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The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-02

The following, which is going the
rounds OF the press, does not sound
poetical, but It contains pure grain
Of common sense:
\ Kansas girl who was about to
graduate was given the theme, BE
yond the Alps Lies Italy," and this
is what she had to say: Il don't
care cent whether Italy lies beyond
the Alps or even in Missouri. / don't
expect to set the river atire in my
future career. l am glad | have a
good, a very good education, but I am
not going t. misuse i: by writing
poetry or even about the future wo-
man. 1t will enable me to correct
the grammer Of any lover | may have
should he speak OF 'drog' in my pres
sence. or say he had went somewhere.
It will also come in handy when l
want to figure o1t how much soap l
can get for three dozen eggs at the
grocery
The wholesale merchants of Jack
son have experienced a marvellous in
NAN&%'~ AA1 CAaSAS Viz psAoO yNdA. l. AAo
increase has surpassed that of any
previous year, being twenty-five per
cent larger. The volume of business
handled by the wholesale merchants
OF the capital city, in round numbers.
amounts to six and one-haif million
dollars. Thus the following optimistic
view Of the Clarion-Ledger can be
accounted for
Never before have the wholesalers
enjoyed such a prosperous outlook for
a new year. They control one Of the
best trade territories in the South,
and by reason Of advantageous loca-
ton and unsurpassed facilities for
handling business are enabled to under
sell the strongest competitors. No
longer exsists grounds Of fear that
they will be crushed out by the big
concerns of larger trade ceuters. The
business has been placed on an indie
pendent footing, and the merchants
can now assume an aggressive attitude
and go after trade with as much dash
and vigor as any Of the older concerns.
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-02
GRENADA, MISS, JANUARY 2, 1904.
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
The Evening News Will Give The
News as it Happens.

The proceedings Of the incoming
legislature, which assemblies in the
city of Jackson, Tuesday, the 5th Of
January, will be Of peculiar interest
to the people Of the entire state.
All intelligent and law-abiding PEG.
pie desire to become acquainted with
the laws Of their state as soon as they
become such, and in addition they
want to know what their representa-
tives are doing and how they are dis
charging the duties entrusted to them
at their hands.
The Evening News will have report
ers specially assik ned to the legisla-
tive halls whose duty it will be to
gather all the news of that body and
prepare it in readable shape, and the
proceedings as printed in this paper
will reach you earlier than any other
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possibly longer. This rate will be
1925 for the entire session. or so
cents for one month. The weekly
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or 800 per year.
Besides giving a complete legisla-
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only paper published at the capital
containing the Associated Press, and
win continue to give it's readers full
marked quotations..
Those who wish to take advantage
OF the special rates must pay in adj
vance
THE EVENING NEWS,
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SECTION TWO

wanted. They got plinty iv fresh air
playin' in allays an vacant lots an
ivry Wanst IN awhile they were al
lowed to go down an fall into tn river.
No attintiOn was paid 10 their dite. tn
prisint race iv hayrOes who are now
startlin' tn wurruld in finance. poly
ties. tn arts an sciences. burglary an
lithrachOOr. was brought up on water
million rinds. speckled apples, raw
onions stolen firm tn grocer, an cocoa
nut pie. Their nursery was tn back
yard. They larned to walk as soon as
they were able an If they got bow
legged, ivrybOdy said they would be
Sthrong men. As fr annybOdy prevent
in fond parent firm comm home
SATURDAY. night an wallowin' in his
beaucheous' child. tn dOethor that sug-
Sisted it wud have to move. No. sir
says 1, get as much amusement as We
can out iv ye'er infant says l. Teach
him 20 love We now / says. 'befure he
know Afther awhile he'll get onto ye
an it'll be too late.
''Ye know a lot about it," said Mr.
Hennessy
Il do said Mr.. Dooley. Not bein'
an author I'm a great critic"
Copyright. 1904 by Mcclure. Phillips
4 Coz
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Ages of Great Men.

est Louis GIobe-D emocrat)
a great man does not always attain =
ripe Ola age; IN fact. hardly half OF the
greatest men OF modern and ancient times
nave reached that limit of age set bv M.
blDle, 80 Among tatesmen Mira beau
was 4. Putt &. Cromwell 50. Caesar S..
Rleneleau ~. Washington S. Chale-
magne a. Frederick the Great a. Dis
leyrand s.
or the great cOnquerors4 Alexander the
treat died al u. Napoleon at 81 Hauni-
pal al Is. Themistocies at So. Marius at
A. MARLBOROUGH az -. Tiiley al - Blue
cher at 20. Bernadotte at 50. wellington
at -. Aenophon at So Moltke az 81.
