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» 2 l)iboöaux Sentinel. $2 Per Year PROCEEDING OF THE MASS MEETING. Held IK the Town of Thibodafx on November. 28th. 1897. at 12 O'clock M. He it known that on tills the 23th day of November, 1S:*7. pursuant to a call made by the Democratic Parish Central Committee, a mass meeting of the Democratic voters of Lafourche was held this day in tiie town of Tliib odaux. at the Court House at 12 o'clock M. The meeting was called to order by Judge L. P. Caillouet. Cliairman of tlie Democratic Parish Central Com mittee who read the call under which the meeting was held, and explained the object and purpose of the meeting. Whereunon on motion, E. U. Morvan t and P. F. Legendre were unanimously chosen Chairman and Secretary of the mass meeting. The meeting being organized and ready for business, on motion of Dr. Thomas Stark, duly seconded, a com mittee of three was appointed by the Chairman to prepare a list of names to be suggested to the meeting as suita ble persons as delegates to the Baton Rouge Convention, and also to tha Parish Convention, to be held in Lock port on December. 9th. 1897. which committee was composed of Edgar F. Riviere. Dr. Thomas Stark and James Beary. A recess was then taken upon motion made and duly seconded, so as to allow said committee time to make a report. After recess the committee appeared before the meeting and through its Chairman, Edgar F. Riviere, made the following report : To the Chairman of the Democratic Mass Meeting, assembled at the Court House in the town of Thibodaux. on this 28th. day of November, 1897. Your committee appointed this day for the purpose of preparing a suitable list of names of Democrats to repre sent this Parish in the State Nomina ting Convention to meet at Raton Rouge, on December. 9th. 1897: and a list of names of Democrats to repre sent the various wards of this parish in the parish convention to meet at Lock port on the same day. December. 9th. 1897 ; beg leave to report, that after a careful consideration of the subject—matter submitted to them, they suggest the names of the follow ing Democrat taken from the various wards of the Parish as suitable tier sons to represent this Parish as dele gates in the Baton Rouge Convention, and reccommend their election by this mass meeting—namely : Judge L. P. Caillouet, C. O. Rous seau. F. W. Nicholls. Edgar Morvant*. Lee Foret. Leo. .1. Boudreaux. W. II. Price. W. II. Ragan. Sr. M. Delaune, C. J. Davis. C. (). Dantin, Charles Elliott. Elie Ducas. Joseph P. Boiir gtois. Lovincy Rodrigue. Arthur Le rille. Joseph R. Rrrrios and Wallace Lefort. Your Committee suggest the names of the following Democrats to repre sent the wards of the Parish in the Lockport Convention called to meet on December 9th l s 97, to nominate two candidates as delegates from this Parish in the Constitutional Conven tion. and recommend their elections by t his mass meeting. For First Ward. E. U* Morvant. Jules L. Basset. Thomas Beary. For Second Ward. IL N. ('onion. W. P. Martin. J. M. Walsh, Theo. P. Bei ron. John B. Taylor. For Third Ward p-> erg« .Far c. J. (rttedry. Paul Scott. For Fourth Ward, G. D. Barrios, Jos. (). Toups. For Fifth Ward. T. D. Kent, J. B. Bourgeois. Leopold Roger. For Sixth Ward, Felix Caillouet. Théophile Tor res. For Seventh Ward, A leide Chau vin, Wellington Hebert. For Eighth Ward. II. Lagarde. For Ninth Ward James Moran. For Tenth Ward. James M. Bollinger. Francois Dera mee. R aspect f u 11 y s u bm i 1 1 ed "Signed" Jas. Beary " Titos. Stark M. I). " Edgar F. Riviere. Chairman, j Tlic report of the* Committee having been read, upon motion duly seconded i it was unanimously adopted and the | eighteen persons whose names were : suggested b\ the < onimittee for dele- : gates to the Baton Rouge Rouge t on- j vention were unanimously elected hy 1 the mass meeting as .stic.lt delegates and the twenty-three persons whose names were suggested by the Commit tee as suitable persons to represent the various wards of the Parish in the Parish Convention to lie held in Look port oil December 9th 1897 were duly unanimously elected as delegates to the said Convention from their respec- j five wards as in said report of the | Committee fully set forth. | I pon motion of Judge T. P. Berge- 1 run duly seconded the following reso lutions were unanimously adopted. "Beit Resolved bv the mass meet ing of Democratic voters assembled at the Court