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WELSH P'T'G. CO., L't'd. Pubs. WELSH, - - - - - - LA. Exploitation of the West. Five years ago we who lived in the far west were wondering when the marvelous resources of our one-third of the United States would be discov ered and exploited. To-day, says a writer In The Reader, we awaken to find our forests stril,ped, the places where we pitched our tents, built our smudiges and fried our baton and gale made desolate by the st:iI a saw and the freight car. 'Th" rivers where we speared our salmim and lhe rushing waters of tile northwest where we cast our seine have hen male to till the labeled tins of highl;- capitalized syn d!,Pates, until the jres',rvation of the "sock-eye," the 1m0st delicious of all salmon, has become the Sllbjec(t of in terstate conference. The immlllense plains, whose phenomenal prodicti - ity made legends of our "Mussel Sloutghs" and our "Yulba )alms," aru being turned into irrigated plaiaan'es. into trolley-strewn highways, into the dense social cIiditioUs of Ohio, Iowa and Illinois. Mental Poise and Health. People who reach ext reme old age fire, as a rule, pretty well balancled, physhcally and lueitally. A poised life is serene, all serenl' lity aniil hliat'ml lly tend to luc (vity. iThe mind lthat is lot well balanced is constalntly jan gle(l and out of tine, truly says O. S. Marden iln Sc'w,;s Magazine. There is a constant jarring whiclh racks the whole lliumai;i llliilh ilnle'ry. 'l'here is discord in an unbalanced life, and dis cord is always lHst ruclive --de;dly. The well-lpoisedl , di-ititidl life is n1ot thrown off its center quickly. The mian who ,goes all to pieces over trifles is one-sided. hl'tith is a mlomelltllltl In a poised, blalanced nature which steadies its progress and helps hold it on its chosen track. Ilot temper, con stant mental confusion and disorder are vitality-sappers.-life-shorteners. Don Powers, one of Maine's leading lawyers, was at one time defending some men who had been charged with assault and Ittters. The case was be. ing tried before Judge Peters it Bangor. The strength of Mr. Powers' argument was so great that although the accused were thought guilty by nearly every one present the jury re turned a verdict of not guilty. After the acquittal of the men the judge, who had been impressed by the argu. meat, said: "Brother Powers, there is no doubt as to the man getting a beat ing, but who do you think did it?" "Your honor," replied Mr. Powers, "I always thought my clients did until the jury said they didn't." A London scientist says that life in a metropolis makes young children sharp but not clever; that it often de stroys their ,cbance of ever being clever, for it hastens the development of the brain unnaturally; it makes them superficial, alert, but not ob servant; excitable, but without one spark of enthusiasm; they are apt to grow blase, fickle, discontented; they see more things from the country-bred child, but not such interesting things; they do not properly see anything, for they have neither the time nor ca paclty to get at the root of all the be wildering objects that crowd them selves into their little lives. There is more than a grain of truth in this as aertion. It seems espe('lally incredible that a strong, sturdy, se!f-made man, who has had to fight his way up from pov erty, and who feels the backacho in every dlollar he has earned, shuuld let his savings slip through his fingers in the most foolish investlments, with scarcely any inves!igation. (cft-n send Ing his money thousands of miles away to people hie has ne'ver -e:'n and abouti whom he knows practically nothing, except through an aldvertisemnient which has attracked his attent.on, or through the wiles of some smooth, unprlncl. pled promoter -Success. Speaker Cannon and about half the members of the house went down the Potomac river to a planked shad par ty. They organized a ball game and put Uncle Joe in as umpire. He was spry as a cat and made some mar elous decisions. His star performance -as when Gen. George Harries, having made a home run, started round the bases a second time. "You're out!" shouted Uncle Joe. "Why?" demanded Harries. "I am entitled to run until they find the ball." "Not at all," the umpire said firmly, "your time has expired. Prof. William Lyon Phelps, of