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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-04-24

Sous les orangers.
La belle oublia d'ecrire,
Des jours et DIES mois
Puts, ce fut asseZ lie dire
Deux mots quelVucfois
Et maintenant rien n'arrive
Du beau pays hleu,
nj tieur, nj lettre plaintivc,
Pas meme un adieu !
Pars done CONNIE nne hirondelle,
Mon anne, ct va voir
Ce que fait la chere belle
Je veux lie sav6ir |.
Dis-lui bien que je l'adore,
Que je suis navre,
Et qu'elle m'crive encore encore,
Gu que je mourrai !
-Ohe ! facteur, montez de grace +!
Avez-vous des lettres de Grass.
Fleurant lie myrtle ou lie lilas ?
-Helas helas
LIE peintre await dit &c refrain
bizarre a demi-voix, en- hesitant.
CONNIE sill await peur de ne pouvoiI
achever Une gfandc tristrs%e K
prit. II cessa de TRAVELLER ct sonuea.
lie regard vague.
-Je vols ben, dit Ia petite bhche-
rome, que ca ne sera pas pour C,
soir, la fin lie mon portrait :.
p'aileurs, mon linge est lave ct il
faut que je retourne pour faire la
soupe.
All murmura-t-ii, vous partez
;. deja !?
Ellie ramassa son paQuet ct rrepassa
le fose puis, Sc penchant, apitoyee:
-Pauvre bon monsieur, dlt-elle
vous avez du NAL beaucoup =?
-Mais non, mais non puisque
je ris =.
oh !! :. vous pleurez -.
Vous aussi -.
Moi, je ne men cache pas ),
Votre chanson ma fait penser mon
frere aine -. Tn brave garcon
allez Z. Il etait all service ct i
attendait des lettres du pays 90. de.
lettres OH on lui disait encore ds
prendre patience, d'esperer .. tou
jours -. Quand il WI que rier
n'arrivait plus, il est parti poul
Madagascar ct maintenant :.
on du NAL, aussi chez nous -.
--Pauvre petite
Brusquement, lni prenant la tete
deux mains, il lui NIT IN baiser sui
e front ellie lie lalss faire, confante
ct essaya de lie consoier.
-Vous serez reasonable, dites
:. Vous ne penserez plus a tout Ca
!. Venez done nous voir, la-haut
Nous sommes de bonnes gems. z;
vous fera du bien. Tous finirez moi
portrait en- dfnant avec nous, III
dinanche -.
| -Je veux bien.
-Si je ne suis pas au lavoir, !,
! prochaine fois, vous me demandere;
aux cabanes -. Claire Vatican :.
vous vous rappellerez -. Clare
Bonsoir, monsieur Monsieur 4.
-Stephane.
-Bien bien -. bon courage
Ellie 1raversa lavenue ct mont'
| vers la "coupe" par lie sentier de
bruyeres.
II la suivalt du regard.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-04-24

