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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
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HlsGseraeed by Nepo RovrGsca GRANDAD WEASEL'S PET STORY

THERE was nothing else for Grandad
 Weasel to do but tell the Weasel
 children a story. They had been very good little Weasel children all day, minding every word Mother Weasel said to them, and the reward, as usual. was a story.
 Grandad Weasel laughed and rubbed his whiskers with his paw the three little wease1s gathered at his knee-
 T suppose you want a story. no mat ter whether it's true or not.'' he said. his little black, savage-looking .eyes sparkling He was mighty proud of his three grandchildren. Must it be real for-sure story-something that's hap pened sometime, somewhereT
 'Oh. yes; oh. yes!' cried the three Weasel boys in one breath
 '-An right" laughed Grandad Weasel. and he stretched out his long. slender body So it would be comfortable brushed his light reddish brown suit, smoothed out his white vest, stroked his whiskerS, and began:
 "One day when I was a very young weasel disobeyed my mama and strayed too far away from my little weasel home, and, of course, got lost My good ness. but was excitedi I ran first one way and then another. In-my fright l forgot the many warnings my mother had given me about my enemies, the large birds that sailed overhead. and before I knew what was happening a shadow fell over me. and was grabbed by the back and whisked through the air so swiftly that 1t almost took my breath
 ''Oh Grandad!'' cried the youngest Weasel boy. And what did you do?
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
HEAR ANNIE LAURIE:

N
 I have been keeping company with a young man who is much re- spected by every one. I have been keeping company with him for a long time. love him very much.
 would like to have other friends, but he is jealous of me. I don't want to make him angry. but I would like to have other young men friends.
 Please advise me how to go with others and not have him angry with me. for I dearly love nm. I have always had a good time with him everywhere I go with him.
 We are both in our teens. I have always treated him as nicely as any girl could treat young man. I am not jealous. He can go with any other girl, and I do not object
 There is one young man I would like to have come to see me. How shall I approach him in this case. AS Iwould like to have his company?
 HAPPY BLUE EYES.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17

good looks often finds things to be dis satisfied about. however. It's the old failing of human nature, l suppose, to always want things we haven't.
 The first example that comes to my mind is that of the tall woman who wants to be short. of the woman or girl who is of the small, shorter type, and feels that she would give anything to be able to grow a little bit. l think there are more of the latter kind than of the former; for there seem to be more short women in the world today than tall ones
 Perhaps this is 2 good thing, for tall men, I think, are more scarce than they were.
 This observation causes me to srni,a to myself, for I think of my school days. There were several girls in my class who were unusually tall. and they were always benaoaninS the fact that they felt so i'll at ease with escorts who were shorter. They finally reached the con- clusion that they couldn't afford to
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17

The Newest Skirts
 May Be Any Width
 but Are Alpays Long
By ANNETTE BRADSHAW

~<N HETHER the smart wom- @ an chooses to have her
 suit skirt very long or just below her knees, we may be sure she will wear the skirt of her evening dress long. It's undoubt- edly smarter, and she realizes the feminine charm of the graceful long skirt
 This applies whether the skirt be wide or narrow, and there seems to be an even division of favor. The sketch here illustrates charming examples of the wide effect and of the narrow, each with a skirt that's long.
 At the left, we See broca ded chiffon velvet frock in vari-colored Persian inspiration. It is straight and slim, but allows plenty of room for freedom in dancing by way of a pleated inset of jade chiffon that graces the left side. The roll girdle is of twisted jade and silver, while silver grapes drop tenptingiy down the side.
 The other frock is a thing of loveliness in white chiffon velvet and pale flesh chiffon The chiffon insets are held in place by round seed pearl motifs, and they meet at the hem to make a skirt of ample width.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
Tom orrowS9 HOROSCOPE By GeneVieVe KenlbLs
SATURDAY, NOV. IS.

