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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-12-08
ECONOMY WILL Be THE RULE
Congress to Pare All Appro-
priationS This Winter.
A CONFERENCE NOW TALKED OF
Holman Will Lead the Fight
For Retrenchment.

He is Likely to Have Large Following
"a Proposed Conference, with View
of Adopting n General PoIicy--A Feel
ing That the Figures Must be Kept
Down.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-12-08

John W. Donnell, q laborer at the works
of the Jackson " Sharp Company, was hit
by flying piece OF iron over the left eye
on Thursday. The iron embedded itself
in the injured mans flesh, DR.. II. NJ.
First dressed the wound
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-12-08

Tried to smuggle. Dynamite Cartridges.
LoNnoN, Dec. IA special to the Tclc.
graph from Vienna says that whole
family have been arrested at the custom
house At Garsith Bohemia, for trying to
smuggle dynamite cartridges into Austria.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-12-08

~ am convinced of the merit Of Hoods Sar-
saparila, after having taken but few doses -
This Is what many people say.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10
THE LAND OF LONG AGO.

Sometimes, when thrushes sing, or sweet
bells chime
Far off and faint across the silent sea,
Or south winds watts the breath of sunny
cline,
Or ring doves coo their love by babbling
rilIs,
Or the fair priestess of the dawn, star
eyed,
Trails her white robe above the eastern
hills;
Down a dim way where stately lilies blow
I see the land-th Land Of Long Ago.
Then memory beckons, and with trembling
feet
l tread the ways where life was once SO
sweet;
See this dear face, that sleeps where mar
bles shine,
And that-but oceans 'twixt US roll their
brine.
Dear ones. will you not come to me once
more
And smile and kiss me as in days of yores"
"Ah, foolish hearth when will you learn to
know
None eer return from the dead Long
Agog"
"But give me back my joy, the dreams Of
youth,
Hopes rosy visions, or the lamp of Truth;
Roll back Times record from, the dial
plate
And snatch a trophy from the grasp of
Fate"
Again I gazed with wildly streaming eyes
On the dread angel that SO much denies
Again the still voice breathe1 DER fields of
snow.
These are the treasures of the Long Ago.
Alas. that land that Land of Long Ago;
No resurrection shines above its snow;
Memory may enter, bat a flaming sword
Forbids with menancs stern Hopes tender
word.
The Past is gone-the Now we grasp full
fond.
And tine To Be looks darkly from beyond
and still the years roll on with ceaseless
flow
Into the silence of the Long Ago
Oh, Land of Long Agoi
Mary c.. Francis, in Detroit Free Pres.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10
NEWSY GLEANINGS,

The coffee crop is large.
CoTroN crop prospects are poor.
DROUGHT in Southern Russia is broken.
FOREST fires have been raging in Mime
sofa.
MANY are dying daily OF starvation Ii
Mexico.
The Malta is said to have migrated d
Chicago.
DROUGHT and locusts are doing damage IL
Argentine.
GREAT prairie fires have been raging II
North Dakota.
CHOLERA riots have taken place in Buda.
Pesth, Hungary
CHOLERA continues on the decreas,
throughout Europe.
THERE are over 1900 factories in operation
about Moscow, Russia.
The cholera death record in Russia nov
foots up 800, 900 victims.
The Idaho Test Oath Law has been de
clared unconstitutional.
The new railway between Jaffa and Jeru
salem is now open to regular traffic.
A REMARKABLY rich lode Of silver ha,
been discovered at Orarval, in Finland.
LIEUTENANT MAcDoNALD's name has beer
dropped from Canada's militia rolls for ad
vocacy of annexation.
The last of the cholera infested immi.
grants have bsen discharged from quaran-
time in New York Harbor.
THE United States Treasury Department
has shipped $40. 900, 900 in small notes South
and West to aid in moving crops.
TIE Government will take measures tc
hasten the work on the arlmor for cruisers In
the Carnegie mills at Homestead, Penn.
THERE is a movement on foot in Colorado
to have United States troops stationed at
points in . Estate to protect the game.
PROFESSOR Pickering, of the Harvard
branch observatory at Arequipa, tArgentina,
says that he has discovered forty small lakes
in Mars. He also confirms Professor Hol.
denis observations on the limits and mea-
sured attitudes of the planet.
AT The Food Exposition in Madison Square
Garden, New York City, a lot OF large vege.
tables were shown. Among the collection
were cornstalks seventeen feet higa, peppers
two feet and a half long, growing on the
vina and white-plu'ned celery two feet and
a half long.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10

