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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-07

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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-07

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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-07
"Last winter an infant child of

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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-07
A Complete Cure.

When you take Gooch's Sarsaparilla
you find it a complete cure for bad
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-07
DARING ROBBERY 1T DEPOT
Pickpocket Get $3.50 From Capt.
Wilkes Henry.

Money Was Stolen As Capt. Hen
~ Was Boarding. a West
Bound Train FOR HIS Home
At Edwards.
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
The paIIyIna Bastard.

To the Murmurer of the Age Herald.
 He who dallies is a dastard he who doubts is damned"
 Peaceful of nature. and not wearing a title I have no sort of intent to shy my castor" into the ring of disputation over the much wooted question that now disturbs Birmingham Under the calming lotos suggesting breezes of this classic mountain top, a man from town is apt to paraphrase:
 Who doesn't daily is a dullard and who doubts this be -! But to the age of the quotation. In the August of 1869 I took the managing editorship of the Mobile Register; that brilliant model for South ern journalism. Col. John Forsyth. being my colleague, and I may say preceptor. Those were the hot and stirring days of the fight against reconstruction, and Forsyth's pen was a spear ever in rest His first editorial after my arrival quoted the words now in dispute. They had a familiar &ing and I asked whose they were. The great editor answered:
 "Old. I have used them before" And he had for several times they appeared in my glance over the files of the previous four years.
 This was in 1868; and it clearly disposes of the theory that the quotation (whether filtered through Holy Writ. or not) ori- ginated with Senator Hill in his fiagella- tion of Malone, in 1SS1 For several years prior to that one the quotation was pop ular in editorial writings in the cotton states. Watterson also used it in Louis vile prior to the union of the Courier and Journal.
 Hence the Blackburn origin may pos sibly be correct, though Lhave no opinion to offer on that point. Yours faithfully.
 T. c. DeLEON. University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn,
 May 2. 1901
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
THE DEATH OF WEED
 RECALLS FARO GAME

securities into the hands of the men who won it.
 When. after little time some of these documents were negotiated through his bank at Newburgh. the fact that the great game had been played gradually came to light. It soon became the great est theme of conversation the city had eyer known. It spread through New York newspapers to all parts of the world and was known as the heaviest game of poker and faro ever played anywhere.
 During all this time Weed continued to pay his obligations to the winners. Ear ly one day there was stoppage. A close business and personal friend of Weeds who was in Dakota running a stock farm in which both were interested, in some way became possessed of the intelligence. He immediately started for Newburgh to look after his friends interest, but before he reached that city Weed had paid ESQ., 900 on the debt.
 The friend had further payments stop ped and then the case got into the courts It has never been known whether Need got any of the $S000O refunded but the general belief is that the game cost him no demand was ever made by Hedges and Scott for any part of the seOO.OOO won by them at faro
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
caIhoun,s Great Eyes.

'The debate continued several days. MT. Calhoun as Vice President presided over the Senate. His great, lustrous. brown eyes flashed incessantly He seemed about to spring into the arena, so intent ly did he follow each speaker.
 "Calhoun resigned the Vice Presidency and Hayne resigned his seat that Cal. houn might take 1t and that he himself might btcome Governor of his State.
 About the winter of ls4e-7 Mir. Web ster. for the first time, came to South Carolina. He took the then usual line of travel, by steamer from Wilmington to Charleston. and on. by rail, to Columbia
 "He was received with open arms. He was surprised and agitated by the hospi- tality showered on him. If was not so loud as we make 1t now, but the private houses figured more largely in the fenc- tions than nowl At Columbia the Hamp- tons, Taylors, Goodwyns. Globes and oth- CTS were his entertainers. They carried him out to the plantations, that he might sec with his own eyes the negroes. He got out of his carriage and walked among them at work and talked with
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
Porto Rican Cases

The admission of Frederico Digreta, a resident of Porto Rico, to practice before the United States Supreme Court, is considered significant by many lawyers. Only citizens of the United States are admitted to practice before the highest court in the land. Senor Digretta is the resident com that provides for the appointment of a commissioner declares that he must be a resident of Porto Rico. He is therefore officially a Porto Rican, liv- ing there, and yet he was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. This rule has been tested, for not long ago an Italian sought the right to prac- tice before the court-a prominent and learned Italian lawyer-and his appli- cation was refused. The admission of the Porto Rican commissioner is there lore cOnSluereQ uoclaraJlOn that Porto Rico is part of the United States.
 1t is thought the decision in the Porto Rican tax cases will be held back until December, when Congress will be in session, and provision can be at once made under a decision that the constitution follows the flag. The administration Is now acting on the basis that 1t does not-that Porto Rico is colony, to be governed as the cen tral power sees it. If the Supreme Court turns down the imperialists much legislation will be needed, for Porto Rico will then be an morgan ized, although populous, territory, and will need territorial machinery pre- liminary to a state government. It has more population than three or four of the sage-bush States together hold, and it is believed that the great court will hold that 1t is as much a part of this country as they are.
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
SUNDAY OPENING AT BUFFALO.

