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THE SENTINEL 0. P. LAWRENCE, Editor ae^ Manager. ftTtRN ADA. t : MISSISSIPPI r^La How severe was the cold you got? Why should a good barber want to pose as a writer? Soon they'll be cracking jokes about the fellow that rocks the airship. New York hotels are crowded. No wonder champagne has gone up. King Manuel of Portugal Is looking for a wife to help keep his throne from rocking. Uncle Sara now possesses the fast est big battleship in the world, but feels as peaceful as ever. Don't be lazy this winter, else you may be seized and put under a ma chine that detects hookworms. What if butter does soar if one has the money to buy it and the bread to spread it on? Everything is looking up. A super-super Dreadnought is to have a displacement of 30,000 tons. It may soon be necessary to widen the ocean. It is claimed that life can be sus tained in New York city on 13 cents a day, but few are willing to test the matter. Late returns from New Jersey indi cate that, the mosquitoes carried the entire state in spite of the cool weather. An astronomer says Mars is sur rounded by a "gloomy veil." What a striking resemblance to the push headquarters! The turbine type of engine seems to have scored a great triumph in the builders' trial test of the battleship North Dakota. The taxicab is now up against the jinrickisha in Japan, and it is not win ning so easily as it did in the contest with the horse. The camera is conscienceless in the hands of a conscienceless man, wheth er he be on the top of a mountain or in the depths of the sea. The three-year-old Boston boy who has mastered the primer in two weeks will be in Browning before his play mates are out of pinafores. The railroads have the honor to re port that there are no longer any empty freight cars standing on the sidings. Prosperity has "came." Women who wear big hats find lit tle satisfaction in the declaration of a teacher that men have a right to laugh at such pieces of headgear. An English workhouse has trans ferred all its snoring contingent to the deaf dormitories. The humanitarian movement is widening on all sides. The secret society man who gave the sign of distress to the jury which was trying his case, has rightly now an opportunity to test the same upon a jailer. The queen of Holland has invented an improved baby carriage. Over in Holland the best people continue to regard it as worth while to raise babies. This country never did dread any foe that it might have to face, so that its possession of the greatest Dread nought ship is typical of its character istic attitude. A Chicagoan has w r on the title of a model husband. Doubtless he did the thrashing of the children himself, in stead of throwing the burden on an overworked wife. Something surely is doing In this country when one of the New York trunk lines of railroads finds its traffic for September and October greater than in any two months of its previ ous history, and is able to expend $85,000,000 for new equipment and betterments. The new tennis court at the White House occupies a place near the large fountain on the south lawn and a per fect view of it may be obtained at all times from the portico and windows of the White House. Thus if the presi dent plays, Mrs. Taft can sit in a rock ing chair at the window with her sew ing and watch him nimbly hopping around to meet the ball. The announcement that the Culebra cut is half completed foreshadows the finish of the Panama canal. The cut is through "the backbone'of the hemi sphere," the ridge which passes down and connects the "three Americas." The work there has been steadily pushed under the supervision of the American engineers, who took up the task the French excavators left done. Assurance that the cut will be completed in four yefers strengthens belief in the assertion that the canal will be ready for operation by 1915. of un Will South America never learn that the revolutions are a dangerous foe to its progress? The curative properties of radium have been for sometime recognized, but the expense involved has placed the treatment far beyond the reach of the average man. Every encourage ment, therefore, Is to be given the movement undertaken by scientists to establish such treatment under charit able auspices. It will be another step forward in ameliorating the ills of bu ananity. REVOLTING CONDITIONS PASSENGERS SUBJECTED TO IN DECENT TREATMENT. Steerage Passengers Relate Expe riences Almost Beyond Belie! Washington.—A report on steerage conditions based on information obtained by special agents of the immigration commission, traveling as steerage pas sengers, was made public Monday through presentations for legislation to better conditions. Conditions found in many of these vessels are described as appalling. The general report of the commission contains tne reports of individual agents giving their experience on board steam ships where they posed as steerage pas sengers. A woman agent who was herself mis erably insulted and compelled to with stand repulsive privations said: ''During these twelve days in the steer age I lived in a disorder and in sur roundings that offended every Only the fresh breeze from the sea ov came the sickening odors. The vile lan of the men, the screams of the defending themselves, the crying of children, wretched because of their surroundings, and especially every sound that reached the ears irritated beyond There was no sight before sense. er guage women endurance, which the eye did not prefer to close. "Everything was dirty, sticky and dis agreeable to the touch. Every impression was offensive. Worse than this was the general air of immorality. For fifteen hours each day I witnessed all around me this improper, indecent and forced mingling of men and women, who were total strangers, and often did not under stand one word of the same language. such surroundings People cannot live in and not be influenced. n JUDGE LURTON NOMINATED Tennessee Jurist Will Sit Upon the Supreme Bench. Washington.