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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-08-05

ue recOnnaltre en- celle femme celle
au'on appelait Ia Saint-Gaudenf.
Vetue de noir, CONNIE la veille
mais cette fois en- costume de laine
sans falbalas, en- grand deuil, Nine de
Saint-Gaudens s'avancait vers l'offi-
cier, les bras tendus ell s'ecriant
Mon frere ! mon pauvre
frere
-Je ne vous connais pas, madame,
dit NJ. Lefrancois, ct je ae comprends
pas que vous soyez lei.
Els sur ces derniers mots, il s'etait
tourne vers NJ. dHumbart pour
avoir de lui une explicauon.
Nine de SaintGaudens await COM
pris par le movement la pensee de
son frere.
-Oui, dit-elle, demandez-lui pour
quoi je suis lei, il pourra vous re.
pondre.
-Cest la sGur de ma pauvre
Emile, repondit NJ. dHumbart.
-Cette femme nest plus de Ia
famille, repliqua lie lieutenant. Ellie
fait mourir son pere ct So mere.
Ellie nous a ruines, ellie a tra1nG notre
nom ct lie nom de notre pays dams
tous les ruisseauX.
Pardon, mon frere. LIE moment
est solennel vous me renlerez, vous
me chasserez plus tard. Mantle
nant, par grace, ecoutez-moi. =.
Non, vous dis-je.
oh vous m'ecouterez car
vous venez de prononcer sur lie
cadavre de notre seur un serment
que je veuX .vous alder tenir. Moi
aussi je veux la vengcr ct cest
precisement parce que jai empoison.
ne son existence que je me suis i'm.
pose lie devoir de decouvrir ct de
chatter son meurtrier.
Non, non, mile fois non !; je ne
vous veux pas pour associee. Vous
me rendriez complice de quelque in.
fannie.
La haine vous egare, mon frere
Mais regardez, regardez done NJ
d'Humbart. Lui aussl, ma chassee
hier eh bien il tremble aujourd hui
de me voir partir. Settlement devant
vous il nose pas me retenir.
-Allons, fnissons-en, madame
s'ecria NJ. d'Humbart, que la colere
sutfoquant. je suis chez moi, ct j
vous chasse. ;.
-Et moi, dGsormais lie chef de
notre malheureuse famille, ajouta NJ
Lefrancois, je vous renie. -. Par
| tez
| -C'est votre dernier mot a tou;
les deux, dit-elle encore, en- scandan
chacune de ses paroles, ct en- fxan
attentivement DIES yeux flamboyant:
sur NJ. Lefraneois ct sur NJ. dHum
bart.
Par un geste simultane, les deu,
hommes etendirent lie bras droit dan:
Ia direction de la porte, firent un pa
en- avant CONNIE pour y pousser eux
memes la Saint-Gaudens.
Celle-ci, sans haisser les yeux, lie
regards aussi durs ct aussi cruels
laissa echapper de ses levres crispee
un petit rlre nerveux, GU plutot u
hoquet convulsif, ct lanea, en- Sc reti
rant, ces paroles pleines de menaces
| -Imbeciles IT,. Advienne gu
pourra Tant pis pour vous l..
Pendant ce temps, lie convoi after
DAFT rordonnateur DIES pompes fl
| nebres allait ct venait dams lie sailor
cherchant lie ma1tre de Ia maison {
lie trouvant personne de qui recevoi
lie signal du depart.
Depuis longtemps deja la bier
await etc descendue, ct lie boulevar
etait plein de curieux.
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FEUILLETON
LES
INN
CHATIMEN' is.
PAR EsCOFFIER.


Les medecins opererent rapldement,
avec une sdrete de main remarquab'e
ct une extraordinaire deXterte, lis
ouvraient ce beau corps qui n'avait
rien perdu de l'ampleur ct de la grace
de ses formes
Mais il fallait aller jusqu'au but
marquee par la justice ct determiner
pheure du crime.
Cest par Ianalyse de lestomac
qu'on arrive; Fetat des ailments
est un temo;n irrecusable don't la
medicine recueille la deposition.
Les m3decins furent bientot con-
vaincus que Nine. dHumbart await
etc assassin6 quatre heures ct demie
environ apres son dejeuner.
II s'agissait de savoir a quelle
heure await etc pris ce repas.
L'un des docteurs abandonna un
instant son colleague ct retourna
aupres du juge.
En- Sc re e,irant de la piece on lie ca
davre de sa femme allait etre soumis a
rautopsie, NJ. dHumbart await eu
une syncope, suivie dun assoupisse-
ment produit par la fatigue, ct qui
durait encore.
