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Evening journal., 1918-07-03
CHICAGO GRAIN.

BY The United Press.
Chicago, July 3-Opening gFslni'
Corn, July i491s; August i5iNa52h;
September 1885. Oats, July, 77a%; Au-
gust 695sa%.
Evening journal., 1918-07-03
r.nn on ruANKs

We wish to thank relatives friends,
members OF Local Union, No. 40, employees
of the p. & r. r. X. office, for their SYM
pathy and beautiful floral offerings dur
ing the death Of our dear mother, Mary e.
Wilhelm Her Children.'
Evening journal., 1918-07-03

II would be well 70 advertise los.
articles in the Want Ad column this
week. Teamsters, chauffeurs, carriers
and engineers are all under a bene-
flcent ruling.
Evening journal., 1918-07-03

Domestics. cooks ana waitresses
win ind excellent positions at good
wages by watching the daily Want
Ads.
Evening journal., 1918-07-03
LOCAL SECURITIES

Laird and Company, dupont Building ,
furnish the following quotations on
local securities:
Evening journal., 1918-07-03
DEATHS

james n. MiIburn.
MILBURN-In this city, on July ?, 1918,
James ~ Aiilburn.
Relatives. friends and members Of the
House Painters Union, No 634. are invited
to attend the funeral from his late resi-
dence, No. Ills W. Third street, on Satur- b
day morning, at 10 o'clock. Requiem mass
at st. Pauls Church. Interment at Cathe-
dral cemetery
Evening journal., 1918-07-03

Try q Want Ad for locating a pleas
ant boarding place for the summer va
cation.
Evening journal., 1918-07-03

TO STRENGTHEN THE NERVES
Take HOrsfOrd's Acid Phosphate
When nervous. tired or restless, It re-
stores the system. and induces sleep.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-09
There comes into Roses life
a new crisis which means more
hard work and much worry. The
next instaIIment covers import
ant developments In the story.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Luminous Eyes.

Cats among mammals, and owls
among birds, says w. H. Hudson in his
book "Idle Days in Patagonia" are the
most highly favored of any creatures
in the matter of luminous eyes. "The
feline eyes, as Of a puma or wildcat,
blazing with wrath, sometimes affect
one like an electric shock; but for in
tense brilliance the yellow globes of
the owl are unparalleled" Mr.. Hud-
son asserts that nature has done COM
paratively little for the human eye
either in these terrifying splendors Or
in beauty. He says that in Brazil he
was greatly impressed with the mag
niflcent appearance Of many Of the ne
gro women; but that If they had only
possessed the "golden irides" Of GER
tain intensely black tropical birds
their unique loveliness" would have
been complete.-Outlook.
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old PRESCRIPTION
FOR WEAK KIDNEYS

Have you ever stopped to reason why
it is that so many products that are ex-
tensively advertised, all at once drop out
of sight and ara soon forgotten? The
reason is plain-the article did not fulfil
the promises of tho manufacturer. This
applies more particularly to a medicine.
A medicinal preparation that has real
curative value almost sells itself, as like
an endless chain system the remedy in
recommended by those who have been
benefited, to those who are in need of it.
A prominent druggist says, "Take for
example DR. Kilmer's Swamp Root, Q
preparation I have sold for many years
and never hesitate to recommend, for in
almost every case it shows excellent re-
suits, as many of my customers testify.
No other kidney remedy that 1 know of
has so large sale."
According to sworn statements and
verified testimony of thousands who have
used. the preparation, the success of DIR.
Kilmers' Swamp-Root is due to the fact
that, so many people claim, it fulfils al
most every wish in overcoming kidney,
liver and bladder ailments, corrects ur-
mary troubles and neutralizes the uric
acid which causes rheumatism.
You may receive a sample bottle Of
Swamp-Root by Parcel Post. Address
DR.. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, and
enclose ten cents; also mention this paper.
Large and medium size bottles for sale
at all drug stores.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-09
CHAPTER XVIII.
A Business Proposition

