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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04
a LESSON FOR

For three days Las, week the city Of
New Orleans was in the hands of an
irresponsible mob, made up OF the
hoodlum element, which beat and
killed negroes indiscriminately. The
uprising was caused by the brutal kill
ing OF two police officers, in the dis
charge OF their duty, by a desperate
negro character named Robert Charles.
While this mob was discredited by the
better element it existed nevertheless,
and for a time the authorities YER un-
able to hold it in check, and the mill
tia was called into service to quell the
turmoil. When Charles was finally
killed the mob dispersed, having salts
fed it, cravings for vengeance.
The lesson this terrible carnival Of
blood and crime teaches the negroes is
that it behooves them 10 always be
orderly and law abiding, and that they
should labor among themselves to
keep down crime and disorder among
members OF their own race, and that
thew should never shield those who are
guilty OF any manner Of law breaking.
Every negro, guilty or innocent, is in
danger when the wrath of the people
is aroused to SUCH a state OF frenzy as
was exhibited In New Orleans last
week. Every colored man and woman
should strive to earn a livelihood by
honest toll, discredit and frown upon
vice Ia all its forms, obey the laws and
respect those in authority. This being
done they they are as absolutely safe
as any person IN any station OF life. 1t
is the crap shooters, the blind tiger
runners, the dishonest, lazy and trif-
ing negroes who bring trouble to them
selves and TO their better minded
brethren.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04
MORGAN AND HIS MEN.

The following extract is from a re-
cent issue of the Barnesville, Ohio,
Saturday MILESTONE. 1t brings forci-
bly, to mind how little the North knew
Of the horrors Of var Had the North
been pillaged and burned and robbed,
and drenched In blood from Kentucky
70 the great lakes, her people would
have realized that General Sherman
spoke the truth when he made the en-
phatic statement that Val WAS hell.
| The Ohio paper, which Is q welcome
| exchange in the SENTINEL sanctuary
says:
Thirty-sevep years ago this week the
John Morgan raiders we're In this sec
tion Of the country giving the people 9
taste OF army life, says the Caldwell
Press. Yes, all the public highway
leading into Evansville were ~obstructet
by fallen trees to keep Morgan out o
Evansville. Every old squirrel rifle
shotgun, horse pistol and blunderbus
was brought out against his advance
People buried their gold, silver an
other valusbles; mothers kept thei
children dressed in their best suits 9
clothes ready to fly to the woods o
any place Of safety, and not a few actt
ally believed that Morgan would ma
sacre them in cold blood II he eutere
the town. All the country aroun
here swarmed with militiamen and 80
diers-enough perhaps had they bee
disciplined and equipped soldiery
have whipped the Confederacy. Tn
A.. brave defenders Of Evansville had p
: pers OF peaceful capitalization OF tt
U Town drawn up when the bold Morgi
n and his raiders we're full twenty mil
away and had no intention OF con'iI
our way. Yes, Morgan gave the pc
pie of this section a mighty scare
: July, 1913.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04
SOME ITO FIGURES.
The Southern Farm Gazette discuss
"a the crop question as follows:

The Southern Farm Gazette discuss
es the crop question as follows:
Everybody seems low-spirited and
down IN the mouth about the present
very discouraging crop prospects. 1t
looks bad enough indeed, but let's take
a more hopeful view. Suppose the large
crop planted had fourised perfectly and
turned out in the fall a yield Of twelve
million bales. The probabilities are
the price would in that case be 8 cents.
Now the prospects are excellent for III
cents-in fact cotton 10 now worth IL
cents No one has yet, so far as We
have learned, given up hope Of making
a half crop or v Q more. Let us com
pare one bale Of cotton at 10c with two
bales at Sc. One bale will cost S6 to
pick and 90 to haul, gin and market,
making % expenses. Two bales will
cost, then, SIS expenses. Two bales at
SC would bring $50, and deducting SIS
expenses leaves 1872 One bale at l0c
brings $50, Tess 80 expenses, leaving
SAL net. So we have a net advantage o!
80 over the big yield and low price
This will be pretty nearly MAKE up for
! the failure in corn, and the effect II
may have on the following years cot
ton price nigh. entirely square the aci
| count, and make the short crop OF nc
disadvantage.
at is true that those who would pick
the large cotton crop may be idle aftel
the short cropis gathered but il the
time should be profitably employed, al
il may be, in other work, then the
short cotton crop has all the advan
tages figured for it over a large croT
at the low price. The cloud is not 81
dark as it seems"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

