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The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

them well. 1De greatest tonlc
known. 80 cents. Tea or Tablets.
Phoenix Drug Company.
Mr.. j. Hargis Shaw returned
Sunday from Tyler, Texas, where
he spent several months taking a
course in a business college.
Long & Black do public hauling.
If you want hauling done call up No.
81 over the phone. They make a
speciality of carrying travelling men
and their trunks: will furnish you
card with distances from Winfield
to any point you may desire to go by
team.
Mr.. A. L. Martin. of Cold
water, was among the visitors to
town Monday.
For prompt shipment and New
Orleans prices, send your orders
for sash, doors, blinds and
window screens to CaddO
Rapides Lumber Co., Ltd,
Alexandria, La. Chas. III. Teal,
Treasurer; Walter d. Lurry,
Secretary. apr ..
Mr.. Marcus Kaliski, of Monroe,
was in Winfield the first of this
week on a visit to the family of
Mr.. NJ. Bernstein.
A little Kodol taken occasion
ally, especially after eating, will
relieve sour stomach, belching
and heartburn. j. B. Jones,
Newport Tenn, writes: 81 am
sure three one dollar bottles of
your Kodol positively cured me
of dyspepsia, and l can recon-
mend it as that was three years
ago and l haven't been bothered
since with it." Kodol Is guaran-
teed to give relief. Sold by
Smith Grisham Drug Co.
Mr.. w. l.. Bouchillon, of
Washington, Miss, gave The
Sentinel call Monday. He had
spent a couple of weeks visiting
relatives at Atlanta and was en-
the way home.
Artists have no trouble i'm seeur-
ing models. The famous beauties
have discarded corsets and have
become models in face and form
since taking HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea. 30 cents, Tea or
Tablets. Phoenix Drug Com
panT
The Rock Island passenger
train, due to leave at 6 a. M, did
not get out from Winfield Mon
day morning until 10:40 O'Clock
because of a wreck up the line
about Winona.
-
"Hers's to you health and hap
pIness"-DeWitt's Little Early
Risers-famous little pills.
Nasty, sick headache or bilious
ness may come on any time; the
cure is an Early Riser. Sold by
Smith -Grisham Drug Go.
Rev. r. +. Estes, representing
the Shreveport Times, spent Mon
day in Wlnnfel1. The manage
ment of The Times contemplates
establishing a carrier service In
Winfield to deliver the papers
to subscribers.
- =
DeWitt's Carbohzed Witch
Hazel Salve does not merely heal
on the surface; it penetrates the
pores and promptly relieves pain,
caused by bolls, burns. scalds,
cuts and skin diseases. Ii is
especially good for piles. Be-
ware of limitations. Sold by
Smith -Grisham Drug Co.
Mr.. A. S. Peters, of Flat Creek.
was a visitor to town Tuesday,
having come to attend a meeting
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

Lumber bought in the rough at
mill. State prices and address
Caddo-Ra Lumber Co., Ltd.
Alexandria, La. Chas. III. Teal,
Treasurer; Walter ID. Lurrys
Secretary. 40
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

Mr.. w. l.. Bouchillon, of
Washington, Miss. gave The
Sentinel call Monday. He had
spent couple of weeks visiting
relatives at Atlanta and was en-
the way home.
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

Artists have no trouble in secur-
ing models. The famous beauties
have discarded corsets and have
become models in face and form
since taking HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea. 80 cents, Tea or
Tablets. Phoenix Drug Com
pany
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

Mr.. 1. B. White, of Alexandra,
spent a few days in Winfield the
first of this week looking after
business affairs.
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

The Rock Island passenger
train, due to leave at 6 a. M, did
not get out from Winfield Mon
day morning until 10:40 O'Clock
because of a wreck up the line
about Winona.
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

Col. NJ. b. Hilliard, represent
ing the Times Democrat, spent a
couple of days in Winfield re-
Gently getting information for a
special write-up which will appear
in that enterpriSing Journal.
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

Miss Elvie Fisher has returned
home from the State Normal.
She was accompanied by her cou-
sin, Miss Ella Hyde, of Lake
End, who will spend some time
here among relatives and friends.
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

