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Arizona republican., 1896-02-22

of certain Armenians who are now iii prison. MT. Terrell cables Secretary
 Olney that he has secured suspen- sion
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-15
Water Pipes to Hold COnvicts.

A new idea in Jail construction has
recently been successfully tested in
Boston. In brief the scheme is to
construct the cells of hollow pipes and
fill them with water. When pipe is
severed the water escapes, and by a
system of registers in the office of the
Jail the fact is made known as we'll as
the particular cell where the pipes
have been attacked.
No attempt is made to have the
pipes particularly hard. Common
gas pipe is as good as any and will
answer every purpose. The water is
kept under high pressure SO that it
will be sure to give the alarm when
the pipe is severed.
Under the usual system OF Jail con-
struction it is aimed to make the bars
so hard that saws will not affect them ;
or at best, so hard that cutting would
be slow process. But convicts in
jails are as clever as men who con-
struct Jail cells, and methods have
been discovered for taking the tenn
per out of the hardest steel. Nitric
acid will do it, and SO will common
candle. If the flame of the latter Is
kept for several days close against q
bar of chilled steel it will be made so
soft that common steel saw will cut
it. Solid steel plates have been eaten
with acids and escape made possible.
The filling of hollow pipes with water
seems to be good idea.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-15
Indirect Benefits of an Exposition.

Though the Atlanta exposition did
not pay as an exposition, said Rev.
Mr.. Strother of that city, "we are be-
ginning to find out that it paid other
wise. 1t left with us from five to ten
thousand desirable citizens. OF these
one-third are church members; nine
tenths of them are people OF push and
intelligence. Possibly the other tenth
came for climatic reasons, and they
increase the business of physicians.
Only few days ago loans amounting
to one million dollars were placed in
Northern cities for funds which are to
be used in erecting four twelve-story
Office buildings. There will be about
four hundred rooms in each.
"You can easily sec, therefore, that
city which needs an incr ease of six
teen hundred office rooms has been
doing something, and that the some
thing promises to pay handsomely.
There were no natural reasons why
Atlanta should lead the cities of the
South, but the citizens of Atlanta got
it into their heads that they should do
SO, and the did it. OF course they had
to enlist the aid of Northern capital.
One of our sky-scrapers is to be
planned on the lines of the Cairo flats
here. The interior construction, the
steel skeleton, is also TO be followed. d."
Washington Star.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-15
HUMOROUS.

A stock broker cannot expect to
feel bully when he has more troubles
than he can bear.
1t is a great misfortune not to have
wit enough to speak well, or not
enough judgment to keep silent.
BE not affronted at a jest. If one
throw salt at thee thou wilt receive no
harm unless thou hast sore places.
There is something strange about
couterfeiting. Those engaged in it
make lots of money, but it doesn't
pay.
Mr.. Jones, of st. Paul, Minnesota,
has had the blood of a live lamb in
troduced into his veins. He is now
ripe for Wall street.
First tramp-Why not walk on the
railway track? Second tramp-Do
you think 1 want the farmers to take
us for actors? Nix.
"He's great story teller" "1ni-
mitable." "Why, do you know that
his wife more than half believes he
belongs to lodge?"
'But, waiter, if this is spring
chicken. where is its wishbone!
Waiter lequal to the occasion)-lt was
too young to wish, sir.
The man who sent a counterfeit
hundred dollar bill to the treasury de-
partment as conscience money had 2
pretty good idea of genuine numor.
Bagsha-I believe some people con-
slider D'Auber quite an artist. Brad
shaw-The idea he an artist Why,
he never designed poster in his lifei
Brown-See you tomorrow night?
Jenkins-No, I have a special engage.
ment for tomorrow night Brown
Indeed? Jenkins-Yes; promised to
stay home.
Tommy - There's girl at our
school, mamma, they call Postscript"
Do you know why? Mamma-No,
dear. Tommy-Because her name is
Adeline Moore.
A horse in Houston, Texas, mas
changed hands so often that every
time stranger comes around he opens
his mouth to have his teeth examined,
SO that his age may be arrived at.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-15
Saved Both Flyr0d and Trout.

