Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1899 — Page 7

Savings Department. As population becomes denser and savings accumulate there is imperative need for a safe and convenient place to deposit such funds. The savings of those who are not in commercial or industrial business cannot be made to yield a tair return so safety as by with this company. There at-.- Industrious people in every community who are not able to use their surplus funds because they are unacquainted J*ith values, and their savings, therefore, lie idle. In this department the company accepts deposits of one dollar and upward at any time, and pays thtreor. interest at the rate of 3 per cent, per annum, comfounded semi-annually—on May 1 and Nov. of each year. There art no fines, no fees, no deductions of any kind. A way is thus opened to the holders of small sums to get a safe and regular return on them. While waiting for some other form of investment, such as the purchase of real estate, one need not allow’ money to be idle. Security for the safety of such deposits is found not merely in the character of the company and its officers, but in its great financial responsibility— the whole of its capital and an equal amount from its stockholders. also its surplus fund, making In all nearly s2.ut*o,o<A, are pledged for its fidelity. Indiana Trust Company Capital, $!,(K:0,020. Offices: Indiana. Trust Building.

There is No Safer OR ECONOMICAL MANNER ... of Having . . . ESTATES ADMINISTERED TRUSTS EXECUTED Than by plae.ng same in hands of the MARION TRUST CO., Northeast Corner Monument Place and Market Street.

THE L. A. KINSEY CO. INCORPORATED. CAPITAL, ¥25.000—1T LI, PAID. —BROKERS— Chicago Crain and Provisions, New York Stocks. Long Distance Telephone, 1375 and 1593. I! and 13 West Pearl street Olnclmatl Office, Uoom 4. Carlisle Building. r ■'III—IIM —f'l—id———fWEdM^a A/lONFV to 6%. Iw| U ItL I $ I,oitO and upward, loaned on Improved Property. Interest graded according to location and character of security. No delay. C. F. SAYLES, 135 East Market St.

JXBYVTON TODD, 7 Irifgalls Block, {Stookfm find Ronds Member Chicago Stuck Exchange. Government bondß all Issues bought and sold. Belt Railroad stock wanted. FAME FOR AN AMERICAN GIRL. She Illustrated a Xnrsery I’lasstc on the Walls of a Paris Restaurant. New Yoi k World. Miss Florence Dundborg, of Oakland, Cal., is an ambitious young artist who has discovered anew road to fattier , In Paris oti a little Mde street leading off the Boulevard Montparnasse, In the Latin Quarter, is a tiny case or creamery, as its proprietor culls it, which every American Who knows the students of the quarter, and every visiting artist, of any nationality, is sure to visit. This is because the walls of the cate are decorated wdth anew and successful mural painting, conceived, planned anu executed by ail American girt. Miss Dundborg began this work more than a year ago. She finished it last summer, and the prestige of achievement has surrounded her ever since. She is a name in the quarter and her work is a landmark. Any one who is new to the quarter and Is not under student chaperonage may see Miss Lundborg s work by asking for ‘'Henrietta’s Creamery.” Henriette is one of the black-eyed, fir lute-capped, neatly gowned matrons of the quarter—there are many such—who supply a fit ucious menu, at low prices, to a lean-pursed student clientele. Henriette is a dtxteious cook, and has charming manners, but when Miss Lundborg uiscovereti htr she was not so prosperous as some of her more sharp-witted rivals. This seemed a pity to Miss Dundborg, and •he beni her very American mind to the problem. ‘ Let me decorate your walls,” she proposed to Henriette. "People will come here then. And me experience will be valuable to me.” Henriette was very grateful. For months Miss Lunaborg ana a friend of hors, another American girl art student, worked daily in the little creamery. Henriette employed ail her Gallic ingenuity In devising new dishes for the artists, and ail Paris -that is to say, all the Quarter—came daily, ostensibly to got coffee or an omelette, really to watch the progress of the painting. 'I he creamery and its artictic wails made daily strides in popularity. And no one who saw them would wonder at it. The design, which covers the four walls of the room, is an illustration of the nursery classic, which tells how T 1 e Knave of Hearts, He stole some tarts, and so on. Nothing could be more charming than the pictorial narration of this story. Tne color scheme is confined mostly to delicate gieens and pale shades of rose, and generous clashes of gold emphasize the decorative purpose of the work, 'i tie eifect is, of course, intentionally fiat, and has a certain misty remoteness most appropriate to a fairy tile. There is no vulgar ilesh and blood about the work. Lvrn the tarts are idealized. everybody knows that a first attempt at mural painting, which is singularly difficult, Is likely to result in graies-iue failure. Therefore Miss Dundborg's conspicuous success is very naturally seized upon as a glory to America and to girl artists generally. The best artists in Europe are unreserved in their praise, and visiting Americans are more than delighted. Miss Dundborg is an attractive young girl ami has become very popular during her several years’ residence in the Quarter. She is conspicuous in a set of girls who frequent the' American Girls' Club,” in the little Rue de Chevreuse, near the Luxembourg. Many of the girl students live at the club, which is conducted like a small hotel, with certain restrictions. suicide: kecoumeaued. St ran tie Remark by Harlem Justice to u .Morbid Youth. New York Journal. Magistrate “Wentworth, sitting in the Harlem Police Court, delivered himself of the startling declaration that he believed In suicide, and would recommend it to all who felt that the world had nothing more In store for them. This sensational and entirely gratuitous observation was made from the bench in the regular course of the trial of a sixteen-year-old boy who had attempted self-destruction the day before. Comment on the sentiment expressed Is superfluous, but when utterances of this kind come clothed with judicial authority and are likely to exert the deepest Influence upon those who are accustomed to look to the bench for interpretation of right and wrong, they cannot be rebuked too severely. Here was a young lad, not half-formed Intellectually, w ho, in a mood of temporary depression caused by his failure to get a position he sought, tried to kill himself. The learned Judge, instead of administering kindly advice, polr'ing out the cowardice of the crime contemplated and offering sensible encouragement to a distracted soul, sends the boy away with the Implied admonition to try again. Who is Magistrate Wentworth, to tell men that they may decide for themselves when the world has nothing more in store for them? Is it or Is It not his duty to enforce the law prescribing punishment for wouldbe suicides? If, as in this case, it was right to be merciful, and give the offender a ehance to exptsto his crime without subjecting him to the humiliation of prison life, was it not criminal to send him away with advice that must Inevitably make him mote morbid?