Adulteration is bad and sanitation
is good, admits the New York Sun, bat
some Of the results shown by rigiiant
inspectors and clever chemists in their
efforts to show the frightful dangers
that surround us and run down offenders
against sanitary laws are very funny.
A wholesale and highly respected grocer
was tried in q London court a few days
ago for selling tarsaric acid aiulterated
with lead. Tho acid was used in max
ing lemonade, and the lead in it got
there from the vessels in which il was
manufactured. The prosecution showed
that the tartaric acid contained .00026
per cent. Of lead. The defence showed
that ii order TO get a twentieth part Of
q grain Of the poison into ones system
1t would be necessary to drink lemonade
every day for six months at the rate Of
22O bottles per day. The experts
added gravely that before . twentieth
part Of i grain could be taken Id thai
manner the experimenter would die oil
dyspepsia. The charge was dismissed,
but to satisfy tho sanitary officials the
Judge agreed TO estate the case" pres
spmbly q . wsrning to other eYildoers.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10
inc Nar ons srrlKa neeora.

Since 1880 the Government has issued
an annual report Of strikes. Between
1895 and 1880, according to this report,
l491 important strikes occurred besides
many times that number of small ones.
From January /, 1881, to December
rs, 1886, there were 1902 strikes. in.
volving l o., 203 men and %, 3O4. bus.
mess firms. In the last named wear
were 1900 strikes that caused a wage
loss of SO, 1858, 191 to the men and S.
DOC, 900 to the employers.
The two most peculiar strikes men.
toned in the reports are that of laborers
On q lam in Maine in 1885 because they
were not allowed to smoke while al
work, and that of Medford (8Tass.) ship.
builders in 1917 because their dails
rations Of rurp we're curtalIed,
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10
+ THE LABOR WORLD.

WORKERS in wheat-felds in India receiv
50 a month.
AFTER ten weeks vacation the green glas
blowers have resumed ord.
THE union bakers Of Butte, Montana
have demanded q ten-hour workday.
The mule s%pinners up in Dover. n. III.
are clicking for a fifty -eight-hour weei.
ON English street railways the hours fiji
work are from thirteen to fifteen and a ha
daily.
OFFICIAL statistics show that in 1891
wages were re luced in 229 towns in Ger
many.
LORD RosEBERy provides his plowmen
with the daiiv and all the leading agricul'
tural papers.
( MEN going to Chicago to find work in any
trade will find about five applicants for every
situation in the city.
THE Chicago Seamen's Union has sue.
ceeded in raising the wages Of its member
from $3.50 to So per day.
THERE are about 500 women employed in
the postal telegraph service OF London, or
about twenty-five per cent.
THOUSANDS of building trades workmen
are out OF employment in Vienna, Austria,
where building has almost CONF to a stand.
still.
The National German Typographical
Union now has twenty two local unions in
different parts of the country affiliated
with it.
The Supreme Court of Rhode Island has
handed down a decision affirming the con-
stitutionality of the Weekly, Payment Law
in that State.
GERMAN artificial flower makers who got
Sl5 a month a short time a 90 now only get
FLO per month. Their wages have been re-
duced all around.
ANNA PAwLIK, a factory girl, of Czsrno-
WITT, Austria, has been sentenced to six
weeks imprisonment for trying to organizs
a union of her trade.
STATISTICS given out by the Bureau of
Labor StatStician show that the daily wages
OF coal miners in Illinois have increased dur
ing the year 1916 per cent.
AN Employers Union has been formed in
South Australia. IT'S constitution says that
the object of the organization is ssto protect
employers against the ever growing opposi
ton shown by employees
NOTICES were posted at the Crescent Steel
Works, P%Ittsburg. Penn, announcing a re.
duction of ten per cent. in the wages paid to
the employees. The company EMPLOYS about
500 men and makes all the finer grades bf
steel
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10

