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The southern sentinel., 1907-06-14
mot GUILTY."
SAYS The JURY
In Case Of Ben Peterson Charg-
ed with the Murder of
Wiley Mitchell.

The case of State VS.. Ben
Peterson which had been on trial
since Thursday of last week, at
which time the jury was secured,
has taken up the entire time of
court until Wednesday night.
The case went to the jury after
an exhaustive argument by
Messrs. Kidd. Long and Edwards,
for the defense, and Messrs.
Hundley and Jones and District
Attorney Grisham, for the State.
The judge gave an able and COM
prehensive charge. The jurors
were in consultation about three
hours when they announced that
they had agreed on a verdict. AT
10so'clock the bell was sounded
and the Court House soon filled.
The jury came into court, and,
through their foreman, Mr.. n. e..
Sowers, rendered their verdict of
"Not guilty." The judge after
thanking the jury for the manner
in which they had performed
their duty as jurymen, discharged
them for the term.
The following criminal cases
were taken up and disposed of
since the last issue of The SEN
tinel:
State VS.. Pat Smith, cursing
and swearing In public place.
plead guilty and sentenced to pay
$3.50 and cost or 80 days in Jail.
State VS.. Randall Gibson, re-
failing liquor without license.
Plead guilty and sentenced to pay
a fine of 500 and cost or six
months in iail; subject to work it
out on public roads.
State VS.. Eli Jordan, cursing
and swearing in public place.
Plead guilty, was sentenced to
pay 50. 80 aud cost or thirty days
in Jail.
State VS.. Jim Capps, cursIng
and swearing in public public
place. plead guilty and sentenced
to pay fine of $3.50 and cost or
80 days in Jail.
State VS.. John Silse, Alfred
Sllse and John Jordan, cursing in
public place, plead guilty and
were sentenced to pay fine of
$3.50 each or 80 days in Jail.
State VS.. Ed Dunn, carrying
concealed weapons, plead guilty
and was fined 500 and costs or
4 months on public roads.
= =
The southern sentinel., 1907-06-14
School House Burned Down.

Mr.. l. III. Willis informs us that
the church and school house.
which had recently been built at
Royal with the Woodmen and
Masops using the upper story of
the building, was burned to the
ground last Saturday night.
There Is no doubt but that it was
the act of an incendiary. 1t is
hoped that the miscreant will be
discovered and punished. The
citizens of that vicinity owe it to
themselves and the public to
thoroughly investigate and bring
the guilty party or parties to JUS
tice. Such vandalism deserves
the strongest condemnation, and
nothing should be left dndone that
will accomplish the exposure of
such crime.
The southern sentinel., 1907-06-14
Wanted

Position as bookkeeper or
salesman. Address, The Sentinel,
WINFIELD, La. 1t
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-03
Braid Used as Finish
to Various Costumes.

Braid covered buckles and belts OF
both wide and narrow braids drawn
through metal slides and buckles are
fancied. A new arrangement OF braid,
half brace and half stole, is used as
a finish to a silk waist. At the back
a broad quality starts either from the
waist or from the top of high belt
ed skirt. 1t forms a brace, but after
passing over the bend of the Shout
der it is left loose and so forms a
stole, and either plain or caught UP IN
long loop.
Braided waistcoats are introduced
into specimens otherwise unrelleved,
and another braiding fancy is to use
plain graduated widths around and
round the skirts Disconnected mo-
tits of braid both horizontal and up
right are used. For instance, the up
right motifs are used to outline the
cores of a skirt, and are finished with
a scroll effect at the top.
Frilled edges of braid are used IN
side short coats and boleros, taking
the place of the erstwhile lace frills,
with the difference that these are
used on plain coats.
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81: AMAQ,D NEW EMGZtAND RARE1 z: s.:

