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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-11-05
EXPOSITION ECHOES.
From our Special c correspondent at
Vicksbury,


Vicksburg.
Every preparation for the great
show is now about complete.
The stables are filed with the
best character of trottlng, pacing
and RAINING stock, aud there Is no
douot that all the races will fill. In
addition to the regular Association
premiums on cotton. Messrs. Willis,
Moore & Co., of Vicksburg,' offer
800 for the best bale of long sta.
rle T; $75 for best bale of Blenders,
and $50 for best bale of short sta
pie. This in addition to the regus
lar $50 premiums, will make 1t
we'll worth a farmers while to- win
these premiums.
Another special premium of 500,
and $40 for first and second best
saddle horse of any kind is offered.
The famous cotton picker, which
has been recently tested in the
Delta, will be here every day, and
visitors will have an opportunity of
seeing it put into practical opera
ton each day of the Fair. This a.
lone ia worth the trip.
The parade of the Ben B0lians is
exciting a great deal of curiosity.
This mysterious order will give
their first grand street pageant on
Thursday night of the Fair, and the
accommodation trains will wait un-
til after the parade before leaving
town.
The foot. ball games will be play
ed on Monday, Thursday 18th and
Friday 18th.
1t is high time that all exhibitors
should be getting their stock and
other articles ready, as Exposition
will be running in full blast by
Monday, the first day.
Nothing like the number of hogs
entered here has ever been seen in
this country; it will be a veritable
revelation to the razor.back breed
ers to see what fine hog really is.
The poultry department is espec-
tally full.
Ladies all over the country seem
to be taking great interest in the
Exposition, judging from the vast
amount of fancy work, and domes.
tic exhibits they are making.
Tho Association will run it's own
trans to and from4he Fair Grounds
at . very low rate, making trans
portation very easy and Satisfactory.
Oct 80, 1896.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-11-05

With this issue the FREE PRESS
enters upon its seventh year of ex-
lstence. Our experience has been
more than hard one for the past
six years for the want of home pat.
ronage. Scan our columns, and
not a single home mercantile adver.
tisement will be found. 1t would
rebound to the benefit Of the pub,
lie If all of our business men would
advertise and if delipquents would
promptly square accounts. Then
assistance could be procured, good
material purchased and better pa.
per issued. All we ask is, that our
friends and readers be as prompt
and conscientious in the discharge
of their duties toward US as ours
have been rendered to them.
Rev. w. B. Holcomb's wife has
presented him with a fine daughter,
Of which arrival he is very proud,
as most Of his children are boys.
Mr.. Holcomb says that he wants
organisrs 10 his family to assist him
in his church work, but that the
music now executed by his little
daughter would not prove very &C.
cep:able to his congregations.
The Baptist protracted meeting,
which began Wednesday night of
last week, will close this Tuesday
night. MIR. Holcomb has been ably
assisted by Rev. J. r. johnson, and
the church has been crowded at
nearly every meeting. Much in
terest is being manifested.
-ANTED-SEVERAL FAITH.
w full men or women to travel
for responsible established house
iD Mississippi. Salary $3.50, pays
able SIS weekly and expenses. 70.
sition permanent. Reference. En-.
close se.f.addressed stamped envel
ope. The National, Star Building,
Chicago. 44.20-w
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-11-05
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office at jackson, Miss. I

Land Office at Jackson, Miss, I
Oct. 2, 1896. Z
Notice is hereby given that the
following-named settler has filed
notice of his intention to make final
proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before
the Chancery Clerk of Pearl River
County at Poplarvllle, Miss, on
November 20, 1896, viz: Joseph e.
BealI, of Hillsdale, Miss, Home
stead No. 2l951 for the Cd nw4 and
ne4 sw4 sec 81 2 r Ia W.
He names the following Witness
es to prove his continuous resi-
dence upon and cultivation of. said
land, VIZ: Solomon Ladner, J. s..
Lee, James Lee, W. P. Smith, ell of
HillsdaIe, Miss.
ROBERT E. W1LsoN,
Register.
496t.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-11-05

"Why did you propose to her 7"
81 wanted to kiss her, and she
said she would allow no one but
an accepted lover that privilege"
s"Why die you break the engages
ment p"
"She wanted me to Kiss her all
the time.'
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-11-05
popLARvILLB MARKET.

