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The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-07-26
A DAY SPENT
IN WILD WOODS
The Baptist Sunday School
Children Enjoy a Picnic
on Port De Luce.

Last Thursday Mrs. A. S.Norrid
accompanied by Mrs. j. A. Col
vim and Mrs. S. A. Wright tender
ed to her Sunday School class a
highly enjoyable picnic and fish
fry on Port de Loup. The party
consisted of seventeen of the most
eager and happiest children in
Winfield. We all arrived at the
creek about 1890 am. and as soon
as hooks could be fastened to lines
and baited all the little folks were
fishing. How they did enjoy CATCH
ing fish, They soon caught enough
for us to begin to cook them. So
about 1890 we certainly enjoyed
bountiful diuner, consisting of
fried fish, fried chicken, sand
wiches, salad, pickles, cakes, pies.
custard, in fact there were too
many nice things to endevaor to
mention them all. / want to com.
pllmept the mothers In our town.
Such pains they did take in pre-
parlng this picnic dinner, just for
the dear little children. For every
child carried a nice basket. After
dinner was finished the children
enjoyed an hour playing hide AMI
seek. dropping the handkerchief
and number of other little games
that children delight in. After
they were tired playing. l could
not think of anything that would
please them better than to take
them all In wading, and Oh! how
they did enjoy thatl 1t was an
attractive sight to see so many
little folks all out in the
water. l think they enjoyed that
even more than catching fish.
About three o'clock the teams
came TO the creek for the return
home, but, no, the children all
desired to stay a little longer.
They were having such an enjoy
able time, but, of course, we all
came home. The children all
returned with me, and continue
their play until about 4:30 p. m i
then they all bade me good bye
and started for their homes, de-
cIaring they had spent a most
delightful day. The sweetest
words / ever read was the loving
words the Saviour said: "Suffer
little children to come unto me"
THEIR TEACHER.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-07-26
Enjoyable Social.

Last Monday, a highly enjoy
able reception was given at the
residence of Mrs. s. M. Abel,
complimentary to Miss Florence
Barr, an attractive young lady
from Oak Ridge. There were
present on this occasion Misses
Monnie and Ina Watts, Pauline
and Pearl Williams, Lena and
Bessie Tannehill, Onie Teddlie,
Mary Selden, Mary Holloway and
Nettie Teaglc.
Mrs. Abel proved most
charming hostess, and delicious
refreshments were served. The
guests then took a ride in a
bus late In the evening. All an
nounced that they had spent a
most delightful evening.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-07-26
Mr.. Emile Vuillemot.

Mr.. Emile Vuillemot, who for
several years was employed here
In the State Assessors office and
who at present is in charge of the
Tax and Land departments in the
State Auditors Office at Baton
Rouge, La, is here circulating
among his friends in furthering
the interests sof his candidacy for
the Office of Register of the State
Land Office.
Mr.. Vuillemot is a citizen of
the Parish of Iberia, and has had
considerable experience in Id
matters, he has made a study of
the public lands of this State.
From information we can gath
er it is learned that this is the
first time that any citizen<4r
the parish of iberia has offered
his name for q State Office. Mr..
Vuillemot has a host of friends
here where he is known to nearly
every one. That he will receive
the support of large part of the
State is assurcd.-New Iberia
Enterprise.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-07-26
Base Ball News.

The Alexandria team of the
Gulf Coast League passed through
Winfield Tuesday morning en-
route to Monroe. where they were
scheduled to play Tuesday, WED
nesiay and Thursday. They say
they would give our team a game
on one of their off-days. Let
them come.
The Jonesboro base hall team
crossed bats with the Winfield
nine at West End Park in this
city Tuesday, Wednesday and
yesterday. The first game was
an easy victory for WINFIELD, La
to 5, and also was the second, III
to 5. The Sentinel went to press
this Thursday evening before
the result of the third game could
be learned, but our boys will or
ought to make it three straight.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-07-26
Church Notice.