in all its native wildness. All the Bos-
ton parks are situated within IL miles
of the state house, and within this
same radius live 100000 persons, a
little less than the population of
Brooklyn, which has a total park area
of 1900 acres.
Chicago, however, plans to go far
ahead of Boston. Believing that in so
years it will swell out four times
greater than it's present size, with a
population of 100000, the metropolis
of the Great Lakes authorized COM
mission to draw up an outer park
system commensurate with it's big
ideas. This commission has made it's
report, and advocates the acquisition
into the country, and costing, it is es-
timated, about $25,O00,00O. To the
north, where the shore of Lake Michi-
gan rises into bluffs, with wooded ra-
vines, there is to be a park of 1000
acres; in the west another of 5000
acres The valley of the Desplaines
river, skirted with woods and mead
ows, is to afford a park drive % miles
in length In the southwest the for
ests of the Palos region are to be
made into park larger than the Blue
Hills Reservation, near Boston, and
toward the south a preserve around
Lake Calumet will afford recreation
and Pullman.
Then there are many more smaller
parks proposed, 81 in all. At present
Chicago has 3,169 park acres, so that
the addition of the outer park system
would make a total of 10000 acres,
or nearly three times the size of the
island of Manhattan.
Conservative Providence, while not
talking so much as Chicago and not
aspiring to beat every other city in
the country, is quietly working on an
outer park system which will, in pro-
portion to the population of the city
and it's suburbs, compare favorably
with the Boston park system. These
outer parks are to be acquired along
the shores of water courses like the
Seekonk, the Pawtuxet and the Ten
Mile rivers. These are all to be con-
nected by parkways, along which the
country is to be left in it's native wild
ness.
Philadelphia, which, until 1880, had
more park area than any other Amer
lean city, is now with much difficulty,
it must be said) awakening to the fact
that she has fallen far behind. Pub
lic-spirited citizens, among whom are
members of leading clubs, academies,
societies and civic associations, have
leagued themselves together under the
name of the Philadelphia Allied Or
CARNATIONS for the purpose of having
the Quaker City regain her lost pres
tige and acquire comprehensive park
system "that will be second to none
in the country"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-03

Though not a toilet necessity, a
new-style pocket-book that can be
buckled around the belt is bound to
be a favorite with business women.
because it is so handy. Unlike the
average purse that is attached to a
girdle, or hung to a chatelaine, this
pocket-book is narrow and long and
looks like a large pencil case. 1t
folds three times. In the first layer
there are round holes just the size of
5O-cent pieces, quarters. dimes, nickels
and pennies and into these recepta-
cles the coins are placed SO that they
will be held securely. On the second
layer there is a small elastic band,
under which the bills are put. The
third layer is the outside and fastens
with a stout button clasp that holds
the money as securely as it would
be in any hand purse. Made of mo-
rocco, in black, green or brown, these
pocket-books are neat and most serv-
iceable
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Economy in Buying
Goods at Wholesale.

zone of the greatest savings in the
small necessaries is to get them by
the Wholesale" advised a dressmaker.
Shields, ribbons to run in underwear
and the muslin to make the latter
with are all much below the prices
asked in retail shops, and by finding
some friend who is willing to halve
the purchases and expense this way
of buying is easily possible. Laces
can be bought for much less, but three
dozen yards of either edging or inser-
lions are in each packet, and these
will not be divided for the customer
In the muslin the pieces run from II
yards to forty or more, and the shields
are by the dozen. The ribbon must be
bought by the piece, but this last is
the usual manner CT purchasing the
narrow width.
''It is always worth while, too, in
making undergarments, pillow cases,
etc., which have to be washed con-
stantly, to use good fourfold linen but
tons, which will, if properly sewn on,
wear out with the article of dress.
"The old-fashioned ways of stitch
ing the buttons on in circle or across
in a wheel are very apt to tear the
button. A much firmer method of Sc
curing them is to take strong cotton
and make a tight, close, buttonholed
loop across the button, like the SUBJ
stitute for eyes used in dressmaking.
"The loop should be made of five or
six strands of cotton before it is but
tonholed to make it strong. Finish it
off firmly and neatly at the back and
there will be no fear of the button
coming off until scissors are applied
when it becomes too old and bent for
USE"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-03

