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The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02

r HE annual fall dinner of the Grid
! iron club, held the other night, was
made noteworthy by the presence of a
distinguished company of guests. An
extended program devoted entirely to
fun-making, made the night one long
to be remembered by the organization.
The company was one only possible
to bring together at the capital of the
nation. The president, vice-president,
president-elect, vice-president-elect,
presidential possibilities of the future.
senators and representatives almost
without number. an English lord, dip
lomats of this and other countries,
newspaper men whose names are
known far and wide, captains of
finance and industry, and men of af-
fairs generally were seated about the
gridiron-shaped table. Coming so soon
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
.LEvELINe TRACKS FOR RxlLs
The Working Of the Whitewash Car
A New Scientific Method.

Curiosity is often displayed by trav.
elers over the method employed IN
making mile after mile of trackage so
level that scarcely an undulation can
be felt as the whizzing train reels
off the laps. This levelness is main.
tanned by the "whitewash" car.
The "whitewash" car is an ordinary
vehicle fitted out with a sort of white
wash magazine. AS the cars run over
the rails at moderate gait the de-
veloped Gense Of the division officials
notes any inequalities, and at each
one valve is pressed, whereat a dash
Of whitewash falls on the tracks at the
points where later the working gangs
get busy to make things even.
This homely "whitewash" car is CIV
ing way rapidly, however, to a more
modern and scientific arrangement in
the way of handsome coach ele.
gantly fitted out with many comforts
and in which is to be found a delicate
instrument. This latter is 80 con-
structed that it registers all uneven
ness in the tracks on paper, which has
indicated on it the mileage and names
Of stations along the way, so that
when run is completed it will be
shown just where repairing needs to
be done. The indicating sheet is sent
to the proper department heads of the
company, and by them the work of
making the roadbed level is prose
cuted.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
Liable For The Levy.

Acknowledgement Stirling is in receipt
of letters from tax collectors indicating
that there are number of taxpayers
who are Withholding their taxes, which
should have been paid on the 18th of
December, on the strength of the sup
position that the sheriffs cannot collect
the 10 per cent damages incurred by
such delay, having an erroneous idea
that recent opinion issued by him had
the effect of relieving them from liza
bility.
The sheriff of any county has the
power and authority to levy on the
property of any one who may be delin-
quent or has failed to pay these taxes
assessed against him by the 18th of
December, though the 10 per cent is
collectable only when the sheriff makes
his levy, and if he does not levy he can
not collect the assessment, is according
to the reading of the statute by the at
torney-general.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget of State News Items Gathered BY O Special
Correspondent at Jackson
Tax on Insurance Companies.

T. NJ. Henry, insurance commissioner,
who attended the recent meeting of
life insurance presidents and insurance
commissioners held in New York, be-
| ieves the meeting will result in much
good 1t was the second one of the
| Kind ever held and was called to con-
| fer about taxation methods and kindred
subjects aud to ascertain if some plan
could not be evolved looking to more
uniformity of taxes as imposed by the
different States, ranging under present
methods from about one to eight and a
half per cent Commissioner Henry
showed that Mississippi taxed insur-
ance companies at about the same rate
as other property, being about one a
quarter per cent He did not think in
surance companies should ask for any
discrimination in their favor relative to
the amount of taxes paid, but thought
all property should be made to bear it's
Just share of the burdens, and that in
surance companies could consistently
ask for reduction of taxes in such
States as taxed them more than other
property, which was found to be the
case in many States. This, of course,
operates as discrimination against the
States having a low rate of taxation,
as in Mississippi, as every dollar paid
in taxes is taken from the treasures Of
the companies, decreasing by just that
amount the value of their policies This
view seemed to be entertained by the
majority of the convention, though
there was a respectable minority who
favored the abrogation of all percentage
taxes on premiums. Mississippi's rate
on premiums is two per cent for the
first years premium on life insurance
and one-tenth of one per cent on re-
newals, which is reasonable.
Mr. Henry, however, thought that the
privilege tax on insurance agents was
excessive. and that the same should be
greatly modified. He contended that
when an insurance company qualified
| for business in the State that the agent
was a necessary and essential part of
the machinery, and that there was no
more reason why they should be taxed
than should clerks in stores, lawyers
offices, drummers. ETC., that all kinds
of business should be placed on an
equality in this respect, and that only
nominal tax should be required Of
insurance agents, which would insure
their regularity and expose to the pub
lie the wildcats and irresponsible ones.
The whole question was finally re-
ferred to special committee which is
to confer with a like committee of the
American Life Insurance Convention, to
report to the president of the conven-
ton.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
Figuring on School Fund.

