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COURTDAYM THE BLUE GRASS
MONDAYS THAT KENTUCKIANS
DON'T SPEND AT HOME.

Horse Swapping. ~Gossippins, Trading.
Drinking nc the County seat-The
Monthly Day OF Social Meetings. OF
Business engagements. Trade, Fun.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 27-Stifen your
selves, bricks in the sidewalk loafng places.
Dry the ragged sod In the court house
yard, friendly April IN. Fetch out to the
pavement your stools and chairs, hotel
clerk and corner groceryman. And on
the street, ladies', it's court day at the
county seat
It's the day Of business engagements, OF
live stock sales, OF social meetings, the
day OF convenience, OF trade, OF fun, for
the masculine countryside.
Happy Is the man who lives within driving
distance OF two county seats, happier he
who ives near enough 20 three to attend
monthly court day at each place. on the
frst,. second, third or fourth Monday, "a
the case may be. And-does he ever stay
at home on any OF these Mondays? Not
while there Is a hoof in the stables! He
may make excuse to HIS womankind for
going to town on other days, but court day
is his legitimate day 70 seek town.
Here they come, the rural population,
and they OF other within driving dis
lance, the web to do class, the land owner
and the half strainer, In buggies, runabouts
or dog carts, rubber tired and shining,
pulled by stylish three-year-olds-the older
horses are gone TO the Eastern markets.
The lmpecunious ones, the tenant farmers
the tobacco people who raise tobacco
crops for the and owners the unfashion-
able folks from the hills, the moneyiess
sons Of Africa, are In nAttersd sDrng
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training, notably the great Banastar, wins
ner of both a Metropolitan and a Brooklyn
Handicap. Since he has succeeded to the
management Of most Of the great Mackay
enterprises he has withdrawn from the
racing game. He was at one time n OF
the cleverest Of the polo playing oontingentS
but he is not often seen in the saddle nova
days.
Arthur stanwood Pier, who is one OF the
editors OF the Youths Compdn ion, takes his
exercise in the form Of lawn tennis. He
Is as expert with the racket as he 10 with
his pen, and is his season one OF the players
who received a rating from the ranking COM
mittee Of the National Lawn Tennis Assoc
citation.
As for Simeon Ford, that funeresl teller
of excellent tales, he Is among the golfers.
Yet though he plays, and not SO badly
either, it il as a goling adviser that he
plumes himself.
Indeed, he has been known 10 intimate
darkly that it was due In no small measure
TO his advice that Travis won the amateur
championship of England. Anyhow, Ford
was there when Travis won. But the hotel
mans reputation as a Jester 10 unfortu-
nately such as to initiate against his claim
for advisory golfing honors.
Among the amateur yachtsmen John II.
Hanan's son., Addison G.. Hanan, Ii one Of the
%oleverest. In 1903, when the American boat
the Irondequoit had been beaten twice In
the Canada cup races on Lake Ontarioi
young Hanan ooh the wheel for the third
race. The American boat won that race and
the next two, thus retaining the cup.
Harry Maxwell, son of J.. Rogers Max
well, made a great reputation as a yachts
man last summer on the New York Yacht
Clubs cruise. Here it was agreed by tho
experts that the young amateur more than
held his own with Charley Barr, who has
piloted 30 many Americas Cup defenders
10 victory. Barr's boat, the Rainbow, beat
Maxwell's 10 footer, the Yankee, only nce
on the cruise. .
As for tina great man Rosey the Lawyer,
whose other and seldom heard name b
Hyman Rosenschein, il IL well known that
his ~favorite pastime is inducing the young
people of Essex street 10 get married.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-30
SCREAM OF A GASSER.
As Piercing as the Death Cry Of . Th0u-
sand Painters.

