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The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, Feb. a0-E. R.
Crowell, manager ,of the big oatmeal
mill at this place. in an interview yes.
terday, said there was no truth in the
article in the Chicago Tribune Of Wed.
nesday, which stated that the oatmeal
trust was compelled to sell its products
for less than cost, and that It was il
danger of going to pieces. Hesaid that
while competition was very sharp ant
prices lower their products had ne
been sold at loss. and even thougl
the trust should raise tho price /
would not come ont OF the consumer
but out Of the retailer who is making
big profits Just now
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27
THE CRISIS IN TRANCE.
The Cabinet Urged to Reconsider The
designations Hut Refuse.

The Cabinet Urged to Reconsider Their
ResIgnatiOos Hut Refuse.
PARIS, Feb. 90. president Carnot
strongly urged the ministry to recon
slider, but M. De Freycinet insisted
upon resigning, saying he and his col-
leagues had decided that they conld
not remain in power after the action
taken by the chamber.
Several generals yesterday called on
NJ. De Freyeinet who was war minis
ter as well as premier, and strongly APP
pealed TO him not to resign, saying
that he would be a great loss to the
army. M. De Frescinet, however, re-
manned obdurate.
The lobbies OF the chambers were
filed with excited leaders, dis
cussing the situation, and when the
final decision of the ministry became
known the opinion was general that a
state of political uncertainty had ar
rived, in, view of the apparent inability
of any party to form a working min
istry.
LIE Jours (newspaper) says that the
only course practical is the dissolution
| of the chamber.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

DESPITE the precautions taken by
the board of agriculture to prevent the
spread of the foot and mouth disease
among the cattle of England, it APP
pears evident that the disease will
cause further trouble before it is eff
fectually stamped3ut.
THE Russian government has taken
steps to relieve the disease stricken
regions and give work to the starving.
REV FATHER SULCK, of Buffalo, N.
Y, has been charged by members OF
his congregation with drunkenness,
immortality aud attempted murder.
JAMES b. SIMPSON, the Dallas, Tex,
financier, alleged to haYe fed under a
cloud, was at Hot Springs, Ark, but
has returned home. He denies all
charges of crookedness.
A REPRESENTATIVE body of western
North Dakota farmers have formed the
Western Missouri Stock Growers asso.
ciation and have sent for brand k 3ks.
TrrANIA ToLsToI, daughter Of Count
Tolstoi, of Russia, has sent a. letter to
/ Chicago lady stating that assistance
ia feeding the starving would be gladly
received.
ELEorRIo wires are blamed for New
Orleans big fire
THE Austrian war minister has issued
q decree enioining the officers of the
army to take the men Of their respect
i've commands to church at least once &
month.
S. w. ALLERroE, the noted Chicago
packer, opposed anti-option bills before
the senate Judiciary committee the
other day.
THE house committee on public
buildings has agreed to recommend al
increase in the Kansas City appropFia
/ lion to S9,00O,000
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27
Investigating circuit Judges.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Feb. 90 =
Chairman Fogel, Of the house commit
tee on judicial circuits, salaries, etc,
last night mailed the following letter
to every circuit clerk in the state:
take this method Of requesting you to fur
nish me at your earliest opportunitx She follow
ing information: How many days did the cir
cult judge hold court in your county In 1891.
How many cases were finally disposed OF dur
ing 1917 How many cases were left undis.
posed Of at the end Of the yearg Your prompt
answer will greatly facilitate ana hasten the
work Of the committee oh Judicial circuits
Tho object Of the communication Z
to ascertain what circuit judges arc
] doing the work,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27
The Pope advises the French,

PARIS, Feb. 20. The Catholic news
papers here publish an eucyclical let
ter from the pope addressed to the
clergy. The pope declares that any
form Of government is good provided it
tends to further the public welfare and
that it is, therefore, the duty of all to
accept the legally established govern
ment and not attempt to change its
form, but it is necessary, he says, to
distinguish between established powers
and legislation The former must be
obeyed, but legislation hostile to the
religion Of God cannot be approved.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

