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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02
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WASHINGTON. - The Roosevelt
w tennis cabinet" is to make one
more bid for public recognition before
1T takes permanently to the shelf
where 1t "a laid upon the departure
of it8s chief from the White House:
Two Of it's most prominent members
In the. persons of James Rudolph Gar
field, late secretary Of the interior,
and Clifford Pinchot, chief forester OF
the department of agriculture. have
put their heads together and the
fruits Of their conniving will be a
large and interesting volume entitled
"Roosevelt's Administration"
1t is whispered about Washington
that other members of the now IA
NOUS aggregation of comparatively
young federal officeholders and all
around hustlers from all walks OF
life whom Mr.. Roosevelt invited by
successive stages to his council room,
luncheon table and tennis court, are
preparing to give the public some In
side facts concerning the great seven
years of the administration recently
closed. MI. Garfield and Mr.. Pinchot,
however, are the first to be actually
discovered at their task.
The work of directing b conserv'
Ing of the forests of the country has
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02

TILTRA-SMART women In the con
u gressional set in Washington have
virtually withdrawn their support
from the Congressional club, and the
organization faces either extinction or
humdrum monotony, which nobody
dared to predict when the club was
formed just before the close OF the
last session of congress.
Trouble has been brewing In the
club these many months, but it was
formally brought before the body only
at the last meeting, just before many
of the officers were about to leave the
city for the summer. 1t came to a
crisis when certain members failed to
a their annual dues. AS the club has
leased a fashionable home in K street
and the rem man and the grocer have
to be dealt with before long. dues are
a matter of vital Importance.
Behind this practical phase OF the
situation lies another, which is casting
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02
Sartoris Resigns; Family Feud Is Rumor

was chosen an aide de camp by
Mai. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, and had
become a captain when h%onorably
mustered out of the Third United
States volunteer infantry, at the
end of the a
In June, 1904, he married Mile.
Germaine Cecile Noufflard, a grand
daughter of Sir Charles Halle, a dis
tinguished English musician. Before
the marriage Mr.. Sartoris Joined the
Catholic church.
The origin of the feud in the Grant
family is not related by those Of the
ex-president's descendants who admit
it's existence. 1t is asserted, however,
that the quarrel has been On for some
years, and that the family Is divided
into two bitterly hostile camps. AT
the head of faction is Mrs. Nellie
Grant Sartoris, ~favorite daughter OF
President Grant and almost idolized
by the American public at the time
of her marriage to Sartoris, the Brit
ish diplomat, during her fathers stay
at the White House. The other fac
ton is led by Gen. F. D. Grant, whose
popularity with the American public
is a matter of more recent growth.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02
HH1IIzlQ ll| n I 4
JiZZE~
RI losevelt History to Be Published Soon

been laid aside for several days while
the chief of the forestry bureau Is Ia
boring with might and main with the
late secretary of the interior In writ
ing the accomplishments Of the Roose-
welt regime for the printer.
The book will contain a complete
and detailed account of the things
done at the White House the last tour
years Of Mr.. Roosevelt's occupancy OF
the Off of president. There Will be
a fairly definite account of what took
place in the inner councils OF three
years previous, for although the ten
mis- cabinet did not get well along
in it's organization until some time
after Mr.. Roosevelt's presidential CO
reer started, owing to the tenac1ty OF
President McKinley's so-called "kitch-
en- cabinet" consisting OF Henry Ca
bot Lodge and others, its members
were not long kept in the dark as TO
what had gone on before their ad'
rent to Roosevelt intimacy.
Hurdles which the beef trust 1nves'
tigators were compelled to take, inner
talks at the White House during the
brewing of the Russo-Japanese war,
the coup which made Roosevelt a
great peacemaker, his wrestles with
congress over the railroad rate Dill
the knocking out of the Northern Sc
curities merger, the growth of the
nolicy which blanketed great stretches
of western country with forest reserve
rule. and many other interesting
things will be set forth for the coun'
try's contemplation by those persons
who knew much concerning them, aoW
that the Injunction Of secrecy has
worn away.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02
Congressional Club Losing Members

