The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1899-10-27
Editorial and Otherwise.

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laziness.
Stand up for the right, regardless of
what people say.
Don't send away for your goods. Buy
from home merchants. -.....-
Nonsense is all right in its place. 1t
is great matchmaker.
The newspaper is the index to the
of the town.
Don't go in debt trying to keep up with
the fashions of the day.
Some people sometimes cut off more
than they can masticate.
Few girls practice economy as faith
fully as they do the piano.
Blowing up trains seems to be favor
ite pastime with the Boer.
"Don't be clam" has led many man
to make himself donkey.
Every President of the United States
has been lawyer or soldier.
The kissing-bug has come and gone
but the humbug is ever with us.
Everybody is looking for cheap ho-
tel, but only few will admit it.
There is always room at the bottom of
a woman's letter for a postscript.
Some vain people would put on airs
even if they had no clothes at all.
Humbugs are gilded coins of plausi-
bility from the mint of deception.
Keep in the middle of the road and pay
no attention to your "back-biters."
Nearly 100000 copies of the Bible
were prited in New York last year.
Don't forget to vote against the Noel
Amendment on the 7th day of Novem-
Der.
Texas officials have approved over
5000 applications for Confederate pen
sions.
A nation may be rotten and still not
fall in the category of 'decaying ma
tons"
The man who sells his vote probably
gets what he wants, but not what he
ought TO get.
Fashionable japanese young ladies,
when they desire to look attractive,
gid their lips.
No sermon impresses itself upon peo-
ple's minds like one against card play
ing and dancing.
1t has been shown that "nobody"
discovered Dewey. He was evolved by
the merit system.
The motto of the bunco steerer is:
"Never put off till tomorrow the man
you can do to-day"
Miss Helen Gould has recorded pro-
test against the seating of Congressman
elect Roberts of Utah.
Some people are loved because of the
enemies they make and hated because
of the friends they make.
These are trying times on the business
men of this country. But there is bet
ter time coming by and by.
There's probably no success so sweet
as that achieved by acting contrary to
the advice of our knowing friends.
The people of England drink only
sl7. 600, 600 worth of coffee annually-$3s,-
OOO, 600 less than they pay for their tea.
Scranton frequently gets hard raps by
strangers coming here posing as capital
lists. Our citizens are easily gulled.
Paving for books on the installment
plan is good deal like paying for
newspaper that you have already read.
The man who will not marry until he
finds a woman who thinks before she
speaks may remain bachelor all his
days.
Dewey has declared positively and en-
phatically that he will not be Presi-
Dental candidate. Now let the Bryan
band wagon move on.
If married women will conduct them
selves as pure women, they will not be
ostracised or critised by the people of
their town.
Fifty cats took possession of Liver
pool mans house while his family was
away and the human beings attempt to
eyict them was repulsed.
Horseshoes in Japan are simply slogs
of twisted straw, and during journey
many have to be carried to replenish
those which are worn out.
The DEMOCRAT-STAR Is read by the
rich and the poorest in the land. 1t is
strictly Democratic and stands by the
party in adversely as well us in prosper
ity.
Tommy, aged five, was strutting
around the house in his first pair of boots
and being told that his baby sister want
ed to kiss him, said: an just bet cent
that kid takes me for her father"
"I.augh and the world laughs with
you; weep and you weep alone," or In
other words, If you prosper your friends
are ready to share 1t with you; II your
road is rocky they leave you to travel
alone.
The true moment at which to call up
on ones self to take any new step IN
virtue Ia at the faintlng point, when "
would seem so easy to drop all and give
all up; when, II you do not, you make
Of yourself power.
An Ice man in st. Louis, who lost MS
eve by IN accident two months ago, was
married few days since, and his fellow
A~s1,v,,sa ~ giving him aOme-