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The morning call., 1892-05-15
Bank CIearings,
Tho Week. Failures.

Local bank elearings last week were 5,9l3, 293
against $lS ,sSO,035 for the same week last year.
The morning call., 1892-05-15
AID HEALTH is ~' g9assfaf to S9 Re;

= . .
nr usVS, HAIR EFAlTH Most satisfactory Hair grower
~ Yondon Supply Co s5S Bdway, ~ Hair book FREQ
Sold by WAKELEE & CO.. Montgomery street.
Also Polk and suffer streets San Francisco.
ana ly SuTQFr
The morning call., 1892-05-15
Portland,s Business.
Exchange and Bullion.

PORTLAND. Or, May l4-Clearances. $2s3,0OO
balances. $4,000.
The morning call., 1892-05-15
New York Markets.

NEW YORK, May 14.-The stock market to-day
was heavy in all departments, and the steady pres
sure IN Union Pacific and Changers resulted in
Union Pacific and Northern Pacific preferred sell
ing down to the lowest point in years. The market
closed weak at near the lowest prices. Union Pa
cifc lost 21s. Governments Gull and steady. Pc
troeuu-June closed at 56zc.
NEW YORK. May l4.-United States Bonds, as,
1l784 do. rs. 90: Northern Pacific, 1855; Cana
dian Pacific, S91A Central Pacific. 80. Union Pa
cine 4O3s; Atchison and Santa re, 3414: Wells
Fargo, las: Western Union. 923s; Silver. eS14e;
Sterling. 81 S76e4 SO.
Wheat = May. soc. Flour. steady. Coffee,
SIP is. Sugar. 23sG5 1-l6c. HOUs-Pacihc Coast,
2SQ2sc. Hides, l3o. Copper-Lake. Sl2 TIN
spot. $50 90. Lead-Domestie, 81 2712 iron-$16.
PetrOeum-June, 66s4c.
The morning call., 1892-05-15

Hops are very quiet and unchanged. Paeihes,
90's, are quoted at 10000 Foreign markets are
unchanged.
SUGAR AND COFFEE
Sugar-Raw. firm and unchanged; refined, quiet
and unchanged.
Coffee - Moderately active, with a slight sd-
vance. Sales 5000 bags. May, Sl2 lai June
Sll 50; July, $I1 so.
The morning call., 1892-05-15

A shakespearean Student.

Board-l00 Hawaiian Commercial. pa; so do /
10 26s; 80 Water, 9s15 Pacific Gas Imp
1881
The morning call., 1892-05-15

THE WHITE House!
The Largest Retail Dry Goods Store lie IL City.
HOSIERY DEPARTMENT.
SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS.

LADIES' FAST BLACK HOSE, 1.-THE PEERLESS
25e, 35c, SOC, reduced from 4Oc, soc. 75c.
LADIES BLACK SILK HOSE, reduced to 81 SO
pair.
GENUINE FRENCH SILK HOSE of the finest quail
ity in eOored tops and black feet reduced from
81 so 70 So rs pair.
LADIES SILK HOSE in pink, SKY lavender gray,
white and tan, at 81 20 pair. worth 81
500 dozen REAL FRENCH RIBBED COTTON
HOSE FOR CHILDREN, in navy, seal aud OK
ford. sizes 8. 612 7, ia 8, 8l3 and g. former
price 75c S5c, 9Oe 9Oc, 81, 81 and 81 10. re-
dueed to, to TIA, inclusive, 25c; TO 9 in
elusive, 35c.
800 d zen CHILDREN'S HOSE. in ali sizes and
colors, reduced to 15c. worth soc.
Mail orders solicited. Samples sent on Application
Goods sent free to all suburban towns
The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-02
The Eskimos Slrely Starving.