1t is told Of Bryan that while he was
on his trip to the coast in the spring,
at one place a baby in its mothers arms
ibecame frightened at the applause
which greeted the orator at one point
of his address, and set up a lusty howl
A motherly looking old lady stepped
up aud said consolingly: Poor child,
don't cry, he hasn't been elected YET
The old lady listened TO the cry o
those persons who say, but do not be
lieye, that Bryan is the arch enemy o
good and honest government, AM
those who thus talk know just as mucl
about what ann oil man hrya
is a. did this babe In arms.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04
Never In the history OF this countr.

Never In the history Of this country
we're there strikes in existence
than at present. They are in almost
every vocation. Street a employees
miners, wood workers, cotton weavers,
carpenters, and almost every import
ant industry is represented Tho trou'
BILE is that while wages paid compare
favorably with those OF former years
the expense of living is greater, ant
although the industries boast OF theii
prosperity, working lei find it diff
cult to make their wages cover the ex
pepse OF living.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

That is a fine tribute Proctor Knott
paid his lifelong friend, Adlsi f. Ste
venson: 81 have never known a more
blameless life. Throughout an ac-
quaintanceship of exceptional Intimacy,
running through nearly twenty years,
[ have never known him to utter. under
any circumstances, a single syllable
savoripg OF profanity, ~irreverence o.
impuritv.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

Our friend, Col. Z. 81. Henry, editor
OF the jackson Clarion-Ledger, gives q
faithful likeness OF Theodore Roosevelt
10 the following words: Roosevelt Is
nothing but an inflated, strutting pea
cock aud no Democrat cares anything
about his utterances. He never speaks
OF Democrats or Southern people ex-
cept to SANDER and malign them. He
is the national ass whose brayine
counts for nothing"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04
THE Kentucky COLONEL.

From the Martin County tMinn.,)
Sentinel we copy the following picture
of the Kentucky gentleman as he is
viewed by one who gets his impressions
entirely from the newspapers:
Man born in the mountains OF Ken
lucky IL OF feud days and lull OF virus.
He fsheth, hddleth, cusseth and fight
eth all the days OF his life.
p"He sbunneth the water as a mad
dog and drinketh much mean whiskey.
when he desireth to raise h, he
planteth a ueighbor, and 10! he reapeth
twentyfold. He raiseth ave II ION the
cradle to seek the scalp Oh his grand
sire's enemy, and bringeth home In his
carcass The ammunition OF his neigh
boris wife's cousins uncle's father-in-
law. who avenged the deed.
YEA, verify, his life is uncertain
and he knows no, the hour when he
may be jerked hence.
| shot. and comes back on a shutter shot.
HE riseth in the night to let the cat
out. and 1t taketh nine doctors three
DAYS 10 pick the buckshot out of him.
"He goeth forth In joy and gladness,
anu CDulctu udOh III oSioPo out itdS
ments.
IA cyclone bloweth him into the
bosom OF his neighbours wife, and his
neighbours wife's husband bloweth him
( into Abraham's bosom before he has
| time to explain.
"He emptieth a demijohn into him
self and q shotgun into his enemy, and
his enemy's son lieth 10 wait for him
on election day. and lol the coroner
ploweth up a forty acre field TO bury
| that man.
"Woe, woe Is Kentucky, for her eyes
are red with bad whiskey, and her soil
is stained with the bloGd Of innocent
moonshiners.
Kentucky, OIL Kentucky! how Hove
thy classic shades,
Where fit the fairy figures OF bright
eyed southern maids.
Where the birds are sweetly singing,
mid the flowers newly born;
Wher the corn Is full OF kernels and
the Colonies full OF corn"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

