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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-22
To the Campaign Poets.

Now, who will write from sheer delight
 of shaping strains sonorous A ringing song to help along the cam
 paign that's before us? o! who will frame a song of fame from
 simple joy of rhyning "A song that's built of perfect Tilt and
 tuned with cunning timing, To tell us now just why and how the
 voter everywhere banks On the success to which we press with
 Roosevelt and Fairbanks? Each club quartette desires to get some
 soul Inspiring chorus Which in the hall they soon may bawl
 and yell and shout and roar us O! poet, clan (Republican), why are you
 not all writing? Why are you not some verses hot with
 eagerness inditing? Pegasus halts? Tell of the YaultS-the
 hollow vaults in bare banks That will appear if we this year scratch
 Roosevelt and Fairbanks Write of the shops and mighty crops
 and stores that are so busy, How all of us grow prosperous so fast
 it makes us dizzy; Tell how the pail will never fail to be
 full of good dinner If we elect--as we expect-this ticket;
 it's winner; And mention then that knowing men
 are ready to prepare banks To hold the tin that they will win or
 Roosevelt and Fairbanks Why don't you seize on points like these
 and weave them in jingle To thrill the ears of him who hears and
 set his nerves atingle? Tell why and how the men that blow
 and they who wield the hammer For four years more of Theodore Cor
 Teddy) wildly clamor, And how we'll bust each wicked trust
 with fake stocks and hot air
 banks
 When this next fall we sound the call
 for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. It need not be task, you see, to write
 this campaign ditty-- You're short of time and long on rhyme,
 and therein lies the pity. So, woo the muse-shell not refuse to
 help you in your labors; Sit down and think--take pen and ink,
 typewriters, or plain fabers. Those who control the campaign roll
 will write fat checks on their
 banks
 For every song that puts It strong for
 Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-22
UTIOUS.

The dentist is one of the few people who can sll an aching void.-Philadel- phia Record.
 Don't gamble on the price of meat unless you are in position to hold the steaks. Philadelphia Record.
 An Imaginary conversation.-W Whale You'll have to get out of this" ]" Jonah What for?" Whale-"Im not char tered to carry passengers. Town and Country.
 No Good, Anyway.--"I can't keep the wolf away from the door, 7 moaned the wife. We'll said the shiftless hus- band. let him have it. The flies will get it whether its there or not. ."-Cleve- land Leader.
 Cruncher Tie told me was the big gest liar he ever saw! What do you think of that?" Maynard I should say he hadn't seen a great many liars, or that he was given to exagger- ation. IN Boston Transcript.
 Mrs. Highmore (with cold dignity)-- ITO what am Indebted for the honor of this visit ?' Unexpected Caller-"To your careless servant, perhaps, madam. I dare say she forgot that you were not at home. Chicago Tribune,
 They were looking down at the gorge at Niagara. Do you know" asked the guide, that 1t took thousands of years to dig that channel?" well, well, we'll! never knew before that it was gov- ernment job. Chicago Record Herald.
 "Can you gimme bite, ma'am?" said the ragged hobo. I'm hungry enuff ter eat a hoss."
 Il regret to say" replied the kind lady. ''thGt we are just out of horses. but I'll call the dog. Chicago Daily News.
 A Sordid Nature.--" -"Don't you want to deserve.the gratitude of your fellow cit izens?" The trouble with gratitude" 1" said Senator Sorghum, lis that it is usually expressed by the words thank you unaceomDanied by cash. .o-Wash- ington Star.
 Needed Day off.-First Busy Amer ican Commuting now; are you? How do you like the place you're living in?' Second Busy American Well, you see, I haven't spent q Sunday there yet, and it's pretty hard to judge place in the dark. Life.
 Are you nakin' much out of your summer boarders this year. Uncle Cyrus?" Nope. not much. We've had kind O bad luck this year. Got about the same crowd we had last summer, and they aint very good pickin' ~ Chicago Record Herald
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-22
An Error Corrected.

Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 Permit me to correct an error which appeared in your issue of July 21, under the head of Police Investigation.
 In your account of Wednesday aft- ernoon's hearing, there is contained the following in answer to question by MT. Harrison, "Mr. Isbell replied that MT Warmer was confined to his home on account of illness, and that MT. New bold was out of town. Asked by Chair man Harrison if they would be able to appear boefore the committee next Fri day night at o'clock, MT. Isbeli stat ed that he did not know positively, but that he thought so.'' I did not say that MT. Warner was confined to his home on account of illness, nor did I say that I thought either of the gen. tie men would be present Friday night. At the close of the previous hearing, I inquired of the commission if some day and hour could not be fixed when the gentlemen above referred to might appear and furnish any information in their possession which the committee required, without being subjected to unnecessary delay The committee re- quested me to ascertain when would be a convenient time, and to notify them, and a convenient hour was then to be set, so as to avoid unnecessary loss of time.
 Before could secure the needed in- formation, I received message from MT. Harrison informing me that the committee would be in session Wednes-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-22
WHAT CAN rHs PooR MEN Dog

WHAT CAN THE POOR MEN DO2
 Much blame is laid upon the men of this country for not getting married according to the theory that they ought 10. But it appears that there are lions and tElngs in the way. The official figures show that the 76,SOs,Ss7 people within the area of enumeration of the last census are divided into s9.O59,242 males and s7,244,145 females. giving an excess of males of 1,S15.0s7. Of the males 2s,e6s, sss are single. 14,OOS, ,Tss married. 1,1s2.2ss widowers, S4.sO4 di-. vorced and i21. .412 whose marital condi- tion is unknown. Of the females, 2O.- 52O,s1s are single. 1s,S45,sss married, 2,- 721,564 widowed, 114.s65 divorced and fl. .ss4 whose marital condition is un- known.
 If these figures are right, and if there are 10000 900 more males than females in the country, are not the men doing pretty well to get themselves loved and married as much as they do? And isn't it the duty of the women to marry as many of the men as they can? of course we don't mean in polyandrous way. but nicely monogamously, or con- secutively polygamously. Are the men as much to blame for the present con- dition of marriage in this country as the women? And don't women do the marrying anyhow?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-22

for all the heroism there was in 1t but there are some who don't see much more herOism in it than the bewildered delegates at St. Louis did.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-22

Instead of sprinkling streets at a cost of four hundred dollars a mile each season. Los Angeles is now experiment. ing with new oil treatment. The method Is to tear up the surface of the street to the depth of about three inches. Then a mixture of hot oil and sand is applied, and the whole is tramp ed down to smooth surface with a heavy steam roller. One treatment is expected to last for an entire season, and after the first year is expected to cost less than sprinkling.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-22

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AnunprIsINn RATEs

Situations. Wants. Rents, and other small advertisements. One Cent Word eacn insertion. Five Cents Word for a full week
 Display advertisements, per inch. one insertion, S1.20: each subsequent inser- tion, 40 cents; one week. 83.2O; one month. s10; one year. $40.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-22

Plenty of problems in our Philippines. One of them is the labor problem. Be- fore the American occupation Filipino workman received twenty or thirty cents day in Mexican coin; now, if he works for the government, he re- eeives seventy-fiye cents or even dol lar, though he will not accomplish half as much, on the average, as an Amer ican laborer. even under climatic condi- tions that ought to be largely in his favor. All classes of labor are being paid higher wages than before the pres ent regime, but an American corre- spondent writing from Manila asserts, there is little evident advantage, be- cause large part of the increase is gambied away.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-22

Radical members of the Norwegian parliament propose to take away the pensions of 1,6OO crowns year from Ibsen. Bjornson. Jonas Lie, and Kiel- land. on the ground that they are too old and ought to have made enough by this time for their own support. the object of such government assistance being to encourage impecunious but promising immaturity. The real reason is probably that Bjornson has been too active in withstanding the spread of radicalism. It is proposed to pun ish the others for his stand.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-22

The Boston News Bureau complies a list nearly column long of the subor- dinate companies through which the Standard Oil company conducts it's stupendous operations, The Standard Oil's capitalization is about $97, ,oO0, ,oOO, but there is no water in this. In two years it has paid sss,oOOOOO in dividends and is said to keep always in its treas- ury s50.0Oo,0oo for contingencies. Till 1895 the company was a trust in the proper meaning os the word. but since
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-22