Whatever facts may be covered up in
the oil business there il one thing which
defies secrecy. 1t is a gasser.
When a gasser is struck everybody for
miles around knows 1t. In fact nobody
knows or at least thinks Of anything else
till the gasser is muzzled.
A writer in the broadway Magazine gives
an account OF the advent Of one Of these
wells. It seems to have been q bowling
success. 1t woke the hero out OF a dead
sleep, though he was at a considerable
distance from the well
The air did not seem to be air, but one
unceasing, ear piercing, brain maddening
scream. lie got up, stuffed his ears with
cotton and HE'D himself to the scene Of
1T screamed like the death cry Of q
thousand panther, he says: The long
string, a great length OF pipe had been
hurled against a tree and wrapped around
IL. The derrick was almost hidden In q
white haze, a geyser Of fine sand was stream
ing upward and eating away lac lofty
crown block.
seth knew what It was. he found
Tom and they gestioulated at each oehsr;
they made faces, but no audible sound.
Their voices were vain as candles In the
full sunlight. Each was trying 10 yell
the same thing.
She's a gasser blowing her head or
Men gathered from everywhere and
acted like crazy folk, working their jaws
and delivering no message. They were
soaked, drowned, obliterated In a sea OF
intolerable noise.
"a mile away at the railroad station
the passenger were equally "a dumb
bv the uproar. II a man wanted q tiokes
he had to write out the name OF the station,
An engine rolled in with a bell that rocked
without sound and a whistle emitting puns
q white steam hat no one heard.
the animals OF the region were greatly
disturbed. There was much breaking Of
harness by horses. n one or two galloped
about under empty saddles
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ons or tattered buggies, drawn by work
horses or mules, are astride saddles that
nave seen the incoming and the outgoing
often, pedestrians.
Then it's Come on ye who have money
70 spend for hitching and hayl' The smil-
ing liveryman and his aids await you, glad
of the busy day that is theirs.
Pass the stables by, ~impecunious onesl
Here on the side streets and in vacant lots
are hitching places convenient and. free.
Here, too, are the churchyard hitching posts
awaiting your mild eyed and rope refined
old horse and your hard headed mule, and
instead of incoming under the hveryman's
prosaio roof in the care Of sweating Simon
they may rest under the shadow OF q steepls,
watched by stained glass angels.
Ten O'Clock, and the streets are alive with
men; but where are the womenl Behind
closed easements. Then why does the grass
widow, bravely apparelled in pale green,
sit in her phaeton in Main street the day
long? Oh, she's Madam Unconventional who
comes TO town every u day to see and be
seen.
There's another lady who comes to town
on court day, the helpmeet Of Herr Bau-
meister, who comes in from the German
settlement on purchasing intent. She steps
upon the wheels axle and tosses into the
wagon the sacks OF -four and kegs OF nails.
What matters a little disarrangement OF
pink calico and yellow ribbon fnery when
one is proving ones self a real helpmeet?
By old custom. on this day certain streets
are set aside for herding the stock brought
in TO sell. Hear that cracking OF whips n
mighty bawling Of cattle IN Needmore laner
It's a hundred head drove Of two-year-
Oils the enterprising man OF a
county has brought 20 the blu grass TO
sell 90 the farmers TO pasture In the rich
blue grass fields.
Ths loud mouthed driver starts !
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{ SINAI But he has long since passed
the rowing age, and now keeps himself
in good condition by ridi ng. He keeps
a horse in a stable on the university grounds
and every fair day when he is in Cam
bridge he goes out for a canter.
George J. Gould has in his time had
many amusements He has FAILED and
owned both steam and sailing yachts.
For years be has been a cross-country
rider and still loves TO follow the hounds,
though he has had several hard falls.
He owns several automobiles and drives
his own machine whenever he has a
chance. In the summer Of 1905 he was
motoring in France along a country road
with Mrs. Gould when the machine skidded
and made for the top Of ar ~embankment.
Mrs. Gould jumped, but her husband stuck
to the steering wheel and went over the
fifteen foot embankment with the car.
Neither Mr.. Gould nor his wife was seriously
injured.
But so far as sport is concerned polo
il Mr.. Gould's hobby. Not only does he
play himself but he has trained those Of
his sons who are old enough until they are
finished players.
With the exception OF q single position
there are enough Coulds who play to make
up an entire polo team. On his estate at
Georgian Court, Lakew God, he has one of the
most completely appointed polo grounds in
the country.
Booth Harrington. author Of the The
Gentleman From Indiana is an auto fend
of the most extreme type. He spends much
OF his time at his villa on the island Of Capri,
where the roads are said to be admirable for
