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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-28
Interpreters of Spirit Messages
Say That Taft Will Be Elected

getting messages. One man says:
Il have not got the slightest hope
for Bryan on account of a message
from the spiritual side of life in jan
uary, 1908, from former President
Grant"
There were other messages, for he
continued:
The spirit message of Benjamin
Harrison: Don't worry. Texas will
receive an abundant cotton crop. Pros
perity is in store for you"
Again he went into trance.
THE message through my mouth
he explains for General Grant this
time-"came in poetry. but l don't re-
member the exact words. But the
meaning was: More soldiers need to be
for this united country to keep down
Wall street and anarchy, and Taft
he Is going to get it,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-28
FLOOD HAS RECEOEO
Water Reaches a Height of
Forty Feet in Augusta,
Georgia.
PROPERTY LOSS is GREAT.

Augusta, Ga, Aug. 2S.-Flood wat
ers at Augusta are receding. They
reached the height of forty feet, prob
ably as high as the flood of 1888
Rain has ceased in the upper valley
and there is no danger of further loss
es. The loss approximates $750,000
to 100000 and consists of damage
to stocks of goods and private proper
ty, losses on the streets. destruction
Of the wagon and railroad bridges
across the Savannah river and breaks
in the canal banks. There are de-
pendent On the canal for power eight
large and small cotton mills. Thous-
ands of mill operatives will be idle
for three or four months
The Augusta Railway and Electric
company can not run it's cars for three
days. No power plant is in operation
the telephone lines are not working
and the railroads are accepting nc
passengers. The water service is
crippled but intact. The Gas com.
pany is impaired but not shut down.
There have been ten to fifteen
drownings, mostly negro laborers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-28

Cook Stock Co., at the Gennett

Cook Stock Co., at the Gennett
Mr.. Carl w. Cook, in Offering the
Carl w. Cook Stock Company to the
patrons of the Gennett theatre this
season wishes to acknowledge his sim
cere appreciation of the most liberal
patronage bestowed on the occasion
OF his previous visit, and to offer the
assurance that his coming engagement
which opens Monday evening will ex-
coed by far any of his former efforts.
Following the usual yearly custom,
his plays have been rewritten, re-
newed and reconstructed. many being
replaced with new material, and all of
them being augmented with newer
matter, timely ideas and unique eff
fects
In fact, nothing that experience or
liberal outlay could suggest. have been
left undone to make the present seas
on of the Carl w. Cook Stock Company
the browning triumph of it's career
Its successful record extending far
beyond most attractions OF similar
character, can easily be understood,
from the fact that Mr.. Cook has al
ways fulfilled all promises and by so
doing has gained the absolute faith
and positive confidence of the patrons
OF the theatricals.
To retain this has been the untiring
aim OF Mr.. Cook and that he has sue
ceeded in such efforts cannot be gain
said. That the Cook Stock Company
haS heeu worthy Of yofr patropayo ",
the past is guarantee OF its future
excellence. Suffice to say it is now
''the best ever
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-28

Hot Springs. Va, Aug. 2s.-Dream-
ers and interpreters of the political
handwriting on the wall have discov-
cred Mr.. Taft. Up in Haddonfield, n.
j., there Is woman Of fifty winters,
who has been successfully interpreting
dreams since she was ten. Here is
her dream.
Il saw huge boat coming up a
narrow stream with crowds of people
standing on the shore watching 1t. The
channel was narrow. rocky and very
hard to get up. Suddenly some one
shouted:
They are making headway'
Almost instantly the boat cleared
the rocks and reached port in safety,
and in front of the ship appeared a
large Inscription, Taft
Down in Galveston, Texas, they are
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-28
THE PUZZLE TANkARD.
1t Was . Feature of the Seventeenth
Century Tavern.