—President Taft Monday sent to the senate tlie nomination of Judge Horace H. Lurton of Tennessee to be associate justice of the supreme court. President Taft has removed the op position that existed to Judge Lurton s Democratic leaders say appointment. the Democrats without exception will Wliat opposi support Judge Lurton. tion remained against Lurton among Re publicans because of recent decisions on corporation cases has been smoothed , and the confirmation will be made over unanimous. One of the reasons that prompted President Taft in appointing Judge Lur ton, and that will cause his welcome by the supreme court, is Judge Lurton's familiarity with many of the cases that are now soon to come. Lurton can take upon himself without delay his share of the work before the court and dispatch it. A younger judge, less experienced in the circuit courts, would require a "breaking in" to the work, forms and customs of the su preme bench. before the supreme court or are It is believed that Judge or one TEXAS FARMERS QUIT UNION Object to Action Taken by Last National Convention. Houston, Tex.—Because of alleged ex orbitant salaries proposed and the mis construction of the constitution, the Texas Farmers' Union plans to secede from tke Farmers' Educational and Co Operative Union of America, the national organization which grew from the Texas original union. Objection is voiced to the recent ac tion of the national convention at Bir mingham, Ala., in September, proposing an increase in the dues of from 8 to 16 cents per annum, a raise in the salary of the president of the national union from $600 to $3,000 per annum, an increase in the salary of the national secretary from $1,200 to $1,800 per annum, and some donations, despite the fact that the membership last year vote* down the The circular proposed advances. now adds: thus convention usurped the authority to appropriate money contrary to the constitution and against the expressed will of the mem bership. national The 9> Inventor of "Good Time ' Dead. Jackson, Mich.—William L. Seaton, former warden of the State prison here, (jf credited with being the originator convicts credit is dead at his home an of the system of giving for "good time," here. He was 86 years old. SHE IS LEGALLY DEAD. Insurance Company Must Pay Policy on Kidnaped Girl. St. Louis.—Nellie Burns, kidnaped eleven years ago was 7 years old, was declared legally dead by Judge Winthrop, of the circuit court, Monday. He rendered judgment against an insurance company for $235, the amount of two policies on the girl's life. The girl lived with a foster mother and was kidnaped on her way home from school. No trace of her e\ er found. wlio was when she was Give Cuba Time. Washington.—Secretary of War Dick told the house committee on mili inson tary affairs that the United States gov ernment has not called on Cuba to reim burse the United States for the $6,000, 000 expenses incurred by the military occupation of Cuba, but that the claim would be pressed whenever it seemed the Cuban treasury could stand The statement was in that such a draft. > reply to questions of the committee who wanted to know what the government in the matter. TURNING THE TABLES (Copyright, 190#.) AJU. iGOO) <&(£ Nan Wagon wm f . A \ I i •s f '#*%( *1 V In France Dog Meat Is Eaten by Men. What If the Dogs in 8elf-D* fenss Should Compel Men to Wear M uzzles? 120 MILES AN HOUR MASSACHUSETTS MAN CLAIMS THIS SPEED FOR AIR SHIP. His Machine Is 125 Horse Power and Weighs 1,550 Pounds. Ascended 4,000 Feet. Worcester, Mass.—A remarkable as sertion of the practicability of aviation i» embodied in the announcement hero Sunday by Wallace E. Tillinghast, vice president of a Worcester manufacturing company, who claims to have secretly invented, built and tested an aeroplane capable of carrying three, pussengers, and in which, he says, he has flown from Worcester to New York, thence to Bos ton, and then back, a distance of 300 miles. A speed of DIG miles an hour was attained at times, he declares. The test was made on Sept. 8, at night, according to Mr. Tillinghast, who say* he circled the Statute of Liberty at an elevation of 4,000 feet, and was seen on the return trip by a coast guard on Long Island, when flying low, the fact being recorded in the newspapers at the time. Mr. Tillinghast says the machine it a monoplane, weighing 1,650 pounds, equipped with a 120-horsepower gasoline engine. He refuses to tell where the machine is at present, but says he will bring it to Worcester in February for a public demonstration. MAKE EXAMPLE OF ZELAYA Rayner Denounces Nicaraguan as Despicable Character. Washington.—Vigorously denouncing President Zelaya for having "murdered" Cannon and Groce, officers of the revo lutionary army, Senator Rayner of Maryland Monday advocated the passage of his resolution authorizing the presi dent of the United States to apprehend and try the president of Nicaragua for his crime against these two American citizens. The private life of Zelaya, almost un speakable in its enormity, said Mr. Ray ner, should be made public by the .state department in order that the people of the United States might know the kind of man Zelaya was. CIVIL WAR RECORDS FOUND how Straits to Which Union Army Was Driven. New York.—In a rusty tin box, which had reposed undisturbed in the vaults of the subtreasury here since the Civil War, a number of musty old documents of great historical importance have just been discovered. They will be gone over carefully by experts and preserved, either here or in Washington. One of the more interesting documents is a record which shows to what expedi ents the government was sometimes forced to resort to obtain funds with which to defray the expense of the army during the Civil War. Through this paper fifty New York bankers turned over to the government on a single day'g notice the sum of $1,200,000. At that time, the document says, the success or failure of the Northern army seemed to depend on a speedy moving forward of the sinews of war. The pa per bears the date of November 11, 1862. Gives Out Comet Data, rrinceton, N. J.