the uses OF the buzz wagon.
Richard Mansfield is one OF the best athletes
on the stage, although he is no longer a young
man. There nave been many tales OF his
hardness with his fists related by actors and
stage managers who have been at one time
or another In Mr.. Mansfeld's company, and
he was once sued by q member Of his oom-
pany who charged that the stag had attacked
him.
Mr.. Mansheld's friends have frequently
declared that he was the victim OF much mis-
representation in this respect. However
that may be, Mr.. Mansfield Is always fit and
keeps himself so by an hours vigorous ex-
ercise with dumbbells, Indian clubs and so
on every day just before breakfast.
Senator W. A. Clark OF Montana plays
golf. Nobody knows why, but it is prob
ably to be explained on the theory that he
had lone about everything else in life that
any human being deprived OF special
talents could dc and he wanted to COM
plete his record.
He Is said by those who have seen him
to be one OF the worst golfers on record.
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graesward a week before the court day In
the town he's -aimin' fur" and secures
shelter at night and grazing or fodder for
his cattle Of the farmers en- route. When
he brings the cattle to feed on the fat CORN
fields In September, when the road dust
is bad and the heat dangerous, he drives
at night and rests in the day, and he in
variably drives on Sunday that he may be
in early on Monday.
Do you hear that neighing and cheering
on Broadway. tho towns street az hand
some residences? It's horse show day and
that street Is given up to the saddle stations,
the trotters, the thoroughbreds and the
Shetlands.
Up and down the street the owners or
grooms ride the spirited beauties, while
small boys distribute the cards telling
OF each horses pedigree and bis
a~ttainments.
When the horses rest, the bystanders
cluster about them for a closer survey,
handling and caressing every glorious
creature withthe exception ofthethorough-
bred whose temper is as quick as his feet
are feet. He Is admired at q respectful
distance. Now and then a easement opens
and a group OF girls and women, lovers OF
horses, look out at the graceful creatures;
See the wide side street, Hear the
laughter, the jeering, and noisy argumeutp
That is the contrast to Broadway on horse
show day-Jockey street, where equine
wrecks are sold and exchanged, and the
trade Of Ananias and Sapphira revived.
The willy owner of the horse whose affiic-
ton Is ricketts, pats a prospective trader
cou gingly on the shoulder.
Jaw now he says, -jes'look at my hoss's
fine head. Dye we see a dnerY, Yes,
he reels a little, I own he reels a little, but
he's all right in the main, and perfectly
safe fer q woman"
And five cents boot II all you can gimme?"
says he who has snapped a winder for a
limper. I'm take it. but, man alive. don't
a dollar look somepin' like AZ big a. a cart
wheel to your"
rising country housewife sees q taillees
horse and a tall pedestrian in the road In
front OF her DIV cling. The horse takes q
dozen steps, then turns round and round
and falls dat.
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cents you owes me on dc ditch diggin'.
Den he pulls out his pooketbook, quick.
: 'Suttinly, sam he says, is dat all
owe you, Samp
Five o'clock comes, and in the rosy sunset
of the April day court day draws to It's close.
The wagonload of saddles, brides, rugs
and whips piled in the accommodating
corner groceryman's store melt away as
their owners come for them
The knob folk of the hills have sold out
their wagon loads Of hickory baskets, and
-sassafrack" roots; the medicine man with
the long hair and the coat buttons OF gold
eagles, who has pulled teeth free all day
and sold his load Of one dollar a bottle cure
c~oloring) takes the road to tle next town.
The saloon frequenters pull themselves
together and start home.
1An," says the old tobacco raiser, but
them that's been drinkin' two step and
graveyard whiskey. Them that drinks
two step, they walk about two steps before
they drap; them that drinks graveyard
don't walk nary step, and both Nv EN- has
TO be tuck down in the hotel cellar by some
OF the boys and laid thar tell mominI'
The farmers gather up their n and
set out TO their wives, who have enjoyed
a day OF freedom from cooking-always
on court day, Mondays, the country house.
wife eats a cold dinner.
Often when the roads are not crowded
the younger men enjoy racing with each
other on the way home.
Back on the hotel corner stands the white
haired remnant of the old time, the blind
mendicant, still holding out his tin cup,
and as the court day folk pass out OF the
town there m quaveringly after them
on the evening breeze:
Far'weIl TO de fields
OBJ cotton, 'bacco and all:
Is gwine TO hoe
In a Dressed row
Wha' de Gavin grows mellow and tall.
q boys. carry me long,
Garry me tell l die:
Garry me down to de buryin' RrOun':
And. massa. don't you cryl
q carry me long;
Da's no noah trouble for me-:
lie gwine TO roam
In a happy home :
VIVA al de niRgers Am frssi
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-30

