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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-06-04
FARMERS ASK QUESTIONS.
Mr.. Babcock and Other Republican
congressman Bothered with Awk-
ward HETEROGENEOUS.

Giving the farmers taffy before elec-
ton and promising them legislation that
never was intended to m~aterialize. is n
favorlte game of the republican leaders.
1t is therefore not an unexpected pleas
ure to read the first installmept of CUFF
n DUN given out by Hon. joseph
Weeks Babcock, chairman of the re-
publican congressional committee. in
which he brings in the Intelligent
farmer as the standby of the G. O. P.
Mr.. Baocock says he has implicit faith
that the intelligent farmers will vote
the republican ticket, for they have tele-
phones IN their houses and read the
daily newspapers. That Mr.. Babcock
really believes the Intelligent farmer"
VIII support the party in league with the
trusts and corporations is doubtful, for
he is evidently much exercised, though
he says he is not worrying over the out
look for a republican majority in the
next congress. Yet Mr.. Babcock evil
IDENTIFY is alarmed about what the Gin
t%elligent farmer" will do, for he also
says: 1t keeps a member of
busy all the time to answer the questions
they ask him about public affairs"
May be, when he gave out that interview
Mr.. Babcock was thinking of the I'm.
comfortable questions that many of his
W constituents have been asking him,
about the charges of his too close con-
nection with the railroad corporations.
the padding the mails in the interest of
those institutions and his failure to push
his bill to reform the tariff schedule
that shelters the steel trust. though he
declared the tariff must be reformed.
Or possibly he was thinking Of the
charges made by Secretary Bristow that
over 100 republican congressman. in
GLIDING himself, had been mixed I'D
with he post Office grafters. if not in
league with them.
The Intelligent farmer who reads
the daily newspapers could hardly nave
missed knowing about those charges
and a number of other scandals that Mr..
Babcock and his party are responsible
for, and it is hardly any wonder that II
has kept those members of congress
busy, as it has Mr.. Babcock-for hetells
US so-explaining and twisting and
turning, to answer the questions, of not
only the Intelligent farmer" but of
others of his, and their, constituents.
No more favorable news for the demo-
Gratis has been published than this &C.
knoWledged interest the farmers are
taking in public affairs. No doubt they
are inquiring about republican extray-
agance, about the enormous increase
in price of what they buy and the cause
for it. They doubtless want to know
why the packers combine is paying less
for cattle and hogs and yet the price
OF meat to the consumer is relatively
higher than it was. There is no end
to the questions that intelligent farmers
will ask candidates for congress that will
puzzle the republicans to evade. let
alone to answer. That is just what the
democrats want, full and free discussion |
and intelligent inquiry by all voters.
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More Legislative Neglect.

