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RATHER ROUGH ON THE SUI
TOR.

indianapolis Journal: Mr.. Ruskia. who
10 supposed to know a vast deal about
art, besides possessing more miscei'a
neOus information than he has time to
give away, has evolved some views upon
court.hip. Says Sir. Ruskin:
"When a youth is full in love with q
girl. and feels that he is wise in loving
her he should ut Once tell her SD plainly,
and take his chance bravely with other
suitOrs. NJ lover should have the insO
lence to think Of bel ng accepted ut once
nor should any girl have tine cruelty to
refuse at Oncc without severe reasons.
II size simply doesn't like him. she may
send him away for seven yearsOr sO-he
vOwiDg to live on crosses and wear sack
cloth meanwhile, or the like penance.
1t she likes him il little, or thinks she
might come to like HIM in time, she
may let him stay near her, putting him
always Ou sharp tiial to see what stuff
he is made Of. and requiring, tigura-
lively, is many lion skins o.. giants
heads as she thinks herself worth. The
whole meaning aud power of true court
ship Is probation, and it ought not to
be shorter than three years ut least;
seven Is. to my mind, the orthodox
flpnas And <hn.. r,. ht~ao
the young people should be openly
aud simply known. not to their friends
only, but to everybody who has the
least interest iu them; aud u girlworth
anything ought always to have half a
doze" or SD suitors under love fer her"
Mr. Ruskin is evidently of the opinion
that all lovers are 80 nearly related tn
Jacob as to be willing to serve seven
years for their Rachels. This is u mis-
take. The man who hangs around for
seven years in this age of the world is
the one who gets left Or is only taken ut
last because he is a f0r.orn hope. The
theory IL IL good que for the girl who
likes a good many strings to her bow,
but it doesn't give the sutton much of u
chance. Unless he ''hedges" by enter
ing himself in the train of two or more
girls at the same time be may have u
sad time Of ii. After a man has waited
fourteen years or SO, only to see his
sweetheart marry other fellows, he is
apt to get discouraged and do some
thing rash. Mr.. Ru.kin must revise
ais theory before it j. adopted into gen
eral use.
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SPECIAL ANNOUNcEMESr-A loroo -
portion OF the readers of the Th;hofon,
Sentinel are farmers. many of whom dss;-a
q great deal more of farm Literature tho,
we are able to give in our limited snaca
10 accommodate all such we have moi:
arrangements with the publishers Of tho
america" Farmer to give it as a prem;nm
ior one year to every subscriber Of tha
1h'bcdaSr Sentinel who pays his suhscr;n'
tlon in advance. The American Faymsr /.
large 10 page paper, published at Fort
y Ind. the subscription price Of
which ls $l.OO per year. Every planter =.
Lafourche parish should avail kimself -
this magnificent offer. VI
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QGe dbibooaux 5cutiuel
JUNE Il, 1884.
BEA UTIFUL THINGS,

