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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-09-11

The Census Bureau has issued
statement showing the increasing age
of the population from decade to de-
cade. The statement gives the re-
suits of computing the median instead
of the average age. The median is
such an age that half the population
is under it and half is over it.
The median age of the total popula-
ton of 1900 was 22.8, as compar ed
with 2l.9 in 1890. The median age
of the white population in the last
census year was 23.4 and the colored,
including negroes, Indians and Mon
golians, was 1877, while in 1890 the
white population was 224 and the
colored 1873. The report shows there
was an increase in the median age of
of the white population during each
decade from 1910 to 1900 amounting
in the ninety years to IA years, or an
average amount of about fve-sixths
of year in decade. The median
age of the colored population in
creased after 1880. but with less reg
ularity. The median age of the col
ored population increased three years
in the seventy-year period from 1880
to 1900, or only about half as fast as
that of the whites. But during the
last twenty years Of, the century
the increase for the two
groups has been substantially the
same, 1.9 year for the colored and
two wears for the white.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-09-11

Considerable surprise was o.
casioned by the publication few days
ago of the fact that only 81, 1914 had
been received on imports from the
Philippine Islands between March |
and August /, at Is per cent of the
Dingley rates, when an income from
this source of $500, 900 per year was
expected at the time the Philippines
.-v;f Law az Marnl, g lnat uDas ana ntAd
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-09-11


expert detailed by the navy depart
ment to observe the installation and
efficiency Of the oil fuel system as
lifted to the Oceanic Steamship Com
pany's Mariposa, has been received
at the navy department.. The report
contains matters of great value to the
shipping and naval world. The report
says the Mariposa's gross displace-
nent was 5, 100 tons end her average
horsepower with oil about 2.48l, Civ
ing her daily average of 354 knots
ano mean speed of 1853, with 278
barrels of oil per day. This was so
per cent less in weight than would be
required of coal, for 1-2 pounds of
oil suficed to produce horsepower.
An important advantage in the oil fuel
was the reduction of the engine room
force from thirty-six to twenty men.
The ship used only twelve of her eight
cen furnaces, burning crude oil in
two burners in each furnace by means
OF an air compressor of capacity of
1000 cubic feet per minute at 80
pounds pressure. All of the burners
were not used except at short
intervals.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15
GENERAL FARM NOTES.

Salt put on manure heaps will tend
to prevent firefranging.
Look over the implements to see if
repairs are needed. Then repair them,
and not wait until they come into use,
There is a difference of men as well
as in animals. Some will get more
profit from a given animal and a given
amount of food than will another. Is
not that your experience?
Is your cellar properly ventilated!
Most cellars are damp and the air i'm
pure and are not healthy. The family
lives over the cellar usually and should
not be required to breathe impurities
A farmer who kept 40 head of cattle
and 40 horses used well-cured corr
fodder chaffed and fed with grain
ground and mixed with it and claimed
it was worth as much as the corr IT,
self.
Wheat bran is valuable not alone fol-
it's nutrition. 1t is an excellent alterna.
tive for stock fed on meadow hay. Fol
milch cows it should be made into g
mash.-Agricola, in N. Y. Tribune
Farmer.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15
@W@ J
EARNAGARDEN.
-; :. sss Ea5S,$3IS
THE BARN.
Why Its Construction Should BE More
Carefully Tame Than Usually
Ii the Case.

The farmers barn, or the farm fer
tilizer factory, as l call it, is some
thing that should demand more at
tention than is generally given it.
For years the colored water that ran
across the public road into the Jun
iata river from my barnyard worried
me almost sick, and it was seven
years before l could fix it the way
| wanted it.
l realize that there is about SS3
worth of fertility running away from
every farmer, every year., through
the open barnyard, and four years
ago l began getting logs sawed into
boards, buying and laying away sec
ond hand window sash and glass, and
other things needful to turn my barn
into a fertilizer factory, and now 1
think l have not one of the finest but
one of the most convenient, most
comfortable for stock, and best barns
for protecting and saving the manure
in central Pennsylvania. The cattle in
the ~barnyard are as comfortable as
the horses in the horse stable. There
is running water in four different
apartments, horseyard, barnyard,
steer stable and sheep stable.
One object in fixing my barn was
to take care of the animals, keep
them from getting thirsty and not
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15
MORE SCIENCE NEEDED.
To Make Wheat-Growing "A ucces
Cultural Methods Must BE Stud
led Carefully.

