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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-06
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-06
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-06

Il WIS down in South Brooklyn the
Dthcr day, where they arc putting w
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-11-03
WANDERING BOY,

"Oh where is my wandering boy to-
night?:" has been sung thousands Of
times with wonderful tenderness and
pathOS, but how many Of the singers,
or hearers, yer gave heed to peril
nent inquiry of the song? Statistics
are frequently published showing the
great majority Of our boys spending
their nights away from the better in
fluences Of home. AS they grow into
youth and early manhood they seem
to grow into the world and worldly
ways. If the singers plaintive queS-
ton could be answered publicly in any
ordinary meeting where the song is
sung, it would cause a tremendous SEN
%Sation, and many a heart would bow
down in sorrow and pain. For some
reason it is just as well that the night
ly haunts of 1.-THE boys are not Spe-
officially mentioned in local public
meetings, and yet the matter is one
of common report. The boys are too
often out of home, out Of the church
and Sunday school, out Of organiza-
tiOnS of moral character, and into the
world for all it is worth"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-11-03
HAVE SOME ENJOYMENT.

How much better to use some of
the good things Of life as we go along:
to make our humble homes as CHEEKY
and bright as possible now. DO not
starve today, either body, mind or
soul. thinking that poverty will knock
at your door tomorrow. Don't hoard
aud scrimp through all the years Of
your life that you may be generous to
your will. Life is uncertain, and it
is better to make your children happy
while they are under the home roof:
to call to that home every agency that
will make their lives SWeeter and bet
ter, than to deny them these that
you may leave them a large account
when you are gone. 1t will be too
late for them to return kindness to
you then. Don't keep the parlOr shut
up and live in the kitchen, unless you
want the boys and girls to be anxious
to leave you. Don't think that they
must not go anywhere but to Sunday
and prayer meeting; remember you
were once young yourself. Do not ask
them to walk two miles to a singing
or lecture after working hard all day,
when there are two or three horses in
your barn that would enjoy the trip
as much as they. For Gods sake
show them you think as much of them
as YOU do Of your beasts if not more.
Take time to enjoy the society of
your friends, especially the companion
Ship of your children: it VIII only be a
a few years at the best that they will
be with you, and these ought to be
years Of happiness to both you and
them. Would you not rather have
them look back when out in the world
to that blessed home Though it may
not have been a mansion) where they
received more joy and comfort than
the world can afford, than to have
them forget home in a week and hard
ly return to your burial? If we are
ever happy in this life we must en-
joy what every day brings. We must
be grateful and glad for all the good
that comes into our lives, and pa
tiently bear our trials, believing that
all things if rightly used will fit us
fer the enjoyment of perfect happi-
ness hereafter.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-11-03
HOME.

Too many of US are looking forward
to happiness in the future years instead
Of getting all the enjoyment possible
out of the present. 1t is well to re-
member that the time never will come,
in this world, when we shall have
everything we want just where and
when we want it. The only way to
be happy is to enjoy all we have to
the utmost as we 60 along. 1t is right
to lay up for old age in youth; right
to prepare for a rainy day, but it is
not right to bend all our energies to
this end and put off until the future
the happiness we might enjoy every
day. 1t is very common to see people
working and saving, denying them
selves all recreation and many COM
forts, to lay up money to buy more
land, to enlarge their stock Ito save
for their children) thinking that when
they have accomplished this they will
be happy and begin to take comfort.
The hoped-for point may never be at
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-11-03
GO HOME, BOYS.