Beautiful faces are thuse that wear
1t matters little if dark or fair
Whole-souled honesty printed there.
Beautiful eyes are those that show,
Like crystal panes where heart fires glow
Beautiful thoughts that burn below.
Beautiful lips are those whose words
Leap from the heart like songs OF birds,
Yet whose utterance prudence girds.
Beautiful hands are those that do
Work that is earnest and brave and true
Mcmeat by moneat, the long day through.
Beautiful feet arc those that 60
On kindly ministries to and fro.
Down lowliest ways, if God wills it so.
Beautiful shoulders are those that bear
Ceaseless burdens Of homely care
With patient grace and daily prayer.
Beautiful lives are those that bless.
Silent rivers of happiness
Whose hidden fountains but few NAV
guess.
Beautiful tw light, at set of sun,
Beautiful goal, with race well won,
Beautiful rest, with work we'll done.
Beautiful graves, where grasses creep,
Where brown leaves tall, where drifts lie
deep
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Over we'll worn hands-O beautiful sleeu
ARMS n LEGs.-There is more pitx
in a wooden leg but more eloquence in
an empty sleeve. 1 remember that in
the second days fight before Richmond
a captain by the name of Coward saw
the sergeant shot down aud the colors
fall. and he caught up the flag and wav
|sedi it high and went toward with a shout,
o a cannon ball came whizzing along
and took off his arm. and the colors fell
again. He caught them with his other
hand and kept ON until he fell himself.
l never saw as brave a man with that
sort OF name tackled on to him. He al.
ways signed his nam A. Coward. and
when asked why he didn't eign his full
name he said his first name was Adam.
and whenhe used to sign it til at way at
school the boys called him ad-coward.
which was worse, and he had to fight
ont OF it. Gen. Dick Taylor didn't have
mnch opinion of mans legs. He
says his OVID trembled and wanted IA
run In every battle, and he knewa
brave soldier who had to talk 10 his to
keep 'em steady: "Now just look at
you. gone to shaking again with the
enemy q mile of. What are you in
Such a hurry abouti Can't you wait
until they begin to shoot at you, you
;ussed towards" and he would ran
his knees with his sword like he was
ashamed of 'em-Bill Arp.
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HOW 4 BIBULOUS WARD PO.
LlIICIAN Was KEPUL
NED BY HIS WIFE.

Night Was coming Oh.
The sun was setting behind the
southwest corner Of Miygle's cow shed
and great chunks of darkness were pre-
pairing to watt themselves into the yici.
nifty.
Aud they waited.
Miggles didn't care for that. He
didn't care for anything that didn't
bring him enjoyment. In fact, he ra,h
or liked to see night approach, for a
political meeting was to be held in his
town and he must go.
And he goed.
About midnight his unmeasured
tread was heard on the walk, then on
the steps, aroand; then a scramLliug.
and ut last Il voice at the door.
"WhO's there I" demanded Mrs. Milo.
giles, putting her head out of an upner
window.
"Who's (hic) whe,e!'
Al tile front door,"
"Det's zee (hic), don't know"
III you don't get away from there
Ill call Mr.. Miggles."
"Mr. Miggles (hic), eli Eats all
right. Mr.. Miggles been to corkos
(h'c)- Neetin' full. Spirits harmooi.
GUS. Fair ballot an free count Lib.
must be left Imprinted. Free
trade, free ballot, free whisky ~
Look here. Miggles, is that you p
"Yesh, vote with the majority ev'rv
You are drunk, SIR"
"Put motion fore the house."
1.-THE motion has been before tho
iouse' aud it has been moved and sec.
'nded that you remain before tho
house all night or go to the barn.-pret
els Weely.
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This pure vino h
table extract witho.A ,.1
qualities, and has pr~,e1~~
most a'tonishias TONIC ro1
Known to medical seiane.z
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l am faithfully yours.


Cincinnati, Ohio. June 3. 1880
3D.: Kendall Il Co., Gents: Bcinr n ant.
Ielcr from the rheumatism. l have tried a
great many remedies for that complaint. us-
Luz nv evefy.nln; that heard Of or my friends
CLANS IN this city without effect. / had he.
come discouraged and had conclu0ed tber.
was no help for this disease, when i fortnnate
y met your agent. Mr.. John Fish, Who told
K Ee - Was unnecessary to suffer amy more, as
a,,d as : Spav.r Cure would do the business.
scented ME with u bottle, which / used. and ri I
must say without any faith, in one week I
aIn able to walk without a cane or anv o,h.r
a au help. 1 don't know that the Spav;n
witl.o %aa K u oat fei, ! do know l will never be
thoroughly believe it deserves it's s =. rs !
~ unsolicited. Yonrs LUIS eht're
HI. II. SNOW ~ ~
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Communicated
TO THE PEOPLE OF B4YOU
LAFOUkCHE.

