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Evening journal., 1909-03-26

father died on March IA Of this year
ard that his will. just filed for probate
in st. Louis. makes her the heiress to
the Lawrence millions.
Other Fond and Rich Relatives.
Miss Hopkins will grow up a very
rich young miss. for in addition to the
million she has just accumulated, she
viii get more from her fond daddy,
Russell p. Hopkins. himself million
aire, and from her devoted grand
mother. Mrs. John Randolph Hopkins.
a very wealthy woman.
As she gets older, young Miss Hop
lSins will learn many things. Someone
will tell her that her grandmother was
Mrs. Minnie Sicgrist and that she was
most unhappy grandmother because
she and her husband. Henry Siegrist.
did not get along together and were
finally divorced.
She will know also that her beautiful
young mother, who was Vera Siegrist.
was the only daughter Of that un-
happy grandmother. and that when
grandmother died little Vera became
the idol Of her grandfather, DR.. J.
Lawrence. And an idol she was in
truth. Dr. Lawrence lavished all that
wealth could purchase on his little
granddaughter. and she bloomed under
his loving care until she was, in 1906,
seventeen years old.
Married Aboard a Yacht.
Then they viii tell Miss Hopkins the
story of how on the morning of Octo-
Der 4, 1906. her beautiful young mother
failed TO appear at breakfast. How
maids who were summoned to awaken
Evening journal., 1909-03-26
Pythians Go a Visiting.

A delegation from Calanthe Lodge
No. %. X. OF p. and a delegation from
wilmington Company No. 1, Uniformed
Rank X OF r. visited Damon Lodge,
No. u at Middletown Wednesday night
Grand Chancellor Max Ephraim, Grand
Prelate Harry S. Beasten; Grand Inner
Guard John Kurborth, Past Grand
? lehancellor hippincott and Past st-
preme Representative John H. Scott OF
Claymont accompanied the visitors.
Damon Lodge was prepared for the
visit. one candidate received the rank
OF esquire and five that of knight.
During the evening several Interests
ing addresses were made.
Evening journal., 1909-03-26
ATTENDS MEETING
OF LIBRARIANS
Prof. Twitmyer Reads Paper
on School Methods and
Library Work

Librarian Bailey, Of the Wilmington
institute Free Library has just re-
turned from a two-day joint meeting
Of the Pennsylvania Library Club and
the New Jersey Library Association at
Atlantic City. Mr., Bailey was presi-
dent OF the Pennsylvania Library Club
and presided at one OF the sessions.
Professor George w. Twitmyor, super
ntendent OF the Wilmington Public
Schools. and Miss Emma Eckman and
Miss Helen Palmatory. both Of the
Wilmington Library were other VIII
mington attendants.
DR.. Twitmyer at the third session
read a paper on school Methods and
Library Work" Mr.. Bailey said yes
terday. "He discussed the question OK
the training Of teachers and pupils
IN the use Of catalogs. indices. etc.
There has been some complaint made
that the modern method OF teaching
reading makes poor spelling and ig-
nores the alphabet. DIR. Twitmyer
undertook TO show why the present
methods OF teaching and reading were
adopted, and declared that spelling IS
not worse but actually better under
them than under the old methods.
"The most important. transaction OF
the meeting was the adoption OF a re-
solution commencing the new copy
right law passed by congress. This law
/ is commended by librarians because It
affords Libraries adequate protection
by permitting them to import Englieh
editions OF American works II they
so desire" 4
The Wilmington Library has pur-
chased nearly all OF the text books
Of the course of tho Scranton Cor
respondence School. IL has also oh
tanned two hundred other technical
books on engineering. The library is
20 place collection OF books In the
boys department OF the Y. M. c. A.
Evening journal., 1909-03-26
Announcement

fT1TlE have purchased Warmers Wilmington
Ezz5 and Philadelphia Daily Steam Propeller
Line and from April lst 1909, will
operate it in connection with present line
under the name "Busl-Warner Line"
Arrangements have been completed which
will insure improved service and will enable
to give every shipper prompt careful at
tenion
Consignees teams will receive their goods
at French Street Wharf
Our own teams will load at Market Street
Wharf.
All outgoing shipments should be delivered
to French Street Wharf
Our Philadelphia address will be Pier 9,
South WhaUes Foot of Walnut Street,
We respectfully solicit your business.
Geo. w. Bush & Sons Co.
of
Evening journal., 1909-03-26
The Harmony
Of Home
Does Not Mingle With or Emanats
From The liable Of Dyspepsia.

