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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24
ENGLAND LIKES OUR WAYS.
Manufacturers Come Across the Sea
to Learn the Systems in Amer
lean Workshops:

In a recent report United States Con-
suit Halstead. at Birmingham, England.
thinks he is justified in saying that the
British manufacturing industry is be-
ing rebuilt on American systems.
If an investigation could be made of
the establishments in that country
which are nov working under American
influence in enc way or another the re-
suits would be surprising, Mr.. Halstead
opines. In the district covered by Con-
sui Halstead he can name a.great num-
Der of Americans who are at work in
British shops and who are engaged in
the introduction of American methods.
In a number of other cases the shops
are presided over by young men who
have been sent to the United States and
there have absorbed the spirit and meth
DDS of the American establishments.
Then again, during the last few years
there has been an Amy of visitors to the
United States in the shape of delegations
from associations of English manufac-
turers. all of whom have brought back
some American notions, while yet re-
luctant to acknowledge the leadership
of America in this respect.
Mr.. Halstead cites a number of cases
of the importation of American labor
into that country, particularly in the
iron trade, and in some of these cases
the innovation was found to be such a
desirable one that the men were the
a of bringing others from the oun
try AROUND Pittsburg.
The consul adds, however, as a warn
ing to any adventurous Americans who
may think all the above promising, | may
say that no American workmen appear
ing at even those works would be en-
gagged. If Americans are wanted in any
capacity in any English industry the
employers prefert to select and import
their own men,"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24

Man of Learning Shows Ordinary
Person the Knack in Load
Lifting.

The commission man and the electrl-
cal engineer were walking east in Mon
roe street. "A slender workman with a
huge sack of cement on, his shoulder
crossed their path, relates the Chicago
Daily News.
Just look at that little chap" said
the commission man. He must be a
Sandow in miniature"
Not so strong as you think" OBJ
iected the engineer. Il have seen
skilled workmen lit loads of almost ia
credible weight and they were not par
ticularly muscular. It's all a knacH.
They have little tricks of the trade
which they employ, most of it on the
balancing order. If you notice, you VIII
observe that if a person does the same
thing many times he will learn to DO
things easily, even to lifting and carry
ing weights. Now. here is a case in
point. Do you see that pile Of boards
there on the curb? That Italian woman
is getting firewood from the. scraps and
bits across the street. She has, | ven
ture to say, all of a hundred pounds OF
wood in that pile, She will put, that On
her head and walk away~with it, carry
ing a bigger load than you or can
lift. Just wait here a minute and you
will see how easily she does the trick.
The two stopped beside the boards
and just because they stopped and
looked another man did the same. Soon
another man and a boy Joined the group
and before the woman had returned
with more salvage quite a crowd of GU
rious people stood around her plum
der.
In nowise disconnected with her sud-
den rise in popularity, the woman
plodded across the street. Lifting up
one end of the pile. she slipped a piece
Of rope under and looped it around the
boards. The other end she fastened in
like manner. Then she drew from I'M
der her skirt a turEaped cushion which
she placed firmly on her head.
The engineer pulled his friend for
ward. Now, watch her tackle that" he
whispered, eagerly.
The woman, a spare, lean creature,
moved toward the place where the en-
gineer stood. She gave him a friendly
smile which showed yellow teeth far
back. Quickly lifting up one end of the
pile of boards. she turned to him and
with peremptory suddenness said:
Here you, hold here"
Before he knew what he was doing
the engineer found himself lifting up
his end of the boards, while the woman,
stopping, lifted up the other, getting
under the pile at the same time, bunch
ing her head forward until she had
the boards poised On the turban.
Lego" she ordered and stalked Off.
quite a knack," murmured the COM
mission man. But the electrical engi-
neer was so busy digging a splinter from
the bali of his thumb that he failed to
reply to the comment.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24
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&
PROTECTING WATER PIPES,
How Winter Time Annoyances May
Be Overcome by a Simple
Device.

| am speaking from actual expe-
rience with a 60-foot stand-pipe under
a tank, and also with another tank
only 80 feet high. Both of these
pipes are one and one-half inch diam
eter. We tried several methods, and
found the present plan entirely salts
factory. 1t may seem rather expen-
sive, but such a job to be improperly
done is much more expensive. as we
have found by experience. The dia-
gram will show just how we do 1t,
says the Rural New Yorker. Make a
four-inch pipe of heavy galvanized
iron in sections like stovepipe, each
made to slip over the next. Every
second section should have four cop
per wires run through holes in the
pipe ON four sides and opposite to each
other, and the wire soldered on the
outside, also solder the holes up
tight. AS you put each section on,
fastcn these wires so the water pipe
is in the middle of the galvanized pipe.
If inconvenient to d%isconnecC your
water pipe to slip these pipes over the
top, then crimp and fasten at top and
bottom with small short stove bolts.
Screw heads on the outside. Then
put the boards on as shown in dia-
gram. Be sure always to break joints.
Do not wrap pipes with, anything;
leave them bare; paper and asbestos
get wet in summer and freeze in win
ter. Do not try to keep the water
from freezing in the pipes by letting
water run through them; it will not
work under most conditions. Unless
the water is very warm in he tank.
it will form ice and freeze quicker run
ming than if not running. If you
have a windmill to supply the water
by letting the water run and also the
mill, you Will be all right, but any
other kind of a supply will no be
satisfactory. 1 use a gasoline engine
and pump every night just before go
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24
Road Drag,

