The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-07-29
Editorial and Otherwise.

Sunlight is great tonic and deodorizer.
| Making the most Of it-inhating balloon.
Some people practice the rule or ruin policy.
The Spaniards no longer have ships to
burn.
Shakespeare has discouraged many spring
port.
A town is judged by the character of its
people.
Major General Shafter parts his hair in the
middle.
Don't be afraid of your lamp. 1t wont hurt
you.
Death puts the finishing touch even to self
made man.
In one sense OF the word, barroom is never
the room for improvement.
Keep full of hope, but never dignity whisky
by that name.
Power is splendid thing to have, but good
wife Is much better.
Money is an excellent lubricant for the wheels
of happiness.
Sometimes train ofthought has very light
load in the way of originality.
| The National Toothpick Association claims
an output Of fftty-two car loads of toothpicks
annually.
! I,-goten wealth cannot build any kind of a
house on the rock.
|, is mnch easier to acquire fault than it is
to inspire a virture.
A Texas girl baby has been named Schle-
vette.
Many a man ia compelled to take married
life according to directions.
Don't try to make one lamp furnish light
where two or more are needed.
Don't fail to report any accident to the line
to the power house.
The proof of the pudding is sometimes the
post-mortem.
Some architects can draw better houses
than some actors.
When in doubt as to what to say suppress
your thonghis.
Lots Of Young men look like animate cloth
ing dummies.
intellectual women make better wives than
they do sweethearts.
Promises tha, are the hardest to obtain are
the surest of fnlfillment.
The Spanish war news reports have no
parallel in the line of atter-day fiction.
Dear Mr.. Kaser--Do not attempt to mon
KEY with AdmiralDewcy.
Cervera had close shave, but still wears
his whiskers.
Help the poor and needy Is the Christian
duty of every human being.
Never refuse your daily trials, but never try
to lift the burden of Tomorrow.
Every unkind treatment to the COW poisons
the mlk--eveu talking unkind!y to her.
It is the business OF the newspaper editor to
"makc long story short"
The flag of Spain is folded forever from the
rampnrts of the second city Of Cuba.
The Spanish admiral evidently thought that
we were too good to fight on Sunday.
Pm not denvin' that women are foolish
God Almighty made em to match the men.
Poverty is no disgrace, but it is rather un-
fortunate to be numbered among that class.
| A dock tailed horse illustrates that the end
does not always justify the means.
1t is hard to believe that sin will bite when
it comes along with gold in its teeth.
1t isa good maxim to forgive many oifenses
of others before you fully excupate yourself.
The phonograph is something like the dude
in that although 1t has no brains it talks
freely.
What are you doing to make it easier to do
right and harder to do wrong in your own
town?
We are getting down to war now in earnest.
One of the quartermasters has Soes arrested
for robbery. -.
The cheapest advertising is not always the
best. The cheapest goods are not the best
either by great odds.
A woman more easily torgets man whom
she has loved for years than one whom she has
hated for nm hour.
It was Commodore John c. Watson, then
lieutenant, who lashed Farragut to the mast
in Mobile bay.
Broad gauge energetic, rnshing men will
always succeed in whatever avocation they
may engageip.
In Kansas man named William Office has
been elected sheriff. This is a case of Office
seeking the Office.
Most everyone Is willing TO help bury dead
man, but how few are willing to help a living
one out Of the miro.
The Spanish have discovered that the Amer
lean fights Just as hard in war as he hus'es
for dollars in peace.
There is no telling what mischief design
ing man or woman can accomplish to the detri-
ment Of good people in community.
Just as the President was preparing for
church to bow before his God, the Spanish ma
ton bowed before $1,000, 900 American sover-
eigns.
Don't try to down worthy, enterprisnr,
upright man. Encourage him to push on, to
surmount obstacles md round up at the top
Of the ladder Of success.
They will snpak around and borrow their
neighbor's copy of the "O Old Reliable" and
then say that they nsvsffead ~ Aper. That
is down right lying and dead Mig
when an oflcsruf the Law NIu(ss ~adsr Ms
criticism Of The prsss, q prins facis svi-
dencs that said oGicsr has A1ssn dirslist h tbt