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The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-11-27
The Trend OF It.

When the boil weevil first in
Tested the aIluvial cotton lands of
l. ,uisiaua, there were numbers OF
planters who threw up their hands
in wild despair. abandoned their
,rops, vacated their homes and
.ff.red their lands at nominal
figures. They imagined that a
plague had struck the country
that would make 1t an original
bowling wilderness. The weevil
has been Il problem since its adj
vent. Human inventive genius
and invoked skill we've brought to
bear to circumvent the pest. All
in vain. 1t remains and it multi
plies and spreads abroad.
Recently a boil weevIl cenven-
ton assembled in the city of
Baton Rouge and divers and sun
dry were the remedies suggested
to get rid of this "Old Man of
Disaster" that was riding liking
Cotton" to its doom.
Possibly the most practical idea
advanced is contained in the fol-
lowing clipped from the State
Times of that city. 1t goes on to
state:
"Mr. 7. L. Mills. Sr.. promi-
nent planter of Irene, in tho
northern part of tins parish. aud
who was IN attendance ut the re-
cent boil weevil convention held
here under the auSpIcies of the
Board of Trade, takes the most
optimistic view of the advent of
the weevil in this section.
"Mr. Mills says there Is no rea-
son why this country should be
considered as going to the eternal
bow-wows just because an insect
has come along which prevents
the growth of cotton exclusively.
In speaking of the adaptibility of
Louisiana soil for the diversified
ton OF crops he said:
"'You will understand what /
mean when l tell you that l have
on my place thirteen varieties
which will serve as edibles. What
Is the use of a man 8 talking about
starvation and hard times when
he lives in a country which offers
such advantages? The quicker
the Louisiana farmer learns that
he can raise practically everything
which he needs to supply his
table, and begins to take adyant-
age of this knowledge, the better
il will be for him individually and
the country generally
That section of Louisiana is
we'll known to this writer. 1t is
rich and fertile Mississippi bot
tom land as productive as the
sun ever shone upon. 1t has been
aud is yearly being demonstrated
that the soil of this State, hill
and alIuvial, can be made to grow
almost sny product. and above all
else. everything for consumption
in the farmers home. This boil
weesil visitation will eventually
prove q blessing in disguise. 1t
is rapidly learning the TILES of
the soil To depend on their own
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-11-27
How is Your Digestion?

Mrs. Mary Bowling of No. 22S
5th Ave-, San Francisco, recon-
mends a remedy for stomach
trouble. She says: Gratitude
for the wonderful effect of Elec-
trio Bitters in a case of acute
Indigestion, prompts this testi-
moniaI. l am fully convinced
that for stomach and liver
trouble Electric Bitters is the
remedy ON the market today"
This great tome and alternative
medicine invigorates the system,
purifies the blood aud is especial
Iy helpful in all forms of female
weakness. SOC at all drug stores.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-11-27
Separate Schools.

As matter of paramount IL
terest and one winch vitality affects
the question of the color line in
the schools. the Supreme Court
of the United States has recently
decided that the States have u
right to provide separate schools
for the blacks and whites, The
case wrs taken up from Kentucky.
DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder
Pills are unequalIed in cases OF
weak back, backaehe, infamma-
ton of the bladder, rheumatic
pains, and all urinary disorders.
They are antiseptir and act
promptly. Every case of kidney
or bladder trouble should be at
tended to at once, and the aches
In the back, rheumatic pains, uri-
nary disorders, etc., are warning
signs. Don't delay. for delays are
dangerous. Get DeWitt's Kidney
and Bladder Pills. Regular size
Soc. Sold by Phoenix Drug Co
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-11-27

exertions for a livelihood and the
necessarie. of life. In time it is
going to free them from the in
cubus of debt, the mortgage sys-
TEN to make both ends meet, and
the credit incubus that kept their
noses close to the grIndstone and
made them the slaves of those
who advanced them supplies to
grow q cotton crop and bound
them hand and foot not to pro-
duce anything else.
Now what Is the outlook? They
are diversifying their products.
They are beginning to live at
home. In time they will stand
upright, with the weight of debt
removed from their shoulders.
They will become free and indie
pendent and the beneficlaries of
their own toll. Already they are
planning to establish factories for
their products and mills to weave
into cloth what cotton they may
produce. The boil weevil is
teaching lessons to the farmers
that will eventually inure to their
prosperity and happiness and
make this fair Southland one of
the most prolific garden spots on
the American continent. The
sunlight of u new era is dawning
on this land of unexampled pos
sibilities.
Good Property for Sale.
l have Fl acres of good land for
sale, located in the northeastern
part of Winfield. The improve.
ments are very good. Far further
information call on or address,
P.O. Box 347, Archie Allen,
MO At Winfield, La.
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Greed That Kills.

