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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-12

'Nothingl' / exclaimed, rising Il
chastise him.
Nothing, pasha. They are ieb.
bells, as we call them, and are collected
by our children to use as play money.
In the night, under light they take
on the color and brilliancy of the
amethyst. ] can take you over miles
of road in Morocco where they are so
abundant that in the night you would
believe yourself riding over path of
precious gems. Somebody has fooled
the great pasha, he concluded, with u
grin.
"Fooled! In thirty minutes / had
my outriders in pursuit of u woman
on white Arabian. In an hour /
had all my troops moving BY night
/ had an engagement with the Moors,
routed them and took my fair en-
chantress prisoner. Ny papers se-
CuTtO, puoueu OH tHl IclltNtu hel-
don Pasha. This is the story of my
gems. )"
"And what became of the pretty
woman, general?" asked Verna.
''She was killed by sword-thrust
while trying to escape
"And what's the moral, general?,.'
asked another.
"Yield not to persuasive tempta-
ton, and judge all things by daylight. "
And as the ladies sighed over the
episode one toyed with the decorations
on the scarlet coat, one dallied with
the empty sleeve, another lighted a
cigar for the aged pasha, and all lis
tened to the plaintive song of the gon-
doliers as the mellow moon-the maker
of gems from jebbels-rose higher and
higher into the studded belfrey of the
night. Il Chicago News.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-12

The wind was blowing a gale and
the rain was pattering against the win
dow panes at the home of a appointment
Camden physician. The clock had
just tolled the hour past midnight
when the physician was aroused by the
ringing of his door-bell. He jumped
out of his bed, put on his dressing
gown, went to the window. raised the
sash, and saw man muffled to the
ears standing on his front step. He
asked:
"what do you want at this late
hour?"
"I'm Mr.. Carr" was the answer.
"Well, go home. / am not respon.
sible if you did miss car. Why did
you stay ont 80 late?"
The window went down with bang
and the doctor went back to bed.
The bell rang again, the doctor put
his head out of the window and saw
the same man on the step.
doctor, doctor! I'm Mr.. Carr"
"Well, if you did miss your car,
what have got to do with it?"
Carr, doctor; Carr. Don't you
understand"
"Whst do you take me for, a con-
ductor?"
"No, no, doctor. Mrs. Carr, my
wife, your patient, is very i'll, and re-
quires your services. "
ooh, that's you, Carr, is it? Wait
minute and I'll be with you. -
Philadelphia Press.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-12

Thomas Callahan of Foote, Iron
County, Mo-, write as follows: "ln
1848 n relative of the writer died and
was buried in Wood County, Ohio.
In 1856 took part in the work OF
disinterring the body. The coffin,
which was of walnut boards, was found
to be perfectly sound. After every
thing was ready for hosting the coffin
and its contents to the surface we
found that it was utterly impossible to
perform the task with the force at
hand on account of the unusual weight.
Four strong men were then called,
and with ropes and other appliances
we finally succeeded in raising it to
the surface. The body was found to
be in complete and perfect state OF
petrifaction. The person, who had
died of diphtheria, never weighed
more than 140 pounds when in life,
and it was the extraordinary weight OF
the remains after they had lain eight
wears in the earth that prompted us to
make the examination which resulted
in our astounding discovery. Since
that time 1856 several petritiec
human bodies have been disinterred
in the same general locality. rs
Louis Republic.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-12

of the stuff. Exactly what Greek lire
was made of is not absolutely known
even now. Naptha was properly one
of the ingredients, one writer says 1t
was made of the gum of pine trees,
powdered and added to naptha, brim-
stone, etc. and another says that will
low charcoal, salt, aqua vital, sulphur,
pitch, frankincense, threads OF soft
Ethiopian wool and camphor were
boiled together. Greek fire, or some.
thing called by that name, is made by
some manufacturers of fireworks.
Bunsen, the German chemist, invented
kakodyl - the chemical symbol OF
which is As 2 (C H 81 (which is a
most deadly spontaneously combusti-
BILE liquid. Its name means "bad
matter" its smell is unexpectedly OF.
fensive, and its vapor is deadly poi
sonous. 1t is a compound of arsenic,
carbon and hydrogen.-[Trenton IN.
j. American.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-12
Made by ThunderbOlts,

