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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-05-17
ing in new atmosphere of fresh night

ing III a new atmosphere of fresh night
air.
whats the matter, Kate?" they
inquired in concert.
Nothing" answered Kate; "do |
look illP I feel little faint, that's
ALL"
"Pah! !" said Mr.. Weatherby, "who
has been smoking vile tobacco here?"
Hes in the coal cellar" said Kate
and tainted dead away.
There they found him-burglar,
tramp, murderer, too, if occasion had
demanded it, for he acknowledged be-
fore he was sent up that if Kate had put
her head in the coal cellar to which he
had retreated at her approach, he
stood ready to strike her down With
the bludgeon he carried.
Miss Weatherby often speculates up.
on the possibilities entailed upon her
on that memorable evening, when she
so unconsciously triAed with an unseen
and terrible agent of evil, but the
family always refer to him in a jocu-
lar way as "Kates company. de
troit Free Press.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-05-17
Miranda.

L,.d "a small and early" at "the Elms
across the way,
.a,be seasons budding beauties blushed
in summertime array;
INV NJ loveliness rose beaming on the
view,
.l,orIv tresses harbored gloom, and only
ewes we're blue;
=, all that starry gathering the fairest
spot to me
- share the sweet Miranda poured the cof-
fee and the tea.
4 her face was like the lily when the sun
shine follows shower,
,.a,be men around her hovered like the
bees around a flower.
v,r they hungered for her glances when her
lids were lifted up.
psb, smiled on one t was sweeter than the
sugar in his cups
Ind her little trills of laughter seemed celes-
tel melody
=, ,bs swsins who watched Miranda pour
the coffee and the tea.
ssilhl sculptor never nodded who could re-
produce thet turn
0ithe arm of sweet Miranda as she tips the
steaming urn.
y.llow blooms will be the fashion when the
news is spread abroad;
Each gallant of the countryside will WOO the
Jealous god;
ro before the season s over, tete-a-tete. for
happy me,
Will Miranda's dainty fingers pour the coffee
and the tea.
Clinton Scollard, in The Century.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-05-17
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Glass shingles are the newest.

Glass shingles are the newest
Sugar is found more or less in nearly
all vegetable substances.
Giant human tracks are said to exist
in the solid rock near Rushville, Mo.
Louis Gathmann has a plan for
grouping small lenses which gives re-
suits equal to the great microscopes.
Tiberias, Palestine, has a meteor.
illogical observatory situated 682 feet
below the level of the Mediterranean
Sea-
A large number of flowers are
bored, as it is believed, by humble
bees. They collect the nectar in this
way, instead of entering by the mouth
of the flower.
On north British railway, they
have in use system of car heating IN
which the exhaust steam from the
Westinghouse air pump Is used to do
the heating.
When sugar is added to water the
mixture does not freeze at several de,
grees below the freezing point. This
enables bricklayers to continue at
work when ordinary mortar would con.
geal
Electric locomotives are proving
themselves to be we'll adapted for use
in coal and other mines, and they now
furnish motive power for hauling cars
in about thirty mines in the United
| States.
The aerial space within the limit OF
our vision is calculated to have di.
ameter of 42O, 900, OOO, 900 miles, and
circumference of 1929, 742, 900, 900
miles. And this is only fragment OF
the immensity of space.
Goats have been introduced into
some of the big horse breeding farms
of the West, where disease something
like epizooty has broken out. The
theory is that the goats take the dis
ease and the horses recover.
A few years ago number OF scien-
lists of New England made a calcula-
ton as to the amount of water given
to the atmosphere by the Washington
Elm," Cambridge, Mass. They cal
culated that the leaves of the tree
would cover over 2OO,0 square feet
of surface, and that they gave out every
fair day during the growing season
10, 500 pounds, or II tons, OF moIs-
ture.
Thomas Cleveland the white African
who has been exhibited before medi.
cal men in Philadelphia, is coming to
New York, and will probably appear
in the College of Physicians and Sur
ceons. His case is most extraordin-
ary one. Although full-blooded
| African, the coloring pigment in his
I epidermis is entirely absent. He Is
the only living African who is COM
pletely white, without black spot on
any part of his body.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-05-17
THE BARK OF FRUIT TREES.

