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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-10-19
OFFICIAL
PROCEEDINGS OF CITY COUNCIL.
GRENADA, MISS, Oct. :. 1oo1.

GRENADA, MISS, Oct, Z, 1901.
Board of Mayor and Aldermen of the city
of Grenada met in regular session, the fol
lowing members being present: A. S
Bell. Mayor; t. E. Heath, J. c. Perry, W. B.
I. Wright, w. J, Jennings. Aldermen: j. f.
Huntingdon, city treasurer; ]. B Snider. Re-
corder; A. Gerard, Marshal; L. G. Dubard,
street commissioner; J. 7. West. aldermen;
j.. p. Broadstreet.
Moved aud ordered by the Board that
personal and real assessment rolls. A. &C.
rard, tax collector for the fiscal year 1901
and 1902 be received.
Moved and ordered by the Board that A.
Gerard be credited on the personal roll with
$1,000 assessment on the Grenada Cotton
Compress.
Moved and ordered by Board that the as
sessed value OF the Grenada Cotton Com
press for $50, 900 be reduced to $4,000.
Moved and ordered by the Boa I'd that A.
Gerard, tax collector, be charged with per-
sonal assessment for fiscal year 1901 and
1902. 1853, 1900, and with realty assessment
for fiscal year 1901 and 1902, $40, 76s.Oo
Moved and ordered by the Board that the
rate of assessment for the fiscal year 1901
and 1902 shall be II mills, divided into the
different funds towit: General fund, @ l-2
mills; school fund, 3 mills; water and cleo
trio light fund, 41-2 mills.
Moved and ordered by the Board that the
resignation of J T. West be filed to be acted
on at some future meeting.
Moved and ordered by the Board that A.
Gerard, tax collector be allowed on account.
on assessment rolls, sl37 75, and a warrant
be drawn for same.
Moved and ordered by the Board that the
officers reports be received, and spread on
these minutes as follows:
REPORT OF j. E. HUNTINGTON, TREASURER.
Grenada, Miss, Oct. Z. 1901.
Report for month ending this day.
GENERAL FUND.
sept a5-1a GeraTd tax col, r. W, $50. s's = g
si,a54 %
CREDITS.
Oct. Warrants handled ..............s $40 NJ
Balance ............. .......4,1.5 AZ
a,a54 p
H FUND,
Sept, ITO balance &c. ..............s 1856 %
sept sept 5" G B Jones Tsi;, sheriff h II b Z W. Ssa. i q
Sept. 5o.-"A 5 Bell. Mayor ", ST. 80 80
Sept. 30" sallie James, X W, 3ss........ 2 90
$3.50 80
" Warrants. .. ............-..S1 IL
Balance. ....."... ........3 13 90
s3sO.86
WATER AND LIGHTS.
Sept ITO balance .......... ..211 IA
"19.-To. A 5 Bell, Mayor, W, 3s4... 81 "a
81 b Snfdcr .,............ 391 So
Oct. =" Due treasurer ...,.........2Sl 81
96S 95 ,
CREDITS.
BY warrants handled. .......... .96s 95 J
Respectfully, Z
j. +. HUNTINGTON. City Treas. |
Moved and ordered by the Board that Dan 4
lark be paid for 6 days. services at power
louse (being 5000 being withheld on account
leaving without notice.
MAYOR A. S. BELLS REPORT.
Board of Aldermen City of Grenada:
1 herewith SUBMIT my report for month of
'ept, 1901. | have imposed and collected the =.
GLOWING fines: Il
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-10-19

y IT'u7uTVTs TtctIpt.. .......... S42 Is
Respectfully submitted,
A. GERARD. Tax Collector.
REPORT OF j. b. sSlDER, sUPT. OF W AND p
L PLANT FOR MONTH OF sETp. 1901.
Amt. of lights charged for Aug soos IN
DELINQUENTs,
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-10-19

REPORT OF A. GERARD, TAX COLLECTOR.
To the Hon. board Of Mayor and Aldermen:
have the pleasure to report that | have
EolIected the following amounts for privi-
lege TAX Tor the month of September. 1unI
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
NEW STYLE M
Ala You Nee to Do Now rs Touch q
Button and Machine Does
the Rest,

