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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-03-11
Doing Anything.

A sharp boy struck a jefferson avenue
merchant the other morning for a job.
80 yo1 want to be an Office boy, eh?"
queried the merchant good naturally.
YES sir"
What can yon do"
Anything"
That's the same old answer" said the
merchant. DO you expect to get paid
for doing anything
You bet | do snapped the boy.
You don't expect me to do anything
without pay. do you? That's what the
other man expected, and got out"
The boy took the job.-Detroit Free
Press.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-03-11
lhibooana Sentinel
THE SILENT LAND.
Into the Silent Iandi

Into the Silent Land!
Ali who shall lead us thither2
Clouds in the evening sky more darkly gather
And shattered wrecks lie thickll on the strand
Who leads us with a gentle hand
Thither, oh. thither,
Int the Silent Land?
Into the Silent Land!
To you, ye boundless regions
OF all perfection, tender morning visions
Of beauteous souls, the future pledge and band
Wit in LIES battle firm doth stand,
shall bear hopes tender blossoms
Into the Silent Land!
o i4and! O Landl
For all the broaen hearted,
The nI.idest herald BY cur fate allotted
Beckon>, and with inverted torch ,toth stand
To lead US villa a gentle hand
Into the lard III the great departed,
Into the Silent Land.
Every ether SATURDAY.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-03-11

rrusslc acid is composed of such things
as animal refuse and blood solids. with
large quantities of oil Of vitrol. Even
the smell of the acid produces pain in
the throat and in the region of the heart.
and there are few poisons for which there
is such little opportunity for an antidote.
Ii there is time, and there seldom is, for
the poison is almost instantaneous in its
action, ammonia inhaled very freely may
give relief and reduce the absolute GER
tainty of death to Il grave probability
Exchange.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-03-11
Education May Not Produce Beauty

1t may be doubted. strange as many
may deem the assertion, whether con
tinuous education viii produce beauty,
whether the growth of Intelligence will
even in ages yield the physical result
which we notice the authors of Utopias
always assume, as if it were a scien-
t~ifically demonstrate consequence of the
new society. Million.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-03-11
Climbing a Cathedral Tower.

A most peculiar custom which has
been preserved since the middle ages at
Friburgen-Brisgau is that Of climbing
1lz ANy
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-05-28
A PARK PLACE B4RMECIDE
Stopped the Feast Before the CorhS or tho
Beer Bottles Had hem Drawn.

Two young men. neatly attired In new spring
suits. wen. into a Park place restaurant last
evening and talked earnestly for q few seconds
with the cashier. Then they took . seat at a
table. and a complaisant colorcd waiter bowed
to them and begged to be permitted to re-
ceiye their orders. They hold up their hends
in a manner that seemed to tho waiter to In
dictate aristocratic lineage. and they delivered
their orders with an airy elaboration that
might mean. to the expectant negro. u fee not
less than a quarter.
They first scanned the wine list. and de-
c!ded that two bottles Of st. Louis beer would
serve as q sort OF ante-prsndial cocktail.
After that. tho young men thought they
would have u tendsrloin smothersd In mush-
rooms. some asparagus. peas. corn. tomatoes.
fried potatoes. Strawberries and cream. and
any other little things the waiter might Bug-
The waiter bowed with the grace Of an old
time Nlrginian. and In a moment returned
with the beer, Then something happened
which caused all the diners In the restaurant
to focus their attention on the young men.
The cashier came out Of his box. walked over
to the young men. picked up the unopened
beer bottles. and requested them to leave the
who had anlshsd,a sumptuous meal
eI Hfispasdii' H III" cashier alasas s saaiss %" th ,nS.'e Rs
said the young men had told him that, they
e~rously remarked that he wouldn't let any
decent citizen want for a meal /! he could help
It. and had told them to sit down.. But when
he saw the walter bring bottled beer to the
SSSs. m %sa d. snS SfG .Sss q. the sS',. SSst Of th Sa5
been misdIreoted. II took the waiter an hour
70 get his features Into their normal condition.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-05-28