State Superintendent Powers is still
ment to the several counties and sep
arate school districts in the State in
advance of and in preparation fer ;he
January distribution, which is to be
made from the appropriation of $780,
900 for the year 1909. 1t is task
which is exacting and requires patience
and care in its working out. There has
been some delay occasioned by the tardy
transmission of their enrollmeDts by
some of the county superintendent,
upon which the per capita is figured
out to the respective counties, but there
are all in hand and the office work will
soon be closed up so far as this import
ant item is concerned. The law specl-
fies that the distribution shall be made
the first Monday in June, or as soon
thereafter as practicable, two-thirds to
be paid in January and the balance in
June, to be paid out by the auditors
warrant upon data supplied by the
State superintendent.
The paying out of the 1909 January
appropriation will require about $685.
333, and as taxes are coming in quite
freely and revenues from other sources
will likely be available there is no like
lihood of delay in the distribution, there
being practically one calendar month in
which to collect the funds necessary.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
IT NCLE IKE STEPHENSON. cham

n NCLE IKE STEPHENSON. cham
u pion buttonhole story teller of the
senate, has certainly been treated
shamefully since he came down here
last winter to take Mr.. Spooner's place
as one of Wisconsin's legislators. He
has the distinction of being the Oldest
man In the senate and at the same
time of being one Of the wealthiest,
and he is used to having his own way.
He had no sooner got here last De
cember than he discovered he had
been assigned a committee room over
In the Maltby building, on B street
northwest. This was too far from base
to suit Uncle Ike, so he made good
sized kick. and finally got himself as
signed to room on the senate ter
race, away down in the ground.
But great surprise was In store for
Uncle Ike when he returned this De
cember. He had no room at all. His
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
JACKSON.
Fight on Business Agency.

That there is going to be very
lively discussion in the annual conveu
tlon of the Mississippi division of the
Farmers Union, to be held here on Jan
uary II, is acknowledged by some OF
the officers of the organization, although
they decline to discuss the merits OF
the pending controversy, which will
come up in executive session.
According to current report, the storm
will break when the attempt is made to
abolish the State business agency that
has been operated in this city for a
period of nearly two years, and through
the medium of which many of the mem
bers of the farmers purchase their sup
plies direct from manufacturers OF
wholesalers.
There have been no charges of any
character concerning the manner Ill
which the business agency has been
conducted. 1t is generally conceded that
it has been operated in the best manner
possible under the circumstances, and
the chief reason why some members
want it abolished is that it has resulted
in spirit of antagonism manifested by
the business interests.
As there will be about five hundred
delegates in attendance at the annual
convention of the Farmers Union, the
discussion of this subject will doubtless
be very lively one, although it Will
take place behind closed doors.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
Rides on Ticket Of 1859.

A railroad ticket issued in 1859 was
rendered the conductor by pass
enger on train No. 4. which left
Pittsburg for the east at $3.50 o'clock
The ticket was issued by the Louis.
Vile & Lexington Railroad Company,
and read:
Good for one first-class passage be
tween Cincinnati, Ohio, and Washing.
ton. D. c." 1t was so worn with age,
however, that great difficulty was ex.
perienced in deciphering the full name
Of the railroad.
The conductor telegraphed to the su-
perintendent of passenger transporta,
tion at Philadelphia for instructions
and was advised to honor the ticket
Pittsburg Dispatch
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
Wind Gauue for Trains.

