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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01
jackson Located Treasury with a Cane

commission at the junction of Penn
~sylvania avenue and the White Lot.
and asked him if the commission a
made any selection. and was told that
it had not. He raised his walking
stick in the air and with great force
brought the end Of it down and forced
it into the earth several inches, eX-
claiming that the building should be
erected on that ground, and subse-
quently it was.
1t is also said that the spot where
President Jackson stuck his walking
stick into the earth vas at the south
east corner Of what is now the south
front terrace of the ground surround
ing the building, the ground then be-
ing part of the White Lot.
The building was commenced In
1888. under the direction Of Robert
Mills, architect, and was completed in
August, 1899, being, therefore nearly
70 years old.
When the repair work is completed
the building will be of solid granite
most of which was quarried in Maine
and New Hampshire.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01

apparent under the law TO
1000, OCO; heir, in fact, by her
fathers will to $4,000; refusing to
contest that document and content and
determined to continue her labors as
for nine years heretofore, as a $66o a
year government clerk, the attitude as
sumed by Miss Anna S. Cammack'
daughter of the late Washington MIL
iionaire. John Cammack, is perhaps
without parallel in the history OF the
local courts or departments.
Seated in her modest apartment,
Miss Cammack, formerly Mrs. Anna
Cammack Hardesty, until marital trou-
bles overlook her and the courts
granted her a divorce and restored her
maiden name, discussed in a most un-
assuming and unusual manner the pc
culiar stand she has taken.
Il shall not contest my fathers
will" she said. Il have never had any
such intention. He left me $4,000 In
trust, the income from which / may
use during my life, and which reverts
to the estate when | die.
1T is true that he left to my step
mother and s~tepbrother the residue O
the estate, estimated at from $4,000,
900 to $4,000, 900. l presume he hat
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01
Republican Prosperity.

In the last six months 377 ,664 tOilers
left the United States because they
could not get a living here, and yet
the Republican party declares for the
principle that in the development and
enjoyment of wealth so great and
blessings so benign there shall be an
equal opportunity for ALL" which
declaration is evidently all fol de roll.
Those workers, on the average,
earned $500 a year, so the country
loses s1SS, S32, 900 which they would
have produced by their labor, If Re-
publican policies had not produced
panic and the prolonged business de.
preston which even sunshine clubs
are unable to dispel the gloom OF.
For equal opportunity for ALL the
tariff must be reformed so that the
few will not be protected in plumber
ing the many; Republican extrava
eance must be replaced with Demo
cratic frugality in public expenditures
for country cannot continue pros
porous that is spending $4,000, 900
wear more than it can force the people
to pay in tariff and other taxes.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01
Hot Weather Politics.

Congressman Littlefield, whom the
Republican leaders had such great
work to elect against the onslaught or
the labor leaders, has now determined
to resign in September. He Ices o
appear to get along any more com
fortably with President Roosevelt n
his policies than he did with organ
lied labor. He declares the RepuD-
lican platform and the boasts of the
president on the enforcement OF the
antitrust law to be but proclamation
and not performance" for but seven
minor convictions have been secured
since President Roosevelt succeeded
to the presidency, September IA, l9ol.
With L~ittlefield and Foraker, the
most forcible Republican speakers,
mourning in hot shot on the hanks OF
the Republicans and the labor leglons
| fighting them in front, neither the
president nor Candidate Taft can feel
very comfortable this hot weather
There is a fair chance that the Re-
nublicans will be disorganized before
ever the Democrats are ready to at
tack them.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01
ARE SLIPPING BACK
UNITED STATES SOON WILL HAVE
NO MERCHANT MARINE.
Effect Of Republican Policy Has Been
Practically to Remove the Stars
and Stripes from Worlds
Ports.