In the Normandis Msdicnle OF Rousn
there is an interesting account OF q new.
and so far wonderfully successful treat
ment OF diphtheria. 1t appears that In
the village OF Neuville- Champ d'Oisel.
about nine miles from Roucn. q malignant
type OF the disease broke out asst year. The
country doctor. N. Frederic Flahaut. treated
the cases In the usual way. hut the deaths
were numerous. Remembering. as he SAYS.
that the English use petroleum as an anti
spasmodic and an a%ntiseptic. he determined
to try 1t as an experiment. His first trial was
In the case OF q little girl. Z years old. He
had already given her up. and proposed to tho
parents to make the experiment. which con-
sisted In swabbing the throat with common
petroleum. He had little hope of the success
OF his new method. but to his astonishment he
noticed an improvement after the very nrst
sba nSiId hs sGntiPSsd the treatment aad
fuTIlS , with ysa his Sc ei Sss }ostk 9 ats. =, h~,nn,n.r,o, to
order to be perfectly. sure that the cases IN
dGSstton were genuine ones Of mallsnans
submitted to the analysis OF Prot FRANCOIS
HIVE OF the Rouen College OF Medicine. ana
was confirm ed BY Drs. DesRsyss. ] srofaIt. and
physician In chic eSiei' Of i TIE ,f hosP naas Of that Rst" clty.
The trsatment presents little difficulty or dam
ger. Tho swabbing is done every hour or every
two hours. according to tho thickness 81 the
membranes, which become. as It were. diluted
under the action OF the petroleum. The brush
After being dipped In the petroleum; should
pc shaken to prevent any drops falling into
the respiratory channels. The patients exps-
Renee. relief from the very first Application
The disaGresable taste OF the petroleum re-
maine for a few moments only.
DR.. fiahaut has been interviewed ~ seyeral
reporters OF Pals PAPERS. He 10 u modest man,
and appears to he astonished at the noise thss
he Is making In the French medical world. ne
Certainly Gtruek oil
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-05-28
What an IEnoraut Man

Il suppose" said . man. that there Is q
great lot Of good reasons why women carry
their pocketbooks In their hands instead Of in
their pockets. but l can't for the life OF me see
why they should do 1t. / should think that
they would forget to take them when they 60
out. and that they would always leave them on
the eounters when they 20 shopping. ] should
think they would lose them 10 forty diYorent
Ways In Broadway to-day saw three women
Apparently they had forgotten that they were
carrying them. or their fngers had got tired
Of holding them and had lust let 60. But
the most mntter-of-f Act way possible and
walked on. still carrying them In their hsnck"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-05-28

Minnosota Ia quoted with approval where that
tribunal declared that q Judge had no. more
rinht to com municato with the Jury after ft
EGd retired than any other person.
III 10 comparatively seldom that Judges In
this State Introduce ~pootical quotations into
their opinions. Ia the last number OF the
New York Supplement Reports. however. we
ind an opinion by Judge McAdam 81 the SUI
what he calls the trite but beautiful verse:
Teach ma to feel nnother's woo.
To hide the fault I see;
The mercy ! to Others show.
That mercy show TO me.
The case In which this quotation is made
was nm application TO strike scandalous matter
out OF an AFFIDAVIT fled by an attorney. and
the Judge refers to tho verses as showing
what respect Ia due from one attorney TO the
feelings OF another.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-05-28
FIcm IA CAimqo TribM.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-. May 23.-The Wabash day
train No. 2 left Kansas City at IL ;05. oyer one
miles. on tim at .2;45 Pm. The train made
pine stops, one OF twenty-lye minutes at Mo-
time hours and As minutes. a rate OF 5Is
miles an hour. This breaks the record west
Of the Mississippi for long.dlstanoe running.
engineer
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-25
THE PIN1LLos IN PORT.
Capt. elsa Entertains at Breakfast
Prior to Leaving the Ship.

