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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
OPINION AND

THE president announces positive
ly that John Hay will remain secretary
of state until March 1908. Great cinch
on the future, isn't it?-IndianapoliS
News (Ind.).
If the democratic party had not
survived so many crushing defeats, one
might doubt whether it could possibly
live. But you cannot kill it. 1t stands
for certain eternal theories and princi-
pies of government that have in them
the seeds of life.-Ildianapolis News
Qnd.).
So good a republican authority
as the Chicago Tribune says that in
Delaware, under the Roosevelt-Addicks
alliance, the current price of votes was
$40 apiece. This beats the. 40 acres and
a mule with which the republicans in
the old times bought negro votes, for
the Roosevelt-Addicks combine actual
ly paid the $40.-Louisville Courier
Journal.
Aside from this pleasing per-
so1al impression, which will go with
Mr.. Parker into retirement, he will be
long remembered as a candidate who
stoutly advocated principles, whether
men would hear or forbear. He stood
for political truths which ought to be
popular, if they are not, just yet; and
when they come to fruition-when the
corrupt alliance between the tariff ben
efciaries and the republican party is
broken up; when we o the dec
laration of independence and apply it's
principles to the Filipinos-Judge
Parker will be recalled as ole who
preached to his countrymen sound dos
trine before they were ready to re-
ceive tn. Y. Evening Post (Ind.).
The presidents new peace con-
ference movement was timed most ex-
cellently as an offset to the big stick
talk. And there have been hints that
Mr.. Roosevelt is no politician!-St.
Louis Republic.
The people did not vote against
Judge Parker or the democratic plat
form; they voted for Theodore Roose-
Welt and they didn't stop to consiSer
specifically for just what Mr.. Roosevelt
stands. They didEg care. Democratic
conservatism or democratic radicalism
had no more to do with the result of the
election than the wal in Manchuria.-
Detroit Free Press.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
THE FALL WHEAT SITUATION
Notwithstanding the Drought 1T Is
Not Serious Except in
see and Kentucky.

Chicago, Nov. Bob. w. Snow sums
I'D the wheat situation at the close
of November in the following:
There has been a shortage of mois-
ture SO far this season over nearly all
the wheat belt, serious in Kentucky
and Tennessee. Except in these states
the amount of irreparable damage is
slight. The plant has made less than
normal growth above ground, leaving
the casual observer to believe condi-
ton poor, but a moderately dry fall
causes extra root growth in the effort
of nature to find moisture in the SUBJ
soil.
THE present situation is not alarm
ing, and if the winter brings fair now
protection and moisture for early
spring, the dry fall that forces extra
growth will have been a positive ad-
vantage to the crop. Hessian fly re-
ports are less serious now than a year
or two years ago."
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
Mississippi State News
Gathering Force as 1t Goes.

The good roads movement contin-
ues to gather force in this State,
and the contract system is in the
next few years destined to supplant
entirely the present system of COM
mutation work in vogue in a major
ity of the counties. Not long ago
Yazoo county voted to work its pub
lie roads by contract, and a few days
ago a proposition was submitted to
the voters of Clarke county to work
the public roads by contract, and it
carried overwhelmingly. The Off
cial returns show that COS electors
voted in favor of the change, while
223 voted against it. The people OF
Mississippi have about reached the
conclusion hat the only way they
can get roads is to work them in. a
business-like manner by contract
Probably one-third Of the counties
in the State are now working thei1
roads by contract, and during the
next year there will be many more.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
Reward offered.

County and municipal authorities
throughout Mississippi have been
notified hat a reward of $3.50 will
be paid for the arrest Of Nathaniel
Smith, a negro who attempted to
murder his wife at DuBard Station,
about eight miles west of Grenada,
on the night of October 26 last.
The attempted crime was of a very
dastardly nature, and the relatives
of Smiths wife have contributed
the reward to be paid for his ar
rest. He is a coal black negro, five
feet ten inches in height, weight 100
pounds, clean shaven, left arm off
near elbow and about % years Of
age. He was formerly a school
teacher, and has served a term in
the penitentiary.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
THE PRESIDENTS VICTORY.
Qualities Which Have Kept the Ma
TONS Chief in the Lime
lights Glare.