A SURPRISE IN STOCKS DURING THE PAST WEEK PRICES HAVE BEEN FORCED HIGHER. Sensational Jump in Toliarco Shares, Saturday, That Helped Others—Local Trade Fairly Active. At New York Saturday money on call was steady at Trime mercantile paper, 2%r'g3%, per cent. Sterling exchange was steady with actual business in bankers’ bills at *4.96 for demand, and at $4.84^/4.84}4 for sixty days; posted rates, commercial bills, 54 83*4. Silver certificates nominal at 60%c; bar sliver, 5fA.|C; Mexican dollars, 47%c. At London bar silver closed steady at 2%d an ounce. The Imports of dry goods and general merchandise at New York for the week ending Saturday, were valued at $8 > 790,:i41. Exports of gold and silver from New York to ail countries for the week aggregate $940,556 silver bars and coin and SII.OUO gold. The imports of specie were sß2o,Stl in gold and $58,348 In silver. The New Y'ork weekly bank statement shows the following changes; Surplus reserve, decrease 11,138,000 Doans, Increase 5,557,700 Specie, Increase 3,664.0)0 Legal tenders, decrease 2,493,700 Deposits, increase 9,113,200 Circulation, decrease 21,3>/0 The banks now hold $34,373,825 In excess of the requirements of the 25 per cent. rule. The New York Financier says: ‘‘The deposits of the New York clearing house banks, according to their statement of Feb. 18, was within a very small per centage of nine hundred millions. Their cash reserve is $255,066,900, the heaviest accumulation of funds ever reported by the=e institutions. In fact, the cash balance of the United States treasury, including the one hundred million, gold reserve, is only about fourteen millions above this figure. Considered as a reserve it constitutes 28.6 per cent, of the enormous deposit total, or $34,373,825 more than the 25 per cent, which is arbitrarily held against deposit liabilities. This is almost SIO,OOO in excess of the idle cash reported for the same week last year, and reveals the remoteness, under normal conditions, of any probability that money may go to an unusual figure owing to the activity of exchange transactions and the sums required in the financing of new trusts. The banks, to tell the truth, are exhibiting a degree of strength in the face of present demands on them that is little short of marvelous. Within the past week, despite the Increase of $9,113,200 in deposits, necessitating enlarged reserve requirements of over twenty-four millions, their surplus reserve decreased only a little over one million. REAL GAIN IN CASH.

“The gain in cash was $1,140,300, the decrease in surplus reserve of course being due to deposit additions. Specie receipts were $3,634,000, mostly from the Pacific coast, and the losses of legal tenders were about two and a half millions. This shrinkage was due to shipments to Interior Institutions, but that the demand forecasts a continued loss is uncertain, as the interior banks ary remarkably strong in reserves and will probably be able to supply their own needs without calling on balances here. The loan expansion of $8,567,700, judging from known conditions, ought to be traced to Stock Exchange sources, especially with reference to securities returned from abroad. But a closer analysis of the statement indicates that special operations, involving two or three banks at the most, have brought about the Increases and decreases. Thus the deposits of one institution have been swelled about seven millions, while its loans are at least five millions heavier. Two other banks more than account for the difference over last week, so that a large majority of the Institutions, Individually considered, have added to their ca.sh resources during the week.” The total sales of stocks at New York, Saturday, were 678,300 shares, including; Atchison, 16.620; Atchison preferred, 31,820; Central Pacific, 27,780; Burlington, 72,680; Illinois Central, 5,160; Manhattan, 13,(W0; Metropolitan, 7,82t1; Reading preferred, 31,000; Missouri Pacific, 3,100; New Y'ork Central, 6,520; Northern Pacific, 10,000; Northern Pacific preferred, 11,620; Ontario & Western, 3.670; Rock Island, 19,520; Union Pacific, 9,220; St. Paul, 74,200; Southern Pacific, 9.890; Southern, 4,000; Southern preferred, 3.250; Texas & Pacific. 5,500; Union Pacific preferred, 7,600; Tobacco, 136,600; Steel, 7,000; Steel preferred, 7,600: People's Gas, 15,900; Brooklyn Transit, 5,800; Sugar, 14,900; St. Louis & Southwestern preferred, 4,100; Chicago Great Western, 3.225. The net changes in stock prices for the day were irregular, with slight fractional advances predominating, although in some important stocks the advance was considerable. The dealings were very large for a Saturday short session, almost 700,t00 shares being traded in. London was early a seller amt later repurchased about half of that amount. A more confident sentiment regarding the situation at Paris accompanied the election of a President of France. Houses with Washington and Chicago connections appeared as liberal purchasers and the selling was scattered. The feature of the market was the sensational advance in Tobacco, which made a net gain of 17*4 after an extreme advance of almost 20. The dealings In this stock were of a very sensational character, the variations between sales running either way from 1 to 4 points. The movement was generally considered as directed against the short interests. Various reports were current of absorption or friendly relations being established with the company's most conspicuous rival, hut these stories were denied in other quarters. The market became irregular after the opening exhibition of strength, realizing sales being offset by confident buying in others. Burlington was jammed down 2 points, and the other grangers and railways which have been strong crumbled. Meanwhile Manhattan, which broke 3 points on the order for the removal of the elevated structure in Battery Park, recovered most of its early loss. It was the aggressive strength of Tobacco which steadied the rest of the industrials, including Sugar. Metropolitan Streetrailway and Third-avenue displayed considerable strength, as did also a number of the low-priced stocks, including Texas Pacific, St. Louis & Southwestern preferred and Chicago Terminal. After the first hour many stocks went up at a lively rate. The appearance of the bank statement, while about as expected, showing a decrease in surplus and an Increase in loans, brought about considerable realizing, but covering of shorts lifted prices again to some extent. The market closed active and strong. THE BEARS SQUEEZED. Advancing prices, like a rising tide, stole upon the bears the past week, waves of purchasing orders forcing retreats from one position to another. In the forepart of the week the market was highly professional and cautiously manipulated, lest the trading become too wild and thus render conservative speculators and investors timid. Favorable underlying features were not different from those previously prevailing, but the adroit ones having acquired stocks while the market was semi-stagnant, wished them to advance and as they lifted them it became “follow the leader,” which this week was Burlington. Gratuitously disseminated gossip that a purely trading market was to be expected had encouraged the putting out of short lines, but the rising paper values Induced covering, which at times was very urgent. The continued prevalence of easy money was the backbone of the price movement. Little impression was made on prices by the increase in loans and decrease in reserve shown by the bank statement for the three Saturdays ending yesterday. There were various reasons assigned for tlie Increase in loans, among them the financing of many new industrial combinations, refunding schemes and amalgamations, pending of alien railway interests. The strength of the market, despite the storms hampering traffic and reducing railway earnings, at least temporarily, was indicative of increased confidence. In fact, all unfavorable news, including the death of the President of France, with its possible complications, made but a transitory imprint on values, while favorable news or rumors of pending developments quickly recruited the ranks of the optimists. The week’s bond market furnished a number of features, including a revival of activity In the control of Georgia Issues which ordinarily are dull. The market generally displayed an advancing tendency with a considerable increase in activity towards the end. Lulled States new fours turd Ore

