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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-04

ellie will be presented with her wedding
gifts and she will have to listen to long
and formal congratulations from divers
Populations of butchers bakers and candle
stick makers, besides pompous ENJOYS from
the ends of the earth. There will be no
opportunity to open packages. to show gen.
uine surprise over the contents, to call out
to her bridesmaids or her family. Now,
isn't she dear to send me such a lovely
gift?''
After the costly baubes from potentate
and burgher have been received and the
populations have taken their departure,
according to court etiquette, the members
of the two families and the representa-
tlves of foreign royalty and governments
will sit down to formal breakfast. After
that. at half after five of the afternoon,
the state dinner, stiffest of dining functions
will be served; and following it the duchess
and her prince will be the cynosure of all
eyes at gala performance of opera Then.
the imperious William will be compelled to
take a secondary position.
These are the pre-nuptial festivities; the
next day follows the civil marriage.
To DR.. Won Wedel. the house minister
will fall the privilege of performing this
ceremony. The state contract will be signed
and sealed in the presence of all those so
fortunate as to be present. With all for
mality, this document will be placed In the
royal archives. Then the two young peo-
pie will sign a paper of simpler character,
and In 1t will be given a list Of all the
personal property owned by each, every
marks worth OF possessions being &C
counted for. This part of the wedding
ceremonies proper is the simplest of all,
and the soonest through with In compar-
ison with the religious ceremony following
the next day, 1t is almost as Simple as
going before an American magistrate and
having him pronounce the words that make
two hearts beat as one.
The religious ceremony is extremely ar
duous and exacting II will take place in
the chapel of the palace. Only about three
hundred guests will be present, owing to
the small size of the chapel. but what
select little body that will be- Princes
and princesses who will one day sit on
thrones. mobiles and ministers of state who
shape and direct the policies of nations
dignified men representing every accredited
government of the world today.
The ceremony viii be performed by the
court chaplain, DIR. Dryander. Custom does
not permit the bride to select the gray
haired minister who baptized her as a child
or received her into the church. Custom
also DEGREES that the clergy of the chapel,
all strangers to her. must assist. Also.
that the bride must wear dresg whose
train is longer by a goodly number of
inches than that of any other princess pres
ent. Also, that she must appear with a
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wv = HILE all good Americans were
AA{ deep In their last nights SUM-
wv bers there entered Berlin, by way
of the historic Brandenburg gate
young woman. girlish of face.
rather tall and slender of figure her golden
hair contrasting strangely with her dark
brown eyes, her general appearance even to
the approved pompadour style of dressing
her hair. being that of the average sweet
faced and attractive, American girl
But even though she would not be partic-
ulariy marked in the streets OF an Ameri-
can city. this young woman. the moment
she was through the gate was welcomed in
a manner BETTING the exalted station she
Will one day fill-that of Empress of Ger
many. The chief burgomaster and the
city fathers received her In all state and
solemnity One hundred girls. carefully Sc
lected from hundreds of candidates for the
honor, dressed in white Gretchen costumes,
and with thick. yellow braids over their
shoulders, presented her with garlands and
bouquets of rarest flowers Then seated
In a carriage with the young man who is
to take her to wife next Wednesday, she
was driven in state toward the palace
where her fance's parents, Kaiser William
ii and his kaiserin, awaited her. Back OF
the carriage. according to the old German
custom when son of royalty is about TO
wed. there rode in procession populations
of poStmen, butchers and other tradesmen
and occupations representative of the
Drawn and backbone of the great German
empire. And on both sides of Inter der
Linden. for the three-quarters of a mile
between gate and palace thousands of loyal
Germans. standing beneath the eighty thou
sand garlands decorating this stretch of
the famous avenue. cheered themselves
hoarse al sight of the little lady who this
week will pass through the ordeal of stiff
and unyielding ceremony which all royalty
Is subjected to when IL marres
There is no getting married simply for
the young woman who elects to become
the bride Of a German crown prince Gus
tom has seen to it that the ceremony shall
be long-drawn-out affair, with all man
neT of ancient and set ceremoniaIs.
The greeting of Cecilie, Duchess of Meek
lenberg Schwerin. at the Brandenburg gate
was the first stage in the wedding festivi-
ties. 1t was followed by an elaborate serv-
ice in the cathedral, and the service in
turn by a dinner at which the families of
Hohenzollern and MeckleUberg- Schwerin
and the sixty odd visiting princes from all
over the world were present: Tomorrow
morning, with much fuss and feathers, Ce-
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rare unfortunates whose organs of speech
are hopelessly paralyzed or lost. A short
seheration ago there was such a flood of
skeptlcism in this country that not a sim
gle school existed where the deaf could be
taught to speak by any other method than
the sign language. Today there are scores
Oh institutions throughout the land where
oral teaching Is the only one, and so pro-
nounced has been It's success that Ii is
rapidly superseding the old sign method
prominent among the beBefactors of this
immense class of unfortunates-larger than
any save those vitality interested have any
Ideals man whose name is well known
IN every civilized country of the earth; the
man whose genius gave to the world its
greatest commercial blessing after the mag
netic telegraph of the great Morse-Alex-
ander Graham Bell the renowned inventor
of the telephone. The century that had the
hcnor and glory of producing a Morse, an
great silent world of human thought when
1t was giving to others with lavish hand.
u
For many years 1t was believed that be-
cause a person had the misfortune to be
born deaf or stricken deaf he was likewise
dumb, Only a century ago the deaf were
rot only considered to be beyond the power