The following schedule went ms
~ effect Sunday, Apl. 18th. 1896:
No. 3 south bound due 3:42 q. m.
M. / southboand due 9:37 a. m.
No. Q northbound due 5:42 p. m.
No. 6 porthbound due lO:l8a. m.
No 80 southbound due 1880 a. m.
No "a northbound due 11:30 a. m.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-11-05

The mind or soul can trace.
And in spite Of comment
On things we may ahhor
We are each in the place
We are best fitted for"
Molasses-making is tie order of
the day with our farmers.
Every family in this section
should have a good winter garden.
Miss Birdie Darling lie visiting
her sister, Mrs. j. q. Reed, at Nc.
Henry.
Board of Supervisors met Mon
day. Proceedings will be given
next week.
The rains ofthe past week should
have put the streams in fair log
ging condition.
Sunday was as perfect day as
has ever been enjoyed by humanity
since Adam was created.
Miss Lula King, of Purvis, was
here for several days attending the
Baptist protrac:ed meeting.
Attorney e. H. Mounger is visit
ing Purvis and Hattiesburg this
week on professional business.
Some loud Growing will be done
by one political party or the other
for the remainder of the month.
@. Alexander has fine crop of
sweet potatoes of the yellow yam
variety. He brought US one Mon
day that weighed ga pounds.
Eastman, Garduer 8 Co., the big
sawmlll men of Laurel. are building
q rallroad westward from that town
to tap Smith county pine timber.
Sol Moody has purchased the
DIR. Cherry place, nov occupied by
}. F. Selph. Mr.: Moody will IN
prove his purchase by the erection
of a handsome residence.
WANTED AT ONCE: Active
agents for each county. EXCLUSIVE
control and no risk. Will clear IL
TO 20 hundred dollars a year. Enclose
stamp for full particulars or 25c for
u sample. Big Rapids Mineral
Water Co., Big Rapids, Mich.
The following teachers were be.
fore the county examining board
last Saturday: Miss Lucy Lott, OF
slarlon county, and two colored
men--C. =. Sims, OF New Or.
leans, and s. L. Anderson, of Lum.
berton,
>. M. Gam and several friends
enjoyed successful hunt on Pearl
River last Friday, the party bag
ging 14S squirrels. Hunters from
the river report this game to be in
such abundance as to satisfy the
most ardent sportsman.
An experienced orchardist says
manure should be hauled upon the
orchard in the fall or early winter.
Then 1t gets the benefits resulting
from the fall rains and winter SHOWS,
which melt and are carried down to
tne roots. Only wet manure can
help fruit trees.
AZ We 20 to press Tuesday ewes
nlnss We are unable to give any
election news in this issue, and
" would hardly pay to hold back,
as We might have to wait two or
tnres days for the tiaal result. Our
readers will flnd full particulars Of
'ne election in the FREE PRESS
next week.
Inc brick work ofthe Gam store
Was completed Saturday, aud the
ou'lding was turned over to the car.
p p BY Contractor Compton,
y ar. Karsnsr, the carpenter, has
: favorable weather for work az
mo Dricknasons had. Mr.. Gam
-, w. . able to occnpy the store b.
11s md Of the month
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-11-05

We must let our extra supply of
steam escape through some sort of
channel, occasionally; and as the
most convenient and innocent means
at hand at this moment is our dog.
gerel machine, wo will grasp the
handle of the crank, give it a few
turns and nete the result:
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-11-05
MILLER HOUSE
MRS. S. E. MILLER, Proprietress.

W @1] = - Q Px IOV1 &C DF
Location near the depot, and
convenient to all business houses.
Comfortable rooms for drummers,
transient visitors and permanent
boardefs. Table supplied with the
best the market affords. Terma
reasonable.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-11-05