—Fifty-six million miles from the earth, one hundred and forty-six million miles from the sun and than three times as large as the more earth in diameter—thes are the facts determined by Zaecheus Daniel, 1908 graduate student of Princeton Univers ity, about the comet which he discov ered on December 6. the Thaw fellowship in astronomy, the annual income of a gift of $10,000 by Mrs. William Thaw, of Pittsburg. He has ben absorbed in astronomy ever has been absorbed in astronomy ever Mr. Daniel holds Exports Show Increase. Washington.—The monthly statement of exports of domestic products issued by the department of commerce and la bor for November shows increases of $17,000,000 over the corresponding month in 1908, but a decrease of $51, 000,000 for the eleveen months of 1909. For the moyth the valuations of exports of wheat, corn and mineral oil show the leading increases. While the decrease in the number of bales of cotton exported was several thousand, the increase in value was $16,000,000. Wheat, flour, meat and dairy products, cattle, * hogs and sheep show' slight decreases. MAT COTTON AT 15.60 THE OFFICIAL CROP ESTIMATE IS 10,088,000 BALES. Smallest Since 1003—Famine Possi ble to Cotton Mills—Speculators Made Large Profits. Memphis, Tenn.—With an estimate on the total growth this season of 10,088, 000 bales' of 500 pounds gross weight, the United States department of agri culture brought to a sensational close its activities in gathering information on cotton for the year. Within two minutes following its publication the May option in New York sold at 15.80 cents, and thu price of middling cotton, for the first time in five years, was put to 16 l-l cents in Memphis Friday. This, briefly, is the story of the day. Incidentally every bullish claim made from June to December was justified and indorsed, and the cotton consuming world now has brought home to them the realization that in spite of a pro duction of 14,000,000 bales in a favor able year, a crop of 10,000,000 bales un der adverse conditions is possible. What a crop so small means in the way of prices only demand in the open market can determine. Sixteen cents is already so nearly a reality that it no longer appears absurd, while there are those who predict 18 cents. For the immediate future the spots markets will be the arena of in terest. Futures may advance, but the level of values will, in the end, be de termined by the price which the mills of the world can afford to pay for raw cotton. Speculation on the point is idle but one thing is certain, and that is that curtailment in all mills is inevitable, and that a complete shutdown to many will result, hence the news items of the fu ture may. be, to some extent, antici pated. Consumption last year was 13, 100.000 bales, according to Hester oi New Orleans, while the government says that this season production has been but 10.088.000 bales, and it has the most elaborate system for gathering informa tion on cotton of any agency on earth. WOULD REPEAL ARTICLE NINE Railroads Want Ban Lifted From Their Monopolies. Guthrie, Okla.—The filing with the sec retary of state of petitions containing over 66,000 names, asking for a repeal oi section 3, article ix., of the state consti tution, marks the beginning of one oi the most spectacular fights the South west has ever witnessed. That article of the constitution forbids the monopoly of railroads. No other state in the Union, it is said, has such a provision in its constitution, and it is expected that speakers for the railroads will be sent here from all parts of the country. The State Federation of Labor has come out boldly against the proposition to repeal the section, and one after an other members of the constitutional con vention. Commercial clubs, assisted by railroad officials, are leading the fight for the repeal. Gov. Haskell probably will call an election to take place on the regular November date next year. Every can didate for state office in the campaign next year will go on record on the repeal matter. ENGULFED IN TAR. Three Men Watch Flames Creep Nearer. Burned to Death. Pittsburg, Pa.—Entrapped in a lake of flowing tar, four men were held fast at the McClintock & Irvine Company's roofing plant when it caught fire Satur day, and were compelled to watch the gradually approaching flames. Three oi them were burned to death, but. the fourth managed to extricate himself and escape the horrible fate of his compan ions, although he was seriously burned. FIFTY-NINE DIE IN LAKE STORM. Million in Property Lost—Four Boats - Destroyed. Cleveland, Ohio.—The storm which passed over Lake Erie Wednesday and Thursday reaped a deadly harvest and laid waste more than $1,000,000 worth vessel property. Late reports showed that fifty-nine lives were lost; that twen sailors were rescued; that four boats were destroyed, and that one is aground and sustained heavy damages. i ♦ LIQUOR I MERCHANTS 1 1 t ♦ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 LARGEST IN THE SOUTH. DISCOUNT TO MERCHANTS ♦ 4 ♦ 4 4 l 4 Importers and Distillers. We stretch your dollar by sav ing you the middle man's profit. 4 Prompt atten tion given all orders wheth er for a bottle or a barrel. Every thing packed in plain boxes. t 4 4 1 : 4 4 ilppl 4 t 1 4 ► 4 4 4 0 0.1 R ICMT ♦ 4 D. Canale & Company 4 4 4 4 i 4 4 4 HELENA, ARKANSAS. Send for Our Price List 4 ► 4 4 4 IRON <& SUPPLY CO. INCORPORATED. 199 to 209 Jefferson Ave., Memphis. L. D, Phone 3900. 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