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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
How Nick Longworth Earned a Dollar

the town, but as | had to make an
early start, | preferred the hotel
rather than trouble my friends with
an early breakfast.
Il was sitting in the parlor about
midnight, talking over old times with
the proprietor. Just as | was ready
to retire an automobile stopped IN
front, and a couple of men much the
worse for wear came in. They bought
wine freely. One of them demanded
that the piano be played.
champagne buyers are rare birds
at that hotel, and the proprietor did
not want to lost his good customers.
He turned to me. Nick he said, just
peat the box a few minutes. They'll
never know who you are. | played
ragtime, grand opera and love songs
while the men bought more wine. AS
they were about to go n of them
came over to me with his wallet in his
hand.
Here, profess he said, you're the
goods as a piano player. Buy a little
breSent for yourself
He handed me a dollar bill. | have
it framed at home as a certificate OF
any ability as a workingman."
' 1t is we'll known that Nicholas can
beat the box" in pretty creditable
shane
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
Live Man Has a Funeral "Cortyzha"

occasion for it. Il want three KEEPS.
Let EN- prophesy about me-"
The cabman scampered his horse
down the avenue till he found two OF
his like. All three trotted their horses
back to where the generous n was
waiting. The generous n eyed the
euuipages sadly as they drew up to
the curb. The first hackman de-
scended and opened the door of his
vehicle.
'eWhere are your friends, sir?" he
politely inquired.
"Friends?" the customer repeated.
81 have no friends, I'm going to use
all these wagons myself. This is a
cortyzha my boy, a cortyzha. Pro-
ceed."
And in single file the three cabs
proceeded to the Blank apartment
house. The generous one paid the
bill of all three cabmen. He was al
most happy to think that he had
pulled off something while alive that,
according to his friends, he would not
get when he was dead, il he kept his
present pace.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
Burkett Bill Would Abolish Something

not constitutional. They're for the
bill, but against its enactment on con-
s%titutional grounds
Had you thought of abolishing. the
constitution as a means of getting rid
of the difficulty"
Burkett looked .savagely down the
corridor towards the rooms which the
committee of constitutional sharps
meet in. .st
81 have thought mighty seriously
that it. would, be a good thing to abol-
ish the constitutional layers ne
Senator Burton gets many an odd
appeal for information. This week he
received the following letter from a
law student:
Dear Congressman: Will you kind
ly send me some literature on the
central bank scheme. How can a c. B.
be kept from political caprice? Is
the United States too vast for a c. b.?
If not, how can the supporter of such
a view be answered."
The answer which H. B. Fuller, Mr..
B~urton's secretary sent, was filled
with all. the courtesy that our Ian
guage knows, but the law student will
AVE to dig up his G. B. information
himself,
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04

NJ ASHINGTON.-"Say, I'll have to
w drop this brand of smoking. 1t
nearly burns the tongue off me.
What's the matter with it?" said the
smoker to a Washington to%bacconist.
Its been made up with a little bit
too much molasses," said the tobacco
mist. The tobacco intended for win
ter sale always has a little more mo-
lasses in it than summer tobacco.
They've several reasons for add
ing molasses to tobacco" he contin-
ued, coming back to the end of the
counter. I'm the first place, if the
leaf wasn't made just the least bit
sticky it would be apt to crumble to
a very fine powder that would choke
up your pipe, especially in winter,
when tobacco gets extremely dry.
so when they add a little molasses
to the cut leaf they make a thin,
sticky film over it. This keeps the to-
bacco in good shape and the molasses
locks the nicotine in the body If the
leaf as we'll.
nicotine. you know, will evaporate
and be lost if the tobacco is exposed
long enough. Then when the nicotine
is gone you might as we'll smoke the
cabbage leaf the comic papers talk
about so much about for all the salts
faction You get.
Plug tobacco is simply leaf glued
together with mOlasses and then
pressed into a block. If you'll take
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
THE POWER BEHIND
POINT THAT VOTERS WOULD LIKE
TO UNDERSTAND.
What Is the Hidden Influence That
Enables A~ldrichism to Secure
Legislation So inimical to
the Public Good.

Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich's attitude
In the United States senate is well
known. His consistent advocacy Of
high protection to the point of exclud-
ing all imports Is his boast. His con
tinuous and valiant service for the
monopolies of money and manufac-
lures is indisputed.
But the great political mystery Of
the United States Is the unseen power
that forces other senators and repre-
sentatives to do Aldrich's bidding in
stead Of the bidding of their constit-
uents. to accept his judgment instead
of their own, to vote as he dictates
and not according to the promptings
Of their individual consciences.
What Is behind Aldrichism?
This question must Le answered to
the satisfaction Of western voters, If
the Republican party expects to appeal
with success for their support in the
congressional election.
This is the great What-is-it of Amer
lean politics. In the house of repre-
sentatives and in the senate this hid
den influence is continually exerted
to secure legislation which is not ap-
proved by the great mass of American
people. By virtue Of some occult and
imperceptible qualification it per-
meates even the White House.
Roosevelt, free trader of 1884, occu-
pies the White House for seven years
without the least endeavor to reduce
the tariff. Taft, advocate of tariff re-
duction in his campaign for western
votes, signed the Aldrich bill, which
Increased, and did not reduce the tar
if burden.
The great mystery of American poll
tics is hidden somewhere behind all
these things. One Of these days the
public will find a short cut to the
secret
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
Only 70 Per Cent.

Seventy per cent of the through
rate-that is what Secretary Of War
Dickinson Is reported to have con.
tracted to pay the Pacific Mail Steam
ship company ION freight transported
In either direction between the At
lantic and Pacific coasts via the 18TH
mus Of Panama"
The government owns and operates
the steamship line on the Atlantic.
1t owns and operates the Panama rail-
road. And instead of completing the
chain of transportation by establishing
a line of it's W on the Pacific, the
government will pay 70 per cent of the
through rate to a connection VIII h is
n of the tools whereby extortionate
transcontinental freight charges are
maintained.
What has converted Illinois Central
Dickinson into such a rabid corpora
ton batter? How. did he resist the
pressure to give the Pacific Mail 90
per cent? Write his name in rubies.
Los Angeles Express.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04

G ENATOR BURKETT of Nebraska
- has a bill pending in the senate
judiciary committee to prohibit the
use of telegraph lines for interstate
transmission of news to be used for
gambling purposes-reports of races,
especially. =.
There was a hearing on the meas
ure recently and sentiment in its IA
vor was developed.
"Everybody's in favor of the bill"
said Burkett. They all conceded it's
a good bill and ought to be passed..
When do you expect to get it out
of committee?'
Cant tell anything about it,"
But aren't they for it?"
Every n OF EN-"
why don't they report it then?"
We'll, you see," the senator ex-
planned, they say it's all right and
ought to pass, but they're afraid it's
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
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Molasses Makes Tobacco Burn Tongue

a plug of smoking and put 1t in a
damp place outside somewhere and
then come back after a week or two
to look at it you'll see a pile of square
cut leaves, perhaps five or six inches
high. This is because the tobacco will
have lost the molasses glue, not from
the molasses having been washed off
the leaf, but from it's having ferment-
ed into vinegar.
THE film of molasses keeps the
leaf moist and pliable. This is be-
cause of the sugar crystals in it. II
you've ever noticed salt in wet wealth
er you'll often have seen how it gath
cred the wet. The sugar crystals act
exactly like the crystals of salt, but
to a less degree.
when you fellows that smoke pipes
say that tobacco burns your tongue
you're away off. The tobacco hasn't
a thing to do with it. And your tongue
isn't being burnt, it's being scalded."
From the moisture in the tObacco?'
asked the customer.
Partly" said the tobacconist, "but
mostly from moisture you'd not think
was in the tobacco. There's a great
deal of moisture in the little sugar
crystals over and above what you'd
expect they might collect from the
air.
when you melt this sugar in your
pipe each crystal dissolves first in a
little pool of water, and makes ma
terial for steam, in addition to the
free water in the tobacco that you
can feel with your fingers.
This hot steam makes a regular
steam heating system between the
bowl of your pipe and your tongue,
and while you think your tongue is
being burnt you're actually getting
your tongue parbOiled."
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04

