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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-09

The Republican Congressional
Committee met in New Iberia last
Saturday, and provided for the hold
ing of a Congressional Convention in
Franklin, on September -. As the
Sound Money Democrats will not
likely put up a candidate, the scrap
viii be a show Of possible success be-
tween the straightouts of each of the
two parties. The Republicans will
likely put up ex-Representative w.
A. O'Niell, who will make the ther-
mometer mark high in the general
mix-up Of the campaign.-Franklin
News.
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TAKEN UP.

I have taken up a red-brown bull,
about two or three years old, branded
but too disfigured to be made out.
Owner will please come forward and
identify him and pay all costs other
wise he will be disposed of according
to law after due advertisement.
June 1923 JESSE r. WHITE.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-09

With no '.obligations'' to Mark
Hanna, no SIG, 900, 900 corruption
fund raised from corporations for the
last Presidential campaign, no Wall
Street Stock Ticker, no Tory holders
of Spanish bonds, this wal would not
have lasted thirty days. The deelara-
ton Of war, followed by prompt ac-
ton, would have freed Cuba and
driven the detested Spanish flag from
the Western Hemisphere in short
order. But that would have grieved
the McCook co%nspirators, been a sore
disappointment to the Tory holders of
Spanish bonds, and to the Wall street
hyenas, and would have broken poor
SHARK Hanna's heart.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-09

The latest ocean horror is the sink
ing of the French steamer La
Bourgogne with 725 souls aboard on
the morning of July 4, in a dense fog
off Sable Island. The disaster was
due to the steamer colliding with the
sailing vessel Cromartyshire, and al
though it was an hour after the col
lision before the vessel sunk, owing to
the panic only 163 persons were saw
ed. A number Of people from New
Orleans and Rev. Father p. L. PEN
sier the parish priest of Vile Platte,
st. Landry parish, were among those
who persisted.
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CONTINUED on 4th page.
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for the Henry Harrington school 9th
ward at Cow Island.
On motion of P. Dupre Leblanc
duly seconded, all the public schools
Of this parish were ordered opened
on the first Monday of October 1898
for a session of nine months.
The annual report of the Superin-
tendent was then received and order
ed to be published in the official
journal of the School Board.
The reports of the Finance Com
mittee we're read and ordered spread
upon the minutes as follows:
ABBEvILLE, La, June 80. 1898.
To the Hon. President and Members OF
the School Board, Vermllion parish.
Report of Finance COMMITTEE on the
standing of j. O. Hebert sheriff and tax
collector on the books of your commit
tee from Jany 1st to June 1st, 1898, rolls
of 1897:
To amt coll Dec '97 rolls '97 poll $ 591 90
:. :" " SD tax 1861 80
224S 80
! Credited by the following recpts
Poll S 55l IS com 500 s5-$ 591 90
Sp tax 1874 CO com 81 81 1851 80 224S 30
! To amt coll Jan 1913 roll 81 poll s 953O 90
:" poll Erwin Hebert 2770 90
I. special tax $3.50 %
4495 %
| Or by the following rects:
Sn tax 3SG2 IS com 176 $3.50 % 1892 %
Bal due by him / 90
To amt coll Feb ,qs roll 1911 poll Si57 90
/" sp tax 6l3 81
RIO "a
Or by the following reefs:
Poll S149 10 com 5 Z S5-S157 90
Sp tax 5S2 81 com 30GT- 6l3 ID F0 81
To amt coll Mar '9s roll '91 poll S 81 90
sp tax !" $50 40
I" int on same Is II
514 II
CIR by the following reots:
Poll S 40 40 com 5 2 10-$52 OF
SIP a 439 "a com 25 l2-4o2 % OH 90
Bal to his credit s 40
To amt coli Apr '9s roll797 poll 3 Sc 90
!" poll no. 1910 not on cash book 90
" amt coll sp tax 1879 81
Z" int on same at s per ct. IL
200 os
CIR by the following reefs:
Sp tax S164 Is com rs 63-$172 IS
Poll 81 40 com TO- 81 10 204 rs
Bal to his debit S 4 80
70 amt coll May '9s roll 'g7 poll 3 g % %
int on am at 10 per ct. IS
"A Is
CIR by the following reefs.
Sp tax Sl3 IS com so 12-$l44 IS
Poll 30 com 0 d 300 % IS
Bal to his debit %
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j. R. K1rcHELL, Preside
Sec'y School Board.
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Sec'y School Board.
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT.
ABBEvILLE, La, July /, 1898.
To the Hon. Board of School Direct
ors of the parish of Vermilion,
State of Louisiana.
Gentlemen: l beg leave to SUBJ
NIT the following report of the
condition of the public schools
Of this parish, towit:
LENGTH OF SESSION.
Owing to the epidemic of yellow
fever prevailing in various sections
and localities of the southern states,
and the resulting quarantine, Jul
schools did not open until the first
Monday Of November 1897, which
was about one month later than our
schools usually open. Since open
ing, the public schools of this parish
were in continuous session until the
18th day Of June 1898 when all clos
ed, thus making the free school s.
sion of 1878 of s months duration.
NUMBER OF SCHOOLS AND NEW SCHOOLS.
During the past session there were
in active operation AZ free public
schools in this parish, 3 colored and
80 white. ! have to report also that
the following new schools have been
established by your Hon. body since
July 1897, towit:
School near Desire Vincent 9th ward.
f" Gustaye Leblanc 8
/" " Jules Boudreaux 5
" Simon's + !"
" " Bayou Tigre 2 &
j. o. Dore's 6 9
and in each of the above cases the
patrons have donated the house and
site free to the School Board.
CONDITION OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
The condition of the school houses
of this parish, speaking generally, is
not good. The majority of them
need more or less repairing. Exper-
fence has demonstrated that while
the patrons who desire a school are
always willing to furnish the school
building and site free to the School
Board, they are not willing, at their
expense, to keep the building in good
repairs. l would therefore recon-
mend that your Hon. body create a
s'school house repairing fund and
place annually a sufficient amount of
money to the credit of said fund to
keep all public school houses of this
parish in good repairs. This I deem
an absolute necessity, as some of our
school houses are in exceedingly bad
condition, and in a number of in
stances the water closets also are SO
dilapidated that it is impossible to
use them.
ENROLMENT.
In round numbers there were en-
rolled in the public schools of this
parish during the session ending June
IL, 1898, 1000 white children and 200
colored ones.
During the free school session of
1894-5 there were 1898 white chill
dren enrolled. From these figures it
will be seen that since 1895 the en-
roRment has increased in 8 years so
per cent. which is seemingly fairly
good progress. But there are as /
have frequently reported between s.
600 and 1000 children of educable
age in this parish and thus it is east
" seen that only about 30 children
out of every 100 Of school age really
attend u public schools. And the
number of youths who attend private
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-09

