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The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17

The number of deserters from the
army continues to be large. Gen. Mac
Arthur reports 1874, or more than 20
per cent of the enlisted strength of
the department of California, during
the last fiscal year. He cannot give
any reason, as the men are better fed,
better paid and better treated than
those in any other army. But the op-
portunities for profitable employment
are better in this country than in any
other, and many of those who enlist
get tired of army life and the chance
of successful escape leads them to de-
sert.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17

Annie Rooney, young woman Of
good character in Seattle, WASH, has
adopted the uniform of United States
marine and declares her intention of
wearing it instead of the skirts in
which members of her sex usually en-
fold their persons. The police say
there is no law which will prevent her
carrying out her purpose, as she does
not seek to disguise her sex by wear
ing the habiliments of man.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17

A shrinkage in stocks is not SO ex-
shilarating as bubbling boom, but il
has advantages of its own.z For many
years We have been fed on tales Of
suddenly acquired wealth, and OF the
mad extravagances of its possessors.
We have heard how Jones has cleaned
up $50,000. 600 by combining ten fac
tories worth $1,000. 900 apiece into =
800, ,000, 900 trust, and how Mrs. Jones
buys her diamonds by the quart with
out asking the price. The strain il
beginning to relax now. Some gfgaD-s
tic fortunes have been wired out:
Dthers have been cut In two.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17

Religious statistics of the German
empire, according to the recently tabu-
lated results of the census of 1900.
show that 6211 per cent. of the popula-
ton are Protestant, and almost all
members of one or another of the va
riOus state churches, and numbering in
all So, ,231 ,1O4. The Roman Catholics
number 20,321, AL. OF Greek Catholics
there are 6,472, and of "other Chris
tians" 1O3, 1872. In the whole German
empire there are only 586,83S who
register themselves as Jews-fewer
perhaps than In the borough Of Man
haitian, New York.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17

A census of Rush county, Kan,
shows that every man in it, with the
exception of Is, raised some wheat this
year. The Is we're laborers on the
railroad and around the towns. Each
business man and merchant in the
county had wheat out. Every business
man at Lacrosse harvested more than
1000 bushels each. A total of 700
bushels for every man, woman and
child in the county was raised.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17
CouhterfeIter Caunht.

A counterfeiter was discovered in
Columbus last week. He had passed
some twelve or fifteen counterfeit
silver dollars when arrested, and
more were found on his person. His
name is Pitman. He is an employe
of the Tombigbee mill, and is now
in the custoy Of United States Dep
uty Marshal Saunders.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17
He Has Resigned.

State Superintendent of Educa-
ton Whitfield has received notice
that J. H. Kennedy had resigned az
county superintendent of education
Of Simpson county. A number Of
charges had been preferred against
Kennedy before the State board,
and on receipt of his resignation the
State board this morning dismissed
the charges. This action on Ken
nedy's part will probably save him .
deal of trouble.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17

Mr.. Rockefeller says he IS tempted
to 60 on the platform and tell the
people what religion has done for him.
Before taking that step Mr.. Rockefel-
Ter should let religion do a whole lot
more for him. The showing he could
make at present would not be deeply
impressive to the consumers of OIL
Kansas City Journal.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17
Prisoners Escape.

! Two prisoners, Martin Thomp-
son and George Anderson, escaped
from the DcSoto county Jail at Her.
nando last week by breaking the
lock. One of the prisoners, George
Anderson, y, who was in for stealing
q COW, returned: and gave himself
up, but no clew to the whereabouts
Of Thompson, who was guilty, Of
horse stealing, has been discovered.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17

The biologists and photographers
employed by the Saxon government
have completed a map at a cost of
100000. 1t is on scale of one to
$4,000 and is in 123 sheets. 1t shows
the topography, geology and water sup
ply, exactly outlined, of every part of
the kingdom of Saxony in a manner
hitherto, it is said, unapproached.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17
Mississippi StateNtws
No engineer o. Electrician.

