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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-11-28

TOWN.
Helps
MIGHT SERVE AS A MODEL
Beautiful Rural Home, Properly LaIe
Out and Kept Up, Nearly A.
preached the Ideal.

"A short time ago the writer rode
past a rural home that certainly
should satisfy any earthly being for Q
place Of residence.
4 hundred feet highway frontage
had been reserved In the middle Of an
orchard Of 20 acres about square The
house stood about one hundred fee.
back. the whole plat was ipclosed by
. neat Wrench fence covered with
roses and various climber. 4 few
clumps Of shrubs were arranged Just
inside the gateway along front and
side fence and about the foundations
Of the house. Very few trees were In
the foreground and these few weN
kept out of the lawn center, but on
either side Of the house yet not close
to the building were nanked quite Q
number. thinly planted in front but
more thickly about rear Of house 20
one could not look beyond q point op-
posite the rear corner Of the house. In
the front wa q blue grass lawn. fair
" we'll kept and occasionally moved,
though quite long at the time Of obser
vation The lawn did not look az
though It had teen "barbered" for q
month nor as though 1t proved . prob
lem = keep It up except with great
labor. Two or three vines lightly
draped the house. q few flowers were
to be seen In ali parts and in some
spots q bright mass spoke Of towering
ANIMALS OIL perennials. All was neat
and clean yet did not look ~ though
raked and swept every day or even
every week. The whole place harmon.
lied with the spirit Of nature and
rurality. where every prospect pleases
and not even man Is vile. The home
and all surrounding looked 30 suf1.
Client, SO satifying. 70 rural, without q
Of the arti1cialty found In
cities or suburban districts. that It
called wildly to mind the happy pas
toral Genes Of old suggested by Gold.
smiths couplet:
"A time there was, ere England's
griefs began,
When every rood Of ground main
tanned its man."
1t costs but little to so arrange the
home grounds. its upkeep calls for but
little Of time or money, yet such homes
are the country's strongest asset.
speaking volumes for the prosperity
and happiness Of the rural residents.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-09-19
BABY WAS PEEVED

During the sermon at a certain
church baby began to cry, and it's
mother Immediately picked it up and
began to carry it towards the door.
STOP" the minister exclaimed.
Don't go away. The baby is not dis
turbing me-"
The mother continued her way to
the door with the very audible re-
mark
ooh, he amt, amt he? But you're
a-disturbin' of himw
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-09-19


Racine and Milwaukee av.
James Ryan, 10, TT N. Cicero av.,
robbed of $25 while on way to store.
Policeman John CarmichaIe, 817 S.
Francisco av., accidentally shot him
self. Cleaning gun.
The CircoIo Giordano Bruno will
commemorate their 18th September
by concert and dance at Hull House,
Sept. 20. -
Fire started in office building, 354
N. Dearborn ST., spread to adjoining
buildings $4,000 loss.
Thos. cianci electrocuted at Pub
lie Service Company plant, Blue Is
land, Ill.
Mrs. Alice Davis Sing held to grand
jury for murder of her husband,
Charles Sing. >.
Thieves got SITS worth of jeweIry
from home of Mrs. Anna G. Allen,
1870 Magnolia av.
Police of. Northwest Side searching
for five missing persons.
Oma Thompson, II, 2206 Cleveland
av., run over by wagon at Washing
ton st. and Wabash av.
chas. Lave, 1854 Cornell ST., arrest
ed when he was caught in auto that
had been stolen from w. H. Nelles,
948 Milwaukee av.
Daniel Cohen, Cicero, fined $40 be-
cause wife laughed at policeman
who arrested Cohen for auto speed
ing.
Arthur Boss fined $50 for killing
deer which had escaped from Louie
Swift's private grounds in Lake
Forest.
Louis DeIento, 1922 Newberry av.,
shot in wrist and Saveno SantengeI,
S41 Forquer ST., shot in abdomen dur
ing revolver duel. Two others ar
rested.
Six boys escaped from Juvenile
Home detention bus while returning
from swim in Douglas Park.
John KroczoIaski, Az w. Erie ST.,
annea1ed tn nO1icn tn nrOtocf him
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-09-19