DR. G A Schilling freight on school
desk and mdse 10 81
] s Ewell livery hire horse and
buggy used. by Sup't IN visiting
schools 80 so
j r Kitchell 9 days com work and
drawing act of donation % so
w P Miller 20 days com work 30 90
F Broussard Z DAYS atd'g SD meet'g IA 90
p d Leblanc 90
d III Hunt geo
j A Petty 2 90
The Board then adjourned to meet
Saturday, July 3oth inst, to have
final settlement with sheriff and ex-
officio tax collector, he having filed
with the Board on this day a list of
uncollected poll tax on rolls of 1897
and for the transaction of all other
business.
o. BoURQUE,
j. r. KITcHELL, President.
Sec'y School Board.
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STEfNWAY PIANO. nim1st n"w, "ante''
cheap for cash. Address Postoftiee Box
-CS CITY
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BOOKKEEPER.- Young man. II. Ger
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languages: experienced collector and as
s!stsnt bookkeeper. would prefer Clerical
position. Al reference bond II required.
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Brooklyn.
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heat no, water. all conveniences IL
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DRESS AND ACCORDION PLEA1
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Dogs AND BIRDS.
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V,ROTT1NG STOCK AT AUCTION.
PETER c. KELLOGG. Auc,oneer
THURSDAY. October 20. at 10 o'clock
PARKv1LLE FARM. Brooklyn Boulevard New York.
Property OF JOHN II. SHUTS, Esq.

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Phonetics and Fanatics.

Edgar Fawcett, in Golfers Weekly.
l wonder who are the "skolarz ov Ingland
c. unset these kinds of spelling reform
scshiashunz." LuminarieS in Lancashire,
r may de- or Pnfs N sband not BE- W MAJ 70
to live in one. If / had to write country
"kuntri I should either take to a balloon,
like Andree, or live on the top of a pillar,
ike St. Simon Stylites. If there is any de-
partment of human experience where con-
serVatism is justifiable, avoidance of this
needs, in many ways, enlargement, ampltf-
cation. There are new words, as it were,
crowding at its gates. We don't expand it
and deepen 1t with half enough energy and
zeal. We have too sluggish a linguistic
peace. There are words L should like to see
guillotined; there are others [ should like to
see banished to the oubliettes of some inn
placable bastile. But there are many brave
republican words that | should like TO see
toss their triumphant caps in the air. Our
language is copiOuS yet arid, generous yet
parsimonious. 1t has its rich soil yet also
IeCttication. of rehabilitation, of fertiliza-
ton is possible to it. All in all, it is an eX
tremely opulent AMI beautiful language.
but still il contains purlieus of pauperdom
which all who have carefully roamed it's
domain must have met and deplored. This,
however. is a question quite apart from the
(rather fanatics than "fonetics'D are mere
v3ndals, unutterably tasteless and vulgar
beyond speech. They are of the kind who
would hang in their rooms q loud and tawd-
ry chrome of the Dresden Madonna. who
vCuld find no difference between bit of
rare old Cinque Cento silver and a neat
Gcrham-plate imitation of it. They want
to tear the moss off the roofs of delicious
old words. They have no respect for the
sweetness and tenderness of antiquity that
c.othe them like ivy. that engird them like
a grove of yews. They are little insurgents,
demolition of the suggestive, the poetic, the
me morial. The tempest they are trying TO
raise isn't even measured by teacup; its
area is at best a thimble. Thunders there
are DerIOrco Duny.
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The Fashion in Novels

