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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-12-29
AMUSING THE QUEEN.
How Maids of Honor Are Selected and
Some of Their Duties.

How Maids of Honor Are Selected and
Some of Their Duties.
Maids of honor are chosen by the
queen herself from among the daughters
of peers, who, if not themselves connect
cd with the royal household, are per-
sonal friends of her majesty. A letter is
always sent to the parents of the young
lady requesting that as Q personal favor
to the queen she may be permitted to
attend at court. As the position is IN
deriable and the salary is $500 a year,
the request is invariably accepted, and
the newly chosen maid receives from
the lord chamberlain the command for
her first CIV ait"
The first thing brought to the maid
Of honor is her badge, which is a min.
iature picture Of the queen set i'll bril-
liants and hung from a ribbon. Just
before the dinner hour the maid OF hon
or in waiting has to stand in the CORR
dor outside the queens private apart
ments, She carries a bouquet, which on
entering the dining room she lays at the
right hand of the queens plate.
The maid Of honor sits at dinner next
to the gentleman on the queens right.
This rule is, however, relaxed when
royal guests are present. After dinner,
unless otherwise commanded, the maid
of honor retires to her own room, whence
however, she is frequently called to
read. sing, play the piano or take a
hand at cards.
AS regards this last, the household
have always to be provided with fresh
~ coined money, for the queen is net
supposed to handle money which has
ever been in circulation New York
Advertiser.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-12-29
PRESSURE Sustained by Diyers.
Have you any idea of the enorn,u

Have you any idea of the enormous
pressure sustained by submarine divers
while plying their dangerous vocations:
We will take 100 feet as the average
dep that which such tradesmen work and
use that as a basis of calculation. At a
depth Of 100 feet, which does not seem
excessive when we consider the fact that
there are spots IN the oceans which are
approximately five miles deep, the pres
sure on the divers body is A pounds
for each square inch of surface. Let us
see what this means. The average man
OF 156 pounds has a body of sufficient
proportions to present IL square feet of
surface to the pressure of the waters.
This means that the ordinary diver must
work IL a place where his body is sub
5ected to a pressure of 80 tons. Nor is
this all. For every 2114 inches of depth
descended below the 100 foot line which
we have adopted as a basis of calcula.
ton there must be added one pound
pressure to each square inch of the di.
yer bodily surface. Persons who think
that divers regularly descend to the bot
tom OF the oceans in the deepest places
Will probably be surprised to learn that
the greatest depth to which man has as
yet attained IS onlya10 feet-St. Louis
Republic.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-12-29
No Use For CARLYLE.

scene-Book counter in department
store; bargains in standard works; two
oycrlresSed. rasty faced d2msels linser-
ing carelessly to examine titles.
"Did you ever read this::" said one,
picking up 10 cent copy Of "Sartor
Resartus." "Mr Smith says it's SPLEEN
did"
The other took the little volume rather
ginserly, glanced fOr a moment into its
solidly printed pages, and with q con
temptuous Excuse mel" tossed it across
the counter.
TIE vulgar inffonation of that Excuse
mel" and its fiippant application to so
ponderous q work were amusing, to say
the east.-Art III Advertising.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-12-29
ROBBED BY THEIR GUESTS.

Eotel Keepers Complain CT the Continual
Theft of Small Articles.
It is a fact well known to every hotel
and restaurant keeper in the city that
people will steal. Why they resort to
population is q mystery, but a far great
er mystery seems to be wrapped up III
the class of articles that are stolen.
Guests who stop at first class hotels
and pay their bills in departing have
been known scores of times to take with
them toilet soap and towels from then
rooms. Blankets, sheets, clocks and or
naments likewise disappear with the
departing transients.
Nor does the peculation stop at this.
Cheap plated trays, cutlery, forks and
spoons plainly marked with the names
of the hotels are stolen again and again.
This seems strange, for if the articles
are used by the thief they bear, OF
course, the indelible evidence of the
guilt of the peculators.
Sometimes the stolen articles are re-
covered, and sometimes they are not.
Only recently the proprietor IF a local
hotel advertised repeatedly and offered
a large reward for the return CT a yalu-
able clock of large size, which had been
taken from the hotel and in a manner
never discovered. All the advertising
was in vain.
The late John Hoey once succeeded
by q shrewdly worded letter in recover-
ing q valuable rug which a well known
New York woman had taken with her.
AS soon a. its absence was noted from
the Hollywood Mr.. Hoey caused to be
written to the woman a letter which
read Substantially as follows:
DEAR MADAM-In packing YOU.
clothing your maid by mistake included
the Turkish rug which was in your
room. Kindly have it returned"
The woman had no maid, which tact
was well known To herself and to Mr..
Hoey. The assumption that the thief.
was not hers accorded her an opportuni-
ty to return the stolen article, which
she did at the earliest possible moment,
sending with it at the same time a note
apologizing for the stupidity of the
maid. New York Herald.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-12-29
Ghibo0aux 5entinfl.
GROWN WEARY.