In the home, meal time should
awaken in all the inhabitants a pecu-
liar harmony OF Joy which viii make
for the home the abiding place OF in
terest and happiness.
II one member az the dinner table is
out Of sorts. his influence is felt and
the harmony is lacking. Conversation
and mirth are absent. Devouring
thoughts assail the diners and silence
prevails.
Evening journal., 1909-03-26

Folbrsta paid the woman's husband
$50 to withdraw prosecution when the
pair ran away. Recently Folbrata
disposed Of their furniture and yester-
day took a train at Midvaio 20 accom-
pany Mrs. Potenza and her child to
Hazleton. After the train started he
Jumped of and fed.
Evening journal., 1909-03-26
TIRES OF WOMAN WHO COST
HIM 500, PAID TO HUSBAND

HALETON. March 26-Sold by her
husband for $50 a year ago. when she
and Joseph Folbrata eloped and were
caught, Mrs. Ann Potenza returned
from Midvale. \. j., with a story OF
cruel desortion.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26

VYASHINGTON.-The Roosevelt day
w in the White House is fast near.
ing it's end. On Pennsylvania avenue
directly in front of the presidents
home the carpenters are at work build
ing the stand from which in a few days
the next president of the United States
will view the parade marching in his
honor. Within the White House the
packing of the household belongings is
practically completed. The presiden.
tial books, pictures, rifles and shot
guns, rods and whips, and odds and
ends of everything known to a man of
diversified tastes and pursuits are
ready for shipment to Oyster Bay.
The cartoons, and there must be Is
Or 80 Of them that have had places of
prominence on the tops of the low
bookshelves in the library, doubtless
will have places Of equal prominence
in the big den in the Oyster Bay
home. These cartoons are priced by
Mr.. Roosevelt above many Of his more
costly belongings. They are among
the few presents he has consented to
receive.
The cartoon which has held the spe-
Acial place of honor is n showing an
old farmer, representing the American
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26
Tom Cat Is Devoted to His Old Home

made his bed since the destruction of
his birthplace.
At five o'clock every morning back
he comes and takes his accustomed
place beneath the chair, where his
saucer of milk awaits him. No matter
how Indictment the weather, Tom al.
ways manages to find his way to the
~switchman's stand, and there remains
all day.
Tom was the only member of a
family Of six kittens who refused to
depart from the depot when workmen
began to demolish it, and despite the
fact that nothing remains to mark the
once famous structure, this feline
creature is so strongly attached to the
surroundings that he cannot be in.
duced to forego an uncomfortable
home for luxurious quarters uptown.
During the recent snowstorm that
lasted two or three days, said Mr..
Nichols, the cat was late n morning
in reporting~at the little platform
where the chair is located, and he was
just preparing to go down the street
to bring him out of his loft when he
heard the wanderer calling for help.
He was stranded in a pile of snow
and trying vainly to resume his jour
ney to the favorite spot on the corner.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26
In Battle for Liberty Of Press.