Somebody has advanced q theory that
the best way to get at the essence of man 3
character is to learp how he spends his
time when he 10 not engaged in following
whatsoever pursuit he depends upon for his
income and his reputation in this world Of
various affairs. This theory is based, OF
course, upon the notion hat though a mar
In che way OF his business or profession
may do many things that are foreign to his
real nature, yet when he can choose how
he win occupy an idle o or a free day
be win naturally turn to some occupation
20 which his real self Ia Attracted.
Il may be interesting, therefore, 20 see
whether this theory 'is N out by the
sports and pastimes affected by a number
OF men who for various reasons are more or
less In tho American Amelight at the present
time. Take the case OF John W. Gates,
for example, known the country over as
one OF the most daring OF Wall Street
plungers and m~anipulators.
MI. Gates's methods In business are
well known to be spectacular. His motto is
quick action In everything. He loves TO
make things sizzle IN the Street.
Wherefore the promoter OF the theory
10 likely to get considerable comfort out
Of the fact that when Mr. Gates goes out
to amuse himself he steers straight for .
rscetrack II it happens to be the season
Of the year when the ponies are running.
Once there he usually hunts up job A.
Drake and they dope out the probable
winners Of the day.
Then there Ia something doing with the
bookmakers. At the end OF h recent
Saratoga meeting Mr.. Gates went abroad,
remarldng before sailing that he and Mr..
Drake were about $3.50, 600 ahead on the
meeting. He was going to dance In Europe,
he said, and let the bookmakers settle
with the fiddler.
But observe THAI Mr.. Gates doesn't care
anything about the horses. He says he
never owned q horse In his life and doesn't
want 10. They furnish him with excite
ment and that's all he ants them for.
Almost any kind of speculative propo-
sition makes an appeal to Mr.. Gates. He
is q heavy player at both faro and poker.
Il 10 not uncommon for him TO win or
lose tens Of thousands In a night over the
cards.
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One instance related Of him lie a loss OF
s32, 900 & a Saratoga faro bank. At an
other time when he was travelling in a
private car q fellow traveller annoyed him
considerably by repeated offers to match
coins. At length Mr.. Gates remarked:
Since you are anxious to match, let's
begin with one spin for a quarter OF a million
dollars .
The nuisance subsidized promptly.
It's tho spectacular, the sudden, the
vast and the glittering that appeal to Mr..
Gates in sport as In business. He and Mr..
Lambert, the steel magnate. were travelling
west on q train one time.
They had made about tl5, O00, 900 more
or less on the market recently and Mr..
Gates thought they ought to invest 1t in
some profitable enterprise instead Of leaving
1t in the banks. just a. he had made this
statement the train rolled into Pittsburg.
Let's get of Inc buy some mills said
Mr.. Gates.
AN right" said Mr.. Lambert.
So they got of, heard hat q mill was
for sale at Cleveland and wired for q price
on 1t.
One million dollars came tho reply.
We'll take it, answered Mr.. Gates-and
they did.
Thus It appears that In the case Of Mr..
Gates the spirit Of business and play Is
precisely the same.
Perhaps it would scarcely be fair to apply
this test to John d. Rockefeller, since
John d. Archbold has recently stated that
Mr.. Rockefeller has not been actively
connected with the management OF the
Standard Oil Company in fifteen years.
But perhaps there is something 70 be
learned from the fact that in the most
active years Of the formation Of the oil
trust Mr.. Rockefeller had no time for recrea-
ton OF any sort.
just now he plays golf whenever he
gets a chance, and his son is authority
for the statement that his father ook up
this gentle pastime for the benefit Of his
digestion, which lie, In consequence, just
now Of the best.
In order that be might crafty his taste
for golf embarrassed by the curious Mr..
Rockefeller paid $4,000 for the property
Of the Lakewood Country Club, and swipes
the elusive 'quinine pill over q first class
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-03-17
1t is to be hoped that the propos

