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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-25
HIS COSTLY MEAL OF EGGS,
What He Ate Would Have Brought Him
5000 an Hour Later.

SOOO an hour Later.
Six hundred dollars worth of eggs
would seem to be a rather heavy
breakfast for one man to eat" observ-
ed well-known scientist to Wash
ington Star reporter, but / can GER
tify that man ate that amount of
eggs, and that he told me after he
had got away with them that they
had not fully satisfied his hunger. Ten
minutes after he had finished his meal
he complained that the eggs did not
seem to sit we'll in his stomach. 1t
happened in this way. Several years
since l was out in the Rock noun
tains. in Colorado, hunting eggs for
the Smithsonian Institution. / was in
structed to devote special attention
to pheasant eggs and to one variety in
particular, the yellow pheasant, popu.
larly called, which were then, as now,
very scarce. The trip was on the whole
rather successful, though / did not
find many of the particular pheasant
eggs referred to. One morning found
myself on one of the high mountains
which surround the city of George
town, Col. l had had my own break
fast in the town and rode up the
mountain on a burro carrying on my
search for pheasant eggs. About 10
O'Clock l ran across a mine prospector,
who was just finishing up his break
fast. After spending some time in
conversation with him, and as / was
Dl,1 mn
pieces CT egg shell on the ground. To
my surprise and delight they were the
shells of the pheasant eggs that ]
was so anxious to find. Not supposing
that he was interested in my branch
of science, | mentioned in a casual way
certain species of yellow pheasant that
| was exceedingly anxious to find or
secure. Then he told me that in his
wandering up on the mountain that
morning he had found a nest contain
ing the eggs, and finding that they
were fresh, he had eaten them, six in
all. Then it was my turn to talk, and
when | had told him that the eggs
were very rare and that l would will
lingly pay 500 piece for them, he
looked disguised and actually turned
pale. He had been having rather a
hard run of luck and felt very sorry,
Of course, that he had unaware par
taken of such a high-priced breakfast.
He thought he might be able to find
another nest Whereabouts and offered
to furnish me six eggs of the same
species for a sum considerably less
than $500, which offer l accepted. We
hunted together all that day and every
day for over a week, but to no purpose.
Three months later | made similar
find myself, but at place 900 miles
distant from there. The eggs l found
are in the Smithsonian yet, and as far
as know are about the only eggs of
that particular species in any collec-
ton in this country. A year ago J
got a letter from the prospectof. He
is still in Colorado, but says he has
never been able to eat an egg of any
kind since
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-25

The Diesbach family, of Atchison,
had an old horse which had lived out
its days of usefulness. At last it be-
came SO old and decrepit that il got
down in the barn and could not get
up. The family sent for a horse am
bulance and turned the animal over
to the town scavenger with money to
buy chloroform with which to give the
old horse an easy death. The horse
was carefully conveyed to the bonegard
and a pint of chloroform was soaked
in a sponge and placed beneath its nose
as it lay on the ground. After shifting
at the chloroform the horse jumped up,
kicked out it's heels and ran cayortipg
out into the country. And yet man
once wrote a book To prove that and
mails have no sense of humor.-kansas
City Journal.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-25

she sat on the top Step, 10 TueIui
little object in the noon sunshine.
Even the postman pitied her.
"Sick?"
mo. Only sorry"
Whats up?"
Its my birthday. I'm four"
The postman shouted with glee, but
she looked soberly sadder than be-
fore.
Don't like to be four, Ell? Don't
feel well, eh?"
Yes, / feel we'll. But I'm hungry"
Had breakfast"
mo. Nurse is away at her wedding,
and cooks cross. Mammals making
me a sweet little dress for my party
tonight, and I'm not bothering her
There'l be things to eat at the party
and I'm going
Where's brotheT?'
Brothers making me a jumping
jack for my present, and he slapped
me because | peeked."
More blessed to give than to re-
ceive." unused the postman. "And so
you haven't had no food. eh?"
ooh, yes, l haven't not had nothing.
I've had a piece of bread and an
icicle! "--Boston Transcript.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-25
a Rania Postal Service.