Yale, returned recently trom a trip abroad on a steamer too crowded for comfort. On the ship with him was a Harv.wd professor who was not at all pleased with the conditions aboard. The third morning out, the Harvard professor learned that a woman in the crowded second-class cabin had given birth to a child the night previous. At break fast he imparted the news to Prof. Phelps. "Good work, doctor! Gioo work!" chuckled the wit of Yale; "na* ether berth in the second cabia." THE CELEBRATED CASE THAT WON CIVIL RIGHTS FOR INDIANS Order Issued by Carl Schurz,While Secretary of the Interior, Brought Long-Standing Trouble to a Crisis. SPLENDID ORATION MADE BY INDIAN CHIEF Eloquence of Standing Bear. Pleading for His Own and His People's Rights the cause of An Ovation in Crowded Nebraska Court Room Judge Dundy's Famous Decision. the Amlll elian ludians tieing :Iulnitted t lull cit l ull ship ill this (oulutry - ot tnrltugilh his taking the side of the red :1n11 ill the lo g stnr- i',le, hiut beea' ell, t,', as sie'tirtary (o tile interior, issltued inn olrior which so aroused the we.-,t too the wrongs of the Indian th1:t. a (rai lulile Wtas startltd in Ollaha; whiel(' i .'heIii to all pl:)rtlm s of the UnIted Sui itas. lastd seentl years, andl en Ced by stipreine coitrlt dlisions alln! legslat ie1110 flau i llelnlbts l ki.iiig the indian asI f; is a white ltan it h1e choose to be ) andil to accept the conlitlonS of (i.\ il/.i l l ( i . St1 hur. had the order issuled to Gen. (Too il eth n stat iolined at i )llhllia and( (nIll halun ing this dlepiartnlnt of tile irll:y, and i liu ial:itely the cm s cl O,' thle Indialn ws t;1iell up by Thomas It. Tibbles, late v pre, sii enttial (c:Ill didte oi1 the lpo)l uliist tikeli; (;en. ('rolok, John L. \Vbster, Jud(le ltluuy, il'l ia s(ore of oiier ienI p1rollinent. itn the west. Previous to tile hidht spoken of here et'ly ililan in the uniteed States was siliect to tile ordler of the t ''iret Iry if the interior. The gvernmenlt was ian absolte I utoicrat over the (lestIln of the redl man in the entire country. Pitiful Funeral Procession. :nll(k in 1879 a pitiful procession weinde its slow way northward fromii Indian territory, bound for the prairies of Nebraska. There were i3 Indians on foot and one old wagon, ad awn by twVo wornot horses. In the wagon was: the dead body of a child-an in dian boy. The leader of the little par ty was the father of the dead child; the famous Ponca Indian chief, Stand ing Bear, a few years later to be the bet-known Indian in in the entire world -and to speak in every city In the country in behalf of his people. Stanlling Bear's party was n route to the Niobrara country, in northern Nebraska, to bury the child In the an cleiit burying grounds of the tribe. They had started on the long trip, al though permission to leave the reser aalion in Indian Territory, on which they had been settled against their will, had been refused. Formerly the Poncas lived In north bedy Inriod in the strange country, bJt illstiad, 2atlherint g a f1e'(w mll'llllrs of his triibe, he ta rted for the ancient li;ntitng grllninds ,f his tribe, intend in:, to butry the child where genera t11 l:) lof P n a (hiels lay. Shli rti he;ard of the rllunaWays, and Itroligh ti[i war (iOepartmentt tele iralphed (en. ('rook, in Oltaha, to ar lt the Indians and return tilem to lniian Territory. Itlt the chief of the Omahas, Iron liye, Wellt to meet th le Pollcas and of le'ed them a haven of refuge on the (O)oha I tservation. "\We have all the land Standing Bear ant his people wish )for; we have orn tilia til': ill ' plenty; comite live wit h uý." salii Iron Eye. i.uit the governlllent, through Schurz, .tild "No." .