A singular device for the protection
Of railroad trains crossing a viaduct
exposed to heavy winds has recently
been employed at INVERSION, England.
It consists of a wind-gauge fixed at
The west end of the Levens viaduct.
When the wind pressure reaches so
pounds to the square foot, an electric
contract is made automatically, and
bells ring in the signal cabins on each
aide OF the Viaduct. Upon this all
trains are detained until the force Of
The wind abates. The interruption is
.elegraphed along the line. The danger
81 very high winds to trains on an ex-
posed bridge or viaduct was tragically
illustrated many years ago Ey the
amentable Tay bridge disaster in
Scotland.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
The Stop.

J. Hampton Moore, Philadelphia
member of the Waterways and Fores
try Preservation commission, was de.
scribing, on his return from Europe,
a wretched railroad in Brittany.
Il never imagined such slow trains
existed said Mr.. Moore. They are
certainly tedious to ride on. They
bore you dreadfully.
Cali sorts of stories-very likely
ones, too-are told about the
Breton trains. Thus it is said that one
day, when an express pulled up in the
middle of a dreary field of gray rocks
a passenger put his head out of the
window and shouted angrily to the
conductor:
"'Well, what have you stopped this
time for?'
Engineers dropped his cigarette.
sir was the reply"
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
Revenue Agent Claims $500, 900.

State Revenue Agent Writ Adams
handed the business men of Meridian a
Christmas present that they will hardly
appreciate in the shape of delinquent
solvent credit list aggregating about
$23, 100000. The claims are filed in be-
half of the. State, the city of Meridian
and the county of Lauderdale, and, in
case Mr.. Adams succeeds in collecting
taxes on the sum total Of the delin-
quent assessment, the aggregate will be
about 100000. Of this he will receive
the statutory commission of 20 Der cent
for his services.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
Parents Day in Public Schools.

Parents Day, a regular feature Of
each school term, was fttingly OBJ
served in the Jackson public schools
Wednesday. Supt. Bailey invited all
parents and friends of the pupils to
call at the variops buildings. Parents
Day enables parents to become person
ally acquainted with the character OF
work done in the schools, and induces
them to take closer personal interest
in educational matters. Specimens OF
the work done by the pupils in all
branches were laid out on the desks III
each room for inspection.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
Railroad Has Floating Elevator.

Promised about two years ago as q
small concession to the demand of the
grain trade of Philadelphia for a new
grain elevator to take the place of the
old Girard Point elevator A, which the
company tore down, the Pennsylvania
railroad has put in service a new float
ing grain elevator with a capacity for
handling 10000 bushels per hour.
These additional harbor facilities
have been greatly needed in transfer
ring grain from the grain elevators
at Girard Point and Washington ave-
nue. to line steamships which take on
cargo at their regular piers.
The two grain elevators of the Penn
sylvania railroad at Philadelphia
have an aggregate capacity of 1900
900 bushels. The Commercial Ex-
change, speaking for the grain trade
of the port, asked for new modern
elevator of 100000 bushels capacity,
provided with driers. This the COM
pany refused. When it limited to the
Philadelphia & Reading railroad, that
company, which has made a point of
promoting foreign commerce at Phila-
delphia, agreed to put in a drier at the
Port Richmond elevator, which has
100000 bushels capacity.
The new floating elevator is the
largest of it's kind in this harbor. 1t
is equipped with electric lights and
the highest grade Of machinery.
The towers are 20 feet above deck,
thus making it possible to rapidly load
any modern freight steamship. The
length over all is 981s feet and the
depth from the keel to the top of deck
is II feet
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
Wants Time Limit Suspended.

Superintendent Charles Marshall, OF
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
has written to the Railroad Commission,
calling attention to the inconvenience
and loss of time which the siX-mile an
hour limitation of schedule through in
corporated communities occasions to his
line He points to the fact that along
their line, from Waveland to Scranton,
there is almost a chain of Incorporated
towns, whose limits extend far into
the open woods, which are devoid OF
settlements or habitations, yet are
municipal limits in the langua the
law, and the railroad COMPANY der
the same liability as though DOT
and chain of the territory we KY
built up and populated, and m luce
speed accordingly.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
G. & rs Report.

