The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-15
Editorial and Otherwise.

Preferences, as a rule, 90 BY contraries.
Police court judges are ine-mposng men.
A new hat 10 one thing woman can always
undergo.
Many people prefer half loaf to = steady
job.
An auction store is always a for bidding
place.
Everything seems to get round in a sewing
circle.
The year 1898 began and will end on Satur-
day. ts
We beliese the United States can whip
Spain.
Men who patronize "bucket shops" are little
dippers.
When women begin to quardel there is no
end to it.
Those who easily take ofense always find
plenty to take.
II ia useless to be good unless you are good
for something.
Uncle Sam is duty bound to take care Of his
trade relations.
1t is a wise fool that cau keep his lack Of
wisdom to himself.
A wagging tongue often spoils lot Of nice,
sweet silence.
Peanut vendors might be accused Of work
ing a shell game.
The honeymoon often ends with the groom's
last quarter.
A teacher who uses the rod is apt to make
his pupils smart.
April, so far, has been month Of great
events in the United States.
On July 4ih the l2sd year Of American iu-
dependence will begin.
The Hebrew year $3.50 will begin at sunset
IT Friday, September 10th.
Labor Day will be September 5th. Thanks
giving should be November 24'h.
Don't think for moment that the office ever
has to seek the man on pay day.
Don't forget that it is always better to swsl-
low insult and bitter pills without chewing.
Don't run in debt and mortgage your home.
II is not so easy to pay off mortgage.
Thirteen is an unlucky age for girl. She
| is too old for dolls and too young for beaux.
Niagara Falls is sort Of jumping off place
for some people who Look before leaping.
A woman always enjoys ripping up some
thing useful to make something ornamental.
A recent invention is n tandem with re-
versible from. s.at. This fills the long felt
| want Of lovers.
What the very young man doesn't know he
thinks he knows, and it answers the same
purpose.
An old bachelor says that a woman's change
of mind is an example of an effect without
cause.
| No matter how high man may fly he's got
to come down to earth occasionally for board
and lodging.
In our opinion the stay -at-home crowd will
be in the majority in case Of war. We belong
to that crowd!
Think Of the errors Of the past only long
enough to get incentives to do better in the
future.
Hamlet is an easy part Of the tragedy to
play, but he has to hump himself whenever
he takes Richard III.
Rev. Edw. Thompson is lecturing thro' the
State on the "American Sunday" and organ
izing "Sunday Leagues"
Because Kansas hen laid an egg with the
word "war"o IN the shell, the Chicago Dispatch
wants the matches battered down.
People who hsbituAly gossip never under
take to point out the eood in others. II they
did they would have no food for gossip.
jackson has q negro turning white in spots,
similar TO the one familiar so many years on
the streets Of Brookhaven.
True greatness is not achieved by one great
act, but BY the faithful performance Of little
duties from day to day.
It is possible that there is no true friendship?
, To trust person as such and be deceived is
enough to make one lose faith 10 all mankind.
Find out the weak point IN your character
and concentrate your forces there, for It is
there that the devil will make his most vigor-
ous attack.
Candor Is the seal Of noble mind, the orna-
: ment Of man, the sweetest charm Of woman,
the scorn Of raseals, the the rarest virtue
Of sociability.
Truth is quite beyond the reach Of satire.
: There Is 81 brave . simplicity in her that she
can no more be made ridiculous than an oak
Q or tree.
Don't get mad II your poem is returned
with the editors regrets. Preserve the msn-
uscript and read II over ten years later; then
you will rejoice that II was thus.
The range OF the most powerful gun 10 the
world, designed by the American army bureau
of ordinance, Ia nearly 10 miles. That may BE-
regarded a. the proper ratio.
Soms young men take after their fathers
and some after their mothsrs, says an ex'
change, but blame sight more Of them take
after their nsighbor's daughters.
The war rumors have sent the price Of code'
up some, making our breakfast tables = littl'
more expensive. II 10 said good substitute
far coffee used during the civil war we're swesl
potatoes, thinly slicsd, and baked 10 crisI
and ground iuto powder.
: Doetors IN Sweden never send bills to thsiI
I patients, the amount Of remuneration bs'nl
LEFT entirely 10 the generosity of the latter
which Leads the PhiladslphIa prsss 70 obssrvs
: III that wsrs lhs ruls IL THE eoantsy thsrs
would b need for Ne orsspIsaslea of sos'ssy