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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-10-01
Hightower is Gratifed.

President G.. Il. Hightowcr, OF the Mis-
sissippi Farmers Union. who is devoting
his time and energies to the development
of the business of the Farmers Ware
house Company, seems quite encouraged
at the way in which the various locals
and the district Farmers Union Ware
house Associations are taking up tn"
Capitalization scheme, Mr.. Ilightowel is
advising the producers of the staple to
sell, but sell moderately, and not at
tempt to rush the staple.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-10-01
Damage to Timber.

Reports received from that section in
dictate that the amount of timber felled
in the long leaf yellow pine belt by
the tropical hurricane on Monday night
was not so heavy as at first feared.
While the damage to timber will be
very extensive, and cannot be made fully
known for several days, confidence is
felt that it will not be as heavy as that
in 1906, when fully $5,000,O0O worth of
yellow pine in Mississippi alone was de-
stroyed, one large syndicate suffering a
loss closely approaching $1,0O0,0O0
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-10-01
Urges Agricultural Schools.

To enlist the Farmers Union in the
campaign for the establishment OF an
agricultural high school in each county.
is the purpose of a strong address issued
to the membership of that organization
by State Superintendent of Education
j. N. Powers. Prof. Powers urges the
farmers to use their personal influence
with boards of supervisors, and induce
them to order the necessary special tax
they levy for the establishment OF these
schools, as they are authorized to do in a
law passed at the last session of the leg
;slature.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-10-01
Banks in Good Shape.

The banking institutions of Mississippi
doing business under the state laws are
carrying deposits aggregating over $685.
000,O 600, according to a recapltulatlon Is
sued by State Auditor Smith.
The 1926 banks are operating on aggre-
gate capital stock of $12,6 s9,204.12 and
surplus of $2,725,370.29, while undivided
profits, less expenses and taxes, amount
to $2,101,46O.29 On the face OF these
figures, an average dividend of about IA
per cent. is indicated.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-10-01
Prize for Rural School.

The Mississippi Agricultural and Me-
chanical College has provided for a $25
cash prize for the best kept rural school
in the First congressional district. This
is the second collegiate institution to
offer such a prize, South Mississippi Col
lege, at Hattiesburg, having offered a
similar amount for the Sixth district.
The competition will be kept from 10
on. and at the state teachers convention
of 1910 the awards will be made.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-10-01
Will Discuss Live Topics.

n. E. Blakeslee, commissioner of agri-
culture and M of Mississippi, has
received a draft copy of the suggested
program to be followed at the conven-
ton which is to be held here Nov. 16,
II and IS, next. The program coatem-
plates full and free discussion of agri-
cultural topics, including practical agri-
culture, chemical research, soil survey
and analyses, field and farm work and
results generally, and boil weevil and
other chronological hindrances to crop
development.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-05

Bee Want Ads. are business boosters.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-05
REAL ROMANCE IN A BOOK
Pittsburg Author Bases Novel on the
MItten Given Ia IA Chicago
Cudnhy.

John Cudahy Jr's blighted romance with
the rich Miss Isabel Pontefract of Pittsburg
two years ago is to furnish fresh gossip for
club and tearoom when John Reed SCOTS
new book, The Woman of Mystery goes
on sale the middle Of the week.
Yelled under the names Of Mr.. Lander Of
Chicago and "Hilda Gordon" the love tale
will be told with all the spice that a half
suppressed story gains from being well
guarded.
The new book has already set Pittsburg
and Chicago by the ears. The rovelized ver-
sion of the Cudahy love story will tell how
the PittsburG heiress Tilted the lovelorn
son Of a millionaire because he had boosted
that she and her millions were his for the
asking.
There are other chapters in the book to
cause tongues to wag and wicked smiles to
he translated into Il told you sos in
Pittsburg.
Society is simply in Mysteries over the
new novel. 1t is to go on sale there Tues.
day and men and women who might have
cause to blush for many things If the
world knew all they know are wondering II
the book will really go on the market. If
the rich club members of PittsburG have
their way at this time there will be no
sales of the book there. 1t is not denied
by prominent book sellers that they have
been approached with the object of having
them not handle the book which is said, to
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-05
GREAT WATER W GRABS
Government Vigilance Needed to
Check Creation of Big
Monopoly.

