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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-08-30
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.

THE SENTINEL is responsible for none of tn,
views expressed in the communications IN
der this head: but no communication win b,
printed except from responsible parties.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-08-30

The Louisiana State Fair will be
held in Baton Rouge, on October 81,
%, %, "a, %, 1880.
The Louisiana Press Association will
hold its annual session for 1890, in the
same city and at the same time.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07
WHAT SHE SAID.
1t Was Practical Remark, But Rather
Unexpected.

IL was HfacC1cal remark, But Rather
Unexpected.
He was San franciscan in the PLAYED
out city of London. He came from the
West, where he had developed that in
dependence and self-reliance which,
combined with good looks and twenty
dollar gold pieces, made man superior
to all Europe. He strolled with graceful
dignity into a gilded bar, over which
presided divinity of superb physical
form, but still woman, with that air
which only an English barmaid can pos
sibly put Ian air of mingled conceit,
pride, coquetry and humility. She
awaited his order.
He was dressed in the latest fashion.
He threw the lapel of his coat back with
proud gesture, and fixing his fascinat-
ing eye on the bar beauty he said:
'Tell me, my pretty maid, what can
you suggest for man who ate Welsh
rabbit last night and does not feel we'll
this morning?''
She did not smile: she did not appear
to be affected by the appearance of his
swelling chest or his wicked eve; she
simply said:
sWhy didn't you heat two Welsh rab-
bits and let 'em chase beach hother?'-
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07
The Poorest People on Earth.

In both India and Egypt it is women
who collect the fuel for the family.
They do this by going along the road
and gathering up the droppings, which
they take home and dry for tire-wood
Their wages are very small where they
work by the day, and neither men nor
women get more than enough to keep an
American laborer in cigars. Farm
laborers in India get from six to eight
cents day, and masons receive about
ten cents day. In my tour around the
world | found no place where the people
were so poor as in India, and nowhere
else in the world will you find food so
scarce that the people look like living
skeletons. and regulate the amount they
eat according to the amount necessary
to sustain life. In Japan and Burmah
and in Korea the people are poor, but
their poverty is nothing like this. In
Egypt they are ground to death with
taxation. but their stomachs are not
stinted to such Il degree that they can
barely keep alive. There are no signs
of suffering in the faces and limbs of
the people of Palestine and Turkey, and
the only place where starvation is con-
tlnually staring the man in the face is
in certain districts of India.-F. G. Car
penter, in National Tribune.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07
A ROUGH DIAMOND.
Good Advice for Persons Who Have tn,
Western Fever.

Good Advice for Persons Who Have the
Western Fever.
We are asked many times in year:
Would you advise me to go West? We
can not answer the question. We can
not give advice upon such a matter.
There is the West, many parts of it as
splendid land as the sun ever shOne
upon, and destined sometime to be as
thickly settled as Illinois. Much of it
is wild now. There is no civilization.
little government except of the crudest
kind, plenty of rum-shops, and the usual
rough crowd that first finds the frontier.
A mans life and property are safe, how
ever. if he behaves himself, and in time
he will have all the civilization he needs
anu wants. Now if the man has the
pluck and industry to take the rough
diamond that is offered him as free
gift and cut it and polish it, he will
likely become the possersor of some
thing worth having. That is all we can
say.
People are going to Dakota, Montana
and Washington, and some of them seem
to be surprised when they get there to
find that all is rough and wild. What
else can be expected? The prairies are
untouched and the towns are primitive.
If this was not the case the land could
not be had for nothing. Nobody can go
West and find developed farms lying
around loose or cities and towns with
magnificent architecture. building them
selves. Everybody must turn in, in a
new country, and help make it, and out
side of the natural fertility and other
advantages, the community will be just
what the people choose to make it. The
West is rough diamond. Western
Rural
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07
Jones' Self-kestraint.

