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Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-01-28
A WINTER NIGHT.

Pile on the logs the bright flames start
And up the roaring chimney race
How grateful should we be, sweetheart
For Just this little fireplace!
! said today that was poor,
And poor Ia some things | may be,
But here's a shelter-who needs more2--
And your bright eyes to shine for me
Draw near, and sum our blessings sweet;
While we are housed and clothed and tcI
The bleak winds hound from street to street
Souls that share not lifes daily bread.
While we. saie-harbored from the storm,
Have all our happy hearts desire,
There's many weak and wounded form
Bends Ger a hearth without a fire.
Thank God for Home and II knock
Sound at the door this Icy night,
0 let us hasten to unlock
And bring brother to the light
II was for this Gods gifts were lent
To light the way for those that r0amy
II was for this the Christ was sent
To shelter those that had no home
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-01-28

The ingenuity that has been ex.
hibited of late years in the discovery
and application of explosives for min
ing purposes has really been remark
able, and not less so has been the
growth Of the trade in explosives dur
ing the period of twenty years since
the English act of 1876 came into
operation, says the Trade Journals
Review Not only has the number
of factories more than doubled, but
the number of persons employed in
them is now over 10000, which shows
an increase of nearly 5000 even during
the last ten years.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-01-28
An 81S Nugget in the Corn.

Charles Wainwright, proprietor Of
a -four mill at Toms River, n. j., o
few days ago received a carload Of
western corn. While he was grinding
it he noticed that something was wrong
with the heavy rollers. He stopped
the machinery and found a nugget
that looked just liSe gold. 1t had
come through the hopper with the
corn. He took the nugget to local
iewe!er, who unhesitatingly pro-
nounced it to be native gold. 1t
weighed nineteen pennyweights and
eighteen grains, and Mr.. Wainwright
was offered SIS for it, but preferred to
keep it as curiosity. Where the
gold came from is a mystery. -Phila-
delphia Record.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-01-28
Guaranteed TOYS.

odd you ever hear of quarantined
toys?" asked the toy dealer of Gus
toner. "Some mother probably Or
iginated the idea. 1t isn't profitable
arrangement for dealers, because one
set of toys can be made to serve a
neighborhood. When not in use they
are quarantined.
cts like this" continued the
dealer, taking up an iron house, with
a mechanical postman delivering the
mail, "a child is taken ill in a neigh
borhood with scarlet fever and the
house and family are at once isolated
The neighbors have great sympathy
for the child's mother and they scheme
together to send something that will
help to amuse the little one when it is
getting better. AS you see, the toys
are of iron, and are passed along with
the request that each time they are
used they shall be put into an oven
and baked before they are returned.
L have known one set of toys to go
through an epidemic.
Doesn't baking them destroy their
usefulness?"
ut melts off leg sometimes, but
great care is taken in getting them for
the purpose. We have to look out
for them as regular part of our
trade. Queer? Yes, but there are
lots Of queer things in our line, this is
only one of them. Chicago Times.
Herald.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-01-28
MEMORIES.

Oh. for stretch Of country, dear,
A tree and brook and hill,
With you sitting close beside me, dear,
Singing sweet love songs still.
Just rs you did In the days gone by,
The days Of long ago.
When loves young dream made everything
seem
paradise here below.
Oh for a stretch OF country, dear.
With n meadow and winding lane,
Where, strolling t0gether,I told you, dear,
Successes hoped to attain.
Just as did In the days gone by,
The days OF long ago,
AS beneath skies Of blue, we pledged love
anew,
Our future all aglow.
Oh, for a stretch OF country, dear,
With its clover and fields OF rye,
That might retrace our footsteps, dear,
With many a sorrowing sigh.
And dream Ger again OF the days gone by,
For oh! loved you 50,
When down through the heather, we wan
dered together,
In days OF long ago.
James 7. Sullivan, in Boston Globe.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-01-28