THERE is a man in Washington who
/ at some stage of his drinking be-
comes very melancholy. The joys OF
life go hence then. He shuns his COM
panions, be they never so boon. His
thoughts-his black thoughts-suffice.
He does odd things. One night he had
been at a club with a number of
friends. Along about 'steenth drink
time he rose, donned his overcoat and
left. His friends, knowing his moods,
did not seek to detain him. He went
over ON Pennsylvania avenue.
"Keb, sir? Carriage?"'s asked on of
the many who pilot seagoing hacks
over the pavement.
eyes. / want a keb, sir, a carriage"
said the bibulous one, with indigna-
tion in his tone, though there was no
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
Country with the Minority.

SThere has been practically no oppo.
sition party in national politics in re-
cen years. This is one of the reasons
that congress has failed to meet the
necessities of the tariff and trust sit.
-uations. as they have developed. The
action of the Republican aucus in
congress In denying to the Democracy
the right to name its own caucus
members of the Ballinger. investiga-
ting committee is in effect an effort
still further to weaken the opposition.
Fortunately, the reaction is likely to
add numbers and strength to the op-
position. Minorities may temporarily
be wiped out by force, but majorities
have no control over human nature.
and mankind naturally likes fair play
and a fair chance for the under dog.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
Should Not Waste Morley.

Congressman MIXERS bill't0 abolish
the Indian warehouses, in.~.tAe inter.
ests of economy, Is only a beginning
on what. should be done by the gov
eminent. There are many useless
pension agencies throughout the coun-
try. There are useless land Offices,
useless navy yards and Naval stations.
and worse than useless revenue offices.
All such at which the expense of main
'tenance is out of proportion to~tHe
business dong, should be abolished. 1T
krabsurd to spend millions that serve
no purpose except to give jobs to a
few political appointees.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
Plan Return Of Roosevelt.

There is a growing belief that. Hitch
cock and Wickersham are advising the
president to wipe out every vestige
of the Roosevelt administration. That
belief has been accompanied by a
widespread and by 40 means inaudible
demand fer the return of Roosevelt"
The passing of Pipchpt markxthe vio-
lent departure of the last of the men
upon whom Roosevelt placed his chief
reliance and who were the personif-
cation of his policies. If it be a fact
that Pinchpt planned to- force the
presidents hand. that fact IN no wise
changes the political situation.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
WORTH KNOWING.
Simple Remedy That Anyone Can Pre-
pare at Home. i

Most people are more or less SUBJ
ject (" coughs and colds. A simple
remedy that will break up a cold
quickly and cure any cough that Is
durable is made by mixing two ounces
of Glycerine, a half-ounce Of Virgin
Oil OF Pine compound pure and eight
ounces of pure Whisky. You can get
these in any good drug store and cas-.
lily mix them in a large bottle. The
mixture Is highly recommended by
the Leach Chemical Co. Of Cincinnati,
who prepare the genuine Virgin Oil OF
Pine compound pure for dispensing.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
Democratic Opportunity.

Senator Cullom sizes up the stu
alton in Illinois about right when he
says that the time is at hand for the
Republicans over there to quit fuss
ing among ourselves" ant get into
shape to 'apply all our fighting ener-
gies to the Democrats" While the
DEMOCRATS of Illinois have been toll
erably quiet for a few years they have
only been getting well rested for a
tussle that will let both Republican
machines know there is something
doing.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
"PoWerfuI Influences"

The truth seems to- BE that Mr..
Hitchcock had. Mr.. R~oosevelt's own
part in the business in mind when he
wrote that. letter Of November. 80.
1906, putting on record this statement
of the powerful influences" that had
been exerted to weaken the hands of
the law. We believe there is no other
similar record of a--charge like this
having been brought by a cabinet Of
.ficer against any president Of the
United States.-Hartford Times.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
Limit Of CreduIity.

