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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-04-15
HUMOROUS

Barber-This is bad quarter, sir,
Customer That's all right. ! had
bad shave.
Nh. What would you do if I should
die and leave you? Mrs. Leave me
how much?
"Two soles with but single
thought, said the sentimental young
lady. "Yes," replied her prosaic
brother; "and they've lost that"
"Teacher, is this ruler straight"
"No, Mary; ! bent it little this
morning on Bob Timbers. But I'll
hammer it straight pretty soon on
Tommy Grinwell."
Yeast-I see the latest thing is an
electric laundry. Crimsonbeak Il
suppose after mans shirt comes home
| from one it looks as If it had been
struck by lightning.
"When she scorned me-" shrieked
the pariah, 81 vowed that she should
never look upon my face again. Imust
keep my vow." Accordingly he waived
aside the profered washbasin and all
was still.
'Do you pray for your dear teacher
often, Tommy" asked the visitor to
the school, "Yetb, thir," replied
Tommy the truthful, "whenever thee
whipth me pray for the old scratch
to git her.
| When Freddy got back from the
mountains last week he was much
pleased at the sight of clean stiff cur
tans in all the rooms. 90, Mamma! J!
he remarked, "the windows have all
got clean shirts on!"
Brown-Smith is an enthusiastic
wheelman. He takes a spin every
day if the weather permits. Jones
Poohl II he were realv enthusiastic
he would takea spin every day whether
the weather permitted or not.
Mrs. Bray-I never saw more per-
feet acting than Miss Spots at that
amateur performance. Mr.. Bray
She wasn't in the cast, was she Mrs
Bray-No; she sat in the front seat
and looked as though she enjoyed II.
"Our new neighbors are very po-
lite," said Mrs. Perkasie to her hus-
band when he came home Mt night.
"Are they?" ''Yes; I sent to borrow
their stepladder and they told me they
hadn't one, but if Id wait awhile
they'd send and buy me one.
Voice Cat the telephone)-Mnjor,
will you please bring your family and
take supper with us next Sunday!
Servant Girl (replying back through
telephone-Master and mistress are
not in at present, but they cant come
TO supper, as it's my Sunday out.
understand that Mrs. krochet
played Oh the piano at the reception
last night. Did they appear to ENJOY
her performance? He-Oh! i'm
meusely. 1t was the most enjoyable
time of the whole evening. Every
BODY was talking away as If they
would split their throats:
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-04-15
Simple Grandeur.

Men look upon him with disdain,
And scout his humble trade;
foor soul, he has no teeming brain,
No learning to parade;
He only sits, from day to day,
No tender fancies ever play =.
Round that dull, grizzled head.
Still, be not hasty to despise
This man Of humble parts.
For, though he has not drawn q prize,
In choosing Of the arts,
His awl obeys masters hand,
And, oh, to be supreme
In any honest thing is grand
Beyond the poets dream!
r. Z. Kiser. in Cleveland Leader.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-04-15
"Bats on Toast"

"To see Bats on Toast or Roast
Bat on restaurant bill of fare, says
North Carolnian, sis something
that might we'll startle anyone who
had been used to associating bats with
anything but delicacy for the table.
But if he should chance to be in a
North Carolina restaurant during the
seasoa for it he would be very apt to
sec it, and if he should order bat on
toast, or bat in any style it was offered,
he wonld agree with the native that 1t
was 'pow'ful fine, suhl The wood
dove Of the South is delicious bird,
rightly cooked, and roast bat is every
bit as good. 1t may be well to say
that this morsel is bat only in name,
but even after the northcrner knows
what it really is, it is doubtful /. he
would voluntarily sample it. it is
simply the common nighthawk you
see in its swift and erratic fight at the
close of summer days in the North.
In the North / am aware you would
hold in questionable esteem the man
who would shoot these birds in wan
tonpess and would think less of him
still if you knew he shot them for his
table. Even northern person would
think better OF it if he should ever
20 South and try it once. l never
met northerner in the North who
had the heart to shoot nighthawk,
but know many of them in the South
who, seeing that bat shooting Is q
sport much enjoyed there, have be-
come most enthusiastic indulgers in
| it.
"Why they call these birds bats in
North Carolina l don't know, but that
is the name they go by-long-winged
bats. Bat shooting is in season from
the time the birds begin to flock tc
the South in the fall from their sum-
mering in the North. AS they are
shot only on the wing-.for whoever
saw one of them at rest-and as their
constant and sudden turning, dou bling
and zigzagging in the air require the
gunner to have great skill to make
creditable bag, the sport is quite as
exciting as any field or cover shoot
ing. A man who can select his bat
and wing it as it darts about in its ca
pricious flight would be no mean con
testant at prize trap shoot with thu
most active and erratic blue rocks a
targets. Bat shooting lasts but weel
or two in North Carolina, the birds thel
disappearing as mysteriously ant
suddenly as they came. The birds
find n ready sale in the markets al
from rs cents to 81 dozen, and nc
game bird is esteemed higher as del
icacy. New York Sun.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-04-15
Oh. the Dear Girls.

