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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-04-29
MISTAKEN CLAIMS.
A m Opinion OF Badge-Wearlng
Americans.

"A mi opinion OF tearing
Americans.
An incident which actually occurred
in a town in an eastern state has a sig
nificant meaning for every educated
American.
A well-known German scholar visit
ing this country was invited to a
small reception which was given in
this town. Only the most prominent
of the townspeople were present. He
found them exceedingly well bred, cul-
tured and intelligent Not only this,
but he noticed hat most Of the men
and women present wore peculiar little
badges or pins, some made of plain
enamel, others set with diamonds and
emeralds. He questioned his hostess.
''They are orders, and of American
origin?"
YES" was the reply. THE tokens
that their wearers belong to the true
American aristocracy. They are Colo
NAL Danes Sons or Daughters of the
Revolution"
The stranger inquired into the requi-
sites for membership and was told that
the badges signified that the wearers
could boast of at least one ancestor
who had served the republic in the
revolutionary war or as a civil officer
in colonial days.
"And the wearers Of the badge" he
continued. "They also doubtless serve
the state. They are statesmen, poll
ticians? They endeavor to purify the
ballot box, TO amend the laws?"
"Oh no, indeed!'' was the amused re-
| ply. Americans of this class seldom
| vote at all. Politics is considered By
| them an unclean trade. 1t is, as a rule,
left to the bosses or men who follow
politics to earn a livelihood"
"They wear the badges, then, because
they are proud hat their grandfathers
did what they are ashamed to do? l
cannot quite understand" said the
puzzled foreigner.
The implied rebuke OF the German
shows that he felt that something else
was needed to entitle the wearers of the
pretty pins to q place among the true
American aristocracy" than the proof
that their dead grandfathers had
served their country nobly. Ignoring
as they did the most vital obligation of
citizenship in the republic their ances-
tors had honored, had they a right to
the claims they made?-Youth's Com
| pani0n
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-04-29
SLOW-GOING ~"CRACkERS."
Ten Miles Their Days journey With .
Sleepy OK Team.

Lon MICS Ihelr Days journey Win y
Sleepy Ok Team
None but a southern Cracker" could
endure the long ride through the pine
woods behind the slow-moving oxen. A
whole day is commonly occupied by
them in covering a distance of eight or
tent miles. The animals have a lazy ex-
preston in their eyes and the old two
wheeled cart literally stands still at
times while the animals are drawing
one leg before the other. But a cores
pendent says this is suited to the tenn
permanent of their owner. He rides along
quietly, occasionally rousing himself to
snap his whip with such a ~resounding
crack that it can be heard for a mile
away in the pine woods. It is said that
these people get their name from the
skill which they nave obtained in snap
ping their long whip lashes, and 1t
seems quite reasonable that this should
be true. One can tell the approach OF
a cracker and his load of oranges by
the occasional swapping of his whip long
before he is in sight. He plows his
fruit orchard with the aid of the same
slow team. Frequently he allows them
w Sob IC Wdlho dIOuuu GtlC pIdCCs
and in the middle of the day the sun il
considered too hot for endurance. Man
n beast then rest within the shade
of some tree, while the croaking of the
bullfrogs and the cawing of the buzz.
yards are the only indications of life
around. Fortunately for the crackers
convenience, oranges are fruits that
do not have to be picked rapidly.
He a distribute his labor of harvest
ing over several months, and this
he generally does The checks that
come back in return for the fruit con-
stitute about all the money the crack.
ers see in the whole year, and generally
they do not see much of this. There is
an accoun at the general merchandise
store in the village that has been run.
ming for a rear, and after this is paid
off the poor man finds very little left
But this does not bother him much. He
returns home to repeat the operation,
and to cultivate his groves SO that he
can pay off another bill at the store
which will gradually accumulate again.
There is very little religious life pos
slble to those lonely people in the
| oodtlClA PiuC "OOuS LII UAO oludiACE
| places where a number of them are
gathered together o minister occasion
ally visits them to preach, but out in
the desolate pine woods they are left to
their own resources. Every day ia
about the same with them. They work
a little, sleep a great deal, and eat
when they are hungry. For pleasure
they go hunting and fishing, OCCASION
ally the whole family takes a tort
nights trip in the big cart to some dis
tant lake, where they camp out This
is their only outing or vacation. Read
ing material is very scarce, with the
exception Of the small county papers
the latter are very plentiful in Florida
Schoolhouses are generally few and far
between, and they are mostly small log
huts that the crackers erect themselves.
IN. Y. Post
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-04-29
QUEER HAIR-DRESSING.
The Operation as 1t is Performed Upon the
Natives of Central Africa.