SENATOR SHERMAN will enter up
on his sixth term as senator on March
q, 1898, and if he remains senator till
its close, he will have been ,I:-.--s.s'llf
years in the senate. That viii be the
first case in the history of the govern
ment of such long service in that
body If Mr.. Sherman had not resigned
to become secretary of the treasury,
when but four years of his term had
expired, his service would have covered
thirty-six years Mr. William r. King,
of Alabama, was. like Mr.. Sherman,
elected six times by the legislature.
hit owing to two designations, served
bit twenty-nine years. Mr.. Benton
cane next in the number of elections
bsthe legislature aud served his full
ti7 terms-thirty years
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27
Rl-Chlorlda or aold onra.

ALBANY, N. Y, Feb 20-In the
senate to-day a resolution was intro
duced reciting that many physicians
condemn the treatment Of dipsomaniacs
at the Kelley institute at White Plains
as likely to be detrimental TO the
health of the patients. and empowerA
ing the senate to investigate the treat-
ment and take whatever action IS
necessary. The resolution also alleges
that several cases Of insaaity and one
death have resulted from the hi-chl0-
ride Of gold treatment at YPhite Plains.
The resolution was goferred to The
committee on public heslth
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

AT the West London police court the
other day Louis Clovis Bonaparte, son
of Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, who
died recently, and William Alexander
Thompson, solicitor, who IRE charged
with conspiring together to defraud
Rosalie Clovis Bonaparte, the alleged
wife of the former, of a considerable
quantity of jewelry, were arraigned for
hearing. After listening to the evidence
the magistrate held that prima faeie
case had been established and he held
the accused for trial. Bail was allowed
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

The committee, of the national house
of representatives, on irrigation of arid
lands thinks that irrigation and re.
clamation of arid lands of the United
States will involvi such enormous cost
that the government will never appro.
pirate the sums needed to carry the
work to satisfactory conclusion.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

UNDER an order of Pope Leo KILL,
dated at Rome, January IA, 1922 Civ.
ing Roman Catholic clergy in regions
where influenza prevails authority to
absolve the faithful from fasting and
abstinence on certain days AMI sea-
sons, Archbishop Elder has promul-
gated an order to be read in every
church in his diocese granting this
apostolic indulgence. This not only
abolishes the fast Friday, but other
church fast days. Prominent Roman
Catholics say that those familiar with
the slowness with which papal orders
are. revoked incline to the belief that
many if not most of these church fast
days win never be resumed.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

AS protest against the impos ition
of fuel tax, the Inhabitants of Po-
tenza. a fortified town on the eastern
declivity of the Apennines, invaded the
town hall in q body and proceeded to
sack the building. They obtained pos
session of the archives slowed away in
the hall and after starting fire threw
the documents into the flames and
watched them until they had all been
reduced TO ashes.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

IT isf stated by Mr. Muller, an oil
speculator, that the great Indiana oil
field was fast playing out He said
that in Jay, Blackford and Wells coun.
ties several dry holes are now found
before the usual oi!-gusher is struck,
md that the flaming reports sent out
from Portland about the discovery of
gushing wells was fraud.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27
RobbIng the Famine Sufferers.

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 1S-The No
voc Vremya asserts that the wood from
the state forests. which was placed at
the disposal Of the famine sufferers by
order of The car, does not go to the
poor, but to the profit of rich peasants
who take the logs to build houses,
while their unfortunate brethren are
perishing with cold because they do
not possess horses to transport fuel
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

HENRY TEN BRoEcK GAMMAeE, 81
years Of age, recluse and classmate
of ex-senator Evarts at Yale, was
found dead the other day in his room
in the Building of theS8niversity of the
city of New York, where he has lived
among his collection of paintings for
the past forty-nine years Death was
due to natural causes.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

DRfETRI MINDELoFF, Russian and
the inventor of terrorite, an explosive
moro powerful than dynamite, died re-
Gently. As a chemist he had more
than national reputation, and several
of his important inventions have been
patented, among them being new
method for the reduction of cobalt and
nickel ores, and the destruction Of
philloxera by means of pyroligneous
ncid
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

The Protestant church at Piraeus
which was pillaged and partly burned
by.a fanatical mob recently was built
with money subscribed by Englisumen
and americans, but the ministers con.
nected with it were Greek.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27
cURRENT COMMENT.

