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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27
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Eczema
Hoods SarsapariIIa
The Value of Boards.

Is beard worth $40, 900? This
question will be decided by the SUI
preme court of New York, in suit
brought by Max Meyer against local
electric company in New York city.
During the recent electrical show in
Madison Square Garden, Meyer was
employed by the defendent company
to exhibit Horoscope and X-ray out
fit in operation. After ten days of this
work he lost his whiskers and eye
brows as a result of too long and fire.
quent exposure to the N-rays. He
claims the defendant was negligent in
not warming him of the danger he in
Cured. Hence the suit .-Electrica
Review.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27

zine, and have certainly been greatly
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pound has indeed been friend to me.
81 am now able to do my own work,
hanks toyour wonderful medicine.
vas as near deathI believe as l could
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md my heart had almost given out.
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shall use my influence with any
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Every woman that is puzzled about
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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

With local applications, as they cannot reach
the seat of the disease. Catarrh Is blood or
it YOU must take internal remedies. Hall s
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rectly on the blood and mucous surface. Han
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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27
WRECKS AND DERELlCTS.
The Vesuvius Successful In Removing These
Menaces to Navigation.

Gustave IIobbe writes an article
for St Nicholas on Battling WIN
Wrecks and Derelicts." Mr.. hopDe
says:
A stranded vessel is not menace
to navigation. and is therefore lett Sc
verely alone; but a wreck sunk III
few fathoms of water, in the track OIL
coastwise shipping. is dangerous op-
struction. The large, heavy masts Oh
a sunken coaster might rip up the
bottom of a coaling vessel, and
ledge of rock would not be more 1atal
than the submerged hull. In one year
the United States photographic of-
flee. which is branch Of the Bureau
of Navigation of the Navy Depart
ment, has received nearly two thous-
and reports of wrecks and dangerous
Instructions, and ordered the de-
struction of as many of these as was
practicable. This work is done WIN
torpedoes. After the explosion there
is no torpedo left but there is also no
wreck.
1t is impossible to say how much
damage has been done by COLLISION
with wrecks and derelicts, as ships
abandoned at sea are called. Sunken
wrecks are hidden dangers The SKY
may be clear and the sea-way
light; they smite the unsuspecting
victim from the depths, and add one
more to those disasters which are the
more tragic for the awful mystery
that surround them. During the
seven years from 1887 to 1874
forty-five such collisions-nine, or
nearly one fourth, resulting in total
loss-were reported to the United
States photographer. OF the nine IA
tai collisions, five were with wrecks,
and four with derelicts.
The "Yantic," the ''Dispatch." and
the dynamite cruiser 'Vesuvius' are
among the vessels of the Uulted
States navy which have most active
" waged war upon sunken wrecks.
The L. s. S. San Francisco" also has
the honor of having destroyed a dere'
lict, in which operation she was, now
ever, obliged to resort to all usual
methods of naval attack except board
ing-torpeodes, ramming, and she'll
ing. Captain Crowninshield, when
commanding the "Kearsarge," re-
moved a curious obstruction to navi-
CATION, off Cape May. A schooner
was reported sunk there in twelve
fathoms of water. Captain CroWn1n-
shield was surprised. on reaching the
Spot. to find the heels of two maSts
not the upper, but the lower ends
protruding fifteen feet above water.
In some inconceivable manner, these
masts must have become unstepped
from a sunken vessel, and the heels
had swung up, the ends of the spars
being held down by the rigging. One
mast was shattered with torpedoes,
the Other. pulled out by the "Kear-
sarge and then destroyed. 1t was
not necessary to break up the hull, as
there was enough water above it.
The "Vesuvius" was very success
full as Il wreck destroyer. Some of
the obstructions are difficult to locate.
The same wreck may be reported i'll
three different positions by as many
different vessels; and with so many
clues to follow, it is not easy to run
down the game. The "Vesuvius" has
found a wreck with only~twO feet of
spar protl'uding above water-and two
feet of spar sticking out of the broad
Atlantic is rather like the traditional
needle in the haystack.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27
Cost of a Naval Battle.

1.-The cost of navl duel between two
modern battleships in the value of
projectiles and the probable damage
to structure is estimated as easily ap-
proximating $1,600.000," says The Age
of Steel. This little bill would be
filed out in the space Of sixty minutes.
provided all the armament OF each
ship was in active service for that
length of time. Should one or both
ships be lost in the fray the loss would
add tremendously to the above fig
ures."
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27
Re.usx 4. blood Deep.

