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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-10-27

Fin outre du grand Meeting Demo
cratlque qul sera tenu a Lockport
aemaln, les meetings suivants seront
tenus:
Au magasin de Mr.. Lewis kraemer
aans lie Malagai, aujourd'ihui q s
neufes P. ~, srivi dun grand ball.
An Cleveland Hall, pres du maya
sin de Mr.. Oscar Angelica, aujour-
ball.
Au Springer's Hall, aujourd'hui Il
heures p. m.
a Ia malson d.Gco!e chez Mr.. J. Z.
bourgeois, lundl proclaim lie %
coarant, a Z heures du solr.
Aa ferry de Rousseau pres de Ia
EnapellestCharles demain, dinaanche.
2 heures p. m.
onez Mr.. Wellington HILBERT,
naEai ie 80 courant a Z heures D. N.
tout lie monde est cordiaIement
aslte a asslster a. .ces differents
leeings, ct les danes specialement.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-10-27

Tn grand Mass Meeting Democra-
|tique sera tenu a Lockport, demain,
dlmanche, a deux heures de l'apr6s-
midi. Les personnes suivantes
prendront la parole en- Anglais,
|fHon. Andrew Price, lie Senateur Y.
{. Blanchard, ct lie R~eprasentant J.
Y. Boatner; en- francais, MN. Horace
j. Dufour, Omer Villere ct 4. j.
IRomain. Les danes sont sptclale,
ment invites d'y assister.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-10-27

Les bons citoyens du Brul6. Gull
lot Sc sont reunls en- masse salnedi
solr dernier a l'ecole dams leur can
ton pour ecouter les discours demo
cratlques de NM. Tho. j. Badeaux,
n. N. Coulon ct w. p. Martin. On
await rapporte lei que la plupart DIES
haoltants du Brule Guillot 6taient
.ournes republicans ce rapport est
AUX au contraire, lie Brule Guillot
est t%ouiours ferme dams ses convic-
IONS democratlques.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-06
Long Hair and Genius.

Long hair was in vogue among musi-
clans and artists long after it ceased to be
worn by the restA of mankind. The long
haired artist, with his velvet coat, his
sombrero and his mysterious cloak, has
altogether disappeared, and lengthy locks
only linger nowadays, with a few excep-
tions, on the head of the musician. Indeed
this luxuriant thatch would appear to ex-
ercise a potent influence on audiences, for
it is said that, In the agreement of a nota-
Bile pianist about to go on foreign tour,
there is special clause that he shall not
have his hair cut. This possibly is an in
vention, but it is an extraordinary thing
that musicians are well nigh the only peo-
Pile left who give but limited employment
to the shears of the barber. 1t is also a
fact that their hair flourishes better than
most people.
have recently heard theory that the
great prevalence of badness in the present
day is entirely due to the constant close
cropping which has existed for the last
five and twenty years. If you look at the
portraits of celebrities of thirty or forty
years ago, you will be perfectly astonished
at the carefully arranged coiffure which
meandered over their coat collars. and you
feel inclined to begin singing, "Get yer 'air
cut" without further delay. You will
also be amazed to learn that most Of them
retained this extraordinary growth to the
end of their days.-London Graphic.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-06

We rarely realize, think, how easily the
earth parts with its heat, and how cold
space is through which the earth sweeps in
its orbit. Nor do we commonly appreciate
how relentlessly space sucks away the heat
which the earth has garnered from the
sunbeams out into its illimitable depths.
Away out in space is cold so intense that
we fairly fail to grasp it's meaning. Per
haps 300 or 400 degs. below the freezing
point of water, some philosophers think,
are the dark recesses beyond our atmos-
phere. And night and day, summer and
winter, this insatiate space is robbing us
of our heat and fighting with demoniac
power to reduce our globe to its own bitter
chill.
So, after all, our summer and winter
temperatures are only maintained by the
residue of the SUMS heat which we have
been able to store up and keep hold of in
spite of the pitiless demands of space. Our
margin sometimes gets so reduced on
nights in winter that we can readily be-
lieve the astronomers and physicists when
they tell us that a reduction of the suns
heat by per cent. and Il slight increase in
the number of winter days would suffice to
bring again to our hemisphere new age
Of ice, with its inevitable desolation. The
balance is really nice one between the
heat we daily gather from the sun and the
share Of it which we lose in space.-T.
Mitchell Prudden in Harper's.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-06
One Wise Man on the Jury.