The Operation as 1t is Performed Upon the
Natives of Central Africa.
During the hot hours of midday,
when all actual labor is suspended in
the village, the natives, urged by van
ity and national pride, devote a great
deal of time to the arrangement of their
odd but elaborate toilet. Hair-dressing
is one of the principal obligations, and
constitutes one of the numerous domesr
tic duties allotted to the fair" sex. On
a reed mat spread out in some shady
corner the sits down, and the
man upon whom the operation is to be
performed reclines at full length, rest
ing his head in her lap. She begins at
once to unplait his hair, and soon has it
all ravelled, and then, with a coarse
wooden instrument resembling a child's
toy rake, she combs it thoroughly until
it is clear of all entangiements, and
stands out all over the head in a thick
bushy mass six or seveninches deep. 1t
is now generously creased with oil from
the palm nut. The woman her parts
it off into sections, and very soon the
coarse bunch of hair, cleverly manipu-
lated by her nimble fingers, is wove
down closely to the head. They dis
play a good deal of ingenuity
in forming a variety of designs
| Sometimes a series of little plated
strands, like rat tails, hang in a fringe
all around the head. Often solid plaits
| of hair about the size of a goats horn
are made to stand out from the head in
different styles Two Of these will APP
pear ~sprouting from the top of the
head, or one will drop over the fore
head and lie along the nose. A very
popular fashion is to have a roll of hair
along each side of the head, ending in
two solid plaits, which curl over each
cheek like Sleeps horns Both men
and women have the hair treated in
the same way.
The plating operation Is also ex-
tended to the mans beard. The mus
tache is removed, and so are the eye
brows, with a razor, which is a small
cheese-cutter blade with a long slender
handle. This is used somewhat as we
hold a pen, and the stubbly hair is
really chiselled off the face, no small
amount of it being dragged out by the
roots Tribal custom compels its re-
moval, and the African is SO insensible
to pain hat the means employed do
not inconvenience him in the least.
Often when undergoing this treatment
he falls asleep, and never betrays any
discomfort e j. Glave, in Harper's
Young People.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-04-29

alive. He was insensible when his
wife found him. and was shot through
the body. but he had some hopes of
saving his life.
strangely enough, the woman had
been hit twice. One ball had gone
through the f1eshy part of her arm.
another had grazed her ribs; but until
the doctor had finished attending to her
husband and turned to her she was
| quite unconscious of having been
touched. The man finally recovered.
That woman and two or three Of the
others used from that time regularly
go out at night and fetch in water, and
singularly enough one of them was
ever hit-though instead of crawling
along as we did, they used to go across,
each with a couple of pals, as if it
were the most natural thing to fetch
water with bullets whistling round
their heads. Mrs. Brown was remon-
strated with by the commandant, but
she said: My husband and the children
all want water, sir; why should other
people risk their lives in going out to
getit while stop quietly inshelter? My
husband went out to get water for the
children when he could, and now that
he can't, surely it is my duty to do so.
cannot hear them crying for a drink
when | am strong and well enough to
get it for them. don't feel afraid OF
the bullets, and if l was it would be
all the same Indeed, all through the
siege l noticed that the women went
| about 1n;n~ %ha1r 1,orlr s,,ct .oe ,.,,,
and making no fuss about it, and ever
when things were at their worst they
never seemed put out, and certainly
grumbled far less over the hardship
than we did.
Il think it is always So" one of the
others said. in all great sieges the
women are more constant than the
men, and less inclined to dependency.
They keep up the spirits of their hus.
bands, and are always against surren'
der, however great may be their suffer
ings. Still. l don't suppose the poor
woman who jumped overheard had any
thought but to die with her child.
When a man jumps overheard for any
one who has fallen into the sea, he has
always a hope of being saved. He
does not go unless he can swim and he
thinks that the boats may get to him
in time. 1t was not a question of cour-
age with her, but of despair; and
l doubt whether a man ever despairs
altogether. l have been in some tight
places myself, but it always seemed to
me that l should get out of them some
how. don't think that the idea oil
jumping overheard in a heavy sea
when | could not swim would ever oc
cur to me, however much / might love
the one that had fallen overheard.
might tumble down from sheer horror
l might go mad; bnt do not think
should ever be driven to commit whaf
would be an act Of suicide. l doubt
indeed, whether, whatever my feeling.
might be, I could force myself to jumI
overheard in such a sea as that. Blu
there is the lunch bell; when we come
up again l will tell you a story to the
point
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-04-29