OF humanity.
| The greed of gain often inyokes
Nemesis that is unrelenting.
i He who plays the roll OF the
felon that he may accumulate
gold cannot expect {" escape the
reward of his misdeeds.
G.. w. Morse, the Wall stree'
felop. sowed the deadly seed OF
greed and has reaped the prison
stripes.
He cleaned his millions by
clasping in his iron grasp OF GU
pidlty the sufferings and hardShlPs
of the poor and needy.
Immensely rich and rolling In
luxury, he turned deaf ear to
the cries of thousands thirstIns
for a cool drink, amid the sitting
heat of the crowded city.
He started his CAT eer of infamy
by doubling the price of ice. thus
exacting tribute from the suffer
ing poor that their children might
die under the scorching summer
sun, and he became the Herod of
this twentieth century.
Out of his ill-gotten gains he
formed trusts, seized banks and
controlled the currents Of cOm-
merce. He made himself the
Pariah of the age, one of the
most Infamous OF the long line of
criminals who have arisen to iu-
terfere with the channels of legi-
inmate trade because of the thirst
to accumulate gold. He was u
man who Betrayed his friends to
achieve his nefarious AIMS. He
,iefed the laws, bought out COM
petition with bribes. He con-
sciencelcssly, remorselessly and
recklessly manipulated the funds
of the banks entrusted to his con-
troll, to further his schemes for
his own profit.
In fact this millionaire criminal
baked at no scheme by which to
add to his accumuiating millions,
and amid the final crash that was
inevitable, exposed the mountain
epitome of human greedy ambi-
ton. Then, when the panic en-
sred from the exposure of his
banking frauds that brought UNI
told suffering and privations to
millions of Americans justice,
outraged beyond all description,
stern, unrelenting and impIaca-
BILE, laid its grasp upon the rich
criminal, and brought him to its
bar to be weighed IN its evenly
balanced scales.
Morse has been convicted and
sentenced, but his life history is
but one of the many nanipula-
tors of finance for private gain,
that are the curse of the age, that
bring penury, want and degrade
ton to the starving people; that
debauch the morals of the land
and menace the peace and pros
perity of the whole country.
The example thus brought into
the light of truth, should serve
not Us warning to the criminal
rich, but as an example to the
ambitious young to tale heed to
the pitfalls of the unholy greed of
gain that eventually ends i'm dis
honor, disgrace and a prisons
cell and stripes.
= - a
Seven Years of Proof.
SCI have hal sev.p va.rs IF
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-11-27

Can accommodate two gentle
men or man and wife in one
room with board in private fam
lily. References required. For
particulars call vt this Office or
address NJ, box 3lS. lmpd
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-11-27
City Tax Roll.

The city tax roll of 1908 is com
pleted and fled for use. The
citizens.o Winfield are notified
that taxes on movables are now
due and payable and to call ut the
Mayors Office for settlement of
taxes of 1908. o. u. PAYNE,
Tax Collector.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-11-27
Seven Years of Proof.

al have hail seven years of
proof that DR.. Kings New Dis
cOvery is the best medicine to
take for coughs and colds and for
every diseased condition of throat,
chest or lungs" says w. V.
Henry, of Panama, Mo. The
world has had thirty-eight years
1T proof that DIR. Kings New
Discovery is the best remedy for
coughs and colds, Ia grippe,
asthma, hay fever, bronchitis.
hemorrhage of the lungs, and the
first stages of consumption. Its
timely use always prevents the
development of pncumania. Sold
under guarantee at all drug stores.
Sue. and 81. Trial bottle free.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-23

1Dfa4 y. .L3c US .
District Of Columbia City q Washington ss:
l. HARRY 6. MEM. Treasurer Of the above
named company, do soemnly swear that the above
statement Is true % the best Of my knowledge and
belief. HARRY g. AIEEM, Treasurer
Subscribed and sworn 10 before me This 2lst day
Of May. 1908 URIC =. MENGERT.
Notary Public.
CoTest-Attest;
ELLIS SPEAR
JOHN B. LARNER,
ANDREW PARKER,
y. IT, SHEA
THOS. ". SMITH
GEO. TRUESDELI.
PHILIP HICHBORN.
LOUIS p SHOEMAKER
AUGUSTUS CRANE. IF,
Wf 4. 1IEARNS
MARTIN A. KNAPP.
b. Il. WARNER
JOHN A. HAMILTON,
JAMES T. DUBOIS.
CHARLES B. BAILEY.
WATSON J. NEWTON.
ABBAM p PARDON.
A. s. W0RTHINGTON,
Directors.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-23

REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
Second National Bank.
At Washington IN the District Of Columbia, at the
close o. business May Il, 1893
The Washington herald., 1908-05-23
NEW Yonk MONEY.

