The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-01-14
EXCHANGE FL ASHES.
IN A GARRET.

EXCHANGE FL ASHES.
IN a GARRET.
In a garret lived poet
Fifteen stories high;
Building had no elevator;
All the world passed by.
Never any bill collectors
Bothered him; for they,
To,ling to the fifteenth story,
Perished on the way.
"Clever chap l"-eo ran the verdict
As the world passed by;
"Genius merely means-a garrett
Fifteen stories high"
Atlanta Constitution.
SUICIDE.
The suicide theory of curing
earthly Ills by ending life is fast
becoming a matter Of creed with
many people. Does death end it
all? 1t is quite the thing for ill-
health, baslness reverses, or social
trouble to offer an excuse to put
an end to them all with the pistol,
the knife, or the rope. Human life
is the most precious thing God ever
created. A single life Is worth a
million worlds to God. In His in.
fioite mercy He has made human
lite but the yestlbule OF eternal life.
Life is what all can have, but none
can give.-Rev. Chas. e. Williams,
Methodist, Pittsbura, Pa.
When your home merchant pre-
SCENTS you with u bill don't allow the
hair on Your spinal column to rise
like porcupine quilts aud look as
though you had been insulted. The
chances are be trusted you for the
shirt on your back and groceries to
keep your family. Speak kindly
OF him who has accommodated you,
for you must remember that you
like to have others pay you cheer
fully. A man whose temper rises
to ninety degrees 10 the shade il a
good man-not to trust.-Edmore
(Mich.) Journal.
The largest hog is now weighing
down the columns Of the rural
press, but the biggest hog we know
of is the biped who takes his conn.
~ paper two years or more without
paying fer it, and when politely
dunned gets mad and refuses to
take the paper from the office
Amory Argus.
A Providence, r. l., woman is to
take unto herself q sixth husband
at an early date. Four of her ex.
lords are to act ss ushars. She
has accepted an invitation for here
self and intended to pass the honey
moon at the house of the fifth. 1t
is needless to say that this mach
married and much divorced person
is on good terms with all these
former relatives By marriage. In
this case It /. evident that parting lie
"sweet sorrow. "-Pennsyl v j q
Grit. rt.
Farmers as q general thing do, not
advertise, and there is where they
make a mistake. We saw a man
recently asking every man he met
If he knew where a good mich COW
could be purchased. Now, there
are hundreds of milch cows in this
country for sale, but who have
them is the question. II the farm
er who has a COW for sale would in.
sert a two-line advertisement In
the home paper, which would cost
him the small sum of 10 cents a
week, he could perhaps sell his
COW the first week. Aud this ap-
plies to anything else be has for
sale, or anything he wishes 70 buy.
Everybody reads the paper, ins
GLIDING those who beg, borrow or
steal it.--Newton County Progress.
A northern exchange sarcastically
inqui Tres as to Mississipprs standing
among the states of the Union. 1t
can be answered in few words and
demonstrated easily. She stands
first in Agriculture, first in Intel.
ligence, first in Good Government,
first in Prosperity, first in P.triote
ism and first in Rock ribbed Dem
ocracy. Can any state truthfully
boast of more f-Senatobia Dem
Ocrat.