On Sc garda bien de lie r6veiller ;
mieux valait, au contraire, quill restat
dams Ignorance On le laissa sur le
caEapG du salon sous la surveillance
Ge Gardel, ct on passa dams lie cabi-
net
lie mGdecin tit verbalement un
rapport sommaire de loperatlon.
Leontne fut mandee.
"A quelle heure, lui demanda-t-on,
avez-vous servi lie d6jeuner :?
"A midi, CONNIE dhabitude.
De quoi Sc composait-il ?
De c0telettes de veau en- papil-
Totes ct dune omelette aux rognons.
Pas de hOrs-d puvre ?
Pardon, beurre ct radls.
-Parfait merci, mon enfant,
vous pouvez vous retirer.
La consultation est de tOuS
points exacte reprit lie medecin, quand
LGontine fut partie. Nine d'Hum-
bart await mango beaucoup de raids,
NETS tres lourd Ia digestion etait
loln detre tcrminee. Nous pouvons
affirmer que lie crime etc commits
quatre heures on quatre heures ct
demie au plus apres lie repas.
Tout celia est bien grave; dit lie
juge a mi-voix. La science est d'ac-
cord avec les autres donnees de
Information pour determiner lheure
=. entire quatre heures, quatre heu-
tire ct deme ct clnq heures. -.
NJ. d'Humbart dormait toujours
Les circumstances Gtaient trop graves
pour qu'on respectat plus longtemps
son sommeil, ct on lie rGveilla.
En- revenant a la vie rGelle, il fu1
d'abord tout &tonnG ct CONNIE 6tourd
de voir tant d'inconnus chez lul.
Nlais la mGmore lui reyint aussitot
ct s'adressant au docteur
Oh mon Dieu !. ma pauvre
femme Qu'en avez-vous fait !?
Nous avons rempli un penible
devoir, monsieur,
-Et?
La justice salt malntenant &C
qu'elle devait connaitre.
Et VI. d'Elumbart fondit en- larmes
lie iuge d'instruction n'avait pas
perdu un seul movement de VI
d'Humbart
II await observe son attitude, ses
gestes, ses regards.
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81 eSperance Qe SalSlr ua.lS SeS
regards les indices dun trouble inte-
rieur les await amenes, lis furent
deeus.
NJ. d'Humbart faisait avec beau
coup de courage les tristes honneurs
de la derniere heure; mais, CONNIE
celia arrive presque toujours en- pareil
cas-, il ne reconnaissait presque per
some parmi tous ces vislteurs qui
passaient devant lui ct qui lui adres-
salient leurs condolences.
Pendant que continualt lie defle
des indiferents, il Sc disait
Pourquoi Wendell n'est-il pas lei
Cest bien extraordinaire. II faut
quun malheur l'ait frappe, Iui aussi
IN ma suivl pas a pas depuis
huit ans; il ne ma pas quite un seul
jour pour ainsi dire pendant ma
prosperite :. Non Wendell ne peut
pas m'abandonner au jour du NAL
heur. .Et cependart ;.
LIE flot DIES yisiteurs montait tou-
jours NJ. dHumbart soutenait ener-
giquement lie choc; mais sou regard
impatient passait par-dessus les tetes
ct scrutait anxieusement ravenue.
-Et Lefraneols qul n'arnve pas,
murmurait-ll.
lie malheureux mari attendait avec
une impatience bien naturelle NJ.
Lefraneois qul etait lieutenant dams un
regiment de ligne en- garrison au
Havre.
Excellent soldat, veritable type
d'honneur ct de brayoure, admirable
ment note dams l'armee, NJ. Lefran-
cois aurait pu, a la rigueur, etre a
Paris la veille dix heures du soir ou
a minuit.
Malgre tout son deslr d'arriver
promptement au reeu de la fatale
depeche, NJ. Lefraneois n'avait pu
prendre que lie train du matln. Les
militaires ne font pas ce qu'ils veu-
lent, ct la discipline est infexible
Jamais on ne refuse une permission
dams une Circumstance grave, surtout
lorsqu'il s'agit dun deuil de famille,
mais encore faut-il fobtenir hierar-
chiquement.
A midi un quart, NJ. Lefrancois
parut enfn.
II etait en- costume miIitaire.
Son arrivee produisit uEe vive
impression sur les assistants on
n'associe pas d'habitude dies blillantes
epaulettes avec Repression de la
douleur, ct lie jeune officer portait
sur sa figure les traces dune attic.
ton profonde.
