The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-28

herself, and spent the remainder of her
active life in the United States, carrying
the Gospel to savages, teaching pauper
children TO read and write. assisting the
destitute. tending the sick, burying the
dead, feeding the hungry. and founding
everywhere churches. schools and asylums
for the aged, hospitals and workshops
Missionary of the church, pioneer of civ
ilization, earning the palms of which she
was found so worthy. she was wholly un-
conscious of the neglect and want
OF appreciation of an Indifferent
world and ungrateful country, which
seemed to have forgotten her. The highest
ambition of Nine. Duchesne was to
Christianize and civilizs the savages: she
loved them as fervently as st. Teresa
loved the Castilians. She hailed with
intense JOY and gratitude the announce
ment that she was to accompany the mis-
sion sent to the Far West with that object
in view. "'The news gives me a second
youth" she wrote; II feel es one born
afreshl" She was then II, and the only
complaint she was ever heard 10 make was
that her advanced years would prevent her
from rescuing from heather barbarism so
many OF her poor savages. There are no
more heather savages in the field of her
whole labors, but in all the big capitals of
America and Europe there are men as
benighted and dangerous, and less easily
swayed and weaned from their evil
courses. The present member of the
Perier- Duchesne family, the near relative
Of the SANITY Rose and of Frances great
statesman. has before him the difficult
task of fighing the anarchists and protect
ing his countrymen against their fanati-
cism. President Perler Is very wealthy,
and can in no way be accused of yielding
TO temptation for financial gain. His
father was minister of the interior under
President Theirs, and Casimir was his
off of1 Ha il n
He became prime minister late in 1893. and
resigned few weeks ago. taking advant-
age of an adverse vote in the chamber of
deputies. He was glad to leave Office, In
order to improve his chances for election
10 the presidency when Carnot's term ex-
pired next December. He soon after be-
came president of the chamber of dspu-
ties. Perier made great reputation as
prime minister. The anarchists had ter
rified the former ministry, but Perier
hanged the bomb demons. He took q
prominent part in the Franco-Russian
fetes, and vigorously suppressed all AM
archist demonstrations. His stern meas
ures against anarchism and his vigorous
hostility to socialism made the bourgeois,
or middle class look upon him as their
savior, and he is of all public men in
France the most distasteful TO the social
lists. However. the socialists do not use
the dagger and the bomb, but agitation
aud the ballot. and in France they are
making prodigious progress. Casimir
Perier is genial, shrewd, kindly man, of
agreeable manners and polite address,
whose countenance is truthful index TO
HIS character, although il bears, when
more closely observed, q strange express
sion OF melancholy sometimes amounting
to sadness, which seems inconsistent with
his general character. He is in the prime
of life. in excellsnt health and full of
energy.