The aces at decease of philosophers
We're; S9inoza A. Descartes 50. Haeel 81
Aristotle o.. Socrates 6S LeibnitZ q Iin-
naeus 20, Co9ernicus 40. Calico rs Kant
-. Plato y, Newton u, Humboldt So
The longevity Of great writers and DOefs
is as follows. Byron Sc. Schiller n
MOliere 81 Virgil 81, Shakespeare 81
Dante %. Dickens 81, Horace 81. Racine
90 Scott 81. Milton IS. CeryantcS IS
Aeschylus SO. Rahelais 20. Petarch 20
ENripideS a. COrnuellc rs Victor Hugo
Si. Goethe So Voltaire 81. SophOcles So
To painters death came at the ages
stated; Raphael S. CoreiO 40. Van DYKE
70 HOibein 81. VclasQuez 81 Rembrandt
s.. Rubens 81. MicLael Angelo 81. Tftfan
90
Musicians died at these ages: Schubert
81. Mozart 35 Mendelssohn So Chopin
%. Weber 80. Sehumann Al, Beethoven &c
Bach s.. Palestrina 70, SpOhr Is, Handel
Is. Haydn =.
And four great religious leaders died at
these ages Calvin at IS. M0hammed at
s., Luther al 6& Confucius at a.
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IT any more, anyway and ne took the
stuffed snake up by the head and
laid 1t across his lap, and began to
shake the rattles, and laugh at the
groceryman and tie policeman and the
crowd that had collected i'm front OF
the store. The policeman came in
laughing, and the Old groccryman
crawled out Of the show window. and
all breathed free again. and finally the
policeman went out and drove the
crowd away. and went on his beat
again. after shaking his club at tie
boy, and the boy, the groceryman. the
snake and tho cat remained i'm the
store. The grOceryman took swig
out of a bottle of whisky TO settle his
nerve and the boy took up his snake
and pushed il towards the cat. Which
ran up step ladder and yowled
Do you know. / kind Of like you"
said the grOceryman, as he went up
behind the bad boy and took him by
the throat, 'and | think it would be
good thing for tie community IL 7
should just choke you TO death. You
are worse than a mad dog and YOU are
just running my business
I will give you just ten seconds to
take your hand off my neck" said the
bad hoy, pulling out dollar watch.
and when TIE time is up and you have
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tn phenomynon. Look at that says
Hogan, he knows ye, he says
We'll, We know, Hinnissy wan iv tn
things that has made me popular in
tn ward is that / make a bluff at
adorin' childher. Between you an me
Id as lave salute dish rag as a re-
cent infant, but I always do it. So l
put on an allurin' smile an says 1:
We'll, little OF gOozy- goo, will he give
his DoOleyums a kiss?' At that min
yit Hogan seized me be tn collar an
dragged me away firm tn. cradle.
'Wud We kill me child?' says he 'How?'
says j. With a kiss says he. Am /
That bad" says /. Don't We know that
there ARE mickrobes that can be
transmitted 10 an infant in a kiss?'
says he. Well says /. with indigna-
ton. I'm not proud IN mesilf as an an
usepic American | says, but i'm an
encounter between me an that there
young cannibal' | says. IN lave il to
tn boord iv health who takes tn big
gest chance ! says, an we whit out
followed be a howl firm tn proiidy
He's singin'.' says Hogan. He has
lost his notes, says |.
Whin we got downstairs. Hogan
give me lecture on tn bringin' up iv
childher. As though l needed it, me
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T HE old grocerymsn was sitting on I

7 HE old groceryman was sitting on
the counter, with his legs stretched
lengthwise, his heels resting on d
sack of Hour. and his back against a
pile OF wrapping paper, his eyes closed,
his pipe gone out. and the ashes stiff
ing from it on the cat that was asleep
in his lap. He was waiting for a GUS
TONER to come in and buy something
10 start the days business. He had
sprinkled the floor, and swept the dirt
up in a corner and he was sleepy.
There was a crash i'm front OF the store.
barrel of AK handles and garden tools
had been tipped over on the sidewalk.
the door opened with "A jerk and closed
with a slam. and the bad boy came in
with a Ions paper box. perforated with
holes. slammed it on the counter beside
the groceryman's legs. and yelled:
Wake up. Rip Van Wrinkle; the day
of judgment has come, and you are
stil buried. You got to get a move on
You or the procession will go off and
leave you. say. are you afraid OF rat
tiesnakes?' and the bad boy shook the
paper box when an ominous rattle
came from within. as though a snake
had Shaken its tail good and plenty.
