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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-09
Why the South is for
Free Silver.
Southern Lumberman.

Southern Lumberman.
A little bit of history, covering
a period of about seven years,
from the surrender at Appomat-
tox to the crime of 1873" will
serve to explain why it is that a
great majority of the Southern
white people favor the free and
unlimited coinage of silver, and
we will endeavor to give it in the
briefest possible manner.
When the Confederate soldiers
returned to their homes, they
found their families almost desti-
tute, their farms grown up in
weeds and bushes, their fences
wholly or partially destroyed,
their farm implements and tools
unfit for service from rot and
rust, not one servicable work ami
NAL to two families, and them
selves almost naked and without
money. That was the actual
condition of seventy-five per cent.
of the returned soldiers, and out
side the towns and cities thew
composed three-fourths of the
white male popula-
ton.
Within three years time these
people had their homes comfort
ably furnished, their families
comfortably clothed, their farms
partly under cultivation, and suf-
6cient work stock. Besides, they
had paid their antewar debts,
and altogether, were in a very
fair living condition.
Here is a statement of facts
that requires no proof. Every
one now living in the South who
is old enough to remember those
years knows the statement is not
overdrawn. 1t is the most re-
markable thing that ever occur
red among any people.
What was it that enable these
poverty-strlCken eX-soldiers and
their fanatics to achieve compar-
ative comfort in so short a time?
It was cheap money-irredeem-
able legal tender paper money
based upon nothing but the mill
tary and taxing power of a gov
ernment that would not itself ac-
cept it in payment of taxes on
and it's own creditors
would not accept it in payment of
interest on their bonds. From
gold standard point of view this
money (called 'greenback'O was
the poorest form of money ever
since the days of John
Law; but at the close of the war
there was lots of it in the South
ern States, and it was a drug on
the market in the Northern
and in sums to suit all,
from a scent "shin plaster" up.
The plentifulness of this flat
money, which was discredited by
the government that issued it
saved the southern people from
what Colonel Hardy, c. S. A.,
designated as sterile poverty" ~
The money was worth less than
forty cents on the dollar in gold,
and prices ruled high. The lit
tie lots of cotton hidden away on
the farms were put on the market |
and brought dollar a pound I'M
til hate-inspired Congress could |
meet and put tax upon each
pound equal to three-ffths the
price cotton has since sold for
ander the gold standard. (By
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-09

Mckinley has sent an ultima
tum to China demanding imme-
diate and free communication
with the Pekin ministers, pro-
yided it is agreeable with Mark.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-09

The Goebel murderers in Ken
lucky are very busy at present
denying the charges against
themselves.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-09

An army of sixteen thousand
international troops defeated for
ty thousand Cinnamon at Pei
Tsang last Sunday, and the pig
tails were entrenched behind
heavy breastworks.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-09

The FREE Press acknowledges
receipt of a chart showing the
standing of all the State banks
ND to June 1st, 1000, from Audi
tor Cole for which we return
thanks.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-09

BRYAN and Stevenson were notl-
fed of their nomination yester-
day at Indianapolis IN the pres
ence of thousands.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-09

Look out for malaria. 1t is
seasonable now. A few doses OF
Prickly Ash Bitters is sure
preventive. Sold by S. E. Lance
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-09
DEMOCRATIC NATIoNALTIcKET

An exchange remarks that tits
a shame the way some children
arc bringing up their parents.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-09
War With China.