In the museums of nearly all the
large colleges you will see what appear
to be sandy petrifactions much re-
sembling branches of trees. You may
conclude that these are the remains of
forest monsters that grew in far
away geological age, but if you will
take the trouble to ask your guide, or
better still one of the professors, who
are always handy, he will tell you
queer story, one, in fact, that "smacks
of the marvellous" These tame-look-
ing supposed to- be sandy petrifactions
are, In fact, real "thunderbolts. "
Scientifically speaking, they are "ful-
gurites." They are composed Of
poor quality of glass, and are made by
the tightening striking sandy deserts
and plunging downward and latterly,
vitrifying all the sand with which it
comes in direct contact. On the
Sahara fulgurites are found in every
conceivable shape and size, some
thirty or more feet in length and
four inches in diameter; others not
larger than lead pencil and still
others not larger than knitting
needle. Scientists usually consider
fulgurites as being q good index to
the size and force of discharge of the
tightening stroke which formed them.
-[St. Louis Republic.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-12

A writer in the Scientific American,
after describing a trio of enormous
serpents, which he assisted in killing
or capturing while on visit to the
Philippine Islands, thus describes thd
eggs of one of the monsters:
From the log in which the third
specimen was caught eighty-nine eggs
we're taken. They were white and
nearly round, about the size of an or
dinary baseball, and we're covered
with a soft feathery shell or skin.
They adhered to each other, forming
large mass, which had to be literally
torn apart in separating them. SO
far as observed all was fertile, each
examined containing living embryo,
about four inches in length. When
discovered the snake was cosled up
and around its eggs, apparently incu-
batting. Upon being removed from
the log the eggs dried up very rapid
". As the temperature of the inte-
rior of the log was ndticeably above
that of the atmosphere, it is probable
that il was the close coils of the
snakes damp body that prevented
evaporation and consequent drying
up before removal.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-12
Greek Fire.

Greek fire was an inhammable COM
pound used in warfare in the middle
ages, chiefly by the Greeks of Con
stantinople, though in early times ma
terial of similar nature was known to
many other nations. 1t is said to have
been invented by Syrian named Cal
linieus, and to have been used first
against the Saracens when they be-
sieged Constantinople between 673 and
679 A. ID. The art of making Greek
fire was State secret in Constantine
pie, which is said to have owed much
OF its importance to the manufacture
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-12
calling the Cows.

,dout know why, don't know now
-. surely twas no harm at all
~ stop q minute at the plow
ID listen to her milking call:
"Co-boss-Co!
1t sounded so
,r0ss the yellow-tasseled aasn!
',.slv the man was neve
70 would not leave his ana come
.,ol, her drive the cattle home.
=. old folks lived across the hill,
st surely was no harm at all
r.riso her. while the fields were still
,.ljst'ning to her milking call;
"Co-Boss-Co!'
1t sounded SO.
ltnade the tardy robins start
,1a souirrel bent the leaves apart
N see us two a-walking down
,nvards the sleepy little town.
,,o,Y know how. I don't know why,
putsurely. twas no harm at all;
q,e stars we're in the summer sky
Before hecattle reached their stall.
go Boss-Co. -
1t rings on so.
hbs moon, from off its great white shield,
uos tossed it back into the field,
md stillth whispering echoes come
AMI follow me, a-walking home.
Herman Rave in "Songs aA1 Ballads.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-12

The modern American man-of-wai
is little world in itself, or perhaps
more properly floating city, with its
inhabitants of many trades and pro-
fessions. Not only is there a doctor
to dose you and a chaplain to care for
your spiritual welfare, but many cooks,
several carpenters, skilled machinists,
electricians, tailors, musicians and
BARRIERS. There is at least one clever
sailorman told of as ships writer,
which officer corresponds closely tc
the old fashioned serivener. II thus
happens that one can have almost any
thing made aboard ship, from an en-
crossed copy of complimentary
resolution 10 complicated piece o.
machinery or cabinet work. Chicago
Herald.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-12
THE PASHA'S JEWELS.

