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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-10-11
The Travelling Man..

A gay and handsome travelling man
Lay on a bed of pain;
All hope had passed, his life ebbed fast,
He never would rise again.
Have you no sweetheart, fair and
true"
They whispered Ger his bed,
Whom you would tell a last farewell?"
The young man softly said:
There's Daisy, back in Burlington,
And Nellie, up in Blair;
There's Mile, down in Lincoln Town,
And Mary in St. Clair,
And in Des Moines there's Esther dear,
Whom | must surely see,
And Anna, too, at Waterloo;
Please bring them all to me-"
The watchers stared in wild surprise
And then they said once more:
Come, tell US, pray, without delay,
The girl whom you adore
The girl whom you have sworn to love
And bring both wealth and lame;
Your promised wife, your hope and life,
Quick! let US hear her name"
There's Maggie, up in Boone" he
And Mamie, at Monroe,
There's Violet, at Winterset,
And Maud, at old ST. Joe,
And Genevieve, at Davenport,
And Mabel, at st. Paul"
The young man sighed-"Ir's time
died,
I'm engaged to wed them ALL"
Denver Tribune.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-10-11
From Politician to Farmer,
From the New York Herald

People are tired of turmoil and strife,
caused by the professional place hunter
and politician, and they are turning to
the farmer to provide their needs, for
at last it is the tiller of the soil on
whom depends the prosperity of the
country.
The politicians and politics offer little
encouragement to the struggling mas
ses who are vitality interested in re-
claiming waste lands and otherwise adj
vancing the agricultural interests of
the country, and many thoughtful peo-
pie ale urging that more attention be
given to the farmer and less to the pol
~itician.
MI. Benjamin F. Yoakum, writing in
Leslie's Weekly, says that we have
quit the politician and taken up the
farmer, pointing to the fact that there
is abundant reason why this should be
done. He shows that in Germany
where the soil has had to be renewed
by scientific processes time and again,
the crops are from 40 to 100 per cent
more abundant than those in the Uni
ted States.
We need to pay more attention to
making a livelihood rather than devo-
ting our time and energy to frenzied
politics.
We need to reclaim our waste lands
and to make better the lands that are
now being cultivated.
Mr.. Yoakum, speaking for the farm
ing interests in a general way, says that
the farmer gets forty-six cents for his
products and the consumer pays one
dollar for them.
That there are %, 900, 900 acres OF
land in the Southern states of the Mis-
sissippi valley, worth about $500, 600,
900, which when drained will be worth
81, 900, 900, 900.
That 1t costs $55, 900 to make a IL.
inch gun, the money going to pay fol-
this gun being sufficient to reclaim a..
500 acres of land and provide homes fol-
500 people.
That to help cut down the big ex
pense of bad country roads to the farm.
ers, the government provides a little
over 500, 600 a year, and buys battle
ships for S12, 600, 900.
The enormous amount of money ex
pended by the government on unprofit
able and u~nproductive things, if ex
pended on the reclamation Of the lands
control of the waters, improvement O.
rivers and roads, and for the genera
u%pbuilding of the country, the agricul
tural interests would be enhanced to
degree that the benefit would be ines
Unable to all the people.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-10-11
A Picture of Mississippi