Boys, don't hang around the corner
of the streets. II you have anything
to do, do it promptly, right off, then
go nome. Home is the place for boys
About the street corners and at the
stables they learn to talk slang. and
they learn to swear, to smoke tobacco
and to do many other things which
they ought not to do.
Do your business and then go home.
If your business is play, play and make
a business of it. We like to see boys
play good, earnest, healthy games. If
we were the town council we would
give the boys a good, spacious play
ground. 1t would have plenty of green
grass and trees and fountains, and
broad spaces TO run and jump and play
suitable games in. We could make it
pleasant, as lovely as it could De, and
we would give it to the boys TO pla,
in, and when the game was ended we
would tell them to go home.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-11-03
U)it aDd Humor


The London Tribune tells how a
gentleman met a brewers drayman
on the road. Being of a kindly dis
position, he at once engaged in con-
v~ersation. Il suppose" he inquired,
'you men get a lot to drink during
the day?" "Well, guv'nor," was the
response, "some days we get a matter
of thirty glasses or so, and some days
we gets quite a lot"
"Hullo, there!''-She-''Is a tele-
phone girls occupation a profession or
a business"
He-Neither; it's q calling .-Floh.
Cant you find any work at ALP"
asked the kind lady of Prayed Frank
lin.
PLENTY, mum. But everybody
wants references from me last employ
err"
Cant you get them?"
"No, mum. He's been dead %
| years. "-Milwaukee Sentinel.
The woman with thin lips and raspy
voice stepped up before the languidly
Indifferent ticket seller in the railway
station
where do You want to 60" he ask
al no I;c ;oro1oI fnrorc ritJio6 q hupcIo
of p~asteboards.
None Of your business where l
want to CO." she snapped. Just
you sell me a ticket to New York, but
bear in mind that I'm going there be-
cause I've got to; not because | want
to. "-Washington Star.
John, is it true that money ualks?'
THAT'S what they say. dear"
'Well, | wish you'd leave a little
here to talk to me during the day.
I'm getting mighty lonesome for some
Of that conversation. "-H0uStOn Post.
A negro exhorter at a great revival
in the South shouted: Come up and
jine the army OF the Lord"
Use done jined," replied one Of
the congregation.
"Whar'd you %jine?:" asked the ex-
horter.
I'm de Baptis' church."
"Why, chiel," said the eXhOrter,
''yoh amt in de army: yoh's in de
avy.'-HouSton Post.
Now, in order to subtract, ex-
planned q teacher to the class in math-
ematicS, things always have to be OF
the same denomination. For in
stance, we couldn't take three apples
from four years, nor six horses from
nine dogs"
A hand went UP in the back of the
room.
"Well, Johnny" smiled the unSus-
pecting teacher.
please, mann" shouted the boy,
''can you take four quarts OF milk from
three cows?"-Judges's Magazine of
Fun.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-11-03
Home Circle

How often is a fine nature warped,
a really good disposition spoiled by
the omission Of d few timely words of
encouragement. A child receiving
nothing but blame and constant scold-
ing. in time becomes deaf to correc-
tion, Sullen and defiant and in the
end one of those children who neither
hears 0 needs. On the other hand
child that is occasionally encouraged,
Is proud Of pleasing Another, conSe-
Quently is pleased with himself and
urged to renew eXertionS to gain a
repetition Of that praise SO dear TO the
human heart, be that heart young or
old.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-11-03
Some men are too busy to give any

Some men are too busy to give any
time to their wives and children.
They leave home early in the morning,
stay away all day, aud come back at
night filed with worldly cares. moroSe
and uncDmmunicative. If it is ever
suggested to them that they are doing
wrong. they Justify themselves on the
ground that 1t is necessary for them
to make a living, and shat this leaves
them no time for other things. USu-
ally The plea is without foundation,
for it is not merely a comfortable liv-
ing that they are seeking after but
the accumulation Of needless wealth.
Any man that is too busy to be Il gem
tleman in his manners and Il christian
in his spirit Within the circle of his
own home is buster than he ought to
be.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-11-03

tanned, or if it is, sickness or death
may have come first and the dear ones
whom we expected to be happy with
may be gone forever.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-11-03
Pecan Trees for Sale.

| have 1000 two year old paper shell
pecan trees for sale. Any time be-
tween now and the 1st of March pro-
per time to transplant. Price deliv-
cred in Walden 40c a piece.
l. r. Heggie,
1O-27-O6 LIT Walden, Miss.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-02-07
Old English House..