de Paris.
II Sc pencha vers la flllette ct dit
doucement, avec l'ac,ent proveneal
ALI 81 vous vouliez . -. Je ne
vous demanderais qu'une heure :.
Vous ates tres bien ainsi L..
-Mais, repondit la bncheronne,
je ne peux pas roster CONNIE GA
j'ai mon linge d lavcr -.
- All c'est vraie. je ny pensais
pas
Get aveu la fit rire.
Ca serait pour mon portrait ?
demanda-t-elle.
-Eh oui
-Est-ce que vous ne pourrlez pas
lie faire pendant que je laverais
-Ce ne serait pas la meme chose
=. Vous aviez un movement -. :.
qui me charmait 49,. Enfin, nous
allons essayer de face vous travail
lerez CONNIE 81 je n'etals pas Ia.
II franchit le fosse ct ALA s'instal-
Ter au milleu de lavenue, sous son
parasol.
-Bien dit-il, ce sera tout de
meme une "etude' tres fraiche
.... Settlement, 81 nous donnons la
note vraie, la tete n'anra qu'un
modele flou, CONNIE dams nne vapeur
bleue =. Avancez un peu, je vous
prize !
Dams reau, alors !?
Ce fut lui de rire, cette fois.
-Suis-je bete s'ecria-t-il. Eth
blen !! non, n'avancez pas. La pose
| est bonne maintenant.
II nest pas defendu de parler ?
Comment done -. Parlez, au
| contraire parlez racontez-moi des
histories de votre pays =. Car vous
n'etes pas d'lci ?
-Vous non plus ?
Moi ? Je suis de tres-loin
de la-bas, la-bas on lie ciel ct la me
sont presque toujours bleus, on il y a
peutetre plus de verdure l'hiver que
fete, on les anemones rouges, les
tulipes, les narcisses, les jonquilles,
les gourettes feurissent sans culture
! CONNIE lei les jacinthes ct les sylvles.
! oh cest beau ! -. Vous
devez avolr du regret, des fois ?....
--Oui -. oui -. Mais ny
pensons pas ;. Relevez un peu
la tete ct chantez. moi quelque chos,
de votre village.
Mon village. c'est Walters :. !.
Vous nc connaissez pas ca
Walters !?
-C'est tout petit ;. Des maisons
basses, dams les patures ct les yer
gers, a Force des bois, pres de ia
frontiere beige ...... Mas je nt
men souviens guere ...... Quand
nous sommes arrives lei, je n'avais
pas encore six ans -. Chantez done,
vous plut6t, queIque chose de chez
vous
-Si Ga vous amuse $500. All
lie bras gauche immobile -. In
moment, sill vous plait
LII
II chanta dune voix tres pure e
tres souple c'etait lent ct doux, III
peu trlste, CONNIE la chanson ds
rouge-g gorge, lie soir, dams les arbou
siers.
La belle que j'ai laissee
Au pays des feurs,
Quand je l'eus blen embrassee
| Me dit tout en- pleurs
Sans nous voir pourrons nous v;vr.
Moi je souffrirai,
Et mon c9ur voudra te suivre -.
Va je t'ecrirai !!
-Ohe ! facteur, montez, de grace
Avez-vous des lettres de Grasse
Fleurant lie myrtle ou lie lilas ?
| -Helas ;. helas =.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-04-24