Buzzing around in the back of John
Galbraith's mind was an unworded
protest against the way Rose had just
killed her own beauty, with a thick
white veil, so nearly opaque that oil it
let him see Of her face was an inter-
mittent CLEAN Of her eyes. The busi-
ness between them was over, and
all she was waiting for was a word
Of dismissal, to nod him a fare
we'll and go swinging away down the
avenue. Still he didn't speak, and she
moved little restlessly. At last:
'Do you mind crossing the street?''
he asked abruptly. "Then we can talk
as we walk along" She must have
hesitated, because he added, "It's too
cold to stand here"
"Of course" she said then. All that
had made her hesitate was her "ur-
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swered, was sort of exaggerated mat
ter-of-factness. 81 could design the
costumes and pick out the materials" "
she said, "but we'd have to get good
sewing woman-perhaps more than
one-to get them DONE"
He wasn't greatly surprised. Per-
haps the notion that she might suggest
something Of the sort was responsible
for the tentative, dubious way in which
he had said he supposed it couldn't
be done.
you've had-experience in design
ing gowns, have you?" Galbraith
asked.
"Only for myself" she admitted.
"But I know can do that part of it.
I'm not good at sewing, though"-she
reverted to the other part of the plan.
I'D have to have somebody awfully
good, who'd do exactly what I told
her."
ooh, that can be managed" he said
little absently, and at the end Of a
silence which lasted while they walked
whole block: 'I was just figuring out
way to work it." he said, explaining
his silence. II shall tell Goldsmith and
Block (Block was the junior partner
in the enterprise) that I've got hold
of costumer who agrees to deliver
twelve costumes satisfactory to me, at
an average of, say. twenty per cent
less than the ones Mrs. Goldsmith
picked out. If they ar"a't se+iSfactors'
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One Sorrow.

John Mitchell, chairman Of the food
commission of New York, told a re-
porter a Christmas slum story.
II visited a hall in Pittsburgh one
Christmas" he said, "where 200 chill
dren from the poorest quarter were
fed on turkey, cranberry sauce and
mince pie.
"Two scrawny little girls attracted
my attention, and halted near them
to hear how they were enjoying them
selves. This is the dialogue I heard !:
essay, Name, amt this grand?'
"'You bet it is! Only I'm sorry for
one thing, LiZZie.'
"'What are you sorry for, Manner
"'I'm sorry I went and got me cor
sets mended.'"
The Benson signal., 1918-02-09
BOSCHEE'S GERMAN SYRUP

will quiet your cough, soothe the in
flammation of a sore throat and lungs,
stop irritation in the bronchial tubes,
insuring a good nights rest, free from
coughing and with easy expectoration
in the morning. Made and sold in
America for fifty-two years. A won
derful prescription, assisting Nature in
building up your general health and
throwing off the disease. Especially
useful in lung trouble, asthma, Group,
bronchitis, etc. For sale in all civil
lied countries.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-09

