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Blue-grass blade., 1908-06-28

value that we leave behind is our memory.
The rotting carcas is of no future use to
ourselves or to anybody else, and Is no
more sacred than an old pair Of clothes.
The only rational way to dispose of 1t is
to use the quickest and most hygienic
means to bring about its disintegration. AS
far as science has progressed, no method
except cremation seems to fit the conditions
But no preservation of ashes in cinerary
urns! That stupid procedure is mere
revamping of the old spirit of relic worship
Why sould not every Freethinker protest
in death as well as in life, against the
entire religion-begotten nonsense of cere-
monialism? 1t is easy to make testament
airy provision to the effect that the body
shall be cremated, with no ceremony of any
sort, religious or other, over the remains"
and that the ashes shall be in any con-
venient manner so thoroughly scattered
that no particle can be identified and made
the object of superstitious generation. A
few such cases occurring every year would
attrack public attention, and prove the
best means of propaganda, as showing that
Freethought really cures of foolish fears,
even regarding the solemn" fact of death.
There is nothing coldblooded in the prop
osition. The memory of the loved friend
can be cherished just as intensely in the
absence of a public exhibition of the de-
caying corpse Where the loss is widely
felt, it is easy to hold memorial meetings
after a decent and quiet disposition of the
body, where the spontaneous tributes of
those who take part will infinitely more
than fill tie place of any perfunctory service
cribbed from a book Let us prove our
sincerity and consistency.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-06-28
NO NEED FOR CHRISTIAN FORMS.
Freethinkers Should Break Away From
Orthodox Ceremony In Burial Of
Our Dead.

(By James F. Morton, Jr.)
note in a recent issue this sentence from
one of your correspondents: Are there any
of our friends that can tell me where I can
get music and words suitable for our fun
erals, or will we always have to be behold
ing to Christians to bury us?"
Surely the dilemma is wholly unneces-
sary one. What on earth does a real Free
thinker want of funeral ceremony any
how2 This silly fetch worship which must
have a set form for doing everything, is fit
only for churches and their simian adher-
ents If we must cling to ceremonies, why
not stay in the church, and adopt those
which have at least some relevancy to our
professional belief? The great mission of
Freethought should be to cultivate individ-
uality, and to eliminate not some, but all
superstition from the theory ond practice
of our lives. When we die, the one thing of
Blue-grass blade., 1908-06-28
BLUE GRASS BLADE

the lamentation of the sorrowing priest
hood; nor do the babbling waters of many
rivers withhold from us their joy over the
departing glory of the worlds greatest
criminal.
Justice forbids that l close this article
without tribute of recognition to that noble
queen of the middle-west whose devotion
to the cause of truth, justice and humanity
has for so many years been untiring.
Everywhere within the sound of her voice
and the reach of her pen she has stood in
the front ranks, where she bravely and
fercely battled for the right and against
every wrong, whether 1t be from the Bible,
or man; against the numerous assaults
from these sources, she has sounded the
alarm In tones too potent to be unheard,
nor has the old abuses of her sex escaped
her blighting power. For the great wrongs
of the priesthood and the church; the un-
stinted lash of her logic, tempered by fem
enine eloquence, has worked deep into the
hearts of all who have tasted her writings.
For long years., has she stood at the throt-
tie to steer the cars over the rugged path
way of life. For the uplifting of humanity
she has ever been at the helm, nor has
her work been unfailng in this great strug-
gle for the overthrow of the blasted crime
of Christianity, along whose pathway she
has showered grape and canister, but not
unmixed with charity and federation. That
she has contributed her queenly share to
bring about the early demise of Christian
ity no one will doubt.
Although the cruel DEGREES of fate have
laid low her dearest and most beloved
friends, which for a time stayed her ener
gies, but only to be aroused again. She
sees in the terrible trial over her losses.
the hand of fate uplifted, and in urgent
tones bids her come back for renewal Of
the contest. This with the direful wrongs
everywhere impels her to renew lost
energy and again enter the field for justice,
truth and humanity.
May her queenly virtues rise above the
clouds of despair, while the great Apollo,
her genius, sends to earth his
of love to kiss-away the spark
ling dew drops from the waving blue grass
in that favored land which gave to the
world the life and labors of Josephine X.
Henry.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-06-28
CHEERFUL PHILOSOPHY.