"Flyrod'' Crosby tells, in Shooting
and Fishing, how j. E. Bladon of
Portland, Me-, recovered a pet hyrod
that went overheard from the little
steam launch of H. b. Kennedy of
Brooklyn, N. Y, into fifty feet Of
Rangelv lake water. Mr.. Kennedy
hooked 1,2-pound trout and Mr..
Bladon laid his rod down, with the
hook still in the water, to help land
the hooked fish. The rod suddenly
went over the side of the boat into the
water. 1t looked like n gone rod for
n while, but the engineer of the boat
tied strings together, with a
grapple on the end. and rowed round
the launch. He got hold of some
thing on the second trip that was
lively and pulling hard. On getting
it to the surface the engineer found
that his grapple had hooked into the
line of the lost rod, which had been
pulled overheard by a three pound
trout The trout was saved along
With shs rcd aua lias.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-15
Lavinia and the Tapping damasks aud
the low-spirited dog.

isa'ihi" auu tHe uaPpiuB uuuaoho uuu
the low-spirited log.
He asked Clarie Dayton to marry
him that very afternoon, when he met
her on the common, returning from
his days work.
81 am only foreman in the Fran
kiln Factory" said he, "but / mean to
stand higher before l die. am earn
ing a good income, and dare any man
living to breathe word against my
character or habits. And, Miss Day
ton, love you truly and entirely, and
Eli do my best to make you good
husband if you will be my wife,
And Claire answered softly:
~ will"
OF course there was no lack of gos-
sip and comment when the news trans
pired in Mrs. Nipworth's boarding
house.
IA sly puss," said Miss Miller.
81 pity him !" said Miss Jennings.
ga girl must be desperately in
want of husband to take him |" said
Miss Upiohn, who had all but pro-
posed TO Mr.. Cnrstairs.
But little cared Hugh and Claire
for all this effervescence of malice.
They were happy. Yet once or twice
Hugh found his glance wandering
through the lustrous auburn cables of
Claire's long hair, and wishing it was
all real.
But the next day Claire brought
him box.
"Will you be SO good as to take
this to the express Office for me,
Hugh?" said she. "It is parcel l
am sending to my aunt in Oregon"
"It's peculiar shaped box" said
Hugh.
"Oh," said Claire, 'it's q switch"
Hugh's face cleared up.
was 1t hanging out OF your WINDOW
on Tuesday," he said breathlessly.
"How did you know?" said Claire.
''Yes, it was. L thought it smelled
rather musty, so 1 put it ont to air"
eff 1 didn't think il was yoursl"
"Mine!" cried Claire, a little dis
dainfully.
And she pulled out half a dozen
pins and down tumbled a glistening
cascade of auburn hair almost to her
feet
"There!" said she. 'Does that look
like switch?"
And Miss Lavinia, CHANGING to enter
Just then, was an unwilling witness of
Hugh's triumph.
Beauty is only skin Deep" sighed
she, "and it is sinful to be vain!"'
And SO vanished the last suspicion
of thorn out of Hugh Carstairs'
roses. es.-Saturday Night.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-15
Treading Water With Aid of a Kite.

Richard NJ. Augustin of Winona,
Mimi, a professor in the public
schools of that city, is stopping at
Wizards. "Kite flying is becoming
all the rage in Winona," said he.
"Willard Matthews, one of the most
prominent young men of the city,
made kite few days before left
home, ten feet in height. Matthews
went out to fly the kite while a strong
wind was blowing. He tied the strong
twine about his waist in order to keep
the kite from getting away from him.
Along came an unusually hard gust of
wind, and the kite carried him away
in the air in spite of himself He
thinks he rose 800 feet from the
ground before the kite began to come
down. Then he found that he was
over the lake. The kite came down
so gently, though, that he struck the
water with little force. At the same
time the wind freshened and he WAS
kept bobbing up and down upon tho
surface of the water, until clip came
in row boat from the shore. He
got good ducking, but otherwise
was not hurt. Before 1 left home he
told me that it would be some time
before he tied kite string around his
waist again. Washington Times.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-15
How the Lemon Is Cured.