The question of wheat growing
must ever remain a large one in Amer
lean agriculture. There are many To-
calities where other crops can be
grown more profitably than wheat,
and in such localities it is evident that
wheat growing should be abandoned
except as an incidental crop. But we
have, especially in the west, vast
stretches of land that can be used only
in the growing of wheat. Wheat is a
money-grain. 1t always has a value
that may be determined by a little fig
uring. 1t can always be disposed of at
once.
In the great semi-arid region of the
west the attempts to grow wheat have
been marked by both signal successes
and signal failures. We cite the wheat
crop of Kansas this year. II is certain
ly a money maker. When we consider
that wheat was grown-much of it
on l~ow-priced land, we can see what ii
means to the farmers there. A man
has perhaps purchased land 1t five
dollars per acre. He has failed with
most crops on that land. But now
comes a crop hat in a single year en-
ables him to wipe out the mortgage
This phase of the situation will always
induce men in those regions to try
wheat growing.
1t only requires the application OF
science to make wheat growing a sue
cess nearly every year in what we cal
the semi-arid region. This is shown
by the fact that some Russian farm
ers that settled in Mcpherson. Ellis
Graham, Harvey and other counties OF
Kansas have had good crops of whea'
every year, even when their neighbor.
have failed signally. These Russian
farmers came from regions wher,
wheat growing is carried on unde.
harder conditions than those that ex
list generally in the lands under discus
sion. Cultural methods and v~arietie
of seed must be more systematicall,
studied
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15

too hungry, and warmer than they
would be in corn stalk field on the
warm side of a barb wire fence. I'm
der these conditions l think a man
ought to be able to raise a three
year-old steer in "a months. Another
object was to get a straw shed and
get the barnyard covered and board
ed in and made warm. Another was
to save me from Notwithstanding
and roofing the silo and getting my
silo where l could fill it off the hay
ladders from barn floor if l wished
to do so. And last but not least to
be in shape to take care of the
My stables are puddled
with stiff clay and ~barnyard bottom
is made like the bottom of a kettle
and puddled with clay also, here the
COW and horse manures are mixed,
and | have had no trouble, nor do l
expect to have any, with manure fire.
fanging as long as l can get the
liquid with the solids into the barn
yard.
We will soon bring As head of cat
tie into the barn and | do not expect
any of them standing around with
backs bumped up should it be Geld.
Of manure made and protected in
this barn, one load is worth two or
three loads often hauled out of the
open barnyard, and / am sure that it
is not only the cattle that are
pleased with this barn, but the men
who have to work in it on cold days.
R. S. Seeds, in National Stockman.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15
land FARM LADDER.

round. The notches in the end of the
inside ladder should rest firmly in
the second round of the wider or out
side ladder, and the notches in the
end of that one on the projecting
ends of the round of the narrow one.
The sides are made of 1%X3R inches
bass wood or poplar. When put to-
gether as a long ladder it is nearly
as strong as if made of one piece
1t takes but n moment to pull il
apart enough to shut it up for a steE
ladder; is handy for picking fruit
from trees, etc.-J. L. Vestal. in
Epitomist.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15
SOIL NEEDS
Farm Land Must He Regularly Sup
piled with Humus or Its Fertil-
ity VIII Cease.

