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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1888-10-06
LIE ROMAN D'UNJEUNE
HOMME PAUVRE.
PAR
Octave Fellillet.
do rAcademie Franeaise.
Suite.j

lSuite.I
An milieu de ces miseres intimes
don't chaque jour redoublait Hnten-
site, je ne trouvais un peu de Sc
cours qu'aupres dc ma pauvre ct
vieille annie Mile de Porho9t. Ellie
ignorait on feignait d'ignorer rGtat
de mon csur; mais, dams des allu.
sions voilees, peut-6tre involontai-
res, ellie posait l6gerement sur mes
plates saignantes la main delicate
ct ingenieuse dune femme. IL y a
d'ailleurs dams cette anne, vivant
embl6me du sacrifice ct de la resi-
gnation, ct qui deja semble flotter
an-dessus de la terre, uu detaehe
ment, un calme, une douce fermete
qui sc repandaient en- moi. J'en
arrivals a comp prendre son innocente
folie, ct meme q my associer avec
une sorte dc naivet6. Pench6 sur
mon album, je me cloitrais avec
ellie pendant de tongues heures
''ans ga cathedrale, city respirais
~ moment les vagues parfums
i'une id6ale ser6nite.
J'allais encore chercher presque
chaque jour dams le logis de la
vleille demoiselle un autre genre
! de distraction. Il ny a point de
travail auquel rhabitude ne prete
quelque charme. Pour ne pas lais.
ser soupconner q Mile de Porhost
la perte d6dnitive de son process, je
poursuivais Requirement pexplo-
ration de ses archives de famille.
Je d6couvrais par intervalles dams
ce fonillis-des traditions, des le.
gendes, des traits de m0urs qni
6velllaient ma curiosit6, ct Qui
transportaient mon imagination
dams les temps passes, loiD de Pac-
cablante realit6. Mile do Porhoet,
don't ma perseverance, entretenait
les illusions, men t6moignait une
gratitude que je m6ritais pen, car
!Javais ini par prendre Z cstte Stu-
de, d6sormais sans utilize positive,
un int6ret qui me payait de mes
peines ct qui faisa,t a mes chagrins
une diversion salutaire.
! Dependant, & mesure que le ter.
me fatal approchait, Milo Margue'
rite perdait Ia vivacit6 febrile don't
ellie await paru anin6e depuis le
Jour Oh le marriage await 6t6 d5fini'
tiyemest .arret6. Elle retombait
do moins par instants dans sou Of.
titude antrefois famili6re d'indo
lence passive ct de sombre r6vsrie
Je surpris meme une on deux foi,
ses regards attaches eur moi ave.
une sorte de perplexite extraordi-
naire. Mme Larosue de son c6t'
me regardait souvent avec IN ali
d'inqui6tude ct d'ind6c,sion, CONNIE
81 ellie e0t desire ct redout6 en- me
me temps d'aborder avec moi quel
que p6nible sujet d'entretien
Avaut.hier 10 hasard At quo je III
trouvai seul avec ellie dams le salon
Mile H6louin Giant sortie brusqut
ment pour donner nm ordre. u
, conversation indiff6rents dams la
ouelle nous etions engages cess
( | aussit0t CONNIE par uu accord se
cret; apres IN court silence =
Monsiear, me- dit Nine Larcqu
d.uu scesnt p6n6ts6, voas place
bieu NAL v0s condolences
Mes condolences. madame! J
|, no psis voas comprendre. A par
Mile do Porhost, personoe ici n
Irocu Do moi l'omhre dane cont
denoo.
-H6las! reprit-slle, je vsax
sroirs. ..je 10 srois ). .nais g n'es
pas asses H..
Al mAme instant, Nile Heloui
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1888-10-06

Benolo centre n dyssontoEio,
Ga6risos radioale Of gasrantio.
References nombreuooo. Addresses
4 Mr.. Omer Ssveis, shes Mr.. j.
Ttliuaqle Badeasx, LsteaSshA
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1888-10-06