The people are discussing the person
al popularity of Roosevelt. 1t is unde-
niably great. His qualities inspire a lik-
ing. 1t is also true that his qualities in
spire fear, so the many of those who
don't like him lie down in fear. The
turning over of the corporations to him
is proof of this. But his popularity re-
mains a large quantity to be reckOned,
says the Utica Observer.
In the first place, it must be confessed
that he has the courage Of his convic-
tons, whatever they may be at the time.
and the people like it. We have had
presidents who have been afraid to as
sert positively any statement, no matter
if its truth was self-evident. Not SO
with Theodore Roosevelt. Whether the
statement refers to the big stick, or to
arbitration, or to protection Roosevelt
let's it out. He makes a confidant Of the
citizens, and they return the compliment
by voting for him.
1t is, in the second place, his love OF
playing the game of politics. Through
his whole life he has exemplifed this
love. Whether he was a New York as
semblyman, or delegate to the repub-
lican national convention, a police com-
missioner in New York city, an assist
ant secretary of the navy, colonel of the
rough riders, governor of New York,
vice president or president, he has kept
his eye on the game of politics, playing it
for all it was worth, never wearying of
the excitement, always ready to respond
to any call made upon his mental powers
or his physical resources-in fact doing
with love all those things which larger
statesmen do as a matter of duty and
patriotism. Il do love politics" he said
some years ago., when he was a younger
man. Well, he has reason to now; but
he will make a better president during
the next four years if he abates that love
or holds it in control. 1t will ennOble
his fame as president if he does so.
His mental powers are big enough to
equip him in his side occupation as a
writer of many books. Some of these
books have achieved a lasting popular
ity which is reflected on their author
when a chance arises to show the ap-
probation of the public.
These are a few of the many causes
which have combined to make Theodore
Roosevelt the popular man he is. We
must add that his popularity has in
creased enormously with democrats
since he has announced that he will not
run againi
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
Marriage of Miss Nancy Letter and
Major Colin Campbell in
Washington.
ROMANCE OF EAST INDIAN DURBAR
FOLLOWED BY WEDDING BELLS.
The Union Said to Have Been One
of Hearts, Both Bride and Groom
Being Sufficiently Nature to
Know Their own Minds and Act
Sensibiy. :

Washington, Nov. 30.-Another
well-known American girl has been
captured by a foreigner. Miss Nancy
Lathrop Carver Letter has become TIE
bride of Maj. Colin PoWys Campbell,
of the British army. The union is the
outcome of a romance that began at
the great durbar in India, in honor OK
the coronation of King Edward VII,
the bride. with her mother. Mrs. Levi
z. Letter, having attended that func-
ton as the guest of her sister and
brother-in-law, Lord and Lady Curzon
of Kiddlestone, the viceroy and vice
rene. The marriage was SOlemnized,
Tuesday, at the residence of the brides
mother in Dupont circle, Rev. no.
land Cotton Smith, rector of st. Johns
Episcopal church, performing the GER
amOnY.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
Railroad Building Prospects.

Messrs. Kirkland and Singleton,
of Forest, attorneys for the new
proposed New Orleans & Chicago
railroad, are authority for the state
ment that the money for building
has been secured from New York
and Chicago capitalists, and ar
rangements are now being made for
securing the preliminary survey,
rights of way, etc. This road is
due to cross the new Mobile, Jack
son & Kansas City line at Philadel-
phia, Neshoba county, and if ever
built will open up al fine a pine re-
gion as there is on earth, to say
nothing about a magnificent farm
ING country.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
'REVELRY AMID The RUINS
BANQUET of the Missouri Commission
in the Ruins of Their Building.
An Unfaue Function Mt the worlds
Fair Grounds i'm What is Left
of Missouri Pavilion.

