The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1901-05-03
Editorial and Otherwise

fOlltcnesS DeIOTe IOECc'
Draw your bow, but don't shoot.
You can't clap hands with one palm.
He who rides tiger cannot dismount.
Gold is tested by fire, but man by gold
Everyone gives a shove to the tumb.
ling wall.
Sweep the snow from your own door
steps.
One dog barks at something and the
rest at him.
A near neighbor is better than dist
ant relation.
Man is God upon small scale. God is
man upon large scale.
Without error there could be no such
thing as truth.
"Duty" is q difficult word for some
people to pronounce.
Some men imagine themselves firm
when they are mulish.
1t requires a cloudy day to make us
appreciate the sunshine.
Thunder makes the noise, but the
lightning does the work.
The thief on the cross had never dead
beat country editor.
The critic is fellow who sees every.
body's faults but his own.
The serpent plays no favorites. He
may even enter the pulpit.
Black robes and faces do not always
stand for righteousness.
Honesty is the best policy in all mat
ters of business.
A few psltry dollars are very tempt
ing to some men.
One can do what he cannot do II he
does what he can.
Love is the larger law thatwill sue
ceed that Of liberty.
He who loves Christ intensely will
love man extensively.
Nobody was ever known to be entirely
pleased with the fit Of their clothes.
II you lend man money and he cam,
pay 1t back, he gets mad at you.
Greatness Is never thrust upon the man
who leads an aimless life.
An angry person in an argument re.
sembles a cripple in foot race.
It's hard to convince an honest man
that the world ia full Of thieves.
No man was ever so much in love that
it interfered with his appetite.
The young man who has to scratch fol
living seldom sows any wild oats.
People who say nothing can offend as
deeply as people who say too much.
1t is not the wine that makes man
drunk; 1t was the man himself.
Neighbors never get along well after
their dogs fight each other.
II God gives you hard tasks be proud
that he has so much confidence in you.
There is more pain in practicing
brotherhood than in preaching about it.
The man who fights shy Of his credit.
ors is not made of the right kind of stuff.
Two unacquainted women meeting al.
ways look at each other--after they have
passed.
II 1t were left to q vote, kissing be
tween women would be voted down
without dissenting voice.
The more careful a woman is about
her complexion the more careless she is
about her housework.
1t is easier for young man to fool his
own mother than 1t Is for him to. fool
any other woman.
An irreverent writer says that Satan's
fall was probably due to his having
slipped on peal Of thunder.
$50 dark and yet SO light" said the
funny man as he looked at ton OF coal
the driver had just delivered.
When the light Is turned on the dark
deeds Of the fellow cast him down in re.
gions Of darkness. He is done for.
The horse that starts out at too swift a
gate usually pulls up lame-and men
are pretty much like horses.
A meal to man means piece of meal
and cigar; to u woman 1t means some
thing to talk about and fluffy dessert
There are men who will laugh at q
woman for buying a nickel package Of
chewing gum, then proceed to blow in
quarter for an imported cigar.
Charity should begin at home, and
then good supply Of 1t should bt
generously scattered around among thu
neighbors.
As we must take all doctors on faith
we see no reason why they should rais'
such rumpus over those who profess t.
cure by faith.
The reorganization of the Democratic
party quietly settled down by the ston'
wall after landing against It. It's al
ready organized.
A Spaniard, It 10 claimed, has solves
the problem OF aerial navigation. w
understood that Spaniards knew how Il
fiy before this.
VIII the man who sells cat for pos
sum commit misdemeanor within tn
meaning Of the pure food bills II so, le
II be enacted.
The man who will not advertise
IL the very man on whom the files
| Delight to light:
But he who advertises right,