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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01

they found that the Creole ponies
would not eat corn or oats. Both re-
NAMED untouched in their feed boxes.
In some cases the native horses had
to be starved for days before they
would touch either.
A Northern farmer threw an ear of
corn among herd of wild cattle.
They came up to it, looked at it, shifted
it and walked away again. Not a
steer would eat it. The colonists
from the North inferred that to the
horses and cattle of these parishes
corn and oats were an acquired taste.
The bread fruit of Louisiana is the
sweet potato. 1t will grow anywhere
in any kind of soil. The varieties of
sweetpotatoes are almost innumerable.
They yield from 200 to 500 bushels to
the acre, and usually sell for fifty
cents barrel or twenty cents bushel,
though in seasons of scarcity they are
thirty and even forty cents bushel.
They are the daily food of the farmers.
and are fed to horses, cattle, swine
and poultry. The Louisiana sweet
potatoes are wholesome, but lack the
fine flavor OF those raised in Virginia.
Irish potatoes are regarded here as a
luxury, and the people have them on
Sundays and holidays.
1t is supposed generally in the North
that Louisiana is swamp country, O
network of morass and bayou, and
that there is little ground in its
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01
Her Cinch.

Mildred" said her mother, Il
don't believe that young man cares
for you at all. In my opinion he comes
here to see you merely because he has
no place else to CO."
"Oh, mamma" the girl replied,
"you are mistaken-you wrong him.
1 have proof that he loves me-"
"What is it? Has he asked you to
marry him?"
"No. but I accidentally said I
had saw the other evening, and he
Immediately afterward said something
about having came, just to make me
feel that he was somewhat shy on
grammar. You needn't tell me that
anything less than love-deep, soul
full, everlssting love-would induce q
man to do that. t."-Chicego Times.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01

White blackberries are much
esteemed in Acadia and Calcasieu, be-
cause they are superior in flavor to
the black kind. Some regard them
as a concession of nature to the color
prejudice. They differ from the black
blackberries mainly in complexion.
In Louisiana is what popularity is
known as the "dishcloth plant" 1t
produces a green pod, which yields,
when opened, a large piece of cellular
vegetable tissue, often used in kitch-
ems as "dishcloth.
The native horses and cattle in this
part of the State formerly lived on
sweet potatoes, grass and hay. When
Nor thern farmers came here to settle
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01

Here the land is upheaved in innumer-
able little mountains, which rise sixty
or seventy feet above the surrounding
landscape. The highest peak in the
State is in this wild district, and it
towers $50 feet above the Gulf Of
Mexico.
Tho hill country might make the
| mountaineers of the Alps or the Andes
smile, but it is as serious a fact in this
State as are the Highlands in Scotland
or the Catskill Mountains in New
York. This mountainous country is
| the lumber belt. 1t is full of sawmills,
and turns out vast quantities of hand
some yellow pine lumber for the North
| ern market.
In the southwestern part of the
State lies the Acadian country. 1t is
land of beautiful prairies and Of
magnificent yellow pine forests that in
the distance look blue. This is the
upland OF Louisiana, the foothills of
the little Switzerland to the north.
It is the rice belt and cattle country
of the State.
In Acadia the prairies are small.
being ten or twelve miles long and
five or six miles wide. They are
girded round by yellow pine forests,
through which run bayous. 1t is a
fertile parish, but not as pretty to the
eve as Calcasieu. The Calcasieu
prairie is the largest in the State
about fifty miles long and from five to
forty miles wide. The parish itself,
which is also the largest in the Com
monwealth, comprises 1000 square
miles, and is about two-thirds the size
of Connecticut.
Here the land is firm and solid. In
digging wells the farmers have to go
deeper to find water than they do in
Wisconsin. The land, which is now
fifty to sixty feet above the Gulf of
Mexico, was once its bed, and con-
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01

tains great deal of sand. The roads
are sometimes dry within twelve
hours after semi-tropical rain. There
is so little mud, except in proximity
to rice marshes, that one may ride a
bicycle along highway covered with
water.
This is the upland, and yet it is the
rice country. The explanation is sim
Pile. From foot to two feet under
the soil lies bed of clay which is i'm
pervious to water. Wherever land
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01
lend. 1t is easy to borrow the use of
ono on arainY tree, and as it is chained