From the Providence Journal.
 The decision regarding Sunday opening arrived at by the managers of the Buffalo, Exposition should prove satisfactory. The fair is to be open from 1 p. m. on the first day of the week. excepting the Midway and the amusements, which will do -busie ness only six days out of the seven. This arrangement gives the working people of Buffalo and the neighboring towns a chance to see the beauties of the Expo sition on Sunday, and at the same time does not interfere with the morning serv- ice of the churches. The decision to keep the cheaper features of the fair from the popular gaze on Sunday Is in line with the sentiment of those who hold that fes- tivale of the popcorn and lemonade sort are out of place on that day.
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
No chanues in the Tariff

The Hon. Mark Hanna, general po- litical manager for trusts and million aire campaign subscribers, is indig- nant, virtuously and highly indignant. He declares in proclamation that none of the faithful dare misunder- stand, that not an 'i' is to be dotted nor a "t" crossed in the robber tariff next winter. This squelches Chairman Babcock, of the Republican Congress ional committee, who has been spread ing his wings with remarkable free dom in that close corporation, and 1t Is notice to all other Republicans that opposition to the Mckinley -Dingley robber scheme will be regarded by the administration as rank treason, to be duly and properly punished.
 The great MT. Hanna has bitten off more than he can chew when he de- clares that all discussion of the sub ject must be stopped. When the bill lion-dollar infant steel industry levies without notice an additional tax on the country of two dollars per ton of steel rails, there will De discussion a plenty, and not even the powerful MT. Hanna backed by all the plutocratic influences In the country can stop it.
 This declaration from the Republi- can boss points out the true issue of 1904. War should be declared against rs,A. tariff, and its natural and ineyit- able fruits, the trusts. But one issue is ever fully considered in national election, although a platform may pre- sent twenty, and it is plain that the crying needs of the country will force the tariff and the tariff-made trusts forward as the issue of 1904.
 In substance plutocracy will line up under the Hanna banner, and the peo- pie under the Democratic banner, and no amount of verbage can deceive the voters, for all now understand the na- ture of the Hanna campaign lists as well as if they were published. The issue is one that has been eliminating ever since the robber tariff was pushed through, and the election of 1904 will determine whether this is govern ment of. for and by the people or of, for and by the trusts, protected by a tariff that is absurd on it's face so far as either protection or revenue Is con- cerned.
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
Sketches from Everyday Life|

dent, showing how people can lose their nerve in one of my own camps" he con tinued. T was out west building a rail- road through country thickly inhabited with Indians. The country then was not like 1t Is now. Indians were Indians Tn those days, and the only law that exist ed was to keep your eyes open and your pistols handy In my camp I had a young man named Joe Scott, who attend ed to my horses. Joe had at one time in his life got hit on the head with a rock from some blasting, and at times he was not quite right in his head Usually he was a quiet, peaceable fellow. but when one of his spells was on. him he always imagined he had a grievance and wanted revenge When he was sane you could call him a rascal, a. thief or any other pet name and he would not mind it, but when he got nutty these expressions would recur to him, and he would want satisfaction.
 ''We were sitting around my tent one evening drinking a little and having a very pleasant time, when yoe came in and said that one of the foremen had insulted him, and that he wanted satisfaction.
 "You are right Joe' said one of the young men In the party. why don't you kill him?' T would said Joe. If had a gun Well, it's little early in the. even ing for murder said the young man, come back in about an hour and I will give you a gun This satisfied Joe, and he went off In the meantime the young man loaded double barrel shotgun with powder only and gave 1t to Joe on his returned, who took it and started to the foreman's tent to do his man, while the rest of us followed to see the fun.
 '"The foreman's tent was large square tent with the sides boarded up. About twenty of them were asleep in the tent when Joe arrived. Joe stuck the gun bar rel through the fly of the tent gave two or three Indian war whoops. and fired one barrel right into the crowd of sleeping men. He then gave two or three more In dian yells and fired the other barrel. As I said. the tent was well boarded up on all sides, and how those foremen man aged to get out was wonder By the time Joe fired his second barrel not a one of them was in sight. It is astonish kind is The foremen did not know how, many hundred Indians had attacked the camp and they did not all come back un- til E o'clock the next day. Meantime had got Joe out of the way and sent him to another camp. He would certainly have been lynched if they had caught him." a. st
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
A Story of old Tom.