'My iewels?'
The exclamation came from beneath
the heavy, dropping white mustache of
,bs pasha-the white pasha-General
!smpleton.
eyes, General, your jewels! We
want to see them"
The speaker was lovely girl, quite
Creole in her dusky beauty. AS she
poke she approached the reclining
soldier from behind and placed about
his swarthy neck pair of arms like
solumns Of smoked ivory.
The doughty general clasped the
wrists with his sunburnt hands, and
inving the willowy creature to his
iie as he swung in the hammock, re-
lied:
lam sorry, Verna, but I cannot
iADs them to you. Your mother asked
pse them yesterday. They are not
lge. How did you know l had jew
.k child?"
"0h, we heard SO. And the hint
Vas dropped that you came by them in
very romantic way"
The snowy head of the veteran was
laid back in the hammock and his
PIERCING eyes were fixed upon the full
noon, Just rising over the liquid bou-
EVsrds Of Venice. 1t was perfect
Light. The soundless voices of n
hlllon lights, telling of the great
i0allng clty's grandeur, spoke from
III sides, and then answered back as
'asy danced in the xippling waters.
'0'hlng else disturbed the poetic
tuet OF the night, but the occasional
pnsh. OF gondolier's sweep, and the
'Sfst laughter of this bevy of lovely
omen, who were assembled upon the
Foitlco of the Palais du Regina.
Tell us all about it, won't you,
acle! Come here, girls hear General
enpleton tell us story"
handsome Verna Was always leader.
Difectly the passengered hammock
as surrounded by half a dozen as
saasome women as ever an italian
4'Oa shone upon. The SCARED veter-
: nus enyironed, drank in the aroma
animated femininity, smiled admir-
wy at the several upturned faces
I'd said:
howmuch this reminds me of the
y night L received the jewels Verna
4'S 10 see and hear about. And
'0aoiy 1t Is an association of ideas
A'l md willingness to do what
We never done before--relate how
came into my possession. l have
"ea' ladies', that when conclude my
''''iVe you will feel disappointed !;
my story has moral, and if you
II and the point of my expert
not lost upon you, then / will
ssfe' having made you my fair
Pnfessors.
3 was IN command of the foot
v'' 0i his Majesty crossing corner
'4e desert The march was very
I. sung the outlook dismal, and !
: ''onless, soldier as I was, l felt
IL much discouraged. To add to
sepfessiou / had not heard from
Nj Aaacee In some weeks, and l found
II daily.
81 ay indicate the Importance OF
y 'Sion by adding that while ]
: ~ making all possible haste to relieve
y .u rasha | had buttoned in my
~ 'ue entire outline of our cam.
Snichl | was to deliver to Mel,
pefson from the Minister o.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-12
HUMOROUS.

Brought to Bay-The incoming
steamer.
Has its redeeming features-The
money lenders trade.
Many a romantic maiden looks for
her knight in the daytime.
The best remedy for a discarded
lover is to walk him through female
seminary.
Another proof that life is conum.
drum is that everybody eventually
gives it up.
The grip microbe is supposed to
have started on it's mission in the
lodgeroom.
A fractious child in the street car
comes as near being "a crying shame
as the law allows.
Miss Oldie-Oh, how could love
the man who loved me. Miss Keane-
SO could anybody.
"Poor Emma! She has so much to
live for" ''Yes; they say her hus-
bands life is insured for $50,
If we got dollar
Every time we spoke
Meanly Of another,
No one would be broke.
The mummies which are constantly
being found at Cairo evidently be-
longed to the First Families of Egypt.
Ethel-Jack Jollyboy is very impu-
dent. He attempted to kiss me last
night. Clarissa-Impudent? ! should
call him crazy.
"What did you do when Miss Belle
field refused you?" Il wrote poem
about her." "What o revengeful
creature you must bel"
Colling Say, Tillinghast, didnt
you tell me that Miss Elderkin was an
artist2 Tillinghast-No; said she
was work of art.
Mrs. Hashley-Have you tried the
coffee this morning, Mr.. Crossgrain?
Mr.. Crossgrain-Yes, ma'am, and it
has proved an alibi.
"How do you know she is plain
looking? You haven't seen her." 81
wrote to her in praise of her intellect
uality and she didn't get miffed."
Auntie-It isn't good form to hold
your fork in that way. Little niece
Auntie, do you think it is good form
to stare at folks while they are eating?
II wonder how such beautiful
language as Latin ever came to be
dead language, said Mrs. Henpeck.
Talked to death, maybe" said Hen
peck.
"Blow, ye winds!" the poet wrote;
And then he paused in doubt.
Alas he could not think Of aught
For them to blow about
Mrs. Flyabout. What is your hus-
bands politics? Mrs. Gofrequent.--
ireally don't know. He never carries
anything of a political nature in any
of his pockets.
"Is Jimmie French a good little
boy?" "No." "Then why do you
play with him so ofton?" "Well, his
mother buys him lots of candy and I'm
bigger than he is"
Mary--I have given a great deal OF
thought to the question, 'Is marriage
q failure?" Jane--And it is really the
last thing that can possibly ever con-
Germ you. Isn't it odd?
"Does Miss Sliptongue speak
French?" "No; she never converses
except in the dead languages. Il
don't understand. "well. you wonld
if you heard her murder the Kings
English. "
Mrs. Short-How do you expect me
TO buy things for you to eat if you
don't give me any money? Mr.. Short
And how do you expect me to earn
money for you if ! don't get anything
10 eat-see7
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-12
In the Swing.