to educate, but they were generally held to
be legally irresponsible. This condition of
anasrs obtained In nearly all the world, and
not until early in 1890 was any regular
method OF teaching them introduced into
America: The real father of the oral
method In the United States was Gardiner
u. HuDpard or Washington, now deceased.
His daughter Mabel was stricken. when
four years Old with severe Illness and
upon recovering 1t was found she had lost
her hearing few baby words and
phrases OF the language that her childish
lips had just begun to articulate were ali
that were left to the loving parents, and
eminent teachers of that day--1S62-told
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Omissions Of History.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Marco Bozzaris was cheering his band
Go for the bloody Turks, boys!' he
yelled, Give EN- Fftz-Greene Halleckr'
It was in revenge for this that the indig-
nant poet aftervyard wrote him up as hav-s
ing ordered his men, on the eve of great
bat tile, to strike.
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crown from the imperial treasury on her
fair head
The bridesmaids will be six in number
Cecilie has been allowed to choose four:
custom says that the other two must be
selected by her fances mother. in order
that the reigning family may be fittingly
represented in the wedding party. Every
step she takes the way to the altar is
prescribed for the bride; every word she
says while there has been decreed by long
established custom
But she will be no more hampered by
tradition at the altar than the young man
by her side, for among other things Gus
tom requires of him he must bow to his
august father while making his responses,
perial will" Not even at the altar Is he al
lowed to forget for an instant that over
him and his bride Is an autocratic en-
peror-his father.
When, at last, custom has been duly sat
isfled in the little palace chapel. the young
couple will pass down the aisle. out into
the open. and walk toward the state apart
ments, while crack soldiers of the empire
present arms, cannon thunder salvos, drums
are ruffied and trumpets make the walls of
the stately edfices echo their fanfares.
In the state apartments will occur the
ceremony of the table. At the head of the
royal table will Sit not the newly welded
pair, out the KAISER, with the crown prince
on his right. the empress on his left. the
mother of the bride, Grand Duchess Anas-
tasia. who has given the kaiser a world
of worry lately; the crown princess her
self, other members of the two royal houses
and the representatives of foreign royalty.
The other table will be known as the mar
shafs table, and at 1t will be seated the
guests who have no royal blood coursing
in their veins.
At this marriage feast custom makes It
essential for the kaiser to rise at the con-
clusion of the first course and propose the
health of bride and groom. 'Hoch" an
swer the guests, formally. The other
courses are then disposed of in turn. and
when the ceremony at table is at last over,
the whole assemblage proceeds in stately
procession to the white hall, where the
kaiser and princes take their stand to the
right of the throne and the others to the
left. Here, in this magnificent apartment,
before of the most gorgeous thrones
In all Europe 1t Is incumbent on the we'd
ding party to go through the ceremony of
the torch dance.
X
During the middle ages It was the simple
and pleasing custom for the host who could
afford such extravaganza to light the path
way of his departing guest with torches.
Frequently the torches were borne by pro-
fessional dancers; hence, the origin of the
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torch dance. which long since was incorpo-
| rated in the ceremonies surrounding the
| wedding of an heir apparent.
The grand marshal gives the signal for
I the dance to begin. The twelve Prussian
ministers of state. respondent in full uni
| form, and each grasping lighted taper
magnif1cently set, make stately courtesies
| to kaiser, kaiserin. crown prince and crown
princess In the order named. The bowling
| over, the band strikes up piece Of music
especially written for this ceremony. and
then the fair bride must dance with the
| kaiser, first of all, and after that with
! each of the princes, according to precedence.
And all the while she is carrying out the
custom of centuries. the twelve wise men
of the empire their breasts covered with
decorat tons and gold lace showing album
DAINTY. their hands still grasping the tapers
march in dgnifed procession before her.
His bride through with her part in the
dance. the crown prince conducts around
the floor his mother, his mother-in-law and
each princess present. according to prece
dence and when he has returned to the
foot of the throne with the last of the
princesses, he takes his station by his
wifes side The ministers. bearing the Ia
pers, proceed before them and the young
couple are led to the kaiserin's apartments.
There pages relieve the ministers of state
of their Pickering burdens. BY these pages
bride and groom are tremendously shown
the way to the bridal apartments. The
ceremony of the torch dance is at end.
But not all ceremony-yet Before she
can be alone with her husband. Cecilie,
the moment she steps into the bridal apart
ments. perforce must unclasp a handsomely
jeweled garter and hand it to a favored
lady-in- waiting. Then and only does an
cient usage end for bride and groom. This
garter Is cut into bits, which are distributed
among the guests as souvenirs of the oc-
caslon. and with this anti-climax the long
drawn-out ceremonies of the day are
brought to close.
The next day the only informal part of
the entire wedding festivities takes place.
The mother of the bride gives informal
dinner, family dinner. The bride and
groom are at last allowed to be them
selves; there is custom to bind them.
no ceremonial, no form, to be observed.
No true American blame Cecilie If she
finds this to be the most enjoyable part
of the wedding festivities; it will undoubt-
eddy have more of the atmosphere which
Americans invariably associate with we'd
dings than usually falls to the lot of mar
rying royalty.
In such fashion, then, will impetuous
Frederick William and quiet unassuming
Cecilie be married. and they will start on
their married life with the blessings and
best wishes not only of all Germany, but
all the world. And may they be happy,
though at home and abroad their mar
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DEAF MUTES TAUGHT
TO SPEAK ALOUD
Perfection Of Wonderful System by Professor
Bell Supersedes Sign Language.