Down in Central America" remarked a gentleman yesterday, who as rail road contractor. has been in most or the American countries, they are troubled greatly with vermin of all kinds, particu- larly rats and mice. To get rid or these latter pests the natives, instead or keep ing a tame house cat like we do here, have a custom of keeping tanned snakes which are harmless, but which are as rough on rats as the average tabby cat.
 "A friend of mine who was building railroad in Nicaraugua had his camp about ninety miles from the coast His chief engineer died from a fever and he sent to Cincinnati and got young man as his successor who, while quite com petent in a professional way. had never been to Central America before. My friend had in his camp a large tame snake who was affectionately spoken of by the men as Old Tom In his youth he had been good rat catcher. but was then most too old to catch or bite any thing, and was kept chihy as a pet Usually strangers coming to camp were introduced to Old Tom, but the day the young engineer arrived my friend, the contractor, in some way forgot to tell him about the snake. He was given a cabin to sleep in and retired early, feel ing somewhat tired from long horse back ride.
 About F o'clock the whole camp was awakened by a succession of the most frightful yells coming from this cabin. My friend jumped out of bed and rush. ing over found Old Tom quietly lying in the engineers bed wondering what all the racket was about, while the young en- gineer, frightened out of his wits, was dancing about the room yelling at the top of his voice. Old Tom had got cold during the night and had crawled into the engineers bed to get warm. He was a pretty big fellow and enough to frighten anybody who did not know him. My friend tried to explain to the young man that 1t was only Old Tom and that he was quite harmless. Old Tom, the devil! exclaimed the engineer. No, not the devil,' explained my friend, as he picked Old Tom up by the tail and flung him out the window, he is quite harm less and hasn't bit of devilment in him. It was no use. however, to explain. The young mans nerves were shattered and he left for home the next morning in
 Milton Joe Scott.
 T witnessed a rather amusing incl
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
Dancer of the PIaque

Dr. F. l.. Barker, formerly a member of the faculty of John Hopkins Uni versity and now professor of pathology in the Rush Medical College. Chicago, ease known as buDonic plague than any other man in thls country He is not only an eminent scientist, but he mas given much time to study of the disease. He was sent to India and China by the John Hopkins University for the purpose of studying the dis ease, and the government more re- gently sent him to San Francisco to study the plague cases there.
 He holds to the theory that "the sneaking pestilence" is spread chiefly by rats; that if the agency of the TO- oents could be controlled the spread of the disease could be, but this is an 'if' that is simply out of the question. Rats go with civilization, and there is no known way of destroying them. In every modern epidemic of the plague lin one even 800 years ago-there has been heavy preceding mortality among rats, thus showing that they had become infected with it.
 Dr, Barker states that there are many cases on the Pacific coast, and that the seeds of the disease have been widely spread. He considers the coun- try in great danger of infection. and he renders a great public service in calling attention to this danger. An epidemic of the disease is very prob able. It's sprea4 win be slow, but in- sidious and steady. In the South it's first appearance may reasonably be anticipated in New Orleans, and once lodged there 1t will be very dificult to eradicate 1t No treatment of the dis ease is satisfactorily successful: no serum has been devised that will pre- vent an attack from 1t, and the Marine
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
HOW JAPAN WAS MODERNlZED.