There Is a somewhat menacing figure dominating this days planetary activi ties. While there may be stirring and lively conditions, Enxieiies and diffcuI ties may beset the way. largely througi- the Martial proclivity toward Quarrels rash deeds and disastrous litigation There may also be menace from de ception and fraud subtle attack. a. Neptune holds forth with sinister sway It is urged by the astral seers to re main quiet. alert to deception and self contained.
 Those whose birthday 1t is have th' forecast of a somewhat trying year, in which they should keep quiet and self governed, avoiding QuaCrels. litigation. deception and sinister attack. A child born on this day, although 1t will be clever, industrious and good-hearted. may invite difficulties by it's impulstv : conduct unless carefully trained.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
Sheep Can Live 28O
 Days on Prickly Pears

(By International News Service.)
 Johannesburg, s. A., Nov. 17-Ex- periments on the Government Agri- cultural Farm at Grootfontein proved that a sheep can exist for 280 days solely on diet of prickly peas and, if little lucerne plant is added, for 500 days without a drop of water That beats the camel
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
Hou to Make Yourself Appear
 # Not Grow Beautifully Taller
By LUCREZIA BORI The Fam o7lsxS DnHish Pq-i77au Do3za,

notice any one who wasn't at least as tall as themselvesi
 I was reminded of this resolution and the fun they had over it a night or 50 ago when chanced to be dining at one of the fashionable country clubs An actress noted for her classic beauty stroI1ed out through the dining room. While her beauty is of the ravishing kind that stands alone, the little man who trailed along after her could have done naught save detract from the pie ture she made
 But here is some good advice for the short girl who wishes to add either real or apparent inches to her height:
 First of all, always stand with your shoulders back. your head erect, and
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
Advice to Girls

Y HAPPY BLUE EYES: Be frank with the young man. Tell him that you A enjoy his friendship very much and hope always to have him for a friend, but that since you are both so young you would like to go about with others, and that he has no right to ob- ject.
 Ask your other friends to call on you Do not allow any young man to think that he has a claim your I1me- my dear. That privilege should be only Tor the man to whom you will become en- gagged when you are older.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
Hard Lumber Is
 Exported By Japan

Osaka, Japan, Nov. 17-(A. P.)- While Japan is importing lumber from the Pacific States and Canada, it is exporting oak and other hard timber to China, Australia and New Zealand. Contracts, the first of the kind have been concluded, Japanese steamship companies for the ship ment of 300,000 feet of such timber to the two British Dominions.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17

THE possessor of real beauty always
 seems to be the object of much
 \ envy as well as admiration
 T wonder how it feels to be as beau tifuI as she is." you sometimes hear a less fortunate sister say wistfully- From her- standp point 1t seems that the woman who is known for her beauty can really have little in life to long for.
 Yet I wonder if the envied one always feels as satisfied as the woman who envies her might think. Of course, Ii she does, she keeps her satisfaction to herself, for the air of being too well pleased would certainly detract from her charm. If she is a clever woman she will know this. and act accordingly.
 The woman wlo has been blessed with
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
In the MagnoIia's Shade

shaded either side of the white pillars that oft glorious magnolia through the town the told 
 of who North" he he did
  in followed jinglng
  and no more do die there Somehow the oid magnolia
 
 loved very much sitting smiling quietly seethe emadw world by
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
HEAR ANNIE LAURIE:

am a girl of Is. and am in love with a young man of B. went with him four months ago. and was engaged to him. He fell in love with another girl, and finally stopped going with me. He has taken his ring from me.
 Now this girl has stopped going with him, and he wants me to for give him and marry him.
 I told him if he would leave here and go to work I would marry h!m
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
St. Louis Uses Many
 Horses, Despite Autos

LEY InLernatIOflaI NEWS CG-J
 St. Louis, Nov. 17-Don'e ever make the mistake of calling St. Louis a one-horse town. Facts in figures would discredit such a remark.
 Old Dobbin is setting a fast pace, but the automobile is nostng him out of first place in popularity honors. License statistics show there are T2,- 279 horses and 72,447 automobiles in this city.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
Austria Permitted To
 Trade In Aeroplanes