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threes declined V* and the old fours, registered, and the fives, coupon, Vs in the bid price. The following table, prepared by L. W. louis, Room 11, Board of Trade, shows the range of quotations: Oxen- High- Low- ClosName. ing. est. est. lug. Atchison 23 23*4 22% 23% Atchison pref 65% 63% 63% 63% Baltimore & Ohio 76 Canada Pacific 90% Canada Southern 60% 6 f, ’s 60 60% Central Pacific 65% Chesapeake & Ohio 29 29V 28% 28% Chicago &. Alton 771 C., B. & % 140% 89% 146% 147% C. & E. 1 60% C. & E. I. pref H 7% C„ C. & St. L 61 91 $6% 60% C. C., C. & St. L. pref •*% Chicago Great Western 16% Chi., Ind. & M Chi., Ind. & L. pref 4> Chicago & Northwestern 750% Delaware & Hudson H3 D. L. & 160% Denver & Rio Grande 23% Denver & Rio Grande pref 75% Erie 15 Erie first pref 39% Fort Wayne 178 Great Northern pref •••• 182 Hocking Valley 8 Illinois Centra! 47% I-ake Erie & Western 20 Hake Erie & Western pref 67% Lake Shore 200% Louisville & Nashville 65% 65% 65% 65% Manhattan 110% 111% 109 111 Michigan Central ••• 118 Missouri Pacific 467* 40% 46% 46*4 Mo., Kan. & Texas pref... 39% 39% 39 39 New Jersey Central 104% 105 10474 194% New York Central 139% 13974 138% 139% Northern Pacific 54% 54% 54 64% Northern Pacific prof 80% B*>% 79% 80% Reading 22% 22% 22% 22% Reading first pref 62% Rock Island 12(0% 121% 120% 120% St. Paul 181 132*4 1807$ 131% St. Paul pref 169 St. Paul <V Omaha 93% St. Paul & Omaha pref 171 Southern Pacific 40% Texas Pacific 22% Union Pacific com 48% 48% 47% 48% Union Pacific pref 81 81 80% 81 Wabash B*4 Wabash pref 23% Wheeling & Lake Erie 1174 Wheeling & Lake Erie pref 88 EXPRESS COMPANIES. Adams Express 112% American Express 140 U. S. Express 55 Wells-Fargo Express 125 MISCELLANEOUS. American Cotton Oil 37 American Cotton Oil pref 91% American Spirits 13% 13(4 13’% 18% American Spirits pref 36% American Tobacco 141 158 141 156 American Tobacco pref 136 People’s Gas 114% 115 114% 115 Brooklyn Transit 94 Consolidated Gas 200% Commercial Cable Cos 180 General Electric 112% 112% 112% 112% Federal Steel 0!% Federal Steel pref 87% Lead 36% 36% 35% 36% Lead pref 113% Pacific Mail 5174 52 51*4 51% Pullman Palace 161% Sugar 134% 135% 184% 135% Sugar pref 113 Tennessee Coal and 1r0n.... 48% 43% 43 43*4 U. S. Leather 7 U. S. leather pref 71% 7274 71% 72 U. S. Rubber 52% U. S. Rubber pref 117% Western Union 95 96 % 95 95% UNITED STATES BONDS. U. S. fours, reg 112% U. S. fours, coup 112% U. S. fours, new, reg 127% U. S. fours, new, coup 127% U. S. fives, reg 111% U. S. fives, coup 111% U. S. threes, coup 106%