With more than forty water-power grab
bills In congress and predatory corpora
lions grasping at every available water site
in the country without recompense, Presi-
dent Taft is urged by water-power expert
John L. Mathews, in Hampton's Magazine.
to curb the growing power OF what threat
ems to be a greater trust than Standard
OIL. He declares, "A new monopoly more
terrible than has ever threatened the coun-
try, paying nothing, demanding all, its
members have gone into congress and borne
away perpetual franchises to the greatest
Of our lase remaining resources. Only the
determined stand of President Roosevelt
and Forester Clifford Pinchot has so far
come between them and victory"
II was the Rainy river dam bill which
President Roosevelt vetoed. Rainy river,
a broad. deep stream. forms the boundary
for a considerable distance between Min
nesota and Canada.
For making paper. for milling in transit
the wheat which passes through, there is
not in the world a more favorably situated
power. 1t is available in Canada and in
America, on either side of the tariff wall,
says Mr.. Mathews.
Congress and the state gave away all
public right in the fall. II happened that
the company was restricted in the time al
lowed It to build it's dam, and When the
time expired had made barely a beginning,
The corporation owners asked and secured
an extension of time from congress, and
this extension President Roosevelt vetoed.
The bill was passed over his veto, but not
until the company had executed a contract
by which its grant expires in n~inety-nine
years, and in the meantime the secretary
OF war may regulate the charges which II
can make for power"
OF the so-called grab bills in congress it
is asserted that two great corporations,
the Westinghouse and General Electric,
and other smaller corporations which are
said 70 be subsidiaries Of these two great
companies, already control more than half
OF the most valuable water power in the
country-that which falls down from the
App~alachians from the Potomac river south
ward to the gulf. Many Of the applicants
for grants were dummies for the corpora
lions and It was evident that there was a
"hurry-up" rush on foot to grab, before
the people woke up, the greater part OF the
yet undeveloped power sites.
Nor was the Importance of this to be
seen at once, or to be realized until first
the president and then the people could
be made TO grasp the tremendous impor-
lance of water power. For generations we
had used II sparingly, turning with It no
machinery which could not be reached
from the water-spun turbine by a belt
or shaft. Suddenly. in a wonderfully short
time, we have entered and advanced far
in a new series of inventions by which
we are able to develop power at any fall,
in the form OF electricity, and carry It
even by hundreds OF miles. with but slight
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-05

c]riticise harshly the rich club people of
that city.
1t is not known what decision the book
sellers expect to reach, but 1t is known
that Scott, who was a promising young
member of a legal firm there some years
age and also a member of some of the
swell clubs of the city, has stirred up a
world of trouble for himself.
He is to be expelled from the P%tttsburg
clubs to which he belongs on the pretext
that his conduct has been 'unbecoming
a club member" according to fellow mem
bers Of the new author. They contend that
he entered these clubs only to get data for
a new sensation.
In any event, Scott appears to have got
ten the data he was after, according to an
outline of his book which has been pub
lished here.
Pittsburg society is shivering over what
other tales may be in the book, about
which they have as yet heard nothing.
Most of the incidents which have been
mentioned here are readily recognized by
the club people, even though other names
have been used.
Sewickley Heights, the fashionable sub
urb of Pittsburg, is almost beside itself
with rage, as is the Allegheny Country
club, both of which are named in SCOTS
book,-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-05
HALF A MILLION FOR VEST
Fate of an Old Newspaper Man with
an OversuppIy of Waist
coats.