The horny-handed farmer will sooL
be a thing of the past, says the New
York World.
The farmer of the future will dc
little more than touch a button, in
genious machinery viii do the rest.
The man with the hoe will be replaced
by a gentleman who sits on his porch
and does his blowing by manipulating
an electric switchboard.
Farming utensils may now be had
which will do practically every kind
of planting automatically. One may
sow grain broadcast or plant seeds,
tubers or plants by merely driving one
of these up-to-date contrivances
ros a field. The machines viii drill
holes, deposit a given amount of seed
in them, cover them with manure and
spread fresh earth over them al one
operation.
Another machine goes through the
entire operation of cutting and plant
ing potatoes. 1t does the work of ten
men. It drops the SEED. V it with
manure and moist earth at any dis
lance and marks the mex row, all at
one operation. 1t can be adjusted to
go V e ground, no matter how rough
or billy.
There is an automatic ~plant-setting
machine which will set out plants a
loot apart and cover eight acres a
day. 1t may be adjusted for trans
planting tomato plants, caulifiower,
cabbages or celery. The machine is
provided with a tank which pours a
certain amount of water into each
hole before the plant is set.
There are a variety of machines for
~cultivating the ground after the seeds
or plants have taken root. They are
provided with fine s~eel teeth, which
deftly loosen the soil about the small
est and most delicate plant without
disturbing it. One of these is espe-
ciaIly adapted for cultivating and hill
ing celery, another for potatoes, an
other for lettuce and so on. There
r machines which combine the pillow,
hoe, rake and cultivator.
Practically every kind of harvesting
may now be done by machinery, thus
saving an immense amount of labor.
The moving machine is driving the
scythe out of use. The combined reap
ers and binders of grain now do the
work of 20 men and do it better. The
sulky hay tedder is rapidly driving the
pitchfork out of business. One of
these devices viii thoroughly turn and
spread four acres of cut hay in an
hOur.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27

her. I never left her until it was Inn
possible for her to keep me with her
any longer"
Reverting to her poverty and feeble
ness. she said: To-day I had to be
trusted for . few spools of thread with
which to do my sewing. In the old
days / employed upwards of 20 sewing
girls My credit was good for hum
dreds OF dollars worth of goods. Ny
services were sought everywhere, and
I was always busy. 7 still have plenty
of work to do, but / am too feeble to
do it. I am only able to do enough
work to keep me in bread and butter.
Just think of it'll Lincoln, Douglas,
Harland, Seward, Fred Douglass, Bish-
or Wayman; all gone-ail gone. May
be I nave lived too long. Not one OF
my powerful friends is living. If they
were, you would not see me living in q
rented room, struggling from day to
day for food and clothing. If they
were living, Wendell Phillips, Fred
Douglass, Lloyd Garrison, John B.
Cough and others would lecture for
my benefit, or send me their cheques.
But they are all gone, and here am /,
a "Reminiscences of the glorious days
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
WHAT FISH EAT.
Most Denizens of the Deep Live ON
Animal Substances-SOme Species
Are VcgeNarians.
There are mann Thousand species

There are many thousand species OF
fishes, and naturally there is a great
diversity in their food. Nevertheless,
it is possible to divide it into seven
distinct classes. Now, all the animal
life rests on a foundation of vegeta-
bles. Plants store mp the vital forces
in the air and sunshine and pass them
on to the great army of v~egetarians,
who in their turn yield them up to
the animals which live on flesh. One
or two additional steps may some
times be interposed, but the result is
the same. A caterpillar eats a cab
bage, IN ichneumon fly quarters her
brood on the caterpillar, an insect-eat-
ing bird snaps up the fly, and a bird
of prey pounces upon the ~fy-catcher
and finishes the story. The inevitable
order is plant, vegetarian, hesh-eater.
The vast majority of fishes feed on
fishes or other animals found in the
sea. Probably, however, the vegetari-
ans are numerous than T gen
orally supposed. For instance, all the
textbooks declare hat the gray null
let feeds on the living matter obtained
by straining sand or mud in its mouth,
which doubtless is true, but they GO
On to explain that owing to the pecul-
lar construction of its throat larger
bodies are prevented from passing
into the stomach, which is not rue.
No amount of ~letter-press Will per-
suade a Lands End fisherman that a
gray mullet cannot or does not eat
seaweed; he is convinced from a life
long observation of its habits that it
does, and the fact that the fish's stom-
ach is often found full of seaweed
proves that the fisherman is right.
Fishes which undoubtedly catch and
swallow living prey are wont on &C.
casion to treat themselves TO a dish of
vegetables. | have just assisted at
the post-mortem examination of a
Dream, which contained in addition to
a crab large helpings of two kinds OF
seaweed in different stages of diges-
ton.
But doubtless it is a fact, says the
Newport News Herald, that fishes live
for the most part on animal diet, and
it is obvious hat this must consist
largely of some other class than their
own. If fishes ate fishes only the ace
would soon become extinct. Forum
ately the sea is full of life, and for
those which cannot or will not eat sea-
weed there are worms innumerable,
jelly fishes, star fishes and sea urchins,
the great host living in shells, from
the oyster to the periwinkle and the
limpet, crabs and all other kindred,
and lastly other fishes. The appetite
must be capricious, indeed, which can
not find something to tempt it among
all this vast array.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
Use of the Automobile.