She found the other girls on the
point of departure. But Edna offered
to wait for her.
"No, you run along" Rose said. 'Tve
some errands, and don't feel like see
ing movie tonight, anyway"
Edna looked a little odd about it,
but hurried along after the others.
A saleswoman-the same one the
manager had assigned to Rose, under
the miscOnceptiOn which that smart
French ulster of hers had created
when she came into the store-now
came around behind the screen to
gather up the frocks the girls had shed.
"Will you please bring me-" said
Rose, "the Poiret model you showed
me before the others came in? I'll
try it on"
The saleswoman's manner was diff
ferent now, and she grumbled some
thing about it's being closing time.
''Then, If you'll bring it at once :"
said Rose. And the saleswoman went
on the errand.
Five minutes later, Galbraith, from
staring gloomily at the mournful heap
of trouble Mrs. Goldsmith had left on
his hands, looked up to confront a
vision that made him gasp.
II wanted you to see If you liked
this" said Rose.
"If I like it!' he echoed. "Look
here! If you knew enough to pick
out things like that, why did you let
that woman waste everybody's time
with junk like this? Why didn't you
help her out?"
II couldn't have done much" Rose
said, "even if my offering to do any
thing hadn't made her angry-and
think it would have. You see, she's
got lots Of taste, only it's bad. She
wasn't bewildered bit. She knew
just what she wanted, and she got it.
It's the badness of these things she
likes. And I thought >" She
hesitated little over this II
thought that it would be easier to
throw them all out and get a fresh
start"
He stared at her with a frown of
curiosity. 'That's good sense" he
said. "But why should you bother to
think of it?'
Her color came up perceptibly as she
answered. "Why-I want the piece to
succeed, Of course :" Rose turned
rather suddenly to the saleswoman. 81
wish you'd get that little Empire frock
in maize and cornflower," she said
'Td like Mr.. Galbraith to see that
too" And the saleswoman, now pla.
Gated, hustled away.
'This thing that I've got on" said
Rose swiftly, "costs a hundred and
fifty dollars, but I know can copy it
for twenty. 7 can't get the materials
exactly, Of course, but can come
near enough"
"Will you try this one on, miss?'
asked the saleswoman, coming on the
scene again with the frock she had
been sent for.
"No," said Rose. "Just hold it up
Galbraith admitted it was beautiful
but wasn't overwhelmed at all as he
had been by the other.
"It's not quite so much your style
is it? Not drive enough?"
1T isn't for me-" said Rose. "It's
for Edna Larson to wear in that AL
Alone number for the sextette."
Galbraith stared at her a moment
Then, "Put on your street things" he
said brusquely. "Tl wait"
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prise over his having made a request
instead Of giving an order.
''Do you think you'll be able to con-
vince Mrs. Goldsmith" she asked,
as they walked down the east side Of
the avenue together, "that her gowns
don't look well on the stage?"
"Probably not" he said. "No, she
won't be convinced, and if know
Goldsmith, he'll say his wife's taste is
good enough for him. So if we want
change. we've fight on our hands,"
The way he had unconsciously
phrased that sentence startled him
little.
"The question is," he went on,
whether they're worth making a fight
about. Are they as bad as I think
they are?"
"Oh, yes," said Rose. "They're dow
dy and fourth-class and ridiculous. Of
course don't know how many people
in the audience would know that"
"And don't care" said John Gal
braith, with flash Of intensity that
made her look around at him. "That's
not consideration I'll give any weight
to. When put production under my
name, it's the best I can make with
what I've got. When I have to take
cynical view and try to get by with
bad work because most Of the people
out in front won't know the difference,
I'll go out to my little farm on Long
Island and raise garden truck"
There was another momentary ST.
lence, for the girl made no comment
at all on this statement of his credo.
But he felt sure, somehow, that she
understood it, and presently he went
on speaking.
"Would it be possible, do you think,
to get better gowns that would also
be cheaper? That argument would
bring Goldsmith around in hurry. It's
ridiculous, of course, but that's the
trouble with making a production for
amateurs. You spend more time fight
ing them than you do producing the
show"
II don't believe" said Rose, "that
you could get better ready-made CO.'S
tunes lot cheaper; the two or three
we might be able to find wouldn't help
us much"
"And 7 suppose" he said dubiously,
''it's out Of the question getting them
any other way than ready made; that
is, and cheaper, too"
The only sign Of excitement there
was in the girls voice when she an
The Benson signal., 1918-02-09
No Dead Line for This Minister

Who said there was such thing as
a dead line for the ministry? Rev. s.
Swami, an English clergyman, has
just beaten the athletic record of Lieu
tenant Miller, Dane. He did
six successive half miles, cycling,
walking, running, padding, sculling,
and swimming, in 26 minutes, 80 20
seconds, excelling the Danes record
by three minutes, lacking one second.
The winner is fifty-fve years old! If
he can preach as well-and as quick
ly-as he can go through these success
i've locomotive stunts he is some
preacher!
The Benson signal., 1918-02-09
Gold In the Head"

sons who are subject to frequent "colds
in the head" will find that the use Of
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE Will
build up the System, cleanse the Blood
and render them less liable to colds.
Repeated attacks Of Acute Catarrh may
lead to Chronic Catarrh.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE Is tax:
en- internally and acts through the Blooo
on the Mucous Surfaces Of the System.
All Druggists 75c. Testimonials free:
$4,000 for any case of catarrh that
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will not
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-09
Woman Landscape Gardener Succeeds.

woman Landscape 0aroener succeeds.
Miss Mabel Keyes Babcock, for four
years in charge of the department Of
horticulture and landscape architec-
ture at Wellesley college, has been
chosen to design the great formal gar
den which is to be a feature Of the
new residence of the president Of the
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
at Boston, and which is to hs an i'm
pressive detail Of the magnificent new
installation Of that institutio7. Miss
Babcock is one of the most distin-
guished landscape gardeners Of her sex
In the country, and she has done no.
table work in landscape effects for the
Wellesley grounds, for several great
estates in Chicago and also In greater
Boston.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-09
Obviously.

"Come on" said the first flea as he
hoped from the brown bears foreleg;
"come over and join me at short
game Of golf"
"Golf," exclaimed the second flea,
hastily taking bite of hyena; "where
in the realm of Barnum are we going
to play golf?"
"Why," said the first flea, "over on
the lynx, of course."-Jack O. Lantern.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-09
ChivaIrous Youngsters.