The naybours then gathered In, an
they thried all they could with him
to pacify him, or dhrive particle of
sense Until his head.
"Wan an all agreed it was his datth
was on Padh. Some went home, an
them stayed behind got him until his
bed at last, when he got walker.
Then Nancy she got yOunghster
who could write, to draft out Padh's
will. They tried to insinse her, she
might as well be talkin' Jarmin to a
turkey-cock as thinkin' to get that
man to make will But Nancy, she
got the will ar the paper, an sets the
young fellow down with the pen in
his fist. an she says to Padh, says
she:
"'Me poor Padh, It's yer daith right
enough is on We, me poor man, an
veil need to divide yer Ian an belong
in's'-for it was Padhs name was in
the rent-book-'to divide, says she,
yer bit of Ian an belongings so as not
TO have suuabblin' about it when ye're
no more. Now, Padh', says she, !
know yell lay me the Lang Park, for
who has a betther right to it nor your
wife?'
can more If l had it, says Padh-
AN more if l had it,
"sPut that down. says Nancy to
the vounghster.
can Padh,' says she, know
ven not begrudge yer own Nancy the
RISKY fiep besides?'
can more if had it, Padh says.
An more if / had it,
can the Calves park, an the
Whinny hill. Padh. a mhic? says
she.
can more If L had it! En- more
il had it,
"'Put it all down, younghster. An
| daresay, Padh, yell be for THROWN
in to me, lakewise, the Pratie TEL
an the Black bottoms?'
can more if I had it.! An more
If had it,
AN so she went till she finished,
when she put the poor mans hand
to the pen till he made his mark, an
when Padh give up the ghost-which
wasn't many hours afther-there
wasn't COW, kline, stick, stave, cross
or crown about the house or place she
hadn't made herself heir to.
AN that was Padh Mullen's
Nancy"
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Weak Point.

The woman awoke and found the
bold burglar rummaging in the ward
robe.
81 am going to call the police" she
exclaimed, placing her hand on the
alarm button.
BLAST the luck!" mumbled the in
truder. That's what get for being
careful"
Careful"
Eyes; could have ransacked that
wardrobe ten minutes ago, but was
unusually careful for fear of injuring
that beautiful autumn hat
"You-you really think it pretty?"
Pretty? Why, it is gorgeous,
ma'am, and rather than displace a
feather in it | ran the risk OF being
captured. You wouldn't call the police
now, would your"
'N-no, 1 guess you can go this time"
And slipping couple of silver hair
brushes in his pocket the burglar
winked at the cuckoo clock and van
ished.- Chicago Daily News.
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Mourning Modes.

It is astonishing to notice how the
once popular black glace silk is now
being strictly confined to the realms
of mourning" and taking to a
great extent the place formerly occu-
pied by Grape, which is certainly worn
less and less every year, although
Paris dressmakers have made a very
strenuous effort this season to intro
duce a variety of white crepe. For
slight mourning quantity OF black
silk. mixed with silver braid, is be-
ing worn, while jet in all its forms
has once again been revived, and
makes even deep mourning smart
nowadays. Black fox is the favorite
fur for slight mourning, and both er-
mine and white fox are largely used
for slight or complimentary mourn
ing
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-03
Liuhts for Cattle.

l hope you will be able to spare me
space to put before the public the ne
cessity of cattle and sheep carrying
lights at nights on public roads in
these days of rapid locomotion, says a
communication to the Scotsman.
There have been many accidents, both
to motorists and cyclists, owing to the
fact of sheep and cattle not carrying
lights.
1t would surely be a very simple
thing for shepherds to carry lights
both in front and behind their flocks,
with glass of three colors, say red,
green and white, SO that flock of
sheep may be distinguished from all
other traffic.
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POSTUM CEREAL CO.. LTD.
Guarantee On Their Products.

We warrant and guarantee that
all packages of Postum Cereal, Grape
Nuts and Elijah's Mamma hereafter sold
by any jobber or retailer, comply with
the provisions of the National Pure
Food Law, and are not and shall not
be adulterated or mis-branded within
the meaning of said Act Of Congress
approved June 80, 1906, and entitled,
"An act l.r preventing the manufac-
ture, sale or transportation of adul-
terated or mis-branded or poisonous or
deleterious foods, drugs, medicines,
liquors, and for regulating traffic there
in for other purposes"
POSTUM CEREAL Co., LTD.
G. w. PosT, Chairman,
Battle Greek, Mich.
Dec. IL, 1906.
Subscribed and sworn TO before me
this 18th day of December, 1906.
BENJAMIN f. REID,
Notary Public.
My commission expires July l, 1907.
Our goods are pure, they always
have been and always will be, they are
not mis-branded. We have always
since the beginning of our business.
printed a truthful statement on the
packages of the ingredients contained
therein and we stand back Of every
package.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-03
STRANGE Beast in Pennsylvania.

