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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-11-21
J. G. MARQUIS, Collaboration

rieux de savoir qui ce pouvait bien
etra, il SO hata de Sc rendre q cette
maison. Ellie s'6levait q quelqut
distance de la vile. ii trouva la
hutte telle qu'on la lui await decrite.
LIE soir jetait son ombre quand il
arriva; il ny await aucune lumiere
q l'int6rieur.
II ouvrit la porte en- disant: va
til quelqu'un lei?
Une vcix fable r6pondit du fond
de la piece
Our.
-Est CO vous qul avez fat de.
mander le pretre?
-Oui.
LIE pretre s'avanca jusqu'a lui.
-Quand vous etes vous confesse
Ia derniere fois?
Ill Y q cent ans! r6pondit la
voix s6pulcrale.
Quand le pretre fut revenu de 50
surprise de cette terrible r6ponse,
il demanda de nouveau:
Que dltes vous? qu'entendez-
vous par ces paroles?
IL y juste cent ans, r6pondit
le marlbond, 3 la bataille de la Boy
ne, j'etais garcon de poudre, por-
tant la poudre aux soldats. Quand
je Wis que Dieu donnait la victolre
aux Anglais je jurai de ne plus lie
servir. Ii ma attendu pendant
cent ans; je dois me rendrel
LIE pretre prepare le vieu1 SOL
dat, qui mourut en- bon chr6tien.
Maintenant, comment ai-je pu
m'assurer de la v6rit6 de ce falt !? II
y qu4lques anr6's lie vieux P4re
J. Carroll, de Chicago -qui Went
d. mourn q Page de 96 ans-vint q
New York, ct j'eus une converse
ton avec lui II lut la remarque
quill await recu la pretrire d Hall
fax, soixsnte- -cinq annees aupara-
want. L'id6e m'est venue quill await
pu entendre parler du vieox soldat,
ct quand je lui contai rhistoire,
telle que je viens de faire, ii Sc
cria:
Mon oncle est justement le
pretre qui pr6para le vieux soldat
d la mort; je TAI entendu mainte
fois raconter raventure!
;Je pretre, son oncle. etait le
P@re Burke, qui fut vicaire apostle
lique, ct le premier 6veque de Ha-
lifax.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-11-21
Go uu'0nt cOute les queries de.
puls so ans.

D'apres tne communication fai-
te 4 rInstitut international de sta
tistique, les diff6rentes queries qui
ont eu lieu jusqu'lci depuis la Sc
conde moitl6 de CO steele, ont coo-
te 2 $4,000 individus.
Dams ce chiffre, la gusrre fran
co allemande figure pous 2l5, 600
morris Ia guerre turco rus russo, plus
meurtriere, en- compte 25O,OOO.
Les deux guerres les plus fones-
tes ont etc Ia guerre de secession
aux Etats Unis qui ne pas amene
mains de $4,000 morris, ct celle de
Crimee qui, par suite de So duree
ct des 6pid6mies qui ont regne
alors, cause la mort de 10000
individus. Que serait ce don't main
tenant, avec les engins meurtriers.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-11-21
POUR RIR E.

Echo de la objectionable:
Accuse, levez vous. i. tonne
le president, ct dites au tribunal de
quoi vous vivez
DE privations, mes bons juges.
~.
Une dame rapporte une 6to6e
qu'elle Went d'acheter, mails qu'el-
le trouvee defectueuse.
-Ce nest pas bien, dit-elle au
commits, de vendre sans faire voir.
Quo voulez-vous, madame, re-
prend CO dernier, il y en- a tant qui
voient sans acheter.
~.
Auberge de campagne.
Un voyageur SO plant d'avoir 6t6
pendant toute la mutt d6vor6 par
les insectes.
-Dites done, savez-vous qu'el!es
sont bellies, par lei, les punaises!
L'aubergiste, avec un ton de dou-
ce satisfaction.
On me les a demandeps pour
les exposer au concours d'animaux
grasl
NV
Pat o.. marchand, est bon
6poux, bon pere, bon ami: mais il
ne veut pas avouer quill est Irlan.
dals, bien quill ait WI le jour d
Cork.
-Enfn, lui dit un ami qui s'a-
musait q le traquinar, tn ne peux
pas nier que tn sois Irlandais, puis-
que tn es ne en- Irlandel
La belle raison. r6pondit lie
bourgeois; q ce compile la 81 j'6tais
ne dams une 6curie, j. serais done
un cheval?
**.
L'autre jour, un cultivateur arri-
vait en- vile, en- marchant q cote de
ga voiture ]ourdement charg6e de
bois de chauffage.
Comment SO fait il, lui deman-
da un avocat, que Fun de vos che.
gaux soft 81 gras, tandis quePautre
est maigre CONNIE un squelette?
-C est, repondit na1vement le
brave colon, que le gros ma jamais
piaid6, tandis que pautre Went d'a-
voir un process.
Sur le marche-Deux femmes de
cult1vateurs en- attendant les ache
teurs, parlent de leurs marie, ct,
chose 6trange, men dissent que du
bien:
lie mien est tellement connu, dit
l'une, qu'une lettre don't l'envelop-
pc ne porte que son nom, lui arrive
toujours sans aucun retard.
Et le mien, reprend pautre avec
orgueil, on lui 6crit lautre jour
sans meme METRE son nom sur Pa
dresse, ct la lettre lui est rriv6e....
la veille.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-11-21
SOMMAIRE DIES ANNONCES