All lemon-curing structures have
either double walls filed between with
sawdust-like icehouses-or heavy,
thick walls of cement, and are dark
within, with abundance of cool air
constantly circulating about the fruit
There are ventilators in the floor and
through the roof, and nearly every
grower has some patent or device OF
his own for creating draft of air in
the curing houses. When the fruit
has been taken to the curing-houses,
it is gone over more carefully, and
four grades are selected, varying from
the smooth-skinned, unblemished and
perfect-sized fruit down to that which
hls rough, thick skin and is blem-
ished. The lemons are washed and
soft brushes remove any weather
stains. Then, when they are dried,
they are placed with care in alright
and padded boxes, SO as to "sweat'
for few days. When that process is
over they are taken out, dried by
hand, and with careful handling are
placed on trays a yard wide, two
inches deep and having bottoms of
Stats SO as to permit easy circulation
of air. These trays are slid into great
racks in the cellars of the curing
house, where constant temperature
OF 60 degrees and darkness are main
tanned. Several packing houses in San
Diego County, California, will each
accommodate 25, 900 boxes at once.
In three or four weeks the fruit has
turned yellow, and is ready for pack
ing for market. But every other day
in the curing period the successful
grower goes over all his lemons, and
by the light of lamp sees that each
particular one is curing so that it re-
tains its citric oil, that its skin is soft
and pliable, and that it is hard and
firm, for such properties make lemons
the best "keepers'' until they get to
the consumer, weeks or months hence.
All fruit that shows the least signs of
decay is cast aside ut once. 1t is COM
paratively easy to grow and cure lem
ons that may be rushed to market as
soon as the curing process is finished,
but only patience and experience cure
lemon so that it may be harvested
in January and kept first-class and
shipped to market in July or August.
New York Tribune.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-15
NO. so.
Located.

Where is the Summer girl today,
Who in the hammock swayed?
Where is the spinster who, they say,
In charms begins to fade?
Where is the mGtron who reposed
In the great easy chair
Where is the college girl who dozed
Ger books Of learning rare.
The empty hammock idly swings;
The spinster's young once more:
The easy chair with impressed springs
Stands lonely on the floor;
The college girl far from sedate,
Joins in the season s zeal,
And each from early morn till late
Is out upon a wheel.
Washington Star.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-15
Negotiating a Loan

Show is money!" asked a seedy
customer, entering the office OF New
York banker. s'Is there much de-
mand for it.
"No, sir; very slight demand.
"Ahl in that case you may be shIs
to lend me quarter.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-15
Amusing Episode in Church.

The Church Times says that on a
recent Sunday in church in Dublin
the choir was startled during the sing
ing of the psalm by the appearance of
the organ blowers head who shouted
out, "sias like hlasssi the bellows is
tus.sdl'' =
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-15
THE FACTORY GIRL.
ny HELEN FORREST GRAVES.

There was no sort of doubt but that
Middlefield had grown and was thriv-
inc at an amazing rate since the fac-
tories had been set up.
In old times it was wont to be a
sleepy, stupid sort of place, with
wide blue river meandering
Through its midst, q church aud three
or four stores; now it was q flourish
ing young village, with every proba-
bility of expanding into city.
And of all the boarding houses that
had sprung up, as if by magic, within
its limits, chiefly for accommod 'tion
Of the factory girls, Mrs. Nipworth
claimed that hers was the gent eelest.
eve have waitress at table" said
Mrs Nipworth, loftily, "clean nap
kjns twice week, and ice cream, at
dessert, of Sunday and if any other
lady in Middlefeld can say as much,
why should be pleased to hear it,
that's all u
Claire Dayton had come to Middle
held to work in the factories. The
Daytons had been well-to-do people
pnce, but Mr.. Dayton had speculated.
lost his fortune, and wilted out OF the
world like dandelion that has been
but down by the mowers sickle.
Mrs. Dayton, who had been brought
hp to do nothing but sit in IN easy
chair and attitudinize, looked help
essly over the heads of her five chill
dren, and wondered what was to be
done.
Mamma" said Claire, "Tll tell
you. Will shall go into Mr.. Tenier's
bfico at q dollar week. 1t isn't
much, but it's better than nothing.
Bessie can learn the millinery business
1t Madame Pompau's. She will at
east get her board there, and perhaps
cquirc some useful ideas into the bar
gain. Kate and Fanny are too small
10 be of any use. They must remain
It home with YOU"
"And you?" said Mrs. Dayton, her
lin blue eyes opening wide in aston
ehment at Claire's unusual executive
|bility.
II will go into ono of the Middle
leld factories," said Claire, resolute-
y.
"But what do you know of the kind
! work required to be done in facto-
ies?"
can learn, mamma.
"Oh, dear-oh, dear!" said Mrs.
Dayton. 81 wish we were all dead
ind buried!"
But while we are alive, "said Claire,
nth smile, eve must be doing some
ping to provide ourselves with foo d
nd clothing"
SO Claire Dayton came to Middle
eld and engaged the last vacant room
r Mrs. Nipworth's establishment.
Mr. Carstairs, the young foreman in
ne franklin Factory, boarded there,
90, and when first he came in to tea,
nd sat down opposite Claire Dayton,
% thought her the loveliest creature
. ever had seen in his life.
Isn't she beautiful?" said he to his
Pster, tall, frigid spinster, who pre-
ded over the Middlefield branch Of o
aper- pattern establishment.
"Humph! |" said Miss Carstairs-'.i '.if
Is all real!"
hcall" repeated Hugh CarstairA
What else should it be?"
Miss Carstairs drew down the cor
srs of her mouth.
There's very little that is real in
rs world" said she. Complexion,
s'n' hair--ever oyes."
'What?" said Hugh.
nven eyes," repeated Miss Car
'iS may bA so perfectly simulated
'as skill of modern art that"
IN, nonsense" interrupted Hugh,
'a'r ''ryyorsntly. "Thsra's moth,
'ssAas 's'' sssus N,ss Dss,sal"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-15

