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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-26
Determining the Age of n Tree.

81 have been called upon in court
frequently to pass upon the age of
tree, in order to decide as to the date
of land survey" said DR.. j. L. Roth
rock, the State forester, the other day.
81 cannot say that the rings Of tree
are a certain indication of Its age, al
though the common belief is that
tree makes ring every year, L re-
member very important case in New
Jersey where great deal depended on
determining the exact year of sur
vey. Our side based its case upon the
fact that section of a tree that had
been Clipped at the time of the sur
vey showed it had afterward grown a
certain number of rings. To show the
fallacy of such argument, Iproduced
a section of another tree Clipped dur
ing the same survey which, when cut
in half, had more rings upon one side
than upon the other. l asked why
one-half should be taken any more
than the other to determine the age OF
the tree. 1t had either only made a
half ring or ring and half some
one year. Trees make no rings some
years while in others they may make
two. | have known of cases in the
tropics where they have made three ol
four rings annually" - Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-26

ger or endurance to cross the plain.
And this has caused the loss of many
lives. The sand of that desert is SO
hot that in few miles the shoes will
be literally burned off the travellers
feet, beasts will be overcome before
half the distance is encompassed, and
theadventurous traveller dies in agony,
literally consumed with heat from
without and thirst within. Many have
been known to attempt the journey,
and but few have been known to re.
turn. These had gone no further than
the first lake, and finding it salt water,
had beaten retreat. The nearest
lake has been reached often enough to
know that it ebbs and flows with the
Gulf of California, and the water Is
the same, hence it must be part Of
that body, although separated from it
by sixty or seventy miles of solid earth
and high range of mountains. This
range was probably at one time an ISL
and, and the Cocapah desert the bot
tom of the sea. I once started across
the barren waste to investigate, but l
had not gone ten miles before becom.
ing completely exhausted, the soles of
my feet were blistered with heat, my
brain grew dizzy, could get no air,
| and the breath seemed to stop in my
throat. / turned back just in time to
save my life, and when l reached the
| forests of the mountain once more |
was delirious for hours. "-[St. Louit
Globe-Democrat.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-26
As From His Cyclone Pit.

1t was a tempestuous night on the
Atlantic, and the great steamer with
its precious freight of human lives was
tossed about like cockleshell. The
tremendous waves hurled themselves
against the walls of steel and dashing
in impotent fury over the decks, shook
the leviathan from bowsprit to rudder
post No one was visible about the
ship, except such of the crew as neces-
sity compelled to face the storm, and
thev we're in imminent danger every
moment. The passengers, Ill mortal
terror, were huddled together III the
cabin below. Just as frightful
blast had almost thrown the ship on
her beam ends, the officer of the deck
saw passenger stick his frowzled
head up through hatchway.
''Get back there, yelled the officer.
"Say, Cap came an answering yell
sis the roof gone YETI"
"No; get back there" 3"
"Have any of the walls give I'D
yet?"
"No; get back, l tell you"
"Has the old woman or children
been blowed out of the second-story
window yet?"
''Get back, tell you; no."
"None of the neighbors been blowed
in through the shed roof YETI"
"No no l tell you get back down
that hatchway, you blamed fool, and
the officer started for the passenger.
"'Tain't so bad as | thought il
was." came a final yell, and the pas
senger lodged into the depths below
and disappeared.
"Well, who in thunder was that|
asked the officer of the pursuer, who
stood by.
Hes all right" howled the pur-
ser; she comes from the cyclone belt
in Kansas. - Detroit Free Press.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-26
Forced to Live on Barnacles.