Few newspapers are very rich OF
very prosperous. Few of them are
financially able to cope with the ire.
mendOus resources of the United
States government welded by an un.
scrupulous president. The legal ex.
penses which the World-the only
Democratic newspaper in New York
will have to incur in resisting Mr..
Roosevelt's assault upon the liberty OF
the press would wreck an ordinary
newspaper. The success of this pros
ecution would place practically every
American newspaper at his mercy, or
at the mercy of any president who
might feel aggrieyed by political criti-
cism and be willing to abuse his off,
cial power in seeking personal re-
venge.
There has been nothing like it in the
history Of the United States, and in re-
sisting to the utmost the usurpation
of Theodore Roosevelt the World is
fighting the battle Of every other
newspaper in the country.-N. T.
World.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26
Washington an Expensive Municipality

Milwaukee, with a population of BIT,
9O8, has a corporate expenditure OF
$5,54S,143, the rate per capita being
$17.45.
Minneapolis, with 273,825 inhab
itants, spent, according to last reports,
only s5,021,5 $50, a per capita of 1884
Buffalo has a population of over AGO.
900. In 1906 she had 381,819. She
spent in 1906 only $7,609 .061-$19.93
per capita.
Detroit spends $~7,846.305 a year for
a population of 353,535. Per capita,
1920.
New Orleans spent $6,575,945 for a
year of city government for a popula.
ton of 314,146. Per capita, $20.93.
Newark, N. j., with a population of
289,634, had a budget of $6.833,198 for
1906; per capita, $3.50.
Pittsburg, with a population of 375.-
O82, spent ~$10.935,738; per capita,
$29.16.
Cincinnati has 345,23O inhabitants,
and her total corporate payments were
$~10.676,482. The per capita of $30.93
is the highest of any city in the Wash
ington group except Washington Itself.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26
House Parliamentarian No Longer Shy

from the presses eight large volumes
labeled Kinds Precedents," each of
which is as large as the standard doc
tors book, usually found in all we'll
regulated homes. These volumes are
full of the lore of parliamentary pro.
cedure in the house of representatives,
and out of them Mr.. Kinds has already
demonstrated to the satisfaction Of
Representative Gardner of Massachu-
sets, at any rate, that "a prepon-
derance of the testimony" in favor of
any ruling by the chair can always be
found to rest on Kinds side in any
controversy. Recently Mr.. Kinds wrote
what he declares was a 10,000-word ex-
PLANTATION of the rules of the house,
and one well-known newspaper boiled
the manuscript down to two lines.
A newspaper man has paraphrased
the old song, Jane of Maine," so that
it runs as follows:
Kinds of Maine, he never looked the
same;
When he went down to Washington he
was shy, shy, shy.
But alas and alack, when Kinds came
back,
He had a naughty little twinkle in his
eye.
Mr.. Kinds declares he now has the
publicity germ as certainly as have
most congressman.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26
THE TASK FOR DEMOCRACY.
Opportunity at Hand to Do Great Serv
Ice to Country.

The split in the Republican mem.
bership of the house committee on
ways and means, with the high tariff
men In the minority, is only one of the
many divisions that are going to come
In the Republican party before the
new congress is many months old.
The Republican financial policy OF
high, revenue-killing tariff and reck.
lessly extravagant appropriations has
broken down. Any party to which this
happens is in danger of defeat. The
country faces a condition in which
hurrah talk about the blessings be.
slowed by the Republican party will
not satisfy its needs.
Practical measures of relief are i'm
%peratively called for, and upon these
the Republican majority in the con
gress will not be united. Either there
must be a sharp cutting down of ap.
preparations, or more rel must be
raised from sources that will not be
oppressively felt by the taxpayers.
The proposed resort to war taxes in
time Of peace will defeat any party
that makes 1t.
In the new congress the Democratic
policies of revenue tariff and govern
ment economically administered will
come to the front in more favorable
light than they have appeared in since
the panic Of 1873 overthrow the Re.
publican control of the house.
The adVerSity of the Renuhlican
party at the present moment makes
the opportunity for the Democratic
party. The party will do a service to
the country by going into the new con
gress standing firmly upon every
proven Democratic principle. 1t has a
rare chance to win popular gratitude
and control Of the Sixty-second con-
gross by doing it's full duty intelligent.
ly and faithfully.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26

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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26