Clean blood means clean skin. No
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tic clean your blood and keep It clean. by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
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and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed. lOc, &c, soc.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27

To prevent the entrance of vermin
into pianos and organs by way of the
pedal groove piece of sheet metal is
attached to the pedal inside the case
t. cover the opening and move with
the pedal.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27

Some Merchants insure their Stock and
Houses and neglect their Children. Why not
save The Mothers heart and baby.s life by
carrying home Box of DIR. MOFFEIi IS
TEETHINA tTEETHISG PowDERsl? Other
fathers do it. TEETHISA Aids Digestion Reg
d lates the Bowels and makes teething easy.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Ava,

To quit tobacco easily and forever be mag
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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27

Mr.. Curzons Irish peerage Is the twenty
fourth Irish peerage created since the union.
OF the twenty three previous post-union
peerages only two have been conferred on
Englishmen.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27

The national hymns of China are OF such
Extraordinary length that it is stated that
half day would be required to sing them
throuQh
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27

President Diaz, of Mexico, has just bought
a dog through a st. Louis dog fancier. lt Is a
pointer. a bench show champion at that, and
Is named Mckinley.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27

Piso's Cure cured me of a Throat and Lung
trouble of three years standing.-E. CADf,
Hunting ton, Ind, Nov. II, 1891.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27
81 DO MY OWN WORK"
So Says Mrs. Mary Rochiette OF
Linden, New Jersey, in this
Letter to Mrs. Pinkham.

''I was bothered with a flow which
would be quite annoying at times, and
at others would almost stop.
Il used prescriptions given me by my
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27

Prof. Won Zenker, who in 1860 first discov-
cred the trichina disease died recently in
Mecklen burg at the age of 70 years.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27

Lyon & Co.'S ssPick Leaf'' Smoking Tobacco
Is the "best of the best" 2ounces and cigar
cite book for 10 cents. Try 1t.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27

In three years the expense of running an
Atlantic steamship exceeds the cost OF con-
sfructinn.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27

Educate Your Bowels with Cnscarets.
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ice, 25c II @. Y. g. TAIL druggists refund money.
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Mrs. Winslow Soothing Syrupfo for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inhamma-
ton. aliays pain cures wind collie. &c. a bottle.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27

physician, bu.
same state
of affairs
continued. {
." After q !
time 1 was X
taken with I
a flooding, N
that l was 4
oDIlged 10 Il
keep my bed. ]
Finally, in
despair, l
gave up my {
.or, and be-
.aking your me
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27

NJ. Edouard Drummont, the anti-Semitic
leader in the French parliament, curiously
enough, looks like Hebrew.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-10-27

To Cure Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
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The record-union., 1898-08-21
THE FALL OF MANILA.
Causes Great Surprise and Indig-
nation at Madrid.