She-Mr. Jones, look at that impudent
man on the other side of the street. He
has been following us for the last ten
blocks.
Jones-Why didn't you tell me SO be-
fore? I'll teach the impudent puppy a
lesson.
Walking boldly across the street Jones
says to the man: Look here, Snip. T
am very sorry I've not got the MONEY to
pay you for that last suit, but you ought
not to follow me up and dun me when
I'm trying to capture that girl. She has
got lots OF money, and if / succeed yo,,
will not only get your money, but also
an order for wedding suit"
Snip goes off satisfied.
Returning to the young lady Jones
says: Il am glad you called nv atten-
tion to that cowardly scoundrel. I don't
thing he will ever stare at you again.
had great difficulty in restraining NV
self. Texas Siftings.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07
WHO MGINTY WAS.
A Very Important Point is Settled Once fo

All.
"Papa, who's McGinty?"
She is but four years of age and ex-
ceedingly inquisitive. She will not
take Il don't know, DEAR" for an an
swer-she wants satisfaction of some
sort. In moment of abstraction her
papa had warbled the lines about the
unfortunate McGinty's descent into the
coal hole. She had heard it, hence the
question.
"McGinty was man who fell into q
coal hole in the sidewalk, dear"
Didn't he see the hole?"
''No, he was loaded"
when the coal fell on him?" !
eyes, he had a jag, dear"
''What is jag, papa?"
ga sort of tide, pet"
"Did Mr.. McGinty get out of the
hole?"
cit took his friends some time to dig
him out.
''Why did he wear his best suit of
clothes? 1t couldn't have been Sunday,
because the man was delivering coal"
Il guess his best suit was his worst
one, too, darling" and the little ones
papa hummed another chorus.
81 thought you said he went to the
bottom of the hole?"
81 did, little one"
well, just now you said he went to
the bottom of the sea?"
''He went there, too, dear"
''To wash the coal off his best suit OF
clothes%'
'Yes," desperately.
Haven't they found him yet, papa?"'
81 hope not" savagely.
''His clothes won't be worth much
when they do find him.
81 should think not"
ibid he have any little girls like
me?"
Shouldn't wonder
''Then why should he fall into the
sea?''
Maybe they drove him to it, dear,
by asking questions"
"Ohr'-Chicaco Herald.
Origin OF the Word Chestnut"
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson some time ago
gave this as the origin of the word
chestnut" ''In an old melodrama by
William Dillon, called The Broken
Sword are two parts-Count Xavier
and his servant Pablo. The Count is a
sort of Munchausen, fond of telling
stories of his exploits. He tells one:
Once entered the forests of Galloway
when suddenly from the boughs Of
cork tree Chestnut, Count inter
rupted Pablo. Cork tree,' said the
Count. "A chestnut reiterated Pablo;
i should know as we'll as you, for
have heard you tell the story twenty
seven times The late William War
rem, who had played Pablo often, was at
mems dinner once, when a gentleman
told story whose age and originality
were far beyond any doubt. Chestnut
murmured Warren; 4 should know as
we'll as you, for have heard you tell it
twenty-seven times The guests took
up the expression, and from that" says
Mr.. jefferson, II believe the expression
really comes. IN. Y. Sun.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07
PRETTY GIRL SLAVES,
How They Are Bought and Sold In tn
Market at Stamboul.

Now They Are Bought and Sold In the
Market at STEAMBOAT.
There are actually at STEAMBOAT about
ninety regular slave brokers who sell
and buy slaves, or who are the medium
of buying or selling. The slaves are
lodged in houses known by the public,
just as they know the dealers in any
sort of merchandise. The principal
slave houses are about thirty.
The Abyssinian slaves are rare on &C.
count of the delicacy of their health.
An Abyssinian maiden from fourteen to
seventeen is worth from so to 100 liras
"a Ira is worth about IS shillings), but
a handsome one is sure to bring 800
liras. White slaves (Tcherkes) are
more abundant. Maidens from twelve
to fifteen are quoted from 60 to 300
liras, and those from sixteen to twenty
from 60 to 1000 liras The price varies
according to beauty, size, complexion
and accomplishments. Singers and
musicians generally bring good price,
Many people here buy slaves for legal
marriages, preferring them to Turks
The reason is that slave has no rela-
tions (mOther-in-law especially, and,
therefore, no visitors or callers. She
endeavors to please her husband She
is obedient and economical, and very
affectionate even if pretty we'll treated.
Many slaves would not leave their
masters for the world, but many others
would be too glad to obtain their lib
erty. Some are we'll looked after, we'll
cared for, richly dressed and have costly
Jewels They dine with their lady and
are treated as companions and as mem
bers of the family.
Among the possessors of slaves who
were the most noted for their kindness
and benevolence was the late Princess
Zeinoub Hanoum, the daughter of the
first Viceroy of Egypt, Mehemet Ali
During her lifetime she gave monthly
Allowances, from two to fifty liras, to
each of her slaves. She had some
eighty of them married to respectable
gentlemen, and gave to each dowry of
from s., 900 to e5, 900. Before her death,
three years ago, she made will grant
ing freedom to all her slaves and dis
tributing to them valuable presents and
settlements.
There are hundreds Of young girls
who are sold to persons who sell them
or exchange them for others of greater
beauty. 1t is revolving to see to what
extent slavery is encouraged here, and
how many of these poor creatures
would like to fly away from the brutal
ity OF their masters, and how many
others are exported against their will.
In general, slavery here is the curse of
the country. -Constantinople Cor. Lon
don News
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07
BEAUTIES OF ANDALUSIA.
Women Noted for Their Small Feet and
Graceful Carria ge.

