The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1899-02-17
Editorial and Otherwise,

Distrust thyself ever to the last moment Of
life.
Shores might be properly classed as sheet
music.
1t is up to some genius to invent horseless
sleigh. q
We predict short fruit crop in The South
this year.
The finest fru,t earth holds up to It's maker
is a finished man.
Some men have no more conscience than a
government mule. A
Nature has placed noihing so high that yir-
tue cannot reach it.
| An advertisement in the DEMOcRAT-SrAR
will bring good results.
| No bucket ever returns empty from the well
Of honesty and fair dealing.
Variety is the spice Of life, but the weather
man Is overriding the thing.
| The soap trust now being formed will, we
think, be slippery concern.
~ cannot tell le," said Agoncillo, ~ did
It with my little Ratchet face:
The cry Of a child and the bark Of dog are
worrysome, but not dangerous.
II gossips would stop to think their tongues
would get much needed rest.
Another name for the Uuited States Senate
| nl,,k
j The oraee crop has been damaged in LOUIS
lana by the late freezing weather.
The war proved that kissing bees were as
unpopular as hproism was popular.
An men are not made out Of dust. Dust
always settles. Some man never do.
Franklin: There are three faithful friends
an old wife, an old dog and ready money.
Some people get very patriotic and liberal
occasionally. 1t don't last long, however.
The average man is usually so glad to get
home from social that he's glad he went.
Misery men, whn have money to burn, will
not take it with them to the fire when they
die
The President is beginning to feel alarmed
at the proportions Of the embalmed beef scan
da. a
| The man who has madea failure of his own
business, usually thi inks he can arrange Gods
affairs.
Slew riding in ScreUanton SUNDAY, February
r
70, 1899. Hnw doee that strike ySss~aAsr hr
Sunny South.
The Aberdeen fxaminer SAYS that Frank ,
Newlans, Senator elect from Nevada, is ma
tive Of Naichez.
Are you building for eternityf The master
mechanic may want to oyerlonk your work
one of these days.
The seasoast orange trees are badly nipped.
Abont every fur years they are cut down by
the cold weather.
Somehow or other, when the bluff ia called,
Mr.. George Dewey, United States Navy, al.
wsvs has full hand.
When q wife has nursed cross husband
through a sickness she wonders how any
nurse can fall in love with a patient.
There are only two cows in Dawson City,
but the water supply is excellent and fresh
milk is plentiful. At least it looks like milk
II il funny how some people will kick at
something not intended for them. Bnt they |
Just can't help it. 1t is the nature Of the
beast.
There is a man in Philadelphia with three
legs. He should be politician and let the
boys get at him. They would have leg
pulling time.
Some men, when thev get on jag they are
awful liberal and sympathetic. When the
iqnor dies in them they fall back to the old
skin6int way.
That Atlanta girl who got married after an
scqusiniAncs and courship Of eight days, has
probably made . New Year resolution never
to do 81 again.
At Swedish weddings, among the middle
and inwer classes, the bridegroom carries .
whip. Lhis il an emblem Of his authority in
the domestic circle.
Our home IL not this mortal cline,
Our life has not its bounds in time,
And desth is out 4 cloud that lies
Between the seul and paradise.
Some men are welcome in the most exclu-
sive homea, and others break their way into
them. In the litter case it is generally called
burglary and Jail is the reward.
John D. Rockfeller's fad IL music, and II Is
said he plays every minute he Is st home.
Although greatly bothered By persons asking
aims, he never refuses man on the street.
"The man who whispers down we'll
About the goods he hss to sell,
Won't reapth cleaning golden do''ars,
| Like one who climbs tree and hollers."
Mrs. Cnrdslia Botkiu, the California woman
convicted Of causinG the death Of several per- |
sons By poisoned candy sent through the
\ maIls, has bssn sentenced to life impr'scn'
ment.
Mrs. Genres P. Greeley, of Vermont, q
sister of Admiral Dewey, frsm whom she has
! received, during The iattsr's entire ssrvses.A
letter written q saoh post at which 10
touched.
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