lend. 1t is easy to borrow the use of
ono on rainy tree, and as it is chained
to the ground by it's roots no one ever
forgets to return it. It's branches
radiate from the trunk like umbrella
stays. Its foliage forms waterproof
covering like an umbrella top. It's
trunk is the handle. 1t will keep one
entirely dry in a subtropical storm.
In summer it affords perfect shade
from the sun. Atramp once explained
his wanderings through Louisiana by
saying that he was travelling tinker,
mending umbrella trees.
The green rose, the only one I have
ever seen, is not as large as the red
rose, nor does it display its petals
as fully, but it is distinctly rose. II
some Northern foriculturist would
develop the green rose further ii
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01

the lace tree; to be more explicit,
from lace-like fibre, which grows be-
meath the bark. The outside of this
curious tree very much resembles the
white and mottled mistletoe boughs
one sees exposed for sale during the
holidays, but the inside of the younger
limbs and branches is mass of the
lace fibre, sometimes pure white in
color and again yellow, tending to
brown. Though the lace tree is ap-
parently very hard wood, the interior
fibre may be unwrapped in sheets,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
( ACADIA. The BEAUTIFUL LAND. :
= Scenes in Southern Louisiana Where the :
g Rich Rice Fields Lie. 8
8
\ AYOU NEZ PIQUE, Acadia,

~ AYOU NEZ PIQUE, Acadia,
X La.-In Southern I Louisiana
you may sit under an ''un-
j brella tree" look at green roses
-. and eat white eblackberries. You
may watch the chameleon turn scar
let. blue, green, brown or gray, or
hear the mocking bird pour forth its
wild melody from the roof of a veranda,
or see fight of white cranes descend,
like great snowfiakes, on distant
ricefeld.
This suttropical land, with its trees
ghostly with Spanish moss, its bayous
ablaze with scarlet LEAKAGE, out OF
whose fire of color leaps the Louisiana
red bird; its pale green prairies, its
intense sunlight, orange sunsets,
swift twilight and brilliant moonlight,
is weird and enchanting.
1t looks as if it had been borrowed
from fairy book and did not belong
to geography at all.
1t is midwinter, yet the dooryards
of Acadia, st. Landry and Calcasieu
parishes are abloom with roses.
Christmas trees of live oak or holly
OF mistletoe, still bright in the little
farmhouses, were dressed on Christ
mas Day with fresh flowers gathered
out of doors.
The umbrella tree is common.
Every farmer has half "A dozen to
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01
A Terrible Drink story.

Day by day instances are made public OF
the disasters due to drink. The wonder Is
that the working classes, who are the
greatest sufferers from the demon, do not
rise and demand the total cessation Of the
manufacture and sale of alcohol as a bev-
erage. In London Il man and his wife went
to bid farewell to a British Army Reservist
who was sailing for South Africa. They
became intoxicated. the woman was
knocked down by an omnibus and taken to
a hospital. But as she had dread Of hos
pitfalls her husband would not let her re.
main, being too drunk to realize the
seriousness OF her condition. When hs
awoke in the morning he found his wife
dead by his side. Equally pitiful stories
are heard daily by magistrates and coron-
ers, but half the havoc wrought by drink
is ever published Budget.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01
The Crusade in Brief.

The Society of Total Abstainers, Just
formed in Vienna, is the first ever estab-
lished In Austria.
A large American insurance company an
nounces that 1t will provide special poll
icy at a lower rate for abstainers.
Scotland has beaten England in the num-
Der Of teetot chief magistrates elected
this year. he provosts OF thirty-three
towns are total abstainers.
Nearly one-third OF the towns and town.
ships OF Ohio are now without legalized
saloons, largely as the result OF che efforts
OF the Anti. Saloon League. ..----.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01
The Increasing Value of Diamonds.

The war in South 5 Africa, it is
learned, has been the cause of the
great rise in the price of diamonds.
For the last few years these precious
stones have become more and more
valuable, till the war has accentuated
their price to such degree that the
gems are not only things of beauty,
but a good investment as we'll.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01
The salaclaya Cap.