House in the Town of Thib .... ,, v . i 1S ('- Its - ill day ot No\embei. That of 1 he eighteen delegates elected ' bv the said mass-meeting to reuresent ; this Parish in the state nominating ! convention at Bui on Rouge called for : December 9th. 1897. those delegates ! present at said convention shall have the right and authority to east the | whole vote of this parish in said eon vention as a unit, according as the | niiiyority ot them may decide ; and j that <>i delegates from the varions ; J W p <;C * te ,' }' y tl,IS &SSZ "Ä -Sä: December 9th. 1897, to nominate p.vo candidates for delegates from this Bai- j ishto the Constitutional Convention | those present from any one ward sha 1 j have the right and authority to caitt m \> r "My, that made me jump!" is such a com mon expres sion, and it comes from such a com mon c a u s e— poorblocdand from starved nerves. § Why suffer the tormenting terror § of nervousness, when you could § be permanently cured by f Johnston's § Sarsaparilla g QUART BOTTLE. ¥ It acts upon the blood more # healthfully and speedily than any J other blood purifier. U Williame, Davit, Brooks & Co.. § Detroit, Mich. J? * Price, $1 for a quart bottle at any druggist, js a -Û I OR SALE IN THIBODACX AT MEYER DRUG STORE tin* whole vote of that ward m said Parish Convention, and that each ward shall be entitled to ms many votes in convention as it has delegates accord ing to the apportionment made by the Democratic Parish Central Committee. Be it further Resolved. That in case of any vacancy in the delegation to the State nominating convention or in the parish convention occurrin g by decli nation. resignation, death or other wise, the same shall he filled by tha appointment of the chairman of this meeting, who is hereby invested with power and authority to make such apnointment. Beit further Resolved. That the Chairman of this meeting shall be and he is hereby authorized to isssut? the necessary credentials to delegates elected by this mass-meeting. pointed by \Z iîSoÂ^S certificates to be countersigned hy the secretary of the meeting. Their being no further business be fore tin- meeting unon motion duly made and seconded the said mass meeting adionrned sit;e die. We hereby certify the foregoing to be a correct report of the proceedings of the said mass meeting held at the time and place as in caption hereof fttllv set forth. EMILE U. MORVANT, Chairman. P. F. LEGENDRE. Secretary. A PJ R SON'S y ON SENSE. President McKinley may well pray to be saved from Ids friends, the preacher«. He attended a church in Washington yesterday ai d the parson in charge delivered a Thanksgiving sermon < t rather a sensational charac ter, the nnlitiral echoes of which will he heard fo|- some time to come. The Rev. Dr. Johnson took occasion 1o make on attack upon tlie Catholic«, although it seems that such a per formance would he nut of order on a day that is set apart for the purpose of giving thanks for the meraies shown ns by Providence and not to fan the knows anything at all tlmt'the Ameri can people take no stock in such nonsense and they do not approve of attacks being made by one church upon another. Tliete is and always w il! fif. !V complete separation of c i, nrc ), a nd (State in this country, liâmes of religious prejudice. In the | course of his remarks regarding the perils that threaten the country he said that chief among them were rum, socialism and Jesuitism. The .Catho lic church is a terrible bugbear to the Rev. Dr. Johnson, and he spoke with much feeling against the danger of it obtaining ascendency in this country and declared that if Jesuitism ever prevails the United States will become as Mexico. Italy and Spain. Dr. Johnson should know if lie and the ascendency of any particular ! denomination is impossible so 'long as ! we have free schools ami a free press The Federal constitution guarantees the right of the citizen to worship God in his own way and that is what tlie people have been doing freely and w ithout friction ever since the fouudn tion of the Republic and will do so to the end, no matter what be said to contrary.—States. . r -- _ Beivate of Ointments lor Ca tarrh that contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the who ]„ system when entering it t \ r . < T' 1 l 1 '" 1 , l ,UCOUB *'»'>* artIcles sl1 "» 1 ' 1 never l "' n \ ( ,] ''* c< T r " !1 Inscriptions fron reputable physi eians, as the damage they wd! do is tenfold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Pure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney K Co., Toledo, O.. contains no met - oury, and is taken internally, acting directlv n von the blood and mucous „.