In lne SWlHSs
Baby and in the swing
Now we 60 up and now we go down,
With never a fear and never q frown,
A cheer and a laugh as the wind shakes tn
curls
OF the dearest OF babies and sweetest
girls,
Cheeks like the roses,
Eyes blue as the sky,
Backward and forward go baby and ~
Baby and In the swing
Baby and in the swing
Up toward the sky down to the flowers
Sunshine and gladness filling the hours;
Dear little hands holding fast as we ride
Confident faith as she sits by my side,
With never q sorrow
And never sigh,
Forward and backward 90 baby and L.
Baby and in the swing.
Up. c. Huntington, in Chicago Post.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-12

Some of the steamship companies
employ more men than are enlisted in
the second-class navies of Europe.
The Cupard line employs 10000.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-12
Hard Lines.

"I'm sorry to see you SO unstrung,
said the arrow.
eyes," said the bow, ''its no use
trying to keep straight have toe
many drawbacks. = Puck.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-12

Most OF the dressed beef and othei
meat that is imported into Englane
comes from the United States.
Arizona republican., 1894-07-27
POPULIST MASS MEETING.
The Campaign to be Opened in Phoe-

The Campaign to be Opened in Phoe-
 nix Next Tuesday Night.
 The Populists of Maricopa county will hold rousing mass meeting in Phoenix next Tuesday night. The meeting will take place at the corner of Washington street and Third avenue. Among the speakers of prominence who will be present are Hon. w. o. O'Neill of Pres colt, Judge Woy of Colorado. and James Johnson of Lehi. One object of the meeting is to ratify the work of the late Populist county convention and to formally open the campaign in the ter ritorv.
 General O'Neill is generally regarded as the coming nominee of the party for delegate to congress. His well-known eloquen nee and former party affiliations make him just now an interesting political figure in Arizona.
 Judge Woy was actively engaged in the campaign in Colorado two years ago and was heavy contributor to the caraclysm which produced Governor Waite and the other eccentricities of Colorado politics.
Arizona republican., 1894-07-27
TRIED TO SCALP EACH OTHER
An Apache and a Mexican Mix a
 Agua Caliente.

An ApaChS ana MexlCan MIX al
 Agua Caliente.
 Constable Harry McPhaul yesterday brought an Indian up from Agua Caliente under a commitment to the county jail to await an examination b y the grand jury on charge of assault with intent to commit murder.
 The Indians head was decorated by a half dozen ugly gashes with knife which in the absence of any other in- formation about the affair would leave the impression that the wrong man had been committed.
 The Indian is an old and unrecon- structed Yuma-Apache. He had trou- ble with a Mexican at Agua Caliente and arming himself with bow and ar rows and hunting knife went after his enemy. One arrow found harmless lodgment in the Mexican's hide. The Mexican armed himself with butcher knife and then they mixed it. Each unsuccessfully tried to scalp the other but they drew deal of blood. The h. dian was worsted and both were ar rested. The Mexican easily made out a case of self defense and was dis charged.
Arizona republican., 1894-07-27
LIGHT. AND IRREVEREET.
School District No. ? Again
 Heard From.
The Clerk of the Board Engages in a Jocular Correspondence With
 the County Superintendent.

