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The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1904-06-30
VERY PATHETIC CASE.
Erad Couple Separated by the
State Penitentiary.

The Baton Rouge Advocate.
riting of a new lot of prisoners
.nt 10 from different parts of
he state, has this to say of one
the unfortunates:
aCbarIes W. Simpson, of Or
ans parish, convicted of man
anphter and sentenced to serve
ia wears in the states prison. IS
eyenty-two years old. Simpson
eayes wife about his age and
little daughter IL years old.
Ibis wife and daughter visited
he husband and father on Sun
Iay before he was transferred to
he states prison the following
Monday. This was no doubt
heir last meeting on earth, and
his aee.l couple knew it, and
rIed as much as possible to forget
be present and 60 back with
heir memory to other and better
ays in their married life, which
ated some fifty years back; the
d songs they used to sing in
ot humble home in the noun
HAS of old Virginia were fresh
their minds, and the wife pro-
6sed to the convict husband that
hey sing some of the old songs
B long ago, and without waiting
|or ID answer from the husband,
= heart-broken old woman be-
u il q voice, mellow with age,
S sing way Down Upon the
1awnee River, and as she began
second line her husband join
IN the singing, while their
fle daughter sitting next to
em, bowed her head and cried
tsrly. The singing of the old
aple attracted the attention of
> deputies and the prisoners in
yard, all of whom gathered as
rthe old couple as possible
listened eagerly to the song
4 wstched the singers. They
I'll of their old songs which
bad sung many times during
4 long lives, and just before
time to leave they sang Home.
10 Home That song, though
il almost every cline, was
R sung more sweetly, and
= The last lines of that beau
I'D song were sung by this
couple every prisoner and
81 deputy had his handker-
% his eyes, and this time
eared who saw them cry.
~ more than human could
q watch that pitiful old
- coon to be parted for life.
rs there singing Is though
pere in their own home.
= ~ old couple rose and with
lonk look into each others
they embraced each other
10 old lady, whose cares are
~ over, caught her dangh-
hand and without turning to
e her husband again, walk
hurriedly out of the big
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1904-06-30
A Weeks Hard Work Is
Wound Up With a
Little HumOr.
HERMAN MADE
A SPEECH
Took Advantage Of Dupre's Joke
and Roasted the High Com
mission of Fifteen.

Baton Rouge, La, June 26.-
To the average citizen the pro-
ceedings in the legislature grow
-monotonous after the first week
or so, and from the appearance
of many of the members of the
House this session has grown
monotonous to them. Every
member who can do so slips of
at every opportunity and. either
goes home for a day or SO or visits
friends at other places in order
to get a ssfresh breath.
This city is deserted today, SO
far as the members of the legis-
lature is concerned. The early
morning train carried down a
large number, and those who did
not 60 to New Orleans to spend
Sunday went home. The siren
uosity of the numerous sessions
Friday has disgusted a number of
the country members with public
life. They found that, although
the work might be light in the
early part of the session, it was
possible for the calendar to get
congested and continued sessions
held. The atljournments from
Friday noon to Monday night are
a thing of the past, SO far as this
session is concerned. 1t is doubt
full whether either the House or
Senate will adjourn before Satur-
day night this week, as there is
still an immense amount Of work
before the General Assembly.
The all-day session Friday will
be memorial in the history of
this General Assembly. There
were things done and there were
things left undone which have
never before entered into the
history of the House. Never, in
recent years, has quiet little
=
game been carried on at one of
the back desks. It was just to
kill time, but it caused the Hon.
T. j. Herman to rise up and offer
the following resolution, which
was adopted with cheers.
"Whereas the Constitution de-
clares gambling to be a vice; and
"Whereas certain citizens of
Louisiana are addicted to said
vice; and
"Whereas, both said vice and
said citizens should be suppress
ed; therefore be it
ssResolved BY the General As
sembly of the State of Louisiana,
That gambling within 100 feet of
the Speakers stand is prohibited
and shall be punishable by a fine
of SIS, 900, 900, without benefit of
clergy .
Then in the afternoon, when
the vote of one man would have
been sufficient to kill the most
important of bills, the smiling
face Of the Hon. Joseph Hyams
was missed and Mr.. Estoplnal
offered this resolution:
sBe it resolved by the House
Of Representatives, That as the
Hon. Joseph Hyams is an almost
indispensable factor in the franz
ing and passage of laws for the
great state Of Louisiana5 and as
be Is absent this p. N. from bis
desk, and his handsome face and
cprlysloc are missed from this
Hou56y whore - q eUfel} needed,
81 -
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1904-06-30
Roosevelt and Fairbanks.

