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The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
Must Not Be Too "Near."

Notwithstanding the understanding in
the jackson near-beer cases coming up
in the city court, whereby it was an
nounced that the city authorities would
be governed by the supreme court deci-
sion in the Gulfport case of Harry Ed
wards, the police committee of the city
council has determined upon a different
course, which will make a good deal of
difference to the dealers in that some
what popular and much discussed bev-
erage.
The idea of the committee is that a
very large proportion of the beverage
sold as near-beer is so near beer as to be
real and that even those acquitted of
the charge of unlawful retailing near
beer may still be convicted in subsequent
cases when it is found that the beer is
too near.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
Roads File Demurrers.

Jefferson City, Motive additional
roads filed demurrers to the information
of Attorney General Major in the suit
by which he seeks to have fifteen Mis-
souri, trunk lines ousted from the State
for alleged violation of the Missouri
anti-rate law. The Frisco, Rock Island,
Kansas City Southern, st. Louis, Kansas
and Colorado and the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul systems are the defend
ants. Their pleadings correspond with
the demurrers filed by the Chicago and
Alton and the St. Louis and Southwest
ern.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
Six Days Without Food.

st. Charles, Mo.-Charles Davis, en-
tering box car at Oklahoma City, with
the intention of beating his way to st.
Louis, was Sunday found in an all but
starved condition. Shortly after Davis
entered the car it was locked, and for
the six days he had nothing to drink
and nothing to eat save splinters of
wood which he dug up from the floor
of the car with horse shoe nail. When
found, although practically unconscious,
his foot, merely excited by reflex action,
was still tapping against the door.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
Veterans Going to Reunion.

Indications are that the 40 odd in
mates of the Beauvoir Soldiers Home
will 60 to Memphis in special car,
transported free over the lines of the
Gulf & Ship Island and Illinons Central
Railroads. to attend the annual reunion
of the United Confederate Veterans, will
have the time of their lives on that oc-
will fare much better than the average
veteran who is fortunate enough to be
able to go on his own hook.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
Serious Damage to Crops.

Superintendent c. H. Neylands, of the
state penitentiary, reports the state
plantation property in bad shape, and
especially so is the Rankin farm, where
it is estimated that the cotton and corn
crops are damaged over so per cent. The
conditions on the big Parchman planta-
tion and on Belmont, in Holmes county,
are very little better. Between $50 and
400 acres of corn and cotton each are
damaged beyond salvation, and the only
hope for recovery is that the water may
recede and dry off in time to replant.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
Gen. Lowry May Attend Reunion.

Gen. Robert Lowry continues to i'm
prove in health, though the damp wealth
er for the past week has been rather
against progress, compelling him to re-
main within doors; yet, for all that, he
is cheerful and bright, and his mind is
active and in normal condition. 1t is
hoped that he will be able to attend
the reunion at Memphis, and if his loyal
and devoted followers and comrades can
manage it, he will 60 to Memphis, if
they have to constitute themselves a
bodyguard to watch and tend him.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
Celebrate Davis Birthday.

Camps of United Confederate Veter-
<ans and local chapters of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy through
out the state made elaborate prepara-
tions for the annual celebration of the
birthday of jefferson Davis on the third
of June, and at all the principal cities
and towns of the state public exercises
were held and all forms of business sus-
pended while citizens joined in paying
tribute to the vicarious sufferer of the
Lost Cause This will be the 101st ami
versarv of the birth of Mr.. Davis.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
Man Hunt Abandoned.

The remainder of the men who formed
the detail from Company f, who have
been conducting the Atkinson campaign
expedition into Winston county, after
maneuvering around the swamps and
high water for several days, returned
to jackson Saturday night. While ac-
tive search will be discontinued for the
time being, the hope of capturing Atkin-
son will not be abandoned unless the
governor should be convinced that he
has left the state.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
"Near Beer" in Court.

