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The Lafayette gazette., 1902-07-19
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Important Meeting of School
BOard-Graded Schools rs
tabliShed in the Sew
Grai Wards.


sent the secretary called the
regular quarterly meeting Of
the Board to order. The follow
ing members answered to their
names: Alex DelhOmmc. jasper
Spell, DR.. n. =. Moss, DR.. r. O.
Young, A. G. Guilbeau, =. r.
Landry. Absent: President a.
Olivier, II. Theall, S. J. Mont
gomery.
The next thing in order was
the election of Il president pro
tenn. DR.. Moss moved that DR..
Roy O. Young be made tempo
rary chairman. This motion
was duly seconded, and DR..
Young was unanimous elected.
The reading OF the minutes of
the preceding meetings was
taken up. The minutes Of April
> were read and the word
''town' was ordered stricken
from the resolution, by Dr..
Young, relative to securing aid
from tho City Council to help
maintain the schools.
The secretary stated that as Il
committee from the Isle de
Cannes school was present. he
requested that his report bear
ing on that school be deferred to
the time when the committee
would be given Il hearing. The
request was granted.
The secretary asked for
further time for investigating
the merits of the DusOn petition
for the erection of q public
school at that place, and the
Board extended the time.
Further time was also granted
for the engagement of an en-
gineer for the survey of the 10th
section in the fourth ward.
DR.. Moss moved that a sur
veyor be employed to find out if
the public school land in the
fourth ward has been encrOached
upon and to report to the Board
at once if he so finds it, If the
lay it off into sixteen equal lots
marking the corners of the lots.
Mr. Landry seconded the motion
and it was carried.
1t was moved by Mr.. Spell
and seconded by Mr.. Guilbeau
that standing Ommittee be APP
pointed to audit the books of the
treasurer and Of the sheriff
quarterly. The chair appointed
the secretary, DR.. Moss and Mr..
Gull beau.
On motion Of Mr.. Spell duly
seconded by Mr.. Delhomme, DR..
Moss. Mr.. Spell, Mr. Landry
and DR.. Young were appointed a
committee to wait upon the
Police Jury and upon the Town
Council in order to arrive at
some understanding as to APP
preparations for the maintenance"
of the public schools for tn"
coming session.
On the suggestion OF DR..
Young. Pres. protein Dr. Moss
offered the motion that a COM
mittec to be known as the com-
mittrr on building of school
houses" be appointed, whose
duty it shall be to submit plans
to the Board for the erection of
all school houses to be built in
the future: that no school house
be accepted by the Board in the
future unless it be built on plans
submitted to the Board and ac-
cepted After being seconded
by Mr.. Landry, this motion was
carried. The chair appointed
Dr.. Moss, Mr.. Delhomme and
the name of Dr.. Young was
added bv the Board. The object
is to secure a uniform, comfort
able. hNSienic SchOOl-hOuSc
The upcrintendent read his
first annual report which was
received and filed.
The superintendent : report
will be printed next week.
1t was moved by Dr.. Moss
The Lafayette gazette., 1902-07-19
Reliable AOOhMC0N,c The
Merchandise i hUIIhWOUN ST
Taken CD.

On my place in the second ward of La
fayctte 1.arish, about Two months ago, one
sorrel tilly, about ; years old, branded on
left shoulder and left cheek. Owner can
secure same by proving ownership and pay
ing costs.
+. FOREMAN.
July sat. Scott, La.
The Lafayette gazette., 1902-07-19

Clark, the photographer, has a
good run because he does salts
factory work. Visit his studio
and see the display.
The Lafayette gazette., 1902-07-19

FOR RENT-TwO residences in
the town of Lafayette Apply
to Leon PlOnSkeV.
The Lafayette gazette., 1902-07-19

Master Hugh Jameson en-
ployed in the New Orleans Cot
ton Exchange, is visiting his
aunt, Mrs. r. c. Grcig.
The Lafayette gazette., 1902-07-19

Col. w. G.. DufOur, Of NeN
Orleans, was in Lafayette O
legal business this week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-29
To Be Seen in Topeka Next Week.