The Clarion Ledger says that
Mississippi has an area OF 1850
square miles. This is larger than
either Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Car
DINA, Tennessee, Virginia, or West Vir-
ginia, to say nothing of Connecticut,
Delaware, Indian Territory, Maryland
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and
Vermont.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

Greatness brings its own punishment.
How much more preferable is the lot
of even a meek and lowly newspaper
man living, than is that OF Hunbert,
late king OF Italy, dead.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

The Okolona Messenger, once the
pride OF the Populists, has its front feet
over the threshold of the Hepublica n
party and is wiggling 10 as fast as it n
~sistently can. We have no word OF
cen,ure for its editor, genial Frank
Burkitt. II a man does not like the
teachings Of the Democratic party the
best thing he a do is to join the Re-
publicans. There are only two parties
that count for anything, and a man
must be for one and against the other
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04
4 GREAT WRONG
To the Intelligent and Honest Citizen
ship Of Grenada County.

While the SENTINEL has always crit
icised people and corporations freely
when such a course became necessary,
there are times when corporations
themselves are badly imposed upon to
an extent hat patience ceases TO be Il
virtue. When not to protest against
such crying evils would bring our pee
pie into ~disrepute, the SENTINEL will
speak its thoughts without fear or
favor. Injustice to corporations with
which we must deal will always~react
to the hurt Of the whole people who
are bound to them by ties that cannot
be severed at will.
1t has for several years appeared to
US that quite a number Of law suits have
been brought in Grenada county
against railroad compsnies,-some OF
them on the most fimsy excuse OF
cause-and II has on several occasions
occurred 10 Us, when damages we're
found against the Illinois Central rail-
road for thousands OF dollars, that a
few hundred dollars at the most would
have been ample recompense for any
loss or injury sustained. We believe
that railroads and other corporations
should be made to pay for each and
every wrong done the people, but this
right should not be expanded into a
license to hold them up on every pos
sible occasion and on any and every
pretext, and by an appeal either to the
sympathy or prejudice OF our jurors,
make them pay unjust and e%xorbitant
sums as damages.
Truly the Jingle OF the guinea helps
the hurt that honor feels" So noted
has our county become in awarding
damages that law suits are being re-
moved from other counties and other
jurisdictions to Grenada county, in san
guine expectation that our people will
make the railroad company stand and
deliver" 1t Is a reproach on our peo-
pie and an insult to the integrity and
manhood OF as ine a class Of citizens as
any county can boast Of. Let US be fair
and just. Let it not be said that any
man or corporation, whether high or
low, cannot get justice before our
courts. Let Us not make Grenada the
dumping ground for m~ultitudinous
suits, nor bring Nj people under the
OF an unjust condemnation.
have no more right to impose on
railroads than on individuals, and we
have the confidence in our people to
believe that, after mature elaboration,
that neither prejudice nor sympathy
will cause them to swerve from The
beaten path OF justice, fair dealing,
honesty and right.
Such suits also place an additional
burden OF taxation on our people, which
OF itself is a great injustice If not an
outrage.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

A Manila dispatch says that because
one American soldier was decapitated
in the town OF Oroquits, In Northern
M~enandonao, a company Of the Fourth
Infantry, stationed at Cagsyan, march
ed to the town and ruthlessly killed SO
natives, 80 OF whom were In q single
house. Subsequently the gunboat Cal
lao shelled the place, burning the prin.
cipal warehouse.
This Is benevolent assimilation
With a hell to it.-New Orleans States.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

The veterans are a jolly and good
natured lot and from the way they en-.
joyed themselves in Grenada Thurs
day they have nothing TO regret as
their well-Glled years draw slowly to
the end Of life's strenuous battlefield.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

The Greenwood Flag recently sus-
pended for want of patronage, and the
Okolona Sun Is advertised for sale.
The facts, II known, are that there are
many papers iu the state which could
be bought at the buyers W price for
the reason that they are not paying ex'
penses. There are but few towns Ii
Mississippi that can-or will-suppor'
two papers, and there are which
| do not decently support one.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