II saw man saved from life imprison
ment or hanging once by the one wise
man on jury, who stood out against II
FOOLS" said L. j. Stephens of Baltimore
to st. Louis Globe-Democrat reporter.
"The man was found standing over dead
body in field with knife in his hand
and blood smeared over his clothes. He
swore he had found the man lying dead
and had drawn the knife from the wound,
where the murderer had left 1t sticking.
1t was shown that the men were enemies
and that the accused had even threatened
repeatedly to kill him. On this and other
circumstantial evidence II of the jury
were for conviction. The foreman alone
stood out and so steadfastly that at length,
one by one, the others joined him, and the
prisoner was acquitted. Many thought
the man guilty, and he finally left the
country because Of the cold shoulder he
got from old friends. Years afterward,
when the foreman Of the jury was dying
he acknowledged that he killed the man
himsplf
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ment Finally Manchester engineer de.
termined to figure out just what that cats
endurance amounted to. He consulted the
time table to find the speed Of the train
and got the dimensions Of the car wheels
from the company's officials. Then he
started his figuring.
Supposing the wheels to be s feet inch
es In diameter and the distance from the
terminus at st. Pancras to Kettering tc
be 70 miles, he found that the pussy cat
must have performed "a, $50 revolutions
in hour and 27 minutes, which is jot
that only very big, powerful and excep.
tionally determined ten pound cat could
hope to tackle with any hope Of success.
Then the engineer had recourse to dia.
gram of the cat slung to the axle to aid
him In his further calculations. Pussy's
center of gravity, he figured, would fall
about 10 inches from the center of the
axle, and at speed Of 60 miles an hour II
would reel off the mere bagatelle of 48C
revolutions minute, the velocity Of hel
center of gravity meanwhile being 30 feel
per second. He then found that there had
been something like 700 pounds weight
thrown upon the leading claws when trav.
cling at full speed.
The engineer then made personal ex.
animation Of the cat, taking exact meas
urements of her toe nails, and as a result
of more calculations of very fine nature
he found that pussy's resistance to centrif
ugal force was equal to II tons per square
inch of claw section. There were othel
factors to be considered in really exact
solution of the matter, such as wind re
sistance when passing through the tor
centers. But the engineer thought he had
gone about far enough
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-06

A SOCIETY MANS DOWNFALL.
He Sought to Cover Up Forgery and Other
Crimes by Arson.

Crimes by Arson.
The recent indictment and arrest at
Memphis of L. NJ. Weems, local society
leader, clubman, prominent O. urch work
er and all around good fellow, created q
tremendous sensation in that conservative
city. Weems was first arrested for for.
gerry and has now been indited for conspir.
acy to commit arson. His purpose was by
burning his large cotton shed to destroy
evidence of his stealings
No one had better social position than
Weems. he was cultured, clever, his wife
was beautiful, he was fond OF society, and
his domestic relations were happy. Though
he was regarded as worker in the cause
Of religion, Weems had weakness for
club, poker and horses At the spring
meeting of the jockey club he backed horses
with phenomenally bad luck. Being in
the cotton business, he sought to recoup
through other cotton dealers He operat'
ed an extensive cotton warehouse, and 60
ing to tho firm of j. Y. Farguson 81 Co,
he represented that he had several hundred
bales of cotton stored in his shed and got
an advance on 1t. He made similar rep.
resentations to Chism, Churchill g. Co.
and got from them an advance Of 81, 600.
Goodman e. Co, were also prevailed on to
make an advance to him. He exhibited
samples of cotton and letters from plant.
or indicating that the cotton had been
consigned to him. Investigation showed,
however, that Wcems did not have the cot
ton, and the firms set about to recover the
money he had obtained from them. Weems
fled and was arrested later at Lake Charles,
La.
Weems had two negro men in his en-.
ploy-Charley King and Ed White. He
told them ho would give them $500 each
and two years position at $l5 week
If they would burn his shed. This Offer
was made tho day before he left. The men
partly assented. Weems instructed them
to truck all of the cotton into one shed,
throw the bales on tho side, cut tho hoops
and place lighted candles on two bales,
then lock the shed and leave. They were
to 60 to another part Of the city so as to
prove an alibi for the candles would not
burn down for an hour or more. Weems
said that no would leave the night before
the fire for New Orleans. The negroes
weakened when the timo camo and finally
betrayed their employer.
In view of tho fact that the recent lynch
ings grew out of wholesale arson, Weems
will bavo hard time, it is thought, In
getting out of this trouble Insurance meI
are interested because he ordered the ne
groes to place old cotton hoops In the shed
in the hope that he could prove that hi
had the number Of bales of cotton he hat
represented that he had in order to recoul
| himself and cover ND all shortages.
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nnmhlsd For the rs,ns.