Hitherto the Eskimos have depended
for food upon the whale, walrus, and
seal of the coast aud the fish of the.
rivers. The first three animals have also
supplied them with clothing, boats, and
all other necessaries of life. Fifty years
ago the Whalers, having exhausted other
waters, sought the northern Paciio for
whales, pursuing them into Bering Sea,
and carrying the war Of extermiuation
into the Arctic Ocean. At length the
few surviving whales have been driven
to the neighborhood of the pole, and
their species has become well-night ex-
tinct on the Alaskan coast. Respond
ing to a commercial demand for ivory,
the whalers' turned their attention to
the walrus snd proceeded to wipe them
out Of existence likewise. Sometimes as
many as two thousand of the valuable
beasts would be slaughtered on d single
cake OF ice, merely for their tusks. Thus
d Wairus is hardly to be found tod ay in
those waters where SO short a time ago
the animals were so numerous that their
bellowings were heard above the roar of
the q and the grinding of the foes.
Seals and sea-lions are o getting SO
scarce that the natives have difficulty in
procuring enough Of their skins to cover
boats. They used to catch and cuIe great
quantities of fish ia the streams, but
their supply from this source has recently
diminished owing to the establishment
of great ~cannaries which send millions
of cans Of salmon out Of the country an
nnally and destroy vastly more by waste
full methods. Improved firearms have
driven the wild caribou into the mac
cessible regions Of the remote interlor..
Thus the process of slow starvation
md depopulation has begun along the
whole Arctic coast Of Alaska, and famine
IS progressing southwark year by year on
the shore of Bering Sea. Where vii.
lagos numbering thousands were a few
years ago, the populations have been re-
duced to hundreds.-Boston Transcript.
EM
The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-02

Lieutenant g. i. Garden says The
recently accomplished voyage of the
United States revenue cutter Morrill,
through inland waters from Charleston,
8. CT, 10 ~Fernandina, Fla, IS Of an i'm.
portance not easily to be estimated from
Q military point of view. He thinks it
demonstrates the ability Of a war vessel
drawing not over ten feet of wafer to.
communicate along 155 miles at least OF
the Atlantic coast between torpedo fleets
and gunboats guarding against a block
ade. Lieutenant Garden doesn't say SO,
adds the New York World, but there
are naval experts who bslieve that id a
brief perioi, BY means of the Chesapeake
and Delaware Canal ani other water
ways, such communication can be estab-
lished and maintained Inside the bar aud
breaker lines between the Natioaal Cap-
ital and the ports Of the whole South
Atlantic coast.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-02

Professor Billroth, in an address in
Vienna, Austria, recently on casualties
in battle, said that the percentage Of
combatants wounded by bombs or can.
0 balls o. modern battle fields is
slight compared with those ~incapaci-
tated by rifle bullets. Prom observations
Of battles in the Franco russian wal he
found that wounds inflicted by cavalry
Or artillery are comparatively rare.
About eighty per cent. Of all the casual
ties were inflicted by bullet wounds, fif-
teen per cent. came from artillery and
i've per cent. By the saber or bayonet.
Furthermore It is q fallacy to suppose
that the majority Of wounds caused by
artillery o. bombs end fatally. The de.
ducticn is that the principal study of
army surgeons should be directed toward
relieving wounds caused by rifle bullets.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-02
Central Australia.

Explorations are expensive and some.
times useful enterprises. A recent ex-
petition sent into Central Australia was
more noted fer tie former than the
latter Characteristic. The report shows
that nothing has been gained beyond the
qualification Of a little geographical
curiosity. The country explored is
practically desert, almost destitute of
water 81 vegetation. It contains no
traces of gold, diamonds, Or anything
else worth having, and seems To produce
scarcely anything but spinifex. Ii this
desolate region a number OF .sblaek fell
lows as the natives are called. contrive
to exist, and as they have nothing that
anybody can envy, they are not likely to
be- dIsturbed In the interests of civiIiza-
ton. This information was obtained
after many hardanips and discourage.
ments,-New York Witness.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-02
There are at this moment in England,

There are at this moment in England,
alleges the Argonaut, eight hundred and
ninety-seven thousand more marraigeablc
women than manageable men. Here is
= huge standing army OF spinsters who
must remain single, not because the men
will not marry them, but because there
are no men to marry them. And their
ranks are, Of course, largely swelled by
those who either can not get the men
they want or have not moved any man I'd
want them. Lady Henry Somerset, like
other observers Who have spoken on the
SUBJECT, likes our system Of free associa-
ton between young men and women. To
protect and care for ono of tile other sex
i an art which this sympathetic critic
thinks a man cannot acquire too early. 1t
makes the way to . matrimonial proposal
9 good deal easier than a stubbornly con-
servatiye, social convention has made ID
II England. Il helps 10 expand the fem.
inipc mind, too for, notwithstanding
Lady Henry Somsrscts Impression to the
contrary. the wolacn do not moaopolizo
the intellectual activity Of our people.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-02
Manufacture of DrestuRs.

