The southern sentinel., 1907-12-13
LIVING SPIRIT OF
DAILY EVENTS
These Stride Steadily Onward
Ever Before Their Accum-
ulating Realities.

During the November term of
the Baton Rouge criminal court,
out of sevcnty-two cases there
were sixty-se7en convictions. or
these fifty-five were for violating
the Sunday law, operating slot
machines and shooting craps.
Will Moore, negro who stole
the communion service from the
Christian Church of Baton Rouge,
was sentenced to seven years in
the penitentiary for burglary and
larceny. A robber should beware
how he appropriates sacred things.
1t is highly gratifying to note
that the New Orleans banks re-
port their cash balances as ten
per cent above the legal require
nents. On the other hand the
banks of New York are short.
Specializing in stocks does not
seem very safe investment.
w. B. Farrar was arrested in
Shreveport last week charged
with the embezzlement of between
$4,000 and $4,000 from Levi
Fowler. He was released on a
$1,000 bond, signed by several
of the prominent citizens of that
city.
1t is q matter of pride and graf
i6cation that the men behind the
guns of that splendid war vessel,
the Louisiana, in competitive
shoot recently, won the first prize
for Workmanship. The men get
$4,000, the cash prize offered by
the National Government.
The Atchafayala levee board
are building a system of levees
along that stream to confine the
watcrs within its banks. This
will reclaim thousands of acres of
xlluvial land composed of sanity
loam and decayed vegetable mat
ter. making 1t the most productive
soil when open to cultivation that
the world holds today.
All kinds of estimates are being
made as to the amount saved to
the State by the recent reform
legislation. Judge j. T. Herman
of Baton Rouge places the figures
at an annual saving of $310, 900.
This sum is distributed among the
parishes, levce boards, municipal
tiles. and the officers of the State
itself. The saving amounts to
the bond rate of interest on ST.
100000.
The Texas & Pacific has preci-
pitated another States right fight
BY filing an injunction suit in the
Federal Court TO prevent the en-
fprcement of an order of the
Railroad Commission relative to
IN additional service between Port
Allen and Baton Rouge Junction
for the convenience of passengers
going to and from Baton Rouge
tothe junction. The order was
Issued thirty days previous tol
Dec. End when it expired. 1t is
i'd the nature of hostility to the
recent reform legislation of the
extra session of the Legislature.
/. It is q asplendid thought that one |
hes power and then exercise it in
q beneficial and wise manner. |
That is the privilege of the free
citizen who holds and casts his
ballot. If there are any abuses
that bear heavily on the public, |
the people are responsible for |
them. Wise and discreet men
make good laws. Public opinion
can enforce them by seeing that
they. are rigidly observed and
obeycd. No man will disregard
any law when he is thoroughly
convinced that its infraction will
be exposed and promptly punish |
ed. Condoning the violation of
law is wha. makes it imperative. |
Some conception may be gained
rs to how much expense the peo-
pie of Louisiana were paying in
unnecessary sinecures by the |
amount of the surplus that has
been Topped off by the recent
reform measures. Of course the
officials were the beneficiaries Of
what the law allowed them. but
the law-framers were responsible
for the extra,sgance. There ar.
still other necessary reforms to be |