Satardny’s Bank nearing*. At Chicago—Clearings, $19,507,569; balances, $2,262,716. New Y'ork exchange, 10c discount. Sterling exchange posted $4.85®N.87; actual, $.84%@4.R6%: sixty days. $4.53%® 4.86%. At St. Louis—Clearings, $.‘5,350,478; balances, $717,345. At New York—Clearings, $238,826,966; balances, $10,875,795. At Boston—Clearings, $26,921,1M5; balances, $2,678,954. At Philadelphia—Clearings, $17,778,166; balances, $2,404,151. At Baltimore—Clearings, $4,391,306; balances. $793,709. At Cincinnati —Clearings, $1,492,900. LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Fair Week’s Trade, with Strong Prices—Potatoes Weaker. In the last four days of the week ending Feb. 18 trade on the wholesale streets and on Commission row was quite satisfactory, the temperature admitting of shipping all classes of freights. Prices were very strong on fruits, vegetables and eggs, but all markets in the lines named weakened on Saturday, and the day of one dollar a bushel for potatoes this year is doubtless passed. Apples are scarce and higher, as are eggs. A few days of warm weather will break the egg market. In other lines there were no changes of importance during the week. Staple groceries and drugs are very firm at quotations and the dry goods market is working Into a much stronger position. The local grain market was not so much affected by the cold weather as other lines of trade and prices on track varied littie. Receipts of corn are large. The week closed with track bids ruling as follows, as furnished by the secretary of the Board of Trade: Wheat—No. 2 red, 70c i No. 3 red, 63®69c; February, 70c; wagon wheat, 70c. Corn—No. 1 white, 33%c; No. 3 white (one color), 33%c; No. 4 white, 29%®31%c; No. 2 white mixed. 33%c; No. 3 white mixed, 33%c; No. 4 white mixed, 29%®31%c; No. 2 yellow’, 3314 c; No. 3 yellow, 33%c; No. 4 yellow, 29%®)31%c; No. 2 mixed, 3314 c; No. 3 mixed, 33%c; No. 4 mixed, 29%@31%c; ear corn, 32%c. Oats—No. 2 white, 31c; No. 3 white, 30%c; No. 2 mixed, 29c; No. 3 mixed. 28%c. Hay—No. 1 timothy, S7.SO@S; No. 2 timothy, $6.51-®7. Inspections—Corn: No. 3 white, 22 cars: No. 4. 2; No. 3 yellow-, 3; No. 3 mixed, 7; no grade, 2; total, 36 cars. Oats: No. 3 mixed, 2. Hay: No. 1 timothy, 2 cars; No. 2,1; No. 3 prairie, 1; total, 4 cars. Poultry and Other Produce. (Prices paid by shippers.! Poultry—Hens, 7c; spring chickens, 8c; cocks, 3%c; hen turkeys, young and fat, 8c; young toms, 6%c; old hens, 6c; toms, sc; ducks, sc; geese, 4c for full feathered, 3c for plucked; capons, fat, 10c; small, 6®Se. Cheese—New York full cream. 10®lle; skims, G@Bc; domestic Swiss, 12a>c; brick, 12c; limburger, 10c. Butter—Choice, 10c; poor, 6® 7c; Elgin creamery, 21c. Eggs—lßc. Feathers—Prime geese, 30c per lb; prime duck 10®17c per lb. Beeswax—3oc for yellow: 25c for dark. Wool—Medium, unwashed, 17® 18c; tub-washed, 20@25c; burry and unmerchantable, 6c less. Honey—lo®'l3e per lb. Game—Rabbits, 65@70c. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Green-salted Hides—No. 1,9 c; No. Z. 8c; No. 1 calf, 10c; No. 2 calf, S%c. Grease—White, 3c; yellow, 2%c; brown, 2%c. Tallow—No. 1,3 c; No. 2, 2%c. Bones—Dry, $12®13 per ton. LIVE STOCK. Cattle a Shade Loaer -llogs Weak and Lower—Siieep I’nchnngeil. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 18.—Cattle —Receipts light; shipments none. There were but few on sale. The market was quiet at a shade lotver prices on shippers and butcher grades. Feeders and stockers were in good demand at strong prices. Exports, good to choice $5.00# 5.50 Killers, medium to good 4.50® 4.85 Killers, common to fair 4.00®) 4.35 Feeders, good to choice 4,25® 4.60 Stockers, common to good 3.25® 4.25 Heifers, good to choice 4.00® 4.35 Heifers, fair to medium 3.60® 3.80 Heifers, common and thin 3.00® 3.40 Cows, good to choice 3.85® 4.25 Cows, fair to medium 3.25® 3.65 Cows, common and canners 1.50® 2.75 Veals, good to choice 6.00® 7.00 Veais, common and medium 3.50® 5.00 Bulls, good to choice 3.50® 4.C0 Bulls, common and medium 2.75® 3.25 Milkers, good to choice 35.00'fi45.00 Milkers, common and medium 20.CH)®30.00 Hogs—Receipts, 3.500; shipments light. The quality was generally good. The market opened slow, with packers the principal buyers, at fully 5c decline from yesterday, and closed weak, with all sold. Heavies $3.80®3.85 Mixed 3.67®3.75 Lights 3.G0®3.70 Pigs [email protected] Roughs 3.10®3.60 Sheep and Lambs—Receipts light; shipments none. The market was quiet at unchanged prices. Sheep, good to choice $3.50®4.00 Sheep, fair to medium 3.20413.50 Stockers, common to medium [email protected] Bucks, per head 3.0(>®;i.50 Spring lambs, good to choice 4.25®.u0 Elsewhere. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 18.—Cattle— Receipts. 270. Unchanged price*. The supply for the week was liberal and consisted largely of umnatured halffat slaughtering steers that sold slow at unevenly lower prices; moderate run of good well-finished cattle that sold only a shade lower; heavy native steers, $5.20® 5.66; medium steers. $4.4.'®6.2". light weights, $4415.15; stockers and feeders. $3.50®5; butcher cows and heifers. $3®4.50; canners. s2®3; bulls, s3®t; Western steers, $3.50®5.25; Texans, $3.25<®4.77%. Hogs—Receipts, 4,880. Market steady to 5c lower. The receipts for the week were light; values were 5® 10c: higher until to-day's decline places them back to last week's prices; heavies. $3.65® 3.80; mixed. $3.55®3.75; lights, $3.40®3.65. Sheep—Receipts. 720. Market active at steady prices. Demand for good mutton grades excellent aud puces advanced RKgikc during the week.

while liberal supply of lambs caused a slight shrinkage in values; lambs, $4.45®4.t0; muttons, $4#4.50; feeding sheep, $5®3.60; stockers, $2.25 &2.40. CHICAGO, Feb. 18.—Cattle—There was not enough cattle received to-day to make a market and prices were mostly nominal, closing on an average 15c lower than a week ago. Hogs—Trade in hogs was a little slow- at the start and prices were about 2%e lower, but firmed uo later on a good demand; fair to choice brought $3.72%®3.82%; packing lots. $3.5003.70; mixed. $8 50 {13.77%: butchers, $3.55® 3.80; lights, $3.45® 3.75; pigs, $3.20® 3.60. Sheep:—The small supply of sheep was readily taken at unchanged prices; poor to prime sheep sold at $2.50®4.60; yearlings, $4.25®4.70; lambs, s4® 5. Receipts—Cattle, 200; hogs, 19,000; sheepi, 1,000. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 18.—Cattle— Receipts, 500. Market steady at a decline from last Week; fair to fanev native shipping and export steers. $4.60 ®6, bulk at $5.10®5 45; dressed beef and butcher steers, $4®5.20, bulk at $4.25®5.06: steers under LOOK) lbs. [email protected], bulk at $3.99®4.20; stockers and feeders, $2.85®4.75, bulk at $3.50®4.50; cows and mixed, $1.75®4.50, bulk of cows, [email protected]; bulk of heifers, $3.50®4;_ Texas and Indian steers, $3.25®4.90, bulk at [email protected]; cows and heifers, $2 [email protected]. Hogs—Receipts, 4.900. Market easy to 5c lower; pigs and lights. 53.45®3.65; packers, $3.50®3.75; butchers. $3.65®3.82%. Sheep—Receipts, 800. Market steady; native muttons. [email protected]; stockers. $2.25®3; iambs, s4® 5.25; fed Texas steers, $3.60®3.75. NEW Y'ORK. Feb. 18.—Beeves—Receipts, 893. Market 10c lower; steers, $4.80®5.0; bulls, s3.s*)® 4.25; cows, $2.25®3.90. Cables steady. Exports, 24 cattle, 30 sheep and 1.276 quarter* of beef. Calves —Receipts, 270. Market lower; veals, $5®8.25; tops, $8.50; no fed calves. Hogs—Receipts, 1.804. Market weak at $4.10® 4.30; choice fUate pigs. $4.40. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 4,418. Market lower; sheep, $3®4.40; lambs, $4.62%®5.30, mainly at $5.10®5.25. CINCINNATI. Feb. 18.—Cattle steady at $2.50®5. Hogs steady at $3.35®3.f<5. Sheep steady at $2.25®4.25; lambs steady at s4® 5.50.