School district No. 2 has again beer heard from. This IS the district ir which two of the directors are women Mrs. J. B. Hoover and Mrs. Seth Phil brook who are solidly arrayed agains, Henry Slosser, the third member of the board of curators of that educationa precinct.
 An attempt was made to remove Mrs. Hoover on the ground that her official career was incompatible with proper intellectual progress in that locality.
 District No. 2 now comes to the front through the medium of an official re. port to the county superintendent . Though the report was signed by all the trustees it was evidently compiled by MT. Slosser.
 Official reports consist only of an. swers to leading questions proprounde ed on a printed blank with which the trustees are furnished and these blanks properly filled out are legally supposed to be returned to the superintendent on or before June 30 of each year.
 The report from district No. was awaited with mingled anxiety and curiosity for the reason that it was about three weeks over due and for the reason that a letter was received re- gently from one of the lady mem bers of the board stating that she had signed it, but disclaiIned certain language and expressions employed by MT. Slosser in the compilation of his official advices to the superintendent.
 The report was received yesterday and Chief Clerk Pierce was detailed to open it. He breathed prayer for th e forgiveness of his sins and having thus shriven himself he approached the en- velope containing MT. Slosser's diplo- matic correspondence. It was opened carefully, but was found to contain nothing explosive, so there was no report, (ibid. Life, Puck, Judge, ct aD but the document bulged out with information.
 In answer to the printed inquiry con- corning the number of volumes in the library in District No. 2. Mir. Slosser, replied that there was a dictionary. Replying to the interrogatory Has the territorial school register been kept ac- curately?" MT. Slosser briefly covers the ground by the abbreviated ejacula- tion 70. K." Concerning another mat ter on which his information is not complete he replies, ''quien sabe." In response to the question, "Has any special school tax been levied in your district? he conveys the paucity of his information on the subject in the phrase, ''I can't cut her," which means vsriously II do not understand the question" or "I do not know" It was so all the way down the list. A part of the printed blank is consecrated to remarks" by the persons making up the report. With a proper regard for economy in the matter of public stationery, MT. Slosser utilized this space by throwing in the voluntary in- formation that "An election held on the special tax March 24, was opposed by the Catholic and bachelor elements of th1s district" thereby referring to the persuasive influence of his lady colleagues on the board.
 County Superintendent Jordan was shocked by the levity of MT. Slosser's communication. When he had suffi-
Arizona republican., 1894-07-27
SAVE TIME AND MONEY

By taking the cheapest and quickest route from Solomonville to Sheldon station and Clifton, or from Clifton to Solomonville Only nine hours making the trip either way. Greens regular mail hack leaves SolomonvilIe for Shel- don station every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at o'clock 8. m., arriving at Sheldon by 3:30 p. m making close connections with the train from Lordsburg to Clifton. Return ing from Sheldon to Solomonville on arrival of train from Clifton every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, arriving at Solomonville by 1 o'clock p. m. We shall spare no time or ex- pense to make it to the interest of all who will favor us with their patronage. Commercial men and others who have to travel on odd days can always be accommodated by timely notice Fare, s5: round trip s7.50 We have corral at Solomonville, where we give animals good care and plenty to eat and drink. Saddle horses, teams and buggies to let Thanking the public for their liberal patronage hereto fore bestowed and asking 6 continuance of the same, we remain yours respectfully,
 N. GREEN & SON.
 SoLoMoNvILLE. Ariz.. March IA. 1894.
Arizona republican., 1894-07-27
ciently recovered he wrote a letter in

cently recovered he wrote letter in reply.
 His literary style was as solid and dignifed as MT. Slosser's had been light, airy and irreverent. He en- closed the report for revision and re- ferring to the expression, "quien sabe, J informed MT. Slosser that public busi, ness in the United States WAS con- ducted so far as possible in the English language. Concerning the phrase, "I can't cut her," he says ''this remark may have some local meaning which I am totally unable to comprehend. .'' All through the superintendent's letter there was breathed a hope that MT. Slosser's revised report would be free from jocular and unusual exsressions.
Arizona republican., 1894-07-27
When Can You Go?

When Can You Go?
 The Santa Fe Route" will sell from Deming or Fl Paso ound-trip tickets good until October 31st to the following points and at the following prices, Chi cago $6S60, St. Louis $6l.10. Kansas City $52 95, Milwaukee $72.10 and St.. Paul $76.45. Call or address agents named below.
 c. c. CARPENTER, c. H. MoREHoUsE, Trav. Pass. Agt. D. F. & P. A.
 Fl Paso. Fl Paso. Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powder
 Most Perfect Made.
Arizona republican., 1894-07-27
Death of Mrs. Mary E. Shirley.

Mary E. wife of MT. Frank Shirley, died yesterday morning of consumpt ion after an illness of more than one year. The deceased was thirty-four years of age. She was popular with her ac- quaintances and was more than ever endeared to them by the patience with which she bore her long and painful suffering. The sympathies of MT. Shirley's many friends are extended to him in his bereavement. The funeral will take place this morning at eight o'clock from the residence at Second and Monroe streets.
Arizona republican., 1894-07-27

Persons thinking of building will find it to their advantge to examine the prices of cresting and sash weights which are cast at the Standard Iron Works, near the capitol grounds.