In England just now women are
busy knitting comforts for the British
soldiers in South Africa sleeping hel
NETS, tam-o'- -shanters, cardigan jack.
cts, cuffs, scarfs. mittens, socks and
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF iNTEMPERANcE, 4

The NumselIer's Song-One OF Coughs
PerOratiOns-A Climax by Which tho
Famous Temperance Lecturer Thrilled
His Uca arers-A Powerful Illustration.
Do you see yonder farmer just planting
his fleld2
He does all the work. friends. but get the
He's drinking the fruits OF his lands and
his kline,
II wait few years his whole farm will
be mine.
Hos working for me. He's working for
mt.
My wife and my children he feeds, don't
you see?
Both houses and lands he is earning for
me.
Hes working for me; yes, working for
me.
Do you hear that mechanic complain OF
his fate?
Curslng trusts and monopolies early and
late?
Yet though wages are low and prices are
dear,
He still can find money to buy him his
beer.
Chorus.
My wife and my daughters wear satins.
Is buying me horses and carriages-see?
Then see that poor washwoman, wrinkled
and gray;
She works, and her husband soon drinks
all her pay.
He once worked himself; then used to get
more,
But half loaf is better than none, to be
sure.
Chorus.
My wife and daughters have jewels, but
she
Is washing to help pay my servants for
me.
Then there's that policeman with uniform
gay,
He's paid By the town, but the work-welI,
now say,
Were it not for my business he'd soon lose
his job.
fhere'd be few to ..pull in for this blue
coated "bob."
Chorus!
I make the men drunk and he s'pulls
them" you see.
Not man on the "force'' but is "solid"
with me.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01
"Reminiscences OF John b. Cough.

"Reminiscences OF John b. Cough.
Many and many Il day ago, on the then
frontier line OF the Valley OF the Minne-
sofa, In the at that time beautiful village
of Mankato, word went out that Cough
had been engaged by the local lyceum bu-
reau to lecture on temperance. Cough
came. He was received by committee OF
men who had fought Indians, swan rivers,
spoiled the virgin forests, opened new soil
endured poverty, suffered hunger and
never surrendered their belief In the right
They escorted him to the opera house and
stage.
His speech was slow ut first. gestures
few, illustrations not many. The village
topers were out in force, and some more
decent mon for whom women were praying
to give over the habit OF drink. He told
something OF his own life, of the misery
Drought by drink. OF the laws OF self-de-
nial and sef-sacritice. He was intense at
all times, and this Intensity bore down up
On the listeners until he had made them
one with himself. Even the small village
BOY inclined to cat calls and gurgling
whistles was silent, and there came
through the sepulchral hall no sound but
the raw cry of the winter wind from out
side.
He made some slight comment on the
coalition OF n drunkard's family--the want
which came upon them, the loss OF self-re-
spect. He described the degradation OF
spirit which rested with the hubitual
1rinker and how If that spirit was not d.
stroyed mere signing of the pledge would
not redeem. He pleaded for exercise Of
will power, more potent in affecting re-
form than all the drugs and medicines in
:he world. This was but developing the
minds of his hearers for a climax.
Suddenly he swung one arm high in the
air aud shouted:
ga drunkard and his fall to the depths
If everlasting he'll is like the man who
climbs to the top OF St. Peters In Rome.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01
Prosecution of "Brandy Drops" Sellers.

The sale OF "brandy drops by candy
dealers to school children, has now become
such a fragrant evil in Jersey City, N. j.,
that School superintendent Henry Snyder,
DR.. John D. McGill, who is President of
the Police Board, and Assistant Prosecutor
Van Winkle joined in a plan for the sup
preston of the sales by prosecution of the
sellers under the law prohibiting the sale
of liquor to minors.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01
THE CURIOUS LACE TREE.
One OF the Many Marvels OF Our Idtfls
Puerto Rico.