Not many people are ever compelled
to subsist solely on diet of barnacles,
and when they are it is generally after
they have been shipwrecked on some
desert island, instead of in the midst
of wealthy Christian community.
And yet that is what man has been
doing for several weeks. He has often
been seen climbing over the halfrotten
piles in the vicinity of the Mail dock
at low tide and scraping off the mol
lusks, but nobody paid any attention
to him until the other day he sat on a
stringer and began to make meal out
of his gift from the sea.
"Do you like those things?" asked
by-stander. ''and don't you know
they are poison?" '"They haven't
poisoned me-" answered the man,
''and 1 don't eat them because / like
them, but because | have nothing else
and don't know when l will have. "
His story was only another chapter OF
the terrible experience of the unem-
ployed. He was an unmarried man,
and has wandered around the streets
of San Francisco without food until
he nearly dropped from exhaustion
before he thought of eating the bar
nacles.
That was over three weeks ago, and
in the meantime he has eaten nothing
else. He was perfectly willing to talk
about himself and he greedily de-
voured the tiny, raw bivalves
"Pretty tough food, amt they?
asked the man who was watching him.
"You bet they are, ''he replied, throw
ing handful of shells into the bay,
"but 1 would rather eat them all the
rest of my life than beg. u San
Francisco Call.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-26

without purpose" interposed Paul
inc. "Only should think you might
have paid such old friends as we are
the compliment of some slight init
nation Of your impending marriage"
pauline, said /" Miss Brookes-
hear me? There is only one woman in
the world 1 would care to marry, and
she stands before me now?"
Pauline's lips quivered-the tears
sprinkled into her eyes.
"Mr. Belton," said she, "you may
regard all this as q very good joke, but
surely, surely, it is not necessary to
add any more insult to it"
"Do you mean that you don't be-
lieve me?"
Glow can l believe you?" retorted
she.
Driven to sort of frenzy, [ drag
ged Wyncote's letter from my pockets.
Pauline" said l, "read that, and
you have ready solution of the mys-
terry of the wedding ring"
Her face cleared up as she glanced
over the contents of poor Wyncote's
ecstatic missive.
"Poor fellow!" said she. ''He's
very much in love, isn't he?"
"Not half as much as l am, said 1.
And then in the smilax- bordered shad-
ow of the florists window, | pressed
my suit: Dear Pauline, let me order
another wedding -ring?"
"For whom?" demanded my lady
love.
"For you. have loved you this
long time, but [ never had courage to
avow my love before, dear Pauline. %
Hush T" said Pauline. "We
mustn't stand talking here"
81 won't stir step until you answer
mel"
"What shall l say?" hesitated Paul
inc.
"Say yes!"
ordered the duplicate wedding
ring that very night. Pauline said it
was too soon, but 1 quoted the ancient
proverb, 'Delays are dangerous. "
And we are to be married in month.
And if it hadn't been for the provi-
Dental interposition of Wyncote' S
wedding ring, might still have been
shivering on the brink of an unspoken
proposal. "Blessed be wedding
rings!" say I.-TNew York Ledger.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-26

Mrs. Harriet Condit, a colored wo
man of State street, bought some her
rings the other day, and upon clean
ing one of them she found embedded
parallel with the backbone gold bar
evidently belonging to a lady's pin.
IT is set with moonstone about one
half inch long in the centre and al
each end large pearl about the size
around of lead pencil. 1t is valued
bv local jeweller at about $40 =
Hartford Post.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-26
An Old Nook.

Dear little room SO small and square,
Dear little room so cold and bare,
Dear little room with but one chair,
'Tis very hard to leave you.
For twas not always thus, you know,
With smiling books and fire aglow,
And lamps SO softly beaming-Oh!
'Tis very hard to leave you.
How can my thought recall those hours
When hopes first blossomed into flowers
And life grew conscious of Its powers
And not feel sad to leave you?
r. La Gallienne in Chicago Figaro.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-26
Hottest Desert in the World.

cit is not generally known that the
hottest, most arid desert in the world
is in the United States, but such is the
fact" said r. G. McKeighan of San
Diego to the corridor man at the Lin
dell. ''The Cocapah desert is small,
but it is the most dangerous of any in
the known world. Standing upon the
mountain range to the east, looking
across the sixty miles of plain to an
other mountain range on the west, with
glimpses of two small lakes midway
between, it does not apper that 1T re-
quires any extraordinary feat of dan
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-26
A Little Song.

/, p#Is cot in little spot
Tab n little heaven has sent;
" '+tle way from that cot each day;
Nv" IN sing and a word to say;
AT r.,ls winter. little May,
= md md heart content-content!
p,,le wife and little life
\ IN love and duty spent;
oand sigh as the years go by;
avs perhaps where the violets lie'
heaven on earth and a heaven on high,
:, heart content-content!
Atlantic Constitution.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-26
HUMOROUS.