|WELL, WHY DON'T THEY REMAIN
IN THEIR OWN SEX?
Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. 19.-De-
tectives Wilson and Morley, who DON
ned tight-itting slit skirts and sailed
forth in search ofnegro purse snatch
ers who have been terrifying women,
returned to headquarters empty
handed, bruised and cursing. A darby
robber, who distanced the female
detectives" in foot race and escap-
ed, is thought to be victim of laugh
ing commissions. !.
Wilson and Morley, because they
were the smallest men in the depart
ment, were named as female decoys.
They borrowed slit skirts, cute little
hats, silk hose and wells, then they
powdered and rouged, and took up
positions at transfer corner, gig.
Cling effeminately, all the while
swinging silver mesh bags containing
such valuables as rusty nails and
mrables.
A negro "bit" Snatching the mesh
bag from Wilson's hand, he fed down
an alley. Wilson took three steps in
pursuit before he went to the cobble-
stones, one foot entangled in the pluf-
finess of his underskirt. Morley paus-
ed to remove his skirt. A hook caught
his trousers and the skirt chung to
him, half on and half off. He toppled
over trying to extricate himself.
The negro halted on top of the
fence long enough to yell something
that sounded like, ooh, you chick
ens," and then he disappeared and
the ''ladies" used language very I'M
becoming.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-09
A CHANCE OF THE STATE BOARD.

The board of health Of Colfax has
passed resolutions prohibiting the
opening of the "Friedmann institute
for treatment of consumptives. Ac-
cording to an interview given out by a
members Of the board at Dies Moines
last evening the city will fight the
maintenance of the institute" in the
courts IL necessary and hops to have
the backing Of the state board of
health. The reason given in the in
teryiew is that the institute will be a
detriment to the community and We
don't want the people Of the state 10
get the impression that this is going
to be a home for tuberculosis victims"
That Colfax, a health resort is OPP
posed TO the location Of an institution
TO be ptaronized by tubercular patients
is hcarcely wide enough ground. So
long as proper sanitary and prevent
FIVE conditions We're maintained it is
itanism a legitimate cure" could be
refused the right to operate there or
elsewhere. If it We're true that gem
nine specific had been discovered and
that the white plague was ~ way Of
determination public opinion would in
eist that it should have power of emf
nent domain.
But no such evidence exists. On the
contrary the claim of specific curative
properties lacks confirmation. Medical
Journals have practically united in re-
fuhing to approve. Reports Of medical
investigators TO whom the public i
likely to lend confidence because oil
ofanding and authority have he@n ad-
verse to the claims of the alleged cure
Based on these grounds Colfax oppo-
sition seems to be well justified the
the state board good reasons for con.
ddence.
This seems to be case for the state
board OF health to consider and where
1t may use its powers 10 advantage.
should investigate the cure" very
carefully and base it's action entirely
upon the merits Of the alleged cure
Moreover the burden Of proof should
be upon the cure" No fake should
be permitted to operate. No real cur
should be driven away.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-09
The Fisty 'essnd LiniGM'


We fear that Congressman Kinders
plan to increase the weight limit on
packages sent via parcel post from
eleven to nifty pounds will prove to be
just the relief that mail order houses
are seeking. especially In their grocery
departments. AZ now operative the
eleven pound limit makes 1t impossi-
BILE to send enough groceries thru the
mail to allow OF profit. With express
rates as high as they were, the cataiog
concerns. of necessity, had to stipulate
that shipments should be made by
freight where the weight reached
certain limit. With parcel post pack
ages weighing fifty pounds and rates
reduced over those of the express
companies 1t is not improbable that
the mail order grocery business would
pick up.
At least, such an increase would
tend. as Mr.. Kindel puts it, to bring
producer and consumer closer togeth-
er" and we take such a statement to
mean the mail order man to be pro-
Queer as well as the farmer. The de-
partment stores would welcome such
change; in fact it would be a positive
benefit for all the big fellows without
doing very much for the little chap ex-
cept to give him the unsought oppor-
tunity to foot the probable deficit in
the postoffice department.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-09
LlBELENG WATERLOO.