1T was so prosperous in 1862 as TO be
able to have two vests said a veteran
man, and one of those vests
cost me $500, 900. Solomon in all his glory
never put up as much as that, l believe,
for his whole wardrobe. I could get a vest
every bit as good as that now for $3.50.
This happened on Oil creek, in the early
days of petroleum. I had wandered over
there in 1862. I was only a kid, but had
saved $50. About that time the flowing
oil wells were being struck. Men who
were poor one day were finding themselves
m%illionaires the next. I suppose there are
a good many people out there yet who re-
member Jim Sherman. When I first met
Jim he hadn't as much money at I had,
but he had a lease on one corner Of what
was known as the Foster farm and was
trying to find oil on It.
For some reason or other speculation
hadn't cast the eye of favor Of the Foster
farm as yet, but Jim Sherman believed II
had the oil sand under II. and on the
strength Of Jim's faith his wife had put
in every cent she had received as a legacy
from her father, $500, to help Jim out in
his venture. When I ran up against Jim
had been in the region only a couple OF
days and my $50 was still intact. / had
a boarding place about half a mile from
where Jim was struggling to get his well
into the sand he believed in. He had ex-
changed an eighth interest in his well for
a drilling engine, and he had disposed OF
a sixteenth interest for SEQ in cash and a
shotgun, and that $50 and the SIS he sold
the shotgun for, together with 800 he had
received for a horse which he had traded
another sixteenth interest in his well for
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-05

had all been absorbed and the drill had
not yet struck Oil.
1T was at this interesting condition of
the Sherman we'll that ran up against
Jim. He was in despair. He had no hope
Of being able to obtain another dollar. He
had been offering another sixteenth inter-
est in his lease for $50, with no takers. /
thought the matter over a while and then
said to Jim that 1 would take the one
sixteenth.
Produce the fifty!" said he.
II felt for my fifty. IT wasn't there, and
I at once remembered that I had put on
my other vest when I came out and had
forgotten TO change my little wad Of
wealth to it from the pocket of the vest I
had taken off. I explained matters to Jim
Sherman and started at once for my
boarding house to get the money. I got it
all right, and was on my way back TO in
vest it in the Sherman oil we'll when I
saw people running wildly from every
direction toward the Sherman lease and
heard them yelling:
"Jim's struck it, by! And struck IL
big!'
So he had. While I was away to get the
$50 I had left in my other vest the drill
in the Sherman well had dropped into the
sand, and 1t was spouting at a 2.O0O-barrel
rate; and it kept on spouting for two years.
Before 1t quit IT had spouted more than
100000 barrels Of oil, and the average
price of oil during that time was 81 a bar
rel. Jim Sherman cleared something like
6 100000 out of it, and IL I hadn't been so
prosperous that I was able to have two
vests l25, 900 barrels Of that oil would
have been mine. That's how one Of those
vests cost me $500, 0O0."
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-05

loss, to be used for commercial purposes
wherever needed. In ten years we will
be sending power 1000 miles, and the most
remote mountain streams will be contrib
uttng to run our railways, to light our
cities. to take the smoke from our fac
tories, and even to do the ordinary work
about our farms and DEMONSTRATING,
heating, blowing. milking. churning, iron
ing, cooking, and all that coal and animal
power do now.
There is in the United States developed
and embarrassed In our rivers and brooks
more than 10000 900 horsepower in water
capable of being turned into electrical en-
ergy and transmitted to homes, farms and
factories. This can perhaps be increased
so, or even 100 per cent by proper con-
servation, Yet, even in the original figure,
1t means the equivalent of $50, 900, 900 tons
Of coal every year mined, transported and
consumed; or, as we waste half OF our
coal in getting it from the ground. It
represents the diminution OF 1900, 00, 900
tons in our available supply of coal.
w actually mine and ship each year
about 500, 900, 900 tons OF coal. So the water
power, the bulk OF which we are giving
over to monopoly, represents more than
the equivalent of all our coal; represents
the only hope for cheap living; represents
a fuel or source of power which, while
controlled by the people, can be used for
public income and for regulating costs;
but which, when alienated as we are
alternating II, will create a trust that will
make of the meat trust a pigmy and that
by simply adding pennies to its charges
for power will reduce US to a slavery
which would make the Standard OIL mag
mates gasp with envy. Such a state OF
affairs would surely produce a revolu-
ton. only sane and radical action can
avoid such a contingency"
Bee Want Ads. are business boosters.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-05
A GENIUS IN BRIDGE WORK
The Man Who Gives Vitality to Mil.
lions Of Steel Units.
BRIDGE BUILDER WITH A RECORD
Structures Reared by Him over
streams from the Atlantic 60 the
Missouri River-HOw He
struck His Gait,