Fertility depends upon a number of
conditions. Before the roots can
take the needed substances, there
must be sufficient moisture in the
soil. This moisture must circulate
to bring it in contact with the roots,
and the physical character of the
soil has much to do with this. 1t
pact. If too open water cannot rise;
if too compact, it evaporates too rap
idly from the surface. A soil that
settles down like brick dust after a
heavy rain cannot for several rea-
sons produce well. Nature has q
remedy for these conditions, and to
succeed we must at least initiate her.
Nature, by the decomposition of Or
ganic materials in the soil, produces
what is known as humus, which
tends to correct the above evils. 1t
makes the soil light and fatulent,
prevents packing from hard rains
and facilitates circulation of both
water and air in the soil as is best
suited to the needs of vegetation.
No soil can be highly fertile with
out humus. Barnyard owes
much of it's value to the humus pro-
duced by the r~otting of organic mat
ter. Green manuring is a common
method of producing humus. The
farmer should at proper seasons turn
under all the vegetable material at
hand, provided it has no great mar
ket value. In this way he returns
the contained nitrogen to the soil
which otherwise is lost, and enlivens
his soil by increasing the humus. Do
not, however, turf under valuable
crops. Sell them and pillow under
something cheaper. When conditions
are favorable, the most profitable
method of utilizing such a crop is
by %pasturing or feeding and return
ing the excrements to the land. In
this way you get the value of your
crop and yet return almost all the
plant food to the soil,-Barnum's
Midland Farmer.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15
CONVENIENT LADDER.
Considers 1t Superior to other
Similar C~ontrivnnces.

A ladder which can be changed
from a step ladder to a straight in a
few moments is something which
every farmer should have. The idea
is explained in the accompanying
cut, the two parts being shown one
above the other ready to be put to-
gether. The upper round of the
the slots in the smaller one. The
slots should be two and one-half
inches long and just as wide as the
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15
House of Representatives,
WaShinpfnn. Eeb. 4. 1900.

Washington. Feb. 4, 1899.
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus,
Ohio:
Oenfie men-"T have taken Peruna
now for two weeks, andfind ! am very
much relieve ! feel that my cure
viii be permanent. I have also taken
IL for la grippe, and ! take pleasure in
recommending Peruna as an excellent
remedy TO all fellow sufferers"
NJ. W. HOWARD.
Congressman Howard's home ad.
dress Is Fort Payne, Ala.
MOST people think that catarrh is a
IVA disease confined to the head and
nose. Nothing is farther from
the truth. 1t may be thatthe nose and
throat are the oftenest affected by ca
tarrh, but if this is SO it is so only be-
cause these parts are more exposed &c
the vicissitudes of the climate than the
other parts of the body.
Every organ, every duct, every cavity
of the human body is liable to catarrh.
A multitude of ailments depend on ca
tarrh. This is true winter and summer
Catarrh causes many eases OF chronic
disease, where the victim has not the
slightest suspicion that catarrh has any
thing TO do with it.
The following letter which gives the
experience OF Mr.. A. c. Lockhart is
case in point:
Mr.. A. c. Lockhart. corner Cottage
St. and Thurston Road, Rochester
n. Y, in n letter written to DR.. Hart
man says the following Of Peruna:
"Abouf fifteen years sgo ! commenced TO b
avInz, and consulted O physician. He pro
uoynced my trouble a species of dyspepsia. an
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15
Convenient BusheI Crates.

A bushel contains 2.54s cubic inches
and can be made by constructing a box
or crate whose inside dimensions are
14x14x13 inches. Such crates contain
q bushel when level full. For the end
pieces select one-ineh pine boards, Is
inches wide, and saw them in 14-inch
lengths, u hand holes parallel with
the grain of the wood near one edge
This may be done with an auger, the
roughness being cut down with a
chisel. Next, saw good, strong, four.
foot lath into 16-incb lengths. Nail six
of these to the end pieces to form the
bottom and five to form each of the
sides. These crates are inexpensive
durable and easily made.-Nationa.
Stockman.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15

II note" said the editor, that you speak
OF Nero as running his hand through his
long, flowing locks"
Yes" answered the author. There
is nothing remarkable in that"
How do you know that Nero had long
hair?"
my dear sir! Aren't you aware that
Nero was one Of the most celebrated fd.
dlers of his day?"-Washington Times.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15
CONGRESSMAN HOWARD. or ALABAMA.

advised me, sffer he had treated me about
six months, 10 GET a leave of absence from my
business and go info the country. I did so and
got temporary relief ! went back 10 work
again, bur was taken with very distressing pains
In my stomach.
"TseIdom had a passage of the bowels nafu'
rally. ] consulted another physician with no
berer results. The disease kepf growing on me
until ! had exhausted the ability OF sixteen Of
Rochester's best physicians. The isstphysieLan
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15
Another "Benr Gnrd.n.r

