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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28
CIVILIZATION IN UGANDA.
Prime Minister Has Become an Expert
in Plain Sewing.

in Plain Sewing.
Civilization is progressing with
rapid strides in the African kingdom
of Uganda, where little while ago all
was barbarism. A curious manifesto
ton Of civilization in this Black king
dom is the fad which has been taken
up by the prime minister of the infant
king, that official having become an
expert in plain sewing. He is now in
dustriously engaged in cultivating the
more advanced forms of needlework
under the instruction of the wife Of
one of the missionaries. and will
doubtless in a short time be able to do
clearinghouse" and other fancy
stitches. The little King Dandi re-
Gently gave a dinner to celebrate his
fourth birthday, and the napkins used
were all hemmed by the prime min
lister. If all prime ministers would
devote more time to their sewing and
less to affairs of state the world would
be much more peaceful place. King
Dandi's birthday dinner was intended
to illustrate to the British commits
sfoner and the ether white men of the
country the advances which have been
made in civilization in Uganda. All
the chief Europeans at Mengo, the
capital, attended the reception, which
was followed by banquet got up in
English fashion. 1t was produced by
natives entirely without assistance,
and would have done credit to first
class New York restaurant The
guests found cards bearing their
names at the places at table at which
they were to sit, and all the plates.
spoons, knives, forks, glasses, etc.,
were just where they Belonged and
the courses, which were served deftly
and properly, consisted of food such
as one would expect to find at ban
Quet in any white mans capital The
next day there was a thanksgiving
service in the cathedral of Mengo at
which the coal-black congregation
sang Sir Arthur Sullivan's Onward,
Christian Soldier. New York Press.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28
Pussy and Fly Paper.

A large and handsome Angora cat.
which is the pet and pride of family
in the south end of the city, and
which, relying on this, makes himself
very familiar, got into great trouble.
Several sheets of sticky fly paper had
been laid on a table near sunny win
dow to entrap wandering flies. The
cat, desiring to look out at the window,
Ieaped on the table and landed on
all four feet on a sheet of the fly
paper. At first he kept cool and en-
deavored to release one foot after an
other, but the paper chung closer than
brother Then he put his nose down
to push the paper from his feet. and
loose end seized him by the whiskers
and fastened to his forehead, binding
him. Then he was scared and the
trouble commenced, and a sort OF
furry, long-tailed thunderboit went
rolling over the carpet, emitting the
most horrible yells and caterwaulings
and turning everything upside down.
The family fastened to the relief of
their favorite, and more than one of
them felt his teeth and claws before
he was put in a condition to see and
waIk.-Portland Oregonian.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28

The total number of French troops
in service in America was about 1000,
writes Gen. Francis V. Greene in
Scribner's. They landed at Newport in
July 1777, remained in New England
until they marched to Yorktown in
1881, re turned to the Hudson river
in the spring of 1882, and sailed for the
West Indies in the autumn of that
year. Small as were their numbers,
they were of immense benefit, not only
because of the service they rendered
at Yorktown, but because OF the ex-
ample of military training which they
gave to the continental army.
Whether the revolution could have
been successful without the aid OF
France and it's soldiers is one of
those questions which can be debated
at great length without ever reaching
a definite and certain conclusion. Eng
Hshmen will especially prolong the de-
bate on this point to the detriment Of
the French soldiers. 1t must be re-
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28

