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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28
WHITE HOUSE TURKEYS.
Eighty-SeveE Big Turkeys Given
to White House Attaches With
Presidents Compliments.
the PRESIDENTS FAMILY CHRISTMAS.
Waron Loads Of Presents For the
Roosevelt Family From Friends
and Admirers All Over the Coun-
try, Many of Them For the
Younger Roosevelts.

Washington, Dec. 24.-Eighty-seven
big turkeys were distributed to the
White House policemen, messengers,
ushers, servants, gardeners and sta
blemen with the compliments of the
president. Each turkey had on it q
card bearing the presidents compli-
ments. The distribution was the
largest ever made at the White
House. President Mckinley always
gave turkeys to the married en-
ployes, but the list of recipients was
never so large as that of this year.
The turkeys were distributed by Hen
ry Pinckney, the White House stew
ard.
Express wagons, mail carriers and
messengers bore numerous packages
to the White House, presents to the
Roosevelt family from friends and
admirers throughout the country.
Many of the packages were for the
children who were not allowed, how
ever, to have them until Christmas
day.
The Christmas programme at the
White House will follow the custom
of the family in former years. There
will be no Christmas tree, as a tree
has been a part of the celebra-
ton of Christmas in the Roosevelt
family. The children, however, all
hung up their stockings, and they
will arise early to visit them and as
certain what Santa Claus has left for
them. Later in the morning the
children will assemble in the library,
there to receive gifts from their
father and mother. In the after
noon the Roosevelt Juveniles will go
to the home of their uncle and aunt,
Capt. and Mrs. Cowles. to see a pref
ty Christmas tree and receive other
presents. The Christmas dinner will
be served at 1880 and only the family
will be present.
On Thursday, il the weather per-
mits, it is probable that the Roose-
welt family, including the president,
will go down the Potomac river on n
cruiser. Theodore Roosevelt. Jr.. is
going on a hunting trip with DR.. Rix-
ey, and is very anxious that his IA
Their should accompany him. The
president is inclined to do so. if
public business will permit. Even if
the president can not go it is the
present intention of Mrs. Roosevelt
and some of the other children to ac-
company DIR. Rixey and Theodore, Jr.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28
is ABOUT TO BE SETTLED,
The Mnchinists' Strike I'm Chicago
In Il Fair Way to he
Compromised.

Chicago, Dec. 24.-It is stated that
the machinists' strike in Chicago
which has involved 1000 union work
men since it started, several months
ago, is about to be settled.
Conferences are being held be-
tween leaders on both sides, and it
is expected that an agreement will
be reached within the next few days.
The strike, while a local affair, has
been regarded as a test of strength
between the International Associa-
ton of Machinists and the Metal
Trades association.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28
NO TRUTH IN THE REPORT.
point Mgr. Scalabrine to Sue
coed Mgr. MartineIIi,

Rome, Dec. 24.-There is no truth
IN the report published in the United
states by a news agency that Mgr.
Scalabrini, the archbishop of Piacen-
sa' who recently visited the United
States, had been practically selected
to succeed Mgr. Martinelli, as papal
delegate in the United States, and
thai he had begged the pope to ex-
cuse him from such promotion. The
vatican never intended to appoint
Mgr. %Scalabrini to the Washington
post.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28
Kid gloves will not mold if paeXsa
away carefully in 9 dry place.
FOR THE MAN ON THE ROAD

Three new railway lines are PRIV
jected in Turkey. 80,
One million miles is the "leh9'n
of an American locomotives ne
The auditors of a great raiiro'1
system have posted notices TO ehs
effect that users of cigarettes WouI1
not be employed in that depar'in'ns'
The railway officials of frusS"
have been trying alcohol lamp'
competition with those burning aeo
ylene, but on account of the unple"s
ant odor emitted by the former 'n''
will not be used.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28

The 10000 Hungarians in New York
city celebrated last week the fiftieth
anniversary of the arrival of Kossuth
in this country. TO enlist sympathy for
the cause of Hungarian independence.
Kossuth's mastery of the English Ian
guage was phenomenal. and it is said
that his countrymen learn English
more quickly and thoroughly than
persons of any other nationality.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28

Wyoming, the smallest state in pop
ulation except Nevada, is growing in
voting strength. In the presidential
election of 1900 the vote for Bryan
on the democratic ticket was only II
less than in 1896 and the gain in the
republican vote was 1,44j. There are
ID counties in Wyoming and the re-
publicans carried them all in the pres
idential election of 1900, an unusual
showing for a party which polled less
than 60 per cent. of the total vote of
the state.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28