During the century that has recently gone
into history the most remarkable achieve
rnent of education was the teaching OF deaf
rnutes to speak with the organs given them
by nature for that purpose Those whose
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-24
Walking ON a Wager.

D. z. Evans, long distance walker
who looks the part, arrived in Don.
alsonville Saturday afternoon, and
remained here until Monday morning,
when he left to continue his little haunt
through the country. Evans claims to
have a bet Of 500, 900 with the members
Of the Heptos Club, of Cleveland, O.,
the conditions being that he shall
make an 11,000-mile tramp through
the United States, pushing a wheel
barrow ahead OF him, in a period OF
twenty months, during which time he
is not allowed to beg, borrow or work.
He depends for subsistence upon the
charity OF the people in the various
sections through which he passes, and
lodges the "beg and borrow" clause
by giving pictures Of himself, with his
WheelbarroW and fine looking bull
dog accompanying him on his travels,
in return for gifts of money, clothing
or food. Evans started from Cleve-
land May ], 1904, without cent in
his pocket and with no wearing ap-
parel save that which he had on at the
moment. Up to the present time he
has covered $500 miles, having tray-
ersed the entire western part of the
country, and he is now heading for
the north and east. He has until j al.
], 1906, to cover the remaining 24OO
miles, and expresses himself as being
confident of his ability to wind no the
little jaunt and arrive at Cleveland in
ample time TO win the wager.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-24
Summer Normal School.