A smart little boy calls himself
Compass, because he is boxed SO
often.
Mabel-Do you not think Mr.. De
Little man of small caliber? Grace
Perhaps, but am sure of one thing
he's big bore.
Mamma las she is serving the pie at
table What is an improper fraction,
Johnny? Johnnie = Anything lesf
than quarter, mamma.
"Light of my life!" the young man cried,
courting of his lass;
"If that's the case" the maid replied,
'.Let us turn down the gas"
She-Am / dear to you, Georgef
George-Yes, my love; you are SO
dear that I'm afraid I'll have to strike
for raise or go into bankruptcy.
Pattie-They say that young Mr..
Dressy hasn't cent to his name.
Mattie-Too bad! And he has more
money than brains, his teacher says.
"Shall women work or shall they
marry?" inquiries an exchange. They
generally have to work if they marry.
Put the question in some other form.
Church organist Ito applicant for
position as organ pumper) Have You
ever had any experience? Applicant
Well, rather; I used to be a milk.
man.
What is reason?" asked the teacher
from Boston of the smallest boy in
the class. 'It's what my daddy never
has for lickin me-" was the confident
reply.
To have your sweetheart far away,
1t makes existence dark and drear;
But it is worse-alackaday-
To have her distant when she's near.
"Well," said the operator to the
market, show do you feel?" Bully"
replied the market. "Alas," cried
the operator, this is more than l can
bear !"
Teacher-And one thing more.
Always say what you think or keep
silent Pupil-But suppose l should
become a lawyer? Teacher-That's
different.
GLOW did Spacer get along with his
typewriter" "Not at all. The bell
rung so much while he was writing a
Joke that he got mad and smashed the
machine.
Teacher-Now, George, suppose
mamma gave you four cakes, and papa
added six oranges, what would you
have? Georgie-The pantry door
locked.
81 shall be glad when l get big
enough to wash my own face" NUT
tered little Johnny after his mamma
had got through with him; "then l
won't wash it"
"What hundred books are best, think you?"
said,
Addressing one devoted to the pen.
He thought a moment then he raised his
head.
81 hardly know-Tve written only ten."
"Dinks has put the water system
of heating into his house. Won't he
find it rather expensive?" 81 guess
not; he has his wife to keep him in
hot water, you know"
Weary Watkins-Say, dey amt no
real heroes nowadays. Hungry Hig-
gins. -Dey amt, eh? Wy, right here
in de paper is feller advertisin' dat
he amt afraid of work.
Mamma-We are to have company
at tea, and / want you to act like
man. Johnny-And must / say, like
pa "What in thunder makes the pie
crust so confounded tough?"
"What do you think of Mr.. Hard
hits execution?" said Miss Gushley at
the musicale. 81 hadn't heard of it, ;"
said Old Crowley, ''but / think its a
good idea. When does the hanging
take place?"
"Now, my little children" said the
Sunday ay-school teacher, ''all of you be
very still, while ! tell you about it.
so still that you can hear pin drop"
All was silence till little boy shrieked
- lI AZ har dro., lp
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-04-26

Next to the Bible, Moody and San,
keys hymns have had larger circula-
ton than any other work in twenty
five years.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21
WORTH KNOWING.