Many old houses throughout England
have long been famous for the quaint
and humorous Inscriptions painted or
carved on one Of their exterior walls.
On the portico of Arley Hall, the seat
of the Warburton family, there is in
scribed this welcome:
This gate is free to all men good and
true;
Right welcome thou. II worthy to pass
through.
And at Loseley House, Surrey, there
Is Latin inscription over the doorway
to this effect, Il am shut to an enemy,
but am always open to Il friend"
Above the door of house at Salving-
ton, Sussex, in which Selden was born,
there Is a Latin couplet much to the
same import, and Montacute House,
Somerset, has these two lines carved:
Through this wide opening gate
None come too early, none return too late,
Under variety of forms we find the
same maxim on different houses, and
at Ferray Hall. in the parish of AL
mondbury, over one of the doorways
are the words, AN honest man may
enter" and on the reverse side facing
the spectator when leaving the prem
ises, "A cheat may be off."-London
Standard.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-02-07

Coxey's army started from Coxey's
home in eastern Ohio in the spring of
1894 to carry, as Coxey said, "peti-
ton in boots" to congress for relief
from the hard times then prevailing.
On arriving at Washington it was de.
MED access to congress, and those of
the pilgrims who disregarded the order
to keep off the grass" of the capitol
grounds were sent to Jail Coxey him
self was condemned to term in Jail.
The army" at last crossed the poto-
mac and settled down in sort Of hobo
camp on the Virginia side. There it
was allowed to remain for several
months until complaints from Wash
ington induced the governor Of vir-
sin:a to break UP the camp and dis
perse the campers.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-02-07
A CREEPY PLACE.
Some of the Pests and DIscomforts
of Life In BulawayO.

Some of the Pests and Dlscomforta
of Life In BulawayO.
"Life in Bulawayo during the wet
season is certainly not all pleasure"
writes resident of that African town,
The rain descends as If river, hav-
ing lost its way among the clouds, was
hurriedly trying to return to earth once
more. The streets are transformed in
to lakes, and the damp, moist heat
makes everything inside the house un-
pleasantly moist and clammy. But,
disagreeable us the rainy season may
be, the cold that precedes it in Scptem-
ber is almost worse. Dust storms are
frequent. Trees and shrubs become
brown and shriveled, and the wind
blows with cutting force across the
veldt. 1t is then, too. that the snakes
are more In evidence than at any other
time of the year. Half torpid, stupid
with the cold, you come upon them
coiled up In unexpected places, as once,
when entering my room, 1 found one
wound round the leg of my dressing ta-
BILE. Another evening we were dis
turbed by a persistent tapping against
the window, as If some one We're try
ing to attract our attention. On rising
to investigate we found it was n snake
that, attracted by the light and warmth,
was endeavoring to make its way in
through the glass.
white ants are another terrible pest,
or, rather, they would be did they not
enter so literally into every circunl-
stance of everyday life that they end
by being taken as n matter of course
For instance, after an absence of a few
hours you return to find half the mat
ting on the floor devoured, or, your
boy, having incautiously left your coat
hanging in the sun, the lining affords
speedy meal 10 these voracious little
insects. In fact. you never know what
damage may not be revealed at any
moment, and this uncertainty extends
even to the garden, where your rose
trees have to be grown in tubs half
filled with broken glass and perched on
bricks soaked in paraftin.
II found that the tarantulas and
scorpions We're everyday evils, to be
endured with what philosophy one
could muster. A tarantula the size of
small crab walking across the floor
is not pleasant object. Our house
boy delighted in catching them to make
them fight with the scorpions, and we
had ocular demonstration of the fact,
long believed to be only travellers
tale, that on being worsted scorpion
will commit suicide by bending its tail
over its back and stinging itself behind
the neck rather than be eaten by its
opponent"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-02-07
strange raste In Eating.