Did you tackle the trouble that came your
way
With resolute heart and cheerful?
Or hide your face from the light of day
With craven soul and fearful?
Oh, a troubles ton, or troubles an
ounce,
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that
counts,
But only how did you take It.
You are beaten to earth! Well. well. what's
that!
Come up with a smiling face!
It's nothing against you to fall down fat
But to lie there-that's the disgrace.
The harder you're thrown, why the higher
your bound,
Be proud of your blackened eye.
It isn't the fact that you're licked that
counts;
It's how did you fight and why.
And though you be done to the death.
what then?
If you battled the best you could
II you played your part in the world of
men,
Why, the critic will call 1t good.
Death comes with a crawl, or comes with
a pounce
And whether he's slow or spry,
It isn't the fact that you're dead that
counts,
But only how did you die.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
A ITCHING M
Limbs Below the Knees Were Raw
Feet SWoIlen-SIeep Broken
Cured in 2 Days by Cuticura.

Some two months ago l had a hui
NOR break out on nay limbs below my
knees. They came to look like raw
beefsteak, all red, and nc one knows
how they itched and burned. They
we're so swollen that could not get
my shoes on for a week or more. l
used five or six different remedies and
got no help, only when applying them
the burning was worse and the itching
less. For two or three weeks the suf-
fering was intense and during that
time 1 did not sleep an hour at a time.
Then n morning l tried a bit of
C%uticura. From the moment it touched
me the itching was gone and l have
not felt a bit of it since. The swelling
went Gown and in two days l had my
shoes on and was about as usual.
George B. Farley, so South State ST.,
Concord, N. H., May IA. 1907"
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Dispenser of Kisses.

A Frenchman, who apparently has
been amusing himself by reckoning
up the number of kisses he has given
his wife during the first 20 years OF
his married life.
He finds that in the first year he
dispensed about 100 kisses a day, or,
say, allowing for birthdays and legal
and church holidays, about $500 in
the year.
In the second year this lumber was
reduced by half, and in the third
year to ten a day, while in the fifth
year his better half had TO be content
with two a day, n in the morning
and n in the evening.
What happened after the fifth year
is wrapped in mystery" but at the
same rate of progression" he prob
ably arrived eventually at one kiss or
TIE first Of January every leap year.
Chicago American.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
H FIRST TASTE
Learned to Drink Coffee When q
Baby.

If parents realized the fact that cot
fee contains a Observation-Disclosures
is especially harmful to children, they
would doubtless hesitate before CIV
ing the babies coffee to drink.
when l was a child in my mothers
arms and first began to nibble things
at the table, mother used to give me
sips of coffee. AS my parents used
coffee exclusively at meals l never
knew there was anything to drink but
coffee and water.
"And so l contracted the coffee habit
early. I remember when quite young,
the continual use OF coffee so affected
my parents that they tried roasting
wheat and barley, then ground it in the
~coffee-mill, as a substitute for coffee.
But it did not taste right and they
went back to coffee again. That was
long before Postum was ever heard OF.
I continued to use coffee until l was II,
and when 1 got into Office work, l be-
gan to have v spells. Especially
after breakfast I was so nervous /
could scarcely attend to my CORE
spondence.
"At night, after having coffee for
supper, l could hardly sleep, and on
rising in the morning would feel weak
and w
"a friend persuaded me to try Post
um. My wife and I did not like it
at first, but later when boiled good
and strong it was fine. Now we
would not give up Postum for the
best coffee we ever tasted.
II can now get good sleep, am free
from nervousness and headaches.
recommend Postum to all coffee drink
ers.
There's a Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well
ville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appear from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full OF human
interest.
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KNEW WHAT THE JOB MEANT.
Angry Citizen Put Ordeal Up to Street
Car Company.