Vienna, Nov. 1.-The council of Am nbassadors has notified the Austri- an governm ent that the treaty pro- against the manufacture, inn port and export of airplanes for civil ian uses is abolished as of today.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
Bu Annie Laurie

as soon as he got settled. So he
 went away today. Have I done
 right? BLONDE AL MONDE M: If you really love the Tx young man you have done right, D my dear. But make hlm prove cirn- self constant before you marry him.
 HEAR ANNIE LAURIE:
 D We are two girl chums, and would like very much to have your advice. Please tell us how to carry on an interesting conversation when in the presence of young men.
 How can we overcome bashful- ness?
 How can we make ourselves at- tractive? I'LL and ESSIE- IL and ESSIE: Read the papers, my dears. also magazines and good books. Post yourself on all the in teresting things which go on in town If you do this you will have no trouble in making yourselves interesting and attractive. In your effort to entertain your friends you will forget about your selves and overcome your bashfulness before you know it. Good luckI
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
He Is a Little Lonely

him committees and thngh nobody in the world
 
 his frock his silk hat the be of the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
WINIFRE.D BLACK WRITES ABOUT Home and 'E E1onors

visiting celebrity Oh, he doesn't have badti in New York at all!
  good deand that is always he has neat title pair Nights and he always looks pleased calls him colonel left behind
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17

Y PASSED his house today-the house of the man I K saw in New York not so long ago Rather worried Al looking little always hurrying nowhere-to do nothing Spoken to with kindly tolerance by some, snubhed by others, and utterly ignored by the hurryng of youngsters who pushing past him up to the top of the ladder-thls is his lot.
 A quiet kindly, wel-rnannered, harmless little man he seemed-the youngsters appeared to like him well enough, but they never dreamed that they ought to stand little in of him.
 Oh vas he knew his business-wen enough-the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17

enoughthe business he began
 
  had belle sixty is when they hear of in his old Why comfort of York
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
hree Minute Journeus
WHERE MAN PURCHASES HIS WIFE BY WEIGHT.
Temple Manning

pays them a sum of money in the form O. dowry according to the piumpTiess of the bride they have fattened for him
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS
 Adele Garrisons New Phase of Revelations Of q Wife

Adele Garrison's New Phase o

w TE were within 8 few yards of the w farmhouse before Lillian spoke
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-01-20

IL a Deen nanQeQ OWL o ages CnaC II s misery is some
what mitlgated by the knowledge that others, too, are sharing
a similar fate. We bemoan the condition of our cotton farmers
which is bad, but the following shows that the farmers OF 9TH
er sections of our great country are in bad, too:
"Des MOines-Iowas weekly crop report says much corn
has been sold at 20 to % cents and some as low as II cents a
bushel this year, but this is not the lowest prices at which the
grain has ever been sold in the state. In 1896 corn sold for Ia
on land worth only $50 to $40 a acre where today land is worth
about five times that much, the farmers being relatively five
times as bad off.
Iowa crop expert has advised farmers to burn tic corn in
stead OF SS coal. He says he does not take the sentimental view
point but gives advice from a purely economical standpoint
Last spring many farmers were urged to plant corn and
raise stock. Well, they raised corn and enlarged their cattle
pens, but now pay day is here, yet they cannot sell their corn
and hay and cattle are a drag on the market. However, after
this same cattle is shipped to market and gets into the hands of
the packers, then it becomes high-priced beef. The farmers
plight calls to mind the old fable of the rabbit and the wolf
farming together. These animals planted potatoes and the
rabbit very generously proposed to his partner that he take all
that grew above the ground and the rabbit would take what
grew under the ground. Then when it came to the corn, the
rabbit proposed that he would swap with his partner and that
he would risk taking what grew above the ground and the wolf
take what grew under the ground. The result was, of course,
that the wolf was a loser and the rabbit the winner in each
case. The farmer is being made the wolf in, farming and when
ne is the wolf, every other business is more or less getting what
the wolf got that was in business with the rabbit.
The whole country, from Dan to Beersheba, from Cape Cod
to Kalamazoo, from h to breakfast, is hipped economically
and financially.
But from it all it does seem that there should be wisdom
enough left to get the needed lesson, and that there ought to be
found a Moses somewhere to point the way out.
The country cannot jazz al. the time. The great masses can
not be made to ride the ragged edge of disappointment and eat
the leavings of manipulators many years longer without turning
and devouring those who connive together to build larger for
tupes, that mean, in the end, to prosper at the expense of those
who are the real soul and life of the Nation.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-01-20