w IETLDD f-pGf.ti-i
Ire Naverly Democrat graveiy de-
scrihes conditions in Waterloo as fol-
lows:
Waterloo may he CRY, hut it is in
name only. and visitor TO that city
will see more drunken men in evil
dence than when there were open sa-
Icons. Eliminating the argument of
personal liberty entirely. the fact re-
mains that the closing of saloons is
much worse than properly conduct
ing them In Waterloo today,
BOYS and young men secure all the IL
quor they want. and before the sa-
looms We're closed this privilege was
denied them, and this is well known
to the temperance workers. tho per-
haps they VIII not admit It,"
For our own pert, we had gathered
no such pathetic Impressions Of Wa
terloo streets overrun with the Keeling
forms Of drunken men and boys as de-
pic.ed thru the more distant vision Of
the Waverly journalist. In fact, the
writer, walking thru the business
streets several times a day. has not
seen a stew" in several weeks. If
this be Misrepresentation we resign TO
the version Of the Waverly newspaper
unless somebody else. who has OBJ
served the conditions of the city al
closer range than twenty-five miles
also has an opinion to express.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-09
WE AND GRANDFATHER.

4 minister of the gospel is in Mar
shalItown in the interests of the In
door Games Association. This asso-
citation favors all good games of skill
and strength. 1t is attempting to
point the public eye to the recreation
itself as legitimate and proper as dis
unguished from the associations with
which it is sometimes surrounded. 1t
would introduce such games as bill
1ards and pool among the attractions
of the Y. NJ c. A. and the church it
self. And it endeavors to hedge the
commercialized game with restrictions
morals and decent behavior.
Time was when a minister arguing
thus would have been worse than a
heretic-and heresy was the last Word.
But why not? Why turn over very
powerfully attractive game to the
forces which make against morals and
to the lowering of ideals? If we in
cline to view the public billiard rooms
with disfavor why not offer youth the
game under conditions that we con-
slider conducive to better living?
Grandfather took his family in tow
and marched out of the church at the
first note ON the new organ, shaking
the dust of that tabernacle off his feet
at the threshold. Grandfather was
honest enough but he didn't know. He
lived long enough to follow the in
etrument'' in old Hundred" and
Rock Of Ages" True enough he never
arrived at complacency with the
livelier gospel hymn tunes which he
classified as dancing tunes" But mad
he lived long enough he would have
been singing "Beulah Land" and other
fsongs with a little ginger in them. But
at that grandfather would never have
stood for fiddle in church"
A man ought to have a wider un-
derstanding than his grandfather. He
has had a lot more chance. He ought
to be as good man with a wider
view point The new man has lived
in years every one Of which marked
more than a decade of his GRANDPA
Tiers tma-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-09
THEY MUST HAVE A CHANCE.

Booth Tucker was recently granted
= British decoration which marks
peaceful achievement as the Victoria
sroSs distinguishes bravery in battle 1t
was given for his services in the in
teersts Of charity, public morals and
humanity in India" thru the work there
~ the Salvation Army.
81 This distinction came, not by multi
lDoication OF Salvation Army posts, but
hocaasse OF the effects the al my's assist :
ice in making men. 1t was given for
E6a1iy and true ethical service consist
1T IN preparing men for the troubles
I'D hardships of this world by provid-
- thsm with some useful knowledge
M aIt by which they may maintain
Enonoelves in the material struggle for
istsnee."
Ri Ne are coming to the substantial fact
80 the best way to help people is to
80 them to help themselves. Citizen
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-09
Topics of the Times

Just little rain to lay the dust
would assist very materially seeing
Iowa by daylight" both as to sight and
comfort.
The infant industry OF the lobbyist is
also in a fair way TO hedestroyed.
Whether il has any general effect on
the high cost of living it is likely
to affect the cost of high living IN
Washington
Getting back from Gettysburg not
withstanding railroad and pullman IA
ciiities Of these days is a harder job
than it was fifty years ago.
Probably about all the effect upon
the saloon business the shortening
from 10 o'clock TO has had is 10 start
an andante movement on the cash reg
lister II is a case of cutting off only
the tip end of long tail
The president of big Chicago pack
ing house has just undergone an OPP
era alton on his throat. Perhaps the
ghostly herds of pigs which have suf-
fered similar operations gave three
hearty squeals il they knew about it.
President Wilson found a hearth fire
necessary in his New Hampshire cot
taee Monday. Perhaps he was little
shivery over what McReynolds would
do next.
The highway commission is doing 6
lot of talking al Atlantic but who's
making roads?
Two Elks walked 800 miles to at
tend the national convention Of the
order And nobody accused them o.
"horning in
What with automobiles. hay leaders
and Irvine binders Iowa is some busy
with machinery this week.
1t cost every human being resident
! in Des Moines sll.25 TO run the city
! last year. Seems like person could
, have lot more fun with s11.25 than
TO live IN Des Moines
/ The railroads are undertaking &c
gain favor in their resistance to the
/ making of special rates for the peo'
pie of Iowa VINO attend the state fair
/ by unfolding the claim that the sDe-
cial rates are a discrimination in ia
( vor of a big fair as against many
/ smaller fairs. They will insist this
] he
railroad commission seems 10 have met
this argument by accepting the theor.
that 1t is wnen very large CROWDS
are carried over a railroad that the
cost of transportation is reduced ma
iterialiy. hence there is justification fol
the discrimination.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-09
CHAPTER II.
The impatient chsptsr.