Many strange dishes We're eaten by
Dean Bucklnnd, the English clergyman
and geologist. At his dinner parties,
which were attended by leaders of sci
ence and literature, the menus were
often of most eccentric character. On
one occasion picked horse tongue was
greatly relished by the guests until
they We're told what they had eaten.
Alligator was served up as a rare deli
cacy and puppies occasionally and
mice frequently. AT other times hedge
hogs, tortoises, potted ostrich and
sometimes rats, frogs and snails were
prepared for the delectation of favor
ed guests. Henry Labouchere said that
the dean swallowed the mummified re-
mains of the heart of Louis XIV. of
Eranna
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-02-07

The old squire was narrating his ex-
periences with county fairs. You ney-
er had much TO do with managing
them, perhaps" he said. WELL, 1 have
had great deal. 1t takes lot of
head work, can tell you, to think up
popular features outside of the big
steers, the fat hogs, the mammoth
squashes, the poultry, the preserves,
the lace Tides and the agricultural
horse trots to draw the crowd.
81 remember one year." he proceed.
ed, when we got everybody's interest
excited by announcing prize Of gold
headed cane for the homeliest man In
the county and silk dress pattern for
the homeliest woman. After spirited
competition the cane was awarded to
Colonel Van Jessup, the landlord of the
Van Jessup hotel"
"Yes, know him." interrupted one
of the listeners, land I've seen the
cane. Who got the silk dress for being
the homeliest woman?"
Nobody. There weren't any entries"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-02-07

In the year 1884 great commercial
distress was experienced throughout
France, and NJ. Worth, the famous
fashion originator and dressmaker. was
called before n parliamentary COM
mittee instituted to inquire into the
causes and asked for his theory and
his remedy. The salaries of the presi-
dent of the republic and the ministers.
said the great man milliner, ought to
be considerably. raised because balls
cost much more than dinners, and Of
ficial people ought to be paid salaries
handsome enough to enable them to
give a great many balls. NJ. Grevy,
said Worth in disgust, only gave two
balls year, and the crush was SO
great that ladies elected to wear their
old dresses rather than buy new ones,
which would most assuredly be spoiled
In the crowd. Pay higher salaries, give
more balls and ask fewer guests to
each function-this was Worth's rem
edy. The ladies, relieved of the fear of
q crush, would invest in new dresses,
money would circulate, trade would
revive and all would go as merrily as
marriage bells.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-02-07

Then not only all the learned, but all
the educated, We're familiar with Latin.
Whoever read, indeed, must read Lat
In, for there was little else to read,
Theology. history. philosophy, all We're
in Latin. The national literatures We're
only in their cradles. Nearly a cen.
tury after the time of Erasmus, Bacon
deliberately buried his greater works in
Latin in the hope of securing his fame,
and even Milton chose Latin as the
vehicle of some of the best of his early
poetry and did not abandon 1t without
hesitation.
To Erasmus it was everything-the
language Of his tongue us we'll as Of
Ills pen. He Travelled everywhere. in
Italy, France, England, Germany, but
he certainly knew no English or Ger
man and apparently made his Latin
carry him through wherever he went.
And whatever difficulties of language
he found with innkeepers and servants
and officers Of customs he found none
among the clergy or the mobiles, at
whose houses his introductions made
him everywhere welcome. = London
Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-02-07
Under Many Flags.

Possibly no possession has changed
nationality so frequently US the island
of Santa Cruz, in the Danish West In
dies. Originally the land belonged to
Spain, and it was taken from Spain to
be under the joint rule of England and
Holland. After awhile the flag Of Hol-
land was taken down, and the English
flag alone tloated, only to give way to
Spain again. The Knights of Malta
We're the next possessors, and from
them it passed to company Of adven-
turers, who lost 1t to France which
sold to Danish company, the land
finally coming into the possession Of
the Danish government. England again
took possession in 1901, and eight years
later 1t passed to the Danish government
again. Eventually it will probably be-
come Il part of the United States, two
bargains having been arranged, but
never completed.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-02-07