The man who gave direction and cohesion
TO the bridge construction force OF the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad during
the double tracking Of the Omaha line is
rising steadily as managing director Of the
greatest steel construction enterprise ever
undertaken in the United States.
Edward p. Terry thinks entirely in steel.
He has thought in steel since he was a
boy, heating rivets on one OF the first iron
bridges built in Wisconsin.
Thirty years after finds him a master
hand Of steel construction and the genius
who has aided in the realization OF the
$40. 900. 900 Williamsburg bridge, who is
bringing into being the colossal Manhattan
bridge. and the gigantic structural work
for the New York Central terminals,
stretching from the Grand Central station
to One Hundred and Seventh street, the
greatest undertaking Of its kind ever at
tempted. He has converted 1000 900 tons OF
vital metal into visible embodiment, pre-
senting the dreams and plans OF engineers
and building commissions. bridge commits
sions and railroad presidents.
Big Structures on Many Lines.
II he travels on any railroad this side
of the Rockies he must inevitably pass over
bridges that he has put together. II he
cares to cross the Mississippi, he may
do so seven times at seven different points,
and always by a bridge tina he has made.
In New York, he may take an equal
choice of two of the greatest Of the worlds
bridges, the Williamsburg and the new
Manhattan, that is being rushed to COM
pletion. In New York he may ride through
twenty-three miles of subway and do bust
ness in fifty skyscrapers with the con-
seriousness that all the steel work allow
and aloft was fashioned and fitted to-
gether by his device. When he journeys to
Boston that city's elevated road stares him
in the face as still a further result of his
handfwork.
Just at present Mr.. Terry has two Jobs
in New York, and in the doing Of them
he is incidentally molding and modelling
10000 tons of red-painted steel Orders and
curbs and tringers and cords and foscias
in the way that they should go. One of
these bits of work that is probably best
known is the Manhattan bridge over the
East river just north OF. the Brooklyn
bridge. He is doing the entire steel con-
struction work, which involves the placing
Of 5000 tons Of metal in the towers,
stretching $50 feet above the granite foun.
dalton, and in the great span of 40 feet.
That is his share of the bridge, which, for
Its size, is intended to be the strongest
in the world-a bridge that will cost SIS,
100000. II has the greatest anchorages Of
any bridge ever built, anchorages that ar,
veritably cyclopean, and which contain
100000 cubic yards of stone and concrete
The four cables are the largest evei
twisted together. Each contains 10, 1000 stee
!, wires, giving the cable a diameter o.
/, twenty and three-quarter inches, and the
5 wire has been tested up to 215, 900 pounds
per square inch.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-05

horse as a leader for two yoke of oxen
that drew the loads of spars down from the
wooded hill crests to the river bank. Some
of these spars are stan doing duty on the
seven seas; they were good Yankee tim
Der so, long and solid that two of them
made a load for the four oxen and the
horse even on the smooth hauling way OF
the snow. O..
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-05
Mexican Con.pIrntor Pnrdoned.