feet long. The sketch shows its con-
struction. Use short sections of oak to
hold the two planks about 20 inches
apart. Shoe the lower front edges.
Two three-fourths inch rods "a inches
long. with rings at the front ends and
threads cut on the opposite ends, should
be used to bolt the drag solidly togeth-
err. Nail the cross pieces into position
with No. 40 wire spikes. Put heavy
washers on the rods next to the hitching
rings. also back of the burrs.
Put a detachable seat or platform on
top for the driver. Use a chain, hooked
into each ring, and make the hitch so
thai the dirt may be worked toward the
center of the track as required.
Use a two or three-horse team, es
may be needed. As soon as the road
begins to get dry enough, go over a
short piece of track, giving it a good
dragging. This treatment will fill the
ruts, distribute the moist earth evenly
over the track and slightly elevate the
center. 1t will pound, plaster and
cement the dirt solidly together and
leave a smooth, hard surface that will
shed water readily, unless it be very
sandy.
After every rain. when the road be-
gins to dry cut, repeat this treatment
1t will produce results on anyroad that
will both surprise and please everyone
who drives owe the track. There will
be no ruts, but a hard, cemented surface
as long as this frequent treatment is
maintained.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24
HAD FINE EYE FOR HAIRS.
Professor Of Natural History Was Too
Keen for Mischievous
Students.

An eminent naturalist who holds-and
fills, as well-a chap in a university, an
nounced to the members, of his class one
morning that he had something of I'M
usual interest to show them, relates
Youths Companion.
IL have here, gentlemen" he said,
some hairs from the skin of q young
crested seal. and we will proceed to study
their peculiarities.",
Unfolding the small piece of paper that
contained them, he spread the hairs out
on a sheet Of white cardboard and turned
to get his microscope, which was on q
desk behind him.
While his back was turned a roguish
student quickly swept the hairs off the
desk into his hand, and substituted others
very. closely resembling them.
Young gentlemen" said the professor,
severely, a moment later, as he glanced
at the sheet Of cardboard, there has
been some underground work here. These
are mole hairs"
They never attempted to fool the pro-
lessor again. g
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24
Killing Rats and Mice.

To kill rats and mice, fill any deep,
smooth vessel of considerable ca
pacity to within six inches Of the top
with water cover the surface with
bran, and set the vessel in a place
most frequented by the pests. In at
tempting to get at the bran they will
fall in and be drowned. You a get
one or two dozen at a time by this
method when they are thick. They
are SO wise one need not sit up again
for some time. Another way is to
sprinkle concentrated I've in their
rms The moisture of the ground
will dissolve it, and when they step
In it it viii eat their ~feet1Farm and
Home.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24
THE ROADS,.
The Splendid Results Which May By
Obtained with the Proper
Device.

The season for bad roads is now APP
preaching and it is a good Time to
mediate over the matter as we slow
'ly iwend our way goYer-or rather
,through-some. of the muddy %thorough-
fares of this great commonwealth.
The cost of making and maintaining
a good roadbed has been frequently
quoted at many thousands of dollars per
mile. We 90 not believe in these ex-
travagant figures. Many Of Il roads
can be greatly improved and maintained
in excellent condition. at a moderate
cost, if the work is in the hands OF the
right man or men.
1t is wonderful what good results can
be secured with a good road drag. The
Rural Advocate drag is again illustrated
and briefly described:
1t is made of oak plank two inches
thick, one foot wide, and about eight
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24
Doing Great Work.