TO THE PEOPLE OF AYOL
LAFOUKCHE.
MAJOR GR1sAMORE. Sir, as one Os the
many sufferers, / wish to awake the a,
tentiOn Of the inhabitants IF Lafourche
to the necessity Of having something
done to avert the calamity attending
the numerous crevasses, and attending
losses on Lafourche. I had heretofore
been an advocate Of cleaning ont the
bayou, but. alas ! as no attention by
State or general government ran I've ob-
tanned. the only remedy left ia to petit
tor the government to stop it up at
Donaldsonville, the increased volume
added to the River below will be verv
small not q half the amount di.char-
ged by the Morganza crevasse the
River held it before that crevasse took
place.
In any light look at i'll cannot see us
much injury can he done as good Obtain
ed. Shut the Lafourche and the!drainage
obtained, will double it not treble the
arrable land capable of supporting
three times its present inhabitants, i'm
meDse quantities If valuable lumber
can be obtained. the West side below
I~hlbodaux will be absolutely free from
crevasses. the West side above Thibo
daux is already levied 20 Donaldson.
vile, aud canals cut into the bayou can
keep all free of crevass water besides
draining vast swamps for cultivation
the East side from D~onaldsOnville is
levied almost its entire length against
Gre vases from the River aud with ca
nails a be made safe without having
costly draining machines. besides re-
claiming vast bodies of valuable lands.
Now for the objections, coal, lumber
and sugar will cost more for freight,
this at first sight looks bad. but let US
see how bad. see by an estimate
given by the New Orleans Times, that
there is Fifty Thousand men now en-
ployed in the State watching the levees
of the three Hundred miles Of levees
on Lafourche, there is fully five Hun.
dred men watching them, say for nine
ty days costing near Forty-fi five Thou l..
and Dollars alone not counting the re-
pairs which would mount up to near
double that amount, near and quite
$1OO.NO counting lumber all this vast
sum lost yearly, Ear be saved. the State
can have a vast ready made canal to
to drain vast bodies Of valuable land.
Besides other matters are r~eouir-
ing attention and I believe if crevasses
are not stopped soon we will have very ,
little bayou left a measurement made
just below the Bourgeois crevass Just ,
before the present high water establish {
ed the fact that a bar is now their over q
ten feet high. You all know a bar g
found just below a crevasse caused by +
the diminished velocity of the water i
and many bad bars are in the bayou, <
and move forming every year from Gre y
'asses, thus gradually filing up the ba e
vou, now it will not take many years s
o fill it high in its lower parts, that no n
be bnilt to hold the water thus :,
Iistroyinga magnificent natural canal n
many will say oh it will ill up with the a,
Vashings of canale. Well you propose :
0 dig draining canals will not they
lso ill up in time and require cleaning X
ct. SO can the bayou be cleaned out, Q
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cures.

Santa Rosa, CAL, Feb. 9th, 1883.
B. j. Ken lall & Go. Gentlemen: feel e.
a duty t" others suffering with the piles and
ftiiihg Of the return To write YOU. have
had the piles and prolapsus Of the r-ctu,n tor
five years, for the past three years ! have suf
fered the most ag"nizing pain. Tried every
thing without rrlief. but after ten DAYS use
OF Asnd''is Spawn" Cure l have hot seen or
heard Of the piles eimce. One Tho has not
suffered as have cannnt comprehend the
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ease almost worse than death. l had a valua
bic young horse that had u large buncl, ,ath-
er on his breast bone. l tried all kinds oof lin
iment and bad it cnt open without any bcue.
nj. Saw Your advertisement and bought a
bottle Of kendalrs SPAWN Cure and ors:,.rei
my tea'nster to use as directed. In less than
one week the lump had Disappeared, Think
dalls SPAWN Cure has done for INV hnrse
might benefit more. l tried it az a last resort.
WITH gratitude and best wishes for your
success. 1""A
am fnifh{n1lr, ,~... -
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AendalI's SPAWN (,re.