Dora (sweetly)--Fred didn't blow
his brains out because you Tilted him
the other night; he came right over
and proposed to me.
Maud (snper-sweetly)-Didn't he?
Then he must have got rid of his
brains some other way. Tit Bits.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-04-15

They we're standln8 toRetner oup oh
.ho moonlit terrace. Behind them
in the distance sounded the band,
nlaying soft, dreamy waltz music.
But what cared they for dancing and
tbe bot, crowded ball room? In all
,bs world for him there was only one
woman. and she stood. her hands
clasped in his, her head resting on his
shoulder.
"You won't forget me, darling" he
whispered. "when I am thousands OF
miles away, at the other side OF the
world. and letters are long in coming?
You'll remember that ] am coming
back in two years at the latest, to
cuim my little wife. .
"Oh, it cau'r be really true, Geof-
frey, that you are going tomorrow
II is too dreadful to think Of! And it's
not l that will forget. shall think
Of YOU night and day until you come
back. But yon'll most likely meet
with some lovely American girl-all
American women are lovely, you
know then you'll forget all about
poor little Mysie Trafford. who is
waiting for you in England"
"When l am out on the great lone
" prairies," he said dreamily, II
shall just shut my eyes and think my
self back to this night l shall hear
the band in the distance, I shall feel
you once more in my arms, and
shall smell the faint odor OF the hello.
trope you are wearing"
For answer she took piece of the
beliotrope from her dress.
"Here's little bit of it," she said.
'When you meet that lovely Ameri.
an, and wish that you were free, and
hat this evening had never been, then
ou can put that little flower in an
Envelope, and you needn't write
FORD to put in with it, but just ad-
ress it to me, and when get it l
ball know what it means, and you
pill be free."
"What nonsense, MysieP he said
pgriy. "Why do you talk like that?
on know-"
"Oh, here you arel" cried a shrill
p'ce' II have been looking for you
Perywhcre. Mr.. Castleford is as
Foss as he can be. Mysie. He says
Pu promised him the last two dances,
d then You disappeared and no one
uld find you; and as for you, Mr..
amilton, think you had better
ep out OF the way altogether. after
appointing Lady May and goodness
ows who besides. And Gertrude,
ysle's sister, chartered on, totally
conscious that she was most un-
lcome intruder.
ohe and Mysie had been taught
1t was their duty to make good
'ches, and Geoffrey Hamilton, with
money, and just off for America,
SO entirely ineligible that she sus-
TED nothing, and ruthlessly insisted
their immediate return to the ball
m.
ysle looked often at the little
p oil pearls-the pledge Of her be-
nai-but never put it on, except
er own room just for few min
Somehow as the days went by it
ped harder to speak OF that even
% her mother. especially as her
per had not the faintest suspicion
nything OF the sort And so q
F>> sway
zen one evening Mysie returned
walk and saw letter lying on
'aii table. One glance at her own
and the postmark-"New York
she snatched up the letter, won
9 II any one had noticed it, then
? 10 her own room. and closed
Por to enjoy it in peace.
nre burned brightly and looked
3 and she drew up low easy
hdNSeated herself comfortably
ofokA the seal OF the envelope.
was tn faint perfume as she
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-04-15
Tho Coming Man.

Those hands-those little, busy hands
So sticky, small and brown
Those hands whose only mission seems
To pull all order down
Who knows what hidden strength may be
Contained within their clasp,
Though now 'tis but tafry stick
In sturdy hold they grasp?
All! blessings on those little hands,
Whose work is yet undone
And blessings on those little feet,
Whose race is yet unrun
And blessings on the little brain
That has not learned to plan!
Whate'er the future holds in store.
God bless the looming man.
--Someryille Journal
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-04-15
BOund!ess Affection.