A tunnel, the longest in the world,
has been projected and begun, practic-
ally, under simpion, to supersede the
famous ROAD oyer the mountain CON
strncted by Napoleon. The .tRoate of
the Simpion" is thirty-elght mules in
length; the tunnel will be q trife less
than twelve miles and a half. The
wagon road is 1892 feet above sea level,
is twenty-five to thirty feet wide, crosses
Gil bridges, and passes through several
tunnels. It takes eight or.nine hours to
cross the mountain by The wagon road;
the tunnel can be traversed in three
quarters Of an hour. The power to il
the drills, light the workings and veati-
late the tunnel is to be derived from the
River Marsa. The cost is estiulated at
about vi, 80, 900 a mile.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10

An american biologist, who returned
recently from q years study in the Ger
man laboratories, declares that the
Woods Hall (Mass.J Laboratory is nov
doing more research work than any other
institution of its kind in the world, the
Naples Station alone excepted. There is
certainly no doubt that the most eni.
nent of foreign biologists are taking a
profound interest in il, as their letters
to DR.. Whitman, the specialist in charge,
testify.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

THE oldest British soldier is Sir Patrick
Grant, aged Lightweight.
MICHAEL ERLANGEB, the well-known
French findncier. is dead.
WILLIAM H. of Germany. is at this mo-
ment the richest sovereign of Europe.
KING OTTo, of Bavaria, has been placed
in a straightjacket despite his royal protest.
LOUIS KossUTH, the Hungarian patriot, 10
losing his mental faculties through extreme
age.
THOMAS WooLNER, the eminent sculptor,
is dead in London at the age of sixty-siy
years.
GENERAL CREspo, the Revolutionary
leader, has been proclaimed President Of
Venezuela.
EMANUEL LAsKER, the famous BerliN
chess player, is a dapper-looking young
gentleman with a studious an.
DURING thirty-five years service on the
police force of New York Inspector Henry
V. Steers, retired, never had a charge pre-
ferred against him. A
GEORGE C. GREER, who was the engt.
neer of the Monitor in the engagement with
the Merrimac during the late war, died q
few days ago at Charleston, SC.
The grandson of Dom Pedro has brooded
over an ambition to secure the Brazilian
throne until he has become a bowling
~lunatic, strait-jacleted in a padded cell.
THE Baroness Burdett Coutts has resolved
to go to the Caicago Fair; her husband will
come with her. Age sets lightly upon her
brow and has not yet touched her vivacity.
She is nearly eighty.
PROBABLY the tallest G.. A. r. veteran is
William P. Boyne, of Green County,
Pennsylvania, who stands seven feet in his
stockings. During the war he was a private
soldier in the Twenty second Pennsylvania
Cavalry.
The greatest pleasure the King OF Greece
had during his visit to Paris was to slip out
incognito, leaving his suite behind, and te'
promenade the Boulevards. looking into
shop windows and making purchases just aa
if he were an ordinary member Of the hu-
man family.
The ink with which all the Governments
paper money is printed is made only by
James Eddy, of Troy, N. Y, who alone has
the secret of its composition, the formula
having been given to him by his father, the
inventor of the ink, on his deathbed. The
making Of it results in a profit Of $50, 900 a
year.
The German Emperor is fond Of hunting,
particularly OF following the boar, the
sport in which his forefathers excelled. The
Kaiser rides a white horse when he gees
hunting, and silver spurs jingle on the heels
of his rop-boots. He is a good marksman,
aud has a record of putting three balls from
a revolver in the bulls eye of a small target
fifteen PAGES distant
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10

Mistress--ssYou know how to make
bread, I presumed New G.rl-'.No mum.
No use learnin' such things till after I
gets married. Puck.
What the belated husband needs is o
keyholea as large as a horse collar, so that
he can stick his head through it AM call
his wife to come down and opea the
door.-Dallas News.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10
-
TRANSFORMATION I'm Plants,

The knowledge of Transportation 10
plants is still very defective. It has re.
Gently been ascertalned that the transpi
rational activity is most vigorous in the
early stages OF a flower, while it still
possesses soft tissues only, that trans
plration diminishes with growth. and
that there is very little Transportation at.
ter the bud is half grown. Later on
when the flower opens. there is again a,
Increase in Transportation, and this in
crease is continuous until the death o
the flower. The flower early reaches til.
end of its term Of existence-about tn.
time of opening; from that time forward
decay in all the tissues commences, and
the water in the cells is in a less stapls
state Of combination. Indeed, from
that time forward the term Transportation
might almost be changed for evapora
ton. a flower, therefore, really fade
more from the drying out Of moistur,
than from any act of vital power. which
we understand by the term Transportation
TO IN up, transportation is very activ.
In the young bud, increasing gradually
until it ceases to swell, then again be
coming active, reaching its greatest &C.
tiyitY juat rs it is about to open. From
that time forward Transportation is prac
tically evaporation, and continues in full
activity until the whole flower dries up
New York Independent.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10

