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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07
FOOLISH GREED FOR LAND.
Usually It Has It's Source in an AL
together Silly Desire to Make
Display.

We are all familiar with the greed
of the city man who never gets rich
enough to retire, but who keeps on pill
ing up wealth year after year merely
for the sake of accommodating. He Is
the favorite theme of the country
preacher when he wishes to point out
the folly of this world; yet we seldom
hear anything about his rural counter
part, the man who is land greedy and
who keeps himself and family in mar
row, restricted ways of living in order
that he may add to his domain. This
criticism does not apply to the men
who are able to extend their operations
without cramping themselves seriously
and who can make their purchases
yield returns which justify the invest
ment; but rather to the men we occa-
sionally see who have a passion for ac-
quiring land, but who do not stop to
consider whether they will be able to
handle it proftably. A successful young
dairyman who had 25 cows was asked
why he did not increase his herd, in
asmuch as his farm would support
IHOIc- DCCduSC 20 10 Oil mat l. SoA
care for with the amount of help l find
it profitable to keep" he replied. 81
can better afford to utilize the surplus
products of the farm In some other way
than to so increase my herd that an
other mixer will be required"
The farmer who feels the itching for
more lana" should consider something
besides the price and ask himself
whether the land if acquired could be
farmed +, economically in conjunction
with that which he already has. II
not, he would do well to "go slow"
about mourning a burden of debt or In
vesting cash which he has earned by
the hardest kind of toll. The best
farmers are agreed that their profits
depend upon close, careful management
and ~up-to-date methods which insure
a maximum of production with a min
imum Of labor, and it is the small. well
titled farms that often show the biggest
returns per acre. The desire to exhibit
prosperity is no doubt the temptation
to which many men succumb when
they buy more land than they need, yet
they are often so plain in dress and
manners that they would consider II
rank injustice should anyone accuse
them of wanting to make a display
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07
BLACK LOCUST FOR POSTS.
Quite Popular in Some Sections, But
Not as Reliable as the Honey
Locust.

The black locust makes excellent post
timber in localities adapted to its
growth; that is, where ii is not killed
by the borer before it gets large enough
for such use. The locust does not
grow as rapidly as the softer woods,
such as the catalpa, but 1t makes a
very hard and durable post. We believe
for most localities the yellow or honey
locust will give better satisfaction than
the black locust. So far as we are
aware, this variety is not attacked by
the borer. We have known trees of this
variety to stand unframed by the side
of a black locust grove, every tree in
which was killed. The black locust has
the faculty of throwing up sprouts
from the roots whenever the top is cut
off or killed by borers, so that a grove
of this variety is self-renewing and II
planted a little thin in the start may
be thickened up by cutting them off and
inducing them to throw up sprouts
from the roots. The great trouble is
that the borer Is liable to strike them
Just before they are large enough to be
valuable as posts. The honey locust,
while free from possible destruction
by the borer, makes just as good post
timber. and we believe grows about as
fast as the black variety. The rate OF
growth, as with any other tree, de-
ponds much upon the conditions of the
soil and rainfall. Under favorable CON
ditions the larger trees in a grove OF
this timber should be five to eightinches
| through in 20 years, and should carry
a fairly uniform size of trunk to a
| height of Is feet.-Prairie Farmer.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07
A Bows Story.

Cross Roads, Warren Co., Tenn, May
2nd.-Orbra Young, the eleyen-year-old
son of Mr.. Lester Young, of this place,
has never Eeen a strong boy for almost
from his birth. He has suffered more or
less with a distressing Kidney Complaint.
Recently, however, he has appeared to be
growing stronger and better till, indeed,
to-day he is a splendid looking hearty lad
He is a bright and very intelligent boy
and speaks of his former illness In thls
way: -
II have been bothered with Kidney
Trouble nearly all my life. l was grad
ually growing worse and at last 1t got SO
bad that [ had to get up three or four
times every night. ! commenced to use
a medicine called Dodd's Kidney Pills and
in a short time / was better. Now can
sleep all night without getllng. UP and
feel we'll all the time. Dodd's Kidney
Pills are a good remedy, and l can't help
but speak a good word for them"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07
Fl L

