The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1900-05-25
Editorial and 0theFy

FamlIlarlty DTeeus COHteInpI
You are judged by the company you
keep.
A rich man is one who needs no ex-
cuses.
Every man has right to do the best
he can.
There is no accounting for the taste Of
some people.
Stick to the truth and you will always
be respected.
One sometimes finds it hard work to
go down hill.
Some men would rather fight for a
living than to work.
1t is better to have in the fire too many
irons than none at all.
The Sultan would better pay us $4,000
not to bring him cruiser.
The poets have done great deal to
sadly mislead the world.
The best laid schemes of mice and
campaign managers gang aft a-gley.
Some Of the smallest specimens OF hui
manity show the tallest kind Of vanity.
Man was not made solely to stroll
from town to town hunting for trouble.
Don't take the trouble to make it warm
for the man who turns you cold shoul-
der.
The prodigal's greatest difficulty Is to
sober up and settle down at the same
time.
Be careful not to tell people who live
in easements that you will "drop in
again."
1t is getting SO that even birds Of the
same political feather refuse to flock to-
gether.
The predictions Of the politician are
largely q means of advertisement and
deception.
Iongfellow claimed there was some
thing true besides Heaven; namely,
poverty.
If ignorance is bliss, what horribly
unhappy fellow must be the man who
knows it all.
Some reformers have grown so benev-
olent that they insist that 1t is cruel to
kill microbes.
The late election for local officials in
the smaller cities of Indiana resulted in
Democratic gains.
If people lamented their own faults as
much as those of others, the millennium
would soon arrive.
You will generally find the name Of
the "brainy" young man at the top of
! the announcement column.
The rainy-day skirt occasionally re-
veals the fact that small beginnings
have great endings.
Some men think so highly of them
selves that it is difficult for them to be-
lieve in superior being.
1t takes something more tangible than
wind and water to run newspaper sue
cessfully-money and plenty of it.
Secretary Abbott, of the Democratic
executive committee smelled mouse
and proceeded to nip it in the bud.
There are times when man feels that
the weakest excuse, II he could think OF
one, would be mighty good think.
The pool room has been the ruin of
many promising young men. Shun 1t
as you would the blind tiger, boys.
A man who can't look you straight in
the face when he Is talking to you Is no
good He will bear close watching.
Kopje means a hill. Khaki is thin
cotton duck, from which soldiers uni
forms are made. Laager means camp.
If you want to keep up with the times
and the news Of the day, read and pay
for the DEMoCRAT-STAR. Only ~ year.
One may declare that he is Democrat
until he is black in the face, but some
friends will never believe word OF 1t
unless one Is willing to vote for them.
Senator Allen is still overworking his
eloquenee to prove that the American
people are suffering from an ingrowing
grievance.
"A Texas girl has been accused Of
soaring her best young mans cheek
with red hot poker" says the Nash
Vile American. She seems to have ia.
ken him for cattle.
A Sherman young man, being eager to
break of an engagement to marry, used
~ seen" and ~ taken" in the presence
Of his fiance. Being graduate, she did
the rest.
1t Is surmised by some that the differ.
ence with Turkey has been created as a
means Of giving Admiral Sampson .
chance to win o fight
II the demand for new issues continues
to grow, by the time the Kansas City
convention meets the Chicago platform
may be last years birdsnest.
til . wonderful political party that Il
not split somewhere these days. Th'
Populist party Of Texas u split just I
little on the side.
There are some dens Of infamy run BY
men who pass as decent and respectable
because they.happen to have some mon
ey, although II may have been gotten BY
unfair methods. But % Mark Hsnni
says, money will talk.
The federation Of women's clubs Il
soon to meet in San Antonio, and 1t Il
predicted that even the previous record
for flne dressing are to be broken int
very small fragments.
The trustees Of Kentucky town hsv'
granted : license to saloon keeper or
a q - -rl r.