Great Scott, boy, believe you have
got rattlesnake in that box" and he
jumped or the counter and grabbed
an iron fire poker. while the boy got
out his kuofe To cut the string on the
toN. Now. lo2kahcre. am suffering
from nervous prostration and a snake
turned loose i'm this store would settle
it with me. am at your mercy. but
10y the holy smoke. if I am bitten by
that snake / will kill you and your old
snake. Now. take that box out of
here" ana the old man picked up a
hatchet and got behind barrel
We'll wouldn't that skin you" said
the boy. as he sharpened his knife on
piece OF old cheese. and felt ouf the
edge Here you have been telling
me Tor years what brave man YOU
Eycrc and how YOU were not afraid OF
Auythng that wore hair. and now YOU
lave fits because a little five-foot rat
tlcsnake. with only ten ratttlcs on,
makes formal call on you. Gee, but
You are a squaw. Why, there is no
danger i'm the bite Of a rattlesnakc,
since science has taken the matter up.
All YOU got to DO when a snake bites
YOU. ana YOU begin TO turn black is
TO drink a couple of quarts of whisky
and bind a pOultice of Iimberger cheese
On the wound. and go to bed for a week
or ten DAYS. and you come out ell
right" and the bad boy began to cut
the string.
Now. let up until I wait on these
customers. said the old man. as he
went TO the door and let in commit
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not let loose Of me. | will turn loose a
couple of live snakes | have in my
pocket, and some tarantulas. and you
will probably be bitten and swell up
like a poisoned pup. and die under the
counter"
An right. lets be friends" said tho
old man, as he let so Of the bad boy
IF your parents and the rest OF the
community can stand having you
around, alive, probably Il is my duty
to be martyr and stand my share
but you are very trying 20 the nerves.
BY the way. put that COMPOUNDED
stuffed snake i'm the ice box and sit
down here and tell me something.
saw your father on the street yester-
day. and he is a sight. His stomach
is twice as big as it was, and he looks
troubled. What has got into him?'
We'll. I'll tell you; dad has got what
they call morbid appetite. What
ever YOU do. old skate. don't you ever
get a morbid appetite"
What is d morbid appetite?" asked
the old man, as he peeled banana
and began 10 eat it. Il can always
eat anything that is not tied down. but
I don't know about this morbid bust
ness"
Scientists say a morbid appetite is
one that don't know when it has got
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BY f. p. DUNE

that's been consulted on bringin' up
half III childher In Archey road In
tn OF days, says he, 'childher was
brought up catch as catch can he
says. But it's different now. They're
as carefully watched as a geeranyum
In a conservatory he says. Here il
IS tn first thing that shud be done
fr child is to deprive il iv its par
ents. Tn less tn infant sees iv poppa
an momma. tn betther f'r him. If
they ARE so base as to want TO look
al tn little darlin'. they shud first be
examined be competent physician 10
see that there is nawthin' wrong with
thin that they cud give tn baby. They
viii thin take a bath ~ sulphuric scid
an havin carefully attired thimsilyes
in sturlized rubber suit. they viii ap-
proach within eight feet is tn OBJECT
~ their ignOble affection an lave at
Wanst. In no case mus they kiss. hug
or fondle their projeny. Many dis
eases such as lumbago. pain in tn
chist, premachOor badness. senile de-
crepitude, which are prevalent among
adults, can be communicated TO a child
fr tn parent. Besides II is bad f'r
tn moral nature iv tn infant. Affec-
ton FIR its parents is wan iv tn mos
dangerous symptoms iv ricketts,. Tn
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boy got in his work / told dad il he
didn't eat all the oysters the walters
and the people would mob him. that it
Was deadly offense to order oysters
and not eat them. and that they would
probably kill US both before we got out
OF TIC place He said: 'Hennery. I
don't like oysters like ] used 10. and il
seems to me ] couldn't cat another one
to save my life, but if. as you say. We
are IN a country where mans life is
held so cheaply, by the great horn
spoon, I will eat every oyster in the
house, and the Lord have mercy on
me- | told him that was about the
size of il. and he would eat or die. and
maybe he would die anyway. and Just
then wicked looking negro with a big
oyster knife came to the table and
looked ugly at dad and said. Have
another dOzen% and dad said: 'Ne-.
and then he began to eat as though his
life depended on it. and | could hear
the great wads of oysters strike with a
dull thud on exposed places inside Of
dad. and before he got up from the ia
bic he had eaten them al, and he told
the man he would be i'm again 70 lunch
after awhile. Dad is the bravest man
/ ever saw. and don't YOU forget il.