X Some blind people can see astonish- tngly. It is related of Jersey City man who died the other day that, though totally blind, he could always tell the denomination of any banknote merely by touching it. Time after time efforts were made to puzzle him by giving him several bills of the same de- nomination, but he "was never known to fail." It is said that, when passing through a strange locality. he could tell whether the house before which he stopped was brick or frame
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-22

Concerning Panama's protest against the establishment of a custom house in the canal zone by the United States, the Detroit Free Press remarks: Pana- ma should be thankful for what it has, make no clamor for anything more, be seen and not heard like a good infant, and trust MT. Roosevelt to run it's af- fairs to suit himself. If the Dingley tariff schedules are applied in the canal zone or out of it, 1t is for Panama's $ own good If the control of the shipping in it's ports is directed by the administra- tion from Washington, it will save Pan- anna trouble and expense. It really looks as if the native of Panama did not ap- preciate what MT. Roosevelt did for them in divorcing them from Colombia and annexing them to himself.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-22

A lecture was delivered in Berlin the other day by Frau Marie Musaens- Higgins on her experiments in founding and running girls school in Colombo, the capital of Ceylon. When she open ed 1t. thirteen years ago, the native parents were not inclined to favor her project. fearing that efforts would be made to convert the girls to Christian ity; but as she has great respect for the Buddhist faith, she soon overcame these fears, and to-day there are more than fifty girls in her school, which re- ceives some pecuniary support from the British government Many of the girl graduates have passed the examina- tions qualifying them to be teachers, while several have passed examina- tions that would enable them to pur- sue their studies at the University of Cambridge. .~. e- ...
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-02

only 41.6 per cent u the fsxm land -
improved, In North Carolina only 36.6
per cent, In South Carolina only Alb
per cent, in Georgia only 4O.2 per
cent, in Alabama only Alb per
cent, in Florida only 34.G per
cent, in Louisiana only 42.2 per
cent, in Texas, only 1876 per cent, IN
Arkansas only 41.S per cent, and II
Tennessee only 5O.4 per cent. Ey
opening up this undeveloped territory.
almost every acre of which Is good
cotton land, the South's ability to
indefinitely expand her cotton produc
ton cannot be questioned, and, there
fore, the alarm about sufficient cot
ton supply in the future should no
permanently dismissed. Respectfully
J. c. HARDY,
President Mississippi A. and M. Col
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-02
Getting Active Again.

Revenue Agent Writ Adams last
week filed suits for back tax assess
mcnts aggregating $24,9oo,ooo in
the jackson and Kinds county
against packing, pressing, cotton oil
and. car companies, among them
being the Union Cotton Oil Com
.pany, of New Orleans, $1,26o'00o;
STANDARD Refining Company, New
Orleans, $4,000; Eagle Oil Cot
ton Company, Meridian, $21O,OO0
Among others sued are the Schlltz
Brewing Company, Anheuser-Busch
Brewing Company, Standard Oi!
Company, American Cotton Oh
company, Armour Packing Com
pany, Cudahy Packing Company
Swift Packing Company, and
score of other concerns.
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-02
New Railroad Map.

Secretary Webb of the railroad
commission, this morning received a
proof of the new railroad map of
Mississippi, which Mr.. Webb
planned for the use of the commits
sion and the people Of the State.
The new map has been gotten up on
a more elaborate scale than the
former ones. It is much larger and
fuller and Secretary Webb has en-
deavcred to bring it right up to
date, to show all the railroads in the
State and the projected lines now
under construction. The map shows
the completed lines of railroad even
to the smallest mill line, and a
single glance at it shows the rapid
progress now being made in Mssls-
Rippi in railroad construction.
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-02
Something Doing.

From reports persistently kept in
circulation there is evidently some
thing afoot in the affairs of the
Memphis & Gulf railroad, which is
designed to run from Memphis to-
Pensacola, Fla. One of the best in
formed men in the State on railroad
matters stated last week that he be-
leved that the announcement would
be made in the next few weeks that
the Illinois Central Railroad would
finance the new road. Every visible
sign would seem to indicate that
there was something of this kind on
foot. President Pond, of the road, ,
in an interview at Meridian few
days ago. stated that the Frisco peo-
pie had offered to finance the road,
but the offer had been declined on
the ground that the Frisco would be
hostile to the Illinois Central. Ac-
cording to the charter of the Mem
phis & Gulf, it is privileged to run
to both Mobile and Pensacola. The
moves of all three parties at interest
90 to show that some understanding
has been reached. It is we'll known
that the Frisco people are behine
the Mobile, Jackson 4 Kansas Rail
road, and it is natural that tn
Illinois Central should want tn
Memphis & Gulf, for it will give i
access to the harbor of Pensacola
and that of Mobile also, if it shoul'
be determined to 60 to Mobile. Th
new road will run through one o
the finest sections of the State, an
if the Illinois Central backing II
it will not be long before it is II
operation, for the Illinois Centra
can secure the necessary finances t
carry the project to completion.
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-02
PRIVILEGES OF WOMEN.
They Are Not Losing Them as They
Gain Legal and Other Rights.