Man is the weakest of all animals in
proportion to his size.
Twenty-four hours after the opening
Of the London Tower bridge no fewer
than 1878 persons had passed over it,
and in twelve days rs, 900 vehicles.
The average annual rice product of
China and Japan is $50, 200, 900, 900
pounds; that of the United States only
1856, 100000 pounds.
Experiments are now being made
with compressed hay for paving blocks.
The hay, after being pressed, is soak
ed IN dry oil, which, it is claimed,
renders it indestructible.
1t has been estimated that the guam
tlty OF lava thrown out by Vesuvius
since the first recorded eruption in A.
ID. 70 is great enough to build all the
houses in New York and London.
Fishhooks are precisely the same in
shape today as they were twenty CEN
turtles ago. The only difference is in
the material; then they were made of
bronze, now they are made of steel.
The most inquisitive creature in
creation is the crab. He will investi-
gate with eye and claw everything
strange to him. A little water poured
upon the sand is sufficient to call q
convention of crabs to see what it all
means.
The burial ground of an ancient
race has been discovered near Adams
vile, Mich. The remains indicate that
the aborigines were at least seven feet
tall. From the fact that their bodies
were turned toward the east, it is sup
posed that they were sun worshippers.
The skull of mammoth human be-
ing Of prehistoric times was discovered
In southern California some time ago,
and it was recently discovered that a
cavity in one of its teeth was filled
with gold in the manner employed by
modern dentists.
Mexico has completed its railroad
across the Tehuantepec isthmus, max.
ing another link between the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans, and shortening the
route by sea between the West and the
East by many hundreds of miles. The
road is 207 miles long, and cos
81, 100000.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21
Dust indispensable.

Ordinarily regarded dust is nuis-
ance, yet it plays a most important
part in our very existence. In fact,
dust gives color to not only the atmos-
phere, but to everything we behold.
The sky is blue, the mountain green,
the ripening fields of corn yellow, the
evening sunset red, the clouds purple,
all through dust. Our soft, uniformly
diffused daylight is due entirely to
dust. In truth, our days would be
darker than moonless nights but for
dust. The fineness of the particles of
atmospheric dust determines the color
we see. These dust particles inter-
cept and diffuse the light. Some
of these atoms are large
enough to reflect the blue
ether waves, fewer of them capable of
rejecting green and yellow, and still
fewer large enough to influence the
red ethereal waves, hence blue is the
prevailing atmospheric color. The
deep blue of the sky in Italy and the
tropics is solely from the fact that at
mospheric dust is finer there.
Rainfall is produced by dust. Every
particle of moisture evaporated by
the sun condenses upon a particle of
dust as nucleus, and hence precipita-
ton in rain. We could haYe no snow,
no clouds, no fogs, no color without
dust. In winter everything would be
covered with crust of ice. In short,
without this usually considered NUS
ance, dust, life would not be worth
living, even if living were possible, -
Exchange.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21
An Aluminium Violin.

DR.. Alfred Springer, of Cincinnati,
has introduced an aluminium violin,
which produces an enormous volume
of tone, fully five times that of an or
binary wooden instrument. There is
a variety of opinions as to the quality
of the tone. Some musicians declared
that the quality is not as good as a
wooden one for solo work, but that it
would prove good in orchestra work.
Others take the opposite side on the
question entirely.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21
Could Only See at Night.

There is q case recorded near Lyons
in 1867 of a girl who not only was I'M
Aable to see in the daytime, but had to
be kept in dark room, so painful was
the light to her eyes. She was taken
out for exercise every night and dis
played power of vision that was al
most telescope. She was able to dis
tinguish moving figures on a road,
when persons beside her with good
sight could see nothing but the black
ness of night. The ignorant French
peasantry thought the child bewitched
and an attempt was made to poison
her. The parents became alarmed ana
fed to Paris, taking the girl with
them. She was taken to a hospital,
where she came into the notice OF DR..
Paille, the famous occulist, and he
paid the parents for the privilege OF
iecturing on the phenomenon. The
girl eventually died insane, but re-
famed her power of seeing at night IN
the dark until the last moment.-NeW
York Mail and Express.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21
Egyptian Book of The Dead.

The Egyptian "Book of the Dead"
or funeral ritual contains probably the
oldest existing record of the faith of
man in the immortality of the soul.
Its chapters are found inscribed on
mummy cases or written on rolls of
papyrus within them. The book re-
counts the supposed experience of the
soul after death, its passage across the
land of darkness in the blessed fields,
to its final judgment and admission
into the presence of its Father in
eternal dwelling place of the
cleansed spirit" The following pas
sage from one of these mummy cases
recently exhumed shows its express
declaration of future life. "The
osiris (souD lives after death. Every
god rejoices with life. The osiris re-
joices as the gods rejoice" 1t is sup
posed the "Book of the Dead" origin
ated with Egyptians between 1000
and 5000 years before Christ. A
mummy case from the great pyramid,
inscribed l, 700 yea before the time
of Jesus, has the following inscription:
go God, the protector of him who
cries to thee, he is thine. Let him
have no harm. Let him be as one of
thy flying servants. Thou art he; he
is thou. Make it well for him in the
land of spirits. "-Home Magazine.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21