COUNTRY LIFE IN WINTER TIME. Firesiilo Joy* of Slmt-ln Days When Snow In on the Ground. D. A. Y’oung, in Spiringfield Republican. For those to whom the championship of their own thoughts is a nightmare, and the coziness of a fireside, with only the home friends or a chance, call from homely neighbors seems a dearth, a winter in the country would be a dismal experience. But to the care-weary man, or the woman who has learned the real value of town gayeties and diversions, the rugged face of a rural winter may show a smile that at least has no false pretension in it. There Is sometimes a chill in the heart that steam heat and town friends do not reach. Human nature is found at its truest in children; and what child may not find delight indoors and out in a country home when snow heaps upon the window ledge, and mimic tamaracks, tropic ferns and cacti are etched in frost on the panes? The ice-locked stream or pond Is not lit at night by an electric glare, nor swarming like the city rink with skaters, but a bonfire of brush is easy to build and, there is a world of ruddy cheer in it. There is so much in the fireside, whether we are young or old. But the fire must be of wood, and you must not be reminded of the $8 a. cord that it costs in the city, it is all the better if there is a little snow or ice on it to hiss and sizzle; and there should be a. stick of hemlock to make a noise like a hunch of firecrackers, and birch to give out a whiff of fragrance, and oak to assure a bed of coals. You need one black, tight stove “to bake ye to a puddin’ ” on the zero days, and an open grate or small fireplace lor the evenings and when it is milder. Then there is always the fire in the kitchen, with the big woodbox to sit on and dangle your legs. Whoever goes near a kitchen fire in tho city, unless it be to bake or broil? If the vicar of Wakefield had been modern and townbred, he would have had no fireside adventures to tell, and there would have been no reminiscences of their travels from one room to another. To be really shut in by srorm and cold is possible only in the country in the winter time. When you were in the city you may have pretended that the weather kept you home from church, or a social affair that you wished to escape, but it was only a pretense. Here, where you find the road billowy and trackless upon a Sunday morning, you need have no stings of conscience if you haul out the box of old newspapers and magazines which you have never before found time to cull and clip. Then there are the books you meant sometime to read, and the thought you never had leisure to think. Here any man may evolve back-log studies while he pokes his own tire. What a loss to literature had there been fio rural winters to tell about in verse or tale. What a winter was that upon which John Ridd dwells so vividly in “Lorna Doone.” ‘‘All the earth was flat with snow, all the air thick with snow: more than this no man could see, for all the world was snowing.” “Asa rule it snowed all day, cleared up at night and froze intensely, with the stars as bright as jewels, earth spread out in lustrous twilight, and the sounds in the air as sharp and crackling as artillery; then, in the morning, snow again before the sun could come to help.” But tor the country Mr. Lowell’s "Good Word for Winter” would never have been spoken, nor would he have given us the fireside picture of 'Zekel and Huldy. While the social instinct is a natural and wholesome one, I fear that there is too much seeking after happiness and recreation outside of the home. Is this because there is no cheer in the bronzed steampipes or the “hole in the floor?” With theater and concert, party and club-meeting, with unnumbered societies connected with every church, calis become rare, even between friends. When the summer’s heat makes winter pastimes intolerable, all who can hio them to the seashore or country resort; so, in becoming boarders somewhere, home is entirely abandoned for the season. Under such conditions there is little for the child to treasure in the memory, and despite the technical literary training which he gets in school, I believe, he is missing the material for making*The poetry and romance of tho future. Can any literature manual kindle a child’s imagination like a reading from Walter Scott by a wood fire, with sounds of a roaring blast and sifting snow outside? Every northern poet has a good word for the snug delight of the winter fireside. Says Cowper: I crown thee king of Intimate delights. Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, Ami all the comforts that the lowly roof Os undisturbed retirement, and the hours Os long uninterrupted evening know. And Heine, who oftener sings in a satirical key; Outside fall the snowflakes lightly, Through the night loud raves the storm; 111 my room the fire glows brightly And 'tis cozy, silent, warm. A ruggeder note rings through the winter song at the end of “Love’s Labor's Lost;” and even Mark Twain becomes almost poetic in his description of the ice-storm. Indeed, the New England poets rise to their highest plane when their theme is home life in winter: The sled and traveler stopped, the courier’s feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates n sit Around the radiant fireplace, inclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm. Better than Emerson, better than any other poet in any land, is Whittier, in uttering the feeling that set me u-prosing: Y'et, haply, in some lull of life, Some truce of God, which breaks its strife, The worldling’s eyes shall gather dew, Dreaming in throngful city ways Os winter joys his boyhood knew; And dear and early friends—the lew Who yet remain—shall pause to view These Flemish pictures of old days; Sit with me by the homestead hearth, And stretch the hands of memory forth To warm them at the wood fire's blaze! Most of the hardships imposed upon man by nature are wholesome, but of them all, when wisely and sturdily faced, those of the New England winter seem to be the healthfulest In their effect upon the mind. The long evenings and shut-in days bring leisure without lassitude, close knitting all the strands of home love. Fancifultion Inexplicable. Boston Drug Market. In another room were tons upon tons of the finished cyanide of potassium, looking for all the world like white crystallized sugar. "it looks good enough to eat,” I remarked joculai iy. ' .Ah.' replied my guide gravely, “that is just one of the dangers we have to guard against. For sonje inexplicable reason, cyanide of potassium exercises remarkable fascination over the men engaged In its manufacture. They are haunted by a constant and ever recurring desire to eat it. They are perfectly alive to the fact, however, that to give way to the craving would mean instant death, and are consequently usually able to resist. But not always. During the time I have been here three of our best and steadiest workmen have committed suicide in this strange manner, impelled thereto apparently by no cause save this mysterious, horrible longing. I myself have felt this same strange lust when I have been exposed to the cyanide fumes, and have had to leave the works for a time in consequence. So well is this curious fact recognized that there are always two men at work together in this branch of business, and a jar of ammonia, which, as you may know, is the antidote to the poison, is kept constantly near at hand.’’ Half Anarcliiat. Cincinnati Enquirer. “What do these here Anarchists want?” asked Mr. Oilrox. “To do away with the rich ?” “More, than that,” said his guest; “they w'ould do away with society,” “I don’t know,” said Mr. Oilrox, after a cautious glance to see If his wife were io heariug, “bu; what I’m with ’em.”

MRS. SEWALL’S REPORT REFORMS SUGGESTED FOR THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. Reeolatton Opposing the Seating of Polygamist Roberts—Action of the Mothers’ Congress. WASHINGTON. Feb. IS.—The feature of to-day’s sessions of the National Council of Women was a prolonged discussion over several resolutions against the seating of Representative Roberts, of Utah, in Congress. When the forenoon session opened Mis. May Wright Sewall, the retiring president, presented her report and recommendations. Reviewing the enlargement of the work of the council, she proceeded to outline needed reforms. Her report embraced the following recommendations: The formation of a committee to classify and group the titles of all women’s organizations in this country; the appointment of eight or ten women at the head of the following departments to constitute the cabinet of the president of the council, viz.: Religion, education, civics and politics, economics and industry, professional freedom, literature and art, charity and philanthropy, the admission of institutions as well as organizations to membership in the council, the bringing of different women’s and co-edu-cational colleges into affiliation with the national council, and creation of a committee to consider this suggestion; the creation of a committee for the study* of the social and domestic conditions of life in our newly acquired islands, with a view to seeing in what way the women of the islands can be aided by the council through their initiation into American methods of organization for mutual benefit for the public w’eal; the sending of an engrossed letter from this council to the Czar of Russia, expressing the appreciation, sympathy and gratitude of women for his disarmament initiative, and an expression of sympathy towards the national committee in Great Britain having in charge the organization of circles and societies committed to the advocacy of disarmament.