Few instances CT modern industrial
growth in any n speciality are more
surprising than that of the manufacture
of artificial dyestuffs. In England,
France, Germany and solue other
countries, but especially in Germany,
this industry has attained such prodigious
growth that In some cases the extensive
works resemble d small town or village.
This appears from the published statistics
that one of these piants-that OF the
FaroWerke, at Hoeehst-on-NaiD, where
are employed some 1900 workmen, City
forenen. nine engineers, besides eighty
six clerks and fitty-seven chemists. The
works cover an area OF 726, 900 square
yards, and from h end Of the works TO
the other the distance IS 1900 feet. Be-
sides a great variety of dyestuEfs, the
acids employed in their production are
also manufactured, amounting ia one
yearto II, 108, 900 kilograms Of sulphuric
acid, II, 6uU. 900 of other acids, and
1924, 600 Of c~oal-tar pro6ucts.-New
York Telegram.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-02

Science has been meditatins upon the
subject of the probable increase of the
population in the United States, and ii
presents US with these startling coz
illusions: Since 1850 the increase has
been from 1,26o, 600 to the neighbor-
mood, in 1890. of s., 1000, coo. If this
ratio of increase is a fair basis for pre-
diction we shall have at the time when
the ~ten.year-old boy Of to-day shall be
forty years of age, in 1920, something
like 100, 600, 600 of people in the United
States, aud when that mau of forty
reaches his SEVENTEEN birthday 1850
we shall have close upon 400, 600, 900
population.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-02

Many Of the statesmen and public men
OF Chile are Of pretty much the same
stock as many Of our own people, de-
clares the Chicago Herald. Their i'm
mediate ancestors were Europeans, and
some Of their public men are born Euro.
peans- The new Chilean Minister Of Pub-
lie Works, Don Augustin Edwards, was
born in Chile of English parents. He is
a great favorite with the British residents,
and a Valparaiso newspaper says:
ssThose who know him best love to think
of him as an Englishmau.n
The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-02
PENSIONS |

g8g-Acr OF JUNE 81, 1890 Pensions soldiers and sailors of the war of he
rebellion who served 90 days anl wers honorably discharged from the service and
who are ncapac1ated for performance OF manual labor, and for tue widows chill
Idrn, dependant parents, fathers and mothers. Ali pensions under this Act will
commences from the date Of ding thu formh application latter the passage Of tho
good unless fled in tas PenionB mosl n or after June q, 1890 date of the
A0 ri not in the form, enthusiastically prescribed by the Secretary. The rates:
child Of soldier under sixteen years; a11 If th4 widow dies. the child or ehiidrea
can draw such pension. The soldier il emitted to any rate from SIS to s1s pr
may apply under this one, u . pensoner under this one may apply under othe:
laws, but can draw only ne pension at thu sans tine. This lw requires in a sol
idleTs fs sailors case:
CD An honorable discharge.
e1 That he served at least ninety days.
tD "A permanent physical or mental inability to earn a snnn,rt hut at due
to vicious habits Ct need not have orginated il the service5
~ That the sailor or soldier reserved 1T eastn inety DAYS
C0 That he was honorably discharged.
CD Proof of death, but it need MT have been the results Of his Army or
q That the widow s without other means Of support than her daily
DEPENDENT PARENTS CASE.
% That the soldier r sailor died Of a wound, injury orr disease, which, I'm
der prior law, would ave given him a pension.
VI Ihath he lett n @ wife or minor child.
~ That te mother orf father Is at present dependent on her or his own
al aoor, or the contributions OF Others not legally bound for their support
me benehso OF the first section of the Act Of Jane 81, 1890. are not confined to
all parents where reasonable dependence has arisen o account OF the death of a
son who served, since said wal, in behalf of the United States, as we'll as fol- dis
adults contracted before or since discharged
AZ That in case a minor child is insane. idmtic III otherwise rmanen
helpless, the pension shall continue during tic period of such disability, and this
under this Q any former statute, and such pensions shall commence from the date
of application therefor after passage oft this Act
The rules M regulations of the Department will royera al apnlicants and
attorneys
R-UadarsA IF Jnne q, 1890, pensions ar granted To- Soldiers I'D saaas
H7NOTICELDr w. 4. Lasrapes having recently cen annointad II S
Examining Surgeon fer Pensions at opeouas, La, it is now of special interesior
they cann now be examined without having TIC sustaint the expenses Of poing to
New Orleans To- medical examination, at which place they have heretofore been
directed to go.
HART r. SANDoZ,
- -, S.. Us. Pension Claim Agent.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-02