PRESIDENT DIAz. Of Mexico, is Op,
posed to the erection of an ancient
Aztec building as partof the Mexican
worlds fair exhibit
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

MRs, THOMAS EMERY, Of Clay City,
Ill, being in the last stages of con-
sumption, was recommended to eat dog
meat which she did with beneficial eff
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

THR Omaha &C Grant Smelling Co., of
Colorado, are about to erect a smoke
stack $50 feet high and 10 feet in diam.
eter, This, it is said, win be the larg-
est smokestack in the country.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

shoMAs L. DoRAN and three COM
s,,sse s9Hs all experienced in desert
travel. have started from SEN Fran
cisco to hunt for the lost 2agleg mine,
which has been one of the mysteries of
the Colorado desert for thirty years
Doran willfpack train of burros at
San Diego with provisions for six
months, and he will thoroughly ex-
plore the desert country where at least
a dozen Of his predecessors in the
search have left their bones. The host
mine lies somewhere in the Colorado
desert, near Warmers ranch, about 100
miles from Los Angeles It was discov-
cred in 1880 by an old trapper named
Pegleg Smith, who fonnd gold nugget
q three little hills, but didis 1 know Ii
was gold till he reached Los Angeles
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

ExPoRTs of corn for the seven
months ending January 81 were SO,
SAG, s4s bushels The January exports
were l4,tss, Ole bushels.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

New ORLEANS, Feb 1s.-President
Paul Conrad, Of the Louisiana Stats
Lottery Co., denies that the lottery IN,
tends to remove to Mexico.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

& CART. JOHN S. STOUT, famous Mis-.
sissippi river pilot and hero of the Rob.
ertsE. Lee disaster in 1882, died recent
~ at his residence in New Orleans
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27

THE rise in the price OF beef caused
bv the new French tariiF lead 10 4
large demand for horse flesh n Paris.
According to = reportsof tie police pre
fecture horses and mules slaughtered
represent over one-third oi ia whols
quantity Pf peat conaumed
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-06
Early Marriages Of Royalty.

A glance at the pages of history re.
veals the fact that early marriages have
long been the fashion among earth's
royal personages. Here are few in.
stances Queen Victoria was married
when she was scarcely twenty-one, and
the Prince of Wales espoused Princess
Alexandra before he was twenty-five.
The Emperor of Austria took to wife the
radiant Elizabeth of Bavaria when he
was not yet twenty-four years old. The
present Gar of Russia was twenty-one
when he gave his hand to Princess Dag
mar of Denmark (who was two years his
junior. King Humbort of Italy was
twenty-four at the time of his marriage
to the fair Marguerite of Savoy Ghen girl
of only seventeen). The present King and
Queen of the Belgians were one eighteen
and the other seventeen at the time of
their wedding. And the late King Of
SPAN, Alphonso XII, was very little
older when he formed his brief, bright
union with his charming cousin, Mer-
cedes. He was only twenty-five when
he married his second wife, the present
Queen regent. And it was at the same
age that the present Emperor of Ger
many was united to Augusta Victoria of
Schleswig- Holstein- -Augustenburg. The
unfortunate Prince Rudolph of Aus tria
was twenty-five at the date of his ILL
starred union to Princess Stephanie of
m.-Chicago Post.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-06
Saved From Suicide by His Dog.

