The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1899-03-24
Editorial and Otherwise

Try the ice before you venture upon it.
Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot.
Every one has his trials aud tribulations.
As long liyes the merry hearts as the sad.
Shirk not your duty as a man and citizen.
The DEMoCRAT-STARis is upward and onward.
During March winds freckles make their de-
but.
Every man is more or less of a hero to him
self.
Pay whatever amount you obligate yourself
to pay.
The trouble with man is that there are
women.
The best way to beat poor carpet is to buy
good one.
Russia wants reciprocity treaty with the
United States.
Pucilstically speaking the tongue is might
ier than the glove.
A brave officer will not ask his soldietsto 60
WHtTc Hc "oH x" niiHsr''.
Be outspoken on all questions Of the day l..
Have an opinion Of your own.
Spring chickens are a back number this
season. Thew "friz" a-borning.
Perhaps fish might be a fine musician if
he would only practice his scales.
Remember the widows and orphans. Help
them with your means when you can.
Don't ask for a loan OF money when you
know you have no way Of returning it.
Every so often woman likes to stroke n
mans hair and ask him if it rests him.
A man always feels better when he keeps
his subscription to his county paid MP.
A fortunate man is one who isn't reminded
every time his wife smiles of dentists bills.
Stand by your convictions. Swerve not
| from that which you think is right and just.
|, 1t takes money to publish even weekly pa
per. 1t can't live on promises and air alone
After all there isn't any better friend thar
|
The President has appointed Herbert Put
nam, of Boston, Mass, to be librarian of Con-
gress.
Sow mn act and you reap a habit: habits
make character aud character decldes youl
destiny.
The morazer considers life but a dream nm.
I'll the demoralizer comes along aud wake,
him up.
Butter has the advantage Of eggs; ever
when it is bad it is sometimes better than nj
butter at all.
This is the season Of sackcloth and ashes
but when the tennis season opens it will b.
sack coats and sashes.
Covetousness turns a man ont Of thu
warmth of his own house to stand shiverinl
IN his neighbours doorstep.
No man is jumped on so quickly when h
does wrong as the man who made himself
kself-appointed guide tor others.
The best man in the world is not half a
good as h,s friends think he is, nor the wors
half as bad as his enemies say.
When a man fails in business his thought
turn at once to securing public office. Ev
cry man thinks it is easy to get one.
At the age of 25 a man must be either en-
gagged or married or else the women begin /
wonder why he doesn't behave himself.
There are lots Of people in the world wh
would find pleasure in minding their own bus
mess when they once became used to it.
A woman will worry more when her COO
leaves than she does when her husband is over
taken BY some appalling financial disaster.
The woman who goes through an afternoo
Of progressive euchre without showing tn
tiniest trace Uf a bad temper is rarely fount
.Pugists are not the only boxers-undel
takers are a little in that line thenlselve
This is not only a gruesome, but true state
ment. NJ
Many a girl who marriss man just becan'
. she thinks scme ether girl wanted him wish'
that the other had him before the honeymos
wanes.
We are annoyed until We are thirty BY Il
! "example" We should follow, and after tn
time till death gets Us at the "example" '
are setting others.
The management Of the largest and newe
: hotel In Boston has just decided to excln
: "drummers" or travelling statesmen from Il
!. house on the ground that they do not wish q
lobby turned into business office.
"She angled for husband,
With a very delicate touch,
But she scared all the fishes,
Her toneue--it wagged 10 much."-
A woman can pretend to be happy wher
bad husband or wild son, or something u
that is breaking her heart; but when she b
. hat on that 10 unbecoming her coura
n willis.
An ex.sherif in Maryland surprised
:, ueiehbors BY building hen house from
:" scsfFold on which faur murderers we're hang
but he Is the only man in the nsishborho
: whose chickens have never been raidsd.
A strange custom 10 followed BY Mexie
farpars. They use oxen Of one color In
mot Ing and another color 10 the aftsrnos
!. They 10 not know Why, but they know u nj
b. right 10 Do, bssauss their iorsfath'
didik 49, D ~ s,