The Mississippi Railroad Commission
has received the annual report os the
Gulf g. Ship Island Railroad Company
for the fiscal year, ending J~re 80,
showing operating revenue for the year
of $2,O66, ,327.64, against 81 ,4S5, ,g94. .1s
in 1907. Operating expenses are given
at $1,6s6, ,23s.74, against s1.9sA .o02 81
q year ago.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
Getting Educational Data.

The Mississippi department rca-
tion is endeavoring to secu pful
and actual information from tia
tive sources in the different of
the Union, covering the app. ions
and allowances for education, IN COM
mon school and collegiate, rate of taxa
tion, source of revenue, and other de-
tails This data is to be used in the
next annual report and will be sub
mittcd to the public as soon as the
State superintendent and his advisers
have collated from the information ex-
pected an intelligent epitome OF digest.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
saloonists Going to Louisiana.

Mississippi liquor dealers have en-
countered a rather serious impediment
in connection with their intention to
continue their business by simply NOV
ing into Louisiana towns and retaining
their Jug trade customers On account
of the new Louisiana saloon law, which
nroyides that saloon licenses shall be
granted only to bona fide residents of
that State, there appears to be but one
way in which the Mississippi dealers
can get into that State, and that will
be by using the name of some one else.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02

duced by the Great Central Railroad
of England. 1t has placed phOnO-
graphs in it's dining cars and it's pass
engers may now listen to the voices
of Melba, Tetrazzini, Caruso and many
of the other grand opera stars while
speeding to his or her destination.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
plea for Pardon of Husband.

GOV. Noel was subjected to trying
ordeal Thursday when Mrs. H. S.
Rourke, of Scranton, called at the execu-
five office and made fearful plea for
clemency in behalf of her husband, who
is now serving term in the peniten-
tiary for bank embezzlement. Rourke
was formerly cashier of the Bank of
Scranton, and, after hard legal fight,
he was convicted of the Irregularities
that caused the failure of the institu-
tion. The trial of the case attracted
considerable attention, especially in the
southern part of the State.
The Grenada sentinel., 1909-01-02
Railroad "Canned Music"

The railroads of this country might
we'll adopt for the entertainment Of
their travellers q new feature intro
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

went. They looked up every tree, but
no doll could they find.
The pansy proposed that they should
visit her friends, perhaps the doll had
gone there, so they went to see her doll
friends and there they were sitting
around a little table having tea and
chatting as happy as could be. So
Mary gathered her doll in her arms and
carried her home and then she went
to bed to dream Of the lost doll and
even forgot to thank the pansy and
her other friends.
EMILY BOLIN,
Highland school, grade 5, age 10.
This little party was soon hurrying
down the garden path with Mary in
the lead. Here they met Mr.. and Mrs.
Toad going out for an evening stroll
Have you seen Princess Victoria 2"
asked Mary.
Yes, / have" answered Mrs. Toad.
get some cabbage for supper l saw
TOwser hurrying toward the barn with
her in his mouth"
"Oh, naughty, naughty Towser! Per-
hapS he has torn her to pieces" said
Mary with a shudder.
They went to the barn and searched
and searched, but found no trace of her
Iney were almost ready to give her
up for lost when Mr.. Owl asked: Are
you hunting for Victorian"
YES" answered the four in one voice.
II saw her an hour or stwo ago lying
down near the spring house."
Let us hurry" proposed sweet Mig
nonette.
Lets do said Mary, and they start
ed in a run. Mary's big slippers were
a little unwieldy now. They had al
most reached the spring house when
Mary stumbled on something and fell
down.
She looked to see what she had STUN
bled over. 1t was Victoria-Princess
Victoria, as well as ever, save her
dress, which was slightly soiled.
Mary thanked her kind friends for
helping her search; and with Princess
Victoria clasped tightly in her arms,
Mary ran to bed and was soon in
dreamland. BERTHA MICHEL,
Santa Ana, age IA.
When Mary came out of the house
to search for her doll, Bruno, the big
dog, heard her and came out with her
Carl had seen the doll in the garden
when he came in from doing up his
work. He liked to tease the girls and
take their things and hide them He
said to himself when he saw the doll,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