It is Estimated that in the United
States the annual expenditure for public
charitable institutions is fully $125, O00,-
600, and not less than $500, 900, 900 is
invested in buildings and equipments
for carrying on the work of these insti-
buttons. In this estimate no account
is taken of penitentiaries and jails.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10

Many of the dairy schools OF England
have artificial udders made of India rub
Der for the boys and girls to practice on.
A facetious exchange of the American
Farmer remarks that the COWS have
cause to be thankful that the children
have something as tough as rubber to do
their pulling on
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10

A bulletin issued by the Census Sur
eau at Washington, D. G., states that
there are 1920, 354 communicates in the
Methodist Episcopal Church in the Uni.
ted States, represented in 102 confer.
ences. It has 22,s44 church edi6ces,
with a seating capacity of $500, 7os
valued in the aggregate at $96, 723, 4Os.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10

There is a good deal of profit in the
prophet business in Java. A prophet of
that island has been paid $500 a year for
the last fifteen years s'for not predicting
a tidal ware which will sweep clear over
the island" But, after all, he cannot
be very enterprising, concludes he New
York Tribune. With the amount of
crednlity ready at hand to work upon,
he could get $1,000 a year as easily as
NOT.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10
OPELOUSAS
Female Institute
oPELOUsAs, ST. LANDRY PARISH, LA
PENSION 81

H-Acr OF JUNE 81, 1s90.-P.nson sol nrs and Sailors o + the war of III
is b who served 90 days AM wsf, hoaorably discharged from the ,erdce,ad
dren' dependent parents, fathers an1 mothes ALI pensions under this At will
commence from the date of fling the fornh application Otter the prag, of the
god unessh fled Lin the Pension Blroal o n or after June 81. 1890 (he of thu
A A oa IL not IN the form sub'taoeiauy, prescribed by the Secretary. The rates:
chhd OF soldier under sixteen years. an it thu widow dies tn child or chidsl
can draw such pension. The soldier is cattle ed to any rate from IS to Sa pr
may apply under this one, Or a peni,ne under this oem nav ao,ly under ohr
laws, nut IAN draw only one pension At th, SIN, tine. Tms Inv req tes in sol.
dlersor salorsc CASE:
CD An honorable discharge.
~ That he served at least ninety days.
~ A permanent physical or mental inability to earn a SUPPORT. but not d3
VICIOUS habits: Qt need not have originated in the serviceJ
e. That he wash onorably discharged.
N.val ervGe.
NsThat the widow is without oher me ms of support tea he. dMy
Gg That she married soldier prior to June 81, 1890. the date of the Act
~ That the soldier or sailor died of wound, injury or drca e. which, nm
lei f1mr law law: would have given him a pension.
eg hat the mother OF father Is at present dependent o her or hs own
M 1.bor, or the contributions of Others not legally bound for ,her sappora
- oenehso o tn first section of the Act of Jlus 81, 1890, are no condaed 70
all Pr nts where reasonable dependence has arsa on &C, uni of III. d att oa
n who served, since said war, in behalf of the United States as we'll as for da
quit contracted before OF since discharged.
helpi S. the pension shall continue during tie period of such d@b lily, and his
under this Or any former statute, and such pensim ms shall commenc, from the date
Oh application therefor after passage of this Act. -
ne rules N regulations oil the Department will govera all appl canss ana
~ Under Act Of June o., 1890, pensions as granted to Soldiers end saAa'
HNOTIcELDr: ". +. Lastrare having recently BEEN appointed Us
lxamlning Surgeon fer Peasions at opeiousas La it is now of se i'll in"rsart.s
Fey csn now be examined without having to su tain.the exneases Of gong to
c y orIansf for medical examination, at which place they have heretofore bass
sthected o 60.
KART n. SANDOZ,
-aa. Us pn,olc ii ! Assas
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10

the amount appropriated last year
for public schools by the Russian Gov
ernnen was So, 892, 600. "How pit
fully small this is for a great country like
Russia" observes the New York Tri-
bune, sis wildly brought out by the
fact that for the year 1899 the amount
expended for the public schools in the
State Of New York was S18, 2f4, 687. So"
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10