How completely Republican policies
have obliterated the merchant marine
Of the United States is shown by the
record of the ships passing through
the Suez canal. Only nine ships of
IL, 537 net tonnage are reported for
1907, while the only countries below
that figure were Belgium, 3; China, L;
Egypt, 3; Siam, /; Portugal, 1. The
number of British ships was 2,651 with
8, 495, SOS net tonnage.
Uncle Sans showing for 1907 is
very mNch worse than even his poor
| record for 1906, with % ships of 67,-
SIC aggregate tonnage. Hardly any
thing could be more humiliating, espe-
cially for a country Of the prestige,
power and resources of the United
States.
Why has the merchant marine been
swept from tho high sea since the
Republican party came into power!
Under Democratic rule the Stars and
Stripes were seen in every port the
world over, and the American clipper
ships were the fastest sailors. But
the age of iron and so-called protective
tariffs and restrictive navigation laws
have SO increased the cost of shlI
building and the expense of navigating
American ships that those with cap
ital have sought other and more IA
vored fields for its investment. the
Republican policy now is to grant al
rect subsidies for ships to over
come the indirect subsidies tt
other interests which have 81
disastrously affected our merchant ma
rine. The ship building trust has beer
protected by allowing only American
built ships to be registered under tn
laws of the United States.
If a shipmaster wishes to buy a new
ship he must pay the price the shlr
building trust demands. He canno
buy an English-built ship, although tn
price would be 40 per cent. less thai
one built in the United States. Som
shipmasters have evaded the law b.
buying foreign-built ships and the
sailing them under foreign flags an
with foreign seamen.
If this policy of sO-called protectlo
through high tariffs is continued niue
longer there will be no American SCI
[ men to man American ships, for eve
: on those ships used in the coastwls
, trade which no foreign ship is above
to compete in, the majority OF tn
sailors are foreigners.
Free ships would seem to be In
main remedy to %rehabilitate our me
chant marine-that is, allow those WI
wish to &C into the shipping bushes
to buy their ships where they al Blu
them cheapest. If at the same TIN
l the tariff is reformed so that III
: price of all that enters into h bull
ing of ships and the sailing OF the
is reduced to reasonable rates, shl
4 building and the repairs to ships Wou
be cheaper and competition wou
eventually reduce the cost or trelgr
y much to the advantage of u farmer
whose products must seek foreign ma
4 kets, and our merchants who buy al
:, sell in foreign lands.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01

THE work of removing the old soft
i sandstone or east front of the
treasury building and replacing 1t with
new granite recalls to several old resi-
dents the story told how the site for
the building was selected.
Tradition has it that Andrew Jack
son, who was then president OF the
United States, appointed a commits
sion to select suitable ground for the
erection of a United States treasury
building. and that after the commits
sion had, after looking over several
tracts OF land, failed to reach a decl-
sion as to which would be the best, the
president himself selected the site.
1t is said that one morning in 1888,
while President Jackson was out walk
inc, he met the chairman of the site
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01
u THE CAPITAL
Information and Gossip Picked Up Here
and There In Washington.
Marriage to Dissolve Quartet of Bellies

for speeding very nearly cost her life,
and did sacrifice that OF her only
brother, Vinson Walsh.
Katherine Elkins has never sara
that she would not wed the duke, ana
everybody who has watched develop
ments in the romance confidently De'
lieve the royal sutton carried he prom
Use to become his bride. Every prep
aration was made to an
nounce the engagement, but IL leakeu
ont ahead of time. and then the family
of Miss Elkins sealed their lips. But
the announcement, which Will proDa-
blv come very early in the fall, VIII
not be a surprise.
Miss Mathilde Townsend, who still
holds sway as Wa~shington's greatest
beauty, is spending the summer at Bar
Harbor with her mother, where they
will entertain the Duke d'Albe some
time this summer. The young Spanish
nobleman has been in the train OF the
Young American beauty for several
wears. and his coming to America this
wear is regarded as proof of his matrf
= >1@A
monial intentions toward Miss Town
send.
With Miss Isabel May and the Count
Won hatfield it looks as If the fancy
of Miss May more than anything else
is responsible for the delay in an an
nouncement. Miss May was formerly
associated in her social career with tnf
Countess Cassini, adopted daughter O
the former Russian ambassador, anc
is almost too accustomed to having
good time to think Of matrimony. Mis-:
Mays family is immensely wealth!
and she has enjoyed undisputed relgl
here.
With the threatened dissolution o
this lively young quartette OF soclet,
bellies Washington will have to look t.
other quarters for its interest befor'
the next season is over.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01
WASTING THE PEOPLES MONEY
Republican Extravaganza Shown u
Condition Of Treasury.