AS general thing healthy trees are
able to get rid of the old bark without
any help from the cultiyator; but il
many cases they are all the better for
having a little help from man. In
many species of trees there is an ar
rangement provided by nature for
helping the plant to get rid of its
bark. These are called in scientific
language "suber cells that is to
say, cork cells. These appear at first
on the outer bark as small brow
spots. From year to year, however,
they develop-sometimes eating into
the bark in longitudinal lines, and in
this way form the cracks which ulti-
mately result in what is known as
rough bark. As it is thus the design
of nature to get ria of the outer bark,
it is good practice to help nature in
this work. For this purpose washes
of various kinds are found in practice
extremely useful In fruit culture,
soapy solutions have been found very
effective and in the unscientific work
of successful farmers even lime wash
has been found beneficial In some of
the interior counties of Pennsylvania
a farmer would almost as soon think of
not cleaning his horses as letting his
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-05-17

back, SO was not crystalized into a
pillar of warning,
She put down the Magazine contain.
ing the revolutionary story, and took
up another one, and ran over its con.
tents. The title of one story-Migs
Weatherby was fond of light read
lnG-struck her favorably, and she
found 1t quite interesting. The he
rome OF the occasion was young
matron who was left alone for an
evening-like herself-in large
house, but, unlike her, was very much
afraid. She had known that her hus-
band would be absent, and had in
vited different ones among her young
friends to spend the evening with her,
but they all declined on some pre-
text or other. Then thunderstorm
came up and as she was very much
alarmed at the lightning, she closed
up the house, and sought refuge in o
feather bed which nervous old aunt
had donated to her Us u patent light
ming protector.
ga great knocking at her door pen
etrated above the sound of the storm,
and the timid woman looked out to
see long file of sheeted ghosts, their
feshless faces hidden in the folds OF
their shrouds, making as much noise
with their bloodless fists on the door
panels as if they were still in the flesh
The frightened woman moved back to
her feather bed, and her husband
found her there, half dead with ter
ror and suffocation. The ghostly cpl
sode was given single item in the
social columns of the village paper in
this fashion:
"'The sheet and pillow-case party
which was to come off ON Wednesday
night at the residence of Mrs B
was failure The young people ma
terialized, but the hostess wouldn't let
them in. ''
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-05-17
KATE'S COMPANY.
BY MRS. NJ. l.. RAYNE,

Miss Weatherby was alone at home,
he family being absent at social
function where they would be detained
until midnight. The two domestics
we're with them, assisting at the re-
i,eshment tables, and Kate, like the
| brave girl she was, elected to keep
| house and take care of herself dur
ing her absence. She quite enjoyed
| lie prospect, for she had several new
rsgazines to read and was lazily in
sned to ''loafe and invite her soul.
sh chance had not come to her for
ny days and she would not have
sn alone now had not her young
ssnds supposed they should meet her
It the entertainment.
As the members of the family and
hs two girls filed out of the front
door, Kate quickly closed it and, i'll
obedience to her mothers command,
| put up the clanking burglar chain
which secured it within. Then she
vent into the pleasant sitting room,
turned up the gas to make a warm
CHEEKY light, and seated herself close
TO the table, on which lay the pile of
magazines.
Now this is comfort" she said to
herself, with whom she was on very
good terms. afraid? / should like
70 know what there is to make me
aiald Thank goodness, | don't be-
aeve In ghosts, what's that?"
hwas rrstling sound, but it lasted
Oily moment and Miss Weatherby
'old herself that it was some piece of
nfhiture Numbering its joints. She
laa read an essay on Glow the House
OeAaved When the Family Went
away, and she attributed several
V'lef vague, distractinS sounds she
leardto thes same cause.-the furniture.
now II | were nervous" she
|aousht, 81 would be calling on the
PsShbors for protection against imag-
aHy burglars. I'm not nervous, and
'ae chairs walk about the room they
ll not disturb me-"
90 she took up a magazine and be-
ITO read. Strangely enough, the
!" 'ning that attracted her was the
'scfiptlon OF phantom battle which
" Deen seen in Pennsylvania on the
INKS OF the Delaware. Several per-
'u' OF undoubted veracity had wit
ased the phenomenon, and given
''aiied account of it. They had even
'ia the clank of ghostly armor and
~ the fall of a headless horseman be-
y 'ne cut ola ghostly bayonet. The
OOps were described as wearing the
'0louonary uniforms, and they were
oy a gigantic ghost of George
snington. They wheeled and fought
-uisnt' but as the sun rose they dis.
a'ea In mist, and the appearance
= supposed to be premonition of
SISTER Kate, who had the blood of
T.. u'ots IN her veins, was thrilled and
4sa oy the ghostly recital, but
''u' Oh, no; why should she be? If
'is was anything she was thankful
bus ' ""' no' s"i''' '''
"sne had turned her head at that
'Aen'' she would have seen vision
0mparably more terrible than that
any shostly regiment, but for
-'@iy Tor herself. she did not look
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-05-17