They are, to a certain extent, fairly eff
-6cient. but last only a short time, as
the wire springs rust easily. The best
thing we have in the way of traps is a
homemade contrivance which has been
in use for about 40 years, and which
has caught its thousands of mice. AAft-
err so many years of use, the tn p is
somewhat the worse for wear an has
peer repaired many times and salso
shows the marks of many mice's teeth.
Fig. 1 is a front view of the COM
pleted trap. Fig. 2 shows side-view of
the trap doors and triggers. Fig. 3
gives the triggers in detail. The trig-
gers and levers are made of ordinary
bale wire. If hard wood is used for
top. sides and doors the mice will not
gnaw very much when inside of it, but
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07

surpasses all others in beauty, so, also,
does it in size. One thousand two nun
dred and forty acres, literally covered
with the treasures, the productions, the
c~uriosities of &C world, tell the story
of the fair in a sentence. No one WIS.,
itor will ever see it all, though he
spent the full time the exposition is
oucn.at the task. An exposition which
cost $50, 600, 900 before its gates were
opened to the public; an exposition
to which 50 nations from all cor
ners of the world have sent their
best for the people of the world
to look upon an exposition two miles
long and one mile wide; an exposition
hat is twice the size of any other to
which the public were invited; an ex-
position that is larger than the three
previous large American expositlons
combined. Such is the exposition
with which st. Louis celebrates the
centennial of the Louisiana purchase.
But the men responsible for the ex-
position do not wish that 1t should at
tract by it's size alone. They have
builded for beauty, as well as for big
ness. and who can stand in the center
of the great panorama without being
aroused 10 a pitch Of enthusiasm by
the beauty that surrounds him? 1t is
the beauty, rather than the size of the
fair, that first appeals to him.
Another thing that appeals to the
American. the man who loves his coun-
- = ~ oo1+froonf thu 0xnnCifiOn
stands for. 1t is a sentiment that Is
fully exemplified in the imposing he
roic statues of the states that stand on
either side Of Festival hall. These
statues typify, not the states of the
east. but those of the west, the states
carved out of the Louisiana territory,
the states that stretch from the gulf
to the Canadian border, from he Mis-
sissippi to Puget sound; states that
have within a century of time been
builded out of the wilderness. 1t is
for these the exposition has been build
ed; it is these again that have made
the exposition possible. The lesson
thev teach is written deep in the his
tory of the nation.
To attempt an itemized description
CT the wonders this exposition has
brought to the doors of the people OF
tie central west is impossible in the
space of a newspaper article. Twelve
thousand car loads of exhibits found
space within the great palaces. 1t is
almost impossible to realize what such
a statement means until n has gone
from building to building, from ex-
hibit to exhibit. Nor is tire space in
the building wasted. Every niche II
filed with so41ething of interest, ano
ire demand was for almost double the
amount at the disposal of the author
tiles. Some idea of this may be hac
from the statement that the breakfas
food manufacturers alone asked fol
more space than would have filed al
the Agricultural building, covering L
acres of ground, and with four milei
of aisles.
To pick even the more interesting ex
hibits is almost an impossibility
though among them might be men
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07
True TO His Friends.

An answer to an advertisement for q
school assistant Capable of teaching the
classics as far as Homer and Vlrgil"
makes one of the best stories in the Dean
Of Bristol's recent book, odds and Ends"
Sir" the answer ran, with reference
to the advertisement in the Times re-
speeding a school assistant, | beg to state
that | should be happy to fill that situa-
ton, but as most of my friends reside IN
London, and not knowing how far Homer
and Virgil is from town, L beg to state
that | should not like to engage to teach
the classics farther han Hammersmlth or
Furnham Green, or at the very utmost
distance, farther than Brentford."
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07
HOW TO r MICE.
Here Is a Trap Which Has Stood the
Test of Forty Years on an
Ohio Farm.

Of course we have a cat and a dog,
but they cannot always get at the mice
whenever and wherever they wish. The
corncrib. the smokehouse and the Gel
lar are places where we cannot leaVe a
eat or a dog for any length OF time.
Therefore we must use traps.
There are several kinds Of traps
manufactured of more or less efficiency,
of which we have used only n kind
the round wooden trap with holes in
the sides and the choker arrangement.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07
Shake Into Your Shoes

Aliens FootrEase. Itcures painful, swollen,
smarting, sweating feet. Makes new shoes
easy. Soldb y allDrugglsts and onoe stores.
Don'taccept any substitute. Sample FREE
Address A. s. Olmsted, LIE Roy N. Y.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07
HARROW.

to a harrow, g portrayed by means OF
a stout wire about six feet long, plac-
ing the oval side of log down. Such an
implement works we'll in smoothing
the surface after the harrow.-Mrs. G.
Carpener, in Epitomist.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07

whats the row over on the next
street," Only a wooden wedding,
"Wooden wedding?" Yes; a couple OF
Poles getting married. Princeton Tiger.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07

The best maxims may be on the lips OF
the worst men.-Ram's Horn.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07
EXCELLENT IMPLEMENT.
It Does Splendid Service in Smooth
ing the Surface After Use
of the Harrow.