"Here's to you health and hap
pIness"-DeWitt's Little Early
Risers-famous little pills.
Nasty, sick headache or bilious
ness may come on any time; the
cure is an Early Riser. Sold by
Smith, -Grisham Drug Go.
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

Mr.. j. Hargis Shaw returned
Sunday from Tyler, Texas, where
he spent several months taking o
course in a business college.
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

Mr.. d. NJ. Pyburn, of Dodson
spent Tuesday in Winfield at
tending the meeting of the Jury
Commission.
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

Mr.. A. L. Martin. of Cold
water, was among the visitors to
town Monday.
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

Mr.. Marcus Kaliski, of Monroe,
was in Winfield the first of this
week on visit to the family of
Mr.. M. Bernstein.
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

It's too bad to see people who
60 from day to day suffering from
physical weakness whenHOllister's
Rocky Mountain Tea would make
them well. The greatest tonic
known. 80 cents. Tea or Tablets.
Phoenix Drug Company.
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24
Knights OF Honor.

WINFIELD Lodge knights of
Honor meets on the first and
third Tuesdays in each month at
ihe Woodmen Hall on Jones
tsteet. e. III. EyLIorT, Dict'r.
|C. w. SnlrB Reporter. u,
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

Long & Black do public hauling.
If you want hauling done call up No.
81 over the phone. They make a
speciality of carrying travelling men
and their trunks: will furnish you
a card with distances from WINFIELD
to any point you may desire to go by
team.
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

For prompt shipment and New
Orleans prices, send your order:
for sash, doors, blinds and
window screens to CaddO
Rapides Lumber Co., Ltd,
Alexandria, La. Chas. III. Teal,
Treasurer; Walter d. Lurry
Secretary. apr D.
The southern sentinel., 1907-05-24

Rev. r. f. Estes, representing
the Shreveport Times, spent Mon
day in WINFIELD. The manage
ment of The Times contemplate'
establishing a carrier service II
Winfield to deliver the papers
to subscribers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-27
ALABAMA WISDOM.

From the Wall Street Summary
 Rich In agricultural, mineral and indus trial resources, and awaiting the advent of capital to prove to the country at large the hidden wealth that is hers, Ala bama, mirable dictu taxes foreign cap ital The state legislature In a moment of supreme folly passed an act which im- poses tax on loans or advances made by nonresident persons or corporations To justify this those In favor of the law contend that the borrower will have to refund to the non-resident lender the amount of the tax; but they overlook the economic fact that capital is ever unfettered and is always reluctant to engage itself where legislation is hostile or unfrendly. With open invitations from other states it is not reasonable to sup pose that Aabama's tax law barrier will prove a superior attraction. The law in mtted to initiate any further against the state, and in this connection our es- teemed contemporary, the Birmingham Age-Herald, says: 'The hope is freely ex- pressed that the legislature will next month repeal the act taxing loans made by persons and corporations domiciled In other states. The state does not need revenue. The increase in taxable values will fill the treasury, and the state can not now either on account of revenue or on account of her own development eco- nomically afford to retain the law passed last winter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-27
County Supervisors

Although in no town in the entire country is superintendent of schools elected by direct vote-almost inyari- ably by a board of education-yet the opponents of efficient supervision of rural schools go on babbling about autocracy and the downfall of the re- public if three score or so incapables are turned out, and slxty-seven teach CTS holding irst-grade certificates are put in.
 They are not talking such nonsense in Atlanta, where the ring has recently proposed to make the city schools superintendent elective. Hear the Con- stitution: Do the parents of Atlanta wish to run the risk of having the ward heeler of gumshoe and star cham Der and sometimes unsavory methods participate in the nomination of the teachers who are to come in daily five hours contact with their children?" That's the way the matter looks in At 1anta, and no doubt Atlanta will con tinue to let it's board of education se- feet it's school superintendents, thus keeping that all-important office out of politics.
 The republic has not fallen in At lanta, and it will not fall in Alabama if the legislature turns the incompe- tents out and gives the rural schools supervision approaching if not equal ing that of the city schools. It is a matter of justice to S00000 children 100000 at any rate-in the rural schools, and their welfare should out rank in the legislative mind the well fare of a handful of placeholders in the various counties of this state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-27
Plan Declared IIIeqaI.