No Engineer Or Electrician.
= The visitors to the capitol are
still walking up the stairs. The
capitol commission has as yet not
appointed any one to run the eleva-
tors, neither has it named the elec-
trician or the engineer. It is not
known when these appointment
will be made. The secretary OF
State says he has no authority to fill
these places, and it is not believed
that he will make the appointments.
If the appointments are made, and
they will have to be made as soon as
the weather turns cold, as the build
ing must be heated, it is believed
that they will be made by the capitol
commission.
No New Seats for the soIens.
The statement recently given out
that the capitol commission would
perhaps be able to buy the desks and
furniture for the legislative halls
and not use the old desks appears to
have been at least premature, if not
wholly incorrect. At the meeting
of the commission last week the dis
cussion of this subject seemed to de-
velop the sentiment of the commits
sion as being favorable to putting
in the old desks for the next session
and leaving it to the legislature to
provide by appropriation for the
new equipment.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17

Mr.. Roberts, treasurer of the United
States, says that good fortune has
added to the gold in the treasury
vaults from the close of August, 1898,
to September 1, 1903, $393, ,98O, ,295, or
very nearly $SO,O0O,000 a year ON the
average" No other nation ever ap-
preached such an increase of treasure.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17

At a convention of women over in
Germany the other day it was de-
clared that corsets and jewels were
barbarous. They will never get them
abolished, however, until society can
be convinced that they are likely to be
productive of large families.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17
HatENss...a
Estimates on Property.

The trustees of the Deaf and
Dumb Institute last week instruct
ed the superintendent to secure es-
Inmates of the value Of the institute
property ~on. State street, in Jack
SON.. This is in, pursuance Of a reso-
luton Of the last legislature. The
property viii probably be sold next
year and buildings constructed in
the suburbs.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17
The Natchez Mardi Gras,

At largely attended meeting of
the Natchez Mardi Gras Association
last week the Hon. P. w. Mulvihill
was reelected president; Karl Leh-
mann, vice-president; James J. Cole,
secretary, and J. H. Chamblis, treas
urer. This is Mr.. Mulvihill's sew
enth term as president. All elec-
tons were by reclamation. The f.
nance committee reported a larger
fund pledged than ever before, and
a royal time is anticipated.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17
Clerks to Have Carnival.

The fall carnival by the Clerks
Association of Meridian is now prac-
tically assured, !, as the necessary
amount to defray the cost has been
raised by public subscription. The
amount contributed assures success
in all particulars. The exact date of
the festival will be announced later
It is expected, however, that the big
parade will be on Thanksgiving day.
The carnival will, of course, be in
progress for several days.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Alabama legislature has passed
a two-edged law which will not please
either unfair employers or unfair en-
ployes. Both boycotting and black.
listing are made statutory oftenses for
which suitable punishments are pro-
vided.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17
Gin and Cotton Burned.

The gin of J. W. johnson, located
seven miles from Jackson, together
with six bales of cotton and guam
tity Of cotton seed, burned last week.
The loss will be. 81, 900, with very
little insurance. s-
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17
More Indians leave.

A carload Of Choctaw Ipdians
left Meridian last week Tor the In
dian Territory to take possession.
Iof lap1 alluttd b the Dawes Com
|niaeipl sdeEi4a tts session in that'
city.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17
Ready Novenber I.

! General Manager Chas. s. CLARK
of The Hodilk q Ohio railroad, states,
that the company will occupy their
new 100000 freight depot in Me-
ridian November /.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17
Forest Fires Raging In Lauderdale.

roeeSe rsree Raging ~ Iauoero~'o'
Disastrous forest fires are reported
from the sections north and east OF
Meridian as result of the long
drouth. The damage to fences and
to timber is reported to be quite
heavy.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17