Capt. Jesus elsa Of the Spanish
steamship Miguel NJ. Pinillos, lying at
Harmon's wharf. taking a cargo of cot
ton for Barcelona, entertained number
of invited guests at breakfast aboard the
ship yesterday The meal was served in
true Spanish style and consisted fall the
excellent dishes usually served by the
royal entertainers including the many
delicate wines and liquors peculiar to
the Spanish taste.
Capt. elsa will leave the Pinillos to-
day, for Cuba, where he is to
take command OF another
steamship and another master will ar
rive to command the Pinillos Captain
elsa has made great many friends dur
ing his short stay here, who wish him
bon voyage
The steamship Pinillos is owned by
Pinillos Saenz 4 Co., of Cadiz, and is a
part of a regular line of steamers owned
by that company and running regularly
between Barcelona and the West Indies.
She has accommodations for sixty first
CABIN passengers, sixty in
termediate and about four
hundred steerage passengers. She
is handsomely fitted up for this purpose,
having every requisite for comfort and
convenience. On recent trip from
Spain to Carbarien, from whence she
sailed to this port, she carried over four
hundred passengers. The steamer also
has a capacity of about TO- 900 bales of cot
ton below decks, and during the cotton
season loads with cotton from the south
ern ports on her return trips to BARGE
Iona.
This is the second or third time the Pin
illos has visited this port. She arrived
here on Nov. rs, 1880, and took a
cargo of 9,002 bales Of cotton for BARGE
Iona. At that time the Pinillos was the
largest that had ever loaded from the Sa-
vannah wharves
Capt. Ydelfonso Diez was master of the
ship during her first visit, and quite a
number of Savannahians will remember
the elegant breakfast he served on Sunday,
Dec. S, 1890 Those who participated in
it will recall, with pleasure, the genial
hospitality of the captain.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-25
WHAT MoroRmEN HAVE TO DO.
How They Are Taught to Handle the
Brake and Controllers.

docs it take long to learn how to be a
motorman?" is a question that is often
asked on the electric cars. Few people
wonder about conductor. They look upon
him as having an easy job compared to
that of the man who runs the car
Every motorman has to go through
regular instruction before he is permitted
to run car alone. Usually an expe-
rienced motOrman runs with him a few
trips until he gets the hang of il and then
he takes charge.
"The first thing that a man must
know, said an old motorman yesterday,
lis how to handle a brake. There could
be no better material, so far as that quail
Ity is concerned, than a man who is IA
miliar with a horse car and used to hand
ling the brake on one of them. The next
thing about which the new men are
instructed is the controller. That
is the handle which they have to turn to
regulate the electric current. They do
not have to know any more about the
working of it than to turn it one way
turns on the current, and that turning it
the other way shuts it Off A little prac-
tice and they know how much power is
necessary to send the car at a certain
speed and how to regulate it so as to keep
from starting or stopping the cars too
Then there is one thing more about
which they must be informed, and that is
the fuse box. The fuse is a small piece Of
lead about three inches long, and not so
thick as lead pencil. Tthas copper ends.
If by turning the controller too suddenly
more power is permitted to pass through
the wires than there should. this piece of
lead melts, and with the fash which it
causes the car will come to a standstill,
for there is no more power. The motor
man then has to put in a new fuse, and as
they always carry extra ones in their
pockets and the work of adjusting it con-
sists simply in dropping the copper ends
into little slots, it does not take any great
amount of ability.
''The use of the fuse is to keep the strong
current from reaching the armature and
burning it out. AS the armatures are ex-
pensive, it is principally matter of econ
omy. When an armature burns out it
also stops the running of the car In
such case, or when for any other reason
the car is disabled, all the motorman has
to do is to get it back to the depot A
motorman has to know nothing about the
mechanism of the car and, aside from the
fuse box, is not called upon or expected to
try and make any repairs
The majority of the motormen on the
Savannah car lines came from the coun-
try.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-25
SENT TO CAMP HAlNEs.
A Couple From Brunswick Ticketed
There for Ten Days

