The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-01-28
EXCHANGE FL ASHES.

Dust settles. Therefore to be in
accord with nature, delinquent
subscribers should settle-come
down with the "dust" az 1t were.-
Eaton Rapids (Mich.) Journal.
The people should be taught to
be good, but it is just as important
that they be also taught not 10
make their goodness Obstrusive.-
Atlanta Constitution.
There is about as much need of
education outside the schools as
in them. There is hardly a man
who owns a span of horses who
does not go to the stable two or
three times a week to see how they
are cared for and how the hostler
or hired man does his duty. But
the sane man will send his children
TO public school and never go to
see what kind of building they
are being housed In; how they are
being educated and how the teach
ers are dong their work.-Edmore
mich Journal.
People who turn up their noses
at yonne ladies who are over 20 and
call them old maids are ignorant.
A woman at 25 is harder not to
love than one only 16, that is if she
is pretty and womanly.-Milen
Hustler.
1t is well enough to despise pub
lie opinion, but it is bad policy to
defy lt.-Oxford Globe.
Don't bother about the spots on
the sun. It's nothing new and
scientists will be sure to tell us what
they don't know about them. It's
the spots on the small luminaries
the people are inquisitive about
Fayetteville (Ark.) Sentinel.
Whenever any of our brethren OF
the press or anyone else sees us
roasted" as 1t is called by any eds
itor or other person, we want to
Just ask you to feel sorry for them.
1t is time, breath, and ink wasted
Life is too short and we are toe
intent on other things to reply to
such stuff. We are satisfied with
our standing in the community 10
which we were born and still live
as well as our state reputation
amongst the better elements who
know us.-Canton (Mlss.) Times.
1t Is the continued intruding Of
your name and business under the
eyes and noses of yoar fellow-mer
and women that makes advertising
pay. Transient ads are soon for
gotten. It's the Creeping ever
lastingly at it" that counts. Pic
ayune.
LABOR.
! TIE noblest thing in the universe
is honest labor. 1t is the preserv.
alive principle of the world. Labor
raises cities, adorna the earth, tand
beauties with works Of art;whitens
the sea WIN wings Of commerce:
binds continents together by means
Of telegraph; extiugulshes oarbar-
ism and plants civilization upon its
ruins. Thank God for a nation oil
workingmen.-Rev. G. O. Bacchus,
Methodist, Washington, D. G.
The fanatic who objects to secret
societies because the name of Jesus
Christ is omitted from the prayers,
is respectfully referred to the prayer
as given in Matthew ch. 6, 9th to
10Th verses. This is an "authore
lied form" and needs no fanatical
additions. columbus (O.) Knight.
| Ill tell them that I saw you,
Said the tramp unto the wood;
Bnt not for pie or pudding
Would | saw you If l could.
They may never say saw you
Though ] see you quite distinct;
But as seeing isn't saving,
Why don't care what they think.
1t is something of paradox;
And so Eve thought before,
That while l see most clearly
l can never say I saw.
| -TSD.
Suppose we all unite for 1897 ia
a persistent effort to awaken pub.
lie interest in material affairs, to
encourage home enterprises, to
give special attention to all new
undertakings, TO discourage all
political demagoeueism, to frown
down every attempt to arouse hos
tility to capital, to do all that is
possible to make the South safe