George Fitch in the San Francisco
Call paints the following picture of
Mississippi:
To reach Mississippi, leave Memphis
on the Yazoo Valley line and proceed
southwark until you hear Senator Var
daman discussing the negro question.
Mississippi is a medium sized state
with a sway back and a beautiful lace
work front produced by the Mississippi
river. which acts as a state line and is
about as stable in that capacity as a
bull snake. The state rests on a shelf
of Louisiana with one foot in salt wa
ter like Alabama, and is compose ed of
46. 900 square miles of rich, damp soil,
especially adapted to the production of
cotton, corn and darkies. Mississippi
has vast natural resources in the negro
line, and the Yazoo delta has barely
enough white men in it to hold the po-
iitical offices.
Mississippi has been a state for 95
years. 1t got a good start, but was
fought over and tramped over so much
in the civil war that it has been con
yalescing in a languid way ever since.
1t is n of our greatest rural commu-
mites, and cities are almost as scarce
in the state as polar bears. jackson
and Vicksburg, the largest cities in the
state, do not contain as many people
together as the polo grounds in New
York during a championship series, and
when a Mississlppian gets into a town
of 5000 he puts his money in his boots
and asks for a guide. The output OF
all the factories in Mississippi is not as
great as that of the factories in Peoria,
ILL.,, or Schenectady, N. Y, but one
AH,--f--t, ~ ~1artnttop n nrn11nn emf.
ficient cotton to keep a Massachusetts
wooden mill running for a month.
Mississippi is one of the most am
phibious states in the Union, living
above or below the river with equal
content. In the summer the state is
dry, and a team can be detected five
miles away by the clouds of desicated
real estate, but in the spring the river
m up and in a wet year the steam
boats work the rural mail routes over
half the state.
Mississippi has a fine University and
is famous for its production of United
States senator's. Seven native borr
Mississippians are in the senate at pres
emit, and enc a Mississippi mar
gets up in Congress and begins to yank
the tide of discussion this way and that,
the newspapers crowd out pure adver'
Using to make room for his remarks.
Private John Allen and John SHARP
Williams made being Mississippians
very prosperous business for many
years, and so has Harris Dickson, who
paints plantation life at 5 cents a word.
Mississippi has 1,750, 900 people, anc
would have more if the steamboats,
which pass by her could find more
places to land and the advertising thai
it gets didn't consist so largely of lynch.
ing news.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-10-11
From Commercial Appeal. J

r TOHl OOIIlIiIcICldi ARRcoi.)
! The specter that haunts millions OF
| upon their daily missions is old age.
Not old age for it's wrinkles and gray
| hairs, but old age for its poverty and
for its dependence.
A Chicago superintendent of an old
mems home gave out recently the start
ling figures:
"Only one mar in TO- 600 is self-sup-
porting at 70. In the United States
there are now !, 125. 900 former wage
earners IS and more dependent upon
public and private charity at a cost Of
1920, 900, 600. Moreover, there are 300,-
900 old men and women in homes whose
upkeep costs $50, 900, 900 annually.
''In these days of efficiency tests
when one must measure from 70 to 80
per cent of perfect service to hold his
own, industrial old age to many
who are mentally and physically able to
work."
If only one man in 10, 900 is self-sup-
porting at 70, think of the vast army
of helpless ones that must find shelter
and substance in the homes of relations
or in the places provided by charity.
For it is a safe proposition that out of
lndl ~, uOO luCIC VIII IOt NC IlOIc tIldl
one-tenth who are able to provide
against dependence. The world pays
small wages and demands big tolls for
the necessaries of life. There is rarely
a surplus for saving from the earnings
of the average workman. Not even
sufficient unto the day is the pay there
Of; the great lesson Of doing without is
learned over and over until it becomes
second nature.
But as long as there is a shelter to
call home and the wolf gets only partly
in the door, one may go on living with
a little light hope in the darkness. 1t
is the dread of a time when there is no
shelter, no door at which the wolf may
howl, that unnerves a man and makes
him dread to see his face changing and
his hair beginning to show the frost.
Old age that should be the rest time.
when it IS penniless and dependent, be-
comes the crucifixion days Of the heart.
Blessed is the nan or woman to whom
it is given to so provide for the future
that they may find stars shining in
life's twilight skies, and meet old age
with a smile and not a shudder.
When the Master said. Take no
thought for the things of the morrow"
He spoke a word of warning against a
misery boarding, not against a wise
frugality.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-10-11

That is an excellent saying of DR..
w. T. Grenfell's in his new book ION
Im~Hortality:'' ITO lie down at night
and feel that the money | had used and
lived on during the day some n else
worked for, would be to me simply in
tolerable.' DIR. Grenfell's sentiment is
one that all right-minded and thought
full men must share. The disgrace of a
grown man living on another's earn
ings, whether they come by inherit
ance, marriage, or '~'sponging' on
others, is a thing that society ought to
bring home to all the guilty. Such a
man is only a baby except that he
is without a baby's excuse for his de-
pendence. In fact, it would be well
for all such fellows-we use the term
''fellow' appropriately since worth
makes the man and want of it the fell
low"-it would be we'll if all such fell
lows, being babies indeed so far as eco
nomic worth is concerned, were re-
quired to wear bibs and long dresses
and carry rattles. And if such a law
were only passed, what beautiful par
AIDES we should have down the streets
of some of u Southern cities and
towns. The Progressive Farmer,
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-10-11
For the SOuth's UpbuiIding.
(From Manufacturers Record.