That the postal service of Berlin has
long been the model las yet unattain-
able) for the rest of Europe is we'll
known. But it is not equally matter
of common knowledge that the excel
lence of the Berlin postal arrange
ments of yesterday no longer satisfies
the postal authorities of to-day. The
latest innovation has been a still more
frequent clearing of the letter-boXes
and more rapid delivery than ever.
The letter boxes in the principal thor
oughfares are now cleared every fif-
teen minutes during the busy hours of
the day. The rapidity Of delivery of
letters recently even resulted in the
saving of a human life. A girl deter
mined to commit suicide. wrote to her
parents of her intention and posted the
letter, which was delivered within an
hour of being posted. This enabled
the father to hurry off in cab 10 the
spot in the Thiergarten which his
daughter had mentioned as that whore
her body would De found. to catch her
alive, box her ears. and take her home.
Sidney Whitman, in Harper's Maya
zine.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-25

right, that she landed finally in
clump of evergreen trees, some fifteen
miles from Ottawa, that she had Sc
lected as the very place she proposed
to land. And great were the rejoic-
ings when it was known that she had
come to no harm.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-25

a little newsboy on the street without
buying a paper, and he always took the
paper with a look in his eyes as much
as to say: I'VE must help the boys TO
get a living" A beautiful trait, not
giving as charity, but buying what the
how had to sell.-Mrs. Gilbert in Serb
ners Magazine.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-25

Charcoal is the great italian iltuel,
Naples alone consuming 10000 tons Of
wood charcoal, at cost of from SIC
to $40 per ton. the national consump-
ton being 100000 tons
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-25

A lovely trait of Mr.. Days charac-,
ter was his tenderness and thought OF
children. | never knew him TO pass
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-25

There is beauty in wrinkled face.
providing it is not wrinkled by selfish
ness.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-25
TALES OF PLUCK
And ADVENTURE.
A Plnclxy BaIIoonist.

RITING of the adventur-
n GUS career of the balloon
Y V list, Cleveland Moffett
faIIs in tho st Nicholas
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-25
On Her Anniversa ry.

She sat on the top step, ruefui
little object in the noon sunshine.
Even the postman pitied her.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23
MORE TRUSTS FORMING.

If the trust formation continues the
time is not distant when almost every
thing in the country will be controlled by
them Whether this would be beneficial
to the country or otherwise, we are not
prepared to state. There is one thing
however. that can never be controlled by
trust and that is good health. The
best means of obtaining this is by the
use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. This
wonderful medicine continues to cure all
stomach, liver and bowel troubles, the
same as it has done for the past fifty
years. If you are a sufferer from dyspep-
STA, Indigestion, constipation, fatulency
or nervousness, do not fail to give it a
trial at once, as it will surely cure you.
1t Will also prevent malaria, fever and
ague.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23
DROWNED IN NEUSE
Mr.. Clyde Grady Sank While
in Swimming.
His Body Has Not Yet Been Recovered From il.
Watery Grave. A Little Girl Bitten
by a Mad Dog.
Especial to News and Observer. J

