The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1900-02-09
LOVE FOR OUR FRIENDS; COURTESY ALL; FOR NONE
SCRANTON, MISSISSIPPI FRIDAY FEBRUARY O. 1900
Editorial and Otherwise

Editorial and Otherwise.
Good Friday was called Long Friday
by the Saxons.
A man must so ahead and find out In
order to be sure.
The Beers helped the British in cary
away the wounded.
some peopleare so careless they don't
care for anything.
Life is short day, but 1t Is . working
day. Activity may lead to evil, but in
activity cannot lead to good.
Now that the preserving season is up.
on US, 1t stands to reason that we may
expect family jars.
Queer how the clergymen rail against
the divorce courts. II there were no
clergymen there would u no divorce
courts.
Philosophers tell us that one half the
world doesn't know how the other half
lives. Women can't be as inquisitive as
they seem.
The snubbed fellow always kicks.
The conscience Of some men are like
rubber, 1t is elastic.
"Truth is stranger than fiction" 1t
Is also stronger than fiction.
A professional pimp Isl leg puller
Of the lowest order Of human beings.
An honest merchant will see to 1t
that his customers always get full
weight
Girls are hard up for husbands when
they are willing to take any sort
of thing that comes along with pants
on.
When marriage is failure the wife
is as much to blame as the husband.
Hard work will never I'LL near al
many people as idleness.
Four million women in the United
States are earning their own living.
The politicians may occasinally have
q new bonnet, but inside Of 1t you will
find the same old bee.
The men who do business, not the mer
who talk about doing business, are thu
kind of men that are always in demand
Never cheat or be unfair in your play
Cheating is contemplate anywhere o
any age. Your play should strengthen
not weaken, your character.
A Chicago girl says, "Society is the
white woman's burden"
A man in business with love affail
on his mind, is handicapped wove thar
the business man with broken leg.
A Chicago woman who Mas been mar
ried flve times refers to mstrimony as q
''personal adventure"
Scotland has two women to one man
1t seems that Utah has three to one man
Money is the lever that moves thu
world-but 1t takes diplomacy to handle
the lever.
AlwoSs look on the bright side, If 1t IL
not so bright as to hurt your eyes. Look
on that side anyhow, even II you have te
get . pair Of dark goggles.
Little Marion ended her evening prayer
in this manner: snake grandma live
long time. Make her live as long as
do-and, oh God, see il you can't make
her little taller"
1t is o wise man who, when confronted
by two evils, sees way out Of choosing
either.
The pocket book of the average wo
man usually contains little Of every
thing except money.
That t6ik is cheap will be amply illus
trated in political circles from now unit
November next
In his private bookkeeping, maj
credits his success y himself and charge
his failures to fate.
The man who is happy In his illusion
IL more to be envied than he who dc
rives pleasure from dispelling them.
Even In dull times the man who deal
In umbrellas Is sustained by the refiet
tion that sooner or later his goods ar
sure togo up.
Ifit were possible to condense al tn
wisdom In the world into one short ser
tence, II would be impossible for . yOun
man in love to remember 1t Ave minutes
n The man who is able to take in ssitt
alton at glance should have NO troubl
In finding . job
|. A hypocrit is . man who in trying
fool others fools only himself.
| A Boston Judge decides that when
newspaper publishes statements th'
are true, in good faith without malic
there is no ground for damages for libt
A tongue made Of rubber and restir
on pivot set between the teeth belonl
to New York man. He Is also able
) talk distinctly and freely, and eats Wi
ease.
81 Man learns Of his enemies lessoI
] which his friends can never teach hii
All the world loves generous Low.
! who brings around alarge Oox OF csno
\ every night.
A man may stand above reprcach sn
still be caughtin On occasional sno"'
OF bad eggs.
The saying thst the sun never sess .
British poss ssssions is explained by tn
Boers by declaring that "0od could nt
trust that nation in the dark" Meai
While old Sol u setting regularly on th
! Transvall.
8 ANT. savin, Of baltimore, widows
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