Take a log the length of harrow,
split it in two and attach each end OF 1t
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07

The cynic is a man who sees his own
heart and calls it the world.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07

You can do your dyeing in half an hour
with Putnam Fadeless Dyes.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07

Give the reins to appetite and you give
wings to happiness.-Ram's Horn.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07

With hogs, clean beds and clean penn
will do much to ward off lice and dig
casa.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07
r1iss Claussen Saved from a Surgical Operation.

"DEAR Mrs. P1NKHAM:-It seems to me that
all the endorsements that l have read of the value
of Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound do not express
one-half of the virtue the great medicine really
want to give the credit where it belongs. | suf-
fered with ovarian trouble for five years, had three
operations and spent hundreds of dollars on doc
tors and medicines but this did not cure me
after all. -.
"However, what doctors and medicines failed
IN do lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound did. Twenty bottles restored me to per-
feet health and / feel sure that had | known of its
value before, and let the doctors alone, would
have been spared all the pain and expense that
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-07

oneratiOnS cost me. IF the women who are SuHerLng, IN
the doctors do not help them, will try Lydia E. Pnkhams Vege-
table Compound, they will not be disappointed with the results
Mss Clara M CLAUssEN. 1907 Penn st, Kansas City, Mo.
FORFEIT IL 70 cannot forthwith produce the oignaI letters ao hgnA'u'~
.M1AkGRn LYDIA K. Med. o Lynn, MASS
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-10-01
FORT SCHLOSSER.
OAd stone Chimney Stands 90 a Re-
minder That English Once Held
City of Detroit.

AS We enter the suburbs of Niagara
Falls. writes Eben p. Dorr, in Four
Track News, on the left. now nesting
amongst huge brick factories, is the pic
turesque stone chimney known as Fort
Schlosser." This old stack, which has
been spared in the march of improve
ments, has weathered many seasons
since its capacious fiue drew the sparks
from Joncaires hearth in the DAYS of
the French occupation. Standing al the
head OF the old portage around the falls
the Joncaire house was a landmark of
Importance in the early settlement of
the frontier Several buildings have
been located here. The chimney, OF sub
stanual limestone masonry, remains q
mute witness Of the onward sweep of
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-10-01
TAUGHT BOYS TO SMOKE.
schOOImasters I'm England Gave In
structIons In Use of Pipe and
Tobacco 100 Yenrs Ago.

At first sight the recent agitation for
legislation to prevent the sale of to-
bacco to boys seems to show a state
of affairs previously unknown. That
such is not the case, however, is
shown by a story of the closing years
of the seventeenth century as related
by De Rochefort, the French traveller,
says the New York Herald
During his visit to Worcester, Eng
land he records he was asked by his
guide If it was the custom in France,
as in England. that when children
went to school they carried in their
satchel with their books their pipes
and tobacco, and that, at stated hour,
the master smoked with them, teach
ing them how to hold their pipes and
draw in the tobacco" There is ample
confederation that this is no mere idle
tale
What may be called the golden age
of smoking was reached in the reign of
Queen Anne. For over a century the
use of tobacco had gradually but stead
ily increased in popularity amongst the
people of England. From the end of
Queen Anne's reign until the last 80
years or SO the practice of snuffing the
herb usurped the place of the pipe
among the cultured, though smoking
never lost its hold upon the working
classes
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-10-01
PRECEDENCE IN ENGLAND.
Rank There Counts for More Than
Merit-Noted Poet Placed ut
Foot of Table.

I knew a young American girl, who,
goins TO England under the care of an
ami ssadors family, and attending
her 3rst large dinner party, and look
ing about her, selected. as the guest
ii ,ae room who most interested her
one man of distinguished aspect. whom
she resolved 10 watch writes Thomas
Wentworth Iligsinson, in the Atlantic.
When the guests were ushered into the
dining haIl according to the laws OF
precedence she found herself at the
very end Of the brilliant procession, as
one OF two untitled plebeians in the
room assigned to the escort OF the
very man who had interested her and
who turned out TO be Samuel Rogers,
the poet and patron of art, and the
recognized head of literary society m
England. She always said that She Sc
cured two things at that entertain
ment, namely, the most delightful com
panion that she ever had at dinner
party. and, moreover, lesson in the
outcome of mere hereditary rank that
would last n lifetime. Rogers poems
are not now read so much as formerly,
but Al that time the highest literary
honor a man could have was TO dine
with Rogers He was also one of the
richest bankers in London, and was
very possibly the only person in the
room who had won for himself repu-
tation outside of his own little island;
but he was next to nobody in that
company, and the little American girl
was the nobody.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-10-01
AMERICAN RAILROAD SPEED.
Average Largely In Excess of All
European Roads Statement
Proved by Experts Figures.