1t Was . Feature of the Seventeenth
Century Tavern.
This is a puzzle tankard." said the
antiquary. TRY it."
The tankard. of peculiar shape. with
odd little spouts protruding from 1t In
unexpected places, was made Of blue
the stanZa:
From Mother Earth
/ claim my birth;
I'm made a joke for maM
But now I'm here,
Filled with good cheer.
Come taste mo II you can.
The old man filled the vessel with
fair water, and the youth tried to drink
from 1t. He could not though, succeed.
To whatever spout he put his lips the
water refused to dow from that open
ing, flowing from half a dozen other
ones instead all over his face and neck.
That's enough for me-" he said.
This puzzle tankard." said the anti
quarry dates back to the seventeenth
century. Every tavern had one In those
days. The landlord would fill 1t with
ale or sack or beer, and il you could
empty it down your throat you got
your drink for nothing. Otherwise you
must stand treat. Many a seventeenth
century laugh these puzzle tankards
must have caused.
ut was, you know, quite impossible
unaided, to solve a tankard's secret
The secret Of this tankard of mine 1:
to place your little finger over the fur
Their spout, your thumb over that ont
and your left hand thumb over tn,
bulb. Now you can drink, you see
from the small underspout in comfort
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-28
LABOR DAY PLANS
ARE TO Be DISCUSSED
South Side Improvement As.
ISOLATION to Meet.

The South Side Improvement asso-
citation will hold it's regular business
meeting next Tuesday evening. The
committee that was appointed at the
last meeting will report and definite
arrangements will be made in regard
to the program for Labor Day. The
committee is composed of Anton
Stole, chairman; Conrad Zwissler
Fred Miller, Hans Kohl, w. A. John
son, Joseph Scully, Harry Steinbrinls
and Edward Stein.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-28
WAS It ANY WONDER
THEY ALL FLED
PoIecat Puts Summer Theater
On the Blink.

Youngstown, Ohio, Aug 28.-A pole
cat put the Idora Park summer theater
when Flossie Dangerfield was putting
on a song and dance that the audience
began to get fidgety. Flossie fed soon.
A team of black-face comedians braved
the odor for only a minute. 1t was just
as well, for no audience remained
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-28
Eight-Inch Patent Tension
Spring Shears

The Shears being distributed by the
Palladium and Sun.Telegram are man
ufactured Of the very highest grade
steel. perfectly tempered and heavily
nickel plated on highly polished
surface. The patent tension spring
takes up all the wear on the rivet so
that the cutting edges will never wear
dull. A simple turn of the little
thumb screw will adjust the blades to
cut anything from the thinnest and
most delicate fabric to the heaviest
material. Every woman who has had
the exasperating and trying exper-
fence of attempting to cut with dull
pair Of shears. viii appreciate the val
ne OF this new invention.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-28

Pleasant day. snorted the chronic
kicker. There's another ridiculous
expression"
why sor demanded the man who
had used it.
Because no duty could really be
pleasant II it's an actual duty."-Phil-
adelphia Press.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-03-06
Many, and J. W. Brumfiels, Of Leesville.

Many, ana D. w. brunneis, OF LeesNiue.
Mr. w. ID. Rodgers, Of Bronson, Texas, who
Is agent for South Houston real estate, was q
pleasant visitor At The Sentinel Office yester-
day. He has not been in WINFIELD for several
years and expressed his surprise at its rapid
growth.
Misses Annette Wright. Clara McGinty and
Rubie Moss. under charge of Maj. Will A.
Strong, left Sunday afternoon over the Lou
isiana and Arkansas for Alexandria, anc
thence over the Southern Pacific to New
Orleans.
Last Monday morning J. s. White left fer
New Orleans where he united the festivities
OF the carnival with the duties of representa-
tive OF the Knights Of Honor from here to the
annual council that convened in that city on
March 4th.
Mr.. Frank Williams left here yesterday for
junction City, Ark in the inter est OF the Gill;
land Syndicate and will he in Shreveport to-
morrow. He is wished bon voyage and every
succese.
The Sentinel was gratifed to receive q visit
last Tuesday from Mr. Robert o. Roy, OF Alex
anGria. Division Freight Agent g, r. ]. g. r
Ry. The gentleman was favor ably impressed
with WINFIELD, and said II had one OF the best
hotels in the country.
Mr.. Walter Gilliland. manager Of the Gill;
land Syndicate. Shreveport. arrived in Winn-
field last Friday to conduct the close of the
Sentinel Subscription Contest that took place
last Saturday night, and left Sunday morning
for Natchitoches.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-03-06
w. A. MASHAW
Jeweler and OptiCian
dand
IN NaxU nrlea this