Then followed the report of the resolutions committee recommending the abolishment of the canteen system in army and navy; deprecating war; requesting the influence of President McKinley to stop bullfighting in Cuba; against bird destruction for millinery purposes; in favor of physical and industrial general education, as well as mental, and the larger participation of women in the work incidental to our colonial acquisitions. With reference to Representative Roberts, of Utah, a majority and minority resolution was reported. The majority report resolution follows: “Resolved, That the National Council of Women of the United States stands for the highest ideas of domestic and civic virtue, as well as for the observance of law in all its departments, both state and national; therefore, “Resolved. That no person should be allowed to hold a place in any lawmaking body of the Nation who is not a law-abiding citizen.” The minority resolution was stronger, citing the binding effect of the Edmunds law, and resolving “that no person shall be allowed to hold a place in any lawmaking body of the Nation who is not in this and in all other matters a law-abiding citizen.” These resolutions have given rise to a long end animated discussion, largely as to covering the one kind of offense and affecting other law-breaking offenses. The forenoon session was adjourned without action. At this afternoon’s session the storm over the Roberts issue was resumed. Miss Anna Gordon, of Illinois, offered a substitute compromise resolution for the minority, omitting the words “Edmunds bill.” It was lost. Mrs. Zina Young Card, of Utah, said that all the delegates wanted purity in the family, but asked if they wore able to investigate the parentage of every child, and, if not, why should the National Council direct an attack on any individual. Miss Sadie American, of Illinois, from the National Council of Jewish Women, asked why the council concerned itself about the question. Miss Susan B. Anthony then spoke. “We have laws,” she said, “in all our States to punish men who violate the laws of monogamous marriage, but if we should go up to Congress would we not find men there, who, on investigation, would be punishable under these laws? Why, then, should we go way out to Utah to seek out a man to punish?” Rev. Anna Shaw, vice president, urged on every woman to protest against this man. Miss Susie Young Gates, of Utah, protested that it was cruel to force the Utah delegates into a position not wished for and asked charitable treatment for her people. "I would not dare,” she protested, breaking Into tears, “to speak to you In Insincerity, and I ask you to be charitable. I wanted to bring you argument, but I see it can only bring you emotion and sentiment.” Mrs. Ida M. Weaver, of Idaho, said she knew political conditions in Utah; that she could see the political scheme underlying all this excitement and urged the majority report in justice to all. The minority report was voted on by yeas and nays, and lost—3l to 16. On the majority report, on the call for negatives, nobody rose and the chair declared the resolution carried—24 to 0. This closed the fight and all the remaining resolutions w r ere then adopted, save one restricting future resolutions, which was deferred. At this afternoon’s session Rev. F. Laurence Hunt spoke on the duty of the State in training children for citizenship, and this evening's session was devoted to reports and executive business. The congress will close Monda y.

MOTHERS AGAINST ROHERTS. Want Congrrem to Refnite a Seat to the I'tuh Polyunmi-f. WASHINGTON, Feb, IS.—The National Congress of Mothers to-day unanimously adopted the following resolution: “Whereas, The election of a polygamist to Congress threatens the sacred institution of monogamous marriage; be it “Resolved, That the third triennial National Council of Women requests the Congress of the United States to repudiate the result of the November election in Utah, either by refusing to allow Brigham H. Roberts, of Utah, to be placed on its roll, or by expelling him from his seat.” The resolution was framed by Mrs. F. H. Parsons, a delegate from the Mother’s Club of Utah, and was prefaced with the statement that man is largely what his home makes him. Other resolutions adopted indorsed the war policy of the administration; thanked Mrs. McKinley for “her especial graciousness,” as shown in her reception to them, and her love of the children; established a committee of five on household economy, and urged general proper training of girls in preparation for motherhood. Mrs. Borland, of the Illinois State Federation, described the workings of the child's study societies. Mrs. Hills, of lowa, talked of the idea of furnishing teachers with information enabling individual study of pupils and urged especial study and attention to the eyes of school children, particularly the seating of them properly as to the light. Mrs. A. L. Barber, of this city, pleaded for training the young to give kind treatment to dumb animals; Mrs. Lillian D. Blake, of New York, spoke for the “little mothers” of the family who assist in the care of their brothers and sisters, and Mrs. Terrill, of this city, argued for the training of the young to avoid showing any distinction between the races. Mrs. Blrney, president, made her annual address, reviewing the year’s labor and exhorting greater progress. BILLS PASSED BY SENATE Several Minor Meumirt** Adopted—l’ootufllce Bill Discussed. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. The Senate spent most of the day on the postofflce appriatlon bill, but failed to complete it. After an animated discussion of the pneumatictube system Mr. Cullom’s amendment increasing the appropriation for this purpose and designating its extension to Chicago was tabled. An echo of the old star route developments was heard when several senators crticised the method by which a combination of speculators secured the star route contracts. At 4 o’clock tributes to the memory of the late Representative Simpkins, of Massachusetts, were pronounced. Bills were passed as follows: Extending the time for the Arkansas & Northwestern Railway Company to construct a railroad through the Indian Territory; granting an extension of time for the construction of a railroad through the Indian Territory to the Galuesviile, McAllister & St. Louis Rail-