George P. Punll, a railway expert, has
prepared statistics showing that the
speed in actual running of American
railroad trains is higher than that of
the trains Of European roads. The
average speed of 50 trains between 5er=
sey City and Philadelphia is SO miles
an hour; 30 trains between New York
and Buffalo, 80 &c; three trains between
Buffalo and St Louis. 3S78 81 trains
from New York to Boston, 1890; ten
trains from Philadelphia to- Pittsburg,
3712. The average speed of trains from
Leipsic to Hamburg is SO 46; from Bre-
men to Nuremberg, 1851; from Munich
to Frankfort, 34.41.
The speed of fast expresses is highest
over the Reading and Pennsylvania from
Atlantic City to Camden. 6766 and &C. 80
respectively The Mediterranean express
from Paris has a speed of 1912; the
Empire state express, $40; the Ham
burg express, the Marlborough express.
the Plymouth express and the Twentieth
Century limited eomein order Thefastest
express to ST Petersburg, from Ostend.
has an average speed of $3.50: the ex-
press from Paris to Madrid runs 1870;
the California limited of the Atchison.
1919. and the Overland limited, of the
Northwestern and Union Pacific, 32. 80.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-10-01

civilization, and the vast changes OF two
centuries in the environment of the
cataract The English. in 1860. erected
st0ckade here. and named it Fort
Schlosser," in honor of the officer in
command.
The Newtown bee., 1904-08-05
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The Newtown bee., 1904-08-05

felt this morning, the two days pre- ceding the hurricane had left Old Ocean in an exceedingly sportive mood, to put 1t as mildly as possible. Long before we were outside the breakwater the steamer was rolling and pitching at rate to astonish one. In less than an hour only chosen few were left on deck, and steward and stewardess went hustling about. as though they had struck the busiest season of the year.
 The steamer was a very small one, l should judge not drawing over F or
 15 feet of water, which made her about as unsteady as row boat. To add to the discOmfOrtS of the situation, the boat, instead of running at right an- gles with the waves, and cutting di- rectly through them, thus giving a rocking motion from bow to stern, was running diagonally with the waves, and so rocked from side to side like a huge cradle, and that motion is harder on most people than the ''up and down." I fully expected to follow every one else, and was most unutter- ably surprised to find myself feeling splendidly throughout the trip. After all, when it comes to sea-sickness l have always been 8 good Presbyterian, that is, firmly believe that "what- ever is to be, will be-" and no amount of dosing and medicines and preventa- tives will make very much difference.
 After I got over my surprise at not being sick, I thoroughly enjoyed the trip. The boat at times rolled so far
The Newtown bee., 1904-08-05

over as to fling one against the rail, dashing the spray over them, and the next moment tipping so far to the other side, that one had to grasp the rail to keep from sliding across the deck. The crossing took about three hours, and never saw body of peo- pie so unanimously overjoyed to get to the end of trip. The "island" itself is little more than a great noun tain, rising abruptly from the sea, the shores on all sides so steep that one could not climb them without ropes and other aids. There are one or two places only where landing can be made. After luncheon we went out in glass bottomed boat to see the 'ma- rine gardens, :" which are the main at-
 traction of the island. Following close to the shore, one is over from 40 to 100 feet of water, so clear that the bottom shows as distinctly as though twas inches instead of feet below. The bottom is largely of rock, not ledges but great boulders, piled one upon another. In many places these are entirely hidden by seaweed, but
 where they do show they are, I think, lime stone, and often as white as a white-washed wall. In the spaces be- tween these rocks lie wonderful shells and stones,-fish of all kinds, shapes, color and sizes flash in and out, or circle slowly past. In other places the whole bottom is covered by won- derful sea growths, some pale, clear green ,others dim olive, others orange
The Newtown bee., 1904-08-05
A WONDERFUL INVENTION.

It is interesting to note that for tunes are frequently made by the in- ventiUn of articles of minor impOr- tance. Many of the most popular de- vices are those designed to benefit the people and meet popular conditions, and one of the most interesting of these that has ever been invented is the Dr White Electric comb, patented January l, 1899. These wonderful combs positively cure dandruff, hair falling out, sick and nervous head aches, and when used with Dr Whites Electric hair brush are positively guar anteed to make straight hair curly in 25 days time. Thousands of these electric combs have been sold in vsri- ous cities of the Union, and the de- mand is constantly increasing. Our agents are rapidly becoming rich sell ing these combs. They positively sell on sight. Send for sample. Mems size 35c; ladies' 5Oc-(half price while we are introducing them). The Dr White Electric Comb Co.,, Decatur, Ill.