DR.. Drummer had an old white woman
named Johnson and her son sent to the
detention camp at Waynesville day before
yesterday. The mother and her son left
Brunswick about two weeks ago, coming
tow ard Savannah.
About week ago they tried to come in
on Central railroad train and were put
off at Meldrim
From Meldrim, however, they got down
to Pooler andsfrom Pooler into Savannah
We're arrested and sent back to Meldrim.
A little money was given them and they
were told to go in some other direction
and not to return to Savannah.
Inside of twenty-four hours they were
back at Southover, where they were held
up by the inspectors. The couple was
taken care of for two days at Southover
and Mayor McDonough was about to send
them to Atlanta, the nearest point where
yellow fever refugees are welcome, when
1t was suggested to him that they were
proper subjects for the detention camp at
Waynesville, and that it would be a good
idea to send them there.
The suggestion was adopted and the cou-
pie furnished transportation to Waynes-
vile. DIR. Drummer notified Surgeon Ged-
dings, who is in charge of the camp, to
lOOh Out lOE IuG couple. ne received
reply yesterday from DR.. Geddings, say
ing that this action was somewhat irreg-
dlar, but under the circumstances he had
decided to admit them
The couple was most persistent in its
efforts to get into Savannah and stay
here and seemed determined to accom-
plish its purpose by hook or crook.
As both were in feeble health the au-
thorities were in the unpleasant position
of being compelled to expose the two to
the chance of catching their death in the
poor accommodations at Southover. 1t
was quite relief to get rid of them.
When they haue spent their ten days at
the camp they can come to Savannah if
they wish, though the authorities would
rather have them go somewhere else, as
they are certain to become a burden to
the citv
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-25
-FOUR IN THE FIELD NOW.
Another Lively Election on in the
Fifth District.

John o. Smith, Thomas Shekels, Sam
Black and William Nichols the Cam
didates Already in the Field - Mr..
for His Election Black Making a
Lively Campaign.
There will be another election to fill
the vacant Office of justice of the peace of
the Fifth district, on Saturday.
Whether it will be as lively as the last
one remains to be seen. 1t win not be
any livelier than the last, because it is
impossible.
The principal candidates are John o.
Smith and Sam Black, the latter col
ored, Mr.. Smiths friends will rally to
his support to man, and If there are
enough of them he viii be elected. If all
of them would be allowed to vote the
managers would not be able to receive all
the votes in one day. Unfortunately for
Mr.. Smith the ordinary's ruling restrict
the voting to residents of the Fifth dis
trict, otherwise there would be no doubt
of his election.
Sam Black is making very active cam
paign. He is not only canvassing the dis
trict, but he has been issuing circulars
during the past week, calling upon the
him as a republican and a representative
of the colored race
Black declares that he has maintained
colored supremacy in the district by his
efforts until now, and that unless he is
supported by the full colored vote the re-
publicans will lose their last stronghold
in the county. The circular appeals
strongly to race prejudice
George s. Brown, who was a prominent
white candidate at the last election, has
announced that he has retired from the
field in favor of William Nichols, one of
the colored candidates at the last election,
and that he intended to support him for
the office He says that this is the best
way in which to divide the colored vote
Justice Sam Reynolds of the Fourth
district will probably oficiate as manager
of the election Saturday, assisted by
MAGISTRATE Blois of the Fifth district
The third manager has not yet been Sc
lected Justice T. J. Sheftall of the Sec
ond district may be one of the managers.
Thomas w. Shekels of Tybee, one of
the white candidates who received few
votes at the last election, is also a candi-
date. This makes four candidates in the
field, Smith, Black, Nichols and Shekels.
The election is sure to be a lively one,
but.there will PROBABLY be a sufficient po-
lice force on the scene to prevent a rope
tition of the disorderly scenes that marked
the last election.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-25
ALAnAMA,s EMBODIMENT.
The Play TO be Here Three Nights and
a Matinee

Alabama will begin a three nights and
matinee engagement tonight. The most
| conservative and discriminating critics
have hailed Alabama as the best Ameri-
can play thus far written, and il has
given MIR Thomas an undisputed position
in the front ranks Of the dramatists Of
the day II is an American play treating
of American subjects. Its characters, its
atmosphere. its sentiments, its humor are
all peculiarly American and it has been
as popular in the south as in the north.
The scene is an Old plantation in Ala bama
near a settlement called Talladega The
central figure is an OLD planter southern
gentleman of the old school, a type of
noble chivalry of the south. The war
swept away many OF his possessions,
separating him from his son, who felt it
his duty to fight with the north.
Into the peaceful life dominated by
the strong win of old Col Preston. who
represented in the new generation the
survivor Of the old preiudiCCs who thinks
he hates the north as Ditterlyas ever, and
fights The encroachments of modern inn
provements, come the engineers of the
north, employed to Lay out the route of
new railroad, and the principal engineer
Is the old farmers son. long separated
irum MIN. The play reveals the diverse
traits of many interesting persouages.
Ii involves young love. charmingly ex
pressed, and tine UNION of hearts long sep
arated, and the re-csta blishmeutof family
ties. II is simply and gracefully written,
and holds the attention and commands
the admiration in every scene. Although
dealing with the past as well as the pres
ent, it involves an Interesting story of a
family relations. 1t is told SO easily and
so well the spectator is scarcely aware
that he is listening to a narrative. A
simple benighted community is pictured
with the touch and understanding of
poet and a hmnorist The characters are
pure types OF the south, and are presented
with a fidelity. naturalness and tender
ness that makes them kin to all sections.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-25
BENNETT BADLY BATTERED.
At Least Fifty Blows Left Their M ark
on Him.