20, sir, have you seer anything Of
my little boy and pet dog? They have
been lost for nearly an hour" What
did he have on. ma'am?" "a little red
blanket with 'Fido' embroidered on
each side, and a silver collar. Mater
nal Register.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-04-29
A Young Giant.

A YOunG Giant.
SIS the baby strong?!"
"Well, rather"
"You know what a tremendous voice
he has"
Yes"
well, he lifts that five or six times
an hour. Texas Siftings
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-04-29

-"Where have you been, Tommy
'Out in the stable giving my goat
drawing lessons. / teached him how
to draw q wagon"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-21
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Councillor Ross is the musician of TIT
council.
Oklahoma City has a school enumera
ton of l ,5s3.
Miss McClintock has taken charge o
the Yukon Register.
A homeseeker union is being organized
by the strip boomers.
Colonel Hickey of Oklahoma City hal
been appointed postmaster at Woodward
o. T.
Mulhall was greatly excited over a cas-,
of supposed smallpox, but complete di
agnosis of the case revealed only a milo
case of chicken pox.
The Wharton express robbers were ar
rested last week on Sand creek, in the
Usage nation, by Deputy United States
| Marshal Rogers and posse.
| The Real Estate Rustler says that if the
| legislature will pass law that women
should handle all the wages OF the men
there would be no necessity of passing 6
gambling law.
The county commissioners Of Cleveland
county have rejected the bond of II. II
Jenkins, appointed county treasurer, on
his bondsmen only aggregated a, 600. His
! bond calls for $4,000.
With four large rooms in the Normal
| building filled with pupils, two rooms in
the public school building crowded to
their utmost limit, and the large room in
Central hall filed with school children, 1t
does look as if Edmond's claim to being
the educational center of the territory was
hard to dispute.
Guthrie Leader: Miss Hattie Horto d,
whose contest was tried before the Okla
homa City land office in January, on a
question of law, has come victorious, the
decision being rendered in her favor. The
claim Involved is beautifully situated
near Fort Reno. Miss Hattie may not
hold the fort, but she will hold the next
thing 10 it.
Edmond Sun: The average citizen is not
aware Of the fact that the erection or the
educational institutions, viz: the uuiTer-
sity at Norman, the Normal at Edmond
and the Agricultural college at Saltwater,
have not been any expense whatever TO
the territory so far, and, in consequence,
the needed appropriations should be made
by the legislature They should not be
made grudgingly, but cheerfully and free
", for the respective localities have shown
good faith by furnishing the required
means that have so far been needed.
Delegate-elect Flynn held a conference
with the Kickapoo conferrees in wash
iugton and insisted that those living on
Deep Fork river should be allowed 10 add
to their farms. making a complete quarter
section. Quite q number Of settlers who
have been there for some time By leasing
lands from the Indians. have pesiiioned
congress TO preserve their rights IN the
way indicated. Mr.. Flynn thinks thai tbe
conference committee will incorporate a
provision covering the case in tue bill re-
ported.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-21
THE BEST PLACES OPEN.
There Is ALWAYS Room at the Top fol
the Right Sort of Men.