H.
fort Worth. Tex. March 18TH. 1899
Messrs. U. J; Kendall H. Co., About e;gh,
mont1s ago there was a valuahle ss.l;;a liz
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:" oe treated for u bone SPAWN. which Wy
In Si~ gEOwtn ana of pronounced size. anil
your lininlent known "a EanaaHrn tnat
lure was valuable, I commenced ms;pr SPAWN I. ~.
u enlargement and after six w.eLs .oou
anu having applied two bottles the horse ~"
smnat entirely, leaving the leg nerfectsv
CHARLES HENRY.
r. Charleston. S. G. Snlv % ,ssa
Dr. J b: Kendall 4 Co. Dcsr 81 i9oS.
cn,se "a a. Louisville, KY, a very fine hprs put
Io't. ana IN shipping he got h;s ho.II. olSu
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great ma"r 'naae nam very lame. I tried a
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WOW 10 the time to advertise in
the SENTINEL. 400 ="
National Republican., 1884-01-16
FROM THE PEOPLE.
A Budget Of Communications Upon a Variety
Of Subjects,
District Taxation, the License Bill, Wo-
mans Suffrage, and the Like.
TO Me E,fHOr.

TO he Etnor.
I have read with great qualification the
communication signed "ritus" appearing in
your issue of the eleventh instant, which
partly exposes the crueltios of tho proposed
license law, and feel moved to join hands
with him. Mans selhshnoss is proverbial.
In business life each looks to his own inter-
est and is disposed to let his neighbor do the
same, and he who can shift burden from his
own shoulders to those Of somo one else, is
very apt TO think the proceeding iustifable
and proper however weak the muscles of the
now bearer of tho burden, and however
great the certainty he will be crushed by IL.
! am led TO these reflections by perusal day
after day in your columns OF reported intor-
views with merchants, bankers, brokers, and
others in respect of the now license bill pro-
pared by the district commissioners.
The unanimity of sentiment of these gentle-
men in favor of tho bill aud the almost entire
absence of objection thereto is to my mind
both shocking and discouraging.
DO they understand and appreciate tho
| cruel provisions of this proposed law2 DO
they understand that tho poor man who is
now earning an honest living and adding to
/ tho strength and wealth of the community
| by prosecuting some ono of these to'be-taXod
occupations for inability to pay the license
| tax will be sent to tho workhouse, dressed IN
striped clothes as II convict and compelled
perhaps to break stone upon the street?
Is human charity so wanting in this com
munity that our property owners can bring
themselves TO consent TO this method OF
| grinding down our fellow citizens who arc
not blessed with this worlds goods, and Of
| thus getting money to pay our corporate
expenses? IL is difficult to believe that this
feature of tho bill has been understood, and
yet such is tho plan of collection which it
proposes. "Pay your license tax OF SO tc
iail," Is its declaration. Was ever another
tax collected in this wayp
We may style the personal tax law "odous,
but it is not iniqutous IL is inquisltorinl;
but not wicked. 1t may tend to prevent
capital from seeking our city, but it does not
tend to fill our workhouse with honest con-
victs aud to mako paupers of their wives
and children.
This is no fancy sketch, Mr.. Editor, fol
even under the license law passed by oui
late legislative assembly. parts of which arc
yet In force. our workhouso has been ton
anted by book agents, peddlers, aud huck
sters, aud others, who while engaged in the
prosecution of lawful and commendable pur
SUITS committed the crime of being unabl,
to pay tax greater in amount than the value
of all their earthly possessions Verify
Mans inhumanity to man makes countless
thousands mourn"
Let the bar rooms be licensed, and their
keepers imprisoned for failure to pay theii
fines, for their business is criminal, but fo
the sake of the good name Of the community
If for no other reason, let us not collect our
taxes by process of imprisonment LEX:
WAsuINGToN. jan. 10.
National Republican., 1884-01-16
WAsuINGToN, Jan. Is.
A PECULIAR ARGUMENT.