w L. Alden, in New York Times.
There is reason to believe that the his
torical novel has had its day. 1t was
brought in by the swing of the pendulum,
which carried us away from the novel in
which nothing happened to the novel con-
sisting of incident ana little else. A few
years ago no respecting novelist, with
the exception OF Charles Reade. would low
err himself so far as TO write a story in
which anything happened. Adventure was
held to be unworthy of literature. The au-
thor was expected to present careful por-
traits of men and women and subtle analy-
ses of their character. but he was not to
permit them TO pass through any adven-
ture. The public grew tired of this sort of
thing and the historical novel with its
white Companies" and its Gentlemen of
France" had for a time the field almost to
itself. But the pendulum now seems about
to swing backward again. The writer's of
historical novels are abandoning the Middle
Ages and the last century for the present
day and the up-to-date story is rapidly
coming in 1t will still continue for some
time to he mainly a. story of incident, but
in all probability we shall before very long
return to the study of character instead of
the narration of adventure. All the recent
great successes-from the publishers point
of view-have been novels of contemporary
life. / shall be surprised if in the course of
the next year We do not have society
novel by Mr. Crockett. a story of. say. the
late Greek war by Mr.. Weyman. and a
novel of physical analysis by Mr.. Haggard
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cussed from every possible point of view
The old men find great pleasure in re-
counting the past history of the people,
and have eager and interested listeners in
weapons l can use against these ten
denotes to be ridicule and moral suasion.
whereby | impress upon them the neces-
Sity of looking forward and of staying at
their homes to look more closely after their
property and the interests of their chill
dren."
The entire tribe is composed Of about 300
families, Of which LILO are adults and $50
are children of school age. This gives them
over 5000 acres of land for each family. and
more than $50 acres per capita, with $50. 900
cash for every family. Including the grass
from leasing the pastures. the income of
the tribe will average $500 COO a year. which
Is about $500 per capita, or 81 500 per family,
without any labor whatever. This enormous
wealth, and the increasing value of the
lands which lie just south OF the Kansas
line and consist of valuable timber and
large tracts of rich soil suitable for agricul-
tire, have made citizenship of great value,
and has caused many diSSOlute white men
to marry lite the tribe, so that S29 mostly
men," as the whites who marry Indian
vrcmen are called are not enrolled and re-
Ceiye nothing directly, but Indirectly they
control the shares OF their wives and chill
drea. and have been gaining more and more
Influence among the people The tribe is
end at the last election the mixed bloods
ar 'sQuaw men, Ly bribery and other i'm
fiuences, succeeded N eecting their candi-
Cases for chief aa9 the council This has
caused a great deal % discomfort among
the fu.iblc DDS. and If is probable that the
government will be compelled to interfere
in order TO protect those who are really en-
titled to- a share in the rights of the tribe.
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how You bicycle i'm Holland.

Joseph Pennell, in Harper.
There are no restrictions of any sort that
know of i'm Holland. You may ride any
where you want on the towpath, the bikes
or the brick streets. You can see more of
the country from q cycle than in any other
way, IS the roads are invariably higher
than the canals or the railways and you
can ride from one end to the other of the
most interesting part in a day. In riding on
towpaths, however. it is well to look out for
tow and other ropes, if you do not want to
be suddenly swept into canal. From Rot
terdam q most interesting tour can be made
to the Hague. HARLEM. the dead cities of
the Zuyder Zee. back down the great dixie
to Amsterdam. thence to Dord-echt and up
the Rhine if you like. The children of that
country. it might be remarked. are fiends
incarnate and have a European reputation
for deviltry. AS almost everybody speaks
more or less English. there is little trouble
IN getting about Holland and Austro-Hun
70 England 10 travel in. unless you are ac-
quainted with the ways and the language.
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SHAKESPEARE AND WHEELING.
How the Poets Words May BE Twist
ed to Please the Cyclist.