With a demonstration of wireless.
telegraphy across the Atlantic one
day and n start from Paris on a land
trip to New York on the next. the
progress of simplifying and shorten.
ing the decentralization of the globe
goes on speedily. OF course, it re-
mains to be seen whether Marconi
can handle messages as successfully
as he has transmitted one letter of
the alphabet, and it is by no means
certain that De Windt will come out
of his arctic adventures with glory.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28

What is known as the Maratime
Canal company, organized under the
laws of New Jersey, is threatening
to further complicate the Nicaragua
canal project. This company claims
TO have purchased the route surveyed
and recommended by the canal COM
mission and alleges that all franchises
and concessions have been conveyed
to it by the government of Nicaragua
in consideration of a large sun of
money.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28

The United Brethren, with head
quarters at Dayton, O., has just sc.
cured on Marine street, Ponce, Porto
Rico, a fine building site for a church,
and children in United Brethren Sun.
day schools have provided, in a Christ
mas fund this year, the money to
erect a church upon the same. The
plant. is known as the Bethlehem
Missions institute. Six missionaries
are at work on the island at present.
The school in Ponce has an excellent
patronage, and new members con.
stantly como into the church.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28

Topeka, Kas., Dec. 24.-Kansas mil.
lers' in a meeting in this city Mon
DAY evening, made vigorous protest
against railroads raising the mini
mum weight of carload shipments of
flour out of the state from $4,000 to
10000 pounds. They claim other state
mlllers will not be compelled to take
similar action in the same time.
hence the injustice. =
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28
Gen. ROllin v. Ankenv.

Des Moines, Ia, Dec. 24.-Gen. Roll
Inns V. Ankeny, for 12 years coroner
or Polk county, died tuesday of
pneumonia, after a weeks illness. He
served in the Mexican war with an
Ohio regiment and in the civil war
as colonel of the One Hundred and
FOrtN-secOnd Illinois.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28

A new breed of chickens just re-
ceived in New York from China has
tails IL feet long. They are kept in
cages, and when they are taken out
for exercise an attendant goes along
TO hold up the feathers. The hens lay
80 eggs a year, which r Matched by
other hens.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28

Fergus Falls, Mimi, Dec. 24.-Ole
I: Peterson received a telegram from
wyoming stating that his son, NJ. O..
PETERSON had persisted in the terrible
blizzard in that state. The Young
man had a sheep ranch and was out
with his flock.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28

Nickel concerts, to draw young men
I'M women from the streets, have
been established in New York city by
the Musical league of Carnegie hall,
formerly the Women's philharmonic
society. The board of education has
consented to the use of the public
school buildings for the purpose. 1t
is promised that the programmes
will be of a high standard. In order
to provide a fund for the project the
p~atronesses of the Knickerbocker
subscription dances will give a pri-
waite ball at the Waldorf-Astoria, jan
nary II.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28

One OF the large dry goods stores in
Montgomery, Ala. is owned by a col
ored man who began life as a porter
and made it a rule never to save less
than half his wages. Anybody can
initiate hat resolution, but-the COM
ment is obvious.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28

Senator Daniel, OF Virginia, lives in
very modest style in Washington, and
has for 30 years spent nearly all of
his money in paying off debts incurred
by a relative in the panic of 1873. The
senator was not at all bound by law
TO assume the financial burden. but
did so of his own free will, and also
pays the interest on the debts.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28

Presbyterians north are not greatly
exercised over the falling off in num-
Der of students in their theological
seminaries. They say the condition
is due to the fact that a few years
the influential Presbyterian organ of
Chicago, proclaimed month in and
month out that the ministry was
overcrowded. The result was that
young men sought other avocations
The first result was felt in the col
leges which graduated last year and
the year before 80 per cent. fewer
students than the average.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28

j. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska,
has again entered his annual protest
against the butchery of young pines
to serve as Christmas trees to make
a Christmas holiday. Yet the Christ
mas tree custom has brought much
Joy to the world and there will be
some unfeeling enough to argue that
the joy and happiness garnered by
the little folks watching the Pickering
candles in the pretty green's q
than makes up the loss in the d%estruc-
tion of a few hundred thousand young
pines hat would be cut up into lum.
Der anyway in q few years more.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28
Fatal Gas Explosion.

hoNo'no, Ind, Dec. 24.-By a gas
explosion at the plate glass factorv
Nachar'ah Chapman was killed snd
seVerai other workmen were injured.
1he piot house was wrecked.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28
CURRENT

Along with the proceedings of the
annual convention of the Society of
Friends comes the announcement that
there are 90 firms in America en-
gagged in the manufacture of fighting
Foods.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28
MISSISSIPPI
NOTES Of PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
By KATE MARKHAM POWER.