He-Sometime 1 wonder if you
really love me.
She-As if I hadn't proved 1t!
Haven't called, you "Duinpsey dar-
ling?"
"Well?"
"And that is a name which, until
met you, had held sacred to dear
little Fido. "--Cincinnati Inquirer.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-04-15
VOL VII

/. nsIr .! very chubby legs
Epcascd in scarlet hoses
pair Of little stuboy boots
with rather doubtful toes;
little kilt; little coat
Cut as mother can
IA lol before US stands In state
The futures coming man.
M. oves perchance, will read the stars,
And search their unknown ways;
perchance the human heart and soul
VIII open to their gaze;
Perchanco their keen and iiashins giahce
viii be nations light
n,,ose ewes that now are w1stful bent
On some "big fellows kite.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-04-15

The first pumber of new paper en-
titled the German Industrial Adver-
tiser, in the Japanese language, has
appeared.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-04-15

Six months had passed and Herbert
Castleford was pressing for an early
marriage. Mysie and her mother had
gone away from home Immediately
after her becoming engaged. Mysie
complained of the cold and looked SO
delicate that her mother took her to
the south of France, where, soon after,
Castleford followed them.
Mysie seemed willing that the we'd
ding should take place whenever they
liked to arrange it, SO matters We're
being pushed to suit the impatient
lover, when one day Gertrude ran into
the room where Mysie and Herbert
were sitting.
"Look, Mysie." she cried. "Here
is lovely bunch of flowers from that
dear count! Isn't he silly? And
they are such beauties! Only smell
theml Oh, am so pleasedl. Look !
Here are bit of heliotropeland some
maidenhair that will just do for you. !"
To her surprise Mysie turned pale
and shrank back. looking almost
appealingly at her lover, who was
watching her.
As their eyes met there wasjsome-
thing in his-nn expression, con-
sciousness, what? Mysie did not
know, but great trembling. seized
her. A hundred thoughts seemed to
pass through her mind in a moment,
but of one thing she was certain
Herbert Castleford knew all about
those playful, loving words spoken
out on the terrace on the never-to-be'
forgotten night.
Then, leaning forward, she asked,
| as if they had already been speaking
to each other:
'How did you send it from New
York;"
"I-that is-what do you mean,
Mysie? never sent it !"
Seeing that her clear eyes seemed
to read him through, he attempted no
more denial, but just caught her
hands in his and implored her to for
give him.
~ came out to look for you that
night" he said, "and heard what
you were saying just as Gertrude
came upon you from the other side'
and it was such temptation, for l
loved yon dearly better than
be did. 1t was oil done for love OF
you, Mysie.
She tried to wave him away. but in.
stead fell fainting to the ground.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-04-15
THE ONE GIRL.

did SO? She drew out sheet of blank
note paper from the folds of which
little piece of dead heliotrope slipped
and fell to the\foor.
"Mysie, you, must come down."
said Gertrude. "Mr. Castleford is
down stairs, ndsmother says you are
to come,' as Mysie looked rebellious.
''But you must change your dress !;
you can't come insthat. Has anything
happened? You loohsvery queer"
"No," said Mysae, with a strange
little laugh; sat le asst nothing of inn
portance. I will come down pres
entity"
In very short time she was in the
drawing-room, and Herbert Castle
ford, as he looked ataher, thought he
had never seen her so beautiful. He
had loved her for years, but he had
received so little encouragement from
her that he had not spoken but to-
night he had determined to put his
fate to the test, while poor Mysie,
with pain at her heart, was saying
to herself that if Godfrey could forget
SO easily, why, so could she.
And SO it came about that few
hours later she returned to her room,
having pledged herself to Herbert
Castleford. Instead of the little hoop
OF pearls she had never worn she pos
sessed handsome diamond ring, and
the dead flower and the pearls were
put far away out of sight. to be for
gotten--if possible.
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Fellow Citizens

GGliON OIplbOiip'
obedience to time honored usage,
l adopt this method of announcing
myself candidate for re election to
the position of Constable for Pungo-
league election district at the ensuing
May election. Conscious of having
discharged my official duties in the
past with honesty, fidelity and i'm
partiality, am inspired again to ask
my fellow-citizens to re elect me,
promising if they will kindly favor
and honor me with their suffrages
and re.elect me, that / will endeavor
to discharge my official duties in the
future as in the past most faithfully
and impartially, but at the same time,
| will be governed by Il spirit of
leniency and kindness to all consis-
tent with discretion.
l now throw down the gauntlet to
my opponents and competitors and
defy and challenge most rigid, scru
tiny and investigation of my past
record during my official career, and
in this connection am emboldened
to avow and proclaim that if my
official duties have not been hewn to
the line regardless of whore the
chips flew, will doiT my hat and as
gracefully as possible bow myself
out of this canvass. Now my fellow
citizens | again humbly ask you and
appeal to you with grateful heart
to support and sustain Inc in this
canvass as you have so kindly and
done in the past by your
votes, and / promise to deserve well
the trust which you may so kindly
confide to my keeping.
J. c.. WEsCoTT.
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Has 4 Corner OF Onions.

