The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1900-06-01
Editorial and Otherwise

Some penalties must be paid in ad-
vance.
Practice until you learn to come off
gracefully.
Man never makes truth; he only dis
covers it. I.
The terrors of death are due to the cr-
rors of life.
A draught Of the water of life is the
best liquor cure.
The methods Of bad men will crop out
in spite Of themselves.
It's horse and horse when a jockey
gets wife who nags him.
The white people intend to rule this
country. That is no joke.
Sometimes an animal gets his tail in
crack by being too smart.
1t is we'll to appreciate good examples,
but far Better to emulate them.
Habit once welcomed becomes fire.
quent and OF uninvited guest.
The easiest burdens for us to bear are
those which we voluntarily assume.
Those who see praise are generally
satisfied il they receive flattery.
The war correspondents seldom let a
day pass without ending the war.
It's the nature of man to think that
every fellows job is easier than his own.
The acme of sociability is reached by
the candidate the day before the cleo
ton.
1t is much easier to keep track Of
where our money comes from than
where it goes.
The privileges of the floor Of the SEN
ate was refused the Boer ENJOYS by =
vote of to q.
The downward path seems pleasant
enough If we don't stop to consider
where we are going.
Thackeray said that good humor is
one of the very best articles of dress one
can wear in society.
The boy who expects to be respecta-
and influential man should keep out of
all dens Of vice and iniquity.
Good and true men will always con-
demn the wrong-doings of others, even
if they do liye in the same town.
The only kind of matrimon bonds
that some women are after are those of
the United States Is and 5s variety.
The minds of some men are like wax
they take multitude of impressions
that melt away in neated argument.
The State Bankers Association of
Mississippi, which met at Canton recent
ly, adjourned to mcetat West Point next
year.
"Man wants but little here below"
says the poet-and that's just what some
women get when it comes in the shape
of q husband.
A man is always glad to have fortune
smile on him; but it's a toss up whether
he would rather have her frown ut him
or laugh at him.
The mortality from pneumonia is still
quite high in the German army. Every
soldier convalescent from it has fur
Tough of four weeks.
"Haven't you found in the long run
that honesty is the best policy" "Well,
no. have found that one Of these tom
tine policies pays best.
The road to fortune lies through
briar patch of difficulties, and some of
the thorns are often found sticking in
the ultimate success.
A Chicago predicts that in 500 years
Chicago will be inundated by Lake
Michigan. The city is sinking at the rate
of nine inches every 100 years.
The man who sells remedy to keep
hair from falling out conditionally-"a
cure or your money back"-does not, in
case of failure, give the victim his hair
| back.
A couple living near Rocky Springs,
Pa, have a daughter II years old who
weighs 25O pounds, and another aged l5
who weighs 372 pounds.
Men who form ice trusts to put up
prices in the face of poverty and suffer
ing, to wiring more money from victims
who must have ice, are nothing short Of
criminals, and are being SO regarded and
prosecuted In New York.
1t would seem that when man feels
he is Republican, a populist or DEM
ocrat that settles 1t, whether he knows
anything about the doctrine Of any paf-
ty or not. This is an age in which 1t is
the policy Of the politicians, rather than
the doctrine Of the party, that counts.
Horses, Giraffes and ostriches have
the largest eyes Of all terrestrial AMI
| mails, but among marine animals there
are cephalods, or ink fishes, which have
eyes as large rs plate.
A Scranton, Pa, court IL asked to
grant the claim Of one Isaac Eidebottom
agaist the estate Of John 6hafer deceas'
ed, for ''entertaining the old man'plsy'
ing checkers" during the greater part Of
three years.
It Ia probably not unnatural that I
man who can boast Of long silky board
or fascinating ,nustachs should BE- CON
stantly stroking and caressing III just
a man with I small foot bows down
and worships II every night before retir
ing. Talk about the vanity Of women
forsoothl
| The Chinese dentists makes Artificial
teeth from The femur d IN OK, and in
ssrts them by peeeing : copper wirs
through them and laslsning % ths d
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