During her first term in the White
House, relates W. f. Curtis, in the
Chicago Record, Mrs. Cleveland was
always accessible to newspaper COR
respondents and was the source of a
great deal of valuable information
concerning official and social affairs.
The women correspondents were very
fond of her and appreciated her sym.
patty and assistance, but during the
second term, after the children came,
she became more secluded; she seldom
saw any of her old friends Of the news
paper profession, except on the oc-
casion of official functions, aud even
then she usually referred them to the
presidents private secretary or to
Colonel Wilson, the master of cere.
monies at the White House. 1t is
said that this change in her DISPOSE.
ton was caused by a little incident
that was resented by the president
and herself as an unwarranted intru.
sion into their private affairs, and
caused them to take measures to pro.
tect their household against any fur.
ther attacks of that kind. At the same
time the article they complained Of
was not only an interesting but q
truthful account Of an event which
occurs daily in every well-regulated
household that is made happy by
children. A newspaper correspondent
of some fame happened to call just as
Ruth who was then a baby,
was having her morning bath.
The operation was being observed
with great pleasure by the president,
who invited his friend to join him.
The latter of course was immensely
interested in studying the demeanor
of the president of the United States,
and particularly man of Mr.. Cleve-
lands character and disposition in the
midst of such pretty domestic scene,
and afterward took the liberty to write
description of the affair for his
paper. The public was greatly amused,
but the president and Mrs. Cleveland
were indignant. That particular cor
respondent was never received at the
White House again, and he etfectually
destroyed their confidence i. his pro-
fession.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-01-28
Watch Canned Goods.

When can is bulged, says The
Public Health Journal, the contents
should not he used, as the condition
of the tin shows that air has reached
the inside and decomposition has set
in, which has caused gases to be gen.
Grated. The gases thus formed have
forced the tir to bulge. Cases of
poisoning through eating canned fruit
and meats ave so common that the
above method of detecting poisonous
canned foods should be specially
valuable to housekeepers.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-01-28
A Memorial Bell-TOwer,

A remarkable college memorial is
the beethoven to contain a chime of
eleven bells which is being built on
the grounds of the Iowa Agricultural
college ut Ames. 1t is in memory of
Margaret Mcdonald Stanton, wife of
the professor of political economy in
the college. The tower is being built
by the state in appreciation OF Mrs.
Stanton's services as an educator and
as founder of the college. The bells
are to be the gift of Professor Stan
ton. Woman's title to official appre-
citation seems to be frankly recognized
in Iowa. -Harper's Weekly.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-01-28

1t appears that Germany is not the
only bette noir of industrial Great
Britain, though it is doubtless the
chief. The ''made in Germany" cry
is now supplemented by another
'made in the United States" In
other words, American manufacturers
are invading English home and colon
ial markets.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-01-28

Professor Bryce declares that the
one conspicuous failure of American
institutions is the government of our
great cities, which every intelligent
man knows to be true. The state
limits the liberties of it's cities. 1t
does not dare to trust them with full
autonomy. We have for years relied
upon the country vote to hold the
cities in check, but the time is soon
coming when the cities will take mat
ters into their own hands. If the
rate Of growth from 1880 to 1890 con-
tinues. in 1920 the cities of the United
States will contain 10000 900 more
than one-half of the population. The
city will then control state and nation.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-01-28
a GREEN GREENLAND.
Striking Evidences of "A Former Luxuri'
ant Tropical Growth.