nese question to Congress, when
he can no longer carry on war
with that country without an or
der from the representatives of
the people, to whom alone the
right to declare war and make
peace belongs.
The President is wholly with
out war power, but is trying to
usurp it. Just as Charles ! tried
to govern England without Par
Lament and at his Gown sweet
WILL" so is Mckinley eager to
play the part of dictator here, and
to govern the United States with
out the intervention or assistance
of Congress. He is ever unwll-
ling to see that body in session,
because it binds his hands, where
as, with Congress adjourned,
there is no one to interfere with
him.
If he be allowed to go on as he
has been going, he will plunge us
into another war, pledge us to an
expenditure of hundreds Of mil
lions of dollars, just as he did in
the case Of the Philippines. The
war we are now waging in those
islands has been rightly and
properly called 'the Presidents
war. ;" 1t is the Presidents war
in spite of the fact that the Con-
stitution specifically declares that
the President shall have no right
to make any war. Mr.. Mckinley,
in his instructions to the Peace
Commission at Paris, to insist
upon SPAN ceding us the Philip
pines, thereby declaring war
against the Fi1ipinos, who had
achieved their independence, and
thus EN- barked this country in
the long and tiresome struggle
which has cost us so many lives
and so many millions Of dollars
and is still going on. 1t is true
that the Senate might have re-
pudiated McKinley's action, but
this would not have improved
matters. Mr.. Bryan saw that it
would have plunged us back into
a struggle with Spain; and the
Republican Senators, finding that
the war with the Filipinos had
already begun, insisted that we
could not withdraw from the
islands with honor.
There seems every reason for
fearing that the same violation of
the Constitution will be again
committed in regard to China, and
that Mr.. Mckinley is pledging
the United States to a long,
bloody and expensive war there,
without consulting Congress, as
the law requires him to do; and
that he is guilty of this violation
or evasion Of the Constitution be-
cause he has been carried away
by the imperial idea, because he
likes to govern alone, and because
he is afraid to have a Republican
Congress in session during a /
presidential campaign.
The Chinese situation is that
we are actually at war with Chi
ma. There can no longer be any
pretense to the contrary. Our
ambassador is prisoner there;
and the army that prevents has
release is an army, not Of Boxers
or rebels, but of the imperial
troops.
AS long as it was merely a
question of the detention of our
ambassador by a force of rebels
and rioters, too strong for the
forces of China, it was
within the province of the Presi-
dent to take such action as would
secure the release Of Mr.. Conger;
but now that it has passed that
point, now that we are actually
at war with China, the matter is
beyond the reach and power of
the President, and it is one for
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-09
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR CONGRESS.

=
The Free Press is authorized to an
nounce Hon. +. a. McLain as a candi
date for recollection to the lower house
of Congress from this the 9th congress
sionaI district at the November elec-
ton, subject to the action of the Dem
Ocratic party
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-03-24
Ernn.slin. Peck,s Rad Rox

The thirteenth annual Franklin din
ner Of the Chicago Typotheta. In til.
Chicago Athletic association banquer
hall recently. relates the Chicago Rec
ord. gave to tie first American print
er" the added fame of being Americas
first bad boy"
Ex-Governor George w. Peck of Wis
consin did ii.
Il revere the memory Of B. Frank.
lin." said Mr.. Peck. mot so much be-
cause he was great newspaper man.
a great printer scientist. diplomat,
statesman. philanthropist and patriot.
as because lie was the first American
boy to refuse to permit his employer to
work him to death and then jump on
him In exchange for board. $l15 a
week and nO clothes. B. Franklin.
printer, was the first American bad
boy and the patron saint of millions
Of boys who will. | hope. emulate his
example
II revere him also because he was
the founder Of the order of tramp
printers, Of which was for years
proud but humble member. BY going
through the streets Of Philadelphia
with dirty shirt under one arm and
a loaf of bread under the other. and
under these conditions winning the
prettiest girl In Philadelphia. Benja-
min Franklin set US an example that Is
hot equaled"
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-03-24
THE KlRKMASTER.
This Church Dignitary Was an Inn
pOrtnnt Parsonage In Scotland.