With the increase of endurance ano
the perfection of motive power and
mechanical parts, the automobile has
grown popular. A crippled beggar in
Paris, who formerly propelled himself
by hand in a cart, recently bought a
one-horse power machine and is now
making money by running errands. A
public service is to be established in
Honolulu. Routes are being laid Out
in Madagascar. The king of England
is having a car de luxe built in Paris
Socialists are to make a propaganda
tour through Pennsylvania in a ma
chine of their own. Emperor William
has been offering cups for contests.
The London and New York fire depart
ments are both using autos, and a self.
moving fire engine has been in use
for years in Hartford, Conn. The
state department of this country has
requested our eonsu1s abroad to fur.
nish it with the rules governing the
operation of automobiles IN foreign
cities. The list of significant thing
is almost endless.-World's Work.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27

SO tired of life and its burdens, hat If
he could have expressed an opinion
concerning the work of the assassin,
he would have said: I am glad that it
is all over He was always ready for
death, and 1 knew him so well that I
have always felt that death was well
come to him when il came"
Trembling with emotion this re-
markable woman said: THE people
whom l personally served seem to
have forsaken me, but the government
has not overlooked me. My only son
was a soldier and died for the cause
of liberty. The government gives me
a small pension. Thereby I am able to
pay my room rent. If I had one
single friend who would ask con-
gress to relieve me / know that
they would give me a liberal PEN
sion because God knows I served
my country while 1 was in the
white house, and l helped Mr.. Lincoln
In many ways by my loyalty. More
over, I served Mrs. Lincoln in her dark
est days of subsequent poverty. I
looked after her interests and helped
her to raise money when she was in
dire distress. Then / was strong and
vigorous. / had no fear of the future.
I believed in my ability to take care
of myself, and it never occurred to me
that / would live to be forgotten and
forsaken. I made nc provision for old
age. for I did not know ingratitude. It
was my ignorance.
when Mr.. Lincoln was shot and
carried across the street to die in that
little house opposite the theater, the
first thing that Mrs. Lincoln said was:
Send for Keckly.' They sem for me
at the white house. but did not send
TO my residence. Consequently / did
not reach Mrs. Lincoln until the next
morning. She embraced me and re-
provingly said: 'Iizabeth, why did
you not come last night?' Then I ex-
planned that i had tried 20 come to her,
but could not find her; because the
messengers who would have admitted
me were unable TO find me. Iremained
with Mrs. Lincoln until she left the
white house. i went to Illinois with
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27