Especial to News and Observer
| Kinston, N. c., July 22.-Yesterday,
Sunday, afternoon at about four o'clock
j. Clyde Grady was drowned in Neuse riv-
er at the Railroad bridge. lie was an
| industrious and deserving young an,
seventeen years Of age, son of Mr.. James
| T. Grady, OF this city. Together with
| two other young men he was swimming
and diving from the bridge where the
river was deep and very swift. His
companions say that he was trying to
swim up the stream to the bridge and
being unable to make Roadway he became
exhausted and sank. 1t is supposed that
he became violently frightened at not be-
ing able to reach the bridge for which he
was swimming, and lost sight of the fact
that by turning down stream he could
have reached the bank without exertion.
When news of the disaster reached town
a large number of people went out to the
scene and watched the efforts to recover
the body. All the afternoon boats were
moving about over the spot dragging for
the body with poles and grapples, but up
to this time he has not been found. The
river is very much swollen and it is hard
ly likely that the body will be found for
several days. if at all.
Lucille, the 13-year- old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. M. G. Koonce, who was bitten
some time ago by a dog supposed to be
mad. has gone for treatment to the
Pasteur Institute, Baltimore. AS the dog
was killed before the doctor could ex-
anime it, it was a matter of doubt as to
whether the dog had the rabies. There
was no possible way to ascertain this ex-
cept by inoculating some virus from the
brain of the supposed mad dog into the
spinal cord of rabbit. This DR.. w. T..
PARROT did. On the 23rd day after he
inoculated it, the rabbit began to show
signs of hydrophobia. AS soon as this
occurred, DR.. PARROT advised the parents
of the girl to send her at once to Pasteur
Institute for treatment. 1t will require
% days for the girl to complete taking
the Pasteur treatment.
The board of aldermen has passed
resolution to issue the school building
bonds of 500, 900 at Az per cent. as soon
as the proper papers can be fixed. Con-
tract for the sale had already been made
to Stafford & Co.. the same firm that
bought the electric light bonds. This is
a good sale.
1t is probable that the board of trustees
of the graded schools will now reopen the
matter of the selection of site for the
new building and give the people a hear
ing in the matter. They say that they
will do so.
At Newbern Saturday the bankruptcy
case of S. l.. Loftin came uD for hearing
according to postponement and Mr.. Loftin
was adiudicated a bankrupt by Referee
l.. j. Moore. Mr.. Loftin took appeal. The
assgnees remain in Possession until the
appeal is decided h
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23
Spirit of the Press.
MR.. TONNES VIEWS.
Wilmington Star.

| Wilmington Star.
In discussing the action of the Ohio con-
vention Mr.. Chas A. Towne, of Minneso-
ia. free silver Republican, who devel-
oped considerable strength in the Kan
sas City convention as running mate with
Mr.. Bryan, thus in an interview in New
York sized up the situation:
1.-THE free silver question is absolutely
dead in the West. 1t will not only not
be an issue in 1904, but l do not believe
that it will be mentioned in the Demo-
cratic platform or campaign. Our posi-
tion on free silver in 1896 and 1900 was
misunderstood. We were not demanding
more market and profit for the silver
mined, but more money for the country
to keep up prices. God in his wise prov
idence, has provided vast increase in
the supply of gold, and today there is
more money in the country than there
would have been if the gold supply had
remained stationary and the mints had
been opened to the free coinage of sill
yer.
80 long as the present condition con-
tinues or the supply of gold continues to
increase there can be no successful or
serious demand for the free coinage or
silver Certainly that demand cannot
again be made an issue in a national
campaign until there is a big change in
industrial or financial conditions"
This is a sensible statement of the
case. coupled with some nonsense. Six
people out of eight who voted with the
Democratic party in 1896 on the silver
question didn't care continental about
silver. What they wanted as Mr.. Towne
says, was more money, and they thought
the free coinage of silver was the way
to get it. They, through the judicious and
liberal use of Mark Hanna's campaign
money were defeated at the polls, and
since then times have improved, there
is more money and the masses of the
people therefore do not regard the free
coinage of silver as vital matter, and
no longer take the interest in it which
they did then They could not be rallied
to the polls ON that issue, and battle
on it would simply mean defeat in adj
vance.
People who take deeper view or the
silver question than simply as a means
to supply an ample volume of money re-
greet that this is So for they consider it
a vital question regardless OF the volume
of money in circulation. There are some
who hold that monometalsm, whether
that metal be silver or gold, is dangerous
and that the safety of the people from
money kings and Shylocks depends on
having two kinds of metallic money, one
as safeguard TO prevent the other from
being cornered and controlled by few
men.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23
THE VIRGINIA PLAN.