Not long ago there entered the office
Of the superintendent of a trolley line
In Detroit an angry citizen, demand
ing Justice" in no uncertain terms.
In response to the officials gentle
inquiry touching the cause of the de-
mand, the angry citizen explained
that on the day previous as his wife
was boarding one Of the company's
cars, the conductor thereof had
stepped on his spouse's dress, tearing
from it more than a yard of material.
81 can't see that we are to blame
for that" protested the superintendent.
What do you expect us to do, get her
q new dress?"
mo, sir, l do not" rejoined the
angry citizen, brandishing a piece OF
cloth. What l propose is that you
people shall match this MATERIAL
Harper's Weekly.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
THE HORRORS OF ECZEMA.


Itch! Itch! Itch! Scratch! Scratchl
Scratch! Eczema is ~maddening. Your
skin is on fire, and the more you
scratch the more intense becomes the
agony of it. Stop scratching! 1t will
lever relieve you-it cannot cure you
it only snakes things worse. Wheth-
er you, your child or a member OF
your family is suffering with eczema
or any skin disease apply LITTELL'S
LIQUID SULPHUR at once. Stops
itching instantly and is a guaranteed
cure for any and all skin diseases.
Send 10c to-day for a large sample
bottle sent postpaid to any address:
Rhuma-Sulphur Company, 4O7 No. End
St, st. Louis, Mo.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
In the Same Beat.

I'VE get some sad cases." said the
attendant at the Lumpton lunatic
asylum to the interested visitor, and
opened the door of the first cell.
Inside was a man sitting on a three
legged stool, gazing vacantly at the
wall.
His is an unhappy story" said the
attendant. HE was in love with a
girl, but she married another man,
and he lost his reason from grief"
They stole out softly, closing the
door behind them, and proceeded to
the next inmate.
This cell was thickly padded. and
the mar within was stark, staring
mad.
"Who is this?" inquired the visitor
"This?" repeated the attendant
This is the other man!"-Tatler.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
Too Much for Pa.

The visitor to the home of a we'll
known Hoosier state author found his
three youngsters romping in the hall
way.
What are you playing, boys" he
inquired.
1--WE are playing pirates" e~lucidated
the smallest.
Pirates? Why, how can you play
pirates in Indiana? There are no seas
bordering on this state"
"Oh, we don't need any sea. We
are literary pirates like pa"
And five minutes later a chorus OF
yeils from behind the barn told that
the hand that Yields the pen can also
WELD the shingle.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
"HeIpfuI Hints" That Hinder.
e the cop who first


Many of the helpful hints" followed
by our mothers are now proved utterly
useless, il not more harmful than
helpful. For instance, no n now
Uses moist tea leaves to clean a carpet
or rug, because of the inevitable stain
ing. And salt used on a carpet col
lects dampness and rusts the tacks.
Newspapers, dampened and torn, an
swer the purpose much more satisfac-
torily. Rugs should be shaken from
the sides, for the strain of the weight
on the end is very apt to loosen the
welt.
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Looking for a Similar One.

"Hezekiah," said the Kansas matron
as she adjusted her bone-rimmed
glasses and opened the local PAPER,
ut says here that a woman was car
ried two miles by a cyclone and didn't
speak a word for three weeks.
The sun-tanned farmer grabbed his
hat and spy-glass.
Where are you going now, He:e-
kiah?"
Where am l going, Lucy? Why, l
am going out to see If l can't sight one
of them thar kind Of cyclones"
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How He Got IL,

Had comp'ny TO dinnah yisti'dy.
Nah husban' stopped at Mr.. Green's
store Saturday ebenin' an done got .
fine spring chicken"
"Yaas?" replied the jealous neigh
Dor. Dat Mistah Green sho' is de
mos keerless, onsuspectin' mani
Philadelphia Press.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
Triumph of Mind.

Victim of Delusion-Doctor, I'm
awfully afraid I'm going to have brain
fever.
Doctor-Pooh, pooh, my dear friend!
That's all an illusion of the senses.
There is no such thing as fever. You
have no fever, you have no br-h'm-
no material substance upon which
such a wholly imaginary and suppo-
sitious thing as a fever could find
any base of operation.
Victim-Oh, doctor, what a load you
have taken from my-from MY
have a mind, haven't |, doctor?
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The Entire Family.

