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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1898-02-05
THIBODAUx, LNE sAMEDI, FEVRIRR 1898

'"livet, que Josephine await peine 4
c'nfenir, ttendit lie bras veys le
maftre de forge.
-Ri>, infGme s'9cria-til dun
ton don't rien n'9galait la violence ::
t" ne crois pas plus i Dieu que tn
ne cr"'s a lhenneur, Ia probit6, 4
tons les sentiments 9lev9s .
Mais tu crois, du moins, 4 10 justice
humane, It c'est ellie qui Sc chargera
de te chatter, en- attendant rautre
$500. Moi. Je suIs un homme du
temps pass&, conservant les vieilles
croyancss; je sails qu'.! y a, au.
dessus dc nous, un Sire souversin
ct puissans, qui nous volt, nous
enssnd. nous juge ct nous punt :.
J'sppelIe ses plus terribles maledie-
tions sur to tets.
Au meme Instant, un 9clair
ebIouissant penetra dans lie salon ct
un epouvantabIs coup de tonnerre
ht trembleE Ia ma,son jusQue dams
ses fond-ments. lie vent. 10 grele
81 In piuie s'engoutfrerent aveo fracas
par les fsnetrss ouvestes. s.nvessant
los objets lsgers, faisant yoltiger les
ridsaux ct les TEXTURES.
La simuItan3i,e dc Get orage svec
ies pasolss soIenueIles que Joliyst
.-nait de prononcer, impressionna
tous les assistants. Les femmes
pAiirsnt ct % signeroat. Leon
pousaa un cri d'sffroi ct couYut Sc
r6fugisr aupras de Victoire. Deluzy
lui, nSme ne put retenir un mouve.
msnt bFusque, assss semblable d i'm
frisson, ct rscCIa dun pas. Guam, /
Joiiyet, son sxaItation dewitt un
verltable delire.
u entsndez.vous I siccia-t-il en-
indiquast 10 ciel pisu m'exauce
-. Disu parle avec - grande
voix 80. lmpis /! sjouta-t.il en- Sc
tournant vers son gendre, tu ne
YOU. ais pas croirs 1 Ia vengeance
aiytne, / Ia puissancs de Ia maltdic-
t,on patssnslls /; douteyas-to msiute-
nans : Tu vas expisr tes fautes /;
les dtsastres que tn as accumuIes
suv nos tStss rstonberont sur la
tienns ...... It nous serons tous
contents -. Nous rions 1 notrs
tour ...... Nous ...... nous -.
II ne prononea plus cue des paro-
les sans suite, agits les bras ct
tomba lourdement sur 10 tapis.
Une confusion sxtreme regina
dams 10 eaion. Les deux sGurs 30
prSeipltsrsns pour relever lie We'll.
lard, qui await perdu connaissance.
Ne vouvaat y rtussir, Jostphine
NIT On brasls toutes lee sonnettes
dc 10 maison, AIN d'appeler les
DOMESTIC ues, Qui aeoourursnt, tandis
que V,ctoirs s'tsriait en sc tordant
lee mains
--Gvand Disu /! o'sst une nouvelle
at,aqus Cetts funssts discussion
est cause 49,.
Ne talasme pas, ma soeur,
reprit Josephine IL mtdecin de
Saint Simlon ma psssorit CO quill
fallait faire en- psrelI cas- -. On
va d'abord transporter notre pare d
sa ehambre puis, Julien prendra
10 cabriolet ct ira oherohsr 10 dooteur
4 10 vile.
-Je vais atteler sur.ls-champ
aussitot que NJ. Jollvet aura tts
transport< dams 50 chambre, r6pli.
qua Julien qui vsnait d'entrer.
Comms ION proe6dait 4 cate
operation, sous la surveillance de
Vietoirs, Josephine s'approeha de
Deluxv Ut lui dit tout bas
-C'est vous encore, Monsieur qui
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1898-02-05
XVII.-~L ARREsTArIoN.

lie msmc soir, A l'auberge dc Ia
station. 10 doctsur Belcourt s'iton.
nalt ss commseeait ! s'alasmsr Dc
rabssncs prolonges de Roblliard. H
eteit neuf nsurss ct le train As
Macon passait i dix 81 ls doctsur
as prensit pas &c train, c'6tait ua
Jous dc perAu pour les iatsl1ts Dc
Josephiae Jolivst, Robillard cen.
usissAit Get 9tat de ohoses ct,
meme dans le Gas oa % mission cut
Sprouvt apslque contrs-tsmps. il s1t
dt sMs de rstour.