They Are Not Losing Them as They
Gain Legal and Other Rights.
A while ago a woman pretended to
have q child, in order to secure for
tune. She was acquitted, but two
male accomplices were convicted.
"Who had that child, any way?"
shouted a bystander. Time and again
women on trial for murder go free on
evidence that would hang a man. 1t
a woman assumes the privilege of
walking up to a window and buying
a railroad ticket, while twenty per-
sons wait their turn, it is an excep-
tional clerk who will tell her ITO take
her place at the bottom OF tie line.
when lovely woman stoops to folly
and divorce results the husband fre-
are gaining rights without losing priv
ileges. Men now treat them rs equals
intellectually, but they do not In re-
turn demand social equality for them
selves. They still hold open the door
for them to pass. The part of the
Servian tragedy which aroused most
fndienation In this country was the
murder of the woman. The cause OF
this fine treatment is not to be sought
alone in chivalry.
Woman's modern privileges are due
less to her physical weakness than to
her physical charm. A portrait OF q
| pretty woman sells for more than
double the price of q male portrait by
the same master. Men walking for
pleasure on our streets look 1T the
women, and the women, instead Of re.
ciprocating. observe their own sex.
Pretty girls are the persuasive inter.
! est on the stage, in the street, in the
Illustrated press. In art, or wherever
there Is an answer to the public taste.
Whatever may have been true Of 9th
er times or places, the most charm
ing object to an American Of today
is woman's beauty. The professor
and the man Of action discuss 1t, o.
well rs the college boy and the other
women. No wonder. then, that. the
rule Of force being abolished, this con-
j Quering. charm subdues juries and
i renders docile husbands and Ill man.
kind. The only male who consistent
" resists this fascination Il the judge
. lf evidence were estimated BY the
court. instead Of by the jury. sex sym
pathy would give place TO rigoroul
equality. More women would zee thl
! scA1fold or jail, and such ! lovely com
edy q the aforementio trial would
Il be loet to the annals of human folly
q May ne apirit q chivalry nourist TOR
], ever Ii the hearts of male America
!. but not It the expen1o e justtce.-
Collier's Weokly, 81
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-02
Grocery Clerk Missing.

Matt O'Hara, young man who
was employed as grocery clerk IN
Jackson, has beer missing since
December 19, and his family and
friends are anxiously searching for
him. The police were asked to IN
vestigate the case, and fears are en-
tertained that he has suffered harm
by some means. OHara lett the
store somewhat under the influence
of liquor, and had been very de-
spondent all day. He did not 60 to
his home, and no one has seen him
since. On failing to show up for
work, his disappearance developed,
and the police are now trying to
locate him.
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-02
CASCARA BARK
Has Become So Valuable AZ to 30
Worth More Than Gold Ore.

