The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-05-28
Editorial and Otherwise.

ers by the lynn.
When man is after office lots of other fei-
lows get after him.
Fair and honest tradesmen are the best to
do business with
| English diplomacy consists in making the
other fellow cut bait.
The Goldfish of commerce certainly belongs
to the salt of the earth
Some oiliceseekers are spoiled very soon
after they get the spoils.
1t is common to dccry the Chnaman and
vet he certainly will wash.
Even without sails the United States war
ships take rect o caslonaly.
Don't trade with man who gives short
measure or short weight.
Some Of those plums are way out Of reach.
Therefore they are very sour.
Silence may be golden but not when you
ask rich girl to marry you.
Pulled sleeves are going out of style, but
pulled mediocre men are not.
Bob Ingersol asks, as suicide a SIM"
Well, no; not if Bob commits it.
Spain has determined not to give up Cuba
until she has nothing to give up.
There are always two sides to every ques-
ton-our side and the wrong side,
", 81 J.. tnn ,rnni "a, hn huuunh Tho bihlu
tells us to hold fast to good thing.
Seek and We shall hud applies very forciby
to the man who is looking for trouble.
If you want to please man, call him portly
If Won want to offend him call him fat.
The Senate seems desrous of willing away
grea, deal of time ON the Dingey bill.
Love needs no definition. Men and women
loved before dictionaries were discovered,
Ii is not what we know about the next world
that lrghtens US, but what we don't know.
The charity that begins at home is often so
discouraged that it never gets any farther.
When "A gir counts on her fingers, she in
lldUlN CNNl'S illhSN tn tHt =
God never gives Christian more strength
than he needs tor the work he is willing to do.
There are different ideas of luxury. The
rich man is often euyous of the poor man :
hair.
LIS no great credit to the worm to turn
when tread upon; AN, barrel-hoop Will do the
same thing.
God gathers his brightest jewels ont of the
common sand and sets at naught the judy
mrnt OF men.
A boy who has the right kind Of wisdom
will attend church and SIT in the same pew
with his mother.
tramp abroad in the morning for your
health is worth two at the back door looking
for something to eat.
If thou wouldst have thy sons possess wis
dom teach them to abhor bad companions and
doubtful literature.
God passes by those whom men honor and
seeks in the obscure corners Of the earth for
men to carry on His work.
To man up tree it looks as if some meas
ures should be taken to preserve the forests.
Saw mills will not do it.
New York courts have decided that a sand
Hich is meal The railroad variety is more
than meal. 1t is a nightmare.
The president of the State Bank at Cross
well, Mich, is IA lady, and the board of dlrec-
tors has lady upon it also.
In point of mineral resources Mexico is said
to be the most favored nation ON the face OF
the globe, Peru not excepted.
The food waters having left the State con-
vict farms in Mississippi the prisoners are
now being sent back to them.
A Massachusetts, man has managed church
choir for sixty years. No need for him to be
translated; he is an angel already.
Peter was poor, unlearned fisherman, yet
by the power given him of God he so preached
the Word that thousands were couyerted IN a
day.
A woman can drive man crazy for twenty
ty-iour hours aud then bring him to the gates
Of Paradise in two seconds by simply tickling
him under the chin.
Human life is but a series OF opportunities
for good ar evil influence. The use of some OF
the least Of these opportunities has shaken the
world to It's very foundations.
At Jackson, Mich, the other dav, a married
man broke his neck PLAYING leap frog. What
an ast0nlshed man he must have been a few
moments afterwards.
A novelty at the Tennessee Exposition i,
a giant seesaw, having beam 50 feet long
mounted on tower IS feet high. A car a
either end OF the beam will hold % people.
The Bible is the only text book that neye
has to be changed to meet the advancing civ
iizatiun Of the world. 1t stands alone as
fixed guide to man in all the affairs OF life.
The man who worries exceedingly in fea
that he cannot find wife who is good cook
is usually the one who after marriage fails t.
provide the woman in the case with any thin!
to cook.
The widow, in her penury, cast into th,
treasury but mite, yet with the blessing o
the Son of God upon it that offering has beef
an example to the world for two thousan'
wears.
Cary was nm humble shoemaker, yet hi
lowly bench became the watchtower of Got
unto the salvation Of u heather world and h
became the greatest missionary OF modern
times.
A curious case of "a long sleep" has recent
" occurred in an Alsatian village. countr!
lad, aged twenty, went to sleep Oh Januar.
10Th and only awoke after twelve days AM
nights Of uninterrupted sleep on January I'D