The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-29
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Editorial and Otherwise

Editorial and Otherwise.
or two evils choose neither Of them.
No poodle dog ever satisfied a widow.
Clubbing rate.--Five dollars per head.
The demand for more is unlimited.
A woman's wit is sharper than it is sweet.
II is the best policy to stick to old friends.
Do not try to work the world with your foot.
They say that our new recruits are hot stuff
The cultivation Of tobacco is prohibited in
Egypt.
One close shave sometimes lasts a man a
liftmc.
The editor is not the only man who needs a
waste basket.
Every inmate of an insane asylum is head
nurse.
The doctor Is often more dangerous than the
disease.
The Mother Hubbard Brigade is organizing
for the war.
To grieve over split milk is a screaming
farce.
Balloon sleeves and no skirt make women
topheavy.
No man ever respects a woman who does not
respect herself
Remorse and economy are always faithful
followers Of the races.
Surgeons always make their bills out accord
ing to ihe cut.rate schedule.
How the weeds would laugh If the farmers
we're to strike for eight hours a day.
There is no duty on the wool the candidate
pulls over the eyes of the voters.
The hen is good example Of perseverance,
but an example You can't always set.
Napoleon ate with his knife in a vain effort
to he original.
II appears to the drunk man that he is tur-
ing the world over.
Make the best Of what you have and what
you can not get also.
All that some people take in is just what
they absorb.
A wife is still fond Of her husband so long
AS she nags him to wear a porus plaster.
Don't forget that men who marry widows
never make mis- takes.
War, with is horrors, is upon us again. If
il be of short duratinn.
The DKMocRar-SrAn is upward and onward
notwithstanding the war.
Some people will take to strangers and get
awfully taken in, too.
Bays, keep stiff upper lip and keep your
powder dry.
Those who talk the loudest about war do the
least fighting.
Many so.called patriots will 60 to the woods
now since war is II fact.
Don't judge men by their looks. Fast.look.
ing men are often slow pay.
Don't meet trouble halfway. 1t is capable
Of making the entire journey.
Dom bother yourself as to a mans meaning
when he tells you he has a boss wife.
Don't desert your colors, stand to your coun-
try, right or wrong.
| Remember the destruction Of the battleship
Maine and the 266 sailors murdered in IIa-
| vana.
Don't think that because soft answer turns
away wrath that it will turn away book ped
dlcrs.
Don't imagine you are veritable Samson
and try to accomplish too much with jaw
bone.
The war will d. more harm to the Gulf
States than to any other portion Of the United
States.
| Some people can borrow trouble when they
cannot extend their credit in any other direc.
tion.
| When woman tells Z man she cares for
him, she always tries to make him think he
made her d. it.
Many Of the old Confeds. will show their
love for this government by cheerfully re-
spending to the call for volunteers.
Getting drunk is a sure way OF getting q
''head," but il ia not calculated TO put one
ahead Of the world in the slightest particular.
Americans, awake, arise,
And bear to victory,
Der other seas, to other skies,
The banner of the free.
People at st. Thomas, Ont, were so super.
st,ious that they wanted the supervisor to re-
wise the lists when they we're told that theil
town had increased by thirteen inhabitants
during last year.
Women are to the fore In educational mat
ters in Colorado. Out Of the 50 counties i,
the state q have women superintendents q
schools, and every school board has one or tw'
women members.
The cotton seed industry Of the soutl
anounts to 1000, 900 tons annually, valued a
$il3, ,o0o, 900. In 1867 there we're only fou
mills in operation; in 1897 there we're 800, will
more than $50, 900 900 invested.
About 10000 bales Of cotton are booked 70
shipment to Japan this winter from the siugl
port Of Seattle. This is said to be so per cen
more in value than the value Of all America
exports to Japan during the season Of lS0l-95
Lundy island, In the British channel, ha