turDs ana tie the result:
There's as much pain as pleasure
In loving as l love thee
That love-'tis without m easure-
Boundless as the blue, deep sea.
Yes. my heart Is like the ocean
Racked by lightning, storms and
dread
Now, thrilled with loye's emotions {;
Now, as pulseless as the dead.
To-day, Hope leads me onward,
But tomorrow Hope will die;
To-day, my fate is downward
Mounts tomorrow to the sky.
'Twixt fond hope and grim despair
Life is not worth the living
To think she's false--one so fair
All no; she's kind, forgiving.
IT'S ever Lhus--there is no peace
This earth can not be heaven;
Like Wandering Jew, there's no
surcease--
I'm doomed as is the Raven.
Some of our teachers left Sunday
and Monday to take charge of their
winter schools, and others will
leave next week. The following is
a list of the teachers and their re.
spective schools:
W. @. Anderson, Spring Hill
M. A Sheppard, B. rd's Chapel.
W. l. Mum, Clear Branch.
q. E. Smith, Buck Branch.
w. H. Askew, Mill Greek.
w. l. Williams, Smith.
Miss Alleyne Shivers, Wesley Chapel.
Ada White, Richmond.
" Lucy Lott, Beall.
Clarissa Ford, Amer.
" Hattie Hubert, Mcneil.
Lydia Landrum, Highland.
Francie Anderson, DAVIS.
Mabelle Scott, Hillsdale.
{" Mary Baxter, Hickory Grove.
|" Hollie Seabrook, Orvisburg.
|GA NnV- To enlarge our
lOh1ND L = Trade, we will
send limit of sample boxes of all
Fine and Fancy Candies, and sam
Piles of all Cream, Chocolate and
Fruit Candies. we carry to any adj
dress on receipt of one dollar 1.-TWO
cents stamps taken), and Express
Charges Prepaid. These Candies
are sold from 20cts. to 81 pound.
In ordering state name of Express
Co., and please show Candies t.
friends and neighbcrs.
Address:
The CRESCENT CANDY Co.,
Cos Carondelet St., New Orleans.
Drs. J. NJ. Thornhill and w. j,
Hunnicutt amputated NJ, B. Nc
Can's legs last Friday morning. Al
though Mr.. McCan Is IN low state
of health, he stood the operation
well, and is progressing TO the sat
lsfaction of his physicians. Mr..
Mclean has suffered for years from
scrofulous affection OF the legs. and
for several years has been confined
to the house. 1t is now hoped
that his general health will be great
ly improved.
Supt. D. D. Curran, Engineer
Hangh and G. P. and f. Agent I.
Hardy passed up the road We'd
nesday of the past week on q tour
Of inspection. Those clever and
genial officials remained here about
half an hour, and we had q pleas
ant social chat with them. Mr..
HauSh has our thanks for budget
Of interesting papers.
A substantial walk should be
constructed from Main street to the
depot before bad weather sets in.
II it cannot be done by the town
authorities, private enterprise might
accomplish the desired end. The
cost to each contributor wonid be
. mere Song.
i
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-11-05
YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG
WOMEN.

SCHOLARSHIP 500 THIS MONTH,
Wyatt's Blu siness Colleges at
Jack son and Meridian, are dong
all they can for Mississippians,
and tuition will only be $40 to
those entering this month. Don't
miss this opportunity. No better
schools in the land for Bookkeeps
in G. Shorthand, etc.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-11-05
MOST PERFECT MADE.

"Soi TENFENl MAU6s
4 pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Pre-
from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulternt
20 YEARS THE STANDARD.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-28
CHILDREN AND FLOWERS.

Wise and loving parents want their
children to be educated to enjoy what is
beautiful in art, in literature and in ma
ture. They may question the influence
of luxurious living, may fear the effect
of elegant surroundings as inducing in
dolence of mind and body or as foster
ing spirit of discomfort, but they can
not think that life of "plain living aud
high thinking" would exclude pleasure
in sunny sky or modest flower. The
little garden where the children are al
lowed to have a plot Of their own af-
fords one Of the most innocent delights
of childhood. The planting, the wedding,
the watching for the first blossom, keep
the whole family interested, and is the
most thoroughly natural and healthful
pleasure child can have. There is in
all this sense of ownership which is as
unselfsh as possession can be, for con-
nected with it is usually the desire to
give away the first fruits as an offering
to friendship or charity. The flower
lover is almost always the fower-giver,
and nothing is sweeter than to see
dear child bring to the fond mother the
first blossom from my own garden"
The best and surest way to shut out evil
thoughts is to furnish themes for good
pure and beautiful thoughts; a mind en-
gagged in the attention to beautiful
things in nature has no place for that
which is hateful and ugly, and we can
not overestimate the real value OF flower
culturd as part of children's education.
l have often wondered if the children
we see stealing flowers. do this entirely
from mischief, or if some do not really
love the blossoms they cannot have at
home. If they had early been taught a
real appreciation of flowers. they would
probably more highly regard their neigh
bors' rights in the mat ter omdnkind.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-28
BOBBIE BURNS NO PAUPER.