CUMTER HOUSE,
y Is Decatur street, opposite tAe PtM ED1cc'
Hot lunch from 10 A. n. to r. MI N. y. AG'
FINEST BEER, WINES AND LIQUOHS.
FRANK J. BISTES, Proprietor.
rormsrlv of the "Gem Saloon" and lately OF
the "Jewel of the south"
Apr-24-S6-ly'
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1888-10-06

pour surveiller quelques coupss de
bois dams les environs. Vers qua.
tire heures du soir, je revensis dams
la direction du chateau, quand, d
un Lrusque detour du chemin, il
me trouvai subitement face q face
avec Mile Marguerite. Ellie etait
seule. Je me disposais a passer
en- la salnant; mais ellie arreta son
beau jour d'automne,
monsieur, me dit.elIe.
.-Oni, mademoiselle. Vous vous
promenezi .za...s
CONNIE vous voyez. J'use de
mes derhier moments d;indepen-
dance, ct meme j'en abuse, car je
me sens un peu embarrassee lie ma
solitude. Mais Alain etait neces.
saire la-bas. Mon pauvre Mprvyn
est bOiteux. .Vous ne voulez pas
le remplacer, par hasard
-Avec pIaislr. Oh allez vous?
-Mais. .j'avais presque l'idee
de pousser jusqu'a Ia tour d'Elven.
Ellie me designait du bout do sa
cravache un SONNET brumeux qui
s'elevait q drOite lie la route.-Jr
crois, ajouta.t-elle, que vous n'avez
fait ce pelerinage.
-C'est vrai. II ma Souvqnt ten
tf, mais ;e l'ai ajourn6 jusqu'ici, je
ne sails pourQuoi.
Eth hien! celia Sc trouve par
faitemeot; mais il est d6ja tard, il
faut nous hater ua peu, sill vous
plait.
Je tourDai bride, ct nous parti.
mes au gal0p.
Pendant cue nous courions, je
cherchais q me rendre compte de
cette fantaisie inattendue, qui ne
laissait pas de paraitre M peu pre-.
mitee. sJe supposai que le temps
ct la reflexion await pn attenuel
dams Pesprlt de Mile Marguerite
impression premiere des calonnies
don't OH ravait tronb:6. Apparem.
ment ellie await fini par concevoil
Quelques doutes sur Ia v6racit6 de
Mile Helouin, ct ellie s'6tait enten'
due avec le hasard pour m'offril
sous une fofme deguisee, une sorte
de r6paratiou qui pouvait metre
due.
A peu de distance d'Elven. nous
primes un chemin de traverse qui
nous c0nduisit sur le SONNET dune
colline aride. De IL nous aperc,
mes distinctenent, quoique 4 unt
assez grande distance encore. X
colosse f6odal dominant en- face d,
| nous une hauteur bois6e. La land,
on nous nous trouvions s'abaissai
par une pcnte assez raide vers do,
prairies mar6cageuses encadr6el
| dams d'6pais taillis. Noes en- dsa
cendimes le revers, ct nous fli,ne
bient6t engages dams les boi,
| Mons suivions alors une 6troit
chaussee don't le pave disjoint {
raboteux q dff r3sonner sous le pie,
des chevaux bard6s do fer. ia
v.is cess6 depuis longtemps d
voir Ia tour d'Elven, don't je u
pouvais meme plus conjecture
l'emplacement, quand ellie 80 d@gs
gea soudsin do la feuillke, ct d
dressa a deux pas de nous avec |
soudsinete dune apparition. Cett
tour nest point ruin6e: ellie COT
serve aujourd'hni toute sa hauteu
primitive, qui d6passe cent pied,
ct les assises regulieres de gram
qui en- composent le magninque VI
pareil octogonal lui donnent ~,
pect dun bloc formidable tall
d'hier par le plus pur cisesu. Rie
dc plus imposant, de plus fer ct
plus sombre que CO vieux donjo
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13

Mr.. Hatch, OF Missouri, rising to q
question of privilege, in the house, last
Monday, stated that in a speech deliv-
cred by him at KirksvHle, Mo-, some
time ago, he had said that the Oliver
Chill Pillow Works, at South Bend,
Ind, exported plows to Canada and
sold them at an average cost of - less
than they were sold to American
farmers. Since that time q gentleman
residing at Kirksville had received a
letter from the Oliver Chill Plow Works
denying the correctness of his (Hatch's)
statement, and declariag that the works
had little or no trade with Canada. He
(Hatch) had written to the plow works
reiterating his statement and giving as
his authority Mr.. Washington, COM
mercial agent at London, Ont. He
read a report transmitted to the state
department by Mr.. Washington stating
that the Oliver Chill Pillow Works pillow
| which In the United States cost SIG
| could be obtained in Canada for Sl2
He took this opportunity to read the re-
port, he said, in view of the fact that the
| truth of his statement had been called
in question.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13