Grand Pop used it for Rheumatism.
Dad for Cuts, Sprains and Bruises.
Nanny for Burns, Scalds and Aches.
Sis for Catarrh and Chilblains. l use
it for everything, and it v dlsap-
points any of us. 1t surely yanks any
old pain out by the roots.
Hunts Lightning Oil is what ! am
telling you about.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
A Poor System.

Eustace Miles, the noted English
athlete and food expert, said at a re-
CEN vegetarian dinner in Chicago:
They who, with rich sauces and ex-
citing meats, weaken their digestion
in the effort to strengthen their bodies,
practice a very poor system indeed.
Such people are like the en-
barrassed motorist who pawned his
automobile in order to raise $3.50 for a
new set of tires"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
We Reiterate.

That for more than fifteen years
Hunts Cure has been working on the
afflicted. Its mission is to cure skin
troubles, particularly those of An itch
ing character. Its success is mo- on
account of advertising, but because
1t surely does the work. One box
is guaranteed to cure any case
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
Doubling Il.

"Sir," said the imperial ruler OF AL
the Russias, do you realize what a
gulf of inequality yawns between or
binary humanity and an ~autocrat?'
Dear mel" answered the doumaite
in mild surprise. as this gulf PROPOSE
ton a czarchasm?"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
Actual Facts.

For upwards of fifteen years Hunts
Cure has been sold under a strict guar
antee to cure any form of itching skin
troubles known. No matter the name
less than one per cent. of the pur-
chasers have requested their money
back. Why? 1t simply does the work.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
Don't DELAY.

Save a possible serious spell of fever
later on by cleansing your system now
of its accumulation of impurities. Sim
mons ~Sarsaparilla will do it. 1t makes
fine blood, fine appetite, great strength
and grand ambition.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
Wonders.

1--WE live in an age of wonders" re-
marked the inventor.
YES" answered his disseminated
spouse; wondering when the money
went out and where it's going to
come from"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
The Contrary Child,

Mrs. Popley-Little George won't
take milk at all now. He used to take
it but
Mr.. Popley (crossly)-No, and it's
all on account Of your imprudence.
MY imprudence?"
Mr.. Popley-Yes, you allowed him
to hear you say 1t was good for him.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
The Hiohest Reward.

The praises of men, and all that
gold can give, are not worthy to be
named against right living and calm
observation-disclosures.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
C. FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia E.. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively uredthousandso OF
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fbroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness, ornervous prostratlon.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06

Youth the Time to Build Wisely.
Youth is the best time for the
building of character and the forming
of principle, and the future depends
on the decisions and actiohs OF the
present.-Rev. G. Denton.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06

The virtue Of prosperity Is temper
ance, but the virtue OF adveruity Is
fortitude; and the last is the more
sublime attainment.-Bacon.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06

You won't tell your family doctor
the whole story about your private
illness you are too modest. You
need not be afraid to tell Mrs. Pink
ham, at Lynn, Mass, the things you
could not explain to the doctor. Your
letter will be held in the strictest con-
fidence. From her vast correspond
ence with sick women during the
past thirty years she may have
gained the very knowledge that will
helpyourcaSe. Such letters as the fol-
lowing, from grateful women, es:
tablish beyond a doubt the powerof
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
II Cures While You Walk.