orchard trees go without a coating OF
lime wash once year. The practical
results of this treatment speak for
themselves. No healthier trees or
more successful fruit crops can be had
thai result from this practice. - Nee
hans Monthly.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-05-17
Striving to Please.

81 don't know whether / like these
pictures or moi" said the young wom'
an. "They seem rather ipdistipct
"But you must remembeli msdam,
said the willy photographer, tnai your
face is not at all plain, - !n(hanapo
lis Journal,
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-05-17

Crack - creak swish - but Kate
never turned her head. She wasn't
going to humor the furniture by
watching its capers, and she knew she
was alone in the house she could tell
that by her average number of senses.
But at that moment something did
strike her as odd.
Perhaps, she said to her Ego, 81
am developing an extra sense of smell,
but it really does seem to me that
there is an odor of tobacco about.
There was nobody in the family who
smoked, and tobacco was an unknwn
quantity in Kate's social algebra
"Pshaw! I'm tired sitting stiu.
Eleven o'clock. In another hour the
folks will be home. I'm going all
over the house, into every room, just
to prove I'm not afraid"
And she did, finding, as she be-
lieved, everything just as it had been
left. She did not miss her sealskln
jacket from the rack in the hall, nor
did she see how empty her jewelry case
was, nor miss the basket Of silverware
from the sideboard in the dining
room, where she took candle and
lighted it to see her way to the furnace
room in the basement. Could she
have seen herself as she descended the
stairs, she would not have been rec
ognized. Her face was white and
rigid, her eyes large and intense, and
she had the nerveless step OF sleep
walker. When half way down stairs
she heard sound that startled her so
that she nearly dropped her candle.
Her heart beat and thumped and
threatened to choke her. But she
was not afraid, at least that is what
she said to herself.
"Don, she called, "Don, where are
you?"
Don was a big Maltese cat that slept
in the furnace room. He did not run
to meet her as usual, nor could she at
first locate him, but she saw pair OF
hot, shining eyes under bench and
tried to call him out. He would not
come, and when she attempted TO seize
him, he spat at her and bristled up
with fury.
She said to herself that the cat was
bewitched, like the furniture, ana
looking around saw that the door Oh
the coal cellar was open. From some
underlined impulse she decided to close
it, First she thought she would pun
her head in and look around ou' 'ne
blackness repelled her. 1t was hef
ono sunreme hour of destiny, but she
did not know it. As if swiftly impelled
bv some invisible force, she drew tne
door to, and turned the NY
strong iron lock. Then running up
stairs she sank in the first chaif SHe
could reach, and trembled from heao
to foot. There she remained until 'he
doorbell rang, and she admitted inc
family, all talking at once, and oflns"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-05-17

Some Of the steamship companies
employ more men than are enlisted In
the second-class navies of Europe. The
Cunard Line employs 10000.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22
Professional Laughter.

II never heard Of professional laughers
except here and in New York city," said
the manager, and there is only one, so far
as know, in Gotham. He bothered me
considerably when 'Charley's Aunt, was
in Its first weeks, but I had no use for
him. So he got mad and would pay his
way into the theater. and try to queer the
piece by laughing in his odd way at the
wrong places in the play. When there
was q nice quiet love soene-and there are
many love scenes in 'Charley's Aunt'-he
would squeeze out a sharp little sigh, as If
he were laughing himself to death, and
then the whole house would laugh at him.
A professional laugher knows how to do
that to perfection. He cuts his laugh loose
and let's 1t knock against the welkin, but
1t is not the loudness of the laugh that
wins-it is the way he handles it. He
laughs with the audience, of course, but
when they get through he has good little
blast or two left in his cheeks, and he
gives these with artistic expression. This
lingering laugh catches the audience, and
the people laugh anew. Then the profess
sional sobs out, oh, myl' and you think
he Is giving you his last gasp and dying
cachinnatory death, and the audience can
not do otherwise than laugh again, the au-
dienoe really laughing with and at the pro-
fessional aud not at the play. l used to
have this professional elected from the
theater every time I found him. Chi
cago Tribune.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22
Heroic to the Death,