A IOmbre des charmeS ct des
erables qui rabritaient, la petite
nappe miroitante await des reflects
| bronzes.
A trols heures, unc fillette de
quinze on selze ans sortit dune hutte
ct descendit par lie raidillon des
bruyeres ; la main gauche la han-
che, le bras droit relieve pour retenlr
lie paquet de linge qn'elle portalt sur
la tete, ellie marchait rapidement
dams les coulees de sable ct dams les
eboulis de gres rouge.
Jolie petite bacheronne, svelte
mais robuste; tres-blonde, lie TENT
frais, avec quelques taches de rous-
seur les yeux bleus, de la nuance
claire ct tsndre des myosotls.
| Ellie await les jambes nues sous lie
|jupon court de cretonne rayee ct les
deml manches de la chemise laissaient
voir ses bras nerveux ct hales.
Traversant rapidement l'avenue de
Bel-Ebat, dun bond ellie franchit lie
fosse puls, deposant lie linge a sa
gauche, ellie s'agenouilla dams Ia
paille, au bord du lavoir. ct Sc NIT
au travail, penchee sur la blanche,
lie front dams lombre, lie chignon
pique dor par une fleche de soeil
| Ellie t.availlait sans perdre une
minute. La mousse blanche du
savon coulait sur Ia blanche ecla-
boussee. puis fottait a la surface de
l'eau lalteuse, ct les DULLES irisees
en- allaient lentement vers lie goulet
daval. Dams une tiede moiteur Gle
bu6e, les libellu:es haneuses passalent,
repassaient, au-dessus du lavoir.
Sous les futaies de la Butte de
Creve Ceur, il cut tout a coup des
froissements de feuillages ct des
craquements de branches, CONNIE
lorsoue les chevreuils effares s'elan-
cent des talllls.
Plutot surprise qu'effrayee, la
petite bncheronnne Sc retOurna 4
demi.
Tn ieune homme descendant en-
courant. On eht dit que les effleuves
de la foret le grisaient. II bondis-
salt entire les chataignlers, fouettant
dun baton ferre les fouillis de
ronces ct les lanes de chevrefeuille.
I'm artiste en- excursion ......
un peu fou pensa la fillette.
Ce devait etre un "buveur d'air''
echapp4 de rEcole des Beaux-Arts.
II await sur lie dos 50 boite aux chefs
d'euvre, les chassis, lie plant, lie
parasol ct deux gerbes digitales. A
,rois GU quatre pas du lavoir, Il
s'arreta brusquement.
i oh | murmura-t-il, la iolie
"etude''
Et, plantant son baton dams le
, sable, il admira.
Il Eh oui, lie tableau 6tait charmant;
, lie berceau de verdure, pombreuse
fraicheur du dessous, le miroir dc
l'cau, les jones, les roseaux, les preles
du fosse, les blancheurs du linge
epars renfant blonde, tres gracieuse
en- SON movement de surprise ou dc
! curiosite et dams lie fond, en- plein
sole,l. lie terrain sablonneux de lave
nue.. brilliant CONNIE Ia poussiere de
E gres.
Toujours posee de trois quarts, la
bhcheronne souriait L'artiste ne
lrayait pas iuumidee. il await une
honnete physionomie, avec un air dc
Ihonte encore naive. La naIvete
chez un parislen de vingt ans, feul
, rare, n'est-ce pas Frele, un peu
pale malgre la course ct la chaleur
, les traits fins, les yeux noirs, velou
tes, ce grand enfant await un panta
lion trop court, un weston trop large
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-07-14
Honor to Whom Honor is Due.

The 76 members of the General As
sembly who voted for Honest John
Wanamaker for United States Senator
are, 10 say the least, not very modest
in the claims they make TO having
passed certain important legislation.
The daily papers that were willing TO
grant them the use of their columns
for the purpose were full of interviews
for several days after the adjournment
of the legislature, in which the lead
ers of the 75 tell what they accomplish
ed for the good of the oppressed peO-
pie Of the Commonwealth, and now
some of the weekly papers that are OBJ
tuse enough to believe that 76 out of a
total of 254 could accomplish anything
that met with opposition, are taking
up the refrain and repeating the story.
Among the last claims they make Is
the one that it was their action that
prevented the appropriation to the
public schools of the State from being
cat down one million dollars. The
truth with regard TO this matter is that
the general appropriation bin passed the
House containing the Sll,0O0,000 item
for public schools and was so reported
from the Senate Committee and passed
second reading in the Senate without
any change. After having passed
second reading in the Senate it was re-
committed for the purpose OF inserting
in committee some items that had been
inadvertently left out. 1t was report
ed finally from Committee the day be-
fore adjournment and was about to be
put upon its final passage without be-
ing reprinted and placed upon the
| files where the members could see il.
The Senator from our own county, Mr.
Critchiield, put the question to the
chairman of the Committee and de-
manded frank answer as to whether
any reduction had been made in the
public school fund. The Philadelphia
'Press,n which is an organ of the 76,
in referring to the matter, in its issue
OF July l, says. Senator Critehfield
was unusually insistent in demanding
that some of the facts be given to the
Senate before any action was taken on
the bill. He declared emphatically
that he was opposed to any cut in the
school appropriation and would fight
il to the end"
This course on the part Of the Sena-
tor from our Own county brought into
line the members from the country
districts and the bill met an over
whelmipg defeat. 1t was at once re-
considered, the million dollars that
had been taken off Of the public
schools was restored and then the bill
passed without opposition.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-07-14
PASSED THE SENATE
Tariff Bill now in the Hands of a Confer.
ence Committee.