The direct proposition as to whether
or not the so-called near beer" such
as is being sold over counters in Mis-
sissippi to the thirsty bibulous as a
draught beverage, falls within the pur-
view of the general prohibition statute,
has been put up to the supreme court
for decision. While the stuc is pur-
veyed under United States internal rev.
enue license for the reason that it car
ries a modicum. of alcoholic content,
it is held that it does not fall under
the ban of the state law, for the reason
that it is not intoxicating, and that
tests have been made by the dealers,
and that, of their own volition, and at
their expense, in order to satisfy them
selves that it will not make the drunk
come"
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
Smith Before Supreme Court.

The arguments before the supreme
court, in the case of Charles sR. Smith,
convicted in the circuit court of
Lowndes county and given life SEN
tence for the murder Of 3. A. Laurent,
travelling man, have been made spe-
cial order for Monday, June z, and
will probably require two days of the
time of the court. Assistant Attorney
General George Butler will present tho
argument for the state, unaided, except
by a brief filed by X. 7. McConnico,
Of Nashville, Tenn, who aided the dis
trict attorney in the circuit court trial
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
Monument to Louisville Man.

Hull, Mass.-A bronze tablet, erected
as a memorial to Col. Curran Pope, of
Louisville, KY, an officer in the Union
army, who died of wounds received at
the battle of Perrysville, KY, in 1862,
was unveiled at Battery Curran Pope,
Fort Revere, Monday.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
Veteran Passes Away.

veteran FaSSGS AWAY.
Death, sudden and unexpected, has
overtaken another good and worthy citi-
zen of this community, in the person
of Hon. r. NJ. Davidson, we'll known
and respected Confederate veteran and
court official. The deceased was ma
tive of Petersburg, Va, and was 7s
years of age. He was a member of the
first company that left Jackson for the
seat of war in 1861, that of Capt. R. A.
Smith, with which he served one year,
and was afterward re-enlisted in the
Thirty-eighth Mississippi infantry, COM
manded by Col. j. H. Jones, of Wood
vile.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
States Cotton Brought $3.50, 900.

The State of Mississippi has disposed
of the final remnant of its cotton crop
of the season of 1908. The total cotton
crop grown upon the four state convict
farms was 5,34s bales. The crop has
been disposed of practically as ginned, in
small lots, and the price has varied from
S cents to 13 cents. The exact net
proceeds from the crop are not now OBJ
tainable, but the figures will run some
what. above $25O,00O
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
Pardon Petitions Coming in.

Governor Noel is continually in re-
ceipt sf petitions for pardon of some
convict, which do not come to him as
the law directs, and cannot, therefore, be
considered. Some of the petitions are
sent in without having been published as
provided for, while others are transmit
ted without having been published the
full period of one month, as directed by
law. In order to insure attention. and
consideration, the petitions must be ac-
companied by proof of publication, indi-
eating that they have had five inser-
tions in weekly paper.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
War on Worthless Dogs.

War on Worthless Dogs.
w. I. Spears, of Byhalia, will take
advantage of the reunion in June to
formulate plan of getting rid of
sheep-killing dogs in Mississippi. In an
open letter, headed $1,000 Reward" ("
he requests that all Mississippians in
terested in saving the sheep and game
of their state from the ravages of dogs
meet him at the Fransioli hotel, Mem
phis, at 10 o'clock on the morning of
June 9. The following is the letter:
"One thousand dollars worth of
thanks and good wishes will be extend
ed to all Nississippians who are suffi-
ciently interested to meet me at the
Fransioli hotel, in Memphis, at 10
o'clock a. m, on June 8, 1909, and
assist in formulating some ways and
means through which to tax and other
wise restrict the worthless sheep-killing,
half-starved, game-destroying dogs of
Mississippi"
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
DR.. Mayer To Quit.

Secretary r. H. Mclean, of the state
board of health, announces that, owing
to the condition of the resources at the
disposal of the board, it has been found
necessary to discontinue the services of
DR.. Fred j. Mayer, who has officiated
for several months as state lecturer on
hygiene and sanitation, under the aus
pces of the board. This is step that
is most regrettable, as DR.. Mayer has
accomplished fine missionary work in
bringing directly home to the people in
plain, practical manner, the sources
whence disease germs spring.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
NARROW ESCAPE FROM MOB.
Alleged Victim of Crazy Negro Located
in Ohio.