| Striking Evidences Oh forhie' h"Au'''
ant Tropical Growth.
Two eminent scientists connected
with the Smithsonian institution here
at Washington, who accompanied the
Peary expedition to the Polar regions,
but who we're bent on business Of their
own, have just returned from the
wilds Of West Greenland, bringing
with them very valuable specimens for
the National Museum. In region OF
everlasting ice and snow Professor
David White and Professor Schuchert
have been exploring luxuriant tropical
forests, beautiful specimens OF which
make up the chief partof their collec-
ton. Fossils of the tulip tree, the
poplar, the magnolia, the willow, the
eucalyptus, the palm, and the curious
tropical dwarf called "cycad' all
these and many more ore among the
remains of an ancient age-when
Greenland was in truth "a green
land" that have now been discovered
by these scientists aud their party.
Greenland was once upon time
tr. !oical country, That is proved alb
solutely by the remains of an extern
sive tropical fora. Where now
sheet of solid ice over mile thick COW
ers mountain and valley, and mighty
frozen rivers called glaciers make their
way to the sea, and hatch icebergs,
there was in earlier days, verdure-
clad wilderness of luxuriant vegeta-
ton. But all this disappeared from
the face of the earth several millions
of years ago, and only their fossil re-
mains are found buried in the strata
of the rocks.
The finding Of the oldest hardwood
plant in the world was perhaps the
most interesting discovery of the ex-
petition. 1t was species of poplar, and
the tree grew during the epoch already
described-.that is to say, in all probable
ity, not less than 8, 1000, 900 years ago.
Apparently at that time the climate of
Greenland was much like that of our
Gulf states today. All the evidences
seem to point to the conclusion that
climates oil over the world in that au-
cient period were pretty much the
same. The same plants grew contem-
poraneously in Greenland and in Cal
formal Spitzbergen andin Virginia.
There was uniformity of vegetation
in all parts of the earth. Nobody can
say just why this was, though several
theories have been advanced to ac-
count for it. One theory is that the
atmosphere in those days was heavily
charged with watery vapor, so that
warmth was readily distributed
through it, and the suns rays did not
have chance to strike the earth di-
rectly, making differences in climate
by the degree of their slant. In the
course of time the atmosphere thinned
gradually, and then came climatic va
riations marking a series of zones
around the earth, Washington Path
finder.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-01-28

The willingness of Prince Moham-
med Ali to trade his claim on a throne
for girl does not appear particularly
remarkable when it is remembered
that the throne is that of Egypt, with
a large British mortgage on it, and
the girl is nm American. II she is up
to the average, Mohammed will have
the best of the bargain.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-01-28
In South Africa there is n great de-
mand for donkeys, as they are proof
against climate, plague and flies.

All over the country landowners
and others are suing paper, woodpulp
and saw mills for dumping refuse and
waste into streams and running them.
Most of the suits are successful.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-01-28

The law which at present governs
the practice of medicine in France for
bids the Simultaneous practice of medi-
cine and pharmacy even by person
who may he in possession Of diplomas
in both subjects.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-01-28
In the fullness of Time

Mabel, how long has young Spoon.
amore been coming to see you?"
-Four years, papa"
You can tell him think that's long
enough"
HE knows it is. He's coming to
seeyou next time. Chicago Tribune.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-01-28

Schools of mines have been esteb.
nshed at Coromandel and waihi, New
Zealand, and schools are proposed for
five other places.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-03-03
DUN's, REVIEW OF TRADE.
New Business for Dull Season is
Unprecedented.
4 CHECK IN THE ADVANCE Or WHEAT.
industrial Production Continues Larger
Industrial Production Continues Larger
Than Eyer-Remarkable Increase In
silk Manufacture Demand for
Iron Products is Hsavy.

R. G. Dun & Co. weekly review Of
trade says in its issue of Saturday:
Foreign possibilities have affected
speculation and caused hesitation in
some large business operations, possi-
bly, accounting in part for check in
the rapid advance of wheat. But in
dustrial production continues larger
than ever, few more works being
added to the active list, with decrease
in the number of hands ON strike and
renewed evidence that the volume OF
business is larger than in February OF
any previous year. Nor is there any
symptom of senseless craze based on
rising prices. The legitimate export
and domestic demand presses closer to
the capacity of works, and though there
is no Aighty advance in any line, in all
narrowness of profit is q matter OF
complaint, new business for this dull
season is unprecedented.
Wheat continued its progress upward
until 108t was reached on Monday,
but declined St later as if there were
fears that Spain would some how stop
British vessels from taking wheat
across the water, but the price has adj
yanced about 10 cents since Chicago
spectators last took occasion to shake
off weak followers and the opportunity
for reaction was inviting. There was
no abating of foreign demand. The
spot price of cotton was not affected.
1t is not the season for such i'm
provement in textile manufacture, but
the cotton branch has gained by the
closing of the strike in one Fall River
mill and by the addition of some works
at the south.
The woolen manufactures meet
many cancellanations, especially in
goods sold early without definite
price, but is doing more than ever at
this season, though new business in
the higher grades of worsteds and
woolens is not particularly encour-
aging.
The silk manufacture shows a re-
markable increase during the last six
months, having imported raw material
far in excess of. consumption in any
previous year and at rate of 120 per
cent. above the imports in the last
census year.
The iron manufacture has more de-
mand for products. No finished pro-
ducts have changed in price, and all
are strong in demand excepting bar,
which combination has failed to ad,
vance. Some large contracts are re-
ported, especially in car and bridge
building, ship and structural work,
and the demand for sheets is heavy.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-03-03
DEATH IN THE FLAMES.
Fearful Confazration in Charleston, 8
c., in Which Nine Lives Are Lost.