Will Lanier, erstwhile famous as a
murderer, but from henceforth to be
recognized as the great Jail-breaker,
to excuse the liberty he has TAKEN"
and by means of files and saws and
blanket ladders, has fed for parts I'M
known. This Aberdeen desperado's
history is too well known to need repe-
tition here, but our readers may be
further interested to learn that on the
night Of the 14th he made his escape
by saving through five steel bars in
the top of his cell, making a hole
about a foot square, and then digging
through a brick wall two feet thick
and letting himself down from the
second story to the ground, eight feet
below, by means Of four blankets tied
together at the corners
The "escaper" occupied a steel cage
In the second story, the only cell on
that floor, and his feet were manacled
and secured by a chain locked to the
bars of the cage. The manacles were
also sawed from his feet and left in
the cage.
He asked for extra covering at 9
O'Clock Saturday night, and got two
heavy blankets. The jail's stock of
bed-clothes is thus decreased by four.
Lanier was sentenced to hang Jan. %,
1902. But, then, he was sentenced
once before to hang. And he may be
sentenced again. AS to the hanging.
We think we have cause to doubt it.
Mississippi entertained last week an
unexpected guest in the person of gen.
uine, hoary old Winter, and she had
all his attendants Of sleet, snow, ice
and wind along with him. 1t was
something of a novelty to "Old Mis-"
to begin a game of 'freeze-out' thus
early in the season, but she managed
to hold her own fairly well, and re-
tired from her duties as hostess only a
little the worse for the visit. 1t was
feared at first that the icy touch of
winter had injured all vegetation, but
later it was found that only the tender
plants were killed. During the freeze
OF 1895 all the cape jasmines as far
south as Rodney were killed to the
ground. But last weeks ice seems not
to nave injured them in the least.
even as far up as Central Mississippi.
1t is hoped by the lovers of our beauti-
full forests that no harm was done to
the Spanish moss" the long, graceful
festoons of which, reaching from limb
to limb and tree to tree, gave to our
woods and swamps so pc
culiar a beauty. The freeze of '99, it
will be recalled, killed this moss, and
we have had none since until this fall,
it seemed to have found new
life and was rapidly replacing the an
cient decoration of the monarchs of
the forest with most exquisite tufts
and ribbons of pale, gray, feathery
young moss more beautiful than n
had ever seen before.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28

Columbus has a United Charities
Association which has done noble
work for several years, and which ac-
complished great things for the relief
OF the poor during last weeks ex-
IRENE cold. Every town of any con-
siderable size should have one of these
associations, to which the business
men should belong as well as the good
women. In this way the towns may
be Systematically organized and much
good accomplished. The worthy poor
will in this way stand a better chance
of being helped and professional beg
CARS will get less of the peoples aims
than is the rule when charity is in
discriminatory dispensed. Memphis,
Tenn, has an ASSOCIATION of United
Charities and its system is so COM
prehensive and so effective as to be
worthy of imitation by all cities wish
ing to do the greatest good to the
greatest number with the least means.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28

Reports from Washington state
that Representative Patrick Henry of
the Third Mississippi District, after
interviews with those who know"
confirms the report that Mississippi
will get an army post. There are to
be four of these permanent army posts
located and every State in the South
seems determined to get me-. Texas
Is SO anxious that she is sending
regular armies" of her best takers
and slickest politicians on to Wash
ington to capture a post, whether or
no. We have sent no delegations as
yet, but feel sure that the matter may
be safely trusted to such men as rep
resent us in the halls Of the nations
Congress.
The Tupelo cotton mills are not the
only Mississippi mills shipping cotton
goods to China. The splendid plant at
Laurel is doing this also, as well as
many other progressive things that
would surprise the average MISSISSIPPI
plan.
In an interesting bit of correspond
ence from Washington to the Vicks-
burg Herald the writer pays high
tribute to Gen. Catchings as a man, a
representative and a leader in mat
tiers political, intellectual and social.
He also speaks regretfully Of the ah-
sence from the Capital City of this
distinguished Mississippian and his
charming wife. Among other inter-
esting things said Of the general is
this: 1T vas President Harrison who
said that Gen. Catchings knew more
about the Mississippi river and its
tributaries than did any engineer en-
pic yed on them"
The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-16

sene. The film OF oil prevents the
larvae from breathing and smothers
them. The quantity necessary is
one ounce or two tablespoonful
to every fifteen square feet of
surface, repeated every two weeks.
This oil method was employed with
great success lastyear by the city
of Winchester, Va, and our own
town ofTarboro has recently shown
a most commendable spirit of
enterprise in adopting it, Some
care and a little expense in securing
protection against mosquitoes and
in providing supply of pure drink
ing water will practically insure
against malaria.
70 those interested in this
subject cordially commend
very interesting and valuable book
on mosquitoes written in popular
and entertaining style by DR.. L.
O. Howard, the Chief Entomologist
of the United States, and published
by Mcclure, Phillips & Co., New
York, at a cost of $1.64, postpaid.
RICHARD Ell. LEWIS, M. D.
Secretary State Board Of Health.
The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-16

1t is now generally known and under
stood that drunkness is disease and not
weakness. A body filled with poison, and
nerves completely shattered by periodical
or constant use Of intoxicating liquors, re-
quires an antidote capable Of neutraliz-
ing and graduating this poison, and de-
stroying the craving for intoxicants.
Sufferers may now cure themselves at
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The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-16
Reduced Rates Via
Seaboapd Air Lire.