M. Louis Viardot tells the following in.
scident of famous battle:
It was in 1866, the night Of the terrible
battle of Inkerman, when the long disput-
ed field had been taken and retaken sew
eral times, that two soldiers lay dying
side by side on the ground, which was sat
urated with blood. One was a French
man, the other a Russian. The former
had his chest pierced by ball, the latter
his leg broken-possibly they had been
struck at the same time.
Night came on, and with it the cold In
creased. The wounded men drew nearer
to each other and clasped hands and in
some manner exchanged good wishes- But
soon the Russian, who shivered with cold
fell into q heavy slumber, and only hav-
Ing his thin cloth coat over him this sleep
must have been fatal. When he woke to-
ward morning and gradually recovered
consciousness, he found himself carefully
wrapped in q warm military greatcoat
and found it was French greatcoat. His
unfortunate companion, feeling that his
hours were numbered, had had just
strength enough to take his own greatcoan
of and wrap his new friend in it; then
with mind perfectly at rest, he had lain
down again and quietly breathed his last
The wounded Russian was taken to hos
pital later the same day, and in time he
recovered; but, as he remained cripple,
he was sent home to his own village. He
carried home with him button Of the
French greatcoat to which he owed his
life, and for which he had the highest ven.
nrati0p
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22

A Washington specila to the Duluth
Herald says: Major Baldwin today
had an interview with Lieut.. Vain
wright, OF the photographic Office, in re-
gard to the establishment of q branch.
photographic Office at Duluth.
Lieut.. Wainwright thought very favor
ably of the plan, but it must also meet
the app roval of the chief photographer,
Commander Clover. Maj. Baldwin will
have an interview with him tomorrow. It
would require special appropriation of
$4,000 to establish this Office.
Representative Baldwin was given q
hearing before the committee on coinage
weights and measures today on his bill
for the establishment of an assay Office
at Duluth. The matter was referred to
q subcommittee who will make report
next week. Maj. Baldwin had con-
ference with the secretary of the treas
ury on the subject today. The commit
tee seemed to be favorably disposed to-
wards the bill.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22

The December number Of Cooley q
Magazine is highly interesting, and is
one of the best ever published of this
beautiful and attraction publication. In
contains, as special features, the "Yerkes
Collection Of Pictures" perhaps the best
known collection in the country, ilustra-
ted with sixteen beautiful photographs,
carefully selected by the owner. and an
article on Fair Women, illustrated by
thirty-fve beautiful selections from Mr..
Potter Mares famous collection OF
miniatures. Besides these, there are
short stores and Christmas poems,
beautifully set of with one hundred and
five illustrations, making Godey's one of
the most interesting of all the magazines.
Godey's is the oldest of all our mag
egines, and at the same time is one of
the youngest in keeping up with the
times. How this beautiful magazine can
be sold at ten cents a number, and q
subscription price of one dollar, is a
mystery.
The Cooley COMPANY,
80 Lafayette Place, Ney York.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22
Original.


John Rookham Frere was scholar
and man Of much literary ability, but
one Of those whose work, for some rea-
son, finds a very slight hearing: But
even if his literary work should be quite
forgotten the stories Of his absence OF
mind will live rs long as homogeneous
error continues to amuse
One. day he sat repeating some verses to
Mr.. John Murray in Mr.. Murray's Office
and his host became SO interested in the
poem that he asked the poet to go home
with him to dinner and continue tho
recitation. Mr.. Frere, startled to f:id it
so late, excused himself. He had been
married that morning, he said, and it
was already past the hour when he had
promised his wife to be ready for their
journey into the country.
Another such story rests Ga the au-
thority Of his wife herself Mr.. Frere
had just been introduced to her at al
evening party and offered to take her
down stairs to procure some refresh.
ment. He became so interested ia their
conversation, however, that he drank
the glass of negus he had poured for her
and was about to conduct her up stairs
when she laughingly demonstrated with
him for having forgotten her needs.
"This,' she said, convinced me
that my new acquaintance was, at any
rate, very different from most OF the
young men around usv'-Youth's Com.
panion.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22
Value Of Autograph Documents.