We have already printed the tele-
graphic account of Senator Daniels suf-
frage plan. The Richmond Dispatch thus
summarizes It:
1.-The applicant to vote must have been
resident of the State for two years, of
the county for one year, and of the pre-
cinct for thirty days; it provides for the
prepayment of a poll-tax of 50 at least
six months before the day of election;
property of the value of $500 is to be held
by the voter, his wife, or father. 1t is
further required that the applicant to
vote be able to read the Constitution, or
to understand it when read to him. The
exceptions to the requirements are the
following: All persons over the age of
so years; all who have borne arms in .he
service of the United States the Confed-
crate States, or Of the State of Virginia.
Persons of recognized good character may
be exempt from all the foregoing, except
the prepayment of the poll-tax, in the
discretion of the local authorities. The
plan provides that there shall be no ex-
ception made in the case of any one re-
ceiving salary or pension from the
State or National Government"
The Dispatch says that there is little
doubt that the committee will recommend
Senator Daniels draft to the convention,
substantially unchanged, that it will be
agreed upon by the convention without
fight, and that the suffrage question is
now regarded as virtually settled. The
understanding" feature is the buzz-saw
out denying the white man the exercise
of the ballot.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23
WHY DORMANT?

AT the Methodist District Conference
at Mt. Pleasant there was IAN attempt
to arrive at the cause of the present dor
mant condition of the membership OF
the church and there were a number OF
opinions offered says the Concord Stand
ard, which paper adds:
'Dr. Kilgo submitted his opinion TN
our own language) that it was due to the
undivided interest that the people were
taking in political things; that the minds
had been drawn from things religious
to things political"
This is worth thinking about, if it is
an accepted fact that the membership of
the church is dormant"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23
BRYAN NEEDS NO EULoGY.
Henry Watterson.

Henry Watterson.
The Republican press seems much exer-
cised over the failure of the Ohio conyen-
ton to devote a portion of its platform
to a useless tribute to Mr.. Bryan. Mr.
Bryan needs no eulogy now. He is too
strongly intrenched in the Democratic
heart. But when he voluntarily announc-
ed that he would not be a candidate for
President in 1904, and thereby relinquish-
ed the leadership of the party, he placed
principles above men. Mr.. Bryan is too
ardently attached to the cause of con-
stitutional government to be very sus-
ceptible to Iiattery or attack.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23

The laborng men have at last come to
see that the hackers of the trusts are
their real enemies. A few months age
when Debs C Co. were prophesying that
trusts would bring on socialism and bet
ter things for labor, IL was a fantastic
dream on the part of Debs Labor now
sees that its only hope is to live up
against trusts every day and every hour,
and against all agencies and parties that
are controlled by trusts.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23

A New York boy suggests to Mr.. Car
negie that he establish more free public
baths and less free libraries. He evil
IDENTIFY thinks that cleanliness is better
than book learning. But Mr. Carnegie
knows that the time will come when
every city will require baths in every
home and every apartment, without pri-
longer before free libraries will be pro-
yided.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23
ANTI-IMPERIALIsM THE ISSUE.

Henry Watterson
The Democracy should temporarily
postpone the consideration of all subor-
dinate problems and make the principle
of constitutional liberty the paramount
issue. 1t should nominate a man who
can conciliate all the anti-imperialistic
forces And it will then be in posi-
ton to command the unqualified support
of all the various organizations. Mean
while we congratulate the anti-imperial-
lists upon their COURAGEOUS determination.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23

Ex-Governor Altgeld has given the
Board of Review the names of $50 so
ciety men and women, capitalists, poll
ticans, business men and reformers"
whose personal property is assessed at
$500, 600, who should legally and justly
be assessed at 1874 900, 900. If this infor-
ma ton is even approximately correct,
the Board of Review ought to get enough
tax to save Chicago from the threatened
city bankruptcy.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23

"Only in the restriction of a mans
ambition to be a policeman or a fireman
does his size interfere with success,
how a New Yorker who served with con-
spicious ability in the Spanish war
was denied place in the fire department
short
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23
ARGUMENT AND NOT PREJUDICE

