The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-08-13

Filthy lucre does not constitute the hlghest
good Of man.
You can easily fill the public eye il you have
sufficient dust.
Many man has lost the road trying to keep
out of the ruts.
A sharp point is better than hard punch
for deep stick.
Energy and honesty never fail to declare
good dividends.
What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the
habit Of mankind.
| Never enslave your moral sentiment by the
love of filthy lucre.
Don't narrow down your souls to the limited
range of the squirrel.
Nature never lays by for a rainy duy what
is needed for to-day.
| Marriage is never failure unless the man
proves to be failure.
II people would never do wrong, they would
hardly be overworked.
Make the most Of the present with wise
reference to the future.
The most tremendous sigh known to the
world is the sigh-clone.
Trust and worry cannot abide in the same
heart at the same time.
The boy who always tells the truth will
never get to be very mean.
Never talk too much. A stiff lower jaw is as
useful as a stiff upper lip.
We have something tn do in this world be-
sides crying for spill milk
The man who spends. all his silver for whis-
key should try the gold cure.
Ovid was all right when he said, "U ynu
wish to marry suitably marry your equal"
Faithful performance Of du'y usually beats
a strike for a better j"b and higher salary.
A man who never advertises wonldn't recog.
nize prosperity if it were his next door neigh
tor.
Never Judge man by the clothes he wears
form your estimate from the wearing nppare
of his wife.
Music may have charms to soothe the sav
age, bnt its the popular airs that give him tha
tired feeling S
Never look a gifted woman in the mouth
you cannot tell her age, as she will only SHOW
her new teeth.
When man gets lost himself he Away
wants to tell everybody he meets how to &c
out Of the woods.
:. Debs compares himself to Christ; and, II
his own estimation, to the manifest disad
{, vantage Of the latter.
The lumber trade is said to be UNUSUAL.
prosperous, and yet there is no reduction il
the price II tooihpicks.
A Boston woman is afraid the singing Il
/ Heaven will be monotonous. She may neve
: have chance to find Ovf
The war between the miners and the mine
owners pron,iees To be longer than that be
, tween Turkey and Greece.
al Some lives are so full OF light that they ar
always dropping .sunsLine and poetry, an
: the world brightcns as they pass.
Even a heavy dew is more refreshing t
vegetation in dry spell ihaa b"mbardmen
Of thunder without drop of rain.
" The Delaware peach crop is short. But
doesn,t matter much, as peach brandy can
made very easily without peaches.
A lawyer asked the witness IL he was maj
ried. "No sir" replied the witness, II wa
!" hurt in saw mill is why Ilook SO bad"
The Boston street car conductors are n
ouired To address their lady passengers :
"mads,ne, y instead Of "lsdy," as formerly.
b. An Illinois wcll-dgger fund big re
n snake eighty feet below the surface, and It b
= him. or course It was the snake that died.
II appears that by early importations II
v. Lawrence (Mass.) wool and wors'ed mani
facturers have saved more than 100000.
III duties.
= An exchange very senaibly remarks th
d. where there is doubt Of a rnurderer's SAINT
the hangman should be given the benefit
", the doubt.
: A man should never associate with peop
n. unless they make him better. Aud he has
right to associate with them unless be max
them batter.
n, A Chicago man last week got drunk and i
. wife scolded him for It. lie got mad andco'
nd mitted suicide. This should teach wivesHo
NOR. careful. 80
The latest census shows sSy 900 negroes
q, Washington, D. c., in 4 population Of on
!. 81, 900, but Washington negro is pref
IT. big fellow 10 political way.
= Nebraska has "a new religious sect whc
Id. missiou will bs "a friehtsns sths devil. Afts
years interval they willtavt fun compari
=, potes with the Salvation Army's bass drum
). Secretary Of War Russell A. Algsr has
&C. I,ths porirsit Of Jcgsrson Davis hung In
no Iasgs reception room Of The war dsplrtme
30 where hang the portrs'ts Of all ssdestssiss
py war. M. Davis was secretary under PrssM
for Pierce, and be entered shs Cabinet Marcel
/. 1883.