Historical documents have in q good
many cases proved good investments for
those who were first to recognize their
value. So it has been with the original
draft of letter in the handwriting of the
late Secretary Blaine. During the time
when the italian colony was giving a
great deal Of trouble at New Orleans Mr..
Wilbur, a newspaper man Of this city,
vent to see the secretary to know what
bis reply would be to the MARQUIS Impe-
r.l, then charge 'affaircs and acting Ital-
lax minister. He found Mr.. Blaine en-.
gagrd in writing the reply. In order that
it might be put on the wire promptly, he
gave it 20 the journalist with a request to
make such use of it as he wanted The
rough draft was in Mr.. Blaine's hand
writing and contained number Of strong
sentences inuerlined. When Mr.. Wilbur
had made all tie use of it he wanted, Will
liam e. Amin, 4 fellow newspaper man,
offered 92b for tka original paper and
got 1t. BE hung it 90 the wall Of his Office
In a frame, and in b few days the late
Frank Hatton happened in, and seeing
the relic said it was worth 500 to him.
Then it passed into his hands and became
IN ornament of the sanctum in Tho Pos>
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. News.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22
JACKETS FOR our SAILORS.
They Arc Made by Sewing Women In the
Employ Of the Navy Department..

They Are Made by Sewing Women In the
Employ Of tho Navy Department..
The natty uniforms Of the sailors and
marines of the United States navy are
made by corps Of women employed by
the quartermaster of the Brooklyn navy
yard. They are we'll paid, and the posi-
ton Of tailoress or seamstress is eagerly
sought for by women who earn living
by making garments. The waiting list
Of the bureau Of employment contains
more than 100 applicants. All work is
done by the piece, and the wages vary
from So to $12 week.
The applicant must present her name
to the civil service board Her applica-
tion must be signed by at least two rep
utable persons Not only must she
come we'll recommended as seamstress,
but the condition of the workshop is
carefully considered. The quartermaster
makes it point that no work shall be
done in sweatshops or in places where
the clothing is likely to be infected.
Once appointed, the applicant visits
the tailor shops of the navy yard, where
she receives q bundle of goods to be
made up into garments. The govern
ment furnishes all the trimmings and
thread. From 40 to 80 bundles arc is
sued every morning. It usually requires
, two days to finish the garments The
work is delivered and new lot issued.
The overcoats are made of heavy cloth,
and the maker receives $3.50 apiece.
Drawers and undershirts for the men are
made of II ounce and ounce blue fan
mel. The seamstress is paid Is cents for
each. The maker is paid sc cents apiece
for cloth trousers and 80 cents for work
ing trousers. Overshirts of heavy and
light weight flannels pay IS cents
apiece. Jumpers are made OF white drill
ing at 90 cents each.
Some of these women have been in
the employ Of the navy yard from Is to
30 years. The older employees are best
paid and make rarely less than S12 a
week.
The garments are for the enlisted men
only, as the officer supplies his OVID
wardrobe. The uniforms are issued at
the navy yard by the quartermaster.-
New York Sun.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22
Carnot and jean Carries.

The death Of Jean Carries, the sculp-
tor, recalls an anecdote in which he and
the late President Carnot were the prin-
mpal actors. The artists busts and
figures at the Champ de Mars excited the
admiration Of all, and they were de-
servedly classed in the first rank. NJ.
Carnot, when ON his visit to the salon,
noticed an old man. who seemed much
moved on seeing him, standing before
the works Of art Of the sculptor. Some
one said to the president, after pointing
out the artist: Here is need for repara-
ton, M le President, Carries is one
Of our most skillful men of art, and he
is not yet decorated. Forthwith NJ.
Carnot detached from the buttonhole Of
one Of the officers Of the military house
hold In the place Of cross Of the chev-
alier cross Of an officer of the Legion
Of Honor and placed it himself on the
breast Of Jean Carries The next day,
in The Oh3ciel, the artist was named q
chevalier Of the order.-London Figaro