New York, May 22.-Money on call to-day opened
at ~ per cent highest. "a lowest, Ils; close. "a
Most Of the loans were az IL per cent. Time
money unchanged being obtsinahle in sufficient
volume TO meet current requirements. which were
large. Rates, 2iz to g. per cent for
sizty days. for ninety days, ss f5r four months
81 for FIVE months and 81 TO sA for six months.
Mercantile paper came into the market in nod
eFate amounts. Demand fairly good. Rates. *
20 AZ per cent fer sixty to ninety days indorsed
bills receivable; to 81 for choice four to SIX
months, single namssi to 81 for 0theTs.
Sterling was quiet, with rates points lower,
Rates for actual business: Sixty days AS25: de-
mand 4s7aai.s7z5: cables. 4sI45a4sl50. Commercial
cables ssiaLs51s
The supply oi grain and cotton bills wss scaEcs.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-23

REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
Columbia National Bank Of Wash.
ingtOn,
at Washington in the District Of Columbia. at the
close Of business May H. 1905.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-23

REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
National Savings and Trust Co.,
At Washington In the District of Columbia AZ
the close q business May Il. lso6
RESOURCES
The Washington herald., 1908-05-23
BANK STATEMENTS.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
National City Bank,

At Washington. in the District Of Columbia at the
close Of business. May Il. 1905.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-23
BANK STATEMENTS.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
or THE
National Bank Of Washington,

At Washington In the District Of Columbia, at the
close Of business May H. 1908.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-23
BANK STATEMENTS.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
or THE
Home Savings Bank of Washing
RESOURCES.

At Y asbiugton in the District Of Columbia. Al
the close q business Thursday May A. 1875
The Washington herald., 1908-05-23

City Of Washington District Of Columbia. S.
I, CLARENCE CORS0N. Cashier Of thg above /
named bank, do solemnb swear that the above |
statement is true to the best Of my knowledge and /
belief CLARENCE CORSON. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn 10 before me this Ast day /
Of May 1908 THOS H. YOUNG,
Notary Public.
CoTTeCt-Attest;
The Washington herald., 1908-05-23

CHARLES B. BAILEY,
JOHN CAAIIACK.
ALBERT F. FOX
BENJAMIN ". GUY.
JOHN A. HAMILTON,
BENJAMIN F. LEIGHTON,
ALVIN NJ LOTHROP,
JOHN MITCHELL. Jr..
THOS, c. MOVES
B. FRANCIS SAUL.
LOUIS P. SHOEMAKER
GEO W. T. SWARTZELI5,
BRAINARD a. WARNER,
Directors.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-23

City Of Washington District Of Columbia, S.:
l. HENRY H, FLATHER, Cashier OF the above
named bank, do soleTanly swear that the above
statement Is true 10 the best Of my knowledge and
belief HENRY H. FLATHER. Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this I'D day
Of Mag, 1908.
DAVID RITTENHoUsE. Notary Public
correct-Attess;
CHAS C. GLOVER,
n T. ALLIES
WM J. FATHER,
THOMAS HYDE,
HENRY HURT
Dlrecto<z
The Washington herald., 1908-05-23
AT CLOSE.
Fluctuations End in Slight
Falling Off in Prices.
READING AND U. P. ARE ACTIVE

