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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1923-08-02
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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1923-08-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Dabb, who has beer
living at Mr.. R. C. Johnson's home
has moved in the home OF Mrs
j. M. Shivers.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1923-08-02

Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Shivers are III
their home on the Jackson Highway
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1923-08-02

Miss Moon of Lumoerton, Miss.
former employee of A. M. Hinton
Co., has accepted position in the
dry goods department Of the Hawls
Co., Of this place.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1923-08-02

Hester Evans left Sunday to visit
elatives in Philadelphia.
Mrs. J. T. Campbell has returned
from a visit to friends in Ellisville
and Hattiesburg.
Miss Lillian Herrengton of Hat
tiesburg, after spending several
weeks visiting in the home Of Rev.
and Mrs. J. E. Williams, returned
home Friday.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1923-08-02

Mesdames M. X. Orr, E. H. Hyde
and Miss Vivian Orr were Friday
visitors to New Orleans.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1923-08-02

Rudolph Gaapbell left Sunday
for "a plee art g.t 70 mis- ga. 4
father IN Le lie.
New Britain herald., 1923-02-09
A Cats Sense of Humor

in the sunshine lay frowsy tabby cat, which now. as the man for the first time observed her. opened one eye--a wary, vixenish, green eye and turned it on the hen. The req son for the hens caution was ap- parent, and as speedily justified.
 It is moot point whether any sense of humor has been vouch- safed to the lower creation: but the old cat in this case possessed this sense if ever four footed creature did.
 She rolled to her feet. and made as if she would spring. There was no harm in the act. She had evil dently not the slightest wish to hurt the hen. It was merely feline joke. She did not even leave her snug perch; and for all the man knew, the thing may have been done entirely for his own entertainment. She may have wished him to see what com ical figure a hen cuts when she is made to run on a surface unsuited for clawed feet. And this hen. for all her instant and frantic efforts. made as little progress on the hard. polished boards as a man on tread mill, till, giving it up at last. she took wing and cluttered screeching out into the yard. communicating her alarm to all her fellows there. so that the whole village rang with their din.
 Thereupon the old cat settled down again, with fat, contented smile upon her face. and smirked herself to sleep.
New Britain herald., 1923-02-09
ts the Benefit of the Doubt

command that she should eams to Cesar in person, Cleopatra stayed gheFs she sas; she only ebsysa the order she received, Sur prssd that she remained asas. Cesar sent her a direct message. Cleopatra then learned that once before he had demanded her pres enes and that fOthinas had taken care that she should not know of it.
 Cleopatra realized fully that sines the attempt to prevent her meeting with Cesar had proved unsuccessful her enemies would not hesitate to use violence to sain their end. She likewise felt that her life was at stake should she show herself openly in Alexandria. where spies were ali around. and whose task it would hs to make known her coming. Should she go to the city overland the eut- posts of the Egyptian army would take her prisoner She therefore went aboard small boat near Pes lusium. disguised and accompanied by a single friend. the sieilian Ap- polodoros.
New Britain herald., 1923-02-09

It Is necessary to touch only briefly on Casar's arrival before Alexandria in its bearing on the meeting with Cleopatra which sub- sequently proved so fatal to his for tunes. After his defeat at Farsa- los. Pompeius fled to Egypt, where. as the former protector and friend of Ptolemy Athletes, he expected to get a good reception; perhaps even hoped to obtain military aid to con- tinue his warfare against Cesar. Egypt. out of consideration for her own security, had heretofore re- mained neutral during the civil war. After due consideration the Egyp- tian Government concluded it would be best to have Pompeius killed on his arrival.
 "A few days after the murder
New Britain herald., 1923-02-09
GEoRG BRANDES