Ne sachsnt cue penser, Belcourt,
apres avoir inviti Ia vsuve Martin 1
Ie prdvenir si son aide reatrait iao.
placement, So NIT ! Sc promensr,
avec une impatiencc cyolssants, sur
une petite place ombrsg6s de jeunss
arbres, qui s'6tendait entrs 10 village
de Ia station ct 10 gare Au ohsmin
de fer.
Depuis Quelques instants. il AZ
psntait lie terrain ell long ct en- large;
il rencontra rAnglais Jobson, qui
sortait, lui, on ne savait d'oa.
All vous VOLTA. docteur ?
demanda Jobson distraitemsnt
vous allez pastir sans doute ?
--Je ne sails 81 je partisai cs-soir
cyoirisz-vous qua rheure on mons
sommes, Robillasd nest pas encore
rsvenu +? ...... Je Grains qua
l'endroit Oh je i'ai envoyt, Il n'ait
rsnoontr9 lindividu avec lequsl II :
su racenment une rixe ....
Ali oui, ditl'Anglais, aui prit tout
4 coup IN vii interat Ia converse
tion, l'individu qui u donae ce beau
coup de poing a Robillsrd que ron
voulalt taire passer pour Ia meur'
tyissure dune chute -. LIE con.
naissez-vous dooteur ?
Moi, tres peu. C'est nn nommS
Blaisot. ancien teneur de livres don't
la position est assez equivoQus .
la forge du Saut. Js no sails pas
exaotement ce qui s'est passe entire
lui ct Robillard, mais -.
A continuer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-03
PITIFUL observation-disclosures.
Forgot Something at the Most Crit
ical Moment of His Life.


Harper's Magazine: Here is a true"
story of an absent-minded man to
whom 1t came handy" to forget. Said
one os his friends:
IT could set right here on this nail
lSeg from now till the Connecticut river
turns round and runs upstream an
tell you about the different things 1
know of that Hank forgot. first an
last; but I'll only mention one instance,
an that happened at the. time Hank
got married.
You see, Hank knew his failin' as
v ell as anybody, an he was mortal
afraid he would forget about Sivin the
minister the fee; so he KEEP his mind
glued right to that, an completely for
got everything else.
HE was to be married in the evenin
at the parsonage. an when ne went
round there, all alone by himself, at the
appointed time, an meandered into the
parlor an told the dominic to go ahead
with the splicin', the good man looked
up sort Of puzzled and surprised ike,
an said:
Haven't you-er-forgotten some
thing, Mr. Hobbs?
No. said Hank, still thinking of
the fee, I've got it right here in my
vest pocket. Might as well pay you now
as any time
:. why, bless you, my friend 1 wasn't
thinking of the fee,' said the parson.
Time enough for that after ] earn 1t;
but I-er-noticed you'd forgotten the
bride. ar
by Jiminyv says Hank, eiancing
around: so ] have. Mighty glad you
spoke of it. 1 was almost sure I'd for
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-03
.ongress authorlzed the eauipment OF two

congress authorized the equipment Of two
cruisers.
The fastest vessels in the navy are the
torpedo boats Porter and Dupont, each of
which can travel 2I5 knots an hour.
Battleships cost from =. 50J,u0O to 50 750.-
90; a cruiser from 500, 00O TO $3.50 80. a
good torpedo boat costs over SlU1, 90
BattieshiDS are for heavy Work: cruz
sers are commerce destroyers: monitors
are useful only. for coast defense.
The Indiana could lay outside Sandy
Hook and throw 1,2J0-pound shots into
New. York at the rate OF four q minute.
Those artists who show smoke in their
pictures Of naval battles are wholly
wrong Smokeless powder is used.
All Of the cruisers are named in honor
Of cities, and the batJlesiips except the
keslrs2rge, in honor OF states.
The ''grog' ration was abolished in 1863
and since then the crew has been forbid
den to drink while on duty.
Marines are the police on board ship.
Originally they were employed to prevent
mutiny among the sailors.
The guns Of a battleship can carry from
six to j miles. hurting a shot weighing
half ton.
Only 50 per cent of the enlisted men are
Americans, and a smaller percentage yet
are native born.
Projectiles thrown by naval guns are
shaped much as the bullets shot by the
A big battleshiD has on board. an cleo
trio plant capable of lighting town of
5000 inhabitants.
ne DOlerS OF the iowa nave q heating
surface Of eight acres and hold so tons OF
water.
Great Britain has 2si toxpedo and torpe-
do-boat destroyers; Uncle Sam has only
eight.
Five hundred and twenty-six men and 40
officers are required TO man the cruiser
New York.