way Company: giving a preference right of entry to persons procuring a cancellation of fraudulent or double allotments to Indians; providing for the acquiring of rights of way by railroad companies through Indian reservations, Indian lands and Indian allotments; amending Section 4696 of the Revised Statutes so that when an applicant for a patent becomes insane pending tho granting of a patent the guardian, conservator or representative of the inventor shall proceed and obtain the patent and hold it in trust for his estate; authorizing the commissioner of the General Land Office to cause public lands to be surveyed In certain cases; providing for the construction of a telephone line from Table Bluff to Salmon Creek, in Humboldt county, California, at a cost not exceeding $1,50); providing for the sale of the surplus lands on the Pottawatomie and Kickapoo Indian reservations in Kansas. Consideration of the pension appropriation bill was then resumed. Eulogies In the House. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.-The House today spent two hours on the naval appropriation bill without making Any progress, and devoted the remainder of the session to eulogies on the life and public services of the late Representative Northway, of Ohio. The paragraph in the bill relating to the Naval Academy against which Mr. Mudd (Rep., Md.) raised a point of order yesterday was stricken out, the point of order being sustained. Mr. Mudd then moved additional appropriation of $720,000 for the completion of the buildings at the acadmey authorized in the last naval bill. Those who delivered eulogies were Messrs. Robinson (Dem., Ind.), Cannon (Rep., III.), Brosius (Rep., Pa.), Dick (Rep., Ohio), and Alexander (Rep., N. Y.) At 3:20 p. m., as a further mark of respect, the House adjourned until Monday. LOUBET CHOSEN. (Concluded from First Pape.) ever, being unable to point to a single unwarrantable passage in the letters. M. Meline, through his shuffling and double dealing, caused the Dreyfus drama to become a national crisis, and deserved the honor of being put forward as a candidate by the Nationalists and monarchists, the enemies of law and order. Apparently he realized that it was a doubtful compliment, declined, wavered, accepted and declined last night, to the dismay of the Nationalists reaccepted this morning and half declined in the afternoon. M. Loubet, on his appearance in the Congress House at Versailles, was received with rounds of applause, a good omen. By counting the hands that clapped it could be seen that he had a clear majority among the outside candidates. It is significant of the present yellow state of French opinion that Colonel Monteil should offer himself simply because he has slaughtered a few negroes in West Africa. Premier Dupuy replied to the Nationalist threats of street disturbances by ordering the troops in the barracks to have their arms stacked in readiness for every emergency. Tho lunch at the Hotel Reservoirs was as lively as usual at a presidential election. Many ladies in handsome toilets were present. Champagne was freely served and there was no trace of mourning. Count Castellano was glad to squeeze himself in at a corner of a table beside mine, and as other persons’ were drinking cheap wine he had the discretion to order a small bottle of cheap wine, too. Alter lunch all adjourned to the Congress. It was the bill against the Court of Cassation, I learned, that wrecked M. Dupuy'a chances. The deputies thought he was good enough for premier, but he had lost the respect which a presidential candidate must command. As regards Meline, he could not win unless with the support of the Right, and the Republicans have learned the lesson from the case of M. Faure that the President cannot do his duties to the Republic and at the same time fulfill promises to the monarchists. A NEFARIOUS MOUNTEBANK.

During the voting the Nationalists attemitted disorder. That nefarious mountebank, Deroulede, mounted the tribune, and, addressing M. Lou bet in the chair, called him a Panamist and inquired what reply he would make to M. De Beaurepaire'a charges. M. Loubet replied: “None. Your conduct is beneath my notice. Leve at once that tribune.” M. Baudry d’Asson, a wealthy royalist landlord, noted for his eccentric freaks, while putting his paper in the box, cried “Vive Re Roy!” but two Republican deputies, who expected sumo scene, quickly shoved him along. At a little past 3 o’clock the news was circulated in the lobby, during a brief adjournment, that Loubet was elected by 483 votes, against 279 for Melitie and 45 for Cavaignuc. When the sitting was resumed, M. Loubet having given up the chair to the deputy chairman, M. Chauveau, the result was announced and received with ringing cheers on the Center and Left, the Right maintaining a suiky silence. Various cries were heard, such as "Down with forgeries!” “Vive l’Armee!” and “Down with the Jews!” but all these cries were drowned by the cheers for the Republican, M. Loubet. It was felt that France was returning to her better self. * M. Loubet granted me an interview', in the oourse of which he said: “I owe everything to the Republican majority. France and the republic are inseparable. All anti-Repub-lican opinions are free unless leading to acts against the republic. The rallies must be judged by their acts, not by their words. I shall govern in a republican sense only. I have given proofs in my long political career that I am neilher a place hunter, ambitious nor overriding. Brought up in the study of the law, I will be its single-minded servant. The Elysee is a post of duty. I speak the truth in declaring that I never was ambitious to go there. Our quiet life is ended.” THE GOVERNMENT VIGILANT. The government shows its vigilance tonight. If the Nationalists give trouble all the worse for them. The Central Brigade, 5,000 strong, is on special duty and the troops are still under arms in the barracks; but bands of brawlers are, however, suffered to march through the city crying, “Down with Loubet!” singing Deroulede's chauvinsist songs and breaking windows. The Duke of Orleans is hovering about the Franco-Italian frontier. I have seen Prince Henri of Orleans gathering impressions on the boulevards. He is German look ing, with a round, sunburned face, is tall, with a short body, long legs and full feminine lips, and has an awkward gait. The city i9 fairly quiet, and the diplomatic world is satisfied with the selection. Russia approved it beforehand. The people say Loubet is a “Southern Grevy.” The Nationalists have attempted to carry out their threats and scenes of disorder took piace to-night. Windows w r ere broken on the boulevards and rioters were arrested in front of the Elysee. The whole thing was done by paid gangs. The rank and file of the so-called patriots who marched through the streets shouting “Confusion to Loubet,” “Panama, Panama,” and burning his portrait, did not exceed two thousand, with a dozen ringleaders. Premier Dupuy might have been more prompt in maintaining order, as he never failed to do while M. Faure w r as President. About 11 o’clock he at length took steps and order was restored without violence and as if by enchantment. How? Simply by blocking a few hundred yards of tha boulevard for an hour in front of the Libre Parole, which has been tha hotbed of sedition for some months. If Premier Dupuy loyally supports the new’ President the predictions of the pessimists that Loubet will meet the fate of CassimirPerier will be unfounded. The present agitation is entirely artificial. An admirable passage if M. Loubet’s speech returning thunks to tho members of the government has further excited Nationalist rage. He says he is for pacification,