This Church Dignitary Was an Inn
portnnt Parsonage In Scotland.
AT recent meeting OF the Church Of
Scotland Office Bearers association J.
A. Rollo. solicitor, delivered most In
teresting lecture on The Kirkmaster
Of Dundee; His Duties of Old and Pres
ent Sphere of Usefulness" He vivid
ly described the duties performed by
the kirkmaster In olden times.
The penalties to be inflicted upon
transgressors had to be exacted with
all rigor by him. Among these were
the following:
No man to carry timber, redd stones
or dicht his malt" In the kIrkyard; pen
atty. 40 shillings.
No wine or ale sellers to receive any
person In their homes and keep table
to them 'in the morning while prayers
and preaching be done and likewise on
the Sunday In time Of preaching" pen
atty. suspension from business for one
year.
No person to swear blasphemy;"
penalty, for first fault, 2 shillings or two
hours 10 the "branks;" for the second,
20 shillings or six hours therein, and
for the third, Punishment OF the burgh.
No children 70 play, cry or perturb
In the klrkyard or break the glass win
dows In the klrk;" penalty, parents to
pay 8 shillings and mend the "skaith."
No merchant or mariner to sail or
take voyage on Sunday and all lnhabit.
ants to keep public exercise as pre-
else as the ordinary days Of preach
ing;" penalty. f10.
No person Ito bring infants and
BARNS under the age Of years within
the kirk In time of sermon or prayers"
and no person Ito rise and depart furth
OF the kirk before the end and conclu-
sion of the sermon and prayers" PEN
atty, for the first and second faults. ad-
and for the third, 40 shllllngs
or "A hours Imprisonment on bread
and water and declaration of the fault
from the pulpit.
In their administration the town
council seemed to have acted harmo-
niously with the church authorities
Down to the disruption IN lS43.-Dun-
lee Journal.
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CnfOrgfyfnH Astor.

William Waldorf Astor seems to be
trying to follow the old adage. III you
cannot speak well Of another. say moth
Ing at ALL" Within the last few months
two notable Englishmen have died,
the Duke Of Westminster and George
W. Stevens, the brilliant war corre-
spOndent. and in each case Mr.. Astor
refused TO permit an obituary OF them
to lie published In the Pail Mall Ga
zettc. He had trouble with the duke
over the purchase Of Cliveden, his
beautiful home on the Thames. and
never fOrgave Stevens for eaving bis
Journal for The Daily Mall.-Kansas
City Independent.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-03-24

An incident occurred In the district
court room Of Bosque county the other
day which perhaps has no parallel in
the court history Of Texas. When 1t
became necessary to elect a special
Judge to complete the term abruptly
suspended by the illness of Judge Hall.
the duty OF swearing In Judge Poin-
dexter devolved upon modest little
girl Of II summers, Miss Nora Jones,
deputy district clerk. Houston Post,
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-03-24
NUMBER 81.
THE FAMINE IN INDIA.
More Distress Than In 1870 or 1908.
The Drought Also Severe.


, The following account Of the famine
In India is given In letter sent to
New York by the Rev. Edward Fair
, bank. missionary OF the American
board AT Vad..la, India.
Here at Vadala and within three
miles Of us there are 5000 persons on
the relief works. II was only two
weeks ago that there were less than
5000. People are fockIng to these
camps by the hundreds. The oyerseer
Of the works told me Monday that he
took 300 that day on to the relief
works here at Vadala. These facts
alone will show that the stress is rap
idly growing extreme.
The condition Of the people on the
relief works Is far beyond description.
Three years ago at Sholapur, at the
end OF the famine, saw less wretched-
ness and enaciation than I see here
today at the beginning OF the famine.
People have not recovered from the
last famine. They have nothing In
their houses to pawn but few brass
vessels that they have been able to
buy since that famine. These brass
dishes are now being pawned by those
who come on to the relief works. II Is
their last resort to keep their bodies
and souls together before they get re.
lief from the government paymasters.
The merchants here and In the near
villages have carloads on carloads of
brass dishes. There is great suffering
from the cold In the nights of these
winter days. The people are not only
clothless. but almost ragless. The
wretchedness Is terrible. but still worse
is the emaciation. Living skeletons In
are In evidence on every
side. The village kulkarani Tells me
that many children are dying In the
camp. too far gone to recover. Many
men and women have also died here.
The only reason given Is lack of food.
Last night a man died In the camp
who, they say. had not had anything to
Eat for three days.
This famine Is undoubtedly far
--N'N 'S'Si' III thcSc pdTtS tudu tnat OF
1916 or that Of 1896. One of the worst
eatures is the lack Of water. Rivers
Usually flowing full at this time are
Try beds Of sand. Wells that have new.
r rallied before In the memory Of any
ne living have not a drop OF water in
hem. The well that waters our gar
en- and has never failed since nv fa.
her came here. almost IS years ago. Is
ry. The village well. that was SUD-
osrd to have large living spring. has
Othing In 1t now. Our little town IA.
owever, well OF In the matter of wa.
n as compared with most Of the towns
nd villages In these parts.
Government officers tell me that the
ldian government look with the
'eatest apprehension on the famine.
hey already feel themselves unable
cope with II. SO great are Its dlmen.
ons and proportions at the very open.
Undoubtedly private philanthropy
ust supply great help In this famine,
r greater than In the last famine IL
illions in these and other parts Of In
a are to be saved from starvation"
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Doesn't Like Thirteen.