The assertion that the regular army
of this country is composed of aliens
is very far from the truth. A recent
report of the adjutant general gives
the following information: Commits
stoned officers, percentage of citizens,
go. SO; of aliens, II. Non-commis-
stoned officers, of citizens, 1888;
aliens, 22.47. Privates, citizens,
TO- %; aliens, PATE
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21
Beware of Ointments for Catnrrh That
Contain Mercury,

AS mercury will surely destroy the sense of
TEN when entering it through the mucous sur
faces. Such articles should never be used ex-
cept on prescriptions from reputable physi-
clans, as the damage they will do is ten fold 10
the good you can possibly derive from them.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by f. j.
Cheney e. Co., Toledo, o., contains no mercury,
and is taken internally, and acts directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get
the genuine. 1t is taken internally, and made
in Toledo, Ohio, by f. J. Cheney g. Co.
g2S- Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21

Walter Baker e. Co., of Dorchester, Mass.
the largest manufacturers of pure, high grade,
non-chemically treated Cocoas and Chocolates
on this continent, have just carried Off the
highest honors at the hidwinter Fair In san
Francisco. The printed rules governing the
Judges at the Fair, states that zone hundred
points entities the exhibit to special award,
or Diploma of Honor The scale, however, IL
placed so high, they say that II will be attain.
Walter Baker & Co. goods received one hundred
points emitting them 10 the special dtodrd stated
in the rules
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21
Widowed Clothes.

Clothes that are sprinkled overnight
in sultry weather are quite apt to mil
dew before morning. Rub them with
buttermilk and lay them in the sun,
and the mildew, unless. very bad, will
disappear Another remedy is salt
and vinegar. 1t may be well to state
that badly mildewed clothes can never
be made white.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21
No Use to Cry.

No use to fret and worry and itch
and scratch. That won't cure you.
Tetterine will. Any sort of skin dis
ease, letter, Eczema, Salt-Rheum,
Ringworm or mere abrasion of the
skin. Costs 80 cents a box, at drug
stores, post paid by ]. 7, Shuptrine,
Savannah, Ga.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21

Vibrates the rattle snake with his rattle
Sensible people take alarm at the chill which
ushers in chills and fever. If they don't
know they should that Hostetter's stomach
Bitters is the preventer and remedy. Nor
should they forget that it remedies dyspepsia,
liver complaints, nervousness, sleeplessness
and debility, and is a general tonic without
equal
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21

OF the plants used in manufacturing the
pleasant remedy, Syrup of Figs, has perma-
nently beneficial effect on the human system
while the cheap vegetable extracts ana min
eral solutions, usually sold as medicines are
permanently injurious. Being we'll informed,
you will use the true remedy only. Manufac-
tured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21

Do You desire clerkship in the city or with
a railroad2 If 30 send us your name. State
qualifications. We find situations for both
ladies and gentlemen. Address Business, Sa-
vannah, Ga
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21
The True Lnxntive PrInc,Dlo

1t is the money that we don't need that
gives us the most worry and anxiety.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21

An honest dollar is one that is honestly
earned, be it gold, silver or paper.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21

Karl's Glover Root, the great blood purifier,
gives freshness and clearness to the complex
ion and cures constipation, 25 cts, so cts, 81.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21

When vicious man tells you to 60 to the
devil, don't do it. Keep away from him.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21

DR.. Kilmer's SWAMP ROOT cures
all Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet and Consultation free.
Laboratory Binghamton, n. Y.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21
A MOTHERS STORY.
HAPPINESS COMES AFTER YEARS
OF SUFFERING.

One Terrible Experience OF Il Well X uown
OmcinPs Wife-A story That APP
peals TO Every Mother in the
Iuud.