Women Noted for Their Small Feet and
Graceful Carriage.
AS regards her stature and mold. the
AndaluSian girl is almost invariably
petite brunette, and although not all are
plump, and many are too Stout the ma
jOrity have eXquisitely symmetrical
tapering limbs, well-developed busts
(f1at-chested women are almost unknown
in SPAIN, and the most dainty and re-
fined hands and feet. Regarding these
feet Gautier makes the most astounding
assertion that without any poetic exag
geration it would be easy here in Seville
to find women whose feet an infant
might hold in it's hands. A French girl
of seven or eight could not wear the
shoes of an Andalusian of twenty'' |
am glad to attest that if the feet of
Sevillian women really were so mon
strously small fifty years ago, they are
so no longer. 1t is so discouraging to
see man like Gautier fall into the vul-
gar error of fancying that, because
small foot is thing of beauty, there.
fore the smaller the foot the more beau
tiful it must be. Beauty of feet, hands
aHu "dlooo 10 d udGOcT VI proportion,
not of absolute size, and too small
feet, hands and waists are not beautiful,
but ugly. We might as we'll argue that
since a mans foot ought to be larger
than woman's, therefore the larger his
foot the more he has of manly beauty.
Ii Andalusian women really had feet so
small that a baby might hold them in
its hands, they would not be able to walk
at all, or, at least, not gracefully. But
it is precisely their graceful gait and
carriage for which they are most famed
and admired. All Spanish women are
graceful as compared with the women
of other nations, but among them all the
Andalusians are pre-eminent in the poe-
try of motion, and this is probably the
reason that, although regular facial
beauty is, perhaps, commOner in Madrid
than in Seville, fOund that you can not
pay greater compliment to a girl in
Northern Spain than by asking her if
she is an Andalusian. 1t would be use
less to seek among land amin lis for
gait comparable to that of the women of
Seville, Cadiz, Malaga and Granada: and
when you compare it to the motion of
swan on the water, fish in the water.
bird in the air, it is the birds and the
fishes that must feel complimented. -
Scribner's Magazine.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.