The Tariff bill passed the Senate We'd
nesday by vote ofSs to y and it was
sent TO the House, which non-concurred
in the amendments and sent the
bill to Conference Committee, where
the rest of the battle will be fought from
this time on. Ii is the general belief that
the only serious points of difference will
come when the schedules on sugar, hides
and wool are reached. Both sides will
have to make some concessions in order
% come TO an agreement and relieve the
country from the suspense and uncer-
tainty which prevails now. Some Sem
ators are OF the opinion that the bill will
be reported within a week, but most
people do not look for a settlement that
soon.
An analysis of the vote by which the
bill passed shows that the affirmative was
east by 30 Republicans, two Silver Re-
publicans, Jones of Nevada and Mantle,
and one Democrat, MeEnery; total, IS
The negative vote was cast by p Demo-
Gratis, two Populists, Harris of Kansas
and Turner, and one Silver Republican.
Cannon; total, 2s. Eight Republicans
were paired for the bill and eight Demo-
Gratis against it. The Senators present
and not voting were: Pcpulists, five,
Allen, Butler, Heitfe.d, Kyle and Stew
at; Silver Republicans, two, Teller and
Pettigrew.
The debate was notable in some respects,
although ii has lacked many OF the dra-
matte and oratorical features marking
past debates. From the outset the advo-
Gates OF the bill refrained from set speech
cs. and the discussion was narrowed TO
consideration OF rates and schedules
rather than general principles.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-07-14
Cornerstone Missing.

HARRISBURG, July 1.-THE ruins OF
the old Capitol have been removed and
the available brick and stone piled up in
the park for use in the construction OF
another building 10 take the place of that
burned February 2. The contract for the
demolition of the walls of the Capitol
and the removal of all the material con-
stituting them required the work 10 be
completed within % days, of which there
remain six days.
1t was stipulated in the proposals that
when the cornerstone was reached the
contents should be opened in the pres
ence of the Board of Commissioners
of Public Buildings and Grounds, but
diligent search failed to reveal them. II
is not probable that the cornerstone will
ever he found, and what has become of ii
is great mystery.
On the 9th inst, the six architects who
are TO be paid 8, 200 each for plans of the
proposed new building, are required to
have them finished. Several experts will
pass on them, and on the 18th of August
will submit them to the Commissioners
of Public Buildings and Grounds, who
will select from among them the plan
deemed the most satisfactory. Several
weeks win doubtless elapse before they
will have completed the work required
of them. The building will he about one.
half larger than that destroyed, and shall
not cost more than SJ00,001
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-07-14
Radio al Change in View.

NEW YORK, July "a Tribune"
special from Washington says; 1t can be
stated on authority that important mod
ifications of the civil service rules will be
made by the president at an early day.
Since his return from Canton il is learn
ed that such notifications are pending.
to take effect on or about the Goth of the
present month. Several of the Offices
and places included in the classified ser
vice, under the operation OF the present
rules, are to be excluded. The following
may be accepted as agreed upon now and
while there may be slight modification
between this date and the day of promul-
CATION Of the new order, there is the best
reason for saying that all these places
Will be included in the exemptions, name
ly:
First-The employees of the govern
ment printing Office.
Second-rhe deputy collectors and 9TH
er minor internal revenue employees out
side the department.
Third-The sub-ofTiciaIs and employees
of the marshals' and district attorneys
offices.
Possibly the order viii embrace, beside
the above, a number of special employees
in the departments, and the probabilities
are that the chiefs of divisions and chiefs
Of bureaus. etc, will be released from the
exemptions.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-07-14
Personally Conducted Tour via Pennylvania
PaiIroed