Anton Colman, a veteran dynamite
man, is perhaps one OF the Oldest of
all the old-timers and has been look
ing after high explosives for the past
twenty-five or thirty years, says the
Boston Daily Globe. He has been on
most of the big jobs in Massachusetts
and in many parts of New England
and has had many hair-breadth es-
capes and exciting adventures. Mr..
Colman is about 70 years old, and was
born in Maine. Dynamite and the
blasting powder which we have today
is much different from what it used
to be in the days when I first started
in the business" said MIR. CoIman,
"and 1 am not as we'll posted on every
thing as l might like to be, but there
are some things about handling powder
that when a man learns them once, he
never forgets as long as he lives, and
no matter what kind of powder is used
or how much the style changes it is
all the same: they will still be careful
and watch their business nightly
close. Of course, of all the explosives
nitroglycerine is the most dangerous
and the hardest to get along with. 1t
has as many moods and is as hard to
manage sometimes as the spoiled child
or a woman who wants her own way.
never got over my great respect for
this explosive, and even today l treat
it with every Difference, and will be as
gentle and peaceful in its presence as
any tyro. A man can never get any
experience in handling nitroglycerine;
the more he handles it the less he is
liable to know about it. For he real
ICES more and more how uncertain it
is. Why, even the kegs that nitro
glyce-ine comes in are white elephants
On a mans hands, for they are mighty
hard to get rid of, I tell you. The
wood has been so thoroughly saturated
with the stuff that it cannot be
burned and cannot be broken up, and
they can't be left lying around loose,
for some one is sure to come along
who does not know anything about
them and bang something into them
and off goes the roof. | remember a
fellow out in the western part of the
state, several yeas ago, who came
along with a hammer in his hand. He
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28

elaborate menu is out OF the question,
but we always give the insects all the
food necessary to sustain life, and
sometimes they actually fatten. Take
the wiggletall. This bit of life has a
ravenous APPETITE, and feeds almost con-
stantly The juices of vegetables not
only keep him alive, but they give him
strength and energy enough to develop
himself. Between the place in the jar
where he sucks the sustaining juices
into his system and the top Of the
water where ne shoots his syphon
above the surface to get fresh air, he
is kept constantly hustling, feeding at
one place and breathing at the other.
1t would be difficult to estimate the
number Of times a wiggletail feeds dur
ing twenty-four hours. The amount
taken on at any one time if estimated
in weight, would run high into the
fractions. But, as small as he is, it
means much to him. The winged in
sects that are put in screened cages are
easily fed. 1t is but little trouble to
raise mosquito, as far as the food
is concerned. These insects also feed,
exteniEeiy on vegetable juices, con-
suming greater quantities. of course,
than the earlier member Of the family,
the wiggletail. find that sugar is one
of the best things in the world for
mosquitoes. They are fond of sugar.
In fact, they seem to have what is pop
ularly called sweet tooth The
sugar is nutrifjve toO and whilp not
answering all the purposes OF animal
blood in the mosquito life, they never
theless thrive and grow fat and saucy
on the diet. Ny own particular pets
are never without it, and 1 rarely lose
one until his natural time to pass out,
or until I decide to STAY him and
squeeze him into one Of the glass slides
in my workshop New Orleans
Times Democrat
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28

One of the most remarkable sermons
ever heard in Covlngton was preached
at the First Baptist church the other
Sunday by Metz Joiner, boy preacher
Just 9 years of age, who held one of
the largest congregations ever seen in
this town enraptured for thirty min
utes while he delivered wonderful
sermon. People flocked from the coun-
egy all around to hear this wonderful
preacher The church was packed, and
aany people had to leave, as they
could find no room. The little preacher
entered the pulpit in a calm and de-
iiberate manner. and before beginning
asked the ladies.t kindly remove their
hats so the people in the back of the
church could see, Then he requested
the undivided attention of the congre-
cation. He SAID he would preach on
The Prodigal Son" He was perfectly
at. ease in the pulpit. his gestures were
graceful, and he always emphasized
the right words. and explained difficult
thoughts with the greatest ease and
with wonderful illustrations. In speak
ing of the prodigal son he said:
Europe and France are far countries,
as l illustrated the passage a few mo-
ments ago, in a worldly sense. But in
a spiritual sense we don't have to go
10 Europe or France but | can step
Just outside this church door and find
myself in a far country. l Will tell
you, my friends, as'soon as you leave
God then you are in far country.
And then you waste your substance in
riotous living, and l will introduce
you to a few strangers you will meet
there; they are barroom. gambling
and crime, intidelity, and numerous
others" After he had finished a ser
man recently some ladies were so
charmed that they ran up to kiss him
aa he had finished, but he stood them
oil and told them not TO worship him.
but the One of whom he was preach
lng.-Covington Kyo correspondence
Atlanta Constitution.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28