st. Louis, Nov. 30.-Amid the ruins
of the Missouri state structure at the
Worlds fair grounds a unique BAN
| quet was rendered to the Missouri COM
missioners and their wives, Tuesday
night. The table was spread and an
elaborate menu served in the room
known as art room, the only compart-
ment wholly saved from the flames
that destroyed the most beautiful edt-
flee on the plateau of states.
The unique banquet hall was heated
with coal-oil stoves and brilliantly
lighted with ~incandescent lights. All
traces of the havoc wrought by the
destructive flames had been carefully
removed, and the last Worlds fair
function that will be held in what was
once the beautiful Missouri building
was as brilliant as any of its predeces-
sors.
At each plate was a unique souvenir
of the occasion. 1t was the menu con-
tanning the names of the hosts and
hostesSes and the guests present. A
place was left for autographs OF all
present. The whole, some % leaves,
was bound in fac-simile of the Mis-
| souri, book in exact lettering on the
cover. 1t was the same throughout,
but was in miniature.
Following the banquet, Walter Will
Jams, acting a. POSTMASTER, proposed
a toast to the Missouri Worlds fair
commission, which vas responded to
by President M. T. Davis. Luman F.
Parker, member of the commission,
responded TO the toast, '"The State OF
Missouri" To the toast, Education at
the Exposition" a response was made
by J. H. Hawthorne, a member of the
commission. THE Fruit of the Fair"
was responded to by B, H. Bonfoey.
Commissioner D. P. StrOup responded
to the toast Missouri Live Stock"
Several informal tOasts were proposed.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
EDWARD L. VENT ESTATE
The Bulk of the Young Mans For
tune Left IN Trust For the Bene-
fit of His Fiancee.

Philadelphia, Nov. 30.-Ancillary let
ters of administration have been grant
ed by the register OF wills in the es-
tate of Edward L. Wentz, the wealthy
young Philadelphia, whose mysteri-
GUS death in the mountains OF Yves
Virginia has never been cleared. The
estate is variously estimated at from
$780, 900 to $500, 900, and the bulk OF
the property is left in trust for the
benefit of his fancee, Cornelia Brook
mire, who lives in st. Louis.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
COOPERATIVE Laundries.

Owing to the difficulties encoun-
tered by families in securing wash
erwomen the cooperative laundry
system is assuming much popular
ity in the State. Plans are on foot
at Columbus, Hazlehurst, Starkville
and several other points to establish
laundries that will make a speciality
of family washing, and as the
amount required to establish a plant
of this kind is comparatively small
many communities in the State will
soon be independent of the negro
washerwomen, their lordly airs and
elipshod method Of doing work.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
UNDER BAN OF GOVERNMENT
Newspape Correspondents Who
Have Abused Their Privileges,
Placed Under the Ban. 4,

Washington, Nov. 30.-As a culmina-
ton to a series of sensational stories
which have recently been sent out
from this city, in which President
Roosevelt or members of his family
have been ridiculed or maligned, the
president has caused to be issued a
statement denouncing Otto and Jesse
Carmichael, correspondents of the Bos-
ton Herald and st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch, for creating these stories and
causing them to be published. He has
ordered all government departments
closed to them.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
Educational Conference.

Indications are good for a large
attendance at the educational con
ference to be held in Jackson on the
10th of December pursuant to a call
issued by the State superintendent.
In a large number of counties the
local teachers associations have
named delegates, and in counties
where no associations are in exist
enc the county superintendent
will appoint delegates to attend the
conference. The rural school sys-
tenn Will be the principal topic of
discussion at the gathering, and it
is expected that at least $50 promi-
nent educators will be present. The
sessions will be held in representa-
tive hall.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03