That the public have come TO roeoguize
the fact that the best aud most convenient
method of pleasure travel is that present.
ed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Conn
pany's personally conducted tours, is
evidenced by the increasing popularity
of these tours. Under this system the
lowest rates are obtained. for both trans
portaiion and hotel accommodation. An
experienced tourist agent and chaperon
accompany each tour 10 look after the
comfort OF the passenger.
The following tours have been ar
ranged for the season of lsg7:-
To the north (including Watkins Glen,
Niagara Falls, Thousand Islands, Mon
treal, Quebec, An Sable Chasm, Lakes
Champlain and George, Saratoga, and a
daylight ride down through the high
ands of the Hudsom), July y and Aug
ust IL Rate, sl00 for the round trip from
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington, covering all expenses of a
two weeks trip. Proportionate rates
from other points.
To Yellowstone Park on a special train
of Pullman sleeping, compartment, and
observation cars and dining car, allow
ing eight days in "Wonderland," Sep
tember .. Rate. SeS5 from New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washing
ton; $3.50 from Pittsburg.
Two ten-day tours TO Gettysburg
Luray Caverns, Natural Bridge, Virginia
Hot Springs, Richmond, and Washing
ton, September % and October II. Rate
So from New York, S63 from Philadel-
phia. Proportionate rates from Other
| nointS
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-07-14
Adorned With Tar and Feathers.

BEATRICE, Neb., July 1l.-One hun
dred masked men made an assault on the
city Jail at an early hour this morning,
broke in rear window and took out
A. n. Winebrenner. They hurried him
to the Rock Island baseball grounds,
where they stripped him of his cloth
ing, horsewhipped him, covered him with
tar and feathers, and ordered him TO re-
turn TO jail. The mob in the meantime
quickly dispersed.
Winebrenner pleaded for mercy, and
during his castigation cried, "murderr'
He was gagged, and the work was hastily
completed.
4. y. Winebrenner was arrested
charged with housewhipping his l7-year-
old stepdaughter, Julia l.. Barton. He
stood the officer OFF with gun, and was
placed behind the bars afler a struggle.
He claimed that it was on account ID
her bad influence on his own children.
The girl was taken i'm charge by friends
and sent TO an aunt in Denver. Those
who saw her state that she was punished
in brutal manner, her back being
literally cut TO pieces.
Winebrenner is a years old. He WAS
at one time clerk in the War Depart
ment at Washington, and Is the son oi
John Wmebrenner, of Harrisburg, the
founder of the Church of God.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-07-14
A Dea6head Round the World.

NEW YORK, July s-Eighteen months
ago to-day Frank Barton left the City
Hall ON trip around the world. He be-
gan the Journey n a result of wager
made by two prominent sporting men in
this city. One, who was an admirer OF
Burton, declared that he could go around
the world, star ing without cent in his
pocket, and make the trip without beg
ging. borrowing OF stealing dollar.
Each of these two men staked 5000 on
the trip.
This afternoon Burton walked into the
Mayors Office, his journey completed.
He comes to New York with sSO0O earned
on the trip, and tonight will receive
S3Oo0 of the money wagered on the trip.
The young man carried with him sew
eral pass-books containing the signatures
of Mayors, Chiefs of Police, sporting
men, actors, and others from all parts OF
the world. Every man who wrote his
name in the books attested the fact that
Burton was carrying out the terms of the
wager made in this city.
Burton says that he was i'll with ty-
phoid fever for fourteen weeks in Shang-
hal, and that he was was wrecked on the
steamer Angiemaud in the Indian Ocean.
The steamer ran upon a reef and was a
total loss.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-07-14
Heat Wave. sweep Of Death.

Chicago, III, July i0-press reports
from throughout the country show that
during the hot spell Representations have
reached about 2e0J with fatalities close
10 30. In addition % this there were
scores Of deaths resGliing indirectly from
the intolcrable heat. the death rate IN
many Of the large cities showing fear
ful increase over pIevions years.
The Central States suffered more se-
verely than other sections, the beat be-
ing most deadly in Chicsgo, Cincinnati
and $. Louis.
Ia number Of fatalities this city heads
the li.t with 81 deaths, Cincinnati and
suburban points reporting G5 and ST.
Louis f2.
Throughout the south the heat WAS
intense, but the death rate much lower
that ia the North.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-07-14
Senator Harris Dead.