1t is not we'll to believe all you hear;
but it is we'll to appear to believe it
when your wife is doing the talking
Somerville Journal
Husband during quarreI)-@We
shall never meet in heaven" Wife
80. yes, we may, There is plenty of
time for you to reform yet"-Yankee
Blade.
Many man confesses in the prayer
meeting that he is full of sin, who would
be very sorry to have his customers adj
nit that he is right.-Texas Siftings
Il suppose you still dabble in art?-
''Dabble! Why, my dear boy, pictures
from my brush are on exhibition all over
the city, You don't say! For what
firm of billposters do you work?"-Bos-
ton Herald.
Rev. DR.. PrimrOse-''I had a most
pleasant time in Paris this summer, but
it didn't rest me as much as l thought"
Merrit-Yet it should be some consoia
ton to you to know that your congrega-
ton got the rest. Life.
Colonel Blaze-''Sah, l am Ken
tucklanl There is my cahd sab! 'Billus
Il don't want it. I'm no fighter"
Colonel Blaze-''Sah, you are coward!'
Billus-''I know it, and so do you, or you
wouldn't have challenged me."-Time.
For remembrance.-Mrs. Gayboy-
''Tom, you really must have some pho
tographs taken" Mr.. Gayboy-''What
for?'' Mrs. Gayboy-"Form me. You are
~,
forget how you look. ''-Terre Haute Ex-
press.
-''You see have some reputation as
painter. Even the bank director,
Kripfer, has ordered his portrait from
me-" Sly old fellow-"When he runs
away and they send out his likeness,
from your picture, he knows he will be
perfectly safe. '-F*iegende Batter.
Gifted young man-''Don't talk to
me of religion or philosophy! What
light do they throw on the problem of
existence? Why do 1 live? What is
the object of my being?" Venerable
sage contemplating him mildly )-''My
young friend, l am sorry to say can not
see any good reason for it" -Chicago
Mr.. Highup-''I don't see why
Brother William doesn't prosper. He
has as good business as mine and an
excellent location. but he is constantly
having reverses. No matter what he
attempts, he seems to blunder" Mrs.
Hignup-''But you must remember, my
dear, your brother William has no wife
to advise him. IN Y Weekly.
why" said a travelling man to
Willie Washington, will men put an
enemy into their mouths to steal away
their brains?" ''Idon'tknow, You know"
said Willie, :'I'm suah l nevah did. :"
NO" said the traveller patronizingly,
land l don't believe you ever will. If
you do it will be horse on the enemy"
Merchant Traveller.
"A worthy deacon in Vermont coun
try town was discovered by his pastor
one Sunday morning saving an arpful
of wood for the kitchen stove. The sur
prise of the discovery caused the deacon
to drop his saw in CONSERVATION. q
didn't suppose you'd see me, parson.' he
faltered. ''Ah." replied the good man,
severely, you must remember, deacon,
that there is One higher than l, who
sees every evil act you commit" Yes,
parson," assented the deacon; but then
He doesn't make such an awful fuss
about it. Huntington Free Press.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07
THE FOX AND THE PEASANT.

L.
One day Reynard approached Peas
ant who was working in his Field and
said:
''FOr some Reason or Other there Ap-
pears to be want of Confidence be-
tween the Peasants and the Foxes"
YES" replied the Peasant as he rest
ed for moment.
'This makes it Unpleasant for both
IF us, and | have been Delegated to see
if we could not come to some Mutual
Understanding"
81 am willing"
Every we'll" continued the Fox as he
looked at the sky to hide the Twinkle of
satisfaction in his eye. TO prove your
full Confidence in us leave the door of
your Hen House open tonight That
will be Proof that you no longer Re-
gard us as Thieves and Marauders.
The Peasant Agreed to this, but while
ne left the door open he set Trap lust
inside, and when he arose next morn
ing. 10! the Delegate was fast in the
Jaws.
SIS this Keeping your Agreement
with me!' clustered Reynard as the
Peasant approached?'
"Was not the door open?"
Yes, but you set this Trap inside!
Release me at once. and in future nv
Dealings shall be with more Honest
men.''
GENTLY, Sir Reynard," said the Peas
INT, as he tapped him on the head with
Club, had you kept to the outside
you would never have known of nv
Trap. The fact that you were Inside
proves that you wanted my Poultry at
me Expense of my Confidence"
MORAL: Give Thief opportunity to
reform but carry your wallet in your
BOOTLEG when in his Company.-Detroit
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07

why, you don't take the Bible
Just as 1t reads, do you?'' said man to a
clergyman, who was talking with him
On the subject of religion Certainly"
replied the clergyman. ''How would Won
take 1T, if not as it reads? Would Won
take 1T as it doesn't read?'' That hits
the point exactly. Read the Bible in
this respect as you do any other book
ana take the meaning of it's words and
accept il.
"A strange coincidence noted bv the
Kansas City (Mo.) Star is that sson the
aay Clement Morgan, colored youth
from st. Louis, won the Roylston prize
ana was chosen class orator of Harvard
college, and the first colored boy was adj
mitted to the manual training school of
washington University, the Missouri
act making it crime for a colored child
to attend any white public school went
into effect"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07
TWO AMERICAN FABLES.
The A SIS and the Wild Horse, and the Fol
and the Peasant.