There is no doubt about the benefit
60 be derived from raising more hogs,
sheep, cattle and mules. All OF these
are bringing good prices now, and they
can be raised without cutting down the
cotton acreage a particle.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

Our opinion is a. good as any other
concerning the situation in China. The
foreigners in Pekip may be alive or
they may he dead-it is safe to say that
they are in one or the other Of the two
conditions.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

With he bubonic plague in San
.Francisco, the tariff in Porto Rico, the
Nicely scandal in Cuba, Wal in China,
war taxes, trusts, m~onopolies, a multi
tude OF strikes, and other evils too nu-
merous to mention, the people Of the
United States stand in great need OF a
change OF doctors.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

Atlai F.. Stevenson has rever been
,oea&er in any ace for public prefer
mont. He IS an idol Of good old bour-
bon Democracy and will bring back to
the ranks thousands who were driven
or frightened out by the the threats OF
the gold bug naoobs who Joined the
ranks of Hanna four years ago.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

1t i, expected that the census just
completed will put Mississippi's popu-
lation up to the notch which will en-
title her TO two more representatives
in congress. This will give aspiring
statesmen opportunity.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

The negroes Of Boston held = meet
ing on July 80, and led by a white
woman, Miss Lillia Clayton Jewett, de-
clared war upon New Orleans. These
good people have quite a job on their
hands and Miss Jewett is wished much
Joy Ia her work OF wiping New Orleans
from the face of the earth.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

The jackson News does not believe
for a minute that the capital city will
be afflicted with yellow fever this fall.
We hope the News may prove a true
prophet.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

The Board OF Supervisors lie remind
ed that Grenada county wants better
roads and that the people look to it for
relief.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

1t ia estimated that the war in South
Africa will cost the British govern
ment $500, OOO, 600 in money, to say
nothing OF the cost In blood.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

Hon. w. A. Mcdonald, Of Benton
county, is a candidate for congress in
the Second District. He is Il lawyer Of
distinguished ability and possesses 3
character Of irreproachable purity
If selected he will reflect credit upon
the state Of Mississippi and will labor
increasingly for the good Of his ~coustit-
uents. 1t would be we'll for Mississip-
pi il her congressman were selected
with more regard for their ability and
the good they might be able to accom-
plish. There are some districts in the
state which might almost as well not
be represented at all as to be repre-
sented as they no are.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

Mississippi's first bale will be n little
backward this year about coming for
ward.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

July wound up with with the rain
mandatory working overtime.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

You will never find any other pills 30
prompt and so pleasant AS De Wits
Little Early Risers. For sale At
Semmes' Second Glass Drug Store.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

conditions
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-04-19
READY WIT.
Saved q Western Congressman from a
Curtain Lecture.

Saved 3 Western Congressman from q
Curtain Lecture.
In the seclusion of the house cloak
rooms a story is being told on a west
ern member. There are 357 men in
the house. Three hundred and fifty
six are hereby released from any con-
nection with the story. The other
man-and the other mans wife-will
recognize the truth of what is here re-
corded. The western member went
home at a very early hour in the
morning. He had made a night of it
with some friends. He knew that his
conduct would be considered reprehen-
sible by his better half, and so, as he
assembled the steps of his modest home,
he racked his brain for some plan to
avert the lady's wrath. AS he entered
the hall he saw an umbrella. Instant
ly it occurred to him hat the umbrel-
la might be his salvation. He carried
the umbrella upstairs. Seating himself
on a chair in the corner of the bed
room, he raised the rain guard over
his head, and then he coughed loudly.
His wife awoke and saw in the dim
gaslight her liege lord sitting solemn
ly under the raised umbrella. What
are you doing?" she asked, in natural
surprise. ct is 3 o'clock, my dear"
said he, 'and l am waiting for the
storm" The congressman's ready wit
saved him from a Caudle lecture. He
is worrying now, however, to find an
equally effective act for the next time
he STAYS out late.=Washington Post
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-04-19
CENSUS NUMERAToR IN THE FINISH.