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The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-17

wv uuA WV SI11S
A distinct earthquake shock was
felt at several points in Missouri
on the 5th inst. =. 49,. :.
During a trial at Greenport, L. I.
the submarine boat Shark, while
making run beneath the water,
accidentally rammed the torpedo
boat Dahlgreen, tearing a hole in
the vessel four feet long. The
Shark was not injureo
Congress, at the coming session,
will probably be asked to appropriate
$15o,ooo for. the purpose of recov-
ering the bones of John Paul Jones,
who is buried in Paris, and bring
ing Them back to this country.
Three persons killed outright, two
fatally injured and four Others
more or less seriously hurt, with
enormous property damage, is the
net result Of tornadoes that prevail
ed near Hamilton, Greenwood copn-
county, Kansas, en- the 7th 4 !
The flying machine. cehstrukted
BY Prof. Lemly, Of the Smithsonian
Institute, with the aid Of govern
ment funds, proved 4 dismal full
ure when trial. trip was attempted
at Wide Water, Va. -
IA E a8
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-08
THE DUTCHMAN'S BURDEN.

Continued From Page Twenty-six.
that. Despite his amiability in letting
the Javanese rulers lord it with their
pomp, he takes care the lowborn Jaw
anese shall never forget the Difference
due to him.
When a Dutchman rides through
Java, the natives squat down on their
knees wherever he passes. If a native
rides on a horse or donkey, down he
must jump when the Dutchman APP
proaches, to wait on foot until the
white mightiness has passed. A ma
tive hides his cigarette behind him
when he meets white man.
The Dutchman has numbered nearly
everything in the Dutch East Indies
except the Achinese and the Battaks.
He has numbered the bridges and the
roads and the shelters and the oxen
and the huts. Taxes are collected by
numbers, repairs are made according
to numbers. This part of the gov
eminent is as orderly as a Dutch
canal boat.
He has made the Javanese operate
their farms with the precision with
which Holland goose girl marshals
her flock.
His civil service is as orderly as the
bikes in the Fatherland. A man en-
tiers the colonial service at about 5000
a year. He goes out in the land and
becomes a deputy controlling clerk.
That means that he takes the census
and examines crops and does the other
colonial jobs of a man of all work.
After a certain number of years he
becomes a controlling clerk himself.
Then he is sort of glorified police
sergeant. He gets $120 a month in
this position, with q rather elegant
house.
The next step is to be a controlling
clerk of the first class. Then, if he
has luck, he may become a resident
and be a little fat white King with a
steady salary, and a years vacation
every ten years, and a pension at the
end of a faithful quarter of a century.
The Dutch official is an educational
prodigy. He must know Dutch, Eng
lish, German, Malay and one native
Javanese dialect.
He also knows everything there is
to know about native rule and laws
and customs. He knows so much
about everything else under the sun
that the foreign visitor, after a heart
toheart talk with the average Dutch
official, is glad to meet a simple King
or Malay and talk with him about the
weather or the state of the tobacco
trade.
The Dutchman takes his burden
philosophically. The Governor Cen
eral sits in his palace and the elder
brothers of Kings sit in their resi-
dences, and they nod their heads
placidly over the American problems
In the Philippines, while a thousand
miles away the patriotic or murderous
Achinese Whichever one chooses) is
impressing Dutch troops with his
earnest desire for no Dutch in his.
The Dutchman does not carry the
usual white mans burden of brandy
and whisky, which the Englishman
and the American drink in the tropics,
presumably because it is the surest
death that they can find. The Dutch
man drinks gin.
He treats it lovingly. Wherever gin
is stored, one may see natives turn
ing the barrels daily in the sun, so
that the drink shall be mellowed
properly.
Gin is good for the liver and the
liver is a delicate matter in the tropics.
So the Dutchman generally lives to
draw his pension from a grateful gov
eminent.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-08
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Heidi Plow Company still takes the
lead with farm machinery, horseshoe
ing and blacksmithing. Always the
best and always the cheapest. AZ West
Broad street.
Haslam &c Co., merchant .tailors, are
the peoples choice for full dress suits.
Our Prince Alberts and Tuxedo suits
can not be excelled. Bull street.
James j. Joyce, corner Liberty and
Abercorn streets, fish. Saratoga chips,
tobasco sauce, Roquefort cheese, after
cheese, Franco-American soups, finest
homemade sausage.
James J. Joyce, grocery and meat
market, still takes the lead. 1t will
pay any person to visit this reliable
store and market. It's fine.
Edward j. Kennedy, the high art
merchant tailor and importer. The
finest wooden suitings; for swell dress
ers and business and professional men.
Bull street.
Edward Lovelps Sons are showing
fine line of mechanics tools. Get prices
on shelf hardware and implements. You
can save a nice per cent. lis Brough-
ton.
Attend the Richmond Business Col
lege. They fit and prepare you for
the every day duties of life, making
your success sure and certain. Act at
once.
J. L. Morrison e. Co., leaders of low
prices on dry goods and notions Read
the business locals in the News for spe-
cial bargains. % Broughton street.
Metzger & Brunson are agents for
the celebrated Lion Brand yarns, supe-
rior in weight, quality and coloring:
try them and you win always buy
them.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-08
Faithful Dad.

