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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1898-1905, 1902-11-15

Brady and seconded by Mr.. Beary:
"Resolved, That the Executive
Committee be authorized, in conjunc:
ton with the Board of State Engi-
neers. to correspond with the Secre-
tary OF War and to take all steps.
which in their judgment shall be ne
cessary to carry out the object for
which the two boards met"
The resolution was adopted by the
joint board and then submitted to
them separately and adopted by them
unanimously. The B.ard of Eupi-
neers reported that $l35, 900 would
be the probable cost for a temporary
dam, earth for same, dredging canal
10 Bayou Lafourche, cutting canals
from connecting lakes, right of way,
bridges. land Tor harrow piss and
contingencies.- ---Picnyune
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1898-1905, 1902-11-15

No, friend, it was not the bosses,
nor the so called ringsters, who i'm
posed the poll tax qualification fer
voting; 1t was the people of the State
OF Louisiana, in constitutional con-
vention assembled. True, their work
was not at the time of its perform
ance submitted to the people, but on
the 4th instant these we're heard on
the question, and hey pronounced:
emphaticaIly in favor of it.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1898-1905, 1902-11-15

Remember, the Poll Tax Amend
ment has been defeated; 40 don't fail
TO pay your poll tax before or, at the
latest, by the 3lst day of December
OF this year. Don't fail; pay i: with
out DELAY.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1898-1905, 1902-11-15

The Lockport Eagle has shed its
independent" down and is now .
bird OF unmlstakabIe Republican
plumage. The last stage in the pro-
cess OF development was reached
during the recent congressional cam
paign, and henceforth whenever it
shall scream lts readers will know
what it means.
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York, Cure Feverishpess, Bad Stom.
ach, Teething Disorders, move and
regulate the Bowels and Destroy
Worms. Over 10000 testimonials.
They never fail. At all druggists,
25c. Sample FREE. Address Allen
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The Lafayette GozeNs wants the
present election law repealed. 1t
thinks the law places too many res.
trictions upon the exercise Of the
right Of voting.
There is no law which has vet
emanatcd from the brain Of mao
which is dawless, which has not some
drawback to mar its good; hence the
election law is not without some i'm
perfections. But it has one redeem.
ing quality which, in our opinion,
more than compensates for all ito
drawbscks: it secures the set recy Of
the ballot, and puts in the power of
every man to cast free and untram.
melled vote. Plsnters cannot now
stand at the box and hand out to
their employees their ballots and tell
them to go and deposit il IN the box,
and see that it is done, as they used
to do, IN some instances, under tho
old regime. The voter DOW takes
his ballot from the hand Of q sworn
officer, r"t'res to one side by himself,
prepares il to suit himself, and comes
and deposits it, without any one
knowing how he voted. That
feature Of the law cOmmends itself to
us very strongly. 1t makes the voter
truly free man on election day.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1898-1905, 1902-11-15

The voter who is past sixty years
OF age, 10 exempt from the poll tax
qualification for voting, and il not
bound to pay the tax.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1898-1905, 1902-11-15

Don't forget to pay your poll tax
before the year goes out. Secu e
your receipt and put it away securely
to have it on hand when you 90 to
vote the next time. Tell your neigh
bors about this, too, and advise them
to pay theirs.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1898-1905, 1902-11-15

Remember your poll tax, and pay
it before or at least by the 3lst, day
Of December Of this year.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-11
WANTS TO KEEP BEES.
of Taking Up Bookkeeping as
Side Issue.