LEAVENWORTH, Kan, June 4-Encar-
nacion Diaz Guerra. leader in the con-
spiracy to invade Mexico and overthrow
President Diaz and VINO was pardoned by
President Taft, left the federal prison here
today. Guerra arrived at the prison April
3 last under an eighteen months sentence.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-05
Gigantic Work,

At the same time Mr.. Terry is engaged
on the work that is the most important
OF his career, at least in SO far as the
amount of metal is considered. This is
the gigantic terminal Improvement of the
New York Central from the Grand Cen
trail station to Harlem. It is the largest
work OF Its sort ever attempted, and Mr..
Terry's share is the steel work. This in
wolves the placing of 100, 900 tons of steel.
and includes provisions that when finally
fulfilled will alter the face of mid-New
York. The steel units that he is using
there are the strongest, both in point OF
weight and breaking strain, Of any ever
turned out OF a mill or foundry. They are
intended to support, not only the double
deck roadbed for thirty-six tracks, but
also the weight Of twenty stories OF Of
tces above the rushing railroad trains.
From Forty-second street north 10 Fiji.
tieth street the steel is of this weight.
and there in time the railroad will have
eight blocks of twenty-story buildings, un-
der which the trains shuttle back and
forth.
The ultimate cost Of these terminal i'm.
provements will reach. in all probability,
SlOO, 900, 900, and in the general work Mr..
Terry's share is as vitality essential as is
the keystone in an arch, for on the steel
structural work the fabric of all the rest
will depend.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-05

Bigger, Better, Busier-That's what ad-
vertising in The Bee does for your bust
ness.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-05
Busy Every HOur,

The man who is engaged in two opera
tons which involve the expenditure of
$ll5.OOO,OW is more than ordinarily busy,
II he directed his work from behind a roll.
top desk this might be less the case in
externals at any rate, but such is not the
way of Mr.. Terry. He is out on the
works" more hours a day than he spends
in any of his many offices, and the writer
finally located him in a board shed which
he has as his headquarters, close to one
of the towers OF the Manhattan bridge,
where II sweeps into Manhattan at the
flag end OF Pike street. He was up on the
towering bridge structure. There had been
some trouble with one of the compressed
air hammers or guns" as the house
smiths and bridgemen call them. Accord
ingly. as is his custom, Mr.. Terry was out
there TO supervise the affair in person.
Recently a man was blown off the struc-
ture by one OF these guns, and that was
the first and only accident in the work,
which has been going on for almost two
years. Mr.. Terry had gone out on the
Orders 300 feet above the water. swinging
himself along with the grip OF hands and
knees on chords and derrick chains as his
insurance on this incidental tour Of inspec-
ton.
Big Man Tor Biz Tasks.
Mr.. Terry is So years old, but it was
thirty-odd years ago when he first caught
q red-hot rivet in a can placed on his
shoulder as, he sat astride an iron beam
in midair. A big outstanding man, six
feet two in his stockings, with q breadth of
shoulder and reach OF arm bullying and
moving with a play OF muscle that could
not be quite concealed ever by mis- cor
rectly tailored coat, he looked. first OF all
the master Of things material and stub
born. Of iron and stone and concrete. His
is the head Of the fighter. compact and
bony, with a square, bard Jaw that stands
out as firm and pronounced In its CON
struction lines SIS one OF his own steel
caissons. The srayish-brown hair and the
grayish-red stubby mustache are Wtry and
metallic in their effect.
The son of the builder OF wooden bridges
and father Of the builder OF steel bridges
was Ezra d. Terry. who likewise found
that the income from his crops on tina
unsmiling New England soil needed a
boost, Therefore Ezra d. Terry was a
iunmberman In the long winter months.
When his son. Edward. was 9 years OF
age the boy went out to help In the woods
II was fun for him. because he rod a
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-09-22

companion.
''Not from me-"
And this ended the conversation.
Ransom withdrew Immediately up.
stairs.
At ten o'clock he retired. The last
look he cast down the hall had shown
him the drowsy figure of the maid still
sitting at her watch. 1t seemed to
insure peaceful night. But he had
little expectation of sleep. Though
the wind had quieted down and the
rain fell with increasing gentleness,
the roar Of the waterfall surged
through all his thoughts, which in
themselves were turbulent. He did
sleep, however, slept peacefully till
half.past one, when he and all in the
house were startled by a wild and
piercing cry rising from one of the
rooms. Terror was in the sound and
In an instant every door was open
save the two which were shut upon
Georgian and her twin sister.