„.faces of the system. In buying Hall's Cata.irli Cure he sure you get MR SJF&XTi 1 '". i'* 0i "'V ? K ( l ^ n . < ' l v . & C ''' 1 . 801,1 b - v Dru ?S Ists * l )Uee ' oc - P er Halls family Bills are the best, PI.A V By Lady Cook ("t é Tknnkssk C. Claklin.) The first, conscious mo* of a han an being is to play. No sooner docs the !w»l»e observe and regeoniz»- than if In gins to be mil t lifnl. As if grows i' develops I Ins innate pioclivhv by all sorts of >ii'orv tricks and gamtiols And its healthiness of mind ami body depends as much upon its exercises of playfnlne>s as upon its daily food. Nor is this p. ediar to children alone. All annuals are more or 1-ss gibed with the same instinct. The newly hern gnat sports at once in the sun-light. The young whale pluvs with its mother. The fry of fishes hunt and frolic in shoals. The hedged biidlings «hase each other tlnongh loir leafv bowers, and things of |..w • I life that ultimately become fixed in ' •' spot, like sponges pass through a oei led of play and free roving. The no.-t cruelly carnivorous are as phiv ul as those that live solelv on hetns "nd fruits. Lions and tigers, bears •ii ii wolves, are sportive as )ami>s. In all. whatever time is left after rest ai d food procuring, is devoted to p'av. For this is Nature's chief meihod of developing the faculties and bodies of all young creatures, and of utilizing their pleasures for their inte rests. As they grow older their sport is modified by the dominant instincts of of their race or species. They begin to ieain their life work, but they do SO playfully. Every animal is school ed in its own Kindergarten, and learns to work through games. Man is the only one who ( infliets upon his progeny hard mi l dreary work, disassociated M inn enjoy ment. Those who are not familiar with the ways of animals, sometimes think these puisne their various courses front instinct alone— without having been taught. Noth ing ot the sort. ]► is true that some of those low in the scale of being may do so, but when we get ♦ •> tin* b ids ami mammals we shall find 'hat they have been carefully instructed hy their parents, and by mock contests with each other. Birds teach their young to know their natural enemies young natural enemies m th, 'L procure their food. If we take do mestic poultry, with which we are, net haps, most familiar, we find the mother hen encouraging low little ones to romp over her, showing them how to peck up by placing small par ticles nf food before them, and taking them into all sorts ot out of the-wav places in search of seeds, worms anti insect«. She instincts them in the art of cleansing themselves by dry earth baths, ami of seeming them selves by roosting high up when their little limbs are strong enough. In the meantime those of the same brood Ieain to use beak and spur by «pairing with each other, at first playfully, and later with savage delight. Those who have noticed a cat mmping with her kittens know how the feline family make the games of their young in strumental in learning the right methods of catching their prev. With all, play is a means of instruction in the future duties of their lives. When they become adults, they in dulge in it as a recreation and as training for possible combats. Sheep play at butting, oxen at goring, horses at biting and kicking, and dogs at worrying. Turn a few old worn out cab horses to graze, and at the end of a week or so they will be tricky ' colts, and Ringing their rheumatic I i m lis in all directions. Man is a many sided animal, and requires re creation to a greater degree than any others. His powers of reflection in duce despondency as well as hope. He is oppressed with cares, and often borne down by much worry. Leisure, consequently, is necessary to health, recreation during it that he may re store his vigour. When these are not possessed, he becomes discontent ed, sullen, morose, vicious ; and loses elasticity of mind and body. Should lie have no rational means of enjoy ment, bellies from hard labor to reck less debauch. The overstrained mind and b dy crave tor wild excit°men', and intemperance and immorality are ! the readiest at hand. This unnatural ! mode of life wrecks the individual and