The bride entered the drawing room
with her brother, Joseph Letter, who,
as the only direct male representative
Of the family, gave her hand in mar
riage. The bride, is a tall, slender,
graceful woman of 80. The earl OF
Suffolk attended the bridegroom as
hest man and awaited the bride in the
drawing room. There were present
Mrs. Letter, mother of the bride; Miss
Daisy Letter, her sister; Lady Nina
Howard, sister of the earl of Suffolk,
both of whom are house guests, and a
few necessary witnesses to the mar
riage. The wedding party alone was
al dinner in the Letter residence Tues
day evening, and Mrs. Letter, who has
been much ~indisposed since the death
of her husband, presided at the din
ner.
Mai. Campbell and his bride will not
hurry off to England, and will proba-
bly arrive there just in time to accom-
pany Lady Mary Leiter-Curzon, vice
rine Of India, to that country, to join
her husband, the viceroy, who mas pre-
coded her.
There has probably been no mar
riage of international interest in this
country in years which was more a
love affair than that of Tuesday, which
united Miss Letter and Maj. Campbell.
The bride and her husband are both
of mature years, the major being 43
and Miss Letter ten years his junior
They met at the home of ord and
Lady CurzOn, and became engaged
about the time of the late Mr.. Letters
health failed. Nothing wound induce
this dutifuI woman to forsake her
place as her fathers companion, and
she would permit no announcement OF
her engagement until he had no longer
need for her.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
NAN PATTERSON is ILL.
The Defendant in the Caesar
Young Alleged Murder Case
Ill With TOnsilitis.

New York, Nov. 30.-Nan Patterson,
the actress, awaiting trial for the kill
ing of her lover, Caesar Young, is i'll
in the Tombs prison with tonsilitis
and a high fever.
DIR. Mcclure, the Tombs physician,
says he thinks she will be able to go
to court next Monday, when her case
is called for trial again.
81 am going to get well soon," said
Miss Patterson. 81 don't want the new
trial to be delayed on my account. be-
cause l want to be home Christmas"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
Many New Residences.

Jackson's remarkable building
growth continues to attract much
attention. During the past six
weeks the permits for new resi-
dences alone to be erected within the
corporate limits were twenty-one in
number, representing an aggregate
investment of nearly 100000. The
actual amount invested during the
period is at least 80 per cent larger,
as many new residences are under
way for which permits have not yet
been secured, owing to negligence Of
contractors. The figures do not in
.clude any business structures.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
Will Attend Conference.

Bishop Charles B. Galloway left
last week for Marietta, Ca, to at
tend the session of the North Geor-
gia conference. This week he will
visit the session of the North Ala
bama conference at TaHadega.
Bishop Galloway will address these
conferences in the interests of for
eign mission work in the Far East.
On December Z he will preside over
the session Of the North Mississippi
conference at Kosciusko.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
Mississippi Was Thankful.

Thanksgiving Day was more gen.
orally observed last week than ever
before in the history Of Mississippi.
The State had turkeys to spare. The
year has been a dry one, and the
farmers had good luck with these
birds, as also with their crops of all
kinds, and there were few families
in Mississippi who failed to have
an extra good dinner on the 24th.
The concensus of opinion was that
the grand old State had a great deal
to be thankful for-eyen if Parker
was defeated.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
DuIaney Strikes Oil.

Hon. L. c. Dulaney, member OF
the lower house of the legislature
from Issaquena county, and who
leases a large plantation in that
county to the prison board of con-
troll as a convict farm, reports the
discovery of natural gas and oil
well on his Walnut Ridge planta-
ton, about thirty miles south Of
Greenville. He has sent for an oil
expert at Beaumont, Tex, to come
over and inspect the find.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
Pension Warrants.

Warrants for the annual distribu-
ton of the pension fund, amount
ing to $250,OOO, have been sent out
from the auditors Office, and near
ly all the counties have drawn theiI
money from the treasury. Owing
to the increase of appropriation and
decrease in the number of pension
ers this year, the non-preferrcd
classes will fare better than ever be.
fore, and the INDECENT ex-Confeder-
stes will receive enough money FROM
the State to allow them to celebrate
Christmas in a proper manner.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
Cotton Gin losses.

Nine cotton gin fires occurred in
Mississippi during the week just
closed, the aggregate losses being
placed at nearly $4,000. Some of
the gin fires were due to careless
ness, but in a majority of instances
they resulted from the extremely
dry weather. Many sections of The
State r badly in need of rain, and
conditions are fast approaching
those prevailing during the long
.drouth of September and October.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
Lonq Bun for the Oil Mills.

Cotton seed oil mill managers ex-
pect that the run of the mills will
be considerably longer this season
than last. More seed is on hand,
and it will probably be some time
in March or April before any of the
mills begin to shut down, while
some will run much longer.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
Stimulating Diversification.