WAsHINeToS, July s.-Senator Isham
g. Harris, of Tennessee, died at his hGme
in this city late this afternoon.
Senator Harris had almost completed
his seventy ninth year. lie became a
member Of congress in 1919. His con-
gressiOnal career antedated Senator Nor
rill and Sherman by seven years and
Hon. Gslusha A. Grow, now member
of the house from Pennsylvania, by one
year.
lie represented the 9th Tennessee dis
trict in congress for the two terms end
ing in 1853, when he declined a renoni-
nation. lie then moved to Memphis,
where he engaged in the practice of law
until 1857. He was three times in sue
cession elected governor of his state, and
was serving in that capacity when the
war broke out.
He took a pronounced stand for the
southern confederacy and was often with
the army in the field. After Lees sur
render Mr.. Harris was one of small
party of political refugees who escaped
to Mexico, going across the country on
horseback. He remained there for sew
eral months, going thence to England
where he resided until 1861, when he re-
turned to Memphis and resumed his
practice of law.
In 1871 he was elected to the United
States Senate. He has remained a mem
Der of the senate ever since.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-07-14
Tramps Worth 81 a Head.

TOPEKA, Kan, July 9.-Brakemen on
freight trains on the Kansas railroad
have picked up many dollars from farm
ers along the line in selling tramps fort
fifty cents and one dollar a head. The
demand for harvest hands is so great tina
brakemen have encouraged scores of
tramps to go to the wheat belt and get
work. When trains stop at stations
farmers are there TO traffic with the train
crews, but the latter refuse to open box
car doors and deliver tramps until at
least 50 cents, and in some cases 81 head
is paid by the farmers.
In Barton county, where tho farmers
are working 10 hours a day in order 10
save the 10000 acres of wheat, dozen
imported harvesting crews have struck
for an eight-hour dag. They say they
will work i6 hours day, but they want
double wages, or 81 day. One of their
demands is for five meals day.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-07-14
Pension Rulings.

Many pension cases are affected by the
following rulings which have just been
made by Assistant Secretary -of-tne In
terror Webster Davis:
In the claim of Francis Frank. OF Com
pany II, Sixteenth Michigan Infantry.
the Department holds that a claimant
who has attained the age of sixty five
years shall be deemed entitled 70 at least
the minimum rate of pension, unless the
evidence discloses an unusual vigor and
ability for the performance of manual
labor in one of that age.
In the case of Edward Moore. Of the
Eighteenth Independent Battery, Ohio
Light Artillery, this policy is laid down:
when il shall be shown that the pen
sioner's right to have the pension inu re
wholly to his benefit is being abridged or
forfeited by the malfsasance Of the Guar
dian, and that the appointing Court will
not administer relief, then the Commis-
sioner OF Pensions would be legally aa-
thorized TO refuse payment to the Guar
dian, and, if need be, TO pay the pension
er himself
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-07-14
The New Libel Law.

The text of the Libel law, as signed by
the Governor, reads as follows:
Section |. That in all criminal prose
cutions or indictments for libel, If the
matter charged as libelous is. in the
opinion Of the ctIrt, proper for pub
lie information, the truth may be given
in evidence to the jury.
Section . In no case can the defend
ant in any prosecution for libel be con-
yicted for the printing or publication OF
the same libel, upon the same individ-
ual in more than Que county of this state.
Section J In any civil action for libel,
the plea OF Justification shall be accepted
as adequate when il is pleaded by the
defendant that the publication is sub
stantially true in every material respect
aud is proper for pnblic information, and
if such plea shall be established 10 the
satisfaction of the court and jury, there
shall be no recovery. In no civil action
for libel shall damages be awarded be-
yond just restitution for injury actually
sustained.
Section 4. All laws or parts of laws in
consistent with this act be and the same
are hereby repealed.