deteriorates I put to evil uses. deteriorates his offspring, for it is im possible that healthy children should be produced by those who lead an unwholesome existence. It is idle to preach godliness and morality to those who are thus overwrought. They want leisure, time for thought and enjoyment. And above all, they want instruction in the best modes of recreation. Leisure, to those who are not used to it, and wlm do tint know what to do with, is a very doubtful privilege, and likely to be , It is necessary, then, that mir natu I ral love of play should have fuller and | wiser development in youth, and that, : schools should be a« composite as the | pupils. The word "school" oiiginally j meant a state of ease, a place of lei« me and retirement from work, and ! not a workshop foi forcing young | brains to their utmost powers. Our youth have so much to learn in a brief J period that they have no time to think. Rote ami cramming take the j place of reflection. Competitive ex . minutions are destroying individual! T" r'-""' *" '?•!* *T levH * No n * or ? 'Hiplnlosophic mode I was ever devised by educational quackery, and intime we may rival Chinese, wlio by long ages of i competitive examinations have be come mentaliv and inornllv atmitnl and stereotyped to the same dull pattern. The school should lie « pi ice for jday, and for mental unit manual work combined. Bodily exercises and games should he a« carefully taught as grammar, and the fingers and brains trained together. Play, work, and book-learning might he taught in turn, and schools bn made delightful and useful. As it is, chil dren attend them for years and learn comparatively nothing, because they are pedantic prisons where they are immured without interest or healthv excitement. If we except cricket and football, which do net suit e**ery on«, can only be played at certain times, and are dangerous in themselves, there is Absolutely nothing to interest the majority of childion. Many of the rich schools, it is true, have workshops, but the schools for the middle classe« and poor should have them also The power of observation is so rare because in the training of the young it is so seldom exercised. If school* included play and manual work as important parts of their cur riculum, observation and intelligence would he qu ckene.l all around, and the pupils would soon find what they were most fit for. All this .-houid apply equally to girl« as well as boys. None should he excluded from want of tees, for the cost could be borne as that of the Board School is now. In a few years it would be returned to the nation forty* fold by an increase of health, happiness, and prosperity. The adults who shall have been bronglrt m* under this course of com pound instruction will know how to make the best use of such leisure as they may be able to command In time "for work they will 'be more contentea and more intelligent work ers. and in play-time will enjoy more real and rational pleasures. We know all this will not he just yet. but it will come. Our sanitary improvements during the last few* years have increased immensely*. Others must soon follow. It would he absurd to suppose that the present irrational and high-pressure system of education can continue for ever. Weak chests.ophthalmia, and growing insanity, will speak for themselves, and compel us to better methods, For. assuredly, education to he com plete must recognize the wants of a progressi ve h n ma ni ty. Clemens, an early* Father of the Church writing at the end nf the 2nd century, said : "For what other em ployment is seemly for a wise and perfect man, than to sport and he glad in the endurance of what is gond, and in the administration of what is good, holding festival with God." We thus see that recreation may sanctified to sacred purposes as well as to secular : that it may be an act of true worship as well as of persona! enjoyment. It is not, for nothing that man is a laughing animal, nor is wholesome mirth inferior to grave demeanour. Work is good. Play is good also. Both are necessary to complete the would be perfect man. Let all om* faculties, then, be fairly indulged. Let there be a time for work and a time tor play, sojthat each be a help f.> each and a foil to the evils of the other. Everybody Saya So. