The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1900-12-07
Editorial and Otherwise.

Where to 60 when short Of money-go
to work.
A thing that must be pushed-a wheel
barrow.
Rural editors subsist principally on air
and water.
Conceit is but the self-esteem Of the
other fellow.
The Lord loves cheerful giver-so
does an editor.
The hardest thing to deal with-an old
pack Of cards.
A fellow sometimes gets it in the neck
in playing the races.
Pull down the blinds when you want
to kiss your best girl.
Heaven is like home; it is open after
the other place Is shut. q
Some people do mortally hate to pay
what they owe the editor.
An inveterate liar cannot be trusted
under any circumstances.
A dentist says teeth are like verbs
regular, irregular and defective.
1t will not be good form to call him
Teddy after the fourth Of next March.
Come in and surrender, Aguinaldo.
All is forgiven and no questions asked.
Familiarity, it is said, breeds contempt.
Don't 60 to see your best girl to often.
Swapping horses is pleasant past
time, provided you get the best horse.
The fellow "who couldn't find his
match" decided to 60 to bed in the dark.
Public enterprise rebounds always to
the good Of the individual who displays
it.
Advertising for wife is about as alb
surd as getting measured for an um'
brella.
Dobbs says the reason cats are 30 mu.
sical is because they are all fiddle strings
inside.
Call no woman old until she has ceased
to throw apple-parings over her right
shoulder.
Remember, fun does not mean license,
nor merrymaking disregard of proper
decorum.
The young farmer who inquired the
best way to start nursery was advised
to get married.
Doing the dirty work Of pretended
friend often gets the poor simple fellow
in peck of trouble.
The last note Of summer has been y aid
with interest, and the first one Of winter
is about to be discounted.
Crapshooting is strictly negro game
though white men and boys are caught
indulging in 1t, sometimes.
Very few women like to think the
Lord knows as much about their hus.
bands as they do themselves.
Standard oil stock is getting 80 high
that one Of these days to force 1t higher
it will have to be exploded.
Secretary of the Navy Long has an
nounced himself in favor Of the general
extension Of woman suffrage.
"'Tis sweet to have friends you can
trust;" but it's sweeter to have friends
who are not afraid to trust you.
People who find the most fault with
the editor are the hardest to get money
from when they owe for their paper.
Just 80 long rs there are footpaths and
roadways across the tracks Of railroads
people will continue to be killed on them
Somehow the author of love story
never sees the wart on the nose Of his
hero or the freckles on the face of his
heroine.
A woman will do without an article
she has long needed in order to give
wedding present or send flowers to
funeral.
Religion affects the sexes different. A
man begins going to sleep In church
when he is Atty; woman rarely begins
before she Is sixty-flve.
| An old sailor at the theatre said he
supposed that the ballet girls wore
dresses at half-mast, as mark of respect
to departed modesty.
The DEMoCRAT-STAR don't accept
many Of the patent medicine advertise
ments that are offered 1t because they
want too much space for the money Of
fered.
"Never lie on your left side," says OF
exchange. No! II you happen to be OF
that side when you want to lie to you
wife about the important business tina
kept you At the ofiice so late, turn over.
President Mckinley, In his Unio'
League speech, congratulated thos
Democrats who helped him In the cleo
ton. These are doubtless the same fel
lows who want TO re-organize; they Ger
tainly need II.
II is said that the 4-cent stamp In th
new series to be issued and sold durinl
the next year In commemoration OF tn
Pan-AmelIcan Exposition at Burial
will haye ts its central picture moto
vehicle, representing the latest form Q
transportation.
Tho DEMocRAT-STAR office has q pc
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