ance of Willie Golfers new play in the
New York Journal as follows:
Mr. Collier-who wants to be Will
liam, but who is persistently Willie
won again at the Madison Square the
alter. in a play that wasn't nearly as
good Gas a play) ION the Quiet" The
fact that it was called The Diplomat"
and that it was by that choicest of
feminine playwrights, Martha Morton,
mattered astonishingly little. Mr.. Col
lier himself had a role that gave him
a chance to display his genuine, ire
sistible humor. and he scored heavily,
surely and most gratifyingIy. In fact.
he confirmed the guarantee that he
gave with "On the Quiet" He proved
again that he is, bar none. the most
original, unctuous, un-selfconscious
and legitimate comedian on the Ameri
can stage today.
Intelligent people can laugh at him
and feel glad. They know that they
can convulse in a good cause Like
the brand of champagne that is so per-
Sistently (and, of course, gratuitously)
advertised throughout THE Diplomat"
Mr.. Collier is continuously frothy, and
yet his humor stands on solid legs.
IN. B.-Miss Isabelle Urquhart (nee
Casino) was in the cast to bear his
brunt if necessarily Last night he
again suggested himself as a happy
Goodwin And may the Fa-tes keep him
securely in our midst and lead him
from the thorny labYrinths where Shy
locks and other legitimates Turk. Miss
Morton, in THE Diplomat" is extreme
ly up-to-date. She is no later than
Prince Henry of Prussia, who is pleas
antly dragged in, and her antiquity
goes back no further than ''Florodora"
although that ran five hundred
nights. wasn't it? Miss Morton was in
fact not for topics. and Mr.. Collier
helped her out occasionally. One or
two of his happiest hits undoubtedly
emanated from his own brain. They
might, in fact. be called gags" But
Miss Morton need not feel jealous, for
she originated plenty of her own
None but the brave deserve the
fair" said some one.
And none but the brave can live
with Them" retorted Collier
That may or may not be brand new.
But it was vif to the audience last
night, and the comedian gave it due
emphasis.
Then there was another line, spoken
by Miss Louise Allen, as one of the
original "F'lorodora' sextette girls Il
could play Juliet she said. butt
dance so WE'LL That is my misfortune"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-29
HIS WISH FULFILLED.
Andrew Watrous' Poem Recited by
Elita Proctor Otis.

Elita Proctor Otis appeared in an up
town New York music hall last week
and recited an old poem, From Eighth
Street Up to Eighth Street Down."
Few in the audience knew that the
author was Andrew Watrous, one of
New YorkS most brilliant newspaper
men, who died by his own hand the
week before. Curiously enough, Miss
Otis was carrying out the wish that
Watrous expressed in a poem written
long ago on the death of Fitz James
O'Brien- In the last stanza of this poem
MIR. Watrous wrote:
From here he sailed forth to crown
A f1aring life with flaming death
God rest him! There, outside the town,
He waits the doomsday trumpets
breath.
Poor Fitzl they say. Yet when I'm
dead
I'll ask no pity if a line
OF all I've writ in some ones head
Shall run as some of his in mine.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-29
~JIM BLUDson IN DISPUTE.
John Hays knowledge of an Engi-
neer's Duties Questioned.

Much discussion has been aroused by
the production of Jim Bludso' at Nc
Vicker's theater, Chicago, in regard to
the propriety of the engineer holding
the nozzle of the steamer Belle against
the shore while the passengers and crew
are ching rescued from the burning
boat.
Some persons declare it is the duty of
the pilot and not of the engineer to
steer a boat and keep her in one direc-
ton Captain ]. H. Dalton, chief engi-
neer of McVicker'S, an old Mississippi
river boatman, says the mechanism of
the Prairie Belle is absolutely correct,
but when asked what about the eEgi-
neer's heroic act he smiles and keeps
quiet.
1t is rather a curious fact that the
production of the melodrama has
brought a number of letters on the SUBJ
ject of the Mississippi river boats to the
theater office. Several actors, who claim
to have been captains, pilots, engineers
or just plain roustabouts; have written,
asking to be given positions.
One in particular, Colonel Burt G..
Clark, whom everybody knows as the
Colonel in I'm Old Kentucky" a part
he has played for years, is particularly
anxious to get aboard the good boat
Prairie Belle.
He wrote to Rich & Harris that his
long experience as captain of a river
steamer has made him an especially
good man for a melodrama dealing with
river navigation. However, as the cast
was filled before his application came,
and there is no part we'll suited to
him in the play, he was so advised.
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WILL BE NO RACE.