gloom into the hearts Of the would
be's' who have lately come to Wash
ington to preside over congressional
homes and had been led to believe
that membership in the C~ongression-
a club would fling open to them the
doors of every smart household in
Washington.
It is a matter of the clubs history
that the ultra-smart women in the con
g%ressional set joined the club in the
beginning because they were persist
emily urged to do so in order that
their names might give the organi'
cation something of the social stand
ing it needed. These women freely
paid the $40 entrance fees, with mani
testify no intention of hobnobbing with
the women who came from many
rural districts throughout the coun'
try and Jumped at the chance to be-
long to the club.
That the really smart women In the
congressional set at Washington do
not care a rap for the Congressional
club or its success has been made
plain. True, they have been induced
on rare occasions to visit the club
rooms, but only when some particular
ly important affair has been given
as, for instance, a tea in honor OF
the president and Mrs. Taft, shortly
before Mr.. Taft was ~inaugurated.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02

A LGERNON SARTORIS has re-
IA signed as secretary of the United
States legation at Guatemala. While
ill health is given as the reason for
his action, it is rumored that a fam
lily squabble is the direct cause for
his getting out of the diplomaticc
service.
There is a story that Secretary Root,
who is connected by marriage with
the Grant family, was opposed to Mr..
S~artoris' appointment to the diplo.
matte corps, but that President RoOse-
Welt was responsible for the young
man receiving the post at Guatemala.
MT. Sartoris, at the breaking out
of the Spanish war, showed that he
carried the blood of his illustrious
grandfather, Gen. U. S. Grant. and
Joined the volunteers for service. He
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02
Effect of downward" Revision.

A downward" tariff revision will
in many important schedules, largely
augment government revenues. 1t will
bring in a larger volume of imports
1t will admit many commodities that
are now kept out by high duties. And
the government will reap the benefit
of this increase in import duties.
Thus, while tightening the burdens
of American consumers, a general
downward tariff revision will not i'm
~poverish the national treasury. Rev
enues will fall off in one case and be
increased in the next. A scientific ad'
justment of schedules, in the interest
of home consumers, would not seri
ously affect the treasury at all.
1t is we'll to remember this while
the Aldrich crowd is sitting up nights
pretending to be plugging up leaks in
the national treasury.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02
THE REAL DEMAND
REDUCE THE PRESENT HIGH
COST OF LIVING.
jutjes on Necessities Must Be Low
cred ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Party Row, as Ever, the
Ally Of Monopoly.

II has been estimated by experts
that the cost of living has advanced
about 40 per cent. since the Dingley
tariff law went into effect. 1t must
be admitted, too, that the standard
Of living has risen somewhat IN the
same period. 1t will also be admit
tied that as a country prospers lts
standard of living should advance.
Comforts, ~recreations and even lux
uries should bear a direct relation to
incomes in a wholesome civilization.
But under recent conditions, the
cost of living has advanced so rapid
ly that the poor and those OF moderate
means have had to economic rather
than expand their scheme OF living.
While those who have prospered most
have enlarged their expenditures &C.
cordingly, the greater proportion OF
the population has found the margin
between the necessary cost OF living
and the slightly increased yearly in
| come much smaller than was the mar
gin between the smaller income OF
| the past and the lower cost Of living
attending that income.
1t is this decreased margin that has
aroused the country and made insist
| ent a demand for such an arrange
ment of the tariff as will bring about
q foreign competition that will act
as a wholesome check against the ex'
actions of the interests that now con
troll, through m%onopolies or quasi
| mOnOpOlies, the necessities OF LIE.
No party has ever been strong
enough to resist such a demand when
it has once become a national voice
And no party ever will be strong
enough to stand out against such
righteous appeal. In II form or an
other, every revolution of great pro
portions has been based on defiance
Of the popular demand for popular
equity. When a party or parties lg
more such conditions as now exist II
this country they will be swept aside
by new parties, if necessary-ant
a new order will be established II
some way.
The government of the United
States is so founded that there is lit
tie danger of violent outbreaks agains
oppression. But the desired resul
will be achieved. Members OF con
gress may believe that the rich mel
who control the iron business, the OF
business, the sugar business, tn
meat business, the wool business, tn
cotton business and practically al
other lines of business supplying tn
unavoidable wants of the people, ar
more important than the people VIII
make a market for the products o
these enterprises, but there will com
a reckoning for some of these me-
and the parties they represent.
II the country is betrayed by tn
present congress-, if the duties on ne
cessities are not lowered to such a.
extent as ~appreciably to reduce tn
cost of living, business will not b
permitted to enter into another lon
period of passivity under high proteG
ton.
The agitation of the tariff question
Is going to continue uninterrupted
until the cost of living is substa1
TALLY reduced.-Kansas City Star.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02
Appeal to SeIfishness.