He would have come out all right, I
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-09
By HON. GEO. W. PECK Ex-Governor Of Wisconsin formerly
publisher Of Peeks Sun, author Of Peks Bad BOy, etc

suppose, and lived. If il hadn't been
LOT ms deNiliSh morbid appetite for
travel and adventure Quick as ~,
Sot out of the oyster place dad
wanted TO rake a steamboat ride down
the river 10 the Eads ietties at rbe
mouth OF the river. and we went on
BOARD, and had a nice ride down To-
me mouth After we had looked over
lne Jetues where fads made an ar
uhclal canal big enough for the lars-
eSt ocean steamers 10 come IN 10
New Orleans, the passengers wanted
the captain To run the boat outside the
pdls into the blue ocean. where the
waves come from. Gee but / hone /
may i've long enough 10 forget the
rlde. We hadn't got a boats length
outside the bar before the boat began
tc roll and toss. and I held on TO dads
hand and wished I Was dead. / told
MIN my little tummy ached and L
wanted lemon. Dad said my little
tummy. with its three oysters i'm il
was not worth mentioning, and told
me to look at him. Talk about your
Mount Pelee and your Vesuvius. those
volcanoes were tame and Gninterest-
ing compared 10 dad. leaning over. the
railing, and shouting words at tie
sharks IN the water. Why. ne iusr
dOuDled Up like a pickknife one min
elepnant standing OF his hind legs i'm
a circus the next minute and he kent
saying: Hc-up, and all the passen-
gers said Poor man." I told them
nc was not so poor. for he owned a
brewery at home. Dad finally went to-
sleep with his arm and head over the
/ ran. anu MS body hanging limp on the
deck The boat turned around and
went back into the mouth of the river
~ IN
! captain for giving them such a lovely
| rlde, when thought / would wake dad
! up. and so / touched him on the sLoul-
| der and asked him If he didn't want
rev dozen more raw oysters. and he
yelled murder. and began to have hv-
I drophobia again. and hump himself,
Eoh Know. tRe way people do when
I tl-eN are dissatisfied with the medicine
4 the doctor gives. We'll We got hack
/ 20 New Orleans. and dad took a hack
4 10 the hotel and told tho driver not 10
pass any saloon where there were oys-
/ ter shells on the sidewalk We came,
( home next day. Well / guess 7 viii
set my snake out OF the icebox. and
I go home and comfort dad. But. wait
minute till that IriSLmau puts that
; chunk of ice in the iccbox. and SEQ If
/ he notices the snake. Just then there
/ was a sound as If a house had fallen. n
2OO-pound cake Of ice struck the floor
J and the Irishman came running
! through. the grocery with his ice tonCs
/ waving. and yelling. There's = rat
/ tlesnake i'm yer icebox mister. and We
! can go 10 b for yer ice" The gro
/ ceryman looked at tho boy. the boy
! looked at the SroCeryman. the cat
( looked at both. the boy took his snak Ike
under lis arm and went out. and the
I Old man said:
Well. you're the limit Call again.
| ana bring your anaconda. and a man
/ eating tiger and he went and scraped
4 up the ice.
Copyright, 1904, by Joseph w. Bowles)
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ing the remainder Of the play she
shifted between skirts and trousers
nine times and didn't wear the same
costume twice. There must have been
a lively time in the canvas dressing
room, which had TO lie located in the
wing and there was considerable ac-
tivity out on the stage, too. With THE
tricks that the twins played on their
associates.
The case was like this Two fellows
wanted to eloDe with Lille and she
was willing TO go with a third sutton.
Billie undertook TO make the unde-
sired two believe she went with both,
while she really went with the one OF
her choice unknown TO Billie, who SIM
ultaneOuslyt conducted runaway tour
with d girl of his own. Billie imper-
sOnated Lille in the double and twist
complications, and after awhile she
lad 70 impersonate him. SO Della's job
was not only 30 embcdy the bold boy
and the modest girl distinctly. but also
10 plainly designate Che boy awkward
in the disguise of his sister and the
girl constrained ia the disguise OF her
brother The five clippers got together
in a hotel foyer WITH five bedrooms
opening off. 40 The piece is "a transfer
from the French, you ean imagine
Wn2l banging OF COOfS lnefe was,
with Della going out and coming ia so
Overwhelmingly that l gave UP guessing
whether she was for the moment Billie
or Lille. fer the clothes didn't tell
which. nor was the clever actress able
90 answer the recurring question clear
ly by changes of behavior.