Mr.. and Mrs J. R. Black visited the Carnival
In New Orleans this week.
Alva williams, who has been employed In n
pharmacy at Jonesboro, Ark, q SON OF DR.. w.
b. williams, returned to winnheid Saturday.
Mr.. Frank williams and wife paid q visit to
Lake Charles the first Of this week.
Mr.. Ruel L. Anderson, of Shreveport, was IN
the city last Tuesday, and incidentally enjoy
ing the street fair in some fair company.
Mr.. Young. Of Shreveport, connected with
the land department Of the l.. r. & N Company
was here Tuesday.
Mr. G. 8. Nelson. of Fatama, was q visitor to
the city last Monday. He complimented The
Sentinel with an appreciated call.
young lady Of winnneid, left last Monday Tor a
stay OF several weeks at Lawhorn, La
Miss Katie Cobb OF Skies was fair visitor to
town last Monday and registered at the City
Hotel.
Among the visitors to the city last Sunday
was noted the presence OF Mrs. @. w. Finley Of
Atlanta La
Messrs. W. G. Anders and D. NJ. Stovall, Of
Dodson. were in town Monday enroute home
from New Orleans.
Mr.. N. Hyde and wife and Sheriff F. L.
Shaw and wife left here last Saturday TO take
in the pleasures Of the Carnival in New Orleans.
Wade Wright left on last SATURDAY to enjoy
the carnival season In New Orleans.
Among the many farmers here this week
were J. +. Bullard, of Belmont, and 8. r.
Kelly and T. o. Woodward. Of Dubach.
E.w. Teddlie of St. Maurice was a welcome
visitor Last Friday. He has host of friends in
Winndeld.
Boclair Shelton, of Shreveport, has been en-
ployed by DR.. l. Il. Siess to take charge OF the
City Drug Co.'S soda fountain He Is an expert
and will assume charge about March Is.
Miss Rhodes Randle, who won the highest
honors in The Sentinel sub scription contest,
and her brother, J. b. Randle, left Monday for
the trip to New Orleans and Havana.
Mrs. Mamie Bowman, of Wheeling Springs
left for her home last Wednesday after spend
ing three delinghtful weeks here visiting her
father, Mr.. w. O. CarroEay.
Mr.. =. p. Sanchez, recently Of Monroe was a
visitor TO Winnfeld last Friday. He was seek
ing Q suitable location. The Sentinel acknowi-
edges pleasant call from the gentleman.
Among those who were in attendance at the
meeting sf the executive board of the Farmers
Union was noted the presence Of L. p
Meadows, OF Wyatt; ]. w. McCallister, Of
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-03-06
Esfray Sale.

Estrayed before me, the undersigned justice
of the nth ward of Winn Parish, on the n day
OF September, 1907, by T. w. Pervis, one light
tanks. Marked crop and split in the right ear
and crop and hole in left. No brands. Owner
will please come forward and prove property
and pay all charges, or the same will he sold at
my Office on the fifth day Of April. 1865.
Dated this and day of March. 1905.
E. ID. Grape,
3-6-5t Fifth Justice of the Peace.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-03-06
LOCAL AND Personal.

n. r. Coiquitt Of Atlanta was here Monday.
NV. Skies Of Skies was a visitor on Tuesday.
WIN A. eholars, of Couley, was circulating
among his acQuaintances Tuesday.
J. c. Jordan, Of Tannehill, was a welcome
Visitor Tuesday.
WV. and @. W. McCarty, of Newport, were
in tewn TuesdAy.
Nv Weatherford. Of Beech. was n pleas ant
caller 1t The Sentinel ONCE last Monday
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-03-06
Go hear @Home Life in Dixie"

Mrs. J. A. Graham. of st. Maurice, is visiting
relatives here this week.
Miss Jennie ReIl Of Choudrant was among
the young lady visitors TO the city Sunday.
Mrs. e. Smith. Of Fordyce, was in town last
Sunday, guest at the City Hotel.
Mr.. John LaCroix, of Alexandria, paid winn-
field visit on Tuesday.
VIII McLees. formerly Of Ruston, has accep-
ted the position Of bookkeeper 1t the Ice Fac
tory
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-03-06
Carpenter Shop.