Another legislative bit of care
lessness has developed. Examina-
ton Of the appropriation bills shows
that no allowance was made for the
agricultural experiment station to be
located in the prairie region of
Northwest Mississippi. The legis-
lature appropriated $4,000 for the
station to be established in the delta,
but no allowance was made for the
other station, and after it is located
by the board of trustees it is proba-
Bile that the station will have to be
supported from the Mississippi A.
and NJ. College appropriation. The
board will select two sites early next
month.
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1912, and she at once took her mothers
household, thus becoming the youngest
woman who ever presided over the
white house, except Mrs. Cleveland.
She was noted then for her beauty and
wit, and her career as mistress of the
white house was brilliant. She was
greatly admired by the great men who
in the middle of the last century gave
distinction to the political and social
life of Washington.
Just before her father was elected vice
president she had married James A.
Semple, a wealthy planter with large
estates in Virginia. When Tyler sue
ceeded to the presidency on the death
of Harrison she came to Washington
with him for the first time.
Tyler appointed Semple a paymaster
in the navy and after Tyler left the
white house Mrs. Semple lived quietly
on her husbands plantation until the
outbreak of the civil war, when he re-
signed from the United States navy and
became a paymaster in the confederate
navy.
The close of the war left the Samples
impoverished, and Mrs. Semple, leaving
her husband at home, went to Baltimore.
where she conducted a school for girls.
After her husbands death in the late
'70's Mrs. Semple, then about 60 years
of age, came to Washington to pass her
last days in the Louise Home.
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Washington as resembling Lincoln
somewhat not only in personal appear
ance. but also in the homely quality OF
their minds. One is known as Uncle
Shelby" the other as Uncle Joe" just
as>Lincoln was known Familiarity as
Uncle Abe" And as Justice Harlan
recently remarked, when a public mar
is known universally as Uncle" that
IS a pretty sure sign he is close to the
hearts of the people and has the quail
ties that the people like.
AS for Hit, he is n Of the most in
teresting of all the men in congress,
and he has long been recognized as one
of the very ablest. He has been chair
man of the foreign affairs committee
in the house for a great many years, and
it has fallen to him to prepare the re-
publican side of almost every diplomatic
question which has been ~thessubject of
partisan controversy during that time,
as, for instance, in the Hawaiian and
Cuban matters just before the war with
Spain. He has had a longer and more
varied diplomatic experience than al
most any other man in public life, hav-
ing served as secretary of legation and
assistant secretary of state up to the
time he was elected to congress. while
before that he was associated with Lin
coin, first as the stenographer who re-
ported the Lineoln-Douglass debates,
and second as one of the official staff
at the white house during and after the
civil war.
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have fallen to him by the score, and 1t
has been simply out Of the question for
him to decline them.
Taft is nothing if not obliging, he en-
joys companionship, and for one of his
temperament it was fatal. So he has
succumbed to the inevitable and has
abandoned Washington altogether for
awhile to see if a complete divorce from
the place will do him any good. 1t is
high time.
More public men have been killed by
the social game in Washington than by
hard work. Too many dinners proved
fatal to Blaine, Reed, Hobart and dozens
OF others who might be named. All
three Of those men were favorite diners
out, and from their position as well as
their personal accomplishments were
constantly in demand. All three of
them would doubtless be alive to-day had
they been permitted to confne them
selves to their public duties in Wash
ington without the distractions of al
most nightly dinners.
1t is getting to be the practice now
among those who are the targets of con-
tinuous invitations to devote as little
time as possible to each affair to eat
sparingly and to drink, if possible, not
at all. But even with these precau-
lions the society game is a great drain
on the vitality of a public man who
comes to it with the WEAKNESS and wor-
ries of his day at the capitol or the de-
partment.
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The Louise Home who founded the
principal bank of Washington, and who
among other benefactions presented
Daniel Webster with the handsome
house. since known as the Corcorap
bouse. and now occupied by Chauncey
M. Depew.
At the close of the war he was perhaps
the wealthiest man in the country or
southern proclivities, and those who had
been left destitute by the four years
fighting came to him in droves for re-
lief. Most of the cases were pit1ful.
There were scores Of women delicately
bred and used to a life of comfort who
suddenly found themselves widowed
and helpless, with poverty staring them
in the face. Corcoran took pity on them.
He planned such a charity as had never
been conceived before. He established
a home which should be open only to
women of the south, Of gentle birth. and
that home, named in memory of his
wife. "The Louise Home" is still main
tanned through his endowment for the
purposes which he had in mind.
1t is a spacious building, surrounded
by ample grounds, in a part of the city
where land has trebled and quadrupled
in value since Corcoran's day, in the
very midst of the fashionable residence
of the city. Among the inmates
may be found relatives of almost every
eminent southern statesman or soldier,
who spend the days in gcssiping among
themselves about the brave days of old.
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
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Weekly Crop Summary.

summary of crop conditions,
|ued last week by the Mississippi
|nartment of the weather bureau,
ties that the conditions were very
|vorable for farm work, which is
III advanced, but the cool nights
used vegetation to grow slowly.
stton is generally backward and in
INV sections stands are irregular.
Il most favorable reports are re-
we'd from the delta. Lice are re-
.rteE IN some sections.
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Waste That Must Be Stopped.