Sugar is one of the sacred idols OF
the protection" crowd. 1t yields a
large share of government tariff rev
enues. But it is possible to retain
these revenues under a scientific re
adjustment of the sugar schedule that
would benefit consumers while slightly
reducing the trusts profits.
Aldrich craftily parties this threat
ened blow at the trust by %picturing the
woes that would come to beet farm
ers of the west and south by tamper
ing too much with the sugar schedule,
1t is the same old story of playing one
selfish group Of interests against an
other. And the trust comes out with
flying colors, as usual.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02

CENATORS ALDRICH and La Fol-
u lette do the glazing for the senate.
while the tariff fight 10 on. The Rhode
island senator has a cold, glittering
rlare, as becomes a man who believes
In money and lots Of it. The Wiscon-
sin senator has a fussy, fighting glare.
It is both a glare and a gloat, and If
the senate can stand for the phrase,
It sgets Aldrich's goat" The senate
leader begins to get just the
moment the Wisconsin glare is turned
IN him. He tries to glare In return,
nut soon leaves for the senate cloak
room where he s%putters, instead. 1t
is not digniaed to sputter in the senate
chamber. No one who will tell knows
~hat else he does in the cloakroom.
when La Toilette sits still Aldrich
san stand him and glare in return.
rhasa two men are not only on Cd
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02
Little Hope for "Economy."

President Taft's temporary revival
in Washington of the obsolete word
economy in his scheme of govern
ment expenditures is as unpopular
among the logrollers in congress as 1t
is likely to be shortlived. From the
way things are going in the extra ses-
sion 1t is evident that as long as the
Republicans control the congress fed.
eral taxation will not be limited to the
needs of the government economically
administered.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02
Aldrich and the SUGAR Trust.

There is strong evidence that
United States officials have been in
collision with sugar trust officials in
downright robbery of the national
treasury by acknowledging" dutiable
imports. Instead of grand-jury indict-
ments for everyone connected with
these thefts, and prison terms, the
trust is likely to get a reward OF
merit from Aldrich in the shape OF
more protection"
Great is the sugar bun and its
lackey, the Rhode Island senatorial
boss!
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02
The SUGAR Gouue.

Even if the American Sugar Rein
ing company were a good. trust-a
philanthropic trust, giving half of it's
profits to charity-it should not be
permitted by law to extract enormous
profits from the American consumer
and from the treasury. The high du-
ties and excessive privileges granted
the sugar trust in the pending bill are,
from any standpoint, unwarrantable
and Observation-Disclosures Post.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02
German Gun. sdperior.

1t is claimed that the 11-inch guns,
of which the new German ~battleships
will have a main armament of 16
each, have such great power and en-
.durance as to be equal or even su-
perior to the Pinch guns of other ma
tons, and that the 16 11-inch guns of
the new ships will be more than
equal to the ten Pinch guns of the
British Dreadnought.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02
Pertinent lmpertinence.

In the senate it seems to be held
pertinent for senators to say that Ger
man workingmen receive starvation
wages, and impairment for Germany
to submit documents to refute the
charge. Etymologically, Germany Il
not im~pertinent, but she cannot ex
pect senators to retain their equani
nifty when a pet argument is pune
tured.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02