A reader wants to know what it
takes to commence with, and about
how many colonies one person can at
tend to, giving the business about half
of his time.
How to begin beekeeping, depends
to some extent upon the amount of
knowledge one may have of the bust
ness before he begins. If he is strictly
an amateur, and has no knowledge of
scientific beekeeping, he should study
the subject some before going into it.
One may begin successfully with one
or two colonies, and with the assist
ance of books on the late management
of bees, soon learn the entire business,
and this would be proper way to
start.
There are plenty of good works on
bee culture that give all the details in
their management; besides a number
of monthly and weekly bee.journals
that will keep one posted on the latest
discoveries and improvements. With
thorough study of some good text
book, and few colonies of bees to
practice on, to prove to yourself the
truth of what you read, you can soon
master all there is to it.
On the other hand, if one has a
knowledge of the business to some ex-
tent, he may start in with more bees,
but unless he is an expert, it is not
safe to go in too deep. Failure would
be sure to follow one who would buy
out some large apiary, and start it
without experienced help, if he had but
little knowledge of the business him
self. The matter of starting with bees
with the intention of going into it ex-
tensively, depends somewhat upon
yourlocality good honey producer
or whether or not many bees are there
kept. Localities may be overstocked,
so that the crop of honey cannot reach
"a profitable basis. But this is rather
the exception in most localities.
One can easily attend to 100 colonies
and give them half his time.-A. II.
Duff, in Rural Voice.
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CLOVER FOR POULTRY.
For Egg Producing at All Seasons OF
the Year This Crop Certainly
Has No Equal.

Experience has demonstrated the
value of clover for egg producing time
and again. Clover has just the mate
rial in it to form egg shell, and hence
it becomes an essential part of every
ration fed to the chickens. 1t may not
be generally understood that there are
nearly 80 pounds of lime contained in
each thousand pounds of clover. The
chickens fed daily with clover will
consequently prove better egg layers
than those denied it. The clover hay
should be given to chickens in winter
in quantities sufficient to satisfy them,
and to make them eat more it is desir-
able sometimes to prepare it in various
ways. Cook and chop it up and mix it
with meal or other articles. This will
sometimes induce the hens to consume
great amount of clover each day. Cut
up into short lengths and mixed with
warm mash, and then fed only as fast
as the chickens will clean it up each
day, is probably the most economical
way to feed the clover. Some cut the
second crop of clover and place it in the
poultry yard for the chickens to eat
and scratch over at pleasure. This of
itself is all right, but it is rather waste
full. More than half the clover will be
lost, and the chickens do not actually
eat much more than the leaves. The
stalks contain most of the lime, and
these should be prepared so the chick
ems will consume them. OF all foods
that can be raised on farm for poul-
try, clover is not only the best, but
probably the cheapest, and field of it
is as essential to success as pasture
field is necessary to the success of
dairying.-Annie C. Webster, in Massa-
chusetts Plowman.
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A Unique Egg Producer.

Something more likely to meet a
hens taste than "red albumen" is de.
scribed in Chicago letter. What was
a scourge in Nebraska has now become
of value in a commercial way. A ma
chine was invented to kill grasshop
pers called the "hopperdozer." 1t does
the work all right, but heretofore the
grasshoppers have been wasted. Now
the killed grasshoppers are left in
wind rows in the field, where they are
dried after an exposure to the sun and
reduced to powder, after which they
are pressed and converted into solid
bricks. These bricks are shipped to
poultry raisers, who find it good food
for hens, as it is great encourager of
egg production. 1t is not necessary to
grind these bricks. but merely to break
them into pieces and soften with wa.
ter. The hens like them exceedingly
well and thrive on the diet.
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HONE1CoMB BUILDING.
Paramount Interest to Profess
sional Beekeepers.