[ Henry has a large Newfoundland
dog named Rex. While at play a
frozen and hungry little dog ap-
preached. Rex growled and Harry
said: "Be a gentleman, Rex. Don't
hurt the little dog; he got no home or
friends"
The Benson signal., 1918-02-09
The SofteSt,

"Why is it," queried the fair widow,
"that they always say a man pines
for a woman?
'I suppose" growled the fussy bach
elor, ''it's because pine is about the
sOftest wood there is"
The Benson signal., 1918-02-09

AS long as a man is of a forgiving
disposition a woman doesn't care
whether he pays his debts or not.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-09
Easiest Way.

"What's the best way Of getting
some hard cash?"
"Work some soft thing"
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It's the love Of the other fellow for
YOUR money that is the root of all evil.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-09

Piles Cured In 6 to IA Days
Druggists refund money If PAZO OINTMENT fails
to cure Itching Blind, Bleeding Protruding Piles
First application gives relief 60c.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-09

If you wish beautiful, clear white
clothes, use Red Cross Bag Blue. At all
good grocers. Adv.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-11-29

Latin is far and away the most i'm
POI tant of all aphabets 1t is
derived from the Chalcidian type of
the Hellenic, so called because in use
at Chalcis, in Euboea, an island Of the
Aegean, whence migrated one of the
several Greek colonies planted in
southern Italy. AS the oldest Italic
scripts--copying the older method Of
the Creek-raad from right to left,
and as the first. thing aimed at by the
colonists would be the use of common
sound-slGns and numerals, there is
good warrant for fixing the date OF
the introduction Of the Greek alpha
bet into Italy az about the eighth CEN
tury before Christ. The various de
rived scripts-Umbrian, Oscan, Etrus-
can and others-have all, the Latin
alone excepted, passed away. The
ultimate dominance of the Latins
brought about the abolition of every
other alphabet than their own, which
becoming the alphabet Of the Roman
empire, and then OF Christendon. Sc
cured an everlasting. supremacy. 1t
was the vehicle of Greek and Roman
culture to western Europe.
Both \ and L were late importa-
tins from the Greek into Latin, being
used only in Greek loan-words to
denote sounds peculiar to the Greek;
hence, as the most recent arrivals,
their appearance at the end of the
alphabet. Some of our letters are of
little use; X makes c superhuous. and
= and X are Of no more service to rs
than they were to the Romans. So
that, for practical purposes. we have
o., CT J-three letters wherewith
% lndlt;,-c a let-. ---.rty-two sounds.
Ih&5 our &:phGbet, like our smelling
tE'Mch IS eve: It war with CIR DO
nunc!at!c2, TO the bewilderlnent of
scHoo! children and foreigners.) is
what it Is from the lack or CONSTANT
rule. Never theiess, so workable a set
OF signs has secured footing which.
made firmeI by the art of printig. is
not likely tobe disturbed by and pro-
cesSes OF phonetic change which mar
ked the. course Of speech. To thai art
Of printing is also due those modif-
cations in handwriting which distin-
gulsh the peGmanship of past and
present times. AS has been seen, while
Germany remained in fetters to the
eye-distracting Black letter, we freed
ourselves by the adoption of the clear
Roman type, hence the disappearance
save in legal documents and a few
show art-books of the cramped hand
which prevailed down to the sixteenth
century. So the handwriting of today
(good, bad and indifferent) :.
which we learned at school through
the stages of ''pot-hooks and hangers"
to the grandest hOurishes of copy
book ''maXims." is derived from the
Same source as' the printed alnhabat.
For' 9th" Sto~~ Of the Alph25ct,"
by Edward Clodd.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-11-29
EMPLOYEES DEDICATE PAT
. ENTS TO FREE USE

2 .SIs .s.ty- four OF the 4g- eseiseations
to the Uuited States Patent 70 Dffice
during the fiscal year 1913 for letters
patent on inventions of employees Of
the United States Department of Ag-
rioulture were granted and were dedi-
Gated 20 tie free use OF the Govern
ment and the people Of the United
States.
= The Inventions described in these
aDple atoms and patents may be used,
manufactured, and sold by the Gov
ernmc-t and the people Of the United
States without the payment of royal
ty or other fee- to the inventors or
patentees. The farmers ard the gen
eral public are eivcn information con-
cerning these inventions by means Of
departmental publications in the form
Of Rniietins. and circulars aops..athar,
s3t t5licftY. These publications usu-
ally contain, in addition to a descrip-
ton Of the invention and its operation
and comments on their
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-11-29
A PROCLAMATION.