Tive specialties Make Half of Days
Trading in Total OF Nearly a Mill
ton-Three interpretations as 10
the Causes of Course Followed.
Foreign buying Is Very Light.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-04-10
Order to Examine Accounts. &c.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of No.
bles,-ss.
In Probate Court, Special Term, March IS.
1908.
In the NJ after Of the Estate of Hiram SEQ,
field, Deceased
Or reading, and fling the Petition of Anne.
liza B: Scoheld, administrative of the estate
of Hiram Scofeld, deceased, representing
among other things, that she has fully ad
ministered said estate, and praying that a
! time and place be fixed for examining, set
Ling aed a1l6wing the final account Of
the residue of said estate to the parties en-
titled thereto by law.
1t is Ordered, That said account be ex-
a1nined, and petition heard by this Court, on
Monday, the 18th day of April, A. D. COS,
at one O'Clock p. NJ, at the Probate Office in
Worth1ngton. in said County.
And it is Further Ordered That notice
hereof be given to all persons interested by
publishing a copy of this Order once in each
week Tor three successive weeks prior to said
day OF hearing in the Worthington Advance.
a weekly newspaper printed and published
at Worthington, in said County.
Dated at Worthington, Minnesota the
18th day of March, A. D. 1908
By the Court,
Court seal) en-. Cory,
m2O-a3 Judge of Probate
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poor xiE wish she could have had
her screens before they murdered her.
Where did you lay her, Dick p
Mr.. Williston, |" said Dick, taking
arm hold Of the mans burning hands
and speaking with soothing calmness,
forgive me for: not telling you at
once. I thought you knew. ; I never
dreamed that you might have been
thinking all the while that Mary was
dead. She is alive and well and with
friends. She only tainted that night.
Come, brace up! Why, man alive,
aren't you glad? Well, then, don't go
to pieces like child. Come, brace up,
tell you'll"
"You-you- wouldn't lie to me,
would you; Dick?"
LAS God is my witness, Mary is
alive and in Kemah this minute-un-
less and. earthquake has swallowed
the hotel during my absence. l saw,
her less than two hours ago."
"Give me minute, my dear fellow,
will you? 49,"
He walked blindly away a few steps
and sat down once more on the ruins
of his homestead. Gordon waited.
The man sat still-his head buried in
his hands. Gordon approached, lead
ing his mare, and sat down beside
him.
Nov tell me- he said, with simple
directness.
An hour later the two men sepa-
rated at the door of the Whites claim
shanty.
Lie low here until I send for you,"
was Gordon's parting word.
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CHAPTER XVI,

S7AF NVIs
Gordon Rides Into the Country.
Gordon rode aimlessly out of the lit
tie town with it's twinkling lights
He did not care where he went OF
what direction he pursued. He wanted
to ride off strange, enervating dejec'
ton that had laid hold of him the
moment his last testimony had gone
in. 1t all seemed so pitifully made
quate-without Williston-now that it
was all in Why had he undertaken
it? It could only go for another de-
feat counted against him. Though
what was one defeat more or less
when there had been so many? 1t
would be nothing new. Was he not
pursuing merely the old beaten trail ?
Why should the thought weigh so
heavily now? Can a man never attain
to that higher-or lower, which is it?
altitude of strifeless, unregretful
hardness? Or was it, he asked him
self in savage contempt of his weak
ness, that, despite all his generous and
iron-clad resolutions, he had secretly,
oAASOAAoNAouoAJ POI Ae@po, SAO1 AoAOu q
sweet, shy, little reservation in his in
most heart that maybe-if he won
out
"You poor FOOL" he said, aloud, with
bitter harshness.
Suppose he did. A brave speci-
men, he, if he had the shameful ego
ism to ask girl-a girl like Louise
a gentle, highbred, protected, cherish
ed girl like that-to share this new,
bleak, rough life with him. But the
very sweetness of the thought of her
doing it made him gasp there in the
darkness. How sitting the air was!
He lifted his hat. 1t was hard to
breathe. It was like the still oppres-
siveness preceding an electrical storm.
His mare, unguided, had naturally
chosen the main-traveled trail and
kept it. She followed the mood of her
master and walked leisurely along
while the man wrestled with himself.
If he really possessed the hardwood
to ask Louise to do this for him she
would laugh at him. Stay! That was
a liza black lie. She would not
laugh-not Louise. She was not of
that Sort Rather would she grieve
over the inevitable sadness of it. If
she laughed, he could bear it better
ne had good, stubborn, self-respecting
blood in him-but she would not laugh.
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against the walls tn the d arkneaa
Then the awful, heart-clutc hing cians
.ofs g bell rang out near, fnsistent, me-
tallic. It was the meeting house: bell.
There was no other in the town. The
girls sprang to the floor The thought
had found swift Judgment in the mind
of each that the hotel was on fire. and
in that moment. Louise thought of the.
poisoned meat that had once been
served to some archenemies of the
gang whose chief was now on trial for
his liberty. So quickly does the brain
work under stress of great crises, that,
even before she had her shoes and
stocking on, she found herself wonder
ing who was the marked victim this
time: Not ,Williston-he was dead.
Not Gordon The slept in his own room
back of the office. Not Langford-he
was bunking with his friend in that
same room: Jim Munson? Or was the
judge the prescribed one? He was not
corrupt judge. q He could not be
bought. It might be he. Mary had
gone to the window.
'Louise!" she gasped. ''The court
house!"
True. The cloudy sky was Redeemed
above the poor little temple of justice
where for day and weeks the tide of
human interest of, big part of big
state-ay, a big part of all the north
west country, maybe-had been stead
lily setting in and had reached it's Gull
mination only yesterday, when a
gray-eyed, drooping-shouldered, firm
jawed young man had at last faced
quietly in the bar of his court the
defer of the COW country. Tonight,
it would dance it's little measure, re-
cite it's few lines on it's little stage of
popularity before an audience frenzied
with appreciation and interest; to-
morrow, it would be heap of ashes,
it's scene played out.
ITO be cont:nued)
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And all the rest of his long life must
be spent in distinguishing it
could have been! But he would never
ask her to do it. Not even if the i'm
possible came to pass. 1t was hard
country on women, hard, treeless,
sun-seared, unkindly country. Men
could stand it-fght for it's future;
but not women like Louise. It made
men as we'll as unmade them. And
after all it did not prove to be the
undoing of men so much as it devel-
oped in them the perhaps hitherto hid
den fact that they we're already want
ing. These latent, constitutional
weaknesses thus laid bare, the bad
must for while prevail-bad is so
much noiser than good. But this big,
new country with it's infinite possibili-
ties-give it time-it would form men
out of raw material and make over
men mistakenly made when that was
possible, or else show the dividing line
so clearly that the goats might not
herd with the" sheep. Some day, it
would be fit for women-like Louise.
Not now. Much labor and sorrow
must be lived through; there must be
much sacrifice and much refining, and
many must fall and lose in the race
before it's big destiny be worked out
and it be fit for women-like Louise.
Down in the southern part Of the
state, and belonging to it, a certain
big-barred building sheltered many
women, when the sun of the treeless
prairies and the gazing into the lone
anne distances surrounding their
homesteads seeped into their brains
and stayed there so that they knew
not what they did. There were trees
there and fountains and restful blue.
grass in season, and flowers, flowers,
#fowe but these came too late fol
most OF the women 4. 5* #.s''sIS.
It it had been Langford, now, who
was guilty OF SO rid iculous a. senti
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Order g Examine Acco 81 I, s.c