From the Stevens County Reveille.
We happened in a home the other
night and over the parlor door saw the
legend worked in letters of red. what
is home without a mother" Across the
room was another brief, God bless
our home"
Now, what's the matter with God
bless our dad?" He gets up early,
lights the fire, boils an egg, grabs his
dinner-pail and wipes off the dew of
the dawn with his boots while many a
mother is sleeping. He makes the
weekly hand-out for the butcher, the
grocer, the milkman and baker and
his little pile is badly worn before he
has been home an hour. He stands off
the bailiff and keeps the rent paid up.
If there is a noise during the night
dad is kicked in the back and made to
go downstairs to find the burglar and
kill him. Mother darns the socks, but
dad bought the socks in the first place
and the needles and the yarn after
ward. Mother does up the fruit; WELL
dad bought it all, and jars and sugar
cost like the mischief
Dad buys chickens for the Sunday
dinner, carves them himself and draws
the neck from the ruins after every
one else is served. What is home
without a mother?" Yes, that is all
right; but what is home without a fa-
Their? Ten chances to one it is a board
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-08
oZoMULsIoN is SOLD BY AL DRUGGISTS

three river watchers regularly employ
ed to represent the authority of the
Conservators were waylaid by a gang
of about a hundred Rebeccaites. One
they left for dead, the others were
badly injured. A body of Reservists
was drafted into the district and en-
ployed as extra watchers. Indignities
awaited them at every turn. Lodgings
were denied them even at the local
police station, and the shopkeepers
would not, or dare not, supply their
wants. One publican supplied the
watchers with refreshment. His bar
rels of beer were seized, their contents
found their way down the capacious
throatS of "Rebecca and her daugh-
ters," and the casks were flung into
the river.
The local authorities have made
some sort of belated effort to draft ex-
ira police into the disturbed district
but the occasion of the outbreak is, for
the present year at any rate, now
practically a thing of the past, and
the exhausted salmon are making their
way down the winding course of the
Wye toward the sea.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-08
.'REBECCA'S DAUGHTERS"
Quaint Poaching Scenes on "A Welsh
Salmon River
From the Pail Mall Gazette.