Nore appelons dune facon toute
particuliere pattention de nos lee
teurs sur les annonces qui parais
sent dams pEcHo DE L'OUEsr.
Toutes les maisons de commerce
qui font de la reclame dams notre
journal peuvent etre complies par
mi les premieres de la vile tant au
point de vue de l'assortiment en-
marchandises qua celui du bon
marchd.
Dun autre cote la plupart dem
tr'elles emploient de nos compa-
triotes CONNIE commits, ct il est dc
notre devoir de patronner les mai
sons qul donnent du travail aux
notres.
Done de preference, quand nous
avons des achats 3 faire en- mar
chandiees sAchee allons chez:
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-11-21
uNE ETRANGE HlSTOlRE.

LIE fat suivant, racont6 par un
correspondent dun journal de Lon
dres, est arrive 4 Halifax:
Vers la fin du steele dernier, le
seul p-atre qri sc trouvslt alofs q
Halifax (Nouvelle- -Ecosse) fut ap-
pele aupres dun mourant. II con
naissait .tous les membres de son
troupeau. mails n'avait jamais en-
tendu parler de Get homme. Gu
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-11-21

A G. Labrasb,
Forgeron, entire la Sc rue ct le marche
au foin.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-03
NO MONEY, NO WEDDING.
An American Girl Who May Escape
Becoming Princess.

A Paris cable special to the Baltimore
american says: The projected match be.
tween Prince Hatz'eldt and the adopted
daughter of c. P. Huntingdon has been
broken off The railroad magnate has con-
cluded that he will not pay the princes
enormous debt, which, he believes, should
be settled by the princes father and
mother, who are perfectly able to do so if
they wished. Mr.. Huntingdon declared to
the prince that he would only allow his
adopted daughter, Clara, modest income,
to be paid quarterly, and added that it
would be stopped altogether if there were
any attempt made to discount its payment
in advance. Prince Hatzfeldt Indignantly
refuses to accept any such terms. The
gist of the comment in American circles
here is that Mr. Huntingdon has given evil
dence of much good sense by his decision.
1t is asserted that he learned, during his
trip through Germany, that Prince Hatz-
feldt was not an honorable man, and that
there were several unsavory reasons why
he could not live in his native country.
On learning Mr.. Huntington's intentions
the princes ardor as lover and a 6ance
underwent a considerable, and altogether
refreshing modification, and, indeed, the
only person whose feelings of affection
have suffered no change is Miss Hunting
ton herself who is still anxious to acquire
the princes badly tarnished cornet and
heart. However, she will have no lack of
suitors while here. With Prince Hatzfeldt
barred, the horde of other inpecunious
bearers of foreign titles will find fair
feld
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-03
GautemaIan Minister to the United
States.

Dr.. F. Cruz, who is the new minister
from Guatemala, and has also been ap-
pointed by his government as delegate to
the Congress of Nations, which convenes at
Washington the fret week in October, was
born in the city of Gautemela and is forty
four years of age He received his educa-
ton at the College and University of
Guatemala, and was made Doctor of Law
there and also Professor of Law in that
institution of learning. He is q man of
note and prominence in his own country;
he has been Secretary of State and Secre-
tary of the Interior several times, and has
held other positions of lesser note. He is
an accomplished and fluent linguist, speaks
and writes Spanish, English, French, Italian
and Latin. His profession is that of law,
but he is now in the diplomatic service of
his country, one for which Professor Cruz
is well qualified and fully equipped.
The proposition for holding this confer
ence of American nations originated in
this country, and was at length officially
formulated in an act of Congress which
authorized the President to invite the vari
ous Central and South American nations to
send delegates, and appropriated $125,0O0
for their entertainment. All of the nations
invited have notified this government of
their acceptance except the Guianas, Para
quay, San Domingo and Bayti, and the
majority of them have already appointed
delegates It's possibilities in the direction
of reciprocal trade relations between the
American states is causing great alarm in
European commercial circles.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-03
Morbid Fears About Health.
New York Tribune.