Du plus loin quill rapereut, NJ
d'Humbart Sc precipita au-devant dc
lui, ct les deux hommes tomberent
dams les bras Pun de rautre en- pleu
rant.
Trop oppressees pour prononcel
une parole ct mus par un meme sen
timent, lis Sc dirigerent vers la cham
bre mortuaire
NJ. Lefraneois resta quelques mi
nutes a genoux dams une extase con
templative puls, transfigure pa
une virile resolution, il etendit |;
main sur lie cercueil ct prononea dune
voix nette ct ferme ces paroles ct c'
serment
Emile, ma snur bien-almee, tt
as etc pour moi une seconde mere
tn as fait de moi un homme. Je jur
t que tn seras vengee
: NJ. dHumbart prenant la main d
son beau-frere, la pressa energique
ment ct, tous les deux, lis Sc retire
! rent gravement.
\ peine avaient-ils passe lie seui
t de la chambre ct entraient-ils dams
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Il OTuOuudleur Uomauua uuI.Dle-
ment DIES ordres, et sans meme atten-
Dire la reponse, Sc dirigea yers Ia
porte, la masse lev6e ct commandant
lui-meme la ceremonie
NJ. dHumbart ct NJ. Lefrancois
suivirent, entrainant apres euX tous
les invites.
LIE cortege arriva bient6t a la
Madeleine on y celebra une messe
solenLelle, avec tOute la pompe que
fEglise met au servive DIES grandes
fortunes : orgue, chants, lumieres,
TEXTURES, officiants lie convoi Sc
dirigea ensuite vers lie cimetiere du
Pere-Lachaise la Sc trouve lie ca
veau de la famille d'Humbart.
Rien d'extraordinaire ne signala
la mise au tombeau 81 ce mes
qu'en arrivant NJ dHumbart tres
sailllt ct ne put retenir un cri d'etone-
ment ct presque d:effroi
4 la porte du tombeau, deux
femmes en- grand deuil etant agenouil-
lees.
Files paralssaient 6tre la mere ct
la file. Dependant la plus jeune,
agee de vingt ans peine, ct dune
beaute merveilleuse, rev6lait par son
attitude un sentiment de profonde
affiiction que ne tGmoignait pas la
plus agee.
Ces deux femmes resterent 4 ge-
noux pendant tout lie temps que dura
la funebre ceremonie.
NJ. d'Humbart sapprocha delles ct
les fit monter dams la premiere vol
ture de deuil, OH il prit place, lul.
quatrieme, avec NJ Lefrancois.
A peine les portieres furent elles
fermees, que la jeune file Sc jeta en-
pleurant au cou de NJ. d'Humbart.
-C'est bien NAL de ne m 'avoir pas
appellee, dit-elle. ;. Votre pauvre
femme 81 bonne, 81 genereuse pour
MOI
Ellie sanglotait, la belle jeune file,
ct sa douleur etait polgnante
NJ Lefraneois, intervenant
-Calmez-vous, mademoiselle =;
mon beau-frere etc tellement sur
pris par ce fatal ev6nement. =.
La vue dun Granger fit rougir
tout d'abord la jeune file, mais les
grandes douleurs absorbent ct font
disparaitre les delicatesse du carac-
tere.
-Vous 6tes done son frere, dit-elle,
deja toute rassuree. Oh ellie yous
aimait bien tendrement, ct vous
devez savoir ce que NJ. dHumbart ct
ellie ont fait pour moi.
Avant d'etre mariee, ellie etait en-
qualite de gouvernante chez mon
vieux parent, lie compte de Berillon,
qui m'avait recueillie i'etais seule
au monde mon pere ct ma mere
sont morris sans que lies ale connus.
Marguerite, ma chere Margue-
rite, taisez-vous, dit NJ. d'Humbart
nous n'avons fat que notre devoir.
-Je vous en- prie, maaemoiselle,
finissez votre histoire, insista pofficier
II est 81 doux d'apprendre les bellies
actions de ceux que ron aime.
-Oui, je dirai tout, reprit la jeune
> file ;. Lorsque NJ. de Berillon mou-
rut-et lui aussi de mort violente-
je lestal sans fortune ct sans appui.
NJ. d'Humbart me nit en- pension ct
me fit clever plus tard, IL ma assu-
: re un avenir C'est Nine dHumbart
qui est toujours venue m'annoncer
ces bonnes nouveIles. Ellie n'aurait
pas etc plus aimante 81 j'avals etc
> sa file. J'etais tres heureuse avec
ma nourrice, qui est 81 bonne pour
MOI ct qui vous doit tout aussi, lors-
que nous avons appris sa mort.