and the Peasant.
THE ASS AND THE WILD HORSE.
An Ass who was at Pasture one day
was approached by Wild Horse, whose
graceful movements and perfect free
ION from the restraints of Man SO filled
the ASS with Envy and Delight that he
begged the Privilege of making an Ex-
,ursion in his company. The Horse
consented and the two set out together.
but they had not travelled above three
or four miles when. pack of wolves
made rush and cut tle Ass off from
mis- companion. He cried out in Terror
for Assistance. but the Horse said as he
gallOped away:
81 had forgotten to mention the Fact
that this sort of life has its drawbacks
Us we'll as any other, ind this is one of
them
MORAL: Nature puts us all where we
belong.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07

The best way to make pot-pourri,
or flower mixture for a rose-jar, is to put
nothing into it but leaves and salt. AL
ternate the layers of rose-leaves and
salt, pressing the latter down upon the
former. When the scent becomes evil
dent, the leaves of any other fragrant
flowers may be added, such as heliotrope,
lemon, verbena, violet, or even those of
the geranium. A jar filled in this way
will prove source of delicious fragrance
for many mOnths.-Golden Days.
1t is said that paper pillows are very
cool, and in some respects superior to
feather ones, especially for hospitals.
Newspapers will not do so we'll on &C
count of the disagreeable odor of the
printers ink; but brown and white
paper, letters and envelopes, etc., are
the best. Cut or tear the paper into
very small pieces, the smaller the bet
ter, and put them into pillow sack of
drilling or light Observation-Disclosures.
Fruit Pudding: Chop six apples fine,
CRATE six ounces of stale bread, add six
ounces of brown sugar, six ounces of
currents washed carefully and Toured;
mix all we'll together with six ounces
of butter, cupful of milk and two cup
fuls of flour in which two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder have been thoroughly
mixed. If too thick, add more milk in
mixing. Spice to your taste. Put in a
pudding bag, tie loosely and boil for
three hours. To be eaten with cold
sauce made of butter and sugar stirred
together, cupful of sugar to one-half
cupful buttter.-Indiana Farmer.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07
BRIGHT AS EMERALDS.
A Strange Beetle Found Oh the Caribbea
ISlandS

Strange Beetle Found Oh the Caribbean
When we rejoice in the sight of our
own summer meadows flashing with
fiery sparks in rhy thmic dance, we can
afford to be glad that in tropical coun-
tries the FREELY makes still more bril-
liant display. The FREELY of the West
Indies-the cucujo, an inch long beetle
is occasionally brought to this country
as curiosity, and if fed on sugar-cane
and kept in moist atmosphere it can be
preserved in health for several weeks
The people of the Caribbean Islands
use these beetles for ornament, confined
in folds of gauze, where the beautiful
green light which they emit -their red
light flashes only in fying-is more
varied and splendid than any emerald
that ever shone in kings coronet. A
number of them together under glass
make sufficient illumination for dress
ing or for reading without producing
any heat. A cousin of this FREELY is found
in the equatorial regions of South Amer.
lea, where Humboldt said it repeated in
stream and forest the spectacle of the
starry heavens above.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07
Resources of Hudson's Bay.

A Canadian surveyor who was engaged
in an official expedition to Hudson's Bay
in 1885 and 1886 say few people have
any idea of he resources of this great
sea. It's shores are the haunts of the
musk OK, the moose, the reindeer, the
red deer, the white bear and his black
brother, the otter, the beaver, the mink,
the black fox, also the silver, gray and
white varieties, and nther valuable fur
bearing animals. It's waters are teeming
with the most valuable varieties of
water mammals and fish, He has seen
the bay as far as the eye could reach
appear one undulating mass of white
porpoises. Both the hides and the oil
of these are valuable. In some parts of
the bay and in the straits the shores of
the islands are swarming with walrus.
1t has been reported by Prof. Bell that
one island on the east coast was found
to be thickly strewn with the ivory
tusks of the walrus. The tusks are val
liable, though the chief value of the
walrus lies in the hide, which weighs
on the average 800 pc lnds. and is wortl,
from 10 to 90 cents per pound. Boston
Herald.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07
-Crimped Goldfish: Soak slic,

-Crimped Goldfish: Soak slices of
fresh whitefish in strong sailed water
about one hour; boil SLOWLY in salted
water twelve minutes; add tablespoon
full OF vinegar to the water before plac-
ing the fish in; drain we'll and arrange
on platter with tartar sauce.-Boston
Herald