"A Montana debating society announces
that the next subject will be: Resolved.
that the sheep herder is a better citizen
than the saloon keeper" 1t is expected
that the debate will bring out some new
styles in artillery.-Denver Republican.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15

The maid-Do you think it's unlucky to
get married on Friday?
The Bachelor-Of course. Why should
Friday be an exception?-Judge.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15
An Investment.

something in the way Of American securi.
ties?
Gyer-Yes. He hopes to secure about
50 ,000,000 in matrimonial bonds.-Chicago
Daily News.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15

Cnstomer-"Is this good country but.
teri Grocer-"Yes, ma'am, that was
made in America, the best country in all
the world. "--lndisnapolis News.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15

Take care, or you also may become moth
Iag more in life than a neutrality-suspicious.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15

An honest man may be the noblest work
Of God, but the self-made man is rather in.
clined TO doubt it.-Philadelp hia Record.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15

highly. ! have told several people that N they
would take a bOnIe of Peruns. and could then
csndidly say that IL had nor benefited them, .
a. C. LOCkhART.
Send for a free catarrh book. Address
Tie Peruna Medicine Co. Columbus. o.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15

The explanation Of a young mans down.
fall in Atchison is given by his friends as
follows: He was his mothers pet, and
never in his fathers confidence. "-Atchison
Globe.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15


up my work and go
south, after he had
treated me for one
year.
''f was given a
thorough eXRmina-
fion with the X-rsy.
They would not
even defermin
whaf my trouble
Il Some ofyour
Testimonial In the
Rochester papers
s c c m C u 10 m e
worthy Of oonsid-
GRAFTON, and ! made
up my mind 10 try
a boffIe of Peruns.
Before the boffIe
uaS half gone no.
ficed a change for
the bener. ! am
uous on the fifth bof-
tie, and have nor an
ache or pain any
where. Ny bowels
move regularly ev-
cry day, and have
taken on eighteen
pounds of flesh.
have recommended
! Peruna 10 a great
many and they rec
a--oad n q
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15

Servant girls in Berlin are usually allowed
hall a day out twice a month only.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15

Half an hour is all the time required te
dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15

The way of the transgressor is often rough
on the other fellow.-Chicago Daily News.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15

To Cure n Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. An
druggists refund money IL it fails to cure. 25c.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15

Mr.. W. p Peterson, OF
Morris, III. SAYS:
II was nearly dead
!, with catarrhal dvspep-
, STA and am now q well
, man, better. in fact,
than ! have been for
twenty years or more
"Sincc / got cured by
, your Peruna ! have been
consulted by q great
many people-"-W. p.
Peterson.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-11-05

Aunt Agatha screamed but once. She
was a woman of magnificent nerve
and it was only the sudden and I'M
usual awakening that alarmed her.
But the gong seemed to be wound up
for all night, and its brazen voice
shook the house
Despite the gong and the fact that
was shut up in closet could hear an
increasing outcry. heard Nellie in the
room behind me beseeching some one
to tell her what was the matter. After
an interval her fathers deep and dfgni-
fed voice came rumbling through the
partition. He seemed to be reassuring
his child by informing her that nothing
was the matter except a few burglars.
The next Ineligible sound came
from Aunt Agatha.
"Tom," she screamed, don't you
dare to bring that gun into this room!
I'm more afraid of it than of forty
burglars"
So it seemed that Tom had appeared
upon the scene armed with his Win
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-11-05
Vas Rryan,s Printer Mrona7


Mr.. Bryan has not been very long
in editorial harness, but he has
learned how impotent and helpless a
typographical error can make, for
the time being at least, even a candi-
date for the presidency of the United
States. A circular was recently sent
out from the Office of the Commoner
which read as follows:
1t is my intention to discuss
through the Commoner, from a demo-
cratic standpoint, all questions of
public Importance, and to use the
democratic party for mercenary pur-
poses"
1t said that when Mr.. Bryan read
the foregoing, he, being orthodox and
in good standing, and not permitted
to swear, looked anxiously about him
eager to find some lay member who
might, approximately, do the subject
justice. What he wrote, or what he
thought he wrote, was the subjoined:
1T is my intention to discuss
through the Commoner, from demo.
portance, and to use the papers in
fiuence to thwart the plans of those
who would use the democratic party
for mercenary purposes"
The trouble came from using the
word ''use" twice, the word being
nearly in the same place in each line.
Nine out of every ten compositors
will, under such an arrangement, in
variably drop a line.
But really, considering Mr.. Bryan's
work for the past five years, was the
first version so very bad?-Goodwin's
| Weekly.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-11-05
snectacles for Headache.