Fenrful Confa2ration in Charleston, 3.
c., in Which Nine Lives Are Lost.
Nine lives were lost in fearful fire
which ragged for q short while in
Charleston, S. c., Saturday morning.
At 2:30 o'clock policeman ON duty
noticed big sparks flying from tene-
ment house On Church street. The
officer found that blaze was issuing
from one of the windows on the first
floor. Somebody yelled that family
of women were sleeping on the third
floor. The police rushed up stairs
and when they reached the top story
the life say ng work was stopped by
the flames. Screams from dying wo-
men were heard and officers rushed in
and pulled out three charred bodies.
The quick work of the fire depart
ment checked the fire and it was soon
under control, but not until the lives
on the third story had been lost. The
dead are:
Mrs. Rebecca Knickemyer, Albert
O'Neal, Caswell O'Neal, Josephine
Knickemyer, II yeas of age; Katie
Knickemyer, 16 years of age; Leonora
Knickemyer, 8 years of age; Frances
Knickemyer, 7 years of age; a baby OF
Mrs. Knickemyer. one month old;
Lille Knickemyer, 3 years old.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-03-03
Sure a Mine Did the Work.

A copyrighted cablegram to the
Evening World, from Sylvester Scovel
at Havana, says: 'Tt is now absolutely
certain that the battleship Maine was
blown up by outside agencies. Divers
working forward Saturday found alb
solute proof that the forward maya
zine, which alone could have so dam
aged the ship, was surely unexploded.
"Many divers were sworn today in
the investigation Of the board. There
is no longer any doubt of finding the
bottom plates blown up, and which
show four feet above water.
''It is now believed by experts that
a big torpedo or mine, aided by 500
pounds Of saluting powder in the re-
serve magazine next to the big maya
zine, might have produced the actual
results, both as regards extent and di-
rection found in the wreck.
Collapsed powder casks, found
about the magazine, have hexagonal
marks in the thin copper whore the
external pressure forced the hexagons
into contact with the copper"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-03-03
NO SUBMARINE MINES EXIST
In Havana Harbor, Says Senior Du Bose
the Spanish Representative.

In Havana Harbor, Says Senior Du Bose,
the Spanish Representative.
In view of the widely-published re-
port that the. ..harbor at Havana contains
system of submarine mines, state
ment around which has centered the
chief public interest in connection
with the disaster of the battleship
Maine, Senior du Bose, Spanish charge
d'affaires at Washington, has made to
the Associated Press the following
statement, which, coming from such
authority, may be considered as an
official denial:
II wish to state on my own official
knowledge that no mine exists inside
or outside of Havana harbor; nor is
there any submarine defense of any
kind. The report is so absolutely false
and ridiculous that it could only have
originated in the minds of those per-
sons anxious to incite the evil passions
of both nations for their own miserable
ends. I consider the very suggestion
of such thing IN insult to Spain"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-03-03
Figuring on the Cost Of War.