LONDON, Aug 21.-The Madrid cor
respondent of the Sunday Tines
says:
The country is still without official
news of what is happening in the colo
nies. The only intelligence the public
receives is contained in a few meager
press kilograms which have been al
lowed to pass the censorship.
Great surprise and indignation have
been produced by the news of the at
tack upon and the fall of Manila. Moth
ing is known as to the conditions which
led to the surrender of the town. Agi-
tation is growing among the independ-
ent classes without distinction Of poll
tics.
Serious rumors concerning Cuba are
are current, and cablegrams are said to
have been received from General Blan-
co saying that he fears the volunteers
will incite the Spanish-Cuba popula-
ton to revolt against the peace condi-
tions.
The battleship Pelayo and the ar
mored cruiser Emperador Carlos V.
have been ordered to cruise along the
northern coast for a time, landing the
Santiago troops at Vigo and Santander.
The evacuation of Porto Rico will be-
gin in September, but it is not expected
that the disbanding of the Cuban troops
will be commenced before December.
The peace commission will be COM
posed Of Senior Leon y Castillo, the
Spanish ambassador to France; Seniors
Moret and Merry del Van and Admiral
Ceryera
The record-union., 1898-08-21
ACCOUNTING DEMANDED.
Francis Cutting Enters Suit in a
San Francisco Court.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20.-Francis
Cutting has brought suit in the Su-
perior Court against Mary N. Patter-
son, Harold Courtenay and Isabella
Courtenay for an accounting.
The plaintiff is President of the Cut
ting Packing Company of this city. The
complaint recites that in 1891 the de-
fendant, Harold Courtenay, married Is
abella S. Cutting, a daughter of the
plaintiff. On the occasion Of the mar
riage the plaintiff executed deed of
trust, in which he declared that he held
bonds Of the Maricopa and Phoenix
Railway Company Of Arizona of the par
value of $4,000 in trust for Mrs. Court
enay, and that he undertook to pay her
in monthly payments an annual income
of $500. In 1898 Courtenay separat-
ed from his wife, who went to live
with Mrs. Patterson in New York Mrs
Courtenay subsequent to the separation
became insane, and is now an inmate of
an asylum.
Plaintiff also alleges that in addition
to the income provided in the deed of
trust he has paid on account of his
daughter the sum Of SIT 800. He also
alleges that Mrs. Patterson, his daugh-
ter's guardian, demands the continued
payment Of the income, and refuses to
take into account the $17,5OO above re-
ferred to. Upon the above showing the
accounting is demanded.
The record-union., 1898-08-21
REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS.
The Scene Of Strife to be Trans
ferred to Sacramento.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20.-Repub-
lican politicians are arriving from all
parts of the State by every incoming
train and boat. Candidates for the
more important offices have been main
tanning headquarters here for several
days, but within the next twenty-four
hours these will be transferred to Sac
ramento. Henry T. Gage of Los Ange-
les and George c. Pardee of Oakland
will migrate to the Capital City to-mor-
and file of the delegates will follow the
Gubernatorial aspirants.
Judge B. T. Williams of Ventura, who
is a candidate for nomination for Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court,
opened headquarters here to-day. He
is supported by the votes of the Santa
Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo
delegations.
Another Ventura man, S. T. Black,
is striving for a denomination for Su-
perintendent Of Public Instruction, and
has as opponents j. T. Kirk of Fresno
and G. w. Childs of San Jose.
w. r. Guy of San Diego is opposing
TREY L. Ford of San Francisco for
the office of Attorney General, and an
other Southern California aspirant is
Truman Reeves of San Bernardino, who
wants to be nominated as Treasurer in
opposition to Robert Nixon of Yreka.
There are more aspirants for the Su-
preme bench than for any other office.
In addition to the present incumbents
Justices Mcfarland and Van Fleet
there are Judge Angelotti Of Marin
County, Judge Williams of Ventura
Judge Sweeney Of Shasta, Judge Eli
son of Tehama, Judge Buckles of So
lano, Judge Gray Of Butte and Judge
Clark of Los Angeles.
The record-union., 1898-08-21

privileges of civil liberty, we should not
be justified in returning the conquered
islands to the misrule and oppression
from which we. have relieved them.
AS soon as the islands under our pres
ent protection can be trusted to govern
themselves they should be allowed to do
SO, the United States retaining under
its authority only necessary naval sta
tons Until such time as they may be
able to govern themselves they should
continue under the protection of the
United States, and the question as to
whether, at some future period and at
the mutual desire of both, they should
be permanently annexed should be left
to the time when it arises.
1.-THE United States, in behalf Of each
territory in question, and so long as it
shall continue under its protection,
should adopt proper measures for Sc
curing out of the revenues of these
countries the establishment of free, ele-
mentary, unsectarian schools, sufficient
for the instruction of all persons Of
school age.
I'VE heartily approve of the principle
of arbitration in the settlement Of in
ternational difficulties, and urge that
its largest practicable application be
supplied by treaties of arbitration"
The record-union., 1898-08-21
Anxious to Be Mustered Out Of the
Service.
Circulating Petitions to the War Depart.
ment to That Effect.
All the Companies Of tho Twen-
tieth Kansas Regiment Make
Large Showing Of Signatures,
Despite Efforts Of the Officers
to Suppress the Petitions.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2O.-The men
of almost every volunteer regiment are
circulating petitions to the Secretary of
War requesting that they be mustered
out of the service. There are very
few of the officers under whom this
movement has any countenance, and
every effort is being made to suppress
1t.
In the Twentieth Kansas Regiment
the suppression of one petition by the
officers led only to more vigorous one
being placed ON foot. Ninety seven men
in one company have signed the petit
ton, and all the other companies of the
regiment have large showing.
Several men in the Seventh California
Regiment have started similar petit
tion, with much smaller number of
names, however, and the First Wash
ington have drafted an appeal to Sec
retary Alger begging for release from
military duties.
Battery A, Third United States Ar
tiliery, under command of Lieutenant
McManus, broke camp at the Preside
day and marched to the steamer
Humboldt There were twenty men,
two officers and three surgeons. Sew
eral hours after the arrival of the
troops the Humboldt sailed for ST.
Michael, taking about 500 tons OF
stores. There is yet a. large quantity OF
provisions which will have to be ship
ped on some later steamer.
The troops destined for the troopship
Arizona went aboard during the after
noon. The Arizona will sail to-mor-
row. The Arizona is the largest of the
troopships that has left this port. She
was at one time a. naval reserve vessel
under the British flag.
It has been definitely announced that
the steamer Arizona, with troops for
Manila, will sail tomorrow morning at
10 o'clock The Scandia will sail next
Wednesday. Among the troops to &C
company this vessel are 800 Oregon re-
cruits.
The following deaths occurred at the
division field hospital to-day: Privates
James A Lancaster, Company NJ,
Twenty-third Infantry; William Rob
erts, Company L, Second Oregon Regi-
ment, pneumonia, following measles.
The record-union., 1898-08-21
Shakers as Inventors,