Says a New York City dispatch -
"There has been much rejoicing at the
national democratic headquarters in
New York over the change in political
sentiment of the Irish Independent
Association, which has come out
squarely in favor of Cleveland and
Thurman. The president, Edward j.
Rowe, is the democrat who called a
meeting in 1884 at Clarendon hall to
protest against the nomination of Gro
YER Cleveland, whom he persistently
opposed after he became q candidate
for the presidency by organizing anti
Cleveland clubs in twenty four assem-
bly, districts in New York, and by
working INCREASINGLY for the election OF
James G.. Blame. The Irish are
thoroughly awake to the issue involv-
ed in this canvass, and will vote with
the party which proposes to ameliorate
the condition of the workingmen Of
this country"
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13

Our esteemed contemporary, +the
Register, speaks of Mr.. Tarsney as
Castor Oil John. Well, Mr. Tarsney
does think that castor oil, a necessity OF
the poor, should not be taxed 1870 per
cent. while ottar OF roses, a luxury of
the rich, is admitted free of duty. That
Is a principle underlying this whole
fight. The democrats want cheap
n~ecessaries OF life rather than cheap
luxuries. Castor Oil John, therefore,
is no reproach. Judging from the little
cry-baby speech that Mr.. Bullene is
making yer the district it is apparent
that he is afflicted with worms, and
needs a little vermifuge. Therefore,
we suppose, we shall have to add to
the nomenclature of the canvass the
name of Vermlfuge Tom. We trust
the Honorable Vermifuge may suffer nc
inconvenience from the weather, which
seems to be rather unpropitious when
he comes TO Lafayette county.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13

This republican senate tariff bill
ought to be entitled, ga bill to rob the
laboring masses for the profit of mon-
opollsts and to facilitate and invite the
formation of trusts" If it could be.
prcssIuu- or- TITO psoeorsS sors.. ,..oAwvs,~
still further impoverish the farmers,
mechanics and workingmen of the
country. The Mills bill is a step
though only a step, in the right direc-
ton. 1t makes raw materials free and
thus cheapens the goods used by the
poorer millions and draws the teeth O.
monopolies. This republican bill is 6
long step in the wrong direction. L
aims to make the poor pay even NOR,
than the present Ubiquitous and monop
olistic tariff, and it offers a direct
encouragement TO the extension o
trusts and combines in the nec~essariel
OF life. That 10 the difference bet Heer
the two bills.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13
NO
} Judge Barclays Refusal TO Grant
a Chinaman NaiuraIiza-
ton Papcrs.

From the st. Louis Republic, September 1871
Judge Barclay refused the Chinese
applicant. Argo Konnehame, naturali-
cation papers Yesterday. The opinion
OF the court is brief, and, as it comes
from a man who is soon to be elevated
to the supreme bench the case is of
more than ordinary significance.
Elk parte ArgO KOnnehame-Appli-
cation for naturalization: This appli-
cant for naturalization is q native of
China. He has reside l in this country
tor more than ten years, and his case
presents the question whether the Chi
nese may acquire the right to natural.
cation here under existing laws. The
power with which state courts are in
vested by the laws of the United States
respecting the admission of persons to
citizenship, is limited by the terms OF
the Acts of Congress comforting such
power.
The first American statute on the
subject Act of April IA, 1902, provid-
ed for the admission TO citizenship of
any alien, ''being a free White person."
complying with its Terms. So the law
remained until the act of July IA, 1870,
when, by all amendment, the privilege
of naturalization was extended 10
aliens of African nativity or descent.
Upon the revision Of the federal
statutes in 1873 the last mentioned
amendment was retained, but the re-
quiremcnt that the applicant should be
a free white person was dropped Gre
vised Statutes, Secs. 2,l65, 2,l69).
Shortly afterward, by the Act to cure
errors and omissions in the Revised
Statutes (February Is, 1879, it was
again provided that applicants tor
citizenship should be free white persons
except those of African nativity or
descent.
The Chinese are Il branch of the
MOngolian race and a separate and dis
tinct part of the human family from
the Caucasian and African races to
which the right of acquiring citizen
ship under our naturalization laws was
intended to be limited. 1t is too clear
to require argument that the Chinese
are not ''White persons" within the
meaning of the law.
IL has been held that the statutes OF
naturalization do not permit the ad-
mission of Indians [opinions of attor-
~ney-General. volume z, page 7461 or
half breeds rs Sawyer, sal TO cilIzen.
ship. A similar view to thai mere de-
clared of the law under consideration
has been taken by the United States
Court of the Ninth Circuit rs Sawyer,
1851.
But if any doubt could fairly be said
to exist on this point it has been re.
moved by the most recent Legislative
declaration of the meaning of the
naturalization laws in the act of May 6,
1882 [22 U. S. States at large, chap.
126. sec. IA, p. Gil TO the effect that
thereafter no stale court or court OF
the United States shall admit Chinese to
citizenship
The question of the effect OF any
treaties between this country and
China is not a matter for consideration
in the present case. The instance in
which the United States will admit
citizens of other countries TO the rights
OF citizenship here are TO be detcrlmin-
ed solely by the laws OF our W oun
try.
1t follows from these observations
that the present application must be
denied. Ii is so ordered.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13