They are finding it hard to decide on
State flower for the State of Washing
ton. The difficulty is, explains the
New York Sun, that any flower that will
grow in one-half of the State won't grow
in the other half.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10

Hand-woven tapestries are now re.
produced in such a perfect manner, de.
clares the st. Louis Republic, as to
make a most satisfactory substitute for
the real and vastly more expensive fab.
ric, and constituting, in fact, an indus
trial art of positive importance.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10

Lowell, Whitman, Parsons, Curtis and
Whittier have all died within a year.
Never before, probably, muses. the Chi
ago Herald, have SO many great men Of
letters passed away in so short a time.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10
JOHNS S~TENOGRAPHERS
BY LEWIS IsAACs.

Ohm BRANDON
the hero of thi.
thrilling romance.
was, at the tim,
at which our stor]
opens, a man o.
about forty year;
of age, of robusl
constitution, ant
the possessor of
~luxuriant blonde
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10
LOUISIANA

An observer says that mans dress
from head to ankles consists of a COL
lection Of stove tunnels made OF cloth.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10
New Shaving Saloon.

HAVING recently built and'+efurnished
Ii throughout, my Barber Shop, I am
now prepared, with increased ia :ilit'es,
tossrve the public in First-Class Sly le
my new quarters between Brand snd
Shanpeoing, etc. done in the highest
style Of the art. Give me a call
E. A. BODEMULLER.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-10
HART n. SANDoZ,

.-.- U.S FEns0I y - ] Is'FT
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-09
A NEGLECTED INDUSTRY.

1t is "a theT a unique sort OF. advertise
ment for Pittsburg that in order to in
crease the list of candidates for the May
orally, with its 81 900 salary, the party ad-
visors have almost to take lantern with
them to discover prominent business or
professional men willing to quit. their
private callings for the public functions
of Chief Magistrate. 1t looks as though
business were good, and further as if the
people engaged conspicuOusly in business
ard in the learned professions have no ap-
prehensions that the material interests of
Pittsburg are going to decline. Even the
landslide to the Democracy, with the tenn
porary eclipse of the high protective pol
icy, has not resulted in depression ade-
quate to add so far single new name to
the four original candidates for the May
oralty-one Republican, two Democrats
and one Independent. The salary of
$1,000, which some years ago W ould have
proved. a rosy. attraction, now seems no
inducement
Two conclusions may arise. First, that
the demands for business absorb and
handsomely pay all the noted ability there
10 III lbloUu1R AoOOo
than public. Office; and second, that. the
ambition of office-holding is anything but
strong in this part of the world. Of course
there is a third Inference, not so fatter-
ing, that public. spirit is weak in COM
munity since it fails to produce more
numerous list of men willing to leave
their private callings for term and place
their abilities at the public service.
Outsiders may well conclude that Pitts
burg is rare place for business, when
business so exclusively absorbs the people,
that in this special instance ofice-huntiGg
presents the aspect of a decaying and
neglected industry. The honors and
emoluments of city offices seemingly have
lost their charm, save for such as have
been continuously engaged in politics in
a semi-professional way.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-09
THE LAST STRAW.

Any suspicion of usefulness thai was
left to the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion is destroyed by Judge Gresham s
latest ruling. The decision that $50 much
of the Interstate Commerce Law as
authorizes or requires the courts to use
their powers in aid of inquiries before the
Interstate Commerce Commission is un-
constitutional and void'' carries peculiar
force as coming from an avowed opponent
of railroad transgressions. The history of
the Commission has been but revelation
of its 1ncapacity to cope with the evils it
was professedly appointed to suppress.
And this last blow goes further than ever
in demonstrating its ineficiency.
Unless the railroads are to be permitted
to continue in their open disregard of
public policy and successful defiance
of the spirit of the law, a new enactment
must be passed by Congress that shall
hold water better than the leaky arrange
ments extant. The power of the trans
portation magnates must be curbed at all
costs. And Congress cannot long delay
the enactment of measures that shall
carry with them the power of and neces-
sity for rigorous enforcement The coun-
try has had more than evidence enough of
the railroad lobbyists power, and the
duplicity or stupidity of its own Repre-
sentatives. And the time has come to
make fresh and vigorous start to demon
strate that public privileges are not
granted without public duties, and that
those duties must be performed or the
penalties paid for their evasion.