| There Is ALWAYS Room at the Top for
the Right Sort of Men.
! The average excellence of the age is
high, but one of its imperative needs is
great leaders, and these in every de-
partment of human endeavor Turn
over the historical pages where you
| list, and one truth remains the same,
that a supreme man has always made
supreme event.
To be practical, we ask an observa-
ton of business concerns. They have
grown so large and spread so widely,
as to need men of consummate bility
for their direction.
DR.. Mains tells of several promi-
nent New York firms which are hunt
ing for an individual "at the top" and
though he may command his own price,
they have not yet found him. first
rate Insurance. company recently re-
vealed the salary of the head manager.
us that not an enormous price," we
asked financial authority.
''No, sir" responded he, SIT is pure
and good business, considering the
man"
Money is no object, providing the
leader of the future fills the bill" The
highest skill, with perfect trustworthi-
ness added, is just now in great de-
mand.
There are problems, social and po-
litical, which non-thinling people are
too apt to term insolvable The truer
statement is: We need commanding
men to think them out; men whose
moral and mental standing viii insure
respect, whose judgments will catch
the listening ear. And we be-
Eeve these leaders are coming. They
may be developed out of our very need.
If any market is governed by supply
and demand, this one is. Even as we
write we are convinced that climbing
slowly but surely to the top are the
watchmen who shall first discern the
dawn. And as the revolution gave US
Washington, the civil war Lincoln, so
shall class difficulties and labor troub les
produce in like manner the men who
can solve them. This much is safe,
that every young man has brilliant
future for his character and usefulness
providing he has character and useful
ness for his future.
The elevated heights of a more ad-
vanced civilization are before our very
eyes. Who like Napoleon crossing the
Alps, win rush forward to their sum-
NIT and bid his fellows follow? Ger
tainly no temporizer; no coward, pal
tering with the truth; nor yet the
smart man who lacks moral fiber.
Expediency can not always rule. RICH:
must and only can perpetually endure.
The poets who sing this; the philoso-
pliers who think, and orators who per-
suade this-for them land for US, If we
are among them) there is room at the
top" All the honors men pay TO their
greatest benefactors are just where
they have ever been-within the reach
of a young mans brave and pure en-
deavor.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-21

10 the number of feet in each unit OF
measurement marked off on the log
line. IL half-minute ESQ secouds1
glass is to be used. the knots must be
made so feet inches from each
other, and the number Of these
knots which pass from the reel
over the stern while the san d is run
ming from the top bulb 20 the lever
bulb of the glass is equal tethe mum,
Der of knots or nautical miles that the
vessel would make in an hour, provid-
ing the same conditions for speed con-
tinue. For instance, il the engines of
a steamship continue 10 make tho
same speed during the hour.
or IL the force of wind and
spread of canvass OF sailing vessel
continue the same, the number of knots
on the line passing from the reel while
the sand is running through the SO
second glass is as good an actual meas.
urement of the vessels speed Through
the water as could be obtained except
that the course should be measured by
an actual survey with instruments II
it was shown that the vessel was max
ing ten knots. she would cover ten geo.
graphical miles, or a little more than
III land miles. or eleven and half
times 5, $50 IS, ESQ feet being equivalent
10 land mile. Hence, TO speak of thu
City Of Paris having made 525 knots OF.
nautical miles in % hours, she covers a
distance of 6O411 land miles, as com
pretended in railroad distances, or a
rate Of % land miles an hour, which il
faster than many railroad trains travel.
N. Y. Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-21
THE COST OF THE BIG SHOW.