The National Republican Con-
vention at Chicago last Thursday
nominated President Roosevelt
and Senator Fairbanks of India.
ma for president and vice-presi-
dent respectively. There were
no other candidates before the
convention and the nominations
were made as previously arranged
Neither of the nominees were
present when they wefe nomi'
mated.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1904-06-30
A LITTLE FUN IN
THE LEGISLATURE.
THE SAME STORY;
RAPE AND A LYNCH|NC.

that the Honorable Speker of
the House be instructed to order
the Sergeant-at-Arms to produce
the body of the said Joseph Hy-
ans Immediately and at once, if
not sooner.
Mr.. Hyams was found by the
Sergeant-at-Arms, but pleaded
that he had large amount of
committee work which needle d
his attention and he was excused
from attendance.
And at-night, when the House
was vainly waiting for quorum,
and Sergeant-at-Arms Ryan was
chasing up dark streets looking
for men to come in and vote,
Garland Dupre offered the fol-
lowing resolution, which was
adopted under a suspension of
the rules:
"Whereas, Hon. Thomas ker-
nan has long been recognized as
the silver-tongued orator of
Baton Rouge; and
"Whereas, after a day of labor
and debate, it is meet and proper
that our proceedings be brought
to v close by some remarks by the
distinguished Representative from
the Parish Of East Baton Rouge:
be it
"Resolved, That Hon. Thomas
j. Herman be invited to deliver
an address to the House on the
Dignity of Labor and the High
Price of Putty and that a CON-
mlttee of three be appointed to
escort him to the Speakers ros-
trum."
Judge Herman rose, and within
three minutes Mr.. Dupre proba-
bly, wished he had kept quiet.
Such a terrific roasting as he re-
ceived from the Representative
from East Baton Rouge has
seldom been heard on the floor of
the House. Everyone knew that
everything that was said was in
the utmost good nature and
laughed. In his remarks Judge
Herman repeatedly referred to
Dupre as ''my young friend,
Dupre, late of St Landry. but
promoted to the parish of Orleans.
who [ have known from infancy.
Mr.. Hughes, of Orlea:s, tried
to put an end to the 'sroast," de-
cIaring that Mr.. Kernan's re.
marks had nothing to do with the
subject of the high price of putty
or the dignity of labor.
After finishing Dupre, Mr.. Ker-
nan opened up the on Committee
Of Fifteen, or as hes poke of it as
"The High Commission of Fif-
teen." His remarks on this sub
ject were greeted with cheers,
but were not appreciated by some
of the members who were there.
The plan to hold quorum at
the session Friday was adopted by
Mr.. Dupre and Mr.. johnson sew
eral weeks ago. At that time
they promised Speaker Snyder
that when quorum was needed
to clear the calendar they would
see that it was there. And there
would have been a quorum there
that night had it not been forgot
ten that there is q ferry-boat run
ming across the river. Many of
the members remembered it and
made their escape.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1904-06-30

As an Advertising scheme Harris
Business College, jackson, Miss;
is offefi4S d feN scholarships At. 9
big bargain. Write them. (jn3o.)
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
TT RREx-NT QGzKGVZy Or GN0S14022NH;
0TXER5 HGgZE IA -
THE HORRORS OF WAR
Civilization Has Done Nothing Toward
A.. Eliminating Brutality. g h"i