The native North Carolinians in the
orally use that State for purposes OF
comparison should remember that con-
ditions there have changed since they
were born.--Richmond News.
This is the only argument that has
been used to defeat the measures of
reform based upon North Carolina laws,
that Mr.. Withers, Mr.. Lindsey and other
members of the Constitutional Conven-
tion have offered. 1t is well known that
North Carolina has the best and cheapest
judicial and county government system in
the United States. The native North
Carolinians' have studied the government
OF all the States and proposed to substi-
ways of North Carolina for the compli-
Gated and costly machinery with which
Virginia was burdened by the Underwood
(Reconstructien1 Convention. The com
parison ought to be considered on the
respective merits of government in North
Carolina and Virginia, and not dismissed
with a sheer like that above quoted from
the News
In truth, if the Virginia Constitutional
Convention would adopt the North Caro-
lima Constitution without dotting an ''i''
or crossing a ''t'' and go home, the peo-
pie of Virginia would save half a million
of dollars year and enjoy simple and
pure government.
Argument ought to be employed instead
of appeals to prejudice.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23

J. Wiley Shocks candor is refreshing.
He says: Il prefer the salary of an
office to either Clevelandism or Bryan
ISM The same is true of the fellows
who are taking Federal offices from Nc
Kinley, but they call it standing for
"the freedom of political action j.
Wiley is more candid.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23

The case of B. F. Long VS.. the South
ern Railway will not be tried until the
late Fail term Of court At the next trial
no juror will sleep with a law agent OF
the Southern Railway while the trial is
progressing. Separate rooms and sepa-
rate beds will be provided.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23

The Mt. Olive Advertiser hears that
an attempt will be made to kill the
graded school. The Advertiser also says
the vote was legal and the attempt will
fail. Good! The chief duty which the
people of every community owes to itself
is to provide good free schools for all
the children. That is the beginning of
true progress and growth for this and
coming generations.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23

A poor fellow steals chicken or a
goose to satisfy his hunger, and goes to
jail. But the Quayites steal $3,0O0,o0O
franchise from the city, and are elected
to- important positions Of trust. This
-refni5dS the philadelphia Ledger. of this
apt quotation from Prof. Cheyney S
industrial and Social England" which
is to the point:
1.-THE law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose off the common,
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose. ;"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23

Senator Daniels plan is more like the
Mississippi plan than anything else,
though different in some particulars. The
understanding clause is it's strong
feature. 1t is not as good as the Louis
lana plan because that is self-executng.
Senator Daniel probably was brought to
favor the Mississippi plan because it has
stood the test of the courts.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23

In February 1900 the House OF Repre-
sentatives included in the Gold Standard
bill clause. providing for gold redemp-
ton of silver The Senate c'lt il out.
The Financial Age says there is " force
full agitation for the defeated measure"
1t is standing vigorously against the re-
demption which should not be made by
the coming Congress.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23

According to the Norfolk Virginian-
Pilot, Mr.. Alexander Hamilton's resolu-
ton with reference to taxation might en-
able corporations to escape taxation on
their franchise, incomes. &c. The name
of the author of the resolution suggests
advocacy of class privilege.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23

Two rural free deliveries were estab-
lished yesterday in Maryland. They get
them by the score except in North Caro-
lima. Our roads are as good as in South
Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, and yet
they get ten or more to North Carolina's
one. The North Carolina congressman
ought not to submit to such discrimina-
ton against, their State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23

England's war against the Beers is
costing, seven and a half million dollars
a week. and the ministry is looking about
for methods of raising money to keep up
the war; There are Americans who are
glad the administration has plunged us
into this sort of thing.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23
WORKING "a HOURS A DAY.

There's no rest for those tireless little
workers-Dr. Kings New Life Pills. Mil
lions are always busy. curing Torpid Liv-
err, Jaundice, Biliousness. Fever and
Ague. They Danish Sick Headache, drive
out Malaria. Never grippe or weaken.
Small taste nice, work wonders. Try
them Csc. at all drug stores.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23

Pierre Loril1ard's real name was Peter,
as was. his fathers. The son changed it
to Pierre because he said his family was
of French descent In beginning bis
will. which is creating so much domestic
trouble, he wrote, Il, Peter Lorillard, OF
Jotstown," etc.