CRev. DIR. w. E. Boggs, pastor
of the First Methodist Episcopal
CHURCH of Shreveport, will fill
the pulpit at the First Methodist
church here next Sunday In the
absence of Rev. X. A. Holloway.
Everybody cordially invited.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-07-26
A Family Reunion.

Mr.. Arnold Bernstein and wife,
of Monroe, have been spending
this week with Mr.. Bernstein s
parents, Mr.. and Mrs.. P. Bern
stein, on Main street.
There was a family reunion
last week, when the four sons
and two daughters were at home
ut one time. Such reunions
make every one feel better and
every family that could should
have these reunions.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-07-26
WlNN PARISH
HIGH SCHOOL
Plans and Specifications for the
Erection Of the Structure
Submitted.

The joint committee of the
parish board of school directors
and the local board of the Winn-
field school district met on last
Monday for the purpose of select
ing plans and the location of a
suitable lot on which to build
this structure. Mr.. VIM. McIn-
tosh, of Wianfield, submitted a
set of plans which he estimated
could be- built on q lot 220 feet
wlde, with 18 classrooms on the
first and second floors and two on
the third, for the sum of $4,000,
and an additional plan for a lot
80 feet wide, for the sum
of $4,000. His building was a
three story structure with base
ment; the third story to contain
N auditorium, which would seat
$50 persons, and two lecture
rooms in the rear which could be
thrown into the auditorium,
which would increase the seating
capacity $50.
Mr.. Will Drago submitted
plan for q building 274 feet long,
with q basement and two stories,
With IA class rooms on the first
ho0r and six on the second floor,
and an auditorium which would
seat 1900 persons.
The easements of the two
buildings were made on the same
plans for manual training, gym
nasium and domestic science.
Mr.. Hull, of the Hull Con-
etruction Company, submitted
plans for the construction of a
three story building on 2l0 foot
lot. The arrangement of class
rooms was somewhat different
from the other two.
After an executive session OF
tbe committee it was announced
that SIR. Drago's plans had been
adopted, but that the building
Was not to be completed as a
whole, only the basement and
6rst door to he fully completed.
and the wall and roof, the second
1oor to be completed later. The
exterior finish, basement, first
10or and roof, finished, to cost
$50, 900.
Now, Is they have adopted the
plans which call for q lot not
les than 274 feet, it will neces-
state the purchase of more
property. as the present school
los i only go feet square. We
understand there is proposition
10 buy property on Main street
Which will cost something near
q. 900. so as to have q lot long
enough to put 274 foot building
%. The cost of Mr.. Drsgo's
plnns and specifications is $2.625,
While those of Mr.. Mcintosh cost
ouky $1,000. Again Mr.. McIn-
(osh's plans will not require
ndditional ground, while the other |
oloas caIl for an investment Of
n<ar $4,000. To Offset this, Is
ke price for which the old
cchool building and lot could be
6old, and one Of the committee
lnforme us that be thinks they
|rould have no trouble in DIS
cooinE Of il for $1,000, making |
'6kc net additional cost for
1roands, 1900. Add that tol
~ difference in the cost of the
lnns nnd specifications, Of u, 1926.
znkos ! grand total Of $685..
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-07-26
A Serious Accident.

Young Fred Dickerson, en-
ployed by the Sulphur Timber &
Lumber Company, while working
around one of the machines. got
caught in one of the belts and had
one of his legs broken, the bone
protruding through the flesh and
skin. This occurred just before
we went to press, and we cannot
state whether it was necessary to
amputate his leg. He is brother
to the young man who got his arm
cut at the Elliott mill Monday.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-07-26
New Restaurant Opened.

Messrs. Mack Brothers have
opened first class restaurant in
the Jones building corner Bevill
and Court street. The editor of
The Sentinel can testify to the
excellence of their catering. hav-
ing taken advantage of one of
their most excellent dinners.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-07-26

If you haze no appetite for
your meals something is wrong
with your digestion, liver or bow
els. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS
cleanses and strengthens the stom-
ach, ,purifies the bowels and creates
appetite vigor and cheerfulness.
Smith & Grisham Drug Go.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-07-26
SERIOUS RUNAWAY
RESULTS IN DEATH
Mrs. James Parker Thrown Out
Of Her Buggy and Killed
Near Beech p. o.