Daughter Mamma, if I must write
to Mr.. Brown about his extortionate
bill, should I say 'Dear Mr..
Brown q"
Mamma---Certainly, under the cir.
cumstances.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-15
A Mystery Explained.

She-I wonder what makes those
girls walk SO funny? Are they intoxi'
Gated?
He-No, they're not Intoxicated,
2aly shsls shoss tha. ,ss sisaA
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-15

"We do not know. that" observed
the lady, acidly.
Somehow, Clnire Dayton WAS not
popular in the house. She was polite
and courteous to all, but she formed
no intimacies.
''Stuck upl" Rhoda Miller called
her. "Airy and conceited," Miss
Upiohn said.
No one was really kindito her but
Mr.. Carstairs, and the fact OF his
chivalrous kindness and evident nd
miration seemed still further to en-
bitter the other eleven young lady
boarders toward its object.
II really don't see what Mr.. Car
stairs can fancy in her." said Maria
Upjohn.
Gentlemen always do fancy these
red-haired, light-complexioned girls,
said Miss Miller, who was a brunette,
and had long entertained views upon
the young forem an of the Franklin
Factory.
And Miss Canstairs, who disap-
proved, on principle, of her brother
settling in life (bachelor brothers are
more convenient to single sisters), de-
preciated Miss Dayton on all occa-
sions.
OF all Claire's beauties, her rich
red-gold hair filled Hngh Carstairs
with the greatest admiration.
'It's the loveliest ever saw in my
! life," said he. "Its just the shade OF
a picture once SAW in the Academy
of Fine Arts, in Philadelphia"
my hair.dresser can get the color
for you at fifty cents BOTTLE" re-
marked Miss Lavinia Carstalrs, with.
acrimony.
"Nonsense said her brother.
"Do you actually suppose it's her
own?" satirically demanded the
lady.
"Do suppose the light in her eye
| and the tone of her voice are her
own?" spiritedly retorted the young
foreman.
Miss Carstairs made no reply, she
merely raised her eyebrows and
shifted.
That selfsame afternoon she called
her brother down into the back yard
"a dreary little wilderness of lilac
bushes, some late shrubs and sickly
| geranium plants-where the semi
weekly wash of napkins and table,
cloths was Tapping on the line, and
lachrymose dog, chained to his ken
nell, kept up perpetual whine.
"Hugh." said she, "come, here. I
want to speak to you.
"What is it?" said Mr.. Carstairs,
impatiently.
"Look there!" said Miss Lavinia,
pointing one hooked finger to the
third-story easement.
! swell, I'm looking"
'Do you see that window with the
muslin curtain blowing in the breeze?"
eyes"
'That is Miss Dayton's window.
And do you see that thing hanging
out of it by string?"
cit looks like a scalp" suggested
Hugh.
.'It's switch" said Lavinia.
"a what?"
"A switch. False hair"
| "Impossible cried the young
| man.
"Well, you've the evidence of your
| own senses" said Miss Carstairs, not
without spice of triumph in her
tone and manner. "And now what do
you think about your piece OF perfec-
tion?"
IT think" said Hugh Carstairs.
slowly. "that l canuot tolerate or
abide falsity in any Of its shapes; and
am more disappointed than l can
tell"
"I always knew she wasn't real.
said Miss Lavinis, with vicious re-
lish.
| "But for all that, added Carstairs,
setting his firm whito teeth togethsr.
~ love Miss Dayton. and l shall ask
her. to become my wife.
"What!" shrieked Miss Carstairs.
"Your wife? And with switch?"
| with switch, and with hump
back, and with set OF false teeth,
| aud nth anvthin0 and everythlnQ else
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1896-08-05
Tho Reason.