Inc court at httGy s instance. appOlnGe
Hugh M'Kissen her guardian and tru
tee, to the scandal of the young folk
who thought she should have chose
some older Hugh and Burnett ha
divers conferences, before affairs wert
over. At one of these the lawyer said
"What a very pretty girl Cousi
Kitty isl Don't you think SO MI
M'Kissen?n
"Ye-es."
"She'll make a figure when she gets
into society, too. She is one of thu
rough gems that take to polish kindly
"M-m."
"The fact is, I admire her the more
the more | know her. I must try ant
persuade her to leave the mountains"
"Kitty MKissen isn't one of tina
kind" said Hugh. "You heard her say
that she would stay here, and she is the
one to keep her word"
II beg your pardon, Mr.. M'Kissen,
said Burnett. s'Her pro per name
Catherine Markham, and she is not like
ly to change tin this place. NJ
offense to you; but the name is a gooc
one, and sounds well; but it would
sound better if it were changed to Bur
nett, in my judgment"
And then Burnett walked off, to take
a stroll through the hills, leaving Hugh
confused and indignant.
"Confound bis impudence!" cried
Hugh. tsMrs. Burnett! He's after
Kitty's money. Kitty marry him!"
Hugh walked out to cool himself and
met Kitty coming from the spring
house; for Kitty was born to love cows
md chickens, and her money had not
changed her ways. She nodded. Hugh
kept at her side, and as she reached the
porch he said
sI-I want to have a talk with you,
Kitty"
a.All right. SIT down on the porch,
then, and I'll listen"
"Kitty-I-the fact is"
aYes?"
"The fact is You don't care for
Burnett, do you?"
.'Care for him. OF course [ do. He
brought me good fortune; he's my "
cousin. you know, aud he's d Tery nice
man, too"
care you-going-to marry with
him."
"What a question: I suppose you
can ask it as you're my guardian. |
don't see how Icould; he's no. a Nor
nom, and be has a wife already"
H01, Kitty, you know L"
"WeIl, don't know, till I know
what it is I know"
''Kitty, love you"
"of you do; we were brought
up together"
s'It's not that, Kitty; but why can't
we narry2"
"You never asked me, Hdgh."
Hugh asked then with q ven gea1ca.
He poured out his feeling. in a iooi Of
words. Kitty didn't interrupt him.
She liked it. Butwhsa he pausel for
want of breath, she quietly put
her hand in his, and said:
aYou ought TO have kh 'gt that I
loved you, Hugh"
When Burnett came back he divinel
the state Of affairs at opce.
''Mr. M'Kissen," he said, dryIy, 81
presume Miss Burnett will have the APP
prevail Of her guardian in this matter"
Kitty did go to the East, but it was IS
Kitty M'Kissen, and with her husband.
After theit return there was a house put
up on the M'Kissen place which was
he wonder Of the neigaborhoo1, beth
itself aud Furnishings.
s.such doings!' said Nancy stallins
a gossip. "you know the house,
ouilt outer bricks and rocks-t sorter
ross atwix' a dollhouse an' a meesin'
louse; an enough rooms in it for a
avern. But was inside; six wagon.
Dads o things was put in ths floors are
all over. Yes!" continued
nancy, with the bitterest climax,
.kigered with kiverlids i"-The Ledger.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-02
HILL COUNTRY IDYL.
BY THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH.