The fiscal year just closed MAKE o
disastrous showing for Republican
policies on financial and political eco
nomy. Last fall the secretary or the
treasury. in his estimates for congress
said there would be a surplus ven
for the year Of $42, 000. 900, but the fac'
is there is a deficiency OF nearly $780,
900, 900. The experts OF the united
States treasury were evidently unaple
to see, or refused for political reasons
to notice, that the tide had turned and
the taxpayers were no longer able 10
pay, as they had been doing. High
tariff taxes had killed the goose that
had been laying golden eggs for the
trusts, and a panic resulted.
In spite of this enormous falling OH
in the revenue of the government, the
Republican party in congress persist
ed in trying to prove that Republican
policies produced prosperity by max
ing even more extravagant appropri2
tons than ever before, so that the
amount exceeded 81, 0OS, 900 1000. That
vast sun vas appropriated for ex'
penses for M year, namely, from
July I, 1908, to June 80, 1909.
1t is only a few years ago that the
whole country was startled when 1t
discovered that the taxpayers were
burdened by a billion-dollar congress,
whereas now when this present con-
gress adjourns on March 4 mex it will
be called a two billion congress, for
the Republicans seem utterly unable
to reduce expenses.
How great the deficiency will be for
the fiscal year just begun cannot be
accurately estimated, but that it will
exceed the deficiency for the year just
closed is most probable, and may be
much greater.
Such great extravaganza and such q
falling off in revenue may result II
the secretary of the treasury refusing
to redeem the United States bonds
now due drawing three per cent, al
though the National banks now hol(
over $3.50, 0O0, 900 Of government de
posits.
This strange financial policy of pay
ing interest, while at the same TIM
having the money on hand to pay tn
principal would be regarded as tn
act of a spendthrift, if a private ind
vidual. Yet that seems to be the Graz.
policy Of this strenuous Republican
administration.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01
Big Force to Take Next Federal Census

The task of making the enumeration
of the 10000, 900 people in the United
States, Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico.
and in Guam, Samoa and the Panama
canal zone will be one of enormous pro.
portions. 1t will be the most gigantic
work of enumeration that has ever
been attempted in this or any other
country, and it is intended to reach the
acme of correctness and thoroughness.
Not merely a count and compilation
concerning the population alone, II
will include a census OF agriculture
manufactures, mines and quarrles.
A census Of the Philippines will NOT
be included, as n was taken in 1913.
and it is doubted if the Philippine gov
| eminent would care to bear the cos'
! of another enumeration so soon.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01
A Republican Accomplishment.

The Republicans of Minnesota have
evolved a plan to recover the COVER
norship by nominating a candidate
whose greatest accomplishment, &C.
cording to his sponsor, ex-Congress-
man Eddy, is that he leafs pie with a
knife" AS Eddy was defeated for
congress a few years ago for a similar
achievement, may be Yacob jacobson
will find that his Minnesota constltu-
ents are still in a discriminating mood.
No wonder Gov. Johnson declined to
again be a candidate when he dis
covered what he was likely to be up
against.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01