1t is to be hoped that the PROPOSE.
ton now before the legislature to ex.
empt all money loaned at six per cent
from taxes will become a law. Mis-.
sisSippi is still largely undeveloped.
Our people need money and the best
way to make funds easily available is
to put a premium on loans such as
this proposition carries. 1t would in
ure to the benefit Of the farmer and
the small borrower and we can not
see how the money loaner would occu-
py any better position to receive in
terest than now. The money is being
loaned now at a higher rate OF inter.
est than six per cent and very little OF
it is listed with the tax assessor. A
law Of this kind would free the
money loaner from the tax gatherer
and the possible tolls OF the revenue
agent. Hence the small man would
be benefited.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-03-17
In the process of our benevolent

In the process of our benevolent
assimilation" Of the Philippines the
lives of eighteen of III soldiers were
sacrificed, besides the wOunding OF
fifty others, only a few days ago. A
murderous band Of MoroS on the is.
land Of Sulu were exterminated, but
what mother or father is there in
this great country that would give
the lives of one Of their sons to shoot
civilization into everything in that
country from one end to the other.
Mckinley blundered in taking the
Philippines. Bryan blundered in
busying himself to get the Democrats
in the United States Senate to vote to
confirm the treaty whereby that deal
was consummated and our government
has continued to blunder in trying to
hold them since. What's in it for US
after we aSSimilate them?
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-03-17
JUDGE PARKER Al JACKSON.

The coming Of Judge A. B. Parker,
on the invitation of the Mississippi
legislature to Jackson. cannot be
otherwise than helpful to the cause of
Democracy. His address there on that
occasion was just such an one as
might be expected from a cool calcu-
lating citizen and distinguished jurist.
He alluded to recent revolutions as
regards high finances and the pill
fering Of the public, but he said these
things were but the logical and natu-
raj outcome of the teachings o. pro-
lection and p%referment given by 1t to
the favored few over the toillng
masses.
The address was we'll received and
created a most favorable impression.
Judge Parker is a nan OF fine ap-
pearance and at once imprcsscs his
sincerity Of purpose and honesty Of
intentions upon his hearers.
His entertainment at Jackson was
carefully looked after by Governor
Vardaman and the reception commit
tee and he expressed himself as dc.
lighted with Mississippi and Missis-
sippians.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-03-17

The writer, while in Jackson thi!
week, heard the most complimentary
expressions from experienced legisla
tors as to the ability and effectiveness
Of Grenada. county'S representative
Hon. S. A. Morrison, as a Legislative
worker. Mr. Morrison endeavors K
post himself we'll ON all matters be,
fore the house and has made his in
huence effective. We also heard NJ
little praise OF the work Of Hon. w,
s. Z. DOty, doater representative.
Grenada county has two worthy Sons
in the legislature.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-03-17

Dear Sir: Mr.. - PreSi-
dent ofa cotton mill at Union, S c.
he don't want to see his name in print
had two. offers OF 500 gallons Of
paint: $3.50 and S1.25. Took the
81. 25; and got skinned. He'd have
got three-quarters skinned if he'd TAX
en- the other.
The @1.3 10 was full-gallon. the sI.2s
was Is per cent short. The fuil-meaS-
'ure paint was adulterated 40 e cent;
the short-measure paint was adulter-
ated As per cent, besides benzine in
the oil, don't know how much.
Devoe lead-and-zinc wasn't sold
in the town then.
1t don't pay to monkey with paint.
Devoe costs less than any OF 'em;
not by the gallon, of course; by the
house and year. That's how to reck-
on it. Go by the name.
Yours truly,
+. w. DEvOE,
M-17-1. New York..
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-03-17

Many OF the legislators condemn
the practice Of permitting the heads
Of the state colleges to lobby appro-
priations FOR their respective schools
through the legislature. The lawmak-
era take the position, and rightly too,
that they were not selected because OF
any qualifications they might p'ssess
or develop as lobbyist. Their place
is not for days, and weeks perhaps,
before the legislature, and the state
paying their expenses, but at their
colleges. In future this feature will
doubtless receive remedial attention
by the legislature.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-03-17

Hon. Henry Hilburn, representa-
tive in Jones county in the state leg
islature, has filed suit for $40, 900. OF
against a banker by the name OF Pet
tbs, Of Ellisville, in that county. Ths
suit grows out Of the circulation of 3
circular by Mr.. Pettis charging IN
derhand methods by Mr.. Hilburn t
secure the passage Of q court district
division bill in the legislature.