The jmpatlene Chapter.
Rates Nor7utire.
This chapter 10 20 difmcult to start
Il deals with . time when life had
become impossible unless one could
jump from here to Wednesday next,
and thence to Monday fortnight. OF
course the book ID only meant for
Jesse. for David, for me. and for those
to come who may revere us - their
ancestors. Thank goodness. an not
. novelist!
sent David with his nurse to stay
With Father Jared. 20 mother called
me . cold.blooded wretch. I abandoned
my part at the opera to . weird
rSyening female who cant sing. %
my manager called me an atheist Ny
maids had to pack and run 70 escape
storage with the furniture At the
"Pecking and Tootham Emporiums;'
my little home passed to . gentleman
with mourning nails, diamonds, and
Q Lisp; By bits and scraps Of stock
were sold and the proceeds banked
18th the Hndson.a Bav COMPANY.
The ksenest pleasure Which eve!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-09

year was scored in the face Of ~
adverse reDOft On the operation OF
the experiment In Illinois. This re-
port was made by an agent OF the
Russell 0age foundation sent to chi
cago to invsstigats the workings OF
the law II that city. Ths substance
Of this report was that in many cases
the state guardianship was accom-
panied by corresponding lack OF IN.
terest by employers, relatives ana
churches. that many Of the probation
officers were incom petent; that one
tenth of the pensioned mothers were
so drunken. immoral or diseased tnat
the environment was positively de-
moralizing. while ohe-third OF the
homes suggested doubt whether the
children would not be better OF IN a
we'll kept institution. While this re-
port was distinctly discouraging. IT ieit
room for the conclusion that the m
nois fault lay in the administrator
of the law rather than the principe
back of it. There also was excuse TOT
assumption that the Illinois law was
weak in not specifying the conditions
under which pensions should be pau
and thereby guarding against reckless
use of the fund. The Illinois report
while 1t did not stop the disposition
to experiment with the pension plan
did serve to make other states more
careful in prescribing regulations.
Social workers generally agree ina.
rearing children in institutions Is 'ne
lesser Of two evils. the greater. ..
course, being the rearing of chlidreh
in immoral or insanitarE homes. Ell !.
ficient administration OF the am
would leave the children in sultapie
homes, while transferring them rom
unsuitable homes to institutions. lhe
experiment is not likely to be aoai-
doned anywhere until the pupilc mas
had chance to see what can De az
complished by it under efficient aa :
ministration.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-09

ship, religion, and the like,are based on
manliness and helf help. The person
must be able to stand alone in order to
be a good citizen. The useful man In
any line or direction Is one who can take
care Of himself by means Of some USE
full art or knowledge by which he may
maintain himself in the material strug-
gle for existence" That may be set
down as basic principle. Those who
must depend on others for mere exist
ence. who find themselves out of COM
petition man for man can not in tf.s
very nature of things take common
ground with those who can.
We are just waking up to this. The
Salvation Army has taught the church
a great deal. Settlement work has
offered common schools an idea. The
best thing that these 1wo great insti-
tutions can do is to train youth to
meet the material questions hey are to
encounter and to assist men and women
to that self respect which is the foun-
dation of religion as it is Of citizenship.
Charity, as the term is understood,
isn't enough in the church: teaching
theory will not suffice in the schools.
The BOY in the schools needs vocational
training more than he needs the higher
qGadratics. The girl needs TO know
something more Of housekeeping ana
motherhood and the business Of hea
life than Of plane and solid geometry,
There Was time when the practical
training was given in the home but it is
a long cry from great grandmother S
sampler TO the girl who can not plend g
tear in her petticoat The day of home
training seems to have passed. De-
pendence upon the school teacher is
prevalent
Then the schools must meet the de-
mand Vocational training must come.
The child must be prepared for efici-
ency if not in the home then at the
hands Of the public.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-09
lyon Cs0uNTY'S LONE TREE.
r,,archwood LEADER