Mrs. James Parker, of Frank
I'm parish, who has been on a visit
to her father, Mr.. II. w. Holmes,
near Beech Post Otice in ward 2,
was killed by her horse running
away last Sunday. She had been
to Beech Greek church and was
on her Way to dine with the fam
lily of her brother-ln-law, Mr..
Isaac Parker. The hors, became
frightened and started to run
away. She found she had lost
control of the horse and threw
her baby out on the roadside. who
escaped seaious injury. A little
girl, eight years old, who was on
the seat with her, was thrown in
u creek, which they crossed. and
in addition to being seriously IN
jured, came near being drowned
before she was rescued: There
were three or four little girls sit
ting in the box Of the buggy be-
hind the seat who were all thrown
out without serious injury.
Mrs. Parker was thrown against
a tree and one OF the spokes from
the broken wheel broke q hole in
her skull.
The accident has cast . gloom
over the entire community. Mrs.
Holmes. the mother of the unfor-
tuuate woman, has been quite i'll
ever since. The Sentinel extends
to the bereased family its sincere
coincidence.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-07-26
New Charter Issued.

The attention OF the public is
called to the charter of the Com
merciaI Club in another column
of this paper. This club was re-
Gently organized In this city, and
is now domiciled in the Bernstein
building. The rooms are beauli-
fully decorated and made cozy
and cool, and all the conveniences
of a social club will be inaugur-
ated. The objects, purposes and
officers are detailed in the charter.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-07-26
State Military Encampment.

State Military Encampment.
The encampment of National
State Guard will be held at Camp
Stafford, near Aiexandria, Aug
ust 5th to l4th inclusive.
Each and every day will be a
lay of interest and pleasures
drill, dress parades. target prac-
tice. reviews, dancing and music.
Event of encampment will be
Alexandria Day, Monday, August
18th, when the Governor and
stab will review troops. On
Tuesday. the 18th the great Sham
Battle takes place, 1900 troops in
battle array.
At all L. r. & N. Co. agency
stations tickets will be on sale
every day at one and one-third
fare with return limit August Is,
Alexandria Day at greatly reduced
rates.
L. r. & N. Co. trains leave
Alexandria every hour for Camp
Stafford.
See dodgers and any agent for
additional information.
E. &. d. MARSHALL, G. p. A.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-07-26

1 want all the chickens and
eggs that can be brought to
WINFIELD. Will pay the highest
- T. J. DEEwErr.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-07-26
Appreciated Letter.

Shreveport, La, July 2l, 1907.
Dear Editor Sentinel:
Perhaps Jon are not yet aware
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-22