ITTY M'KISSEM
looked at her broth
er and sighed, and
the sigh was ac-
%companied by a
glance of admira-
ton. Hugh M'Kissen
was certainly a fine
specimen of young
mountain manhood.
Tall and muscular,
with q 1.-THE and sin
envy form, whose
graceful proportions
the half. coat,
half-sack, called "a
h untin p-s Ii iffn
The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-02
AT DAwN.

Each leaf, another Weakening, signs.
"Sweet sister, it is dayi
The last night-blooming glory dies.
And wheresoe'er a petal lies,
The east grows warm and gray.
''The birds are still asleep, ami yet.
Amid the silent throng,
Like dusky vapors that beget
The dew, dream-winged shades have set
The germs of heavenly song"
John B. Tabb, in Lippincott.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-02

There never wa i more hopeful sig
than the report Of tae recent Agricultural
Department which makes the aggregate
cereal crop for tie last year 1000. 900.
ooo bushels bigger than The previous
year. The figures for three years mast
Il thousands, COOS omitted, are:
Total RusA. Basa. Hns.
Production. 1891. lsso. 800
Corn Z, o6O, III 1,4se.g70 21iasaa
Wheat. OH, s. 500, asa 400 5614
Oats 1896 5s8s 7al,5l5
Total 3.4lo.3as 2,4is.s53 s.sslaY
The cotton CROP last year was 1, 655, SIS
bales, Or 1 ISL. 7s2 bales larger than the
year before, Tbs production Of anthra-
cite was 5000, 900 tons more thaa the
rear before, ana 81 b~ituminous ii least
e. .Ooo tons more. The run ii ps-
troIenm was !, 1903, o0o barrels more ii
1891 than 1890. The output of copper
Nas 80. o9oiooo pounds more; ii lead.
y, oeo toas more; If zlnc, 10, 900 toas
more sad 81 silver, A.Op0,o 900 ounces
more. With the exception 81 pie iron,
estimated II S,9le, 600 tons Is 1881.
againat 30, so7 o2s tons ii 1890, The ID
flFs ~pf9aaesion If ths county took
great siep forSard III 1901. rllis means
higher prices sooaer ii latter.
The farmers' union., 1892-09-08
FOR THE WORLDS FAIR.
Money to &c Spent by Nations, Colonies
and States.