C@sar's fleet cast anchor before Alexandria" Brandes writes. While yet on board he received the head of Pompeiussand his signet ring. He had the head buried. and erected over it a small temple consecrated to Nemesis. The signet ring he sent to Rome in witness of his opponents death and his own supremacy.
 But Cesar did not leave Alexan- dria when he learned of Pompeius's death. He had not come to Egypt merely for the purpose of pursuing a beaten enemy"
 Brandes then enumerates a num- Der of reasons for Casar's stay. among them his need for money, his desire to maintain his political prestige; this and much more he makes mention of in his book about
New Britain herald., 1923-02-09
Germany's New Art Is Disliked

something better in the home. the office and education. Publications which portray the better things of life are avidly seized and read by all classes who are striving upward in anything from dress to science. Such publications do not find favor in Europe. where members of no class are anxious to get into another. There is no dissatisfaction with life among Europeans and they remain content in their own spheres"
 MT. Crowninshield declared that Berlin social life is far less desirable than that in other European coun- tries,
New Britain herald., 1923-02-09
N American. who has spent
 much time in England, tells

N WucH JiHle III ElsidHu' toic
 of a little comedy that took place in a country inn. It was the quietest and cleanest and perhaps the barest inn he had ever seen. He had the parlor all to himself at this particular time. and sat at the plain deal table. wrapped about with a silence that was a positive. tangible thing. Suddenly he stopped eating. beset with a curious idea that some thing was about to happen.
 And it did. A faint tapping sound- ed in the long passage outside. It grew louder. and presently a lean. lanky yellow hen cruised in at the open door. obviously in search of crumbs.
 The man remained perfectly still. The hen went about with her head askew, narrowly inspecting the place. She seemed cautious to an absurd degree. taking each step with painful warlness. and making no advance without each time thoroughly re- connoitering every corner of the room. Her footsteps on the hard wood floor were as acute as the blows of hammer In the prevailing silence. She could not muffle them. try as she would. although every moment saw her anxiety redoubled. What was she so desperately afraid of? And then the man caught sight of the other parsonage in the little dumbshow drama
 On the window ledge. sIumbering 1a22 hv The New York Herald
New Britain herald., 1923-02-09

Mir. Crowninshield was asked by a HERALD representative.
 "Much." he said. There are the musical and art criticisms of France and Italy. tho political and social expressions of England and the sci- ence and theaters of Germany.
 Content in Their Own Sphere.
 There Is a great class of people in America which is really striving upward. perhaps not seriously enough yet, but the tendency is seen in the increasing number who want to know something about the outside world of art and letters. There is ever present the tendency to want
New Britain herald., 1923-02-09
Married Young Brother.

Cleopatra was I. years old when her father fled to Rome, IA when he was brought back and triumphed over her older sister. She was IT years old when she became queen and was married to her nine-year- old brother.
 "Appian relates that Marcus An tonius, who years later should oc- cupy so big place in her history, was struck with her beauty when as general of Gabinius's cavalry for the first time he saw the fourteen-year- old princess. Altogether she greatly impressed every Roman with whom she came in contact. When the oldest son of Pompeius and Mucia. Cneius Pompeius, in the year 49. came to Alexandria to hasten the war preparations of his father against Cesar. Cleopatra is said to have won him completely"
 The reign of the seventeen-year- old queen and nine-year-old king was short. The leading men of the country took the boys part, since it was much easier to control him than finally accused her of attempting to expel her brother from the throne. Organizing a military and plebeian rebellion against her. they succeeded in having her driven from the cap- ital.
 But she by no means gave up her cause, but gathered an army near the border between Egypt and Arabia which was ready to meet the forces of her brother. equipped by his guardian and Prime Minister Pothi- nos. and commanded by the daring and dangerous Egyptian general Achillas. The encounter between the two armies was prevented because great events in the Roman Empire gave all something else to think about"
New Britain herald., 1923-02-09
r EW art with a distinctly Rus-