The growth in national expenses
seems to be increasing not only in arith-
metical, but threatens soon to reach
geometrical progression. AS compared
with former records, the present admin
istration has exceeded the previous one
by more than $500. 900 900, being greater
than that of Lincoln, including cost of
the ciIil war, when computed on a gold
basis. The time will come when the
people will awake to a full comprehen-
sion of their duty in putting a stop to
such extravaganza, but if deferred too
long it will be too late.-Louisyille Cour.
ie~r-JournaL
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gular and one of
the most meritor-
ious. 1t was es-
tablished soon aft
er the close of the
civil war by the
banker COrcOran,
who was a south
erner in sentiment
and who in that
day was by far the
wealthiest man in
the District of Co
lumbia.
1t was Corcoran
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which he has been
condemned e e +
since he C a m e
b o m e from the
Philippines. He
reached Washing
ton in the last week
of January a n d
from that time to
the present there
has hardly been a
night that he has
not been claimed
for some function
at which he was
the principal social
attraction. Recep-
tons and dinners
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uously mentioned
as possible candi-
dates for vice pres
ident on the repub-
lican ticket should
all have b e e n
among the few sur
vivors of t h o S 2
who knew Lincoln
well.
Cannon. Cullom
and Hit were all
associated in some
way with Lincoln
during his life, and
both Cannon and
Cullom have been
- n n q n | p O n in
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-06-04
They Are All GOING.

The Confederate veterans of the
State are preparing to attend the
Nashville reunion next month in
great numbers. The railroads have
all made low rates for the occasion.
1t is expected that the old veterans
from all over the South will elect
Gen. S. D. Lee, Of Mississippi, to
succeed the late lamented John B.
Gordon as commander of the United
Confederate Veterans when they
assemble in the city on the Cumber.
land,
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VIII Be a Hard Fight.

It IS reported that the advocates
the open saloon are preparing to
AXE a fight for the legalized sale of
Risky in Coahoma county. Goa
along with most of the other
lunties in the delta, has been dry
r. a good many years, and if the
kht does come up it will be a hard
10 on both sides.
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Nothing, If Not "Distinctive."

The little city of Newton, over
in the eastern part of the State,
seems to be cup" in other lines than
those Of progress and prosperity,
and, as if to maintain her claim to
distinctiveness along all lines, had
its city jail-(it used to be called a
"c%alaboose," when we were
youngl-raided and robbed the 9TH
er night of the beer and liquor
which had been placed therein by
the chief of police after his return
from a blind tiger raid, as the safest
place in the city in which to store
the liquor. But Newton's police
chief was mistaken. The jail proved
anything but safe. Some time dur
ing the night the bastile was broken
open and all the good red liquor was
stolen, and the worst of it all is that
nobody knows who got it, or even
entertains a suspicion as to the gull
ty ones. AS said above, the New
ton people are even more than "dis-
tinctiye."
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/ g h t y-f o b
birthday in t h e
quiet of the Louise
Home, established
many years ago by
w. W. Corcoran,
t b e Washington
millionaire philan-
thropist, as a re-
treat for southern
g~entlewomen of
slender means.
Mrs. Letitia Ty-
Ter Semple is the
second daughter of
President Tyler.
Her mother died in
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-06-04
The Saloon Habit in London.

A count of the church and saloon
attendance in Paddingtol i, a district OF
London having a populs ton of 142 600.
made by agents of w. T. Stead on q
recent Sunday. showed hat the saloon
attendance was the greater by ten to
one. Only $4,000 women attended
church, while $4,000 were found in .
looms
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been the busiest in
the history of that
body. In order to
find so short a ses-
sion of a so-called
long session. of
congress the his
torians have to go
back before t b e
war. and in work
actually a &C o M
plished in so short
a time there is no
preceding congress
which excels it. No
other session of
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-06-04
Closing a Prosperous Year.