NINtE
From the Pail Mall Gazette.
"Rebecca and her daughters will as
semble on the rocks at 1890" In re-
Spouse to this strange summons there
comes together from over the hills of
Radnorshire a gathering of people so
quaint that one rubs ones eyes and
wonders whether the time is really the
beginning of Ehe twentieth century.
They are perhaps a hundred al
together. Their faces are black, they
wear shawls, bonnets, and other ILL
fitting articles of female attire, and
they carry lanterns and murderous-
looking spears. The assemblage COM
plete, the leader who answers to the
name of Rebecca, gives the word to
move, and they all march off to a
place hard by where the River wye
tunlbles and losses among the bould-
ers, but ever and anon wiGens into ST.
lent pools. 1t is the shallow head of
one of these deep, smooth stretches of
water that the motley crew seem to
regard as the scene of the accomplish
ment of their mysterious purpose.
The lanterns dance quantity upon
the surface of the river spears are
thrust into the stream, and as often as
not the stroke is followed by a great
splashing, and a struggling. simmer
ing salmon is dragged out and given
it's death blow upon the rocks. BY and
by the actors in this weird drama
march away with their booty. Some
of the fish they have left ostentatious-
ly upon the banks. Here and there they
nail salmon to the door of justice
of the peace or some other person to
them obnoxious. The best of the fish
al Of -aXarfipc TArfna
of a penny or twopence a pound. or
taken to farmhouses and cottage
homes among the hills to be smoked
and dried for future consumption.
What strange rites are these of
which we have been witnesses? Sim
ply a manifestation of that species of
lawlessness which goes by the name
of Rebeccaism. which first broke out
in Wales in 1S43 during the anti-turn-
pike agitation, and of which there are
still "reminiscences when the people
of any particular district suffer under
any real or imaginary grievance. The
outbreak which has occurred in the
Rhayader district of Radnorshire dur
ing the last month or two is trace
able to the efforts of the Wye Board
of ConserYators and the Wye Fishery
Association to protect the salmon when
they ascend the river to it's furthest
reaches for breeding purposes during
the late autumn months. The local in
hahitants have always claimed the
right to take salmon at their own
sweet WILL and poaching in the Upper
wye is a more or less constant COM
plant. This year, however, the con-
servators and the fishery association
have made special efforts to preserve
the fishing during the season, and to
protect the salmon during the close
time and as a consequence individual
poaching has swollen into an organ
lied and, so far, an irresistible move
ment by way Of protest. Thus far the
authorities must own defeat The po-
lice were powerless to interfere. Tha
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-08

little more than a bare rock surmount-
ed by a large pine tree, in which a pair
of eagles built their eyre. In plead
ing with the people of Worcester not
to disturb the eagles. the Senator re-
Gently penned a beautiful little classic
dedicated to the glorious bird that
had nestled on Asnebumskit.
During the coming vacation of Con-
gress he will probably carry out a
plan he has had in mind for some
years, and this is the exploration of
the Island of Marthas Vineyard for
the purpose of discovering whether or
not is was the scene of Shakespeare's
Tempest"
The Senator is much interested in
the idea that Shakespeare's play was
based on an account of the adVen-
lures of Explorer Bartholomew Cos
mold, who, in 1902, spent a winter on
an island off the coast of Massachu-
sets. This island is believed by some
to have been Marthas Vineyard, and
reading of the Shakespearian play
shows Typographical descriptions that
might be fitted to it.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-08
| SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO.
sunday SCHEDULE,

In Effect, Nov 9, 1902,
Subject to change without notice.
ISLE OF HOPE LINE.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-08

ing house, father is under slab and
the landlady is the widow. Dad, here's
to you; you've got your faults-you
may have lots of 'em-but you're all
right, and we will miss you when
you're gone.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-08
THUNDERBoLT LINE.

City Market to Casino via Brough-
ton, ST. Julian, Habersham and Boil
ton Street Junction.
Beginning at 700 a. M, cars leave
the City Market for Thunderbolt ev-
cry Is minutes, until 900 p. m, after
which time cars leave every 10 min
utes.
Cars leave Bolton Street Junction
Is minutes after leaving time at City
Market.
Beginning at 7:05 a. M. cars leave
Thunderbolt for the city every Is
minutes. until 2:25 p. m, after which
time cars leave every 10 minutes as
long as traffic warrants
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-08

Connect at Casino with Thunder
bolt Line.
MONTGOMERY AND THUNDER
BOLT LINE,
Via Cattle Park and Sandfy.
Leave Thun- Leave Mont
derbolt. gomery.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-08
the Northwest

Our candidate has declared" said
the partisan, that his watchword is
We can't be too careful of the public's
interests which" replied the
cynic, freely translated. means we
won't be- II elected. "-P Philadelphia
Press.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-08
WEST END LINE.
Uincoln Park.)

Beginning at 1920 a. M. cars leave
west side of City Market every 40
cars leave each terminal every 20
minutes until midnight
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-08
CoLLINsvILLE LINE.

Obalr GROUNDS ana Dale AVenue.l
Beginning at GAS a. m, cars leave
Bolton and OFT streets every Is min
utes. Returning, cars leave Estill
avenue, and Waters Road at $50 a.
m, and every Is minutes thereafter.
connecting with cars on the Thunder
bolt Line until midnight.