The Hearst Newspapers are evidently not enamOred with
the treaty just negotiated at the Worlds Disarmament Confer
ence at Washington. Arthur Brisbane, the Washington City
Editor, who is regarded as the chief among the Hearst news
paper Editors, says:
"When war ended, the countries that won, excepting the
United States, began gathering in the spoils. At Versailles they
divided, giving little or nothing to the little fellow everything
for the big ones. That's fair enough as WalGngford would
say.
I'm the Pacific ocean they gave north of the equator to ia
pan, and everything south of the equator to England, including
the enormously rich island of Nauru, that belonged to Germany
before the war.
This country said, at the last election, and by seven million
plurality, that it wanted nothing to do with the Versailles.
Yesterday the United States signed a treaty with Japan. France
and England, recognizing and guaranteeing to protect the stua-
ton in the Pacific. Quite a change since the election day 1920.
"The next conference, gentle American easy marks will be
a financial and economic conference. The biggest men are COM
ing for that, if they can manage it, including Lloyd George. At
that council the question of debts will be settled. We have
agreed now to accept, indorse and maintain the situation if the
Pacific. That settles H satisfactorily, with Uncle Sam
backing up the Versailles treaty of spoilation.
eff now We will kindly agree to fund our debt of ten thous-
and millions, taking a dollar down and a dollar a year or some
thing of that kind, all will be we'll"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-01-20

On another page in this issue of The Sentinel appears the
letter of date of January 9, of President C: H. Markham of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company addressed ITO the People of
Mississippi. 81 - 80 It
The letter is worthy of perusal and of a careful study. We
are not prepared to discuss the legal phase of the matter which
Mr.. Markham presents nor are we fully enough acquainted
with the facts to pass final judgment on the moral side of the
question. But this point, it occurs to us, is apparent to any
thoughtful observer, and that is that the suit aginst the Illinois
Central and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroads was filed not
so much in the interests of the taxpayers, the general public,
but in the hope that certain lawyers might get fat fees. 1t is
patent that if our laws were not such a maze of technicalhies,
many suits on a plane with this one would never be filed. A
very great deal of what is termed Claws, cannot be found in
any set of laws prepared by legislatures or by congresses, but
is what courts from time to time have said legislatures and con-
crosses meant when they were passing laws.
But what we started out to say was, that MI. Markham's let
ter bears the imprint of sincerity. He writes as a man who be-
1ieves in the justice of his cause.
1t is a duty one owes himself to deal out even handed Justice.
TO hold the scales evenly balanced. When one does not give
full measure to the other man, he hurts himself, for we are told
in Holy Writ that the measure we meet out to others will be
measured back to US. Mr.. Markham appeals to the righteous
judgment of the Mississippi public and the only way for the
people to be able to give a righteous" opinion about the issue
he raises, is to inform themselves.
The Sentinel has always stood for even handed Justice in all
matters. 1t believes that a group of individuals associated to-
gether is entitled to the same application of the law and the
rules of right as one of these men would be were he acting alone.
Corporations should be held to a strict accountability; they
should be required to toe the mark just as individuals, but they
should not be denied the application of the rules of Justice and
the moral issue enters into all dealings with them just as with
others.
Read Mr.. Markhamis letter. It is interesting. It gives some
business history of Mississippi.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-01-20
LEARNING TO DO FOR OURSELVES.