A delightfully."- frank. cordial and
genuine old fellow ia "Pig Iron" Kel-
10y whose many years service in con-
gress entitle him { the sobriquet of
''Father OF the House." 1t is said that
he was recently accosted by a republic
can senator with a view to ascertain
his opinion of raising the duty on wool,
which advance has just been agreed to
by the senate committee. The old gen.
tleman broke out in this fashion:-''Ii
you senators knew your business as
well as you ought to, you would follow
the advice | gave you two years ago.
Let wool come in free and let us
make blankets that will drive out Eng.
Iish blankets" The senators didn't
know their business, and they viii
realize il al keenly as Judge Kelley
does after the 9th of November next.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13

1t is the merest drivel for the repub-
licans to attempt to make the people
believe that a lowering of tariff duties
i've per cent. means free trade, when
they, themselves, by their tariff COM
mission, recommended = reduction OF
twenty-five per cent. and when the
Mills bill policy has tho Endorsement of
all the prominent republican leaders,
including Gen. Grant, Gen. Logan,
Mr.. Blaine, Gen Garfield, Lew Morton
who as congressman voted for free salt,
Senator Sherman, BENZ. Harrison, Hugh
McCulloch, Senator Allison, Senator
Ingalls,, indeed the whsle KIT and com.
poodle OF them. The truth is, the re.
publicans are making a campaign Of
hypocrisy and false pretense. Render.
ed desperate by imminent defeat they
have sold themselves to the Msmmon
of unrighteousness, and for the "fat'
which they think they can ''fry" out Of
the manufacturers, who, as Senator
Plumb says are alone benefited by high
protection, they have gone back upon
their own declarations and upon the
platforms of their party. Can they
hoodwink and deceive the people
We think not.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13

To the workingmen whom Mr.. Bull
lene is trying to scare with his false
figures as TO wages and tariff rates, we
desire to quote James G. Blaine, who
in 1881 as secretary Of state at Wash
ington wrote an official letter to the
speaker of the house Of representatives
on cotton manufacturing in which he
said:-''Undoubtodly the inequalities
in the wages of English and American
operatives are more than equalized in
the greater efficiency of the latter and
their longer hours of labor" So il il
in iron and wool industries with the
raw material on the free list. Cotton,
| you know, is now Oh the free list.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13

The st. Louis Republic says:-"The
republican members of the municipal
government of Decatur, ILL.,, have been
attempting 10 organize an 'Irish-Amer'
lean Home Market Club from among
the laborers In the employ of the
municipal corporation. Several Irish
men who were ordered to join, refused
They were threatened with discharge
by a republican alderman unless they
reconsidered, and on again refusing
were discharged. This bulldozing il
going en- in every trust controlled
factory in the country. 1t is shameful.
enough under any circumstances, bu
whan 1T is-nraciised- by -mnnics-o
democrats and republicans alike, it i
intolerable."
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13
O0L0RED DEMOCRATS.
La Crosse, WIS, Chronicle.

I'M OTUsSt, Is, OHTUNIUIt'I
One of the notable things about the
present campaign is that a large num-
Der OF cOlored voters are breaking
away from their bondage to the rcpub,
lican party. IL is estimated 2l0, COG
coIored voters in northern states will
vote for Cleveland and Thurman.
Nothing indicates the march of intelli-
gence more among the race than this
fact. 1t shows that they have risen
above the blind prejudices of the past
and are exercising their reasoning
powers upon political affairs.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13

Ii Mr.. Bullene's success as q con-
gressmsn is to be measured by his sue,
cess in keeI ing up the business OF
sleambo sting in the Missouri river he
would prove quite as great a failure
there as he is on the stump. He had
II 10 his power to help steamboatinc
oy giving his freights to boats rather
than to the railroads. Here was a
practical thing to do, but we venture
to say he never Inconvenience himself
to any great extent In that direction.
He contented himself with appearing
as an ornament at so-called river i'm
provement conventions. The result OF
this policy by himself and Others is,
that there has not been u single steam .
boat this year plying the Missouri river
Between St. Louis and Kansas City.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13