Thomas Bennett, who was so badly
beaten up on Orange street Saturday
night, was reported yesterday to be rest
ing easy, albeit he has very sore head.
DR.. w. E. Norton, who is attending Ben
nett, said that he must have received
fully fifty blows, his shoulders being
badly bruised up, as well as his head,
neck and face.
The officers of the city police were very
indignant yesterday at the report that it
was city policeman in citizens clothes
who assaulted Bennett They said it was
impossible for this to be true, as at the
hour at which the assault was made,
shortly before midnight, one-half the
men We're coming off duty, while the
other half had just gone out, so that
none of them could have been in citizen S
dress at the time.
A relative of Benefits is member of
the Central railroad police and has had a
difficulty over family affairs with Ben
nett Bennett and his wife are not living
together at present, and it is not improb-
able that this IS the solution of the mys-
terry. Bennett certainly left his mark
upon the man who assaulted him, how
ever, and If he is member of the police
force his distigured countenance will
easily identify him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-25
WINDING UP THE SEASON.
TuTpCntilG Operators Closing Their
Years Work.

The working of Old Boxes Stopped
and Only Virgin Boxes Now Being
Drawn Upon-Operators Now En-
gagged in scraping ~ Field Hands
to be Idle Only a Short Time This
Year.
The turpentiue operators are now en-
gagged iu closing up their years work.
Practically all the operators have ceased
working all except virgin boxes now.
Many ceased working their old boxes the
latter part Of August in accordance with
the resolution of the Operators Associa-
ton to that effect
Those who did not comply with the
resolution, including non-members of the
association, have about all ceased work
now on all but irst-year boxes.
Work viii continue upon the latter
until some time in October, the virgin
boxes giving a large yield and producing
the best qualities OF rosin, and are conse-
Quently more profitable to the producers
scEAPING THE BOXES.
The operators are now engaged in the
sCraping down process, which consists in
scraping off the hard gum which has ac-
cumulated upon the trunks Of the old
trees during the season. This accumula-
tion is partly caused by the sap eXuding
from the tree and partly by the waste of
gum from the boxes The "scrape'
forms no inconsderable item in the Weld
and the result is a considerable increase
IN the September ana October receipts
over what would be the normal ship
ments for those months If this item were
left out
Severalnav stores men who were in
quired of last week said that the talk
about the large bands of idle negroes who
had been dismissed from the turpentne
farms as the season closed, terTCrizing the
country, was utterly without foundation.
The work of scraping off the trees, which
is done after the boxes are abandoned for
the season, they said, required the full
force Of all the hands employed on every
farm.
This work occupies the hands until
nearly the middle of October, when the
years work is practically completed.
ONLY AsHoRT TIME IDLE.
The hands have only from two to three
weeks of idleness, however, as the season
for chipping the boxes commences on Nov.
], the time fixed by law, and all the hands
are employed at this work until Christ
mas, when they usually take
holiday of some length, many of the
hands returning to their homes in other
sections for the holidays. The work Of
chipping is resumed in January as soon
as arrangements can be made with the
hands for the years work
Mr.. B. f. Billiard, vice president of the
Savannah Naval Stores Company, who
was in the city last week, said that all
talk about trouble with idle turpentine
laborers is foolish. Even if the turpen-
tine operators should make reductions in
their forces, he said, the cotton planters
will give employment to every hand they
can get. The cotton picking season is in
full blast now and negro labor is in de-
mand. The women and children are put
in the the fields as well as the men and
there is no lack of work for anybody that
wants it, be he white or black
The season will be at its height for sew
eral weeks yet and there is no excuse for
disturbances by laborers out of work, if
there are any such.