St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1903-03-21

en- as follows:
1.-TWO Battaiions of Artillery
three Troops OF Cavalry, one Nava
Brigade, one Regiment of Infantry
one Separate Company of Infantry
one Battalion OF Infantry and ont
Company OF Signalmen, with ar
aggregate strength of two thous
and five hundred and fifty (2,550
officers and enlisted men, located
as follows:
Battalion Washington Artillery:
New Orleans.
Battalion Louisiana Field Artil.
lery, New Orleans.
First Regiment OF Infantry, dis
banded December IS, 1902, New
Orleans.
Naval Brigade, New Orleans.
First Troop Of Cavalry, New Or,
leans.
Signal Corps, New Orleans.
Second Separate Company of In
fantry, Gretna.
Second Troop Cavalry, Mansfield
Third Trood Cavalry, Lake
Charles.
First Battalion Infantry, Head
quarters Monroe.
Company "a" st. Francisville.
Company aB," Opelousas.
Company &C." Mansfield.
Company 3D." Monroe.
Company SEP WINFIELD.
Company IF" Crowley.
This report is brought up to Dec.
81, 1902. Since then two com
mands of 70 men each are TO be
added, that at New Iberia, and the
last one added to the service being
the Barrett Guards at Alexandria.
Companies "G" aud III"
The report contains detailed
account OF the movements of the
s. n. Ct. in tile trouble at Richland
parish In May 1902. Then follows
the full account OF movements and
the orders issued in the street car
mems strike in New Orleans in
October, 1902. The reports con-
tains the official reports of the sew
eral departments under military
department, including the naval
reserve and the detailed statistical
tables covering all the branches of
the department.
Representative A. D. Morris, of
Schuyler county, says the Kansas
City Journal, had an experience in
the House the other day that was
somewhat mortifying to him for a
short time. He had been writing
a letter to his wife. Tn his haste
to prepare an amendment to
resolution that was pending he
mistakenly wrote it on the back
of sheet OF paper in the letter
and sent it to the clerks desk.
He arose at the same time and
said: "Mr. Speaker, I wish to Offer
an amendment 'sThe gentleman
from Schuyler, Mr.. Morris, wishes
to offer an amendment said
Speaker Pro tenn. Duncan. "Read
it Mr.. Clerk Clerk JEFF Pollard,
with quizzical expression began
in an unusually loud clear voice:
"My dear Maggie, I find myself
awfully lonesome here without
YOU "Hold on there, Mr.. Clerk
yelled Morris, a'That's not right.
That's the wrong side.n The House
held its sides to laugh, while Morris
sank into Lis seat with a very red
face and clerk Pollard turned the
paper and began TO read the resolu-
tion.-Ex.
The number of men employed as
teachers in the public schools Of
this country, according to United
States Commissioner of Education
Harris, is slowly but steadily de-
creasing. In 1870 Al per cent of
the teachers were males, and in
1900 the percentage had fallen to
%. The reason for the abandon
ment of school teaching by men is
that it does not pay well enough.
Russia IS about to augment her
In the Pacific by two for
midahIe battleships. Besides the
battleship Slava, which is shortly
to be launched In the Baltic, and
Is being hurried forward for SER
vice in the far East, the battleship