The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-02-01
MISSISSIPPI
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
BY KATE MARKHAM POWER.


In fact, the only supplies for which
the Senator will have to make cash
outlay are dry. goods and -four. AS
Senator McGehee very wisely remarks,
the only way for q farmer to live in
comfort is to live at home and raise
all that is needed for his family's use.
II more of our men would. follow the
example of this Franklin county Sen
ator we would have fewer pessimists.
the country would be better of. the
States credit would advance marvel
ously, and happy homes and contented
families would be the rule VIII re dis
content now reigns in the hard strug-
gle to make ends meet.
Will our people never learn to let
firearms alone? 1t is time steps were
being taken for the enforcement of all
laws bearing on the matter Of carry
ing dangerous weapons. And If we
haven't laws enough we should enact
some more, (this is a good time for
such work.. There are very few
weeks that pass without recording
some serious accident from a pistol in
the hands Of parties who didn't know
it was loaded" or who pointed it in
fun" Another recreation that has re-
Gently become popular is for invisible
parties to shoot (for fun at no given
object, with the result that the bullet
finds a place in the body. of some in
nocent passer-by. Only last week a
Vicksburg gentleman was severely in
jured by a toy rife, reckiessly fired by
unseen parties. The bullet lodged in
the left lung and now a large and de-
pendent family is suffering distress
and %privation, while the Woodworking
father fights death in a hospital. These
things are outrageous and should be
stopped. 1t was Christmas night in
New Orleans that a young lady stand
ing inside the window of a friends
home was shot '(and died from the
wound) by one of a party of gay young
men and women passing, who were
firing pistols instead of f%irecrackers.
The guilty party should have been
made to suffer in this instance and in
all others.
The State has been presented with
a valuable gift, and one which all loyal
citizens will greatly prize. This is a
portrait Of our first territorial govern.
or, Hon. Winthrop Sargent. The
painting is life size and is a finely
executed copy (by a New York artist
of the original portrait Of the distin'
guisbed Mississippian, which was
painted in 1906 by Gilbert Stewart
We are indebted for this gift to Mrs
w. Butler Duncan (torn Sargent), a
granddaughter of Winthrop Sargent
The portrait, in its massive frame, has
an honored place in the State Library
This brings us to say-what we have
long had in our heart to earnestly
urge-that in our new Capitol there
should be, as there is in Virginia, a
portrait gallery, where the people may
see and study and honor the faces o.
the great men who have made this
State what she is. OF course, it would
be impossible to secure all the por
traits that we would wish to hans
there, and that would be entitled t.
position there; but we could get
large number, and it seems to tn,
writer hat the sooner the plan is pu
in motion the better it will be for tn,
State, for us and for all generation
that are to follow us.
The Senate and House took anothe,
holiday last week and enjoyed an
other genuine pleasure trip. Thi
time they went over the much-talked
of new road-the Gulf G. Ship Island
to G%ulfport, thence to various point
of interest along the coast. The Gul
towns are making great fights thes
days for top place on the ladder, an,
each n of half a dozen considers II
self the one and only point suitabl
for the location of the deep water hal
Dor. Their efforts to bring others t
their way of thinking are earnest an
laudable. Not only did several of tn
cities on the coast-Gulfport, Pascs
goula, and Beauvoir, home of Jeffel
son Davis, and others-play hostes
to these august bodies, but the honor
were also shown them by some of tn
vigorous young towns along the Gul
& Ship Island road. That their visi
ors appreciated the trip and all tina
was done for their pleasure wa
proven by the fact that they left Jacl
son Friday morning and did not r.
turn until Tuesday. However, til
trip was instructive as we'll as plea
ant, SO the public will doubtless be sa
isfied.
There was general disappointment
in political circles and among fr
quenters of the legislative lobby whe
the great (and doubtless sensational
p~enitentiary investigation was pos
poned from Wednesday. the 22d,
Thursday, the 29th. A large numbt
Of interested parties had gathered
the Capital City for this special pu
pose and their disappointment W;
freely expressed when, for reasons a