g.. Leslie's Weekly, ~.
Notwithstanding all that has been done
in modern times to mitigate; the horrors
of war, reports from the battlefelds in
the far east furnish frequent and painful
Illustrations Of the accuracy Of General
Sherman's famous Characterization of war.
In one of these reports We read that In
the awful struggle around Liao-yang the
Russians enticed large body of Japanese
into a field of Chinese corn, wherein
great number of deep pits had been dug
filled with sharp stakes and concealed
from view. Into these pits, says the re-
port, the Japanese fell and were impaled
on the stakes SO that the pits soon became
filled with dead and dying men. An
other account, given on credible authority,
tells, how a detachment of 700 Japanese,
on night march in the vicinity OF Lao
yang were all blown into fragments by
a mine concealed under the road by the
Russians. More horrible than even these
scenes of blood and wholesale slaughter
are the conditions around Port Arthur.
Here, according to the story told by
| Prince Radziwill of the Russian army,
| the soldiers on both sides have become so
| embittered toward each other that they
no longer give quarter, but slay all who
fall into their hands, while the dead lie
| between the lines rotting in great heaps,
neither side daring to venture out to their
| burial. AS for the wounded who fall In
! this same area between the firing lines,
their fate lis most frightful of all For
days afterward," so reads the account,
1.-THE wounded men in this area raised
futtering shandkerchiefs in their hands as
pleas for help, but the Russians were e
afraid to venture out to give succor.
Within week., the last arm had made
it's last unregarded prayer for help, and
the, shambles were quiet but snastiy
field of horror" All this in this fourth
year of the twentieth century, and in
the name Of: civilization and progress!
God forbid! 81: -" - ~ -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
hW, AD lZzDGE yCLZzPT
T *ZAlLZ47Z AE.Z4Z7R5
ZhlD LEGGZ1Z5 CRQN

special to The Journal. 81 81
I Crow Indian Agency, Mont, Nov. "a ~ (.
The Crows have come into their own,
again. What was once the old site off,
Fort Custer, one of the most famous
military posts Of the northwestern 'front.'
tier, where the United States troops
for quarter Of a century held INF
check the fierce red men of the mount
tains and plains, has reverted to the
original owners of the lands, and the
Crow Indians now gather to discuss
the ancient glories Of their tribes. 8
The parade ground has become an
Indian village. The barracks have beenh
dismantled and hauled away to bep
used in constructing Indian huts. The
commanding general IS fine residence isl
now the domicile Of old white Earth-h
n-the-Forehead,' who stables his fa-fE.
vorite pony in the grand receptions
room where formerly gathered the mili-s
tary chieftains of the white army. g 7,
Already more than one hundred In-i.
dian shacks have been constructed FROM
the materials taken from the old fort, t
and daily the red men gather roundE
the historic old ruins, fighting overts
some choice piece of timber.
It is the irony of. fate that the site
of the old fort, wrested from the In-t
dams by force of arms, should in timeE
return to the keeping Of the Identical
band of Indians, from whom it was TAX
en-, and who today are making their
campfres just where their tepees stood
before General Custer was massacred
and before the permanent invasion OF
the HCrow country by the white sol-
diers. - - 49, .i $3.50 Y
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
EVERYBODY WANTS A TIP
Experience Of an American Woman
s. -: While Visiting Venice. EI
San FRANCISCO Argonaut.

. ~ San Francisco ArgOnauL. :-.,-
One of the things that most aston
class italian is The perfect frankness
with which he shows his desire for
tip. No false modesty obscures it: You
may sometimes fear that you will for
get it. Let such fears forever rest. he
Won't let you. He will follow you,
asking you if you have your parasol
when he sees it in your hand, or II you
told it to you: The whole poor popu-
lation Of Venice is absolutely naif in
it's exhibition of desire for any small
sum of money the passersby may throw
it. The children, one and all, make 9
demand for soldino as g. matter OF
course. It is a sort Of greeting to, every
foreigner, casually, as phrase of gen
eral usage.
girl who had charge of the bathhouse,
If you don It she has a dozen ways
Of making herself disagreeable next
time YOU come. And do not allay your
troubled anticipations by the thought
that she may not recognize you. One
glimpse of a face fixes it in her mem.
DRY for months After that you fee
J the woman who takes care OF your
enough she drags out from some inner
recess cheap mirror which distorts
your countenance and allows you tc
| look into it and see how truly hideous
the human visage can be made. to ap
pear. Before the bath you have to fee
the. old woman who gives you your
bathing suit. If you neglect her, the
next time you come she will give YOU
suit that doesn It fit you or is full
of holes.
When you go out on the terrasse FOL
a black coffee, which costs 10 cents
you fee the waiter. When you get inte
your gondola you fee the old man whe
draws it close to the steps with {
hooked stick and offers you his with
cred old arm to lean on. When vol
get out Of your gondola at the hote
You fee another old man with a hooked
| stick and withered arm. And the1
at dinner, if you haven't Just feed thu
waiter, he will be cross. and up in ,yon:
room afterward, if the femMe de cham
bre has not recently had a Tip she viii
refuse to answer the bell.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
SALARIES OF MAYORS
Generally Higher than. That Paid Mems
bers OF Congress.
New York Sun.