While no truly scientific men can be
persuaded that that the long sought secret
of health and long life lies in simply the
power of the mind over the body, the ex-
istence of that power has never been de-
MED. The secret of the success of every
great hallucination is in the amount of
truth which it has made a part of itself.
"As the lie that is half TIE truth is ever
the worst of lies" so that sham which is
half the truth is ever the worst and most
dangerous. 1t is in the fact that the So
called Christian Scientists have grasped q
genuine truth, and one that is recognized
by every intelligent physician, that the
danger of their theory lies. We are
hardly beginning to realize the full power
of the mind in its relation to the health of
the body. Every mother knows how
Instantly an anxious or angry condition of
mind is communicated to her nursing
infant and produces an effect as powerful
as any poison; but she fails sometimes to
Ieconize the poisonous effect of passion
and evil upon her own physical nature,
is more blunted, less sensitive than the
child's The power effect of fear in the
time of an epidemic has frequently been
the subject of comment. There is no cause
of ill-bealth so frequent as morbid dwell
ing upon the subject of i'll heath. Those
paople have the strongest digestion, as
rule, who never think of their digestion,
who eat III moderation any palatable
food which is placed before them. I'm
properly cooked food has done more to i'm
pair the digestion than nything else. except
morbid dwelling uron the subject of what
is wholesome and unwholesome food. 1t is
very unwise to allow children to be over
fastidious about their food, because it is
unwholesome for them to be whimsical
about their food A radical mistake the
Christian Scientist makes is in ignoring the
fact that the body may become so diseased
that the mere will has no power to draw it
back to health. The wretched quacks who
have played with the holiest beliefs, in
order to enrich their own pockets, could
never have been successful had not the
germ of truth been concealed among their
sham and charlatinism-a truth which is
an intuition in every genuine good mans
and good woman's heart.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-03
Salt for Moths.
Philadelphia Press.


For moths salt is the best exterminator
The nuns in one of the hospital converts
have tried everything else without success
and their experience is valuable, as they
have so much clothing of the sick who 60
there and strangers, when dying there,
often leave quantities of clothing, etc.
They had a room full of feathers, which
were sent there for pillow making, and
they were in despair, as they could not ex-
terminate the moths until they were ad-
vised to try common salt. They spfinkled
it around, and in a week or ten days they
were altogether rid of the moths. They
are never troubled now. In heavy velvet
carpets sweeping them with salt cleans
and keeps them from moths, as particles of
salt remain in the carpets and corners. Salt
is not hurtfui to any one, and has no bad
smell. Here is little hint 1 add, which,
perhaps, every one does not know: For
cleaning wash basins, bath, ETC., use the
same thing, common dry salt. Rub little
of the salt with your fingers on the basin.
Often q sort of scum is noticed in the basin
of a marble wsshstaud in the bathroom :;
the salt takes it off easily and leaves the
basin shining and clean.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-03
Why The Leaves Turn.
Field and Forest

Probably not one person in thousand
knows why leaves change their color in
the fall" remarked an eminent botanist
the other day. THE common and old
fashioned idea is that all this red and
golden glory we see now is caused by
frosts A true and scientific explanation
of the causes of the colOring of leaves
would pecessitate long and intricate dis
cussion. Stated briefly, and in proper lam
guage, those causes are these: The green
matter in the tissue of q leaf is composed
of two colors, red and blue. When the sap
ceases to flow in the fall, and the natural
growth of the tree ceases, oxidation of the
tissue takes place. Under certain condi-
tions the green of the leaf changes to red;
under different conditions it takes on a
yellow or brown tint. This difference in
color is due to the difference in combina-
tion of the original constituents of the
green tissue and to the varying conditions
Of climate, exposure and coil. A dry, cold
climate produces more brilliant foliage
than one that is damp and warm. This is
the reason that our American autumns are
so much more gorgeous than those of En-
gland. There are several things about
leaves that even science cannot explain.
For instance, why one of two trees growing
side by side, of the same age and having
the same exposure, should take on bril-
liant red in the fall, and the other should
turn yellow; or why one branch of tree
should be highly colored and the rest of
the tree have only yellow tint, are ques-
tions that are as impossible to answer as
why one member of a family should be
perfectly healthy and another sickly.
Naples and oaks have the brightest
colOrsn
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-03
CORNELIUS, N. BLISS.
U. s. Delegate to the American Con.
T. gress of Nations.