N G" al WILL O dlSllAStAy
 N sian flavor. which has been
 adopted almost exclusively in Germany. was deprecated by Frank Crowninshield, editor of Vanity Fair and Vogue. after he had spent several days in Berlin and other museums.
 'The German has attacked art from the intellectual standpoint" said MT. Crowninshield, in his .criti- cism. "Art as we have all come to accept 1t is the expression of the artists emotion and not the prpduct of complex intellectual protesses. Hence the new German artist has taken all the emotion from art and is proud of 1t.
 "'Look at this picture,' one of the leading Berlin critics said to me in one of the expositions The artist has taken every trace of the old fashioned emotions out of it. It rep resents thought alone-the work of a magnificent brain confess I can see nothing in it. I believe peo- pie still want their emotions played upon and delight in the expression of ideals"
 Will Bring Samples Home.
 The New York editor has collected huge array of reproductions of the new art in Germany which he will take to New York in the hope of making his point against the present tendencies and encourage the more sedate forms of painting and sculp- ture so long accepted as genuine art.
 Tt is only in painting. etching. architecture and sculpture. however. that the Germans have strayed from the things we always considered ex- cellent. That Is merely one evidence of hox they are drifting into a new order with utter docility under the changed conditions of the country. The theater Is as admirable as ever.
 "I have seen the best of the plays now running in Berlin and the great est impression they convey is the in- tense seriousness of the playwright, the actors and the audiences. It is the great qual ty which makes the German stage the best in the world"
 "What have you found in Europe that America needs or would want?'
New Britain herald., 1923-02-09

the civil war But there is one reason that he does not speak of. his wish to make the acquaintance of Cleopatra, of whose cleverness and beauty rumor had told him great deal. And there is ground for the belief that some time before she had sent a messenger to him to enlist his aid.
New Britain herald., 1923-02-09
Cleopatra and Eunoe.


 Among the many women who en-
 tered into cesar's life two queens
 occupy unique positions IL is true
 that almost nothing Is known about
 one of these. Eunoe Of Mauritania
 But about the other one" com- , ments Brandes. i've know great deal, especially since among the many women of cesar's acqualnt- ance she alone captivated him to such degree that she influenced his political program: that for her sake he committed the only consequential political -stragetic folly m his whole life: his long stay in Egypt which came to cost him so dearly. On her account he challenged at last. un- wisely. the public opinion of Rome: something that contributed toward the feeding of the last conspiracy against him.
 Cleopatra was a fateful element in Cesar's life. Her father. Ptolemy Athletes. did not enjoy good reputa- ton. Cicero says about him in his second speech, De lege agraria' that neither through his descent or by his mode of thinking did he carry the royal stamp. But Cicero fails to add how much Rome contributed toward the debasement of this mon- arch. It is simply fabulous how the Romans utilized his misfortunes through extortions, and thereby com- pelled him to practice extortion on his own people.
 "In this parent Cleopatra saw no worthy prototype. and the events experienced by her in her childhood could only teach her to be on her guard and make the best possible use of her abilities. The events of that time did not inspire her with human kind or give her any illusions as to what life in gen. eral could promise her. She was the issue of marriage between brother and sister, such as was customary in the case of the Egyptian Macedo- nian royal house. Her mother was also called Cleopatra. Following the execution of the sister, Berenike. the succession was so arranged in her fathers will that Cleopatra as the oldest of the surviving children should marry the oldest of her two brothers, both of whom were named Ptolemy, and that after her fathers death she should ascend the throne together with her brother and hus- band.
New Britain herald., 1923-02-09
Summoned by Caesar.

"On the advice of Pothinos the young king went to see Cesar, but left his forces at Pelusium, under the command of Achillas," Brandes continues. But Pothinos only sent word to Cleopatra that Cesar com- manded her to send home her troops. Cunningly he withheld the further
New Britain herald., 1923-02-09