The Mobile, Jackson & Kansas
City railroad is making an effort to
stimulate a Investigation Of farm
ing along its line of road, and to
this end has offered prizes for the
best acre of cotton. The cotton
must be grown from land from
which a crop of potatoes has been
harvested.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
REAR-ADMIRAL DAVIS Is 1T
He VIII BE rendered the MEMBER
ship on the international
Court of Inquiry.

Washington, Nov. 30.-It is an
nounced in the navy department that
the president will offer to Rear-Ad-
miral Charles H. Davis, U. S. N, a
membership on the international
court of inquiry, which will investigate
the firing by the Russian feet upon
British fishing smacks in the North
sea. The appointment is made in COM
pliance with the invitation extended
by England and Russia.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
No Tax on ClairVoyants.

An apparent omission in Missis-
sippi's privilege tax law was devel-
oped last week. A letter was re-
ceived from a party at Natchez in
quiring the amount Of privilege tax
required for clairvoyants, and an
examination of the last session acts
shows that no tax was levied on this
class of business, although fortune
tellers are required to pay a 500
tax in each county, which would
make the municipal tax $50. But
clairyoyants could hardly be classed
as fortune telllers, although it is Of
the same species Of humbuggery.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
Must Pay Taxes.

The county tax collectors through
out the State are serving warnings
on business men that unless they
settle the privilege taxes due for the
current year proceedings will be in
stituted against them, and this has
had the effect of causing many Of
the delinquents to make settle
ments.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
New Jersey oRcial Vote.

Trenton, N. j., Nov. 30.-The state
board of c~anvassers met, tuesday. and
canvassed the state election returns.
The average vote for electors on the
republican ticket vas 245,1 and the
democratic average was 164, $50, max
ing the average republican majority
so. 1888.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03

If it be true that President Roose-
Welt has decided that ex-Secretary Root
shall be the republican nominee in 1908
congratulations, Elihu. 1t goes.-Al-
bany Argus.
The people of New York and the
people of the United States are a gen.
erous constituency, and their generos-
ity is neither marked nor bounded by
party lineA. We are sure that they
will extend to Alton B.. Parker their
respect and their sympathy, in this
hour of disappointment and defeat.
His character is an asset of which he
cannot be deprived. and the service
which as a jurist he has rendered to
this commonwealth and to the body
of juris prudence in this land is unaf-
fected by the extraordinary dispropor-
tionate result Of tie national poll
Brooklyn Eagle (Ird.).
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
caIIman Wiped Out bv Fire.

The principal portion of the en-
terprising little town of Gallman,
situated four miles south of Crystal
Springs, in Copiah county, was
burned last week. The loss amount
ed to $4,000, with only $4,000 in
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
State Cattle Sold,

The warden of the penitentiary
last week sold in Jackson forty head
Of cattle raised on the Rankin con-
Wet farm. The purchase was made
by S. S. Coleman, of Meridian, at
PA cents per pound, the purchase
amounting to about 1896, and the
sum has been paid over to the war
den.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03

San Antonio, Tex, Nov. 30.-A
charge of criminal SANDER against
Fritz hammers, in which a woman was
~prosecutrix, was dismissed by death,
hammers swallowing carbolic acid and
then throwing himself into the San
Antonio river.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
Kruger,s Body at Cape Town.

Cape Town, Nov. 30.-The Dutch
steamer Batavier, having on board the
body of Paul Kruger, former president
of the T%ransvaal republic, arrived here
Tuesday. The remains will lie in state
here and will leave for Pretoria De-
cember 4
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03
Open About December 10th.

Manager Carroll of the Hotel
Norvelle, Vicksburg's new and up
to-date hostelry, expects to be able
to open the house to the public on
or about December 10.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-03

Italy has accepted the invitation of
the American government to conclude
an arbitration treaty.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-11
POrtiere

81. so for a a good Roman
strip Portiere worte $500
1912, for any pr of Portieres
worth $3.50
$3.50 for any pr of Portieres
worth LOO
Is pctdis on all other
Portieres table & stand couer