The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1901-08-02
SCRANTON, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY AUGUST,
Editorial and Otherwise.

Editorial and Otherwise.
Despair is the gateway to insanity.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
No man Is cured by medicine bottles.
Envy is the disappointment Of all fools.
A light tongue often makes heavy
heart
You cannot kick and haul at the same
time.
Rare is true love, true friendship is
still rarer.
We are disciplined to prayer byI our
distresses.
After all the golden rule is good one
to live by.
Woman's honor like ermine will not
bear soil.
No church can be strengthened by the
absent treatment.
For one to govern his thinking is to
determine his life.
There are follies as catching as con-
tagious disorders.
True and uniform politeness is the
glory Of any young man.
or all thieves fools are worst-they
rob you of time and temper.
An honest man is able to speak for
himself when knave is not.
Originality is the faculty Of adapting
an old idea to new occasion.
Fame, like lightning, generally strikes
the man who is not expecting it.
A mans bearing wins ten superior
women where his boots and brains win
one.
There are some men who are favorites
and who, like cats, light forever upon
their legs.
One who tries to live right can ill af-
ford to notice spiteful things others may
say or do.
1t takes more grace to forgive than it
does to shit back" at one who tries to
injure you.
Unless man has an exceptionally
good memory he should not set himself
up as liar.
Berlin has on the average only twelve
days in the year when no clouds at all
are seen in the sky.
Father and mother divide the Office Of
the sun between them, the one gives
warmth, the other light
Now the bottle makers combine. If
the bottle lifters get together the coun-
try must tremble, indeed.
Nothing is more dangerous than a
friend without discretion, even pru-
dent enemy is preferable.
Keep out of quarrels-it is better to
give mule an ear of corn, than to be
meddling with his hindquarters.
The faults of others would not appear
so enormous if we turned the search
light on our own shortcomings.
When you make man mad by telling
him the truth, you can be sure you shook
the pepper box over sore place.
The repentance that is delayed until
old age is too often regret for the
inability of committing more sins.
The generous who are always just,
and the just who are always generous,
may, unannounced approach the throne
of heaven.
Pleasure is often but change of pain.
A man who has had the gout feels first
rate when he gets down to ordinary
rheumatism.
Happiness of the human race in this
world does not consist in our being de-
void of passions, but in our learning to
command them.
An act by which we make one friend
and one enemy is losing game because
revenge Is much stronger principle
than gratitude.
Thoughts are our private property,
and we can regulate them to suit our
tastes entirely by steadily recognizing
our ability to do so.
Men are born with two eyes and only
one tongue in order that they should see
twice as much as they speak. OF course,
this does not apply to women.
Heads of great men all remind us,
If we go the proper gait,
We may get up in the morning
With head that's just as great
A spiders thread is really composed OF
four smaller threads, each of which con.
sists Of 1000 separate tiny threads, SC
that the thread we see is spun Of 4OO(
films.
A wealthy doctor who can help pool
man, and will not without fec has less
sense of humanity than poor ruffian
who kills q rich man to supply his
necessities.
White cats are in general said to b'
more savage and less intelligent thar
gray or tortoise-shell. Many Of then
have blue eyes, and all such are said Il
be stone deaf
| Why should man be jealous Of an
other who has more friends than him
self Poor little gooseberry, don't SOU
yourself because you are not and neve
can be an apricot
There are days and scenes which ar
lived over again years after they Or
numbered with the things that were