Mississippi is now in the midst OF
commandments. Most of the
schools and colleges of the State will
close within the next two weeks.
The past year has been a very pros
porous one with all the Mississippi
institutions Of learning.
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passed. At the same time the session
failed to come up to the average of in
crease in appropriations which, since
the beginning of the government a.
most, has characterized each succeed
ing session of congress; for there j a
stated law of increase following Sine
what the growth Of the country in pop
u~lation, no matter what party happens
to be In control.
This record Is due partly to the or
ganization Of the house, and partly to
the understanding which has prevailed
between the leaders of the house and
senate. There has never been a congress
where less friction developed between
the two branches or where the respec-
live leaders knew better as time went on
what was likely to happen. There has
been little partisan bitterness, the only
spirited debate in the house being be-
tween Cochran and DalzelI, which turned
chiefly on personal issues.
Or course, what gave the session it's
opportunity for work was the special
session which President Roosevelt called
for November. That enabled congress
to dispose of a great amount Of routine
In organization, which usually delays
the beginning of the work of legislation
Tor over a month. 1t is estimated that
the special session of three weeks. COM
Ing as 1t did, was worth at least six
weeks of work accomplished.
Former Mistress of fha White uo,,s.
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Rapid Legislation. congress, long or
short, has ever equaled it in. the num-
Der of reports made by committees, and
1t comes near the head of the list in bills
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Mississippi State News
State Sunday School Convention.

hev. Isaac d. Borders, president
y the Mississippi Sunday School
Association, has announced the fol.
loWlng program for the twenty-ffth
annual convention, which will as.
semble in Yazoo City on June 21
ana continue in session four days
FIRST sEsSION-TUESDAY EVEN.
ING.
worship, conducted by Rev. G. E.
cunningham, d. D., Yazoo City.
ADDRESS Of welcome on behalf of the
churches and Sunday schools, by Rev.
w. J. Derrick, Yazoo City.
Address of welcome on behalf o. the
city and its people, by Hon. Edwin r.
holmes, mayor Yazoo City.
Response, by the president of the
convention, briefly outlining its mis-
sion work.
Voluntary exchange of salutations
by delegates.
Announcements, appointment of COM
mittees, adjournment.
SECOND SESSION - WEDNESDAY
FORENOON.
Theme-"Effective Organization"
The quiet hour. A period of deep,
soul-searching N earnest consecra-
ton, Rev. Dunbar H. Ogden, Column
bus.
The Place of the Beat Convention
IN Organized Work." Capt. John T.
Buck, Jackson.
Voluntary discussion Of beat and
county organization.
"a Veterans Ideas on Organiza-
tion," Rev. j. H. Whitfield, Brandon.
Gods Plan for the Evangelization
o: the World" Hon. W. c. Pearce, in
ternational field worker, Chicago.
"Adaptability of the Organized
Movement to Our State" N. A. Mott,
field secretary Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, Yazoo City.
Report of committee on State work.
Consideration of such report.
Recess for luncheon.
THIRD SESSION - WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON.
Theme-"Teacher Training"
Worship, conducted by Rev. c. T.
Kfncannon, Lexington.
Possibilities of Our Association in
Training Work." l.. A. Duncan, Me-
ridian.
General discussion.
Value of Systematic Training
Courses" w. c. Pearce. Chicago.
7 Relation Of Pedagogics to the Sun
day School," Hon. +. l.. Whitfield,
State superintendent of education,
Jackson.
"The Teacher Who Teaches" Hon.
John R. F<per, Memphis.
: '"The Pastors Relation to the Sun
day School," Rev. w. w. Harrison,
Greenwood.
"Shall This Association Attempt
Any System of Teacher Training?"
General discussion.
Brief business session.
Adjournment.
SESSION - WEDNESDAY
EVENING.
Theme-"Place of the Sunday
School"
Worship, Rev. w. F. Marlborough, D.
d., Jackson.
1.-The Sunday School and Modern
Life" Bishop C. B. Galloway, D. D.,
LII. D., Jackson.
"Organized Work as An Invest
ment," w. c. Pearce, Chicago.
Committee reports.
! Adjournment.
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The session of congress just closed
Is shown by the official records to have
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WASH|NGTON,LETTE
INTERESTING AND TIMELY Cos
SIP OF NATIONAL CAPITOL.
LAST MARTYR TO SOCIETY
Secretary Taft Has Paid the Penalty
of Social Popularity-Republican
Vice Presidential Candidate
from Illinois.