The poet Burns was, of course, COM
paratively poor, but he was never per-
haps reduced to that degree of chill
perjury the contemplation of which has
moistened many sentimental eyes. In
his recent speech at the Edinburgh
Burns anniversary celebration, Ambass
ador Bayard alluded pathetically to the
marrow poverty" of the dead poet. A
venerable Seotchman living in Philadel-
phia protested to an editor of The Times
against such expressions of sympathy,
and asserted that Burns never knew any
thing of such poverty as he is generally
supposed to have suffered. This Scot is
himself an Ayrshire man, and claims that
he knew, sixty years ago. plenty OF Ayr
shire plowmen who were born before
Burns died. We quote from his remarks
to The Times:
when Bobby began to grow famous
and to see the airs which the aristocracy
took on, he twaddled sometimes about
his poverty, meaning that he was not
rich enough to drive coach-and- four,
live in castle, and give feasts to his
friends. From several of his songs you
might infer that he was not much better
off than beggar or an American tramp,
or the wretches who huddle in the tene.
ments of New York. That is mere non
sense. He was living man, every inch
of him. He was dissatisfied with the
inequalities of fortune. He heard the
news of the French Revolution. He
did not possess the rights which, as he
believed belonged to him. He had as
pirations. He wanted to leave his ma
tive country. Bobbie was poet who
could sigh or mourn as we'll as carol or
MARBLE and sometimes he sighed in his
sentimental hours more than there was
any need for. l hold that Burns
himself is partly responsible for these
fctions. He should never have babbled
about his poverty il a way that would
lead people, long after he was dead, to
think it thing like that which we see
in New York. or that which l have seen
in Chicago and other places. 1t was
not thing of the kind at any time of
the thirty-six years of his short life. :.
In the various employments Of his life.
from his youth when he followed the
pillow to the year when. under the age of
thirty, he got $500 for his poems, he had
not often much reason to complain.
With that 9500 in Scotland he could buy
more than he would now be able to buy
with $4,000 in A merica, and after that
time he got good pay as an exciseman
while he worked his farm, and was
friend of the philosophers, to his own
misfortunes. He saw the dawn of his
glory years before his death. and enjoyed
the love of wife whose praises he had
sung in lines that are immortal. You
need not shed any tears over glorious
Bobbie Burns. l have lived twice as
long as he lived. and only wshs that
my life had been as free as his was.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-28
Yule Fires.

Do you think the kitchen middens"
of which biologists tell us-those singu-
lar remains of gigantic fires and roasted
bones which science has discovered on
many northern shore-mark the site
where the Yule logs of the kings fires
we're first kindled? Quantities of fossil
lied bones are embedded in the old
world ash heaps-bones which careful
investigation assures us have been
roasted. Huge cooking places they must
once have been. The bones strewing the
ground after carouse seem to have been
a special feature of Danish feast. We
have only to recall the death of Elphage.
the patriot archbishop of Canterbury,
in the days of Ethelred, who, although a
prisoner in the Danish camp, steadily re.
fused to deliver himself by ransom. say
ing it would be treason in him to pay the
enemies of England. Gold, bishop,
gold!" shouted the Danish troops,
thirsting more for gain than blood, un-
til, irritated by his constancy, they ran
to heap of bones and horns of exen--
the relics of their repasts-and showered
them from all sides upon the aged Sax
on. Elphage soon fell half dead. and
was dispatched with an ak by one of the
pirates.
We may gather some idea of these gi-
gantic Yule fires from the ancient edicts
and the illusions in the sages to the all
important duty of kindling the beacon
fires at the approach of an enemy.
Wherever the Norsemen settled these
beacon fires were established and their
wardens appointed. CLAUS Magnus and
Snorro both prove that large trees we're
Gu tdown in the nearest forest and piled
upon the beacon hill until the blazing
pine wood must have resembled burn
ing mountain. Yet the kings fire at the
feast of Thor exceeded the beacons on
the Norway headlands, as it burned for
weeks, for the feast of Thor was also the
appointed time for regulating all home
affairs.-NOtes and Queries.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-28
STOCK

