The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-03-28

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London has at last shaken itself Tree
of corporate control, and by its County
Council elections has started fairly Oh
the road toward municipal ownership
Of public utilities.
Philadelphia is disappointed once
more. League Island Navy Yard is 10
continue as League Island Navy Yard
Congress having refused to change us
name to Philadelphia Navy Yard.
The doctors have discovered a new
nervous disease, which they name
'matinitis." 1t afiicts young women
of emotional temperament, and is caus-
ed by looking at the stars between
two.thirty and five in the afternoon.
Some croakers are predicting, as
result of the sugar tariff war with
Russia and the formation of the glgan-
tic steel trust, that European trade
coalition will be formed against Amer
lea.
italy labors under terrible burden
of military expenditure. The pest
thing she can do would be to withdraw
from the Dreibund and cut down her
military and naval budget. There IS
some evidence that the young King
and his new cabinet will take th9s
course.
The man in Mississippi who does
not pay poll tax cannot vote or serve
on iuries, and official returns show
that 29.371 white citizens have neglect
ed to pay up this year. This neglect
DISTINGUISHES them for two years. Inc
privilege of voting, seemingly, is not
held in very high esteem in Missis-
sippi.
Much money has been expended ID
q vain effort to kill out the Canadian
thistle. 1t has now been discovered
that the fibre of the same can be USED
in paper-making, and, for that natter
in the manufacture of cloth. Instead
of irving to eliminate the thistle, why
not cultivate it? Possibly then 1t
might disappear, very much to the
chagrin Of the would-be cultivators.
The British War Department asks
for the enormous sum of $4,000 600
for remounts. Many centuries have
passed since Job spoke OF the thunder
with which the neck of the battle
charger of his time was clothed When
he went on to meet the armed men
and was not affrighted, but even now
in the era of the automobile and the
bicycle the horse is by no means obso-
lete in arts of war or of peace.
Noting a suggestion that the British
colonies be called kingdoms, the Mon
treal Herald says: There is not IN the
world a more democratic community.
In Canada we have neither the ap-
Danages of a court nor the survival OF
a feudal nobility by which to be Joln3s
to the past We have only gro"lSS
population of Industrious freemen'
knowing no castles or classes, and
government that is truly by the people
and for the people"
Speaking of valuable metals, what
do you say to the newly-dlscoVereu
radium? 1t is said that half pound
Of it will light an ordinary sized room
for a million years. The present price
is rather a drawback to it's general
use, as an ounce of it is worth Sl,O0o.
However, at that rice, as an 1lluml-
nant, considering $4,000 in conjunction
with a million years, neither coal OIL
electricity nor the sparklings from
womans eyes would be in it.
The birch forests in Maine are being
used up at the rate of thirty-fve MIL
lion to forty million feet of wood each
year, and that they cannot much long
er stand such a drain. About thirty
two thousand cords are used in turns
ing out eight hundred million spools
annually, each to carry two hundred
yards of thread, and last year about
fifteen million feet of spool bars were
exported from Maine, mostly to Scot
land, and about one-half from Bangor,
and several million feet were sent Np
spool mills in other parts of the United
States where there are spool mills,
notably to Rhode Island.
The segregation of alleged "dulP'
pupils. as proposed by Chicago edu-
Gator would be irrational and unjust,
even if it were not impracticable, for
the reason that the average dull
pupil is not dull. He simply does not
4. - e,o6 ;DHayihIa courSe Of