( ('trook arrested the old chief and Irolght hinim and his followers downi i: (l;laha. And withIl thlient ca('lme the 'vtagoll hearing tihe dead childl. Standing hear told ('rook his indi vidual story. The great Indian lighter Iwit:w the general history of the In ians tlnd was already indignant at Thcif treatlitleltt, lit the Ireatlllent ac Stoided Stanldiitg lielr was too mluch, and even the sternI' warrior rebelled. Campaign Mapped Out. That night Crook came into Omaha :a-d had an all-night's conferente with Tibbles, then an editorial writer on a :iew.spaper. A camnpaign of Indians' rights was Imapped out, and both men st'rted out the next day to carry out their parts. Crook was to delay returning the In diarns to Indian Territory until a writ of habeas corpus could be asked for from the United States court on the ground that the constitution, in the fcurteenth amendment, guaranteed to all persons born in the United States equal protection of the law. Tibbles looked out for the legal end of the deal. He went to John L. Web ster, then a struggling, unknown young hlwyer, laid his case before him, and asked him to defend the rights of the Indian. "There is no money In it, but there is fame, honor and glory," said Tib bles. Webster took the case, and asked - -, II usr I ! ( -) -nrlrokItretdadArse Standin B .>.,,,- .:. , II - ' . .. . 4 et t . ''l I;! I/ General C'rook Intercepted and Arrested Standing Bear. ern Nebraska, along the Niobrara riv er. They had fougnt the Sioux, in be half of the white men, for years, and had lost 700 braves in the white man's beh,;lf. For this a previous secretary of the interior had given them, in fee simple, full title to their reservation and lands. Lands T.aken from Poncas. Then Mr. Schurz was made secre tary. and at the point of the bayohet had driven the Poncas down into In dian Territory, depriving them of the lands for which they held government ideeds. The Poncas were left months without rations in the new country, and more than one-third of them died while there. And among those who died was the eon of the old chief, Standing Bear. The chiet refused to have the litle Judtge A. J. Poppleton, then general counsel for the Union Pacific, to assist him and make the argument. Popple to, agreed, and then a writ was ap plied for in the United States court at Omaha, over which Judge Dundy pre sided. Made Thodsands of Citizens. Thu case came to trial. It was the most notable trial ever brought in the west, and, in fact, the scope was as wide as any ever tried in the United I States, for by its decision 100,000 peo pie were made citizens. Thomas H. Tibbles attended every session of that court. In his own words he describes it this way: "The courtroom was crowded with I fashionably dressed women, and the t clergy, which had been greatly stirred I by the incident, was there in force, t Lawyerq, every one In Nebraska and many fromi the big ea;tern cities; busi e5ss men, Gen. Crook and his full staff, in their d(ress uniforlms (this was one if the few times in his life that C'rook \wureP his full drelss in )ulliih ), and the Indians themselves, in their gaidy c(l (I's. The courtroomu was a galaxy ou bralliancy. "()n one side stood the armly officers, the brilliantly dres.ell w nlon, and the white people; on the other' wais Stanld inug Bear, in hisi ollichal robes as cthief of the IPonca.;, and with him were his (I ;i Igd men. "Far back in the and ionice, shrinh ing irzu,l oh e-rvatinun, was il lll(li;all irl w olu ;ilterw'ar becaume famonus as it l(ecturler in Enl:Ianid and Aluerlica. She was later kn lwn on(I bloth u1oti tIwnIL Iy ;Ia lranslltin (of her 111dianl alulre. In -slta-the-tun-bha. Bright Eyes. Long and Able Arguments. "Attornel'lly l'ouilI(etinl's arigumunt W:as make the attempt. I take my chlld by the hand and iuy wite fotllow after nie. Our hainds an(d our feet are- turn by sa;ri' rocks :ird cmr trail is ni:larled by o:u. blood. At last I t',e a rift in the oi I,,s. .A little way b,ýyond there are g ... pIrairies. The s\\':t 'lrnnlllri I wl ter, thu .\uIbrat', pour- dtou\ letweeni the: g'reen hIills. There are tht ' graves f mlly fath+ers. There ,itgin w"e ,'Il itc'h our t'eg'e an l build our tires. I se the liiht of tIe, wr.ld and of ib :'ty jint ah It'; !.' "Thl+ ld chi'f it'an silent m.ain, :n I1, :al'fter :in tal ,;,re 'ciahl, I i: -e. her ttrned tI t 'ard th,' jild:' with 1 such a it+uli of fItlhos Intd allt'ler:L' oni lit, t,ao- that lone who .--i it If. will lar'get, and s';ldi: 'lBit in the ten;er of the pi,:rh there rind. a t; a II lllitl hilun I f' so! III- illn ui b r lik ' 11th+ " ou w of the tirn s - t ha l i 'I' ii . pre' ', I!fi, - hlt I miny l,.s on It) life anlI liberiy. 