@'These two-year-olds will make me gray
The Handicapped said,
'"They keep me guessing every day.
wish that I was dead.
l think I've picked a winner sure,
Then see him disappear.
The very best one runs so poor
He lands up in the rear.
"Bellicosoew wins q stake.
l swear that he is good.
The Bank of England he would break
To flinders if he could.
Then Lisaali scores d pretty win.
plunge on him next time,
Then realize I've lost my tin
And haven't got a dime.
@Rey del Carreras shows SO we'll
He catches all my cash.
! plunge on hi-l-sad tale to tell!
How could / be SO rash?
He doubles up Just like Il knife
When half way to the wire.
Isay, Whit is there left IN hfeF
And curse Kin in my ire.
'tThen comes along Margrane's Frank K
\ rank outsider he
And wins in quite an easy way,
Ard that's what's broker me.
Why cont these colts run twice alike?
Can any man,explain
lust wtca and where they're going tc
strike
AID SO relieve my hrain?"
Chicago Journal.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-12-29
Victoria as a ShakesDearean.

Several years ago a celebrated TRACE
l was summoned to play Hamlet
at Windsor. When he came to the So
illoquy, he made al unusual pause aft
er 10 be The queen, believing
that he had forgotten his lines, instant
~ prompted Tor not to be. That is
the question" by your leave, your
majesty, said the tragedian, put out
Of courtly hunlor by the Interruption,
that is not the question. The question
IS my method Of interpretation"
Never mind your method" returned
the queen snilingly. "What we want
is Shakespeare San Francisco Ar
gonaut.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-12-29
Marriage In High Life.

$50 your sister is married.
eyes, and she did very well-splen-
didly. You have heard Of the Duke u
Westminster"
"Oh, yes! Did she marry into that
family"
well, yes, SO to speak. She married
q nephew of the Duke Of Westminster's
chief cook. He's the driver of a bus. /"
Glasgow HERALD
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-12-29
THE BRACELET.

Why / tie about thy wrist,
Julia, this my silken twist
For what other reason is'u
But 70 show thee how in part.
Thou my pretty captive art?
But thy bond slave is my heart.
IT'S but silk that bindeth thee.
Snap the thread, and thou art free.
But It's otherwise with me.
/ am bound and fast bound, so
That from thee | cannot 60.
If | could, / would not so.
Thomas IIcrrick.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-12-29

It was the first time Mr.. Dismal
Dawson had eve been met at the door
by a woman III boomers, and it ratified
him O bit.
Lady" said he, you see before you
the wreck of a man who was at enc
time as much of gentleman as your
self. Cincinnati Tribune.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-12-29
Eow to Wliten the Whfskers.

A farmer in Bucks county,swith blacs
hair and mustache and a three days
growth OF snow white wnislars, drop,
ped into q Ninth street barber shop. and
III the course Of conversation with the
i~oquacious artist it appeared that the
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-12-29
Sensitive.

Cobble-Van Glider, the painter,
came near being drowned recently,
didn't he?
Stone-Yes, and now he won't speak
to me.
Cobble-Why not?
Stone-I referred to him as a strug-
Cling artist. New York Sun.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-12-29

Paul du Chaillu, who has studied
1900 ancient sagas in Denmark, says
they record the description of five dis
tinct voyages Of the Vikings from Ice
land to this country.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-12-29

terhouse. Hope you're ali rlgnI,
ma'am?"
"Thank YOU. yes" said Mrs. Water
house breathlessly. I'm all right now"
Pail Mall Budget.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-12-29

Cave dwellings Of elaborate construc
ton have been familiarly known ant
used in Japan from time i~mmemorial.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-12-29

Portland, Or, is said to have 12(
m~illionaires.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10
THE WHITE CITY GETTING
BLACK.

Editor Stead, long connected with
the Pail MaH Gazette. the most widely
circulated journal in London and now
editor of the ReUieW of ReUieSCs, prob
ably the best known publication In the
world, to its age. has just spent four
months in America, mostly at Chicago
He has written and will publish a book
showing the r~ottenness in our great
cities, taking Chicago as an example.
He will expose the moral ~depravity
and official corruption in graphic Ian
guage. He finds that the total valua
ton of all property in Chicago twenty
years ago was So. 100, 900. To day it is
returned for taxation at $4,000 600
but is estimated to be worth two billion
dollars. Hence he calculates that the
citizens of Chicago pay tax on less
than one-eighth of their property. He
says the horses in the city are fine
ones, but are returned at an average
of $50 each. The carriages of the'rich
at an average of $50 each. In the whole
city of more than a million and a half
people only 5000 watches are returned
for taxation He says Chicago has
sixty eight Aldermen and fifty of them
are known to be as purchasable as hogs
in the market Chicago is a bad place,
but there are thousands of towns and
citiss just as bad in every particular.
The farmers have allowed these cor
rupt people in towns and cities to con-
troll the politics of the country and you
see the result every time you sell a
bale of cotton or anything else. Are
you farmers ready to stand together
and vote together hereafter or will you
divide and make faces and curse each
other again7
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10
ELECTION OF THE
HOUSE.