Torisant, Mo, Dec. l9th.-(Special.)-
That Dodd's Kidney Pills ere doing a
great work in curing the more terrible
forms of Kidney Disease, such az 'Bright's
Disease, Dropsy and Diabetes, everybody
knows. But it must also be noted that
they are doing a still greater work in WHIP
ing out thousands Of cases of the earlier
stages of Kidney Disease. Take for in
stance Mrs. Peter Barteau, of this place.
She says
II have been subject to pains in my
back and knees for about three years, but
since l have been taking Dodd's Kidney
Pills l have been entirely cured"
Others here tell similar stories. In fact,
in this part of Missouri there are scores
of people who have cured the early symp-
toms of Kidney Disease with Dodd's Kid
ney Pills. The use of the great American
Kidney Remedy thus saved not only the
lives of Kidney Disease victims, but thou.
sands of other Americans from years OF
sufferings.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24
TWO YEARS OF AGONY.
Box Of Cuticura Cured Baby's
Awful Humor.

when my sister was eighteen months
CID a humor broke out on her shoulders,
extending clear across the back. For two
years it caused her intense suffering. 1t
would scab over and then crack open and
a watery matter ooze from it. Then the
tcabs would fall off and it would be raw
for a time. We had several different doc
tors and tried everything we could think
of, but without effecting a cure. Then
we got one cake of Cuticura Soap and one
box of Cuticura Ointment, which cured
her completely and without scar or blem-
lsh. (Signed) Lille Chase Walker, 5
fremont St.. Woodfords. Me-"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24
r,,l+;vation of the Orchard.

when the orchard is set is the time
20 baein the treatment that is to be
continued from year to year. If the
cultivation of the orchard is begun
early the roots will seek the depths OF
tbe coil from the first, and the cult
vator can run over them year after
year without doing them injury. If the
land is not cultivated at all the surface
soil becomes filled with roots and IN
the course of years and the ground will
ba then plowed with difficulty
TarmerD' Review.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24

Whether it is a misfortune to go to the
grave unsung depends somewhat on the
qualifications of the singer.-Snart Set.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24

About the most terrific combination
that has developed up to date is an in
toxicated chauffeur and an automobile
Boston Transcript.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24

A small cottage here on earth is bet
ter than a castle in the air.-Chicago
Daily News.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24

The cynic gets his opinions before the
mirror.-Chicago Tribune.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24

A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.
itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
Your druggist viii refund money if PAzo
OINTMENT fails to cure in 6 to Il days. 5Oc.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24
10 Cure a Cold in One Dav

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund the money If it fails to cure.
E. w. Groves signature is on each box. 2oc.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24

That American heiress who refused to
pay $4,000 for q count may have Tea-
soned that this was an overcharge of &c.,
500. 70.-Chicago Daily News.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-24

Piso'sC Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
as a cough cure.-J. w. OBrien, 80 Third
Ave-, n, Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. 9, 1900.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-03-04
CONGRESSIONAL CON-
vENTlON.

BY the direction of the Republican con-
a. greSSional committee OF the Second con-
eresioaaI district Of the state Of Mime
sofa, a convention of the Republican vot-
~ers and all other voters without regard 20
past political affiliations who believe In
the principles advocated by the Repub-
tiican party. and who endorse its policies.
city of Mankato. Mimi, on\Wednesday,
the 10th day of March, A. d. 1904, at
1880 o'clock p. m. of that day for the
purpose of electing two delegates ana
two alternates to represent said district
in the Republican national convention to
e be held in the city Of Chicago. on the
1ist day of June. A. D., 1904. -,
The said congressional convention vii!
Soe composed Of delegates from the several
, counties in the district to be chosen by
q the Republican county conventions held
in the respective counties for that pur-
Each county in said district shall be
entitled to one delegate for each two
. hundred and fifty votes or major fraction
thereof cast for the Republican candi-
: date for president in the year 1900. in
such county, and each county in ADDITION
thereto shall be allowed five delegates
at large All county conventions in said
district for the election of delegates to
said convention shall be held on Tues
day, the 18th day of March, A. D., 1904.
All primary elections is accordance there
with must be conducted as prescribed by
the primary election law of the state of
Minnesota.
Dated this 18th day of February, A. D.
1904.
By order of the Republican congression-
al committee. Second congressional dis
trict c. L. BENEDICT,
Chairman.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-03-04
Climate and Health.

The health department of Washing
ton has issued an address that should
be extensively read and commented up
on. 1t calls pneumonia the white
plague and says twenty nine negroes to
the 1000 inhabitants die annually in the
District of Columbia of that plague
while eleven whites to the 1000 die of it.
The report calls attention to the fact
that nearly three times as many ne
groes as whites are victims of the dis
ease and then says: "There is no rea'-
son to believe that colored people are
exposed to the infective germ more than
are white people, but they represent not
only that portion Of the community
which is least able, by reason of poverty
and ignorance, to protect itself against
unusual severity of weather, but they
represent also a race removed by but
comparatively few years from a tropi
cal climate, and, therefore, not well en-
dowed with the power to resist the Sc
we're winters of more northern ATTITUDES"
That is very important statement
and if it is true it is little less than
a crime to encourage the negroes to
migrate northward. The health de-
partment has made about the same re-
port as to consumption and as this dis
ease is contagious the white race Suf-
fer by the northward movement of the
colored people.
1t is not their fault that the negroes
are moving northward. They are seek
ing to better their condition, not know
ing that pneumonia and consumption are
lying in wait to catch them in the
northern climates. 1t never occurs to
them that their race having occupied
the tropics of Africa since prehistoric
times is wholly untitled for the severity
of a northern climate. They are not
learning this fact as readily as are
the little new conner sparrow birds which,
for few winters after being introduced
here from milder climates of Europe,
remained through the winter but are
now leaving to migrate southwark as
winter approaches.
Any close observer who has travelled
in Florida must have noted that the ne
groes there are happy. and contented.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-03-04
HERE'S A WORD FOR DAD.