New York, March pm Ernest Cue
nod, member of the Paris Vienna race
committee. has announced at a meeting
of the Automobile club of America in
TINS city. that he has received a private
cable message informing him the race
mad been declared off. This confirms the
information received by Albert c. Bost-
Wick from friend in Paris
When Switzerland refused to grant
q permit to cross her territory" said NJ
e.uenod, we changed our route to go
through Bavaria. Now the Bavarian
authorities have refused permission and
there Is no further hope for this year
we. however, have the international
cup. the Paris Bordeaux and the Nice
races left Next year we hope to race to
st Petersburg. As Russia is an ally of
France, We feel sure We can get the
cars permission
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-29
HOW IT'S BACKED.
Undoubted Reliability Is Expressed
IN Topeka Endorsement.

What's your backing?
When a stranger applies for credit.
That's the first question a banker
asks.
Same rule applies to anything strange.
Can't always tell by appearances.
They who depend on a strangers
word
Oft times get left.
What you want is home Endorsement.
The backing of people you know.
Topeka proof for Topeka people.
That's what follows here.
Surely no better backing can be had
than the following statement from
Mr.. John A. Thomas, of 31s Ash
street, gardner says: 81 had kidney
and bladder trouble for ten years, and
being exposed to all kinds of weather
time aggravated the trouble. My back
ached the most about A o'clock in the
mornings and the pain was so severe
that l had to get up and sit in a chair.
At times the SecretionS from the kid
neyS were too frequent and at other
times scanty, highly colored and dis
tressing. I learned about Doan's Kid
ney Pills two years ago and obtained
two boxes They helped me wonder
fully, relieved the pain in my back and
corrected the kidney SecretionS. / had
another attack in the spring of 1899,
and got a box of Doan'S Kidney Pills
at Rowley & Shows drug store. They
did the work for me just as promptly
as in the former instance"
For sale by all dealers. Price, 80
cents. Fosl sr- Milburn Co, Buffalo, n.
Y. sole agents for the United States.
Remeber the name-Doan's- take
no substitute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-29
A MAYFLOWER GRAVE.
Headstone of One of the Pilgrims Dis
covered in Cemetery in Salem.

Boston. March 29.-In the next num-
Der of the official magazine of the Mas
sachusetts Society of Mayhower De-
scendants, the secretary of the society
will announce his discovery of a grave
stone of a passenger in the Mayhower.
1t is the only Mayfiower gravestone
known to be in existence and it is in
the old Charter street cemetery at
Salem.
Prior to this discovery it had been
supposed that all tornbstones marking
the resting places of Pilgrims had
crumbled into dust. Tradition and pre-
sumption have located the graves OF
Mayffower passengers in several places
in New England, but in most cases, if
not all, proof had been wanting. In
the old graveyard at South Duxbury, a
monument has been erected over what
is said to be the last resting place of
Capt Myles Standish, but there is di-
versity of opinion as to whether the
identity of this grave has been proved.
1t is presumed that some of the May
flower passengers were buried on Burial
hill and Coles hill at Plymouth, but
there is no proof of it.
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Ibid De Koven write Carmen p"
asked Mr.. Challoner.
To which his wife replied, signifi-
cantly, mot yet
Mr.. Collier was at home in the role
of a young club man-very much with
out rhyme or reason, but so amusing
that the lack of these generally neces-
sary qualities was of no account at all.
He talked whisky-to please the men;
and he "jollied" the ladieS-to please
the girls. He said witty things, and
never sentimental ones. He tried hard
to abstain from all brands and labels
of pathos and this was very grateful
to pathos-ridden community.
Etienne Girardot played a Baron. and
was useful, at any rate, for one of Mr.
Golfers quips. When Mr.. Girardot ap-
peared from supper in a rosy bon-bon
cap and twitted Nick upon his appear
ance, that gentleman retorted, You
don't look SO good, either, Lewis Nor
rison''-and it went
But Mr.. Collier can go ahead, and be
satisfied. ION the Quiet was a hard
thing to follow, but he has followed it
and has broken no bones And won't
he please be Willie again-and not
William. These comedians, if you give
them an inch, take an ell. If one allows
him William, he'll be William j. or
William c.. next season. That was
Mats method of procedure. 1t is one
that is better avoided.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-29
HER HAIR TURNED WHITE.
Annie Oakley, ofWildWest Fame, Quits
the Show.