The next President of the United
States will probably be elected in the
House of Representatives, where each
State has one vote, and the smallest
States count as much as the largest.
The small Western States have found
this out at last, and they know that
this fight is to throw the election in the
House of Representatives.
Nevada with her fifty thousand will
count as much as New York with her
six millions. Therefore everybody can
see the Importance of having the right
sort of men elected to Congress. The
real fight which is to determine
whether the people or the millionaires
are to rule this country will take place
in 1894 and not in 1896. Let all re-
formers be on their guard against a
Congressman who is so tied up with
his party or his party name as that he
will prefer a man who disagress with
the same name to a man who agrees
with him by a different name. The ex
cuse which the average Congressman
has given for betraying his constitu
ents is that the head of the party, and
party harmony" and party organi-
nation" required him to do it. He viii
tell you that it would have ruined the
party" if he had voted against the
recommendations of the President.
What the people want to do is ito watch
the partisan, party man, the man who
will profess everything they believe,
and then in the interest of party
harmony" vote against it when he gets
to Washington. MI. Ransom and Mr..
Bum p~rofessed as much as the other
Congressman from North Carolina,
but they now say it was in the interest
of party harmony that they voted to
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10
THE SOUTH CAROLINA TROUBLE

Our sister State has been in a state
of turmoil for more than a week, but
the white dove of peace is perched
low again. For several months trouble
has been brewing. The dispensary law
is not liked by the men formerly en-
gagged in the liquor traffic. The whiskey
trust and the Goldfish a~ristocracy of
the State, with some exceptions as to
the aristocracy, backed by such in
cendiary sheets as the Charleston NeWs
and Courier and a few others, have
made relentless war on Governor Till
man, who is favorable to the law and
determined to enforce it. Strong OBJ
position and bitter feeling has caused
both sides to go to extremes. The first
violent outbreak occurred at Darling
ton, where about twenty Tillman CON
stables searched afew suspected private
houses to find cOntraband whiskey, as
the law authorizes. In a melee at the
depot two constables and one citizen
we're killed and several wounded. The
citizens forced the constables to run.
About the same time a dispensary at
Florence was looted by a mob. Gov.
Tillman put both towns under martial
law and ordered all the State militia on
duty. The Charleston and Columbia
companies, composed of ''bandbox"
soldiers, as Tillman termed them, dis
banded and refused to help the Gov
e~rnor-restore peace or enforce the law.
But he soon had several companies at
each town and brought fourteen com
panies to Columbia and held them until
the war was over.
The Governors Guard, of Columbia.
was one of the companies that dis
banded. All of them are getting a
great deal of censure from old soldiers
and military men generally.
The dlspensary law is a radical de
parture, a law heretofore untried. A
majority of the people of South Caro-
lima favor it, and it is safe to say that
it is gaining friends every day. AS.
ISOLATED press reports to the contrary
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10
AN I'M DAY.

April 28th will be an important day
in North Carolina for the Alliance. 1t
is likely that many Alliances outside
the State will hold special meetings on
that day also. Our last State meeting
at Greensboro passed a resolution re
questing every Alliance In the State to
meet on April 28th, it being the ami
versary of Col. L. L. Folks birthday,
and raise every cent they possibly can
for the Polk Memorial Fund. Il is i'm
portant that the money for this fund
be raised at once If a sufficient amount
can be raised right away work will be
gin and strong efforts be made to com
plete the monument by February next.
as the National Alliance will probably
meet in this city and take part in the
unwilling ceremonies.
Work cannot begin until az amount
is raised, for it would not be safe to let
out the contract Jr a costly monument
on pledges only. North Carolina will,
of course, raise more money than any
other State, and the Memorial Fund
Committee and Board of Trustees re-
quest the brethren to urn out in full
on the 28th and do everything they
can at once. There will be speeches,
dinners and a general reunion at every
Sub Alliance. The ladies will take an
active part in making the meetings a
success.
We suggest to the jealous brethren
every where that they take advantage
of the opportunity presented to i'm
prove the general condition Of the ALI
ance on that day. Get as many speak
ers out as you can and make it a point
to urge all your neighbors of every
faith and order to turn out on that
daV.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10
WHAT THE VETO PROVES.