Allow me to invite your attention to the fact
hat I have opened Carpenter Shop, first
door south of uptown express once. where
viii be pleased to attend TO any orders in my
inc. Saw filing, Glazing, Door Locks Repair
ed and Keys Fitted. Window and Door Screens
. sptc ialty. Repairs on all kinds of roofs. No
jobs too small to receive my Immediate atten-
ton. Prices adjusted to meet present nnancia
situation II not at shop you: viii find order
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-03-06

be ON front door where you can leave your
order. Or postal win do.
r-sm D.. K. CARY. Carpenter.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-10-11


Buy our Shoes and get The
perfect kind. They fit snug
without pi0Ching. Easy
without friction. They keep
the feet looking young. Once
used always worn. An alb
soIutc fit is not only guaran-
iced. but more is given in
quality and style than is us
uaIIy offered for the same
price.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-10-11

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS
Daily. bE carrier one month tas#.s.. 60
DAILY by mail one month st,s.,s..., 80
AIHuauEnQtE NEw MINICo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-24

commodaton for perhaps eight in and
sixteen more in hammocks slung sardine fashion.
Now, any naval officer asked what would be done
with ffty-two sorey wounded men after serious
action, will reply frankly, Il really can't say
Will it be believed that H. w. Wilson, author of
"1ronclads in Action. naval expert of lnterna-
tional Tepute so recognized the apparent hopeless
ness of the problem to suggest that each blue
Jacket should 60 into action wearing lifebelt,
that if wounded he could be dropped overheard?
And Fleet Surgeon Randall. of the British navy,
commenting on this says grimly, " AT all events the
sea water is clean and will keep the wounds clean.
man would therefore get better chance that way.
He might be picked up by boats; whereas if he was
below the armored decks lying helpless in of the
wing passages ba1bette flats, he would be like
rat in a trap if the ship went down which even the
man IN the street knows is likely enough"
Certainly if any solution offered, it would have
been adopted long ago. For not only does the canon
OF civilized warfare require that unnecessary
suffering shall be caused in the process of crushing
an enemy; but the removal of the wounded in
itself an obvious advantage to the survivors, who
can thus carry on the fight free from the distress OF
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scrupul ,usly divided between certain departments.
which dispute eagerly for space and weight Thus,
the engineers want room for their main engines,
the gunnerv officers for their magazines, the torpedo
lieuenants for their torpedoes; and then there
the stores and minor engines, with the machinery
that there is space below for either doctors
wounded: and even if such space was possible, there
could neither be air light through the shutting
off of bukheads. Worse STILL the vast boilers would
render the air intolerable. And lastly when a
modern warship is cleared for action every open
ing IS rigidly closed up. save only those between
the magazines and fighting stations
Therefore. naval surgeons agreed that the
stricken must lie where they fall, and recommend
that both sailors and petty officers receive nstruc
ton in first aid especially the application of tourni
quets and temporary dressings.
But the evil goes much further When the great
ship energies from action her unarmored ends ---e
utterly wrecked Even her armored sections
riven and battered; her TANKS pierced with shell
and solid shot Through these holes big wash
freely, flooding the decks and flats about the water
Contnae6 on gage rs
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poet and philosopher. and Clara-well, Clara wasn't.
In after years passion for music developed the
latent spirituality and intellectually IN Clara and
her practicaitv took second and in fact, third
place Jean was from the beginning orderly. steady,
digent, persistent, and remains 50. She picked up
languages easily and kept them
(Susy aged eleven Jean three Ssy said the other day
when she Jean bringing me of her motion.
Jean has found already that loves morals and
papa loves cats.
1t is another of Susy's remorselessly sound YER
diets.
AS child Jean neglected my books. When she
nine years old Will Gillette invited her and the
rest of us to dinner at the Murray Hill hotel IN
New York in order that might get acquainted
with Mrs Leslie and her daughters. Elsie Leslie
nine years old, and was great celebrity on the
stage. Jean was astonished and aWed to see that
little slip of thing sit up at table and take part IN
the conversation OF the grown people, capably and
with and tranquility. Poor Jean was obliged
to keep still. for the subjects discussed never hap
pened to hit her level but at last the talk fell within
her limit and she had her chance to contribute it.
Tom Sawyer was mentioned Jean spoke CRATE
fully up and said:
Il know who wrote that book ,-Harriet Beecher
Stowe.'
evening susy had prayed. Clara cured up for
sleep she reminded that it her turn to pray
She said Oh, ones enough and dropped of to sumber
Rosa. allowed speak the children otherwise
than in German Clara tired OF it. by and by
the little creatures patience exhausted and she said,
Aunt Clara, wish God had made Rosa in English