q was greatly interested in this dis patch" said a well known insurance man, which sets forth ruling on new in- surance plan originated in Georgia. The account is as follows:
 Attorney General John c. Hart yester- day submitted to Comptroller General w. A. Wright an opinion in which he holds to be illegal a new plan which the State mutual Life Insurance company of Rome proposed to put into effect, but which was first submitted to the comptroller general for his ruling.
 "The plan, in brief, provides for the es- tablishment of the Cooperative Agency company, for which a charter has been secured from the superior court, and which is to write insurance for the State Mutual The agency company proposed to issue and sell a lot of stock, to the extent as permitted under its charter of $10,000,000. This was to be stock In the agency company, sold either to policy holders or -policy-holders in the in surance company and the proceeds from the sale of such stock were to be turned over to the insurance company thus leav- ing the stock without assets-at least without the assets derived from the sale of the stock.
 Judge Hart states in his adverse opin- ion that he finds nothing in the plan which would endanger the solvency of the insurance company. as 1t would real ly give 1t more assets, and the question of fraud, he says, would depend upon the representations made by agents to purchasers of the agency stock.
 But Judge Hart reaches the conclu- sion that the insurance company and the agency company, while purporting to be separate corporations, are in fact but one The plan, he says. puts the insurance company in the position of capitaizing a liability and making an asset out of 1t.
 Judge Hart bases his opinion as to the illegality of the plan upon the fact that the contract between the insurance com pany and the agency company is an H. legal one so far as the insurance com pany is concerned, because it is not with In the scope of it's charter powers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-27
Knox Talks of Anniston.

John B. Knox of Anniston, who was in Birmingham yesterday, was in excellent humor and was willing to talk; not on politics, but on general questions. He said:
 "Anniston Is growing as never before in her history Our city is simply keeping up with the general progress of Alabama, and one of these days we expect to rival Birmingham in a way. Why not? We have railroads, coal and iron in close proximity and an agricultural section rich and productive.
 ''To me it seems that politics in Ala bama are settled for a time and 1 see no necessity for discussing matters in that connection.
 'T am going out to the baseball game now. Won't you join me? By the way, the American games of sport are more interesting to me at this time than poli- tics, and so they are to the common masses of the common people.
 Crops in Calhoun are reported by farm CTS to be little short, but they are not in debt and will pull through without trouble. Do you not know that the aver age Alabama farmer is the most inde- pendent man living? do. and l rejoice in his happiness"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-27
BULLETIN ON TWAIN.
Why He Kept Ills Hat on In the Pres
 ence of Royalty.

 London Cable Dispatch in New York
 Times.
 'Is it true that you kept your hat on when you met the King yesterday, and slapped him on the back while you were talking and laughing with him?'' I asked Mark Twain this afternoon, directing his attention to a paragraph in a London were good-naturedly alleged against him.
 I'll tell you Just what took place. said Mark Twain. When I renewed my ac- quaintance with the Queen I took off my hat and made my lowest bow Put on your hat put on your hat said the Queen. fearing, l suppose. I'd catch cold. But l didn't obey her, and we continued our conversation, I remaining uncovered. Presently the Queen told me again to put on my hat and her tone was such that l couldn't, with gallantry, longer disre- gard her injunction.
 Almost immediately thereafter I was presented to King Edward, and remem- bering the Queens command, kept my hat on I didn't feel at liberty to do anything different"
 And did you slap the King on the back?"
 No; of course I didn't. The King put his hand on my arm, and, not to be out done, even by a sovereign. went bit higher and laid my hand on his shoulder Each of us meant to houor the other in this laying on of hands"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-27
Anti-S0uihern ConsniracY