Inasmuch as the Bland seigniorage
bill would not have been of any marked
benefit to business, therefore the veto
of the bill, per Sc, does not bring any
very great additional calamity upon
the country; but the action of a Demo
cratic administration on this matter
does speak in thunder tones to the PEG
pie, says the Goldsboro Caucasian.
1t shows them plainly that the Presi
dent is opposed TO silver in any form
or amount. Il shows that he is op,
posed to any increase of currency, I'm
less it is currency based on gold, and
put under the control of the national
bankers. I5 shows further that the
President was not acting in good faith
when he told the people that he wanted
the Sherman bill repealed to make way
for bimetallism, or rather for a silver
law that would not be a ''cowardly
makeshift." HIS present treachery
shows that Senator Vance was right
when he warned the people that no
man, save he be a fool or a knave
would give up the silver law that we
had until something better was put in
it's place.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10

notwithstanding. Be the law right or
| wrong there is as much sense in tie
State controlling the liquor bushes
as there is in the Whiskey trust con-
trolling the State, and that is what it
is trying to do, and even has n or
more representatives in the Presidential
| Cabinet It this moment.
Tillman is brave, firm, and some
think, ~overbearing. We ADMIRE him
for the enemies he has made-admire
him because he is sound on financial
and other questions; and for the reason
that he is for the weak rather than the
strong; for his originality. The peo-
pie of South Carolina love him. In
the primaries two years ago he was
re elected or rather re nominated by
an increased majority, carrying every
county in the State except five. He
has revolutionized the State. He wins
when other men would shrink from
the undertaking. He makes mistakes,
but he is human. The p%lutocratic and
monopoly element of the whole United
States hate him because he has broken
the ''solid South He is a Democrat
of the old school, and his goldbug party
left him in the Populist camp, he didn't
leav the party.
Tillman is a winner, and a true re-
former. He is one of the few prominent
Alliancemen who didn't listen to the
goldbug sirens. He thinks nor of his
Alliance principles than he does of any
party name.
In the recent trouble he had the law
on his side. More than three fourths
of the State troops stood by him, but
had they all deserted he could have
had tens of thousands of men at his
side who are not '~'bandbox' soldiers,
ready to drill on holiday occasions, but
not ready t o suppress an insurrection.
He got letters and kilograms from
North Carolina and Georgia as we'll as
from all parts of South Carolina, CHer-
ing to bring volunteers. The Secretary
of War notified the national troops l
the South to be ready to go if Tillman
failed to suppress the disorder. 1t is
useless for the element opOsing him to
rebel again, ever if they wish to do so.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10
"DoN,r CALL ME- REPUBLIcA"
That is What Senator Stewart
the Washington Post Re'en'y'

That is What Senator Stewart WV"
the Washington Post Re'sn'v'
Editor Post:-In yours issue Of ns ~,
80, in giving the views Oh osss
on the Veto message, you class I me oo
Republican. I left the RepuO Isn.s
party more than two yearsago, Oo ainoIs
that party was in favor OF 'L hanks
gold standard in the interest Oh no
and bondholders. There has OG : On
reform in that party since l IS.s : third
the contrary, during the Eln'y yotsd
Congress the almost unanln If Cor
the Republicans in both House. n-osidept
gress made it possible for for r ]ssspdsri
cleveland to force the golG col.
UPON the country and produce n0J rspt
dition of unparalleled mlSeiy is to be
To be classed as a Republican ;oDs as o
Cleveland Democrat. am nS, tbe Only
am a Populist and belong g- to oDnossd to
nartv that is unequivocally e Gpp Of the
the subsection of the poCP banks and
United States to the rule
bondholders.
Yours very VIM WIN N. SrrTAHr'
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10

lesCroy SILVER as the money of n peo-
pie. They were trying to save the
party, they say. but the people want
somebody who will save them from the
Iominion of Wall street. Party har
mony means utilization with the agents
Jt English bondholders. Party har
mony means the sacrifice of our inter,
ests to the interests of Wall street.
Party harmony mean an adulterous
union with the worst enemies of repub
lican institutions, and it is in the name
of party harmony that the miserable
destroye rs of our government are
binding our people to their best inter
ests. Watch the man who wants to
harmonic and affiliate with the poll
ticians and stock gamblers of New
England. Before the election be will
profess all you believe, and after the
election he will betray all you hold
dear. Four ftths of the white people
of North Carolina are together on all
matters essential to her interests, but
the one fifth, who are the agents and
dupes of Wall street, will probably
steal the name Democrat" and de-
ceive a number of people.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10

Good times are away off yet. Bust
ness failures for last week were 249,
three more than during the previous
week, against 1876 for the same week
last year, and the liabilities much
larger. 1t seems that the -four years
of Grover and we'll be in clover" sung
before the last election, meant four
years Of panic"