4 N EXAMPLE of devotion seldom
"A witnessed in a dumb animal is
enacted every day by an old white cat
that strays about the corner of New
Jersey avenue and G street.
Born in the old Baltimore & Ohio
railroad station, that occupied that
site for years, Tom, the untamed
feline, has never left the corner, and
even while the old structure was being
RACED he managed to make his bed in
the building until the last wall had
been pulled down.
Now that the site has been com
pletely filled up and graded. leaving
nc vestige of the once famous depot,
this old cat still remains and makes
his home beneath the chair of the
Switchman at this crossing.
At night Tom quietly leaves his
friend when the last car has passed
and wanders off down G street to a
nearby lumber yard, where he has
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26
HAS BROKEN FAITH
CAUSE FOR ROOSEVELT'S UNPOP-
ULARlTY IN THE WEST.
Voted for as Tariff Reformer, His
Seven Years in the White House
Have Been Productive Of
MonopoIies.

The growing, working west, which
welcomed Theodore Roosevelt four
years ago with open arms, is severe in
%disapproval of him to-day.
The west voted for him because he
had been an active supporter of tariff
revision, believing that he would smite
all those eastern tariff barOns who fat.
ten on western industry and thrift.
MI. Roosevelt was not merely a tar.
if reylsiOnist-he was a vehement free
trader. He went further in his TRADES
against tariff robbery than such Dem
ocrats as Horizontal Bill Morrison
himself. MI. Roosevelt was a member
of the New York Free Trade club.
May 20, 1884, the Free Trade club
delegated a committee to attend the
Republican convention in Chicago
June 3 and demand that the national
platform declare for reduction Of tax
alton to necessities of government, for
free raw materials and for a lower tar
if that should not tax unfinished goods
more than finished products.
Theodore Roosevelt headed that
committee, yet during the seven years
that Mr.. Roosevelt has been in the
White House his rich eastern friends
have %plundered the toiling west as
never before. Tariff barons have liter
ally wallowed in wealth created here
in the west during the reign Of Roose-
welt.
Mr.. Roosevelt has flooded congress
with an infinite variety of tiresome
messages on divers subjects, but not
n word has he uttered Of tariff re-
form, not n shot has he taken at
that brood of New Jersey trusts that
roost almost under the caves Of the
White House.
The west, which is not often fooled
by bombast or fustian, naturally re-
CARDS Mr.. Roosevelt's studied inaction
as a breach of faith, and in the west
breach of faith is not a small offense.
Journal.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26
Roosevelt Is Ready for Moving Day

common people, seated before his open
fire reading the presidents message.
The cartoon is called His Favorite
Author" 1t was to this farmer Mr..
Roosevelt nee pointed when he said
In effect that he could not stand for q
second elective term as president be-
cause 'that man wouldn't like it." r..
The president has declined to re-
ceive any gifts of great intrinsic value
since he has come into high Office. He
has had things given him which
money cannot buy, at least from him.
Authors have sent their books with
their autographs inscribed upon the
blank page. These almost invariably
have been taken gratefully and in
most cases there has been a return
gift of a copy of one of the Roosevelt
books, generally The Wilderness
Hunter"
Thousands of valuable presents have
been offered that have been declined
~cOurteously, but firmly. There have
been some things which have come
from monarchs, articles of an innocu-
Jus hIuu, duu tHcy nave UcCu tdhOu III
the spirit in which they were given.
King Menelik's gift was innocuOus as
long as it was kept behind bars. 1t
consisted Of two lions which are now
in the Washington zoo.
If President Roosevelt had taken all
the horses offered him he would have
as many as a Sioux Indian chief has
ponies, and that would mean enough
to eat up all the bunch grass in half a
two or three favorites of his own pur-
chasing.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26