Figuring on the Cost OF War.
1t is figured that war with Spain
will cost not to exceed $75, ZOO, 900, Of
which no inconsiderable portion would
be permanent investment in the way
Of arms, equipment and Notifications.
1t might be much less, for the chances
are favorable of Spain surrendering at
the first blow. The United States has
lost $500, ,000,O0 already from the
Cuban revolution. The shrinkage Of
values on the New York stock ex-
change alone present total larger
than the bill to be footed for the COM
ing war.
A new danger confronts the admin
istration. Letters are pouring in upon
congress at the rate of Is, 200 day,
and the number is increasing at an
unparalleled rate, demanding settle
ment of the Cuban question. The
president has been advised for months
that the next house of representatives
is surely lost to the republican party
If his policy fails to satisfy the country
in this matter of the Maine and Cuba.
The strain of the great crisis is telling
heavily upon three of the most i'm
portant factors of the situation.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-03-03
sPANIARDS WANT WAR.
The Government Is Urged to Prepare to
Strike the First Blow.

The Government Is Urged to Prepare to
Strike the First Blow.
mountaineering to special dis
patch from Madrid, reports received
there from the United States to the
effect that public opinion in the latter
country is becoming more excited,
owing to the impression that the loss
of the Maine was not due to an acci-
dent, are ''restirring popular feeling
here lin Madrid), and the conviction
increasing in ministerial circles that
the worst must be expected.
Continuing, the special dispatch
says "The government has no choice
if the United States adopts threaten
ing attitude, for the prospect of war is
popular with all parties, and the more
excitable newspapers are already urg-
ing the government to take measures
to enable Spain to strike the first and
decisive blow"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-03-03
READY TO LAND TROOPS.
The Plant System Has Arranged to Trans-
port Arms and Men to Cuba.

A special from Tampa, Fla, says ::
Although the officials of the company
have not said 80 publicly, nearly every
body here understands that the Plant
system has completed arrangements for
the transportation of troops and muni-
tions of war to Havana on short notice.
All of their ships have been placed in
condition for emergencies. Should
war be declared it is said that they
have perfected plans to land large
body of troops in Havana within thirty
six hours after their arrival at this
place. Troops can be transported from
Washington and New York to this port
in from twenty-four to thirty hours.
The company has also made arrange
ments, it is understood, to land
promptly men and arms at Key West
and all stragetic points on the coast Of
Florida and at Mobile.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-03-03
Meeting of hallway Employees.

On March -, IS and IA mass
meeting of representatives of all the
organized railroad employees south Of
the Ohio river will be held in Chatta-
nooga. The national officers of the
brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
Order of Railway Conductors and
Brotherhood of Railway Trainman have
promised to be present and an attend-
ance of several thousand members is
expected. The object of the meeting
is to bring about a more fraternal feel
ing among the southern trainmen and
put them on harmonious working
basis.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-03-03
TRIED TO KILL GREECE's KING

Shot at the Ruler But Missed Him and
Hit the Footman.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
Saturday to assasinate King George OF
Greece. The'king was returning from
Phagalerum at o'clock in the evening
in landau, accompanied by the Prin-
cess Maria, when two men, who were
hidden in the ditch alongside the road,
opened fire with guns upon the occu-
pants of the carriage.
The first shot missed, but the second
wounded footman in the arm. The
coachman whipped up his horses and
the royal party dashed away at gal
lop. The miscreants fred several more
shots after them, none of which took
effect, and the king and princess re-
turned to the palace unhurt.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-03-03


The demand for indemnity, it is
agreed in the state and navy depart
ments, is equivalent to a declaration OF
war. Spain is not expected to accede
to any such demand. The proposition
is counted upon to. create disturbance
in Madrid and Havana. 1t is likely
the navy department will enforce the
demand by placing its ships in Cuban
waters. Everybody in the state or
navy department is willing to accept
the demand for indemnity as another
form of declaring war, and will be pre-
pared to back up the demand in much
the same manner as if congress actually
came out in belligerent attitude toward
the government at Madrid. The amount
Of indemnity, it is expected, will be in
the neighborhood of $40, 900, 900. This
is the estimate in the state department
on the liberal basis that the lives lost
in the disaster are each represented by
the sum of $4,000, an amount stipu-
lated by the civil service of this coun-
try as the legal value of human life.