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 shoss RseEas sefshiPsd asiiiss sssA
 the heads q sHiasls and staHsa hiTds take her f.aes st his sias ss that all could ss<s apen 4s II they were a aaissd seurls. st.sf xas . scandal. lie. a Roman ~hs faF shs hfsh time had hssA chosen consul. and dielalaF for shs third, thai hs should bs the lever ei an Egyptian was an insult and . reckless disFe- ssTd for the pride ef the Roman nsa- gle. As Merissls has said in ~fhs Romans under the Empire. it had the identical effect that would haEs been caused in the sixteenth esns tury should an English peer or s spanish srandee have married a Jewess, It was an open defianes Of public opinien when Cesar placed statue of her in the temple in repre- sentaiion of q Roman goddess II also caused had hleed that he per- mitted her to call his son cesarien.
 How the murder of Cesar brought an end to the relationship between the Roman and the Egyptian Queen it is not necessary to pariieularize here. Also. in .Antony and elee- patra" Shakespeare dramatizes viv- idly the further career Of Cleopatra as enchantress.
New Britain herald., 1923-02-09
Carried in i. B.s.

Hate that evening she reached unnotieed-passing among the mass s of ships that filled the harbor-ths stairway leading to the wing of the royal palace occupied by Cesar. Her companion placed her in one Of the many eolored bags that travellers at that time carried for the purpose of their bed covering and rugs. The bag was laced together with straps, and. putting the load on his back. Apoilodoros in that way fooled the guard.
 "cieopatra was brought before Cesar as bundle. Before his eyes the straps were unloosened. and out of the bag stepped Cleopatra: like Aphrodite. according 10 the legend. from out the sea shell.
 "cesar was transformed into Cleo patra's spokesman after having been her judge"
 Brandes discusses the Alexandrian war for no other purpose than to present to view Cleopatra, flor whose sake Cesar permitted his ene- mics undisturbed to gather armies against him in Asia, Africa. Spain. while. if Cleopatra had never existed. he could have put an end to the world war at once. For Cleopatra's sake he found himself in a more diff ficult position than ever before. and on her account he was compelled to wage war during more than four years subsequently. No other wom- an. did him such harm, and none re- mained so precious to him until the last,
New Britain herald., 1923-02-09
Cleopatra

lati0RshiR 10 the women mentioned by the writers 0f antiquity, It ls q domain where the loossst gossip ssz snmes gigantic proportions when II concerns an individual whose name constantly occurs and EeeuFs in the present and the past
 ''of great weight, however, are two faets.a asserts BFandes, ''fhs first is that suelonius was not a con. temporary but. in the capacity ef private secretary to Hadrian and rummaging lhrugh the libraries. published his imperial biographies sroune ls0, according to our time of reckoning, The contemporary who is the richest source for information Is Cicero. who. in spite 0f all his fsttery. constantly proved hostile 10 Cesar,
 'The second important fact is that all judgment anent Cesar that has reached us from the past necessarily has had to pass through the period Of Augustus and during this passage received impressions of very ps- eullar kind,
 Augustus owed everything to Cesar. but We understand human nature very little if we think that it was necessity or pleasure for Augustus 10 hear cRsar praised. In ttat respect he was totally different from Napoleon III. who, aotwith- standing his many shortcomings. lived and breathed in the remem- branee of Napoleon l.. and at no time expressed the least doubt of the greatness Of the founder of the dy- nasty"
New Britain herald., 1923-02-09
A Woman of Great Merit.