Kansas City, Mo-, March 2S.-James
Mckinney, wholesale produce and
commission merchant,apparently has
succeeded in cornering the onion
market. He has contracted for $1,000
barrels OF fancy, kiln. dried stock that
will keep for months, and has stored
them awaiting an advance in price.
Many wholesalers needing immediate
orders have been compelled to pay
$3.50 a barrel for the same stock
which previous to the present scarcity
could have been bought for $1.75 and
1925. Local dealers have many Or
ders from New York, Boston, Phila-
delphia, and other cities to be filled,
but the receipts have been so light
here outside OF those to Mckinney
that no shipping orders could be
filled, it being almost an impossibility
to supply the local demand.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-04-03

The House Of Representatives
passed the Dingley tariff bill last
Wednesday. The vote on the final
passage was ayes eos, nays 122; pres
ent and not voting 81, majority of
So. An amendment was adopted
fixing Thursday as the date on which
the bill should go into effect against
the protests of the democrats, who
contended thatit was retroactive and
unconstitutional. 1t now goes to the
Senate where it is likely to linger
and to have such an overhauling
that its best friends will not be able
to recognize it when it leaves that
body. The bill is SO voluminous that
it is impossible for us to give even a
brief synopsis of it. 1t is enough to
say of it that it is rehash Of the old
Mckinley bill, with many features
in it more Objectionable even than
that was, and it was constructed upon
the principle that the way to make
the people prosperous is to increase
their taxes.
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TERMS OF SALE:

Twenty per cent. Of the pur-
chase money to be paid i'll cash
on the day of sale, with liberty
to the purchaser TO pay as much
more on that day as he may
desire, and the balance, not paid
on day of sale, to be divided into
two equal instalnlents, payable,
respectively, at one and two
years from day Of sale, with in
terest thereon from that day to
be secured by the separate bonds
of the purchaser, with personal
security thereto, to be approved
by the undersigned trustee, and
waving the homestead eNemp-
ton, and the title to Ge retained
as additional security: the prem
Uses are to be at the risk OF the
purchaser from the time they
are bid off by him and he is to
have possession Of the premises
on January 1st, 1898, upon COM
plying with the terms of sale,
and the rents and profits for the
present year will not pass to the
purchaser, and the taxes and
levies to January LIST, 1898, will
be paid by the party receiving
the rents or by the undersigned.
and upon payment of the whole
purchase money, the purchaser
is to receive from the under
signed conveyance of the
premises by deed with special
warranty of title, upon the same,
properly prepared at the pur,
chaser's expense, being rendered
to the undersigned for execu-
ton. For further information
apply to the undersigned.
Given under nay hand, this
the 22d day Of March, 1897.
SPENCER i. ROGERS,
Trustee.
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HAPPY. NICK 23992.

To FARMERS AND BREEDERS:
Do not make your mind up not to
breed until you have seen this elegant
standard trotting bred son OF Albert
w and Virginia.
Happy Nick was bred by J. b. Bag
gins in California. | bought him at
public auction in New York for $3.50,
I months old, which is enough to
show he is well bred. He has grown
to be "a handsome horse 5 years old
June 9Th, 1887. start him III Acco-
mac believing him TO be one of the
best horses on the Shore, including
breeding, soundness, dispositions etc.
He is Il PAGER, but the best horse
papers says PAGER is as apt to get a
trotting colt as if he rrotted, pro-
vided he is trotting bred. This colt
is strictly trotting bred on both dam
and sire's side. | will prove it. Happy
Nick's sire was Albert w. with a
record of 2:20 to a high wheel sulky
and game race horse with 16 in the
list from 2:10 to 2:30, and he by the
Great Elecrioneer with l73 trotters
from 2:0S4 to 2:30. Electioneer's dam
was Green Mt. Maid She dropped .
colts 10 lrOl lfOll XIV W ~.oO, oAc "tlo
by harry Clay 45 Electioneer's sire
was that grand old horse Rysdick
Hambletonian, where all OF the
greatest horses OF to day descended
from. Virginia was sired by Echo
and he by Rysdick Hambletonion,
etc. Happy Nick's second and third
dams are producers and we'll bred on
all sides. For more extensive breed
ing see his posters. Happy Nick has
never been trained but is very fast
for Il green horse. l think with few
months training he would go in 2:1S
sure, and perhaps much faster.
Parties wishing to breed TO this
colt may do so by letting Mr.. Ran
Belote know of it; he will have him
sent to your house.
Terms, $50 0U TO insure mare in foal,
or SO 90 by the season, payable at
first service of horse.
He will be exhibited at Accomac G..
H., next Monday, court-day. Take a
look at him at tnat time and make
up your mind TO breed to a horse
equal if not superior to any ever on
the Eastern Shore.
w. T. FITCHETT, JR.
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The candidacy of Major Baker P