generals and statesmen is too obvious to need
stating. But for the Civil War, Grant, though he
had military training, would have remained
obscure tanner in Galena Sherman, Sheridan, Gus
ter, and the rest would have spent their lives at
various outposts in the far West, known only to
military circles But for the great political questions
that shook the country before that war; brought
it on and carried it through history records
Abraham Lincoln would have never done more than
grace the Springfield bar.
1t would be easy if space permitted to take up
other classes of eminent Americans and show how
in one way or another the particular environment
in each the decisive factor in their
For example, Benjamin Franklin, though in some
what straitened economic circumstances in his
youth, printer by trade, and thus always
able to earn livelihood. But the printers is the
one trade which has for its natural effect to bring
its possessor into direct contact with the great
and great thoughts of the age. The average journey
man sets up the type from the copy before him
without imbibng the thought that it expresses.
but for a genius like Franklin every type touched
with his finger is fraught with meaning, and
printing office is a university. If Benjamin Frank
lin had learned the shoemakers instead of the print
er's trade, he never would have captured the
thunderbot.
Anything connected with the press proves highly
educative the selling of newspapers; and as
Ebert Hubbard has said, one never knows what
future may Turk in half-clad newsboy crying his
wares 1t is probable that the world is indebted
to this profession for an Edison. But here, and
not less in the of Alexander Graham Bell, true
genius found itself in the presence of great public
demand for its products, and such combination
knows no failure.
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and smothered and shrouded I shuddered and
moved closer to the big red stove.
Ding dong!" Church chimes, were ringing
@ Peace earth; good will to men, the theme
of the bells; but peace was kept and good will
simulated round that stove by the fact that no one
there worth robbng numbering for loot.
live like princes!" called husky voice behind me,
which recognized that of my friend of the night
before I'm goin' to make start. )" Out he went.
Out Into the Storm
7 FOLLOWED him. feeling instinctivey that his
better knowledge of Bowery conditions might be
of to At the foot of the stairs he paused
the storm embraced him, and gained his side.
Bad Shoes he remarked looking at the ven
tilation holes and n-easing sashes in my foot
wear. Cant get any ones till nine o'clock,
boy; but come an have cocktail and some
breakfast anyway"
You know, II haven't any money, friend'
Me neither; but don't cry tears over it. To-
days Chris mus. Come up an We'll see Johnny"
followed my well trained guide into one of the
many hostelries Astounding on the street.
Merry Chris mus, Johnny" he shouted. Then
less than dry Manhattan for to-day" and the
man in the soiled jacket proceeded to mix them.
We wished Johnny many happy returns of the
day, and the cocktails disappeared.
Come on an have breakfast" said my friend.
But l have no money" l ventured again.
Forget it!' he replied.
was at his heels as he entered little restaurant.
Behind small cigar young man display
ing large aquine nose, curly black hair, and the
deep soulful eyes that told the story of centuries
of Jewish patience under Christian and other per-
secution. Day of all days to invoke Jews charity
and benevolence for the benefit of hungry Chris
tan! think you?
But to that man it was not only Christmas but
also Chanuka, the festival concentrating forever
the heroism of the patriotic Maccabees time when
the Jew takes his place for the nonce beside the
fighting Cet and Saxon and Slav. Accordingly
he did not walk after the rolls and coffee which he
was going to serve free to the two of us He
seemed to march, with head erect and shoulders
square, dreaming perhaps of the restoration of
Zion and the theocracy of his own good sword
In this way l learned that in the slums
nobody is denied breakfast on Christmas morn
ing. My seasoned guide told that matter
where in what part of the city might go, the
result would have been the same, except in the
haunts of the overrch.
Must have shoes an overcoat," said the
veteran, glancing at my sorry figure
out Come on up to the Volunteers
Up to Cooper Square we went, beaten and cuffed
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genius of these trained experts always finds means
genious inventions never contemplated by the State
and thus of indefinitely expanding the domain of
science, art, and industry.
Supply Would Follow Demand
SUCH are some of the ways in which the genius
of to-day is displaying itself. These the fields
in which the demand exists and it is always sup
piled. But 1 venture to say that if demand of
this substantial character existed for literary pro-
ductons for poetry and drama, for art in any FORM
sculpture painting, ceramics musical composition
it would be supplied in like manner, and would in
every department prove to be of high order. The
age of Pericles Augustus could be reproduced
perhaps surpassed, and almost Immediately, by
the simple process of calling out the latent genius of
this any other modern country in the
ner in which it was then called out Genius is uni
versa all sided, unlimited; but the greater part