President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton association, who has just returned from Liverpool, exposes in an open letter addressed to the New York papers the villainous efforts of the New York cotton exchange to de- press the price of slot cotton. Any old rubbish is tenderable on it's contracts, and are taking advantage of it. While MT. Jordan was In Liverpool he ascer tained that 5000 bales had been gotten together in that city, it's very refuse and all unspinnable, and those 5000 bales had been shipped back to New York for delivery on contracts under the rules and vile interpretations of the New York cotton exchange. The worlds rubbishy cotton is being dumped on New York. The rules of the New York cotton exchange are fairly good, but they are interpreted and put into execution according to the desires of New England spinners.
 The entire scheme Is simply one to depress the price of spot cotton, thus robbing the producer and stufing the pockets of New England spinners. The difference today between the prices of raw cotton and those of cotton goods would be ludicrous if it were not viii lainous. The quotations of Wednesday of the present week tell the entire story. Spot cotton in New York was worth 13 cents, and yet the New York cotton exchange quotes June contracts at 11.79! This lets the cat out of the bag. June contracts of the New York cotton exchange are, however, really valueless so far as spinnable cotton Is concerned.
 The entire scheme is engineered to rob the south, and the south should cut loose, lock, stock and barrel, from New York by transferring all it's cot ton business to New Orleans, where contract Is a good contract, even when delivery upon it is demanded
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-27
ALL SETTLED.
le Montgonnerv Advertiser

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 If we copied all that the Alabama and outside papers had to say about the senatorial succession. and the binding force of the primary, We would have little room for anything else We have pub lshed many extracts from every quarter of the state and they are nearly all of one view, viz: that the legislature must obey the voice of the people as expressed at the primary. It is unnecessary to copy more of these articles, and we content ourselves by saying that if the expressions of citizens and newspapers count for any thing, the legislature will waste no time over the election of a successor to Sem ator Morgan, They will recognize the fact that the people did this last year. when they selected state officers and mem- bers of the legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-27
CONSIDERING NEAR-POETS.
e Washington Post

! From the Washington Post. l The Washington Herald cordially and heartily welcomes additions to Its already , world-famous galaxy of near poets From New Hampshire to Texas from Montana to Florida-not to mention several points outside the three-mile limits of the sea- shore--near-poetr has been lavished upon us. Some of 1t has come by way of our exchanges, some of it has been rendered by near-poets themselves, and some has come from loving friends of bards too modest to let their lights coruscate be- | fore men.
 If you know a near-poet let us hear l from O. about minor her. Beside such celebrities Morgan Motte Nudge, To- bias Spriggins Wiggins, Pansy O'Brfien McNutt and Jay Byrd OFlannagan it is an honor to shine. All of these now hold high place in the Hall of Fame we have set up and there Is always room for one more. In this respect, no flower should blush unseen or waste it's sweetness on the desert air.
 But there must be no pushing or show ing or other unseemly conduct Here, for instance, Is an anonymous offering
 
 the Prnxsutawney Spirit: 'The bald-headed man and the house-fiy- Eftscon they will get together, And elxe will do their best to make Things lively for each other'
 
 Who Is the author of this quatrain? It comes squarely up to the standard of worthy near-poetry as set by such emi- nent authorities as those cited above. Our contemporary sees fit to give it forth to the rabble unlabeled and unsigned. As to it's authorship the Spirit doesn't even whisper. Right into this breach the Washington Herald hurls itself. and in- slsts that the writer's name be heralded while yet there is no room for dispute or opportunity for rival near-poets to wrest from the brow of one so worthy one single sprig of laurel. We are the near-poets friend his guardian and his guarantee to fame The near-poets must and shall be protected Let needless con temporaries be warned; let them give crdt where credit is due, or beware the consequences.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-27

troller the President is popular in tho south, but when he tries to tread down the unwritten law concerning a third term he must have a better record than he holds in relation to the Ding ley tariff and the slushites of Wall street. he south is heavily taxed by Dingleyism in order to increase the number of millionaires in the east and central west. Nor has the south yet accepted the plan of electing Presidents and maintaining Dingleyism through a vast fund contributed by tariff bene- ficiaries aided by the exploiters of Wall street. The President quails be- fore the Dingley tariff and the public ity issue. His backbone disappears at once, and he becomes a standard pluto cratic republican at once.
 To say that the south will accept such a man is to put the south in the slush and looters' column, and the south has no intention of accepting a classification of that sort-at least not the south below the Potomac and the Ohio, and so on out to Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. The John Temple Graves bond needs strengthening, even so far as Georgia is concerned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-27
WHAT BECOMES OF ACTORS?