thing came swiftly out of the hole and
came slowly down on the gentle
breeze to the ground, followed by two
more light objects. Then a muffied
crying was heard from within the hole.
"Oh-oh-oh! my poor, poor prin-
cess! Help her, somebody-help!''
"Why, Mary, what is the matter?
Why are you screaming so?" said
Mary's mother, who had just come in
to wake her up. She found Mary lying
on her back with Princess Victoria
tightly clasped in her arms.
When Mary told her mother her
dream her mother said it ought to be
a lesson to her. She said that if Carl
had not happened to come in through
the garden, from party, late last
night and seen the princess and
brought her in she surely would have
been lost
looking very happy, indeed, and told
her dream to all her little friends. But
she never forgot her lesson, and gave
Victoria the best of motherly care.
MARGUERITE CASE.
Gardena school, Gardena, BS grade;
age IA years.
After they had proposed hunting for
Princess Victoria they started, and
pISlly SOO1 luOY CdI1l6 10 d WOOU ana
here they stopped to rest, and here
came a lion out of the wood, and they
said to him, ''Mr. Lion. have you seen
a little doll coming along here?''
YES" said Mr.. Lion, Il saw her
coming along here about dark, and she
went up this way" He pointed in a
direction.
THANK you, ever So much,' said
Mary, and they went on their way.
BY and by they came to a little hut,
and they knocked at the door and a
little, tiny cat came to the door with
the kindest face.
Have you seen a little doll come
along this way?'' said Mary
Yes, 1 have; she was dressed in
blue, with a white skirt" said the cat,
land she went up this way"
So on they went, and they walked
and they walked. ''Oh!" said Mary,
here comes a wolff
Sure enough, here came a wolf
Mr.. Wolff said the pansy, Have
you seen a little doll come along
here?'
Yes, indeed" said the wolf. "She
went up this way"
So they want on, and they came to
a castle and there saw a little doll on
the porch.
"Oh, Princess Victoria" exclaimed
Mary. why did you run away?''
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

''NOw, 1 have a chance to hide it," So
he took it out of the buggy and took
and hid it in their playhouse. The
girls never left their things in their
playhouse for fear Of someone taking
them. Mary was looking every place
for her doll. She would say, "Oh, my
poor Princess Victoria, she is stolen.
Will 1 ever see her again? " She kept
saying this over and over. She tried
to explain her troubles to Bruno be-
tween her sObs. Bruno knew what she
meant so he began to search, too. No
one knew that Mary was out of the
house. Mary looked all over the gar
den and in the barn. Bruno happened
to run in their playhouse where Carl
had hid it. He caught the doll by the
dress and brought it out to her. Mary
cried with joy. "Oh, Bruno thank you
ever so much for finding it." She
hugged her doll so tight that it seemed
as though there would be nothing left
Of it. She went back to the house and
went to bed and slept peacefully till
the next morning. The next morning
she told all of her troubles to them.
She never did let her doll stray away
from her any more.
MURIEL BOGGESS,
Pomona, Central school, grade +,
age II.
Come this way, for perhaps she
wanted to see the Fountain said the
Haunting poppy.
They all turned their steps toward
the fountain, and Mary gave an excIa-
nation of delight when she saw the
beautiful sight, for the moon was
shining brightly on the silvery water
For a time she forgot her mission and
stood looking at her shadow in the
water.
Come, come, this will never do, the
poor princess must be found. or she
will wander away and get lost for
ever" said a bustling poppy, who
hated waste of time
Again they started off and looked
every place they could think of. Soon
they came upon two large butterflies
and asked them if they had seen Prin~
cess Victoria, and they replied that
they had seen a large owl come and
take her away, just a while ago, in his
claws to the hole in the old apple tree
over yonder They all skipped over to
the tree, joyful at the thought of max
ing Mary happy, but stopped-they
had forgotten that the tree was too
tall for even the tallest Of them. Now,
what can we do? If that old owl has
her. he will tear her to pieces before
we could ever stop him.
No sooner was this said than some