Money to Ec Spent by Nations, Colonies
and States.
The foreign nations and colonies which
have thus far expressed their intention
to participate in the Columbian Exposi-
ton are given below, with the amount
Of their respective appropriations, either
made or officially proposed, as far as in
formation concerning them has been re-
ceived at headquarters:
Argentine Republic, 100000; Aus
tria, Sl02, 900; Belgium, S57 900; Bo-
ivia; $50, 200; Brazil, SGo0,000; China,
100000; Colombia, S150,000; Costa
Rica, $50, 900; Denmark, SCI, 600; Dan
ish West Indies, sl,200; Ecuador; S125.-
o0a; France, s73a. 400; Germany, $780,
200; Great Britain, 1921, $3.50: Barbados,
$3.50; Bermuda, $500: British Gui-
ana, s25, 900; British Honduras, $500;
Canada, 100000: Cape Colony, $780,
coo; Ceylon. sG3.0oo; Jamaica, S24,-
333; Leeward Islands, SG,0oo; New
South Wales. S243,325: Tasmania,
sic ,o0o; Trinidad, $4,000; Victoria,
S97 1880; Greece, $4,000; Guatemala,
soc zoo; Hayti, s25, coo; Honduras, s2o,-
600: Japan, $500, ,765; Mexico, $4,000;
Morocco, $50, ,0o0: Dutch Guiana, slo,-
600; We Indies, $1,000; Nicaragua,
o,0bo; Norway. 57,2o0; Orange Free
State, s., 500; Paraguay, 100000; Peru,
$4,000: Russia, $40, ,320; Salvador,
Sl2,50O: San Domingo, S25,oho: Spain,
s14 1000; Cuba, $4,000; Switzerland,
S23. .iG0; Sweden, S53,6oO; Uruguay.
S24,ooo. Total. $3.50, ,oG3.
The United States Federal Govern
ment has appropriated from its treasury
for the building of the government
structure 81, SOC, GOO, and lately s.. $50 200
for the general expenses.
The States and Territories OF the
United States in the Columbian Exposi-
tion and their respective appropriations
are as follows:
Arizona, $4,000: California, $500, 600:
Colorado, S1oo,ooo; Delaware. s1o,G0o;
Idaho. $50, 0,0no; Illinois. SS1o,oo0; Indi-
ana, s75 1000; Iowa $50, 900; Kentucky.
$4,000 Louisiana, $4,000; Maine,
40.00O; Maryland, SG0,o0H; Massachu-
setts, si5O,0oO; Michigan, 100000;
MINES TIA. $4,000; Missouri. S150,000;
Montana, $4,000; Nebraska, $4,000;
New Hampshire, $4,000: New Jersey,
S70,O 900; New Mexico, s25 900: New York.
$500, 900: North Carolina, So, Q; North
Dakota, s25 600: Ohio, S125, 900; Penn
sylvania, $500. 600: Rhode Island. S50,-
600; Vermont. $1,000; Washington,
SloO,o00: West Virginia. $4,000: Wis
consin. SO 200: Wyoming, $4,000. To-
tai. s3,441,oto.
The farmers' union., 1892-09-08
where. but would be necessary in a

where. but would be necessary in a
world where the land is dry and arid.
If there are people In Mars, they must
possess much skill and intelligence. SO
they would probably have wit enough to
tow their floating cities to northern lati-
tudes in summer. AS the winter sea-
son approaches they would obviously
float them southwark, following up tho
climate, as the American Indians do
with their skin lodges and women and
children.
If people can construct such enor-
nous works as canals of the dimensions
told in the foregoing. it would be inn
possible to toll where the limit of their
Skill would reach. They must be far
ahead of Americans as engineers and me-
'hani =. What other astonishing tri-
umphs as mechanical originators they
have achieved must be left to the future
to discover.
What Astronomers Think.
"Hne circumstance, says Professor
Proctor, that may at first excite sur
prise is the fact that in IL planet so
much farther from the sun than the
world there should exist so close re-
scmblancc TO the earth in respect to
climatic relations.
But if We consider the results of
Iyndale's researches on the radiation
OF heat, and remember that IA very mod
crate increase in the quantity of certain
val ors present in our atmosphere would
suffice to render the climate of the
earth intolcrable through excess of heat
Just as glass walls cause q dollhouse
to be warm long after the sun has set
We shall not fail TO see that Mars may
readily be compensated by correspond
ing arrangement fer his increased dis
tance from the vivifying center Of his
solar system"
Professor Swift says that there Is
certainly something that is mysterious
in the topography of the planet, as
viewed from the earth.
Some of its markings" he adds, "ara
chan-cabic. and az pear as clouds, while
others seem stable and are indicative of
Solidity. AS, however. Mars rotatcs on
its axis So slowly. no belts like those
environing Jupiter and Saturn are
visible.
That Mars is inhabited is an under
stood IA t. That it was created to that
IN is verify. hut whether it is or not
is only question that we can Judge by
understanding its availability for the
giving OF lite to human beings. No
teles scope has yet been discovered that
truly tells that fact"
Prof. Schaparelli is the only astron-
omcr that has managed to draw chart
OF Mars that as a planet exists only in
the minds of other not quite SO famous
astronomers.
Aside from the discoveries of tho
Italian professor, the credit Of finding
that Prof. Schiaparelli is correct must
be awarded to the famous Lick OBJ
servatory at san Francisco The money
to build this magnificent observatory
was furnished by Mr. Lick. and it has
well demonstrated his faith that it was
needed hy the fact that it has told the
world that Mars is probably another
planet like ours.