Some exquisite lamp shades, nap
kins and centre pieces have come from
our dear little Puerto Rico this winter.
They are made from the in nor part OF
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01

limits that is firm beneath ones fee..
This is q mistake.
North OF the Red River, in the
Northwestern part of the State, lies
the famous hill couutry of Lclis,:n:
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01

chest and back protectors. The Bal,
aclava cap is the favorite object with
these patriotic knitters. I. is cold
nights in South Africa, aud some o:
the soldiers find the Balaolavas very
useful.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-01

might become a priced and unique
bloom in the beautiful sisterhood of
flowers. Boutonniers and bouquets
of green roses might become feature
of st. Patrick's Day in New York.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-04-18
The Acting Sheriff Of Sh0ShOne
County Entertalns Committee
Investigating.
ARMED WITH TWO AFFIDAVITS


WASHINGTON, April I7,.--Dr. Hugh
France, surgeon by profession. coroner
by election and acting sheriff of Sho-
shone county. Idaho, by disqualification
OF Sheriff Young, was the most interest
ing witness before the military affairs
committee yesterday. He was an eye
witness of the Wardner trouble of last
April. As surgeon he attended both union
aud non.union miners Of the Bunker Hill
and Sullivan aud Of the Last Chance
companies. The men voluntarily voted
that he should treat them, and they paid
one dollar per capita per month for such
treatment. including care and expenses
in his hospital.
DIR. Frances testimony, while it was
circupstantial, was chiefly corroborativc
of that of preceding witnesses as to the
troubles of last April which eliminated
in the destruction of the Bunker Hill
property. He said; about the middle
OF April notices were posted conspicu-
ouslv about Wardner, bearing the sigma.
ture Of NJ. A, Flynn, committeeman, to
the effect that all employees of the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan should forthwith join
the Miners Union or get out. !"
This notice, witness said, ''struck ter
ror into the hearts OF the community ant
put an end to business. People knew
that they might expect clash of arms
and the county officers were appealed te
for protection, which, 1t seem', they wer,
utterly powerless to afford"
Witness saw the attack by union mel
upon the employees of the Bunker Hill
and Sullivan in the early morning G
April 30. These employees, he said, "wer
prevented from going to work, and a
armed mob proceeded to Blacks board
ing house and raidcd it. Shots were fire
and the nonunion men were drive
through the town"
! He said he was warned on the mori
= ing of the 29th that the Canyon cree
: miners were coming down in force TO Il,
+ stroy the Bunker Hill mill. He sal
Il them arrive aud carry out their plai
II Afterwards lie attended one or two of II
Il men injured in that fight.
Previous to the examination OF ID
France, quite discussion was caused
: the committee by motion of Gener
C Dick to print in the record the petite
J. of some thirteen hundred business nit
and residents of Shoshone county, as
II ing for the continuance OF federal troo
v and the maintenance OF martial law
II the Coeur d. Alenes.
Mr.. Sulzer objected strenuously to Ii
ID motion, notwithstanding the willingne
IL of General Dick and other republics
T. members of the committee to have 4
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-04-18
About Cases Against Commissioners

The Associated Press correspondent
from this place sent out the following
item on the nth relative to the action
begun by Tsnnahill against the county
There were sensational developments
TODAY in the Nez Perce county court
house troubles. One action was hled
this afternoon i'll the district court seek
iny to remove the county commissioners
S. G.. Isaman, A. G. Johnson, and W.
A. Black-from Office. Another action
was instituted in which ex-Auditor Tan
nahiu seeks $40 Gas damages from mem-
bers of the board of county commission
ers, Auditor Stookey and Miles 5. John
son, and at late hour a warrant OF ar
rest was issued on complaint charging
Commissioner Isaman with the crime OF
perjury. TIE plaintiffs in the action tor
removal of the commissioners are Tanna-
hill and John Pointing, and the complaint
alleges unlawful appropriation and dis
burseuients of funds amounting to sew
eral hundred dollars. In the complaint
in the damage suit. Tannahill alleges
conspiracy on the part of defendants in
causing his (Tanuahill's arrest on the
charge of forgery of county warrants
The perjury case against Isaman is based
on an affidavit made by him, on which a
warrant OF arrest against Tannahill was
issued.
Tannahiil was recently acquitted IN the
| district court of forgery charges i'll one
of the several cases against him, and to-
DAYS developments are the aftermath o.
the prosecution. The present county ad
mnis,ration is republican, and Tannahil
| is democrat. The latter's friends con
tend that the cases against him were III
stituted for political capital.
! No surprise was expressed by the county
commissioners as to the damage suit hlet
TODAY against them for $2o,625. The,
said that when Expert Cunningham mad
| his report a few days ago, showing larg
discrepancy in the treasurer's books, tn
treasurer requested lhS poaiu " "e''
making the report public until he an
Tannahill, who was also implicated /
this shortage, could go over the repo'
and books together. They said that the
believed that this damage suit aud til
impeachment proceedings filed with tn
iclerk and immediately withdrawn wer
commenced for the purpose of trying
scare the board aud head off any PR
ceedings against the treasurer; also
lpreyeut the filing Of further forgery case
iapaiust Tauushll. The commissions
also say they believe it is democrat
political scheme, but they DO no, propo
to stop proceedings against Tannah'
since additional evidence has come
lupht that corroborates the records IN Il
other forgery charges.
Attorney Miles 5. johnson says he W
emploved in these cases at the request
the county attorney. aud that he viii co
Jupue ta appear in all the cases tha, pc
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-04-18