Senator Beveridge made a flying trip
to indianapolis recently to see Mrs.
Beverdge. who Is quite i'll at the Hotel
Denison, says the Lexington (Ky.)
Leader. Meanwhile an American Dis.
trict messenger boy discovered a vein
Of superstition in the senator's dispo-
sition. One Of them was sent to his
rooms in answer to a call. but when
Beyeridge saw that the fatal number
13 was pinned to his cap he was sum.
marily dismissed.
II don't want your shouted the SEN
ator. You have an unlucky numberw
The lad returned to the Office and re-
ported, aud less fatal number was
substituted.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-03-24

when speak Of the drama at the be-
ginning and the close Of the Bible, do
not mean an allegory. but mean the
truth so stated that In grouping and in
startling effect 1t Is God given. world
resoundlng. heaven echoing drama.
Now, II God implanted this dramatic
element in our natures, and II he has
cultivated and developed 1t In the
Scriptures. ] demand that you recog-
nize 1t.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-22
General Pararrnnhs.

Yale's senior class of the divinity
school is in New York studying So
GEOLOGY. The years course includes
this visit to New York for the study
OF types, conditions and charity sys-
tens. The class numbers about thirty.
The visit includes the Mills hotel and
Chinatown.
The Rev. Samuel e. Eastman and
his wife, the Rev. A. T. Eastman, have
been unanimously elected pastors of
the Park church, Elmira, to succeed
the late Rev. DR.. Thomas X. Beecher.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eastman had been DR..
Beecher's assistants for several years
previous to his death.
The seXtonship of the parish church
at Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire Eng
land, has been retained in one family
since 1881. The latest incumbent,
Joseph Bramwell, who has just died,
had held office since 1898. He was
buried in a vault in which lay the eight
predecessors of whom he was a de-
scendant.
Mount Sinai hospital has received a
gift of 100000 from Meyer Guggenheim
and his sons, Isaac, Daniel, Murray,
Solomon R., Simon and William Gug-
genheim, to be used for the erection Of
a hospital building in the new group to
be built by the hospital on Fifth ave-
nue., between One Hundredth and One
Hundredth and First streets, New
York.
Strong pressure is being brought to
bear on the members Of All Souls
church, Washington, ID. c., to call the
Rev. Ida c. Hutton to the vacant pas
torate. II the opposition to a woman
preacher, which is strong among some
OF the members, can be overcome, Miss
Hutton may go to Washington. She
has preached to large audiences in ALI
Souls church.
The principal speakers at the meet
ing of the American Baptist Education
society at Hot Springs, Ark, on May
10 were the Rev. ]. G. Armstrong of
st. Louis, whose subject was "Denomi-
national Schools as Factors in Denomi-
national Development During the Cen
tury," and President ID. b. Purinton of
Denlson university, Ohio. who spoke
on THE Function Of the Intellect in
Religion"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-22