(FrOm dnuIaCCurer Record
Stuart A. Howard, Lynchburch rep
resentative of the Guarantee Trust &
Banking Co. of Atlanta, in a letter to
the Manufacturers Record under date
of August "a, wrote:
SIN February l was very much de-
lighted to receive an anniversary copy
of your valuable publication Thirty
Years of Southern Upbuilding,) and
have been very much interested in the
same. A few days ago, while in Will
mington, Del, l was discussing this is
sue with DR.. j. B. Pyle, 800 West-st.,
in Wilmington, and the doctor ex-
pressed a desire for a copy, being a
heavy investor in Southern securities.
| promised HIM l would do what | could
to get HIM a copy. Will you be kind
enough to send the doctor a copy to the
above address,"
Thirty Years Of Southern Upbuild-
ing to which Mr.. Howard refers, is
still in demand from all sections. Many
thousands of people have gained a
broader knowledge of the South thru
that issue than they had ever had. So
many are the requests received for it,
and so great has been its influence for
the good of the South, that we are in
clined to undertake another somewhat
similar publication, but to be as much
in advance of that as Thirty Years of
Southern Upbuilding was in advance of
anything ever published in behalf of
any section of this or any other land.
Do our subscribers want something
that will be far ahead of that publica.
ton? What say you?
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-10-11
A Toast to Mississippi.

Here's to old Mississippi, boys,
Our dear old mother state,
Whose women are so beautiful,
Whose men are brave and great.
Let's drink to Mississippi, boys,
And let the toast go round;
My hearts in Mississippi, boys,
No matter where I'm found.
Twas down in Mississippi, boys,
Where song birds sweetly sing,
met a little maiden, boys,
One lovely day in spring.
Down in Mississippi, boys,
Where trees are ever green,
Wooed the sweetest maiden, boys,
That you have ever seen.
Down in Mississippi, boys,
On the rivers ripping tide,
We launched our boat together, boys,
On life's great ocean wide.
And for years together, boys,
With Elias hand to guide,
I've dipped my oars with pleasure
And pulled against the tide.
So here's to old Mississippi, boys,
Heaven bless her dear old sod,
Where fathers bones are resting,
Where mother went to God.
Let's drink to Mississippi, boys,
And let the fluid flow,
My hearts in Mississippi, boys,
No matter where / 20.
e. D. Elliott, New Orleans.
Aug. l, 1912, his 62nd birthday.
Boys clothing at quit-business pri
ces at r. Preserves.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-10-11
Why the Dollar Counts

In this campaign the issues lie between the forces od
Representative Government and Popular Government.
In Representative Government only q part of the people
have influence = those with no political faith, who spend
fortunes IN any direction where their own ends are fur
thered for money.
In Popular Government all the people have influence,
because their executives and Legislators do not dare to
thwar the expressed will of the people.
Representative Government, as ever, this year is being
supported by the money Of the Interests. Itis being spent
lavishly to give the voters a wrong impression Of Wilson.
Popular Government this year. to win, must dependo on the
truth being told about Wilson. We must publish his record
and platform broadcast 90 that no one can controvert it.
Your 81, your 80. your IS. your $40 or go will count and
cunt to win if spent in this work.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-10-11
Time An Important Factor
How Your Money Will Be Spent