in his talk that there was some difficulty,
but declined to state its nature. In or
der to clear the matter up The Statesman
wired its correspondent i'll Washington
to learn the facts. His reply shows that
Mr.. Sencerbox has been dismissed but
states that the officials decline to give the
reason, His dispatch is as follows.
WAsHINGroN, April I6.-Postoffice de
partmen. officials are reticent regarding
the charges which brought about the re-
moval of Chief Clerk Sencerbox at Boise,
saying only that serious irregularities
were discovered by an inspector, who pur-
sued his Investigations until convinced
that Sencerbox should be removed. They
also state that the Boise postmaster is
thoroughly cognizant of the facts, and
that if neither he nor Sencerbox makes
the charges public they see 10 reason
why the department should. Sencerbox
was not in the classified service; therefore
he could be removed without making
public the charges against him, and the
civil service commission has no right
even TO ask why the removal was made,
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-04-18
Clark viii Fight.

NEw YORK, April is.--W. A. Clark OF
Montana and New York and former Gov
ernor Hauser of Montana held confer
ence here today relative to Clark's sena-
torial aspirations. Mr.. Clark referred
all questions TO Mr., Hauser, who in turn
said Mr.. Clark would fight to the last
ditch" TO retain his seat in the senate.
"If his seat is declared vacant finally"
said Mr.. Hauser, "Senator Clark will be-
come candidate for e-election by the
next state legislature to be elected in No
vcnber."
Mr.. Hauser intinated further, as il
with assurance from Montana, that Gov
ernor Smith would not call the present
legislature in extra session to vote for 8
senator, even if Mr.. Clark's seat should
be declared vacant in Washington Il
is said that although the senate commit
tee on privileges and elections has agreed
unanimously that Clark was not entitled
to his seat, Mr.. Clark will carry the con
test into the open senate.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-04-18

names produced in type, and so far Il
possible in fac simiie, as was desired the
other day by the minority. But Mr..
Suizer had a new proposition. He pro-
duced two afhdavits, which he said would
prove that some Of the signatures to the
petition had been forged.
While Mr.. Sulzer was talking about
these alleged forgeries, Mr.. caperon ex-
amincd the affidavits aud informed the
committee that they were not signed BY
the men whose names were attached 10
the petition. aud therefore as they proved
nothing they were irrelevant.
General Dicks motion prevailed, and
Mr., Sulzer criticised the chairman, who
had declared him out Of order aud
charged partisanship. General Dick re-
marked that those afiidsvits might be
offered with other afidavits for what
they might be worth at the proper time.
though this did not tend to soothe the
angry spirit Of the gentleman from New
hci ~ WIZ VIII itot oh duWu uuitf uC u4u
been warmly replied 10 by the Chairman.
At the morning SESSION Of the COM
niltee w. r. Stimson, one OF the former
county commissioners of Shoslione
county, was on the stand TO rebut feat
ures developed in previous testimony.
His evidence was to the effect that he
was removed from Office by the state and
military authorities because Il ey believed
he would not serve their purpose. He
declared in answer TO questions that his
removal was brought about by legal and
judicial "tools" of the Bunker hin mine
and Standard Oil company.
The witness presented photograph
taken at the time Of the outbreak ia 1892.
1t showed the front of saloon Al Gem
with the glass windows riddied with rifle
shots, These he testified were made by
"Pinkertons and thugs, brough, in BY
the mining companies to put down the
union men,.
Most OF Stimson's testimony related to
minor circumstances in the affairs under
Investigation.