Residents of Georgetown and Lau-
rel Run, on the mountain near here,
have been frightened by some strange
animal during the last few days,
which they say has appeared from the
brush along the mountain road be-
tween the two places. Opinion as to
what it is differ.
Some say that it is an enormous
ape, and others that it is a bear which
has wandered down from the Bear
creek district, where they are plenti-
full. Those who have seen it have
not waited to make any investigation,
but have fed as fast as they could
Wilkesbarre Cor. Philad elphia Press.
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Automobile Proposal.

The big green automobile sped down
the frosty road. Above the noisy
"chug chug" of the machine he had
proposed and had been refused.
Life is not worth living" he sighed.
"My heart is punctured." The beauti-
full girl smiled.
THANK goodness!" she exclaimed in
great relief.
THANK goodness for what?"
'HThat it is your heart that is pune
tured and not tire. We are 20 miles
from a repair station"
Without a word he put on full speed
and ran over pig and two COWS just
to let his feelings out.
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Monarchs as LineuIsts.

Monarchs must know more than one
language King Edward, who trav-
eled so. much, speaks French better
than some Frenchmen, and also Ger
man. The car of Russia speaks
French as well as his native tongue
and knows the numerous dialects.
Emperor William of Germany speaks
French and English correctly, and is
also well versed in Latin. The king
of Spain, the youngest of all, speaks
German with ease and also French
and English. Because of his marriage
he now practices the latter The king
of Portugal speaks French, English,
German and Spanish. The king OF
Italy is a master of French and Ger
man and is also well versed in the va
rious Italian dialects
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Enn the Thin Norman.

First of all the thin woman who
pants to gain flesh must stop worry
ing. She must eat little and often,
and drink milk between meals and
at bedtimes. Fruit in quantities must
be part of the daily diet, cereals,
starchy and sweet vegetables, Irish
and sweet potatoes, peas, corn and
beans and salads of all sorts, not to
mention bisque and cream soups.
Hot water should be taken morning
and night, and hot, not boiled, milk
in the same manner.
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BY SEUMAS MACMANUS

rot, they thought enough to make a
history-book.
"An' 10 an behouP! when they
comes in an sits down to the dinner,
there was no signs of the dhrake
forthcomin'. Padh looked roun' the
table
Nancy says he. where's the
dhrake?'
Where's the dhrake!' says she;
where would We think him to be?
ate him. Didn't We see the bones of
him on the dughill as We come in?
'What?' says Padh, says he, lifted
out of his safe with CONSERVATION;
ate the dhrake. Ye don't name to
say ye ate the whole dhrake?'
"'Och, We gommerlin, YET says she,
great fats it was, wasn't it, to ate a
weeshy bit of a dhrake? I did ate
him, in throth. an would ate more If
l had it.
AN och, lawhendie see! that was
the play. The oup mother an the
daughter as good as tainted; an Padh,
poor boy, he got his two hans, wan
to livery side of his head, to thry to
keep it from burstin', and wandered
through the house, up the house, an
down the house, an round the house,
his throat nivir closin', but ding-ding-
in away at the rhyme An more if
had it!-An' more if had it!-Och,
och, anee oh!-An' more if had It'll
An more if I had it!-An' more if
had it, An there he got on like a
ravin' lunatic, naither stoppin' nor
ceasin', barrin' to let heart-breakin'
sigh out of him for hours by the clock.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-03
corseIet Effect Tea Gowns.