The president believes that the
Payne tariff Is the best tariff yer en-
acted; which recalls the old story Of
the man who approached Sydney
Smith with the remark: "Mr. Robin
son, l believe" Sir" was the reply,
IF you believe that you will believe
anything Providence Journal.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
CLIP THIS U

Renowned Doctors Prescription for
Rheumatism and Backache.
"One ounce Syrup Sarsaparilla com
pound; one ounce TOris compound:
Add these to a half pint of good whis-
key: Take a tablespoonful before each
meal and at bed time; Shake the bot
tie before using each time" Any drug
gist has these ingredients in stock OF
will quickly get them from his whole
sale house. This was published previ-
ously and hundreds here have been
cured by it.. Good results show after
the first few doses. This also acts as
a system builder, eventually restoring
strength and vitality.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
Game Is Hard to Beat.

The 10000 Ohio families who have
pledged themselves to abstain from
eating meat must bear In mind that
by b%oycotting beef they will help to
make hides scarcer and dearer, and
thus raise the price of shoes, accord
ing to the logic of shoe manufacturers.
And if they cease to eat mutton will
they not pay more for wooden goods
in the end? The game Of squeezing
the consumer has many variations.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
Interested? Certainly.

believing that yos are interested
in the enactment of a ship subsidy
law" begins a communication re-
ceived by the Courier-Journal from the
press bureau of the Washington lob
by. We interrupt to insist that the
Courier-Journal is opposed to hose
thieves and all other kinds Of thieves.
Louisville Courier,Journa1.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04

A Pennsylvania brakeman lost a
portion of his brain without suffering
any apparent i'll effects. He should be
specially well qualified now to serve
as a Cannon congressman.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
Luck.

Does you believe it's lucky to see
de new moon over yoh right Shout
der?"
"Sho I does" replied MI. Erastus
Pinkney. Desc here stormy days
you's lucky to see any kind of a moon
anyway."-Washington Star.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04

The Taft administration is now
fully and irrevocably committed to the
support of Cannonism and Aldrichism,
and must stand or fall with them.
Which it will be there can be little
doubt.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04

President Taft's charter and rail-
road suggestions may be all right. but
they are too satisfactory to Senator
Aldrich to inspire spontaneous con
fidence out west.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04

Six nations have now formally Sc
cured a minimum tariff from the
United States. Isn't it about time@that
1t should give itself a minimum in
stead of a maximum?
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04

Wall street concluded to accent
smilingly the Taft message. on rail-
roads and trusts, believing that the
gum-shoeing magnates will destroy it
piece by piece in the senate.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04

Not only are my policies" flicker
ing, but my pets" ARE being taught
what's what in a most impressive
manner.-Houston Post.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04

II 1t Is true, as reported, that Mr..
Tart Is getting tired of the way con
gress is acting it comes pretty near
making it unanimous.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04

Tomorrow A. M. too late. Take
a CASCARET at bed time; &c.
up m the morning feeling fine and
dandy No need for sickness
from oUer-edfing and drink
ing. They surely work while you
sleep and help nature help you.
Millions take Them and keep well
cAScARETS roc q box for q weeks
treatment, all drugEists. Biggest seller
: In the world. Million boxes . month.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
lmnortant 70
= The Modern PoIenius.

The Modern P%olenius.
PAY your debts promptly, MY soh::'
"All right, dad" '.~2rr:: So
Then, when Opportunity knocks you.
won't be afraid to go to the door"
tLxA~ - IL
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04

For Headache Try. Hicks capudine
Nervous troubles. the aches. arstspe4daN'
relieved by Capudihe:. It's L~iquid-pleas-
ant to ~take-Effects immediately. To- 70
;and'5O at Drug ISt6res.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04