TAX about money burning holes In
peoples pockets remarked an OBJ
servant stranger the other day, "but
here is a case OF nickeis burning holes
n wood" He pointed to the front OF
he ticket sellers window on one of the
L stations as he spoke The wood
work was scooped out several inches
ieep where the Intended passenger
Usually shoves in his fare, and the cav
lty was twice as wide as it was deep.
That" said the obseryaDt man. lis a
more graphic illustration of what con-
hancy will do than all the lessons ever
taught by the dripping of water upon
rocks. They used to tell us in school
hat drop of water would wear away
The greatest stone, but here we have a
mute picture of what the constant
showing Of coins in and out of that
ticket sellers window has done. You
will notice that the wood is worn out
rs smoothly and evenly as if it were
Zone by the finest kind of tools in the
hands of the finest kind of carpenter.
There isn't the faintest suspicion of 4
splinter there. Millions of nickels and
Zines have passed and repassed
through that window and been showed
along that hardwood board, which was
originally level and fiat is a street of
asphalt, until they wore that cavity
which you now see there | do not
know that there is any particular way
Of showing the money between ticket
seller and purchaser, but there must
be, because the cavity is shaped like
an elongated saucer, demonstrating be-
Tond any doubt that there must be a
universal way for moving the coins
back and forward. | have travelled a
good deal, but nowhere have | seen
such thorough object lesson as to the
hollow of that board affords To make
a cavity like that the exchange OF coin
must have been simply enormous and
beyond the imagination of man to con-
eeive. 1t is one of the greatest curl
osities OF the city. l doubt that it
has an equal in the world. This is the
nth or sixth window sill on the L that
| have noticed worn away by coins in
this way. At Forty-second, Thirty
third, Twenty-third, and Fourteenth
street, on the Sixth avenue road, the
cashiers window Lodges are especially 1
we'll worn away by the passing of coin.
I don't suppose that one New Yorker
in hundred notices the fact as he
reaches forth for his ticket-New
York Mail and Express.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28

The Lake of Geneva is celebrated for
its swans. Two of these birds were
observed to be greatly attached to each
other, being inseparable companions.
Their devotion was pointed out to WIS.,
itors. Recently the park authorities
introduced to the lake a young female
swan of great beauty to whom the
male that had so long been noted for
his conJugal fidelity Immediately
transferred his affections. The desert
ed female swan shortly afterward COM
mitted suicide by beating its brains out
against the quay. The body of the I'M
fortunate bird has been stuffed and
placed in the Geneva museum.-De.
troit Free Press.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28
Advertiser emit.

"A new historical romance. Posi-
lively the greatest American novel!
Written by Araminta Jeanette Feath-
erstone. with one hand tied behind
her! The nine hundTedth thousand
sold before the author had given the
book a thought, or, indeed, before she
had written more than fifty chapters!
Profusely illustrated with nine thou
sand steel plates having nothing what
ever to do with the story, and twenty
seven thousand wood engrayings only
remotely bearing upon the same! For
sale at all dry goods shops!"-Detroit
Journal.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28

Ny soul is sailing through the sea,
But the Past is heavy and hindereth
me,
The Past hath crusted cumbrous shells
That hold the aesh Of cold sea-mells
About my soul.
The huge waves wash, the high waves
roll,
each barnacle clingeth aud worketh
dole
And hindereth me from sailing!
Did Past, let go and drop l. the sea
Till fathomless waters cover thee,
For am living. but thou art dead;
Thou drawest back, l strive ahead
The Day to find
Thy shells unbind! Night comes be-
hind,
needs must hurry with the wind
And trim me best for sailing.
Sidney Lanier.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28