In recent bulletin G. P. Gillette,
of the Colorado station, calls atten-
ton to the fact that experiments
have shown that it requires about
one pound of wax for every 25 pounds
of honey that is stored in the comb.
The food which is necessary for the
formation and secretion of wax in
the body of bees is, for the most
part, honey, and it probably requires
several pounds of honey as food for
worker bees to enable them to pro-
duce one pound of wax. The bees
which are engaged in the secretion
of wax are thereby prevented from
collecting honey, and must feed upon
the honey collected by other work
ers. Where comb honey is being pro-
duced for market it becomes, there
fore, problem of considerable eco
nomic Importance to determine to
what extent and in what form wax
should be furnished the bees for their
use in building comb.
According to the present practice
of bee raisers, wax is furnished to
the bees in only one general way,
and that is in the form of artificial
comb foundation. There are, how
ever, many types of foundation, some
with midrib only and others with
cell walls of greater OR lesser length
outlined for the bees. The keeper
has, therefore, the practical problem
of determining the kind of founda-
ton to use, whether with or without
cell walls and of what weight.
Prof. Gillette's Investigations indi-
cate that it is mistake to use deep
cells in artificial foundation unless
their walls are made of the thinness
of natural cell walls. The only cell
walls which were brought to the
thinness of natural comb were those
built on foundations with light base
and with little wax in cell walls.
Comparisons of the weights of nat
ural comb and comb built on artif-
cial foundations showed that the thin
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and extra thin approximations are
comb, which will compare in quality
and lightness with natural comb. 1t
seems certain that heavy foundations
result in combs heavier than the
natural comb and that the increased
weight is due to thicker midribs and
thicker cell walls, but more to the
latter than to the former. Where the
cell walls are very high they were not
thinned down in the process of comb
building.
Experiments were tried with a
number of methods of using founda-
tions in sections. The different meth
DDS of attaching starters are shown
in the figure, a to g. No appreciable
difference was noted in comb pro-
duced by using starters in the way
shown in a, C and d. The chief adj
vantage of using long narrow piece,
as seen at e, was that it had a tend
ency to induce the building of work.
er comb throughout. 1t had, how
ever, the advantage that it's large size
and short line of attachment rem
dered it easy to be torn loose.
Perhaps the best results were OBJ
tanned by the use of a long narrow
piece at the top of the section, as
shown at f. The use of small pieces
of foundations in the lower corners,
as shown at C, gave no beneficial re-
suits. The use of short strips in the
middle of the bottom of the section,
as shown at b, resulted in the some
what frmer attachment of the combs.
Comb built upon foundation is al
ways tougher and more waxy than
natural comb, and the bases of the
cells are darker in color.
Since a thick comb has but one
midrib, and the walls of the cells are
heaviest nearest the midrib, it is evil
dent that thick comb will contain
relatively less wax and more honey
than a thin comb. In order to secure
comb honey, therefore, with the least
possible amount of wax, it is neces-
sary to have it built in sections that
will permit the greatest thickness of
comb.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-11
Producing Poultry Breeds.

Any farmer may make new breed
If he has the patience to select care
fully of the best, note their character
istics, discard all undesirable speci-
mems and work on until his object is
accomplished. 1t is, however, always
in order for him to select his next
years stock from the best of those he
has. The farmer of the present day
has great advantage in having the
pure breeds ready established as a
foundation upon which he can improve
or build something better, hence his
labors will be easy and light compared
with the difficulties in the way of the
pioneer breeders who produced the
breeds we are familiar with at the
present day.-Farm and Fireside.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-11
The Coming Coronation,
Of the King Of SPAR, y
His Heritage May House of Cards, Ready to
Topic About His Head.