Aftor reading your recent editorials, in
Weighing against the abuses the government
has suffered from tho railroads and corporate
monopolics, l am surprised to soc you iudors-
ing Senator Sabin's plan to issue 2 per cent.
hfty-yoar bonds. Is it possible that before
approving this scheme yOn took the pains TO
discover that 1t means the payment of $780,
5ii1O3 in interest annually for the next fifty
years, and that Mt the end of that time an
amount equal to the ontro principal would
have been paid to tho bondholdcrs, while the
principal would still remain ready for an
other fifty years eNtensiont Why this great
bondholders, anyway? We're the bonds
issued for the benehtof the bondholders or
OF tho people? Arc tho bankers and bond
holders entitled to more consideration in the
payment of the national debt than those
other 'soverigns'~ taHpayers2 To the
man who has been accustomed to lending his
oyeTCoat to his uncle" at about 20 per cent
. per cent. seems like a very low rate Of in.
forest, but when applied to so enormous Il
sum as the amount of our public debt the
result is by no means insignificant. Senator
Slbin's plan strikes me rs grand gift dis.
triDutiOn scheme, and, unless | am very much
mistaken, the Taxpayers of this country are
preparing To sit down very emphatcally
upon any political party that may indorse it.
Tho people do not feel called upon TO nay
their debts over two or three times for the
purpose of fostering tho business of private
capitalists. AurHENTICUs.
WAsHlNGTON, Jan. 8.
National Republican., 1884-01-16
A CHEERFUL KICKEWs KICK.
.o fhc E,fyor

do not know that you are fair enough TO
give your victims a chance TO "kick back "
after you take advantage of tho having a
newspaper TO strike through, but hope you
are.
Not at present controlling newspaper my
self, should like to use your colums 10 pro-
pound publicly query in response to the
following question asked oditorlally in your
issue OF Jan. 0: Are We to understand that
our gentle sisters Of the womans suffrage
party prefer polygamy aud o vote to monog-
amy and acknowledgements
Are wc to understand that there Is on the
editorial staff of THE REPUBLICAN, such o
blathering IDIOT or such n neglected igno-
ramus, AS to believe that "a vote" by woman
has caused 'polygamy," or that "disfranchise-
ment' Iof its victinsl will give Utah mo
nogamy" Some knowledge of tho history of
polygamy and its existence, permitted by
men, will show tho benighted writer of the
above.quoted paragraph that polygamy was
instituted and maintained by men without
woman's vote, as IL is protected and allowed
10 strengthen by a mans government, man
president, and man congress.
Men have made as bad mess of 1t as Il
possible; women could do do worse; the,
might do better. Polygamy is an excresencC
formed under mans political power; that Il
remains to be discussed in 1884 should make
every honest man put his hand on his mouth
and how his head in the dust Does any man
believe that If women were to-day admitted
to equal power and position with men polyg
amy would show its hydra head on our faii
land one year hence! A SUFFRAGIsT.
JAN. Is, 1854.
National Republican., 1884-01-16
ATAAK WITH UUEGLE.
What the German RostgurRteurs Propose
Doing LA the License Questions.

"The German Restaurant Keepers society
do not propose to do anything just now"
said Mr.. Fred Hucgie to reporter of TIE
REPUBLICAN yesterday, "pho number OF
members " too small, but by the noHtmcet-
ing in all probability IL Will reach 100 or 500
members, and then q form of action can be
determined on"
How about the proposed increase of tho
license taxi
80 far rs am concerned | can pay tho $3.50
easily, but thcrp are many men in the bu,i-
ness who scarcely sell two kegs of beer day,
or make enough money TO pay house rent,
feod and elutho their families with suitable
garments II will como hard on such men,
moro so than you would suppose
What does your society intend doing in
the matterY
eve propose to havo membership of 400
or 800 and ut meeting determine on some
stated plan of action"
win you appeal to congress"
81 think So"
"lIaye you made out any petition to con-
gressY"
NO; nor has any committee been appointed
to wait on congress in our behalf These are
matters that Will be considered whom the
time comes, We want to do things properly
and IN order, without antagonism to any one
our purpose Is simply to assert our rights a'
citizens aud maintain them with character
and dignity"