ing the insects, i've or II per cent con-
tracted the disease.
The direct agency Of mosquitoes in
spreading the disease having been es-
tablished, practical antimosquito
work was at once undertaken in Cuba.
General orders were issued requiring
the universal use Of mosquito-bars in
all barracks, especially in hospitals, as
well as in field service where practica-
BILE The drainage of breeding places,
the use Of petroleum on standing wa
ter, in which mosquitoes breed, was
directed, and the medical department
of the army furnished oil for this pur-
pose. 1t has resulted that Havana had
less yellow fever during the present
year than at any time in its history.
The Serum Not Successful.
The efforts Of DR.. Reed have been
supplemented by experiments, under
government authorization, in which
well persons have been subjected to
tests which in several cases have
proven fatal. In July a Cuban boy
was taken to Havana and after eleven
hungry mosquitoes had been put in a
cage his arm was placed therein and
tie insects permitted to suck blood
from it. The parasites were given a
chance to develop and, when it was
believed that they were ready for ac-
ton, nine persons, at various intervals,
were bitten by them after having
been inoculated with a serum said to
render a person proof against the
fever. Of these, three persons have
died and the others are lingering be-
tween life and death, except one,
whose recovery seems probable. While
the investigation has proved of some
benefit, in that it has disclosed the
source of the fever, the immunity
serum has not established itself in
public favor.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28

now Uncie sam Neeps lid on crops.
There are in the United States, ap-
proximately, .,750 counties of agricul-
tural Importance. In each of these
counties the agricultural department
has a principal county correspondent,
who maintains an organization of
three assistants, each covering a speci-
fed territory. Facilities are furnished
the principal correspondent to enable
him to obtain regular reports from his
assistants. These reports he tabulates
at the end of each month, supplement-
ing the information thus obtained by
his own observation and knowledge of
the situation, and the consolidated re-
port is submitted to the statisticlan at
tached to the position, an average of
about 80 per cent Of them reports
monthly Times.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28

The Big Tree (sequoia gigantea) is
natures forest masterpiece, and, as far
as l know, the greatest Of living
things. 1t belongs to an ancient stock
as its remains in old rocks show. and
has a strange air Of other days about
it-a thoroughbred look, inherited
from the long ago, the auld lang syne
OF trees. The Pacific coast in general
is the paradise of conifers Here near
ly all of them are giants, and display
beauty and magnifcence unknown
elsewhere. The climate is mild, the
ground never freezes, and moisture
and sunshine abound all the year
nevertheless, it is not easy to account
for the colossal size of the seQuoias.
The largest are about 800 feet high and
thirty in diameter Who of all the
jewellers Of the plains, and prairies,
and fertile home forests of round
headed oak and maple, hickory and
elm, ever dreamed that earth could
bear such growths-trees that the ia
miliar pines and frs seem to know
nothing about-lonely, silent, serene,
with a physiognomy almost godlike,
and so old thousands of them still liv-
ing had counted their years by tens of
centuries when Columbus set sail from
Spain, and were in the vigor of youth
or middle age when the star led the
Chaidean sages to the infant Savior's
cradle? AS far as man is concerned,
they are the same yesterday, to-day,
and ,forever-emblems of permanence.
John Muir, in Atlantic.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28
The Missing Link.

In the tungles ST southeastern Asia
and the islands nearby, which have
long been known to science as the
cradle of the human race, and which
are still inhabited by the very lowest
orders of human beings, the pithecan-
thropus lives with the elephant, tapir.
rhinocerous, lion, hippopotamus, gi-
gantis pangolin, hyena and other ami
mails, remains Of which were found
round about him. 1t has oeen COM
puted that this ancestor lived some
where about the beginning of our last
glacial epoch. some 270,0O0 years ago.
In other words, about 1900 genera
tions have been born and have died
between I'm and ourselves. It win
as2! o-,r understanding Of what this
Relationship really means to know that
nearly go generations carry us back
beyond the dawn Of history, 5000 years
o,-McClure's Magazine
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28
Would II Have Been
Successful Without
Foreign Aid?
The American
Revolution

membered that the French fought the
British at Boston in ITS; at Long
Island, Harlem, White Plains, Fort
Washington, Trenton and Princeton in
1776; at Bemis' Heights. Saratoga,
Brandywine and Germantown in 1777;
at Monmouth and Newport in 1878.
However great an advantage may
have been derived from the aid of the
French. it is certainly true that the
great bulk of the fighting was done by
the Americans.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28
All Things Considered
He Is Really a Beast of
Burden.