Often when we were in trouble we
sent for our friends, but they were far
away; they could not get to us. We
wrote to them, Come right away" or
telegraphed, Take the next train. Z"
They came at last, yet were a great
while in coming or perhaps were too
late. But Christ is always near-be-
fore you, behind you, within you No
mother ever threw her arms around
her child with such warmth and costa
sy OF affection as Christ has shown to-
ward you. Close at hand-nearer than
the staff upon which you lean, nearer
than the cup you put to your lip,
nearer than the handkerchief with
which you wipe away your tears-I
preach him an ever present, all sym
.pathizing. compassionate Jesus. How
can you stay away one moment from
him with your griefs? Co now. Go
and tell Jesus.
II is often that our friends have no
power to relieve us. They would very
much like to do It, bat they cannot
disentangle our finances, they cannot
cure our sickness and raise our dead,
but glory be to God that to whom the
disciples went has all power in heaven
an on earth. and at our call he will
balk our calamities and at just the
right time in the presence Of an APP
plauding earth and resounding heav-
en- will raise our dead. He Is mightier
than Herod. He is swifter than the
storm. He is grander than the sea.
He Is vaster than eternity. And every
sword of Gods omnipotence will leap
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-22

During the past winter, which has
been marked by uncommonly high
temperatures in the Northern Hemis-
phere, a similar elevation OF temper
ature appears to have occurred in the
Southern Hemisphere, which, of
course, has its summer when we have
our winter. In South America, South
Africa and Austria exceedingly hot
weather was experienced while our
part of the world was enjoying mild
winter.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-22

The studies of the zodiacal light
made at sea lead Mr.. f. ]. Bayldon,
formerly Of the British navy, to re-
mark that the air over the Pacific
Ocean appears clearer and better
adapted for celestial observation than
that lying over the Atlantic Ocean.
Honolulu is admirably situated for
clearness of air, and it may become an
important outpost in astronomy. 1t
has already been selected as one Of
the chief points for the study of the
vibrations Of the earth.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-22

Heavy is the burden of poetic ances-
tors which weighs on the little son re-
Gently born to the Hon. Neville Lyt-
ton, heir-presumptive to the earldom
of Lytton. Through his father he is
grandson of owen Meredith and great
grandson of Bulwer Lytton, and
through his mother great-grandson OF
Lord Byron and grandson OF WilfriG
Blunt.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-22

The establishment of international
telegraph5 and telephones has made
possibly direct dialogues between the
foreign Offices Of different govera-
ments. A writer in tho National Re-
view sees herein a tightening of the
duties of diplomatic functionaries and
q possible diminution of their import
ance. The world is becoming one
neighborhood
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-22

A military expert says, in Harper's
Weekly, that the number of wagons
and animals required to supply an
army increases in geometric ratio with
each days march from the base. The
statement makes it easier to under
stand why forces can be moved so
much more rapidly in the Offices Of
sensational newspapers than in the
field
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-22

A very large attendance has charac-
terized the Paris exposition ever since
the formal opening. The American at
tendance is much larger than was an
ticipated. President Loubet OF the
French republic, attends every dedica-
ton made necessary by the delayed
completion and throwing open to the
public of the various buildings The
two palaces of fine arts were opened,
with pictures by several hundred Am
erican artists prominently displayed.
American sculptors have fine dis
play, while architects, engravers, and
miniature painters have a separate
section. 1t is claimed that America
excels in all the arts except sculpture
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-22

Lillian Russell Indignantly rvnles
that she is engaged to William G.
Whitney. Miss Russell's denial was
the first news of the matter that got
into general circulation.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-22

1t is well known that Mrs. Emmons
Blaine has made munificent provision
for establishing the Chicago Institute,
with the twofold object of providing
ideal educational conditions from
kindergarten to college and Offering to
teachers the best advantages for pro-
fessional training. One feature OF the
enterprise which is not often men
toned Is of much Importance. After
the staff of instruction was appointed,
the twenty-six men and women who
comprise the staff were placed under
salaries and were allowed a year for
maturing their own qualifications be-
fore being. called to their respective
chairs. Most of them are now pursu-
ing special studies at universities.