I. II.
The standard Of salaries Of mayors OTIS
American cities is generally high, COM 3
pared with the pay Of members Of conf,
gress, members of the various state legis-fs
latures and of the cabinet and Of state OFF,
fcers generally.
The mayor Of New York receives $15,. !
O00 $4,000 more than the governor. The
salary Of the mayor Of Philadelphia Is !
$4,000, $4,000 more than is paid the gov ]
ernor Of Pennsylvania. 4
The salary of the mayor Of Boston isl
1000, $4,000 more than is paid the gov
ernor of Massachusetts,. The mayor OF
San Francisco receives $4,000 the amountf
paid the governor of California. 4
Denver pays its mayor $4,000, while Col I
orado pays it's governor the same amount. s
st. Louis pays its mayor $4,000, the sameE
salary paid the governor Of Missouri. TheE
salary Of the mayor Of Chicago is $40. 600.
The governor Of Illinois is paid $4,000. 4 !
New. Orleans pays its mayor $4,000 aa
year. Cincinnati and Cleveland have thes
same rate Of pay. Allegheny City payse
$500, and Baltimore the same. The may
ors Of Louisville, Jersey City, Buffalo.f
Providence, Newark and Detroit receiver
$4,000 a year each. :
The mayor Of New Haven receives $4,000
and the mayor OF Worcester, Mass..f
$1,000; the mayor of Minneapolis $2,o00,i
the mayor OF Binghamton 81 800 and thu
mayor Of Dallas $1,000.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
Notice to Bookbinderss and Printers.
Office Of County Auditor,

E .-E NOV. 20. alSU4.
!, Sealed bids will be, received at this
office until Monday Dec 5, 1904, at
IL O 'clock am, at which time the said
bids will be opened by the Board Of
County Commissioners sof Hennepin
County, for furnishing the following
books: .ft. . If
Il Tax Statement Books, l Ledger, 2
Disbursement Registers, Receipt
"a Also Siso0i for printing 100000 tax state
ment and receipt blanks, according to
copy, form and specifications on file in
Proposals must be accompanied by a
certified check for $4,000 payable to
the order Of the County Treasurer, as q
guaranty for the execution Of a contract
The successful bidder must enter into
contract with the Chairman Of the
Board Of County Commissioners. and
give q surety bond in the amount of the
Contract, conditioned on the faithful
performance Of the contract.
The Board Of County Commissioners
reserves the right to reject any or all
bids. s1t osiss q #
HUGH b. SCOTT, si
County Auditor.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
RESPECT FOR OLD AGE

One often observes the irnpatience with
which some young people Of the kind usu-
ally called high spirited" regard the little
oddities Of those older with whom they
come in contact. Indeed, it Is with great
effort that this Impotence is rendered un-
apparent, and often scarcely that.
There is a respect which youth owes to
age which must not be lost sight of, and,
Of course, there is also q respect which age
owes to youth. However, youth is the
time Of growth and self-restraint, and II
is quite easy to indulge the little foibles
Of those thirty and forty years older than
ourselves by remembering they are older
and that charity or love must be exercised
toward every one whom we meet--young
and old alike 81 SIS
Bad-tempered people used to be regard
ed as something out Of the ordinary long
ago, but nowadays we know that self
control is the one thing which makes fol-
progression, and that we must live up tu
our ideals and our belief In what Is the
highest and best. whatever the cost.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
HIS PRIVATEEIEELER
Young Blood Who Hired a Professions
~ Fiohter . 3. ..

