The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1901-09-13
Editorial and Otherwise.

Thought is supreme.
TO think rightly is to create.
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Better go to bed supperless than rise
in debt.
Nothing dries sooner than the tears of
o hypocrite.
The mill cannot grind with the water
that is past.
Revenge is the only debt which it is
wrong to pay.
We increase our wealth when we les
sen our desires.
Their is no grief like the grief which
does not speak.
What maintains one vice will bring
up two children. .
We become like that on which our
hearts are fixed.
II you would be wealthy think of saw
ing as well as getting.
When the tree is fallen every man
rushes to it with hatchet.
There are many takers, but few know
how to converse agreeably.
1t is the summer Of our discomfort
when the felt hat is felt hot
What often passes for modesty is
merely another brand of conceit.
Dirty windows speak to the passer by
Of the negligence of the inmates.
1t seems as if something were bound
to break if the glass makers strike.
The world owes every man living,
but it seldom is the kind he wants.
The right mental attitude is one Of
courage, frankness and good cheer.
Associate yourself with men of good
quality if you esteem your reputation.
1t is necessary to hustle in order to get
there, but some men overdo the thing.
Undertake not what you cannot per-
form, but be careful to keep your prom
ise.
Do not fear being misunderstood, and
never waste minute thinking of your
enemies.
Nothing makes a man feel so small as
to be run over by bicycle ridden by q
woman.
"Always at trifles scorn to take Of
fense, it shows great pride and very
little sense"
Wireless telegraphy is an established
fact, but the hashless boarding house is
yet an iridescent dream. =
No other discipline is so good for any
mind as the constant measuring ones
self against a.high standard.
Mixing business with pleasure is easy,
but the thing that counts for most is
finding pleasure in business.
A Massachusetts, girl is climbing
steeples for wages. The public looks on
hoping to see the foolish thing fall.
When girl says emphatically that
she won't, it is morally certain that she
will; when she says she will, will she?
A girl should never imagine when she
marries that her attention to personal
neatness and department may be relax
ed.
When man has made love to a mar
ried woman she never tells her husband
about it for fear he will prevent its hap
pening again.
OF the convicts in the Kansas peniten-
tiary seven are women serving time for
murder. One has forty years sentence,
another thirty years.
The most learned philologists declare
that the origin Of language is an insolu-
BILE mystery, and language itself is an
uncomfortable problem.
Ill fares the man, to fastening woes
aprey,
Who fails at quitting time to put his
work away.
The woman who wishes her converse
tion to be agreeable will avoid conceit
or affectation and laughter, which is
spontaneous and not natural.
II tsome business men were judged by
the close attention they give to other
peoples business they would be in great
demand in the commercial world.
The want Of cleanliness is fault
which admits of no excuse. When wat
er can be had for nothing, it is surely in
the power Of every person to be clean.
Picture in your mind the able, earnest,
useful person you desire to be, and the
thought you hold is hourly transform
ing you into that particular Individual
"why is the Isle of Wight fraud?''
"Because 1t has Needles you cannot
thread, Freshwater you cannot drink,
Cowes you cannot milk, and Newport
you cannot BOTTLE"
Adying missionary said: "It is my
deep conviction that II the Church of
Christ were what she ought to be, twen-
ty years would not pass before the Cos
pei would be uttered in the ears Of every
man."
One Of the strongest indica items Of ad.
vsncement on the part Of mankind is to
be found in the fact that the preacher
OF today doesn'tdisturb people with his
yelling, even when the church windows
are open.
AT the birth Of Japanese baby tree
is planted that must remain untouched
until the marriage of the child. When
the nuptial hour arrives the tree Is cut
down and the wood IL transformed into
furniture. =