The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-07-01
EXCHANGE FLASHES.
A WOMAN WITH BIG FEET.

liby, who lives on a farm in Penn
sylvania. She tired recently to buy
a pair of ready made shoes--men's
or women's-but after a tour Of all
the stores she gave it no in despair,
and was measured for pair. She
takes a No. II mems size in length,
but she also requires an 8 wide,
and that is wider than Is made.
Her foot measures IL inches at the
ball, III at the ipstep and IA inches
at the heel. Mrs. Gelliby's new
shoes will be on exhibition here
this week.-Atlanta Constitution.
PAY YOUR EDITORS.
An exchange has this to say OF
the man who don't take his couns
ty paper: ga man was hunting in
the timber country one day and
while thus engaged there came
big rain, and he sought shelter in
a hollow log. The log became wa
ter soaked and swelled until the
opening was too small for him to
get ont. He quickly reviewed his
life, and when he came to remember
that he had not paid for his coun-
ty paper he felt 80 small that he
easily crawled out again without
any trouble whatever.--Whitevill
Enterprise.
The Starkville Times says that
there is a man in that place "who
spends on an average IS cents per
day for soda water aud cigars and
his wife supports the family with
her sewing machine which was
given her for a bridal present"
Starkvllle needs a mammoth rock
pile for the edi6cation of that man.
Greenwood Enterprise.
MORNING DRINK.
A glass of water should always
be taken the first thing In the morn
ing. 1t exercises a two-fold advan-
tage. First of all, when slipped
slowly it acts as srimulator to the
excretory organs. Secondly, dur
ing sleep great deal of mucus is
secreted by the membrane lining
the mouth and other organs of the
alimentary canal, and this morning
drink removes it. Many morn
ing headache will be cured if this
habit is carefully and systematically
carried out.-New York World.
WHERE TO BEGIN.
Some people who are anxious for
the millennium to set in have a
mistaken idea as to how it is to be
brought about. If it is not found
in the hume, neither will it be on
the streets nor In the sanctuary.
When the millennium sets in, then
men will love their neighbors as
themselves, but when they enter
their own home they are not going
to leave this spirit of brotherly
kindness on the outside. When a
man becomes Sc very anxious for
the salvation of outsiders that he
neglects his wife and children, or
his parents, or his brothers and
sisters he betrays a mighty sorry
conception OF the relations Of life,
based upon the teachings of the
Christian religion. No man is re-
quired to yell himself hoarse, warm
ing sinners to flee the wrath to
come, while his family goes hun
cry or clothed in rags.-KnoxYille
(Tenn.) Journal.
Commencement is queer name
to give to closing exercise of a
school, and it is often wondered
why it is so. Probably the best
explanation is that at that time the
faculty commences to let the pub-
lie commence to see how little their
dear girls and boys have learned
Corinth Corinthian.
A new way to pay old church
debts has been developed in New
Orleans, 1t is novel, modern, and
ought to do the business. Ten
churches of the colored brethren
have placed the financial obliga.
tons in the hands of a regular or.
gained corporation called "The
Church Debt Liquldating Company"
and this company will undertake
to pay up all the debts of its patrons
by means of entertainments and
"other sources. "-Merldian Herald.
The Bolivar County Democrat
has declared Elk Governor John
NJ. Stone as its candidate TO sue
coed Governor McLaurin. While
not lndorsing Col. Street, of Me~
ridIan, as the successor of Gov
ernor McLaurin, yet the Times
thinks the people Of the state could
not elect man who would give
the state a more clean, beneficial
and businesslike administration
than he. Even with our free silver
proclivlties, We are not blind to the
fact that 1t does not pay to cut off
unur ,,ocn >.-..-