~ good friend of of mine; u he
never knew what a good friend
of his 1 was, and have ever BEEN"
Elizabeth Keckly, of No. 1871 Fiji
teenth street. in this city, now so years
of age, was seamstress for Mrs. Lin
coin during the civil war. She was a
part of the domestic family. as much
so as any cabinet minister was a part
of the official family. After making
the above quoted remark she said:
Il was Mr.. Lincoln's friend, am his
friend now, and will always protect
his memory, by keeping my mouth
closed concerning the many things
which he u%nhappily suspected or i'm
agined were going on around him OFF,
cially and unoficially. l was born a
slave, but bought my freedom, and SO
was under nc oligations to Mr.. Lincoln
for emancipation. But / loved him
for his kind manner towards me and
for his great act of giving freedom to
my race. / know what liberty is, be-
cause / remember what slavery was.
When l was a young woman, modest as
any young woman, | was stripped to
the waist and logged into insensibil-
ity. This was done more than once,
simply on the pretext that my spirit
must be broken / know what unde-
served suffering was inflicted upon the
slaves. Therefore I know what eman-
cipation meant. You who have never
suffered cannot understand the full
meaning of liberty. / was as good a
girl as eve lived, and / wanted to live
as good women live; but 1 was COM
nnliP6 To hannno q mother
marriage. Oh, yes, I know what lib
erty is, because I know what slavery
was. Consequently l have almost wor-
SHIPPED Abraham Lincoln. He was as
kind and considerate in his treatment
of me as he was of any of the white
people about the white house. In that
he manifested the consistency of his
belief that all human beings are ere
ated equal in the sight of God. He
arose every morning as a good man,
and he went to bed every night as a
God-fearing, Christian man. They say
that servants do not reverence their
masters because they know their
weaknesses, as the rest of the world
cannot know them. But no servant
failed to respect and revere hat grand
man of God, and man of the common
people. His life was pure. L cannot
say that of all whom 1 knew in those
days.
81 have been honest and not avari-
cious, or I would not now in my days
of feebleness and age be working hard
with the needle to earn my daily bread.
I betrayed a secret in the days
when secrets were worth gold, and
gold was scarce. Nearly all of the
great men and women who knew me
are now away from earth. The MEM
bers of the family that 1 served long
est and best are needless of my age
and infirmities and necessities, and I'M
appreciative of my loyalty; a loyalty
which I shall continue until my lips
are sealed in death. / served the
families of Douglas, Harlan, Brecken-
ridge, Lincoln, Chase, and many others
who were famous in those days. BY all
of them, it seems, l am forgotten, else
[ would not be helpless and penniless
in my declining years."
Referring feelingly to Lincoln, she
said: "I know, and I know it well,
that SO unhappy wa that great man,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
Curious aIa1adx in italy.

Among the peasants of southern
Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia, a curious
malady has been noticed by physicians,
which is caused by eating beans. One
of the most remarkable effects of the
malady is a species of intoxication re-
sembling hat produced by alcoholic
drink. In some S persons predis-
posed to the malady are seized with
the symptoms of intoxication if they
pass a field where the bean plant is in
flower, the odor alone suficing to af-
feet them.-N. Y. Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
A Japanese Trade-coaxer.

A jeweler in Yokohama sends this
card to prospective English-speaking
customers: "Jewelry Maker. I finest
in town. Whisky-boy. No. II Aioicho
Itchcome. Show this card to jim
rikshman. Our shop is best and
obliging worker that has everybody
known, and having articles genuine
japanese Crystals and all kinds OF
Curios. Gold and silver plate in elec-
tro-plate or plain mending. Carving
in Laid, work own name and mono
grams or any designs according to
orders we can work how much diff
cult job with lowest prices insure,
pleace try. nee try. Don't forget
name Whiskyi"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
Sensational Stories.

A sensational story that has been
going the rounds in Atchison sew
eral days has been exploded; nothing
in it. When you hear a sensational
story, do you add to it, or do you
ch~aritably say it is probably exag.
gerated? If you r a good man or
woman, you take all these stories with
On grain of salt, and wait for confirm
atfon.-Atchison Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
a Champfon waIkeE.

A Servian ex-officer named Milovano-
ditch has just completed q record
walk, having covered a distance of
21.000 miles on foot, at an n OF
20 miles q day. During his journey he
wore out over 30 pairs Of hobnailed
hoots.-N. Y. Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
swfmmera IN German Army.

To be acceptable as a soldier in the
German army q man must be able to
swim. The best swimmers are able
to cross a stream of several hundred
yards width even when carrying their
clothing, rifle and ammunition.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
Earth Conauerea fhe Sen.

The deposits at the mouth of the
Pc, in Italy, have caused the coast 60
gain upon the sea so rapidly that q
point which in the time of Augustus
was a seaport town Is now 10 miles
from the Adriatic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
Hmfr FuIIfnw.

A married nan says his wife takes
her hair of SO easily that she probably
doesn't realize how it hurts him when
she pulls his out.-Chicago Daily News
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
Not Mfs WIG.

Closeist-Does your wife eternal
~ poster you for money!
Graspit-Nol The people she buys
things from do that.-ohio State
journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
The Iomw mna short o4 n.