The mix of the twins and the others
Of the clipping quintet had been indie
cent in Paris. but were no more man
decorous in New York. and the songs
written into the Americanized version
by Mr.. and Mrs Norden we're very
agreeable But the audience - alert
al FIRST. soon became listless, and be-
fore the performance was over Della S
friends began TO dispense like enemies.
At midnight most of them were in the
restaurants of the neighborbOod, eat
ing. drinking and roasting dear old
Della That's the way of the Tender
loin world.
"A bold. bad man was this desperate.
He struck the town Ike a Wild tor
nado.
The son of a gun
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New York, Oct. :.
n ERMAN- AMERICAN dialect broke
Il out theatrieally in a new place
and set big Broadway audience
into laughter that merged into cheers
before II ceased. This example Of Eng
lish as she is broken was given by
Ernestine Schumann-He at her first
appearance in comic opera. But let me
tell YOU that the great Wagnerian prima
donna lost no dignity by applying her
magnificent voice to light music Two
years ago it was astonishingly an
nounced that she had contracted to
make d comic use e herself and Stanis-
laus STANCE and Julian Edwards were
set 20 writing a play for the purpose
and in Loves Lottery" they have fit
ted her as well as they did Lulu Chaser
with Dolly Warden" although a sec
ton OF the public may think they lifted
the one up and pulled the other down.
Nine Human Shrek. as the boxes at
the Metropolitan call her. undertook
the task OF improving her English. OF
course. she spoke our language. as she
was popular i'm smart society here: and
il wasn't desirable that she rid herself
Of a German accent, for a Weberfield
dialect was relied on for funny effect.
So il is that the glorious cry of the
Nalkyres becomes such a foOlishness
a block further up Broadway. The
Ortrud of "LOhengrin" now is a Ger
man laundress IN an old English town.
the confdante Of a sqCires wife and a
sweetheart OF a cockney sergeant. A
lottery ticket with a hasty love note
on the back tangles these folk. also. an
Irish postiliOn called b. the madame
IAN Irisher'D, a portly squire. a noble
man in disgrace a ladys maid iaun-
dresses. recruits and our old musical
friends. the villagers. The lottery ticket
--Tlove's lottery" YOU see-passes from
one 10 another Of them. and each pos
SCISSOR sings about It. They MARBLE in
fwos and fouTs. solos and trios. and
even in temptation" quintette, very
much admired. Then. again. they sing
singly and IN lots IL they didn't have
tbe ticket. aud they all sing very well.
But what you want 20 know is now
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By Franklin Fyles.

ana again. when Jack was still a weak
invalid. stole into his room and would
have stabbed Linn in the back. but got
his own death in desperate struggle
for the knife. The cowboys i'm their en-
thusiasm sang again:
"A bold bad man was this desperate.
He struck The town like wild tor
nado:
The son OF gun
As before. the third line was merged
into cheers: but I was sure that Jack
While not bad tornado, was the Texan
ideal of bold tornado: for his cLum
Rugged him and yelled. You dear.
damned Old son OF a gum
l am not making fun of "A Texas
Ranger" 1t is the best melodrama Of
the southwest, IN my judgment. since
Arizona" The J. Mauldin Foigl who
wrote II is woman. SO they say. but
she has put masculine virility into the
sentiment. Possibly she was EelDed by
Sydney Ayers, its star actor. who is
said to have broken bronchos and
punched cows oct there. The study of
ranch life is as true as Augustin
Thomas was, the parsonage as well
characterized. their humOr as racy and
not a bombastic sentence nor a too the
atric situation; and it is we'll acted.
although the production is in an I'M
der-price theatre.
n The indiscriminate audience when
was there didn't fully appreciate It's ar
tistic niceties. For example. the
wounded ranger was nurssd by his
cowgirl sweetheart. The actress. an
uncelebrated Florence Ellis. was the
loyelieSt stage rancfman's breezy
daughter since Eleanor Robson tyni-
fed the character in Arizona She
and Ayers treated the scene with deli
cacy. The impulsive girl. softened now
to caressing tenderness. coaXed and ca
joled the rather cranky invalid 10 take
some chicken soup My tears started
while I smiled at the gentle natural
ism of the acting. But in front of me
were three young couples in row. and
tie girls giggled while The fellows guf-
fawed. They saw nothing plaintive in
the incident. The bowl Of soup was as
entirely lauehable 10 them az folding
bed was not al all funny TO me, be-