He who gives better homes, better
books. better 'toofss.' a, 'fairer outlook
and.a better hope, him witt We crown
with laurels.-Emerson. 80. $3.50!
The Red Cloud chief., 1910-08-25

and mother-ofpearl and fish are also of some com.
is situated between two hills and looks out to sea.
panying this article.
O00 and consists of several tribes of Arab origin,
merous
Muscat was taken by the Portuguese in 1903
and remained In their hands until the middle of
the seventeenth century, when the Arabs OF the
Interior secured possession of It, The imams or
sultans of Muscat afterwards made extensive con.
quests In eastern Africa. including Zanzibar, Nom.
bas and Quiloa. Oman was at the climax OF its
power and commercial prosperity in the first half
or the nineteenth century, when the authority OF
the imams or sutans extended over the Persian
territories OF l.arlstan and Mogstan the islands OF
Bender Abbas part Of the coast Of Baluchisan, and
the long strip Of African coastland including Fan.
2ibar, Mombasa and Quiloa together with the
island OF Socotra. The present ruling family orlgi
mated IN Yemen and first established In the
imamate In the person of Ahmed ibn Said in l74l
The rise OF the Wahab power In Nedjed resulted
In considerable loss OF territory In 1856 on the
death OF Sultan Said, his possessions were divided
between his two sons. one receiving the African
territories and the other Muscat with the Persian
possessions These last lost In 1875. Sultan
Thuwany, who succeeded in Muscat, was assassi.
mated In 1866 by his Selm, who reigned but a
short time, and was driven out by his uncle Seyyid
Feisal ibn Turk. The power of the imam Is exer
cised very little beyond the capital, Muscat the
name OF which Is therefore probably better known
In popular usage than that OF the whole state.
The Red Cloud chief., 1910-08-25
Where Millions Are Entombed.

The catacombs at Rome were the
burial places Of the early Christians.
They are about $50 miles In extent and
are said to have contained 100000
bodies. During the prosecutions OF the
Christians under Nero and other Ro.
man emperors the catacombs were
used for hiding places. Under Diocle-
tian the catacombs were crowded with
those for whom there was no safety
In the face OF the day. The art OF the
catacombs is unique and most inter
estlng. Simple designs are etched in
the slabs which seal the tombs. Now
and then are small chapels whose
paintings are to be found. All are
Bible illustrations, so that the cata-
combs may be said to be a pictorial
Bible In effect-The Christian Herald.
The Red Cloud chief., 1910-08-25

every clear night, and every morning
before ten O'Clock the mean solar clock
Is checked from II. The latter is
housed below the timeball on the
tower which dominates the hill and Is
In magnetic connection with the clock
In the boundary wall, which has fur.
nished the correct time to countless
visitors to the hill since it was placed
there in 1852.
To this galvano-magnetic clock In
the wall comes every Monday a WON.
an who makes $2,500 year out Of the
queercst occupation In England. She
sells the time to London watchmakers.
Her name Is Miss Belleville OF
Maidenhead Eighty years ago the
then astronomer royal suggested to
her father that II he took the correct.
ed time on certified chronometer
every week he could no doubt find nu.
merous clients. So he bought ia.
nous watch made for the duke of Es-
sex, one OF the sons of George ILL.,,
and soon worked up business with
It. When he died his widow sold the
time till she reached the age OF
eighty-one, and then she handed the
business over to her daughter.
When Miss Belleyille visits Green.
wich OF the beginning of every week
her chronometer is corrected and she
is given an official certificate. From
that her so customers correct theiI
watches and clocks.
The Red Cloud chief., 1910-08-25
Siun ~ Recovery,

"lr when the devil is sick a monk
he will be-" said Rose Stahl sagely.
then the devil gets well In double
quick time. Witness that young 'dlvil
with the ladies' my kid cousin. Last
winter he was i'll, so Ill he didn't have
any sense of humor left nor any sense
either. | was staying at the same ho-
tel. and when | went In To look after
him he virtuously remarked that his
room was no place for Chorus Lady
and promptly shoocd me out. CA few
years ago | spanked that KIDD Then
he got scared and sent for n doctor
and the doctor sent for a trained
nurse. For several days | got bulle.
tins OF his progress from the cham
bermaid. The fourth morning she set
my mind completely at rest.
Sure. ma'am,' said Maggie, AN I
think he do be gettin' along very we'll
The nurse was sittin' on his lap this
nornln'l'"