81 wonder why it takes pay day 40
long TO come around?"
4It only seems long when you're
short, and the shorter you are the
longer IL seexns."-Philadelphia Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
LINCOLN LIKED HER.
Story of Elizabeth Keckly, a White
House Factotum.
Once She Had scores of influential
Friends, Now She Lives in
Poverty-A Victim OF Mans
Ingratitude.
Especial Washington Letter.l

good friend of of mine; but he
never knew what a good friend
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
CIRCUS FREAKS. 5
. BY w. c. COUP. 5
. \


being an extract from and
Spangles,' published by Herbert s. Stone
& &C. Copyright, 1901, by Herbert s.
Stone & Col
P 7. Barnum said the American public
liked to be humbugged, and the truth of
his words have been proven time after
time by the of the country
In his -Sawdust Il S~panglea," published
by Herbert 5. Stone & Co, Chicago, Mr..
w. T.. Coup gives much interesting in
regarding the inside of the
american circus. menag erie and museum.
lie separates the real from the unreal.
a narrative that should interest every
habitue of these forms of entertainment
The following chapter taken from his
book describes a number of freaks and
fakes with which the American nubiic
were successfully h~umbugged.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-09-05
Poisoned Their Children.

Knoxville, Tenn, Aug. 29.-Elsie
HcFalls, 20 years old, and Julia Me
Falls, 20, We're arrested to-day on
warrants charging them with the
murder of Elsie's children. Charles
and Annie, aged one and three years
respectively. and Julia : child. Bessie.
eighteen months old.
The women are charged with hav-
ing soaked matches in water. and
then forcing the children to drink the
water. Bessie died in terrible agony
on Aug. 10. Charlie died on the Goth,
aud Armies death occurred on the
22d inst.
\ fourth child, Louise. six wears
old, now lies at the point of death.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-09-05
Admiral HOwiSOn Denies.

" ashington. Aug. 30.-Acting Sec
retary Hackett has made public a
letter received from Admiral Howl
son, dated Yonker, " T.. Aug. a,
DENYING the authenticity of the inter
view attributed To him in which he
is made 20 comment adversely on
Admiral Schley- The acting secre-
tary has. therefore continued Admi-
raj HOwison aS member of the
Srhley court Of inquiry. leaving the
court it~ejf To determine any further
question A. to his competency.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-09-05
BabOOn Scores a Knockout.

Omaha. Neb., Aug 30.-William
A. Pixley, amusement editor of a
local paper. was to-day perhaps ia
tally injured by having his flesh lac
Grated by maddened baboon. Mr..
Pixlev was visiting the dressing
tent of "A dog and pony show, accom-
panied by his sister. The baboon,
known as Jim Robinson" attacked
Pixley without warming, biting him
several times and opening the flesh
i'll gaping wounds. The Pasteur
treatment was at once administered
to prevent the spread of the poison
caused by the animals teeth. The
managers of the show say the bah
boon took exception to the presence
of lady in the tent.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-09-05
500 Reward slOU

me readers OF this paper will be pleas
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Catarrh. Hairs Catarrh Cure is the
only positive cure known TO the medical
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Internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces OF the syS-
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strength BY building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work
The Proprietors have 20 much faith in
its curative powers, that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that II
tails - cure. Send tor list OF trstimon-
ials. Address F. J. CHENEY Il Co.,
TOlrdo. O RRs~~old b, iruggis &c
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-09-05
WAS NEARLY CRAZY.

y was pleased that Dr.. Pierce answered nv
letter. writes Mrs. {. ". Young. Of south
Regent street Lee Park Wiikesbarre Peuna
Il am perfectly willing Tor you 20 use N v name
and address as I think il my duty to let the
people know what a wonderful medicine you
have When had those uishaps I began TO
think would never have children, and ny
husband always said that If I ~ofsld take votr
uefIclne would soon lie all right Ny back
used to almost break and ! would get sick at
my stomach and have such headaches did not
know what TO DO. tf7ey used to Set me- rea-fv
crazy. and used TO dread to get I'D I f~,s %
bad then began taking your medicine.
When baby was expected ! took j. all the time
was that way. 7 felt fine all the time and
never get those dizzy spells now hardly e-er
have nervous headache any more I have
perfect roup Of a bog; he l. the light q cur
hone ] an now twenty years old and nv
baby Is almost eight months old I nov feel
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pounds We feel very grateful for the good
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thanks TO Dr.. Pierce nedicir@g