Bristol, Tenn.-James Hines, nephew
of Mayor Hines, of Abingdon, Va, whom
Robert Moore, a negro, confessed to
having murdered, has been located in
Ohio. The boy writes that he had read
stories of his supposed death. Moore,
who is deranged, declared he cut off the
bows head and secreted the body. Search
revealed the remains of dog. The
negro narrowly escaped death at the
hands of a. mob.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
Cloudburst at jackson.

A fearful wind and rainstorm struck
the jackson section Wednesday, and,
while the wind was not sufficiently Sc
we're to do any damage in the city, the
rainfall amounted to cloudburst. Light
ming put the electric lights out of bus
mess for an hour or more
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04

DIR. Fred ]. Mayer, special agent of
the state board Of health, and lecturer
and demonstrator on health and hygiene
topics, may visit the state normals as
they are held for the purpose of lectnr-
ing the student-teachers.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-06-04
Tax Collectors Slow.

Sheriff Harding, of Kinds County,
states that the settlements for privilege
taxes for this year, the period for which
is about closed, are fully $4,000 less
than at this time in 1908, which is taken
as an indication of the prevailing close
financial condition among the people
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15

objections are ignored however, and thus Tar all the scores now stand as being oHlclal, The rabbit is a poor little or pnan. It has no father no mother. no brother, and no sister. The only relatives IL has are the members of the cricket club. who have been adopted.
 AS soon as the cricketers line up on the green the rabbit. which has been christ ened Artie by the members of the Junior Mountain society. hops out on the green and takes his place in the Bellevue line up. When the ball goes afield the rabbit makes after it, stops 1t with it's front paws, swings about, backs up, and gives the ball powerful kick that sends it spinning toward the wicket keeper. The more radical admirers of the rabbit say 1t is one of the most scientific fielders on the team. It has literally kicked it's way to popularity
 Bunny is everybody's pet Even the rabbit hounds refuse to chase it. When It nrst was seen in the park, almost a year ago 1t was exceedingly wild. The children began feeding 1t ana betting 1t and now 1t eats out of the hand. Tn Upper Montclair there is children's or ganization called the Junior Mountain so- clety. Its mission is to preserve the nat ural beauties. The children in the club have constituted themselves the guar dians of the cricket playing rabbit when the members of the Bellevue Cricket club are not around. Once or twice a day the boys are seen in or near the park en- gagged In fierce combat. Inquiry in rela- ton to the cause of the fighting almost invariably elicts the information that one of the boys was caught chasing the pet rabbit and that the other boy is thrashing him for it. It is the best pro- tected rabbit In New Jersey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15
HOW ELECTRICITY
 IS IMPRISONED The Secret of the Common
 Storage Battery FLUID Is NOT STORED But Is Recreated by Interesting Pro- cess-The Lead and Lead Cells Used In Vehlcles--Dlute
 Sulphuric Acid.

Electric vehicles of all kind are driven by electricity which has been captured and imprisoned. Batteries which pro- duce electricity by primary chemical &C., ton cannot be made large enough, with the small amount of space available, to drive electric vehicles, so the truck, run about or cab is run into the garage where enough electricity to propel the motor for 50 to 100 miles is taken off the wire and imprisoned in a little box until 1t is wanted to do the work.
 Familiar as everyone is with the cleo tric motor and the electric vehicle, for this style of power driven wagon Is fast supplanting the horse in the city streets, very few people know the secret of the storage battery.
 A storage battery does not store cleo tricity, as many believe, but 1t does store energy by converting the energy of the electric current into chemical potential energy, which may be reconverted into kinetic or moving energy.
 Storage batteries. or accumulators. de- pend upon secondary chemical action for their operation They consist of certain
 