Battleships are covered with armor of
nickel steel from i've to seven inches
thick
We have four armored battIeships-the
Indiana, Iowa. Massachusetts and Texas
A submarine torpedo boat TO be known
as the Plunger is now under construc-
ton
At present the total enlisted force of
the naval militia is 3.S70'officers and men.
Behind the heavy arlnor there is a pad
ding of either corn pith. or corn huslss
it costs 500 every time one of the big
guns on board ship is fired
The Brooklyn ann the New York are
our armOrcd cruisers.
Sailors are paid from $3.50 to $3.50 per
month ard board
An act of congress in 1sT2 abolished fog
Sing in the navy.
The American navy has practically all
been built since 1883.
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WOULD DO IT WITH PLEASURE.
Expert Asks Only Two Hours Time
to Blow Up a Ship.

TO BLOW UP snip.
New York Tribune: While the Of
ficials at the navy yard are lcath to
admit it, even to their most intimate
friends, it was discovered yesterday
afternoon that they are devoting es-
pecial attention to getting torpedoes
ready for emergency use in New York
harbor. One of the men at the yard
who has had much to do with expert
menting with torpedoes for harbor de-
Tense, was busy nearly all day yester-
day with his superiors. His name is
Gilmartin, and he is said to be thor
oughly skilled in the handling of tor
pedoes. Gilmartin was asked yesterday
by one OF his superiors if he would
undertake. under orders, should neces-
sity require it, the firing of a torpedo
as an actual war measure. He in
stantly replied that he would do SO
with pleasure. and then he was asked:
Mr.. Gilmartin, suppose you were
ordered on Saturday night to place a
torpedo under the bottom of a vessel
in New York harbor; how long would
it take you to do it?''
Il would do it inside of two hours on
any vessel afloat in this harbor and
I'll bet my life on it," said Gilmartin.
1t is altogether likely that If occa-
sion should require the services Of a
toIpeuo expert, Illmarun would be the
man chosen for the perilous task.
You can do most anything with a
torpedo in the way of blowing a hole in
a vessel" said Gilmartin to one of his
friends, and all ] want is the word
and the torpedo, and ! will blow a hole
in any vessel that comes into New
York harbor. And I won't get hurt
either" he added, with a grin.
From what could be learned last
night in case of sudden hostiiitfes the
government will depend to a great ex-
tent on torpedoes for harbor defense.
We can get them ready in a hurry"
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facial expression, his clothes. his very
wink, would be accurately transmit
ted. Indeed, it would seem that at last
we are to be able to see by wire, and
a detailed description of the apparatus
shows that the performance is, after
all, a very simple one.
An English patent attorney says
that Herr Szczepanik, the inventor of
the process, has been offered over ST.
100000 for the right to exhibit the APP
paratus in the Paris exhibition of 1900.
It is also said that the inventor per-
fected his theory of how images and
colors could be sent by wire in one
night. This is indeed wonderful, in
view of the facts that Alexander era
ham Bell has been at work on a
similar process ever since he perfected
the telephone. and that Amstutz four
years ago published the results of his
very conclusive researches in the fed
of visual biography. However, the
cardinal claim made for the new in
vention IS that moving images may
really be seen in a glass hundreds of
miles away from the initial point Of
transmission. and that their cOlOrs are
also reproduced very naturally. 1t
really partakes of the spirit of that
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plicated at first glance, but it is, after
all, quite simple. The inventor, in
order to prepare his images for trans
mission, found it necessary to split, or
break them up into series of dots.
He accomplished this in a peculiar
manner. He procured a small mirror
and blackened its surface with an
opaque substance He then scratched
on it rows of lines running generally
in the same direction, but not quite
parallel The lines were cut with
needle point, and exposed the rejecting
surface of the mirror along each line.
They were close together. and when
the mirror was allowed TO reflect an
object it would do so only along these
lines. Another plate was prepared
upon which similar lines We're drawn,
only they were made to extend cross
wise to those on the first mirror. Now,
il a large beam of sunlight were al
lowed TO shine against the first mirror,
and then TO be reflected off against
wall, the light would be divided up
into series of lines of light. Then, if.
before hitting the wall, the lines of
light were allowed to strike the cross
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would also the places of intersection of
the lines on the plates, and the conse-
quence would be that the dots on the
wall would so dancing Up and down
and about in ali directions within a
small area.