The most prolific cause or headache
is catarrhal Invitations. Opiates and
bromides afford only short respite
The mental effort to accommodate
must be stopped to produce perma'
nent relief. This can only be done
with properly ground glasses. G. d
Bruce Tudor, M. U. o., Tudor Optical
company's eye expert prescribes al
spectacles, from direct examination
of the reflex, doing away with al
guess work. Mr.. Tudor will be in Kali
ispell two days, November 10 end IL
on his way to Spokane, Seattle and
Portland, at Fitch's drug store. Nc
charge for examination. See him.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-11-05

~ ANA-SASf''@AAeA
SAY WORD,
chester. l heard him shouting my
name at the door of my room. Imme-
diately he was back again at Aunt
Agathas door.
''By lingo, this is Queerr' he called.
"What do you suppose has become OF
JackY
isn't he in his roomY' demanded
the elder Renham, and his voice was
so close that l shivered. Evidently
he was at the board trying the switches
to see where the alarm originated.
''Never mind the gong, father!" cried
Tom. THE burglars downstairs.
That's where he is. And I'll bet
hundred that jacks already down
there looking for him.
"For heavens sake, be careful Tomw
called his father. Don't shoot Jack
by mistake or let him shoot your
Don't fire at all, Toni" This in
Nellie's voice. eff you think it's
burglar, just tell him to go away. Ask
him if he's Jack. Be sure, Toni Do
not shoot till you've asked him If he's
Jackp'
These somewhat incoherent remarks
| seemed to be flung after Tom, who, l
| judged, must be upon the main stair
way, The gong had stopped ringing,
and could hear more plainly.
you stay with me, Nellie" heard
| Aunt Agatha say. There was pause,
and then she called from her door to
| Mr.. Renham, who seemed to be stand
| ing at the head of the stairs holding
communion with his son below.
George what does Tom say?"
HE says the door into the basement
hall is locked and the keys gone, prob
| ably on the other SIDE" responded
Renham. Hes afraid Jack chased the
locked the door,"
A long and wild cry from Nellie
greeted this alarming statement.
ooh, Aunt Agatha" she walled, "the
burglar has got Jack locked down in
the basement, and he's killing him!'
There was the sound of struggle
and of Aunt Agatha's voice command
| ing Nellie not to go somewhere, I'M
doubtedly to my rescue.
1 L
love him. This is my punishment, my
just punishment. I told him l didn't
love him tonight because l was jealous
of Grace Curtis, and now he's dead
and will never know.
These words came to me with such
overwhelming force that l forgot ev-
erything else, and l came out of that
closet as though propelled by spring.
Nellie had escaped from her aunt, who
was pursuing her along the hall, and
the room was empty. When reached
the hall, the two women were on the
stairs. l could see only the backs of
two servants who were hanging over
the banister rail.
Joy had restored my wits to me, and
could recognize an opportunity. l
lodged back into the room and got my
dress suit case, which thrust into my
own apartment without being OBJ
served. Then l walked calmly down
the hall to the head of the stairs.
The servants saw me and yelled at
the tops of their voices: "Mr. Alden's
up here! He's safe! He isn't MUIR
deredr'
The next instant Nellie came flying
upstairs and ran straight into my
arms. Neither of us found it necessary
to say word.
why, confound it, Jack, where were
your yelled Tom from below. Il
looked into your ROOM"
Il was hunting for the burglar" !
responded calmly.
"That's what we're all doing" he re-
piled. And we continued to do it for
! large part of the night, but we didn't
get clew. The affair is wrapped in
mystery to this day. Not even Nellie
knows.