Invention.
Shakespeare. it would seem, must have
throughout his plays he makes frequent rel
erences to the wheel 1t must be that liam
let's father had visited bicycle academy,
where beginners on the Wheei were plenty,
for his ghost said:
What falling off was there!'
This most excellent description is paralleled
by another in the same play, in which ref
erence is made to an accident, the new
woman Of the early sixteenth century being
evidently the greatest sufferer. The nrst
player says:
Break all the spokes and fellies from her
wheel
coasters, of the merits of which the modern
rider may judge for himself. He says;
LET go thy hold when a great wheel runs
down hill, lest it break thy neck with
following 1t.
There were evidently bicycle thieves in
those days, and owners had to carefully
auard their precious wheels. In the Temp
est Aonzo says to the king:
1--WE. too, my lord.
Will guard your person while you take your
And watch your safety. .
In that same play Ariel undoubtedly heard
the king and his attendants coming on their
wheels when she sang '''' 49,
"Hark! Now 1 hear them; ding-dong bell"
There is no doubt that Achilles in 'Troilus
and Cressida," Travelled on a wheel, for he
says to his myrmidons:
Attend me while I wheel"
1t appears from a quotation made by the
king in "Alls Well That Ends Wen that
the la,T required lamps tombei carried at
night, and that q violation of 1t was FOL
lowed by death. He says; 81,
Let me live after my flame lacks OIL -
Chains were not noiseless, and bells We're
used in the days of the Comedy of Err
rors." as is shown by a conversation be-
tween the Dromio of Syracuse and Adriana,
which runs thus:
"A chain chain do you not hear it?
What, the chain?
No, no. the BELL
The availability of wheels in dangerous
service is illustrated in "Coriolanus, when
the winged messenger says to Cominius:
''Spies of the Volsces
Held me in chase, that / was forced to
wheel
Three or four miles about; else had, sir,
Half an hour since brought my report"
The tire of which Shakespeare wrote was
evidently filled with hair instead of air, and
even its color was of Importance. In Much
Ado About Nothing" Margaret says:
Il like the new tire within eXcellently, if
the hair were a thought browner."
Pucks prophetic remark about placing a
glrdle round the world in forty minutes is
fully equaled by that of Launce in the
1.-TWO Gentlemen of Verona" He says:
"Then, may 1 set the world on wheels"
Surely, this prophecy has been fulfilled.
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dc ok were pretty well splintered up from
the shells which had struck them.
SHIP ATTIRE

A SHIP ATTIRE.
'As we waited in our safer position, in
great anxiety for the other ships, of whose
fate we knew nothing, we saw bright
light in the sky, which we could tell must
come from ship burning. We did not
know then which one it was but we learned
later from members of its crew. who made
their way to land and up to our position,
that it was the Mississippi She had run
hard aground on the shoal of the western
bank of the bend, and it was found impossl-
bic to get her off. BY that time the Con-
federates had got the range much better,
and their well-directed shots cut her up
badly Her commander ordered her to be
set on fire. and managed TO get most of his
men ashore in boats. The other vessels had
met with various accidents to their ma
chinery or had run aground on the treach-
erous shoals, and our two, the Hartford
and the AIbatross, were thus the only ones
to pass the batteries. Of course, two yes
sells could not do the same work for which
the admiral had destined seven but 1T is a
matter of record that by lowering around
the Red river district they kept the enemy
pretty short of supplies in that nelghbor-
hood.
LAS for me, l had to go home when we
got UP to Vicksburg. My father and some
OF the officers held a sort of council of war
over me- and the decision was that had
better go to some safer place. So that was
my last naval battle. | went to West Point
later and became a member of the other
branch of the service.
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Three Hundred Families with an In
come of 81 900 without Work.

W. +. Curtis, in Chicago Record.
The Usage Indians are the richest COM
munity in the world They number but
/ .729 souls all told-men, women and chill
dren; they own 100000 acres of valuable
land; have 100000 in trust with the gov
eminent which pays per cent. interest.
and have leases with cattlemen for the use
of their pasture lands which bring them
between $4,000 and $4,000 a year, without
counting the rent from the agricultural
lands and the proceeds of their own labor.
That. however, is very small. They have
so much money that they are lazy, idle
and in a state of rapid degenerat ton. There
is no more striking example of the cor
rupting influences of wealth and idleness.
The Indians have no incentive for educa-
tion or labor but spend their time Ioafing
and visiting each others homes, where, as
the agent says they feast and gossip un-
til one might suppose their capacity for
both was exhausted: bat each triiing DC
currence serves as q text which IS dis