Order to Examine Accounts &c.
STATE {, OF MIsNEsoTA, County Of No
bleS-S.s. F5sss2 ls#
N 4 , P Pns Court, Special Term. Marcb II,
In { the Matter Of the Estate Of sven Carlson,
s. Deceased: - E|3Zs@sSTe.2> '1l'
On eading and fling the petition of 1npa
N aria Carlson, Executrix OF the estate Of
Sven Carlson, deceased, representinp 5 "a mono
other things, that she has fully administered
said estate. and praying that a time and
place be fixed for examining, settling and al
lowing the final account Of her administra-
ton, and for the assignment Of the residue ~
said estate to the parties entitled thereto hr
law. ~
1t is Ordered. That said account be exam.
ined, and petition heard by this Court- IN
Monday, the 9Th day of April, A. b. 1905,
at one O'Clock p. M, at the Probate Office i,
Worthington. in said County.
And it Is Further Ordered, That notice
hereof be given to all persons: interested bv
publishing copy of this order once in each
week for three successive weeks prior to said
day of hearing in the Worthin g ton Adv ance.
weekly newspaper printed and published
at Worthington in said County.
Dated at Worthington, Minnesota the
18th day of March, A. D. 1908.
, By the Court,
Court Seal) c. M. CORY,
Mch. 1927. Judge OF Probate
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1908-09-12

Turn the peas tor the oats and
SOW as soon in September as
possible so as to give them time
to tiller before cold weather.
Sow two to two and a half bush
els per acre, using the same fer
tilizer advised for wheat. In
preparing pea stubble for corn or
cotton, | would disk the land
and sow crimson clover seed for
a winter cover and crop to turn
under.
On the stubble field, if you do
not plow the land till late in
tall, or early in winter. | would
let the rag weed stand, and then
turn it under. But it would be
better to cut the rag weeds now
and rake and haul them off and
then disk the land lightly and
SOW crimson clover seed at
rate of fifteen pounds per acre,
and turn this under in spring in
bloom for the corn. You can
do this safely for hoed crop in
the cool weather of spring, and
getting the clover on the land
would be great help to the corn.
In that case | would spread all
the manure at hand on the Glow
er during the winter, and would
use no fertilizer at all.
A correspondent wants to
know if it would be a good idea
to spread straw in the orchard to
keep down weeds. Where the
land cannot be plowed, there is
nothing better for the trees than
a good mulch extending out
little further than the roots ex-
tend. Put very little, if any,
around the stem to harbor field
mice to gnaw the bark in winter.