Why is it that glass chimney
makes such a difference to the light
given by lamp? Because it increases
the supply Of oxygen to the flame by
producing draught, and coneen-
trates and reflects the heat Of the
flame; In consequence Of which the
combustion of the carbon is more per.
feet, and very little escapes uncon-
sumed. Lamp glasses were invented by
Anne Argand, the inventor Of the ia
nous lamp which bears his name. He
had been experimenting for some time
in trying to increase the light, but to
no purpose. On the table before him
lay the broken neck OF an oil flask.
This he took up carelessly, and placed
it almost without thought over the
wick. A brilliant flame rewarded this
act, and the hint was not lost on the
experimentalist, who proceeded to put
his discovery into practical operation
at once.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1896-08-05
INTERESTING ITEMS.

Children now play with electric
tops.
Irish and negroes rarely resort to
self-destruction.
Dolph Buckins, Georgia negro, has
one white ear and one black one.
Ohio raised 1879, 725 sheep last year,
value s14 900, 900; Texas raised 4,30A,-
600, value 100000.
Remains of prehistoric man Of the
mound building period have been
found at Charlotte Harbor, Florida.
A well at Salisbury, N. c., which
until recently supplied cold water, is
now reputed to be furnishing a hot
kind exclusively.
Chicago has a Domestic science as.
ISOLATION, which proposes to build an
institution where women will be in.
structed in home duties.
A Chinese engineer educated in
New Haven, Conn.,, is about complet-
ing telegraph line 5000 miles long
across the Gobi desert. from Pekin tc
Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan. 1t has
been three years under construction.
The project to build railroad to
the top of the Jungfrau, 1868 feet
high, is likely to be carried out, if the
Swiss government approves. This
will be the most ambitious scheme of
railrced building ever undertaken.
The promoters offer to spend ss0, 600
to build an observatory at the sum-
NIT and man 1t, If the government
grants the concession.
One important firm of jewelers. in
New York requires its factory em-
ployes to leave their working clothes
at the factory. The work benches
and floors are carefully swept night
ly, but once in every few years floors,
benches and clothes are burned.
After one of these burnings the cru
cibles contain as residuum thou
sands of dollars worth OF precious
metal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1896-08-05
BUSINESS BREvlT,Es.

Drought In Argentine has killed
200. 900 cattle, 100000 sheep and
10000 horses.
Aluminium is now used as substi-
tute for leather in building up the
heels of boots and shoes.
Formerly all the mandolins used in
this country were imported from Ger
many and Italy. Now nearly all that
are used here are Of home make.
Fifteen years ago there was not a
telephone exchange in the United
States. To-day there are nearly 1,40o
exchanges, employing 10000 persons
and furnishing service to nearly ESQ.,
600 telephone subscribers.
Mississippi is the great tomato.
shipping state of the South. Not
only does she furnish this vegetable
to st. Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago,
but Mississippi tomatoes are on sale
in Philadelphia, New York and even
in Boston and the towns Of New Eng.
land.
The announcements made in the
National Builder that what was at
first considered q doubtful expert.
ment, viz: the use of coal tar as q
means of rendering masonry imper
vious to water, especially in positions
exposed to direct contact with the
latter, has proved q practically val
liable resort.
Chicago is reported as carrying al
many as 100000 cases of cold storage
eggs this year, and New York is al
most equally loaded. Many egg
lave been pvt into cold storage. no
as matter of speculation, but simply
to save many country merchants tn.
loss that they would otherwise srfel
should their gools on arrival EaA b,
ut once put on glutted market.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1896-08-05
"NOW WE'VE COT HIM"


and swept the unfortunate Picket's hat
from his head into the gutter.
Cursing like a pirate, the luckless
Picket pursued his new hat, and res
cued 1t from the gutter much damaged,
and covered with mud. A passing
good Samaritan stopped and said to
him:
There's. a halter couple OF doors
up the street there; he'll brush it of,
and touch it up with the iron, and 1t
will be all right"
Thank you" said Picket, and he re-
paired to the hatter's. When he had
his hat polished he stood upon the
doorstep for a moment, and not wish
ing again to expose his hat to the fury
of the elements, he determined to step
into a friendly restaurant next door,
where he would wait until the storm
was over. He went in, seated himself
at table, hung up his hat on one
of the hooks over his head, ordered a
sandwich, and began to look over the
paper. But he could not take his
mind away from the satirical welcome
which he knew his wife would ex-
tend to him when he returned with the
damaged hat. However, the Rubicon
had to be crossed. The rain had
ceased. He rose, and still rejecting on
his wifes reception, took hat from