The conference of American nations to
be held in Washington in October will
have ten members appointed in this coun-
try, among whom the name of Cornelius N.
Bliss, an eminent merchant of New York,
is placed first.
Mr.. Bliss was born at Fall River, Mass,
in 1888, and was educated at the public
schools and the academy in that town. His
father died while he was an infant and his
mother married in second nuptials gen.
tleman of New Orleans, where the SOD also
found home at the age of fourteen years.
Here he finished his education at the High
School, and, after spending q few months
in his stepfather's counting room, went to
Boston. entering the service Of great dry
goods jobbipg house. In 1864 he became a
partner in the firm, with which he remained
until he removed to New York. He isnow
the head of leading dry goods firm of
New York and Boston Mr.. Bliss has
ranked for years among the most upright,
enterprising and successful merchants of
New York. He is charitable and public
spir ted man. In politics he is a Republi-
can and local leader of his party. Mr..
Bliss was prominently named for cabinet
Office when the present administration
came into power
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-03
THE PICNIC ANTS.

Oh, the red-hot naughty ants,
How they Chamber up your pants
At the picnic in the cool and sha dy glen
How they seem to take delight In
The obnoxious sport Of biting
Giddy girls and modest gentlemen.
It's delightful when ones cooling
To the damsel he is wooing,
To feel the playful creatures In his pants,
And upon the ambient air
He throbs a soulful swear
At the fooling, dreadful monkeying OF those
ants.
Oh, it sets the brain throbbing
To feel those insects bobbinR
Up and down upon ones system In their merry
glee
There's L one way you can right 'em
And that is to flee and fight 'em
Meath the shadow OF some distant friendly tree.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-03
A Woman at the Lever
philadelphia Record.l

Many pairs of eyes have been opened
very wide in amszement at the sight OF
bright-eyed and bright faced young
woman in the engine room of the steamer
Ocean City, which plies on Great Egg
Harbor Bay, between Long Port, Ocean
City and Somers Point, N. j., and when
passengers see the ease and familiarity
with which she handles the wheels and
levers of the engine they hold their breath
for a few seconds to see what stranger
thing can happen. The young lady is Mrs
Nora Buck, and she makes as an efficient
an assistant to her husband, the engineer
of the Ocean City, as any man who could
be put in her place. She is skilled in the
management of the machinery and pre-
sides over the engine room with perfect
confidence and competency. Mrs. Buck is
q granddaughter OF Commodore Lavelette
and the daughter of the founder of Lavel-
cite City, N. J. Upon the water she is al
ways at home and can handle an oar or
sail q yacht like an expert. She is 1S years
and a perfect picture of health, weighing
about 13O pounds Her hair and eyes are
black and her Tam O'Shanter hat, cambria
dress and big checked apron are pleasant
sight to the people who patronize the Ocean
CITY.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-03
FRANKLIN'S GIFT.
1870 to be Invested and Spent
in 1890.
philadelphia Inquirer.1