Aliens Foot-Ease Is o certain cure for
hot, sweating, c~allous, and swollen. aching
feet. Sold by all Druggists. Price 25e; Don't
Address Allen s. Olmsted. lie Roy. N. Z.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06

Most people don't worry about the
germs in s1O-bills. They eve keep
the money long enough to become
i~noculated.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06

FITS. ST. Vitus' Dance and Nervous Diseases per-
m anentlyc cured by ID. Kline's Great Nerve Restc Ter.
Send for FREE $40 trial bottle and treatise. Dr.
4 II. Kline, Id, 95l ArSh Street, Philadelphla Ia
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06

A Chicago young woman who was
engaged to a young man of the name
of Carr, ran away with a streetcar
conductor. In other words. she
changed cars.
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a 8

It does the liver good these days
Just to smell those wild-apple bios
sons and sniff the perfume of the
lilacs. When a bee chased me this
morning for smelling of him by mis-
take, my liver was materially I'M
proved.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
<. PINknAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

to conquer all female diseases.
Mrs. Norman r. Barndt, Of Allen
town, Pa, writes:
"Ever since I was sixteen years OF
age I had suffered from an organic de.
rangement and female weakness: in
consequence ! had dreadful headaches
and was extremely nervous. My physi-
clan said 1 must go through an opera
ton to get we'll. A friend told me
about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
COMPOUND, and 1 took it and wrote you
for advice, following your directions
carefully, and thanks to you 1 am to-
day a well woman, and I Am telling
all my friends of my experience"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06

Many a wise-looking man Is unable
to deliver the goods.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06

1t was a good thing for somebody
during the first week of May, that he
didn't have any-hay to make while the
sun shone.
BY watching the bargain ads. in the
newspapers, l always can tell when
MY wife is going to take the train with
me for a days shopping in town.
Z Z Z
The Houston Pest says a man has
Just returned to Houston from hell. l
suppose he has rented hell for a sum-
mer resort and had to go somewhere
to keep warm.
z Z 4
A New York newspaper lOwer-cased
houston, texas" but it only made the
red-headed widows stand out all the
more prominently. You can't beat a
hand or a lap full On queens-that is,
sometimes you can't.
4 4 4
The Charleston News and Courier is
boasting because the mulberries are
ripe in that state. Pshaw! That's
nothing! The News and Courier man
should see the dandelion greens in
my front lawn. Bile 'em-pepper, salt,
butter and vinegar-pass yer plate
um-m-m-m-m-m!
900
Tramps.
Speaking of tramps, there are many
l%andlopers wandering about this
spring. They come to my back door
almost every day, take a look at my
bulldog, back off q bit and ask re-
specially for a piece of bread and
butter when, at tho outset, they had
intended to demand pie. And we al
ways feed them. My wife and 1 have
figured it out that it is better to feed
q dozen worthless, lazy itinerants
than to miss one worthy man who
needs food. But We keep the bulldog
loaded!
600 F..
The Awakening.
A feminine writer says: There Is no
sleen so delicious as that which over
whelms US when We know we ought to
he getting up whereat the Archbold
!fOhio) Advocate adds: Quite right. and
there is no awakening SO disagreeable as
that which comes when we are dreaming
that we have money in five or six banks"
Rss,~M@e@
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emnorfant ia Mofhera.

Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that 1t
signature sss enc tZM2EzM
In Use For Over 30 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
Canrrdina Curea INDIGESTION Palms,

Sour stomach and heartburn no matter
from what cause. Gives immediate relief.
Prescribed by physicians because 1t is
pure and effective. Trial bottle 10c. Regu-
lar size 25c and SOC at all druggists.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06
Dangerous

An Iowa editor recently printed in
his paper that If the rain didn't stop
before long, everything In the ground
would be .peeping out. An old sub
scriber, reading the representation,
went out in the back yard and dumped
another load Of rock on the grave OF
the family cat.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-06

At FIVE o'clock this morning /
counted four mudturtles on my lawn
and Rags" the cat, was having the
time of his life. No, l was NOT just
coming home to retire! I often get up
early like that, to knead the bread!
Sometimes when l arise at that hour
/ need eggs and toast and coffee, too.
But do you suppose those blamed mud.
turtles same up to challenge me to a
fOotrace?
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Z Z 4

1t was a good thing for somebody
during the first week of May, that he
didn't have any-hay to make while the
sun shone.
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No Use.

He tried for years to find a cure
For badness on his shiny pate.
At last he got a magic paste
That did the business sure as fate.
That day a visitor came on.
He threw the magic paste away.
mo hair for me-" he moaned in tear
My moth'r'n-law has come to stay