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Suite a la page suicante.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-12-20

1t is stated that ordinary bricks
boiled in tar for about IL hours, or until
they are saturated with it, are increased
about 80 per cent in weight, are much
harder than common ones,- and unaffect-
ed by frosts or acids as we'll as perfectly
waterproof. They form an excellent
flooring for workshops and storerooms,
particularly in the chemical establish
ments.
Saws the Chicago Herald: "At the
dedication of the Presbyterian church
last Sunday among the subscribers to
paw off it's debt was liquor firm, which
gave $50. DR.. Willis G. Craig, of McCor-
mick University, Chicago, commended
the firm for its liberality, but noticing
q smile in the con gregation he learned
the cause and merely said: That's all
right And why not7 Why should not
The money of sin. as the prohibitionists
regard it, be made to serve the cause OF
Christianity. In all works of charity
WIN asks certificate of character from
a dollar7 1t may in its career have been
stolen, it may have been won or. lost in
gambling, it may have been factor in
horse race or prize fight; it may have
nided or abetted many wicked things,
but it will helo ss we'll to pay church
debt or the ministers salary it will buy
food and clothing for hungry and naked
children as well as dollar fresh from the
mint. There ls no taint on dollar to
prevent its doing good"
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- A lady older than the Constitu-
tion of the United States has just died
in New Orleans. She must have had
a good constitution herself.
Last Tuesday Capt. Isaac Bassett
completed his sixty-second year of
continuous service in the employ of
the United States Senate. He began
as page, appointed on the reconlmen-
dation of Daniel Webster, and to-day
his face is as rosy, his white hair is
as luxuriant and his step is as elastic
as it has been at any time during the
last twenty years. Nearly every Sena-
tor on both sides Of the chamber and
the officials and visitors generally
shock hands with the Captain and
wished him sixty-two years more
health, happiness and salary.
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Learning Things.

The drummer was looking so sad
that it attracted the attention Of che
hotel clerk.
'sWhat's the NATTER" asked that
functionary. "Lost a friend, or your
job?"
''No, worse;'' responded gthe drum
mer.
"Lost tyos friends2'' queried the
sympathetic clerk.
''No; just thinking Of man I met
out here in Adrian last night at sup
per"
"What did he do to you |? Beat you
at poker 2" y
NO; asked me a question and |
answered it by asking him another. y
s'Give me the particulars"
"Well, ittwas this way" and the
drummer showed by his looks how bad
he felt to bring 1T all up again. We
we're at supper and / had been pretty
smart and the man had been very
quiet.
"Did. you ever notice, he said, as
innocent and kindly as a school
teacher, that over in Wisconsin the
people shake the pepper-box this way,
while those in Indiana hold it fast and
pat. It on the bottom this way ?
stI had noticed it and told him So"
"sI'm from Indiana he said,
knocking some pepper on his .,pota-
toes.''
.eYes," said I, cit shows OF you.''
"Do you know said he. seriously,
why they do it differently 2
''No," said I, "why do they r.
"sTo get the pepper OUT said he
earnestly, and then the gang at the
table gave me the laugh in eighteen
places, and the man asked me now
much salary I got for. learning things.
5-DetsOit FIRES Press. A
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Taking Care CT an Enemy's Hay

A college professor once related the
following fact to his class in order to
showthe power. of kindness in rejecting
a.change in the disposition. and con-
duct Of our enemies toward us. There
were Two farmers who lived near neigh
bors and whose farms lay side by side.
One of these farmers was pious,
good man, of gentle, inoffensive char
acter. The character of the other was
just the reverse. His temper was like
tinder, taking fire at every spark
that came in his way. He hated his
pious neighbor but more, probably,
on acc cunt of his piety than anything
else. he was yexing and tormenting
the good man, quarrelling about mere
trifes, as much as one can quarrel,
who has no one to quarrel with him.
One summer he had moved down
good deal Of grass and he had gone
away from home, leaving it out in the
field to dry. But while hewas absent
there came up 8 storm of rain. While
the clouds were gathering the pious
man saw the exposed condition Of his
neighbor's hay, and it struck him that
there was now fine chance to show
good mans revenge-that is, return
good for evil. So he took with him
his hired men, and got his neighbor's
hay all safely into the barn. What
was the result
When the quarrelsome man came
home expecting 4 to see his hay all
soaked by the rain, and found it had
been taken care of by the man he had
so much injured, it cut him to the
very core. From that hour the evil
spirit was cast out Of him. No more
abuse did he give the good man after
that; but he became as obliging and
kind to his pious neighbor as the
latter had been to him.