comparison of programmes for several seasons shows that 40 per cent of the players are with us only for a season I was in Richmond, Va, and Columbus O., during the latter part of February, and carrying out my investigation In thoso towns found they were substantially the same, insofar as percentage of difference was concerned, as those in the first town had examined the theatre programmes. Making due allowance for the drift to stock companies, for tours limited to cer- tain sections, for illness and death at least 10 per cent of the actors who are with us one season disappear at its end to be seen or heard of no more. .s ta.---=
 What becomes of them all? One theorist ayers that most of the girls get married after they've been disillusionized and the men go to work as soon as they have re- covered their sanity. But the briefness of stage life is a startling fact One season and most of the players are finished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-27
LITERARY "HOGWAsH,.

From the Atchison (Kan) Globe. The very worst books ever written are l the Nick Carter'' detective stories pub lished by Street & Smith of New York. It seems that they were all turned out by one man, and that man lives in Kan sas For years he has produced a detec- tive story every two weeks, and the in- evitabe result has been recorded he is hopeiessly insane. Sundry newspapers have commented upon his work as being something phenomenal as regards quan- tity. Any fairly industrious newspaper man writes enough in week to make two or three books as large as the aver ave 1o-cent novel. When we hear of such producer of hogwash as the author of the Nick Carter stories collapsing un- der a mental strain" we think the joke is too good to keep.
 Meanwhile, we are glad to chronicle the fact that Joe Badger never collapsed un der mental strain. In the days when the old-fashioned dime novels were popu- lar-the novels treated of hunters and trappers who spent their time killing In- dians-Joe lived at Frankfort and ground out two novel a. month and received a hundred iron dollars a month for each.
 He didn't take his work seriously; he used to laugh at his own stories and called them rubbish. The time came when people grew weary of hunters and trappers who were always red with the gore of Indians, and Joes reputation was gone.
 But he didn't murmur or repine, or have brainstorm, or collapse under a mental strain. He went to Blue Rapids and opened billiard hall, and he is there to this day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-27
Absence of Neqroes.

'I visited the United States court room and several other courts today" said a New England visitor. and was much surprised to find the preponderance of white officials, jurors witnesses and oth- CT attendants. The judges were white in all the courts, the twelve jurors were white the litigants were white, and out of about one hundred people in the Unit ed States court room l counted only seven negroes.
 Tn your state courts l find many more black people than in the United States court, but no jurors. These scenes were a revelation to me and l can't exactly understand the proposition in state where the negro is so much in evidence" "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Morgan and the Secession Convention,

Morgan and the Secession Convention.
 There are only four of us left said Judge A. A. Coleman speaking of the Alabama secession convention, 'Inzer Ste vens, Jones and myself.
 Morgan was the same well poised, well equipped man in that convention that he has shown himself always to be in public matters. He was fully posted on states rights and made a great inn pression in the debates. It is an error according to my recollection to say that he was opposed to secession in the con- vention. He was of the unwavering opinion that under the constitution each state must and should act as a separate entity and that there could not be a legal confederation for secession. The question came up on my resolution call ing for cooperation in secession of all states that chose to unite Robert Jeni- son. N. N. Clements and Nick Davis were those most prominent in opposition to se- cession. William l.. Yancey managed the side of those who sought for an assertion of the rights of the states in secession. The history that followed is known to all men"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-27
A STRONG LETTER.
the Mobile Register.

From the Mobile Register.
 Joseph F. Johnston is obligated by his position to defend the nomination of MT. >Bankhead for senator, but all who read what the former governor has written in defense of that nomination must admi, that he wrote well. There is gravity in expression that adds to the force of his letter It Is impossible to get away from the logic employed