'N-~-~- N Th, ~~Vdd / . /i· 4 , 'Ei. Th uec istne Splbud oSadigfar' rto carefully prepared, and consumed 16 hours in the delivering, occupying the attention of the court for two days. On the third day Mr. Webster spoke for six hours. And during all the pro ctedmgs the courtroom was packed wlth the beauty and culture of the city. "Towards the close of the trial the situation became tense. As the wrongs inflicted on the Indians were described by the attorneys indignation was often at a white heat, and the judge made no attempt at suppressing the applause which broke out from time to time. "For the department Mr. Lambert s)n made a short address, but was lis teined to in silence. "It was late in the afternoon when the trial drew to a close. The excite nment had been increasing, but It reached a height not before felt when Judge Dundy announced that Chief Standing Bear would be allowed to make a speech in his own behalf. "Not one in that audience besides the army officers and Mr. Tibbles had ever heard an oration by an Indian chief. All of them had read of the elo quence of Red Jacket and Logan, and they sat there wondering whether the mild-looking old man, with the lines of suffering and sorrow on his furrowed brow and cheek, dressed in the full robe, of an Indian chief, could make a speech at all. "It happened that there was a good interpreter present-the son of Father Hamilton, a well-known missionary. Standing Bear's Address. "Standing Bear arose. Half-facing the audience he held out his right hand ard stood motionless so long that the stillness of death which had settled down on the audience became almost unbearable. At last, looking up at the judge, he said: "'That hand is not the color of yours, but if I prick it, the blood will flow and I shall feel pain. The blood al of the same color as yours. God made me, and I am a man. I never committed a crime. If I had, 1 would not stand here to make a defense. 1 would suffer the punishment and make no complaint.' "Still standing, half-facing the audi ence, he looked p'at the judge out of a wiinow as if gazing upon something far in the distance, and con'in'ed: "'1 seem to be standing on the high bank of a great river, with my wife and little girl by my side. I cannot cross the river, and impassable cliffs arise behind me. I hear the noise of great waters: I look and see a flood coming. The waters rise to our feet and then to our knees. My little girl stretches her hands toward me and says, "Save me!" "'1 stand where no member of my race ever stood before. There is no tradition to guide me. The chiefs who r'eceded me knew nothing of the cir cumstances that surround me. I hear only my little girl say, "Save me!" Reached .Heights of Eloquence. "'In despair I look toward the cliffs behind me, and I seem to see a dim trail that may lead to a way of life. But no Indian ever passed over that trail. It looks to be Impassable. I If lie refuses, I must go back and sink beneath the flood. "Then, in a lower tone: "'You are that wan.' "There was silence in the court as the chief sat down. Some tears ran sown over the judge's face. Gen. Crook leaned forward and covered his lace with his hands. Some of the ladies sobLed. Orator Given Ovation. "All at once that audience by one common impulse rose to its teet and such a shout went up as was never heard in a Nebraska courtroom. No one heard Judge Dundy say 'Court is adjourned.' There was a rush for Standing Bear. The first to reach him was Gen. Crook. I was second. The ladies flocked toward him, and for an hour Standing Bear held a reception. "A few days afterward Judge Dunn handed down his famous decision in which he announced that an Indian was a 'person' and was entitled to the protection of the law. Standing Bear and his followers were set free, and with his old wagon and the body of his dead child he went back to the hunt ing grounds of his fathers and buried the boy with tribal honors. It was the very first time an Indian was ever per mitted to appear in court and have his rights tried." Up at the Ponca reservation there is an old white-headed Indian (he is the only known really white-headed In dian, too). It is old Standing Bear old and decrepit. But he remembers Carl Schurz, and still blames him for ruch of the hardships through which the western Indians passed. When told of the death of Schurz, the old man smoked a full minute be fore answering the one word of Eng lish which he ever uses: "(jood." Duke of Wellington's Vanity. Among the portraits at the Royal arademy, London, there are some which could tell stories; some with little touches of idiosyncrasies