New York Press.
One Of the fancies Of the young rich
man seeing life in New York is to have
a prizefghter in his train. Sometimes
his patron, but at other times he poses
as heller and protector.
"The worst of 1t is, he never pro-
tects," said a young man Of fortune
who is following a convivial way Of life
in New York, and in as reasonable a
way as possible, considering the difficult
ties in his path; For some years Jack
"Why,'a said the young. patron, IT
passed into the vortex Of life with Nc
Auliffe at my side, and / never got
licked except when he was with me.'
HWhat did McAuliffe do9'' he was
asked. FL. :. ~-'> -.
cloth off, with its silver ra and plate, While
some muffs punched me, and by the time
I was well licked it was all over and
Jack was asking somebody to come on.
At that moment the police usually were
near at hand and somebody would ask
Jack to drink while I was taken off to
the nearest drug store" -
would fight" said one Of his chums.
ssI did, but he fought too much and
always at the wrong time and in the
wrong place. I got young Nally from
Harlem, an4k:w used to start the days
business with q thirty-pound medicine
ball at twenty feet and pass, it a thous;
our muscular growth with a tape and a
little sparring with the bag and each
other. When we went out for a walk
we felt so good that the people had tc
keep out of our way, We just over.
flowed with physical force, and as we
had 6Ono Onr 6ou,o wor1x uyh ofo
happened was relaxation.
Island. We had found nothing excit.
ing, and Nally was getting ill-tempereo
over bad hunting when a woman he
knew came into restaurant where we
were having late supper. She was wear
ing a preposterous hat, and she sat
Her hat looked like an artillery target
to Nally, and he picked up tomato
farcie that was on our table and lei
her have it. It got the hat fine, anc
her men ran up to lick Nally. He
knocked them out first rate, but one oil
! them got around him and hit me cliI
that I shan It forget. Supper was ove1
in that restaurant that night and wal
was on. Dishes and walters, policemen
up; fines next day, which I paid, ani
bed for a week.
"Nallys Oh, he never got scratch
and went home in my auto, which h,
used till I got well, and then sent in 1
bill for $500 for spark plugs. Why,
guess furnished spark plugs for every
garage in Forty third street,
uWhat did you say to Nallys"
"What said to him wasn't much
What he said to me was different. Abou
the mildest remark he made was that
was 9 fool to get into fight.
4 Take my tip said the young pa
tron. Don t 60 with warlike men I'm
less you can fight yourself. They fgh
for their own hand, if at all, and tn,
conveyed craft gets licked.'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
DOOM OF THE TWo-sTEP

The twostep Is doomed. This is the pro-
nunc1amento Of the American Society Of
Professors of Dancing. 'The public has
run Wild" says member cover that I'M
graceful, bofsterous dance, and our con-
vention has unqualifledly condemned 1t.
That is, we have condemned it as it is
danced, for few people dance the two
STEP
What do they dancer, he was asked.
They do not dance at all. When a man
and woman get out on the floor and do a
collection of bewildering. ungracefnl fig
ures, tire themselves out and make them
selves generally ridiculous, do not call it
dancing. One reason why the twostep is
not danced correctly is because the popu-
lar music Is not the proper music. The
correct time for the twostep is what is
known as '6-8' time, and there Is a synco-
patton about the dance that demands such
time and no other, If the twostep is to be
danced properly. Now, most of the music
Of today is in ragtine or some other form
Of terpsichorean inspiration music. Any
one who understands music will tell you
that there is as much difference between
syncopation and ragtime as there Is be-
tween music and ragtime.
I'VE cannot refuse to teach the twostep,
but we can show preference for other
movements. And then we also can culti-
waite in our pupils taste for the other
dances by introducing more popular forms
into these movements. To this end our
society has expressed itself as devoted to
the waltz. To increase the popularity Of
/ the waltz various new dances, In which
! the waltz or other graceful movement pre-
dominates, were introduced, and some 81
these were adopted by the society: Benny
/ glide-twostep In form, but varying con-
siderably in execution, includes the waltz
movement, and is much slower than the
regular twostep. Trio waltz-a pleasant
variation Of the waltz. Crescent-twoste1
| with variations. Minuet fgures-in volv.
ing the waltz movement and calculated
| to aid ease and grace in quadrille dane.
ing. Another dance which was intro.
duced, but not adopted, was the Vino
difficult and not likely to become popular