The January report of the auditor of
the Worlds Columbian Exposition has
been published. 1t is mass of interest
ing figures almost incomprehensible in
| their immensely, for hundred-thousand-
dollar items are bewiidering in their
number. Out of the columns of figures,
however, one may gather many interest
facts. Thus. among the receipts 1t is
shown that admissions to the grounds
have already amounted to nearly $780,
900. Nearly four thousand dollars worth
of guide books have been sold, and pho
tographic receipts amount to So, 75S.1l.
Percentage from concessions have
reached So, 1925. This is doing pretty
well considering that is for four months
before the fair opens. Among the items
making up the last total are those Of
S742 q from the sale of popcorn and
lemonade, and of 1896. Is from the sale
of souvenir coin holders. The interest
has reached ST.. 900, and the deposits on
account Of souvenir coins amounted, to
February 1st, to S817, 637. Among the
disbursements perhaps the little items
are the most interesting. Thus an ice
bill of more than four thousand
dollars is as impressive as a
construction bill of quarter of mill
ion. Laundry work has cost So, 900, and
telegraph expenses have reached nearly
four thousand dollars. More than seven
thousand dollars Las been paid for tele-
phones. and the postage expenses have
reached the enormous figure of $46,-
CSC. &C! Typewriter repairs and supplies
have cost the exposition SAG. Under
the head of Construction Expenses"
come most of the larger items. For
these there will generally be something
to show, yet one is astonished at finding
items amounting to more than $135,
charged to fire protection, when, under
General Expenses" insurance expenses
are put at S54, 900. Another astonishing
item is that of nearly quarter of 4
million dollars for police protection. In
January the number of employees was
2, 784 against 1921 in December. The
pay roll amounted to 1922
575.2 30, an average per man of only $2.58
a day. The total cost of the buildings
is put at Sc, 1913. 74L69.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-21

According to the latest official esti-
mate the crop of wheat in the United
States for 1892 is 515.000.OJO bushels. in
Russia and Poland 200, 600. 600. in Onta.
no-and Manitoba 100000 IN France
3l2, 900, 900, in India 5000, 900. in Ger
many $4,000. 600. in Austria &c .00O. 600
in Hungary 134 900 600, in Great Britain
61,000, 600, in Italy Ill ,000, 000, in Spain
100000, and in Roumauia 5S, O0O. OOO
bushels, a total of l, 929, GOO, 600 for those
twelve countries. The same countries
in 1891 grew 1,92S,000, 600 bushels.
against 1,S42, 0O0, 900, in 1890 and sis
900, COON 1890. These figures are given
out as government estimates, but If
they are no more trustworthy as 10
other countries than are those for this.
they afford very unreliable data upon
which TO calculate the probable direc-
ton of prices. It is now believed by
those who ought to be the best posted
that the wheat crop of the United States
for 1892 reached the total of $50. 0OO. OCO.
1t is not matter of very great surprise.
therefore. that the price of the cereal
and its products remains low.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-21
For the Lagle.
HAIL TO THE CHIEF.
by ONE OF THE MACS

Fail to the chief who is brave and undaun ted,
And would not succumb to a mad mans de-
But brush'd off his minions and firmly i'm
planted,
In halls legislative, the flag of the free.
Each sIedge hammer stroke then
A door panel broke then,
While the building resounded with joyful &C
claim;
Flash'd thro' the panel cracks
Lberty's battle axe,
Welded by Douglas who leap'd into fame.
The state house was chang'd to gloomy
fortalice.
Where dwellings guards were superior to
But quickly they vanish'd from Iberty's
palace.
When Hercules club with George Douglass
they saw.
On ev'ry hill and glen,
Speak out in praise again
Of all who assisted, in liberty's name.
In crushing this lawless crew,
Who would bring ruin to
Kansas; where Douglass found glory and fame.
In Kansas we've courts for laws Interpretation
We also have fools who will say we have not;
But Governor Lewelling, in his alteration,
Is really the very worst fool of the lot.
Sedgwick's mild zephers fan
Many a fearless man
Whose heart is illumin'd with liberty's fame;
But none are greater than
This able fearless man.
hammer Douglass who leap'd into fame.
Lewelling may give US reform quite artistic,
And dreams of a future, when poverty departs
From the homes Of the people; by means So
calistic.
He HIS given US already. one Of the lost Artz;
But never again we
VIII lose him until he
VIII find greener pastures with grasses more
tame.
Kansas and Sedgwick then
Loudly will cheer again
Sledge-hammer Douglass of immortal fame.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-21

Judge Gresham favors tariff reform-a
double standard-and is a consistent advo-
cate of an economical administration and
hence, necessarily, a Democrat Atchison
Patriot.
Your explanation, except its conclu-
sion, may be correct. but if it is Judge
Gresham is placing himself in queer
company when he accepts a seat at
Cleveland's table. Tariff reform and
double standard have both been aban-
doned byCleveland and his party, and as
far as economical administration of the
government, the two more-than-billion-
dollar-sessions of the Flfty-third con-
gress'now about ended answer the asser-
ton fully.