The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1899-11-10
Editorial and Otherwise

A truly selfish person is not the kind
to trust.
Vim, vigor and victory is good motto
for live town.
1t is not wise to howl and growl even
over misfortrlnes. -- --.a-s-.---.. ~. .--,- 80.
Bad blood will crop out in most people
you meet these days.
Let us hew to the line, let the chips
fall where they may.
Marriage brokers are responsible for
many broken heart.
At Baltimore coachman was fined
$40 for delaying a car.
knowledge is weakness when it is un-
necessarily displayed.
Bryan has got the rheumatism. He
has also got the people.
A Massachusetts court holds that foot
ball is common affray.
Hobart is better-but Hanna and Nc
Kinley are as bad as ever.
The upper hand is usually known to
the other hands as the foreman.
No, Maude dear, the youngest soldiers
are not always in the infantry.
Only the man whose money burns a
hole in his pocket has money to burn.
Every community prospers in proper
ton to the public spirit of it's citizens.
1t is easier for man to forgive his
enemies than it is to forgive his friends.
The man who struts around like a tur-
key gobbler is just about as important.
The great trouble with some people is
you can't depend upon what they say.
1t won't be long before the census man
will be around taking your pedigree, etc
A man of no settled principles is not
to be trusted under any circumstances.
There has been fifty-five cases Of the
so-called yellow fever at Jackson up to
date, and only ten deaths.
The more man studies love, the more
he will reduce his ignorance to science.
To be "long" on cotton, whether long
or short staple, appears to be the proper
caper just now.
1t is no disgrace to work for living,
but the living some men get for their
work is disgraceful.
to 1,tn, ut fnr n
ably because the experienced traveller
prefers lower berth.
The Beers evidently scored base hit
near the base of that hill in the immedi-
ate vicinity of I.adysmith.
Gen. Maxine Gomez, the Cuban pGtri-
OTIS wife was Mississippi girl. She was
educated in Wayne county.
Dewey is said to have hung up his hat
in his new house. But somebody passed
the hat around for him first.
Some men would rather be right than
be President, but there are Others who
are not so bloomin' particular.
Woman leads the world. She used
smokeless powder for ages before man
thought of trying to invent it.
The women who stray from the paths
of rectltude are always young and beau
tiful, SO the newspapers tell us.
If a man succeeds he attributes it to
his own endeavors, but If he fails he at
tributes it to the endeavors of others.
About all some women do when they
clean the house is to change the beds
from one side of the room to the other.
There is no truth in the rumor that
Roosevelt has retired to deaf and dumb
asylum for the purpose of teaching
mutes to talk.
The Mormons are preparing for Wig
orous campaign in st. Louis. A score OF
their missionaries are preparing to make
converts in that city.
The stock-raiser sometimes finds it
difficult to make both ends meet, but the
check raiser is nearly always sure of his
board and lodging.
Miss Floretta Vining, of Hull, Mass.
owns nine newspapers. They came tc
her by her fathers will and she over
looks the running of them herself.
1t is said that up in the moonshine dis
trict in east Tennessee q popular minis
ter has this inscription posted on his
door: "Jug not lest ye be Jugged."
The best newspaper--the newspaper
that succeeds-is, as the writer under
stands it, free from any annoyance Of
ownership and independent in its utter
ances.
Lieutenant San Diego Maceo, a son o
the Cuban leader, is on his way to figh
the Philippine rebels. In an interview
at Omaha he said he hoped some day t.
be president Of Cuba.
A writer in the Picayune well say
that "quarantine" has come to be thu
most brutal word in the English Ian
guage, because 1t murders commerc'
and assassinates prosperity.
The Montgomery, Ala, Advertise
says: "From table in one Of our ex
changes we learn that Philippine town
have been captured thirty-seven time
and abandoned thirty-one times Tha
leaves us six ahead.
Admiral Dewey has Cancelled all hi
engagements 10 visit Western ant
Southern cities on account Of Ill health
He has recently said that under no con
dition would he enter the race for th'
Presidency.
In the Transvaal July and August ar
the midwinter months, October, Novem
ber and December constitute spring, ane
summer sets in shortly after Christmas