An intelligent pet dog owned by
Louis Schmidt, of Camden, N. j., has
prevented him from committing suicide
Schmidt is just recovering from a serious
attack of typhoid fever, which left him
very nervous and subject to fits of mel
ancholia. He was seized with one Of
those spells Monday night, and while
his wife was asleep stole to the kitchen.
Here he procured a rope, and, making
anoose, tied one end to au iron hook in
the wall. Then procuring a chair he
adjusted the rope, and kicking away the
chair swung himself Off, as he thought,
into into eternity. But, unknown to
Schmidt, his faithful dog had followed
him, and instiuctively knowing some.
thing was wrong the intelligent animal
went back into the bedroom whining
pitifully. Finally he awoke Mrs. Schmidt
by tugging at the bed clothing and rub.
bing his cold nose in her face, and she
followed the dog down stairs as soon as
she missed her husband. There she
found him hanging IRON the hook. She
managed to cut him down in time TO
save his life.-Phlladelphia Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-06

could have prevented that marriage, but
some fend sent him the news that th,
ceremony would occur Wednesday night
instead of Tuesday. He raved around
for time really pitiful object, for hi
did love that little girl, and he knew hC
was worthy of her, but he could not undo
the work of the past day and night, SC
when the passion Of disappointment had
exhausted him he led his men back tc
camp-for oil the world like the King oi
France, who with
Twenty thousand men marched up the hill,
then down again.
The happy Major of Confederate gray
had a hint that Phillips would rob him
If he could, and so he had announced
the wedding for day later than it was
really to occur, aud Immediately after
the ceremony he and his bride rode
horseback to the Tennessee River and
hailed the ferry man. But Yankee
caution had long before driven ferry.
boats from the river, and no one re-
sponded. There was no bridge then as
there is now, and there was nothing for
it but to hunt up and down the bank for
skiff. To add to their trouble the
canebrake was so thick and tangled they
had to abandon the horses and creep
along the waters edge through the damp
and the dark till way past midnight be-
fore their search was rewarded. When
they finally found skiff and got across
the river not man in Tuscumbia would
receive so dilapidated-looking couple,
and it was broad day before they could
get either food or lodging. But they
were married and are yet, getting gray
and fat together in a pleasant Southern
city, resigned to everything in life, even
to the final vanquishment of Major
Falkenburg and his brave legion.
Colonel Phillips and his men returned
to camp and two days later, while the Off
GERS were basking in the sun, "a flag of truce
approached the picket lines. Major
Clements was Provost Marshal of the
region at the time and he went out to
peace. He found it was hireling of
Major Falkenburg, bearing a great bas.
ket with about two bushels of wedding
cake which Mrs. Charity had baked
with her own hands and sent him-her
parting shot in the campaign. The
messenger was received with all courtesy,
was entertained as became a belligerent
in the time of temporary cessation OF
hostilities and was given safe conduct out.
side the lines when formalities had been
complied with. Then Colonel Phillips,
making the best OF bad matter, shared
his cake with his command and was bet
ter liked than ever.
That was long time ago. The foe
of Confederate majors came home in due
season, honored by service and sancti.
fled by wounds, and after some years OF
patient, horest work won a high place
at the bar, which he has never since
dimmed by any act unmanly. Years
ago he married his choice of all women
and lives with her yet, laughing with
her now and then when some old com.
rsde chaffs him about his raid into Flor.
ence or his bushels Of wedding cake
Chicago Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-06
An Example Of Scientific Serenity.

DR.. Richet, the famous physician who
died quite recently at Paris, gave during
the course CT the disease which carried
him away an example OF scientific seren-
ity, the equivalent of which can be
found only in the biographies of ancient
philosophers. During the few days of
his pulmonary congestion DR.. Richet
was constantly attended by his son, a
professor of physiology at the Paris
faculty, and by another doctor, friend
of his. He did not cease making to his
companions lecture on the evolution of
the disease from which he was suffering.
He kept describing and analyzing the
symptoms, and predicting the course of
the disease and its possible complica.
tions. At every new step of the inva-
sion OF the organs DR.. Richet defined it
with great precision. On the last dsy,
when he had hardly any vitality left, he
told them: "When the phenomenon
which you have just ascertained has oc-
CURED, every chance is lost, and death
is only question of seconds. In fact,
you see, l am going to die. |
am dying" These were his
last words,-Boston Transcript.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-06

