The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-06-06

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pay my BILL There was a big lump in
my throat; | could scarcely speak.
But got it crowded down and managed
to say: There is some way to pay
Won. and | will find it after a little.
There is the bnnnty in the savings
bank. guess we could borrow s.nI
money on Il mortgage on the fam. l
WIS sure the boys would help, so |
thought we could make it up II II
wasn't more than 800 or $500
But it is Il great deal more than 5000
OF 5000 ~ ia. Then | sand didn't
see how. but | was sure | would find
some way-if | lived. Then MIR.
Lincoln put his haHls on my slloHi'!ei'
and looked into my face as if he were
sorry and said: My boy. my bill i
Il very large one. Yourfiiends ann"
pay it, nor youI bounty, nor YOU
farm, nor all your comrade. There i,
only one man in ali the wolld who can
/ pay itand his nameis William Scott
If from tins day William scott doe,
his duty, 20 that if | were there wIiei,
he comes to die he can look me III til.
face, us he does now, and say [ have
kept my promise and | have done my
duty aS Il soldier, then my debt wilt
be paid. Will yon make that promise
aud try to keep it' | said | woulf
make the promise and with Cod
help | would keep it.. He went ava,
out Of my sight forever. | know |
shall never see him again, but MA,
God forget NE fever | forget his KIND
words or my PROMISE
Mr.. Chittenden, who had il personal
share i'll bringing the case of Scott t."
Lincoln's attention, aud who watched
his subsequent career, says lie became
1.-The general favorite of all his com
radcS, the most popular man III the
regiment, and modest unaSsuinin. and
unspoiled by his success" He died
risking his life in the rescue of wound
ed men, ,,being shot all to pieces"
That Il better understanding is
being gradually reached between
capital and labor is being almost daily
demonstrated. Year by year great
strikes ore growing less i'll number
and at the same time they are far less
disastrous than formerly. The boy
colt has been abandoned and eXcepi
iii rare instances violence has given
way to better and milder remedies
than " re formerly used. As an ms
lance of this may be cited the strike
and lockout OF the switchmen of Il
Chicago railroad last week that pro-
missed TO be serious and to disrupt ii
good many lines of traffic. The
switclmen had become unusually over
bearing and the Welding t" one de
maEd had only led to another still
more prepostero 5. Tie road had
given it up to the last point of for
bearance, when at u new demand it
discharged! ev ~ switcinna,n on its en-
tire line and supplied their uiagcS With
new men. TIE general cottncil Of the
SWitchm MS union took up the matter,
and after Il full disctisSiou OF the whole
matter the council decided that the
alcn We're Wrun. and did not sustain
them III the demand that led totiieiock-
out. Order Was restored at nlace. Inc
general council WAS comH0>rd III fBeu
who had learned that labor nud capi.al
were not encniIeS, and ;aat each had
nights that the otner ought to respect.
III W. HiIhN - VIZ STATES tlhf -NNN
York and Massachusetts, recent ieSi>-
latlon bus enlarged the rights OF work
ilglnetI. Labor Is winning it~ fan re-
cognitiou III The statute books, and
every state capital sees neN bills
brought forward at each legislative
session designed to give to labor the
fullest scope and protection 10 which
II Is entitled. Wage-WurkeGS are slow
i'll recognizing this changed condition
Of things and they are not anxious to
hazard their legal recognition ~ >glSes
and violence. These ~pelceab!e re-