HEBER SPRINGS, Ark., town and county seat of Cleburne County, on the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad, 80 miles north of Little Rock. It has extensive agricultural, live stock and lumber interests and contains saw mills, cotton gins, sash and door works, a planing mill, etc., a new courthouse, public and high schools, and two banks with resources amounting to $429,000. The value of its tax able property is estimated at $528,436. The municipal expenditure reaches an average of $4,000 annually. The town enjoys a.considerable reputation as a health having nine mineral and sulphur springs. It is visited by many health-seekers, both in summer and win ter. Pop. 2,000.
HgBERT, Jacques Rena, zhak re-na a-bar, French journalist and politician: b. Alencon, Orne, 15 Nov. 1755; d. Paris, 24 March 1794. At the beginning of the French Revolution Lemaire published a journal supporting consti tutional principles under the title Pere Du chesne. The Jacobins soon established a rival Pere Duchesne, of which Hebert became editor. The journal owed its success to the cynical virulence with which it advocated the popular cause and abused the court and the monarchy, and soon had the field to itself. He was a member of the Revolutionary Commune that approved the massacres in the prisons in September 1792, was soon after substitute at torney of the commune, and employed all his influence in forwarding a project to establish the authority of the commune on the ruins of the national representation. The Girondists,
who were at that period contending against the Mountain, had credit enough to procure the arrest of Hebert 24 May 1793. Again restored to liberty, he assisted with all his power and influence in the proscription of the Their downfall hastened his own. With Chau mette he established the Feast of Reason, and afterward accused Danton of having vio lated the nature of liberty and the rights of mankind. This terrified both Danton and Robespierre, who suspended their mutual jealousies to accomplish his destruction; and Hebert, with the greater part of his associates, was arrested and guillotined.
HltBERT, Louis Philippe, Canadian sculp tor: b. Sainte Sophie d'Halifax, Quebec, 27 Jan. 1850. He studied for several years in Canada, and later in Paris, where he estab lished his studio. In 1894 he won the Confed eration medal awarded by the Canadian gov ernment. Among his works are historical sub jects executed for public buildings in Quebec, Ottawa and Montreal.