"While we have been away this sum
mer," relates woman, my little girls,
IL and 10 respectively, learned for tho first
time that by reading three chapters every
weekday and FIVE on Sunday the Bible
could be finished in year. They forth
with resolved to begin, and all would have
been well except that there was only ono
Biblo between them. This fact created
difficulty every day, for, with the porversi-
ty of chlldyen, they invariably selected the
same time to do their reading. The cli-
max was reached the other day when l
found them deep in their favorite game Of
cribbago and was warned not to interrupt
them, because Annie and arc playing q
game Of oribbage to see which of us can
have the Bible first which W an in
termingiing Of gambling and religious in
struntion which Thought best to check I"
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views understand tho true nature of the
stage and of ballet dancing, and so cause
them to lose tho gross prejudice under
which they now labor.
''The society is success. We have now
some $50 members Some Of the clergy
who joined us have gone away from us on
account of the episcopal attacks upon us,
for they feared to lose their power for good
in other directions If they openly adhered
to the society, We have monthly meet
ings of the guild, when members Of it and
of the stage are brought into contact, and
also in summer picnics, dances and
when we can-lectures and discussions.
believe we are succeeding and that a broad
err truer view is being taken OF the once
despised dancer"
On the subject of ballet dancing itself
Rev. Headlam is connoisseur. Until
the people recognize stage dancing as le-
gitimate branch of the fine arts" he says,
''its full development cannot be reached.
The unenllghtoned conscience is really q
great prejudice to the community. To mo
dance executed by real dancer is full
not only of beauty, but of dignity"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-06
A WONDERFUL CAT.
She Rode T2 Miles on an Axle Making 80
Revolutions Minute.

Cats have shown wonderful powers Of
coming unscathed out Of perilous posi-
tions II half the stories which have been
told are true, and the latest cat story,
which comes from England via the New
York World, proves no exception to the
rule. The cat in this case lived in London,
but for some reason it perohed itself upon
an axle Of one of the cars composing an
express train Oh the Midland railway. The
train is fast one and did not stop until
it reached Kettering, 72 miles from the
starting point. There the trainmen, max.
ing their rounds of inspection, found pussy
still perched upon the axle, somewhat diz.
zy and much rumpled as to fur, but still
ready for more adventures.
The railroad men were puzzled to know
how the cat could have retained her hold
upon piece of iron revolving hundreds oi
times every minute, and the more they
discussed it the greater was their astonish
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-06