We happened in 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 coat while many a mother is
sleeping. He makes the weekly hand
out for the butcher, the grocer, the milk
man, 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 noise during the night
dad is kicked in the back and made to
90 downstairs to find the burglar and
kill him. Mother darns the socks, but
dad buys the socks in the first place and
needles and yarn afterwards. Mother
does up the fruit; well but dad buys it
all, and jars and sugar cost like the mis-
chief.
Dad buys chickens for the Sunday din
ner, carves them himself, and draws the
neck from the ruins after everyone else
is served. "What is home without a
mother?" Yes, that's all right; but
'.What is home without father?' Ten
chances to one is boarding 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 we will miss you when you're
gone.
To the above may be properly added
the question of kindergarten teacher
to her class: "What animal supplies
you with food and Leather for your
shoes?" and the reply of bright little
boy: Gather" Rainy River Gazette.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-03-04

and collect the money from the news
papers in this side.
At Nagasaki, the ''taking-off" point
for the mainland, messages are trans
ferred from the Japanese government
lines to the Great Northern company
(Danish), and cross either to Shanghai
or Vladivostok. From Vladivostok the
Northern company's line follows the
railway track across frozen Siberia to
Libau, on the Baltic But few of the
American press messages take that
course, although there is in existence a
sort of promise by Russia that no mes
sages shall be interfered with.
At Shangai begins the cable of the
Eastern Extension company, and the
eastern cable takes up the thread at
Bombay. From Bombay, also, the Indo-
European line starts away and travels
overland by Bushire and Teheran, Tifiis,
Odessa, and Warsaw to Berlin, and so to
England.
The American Commercial Pacific
cable goes to the Philippines, and does
not touch Japan. The possible routes
for the direct transmission of news from
Japan, are therefore, but two in number
the overland Russia route and the
coast route via India and the Mediter-
ranean or India and Europe. The bulk
of the telegraphic work for the enlight-
eminent of the world in general falls up
on the southern or coast route
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-03-04
THEY DO NOT ADVERTISE.

The Free Press has been requested to
publish the following:
We sometimes receive inquiries as to
the standing of persons who advertise
themselves in newspapers and magazines
as Christian Science practitioners. We
advertisement.
Christian Science healing is not a
thing of barter and sale; it is a holy
ministry into which greed, selfshness,
and self-seeking cannot enter. The COM
mercialism that bids for patronage and
dollars is inconsistent with the true
sense of Christ-healing and must ulti-
mately prove to be a delusion to both
practitioner and patient. Christian
Scientists know that those who would
avail themselves of the healing power
of this Science must turn to it natural
ly and without undue influence
1t may be urged that unless Christian
Scientists advertise, the public will not
know how nor where to find practi-
toner, but this will not suffice as an
excuse for adopting methods not in keep
ing with the proper reserve and dignity
which BELTS the high calling of our min
istry. Those who are ready for Chris
tian Science will experience no difficulty
in finding help and healing. There are
but few communities in which some
beneficiary of Christian Science cannot
be found; the churches of the denomina
ton are many, the free reading rooms
maintained by the churches are easily
accessible, and comprehensive directory
of practitioners is published in the Off
cial organs of the denomination. M.
answer these inquiries by saying that
Christian Scientists do not advertise,
and it is safe to assume that the persons
who thus bring themselves to the atten-
ton of the public are not in any man.
ner identified with our denomination nor
with it's healing work. The following
reference to the methods employed by
unauthorized persons who pose as Chris
tan Scientists, is copied from pre-
vious issue of The Sentinel:
"It is unnecessary for us to say that
methods of advertising akin to those of
quack doctors and vendors of patent nos
trums are not countenanced by Chris
tan Scientists. On the contrary, they
are reprehended.
christian Scientists have done all
they properly can do in the way of adj
vertising when they unobtrusively make
known the fact that they hold them
selves in readiness to respond to calls
for healing sickness or otherwise aiding
those who desire such services as come
within their province or line of duty"
The above is as true today as when
it was written, and correctly sets forth
the attitude of Christian Scientists as
being one of willingness and readiness to
help those who desire their ministrations,
rather than that of soliciting the at
tention and patronage of persons who
may be attracted by skilfully worded