 rent of electricity Is passed through them they undergo certain chemical changes due to the current; and if afterward con nected 10 a closed circuit, will discharge a current nearly equal to the original charge.
 The material from which storage bat tery plates are made depends largely upon the use to which they are to bs adapted Batteries are now being man. ufactured with plates made of iron and nickel, lead and zinc, and lead and lead. For engineering purposes, however. the lead and lead cell is used almost ex- clusively.
 In batteries of this class the negative plates are made of sponge lead, which has a light gray color and is very soft The positive plates of of peroxide of lead, being dull chocolate in color and hard in texture.
 The electrolyte, or chemical. almost universally adopted for storage batteries, is dilute sulphuric acid, made from lead for the negative and peroxide of lead for the positive. These have formed upor their surfaces during their normal dis charge, very slight coating of lead sul- phate Upon recharging, the %ulphate upon the plates combines with the acid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15
POPE'S GREAT DESIRE.
Wants To See People of the United
 States.

Rome, August 4.-The Pope has just paid a. high compliment to the United States, and has openly expressed a wish that he could be permitted to visit the country.
 The other night Plus X. was dining with Abbe Lorenzo Perosi. the famous church music composer, who has defi- nitely decided to give a series of con- certs in America next autumn. The Pope repeated to Perosi what Archbishop Far ley had said of his sure success in New York, and added:
 This is a trip that I really envy you. If there is a country that I desire to see it is America, as the intercourse which I have had with it's episcopacy, clergy and people, has made me understand that 1t is the country of the future, especially for the church. But I never shall. so you must store up memories for me- | Abbe Perosi was the director of the choir of the famous cathedral of St. Mark in Venice when the present pom tiff was patriarch there. On being elect ed Pope, he called Abbe Perosi to Rome. had him as his collaborator in his reform of church music, and put him at the head of the famous Slstine choir.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15
LINCOLN CENT ARTISTIC.
Time May Come When Coins Will Bear
 Heads of All Presidents.
From the New York World.

From the New York World. The artistic merits of the Lincoln cent piece are not to be denied; but they are the merits of what is known as the new art, and involve a far departure from the traditional type of American coinage. The Lincoln cent is distinctly pretty" It might have been coined at French mint to go with the bronze vases and statuary of the Art Nouveau which fill the shelves of the Broadway bric- abrac shops
 more serious criticism will be lev eled at the policy of innovation under which the time-honored Indian head is now displaced after half a century, to make way for the profile of President If any American citizen was to be thus honored 1t was most appropriate that the distinction should be accorded to Lin- coin.
 But except for the Washington half dollars, dimes and copper cents of 1792, and the negligible issue of Lafayette memorial dollars, since 1873 our coinage has constantly shown the features of Liberty on it's face, a Liberty of various aspects, 1t is true-now fleted, or tur- baned. now with flowing hair, now bux- om, or again slender; but always the same personifled type of the national ideal. From the cent piece alone she has been displaced, and then only as a senti- mental tribute to the Indian. the use Of the flying eagle on the cent pieces lasting only from 1856 to 1858. The first coins struck at the new mint in Philadelphia, the coppe+ cents of 17s3, bore Liberty in profile on their face.
 If the memory of Lincoln can be in any way exalted by stamping his fea- lures on cent piece. it is well that 1t should be done. But if Lincoln. why not Washington and Franklin. and in course of time the head of the President in of foe, after the style of ruling monarchs? The descent Is easy. Shall we eventually have as many heads of eminent citizens on our coins as there are now on our postage stamps?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15
He Finally Won Out.
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 'Nettie. cried the enamored young man. T love you. and would go to the worlds end for you"
 "Oh, no, you wouldn't. James," re- torted the sweet girl graduate. ''The world. or the earth, as it is called. is round like ball: therefore, 1t has no end"
 Yes, I know" continued the e. v. m. but what l meant was that I'd do any thing to please you. An, dearest, If you knew the aching void"
 Now l am surprised, James," inter- rupted the S. 2. g. Mature abhors a void; but admitting that there could be such a thing, how could the void you speak of be void if there was an ache in it7'
 "Oh, we'll" rejoined the young man. "at least I've got cash and property amounting to nearly s100000, and want you to be my wife So therel"
 James" rejoined the fair one with out moments hesitation. since you put it in that light, haven't the heart to refuse you. Let the wedding bells ring without unnecessary delay"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15
and dissociated gases. with the resnl,