but with respect for the law, implying that hitherto the law has been trampled down. The Nationalist papers this evening declare war to the knife on Loubet, vowing that they will never rest until they have expelled him from the Elysee. Jules Lemaitre, founder of the League of the French Motherland, says he will try to get arrested for Insulting M. Loubet, as he intends to da EMILY CRAWFORD. SKETCH OF 11. LOUBET. A French Statesman Who 11m Ilecn Popular with the Ilonrgeolse, Emile Loubet, who until his election to the presidency yesterday, was president of the French Senate, was born at Marsanne on Dec. 31, 1838, was educated for the bar and began his practice at Montelimar. He entered political life In the general election of 1576, when he professed himself a Republican and opposed to general and complete amnesty. He was elected by a great majority, and at once associated himself in the Assembly with the Republican Left. He was one of the deputies who refused a vote of confidence to the De Broglie Ministry in 1877. After having been twice elected to the Assembly he became a candidate for tho Senate in his old department, and was elected in 1885. He became a member of the first Tirard Ministry, which only survived for three months, holding the position of minister of public works. When M. De Freycinet declined to undertake the presidency of the council he was ihtrusted with the reconstruction of the Ministry, and took the position of minister of the interior, from which M. Constans had retired in 1882. Such, in brief, Is the public career of the new’ chief magistrate of the republic. There are many incidents In the life of M. Loubet, however, not covered in the foregoing brief sketch. A recent writer says: “M. Loubet has a reputation for honesty and good nature greater than Is his reputation for political ability. He is short, fat and jovial to a degree that is extraordinary. He was the one eminent Frenchman who came out of the great scandal connected with the Panama canal without discredit. At that time, when France was shaken to Its center and when the greatest names of tho nobility and the bourgeoise alike were being trailed in the mud, Loubet was tho minister of the interior. He resigned, it is true, but no word of condemnation attached to him. His skirts were clear and his conscience was easy. That trial, out of which he emerged an honest and innocent man, established him in the hearts of the French people and gave him a high place. "Asa politician Loubet was never very conspicuous, a fact that only served to add to his popularity. He was made the minister of public works in the Cabinet of M. Tirard, and his services at that time wera effleient and highly appreciated by both the administration and the public generally. The character of M. Loubet is most admirable. He hates double dealing, and is aa outspoken as he is just and generous. He is mild tempered and it takes much to anger him, but when he is once aroused he will tolerate no compromise of any kind. W hen he succeeded M. Challomel-Lacour in the presidency of the Senate M. Loubet was warmly welcomed by the senators, who had chafed under the irascibility of his predecessor. Challomel-Lacour was one of the most sour-tempered men In Europe, and the contrast presented with him by the rotund, Jovial, good-natured Loubet was most pleasing to everyone whose business brought him into contact with the Senate or its affairs. “No man in Franco is more loved by the great middle class—the bourgeoise—than is M. Loubet. He is a most plain-living man. He despises show and ostentation of all kinds. He is as far from being a as is Indus from the pole, and is unhappy as when ho is brought into contact with courtliness or fine manners. What he thinks he says. Banquets aiul great occasions of all kinds are a supreme bore to him. In fact, his character is the very reverse to that of the late M. Faure. ”M. Loubet is the ideal home man. He loves his friends with a devotion that is most singular in a Parisian. Parisians like the gayety of the city, with its brilliant theaters and its humming restaurants. M. Loubet hates all such. He never shows himself in theaters except to hear the opera, of which he is very fond, but it requires a masterpiece of music to draw him out from his shell. His home is never burdened with much social gayety, and as for public receptions the prospective President cannot endure them at all. “This truly good man of the people lives in no pavilion or fine manse. He is contented with a flat, and that, too, on the fifth floor. It is in a big building in the Rue de la Seine. There Mme. Loubet looks after her domestio affairs in a plain way, conforming herself to her husband’s modest and quiet tastes. Her children and her cuisine take up her time, and she is a woman of the salon in no sensa of the word. The Loubet flat is furnished more like the apartments of a workingman than like those of a senator of the great

state of France. . , “Happily, M. Loubet is very popular. When he was prime minister, In 1892, he outlined a policy that was most pleasing to the French taste. On the delicate subject .of the church he took ground that was anything but grateful to the noblesse. He hinted that tiie church could as well stay out of politics as not, and although the clerical party do not relish this stand, Loubet scored a big hit with the people, who. although deeply religious, hhva strong ideas concerning cerical interference with questions of state. It M. Faure was a man or the plain people, M. Loubet Is no less such. He is not a hero precisely—he is too sunny and too Jolly for that —but the people realize that he is close to them, and that his intensely Gallic nature is all that a patriotic Frenchman can be most proud of. “M. Loubet Is a provincial. When he entered politics In 1876 his declaration was of the republican order, though It was directed against the amnesty of the .political prisoners sentenced in consequence of the event* of 1870-71. He had no opponents in this contest, and when he entered the legislature ha inscribed his name in the list of the leftist republicans. He was one of the 365 deputies of all the united Leftist groups who. after the act of May 16. 1877, refused to join in a vote of confidence In the De Broglie Cabinet. He was re-elected in October, 1877, by a plurality of 3,400 over the Bonapartist candidate of his district, and in 1881 he was again re-elected without opposition. Four years later he became a candidate for the Senate, receiving 407 out of 758 votes. At the time Tirard assumed office he could have had the position of prime minister, having been asked by the President to form anew Cabinet, but this Loubet refused, taking instead the portefeullle of the interior. “Under the presidency of M. Loubet tha new Cabinet followed the policy of the extreme Left, and during this time of his career he showed his adroitness as a leader in public affairs in the settlement of tha labor revolts in the mining district of Carmaux. However, in this settlement he offended the Radical deputies, who caused an Interpellation as to the conduct of the government during the riots. The Leftists reproached Loubet that he bad not shown sufficient sympathy with the rights of organized labor, and the deputies of the Right accused him that he had procrastinated ton long in the settlement of the affair. At tha last moment, when the days of the Loubet Cabinet seemed to be numbered, arbitration was proposed, and M. Loubet himself uhe dertook, upon the suggestion of the president of the mining company, to be the arbiter. He proposed that the strikers return to work, except those who had been sentenced for acts of violence by the courts. This proposition the miners, supported by tho Radicals, refused, and as a last concession the government offered to pardon tha offenders so as to make their return to worle possible. This concession was made by Loubet himself from the ministerial tribune In the Chamber of Deputies. In the meantime anarchistic riots had occurred not only in Carmaux, but in Lyon* and other industrial centers. These gave the deputies of the Right occasion to blama the government for its weakness in tha maintenances of public ordr, and upon a motion for a vote of confidence in the government the latter was sustained by a vota of 359 against 94. The next day orders wera issued, however, for a more vigorous surveillance of parades and processions, and the use of the red flag in them was altogether prohibited in the streets of Carmaux. Despite the apparently overwhelming confidence expressed in the vote, Mr. Loub'6 tried to conciliate the Right, and he proposed a law against the newspaper pres* which excited to riots and disturbances. After a three days’ discussion he obtained m renewed vote of confidence, but he used tha then arising Panama scandal to resign. Nov. 28. 1892. Asa member of the French Cabinet M. Loubet has a record of long service, based upon tact and successful efforts at conciliation of the various factions of L* Chamber of Deputies. No Official Congratulation. WASHINGTON. Feb. 18.—The news of tho election of M. Loubet as President ofl the French republic, to succeed tha lata President Faure, was received here with satisfaction. It Is doubtful whether the official proprieties would sanction the extension of formal congratulations on this occasion. by our government, for that might seem to be an unwarrantable Interference in French party matters. But Secretary Hay, knowing the new President most favorably, may take occasion to communicate his personal gratification at the outcome of to-day's election. According to Secretary Hay, M. Loubet is a man of broad culture and high qualities, and thoroughly estimable from every point of view.

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