The New York News says; Annie
Oakley, the champion female wing
shot, is about to re-enter the dramatic
field. Wayne Ellis, author of Miss
and other border dramas, is at work
upon a play which will be submitted to
the firearm expert within a few days.
If it is found satisfactory, next season
will see the young markswoman as the
heroine of a play in which her sure-Shot
talent will be exploited.
Miss Oakley and the Wild West show
have eternally severed relations. The
accident to the train on which she was
travelling with the show through North
Carolina last October is mainly respon-
sible for that decision. When the crash
occurred, Miss Oakley was thrown
from her berth and for a time pinned
beneath some wreckage. Within seven
teen hours after her rescue her hair, a
deep brown, had changed to almost
snow white, the result of the shock and
fright 1t was not until a few days
later that she was found to have been
seriously injured in the accident. After
six weeks in the hospital she emerged
white to hair, but otherwise in per-
feet health
1t was supposed that her nervous sys-
tenn had been so upset that her skill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-29
SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE A HIT
Richard Harding Davis Book Follows
the Others to the Stage.

Robert Blossoms appearance in Soldiers
of Fortune in New York has proved be-
yona doubt that he is well worthy of the
reception accorded him. 1t was practically
due to him alone that the play scored a
distinct success on Monday night and no
better proof of this is needed than the fact
that critics were united on this point, while
hopelessly divided as to the bestowal of
second honors.
Both Richard Harding Davis. the author,
and Augustus Thomas, who drama tized
the book We're called upon for speeches
Thomas, however. made the hit of the ev-
ening by referring to Our young mama
Chandler Harris, is a household word in
all the haunts of ragtime" and to Mr..
Edeson, whose father only few short
years. ago was mere teIegrapher, and
now is the worlds wonder, Thomas Edi-
son." and to Richard Harding Davis,
whose father, everyone, of course,
knows, was that most be-diamond if not
famous, of all American actors, Alvin JOS
Iyn Davis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-29

fun and laughter, THE Explorers" has
accomplished everything promised in
advance reports, and has proved posi-
tive revelation of everything apper-
tanning to mirth and melody, and from
a financial and artistic standpoint is
veritable triumph and far in advance
of that attained by its sister play, The
BurgOmaSter," inaSmuch as the Ire
mont Theater'S capacity has been tested
at each performance. Although there is
but one more week scheduled for this
jolly affair, it could run for many more
weeks, judging from the enthusiasm
evinced at each performance. 1t CEN
tainly is one of the most tuneful and
merry musical comedies Boston has had
the good fortune to see for many day.
Richard earle and Ruth White equal
ly predominant and have even surprised
their most intimates- Mr.. Carries por-
trayal of the professor of boneology
seems to be as original and ludicrous as
the musical comedy world has seen for
many a day. Miss White is one of the
most promising prima donnas of the
day, with her youth, beauty and vocal
accomplishments
William b Rock although a new
coner TO Boston, has scored a most
signal success. Knox Wilson and his
saxophone, William Riley Hatch and
his strong baritone voice, contribute
much of the best bits of the perform
ance, and are closely seconded by dain-
~ Agnes Paul and droll Josie 1ntropidl-
Others worthy of mention are Rose Les
trio of youth and loneliness only equal
led by that bewitching Little Cupid
quartet The bevy of singing and dane
ing girls is without doubt one of the
most pleasing revelations of youth, chic
and loneliness one could imagine.
Augustus Thomas American drama,
Arizona" comes to the Crawford on
Tuesday. Anything that comes from
the pen of the talented author of Ala
bama' and In Mizzoura' demands and
is accorded friendly and serious consid-
GRAFTON by the American public. "Ari-
zona' as the name implies. is a play
which has its scenes, characters and in
cidents located in the picturesque far
southwest. The people of the play COM
prise sturdy ranchmen, the brisk alert
women of the pioneer generation and
their dainty yet strong and Self-reliant
daughters, officers and soldiers. Mexi-
cans and Chinese, fair samples of the
heterogeneous community which Mr..
Thomas has chosen to utilize in the way
of literary material. The piece is as
full of bright color contrasts as the
changing variations of a kaleidoscope
1t has love story tender and almost
as tragic as that of Romeo and Juliet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-29
AMERICAN PLAYS IN LONDON.
The Invasion of England by Ameri-
cans Complete.