Has Become SO Valuable 40 to ee
Worth More Than Gold Ore.
The sudden advance to IA cents and
better for cascara bark, which few
years ago sold at ~ cents and that
last year was 2A and cents, has
made transactions very lively and In
teresting in Corvallis, which is some"
thing OF a center for the product.
Local dealers will ship this season ten
car loads or more Of the bark. 1t goes
in car load lots to Hamburg, Ger
many, to London, to the East and San
Francisco The present scramble for
it is intense, and it has brought buy
ers into the field from all parts.
Early in the season Salem drug
gist contracted for six tons at cents.
and turned over a check to bind the
bargain. That was at the rate of $50
; a ton, and he can close out now at an.
, time at the rate of $3.50 or more PEI
ton. realizing $500 from an invest
ment of only $48O.
A man on Big Elk west of Corval-
! lis, sold the bark the other day from
, his own ranch and with the proceeds
bought his neighbor's ranch. Charles
, Overlander, in the same vicinity, with
! his partner, contracted to slash the
brush thereon for the chittim bark on
: the Dalaba ranch. In Toledo the 9TH
!, er day they sold eight tons OF bark
for a little less than $4,000, which is
accounted more than the ranch is
worth-and the bark sold is only
portion of what they will get from the
place.
Two small boys appeared in Elk
City the other day with a few sacks OF
chittim bark in the bottom of their
boat. They rowed back up the river
with 500 in their pockets, the proceeds
of the sale of their little jag of chit
tim. The cash looked almost as big
as the pile of chittim, and suggests
that the fashionable may yet wear
chittim rather than diamonds for Jew
elry.
Less fortunate than either of the
above was the case OF man who
bought a ranch on Nestucca. He was
an amateur in the business. with d.
version and experiment as his mo.
tive. He stocked it with 23O goats.
, purchased at a high price, and with
visions of future prosperity sat down
, to wait for his profits. One day the
news came to him that all his goats
were dead When other brush and
? pasture gave out they ate chittim
> bark in overdoses and died from the
? effects.
Il Various stories are afloat as to the
I occasion for the sudden and enormou:
: jump in prices of cascara. One i:
i that chittim brokers have sold short
l and are now forced to bid up to ge
= the supply they have agreed to fur
z nish Another is that the native sup
f ply is fast nearing exhaustion. IL
n either event the popularity of the bari
n for medicinal purposes is fast grow
n ing. Once it was merely an ingredi
). ent of patent nostrums. Now in tine
s lures. tablets and other forms it ha
S a place on the shelves of every up-to
date pharmacy, and all physicians us
e it extensively in prescriptions. PROP
e erly applied it is said to be positiv
4 cure for chronic constipation.-POr,
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-02
rles IN Several Counties.

Secretary Of State Power, in
!. making np the commissions for the
county county officers, has discovered that
IN : number Of counties where there
-ere :, I Independents running, the in
,de,endenfs tied the regular nom1-
nees The law provides that IN q
.csss. ..s like this the State Board OF
. ELECTION Commissioners shall meet
tnd nd decide who is to have the com.
mission 81, by casting lots. The board
composed Of the governor, secre-
4.rv 81 81 otate and attorney general
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-02
University Trustees.

, The trustees of the university
nave been called to meet at Jackson
on January 4 by the governor: This
is the day before the meeting OF the
Legislature, and will be q convenient
and opportune time for the meeting
The principal matters to be consid-
cred will be the requirements OF the
college and the recommendations q
In made to the next Legislature. A
committee - will doubtless be ap-
nointed to lock- after the interests Of
HE iinstitutioes before the legisla-
lure. - =
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-02
carlno for Veterans

Splendid progress is being made
by the United Daughters Of the Cons.
federacy in collecting clothing for
the inmates Of the soldiers home at
Beauvoir. Every chapter in the
state is engaged in this laudable
charity, and large boxes Of clothing
of all kinds are being forwarded TO
Superintendent Stone. There will
also be many Christmas donations
to the INDECENT veterans who have
entered tho home, and the instltn-
tion will soon be in first-class shape.
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-02
Experiment station Bill.

State Senator A. NJ. Hicks ot
Yazoo county announces that he
will introduce a bill in the next
legislature providing for State ex.
pertinent station to be established
in the Yazoo- Mississippi delta. Sen
ator Hicks also expresses himself as
favoring a geological survey OF the
State and may introduce bill to
that end.
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-02
Il Piei<esss Bankrupt.

In the Federal Court at Jackson
last week William III. Hoover, OF
Pickens, fled a petition in bank
ruptcy. His liabilities are given in
the schedule as >$2s, ,104, while his
assets are placed at $10,889.
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-02
important Movement.

A movement Of Importance is the
consolidation Of the municipalities
Of Scranton and Pascagoula, to take
place early. in January, under the
old Indian name Of Pascagoula.
The electric railroad to connect the
various towns along the coast Is
being pushed to completion, and It
has been decided to construct line
to Dantzler, which will be z great
convenience FOR communication be
tween Moss Point md Pascagoula.