The refusal of the republican senate
to act OH the retaliation bill has arous-
ed Indignation even among the repub-
lican organs. The Troy Budget, one
Of the strongest republican papers in
New York, says that ''if the republicans
lose the presidential election this year,
q contributivs cause to that disaster
will be the refusal of the senate to act
on the retaliation BILL" 1t is not nee
essary to dwell upon the influences that
must have been brought to bear to
keep the senate from taking action
demanded by the overwhelming senti-
ment of the country. They refused ia
uphold the president in standing by
the rights of u producers and trans
porters and the honor of our citizens,
They prefer to leave the executive with
inadequate remedies against British
Imposition rather than subordinate
pa%rtisanship to patriotism. Theil
course constitutes an electioneerins
trick of the vilest sort, and the people
will punish them severely for it at thu
polls.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13

Mr.. Cleveland in his message was
careful to say:-"+ y The reduction
of taxation demanded should be so
measured as not to necessitate or just
fly either the loss of employment by the
workingman o the lessening of bis
wages; and the profits still remaining
to the manufacturer, after a necessary
readjustment, should furnish no ex.
cuse for the sacrifice of the interests Of
his employees either in their opportuni.
ty to work or in the diminution of theil
compensation. =" Where is thu
free trade sentiment in that; or the
alleged carelessness for the interests OF
manufacturers?
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13

Mr.. Blaine in attempting to convict
Mr.. Dickinson OF ignorance at Grand
Rapids proved himself 10 be ignorant
OIL the very matter in controversy, the
amoun taken by the New England
states of the products of the west. Of
course Mr.. Dickinson never said what
was attributed to him, but that makes
no difference to MIR. Blaine. What
concerns us the most as to his speech is
not 80 much what Mr.. Blaine said as
what he left unssid. He boosted a
great deal of the quantity of grain. cot
ton and wool taken from the south and
west, altogether some 100000 900
worth, a large part of which was
simply in transit to European markets,
but he failed to say that his Sec
ton OF the country took its meat. grain
and cotton at prices absolutely fixed
in Liverpool, a free trade market. In
other words, that 30 far as these arti-
Giles are concerned they are sold in
New England, as well as elsewhere, in
competition with all the world, at
prices not in the least enhanced by our
lop-sided tariff. Is New England will
ing to sell rs her ware on the same
terms? Not at all. She takes our cot
ton grain and meat at Liverpool prices,
less the transportation, and sells us
her manufactures at Liverpool prices,
plus transportation charges, and with
AZ. 10 per cent. added by reason of the
tariff. New England thus gets the
value of every cent it pays for cotton,
grain and meat, and in return gets
something like 300 900 900 per annum
more for what it sells us than it is
worth. 1t Ia q nice little confidence
game for New England, and if the
west and south stand it much longer
they will have nothing with which to
pay. Already these sections are plas-
tered over with mortgages to these
eastern manufacturing barons, Carne.
gies who count their profits by the
million and q half dollars q year; who
maintain castles and coaches in Europe
and then come home with brass enough
in their cheeks to tell us that we must
continue to permit this worse than
highway robbery or be branded al
British Hessians. Love for the labor
ing man, forsoothI Such colossal
Hypocrisy was seen Oh earth
These same millionaire lords are by
their trusts turning honest laboring
men with their families into the streets
to stsrve and freeze on the verge o.
winter, and, as Mr.. Carnegie is doing,
s~candalixing u civilization by work
ing At furnaces by the side of men, hall
naked women, whose necessities com.
pei them thus to unsex themselves.
Mr.. Blaine must needs have audacity
thus to subject himself by his misre'
presentations to the lampooning OF al
honest tongues and pens.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13

1t is only a little over three weeks
until the presidential election. Every
democrat should put forth his best
efforts to convert ct least one erring
republican TO the cause of tariff reform.
The Issues TO decide this year are OF
Suancis! interest to every man, woman
and child in the country.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13

The danger to this country is, that il
is drifting into plutocracy--a govern
ment of wealth. The very men who
are endangered the most by this are the
wage workers, and yet it is they who
are by false pretenses led to believe
that their millio naire taskmasters are
studying the interests OF labor rather
than OF capital. 1t is a travesty upon
common sense, but the humor IN il is
too grim TO be enjoyed by men who
love their country, aud would keep the
ship Of state from going upon breakers
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13

Every day comes the announcement
Of the detection of some prominent
leader from the republican party. The
latest recruit for Cleyeland and tariff
reform is Judge William Dickson, of
Cincinnati. He says he sees no hope
tor the republican party as long as il
trusts it's leadership to the men at
present in control, and he feels CON-
PEELED to withdraw his support.