philadelphia Inquirer.]
The is every indication that big public
bath will shortly be erected in this city
from money donated many years ago by
Benjamin Franklin and John Scott. One
hundred thousand dollars will probably be
expended on it, The "father of electricity"
left by his will, dated April 26, 1870,
81, ZOO to be used by the city in the best
manner deemed possible, and in 1916 John
left $4, 900 which was to be devoted to the
same purpose as desired by Franklin.
These trusts are both in charge of the
board of directors of city trusts, of whom
the active members are Prothonotary Mann
and Director OF Public Works Wagner
These two officials have lately been giving
the legacies considerable thought and dis
cussion. l.. his will the great philosopher
left $4,000 sterling, one half to Boston and
the other half to Philadelphia. He had
great ideas as to what the money would
amount to with the lapse of century.
For instance, he desired the money to be
loaned to married arti6cers under the age
of twenty-five years at five per cent per
annum in sums not exceeding EGO sterling
The document went on to state that IF
this plan is executed, and succeeds az pro-
jected without interruption for one hun
dred years, the sum will then be G131, 900"
Continuing the great philanthropist
writes: II would have the managers of
the donation lay out at their discretion,
100000, in public works which may be
judged of most general utility to the in
habitants, such as Notifications, bridges
acqueducts, public buildings, baths, pave
ments or whatever may make living in
the town more convenient to its people
and resorting hither for health or tempo
rary residence. The remaining e31 900 l
would have continued to be let out at in
terest for another hundred years" 't
' These provisions applied to the sum left
to Boston as we'll as to Philadelphia. But
in the case of our city he also empowered
the managers of the fund to spend at the
end of the first century part of the e10O,-
600 in bringing by pipes the water of the
Wissahickon creek into the town. Phila-
delphia artifceIs did not come forward to
borrow the money, however. and the ex-
pected "131 pounds sterling" have not been
realized at the close of this the appointed
century. Instead, the principal amounts
to about $4,000, yielding an income of
$4,000 year. The Scott fund amounts to
amounts to about $4,000, making in all
$4,000.
Messrs. Mann and Wagner have con-
cluded to ask the solicitors of the board of
city trusts how they can go about securing
100000 of this sum for the purpose of
building the big bath proposed. The other
$4,000 they propose to put aside for an
other century at compound interest. Col.
Mann thought that but little general good
could be accomplished with $4,000, but
the public bath suggested itself, and it may
be built before the close of the year 1890.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-03
The Floods in China.
TChicago Inter-Ocean. |

lSnlcdSO lnter-OcedH.J
China has several times during the pres
ent century suffered heavily on account Of
floods. One of the most remarkable and
disastrous of these foundations was in the
month of October, 1883. At that time
10000 houses were swept away at Canton,
and over 1000 lives were lost. The catas-
trophe was occasioned by heavy and con-
tinued rains. There were also numerous
and lesser disasters reported about the
same time throughout the empire. The
last terrible floods in China occurred in
the autumn of 1887. In 1852 tho Hoang-
Ho, or Yellow river which has came to be
known as "China's Sorrow" burst its north
ern bank near Kaifeng-fu, the capital of
the province of Honau, and cut new bed
through the northern part of ShantuDg into
the Gulf of Pechili; this river for 500 years
had poured its vast volume of water into
the Yellow sea, south OF the promotory OF
Shantung. The flood of 1887 was caused
by the reversal of the work of 1851. The
month of September, 1887, was very rainy.
On September % the river broke the south
ern embankment at Cherg chow, forty
miles above Kaifengfu. When the
breach was made 5000 men, who were
at work strengthening the levee,
were drowned, and at another point 1000
workmen were drowned. The overflow
was widespread, At first it was confined
to the Lu-Chia rivers channel, but it was
not long before it inundated the Chungnou
district. There it destroyed 100 villages
and flooded the lands of 300 others, while
several of the suburbs of the great COM
mercial city of Chusien Chen were swept
away; the high ground the city occupied
was what saved it. Then the flood spread
over a low, settled district sonth OF
Kaifeng-fu, submergiDg 1,5OO villages.
When it reached the valley OF the Hual-
Ho the reported loss of life was greater. 1t
was discovered that many walled cities
were depopulated and virtually destroyed.
The loss of life was placed at between
100000 and 100000. The fact is, it has
been impossible to ascertain how many
persons were drowned, but the most re-
sponsible figures give 1000, 900 as the num-
Der who lost their lives and 100000 who
were left homeless and destitute. The
waters of the river spread over district
$500 square miles in extent in q series of
lakes. There were other losses during the
early part of 1888 with heavy loss of life,
while in the fall of 1873 there were dis
astrous floods in Mauchuria. No such
floods as the Yellow River floods of 1887
nver occurred within the knowledge of
mankind.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-03
Respect for the Law.
lPhiladelp Ia Press.


81 dent want to break the law" he said
as he stood in the presence of Capt. Stark.
day.
You are very kin ," replied the Captain.
what is your case?"
my wife has skipped"
"Indeed?"
"Yes, skipped two days ago. As 1 said, l
don't want to break the law. What is the
customary rule in such cases?"
"Let her skip"
Il am not expected to pursue her and
shoot somebody?"
"NO"
Thanks. She has skipped. Let her
skip. If she returns 1 overlook and for
give. If che does not l marry the hired
girl. Perfectly satisfactory, sir, all around,
aud thank you for your kindness"