Woodrow Wilson, our standard bearer, has never had
the time or disposition to talk about himself.
He has never used spectacular methods to place himself
in the spotlight.
Hi greatest work has been done without ostentation. in
the most expeditions, digni6ed manner.
The great mass of voters do not know what a really
great man Wilson is. They do not know al he has done.
They do not understand I'll the features Of his platform.
We must tell them.
To educate this great nation Of voters, especially the
clear thinking Independent Democrats. Republicans and
Progressives who choose their leader on his merits, means
the expenditure of a vast amount of money.
We propose to use your dollars in just this way
judiciously, and without a penny frittered away for an un.
necessary item.
We know you have confidence we will do this thing-and
successfully.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-10-11
How to Contribute to the Wilson
Campaign Fund

Sign the Coupon In this corner and fiji in the amor
you give. Then attach your Money to this Coupon and mail n
today to the address given On the Coupon.
Issue en- checks. money orders and address ali con,
tributions to 6. r. Crane, Vice Chairman Flnsnc.
Committee Democratic National COMMITTEES, 900 ME-.
lgan Avenue, Chicago, Il.
Then write q letter to this newspaper giving your nam.
az a contributor and stating your reasons why you beleve
States. In this way you will be listed as a Wilson con-.
tributor. A Souvenir Receipt. handsomely Autographed,
well worth framing. will be sent to you. Your letter will
help the fight by encouraging your friends.
Do everything you can to hold up Wilson's hands in nj,
clean campaign for the people who do the work and 6pht.
ing Of the country.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-10-11
Prevents Distress
After Eating,

Two or three Digestit tablets after
eating will prevent OF quickly relieve
that full uncomfortable feeling-try it.
If it fails. your money will be refund
ed. Browns Digestit is a quick certain
relief and permanent remedy for all
stomach upsets-relieves indigestion
instantly. Little tablets, easy to swal-
low, absolutely harmless SOC.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-10-11
Woodrow Wilson Campaign Fund
LOYALTY COUPON

To {. 4. CRANE, VSos CAaismaa Finance Committee.
The Dsooesst3e Nadoasl Committee. 900 Michigan Avspua
Chicago lnlnoia
As q believer in the progressive ideals Of government. repre-
scented In the candidacy of Woodrow Wilson for President OF the
United States. and to the end that he may take the Office free.
handed. untrarnmeied. and obligated to none but the people Of the
country. I wish to contribute through you the sum of s.........,,
toward the expenses of Gov. Wilson's campaign.
-
Ndm6..
Address.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-10-11
Will You Spend ONE DOLLAR
to Elect Wilson President?

How deep is your conviction that thi'
clean hands?
How much are you in favor Of a cles
the line to the very smallest Offices in your !
The Democratic National Committee
g~ressive voter is willing to spend a dollar
And that thousands are anxious to C
amounts of 50, IS, $40 and $40.
To such we make our appeal. To sucl
Time An Important Factor
This is another case where time is money.
The enemy have their funds supplied instantly by
the Interests.
We have only a few days and contributions to be efec-
tive must be received at once.
There is no question Of the money Of the People being
able to defeat the money of the Trusts.
Because it is greater even in volume and will be used in
Straightforward telling ways.
But to be effective it must be received and used within
the next few days.
Quick action is absolutely necessary. Let US have your
contribution or the list you make up from your friends and
eo-workers today If possible, tomorrow sure.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-10-11
Head a List For the Fund

If you know several Wilson voters, or work ;,.
where there are Wilson voters. take up a subscrip,iio : P} ses
al1 Of them. from
Place your name and the amount Of your suhsc,;,,,..
the top of the list and get the others to join you. p'0o 1"
Mention the name Of this paper on your list.
Then mail the list and contributions to C.. R. Crars W..
Chairman Finance Committee, Democratic National c fse
mittee. 300 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Iii. N''"'' @op'
This is the most helpful work you, as an ipdiv;dr,, a..
DO for clean next to casting your BALD, ~
Wilson and Marshall on November 9Th. "" !"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-10-11

Boys clothing at quit-business pri-
ces at R. Preserves.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-03
SEA BREEzE ISLAND.