Strong colonies of bees sometimes be-
come suddenly depleted in number with
not enough left to keep up sufficient
warmth to hatch the eggs. This is be-
cause no young bees have been Matched,
and the old ones, superannuated, left the
hives on warm days in search of food,
and were not able to return. II plenty
OF provision had been given them, they
would have managed their business all
right.
The life Of bee in the busy season is
very brief. 1t is conceded that during
the honey flow they do not live more
than six or eight weeks; they live longer
when confined to the hive during win.
ter. When spring comes they are at
the goal of their existence, and unless
substituted by young bees the hive must
inevitably perish.
To feed the bees place syrup over the
cluster, or sugar if the weather is cold;
place oil cloth over the cluster, 10 which
are few small holes around which the
food is placed The bees will soon find
it and carry it down. Keep up the sup
ply, and see that the holes are open.
Early maturity is a prime necessity
for pig raising, and it is folly to wait
more than six months for an animal to
show its points. II not exhibited by
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-28
Likeness Between Husband and Wife

The following from the Photographic
Times will amuse heads of families:
Some curious Investigations have re-
Gently been undertaken by a photograph
ic society in Geneva. The purpose was
to show that the longer married couple
lived together-we apprehend harmoni.
ously-the more and more became the
resemblance which the two persons bore
to each other. Photographs of seventy
eight couples were taken. as we'll as an
equal number of adult brothers and sis.
ters. Ga careful inspection it was found
that the married couples were more like
each other than the brothers and sisters
of the same blood. Apparently. there
fore, there seems to be a stronger force
available for the production of family
likenesses even, than that of hereditary
transmission. In accepting the state
ment of the society in question. it is not
difficult, in certain measure to &C.
count for the phenomenon referred to.
Human beings. for example, have quite
faculty for copying each other in their
ways, movements and temperaments"
limitations, conscious or unconscious,
often produce a resemblance in express
sion which may deceive at first glance,
leading the observer to think he sees
similarity of form and feature. Any
society, however, that would attempt to
draw general conclusion from so small
number as seventy eight couples. is
ignorant of the first principle that
should rule in such an investigation,
namely. that to establish language and
avoid the possibility of accidental coin
cidence, great number of cases must
be taken.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-28

need not lack for valves, 2,465 of these
having been patented.
More patents have been issued from
our patent Office to British subjects than
to natives of any other foreign country,
the number being $50.
The problem of fencing farm land and
city lots has received extensive atten-
ton, there being no less than 6,S07 pat
ents upon fencing devices and posts.
That music hath charms to soothe the
savage breast of the inventor is demon
strated by the fact that he has taken
out 1928 patents on musical instruments
or the various parts thereof.
The bees of America have no reason
to complain of neglect. there being 99S
patent hives in which the busy bee that
according to the poet. improves each
shining hour, may store up its honey
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-28
INVENTORS AND PATENTS.

There are 1888 different kinds of We
locipedes.
The manufacture of gas is covered by
5000 patents.
One thousand and ninety patents have
been issued for paving.
OF air and gas engines 1,025 different
varieties have been patented.
Cannons, guns. pistols and proiectiles
are protected by PCS patent.
There have been 3,7l7 patents issued
for devices or machines employed by the
carpenter.
There are 2.4S7 different varieties of
fire escapes and ladders to be used in
emergencies.
Soda water and other cooling bever-
ages are manufactured according to Els
patented methods.
The steam engines of this country
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-28

like a new man. He stood erect
where his head had hung low, he had
a cheerful smile on his face where
he had looked detected when she
snubbed him. In fact, she did not
dare to snub him. She knew that he
was a person of much more impor-
lance in the estimate of the world
than she was. And when George
Larkin for the first time in his life,
gained the courge to ask Gertrude If
she would marry him and make him
happy for the rest of his life, Ger
trude had no thought of saying any
thing but yes. So much is even a
good girl governed unconsciously by
the tone of the people around her.
1t is an unimportant thing to add,
but this great empire rose from its
depression on the strength of Mr..
George Larkin's kind offers to the
treasury. Everybody saw that he
was right, and nobody else was
right. Four per cents rose to a high
er line than had ever been known in
history. The reputation of Mr.. Lar
kin as a fnancier was established.
Rothschilds and Belmonts and other
bankers of the world begged for his
advice, and offered him places in
their firms. These he was not so fool
ish as to accept. But he lived a
happy life with the woman he had
loved, and he had the glad conscious
ness that, by the way, he had saved
his country Chicago Inter Ocean.