The organization of the Bankers and Merchants Fire Insur
the people Of Mississippi are learning to do for themselves.
Our people have frequently been likened unto the man who
sat with a satisfied air under the shade of a tree bearing the
richest fruit, yet when this fruit was ready for plucking and
But Mississippi is waking up from that satisfied condition. Her
business men of all classes are learning that they must use their
that if the sixty odd fire insurance companies, which litigation
whether fortunate or unfortunate, forced out of the state, are
fire insurance risks of Mississippi. So, many of our business
fees and their farms for a short while and putting their heads
and some of their money together to see that the people of the
protected against fire.
Just somehow a great many of our people have allowed
themselves to believe that running a fire insurance company was
an intricate business matter; just somehow they have acted as
if they believed that nobody except New England or New York
capitalists could properly run a fire insurance company. Thus
it is that for the years we have been taking money out of Missis-
our fire insurance policies. Indeed it will startle many Missis-
slpplans to know that even during the war that fire insurance
State. Besides the German insurance companies, there were
other companies, some of which were organized in Russia, some
in Poland and other European countries writing fire insurance in
this state.
the total fire insurance company premiums collected within
this state were, 81, 1876, 448.37 while only $685., $685. 6 of this
was sent out for fire losses, showing over four and onehalf
million above losses paid.
Sometime last year the Mississippi Fire Insurance Company
But it cannot write all the business. If we have had more than a
half hundred companies heretofore, certainly there ought to
be rOom-big rOonl-fOr two big fire insurance companies own
ed and controlled by home people in the state.
and leading business men got together in Jackson JANUARY appar II,
and organizedth thu Bankers and Merchants Fire Insurance Com
Mississippis biggest merchant and one of her leading business
factors, is the president. The officers and directors are among
citizens. The Sentinel gladly greets the new fire insurance com
aid and encouragement and we hope that the thoughtful bust
ness men of the state will give it that aid and cooperation that
a duty to home and to Mississippi's future demands.
AS before stated months ago in reference to a similar matter,
it is time for our people to quit going with hat in hand to New
cess. Use your money at home to help yourself and help others.
The Bankers and Merchant Fire Insurance Company is destined
panies in the United States. $N ~S''l-' ''"'H
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-01-20
LISTENING FOR A CALL.

1t is Just a bit ludicrous to observe how many formerly good
school men, educators if you please, think they have heard the
"call" to fill important public state offices because forsooth
Woodrow Wilson was elected President. There are not many
Woodrow Wilson's, and furthermore, we do not think that there
are very many who have diligently applied themselves to the
modern work of education who are properly fitted to deal with
the common sense and intricate problems of present day state
craft. Mississippi is not without some school men who have
to the ground hoping to hear a "call" to run for state
Office. While listening for the "caI'', these altruistic minded
men should not forget the Scriptural statement that many are
called but few are chosen,
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-01-20

1t is a we'll established and well accepted fact that every
is effected to a greater or less degree by what is done
in other communities. 1t is universally recognized that the acts
OF each and every individual effect not only the locality where
one resides, but that localtys %neighbors, indeed, all parts of the
land. The pebble dropped into the great ocean stirs the waters
and the waves recede, and the thought is left with the casual
observer that the ripple of the waves soon cease, yet science
tells the story that a force is set in motion that touches the
other shore.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-01-20

A Western paper says: eff have a dollar and you have a
dollar and we exchange, you have a dollar and have a dollar.
But if have an idea and you have an idea and we exchange,
you have two ideas and l have two ideas" To which the New
Orleans Daily States adds: Perfectly beautiful, but no matter
how excellent the two ideas may be they won't buy one dollars
worth If maat
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-01-20

At the request of the legislature, the State Department Of
Education submitted the salary list of the various employees of
the department including the several officials or supervisors.
The total is $50 200 of which twenty-five thousand nine hundred
and fifty comes out of the, State, $751; 200 out of the General
Education Board and 1850 out the U. S. Government.