bors soon heard Of the porcupine and be-
gan coming to see 1t. Lansdow could sec
no reason why he should not make some
money out of the thing so he placed a 10
foot board peep tight fence around 1t and
began charging 10 cents admission. He
made several dollars day with his prize
and ono Sunday collected $4.10
The animal has become perfectly used
to the crowd and readily eats and drinks
from its masters hands. Lansdow says
he would cut off section of the tree with
the porcupine on it and carry the animal
around and exhibit 1t but for the fact that
it is on valuable shade tree, and that the
porcupine may not DO able to hold on
much longer, At present, though, accord
ing to q veracious correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, it looks as chipper
as 1t did before 1t lost its caudal append.
ana
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rui pcer. He had been assured that he
would not have to attend to the details.
Bull Mckenzie had explained that
"Gi'me pinch o. dough, said Mr.. Nc
Kenzie, IAN l can pipe off TIL push; gi'me
ajolly, an you'll have lead pipe Savey"
Chris began to sec that his campaign
would need lubrlcating, But he was more
than ever determined to win, not only to
make a triumph for the taxpayers, but to
humiliate McClintock, who had been re-
ported by Butch Magnus as saying that
he would give the goat kibosh an
t'row the boots into i'm" The applica-
tion of goat" naturally inaamed Chris, as
there was an implied reference to the chin
whiskers.
Before the campaign was many weeks
old Chris ascertained that 1t would be nee
essary to flight the devil with fire. " as he
put 1t. He felt sure that along any resi-
dence street he could get ten votes to Nc
Clintock's one, but in the dark end Of the
district McClintock had an all powerful
drag" The legislator owned a saloon
with back room attachment for ladies, he
was an honorary member of the social"
and pleasure" clubs and had rescued SC
many prisoners from the Bridewell and
police stations that large proportion OF
voters were under heavy obligations to
him.
McClintock had his enemies, however,
and Bull Mckenzie was one Of them. II
was the latter who escorted Chris through
the dark end of the district while the sa-
loon canvass was being made. Chris wore
all his badges and came home at night
reeking with ginger ale and loaded down
with cigars.
The front Of the grocery was plastered
with announcements of German concerts,
Swedish dances, Irish demonstrations, col
ored peoples cake walks. Chris bought
tickets for everything that came along
He ordered union label cigars and gave
stick candy to the Irish children, in order
to soften any possible prejudice against
his name. He sat up at night to calculate
the strength Of the secret society vote ant
paid SIS to get his picture into paper
that he had never heard Of before.
On the morning of primary day he was
seen to jump into his buggy, lash the pool
sorrel and dash wildly away. Mrs. Elber
son came running to the front gate ant
watched the rattling buggy swing arount
the corner.
That evening she went to the Maxwells
crying over an evening paper which sale
that Chris Elberson, leader of the anti
McClintock crowd, had challenged tn,
vote of Buck Flanders, acolored stevedore
and had been attacked and chased through
a laundry,
Mr.. Maxwell went to look for Chris ant
found him in Metzger's saloon pounding
the bar with his hat and declaring tina
the cause of good government would "ge
there, and don't you forget it." For tn
first time in his life Chris was under TIN
influence of liquor.
At the convention next day McClintock
the peoples choice, was renominated b,
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ride down town. A model grocery, 1t
might have been termed. The shelf goods
seemed always spick and span, the show
cases were shiny, and the outdoor display
of vegetables and fruits under the cool
awning was constant delight. But nec-
essary part of the picture was Chris, port
ly, good natured and incased in q white
apron. He wore an admirable patch Of
chin whiskers, and on his blue necktie was
n gold badge of the Foresters. This Is the
description of Chris given by the Chicago
Record man.
Presumably he was contented. He own
I'd the store and house, his family relations
were pleasant, and he had enough trade
TO keep his vanished delivery wagon on
the go most of the time. In the summer
tho family attended few picnics, and in
the winter he and his wife patronized the
dances given by neighborhood lodges.
Chris was Knight Of Pythias as well as
Forester.
The first indication Of his desire to en-
ter politics was his joining the Masons.
Shortly after that he sent in his name to
singing society, although he could not
sing Then he was chosen delegate to the
county convention.
These early symptoms were hardly no
,ticed by the neighbors and customers. 1t
was when he joined the Cook County
Democratic Marching club that his friends
began to say, Chris is mixing in politics. "
He went with the club to open the state
campaign at Springfield. When he came
back, he was hoarse and seemed to have
lost sleep. Some Of his best friends began
to demonstrate with him. Straub, the feed
store man, dropped into the grocery and
lasked him in SO many words, Chris,
what's your object in getting into poll
ticsi"
''Can trust you, Felix?" asked Chris,
leading the way back to the desk, so the
clerk couldn't overhear anything. 1.-The
reason I'm going to tell you this is that l
know you're friend Of mine. Now, I've
been talking on the quiet to some Of the
biggest Democrats in this district, and
they want me to be q candidate for repre-.
sentative"
There's nothing in that for you. If
you're elected, you'll have to neglect your
business. / shouldn't think you'd want
It."
II don't want it, but lot Of my friends
are after me to take it. Some one must
go In and smash that McClintock gang.
it's been running this district too long"
"That's all right. Let some one else do
It,"
"The boys say can do it, and I've
promised to stick Don't you know it's an
(outrage for this district to be represented
in the legislature by such man as Nc
IClintockS Say, you'd be surprised If I
told you the names of some of the people
that are with me in this thing Do you
think you can swing any of the Germans
in your precincts"
Mr.. Straub saw it was of no use to ar
que, and so he said he would do all he
plapuld.
p% pass Chris Elberson was in politics, sure
mshough, with all the symptoms plainly
Showing. He began smoking cigars all
his waking hours, and the back end Of his
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-06