the queen national misfortunes with
made her reign anything but peace-
full and happy one. Early in her eX-
perience began the colonial wars of
separation, dragging their bloody his
tory through many years until their
elimination in the war with the Unit
ed States and the loss altogether by
the nation of those possessions which
in former years had given it such
prestige and power throughout the.
world.
1t is but natural in seeking for
brighter page of Spanish history to
turn to the career of another queen,
Isabella, who with King Ferdinand
saw the kingdom united, the Moors
driven out of Granada and the II years
of wars in various parts of the coun-
try ending in complete triumph for
the royal standards. A new era of
prosperity opened for Spain. Indus
try and commerce fourished; the
steel of Toledo, the silverwork of VAL
ladolid, the silk of Granada, the leath-
er of Cordova and the wool that was
the peninsula's choicest product went
across the seas in ships of Barcelona.
When Isabella came to the throne the
public revenue was less than 100000
reals ($50OOO), but in 1904 it had risen
to 100000 reals.
The Spaniards' conquest of their an
cient foe, the Moors, echoed through
out the world, but the effect thereof
was small as compared to the tre-
mendous expansion which followed
the return of Columbus with new
world and its untold wealth to lay at
the feet of the queen, who had been
willing to pawn her jewels in order to
equip the daring navigator for his
expedition of discovery. Wealth
flowed into the Spanish treasury. Adj
venturers went out to America and
in few Years returned millionaires.
AS an indication of the lavish wealth
and dazzling profligacy of the period,
let me mention couple of Incidents.
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to Don Carlos the opportunity for
which he has been waiting for years
and secure to him the kingdom which
he claims as rightful heritage. 1t
may cost Spain a terrible and bloody
civil war, reaping of the whirlwind
of internal revolution, as the result
of the sowing the wind of relentless
armies and the inquisition of the past
centuries before she can emerge
from the darkness of the past
into the light and blessing of living
Christianity. But if Alfonso does lose
his throne and kingdom, he has
bright side of his life to turn to.
Alfonso has had wise and faithful
and good mother, heritage which is
of priceless worth. If history's pages
afford him little encouragement and
inspiration for the tasks which lie be-
fore him, the mother love and care
which he has felt may nerve him to
endure the test of kingship and en-
able him to guide the ship of state
through the whirlpool and rapids of
present misfortune into the smoother
waters of a new national life. Spain
in the past has set her face steadfast-
ly against the advance of modern civ
il.zation and the rights of the common
pt ople, but once turned towards the
light, the last vestige of the spirit of
the inquisition and the glory of
despotic power will be swept away and
new Spain will rear itself upon the
sad ruins of the old.
Over 16 years ago, six months be-
fore the present king, Alfonso KILL,
was born, Alfonso XII. died, leaving
his fair widow to face the heavy bur-
dens of the restoration. Uncertainty
marked the succession to the throne
until the birth of the son, and the
dowager queen was then declared the
regent during the minority of the
new king, Alfonso XIII. Marie Chris
tine of MISUNDERSTANDING, archduch-
ess of Austria, was the second wife of
Alfonso XII, their marriage occur
ring in 1879, five years after he had
been restored to the throne of Spain.
He had only begun to grapple with the
problems of the restoration when the
new queen, who was passionately in
love with her husband and sought in
every way to be help to him, took her
place at his side. Not only did the
restored dynasty have to make terms
and compacts with the revolutionary
element, but it also pledged itself to
guarantee the peace and prosperity of
the kingdom. When in 1885 King AL
fonso died, the faithful queen found
a support in the strong arm of the
Castillo. to whom was due the restora-
ton of political and social order.
During TIE term of the regency of
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A soldier who married the daughter
OF nobleman in Barcelona gave away
l2,OO0,O00 reals in aims on his we'd
ding day, and another returned Span
lard stood at window in Madrid and
emptied two barrels of coins into the
street below amidst the eager, push
ing crowd waiting to grasp the falling
gold that had been drawn from the
colonies in tie Few world.
But, as some historian has said, the
downfall of Spain began with her
greatness. Both the greatness and
the ruin were the work of the same
hands. Isabella belonged to modern
history in date, but not in spirit. She
had no vision of the dawning of liberty
as the light of the world. Her eyes
were turned towards the sunset, to
which Spain has been looking ever
since. During the century of her ma
terial greatness and military glory
say from the conquest of the Moors
of Granada to the destruction of the
Armada-Spain stood forth as the
great champion of slavery for the
minds and bodies of men. In the
words OF Burke: "She remained an
old-fashioned tyrant, odious, if dread
ed, in the day of her power, merely
contemplate when that power
passed" Of all the nations at the
opening of modern history, Spain had
the grandest opportunity and most
signally wasted it.
There are Spanish writer's who dare
to defend the inquisition, yet even the
devout Isabella, who permitted the
awful institution to be planted among
her people, did not view it with entire
equanimity when she lay on her death
bed. 81 have caused great calamities,"
she said; 81 have depopulated towns
and provinces and kingdoms, for love
of Christ and of His Holy Mother; but
| have never touched maravedi of
confscated property. I have used the
money in educating and lowering the
children of the condemned"-the
truth of which latter plea is ques-
toned by historians.
With Ferdinand and Isabella ends
the history of Spain's Spanish kings.
She was henceforth to be ruled by two
foreign dynasties, the Hapsburgs of
Austria and the Bourbons of France.
To follow the history of Spain is to
find the dark thread of successive mis-
fortunes and gradual decline running
through it all. No bright star of hope
is seen to rise at any point of her ca
reer, for the persistent clinging to the
desPotic spirit of the past has thus
far shut out the light, which if seen
and followed would lead perhaps to
the writing of new and brighter pages
I'M the history of picturesque old
Spain. WILLIS s. HpsoN.
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.EHA &c, yea, almost tragic, IN
NH v the thought of the youth
NWEX full king of Spain assum-
=@gSr ing the reins of govern
ment on the 18th of May
next. His 16 years of life have seen
his nation continue the making of
history which is neither gratifying to
a patriotic heart nor inspiring to the
hope of brighter outlook in the fu-
ture. While the preparations are go
ing forward for the coronation next
spring, industrial disturbances and
political strife trouble the country,
and at Barcelona and other industrial
centers, strikers, restless under OPP
preston and suffering from the gen.
eral financial and industrial depres-
sion, are defying the law and boldly
fighting the soldiers summoned to
hold them in check. An effort will be
made to impart to the coronation cere-
monies something of that imposing
splendor and grandeur which marked
the court life of the nation in the days
of its glittering wealth and world
wide despotic power, but what can
hlde from view the departing glory of
the Spanish nation, or stop the smart
ing of the latest wound suffered in the
loss of it's largest island colonies?
Alfonso MIL, with the mold of de-
cay of the centuries about him and
the heavy burdens of state resting
upon his youthful and untried shout
ders, has no easy or hopeful task be-
fore him, and, as we have said, the
placing of the crown upon his fair
young head seems pathetic to con-
template and tragic in it's possibili-
ties.
But no man knoweth what day
may bring forth. AS some bright wit
ted Yankee has said: Mankind is
sure of only two things, death and
taxes" And in the case of Alfonso
MIL, the present disturbances in
Spain may result in an upheaval which
may rob him of his throne and give
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COOP WITH SLIDING STAT.

