet humble man is jewel worth a
kingdom"
/ II you have never seen New York City, yon
should visit il at ere. The Herald says that
it will be entirely covered with water in about
5000 years. .,ai 81 r
The Vermont Legislature has rejected bill
providing f. r the teaching in the public schools
of the evil effects of the use of tobacco and al
coholic stimuIants.
Even "the basest and meanest Of mankind
could affect virtue il he had Il not. Bacon
SAYS. "Our humanity were apoor thing but
for the divinity that stirs within u.s."
st. Georges Methodist Episcopal church,
Philadelphia, said to be the oldest Methodist
church in the world, celebrated the 127th an
niyersary Of its existence on recent SUNDAY
Wevler has decided not to attempt to crush
Fthe sCaban revolution until after the first o
the year. lie probably wants to give his
troops chance to enjoy last Christmas or
earth.
In speaking of the evil and deceiving powers
from whom we win the jewel, the all-valuet
gold, Schiller SAYS: "There lives no soul OF
earth that eyer retired unsulied from thei
service" - p
[ JEAN Paul Richter SAYS: "The more weak
ness, the mtre falsehoed;, strength sgoe
straight syerv cannon bail that has in it hoi
lows and holes. goes crooked. .weaklng
must lic." es A''
Il We are told that in 1850 the cathedral Of 81
Paul, IAedon, needed repairA, and, no fund
being otherwise available, a portion ot the in
come of f;Westminstcr, which was consecrate
to st. Paul, was diverted. Hence the origin q
the expression, "Robbing Peter to pay Paul,
The ex-Slaye Pension Association met a
birmingham, Ala, last week and selectc
Rev. G. Myers, Of mississippi and D. B. Gar
rgt, Of Ohlehoma to 60 to Washington I
: Jlnaary and urge Congress 10 pension 1000
e1slasss who helped to fight the battles q
the country.
An attempt Is to be madc At the coming sci
sim Of the Missouri Legislature to put N
game Of foothsll on the saNe plane IA priz
Rghting, which Is felony under the pvcsev
laws Of the State. At present the distiuctio
, between the followers of The two games seem
to lie entirely in the hair--the slngger cut
Aix hair, while It runs to seed on the upper
crust Of ths kicker.