Eight London theaters are now prac-
tically in American hands, and Lon
doners are almost beginning to won
der whether Charles Frohman and
Klaw & Erlanger have not designs
upon the houses of parliament.
The Criterion theater, where "The
Girl from MaximS was put on the
other night, makes the sixth playhouse
controlled wholly or in part by Mr..
F'rohman, the others being the Lyceum,
where Sherlock Holmes is being pre-
scented; the Vaudeville, with "'Bluebell
in Fairyland"; the Apollo, with Kitty
Grey; the Duke of Yorks. with 1.-THE
Princess Nose" and the Shaftesbury,
with Are You a Mason?" At the
Drury Lane Klaw & Erlanger are put
ting the finishing touches to ben Hur"
for production Easter Monday. Then
there is Arizona" at the Adelphi. Now
there's the French invasion in prospect.
Mime. Bernhard, M. Coquelin and
Mines. Hading and Rejane are only
a few. of the Paris varieties promised.
Italy is to send Sig. Duse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-29
Mrs. Fred Wrath
No. 226 Territorial Street,
Benfon Harbor, Mich.

able to pass through pregnancy and child
birth with little suffering After the
ordeal is passed the Wine prepares a wo-
man for a speedy recovery to health and
activity.
Mrs. g. R. Wedding, of Indianapolis,
Ind, says she gets through childbirth best
by Using Wine of Cardui. She writes,
81 have received great benefit from taking
Wine of Cardui, while nursing my children
did not have Wine of Cardui after the first
two children and was greatly reduced IN
flesh. But the last two times have osed 1t
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With these facts that Mrs. Unrath and
Mrs. Wooding lay before the women Of
America no one who is about to become
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of Cardui treatment. Wine of Cardui, in
reinforcing the organs of generation, has
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up hope of ever becoming mothers. Wine
OF Oardui viii cure almost any case f,bar~.
renness except those cases of organic trou-
bic which no doctor on medicine can pose
sibly cure. How can you refuse to take
such q remedy that promises such relief
from suffering ? Wine of Cardui sinply
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healthy women do net suffer. TheV Hoax
forward to motherhood with Joy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-29
ANOTHER STRIKES OIL.
A Chorus Girl Sells the "Footlight
Well" For $4,000.

Miss Ellen Spellman, a. chorus girl in the
Castle Square Opera company, will not re-
main on the stage after the end of the
present season. Miss Spellman owns the
new Beaumont petroleum geyser known as
the ''Footlight'' well.
She acquired the property upon which it
is located from Jack Kirby. the Texas
sum Of S for five acres of barren soil
Three weeks ago a developing company
struck oil Miss Spellman's property and
she was offered $4,000 for the quarter acre
upon which the well was bored. She signed
papers by which she will make the. sale.
This she will spend in developing other
promising sites on the same property.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-29

cares and troubles. How different is the
happy mother, watching her children grow
into manhood and womanhood. A mother
lives as many lives as she has children
their joys and sorrows are hers, as are
their ambitions, triumphs and defeats.
So highly is the honor of motherhood
cherished that sometimes noble women are
called upon to give their lives in its attain
ment. The women who suffer in child
birth and from the effects of miscarriage
are the real martyrs. 1t takes more forti-
tude to suffer in this way than to meet
a violent death in the rush and roar of
battle. But such suffering is almost en-
tirely unnecessary at this age of the world,
when Wine of Cardui, the medicine that
cured Mrs. Unrath, of Benton Harbor,
Mich, can be secured.
Healthy women do not suffer miscarriage
nor does woman who is healthy suffer
tortures at childbirth. 1t is the woman
who is ailing-who has female weakness
who fears the ordeal of becoming mother.
Wine of Cardui builds up the womanly in
the woman. 1t stops all unnatural drains
and neutrality-suspicious. which are re-
sponsible for barrenness and miscarriage.
1t makes woman strong and healthy and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-29

with the rifle had been impaired. She
demonstrated such was not the case by
winning first prize in a pigeon shooting
contest a few days later and is entered
in the Great American handicap shoot
in Kansas City next month-the first
woman to achieve such a distinction.
At the close of the match she will take
a short vacation preparatory to resum-
ing her theatrical career.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-29
THEATRICAL NEWS
s'The Explorers" at the Craw-
ford Next Week.
Richard Garlic as the Professor
From Oklahoma.
sARIZONA" BACK AGAIN
Great American Play of Love
and Hardships Returns.
Other News of the Plays and
Players.
'sARIZONA" BACK AGAIN
AT THE CRAWFORD.

AT THE CRAWFORD.
1.-THE Explorers Monday.
Arizona" Tuesday.
''Other Peoples Money" Thursday.
The coming weeks attractions at the
Crawford are THE Explorers and the
third visit of Arizona, - .-Other Peoples
Money" a farce comedy, will be here
Thursday.
The Explorers''is one of the most sue
cessful of musical oddities. This is its
first season and the original company
will be seen in Topeka.
The Boston Herald says the following
of the musical farce:
That merry melange of girls, music,