Clara discovered that this my birthday she greatly
troubled because she had provided gift for and
peated her several times. Finally she musing
the and presently with her newest and
large toy horse. and said You shall
have this horse for your birthday, papa.
accepted it with many thanks. After hour she
racing and down the with the horse when Susy
said:
Why Clara. You gave that horse papa, and
YOU We token it again
CLARA"I never give it to him for always; give to
him for his birthday
In Geneva in September, lay abed late morning,
and Clara passing through the room took her
bed Then the child Clara Spaulding
and said
Aunt Clara, papa is good deal Of trouble to me-
is he? Why"
Well he get in bed with him, and can't
do that with jemus [gentlemen don't like jelmuls.
anyway
Theodore Crane,"
oh YES but he's a ielmul. he's friend"
continued Sunday otter
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and has neither time place for useless members
Of its strength.
True, the warshp carries surgeons; but these
must be put out of harm during the wild in
ierno of an action. just when they needed;
and released when all is over-that IS, if the ship
afoat. 1t is also true she has sick bay; but mod
ern science has brought this up and up of the
reekng cockpit of other days into light and air,
lutely pretense of projections in fact the situa-
ton selected for the sick bay in all modern ships is
perfectly recognized one absolutely untenable
m actual warfare.
During the Chino Japanese War shell burst in
the ward room of the He-Ye killing both surgeons
outright and all the wounded subsequently died on
their way home.
A first class battleship of the type of the Connec
ticut Kansas Louisiana carries perhaps
hundred and fifty Now, the "irreducibe
minimum Of wounded on ship of her class after
sharp action is put by the British naval authorities
at seven per cent. say fifty-two men. The figure
twenty per cent. in the action between the
Chesapeake and Shannon; but take the lower esti-
mate. The sick berth Of great battleshp has
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to lie; not furtively. but frankly. openly and on
scale quite disproportoned to her size. Her mother
stunned SO nearly paralyzed, for day or two.
that she did not know what to do with the emergency
Reasonings, persuasions, beseechngs, all went for
nothing; they produced effect; the lying went
TRANQUILITY Other remedies tried; but they
failed There is tradition that success finally
accomplished by whipping. | think The Record
says so; but if it does it is because The Record
is incomplete Whipping was indeed tried and
faithfully kept up during two three weeks;
but the results were merely temporary; the re-
forms achieved were discouragngly brief.
FORTUNATELY for Susy, an incident presently
occurred which put complete stop to all the
mothers efforts in the direction of reform This Incl
dent the chance discovery in Darwin OF passage
which said that when child exhibits a sudden and
unaccountable disposition to forsake the truth and
restrict itself to lying, the explanation must be
sought away back in the past; that an ancestor OF
the child had had the disease. at the same ten
der age; that it rremovable by persuasion or
punishment; and that it had ceased as suddenly
and mysteriously it had come, when it had
run its appointed course. think Mr. Darwin said
that nothing necessary but to leave the matter
alone and let the malady have its way and perish
bv the statute of limitations.
We had confidence in Darwin, and after that day
Susy was relieved of reformatory prosecutions.
She went on lying without let or hindrance during
several months year; then the lying suddenly
ceased and she became as conscentiously and eX-
actngly truthful she had been before the attack
and remained SO to the end of her life
The paragraph in The Record" to which l
nave Deen leaQ1nS up Is IN my ndnuWIltllS anu Is
of date SO long posterior to the time of the lying
maady that she had evidently forgotten that truth
speaking had ever had any difficulties for her.
Mama speaking of "a servant who had been pretty
but trying to tell the truth Susy
good deal surprised. and said she shouldn't think
anybody would have to try to tell the truth.
TN The Record" the children's acts and speeches
quite definitely define their characters. Susy's
indicated the presence of mentality -thought.-and
they were generally marked by gravity. She
tirnid her physical side but had an abundance of
Derby practical persistent, plucky, just little ami
NAL and very satisfactory. Charles Dudley Warner
said Susy was made of mind, and Clara of matter.
the thoughts Of the two children need not be inquired
into they could be OWNED that Susy wondering
if this was the end of Motley and had his life been
worth while: whereas Clara merely interested in
seeing that there should be creditable funeral
In those days Susy dreamer, thinker,
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THE WOUNDED IN TIME OF WAR
By William G. Ftz-Gerad %

seeing friends and messmates
in dire agony.
These remarks will cause
surprise. But" it will be
objected, granted the cock
pit of the old wooden walls
was a dark, noisome den in
which mortality was frightful
and conditions indescribable in
their horror, surely in these
DAYS of nickel steel armor and
scientific marvels there is pro-
vision and protection for the
wounded!
1t can only be repeated that
the battleship of to-day is a
fighting machine, and her
belted underwater section is