The candidacy of Major Baker F.
Lee before the next Democratic State
Convention for Governor is announc-
ed by Senator Geo. w. LeCato and
Mr.. E. E. Montague in the Richmond
Dispatch of Thursday, and we with
everyone else in Virginia, will en-
dorse what they have to say about
them, but very few will agree with
him we believe that he has any show
for the nomination. 1t is a fact gen
orally recognized throughout Viz
GINA now that her next Governor
will be either Taylor Ellyson or Hoge
Tyler, and the Eastern Shore of Viz
ginia is likely to fall into line and
cast its vote in convention for one of
them. Indeed, we believe that most
of the people of this section, who
have thought at all of the matter.
have declared for either Ellyson or
Tyler.
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in said county, Oh
Saturday, the 22d day Of Aay,97,
ABOUT 3 O'CLOCK P. NJ,


that very desirable tract of land,
known as the John A. White
farm, purchased by the said
Isaac 7. Wright, containing 1G4
acres, more or less, and de-
scribed in said deed as follows:
Situate, lying and being in the
county aforesaid, bounded on
the north by the Slutkill Neck
road, on the east by Leather
bury's branch, on the south by
lands of William Thos. Rogers
and Spencer F. rogers, and on
the west by Dingly's mill road,
DOLLS road.
This property is located at the
head of Slutkill Neck, and II
quarter mile from Finney's
Wharf, and two and half miles
from the town of Onancock and
but a short distance from N. Y,
P. & N. r. r., thus giving ex-
ceptional privileges for ship
ment of produce.
This farm is productive, now
in good state of cultivation
with abundant resources in both
pine shafts and woods soil. 1t is
convenient to churches ana
schools, has upon it good and
commodious dwelling, good out
buildings, two tenement houses
and fine shade trees. It's loca-
ton is very desirable, one of the
best on the Eastern Shore.
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The example of w. w. Brewer,
Esq, justice of the peace and promi-
nenJ citizen of Mt. Jewett, Pa, is
worthy of emulation. He says: Il
never leave home without a bottle of
Chamberlain's Collie Cholera and
Diarrhna Remedy and always recon-
mend it to my friends. 1t is the best
| ever used, and never fails to
give immediate relief For sale by
blackstone & Bell, Accomac c. H.,
Va, and w. II. Parker, Onancock,
Va.
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AHnOuncern enfs.
For the House of DELEGATES


l hereby announce myself as foater
delegate to represent the counties of
Northampton and Accomac in the
House of Delegates of Virginia, sub
ject to primary election. If elected,
/ will endeavor to carry the following
platform out To make the railroads
running in the territory of our
Commonwealth pay their district
school tax; to modify our present
game law; to leave the fence question
to the people, as it is local issue; to
pass no law or bill without first find
ing out if it is in accord with the
wishes of the people; to vote for John
Warrick Daniel for the U. S. Senate;
to give justice to all and special
privileges to none.
WIN. E. THOMAS,
NasSawadoX,V Va.
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SPRING MILLINERY .
Will be opened at the store of
MRS. BROUGHTON & CO.,

ON4hNCOCh, ' ~
about 10th Instant
Stock will be full, select and
furnished to customers in latest
and best styles.
DYessm aking.
Also continues to receive their
careful attention and a perfect
fit guaranteed to everyone in
this branch of their business.
Notions, dress goods, &c, in
stock from which to make selec-
ton. You are cordially invited
to call and see us.
Mrs. BRoUGHToN & Co.,
Onancock, Va.