An arrangement of mirrors, similar
ia principle to the above, is made to
receive the images which are 10 be
transmitted by wire. In one side of the
transmitter case is a narrow horizontal
slit. Directly back of this slit or open
Ing IS a mirror with lines cut on il as in
the first mirror described above. Just
above this mirror is another mirror, the
lines Oh which are crosswise 10 the lines
on No. I, by means OF magnets and
springs, these mirrors are kept con-
stantly osciIlating, or moving, in all
directions. The plane of reflection, in
short, is being rapidly and constantly
changed. If a man were to stand in
front Of the opening in the box. the
mirror behind the slit, as it danced up
and down, would, so to speak, reflect
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-03
Chicago Can Watch a Ballet
Dancer at New
York.


| movements, etc. as the mirrors in the
| transmitter, and as the size and posi-
| ton of the Sits are precisely the same
in both cases, il follows that the Sec
ond pair of mirrors must have the same
reflections shot into them as were pro-
jected out of the first pair. If a cir
Gle of red is reflected out of the upper
portion of the first two mirrors through
the slit in the first box, a red light COM
ing from the slit in the second box
could not strike the mirrors in that box
anywhere but ON a corresponding up
per portion. All the other portions of
the mirrors are for the moment out of
focus. So, the position and shape of
every projected image is determined by
the position of the mirrors and the color
of every image is determined by the
movements of the prism.
THE SAME PRINCIPLE AS THE
KALEIDOSCOPE.
The value of cutting the reflections of
the mirrors into points now becomes
it possible for only a very small frac-
ton of any image to be seen at a time.
For instance, the image of the man
standing before the transmitter is
shown successfully from head TO foot,
or from foot to head. or in any other
direction, but the movement is so raplQ
that the optic nerve accommodates itse.f
to the condition and really appears to
take in his whole form at once. A wheel,
for instance, running rapidly down hill,
appears to be solid if the spokes are
very thick, whereas there is really
great deal of open space between the
spokes The rapidly moving photo
graphs in the kinetoscope, although
radically different one from the other,
appear to be one moving picture when
flashed rapidly past the eye. Likewise.
in this new system of seeing by wire.
the constantly moving succession OF re-
fiecting dots really appears to the eye
like one solid and moving picture.
The above is, in brief, description
of the principle and theory of Herr
SzcZepaniks apparatus for sending col
ored pictures by wire. If the inventor
has succeeded in adjusting his appa-
ratus so as TO produce the remarkable
combination described above. he has
indeed accomplished something which
may do as much, If not more, for civil
lization than the kaleidoscope; for 1t
is as far ahead of the kaleidoscope as the
latter is ahead of the common photo
graph. One may now be able to sit at
home and see a thatrical performance
which is taking place in far distant
city Or, as in the accompanying Illus
tration, a queen of the ballet can per-
form in front of a Kaleidoscope re-
ceiyer. and have every motion of her
graceful form transmitted and eXhlolt-
ed to the delight of audiences hundreds
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rors in the receiver move synchronous-
ly; that is, they move or osclllate IN
perfect time. If the lower mirror In the
transmitter assumed for a moment an
angle of 45.5 degrees, then the lower
mirror in the receiver assumed tnat
exact angle at the same instant. If
the upper mirror in the transmitter
momentarily assumed an angle of 426
degrees, the upper mirror in the re-
ceiver also assumed the angle OF 42.6
degrees at the same instant. In short,
the pairs of mirrors move together In
perfect time and in the same direction
constantly. Now, if the two mirrors IN
the transmitter happen to be at certain
angles when they send a reflection
through the slit on to the selenium, 1t
follows that if the reflection were to be
returned to those same mirrors again
through that same slit at the same in
slant, it would naturally spread itself
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-03
OUR NAVY IN A NUTSHELL

Chicago Times-Heraid: The United
States is the nth naval power in the
world. The navies of Great Britain,
France. Russia and Italy rank ahead in
the order mined Germany and the Unit
ed States are about tied
Our present effective lighting iorec con-
sists Of four battieships OF the first class,
one battieShip of the second class. two ar
rnoreG cruisers IS cruisers Is gunboats,
six dOubie-turreted monitors. one ram,
one dynamite gunboat, one dispatch boat,
one transport, and eight torpedo boats.
The Iowa weighs nearly 1000 tons and,
as 20 tons is the average load of n freight
car and Y cars is a good load for a loco
motive engine, il would take 80 locomo-
tfve engines 10 haul the great steel struc-
The powder used is brown and in chunks
the size OF a caramel a charge for the
biggest gun weighs 800 pounds ana IS
hoisted to the breech by a derrick. the
powder being sewed up-in burlap bags.
Armor plates are tested by firing steel
bounds at them from guns charged with
sec pounds Of powder and at q distance Of
about city block.
our battleships have n speed of from -
10 II knots an hour. Cruisers make from
8 TO q knots, while the monitors can tray-
el only five TO seven knots.