ue,v discovered In his accounts, and he re-
signed with agreat show Of innocence and
indignation. Then the Investigators went
to work, and Aug. 10, 1881, he was arrest
ed on specific charge Of embezzling $4O,-
900. 1t was nine days wonder yet this
was only the beginning, Fraud after fraud
was unearthed till the aggregate reached
1870, 900 or more, and yet he had influence
enough to secure bail and postpone action
Finally his bondsmen surrendered him,
and he became prisoner in fact. 1t was
on April 13, 1889, that he made his sensa-
tional escape.
Many stories have been told about this,
but the admitted facts are these: In charge
of Deputy Marshal Dewing he was permit
ted to go to his own house to take bath
and secure change of linen His daugh-
ter entertained the officer while Captain
Howgate retired to the bathroom. An
hour passed. The officer wanted his pris-
oner, but he was not to be found. Twelve
years and half were to pass before Mar
shall Dewing saw him again. 1t now ap.
pears that he slipped through rear win
dow to an alley little used, and ten min
utes after leaving the Aofficer was going
down the Potomac on fast steamer, 1t
further appears that the whole scheme
was clevorly arranged by Nettie Burrill
Twelve years and more had passed away
when Captain A. L. Drummond Of the
United States secret service got informa-
ton which led him to suspect that Cap.
tain Howgate was in New York. A clerk
who knew the fugitive well went to that
city, but 1t was not easy to see in the bow
ed and decrepit man Of 60 the stalwart and
handsome soldier of 1872. The two be-
camo confidential, however, and then the
clerk could swear to him. One fine morn
ing the old book dealer (that had been his
business for five years) stepped out of his
dusty shop at 80 Fourth avenue. A little
way up the street Captain Drummond
took him by the arm and said:
Captain Howgate, want you. l have
warrant for your arrest"
For one instant the man stood as IL daz-
ed. Then, recovering himself, no said,
with laugh:
GAN right. I'll go with you. know
when am beat"
Later he admitted that he had been ex-
pecting arrest for years and was satisfied
with 1t, was tired Of being fugitive. His
travels and adventures In the 10 years
would suffice for three volume novel, and
altogether his story is sufficient for Zola-
esque romance. JEROME JAcQUIN
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reclamation and was vociferously cheered
by the active managers of the Elberson
campaign.
Chris stood in the doorway and saw 1t
all. A man next to him grinned and said,
"They give you the double cross"
He reached his store in trance. The
clerk looked at him and said nothing. Fe.
lix Straub came in.
"Have you got enough, Chris'" he ask
ed gently.
"They threw me down." shouted Chris.
"All the voting was done by his gang.
They wouldn't let my men inside. The
police stood in with them, too, and would
not arrest that nigger when he struck me. "
81 told you to keep out Of II"
"Several people have been after me to
run independent"
Don't do it. For heavens sake, don't.
Keep out Of politics"
After dressing his eye and thinking 1t
over Chris concluded that he would keep
out.
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Asleep on the Bottom of the River,

A strange incident in connection with
the work of clearing away the debris Of
the recently wrecked bridge at Louisville
is related Of submarine diver. One day
he remained beneath the surface for more
than an hour. There was no response
when signals were made, and there was
uneasiness felt. At length the diver who
goes on as relief reported for duty, and
he was at once sent down to ascertain
what was wrong In few minutes both
men came up. The first diver was found
seated on pile of iron fast asleep.