Quoted on strictly business principles,
under the supervision of the war de-
partment. By direction of the presi-
dent, General J. p. Sanger was ap-
pointed director of the census with his
headquarters in Washington, and Vic
tor H. Olmstead, an experienced CEN
u expert and statistician, was ap-
pointed assistant director with head
quarters at Santa Clara, Cuba. Upon
MI. Olmstead devolved the task of To-
cal organization, the appointment of
enumerators and the decision of the
thousand and one delicate questions
connected with the work. These ap-
pointments were made in August of
last year, and the census was to be-
gin on October 10th and to be complet-
ed, so far as the enumeration went,
by November 30th-in six weeks. The
blanks were devised and translated
into Spanish, all the rules and orders
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-04-19

Ask any Cuban today what enter
prise of the American government in
Cuba has the most significance and
Importance and he will answer with
put a moments hesitation:
"The census
In the United States a census is only
an incident of the national life, the re-
suits of which are to be looked for with
mild curiosity. In Cuba the present
census, the enumerations for which
were completed on Nov. 80, is regarded
as the formation step in the future
government of the island. Upon its
population totals must rest the first
popular election, to which the Cubans
are looking forward as the children OF
Israel looked to the promised land.
1t is a foregone conclusion hat there
must be certain franchise ~qualihca-
tionsEas to illiteracy, residence, ma
tionality. The census will definitely
settle the proportions of population,
Spaniards, Cubans, negroes, Americans
n other foreigners, it will establish
the very important percentage of IL
literacy, hitherto only dimly estimated,
n in case a constitutional onven
ton or a representative assembly is
chosen it will decide the ratio of rep
resentation from each province and
city. Unpleasant as it may be to the
pride of the American, it must be con-
fessed that the Cubans have looked
pom the improvements in paving,
sewerage and police, on the courts and
the customs service with absolute
lack of interest, if not with actual hos
tility. They were all right enough in
their way, but they were not what the
Cubans had been fighting for, and who
cared for a little dirt or a little GUS
toms tipping, anyway? 1t is the gov
eminent that the Cuban is anxious to
manage, and the census is the first in
dication that there Is going to be an
opportunity for him to try it. AS a
consequence, the work of the enumer-
ators, of whom there are !, 800 in Cuba,
was looked upon with extraordinary
interest and solicitude. In the first
place, every Cuban wanted his name
in the rolls and If the enumerator did
not call promptly he complained to the
supervisor and demanded prompt at
tention. And then, when the enumer-
ator finally did call upon him, he
gloated over the questions n yet
looked upon them with characteristic
Cuban suspicion and tried to see which
of them had been set by "los Ameri-
canos" as a trap. Also the customary
census notices, pasted on the walls Of
his house and providing fines or i'm
prisonment for fraudulent answers to
the questions, worried him, and some
times he came up through the mud
and rain, a score of miles on his burro
to explain that he was innocent.
The nsu is going to reveal some
interesting facts when the blanks are
finally tabulated at Washington. I'M
mediately before the Spanish-Ameri-
can war the newspapers were filled
with narrowing stories as to the death
by starvation, disease and ill-treat-
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-04-19

gave the population OF the island as
1851, 687. Ten years later-in 1897
while there was no regular censu ow-
ing to the existence of the war, the
population was estimated at something
over 1850, 600, exclusive of Spanish sol
diers. At the close of the war some
American authorities placed the num-
Der of deaths at upward Of 400 900,
which would mean a present popula-
ton of approximately 1,380,O O0. Other
pessimistic prophets believe the census
will show barely 1900, 900, but so good
a judge as Major-General Wilson, gov
ernor of Matanzas and Santa Clara,
who has been keeping a close watch on
the census, thinks it will show a total
of more than 1900, 900.
Never before was there such a CEN
sus in Cuba. The old Spaniards had
their regular census years, but their
methods of making the enumeration