Cousin McDooble's natural history
knowledge came to his aid, for the
of the East Indian mOngoOse
returned to his mind. He knew that
the mOngoose is kept as a pet by many
Hindoos to kill s%erpents, and that very
minute he decided hat the best thing
he could do was to be a mOngOOse. So
he did.
The only thing that troubled him
was that he didn't know what a mon
goose looked like or how it acted or
what kind of a noise it made. He
couldn't, to save his life, remember
whether it was a bird or a beast, but
he was pretty sure it wasn't a fish.
A fish wouldn't be much good at rum
ming around a house chasing snakes
But Cousin Orone McDooble did the
best he could, and it worked pretty
we'll, for a garden-hose isn't particu.
lar what kind of noise an imitation
mongoose makes, just sc it makes
a good loud noise. So Cousin OrOne
McDooble got down or his hands and
knees and made a noise like a mon
SOOSc. IL 1hO q AOo
and something like a hyena. And every
three yelps he snarled and showed his
teeth and jumped at the g~arden-hose.
The garden-hose just hung there as
silent and still as the grave and glared
him in the eye! And the more it
glared the madden Cousin MongooSe
McDooble got. He fairly bounced
100000 ,I0 tLo vprl0r, bncn ON his
hands and knees, snarling and snap
ping, and all at once he jumped right
up and bit the ~garden-hOse in the
neck! And the %garden-hose bit
back!
That almost settled Cousin Orone
Mongoose, for all at once he remem-
bered something he had forgot, which
was that the mongoose, before fear
lessly attacking a serpent, neutralizes
the poison by eating the Ophiorhiza
MungOs. and he had forgotten to
eat any! So he dashed away and bit
a piece off a rhubarb plant, and then
dashed back and bit the garden-hose.
and he kept it up until on one round
trip the spigot Of the nozzle caught in
his pocket and as he al the garden
hose leaped out of the tree and went
| leaping after him. My. but Cousin
Orone McDooble was scared! He
jumped right into the rhubarb patch
and ate three whole plants before he
was sure he had eaten enough poison
antidote, but once he was sure he was
no more afraid of that garden hose
than l would be. He lay right down
fat and seized it by the nozzle, and
| wrapped his legs around it, and
| chewed it, growing like a pup with q
slippery bone.
and Cousin Orone McDooble chewed
| 10 feet Of that rubber g~arden-hose be-
| fore he was sure it was dead, but when
he was sure it was dead he was tha
| happiest mongoose that ever killed a
| garden-hose. He got up on his hands
and knees and capered around the
yard uttering short. sharp barks of Joy,
and then, not feeling sure that all the
serpents in Betzville were dead, and
that he ought to protect his poultry at
| all hazards, he went into the hen house
and went to sleep.
And the next morning he couldn't
remember fCr the life Of him whether
he was a rooster or a mongoose, and
he might never have had the heart to
come out Of the hen house If he hadn't
thought Of compromising. So hs
barked like a mongoose three times
and crowed twice. and let 1t 60 at that
Copyright, 1909. by W. q. ChapmaA.l
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02
Merely for Show.

WELL" said Farmer Corntossel
I've got to look after my tomatoe.
and string beans and things" "Yot
don't expect to feed all your summel
boarders out of that little garden, al
your inquired the neighbor. Nope
I've put in my order for canned goods
as usual. That vegetable garden II
just a -decoy."-Washington Star.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02

vastness Of Russian Empire.
Trains from Moscow travel 1926
miles before they enter Chinese terri
tory.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-02

Lacks the Essential.
Shakespeare: How poor are they
that have no patience.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-28
FEB. 10 is FIXED AS
DATE TO COUNT VOTE
House Passes Concurrent Resolution
for Canvassng of the Presi-
Dental Returns.

Washington, Jan. 2S.-A concurrent
resolution providing for the counting
of the electoral vote for president and
vice president, beginning at l p. m
Feb. 10, was passed by the house to-
day.
Washington, Jan. 2S-Pleading for
the establishment OF a children's bu-
reau in one of the big departments of
the federal government, promoters of
the welfare of children who have been
in conference here this week bore
down on congress yesterday. Activi-
ties were centered on the house COM
mittee on expenditures of the interior
department, to which had been refer
red the Parsons bill for the establish.
| ment of such a bureau in the interior
department.
Homer Folks, New York, chairman
of the conference; Judge Ben Lindsey
and Thomas F. Walsh. Colorado; Rep
lresentatives Bennett. New York; SAM
; uel McCune. New York; Judge Julian
| w. Mack, Chicago; Judge w. r. Pagan
Birmingham, Ala; Bernard Flexner,
Louisville, KY, and Mrs. Ellen Spen-
Ger Mussey, Washington, representing
the general federation of women's
clubs, addressed the committee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-28
Within an Hour After
Gomez Takes Charge
Americans Depart.
HOLIDAY AT HAVANA
Advent of Day Welcomed With
acknowledgements
Elaborate.