of sub jects no less than of painters. Is the siory of Iawrence's portrait ot the Duke of Wellington commonly known? The duke had only one vanity-his wrist was like steel. Now, when he was given the sword of state to carry it was his infinite delight that he was able to carry it upright; all his prede ccssors had to slope it toward the shoulder. He would go down to pos terity, he resolved, glorified by the power of his wrist. In vain Sir Thomas Lawrence point ed out that, as a matter of art, It would never do; that the sight of a man perennially carrying a sword from th6 wrist would fatigue those who looked at his picture. The duke in sisted upon having his way. Lawrence did manage to smuggle in a cushion n:por. which the duke seemed to rest his elbow, but close examination shows that arm and cushion do not meet. Shifting the Bills. "If you will give me your daughter, sir, we will always live with you." "Nope; you marry her and I will al ways live with you."--Houston Post, LOUISIANA NEWS. FINED FOR NOT SCREENING. Lake Charles Is Enforc rl Health Ordi. nance V'gorous y. m t'I'pl:on 'i s. ' . i (''t :' ; , . ' ' '. . .1' Commt:c { l' : .io . C s o 0 to a l, ,l. l'tniu ,si !.'i ('S'l e h'.'!. \\' i''% , \, II :d , ',' h ( 1T1114 '4'4 X i', ' 1" " I , . I, l('r.(" ( i" y " < ' ?. ,: , , I: n, ,',t' (li4 111 a, i 1 .:-(h I Tt ' ;' ' ',I; , '" Died in Balcony. n: ' ic t. eIw'. al 1 4 ,; . . . i 'rl oi n 1h(' tlo;it , dil i t',1 t, .. " , trt t hil' 'u pi l s :,of, thI s. ho,'.,,tie tit1"t, t ,- : ' ug' . I 1t,'s 50 '!: 4. T . O '?, 4'( d. 4 1:, I'l -: : t! ' : , ',: : i.n, ' 1lll .iii ?l . 1 . i - 1 i , 0 . !'. 't ' 1 , ia hi Pl (1r1. 4 4104 II) -''41, 4. a\ nd!ev. 1 :1'. } 1i1i , 1 l4'' I''. ' ' . , . Vocl nuDelirs wh-e rndered h by ak a iss 1 4'wr, of St. 1o, is, h wit, h li . l l: .iss ;! .ý en; of Alka ntas as acfcompa'1' nis Young Negro Lynched. l;lttiesburg, ,r driss.: W'd hmbros, a Highn negro. was lynehed at Prend ti, fommu-f nion Cile as of this plac00. i's Ilw , oft i ll ,t L is, w:t h Mis. !' .'' ,.r liss!, r ('oit llllii-iv . milns Ita ceor at an eacly hour yesterday. Ambrose hall been arrested and jailed accused of shooting a wlite maSh. A mkepeo broke into the jail and pshot the nero to death. Tornado Does Damage. achary, f St.: A tornis, do struck this place last night and wrckeo d the Ma sonic Hall, the public sthofl building and the Presbyterian church. No lives were lost Cherry Hunter Breaks Leg. Ama, La.: Frank, the 13-year-old son of sJoseph Troxelair. of Live Oak Plantation, fell from a cherry tree and broke his leg. Batchelor, Lr.: This week began with a very cool rain Sunday, which has caused a wonderful imnprovement. both in corn and cotton. as well as in gardens along thiats sh.ction. The wath er has been very warmn this entire week, and people re ar all up with their field work, and the lrosiwects for an ex ceptionally good cplio are very prlom ising. .James E. fly ram, who ha:; charge of the Louisiana ('rol Puest Commis sion Experiment Station here, states that he is rery well satified with ex isting conditions, and that the various kinds of early cotton serd that he has plantto are all doing nicely. Mlerhouge. La.: Good iaii on the 4b h was very beneficial to all giowing crops and young c(:rfl looking good. Cotton in good fix and gaowing. Out look for crop good. Ama, La.: Owing to continhued dry weather, the g-rowth 0'f cane and corn has been greatly rtarled. Rie- is doing well, thaough wate' r is being sF cuired with idifticuiltl, on accournt of towness of the river. Eola, tiA.: The rwa-t week a I d not have been a betteir one for the farmer Another rain in ten diays from now will assure a god crop if corn. The cotton is doing fine . an' the present prospect is for the lgrg'-st cropl in years. The plant is branching from the bottom and some forms beginning to bloom. Floyd, la.: Sincet last rel'port crops have greatly improved. This srction has had rain and warni weiather, and both corn and cotton is hail, and the crop about three weeks late. Abbeville, TAt.: The dr.ought still continues in this sf-ction, niriiiy placr-s having had no rain sitnce April i. Notwithstanding, crodls generally low well, with the exception of cane, which is small and back ward, and it will takst a very favorable season from now on yo bring thle crop up to an average