The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-10-08

the dead-beat.
A truly converted person should not be so
afraid of dying.
A good listener always has more friends
than good talker.
II is a noble stomach that can take care Of a
quarter of mince pie.
The man with empty packets has NO busi-
ness at a church fair.
The man who earns nickel and spends a
dollar will never get rich.
Ham sandwiches are sometimes made Of
almost everything but ham.
The yellow fever liar has certainly put in
his work in these parts recently.
The lumber drives at Bangor, Me-, are est-
mated this year at 72,Ooo,OOO feet.
The essence of selfshness consists in the
determination to have yonr own way.
A man likes to have everybody act as if he
felt at home except the family doctor.
Men sometimes think they understand wo-
men, but men are sometimes very foolish.
Some men have many good qualities, but
lack the one necessary to make use of them.
Boarders are apt to have liver complaint
when it is served to them seven times n week
II some men were known by the company
they keep they wouldn't he able to keep it
long.
We often waste more Of our energy in the
effort to avoid our duties than it would take to
discharge them.
Hogs aren't so bad as some women in street
cars. When you offer them something they
will at least grunt
The District Attorney Of Alaska says the
lives OF many gold seekers will be lost in
White Pass this winter.
A mans compliment is valuable in propor-
tion to how Young he is aud a woman's in pro-
portion to how old she is.
Would not the President do well to learn
from our health authorities how To quarantine
a against the office seekers?
A woman's idea of wifely care is to wait till
her husband is sound asleep and then wake
him up to ask him il he is asleep yet.
Because many Of our citizens are rather
yellow it is no evidence they have had the yel-
low fever. They were born that color.
In eighteen months, beginning in November,
lS0h, Spain sent to Cuba 1000 soldiers, 81
cannons aud a fully supply of munitions oi
war.
And now American butter is marching to
the conquest of the tight little island. Our
shipments have been most favorably received
in London.
One crime is never forgiven On the klon-
dixie, and cannot plead extenuation. To steal
an onion in the land Of scurvy is to steal a
horse in Texas.
We are an admirer Of brave man, one who
has opinons Of his own and dsres to express
them, not caring continental whether he
pleases the public or not.
The air that the spindles Of Dixie are hum
ming is echoed by the whistle Of the farmer
and together they mark time for the process
sion that is marching all through the country,
On her deathbed few months ago a st
Louis woman charged her husband to look
after the comfort Of a young woman cousin o.
hers. He did so by marrying her last week.
The regulation political boss is a public
nuisance as well as a moral menance. lie II
still more a reflection upon the community It
which his odious presence and influence art
tolerated.
| Governor Bob Taylor, Of Tennessee, made
speech on Irish day at the Nashville Exposl
,ion. In a glowing tribute to the Irish HI
said that "the only sclf-made mnn In thl
country is DR.. Mary Walker, and she is IRISH
A man who truly loves maid
Is always mnre or less afraid
To tell her so;T
But here old Nature comes in play
And make him moon in such n way
| That Shc way k"""'
The largest house in the world is in w'eden
n suburb Of Vienna. In this dom'c'le t''er
are 1900 rooms, divided into 400 suites OF iron
three TO six rooms each, and they at presen
shelter 2li2 persons, who pay an annual ren'a
of over ion, 900 forms.
Mrs. Oliver II. p. Belmont Is said to va'n
her famous marble house At Newport at w.
Ooo. 400. She recently refused an offer iron
Potter Palmer for Il spproSimatinU that sum
| I. "a assessed at ssoo,0oo. Cornelius Wander
bu,'s, the Breakers, is assessed at $s3S,ooo.
Experiments are being made at Portsmouth
Eng, with cordite as ammunition Tor quck
firing guns, for the purpose at de'sr'nin'n
| The visibility II the fash At night and now "a
i, woo,d guide an encmy's FIRE. Cordits
AHA Ia rive a much smaller aasb than pswdel