The Chicago Post exclaims: 'As the
world moves, and as surely as the sailing
vessel replaced the galley, as the swift
locomotive took the place of the post
horse and stage coach, as the trained
lightning displaced the courier, so will
coal, cumbrous, costly and grimy, give
place to some more perfect, more etheral
essence, evolved from itself, distilled
from its liquid essence, or it may be to
that kindred invisible agent that springs
forth spontaneous and perfect at the
touch of the drill"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-06

Pasteur, the French scientist, has an
eye of wonderful power. A visitor to
his ''menagerie," in Paris, where he has
gathered various kinds of animals for
experimental use, saw the chemist quell
with glance fierce Spanish mastiff
which for his ferocity had been muzzled
and chained. Pasteur had the brute
brought before him, and looking the an
imal straight in the eye fearlessly took
off his muzzle and removed his chain.
The dog covered at the glance, then
fawned upon Pasteur, licked his hand
and finally lay submissively before him.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-06

NJ. Nj. Cowley, pioneer in the North
west, who for many years dealt in furs
with the Calispel, Spokane, Ceur DIAL
enc, and Columbia River Indians, and
is one of the best informed men on all
matters pertaining to the tribes in the
Northwest says that the Indians are
dying off rapidly. "Take the Ceur
d'Aleues, for instance" he says. 'I
was among them for a long time. They
have magnificent reservation and fine
farms aud good houses, but the houses
are killing them. They can't stand
roofs. When was located on the Spo-
kane River, there were immense bands
of the Ceur d'Alene, Calispel, Spokane,
and Columbia River Indians about there.
They were engaged steadily in hunting
and trapping all kinds of wild animals.
| bought black and silver gray fox skins
of them at $3.50 and 81 apiece, 500
martins year at $40 each, fisher, grizzly,
black bear, beaver, and other kinds of
skins without number. Then the whites
had not encroached on them, and they
were robust aud healthy. It is mis-.
take to try and eiyilize them. They
must be wild or they are nothing. II
we keep on civilizing them, we shall
have no Indians. Apparently this is
something the Government will not un.
derstand,"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-06
An Epidemic of HeliotrOpe.

We are about undergoing au cpl.
demic of heliotrope and the green tiuts (;
we are going to have it bad. The
trouble will run its full course; it will
be something like the gallery greenery
craze that struck us along with Oscar
and his long locks some ten years ago,
and is directly traceable to the prevalence
of the seventeenth century styles IN
decoration, and we are sorry for it, for
those delicate colors which looked we'll
and were charming against the fresh
painted faces Of the court beauties Of
Louis XVI and the powdered wigs aud
silken attire, white stockings aud laces,
would show to horrible disadvantage
against our modern dress and honest
compilations, The Upholsterer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-06

1t is stated that Japan rice is now
shipped from Japan via the Canadian
Pacific Railroad to Chicago, distance
of 1000 miles, at a total cost of eighty
cents per hundred ,5uuds, while it would
cost, if shipped via San Francisco,
thence by rail, 81. 81 the cost from Japan
to Chicago via. the Canadian route being
less than from San Francisco by rail to
to Chicago.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-06
wHEN2

Wen read that book, we'll sing that song
But whenH oh, when the days are long,
When thoughts are free and voices clear;
Some happy time within the year.
The DAYS troop by with noiseless tread,
The song unsung the book unread.
Wen see that friend, and make him feel
The weight Of friendship, true as steel;
Some flower Of sympathy bestow,
But time sweeps on with steady flow,
Until with quick, reproachful tear,
We lay our flowers upon his bier.
And still we walk the desert sands,
And still with trihes fill our hands
While ever just beyond our reach,
A fairer purpose shows to each,
The deeds we have not done, but willed,
Remain TO haunt us-unfulhlled,
Boston Journal.