the marriage
w next fall of Miss Evelyn Walsh,
daughter of the Colorado millionaire,
to Edward Mclean, sCn of John X.
Mclean of Cincinnati and Washing
ton, a quartet of the most famous
bellies Washington has ever known
will be dissolved. This quartet In
cludes in addition to Miss Walsh, Ma
thilde Townsend, whose engagement
to the Duke d'Albe of Spain is antici-
pated; Miss Katherine Elkins, who, in
spite of the non-committal attitude of
her parents, is expected to wed the
duke of the Abruzzi, and Miss Isabel
May, whom society long ago took for
granted to be the fiancee of Count Won
HatZfeldt, counsellor and first secre-
tary of the German embassy.
This quartette of girls have made
Washington hum in the past two sea
sons. Nothing has been too gay fol
the stamp of their approval, and they
have set a pace that the more con
sentative younger element has not
dared to follow.
Evelyn Walsh is very young, but she
has had probably a wider social expert
ence than any one of the quartette
Backed by her fathers millions, she
has been able to give any sort of en-
tertainment her heart desired, ard NJ
figure has been too steep for her tt
pay when her fancy yearned for any
thing. from a new touring car to 1
fancy dress ball.
Several wears ago Miss Walsh's love
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01
Two Points Need Clearing UP.

No corporation in the United states
has ever been chartered to control
elections by contributions or other
wise, and no corporation has a consti'
tuition or bylaws made by it's stock
holders authorizing the use of their
money in elections. When he pro-
nounced corporation money untainted
for election purposes the treasurer OF
the national Republican campaign
committee failed to give publicity to
his views on either of these points.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01
Girl Refuses to Contest Will for Fortune

reasons of his own for dividing the es-
tate, and | have not inquired into
them. Father had a mind Of his own.
Il intend to continue my work at the
post office department, where | receive
$500 a year for distributing money or
ders. | have worked as a government
clerk at this salary for nine years,
But few of my associates knew that
was the daughter of John Cammack,
the millionaire. | did not tell them.
At times l have hoped that l might
receive a promotion, but it did not
the civil service.
During this time my father has
never offered me money, and | have
been too Independent to ask for it. ]
worked because l had to-. l have be-
come accustomed to it now and will
continue to work"
do you mean to say, Miss Cam
mack. that you will let the desire tc
avoid publicity stand between you anc
the 81, 900, O00?" she was asked.
Il certainly will, if you want to put
it that way" she replied, laughing.
The late John Cammack was a re
tired florist and occupied a magnifi
cent home near B~rightwood. His dealt
occurred June Is last. When his will
was filed it was found that he had lef
practically all of his fortune to hi
wife, Elizabeth Cammack, and a mino
son, John Edmund Cammack. Mis-
Anna Cammack is the only other d
rect heir. MI. Cammack married abou
three years after the death of his frs
! wife, 20 years ago.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01
Too DANGEROUS a Move.

It would be a fine thing for the Re-
publican party If it could get up a war
scare to divert attention from the Is
Sues which have now been set square
ly before the people for the presiden-
tial campaign. But, on second
thought, President Roosevelt Will
hardly resort to the hazardous expedl'
ent of calling a special session OF con.
gress to ring the alarm bells and
sound the tocsin.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01
Circumstances Not the Same.

George washington signed me nlo'
American protective tariff law" says
a Nngley organ. But anybody VINO
has read William Maclay's notes on
the senate debate which preceded It's
enactment knows the difference be-
tween moderate encouragement or In
FAINT industries and the Dlngley back
ing of giant robber m%onocolieS.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01

~ RECTOR NORTH is preparing
IL plans for taking the thirteenth
census. although congress has not yet
enacted the necessary legislation. He
&c arranging all the details and there
will he no delay in beginning work
when authority is given.
It will require 10000 persons to take
tho thirteenth census. The approx
mate cost will be $4,000, 600.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01

THE RECORD THAT WON'T COME
OFF.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01
GREATER
MISSISSIPPI

Dsvoted to the Agricultural, Commercial
and Industrial Development OF the State
uncomfortable Resources -Oficlal organ OF
Iepartment OF Agriculture and commerce
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-01