ouite n discussion arose yesterda!
among some Of the old settles OF the
comfy Iyon) as to the kind OF tree
tho clone tree" was. some saying II
was an elm and others calling II var
ious other kinds The discussion re-
shifted in number of bets, and to real
~ find out the kind Of tree II was
sheriff Wheatley and the DEPUTIES 81
the courthouse went out to see lhe
tree in the evening. The lone ;fes
is known all over this country ana 20
located "a J. P. Slurr's farm no" occu
pied By George Shurr. about SIX miies
from town. on the minnesota me- .he
tree setting IN from the road amour
forty Eight feet from the BANK OF the
Kanaranzi Twenty nine years
Sheriff Wheatiey first saw the Tree. a..u
since thar time has eaten many Plcaie
dinners under 1t and mas ava
thought it an elm, and so was ou.'e
sure when he called the bets OF mum
be-. of his friends. but wnen the s''e'
if and the deputies arrived they 1nuho
il to be a cotton wood. The tree meas
l1red eighteen feet in eiTcH'a!e'fiies
and the six deputies. taxing hoio y,
hands. we're just able to reach afonaa
il !, is so near AXE an elm that one
could be easily fooled. The deputies
saving they thought it an elm uh.H
they were nearly to it. Tbs age OF iae
tree can not be guessed, Tor IL "as
standing and apparently as big as II
is now twenty nine years ago. "heh
air. Wheatiey first saw II, ana Ni'
Shurr. who owns the farm. Always
ferred 70 it as the lone tree years
before this TIE discussion Is se'leu
and now Mi Wheatley is going aaspuu
Dsying his bets.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-09


New York, July 3.-Mrs. Robert H..
Elder wants TO tote gun. Sne's q
suffragette Of the American brand OF
militancy. but that's not the reason
When sire followed the example SET
By Theodore Roosevelt End District
Attorney Whitman and applied to
MAGISTRATE Corrigan for permission 10
carry a pisto! she explained trar 1t WAS
TO protect herself in case Of, attack.
She said that she often rode alone in
automobiles with jewelry and money
and did not want to be defenseiess Il
held up The highwayman who at
tempts to hold me up vii! find his
match.' Mrs. Elder siad, for pride
myself on my Workmanship" Are
you a militant" she was asked. Yes !;
l am" she replied, but am not get :
ting a permit to carry gun because OF
that and, furthermore, / want t. tell
you that it isn't just because / come
from Rocky Mountain section that
feel / can not get along without gun.
Mrs. Elder said that she did not m
tend to carry the revolver Ia pocket
or in her had bag, but in holster an
der her jacket, after the fashion OF me
women Of Colorado. She Is a well
known New York sufragist leader.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-09
THE COUNTRY WEDDING.
ISio,y CITY .IOurnal1

A country wedding in summer time
tanks among the pTettiest Of occasions.
The farm house may be large and all
its appointments excellent. but there
is always ready disposition to make
use Of the lawn OF So,nc inviting area
beneath the shTSe of trees. Here con-
sregate the neighbors the friends Of
he groom and bride not TO speak of
the numerous relatives of near or re-
mote kinship. Naturally, the bride is
the center Of all eyes. shN. inspecting
or, mayhap, critical ones If she is fair.
and let us hope for the romance Of
the gathering that she may be, all APP
proving glances Will be met by only
the faintest Of bushes. The groom in
the conventional black attire-mark
the word conventional - jests freel?
and randomly. If ten: is erected on
the blue grass the charm of The affair
is greatened; if 4 band Of musicians Is
engaged. as is often the case, the
pleasure is multiplied.
What if some be present in the rusty
and strange garments of other years;
What if there is much awk wardness on
the part of guests in meeting the re-
quirements of the occasion: what if
but fie. Aside with uncertainties, A
country wedding in summer is sun
shine for the heart.