Havana, Jan. 2S.-A new era in Gu
ban independence dawned today when
the affairs of the island, which have
been administered by American Off
Gals for more than two years as a re-
suit of the revolution against former
President Palma in 1906, were for.
mally transferred to the newly elected
native executives.
Starts at Midnight.
The coming of this new day of Gu
ban liberty was signaled by a general
display of fireworks at midnight. The
streets of the city, which were bril-
liantly Illuminated and garlanded with
chains of incandescent bulbs, were
thronged until an early hour this morn
ing, and the carnival spirit everywhere
prevailed. The ceremonies of today
began almost with dawn, and they will
not end until long after nightfall.
Only Natives in Parade.
The inaugural parade, to which only
native troops, civil organizations and
rural guards participated, passed un-
der magnificent triumphal arch erect
ed in Monserrate square and was re-
viewed by President Gomez. General
Gomez took the oath of Office as pres
ident of the republic at noon.
Lose No Time In Leaving.
Within an hour thereafter Provis-
| army officers who served in an execu.
| tive capacity were bound out of the
harbor for home
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-28

claiming disqualification by reason of
anti-primary election acts. If Coon's
suit should succeed he would become
acting governor until Governor Cos.
groves return and chief executive in
event of the latter's death.
Cosgrove has been seriously i'll since
the primary election in September He
has been south 10 weeks. Illness has
reduced him from 100 pounds to 100
He has long cherished the ambition &c
be governor and has been a defeated
candidate before every republican con
vention for the last 20 years.
The politicians regarded his ambi
tion as a joke until Cosgrove went be
fore the people when a primary elec
tion was held the first time last fal
and defeated A. E. Mead, the incum
bent in Office, and Henry Mcbride VIII,
| was Mead's predecessor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-28
new ERA IN CUBAN LIBERTY:
PRESIDENT INAUCuRATED

Central by Mr.. Vanderbilt and his
friends. They say that Mr.. Hartman
will cooperate with Mr.. Vanderbilt in
the development of the New York Cen
trail system, that the alliance will be
friendly and that the Hartman infiu-
ence will never be allowed to over
shadow that of the Vanderbilts
Change Long Expected.
Mr.. Harriman's election to the direc-
torate of the New York Central has
been expected for some time, the re-
ports recently being that he would
also be made chairman of the board.
That report is not generally credited.
1t is known that the old board wanted
Mr.. Newman to serve as chairman af-
| ter his resignation as president, but he
declined on the ground that he did
| not want to be confined to active work
as much as that position would confine
| him.
While Mr.. Hartman goes on the
New York Central board as the repre-.
sentative of the Union Pacific, he will
probably be a great deal more. The
Union Pacific's financial reports show
that it owns $14,2S5,00O of New York
| Central stock. MIR. Hartman would
not be wanted on the board for that
alone, but it is felt that his tremen
dous energy, his vast railroad expert
ence and his important connection
with the railroad affairs of the coun
try will be of much value to the Van
derbilt senior line.
Undoubtedly he goes on the board
with the full consent of the Morgan
interests, which he fought bitterly
back in the days of the Northern Pa
cific panic. 1t is considered that the
Central has been vastly strengthened
by the recent changes in it's director
ate. active, practical railroad mer
taking the places of others who were
not considered of much service to the
|road.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-28
REACHES GOvERNORSHIP AFTER 20
YEARS, BUT IS NOW AN INVALID

Seattle. Wash, Jan. 2S.-Samuel G.
Cosgrove, elected governor of Wash
ington at the November elections. was
inaugurated yesterday. He should
have been inaugurated Jan. 13, but was
i'll in California and unable to come
home.
Governor Mead has held over. Mead
yesterdy turned the state government
over to Cosgrove and today Cosgrove
surrendered them to Lieutenant Gov
ernor M. E. Hay, who becomes acting
governor while the executive goes
back to California on an indefinite
leave of absence granted by the legis
lature yesterday afternoon to recuper
ate.
In the meantime former Lieutenant
Governor C. E. Coon has brought
mandamus proceedings to oust Hay