And it was with even greater sur
prise that I learned what the Shakers
had done in individual thought for the
benefit Of the outer world, in spite of
their so-called hampered situation.
They were the first to dry sweet corn
for food, and to prepare garden seeds,
medicinal herbs and vegetable extracts
for market. They were also the first
to raise and manufacture broom brush
into brooms, and produced such far
reaching inventions as the machine for
planning matched boards, the buzz-saw
and the hydraulic press. And, finally,
it was they who did away with wrought
nails and quill pens, two stumbling
blocks to our ancestors, being the first
to manufacture cut nails and to use
metal for pens, brass and silver being
used for the purpose. I began to Won
der where I had been all these years,
that had never heard of any of these
things before Surely the Shakers are
not so far rmoved from the world as
the world is removed from the Shakers
-Godey's Magazine.
The record-union., 1898-08-21
American Troops Threaten a War
Of Retaliation
For the Horrible 0utrages Committed BY
Spanish Soldiers.
The Revolving Details Of the
Butchering Of Men and Women,
the Ravishing of Young Girls
and Nameless Mutilations Stir a
Cry for Vengeance.

PONCE CPorto Rico), Aug. 20, mid
night.-General Miles returned to his
headquarters here this afternoon. He
was greatly pleased by the appearance
of the troops at the front. He witness
ed the target practice by the soldiers,
and was present at a flag raising at
General Wilson's camp this morning,
which was accompanied by music and
cheers.
While att the front General Miles COM
municated with General Macias regard
ing the depredations committed be-
tween the lines. General Macias replied
courteously, and they jointly agreed to
| apprehend the offenders near their re-
spective lines.
General Macias said this afternoon
the Spanish troops would begin retiring
shortly.
A war of retaliation gainst the
Spanish residents of the island within
the Americanl lines is threatened-retal-
iation for the horrible outrages commit
ted by the Spanish troops at Ciales,
where over eighty persons are said to
have been macheted by the soldiers.
The revolving details of the butchering
of men and women the ravishing of
young girls and nameless mutilations,
have stirred a cry for vengeance.
Early yesterday morning the natives
burned the town of Gotta, seven miles
from here. The Spanish residents fed
for their lives. Throughout the sur
rounding country the Spaniards are
terror-stricken, and are appealing to
the Americans for protection. The
shops kept by Spaniards here, which
were opened after the signing Of the
peace protocol, have been closed again
through fear of the rioters.
Yesterdays editions of two papers
which hysterically demanded ven
geance and the expulsion of all Span
ish born residents, were suppressed by
the military auf4orities, who are doing
all that is in their power to allay the
fears of the Spanish inhabitants.
Captain Evans, the Provost Marshal,
with two companies of the Nineteenth
Infantry at his command, has doubled
the provost guard, but the troops have
difficulty in preventing individual cases
of persecution.
The natives who are fomenting the
trouble are Of the lowest classes, and
many are criminals. Over twenty five
of the ringleaders in the disturbances
have been arrested.
The report that the Concho has ar
rived here was an error.
The heavens in the direction Of Yauco
and Juan Diaz appeared to be ablaze
last night and half dozen big fires
have been reported, but no details have
been received. The fires were probably
the work of natives engaged in de-
stroying Spanish property.
A small riot occurred here this morn
ing adjoining General Miles headquar-
tiers, but the disturbance was quickly
quelIed, Colonel Clouse Of General Miles
staff dispensing bowling mob of Span
iards by fourishing a revolver.