and in the clamper which holds the
cravat in place. There is glass over
the face of his watch. Dye is used in
staining his clothes, and one may find
here all the colors-red, white, blue,
black, purple, yellow, brown and al
most every other tint. He has paper
in his pockets. There is rubber in his
suspenders and garters. Paint is found
in the figures on the face of his watch
and polish is found on his shoes.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28

Elaborate experiments in feeding
wheat to farm animals and swine have
been made this year at the Kansas eX
pertinent station, and also in other
states of the corn belt. The experts
conclude that wheat has greater nutri-
tive value than corn, and may be used
either crushed, mixed with oats or
corn, or in connection with straw in
time of extreme scarcity.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28
FIGHTYELIlOW FEVER
RECENT EXPERIMENTS THE CAUSE
OF SEVERAL DEATHS,
Including That of Miss Mas, the Nurse
The Successful Work of DIR. Reed
and the Bad Results from the Serum
Cause of the Fever Mystery.

The death in Havana Sunday Of
Miss Clara A. Mas, trained nurse
from Newark, N. j., who was follow
ing her profession at Las Animas Hos
pital was the third resulting from the
experiments being made with mos
quitoes by the yellow fever commits
sion. The sacrifice of this young life
in the cause of science-Miss Mas
was rs years old-directs attention to
the work which has been done in Cuba
toward the stamping out of the dis
ease that formerly claimed SO many
lives. In this investigation in the
cause of science there has been re-
markedly display of heroism. The
work has been carried on by the yellow
fever commission, OF which DR.. Walter
Reed is president
The Cause of Yellow Fever
has always been a mystery; and, in
deed, it is mystery today in a meas
ure, since, although undoubtedly dis
ease Of parasitic origin, the parasitic
organism itself has not yet been dis
covered. Several times it has been
that that it was found, and there are
those investigators who today believe
that the Bacillus iceroides Of Sanarelli
is the causative organism OF the fever;
while the English physician, DR.. Her
bert E. Durham, who, with the late
DR.. Walter Myers, was sent out by the
Liverpool School Of Tropical Medicine
to Brazil, believes that in small ba-
cillus which they have frequently found
in autopsies they have discovered the
true germ. The proof brought by the
American experiments that certain
mosquitoes will transmit the disease,
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28
Millions In Potatoes

1t is estimated that one county on
the eastern shore of Virginia contain
ing a population Of about 1900, sold
this year $4,000 barrels of Irish po-
tatoos at a profit of 100000, which
means that every man, woman and
child in the county would be entitled
to receive. if the money were distrib-
uted pro raj a. something more than
S75 from one crop alone.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28

"There is a mistake very prevalent
among laymen that it is hard matter
to feed Gagged insects during the pro-
eesses Of experimentation, said a New
orleans bug expert recently; but real
& Il is no hard task. OF course the
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28
IN THE ODD CORNER.
QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS AND
EVENTS.

cavity Like an Elongated SANGER Worn
In Ticket window Lodges of the Eie-
yated Railways of New York - Odd
object Lesson Here.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-28
MISS CLARA A. MAS.

of medical science.]
however, renders both of these claims
uncertain and probably incorrect. In
fact, DR.. Reed denies that Sanarelli's
bacillus has anything to do with yell
low fever The true parasite will be
be discovered, without doubt, and it is
to be hoped that the American army
officers who have been responsible for
such an extraordinary advance in our
knowledge of the etiology Of the dread
disease may be tie investigators to
carry the work through to its fullest
conclusions