The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1900-12-21
Editorial and Otherwise

1ncalculable harm is sometimes the re-
suit of few words.
An awful drop-the father with an ex-
pired certificate.
Forwardness proceeds from ignorance
oftener than from impudence.
Take care of the thought and the
speech will take care of itself.
A wrinkle is the first thing one wo-
man sees in the face of another.
An advertisement does not sell goods,
but it helps the seller to sell them.
No man appreciates poetry unless
there is little of it in his makeup.
"Behold how great matter little
fire kinleth," and the tongue is the fire.
Some people are down on their neigh
bors bee ause they are unable to come up
to them.
He'll has more to do in the manage
ment Of an unruly tongue than we are
apt to think.
"The Tongue Of Liberty" is the title
Of late novel. OF course the heroine
is married woman.
A woman says that tight shoes are
comfortable because they make her for
get her other troubles.
Friendship purchased at the sacrifice
of principle will in the end prove
thorn in ones side.
1t takes some people whole lifetime
to find out that no dollar is big enough to
give an hours happiness.
One of the great drawbacks in this
world is that man never knows 1t is
too late until it is too late.
An unruly tongue, like an ungovern-
able horse, will do great injury to the
owner as well as to others.
The old woman who lived in shoe is
probably the only one who never com.
planned of its being too large.
Not seldom is it the case that the man
who tears reputation to tatters himself
has no reputation to speak of.
In the matter of educational fads in
the public schools it may be remarked
that any fad is one fad too many.
When a merchant stops advertising,
people get the idea into their heads that
his business is "going down."
Too many of the men who boast of be-
ing self-made seem to have been inter-
rupted before the job was finished.
There is no happiness in having and
getting, but only in giving. Half the
world is on the wrong scent in the pur-
suit Of happiness.
The average salaries paid school teach
ers in the entire United States in 1899
were $45.25 a month for men and $3s.l4 a
month for women.
Cincinnati has policeman whose
name is Runoff, and when there is trou-
BILE in his immediate vicinity he is said
to be true to his name.
The devil is standing very close to the
Christian who persuades himself that
his work is more important to God than
that of somebody else.
The home instructions many children
receive in regard to the Importance Of
honorlng the truth is so defective as to
be practically worthless.
"Let not thy left hand know what thy
right hand doeth." The Christian hands
should be kept so busy for God that they
will have no time for gossip.
Bishop Taylor has said, "The tongue
was intended for an organ of divine
praise, but the devil often plays upon it
and then it sounds like screech OWL"
Newspaper advertising is the very
best hustler any firm can employ, going
into hundreds Of homes, and reaching
homes that are approachable in no other
way.
A Western genius has invented pre-
paration for restoring old paintings. A
preparation for restoring new umbrellas
TO their owners would fill long-felt
want.
Too much fuel may put out fire. A
CRATE needs oxygen as well as coal. You
may hear good deal of preaching, but
without the breath of the Spirit there is
no soul heat.
A short time age japan passed law
prohibiting the use Of tobacco by per-
sons under 20 years Of age, and making
1t punishable offense for anybody to
sell the weed to minors.
An old writer has said: 1--WE have two
eyes and one tongue. We may see twice
as much as we say, but unhappily men
generally act as II the reverse were
true. for they say much more than they
see."
In Norway before girl is allowed to
marry she must have q State certificate
that she can cook. And yet there is q
disposition among ignorant people to
consider Norway some distance behind
the advance guard Of civilization.
1t is SO easily to add to what we see
and hear. Many things are SO thorough
ly transformed after having been repeat
ed by several persons that it would re-
quire very sharp critic to detect much
resemblance between the first and last
version
etotIOn.
the track Use of this kind" said the law
II, IL wafe are many things to be In.
parallel and before l take the case
what mi Q thingin particular that must
atastroph into" II presume" said the
ds should at you refer to my pocket
It.