The biggest guns in the navy are 10 feet
long. big enough for a man to crawl in
to; four feet in diameter at their largest
part and weigh 1850 pounds or there
abouts.
service. The Offices Of vice admiral and
admiral are untitled, so there is no head
of the navy excepting Secretary Long.
Bainacles form on the hull of shin
impeding its speed. A six months cruise
viii decrease the speed of Il ship 10 per
cent, and il must 20 into drydock.
Sixty-one merchant vessels belong to
the auxiliary navy. These ships are subsi-
died. and by contract must be given to
the United States on demand.
Some OF the guns in the navy can fire
10 tta.y. han
for the guns are aimed and sighted by
machinery.
The amount expended by the navy de-
part1nent in 1897 was s34.551.546. This is
larger than has been expended in any
year since 1865
In battle. the woodwork and all arti-
clcs of wood are tither slowed below or
threwn overheard, lest the men be injured
by splinters.
The origin of the navy department may
be said to date from Oct 10. l775, when
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gotten something. but I couldn't think
what it was
He grabbed his hat an went off on
run after his intended. He got back
with her before the dominic closed up
the parsonage for the night, but it was
a close shave; an when the story got
out twas a long While afore folks quit
3sking Hank if he'd forgot anything
IatelV"
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of miles away, and ali the colors of
her costume would be distinctly repro
duced. 1t has been suggested that, in
asmuch as the apparatus will be in
stalled at the Paris exposition of 1900,
many persons who will be unable to
go to that great show will still be able
to see its varied scenes reflected
through the mirrors of the telelectro-
scope. These, at least, are the ailuring
promises which are made by the pro-
jectors of the apparatus.
THEODORE WATERS.
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wise lines of the second mirror, the
the wall, would be rows of dots of
result. when the light finally struck
light, because. when the lines of the
first mirror struck the lines of the sec
ond, the beam of light would be re-
Elected only where the lines intersected
one another. If. while this broken-up
beam of light was shining on the wall,
the two plates were to be slightly
moved backward and forward, the
angle of reflection would change, as
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The Magic Mirrors of Fairy
land Have Now Become
Facts.

A poor Galician school teacher is re-
ported to have solved a problem over
which many leading scientists have la
bored in vain for years. 1t is an
nounced that he has perfected an ap-
paratus which viii not only transmit
pictures by wire, but which will trans
NIT moving images in all Of their
natural colors. That is, the apparatus
is so all-sufficient in operation that if
a man were TO bow to the transmitter
IN New York, his image in the act of
bowling would be reproduced on a
screen in Chicago, or in any other city
to which the line might extend. His
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over them in the same form that it had
when it first came from them. In short,
if the mirrors were in position at rest
so that they could send a triangle OF
red light through the slit, it would be
to send the red light back
again through the slit, and have it re-
flected in any other form than tri-
angle. The mirrors would have to be
moved before the reflected light could
assume any other form than triangle.
Hence, as the mirrors in the receiver
are precisely the same in size, shape,
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said one of the officers yesterday, and
there is no one knows it any better
than the Spanish naval officials them
selves If such thing should be that
a Spanish war vessel should commit
any hostile act while in the harbor OF
New York, she never would get away.
There are men enough and torpedoes
enough to sink her half dozen times
before she gets outside of Sandy
Hnnlr -
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;nrains arrive aud depart at Salt Laks
lily daily as follows:
TN Effect March 5. 1881
ARRIVE
rom Chicago. Omaha. ST. LOUIS,
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From s Helena, Butte, Portland.
pan Francisco. Ogden and sa-
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From San Francisco, Cache Val
icy: ogden and intermedists
From Chicago. Omaha. ST. Louis.
SS "a City. Denver. and og-
'FIrOm Frisco. Milford ana inter '@ -
mediate points. - -. s:s5 an.
From Me-cur. Tintic. Prove Ne
pnl. Sanpete Valley and inter-
mediate points. -. ....... $40 pa
MIXED train from Terminus.
Tooeie ana Garfeid Beach.-.-.. 800 I'm.
KspS s City. s St louis. D osasa;
Fe S.o, sa4 Francisco. ogden. NV -
Sa;cne Valley and intsrme5iats
For Ogden. Denver. Kansas Civ ." a
Fo dp'eoS Tssd PoinTS: SIS pm
r, lard and San Francisco . -. s:Es u.
.F NsephI; sanpete avliey. 7:se ~
., Frisco and intermediate points 500 pm
srl1oeie and Terminus. E. ...... Y:ls an
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