Sea Breeze Island. open for the en- tire season. will continue to present the best of amusement attractions available throughout the entire sum- mer. As a. feature designed to appeal to Bridseporters particularly. the Wheeler & Wilson band will continue with It's matinee and evening concerts Thousands gathered about the stand yesterday afternoon and last evening and applauded the excellent programs arranged by Leader Lynch.
 Frank A. Robbins Wild West and Indian Congress, replete with sensa- tional and spectacular features. will continue with it's realistic reproduc- broncho busting, lariat throwing, wo- men riders contests. the great stage robbery, Indian village, war dances, and other interesting and instructive numbers.
 High class vaudeville and motion pictures will continue at the Casino theatre. The acts secured for this week include Duke Darling, the man with the green gloves, whose mono to be irresistibly funny; Whalen and West. original singers and dancers; Herkann and Rice. with ''congenial bump; Phil Jean Bernard, who tells Southern stories and sings Southern songs; Cleary and Tracy, "a little of everything; Pike and Callan, the dancing bugs; Stella Stratford, in pie torial ballads, and the greatest and best motion pictures of the European and American film markets
 Take the Seaview avenue cars Or the Sea Breeze boats from the Sea Breeze dock in Stratford avenue or the Henry street dock.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-03
FIERCE MUSKALLONGE NOW
 ATTRACTS THE ANGLERS

Lucky is that angler who lives along the Great Lakes, the Niagara, or St. Lawrence rivers, or other waters in Canada and the States of New. York, Wisconsin and Minnesota where the fierce muskallonge abounds, or who has the time and the price to visit this region during the next few weeks According to his friends-if he can be called a friend whose ambition is to pull him out of his native element the muskallonge is the gamest of all fish, and those who have had an exciting session with a full size mus kalonge are likely to agree. June is the month of all months for going after this mammoth of the pike spe- cies. for then he is at his best, fresh and vigorous and able to put up a scrap that would make the blood pound through the veins of the most blase of fishermen. Only a salmon can compare with a muskallonge as a fighter. and. at his June best. the latter is entitled to the shade. A salmon will often lie stu for hours, trying the patience even of an angl- Ter, but the big pike is on the go from the second he feels the hook and there is no rest for his captor until one or the other has been declar-
 
 kallonge, one sportsman truly re- marks: "He will take 75 feet of line without check, and the man who has that leaping, darting, plung ing. curvetting, glistening bulk of dew iltry at the end of that length of slender line has no time to think of home, mother, wife, best girl or the price of stocks" Still another angler, who has experienced the delights of a bout with such a fierce denizen of the rivers and lakes, remarks: 'The grapple between human being sound in wind and science and mus kallonge informed with the temper of Satan is something to write epics about The muskallonge is at home only in cool and deep lakes or clear and swift streams. which makes him the aristocrat of the pike family, as his cousins and uncles and aunts de- light to wallow in mud. No other brand of fish in the waters he haunts dares tackle muskallonge, having learned discretion from dear exper- fence. and the muskallonge is the foe of all-a veritable tiger among the fresh water fish.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-03
LOAN SHARK DRIVEN OUT
Hartford Prosecutor Advises PhiIsdel-
 phis Mayor to Keep After Tolman.

Philadelphia, June sMayor Blank enburg has received letter from Hush IL. Alcorn. States Attorney of Hart16rd. Conn. announcing that D. Fl. Tolman. who is wanted by the polies of this city for operating 3 loan-shark agency. was driven from 1. that Gta4e. Tolman operated in Hart for0, n he did in this city, through woman aGent She was arrested ana roloa1od under a bond of $8.O00 which wes forfeited and which TolA man paid. Tollowine Is the Connec- 7 ticuf attorney's letter:
 I have just noticed in the newspa- ,poro that the authorities in your city are afters ID. H. Tolman. the loan shark You may be interested to lnoW that he has been driven out of Connecticut under Chapter 233 of the Public Acts of -Connecticut of 1907.
 prosecuted him twice in the Su- the Supreme Court of Errors of the Court of the United states He was beaten each fime. and In the last caoe, which was affirmed by the Su- pr6no Court oe the Omitted States, his agent. . woman. was fined @6,o00 and Ioenfenced to jail for sixty days She WaD releasod on a bond of eS,0OO, and thin bond was forfeited and paid by Todxnan. . We are effectua1ly rid of him. and you will be equally successful if you keep after him hs we dld here.
 Tolman is reported to live In Brook