4 SHEER c. KINDS, parliamentarian
"A of the house of representatives, is
by nature n of those modest and re-
firing men who can tell a speaker how
to bring CONSERVATION to his political
and parliamentary antagonists when
the speaker does not know how to do
it himself, and the mex moment meet
those COMPOUNDED face to face, to hear
some such an expression as this:
We'll, Kinds, if we had had you on
our side We would have won a mile"
Somehow or other the things Kinds
does to members of the house through
the mouth of the speaker in carrying
out his official duties, which are to
help the speaker control the parlia-
mentary procedure Of the house at all
times, neve start a riot, and never
create animosities, resentment or In
tagonism to himself.
But Mr.. Kinds is rapidly getting
over his modesty. Recently he received
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26

r HE pending appropriation bill fol-
i the cost Of running the District OF
Columbia one year carries 81, 974 ,033
being at the rate of $35.21 for each in.
habitant. This does not include the
cost of new buildings for the govern
ment itself or the maintenance of such
as now exist, excepting the %appropria.
ton of 1920, 900 for new buildings for
the district.
The 1908 population of Washington
was 339. 900. The latest figures OBJ
rtainable from the census bureau show
the cities nearest Washington in size
ito be Buffalo, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, De
troit, Milwaukee, New Orleans. Newark
and Minneapolis. In none of these
does the per capita cost of main
tenance equal that of Washington.
49,
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26
A Mjsft.

A late writer declares Roosevelt is Z
combination of Washington, Lincoln,
Napoleon and st. George Evidently
that article has been travelling around
the magazine Offices for some months
and was carelessly printed before
bringing it up to date. A man like
Washington who makes statements to
congress without a basis OF truth"
A man like Lincoln who is without the
strength to stand apart from mere
thieves? Like Napoleon who only rode
up San Juan after the enemy had dis
appeared? Like st. George. who Quails
before every little worm of political
pull. and tries to placate every infiu-
ence in the land?-FTorida Times
Union.
1t seems that many of those large
orders placed in October, subject to
cancellation in the event Of MI. Bryan's
election. were cancelled, anyhow.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26
ION WHAT MEAT" ETC.
President RooseveIt's Words Are Those
OF One Born to Autocracy.

Not until a little more than a month
before the expiration of his term did a
! certain president of the United States
disclose to congress, in a special mes
sage, this amazing view of the proper
functions Of his Office:
"All it (the administration has done
or attempted has been in the single
consistent effort to secure and enlarge
the rights and opportunities Of the
men and women of the United States"
I'VE r trying to conserve what ID
good in our social system, and we are
striving toward this end when we en-.
deavor to do away with what is bad"
Success may be made too hard for
some if it is made too easy for others"
Our aim is, SO far as is possible, to
provide such conditions that there
shall be equality of opportunity where
there is equality of energy, fidelity and
intelligence"
A hundred years hence 1t is possible
that historians may assume that the
foregoing declaration was entirely sim
cere, and that altruistic and reforma-
tory zeal rather than the service and
glorification of self was the main
spring Of Mr.. Roosevelt's executive ac-
tivities during seven years. However
that may be, certain it is that these
same historians will be searching the
documents of heredity, environment
and pathology to ascertain how this
astonishing man ever came to believe
that it was his function as president to
"enlarge"Ithe rights and opportunities
of the men and women of the United
States. Or that it was his duty as
president to conserve part and destroy
part Of the existing social system"
according to his personal judgment Of
what was good and what was bad in
hat system. Or, again, that It was
tie duty and function of his admins
tration to provide conditions" social.
economical, or in any other save
that which the constitution intended
when 1t defined his duties and pre-
scribed his oath of Office.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26
Her Logic.

Anna Margaret had . great many
toys. and her mother thought she
ought to give some of them away be-
fore Christmas to less fortunate chill.
dren. Anna Margaret was willing to
part with the broken trunk and the
cracked set Of dishes and the one
legged Teddy bear. and a few other
toys that were in the same dilapidated
condition. But when 1t came to her
pet baby doll, the n that went to
sleep with her every night. she re-
belled. Mother assured her that Santa
Claus would undoubtedly bring her an.
other doll, even better; but she re-
fused to be comforted.
Mother" she walled, If God sent
Aunt Jessie another baby, would she
give Baby Jean away?" She kept heI
doll.-Harper's Bazaar.