Prof. W. C. Wellborn, vice-director
of the Texas experiment stations, for q
number of years connected with our A.
and M. college, and one OF the recog-
nized authorities of the South In agrl-
cultural matters, has published q work
ON agriculture for the public schools
| that is considered One of the best OF Its
kind that ever came from the press. 1t
has been adopted for use in the schools
| of Texas and will be offered in other
| Southern states so soon as the tim for
| adoption rolls around again. 1t Is a
work for Southern children, by a South
ern author of known ability and adapt
ed to conditions as they exist in our
| Southern country. 1t is gratifying to
know that a competent man has pre-
pared a work of this character, and
that in the future our people can do
away with the books offered that are
not at all adapted to our section o. he
country.
The question is frequently asked that
if the agricultural high schools are
established and put in operation Will
they not be made common high schools
without the agricultural features. Inc
management of these schools will Do
in a board of trustees that heve 1t IN
thar mower to see that they are made
agricultural schools in every sense Oh
the word. and if they are allowed to de.
generate, it will be wholly the 1ault o,
, This board. Make them agricultural
schools that viii turn out real farmers
and stock raisers-
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1908-07-12
Ia ASESINA GUNNES.
Rum0TeS aCerca de sl existencia.
Sc dice que dssDg6s Gel IaGGRdIO Do 10 gFasla y
DO h'bsr saGr'fIgltO suS tres hIos, huY6
4 NhEIea,

La C6lsbFe asesina Belle GunneB Cuyo
gEH bAd0 y dttAllea de aus miataFioROB CFi'
maneB, pub leo "La CoFrespohdencia' on
90 sdiCf6n del 13 del paBado Jurio, ssg6n
% ss' G ara ha psHadO 10 froptsFP, huyendo
Mexico,
V6Ass 10 que dice "MontsFEey N wa"
ca su eaici6n del 13 cato eB, sI mismo dis
que este diaEio pubicsbs lcs dstalIes ,
grabRdO de esta muisr que. ha atquirido
G an Celebridad poF la audacia damo6tFR'
ds en- la psrpttcaci6n do Huu cFimsnes:
w W>shipgsop, Junio 13-Se aseguER
que, Geg6G un deGpAcho FeCibido en- el
DapsEtamsnto de EstAdo pFoc0dsnts del
Emb' ia loF Th1mpgon en- Ia ciudRd de
MejicO, 10 Wn Ha Bale Cannes, cuyR
graz ! de I diana di6 muCho que dcCir,
eat6 sn Mex co.
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mDjaP dOsCubieEta OoinCidau con las de 10
f,EoE RseaiuR de Indians.
FL Embaiador ThompIon psrtiCipa que
rscibi6 del gobsrnadOE de OhispaB una il.
foEmaCi6n como sigue:
''Hucs RIguuos diaB que una mujsF anne
Eicans ccmo de so sfics de eds6, corfu
IentA. como de GinCO pies aiets Pu' gadaE
de entatuEa, ejou szul oBCuFO, Cabello ligs
ramsrts cast Il :, IA POGO moEena viva y
de IN srdar uslvioBr, pan6 per PeleDque
Vi.jaba RoIa y Ain Gquipsis y no llsvsba
caTtaB de Coaccimiento. Sili6 del 8slt0
del Agus on trsjs masCuliaO de Kakhi
Ss estuv1 i. f.rmando de Las comuuicacio
mes que hRbfa por sl rio UsumACinta, , no
nscit6 indioRciones aceFcR de los peligroH
gus pOdfS coFTsF, pueB Ea'i6 luego.
Como GH possible que Ia mujeF americans
sea la asesiaa Gunnsg, sfIvass uBted darms
detalles y eDviarma instruotioneB".
M han aldo tnviRdas niUgunas inRtTuc'
ciodes Al Embsj sd>F ThompBOu y 10 TO-
f1Emaci6n 60 muy vFgs para pOdeF ttsC'
tuRr una acci61 poBitiva.