L
WHEREAS, we should count it al
inestimable honor and priceless privi
| lege to be able to contribute our ener
gies towards freeing the world of thu
| menace of the Hun, and
WHEREAS, an ample supply of foos
and feed are essential to the contin
ued success of our people at home
vital to winning the war; and
WHEREAS, on the 18th day of Sep.
tember, 1918, and on previous ocea
sions, SO many men are called from
the farm to the colors.. creating q
shortage of labor; and
WHEREAS, the boys of Mississippi
by the vigorous applications of theii
energies can be of inestimable ser
vice, both to the State and Nation, by
the production of food and feed, and
the performance Of other necessary
labor; and 49,. ~ >+.sv'> -:
WHEREAS, the boys of Mississippi
should be aroused to full concious-
ness Of their opportunities, and
should be impressed with their duties
and great. responsibilities during the
present world crisis, and so effeet-
ually organized that they can do
their full share and duty in helping
WIN THE war; ;'f-..a ~ 49,. ." !
I'll ERRf ORH,,.f; Tlfxoaore c: Bilbo,
Governop@of the y;Statssof mississippi,
ana .Ex5Qitlce Chairmsaa.4ef the State
Council of Defense, declare Friday,
December 6, Registration Day for
the boys of Mississippi, who will be
under eighteen and not under eight
yeas of age Oh the first day ofs Janu-
airy, 1919; and call upon these boys
to come toward and register, as did
the patriotic men Of the State on June
., 1917. and on September II, 1918;
and urge each teacher, the County
Superintendents OF Education, the
County Councils of Defense, the
County Demonstration Agents, and
all other interested persons, to see to
1t that all boys of proper age are as
sembled at their school houses, in
their respective districts, and prop
erly registered for the production of
food and feed, and for the perform
ance OF other necessary labor, or
caused to show good and sufficient
reasons why they can not render such
service.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF |
have hereUnto set my hand and caus-
ed The Great Seal of the State OF
Mississippi to be affixed, this the first
day Of November, A. d. 1913.
TEFaD0Rf, G. 4sN.BO8G. VERNON
BY the Governor JOSEPH w. POW
Err, Secretary OF State. M.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-11-29
NEGRO FARMERS BUY
PURE-BRED CATTLE


Dairy-extension forces in North
Carolina, working through the local
agent in Sampson County, have plac-
ed IS head OF pure-bred Jersey COWS
with negro farmers. 1t is said to be
the first organized effort to place pure
bred animals for family use on negro
farms. These animals were part of
a carload purchased by the dairy-ex-
tension men in Clio. Th negroes
faid .ah average Of 500 head for
the Jerseys. The COWS were secured
only from herds IN which milk pro-
duct;on and butter-fat content were
very high, and were much better indi-
viduals than are ordinarily brought IN
by traders.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-11-29
"BLACk NANNY"

The respect and affection with
which the negro woman who has nur-
sed the children of Southern family
in the United States is regarded. by
members of such a family, through
more than one generation, is made
evident in the scrupulous provision
made for her comfort as a member of
the household, i'll the privileges she is
granted, in the defence shonwn her by
adults and minors, in the children 5
meek submission to her rulings, in
the autocratic sway which she exer-
cises over the other domestic "help,
and in the prominent place she occu-
pies in the literature of Dixie.
There was no such thing known as
emancipation for the negro IMAM
N.Y." for, in large degree, she never
was without her freedom. Even
technically, it was the custom of the
Southern families, under slavery, to
grant freedom to their old servants.
As usual thing, aunt Martha" and
Uncle George" as the negro ''mam-
my" and her husband were, perhaps,
commonly known, served without
wage, but, in lieu of it, they were
granted an allowance. In this re-
spect, as in others, they were treated
as members of the family, not as COM
mon "help." .
So they are regarded and treated
today in thousands of Southern homes
SO, very likely 70 many years to come
will they be treated. 1t is not inn
probable that they have a daughter,
or a son,who also belongs" to the.
family In the course of time the.
son will be the "Uncle George" or
the daughter will become the "Aunt
Martha" and the "black nanny" of
some other home, for they are never
"taken in;;' almost invariably they
"grow up" with the members of the
family who eventually adopts one CT
the other of them.
"Black nanny" is familic-
character in Southern fiction. She
is necessary to The environment of the