Misunderstanding Taft is reap
Ing the fruit of the social dissipation to
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-06-04
Attracting Attention.

Those who have come back from
st. Louis say the exhibit hat Mis-
sissippi has at the Worlds Fair is
showing up finely. One gentleman
was particularly pleased with the
Mississippi cotton display. He says
the cotton display and the wood dis
play is attracting a great deal of at
tention. Mississippi has an exceed
ingly fine display in both these prod
ucts, in which the State abounds.
The educational exhibit of the State
Is said to be a good one also. the ex-
hibits from the graded schools Of
tie State showing up well with the
exhibits from other States. Those
who have seen the Mississippi Build
ing say that it is one of the most
popular buildings on the grounds for
visitors. They all desire to see the
home of Jefferson Davis. The build
ing is filled with interesting relics
Of the great chieftain of the Confed-
eracy. This is the first exposition
that Mississippi has been repre-
sented in to any extent, and the plea
was made to the legislature that the
exhibit would advertise the resources
of the State. The State has spent
100000 on the exhibit, and there is
some of every product of Mississippi
soil on exhibition at the great fair.
1t is believed that the State will
more than get its moneys worth out
Of the exhibit at the fair, and it will
probably be the mean of inducing
many thrifty people in search of
homes to locate here.
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For Vice Presidential Honors.

1t is rather odd that the three men
from Illinois who have been c~onspic-
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Charities of Corcoran.

Of all the charities of Washington, the
Louise Home is at once the most sin
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FIFTH SESSION-THURSDAY
FORENOON.

] Theme-"The Individual School,"
The quiet hour, Rev. Dunbar Ogden,
Columbus.
1.-THE Use Of Lesson Helps" Hon.
Rowan Thayer, Greenwood.
] "The Teachers Meeting; How Sc
cured and Used" w. c. Smith, Jack
on.
Teaching the Temperance Lesson"
Ion. e. A. Rowan, Wesson.
Primary Methods for the Missis-
lppi Schools" Miss Carrie Gillespie,
Greenwood.
Methods and Means; a Round Ia
Ie," Hon. Alfred d. Mason, Memphis.
Announcements.
Recess.
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Former Mistress of the White House.
A woman who was once mistress of
the white house has just passed her
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SIXTH SESSION-THURSDAY
AFTERNOON.

] Theme-"The Kings Business"
4 Worship, Rev. r. F. Laird, Winona.
ION the Sunday School as a Crime
deterrent and Consequent Civic
alue," Hon. M. A. Montgomery, Ok
BIRD.
"On the Sunday School as a Char
,ter Builder and Consequent Moral
galue," DR.. j. S. Hillhouse, Vicksburg.
Suggestions from an expert, being
n hours institute on modern Sunday
ehool work, w. c. Pearce, Chicago.
Z Business session. Annual reports of
"a officers committee. Full consid-
alton of plans for future.
Final adjournment.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-08-04
Bought q sslina Plant.

David Hill, not from New York bu
from Abilene, took charge Of the Ad'
Olson & Halsey Plumbing company
business, having purchased 1t during
the day. Mr.. Hill comes from Abb.
lene we'll recommended and will con.
duct the business at the old place
under the firm name Of David Hill &
Company. MIR. Hill is a young mar
and will make bis home in Salina.-
[Salina Journal.
Salina will find Dave Hill a mighty
square and capable man who thor
oughly understands bis business.
The town lie lucky to have him locate
there and Abilene is sorry to have
him 90. 90
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lrAttsson Case on Trial,

The frat Of the series Of Matteson
cases, the assault charge against Arba
'Christene and Fred Dodsou whom D.
iMatteson sccuses of assaulting him.
was on trial before q jury in David
eson's court This afternoon. I'll is held
lin the courtroom 70 accommodate the
crowd. The defendants claim that
, they did not hurt Mr.. Matteson but
simply prevented him from injuting
iIhia wife, .esafs ssaH Q
After listening to the evidence IN
the Matteson assault case the jury
, studied the msster all night and
finally was discharged, standing 8 to
4 for conviction.