fected by the wind. Should it blow
from the right hand the bow must in
cline toward 1t; to the left, If from the
left.
The distance to which an arrow can
be shot from long bow, with an ele,
walton of 10 degrees, depends on the
strength and ability Of the archer.
The distance used to be reckoned from
22O to 24O yards. The Turks have al
ways been celebrated for shooting to
long distances, and the secretary to the
Turkish ambassador in London shot,
in 1904, distance Of 415 yards. He
used Turkish bow and arrow, and
shot against the wind. With the wind,
the distance measured 4S2 yards. The
eyes should not be fixed on the arrow,
but ut the mark. Keep both eyes open
and look steadily forward, and raise
or lower the bow III the proper direc.
ton. The targets are fixed opposite
each other at about sixty yards apart.
The arrows are shot first to one tar
get, when the archers pick up or ex-
tract the arrows, and the marker
scores for each before drawing from
the target, after which the arc.crs
shoot back again to the other end, and
SO on until the whole number of ends
have been shot. Butts are also used to
shoot at, being built of long mounds
of turf about eight feet long and five
wide. height of seven feet, the depth
diminishing gradually from the bot
tom to the top.
When more than two are used, they
are ranged In sets, each set consist
ing Of four, about thirty yards apart,
and forming chain of lengths of
80, GO. 80 and 120 yards. but so dis
posed as not to stand in the way of the
archers when shooting at any of the
lengths.
Where archers rove from place to
place and have no fixed target, it is
called ''rovings." The arclers shoot
at trees or any other object that they
choose. The winner of the first
shot chooses the next, and SO OH,
the distance being from 100 to 200
yards, and oil arrows falling with
In five bows length scoring, If near
er to the mark than the adver-
sary's arrow. The dress Worn mt arch
cry meetings is very pretty and be-
coming. For ladies, green jackets ana
hats. with three plumed feathers, and
for gentlemen, dark green. with green
hat and feather, but this entirely de-
pends upon the taste and inclination
Of the clubs.-New York Herald.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-02-07
THE SECRET OF CONTENT.

It isn't what fellow has that clothes him with
| content,
That puts him In that frame Of mind where Joy
and peace are blent,
those who plan Ind strive;
That hes In truth. well satisfied, and glad that
II ism money stored In banks, there placed to
his account,
Nay, none Of these sheathe worry's thorns as
down llfe's path We jaunt-
want!
Though wandering feet msy be curse, far
more are itching hands
That grasp. hut never satisfy, their cravings and
demands.
Though rolling stones accumulate but very
little moss.
They aon'., like svaricious palms, keep smart
ing at their loss
And so. the man Of modest wants who keeps de-
sire curbed
Strolls side by side with happiness when others
walk perturbod.
Possession e'er makes man Immune of cares
that Siege or haunt
1t isn't what fellow has. but what he doesn't
want!
II ones by wish and want imbued his days will
all be spent
In futile spurts upon lies road to over.ake
If ones desires modest be hell find them all
And be = constant Sunny Jim.' with life well
satisfied!
II Itisn'nbouds that make for cheer, nor stock
that peace supplies.
1t Isn't silver pleasure brings nor gold content
1t ism. BANK q treasury notes. though fsttuls
1t isn't what fellow has, but what he doesn't
want!
Troy Farrell Greene in Lesles Weekly
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-02-07
The Ancient spontoon.

A spontoon, weapon similar to the
halbert, was borne instead of n half
pike by officers Of British infantry till
the year 1856. Pointed backward or
forward, it gave the signal for advance
or retreat, and planted upright in the
ground 1t commanded Il halt. Speci-
mems can be seen in the Tower armory.
In the Morning Chronicle Of April 10,
17S6. there is reference to its dis.
continuance: Yesterday the officers
who mounted guard for st. James, the
Queens House and Tilt yard were
paraded with their swords drawn In
stead Of the spontoon for the first time
since the alteration took place, and we
hear that the amendment Of it may be
so called is to take place among all
the regiments belonging to his majes-
ty."
In an old play Major Sturgeon says:
"Oh, could you but see me salute! You
have never spontoon in the house!'
NO." answers Sir Jacob, "but we
could get you shove pike