chicks have their freedom, being able
to go in and out under the Stats. This
is suitable for localities where cats,
rats and other animals do not menace
the chicks.-Farmers' Review.
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speech but an historical occurrence. When
the world shall have SO far outgrown the BIZ
bic as that the personal anti-Christ shall
have been received in place Of the personal
Christ, it will be time for Him to work. And
He will work. His word shall not return
unto Him void. The judgments Of which it
speaks will fall on the ubiquitous nations of
the earth, and the kingdoms OF this world
will become the Kingdom of our God and Of
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rate of the Federal Government having
industry and and for the consular
ice of commercial expansion but BY FACT
THAT OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, ONE AFTER
ANOTHER, ARE RAPIDLY ADOPTING COMMERCIAL IN
STRUCTION AS AN IMPORTANT FEATURE OF THEIR
WORK Even the ordinary high schools ENGRAVING
geography their and during the year, Bureau
of Foreign Commerce has received applications and
scholars of the country for copies monthly other
consular reports aids in this branch of study
The requests for information in FOREIGN
countries manufacturers and multiplied rapidly
and be said that there hardly important business
the United States having prospective in
consular service
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THE A-sHAPED COOP.
Cats, Rats Nor other Animals
Menace the Chicks,

A common form of coop for hen and
chickens is shown in the illustration.
This coop is easily made. BY it the old
hen is kept in restraint while the
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Is the World Outgrow~
ing the Bible ? =: ~ ~ ~
BY REV. JAMES NJ. GRAY, ID.
Lecturer,
Noted Bible Lecturer, of Boston.

O. ANY asking the question: "Is the World Out
~ growing the Bible?" the which depends
kM almost entirely ones point of view 1t is easy to
E it in the negative for the Bible is to-day the
nH most popular book in the world. Trilby Ben Hur,
X Richard Carve Uncle Toms Cabin and all the rest,
Az not to be compared with it. The taste for such
* books is caprcous, and the favorte to-day is dead
~ weight the booksellers shelves Tomorrow but
the Bible, like Tennysons brook, keeps on forever
The novel finds favor in SINGLE land. the most