and dissociated gases. with the result that the positive plate again becomes peroxide of lead, and the negative plate pure sponge lead.
 Thus 1t is seen that when the bat tery is being charged the chemical form ation of the cells Is changed. When the circuit is opened and the power turned on the chemicals work to regain their former state and this work produces nearly as much electricity as 1t took to perform the change. This electricity is used to turn the wheels of the truck. runabout or cab.
 Storage batteries are also extensively usd in plants furnishing current for light ing and power purposes-to help out when the load Is heavy and to be charged when the load is light. Many of the larg- est electric power plants maintain storage batteries to supply current in case some accident happens to the plant so the patrons need not be inconvenienced while repairs are being made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15

good number of engineering students each summer go into the plants of the big industrial companies; still others re- turn to their homes and find employment there.
 Gather Laundry.
 Two boys last winter gathered laundry from the students and expressed 1t to a Birmingham house that paid them a liberal commission. The Student Board ing association of the university pays student walters sS.5o per week for lit tie work at meal time one boy has a clerlkshlp in the postoffice. Another Is cornetist in the local orchestra. There were several newspaper correspondents who practiced composition for profit. Two enterprising room-mates constituted a firm" that sold clothing for several custom tailors, and ran a pressing club as a subsidiary business One boy gath cred several cuts from old numbers of the college annual and issued an at- tractive calendar that brought in good returns. Another cultivated natural talent for "kodaking' and equipped him. self to do photographic work on small commercial basis. One days work was nearly a thousand postcard pictures of the football team that sold for cents each.
 It is a mistake to suppose that this army of money -makers holds aloof from college activities They enjoy all the advantages of student life. They are rep resented on the teams, in the Glee club, in the Dramatic club, in all student af- fairs.
 If you noticed a face in the Glee club at the commencement concert last June brighter than all the others, 1t was not that of gay college boy as you thought, but of proud father, for that morning a little lady had honored his farm house" on the hill back of the university.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15
RABBIT A CRICKET EXPERT.
Animal Helps New Jersey Club to Win
 It's Match Games.

Montclair (N. J.) Dispatch to New York
 Press
 gray rabbit that plays cricket is the chief ornament just now of Anderson park, in this city. It is an active mem- ber of the Bellevue Cricket club and taxes part in match games. Members of other and competing clubs object to the Bellevue club ringing in a rabbit. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15
A Cruel Jest.

From the Washington Star.
 Mike" said Plodding Pete. "dcre's wus tings dan gold bricks"
 Whats happened?'
 ''De lady up de road said dat if I'd chop an armful of wood she'd gimme cake"
 Didn't she keep her word?''
 Yep She handed me a cake O soap."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15

Now's the time to stock up, prices are at Bed Rock, just in time for your summer vacation, all our Suits at 33 IS off; note the values. Varley & Bauman Clothing Co., 1910 Sd Ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15
Short Hair for Girls.

London, August IA considerable stir has been made among parents by a cir cular issued to them by Dr. Butler, med ical officer to Willesden education com mittee, in which he urges them to send their girls back to school after the sum- mer vacation with their hair cut short. The medical officer states:
 There ia absolutely no need for girls to wear their hair long, and if the clean ly parents will set the example of hav- ing their girls hair cut short while at school. much more hygienic conditions will be established in our public schools. On the eve of the holidays I venture to make this appeal to parents to send all children to school with short hair"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15

Every Suit reduced to cost and less. Come now whilst the selection is good and save money; B 1-3 off on all Suits. Varley & Bauman Clothing Co.,, 1910 Sd Ave.