Grand Encampnent l. O. O. F. of
North Carolina, Elizabeth City, N. c.,
Aug. -; rate from Southern Pines to
Norfolk, Va, on account of above,
So. SO; rate to New Bern, Via Sanford,
$500. Tickets on sale Aug. II-I2-I3.
Final limit, Aug. 10.
The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-16
Want your moustache or beard beautiful
brown or rich black? Then use
BUCKINGHAM'S DYE % TER tGs

in the ground, and speedily falling
leaves there stagnant pools with
few or no fish in them. Mos
ouitoes are very much more abun-
dant this exceptional year of
freshets than usual. 1t also ex-
plains the danger of brick holes.
The larvae, or wiggletails, as we
generally call them, are the young
mosquitoes. Although they live
in the water from the time they
are Matched from the eggs which
were laid on the surface until they
reach maturity they cannot live
without air-they must breathe.
Contrary to the general rule, they
breathe "wrong end FOREMOST
through a long breathing tube
which springs from the body near
the tail and which they stick out
Of the top of the water when they
want air. The bearing Of this ar
rangement of their destruction will
appear later.
There is a popular misappre-
hension in regard to the movement
Of mosquitoes. The general i'm
preston is that they are carried by
the wind, and people at the sea-
side say that a land breeze brings
mosquitoes. 1t is fact that they
are more abundant when the
breeze is from the land or in
calm, but according to those who
know best the fact probably is not
that they are blown from the
swamps to landward, but that they
simply come out again from the
trees and shrubbery and the lea
side Of houses where they had |
taken refuge from the strong sea
breeze which was to rough for
their fragile bodies. With rare
exceptions they travel, it is said,
seldom more than a mile, and
generally not so far. When one
is troubled with mosquitoes a care
full search will almost always
reveal stagnant water in the near
The destruction Of mosquitoes
and the consequent prevention of
is accomplished in two
ways: First and best, by the
drainage of all stagnant
pools of water, and second, by
keeping the surface ofsuch pools
covered with petroleum, what is
known as light fuel oil, or even
he crude petroleum being better
md cheaper than ordinary kero
The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-16

Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy has world wide reputation
for it's cures. Itnever fails and is pleasant
and safe to take. For sale by Johnsons
Pharmacy.
The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-16
Mosquitoes and Malaria.

North Carolina, certainly from
now until frost, is malarial fever
in one form or another. 1t is by
no means confined to the low
living Eastern section of the state,
but is quite abundant in many
localities in the hill country,
having been reported even from
Cherokee.
By recent scientific investiga-
tons the cause of the fever has
been shown to be a microscopic
animal known as the plasmodium
"malariae or hem amoeba vivaX,"
which feeds upon the red cor
puscles of the blood-hence the
pallor of persons suffering from
chronic malaria. The develop
ment Of this parasite in the blood
is as follows: One Of the spores, or
baby germs, so to speak, enters
red corpuscle and, feeding on its
contents, grows until at the end
oftwenty-tour hours it has become
nearly as large as the corpuscle.
1t then, by a process known as
augmentation, splits up into a
dozen or more little spores again,
which for short time are free in
the blood and unattached to the
corpuscles. It is just as the seq
mentation occurs that the chill
comes on, which explains the
periodic recurrence of the chill
every twenty-four hours, and as
it has been found that quinine is
most effective in killing the germs
while they are free in the blood
and not buried in the substance Of
corpuscles, the best time to give
quinine is just before the chill is
expected.
The method of the introduction
Of the malarial poison, the plas
medium, certainly the chief
method, has been demonstrated
beyond all question to be the sting
of certain variety Of mosquito
known as anopheles; the common
mosquito, which while more
abundant is innocent as a carrier
of disease, being known as culex.
The latter species will breed in
still water Of any kind, no matter
how pure, but the former. our
enemy, will only breed in stagnant
pools in which there is a certain
amount of vegetable matter,
especially if there are no fish,
such as top minnows or sun perch,
which feed upon the larvae or
wiggletails. This explains the
fact that malaria is much more
abundant after freshets, in the
course of which the stream, get
ting out of its banks, washes holes
The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-16
THE HOME GOLD CURE.

An Ingenious Treatment by which Drunkards
are Being Cured in Spite of Themselves.