The low cut under arm or corselet
effect used so much in girdles or pin.
afore blouses is seen in tea gowns.
Mysteriously cut, flowing lover
robes" are draped over waists aud
skirts which look as if they might
have been converted from evening
or afternoon gowns. The circular
opening formed under the arm is
edged rather deliberately with ribbon
or lace corresponding with the bot
tom. The fastening at the shoulder
is accomplished by button holding
the two points of the over robe to-
gether, or perhaps it is drawn IN IN
der little yoke or collar.
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!.
In making this claim the city of
Worcester does not include public
squares like Union Square in New
York city, land for which was pur-
chased by the city in 1888 for $1160
By a public park" the tablet means
a Countrywide region within city lin
it's, with woods and g1ades and wide
reaches of meadow. The man who
furnished the statistics upon which
the tablet is based is George A. Par
ker, superintendent of parks of Hart
ford, Conn, and secretary of the Ma
tional Association of Park Commits
sioners. He says that Worcester beat
New York city by two years in being
the pioneer park city. Andrew j.
Downing, he says, started city and
state legislation for what is now
known as Central Park, New York,
but Worcester jumped in ahead and
bought 27 acres for a park in 1854.
The first purchase of land for Central
Park was in 1856.
Although New York city has indeed
been tardy in the purchase of land
for parks, it nevertheless has secured,
all told, about 1926 park acres early
enough in the development of real
estate values to pay for the land one
fortieth what it would cost to-day.
For it's 225 different parks New York
city has spent about $50,000,000. This
includes only the cost of the ground.
At the present time these parks rep
resent, so real estate men say, an in
vestment of $2,000,000,0 900, a sum
equal to the total revenues of Switz-
erland for 200 years, and enough to
pay the interest for IL months on the
national debts of all the countries in
the world. Central Park alone is val
ued at $500 100000, or enough to wipe
out the entire debt of the city, yet
half a century ago its 843 acres were
bought for little more than hun
dredth part of this amount, or $685.
344.
In spite of the great cost of land
in New York city, nevertheless, more
park acres have been acquired within
it's boundaries than may be found
within the limits OF any other Amerl-
can city. 1t possesses as many park
acres as are contained in Chicago,
Baltimore, Cincinnati and Indianapolis
combined.
In the last ten years the Boston
Metropolitan Park Commissioners
have purchased 5000 acres, of $40
more than the entire park area OF
New York city, for $S,00O,O00. The to-
tai area of all the parks within the
metropolitan district is about $4,000
acres. or about twice that possessed
by New York city.
The largest of the parks in the Bos-
ton metropolitan district is the Blue
Hills reservation, with an area of
4.S67 acres, or 780 acres more than
are included in all of the big Bronx
parks. 1t is covered with forests, riv-
ers, lakes and ponds. and is to be kept
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gift baby be made from argsize hand
handkerchief
handkerchief be bought for rs cents and
of
cheaper handkerchief will
cutting stitches be laid
the
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little this will
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In the Garden.

The roses blushed a deeper red,
The lilies looked more sanity,
The sweet-alyssum hung its head
And smiled and frowned most quantity
The daisies even at my feet
Were strangely knowing, strangely sweet
The hollyhocks against the wall,
So serious and old fashioned,
Were all astir; the larkspur tall
Seemed really quite impassioned.
1 watched them all, but could not guess
What made their sudden consciousness.
Where e'er I looked their little eyes
Were eager, wise, and tender,
AS if they had some new surprise
Or sympathy to render
But turning around, all unaware.
1 saw that She was standing there!
Helen A. Saxon, in Metropolitan.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-03

The people of Cornwalrs coast OBJ
ject to the Great Western Railway
company applying foreign names to
their climate and scenery One adver-
tisement called a certain locality the
English Riviera" and a Cornishman
at a meeting of protest the other
night said Cornwall had nothing to
gain by being called after something
in the south of France or a dirty lit
tie Italian town."
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uncurIed Ostrich PIumes.

The vogue for uncurled ostrich
plumes which are put upon hats in
the condition in which at one time
one would have made haste to have
them removed and sent to the curler,
is said to owe its origin to a very
wet day in Paris last spring. The
fashionable world drove home from
Longchamp at the end of the pro.
ceedings with uncurled feathers in
the majority, and the effect was SO
pleasingly novel as to set passing
fashion.
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PRETTY colors Shown in Robes.

Some graceful gowns in shades of
gray, red, deep mauve and blue are
being shown in sort of monks robe
with square neck cut out. Around the
neck and down the front of the gown
is a narrow braid trimming in seal
lops that suggests Notwithstanding
and line of French knots would
make everybody but the closest OBJ
server suppose it had been finished
by hand. A cord is around the waist,
and the simple garment is exception
ally pleasing.