The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-07-27

stood that the entire week will be con.
sumed.
The terms of almost all circuit
courts are quite much alike. There
are many who come to town that day
who are without any business before
the court and it is well perhaps that
they do. These men enjoy the social
intercourse and meeting their friends
and acquaintances from various parts
OF the county. The days of a social
glass or u drink out of the bottle a.
round the corner are things among
those that have been relegated to
limbo or some other place now out of
sight of the thirsty. 1t is almost pa
thetic to see the thirsty walking a.
round pining ovsr what has been and
what is not. These must know that the
world is moving but it might the bet
ter reconcile them to present condit-
ions if they knew that the Continen-
tai Congress. even 40 years ago.
went on record for largely the very
conditions regarding strong drink
which the country is approaching to-
day. By resolution the Continental
Congress adopfed'February 27, 1777.
the following:>
" RESOLVED, That it is recommend
ed to the several state legislatures of
the United States Immediately to pass
laws the most efectual for putting an
immediate stop to the pernicious
practice Of distilline grain, by which
the most extensive evils are likely 70
be derived if not quickly prevented." "
Thus it will be seen that even the
founders OF the government gave SER
ious attention to the bridling Of the
liquor traffic.
There is one thing that Is not so
much in evidence now as in DAYS past
as county sites when court starts"
and that is the horse "swapper". He
used to be there. If the horse was
blind in one eye and unable to see out
OF the other, why that only added 20
MS safety and to the assurance -ha5
he would stay at home and be found
at the same place. The scub pony VA
b7nr1nof 70 = l..
blazed faced mare and sore nacd old
Joe,,. Juust what has passed up the
horse "swapper" is not hard to see
The~better farming spirit mas made
more and better p1ovenGr and conse-
quenty better horses. There are few
er horses not vel fed today than ever
before and il is we understood that
the real fat horse is not often ready
for trade.
Then court week" gives the man
who has some urking ambition to ten
der his services TO the people 10 look
after some one Of their offices an op-
portunity to tell some one else that
my friends just tell me l nuts run" ="
'Tis strange how often this statement
is repeated to the third parties when
its utterance TO the second party j.
matter Of rare cccurance. In The good
old days 5hat used to be. the office
often sought theman, but now the
man is scentinG for the office some
time before the office gets out of the
incubator. Perhaps men are none the
less capable or patriotic today but it
May be they are not afflicted with
as much modesty as some of their
progenitors. Anyway. you never see
an office now in pursuit of man but
it is no unusual sight to see several
members in hot chase to capture
some poor little office. The more in
significant the office the more intense
frequently the contest. But the court
helps these poor fellows out and gives
the balance of the county an oppor-
tunity to hear from their own lips
what their neighbors are afflicted