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Sam jones' Silver Wedding.

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 5.-The Carter.
Vile correspondent Of the Journal sends
this account of Sam Jones's silver we'd
ding:
Last night the glorious autumn moon
in full splendor enveloped this lovely
little city as Ii in honor Of and contribn-
ting it's silver rays in propitious gladness
to Sam JoneD' silver wedding. The hap
piest man in all Georgia was Sam P.
Jones, the great gelist-our own Sam
in his home with his sweet wife, sur
rounded by his children and his numer-
GUS friends.
Mr.. Jones thanked God for his marital
happiness, and referred touchingly to the
constant devotion Of the dearest friend he
had on earth, his noble wife.
eThis is the happiest moment Of my
life," he said. II am glad to see you, my
friends. Why, I've been running around
hore all night, shaking hands with my
self. am so happy.
IT thought I loved my wife when I
married her, but 1t was sort of puppy
love, as we boys used TO say, and little
realized then, as do now, how unspeak-
able would be the devotion which I hold
for her as stand before you tonight"
With sly wink the witty preacher
said:
"Old and wrinkled as she Is, I love her
still. I hope shall never live to see her
married again. know she will never
do as WE'LL"
Sam was arrsyed in dress suit.
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
ANDERSON County.


II, the Court of Common Pleas.
J. B. He'll, as Administrator, DC, and
others, Plaintiffs, vs. Essie G.. CIink-
scales, and others, Defendants.-Com-
plant for Partition, &c.
DURsUANT W lie order of Court made
Il In the above stated case, will sell
at Anderson 9. H., 8. c., during the usual
hours of public sale, on TUESDAY, the
second day Of January, 1894, the Lands
described as follows, to wit:
OF the Breckenridge Lands
Tract No. !, containing SO acres, more
or less.
Tract No. 2, containing 13t acres, more
or less.
Tract No. 8, containing l2s acres, more
or less.
Of the Hencoop Lands
Tract No. 4, containing s29 acres, more
or less.
Tract No. s, containing SO acres, more
or less.
All of which Tracts are more particu-
larly represented by plats on file in my
Office.
Terms-One-third cash, balance in one
and two years. in equal annual install
ments, with interest from day of sale, Sc.
cured by bond and mortgage, with leave
to anticipate payment. Purchaser or pur-
chasers to pay for papers:
Dec 6. 1893 % 4
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Animal Trials 10y Jury.

Among the beavers it is undoubted
that courts were held, and judicial
functions exercised, and the senten.
oes carried out with the most exact
discipline. This is proved by the
fact that near to every beaver settle
ment there exists q class Of what are
called ssbachelor beavers" This is
lcemposed Of two sections, old males
who had lost their mates and were
held to be no longer Of true use to
their community, and younger "bach-
elors, Z" who have been expelled from
the settlement for misconduct, idle
ness and lazinesB, more generally
theft, and BY jury awarded SEN
tence Of perpetual exclusion, kind
of penal servitude, which all the COM
munity Of beavers were bound to join
in order to see it thoroughly carried
out, These 'sbschelors" live alone,
not in warm houses protected by dams,
as in communities, but in holes in the
banks 6f the rivers-prison cells, in
fact-where they just manage to live,
and where they can apinch succeed in
storing sufficient Winter food. Some
times their privations must be great,
but there is ne escape for them. If
they endeavor to build a proper bea-
yer house-at all events, in ken Of
any Of their old associates-it is re-
ported, and it becomes the bounden
duty Of the members Of the communi-
ty to turn out and destroy what has
been done. Penal servitude among
beavers really existed, as it does
among US. The beaver thief is COM
PEELED to work hard, and in isolation
from his family, and yet cannot Sc
cure the most primary personal COM
forts-cannot exercise himself in that
craft of construction in which alone
he can find true pleasure. He must
atone to society for his fault, just as
our convicted prisoners do. Anyone
who has seen the beavers at the Zoo
logical gardens ceasely comforting
themselves and passing their time in
constructing houses that they do not
need, will realize what punishment
a jury of beavers mete out to one of
their own kind who is idle or lazy, or
has been guilty of theft, or violated
any of the essential laws Of the bea-
yer community, when they make him
a "bachelor" beaver and will not let
him erect a house near to them
Cdsseps Magazine.