Not that this passion was un.
 reasonable or was bestowed upor
 one unworthy of it. Cleopatra pos sessed not only beauty, that beauty which takes equal rank with rich intelligence and rare goodness Apart from her attractions she apparently was a woman of great merit.
 "The fury with which she was de- famed by historians and poets want
 ing to ingratiate themselves with Augustus makes no impression on a modern reader free from bias. and what, for instance, Plutarch tells about her long after her time is un- reliable nonsense that he had heard from his great-grandfather. Nikar- chos. who again built upon evidence and anecdotes passing from mouth to mouth during 150 years, mostly among liberated slaves. and which go contrary to the facts. It is a pity that Shakespeare had no other source than Plutarch for his presentation of Cleopatra! True enough, it was not her he wished to picture with his portraiture but evidently another woman much closer to him.
 Cesar never complained of Cleo patra. Nor did she give him any occasion. His love for Cleopatra, nevertheless, proved ruinous to him once more when again he saw her in Rome. On the completion of the Alexandrian war, and Cesar in the year 47 left Egypt, she bore him a son soon after his departure, who as prince of Egypt was called Ptol- emy, but whom the mother named C@sarion; a designation that Cesar acknowledged. It Is very certain that when in the year 46 she ar rived in Rome to be near Cesar she had her tiny son with her.
 Hated by the Romans.
 Although her reception was for maj, still she was received in Rome as Queen over great country that was the ally of the republic; she was the guest of the Dictator and resided in his gardens. But her coming in reality caused great off, fense; the antipatiy of the Romans rose to fever heat. Not that Ro- man society objected to an illegiti- mate love connection. The old fash toned Puritanism existed no longer. It was long time since the Roman matron remained at home at the spinning wheel.
 "That Casars name in Rome was with some of the foremost women of the patrician class rather shed halo around him than made a stain. And that in Africa he should have had an affair of the heart with an exotic queen like Eunoe of Mau- ritania or in Egypt connection with the Queen of the Nile, those were travel adventures and indifferent gall antries."
 Brandes declares that the Romans lost sight of the fact that Cleopatra was by no means a barbarian queen ,y descent, but to the contrary, of purest Greek stock. However, this lid not matter; she came from Egypt. And that Cesar should let | woman from the land of the
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1923-10-17
BOYS TO BE PosECUTED
FOR BREAKING WINDOWS

Local members of the Nevada State
Agricultural Society, having charge
of the state fair grounds, request
that parents be informed that when
ever any boys are caught breaking
glass in the windows at the pavilion
on the fair grounds, the parents will
be required to pay Off the damage
This year it cost 5000 to replace
broken glass in the pavilion win
dows, and a few days ago IT was no
ticed that a hole had been broken
in a window and a couple of days
later the number of holes increased
to nine.
II seems that boys have in the
/, past gone inside the building and
shot at pigeons with a %, some
times breaking glass. This calls to
mind the law prohibiting boys under
IA from carrying firearms. unless ac-
companied by their parents, it is not
presumed that a boy over IA would
be so thoughtless as to shoot through
window. Most of the windows are
probably broken by the throwing OF
stones. Prosecutions will follow II
the mischief is continued, the fair
board states.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1923-10-17
KIDS HAVE HARD LUCK
WITH NEW FOOTBALL

Saturday while playing with a
brand new football which a fond
mother had donated as a gift to her
two sons, an unusual kick resulted
in disaster to the family. the boys
and the football.
The youngsters with some neigh
boring lads were enjoying the gam
when a vigorous kick by one of the
boys sent the ball flying skyward :
Ford car passing at the time. and
chugging with its usual activity cut
into the game. The bali fell into a
side carrier and the driver not sec
ing the added baggage went on about
his business followed by a whole
string of boys who did their best e
drown out the noise of the fast dis
appearing Lizzie"
Up to date the winner of the foot
ball has not shown up, the fond par.
ents are hoping that it will be re.
turned and the boys are wondering
Just how it all happened
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1923-10-17
BROHILCO NINE PROPERTY
WILL BE DEVELOPED

George Edison Porter, who recent
ly returned from a trip to Tonopah
spent a portion of his time at the
Brohilco Mines Company property
From recent development he is salts
fled that there is a mine in sight and
that the Black Reef claims show a
steam shovel proposition, as gold
assays the entire length of the claim
show values that would justify a
large reduction plant with vast guam
titles of gold ore developed and In
sight.
On the Brohilco property proper
1t is expected that an all winter cam
paign Of development will be re-
sumed as the eastern stockholders
have signified their intention of con-
tinuing development which is most
encouraging.
The Quartz Mountain property,
which was under option by Sam Ar
ent2 has been taken over by other
parties who recently secured an op-
tion. This ground is showing up some
exceptional values and there is indi-
cation of active work during the
winter.
Mr.. Porter states that mining is
looking up from every quarter of Ne.
vada and that this section is being
visited by mining men quietly and a
number of options are pending