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won derful medical discovery of the age, pleas ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel voids, ty; 10 , 27 ., mi ( guaranteed to cu: a by ail druggists» Ever since, its organization ii this; State, the Populist party lias urde a whining pretense of favoring white supremacy, bur its own platform,! adopted in con vention at Monroe last week, gives its previous professions the lie. The Populist party is now nothing more nor less than n nigger party, and it must, stand or fall by At« present declaration, which reads as follows: We declare that the paramount is sue in the approaching campaign is to put an end to the regime of fraud in Louisiana elections ami the restora tion and maintenance of a pure and honest ballot, which will express and enforce the will of fieemeu. We denounce the attempt to dis franchise anv class of cit.zens by do vions, degrading and fraudulent res trictions of the suffrage which are intended merely to perpetuate j, monopoly of the spoils of office. Me declare that every man 21 years old, and of jthe necessary iesi deuce, who discharges aB the duties ot citizenship, Including the payment of a poll tax, shall have the right of suffrage in Louisiana ; that such poll tax should be devoted exclusively to the public school funds and the poll tax receipt constitute the voter's reg istration papers. -Sugar Planter. Martin Timrn, charged with the murder ot VV illiam Guhleusuppe -,u New York city, was found guilty by the jury last Tuesday. The meaning of the verdict is death by electiocu' tiow. will Io« «ivc Up all that health means to you! If not. look out for impure blood. Cure boils, pimples, humors ami all scrofulous tendencies by taking Hood's .Sarsaparilla. Hood's Bill are purely vegetable and do not purge, pain or gripe. All druggists. Tim 8t. L uidiy Clarion has lately found its way back to our excliaoge table. It lias almost become a stran ger having staved away tjirongliout the quarantine and making its bow again only this week. The Republicans of the old school are having a hard time of it trying to keep tilings together while waiting for the division of rite spoils. a w grow rajfiag crops because they're I j fresh ec-1 J»v»yi tl.e be*:, for sale every v acre. Kefuae substitutes. Stick to Fck-ry*» Seed* enj prosper. I lä3S Sae-i Annual free. Write 1er R. D. X. FEST/ i CO.. Cel-sit. Afich. nasHEai REGISTRATION .NOTICE Midi-" of Kf"istrar of Voter*. / P»ri«h of l.alonn li". \ Tlnliodimx, I,n., October t!0rb, 1897. In eetifi.rniiry with the Uw 1 hereby i notice that the office of Koei-Urar of Voters will be ojit-tit c! «t Mie following places: Tiiibodanx Court House from Nov, the lit to the *)th. Store. .«lit«____ Felix Del.il:e JIIleft Ilas.-t-l " J. T. Lejeuu- * Mr«. L. A. fîosiui; J. Fields. Lsimirche Crossiug Joachim Bo h I Crao-f* A: ItiMiivai* Siure Lovii v Folse Phil:,. Klloldoeh *• Arti, Legendre Paul ■ uidro Paul • -houe-t Vacherie M. I,* lane, trockp Nov. 8th ' !Hh " nth " llth " filth - J3th " 15th •* 10th " 17th " I8ih •* 19 tU *• 20th " 22d " *23rd •• 24th " 25th " 2<ith " 27th " 29th " 30th Dec. I«t 3rd -.»•ft L. I,«-; tie. Loiiiviile M. De Mt*ne*a store J. T ll.ideatlx*" store G. S t?».«« MÎ Store Cut Off. hie Duett's Store Audr<ffi;iljour Store Ueltmi Guidry J. Piciola Store, I.eeville Altdor foires. .Malntay* I'rsiu Troschtir Cbackbay Onezippe Chiassou •* Etbvatxl t'h a««oii Rmîou Pilou Lest it oui Dsitgle. L'Eau ISIeti And 'h- following tno week* beginning Dec. l'-tli attite Court House. E. A. DELAUNE, I x-oMiefit I.V L 'i«rrar, hiirtsii «.f Laltluwhe <>th 7{h Sth 9th JOth FOKVl L 3 :. A desiraim.;: h fs dexce on ca ' V t ill «i:h ta'b.,,;s yard »ml garden DAVID SMITH. Thih»taux, L«' For Parti u.a: s ipp y __DR. FRITH'S ANTISEPTIC -A <.!r**$Miiij£ for Burns or Outs, Bruises, Colic and Cramps, Etc., Etc. ----A FISK____ Appetizer and Illood Purifier, And a good rectrfyer in all Complaints Pe cnliarto Female*. Keeps the Kidneys in Good Condition and Cures I ? heiiniatisin._ A perfect complexion beautifier and positive relief for all affections of the skin. Delightful after shaving Applied to t ht* skin it will whiten it and will keep lie* Teeth and Gums in healthy condition. ^ Dose one Teaspuoni'ni ii: glass water. Children lö to 99 drops. After meals. SÎ PER BOTTLE, For safe by Druggists or sent by ex press prepaid. DR. O. FRÎTH, Churlt**, l otilsinmi. THE CHQO a i ntr-i Wm m e ^5 mwm KM!LIC ./. BIL'K/D, SOLE AGENT. cor. main &st-piiilipsts., Thiluafiinv ... |,». (Opposite Danserean'" Drng Store.) JCail Orders Promptly FilUi.