of it is always latent for the reason that it is not
demanded.
If the display of genius is to be increased it must
be done by creating market for the products of
genius. Intellectual production is subject to the
same laws economic production, and the spiritual
resources of the world inexhaustible
its material resources.
But the State should not be the only appraiser
of genius. Society is its proper appraiser and until
society shall appreciate its genuses and learn to
reward them, few of them, relatively speaking, will
ever come forward. The true market for achieve
ment is the people, and when the people themselves
shall demand it the supply will promptly meet the
demand. The true way, then, to call out the dor
mant genius of mankind is to create this great popu
lar demand, this world market, into which all the
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talent of the race will pour How can this be accom-
plished? Only by the spread of ideas and ideals.
There is royal road to this goal, and the dis
cusson of the ways and means transcends the linn
its of this article.
1t has been maintained that great difference
exists in this respect between of action and
of thought, between warriors and statesmen
the one hand and philosophers and scientists
the other. They tell u.s. and truly, that the Alexan
ders Casars Napoeons, Nelson's, Washingtons and
Grants, as we'll as the Soons, Catos, Rchelieus,
Gladstones Websters, and Lincolns have been sim
ply the products of their respective times and
tries, and would never have been heard from if
they had lived under different political conditions.
But assured that such men Aristotle,
Plny Calico Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton, Darwin,
Franklin, Agassiz, and Marsh were the possessors
of an intrinsic genius which is independent of cir
cumstances. The same claim is made for literary
and artistic geniuses we'll for renowned in
ventors.
This has been shown not to be the case. The law
applies to all forms of genius Most of those men
toned and of others have been investigated,
and it has been found that without exception they
have all owed their fame to the combination of
genius and opportunity, that besides being native
geniuses they have in proper sense been called
upon to display their talents in the direction in
which they have displayed them.
American Geniuses the Same
WHEN few systematic researches of this kind have
w been made for the leading American genuses of
any class, there is reason to suppose that they
are exceptions to this universal law, and upon
those who maintain that they such rests the
burden of proof. That this law holds good for our
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tying up baskets and bundles and waiting some
of our brethren of the army of the destitute. A
young woman tripped up and asked us our wants.
"Overcoat and shoes and socks, said Mr.. Guide.
We sent up stairs where dozen or two of
companions in misery were being fitted out, and
very soon l had on my back light fall overcoat,
and on my feet dry and clean socks and pair of
we'll worn but still water tight patent leather shoes
Now felt like somebody once more. as we
emerged into the storm.
How about a smoker" 1 asked the learned one.
"Nothn doin' till dinner time" he replied.
Dinner time is high noon in the tenement dis
tricts and in the slums, and so went back to the
lodging house, feeling something like my long lost
SELF and on the way drank in from the active tongue
of my mentor the details of my proper program for
the day.
Acting upon that, I sailed forth at noon and
headed for the rooms of political association,
which is quick quicker to help one of an oppo-
site political faith is its time honored adherents
was escorted to table by waiter, who was
probably a ward captain, and got one OF the
finest turkey dinners ever had, with coffee and
cigar thrown in. One of the political bosses, it
was well understood paid the expenses of the four
thousand dinners served to the down and out.
AS left l had the knowledge that could come
back at night and have supper of cold turkey.
biscuits and tea, and had it not been for the fact
that was already in possession of good pair of
shoes, a ticket emitting me to pair at local
dealers would have been given me as passed out
Walking down the street, felt the supreme con-
fdence that should come to after full din
ner. l content for the time, and my only
thought was for the night. l had been idly finger
ing bit of cardboard handed me at dinner, and
looking at it all my fears lack of lodging fled -
it a card calling for free bed at the Municipal
Lodging House.
The Lesson of Adversely
VOU my friend may never know what singing
L of the heart lodging for the night may cause
l know it, for my hand held that ticket, and pre-
sented it that night and l rose the next day with
new courage to take up my little struggle in life
My Christmas of adversely had come as lesson
This Christmas day will be a far different to
the last one so both will keep fresh in my memory
1t shall be mine stop in front of every Salvation
Army or Volunteer sentinel and drop my. bounty of
mine to seek the East Side haunts of my other
Christmas, and if I should meet my grizzed guide
who taught life he shall be my brother for all
in my own way and where l will. 1 know the joy
of receiving and l will know the joy of giving, for
on such things is the spirit of Christmas founded,