From the London Daily Mail
 The men who have made Japan-Mar- auis Ito, Count Okuma, Count Itagah and others now dead-were keen-sighted enough to see that to preserve the inde- pendenceS and dignity of their country it was necessary to fight the foreigner with his own weapons. They were all men belonging to the hereditary gentry of Ja- pan, but. as it were. to the democracy of gentility. None of them belonged to high families, and in the old order of things their splendid abilities would not have raised them from obscurity. Their per- sonal ambitions, therefore, coincided ex- actly with the policy they saw was nec- esary for their countrys welfare.
 Having obtained the power they set to work with minds enlightened by foreign travel and totally emancipated from old fashioned ideas. Almost at a blow, as preparation for the grand scheme of mod ernization, they destroyed the old feudal system and created new order of so- ciety. But this tremendous revolution brought with 1t consequences which have had a vast effect on the country's policy. It Is not difficult in a more or less abso- lute country to sweep away an institution by a stroke of the pen, but 1t is impossi- ble to do so without vast social dis turbance.
 A great military class-the armed re- tainers of the old nobility. men bred only to fighting, disdaining labor, and, above all, trade-were practically cast adrift without means of livelihood. It was at one time no uncommon thing to find messenger boy or a jinriksha coolie whose ancestors had been soldiers for hundred generations, and who considered himself vastly higher even in his poverty, than the millionaire merchant whom he served.
 This class was a great danger and em- barrassment to the reformed government. Some provision had to be made for them. and revolutionary outbreaks hero and there showed it would have to be on a large scale. A big police force-unneces- sarily large to foregn eye--was formed The pay was miserable. but the wors was such as q gentleman could do. Tn: army was progressively increased. chiefly, perhaps, in the idea that the safe- ty of the country demanded 1t, but largely to dispose of the masses of discontented ex-warriors. The expansion of the navy further helped to absorb these men.
The age-herald., 1901-05-04

Hospital Service Is not authorized to
 do anything to protect the country on this side of the Rocky mountains against it. As things stand New Or leans and the Texas cities should be very watchful against 1t. The first ap- pearance of the scourge should be fought determinedly and intelligently, and if Congress would place a man like Dr. Barker at the head of a pre- vention effort the country might be saved from an epidemic that would far outrun in every way an yellow fever visitation.
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
Of Year Political Nonsense

A great deal of political rot is in- dulged in nowadays over the McLau- rin movement, which is confined to few men who desire office. No doubt there are some Republicans, benefici- aries of a tariff that robs the many | for the benefit of few, who are held by circumstances in the Democratic party, but the number of such men is nowhere very large, and wherever they are found they are seeking or de- string privileges under the tariff, or office at the hands of the administra- tion. That such men can build up a great State party is wildly chimerical. MT. Bryan says some leader will arise to give direction and force to the aris- tocratic and plutocratic element for which MT. McLaurin speaks. There is such an element in every community, and now that the race question no longer unifies the white people of the Southern States, it will doubtless man. fest itself" This is part of the com mon dream, but it is wholly fanciful and speculative. It has little or noth- ing to rest upon.
 Mississippi weeded out the negro from the ballot by transferring fraud ulent practices from the ballot box itself to the registration lists. This was done ten years ago. Where Is the party that MT. Bryan says will arise? Mississippi has not seen even a Nc Laurin of the South Carolina sort. The South Carolina movement may in- clude a dozen politicians who are office-hunting. No man of the business class, no cotton mill manager or owner, has joined the alleged move ment, and none is likely to do so. The factory men know hungry politician as soon as they see him, and they want very little of him.
 This is an of" year and a between elections period, and such speculations are in order. and they are very harm less. Not one of them will become fact even in limited way, simply be- cause the South does not want a re- public governed by a plutocracy To- cated in a few Eastern cities, whose rapacity cannot be sated by trusts, tariffs and subsidies. This section of the country consists largely of con- sumers, and consumers are the natural and inevitable victims of plutocracy. The South has long been victimized, and it ought not to be expected to pro- mote and prolong the process, for it can see the process in it's last analysis as we'll as the men see 1t who are filling their pockets by means of it.
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
The Goulds Will Get It.

Memphis, Tenn. May 3-A Scimitar special from Helena Ark. says: .-
 Major John J. Horner, president of the Arkansas Midland Railroad this morning admitted that his road would pass under the control of the Gould system within the next sixty days, probably sooner. He returned yesterday from St. Louis. where the deal was practically closed. The sale will include the main line from Helena to Clarendon and also the branch from Pine City to Brinkley. The road is one Of the most valuable and best paying in the State of Arkansas. The terms of the sale are not given out.
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
TOWN MAY ISSUE MONEY.

Topeka Q<an.) Cor. St. Louis Republic.
 The Legislature enacted a law last win ter authorizing Weir City to issue water works bonds, and, in addition by an un- grammatical amendment, injected into the bill by some wise man, authorized the town to issue money.
 The amendment reads: "The money re- alized from the sale of the bonds shall be used only for the purpose mentioned in this act and shall be issued in denom- nations of not less than one hundred do1- lars G100.00) nor more than five hundred. dollars ($500. CO.,"