The summer normal school for AS
cension, Assumption and st. James
parishes will open Monday, July 10,
at the high school building in Donald
sonville. The normal department. will
be open to all teachers as we'll as
pective teachers. The plan this
year provides courses of work suitable
to teachers of all degrees of prepara-
tion and experience, with the view of
increasing efficiency Of the teachers
to the end of elevating the standard
of public education within the state.
There will also be model or practice
school consisting of the first FIVE
grades, six pupils in each grade.
which will be in charge OF an expert
enced practice teacher, for the purpose
OF exemplifying the work TO be done
in the average rural school containing
those grades. While the work of the
normal school is primarily for the
benefit of those who expect to teach.
yet anybody may attend the school
and get whatever information he or
she can without any expense. The
people OF Donaldsonville as we'll As
those OF any of the parishes are cor
daily invited to visit the school from
10 time. It is confidently expected that
from Is to 100 teachers will be in at
'endance. ID. B. SHOWALTER
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-24
Dedication OF W. o. W. Han at (ionzales

The fine new lodge hall recently
erected at Gonzales by Locust Camp
No. So, Woodmen OF the World. was
dedicated Saturday afternoon OF last
week in the presence OF large gather
ing Of the people Of the community and
number of visitors from other To-
calities. Consul Commander S, C.
Spurgeon conducted the interesting
ceremonies, and all of the other of
ficers and big majority of the men,
bers of the camp were in attend nce.
Brilliant and eloquent addresses were
delivered by Alfred Persac, Hubert
y. Wax and Rabbi F. +. Rosenthal,
ct Baton Rouge, and A. a. King, OF
DutehtoWn, after which a brief but ex-
eeed1ngly interesting history OF the
camp was read by its founder, Robert
j. Broussard. Refreshments were re-
tailed at reasonable prices, and the
amount realized from this source was
sufficient to cover the expense incl
dental TO the ceremony OF dedication.
An enjoyable dance was given ii the
hall Saturday night.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-24
Then and NoM-NoM and Then.

The Shreveport Times rejoices that
the pestifereus opponents Of Gov.
Blanchard are estopped from CRITICS.
ing him with reference to the primary
election law question, since he Is
with them tooth and toe-nailh on
that proposition.
The Monroe Star, which is mani
testify one OF the pestiferous critters
aforesaid, refuses to be sguelehed by
the Shreveport thunderer 5 suggestion,
however,. and kicks back in this
fashion: It is not usual, in politics,
to eriticise one going the same way
with ones self, but it may be remarked
that Gov. Blanehard's actions a year
ago when the legislature was in ses-
sion did not square with his profession
on this question. The law could then
have been passed except for the adj
ministration's failure to redeem It's
pledge to the people. Therefore, i
the future is to be judged by the past
too much reliance should not be placed
in Gov. Blanch ards promises. y
The Star s exception appears TO be
well taken. The actions of Governor
Blanchard were very far from COM
porting with the previous declarations
of Candidate Blanchard on the pri-
mary election law issue. It will be
recalled that he wholly ignored the
question when Gen. Jastremski first
raised it, and not until public senti-
ment in its favor became too palpable
and insistent for further lodging did
he blossom out as 'sthe original and
only genuine primary man, When
the opportunity was offered him as
governor to prove his faith by his
works he signally failed to embrace
it. What assurance can be given that
he won't undergo another change Of
heart by the time the general assembly
again convenes, and that his present
''tooth and toe-nail'' energy will not
have relapsed into mastery inactivity
and desuetude?
If the governor was for the primary
law fifteen months ago, why wasn't he
for 1t year ago? II he wasn't for it
then, why is he for it now? Isn't it a
fact that he's only primary man
stnoW and then %,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-24
Preparations Tor the Hooks Pair.

Preparations for the big fete cham
petre and fourth Of July celebr alton
TO be given under the auspices of As
cension Hook and Ladder Fire Com
pany No. ] on July 2, and are pro-
crossing rapidly and from present in
dications the entertainment will be the
biggest Dona1dsonville has ever had.
The festivities will begin Sunday with
baseball game at Cleveland Park
between the Pelieans and a team from
neighboring town, and atnight there
will be performance at the opera
house by local talent. At the fair at
Ascension Hall will be numerous novel
attr fractions, and plenty of good things
to eat and drink will be dispensed by
pretty maidens at very reasonable
prices. Monday evening there will be
a parade and christening of the prize
trumpet recently won by Volunteer
Hose Company No. 2, and unique
identity contest Ia which all present
will be invited to participate. Tues
day-THE BIG DAY-the entertainment
will begin with public speaking in
Louisiana Square, at when Hon. r. F.
Broussard, orator of the day, will de-
liver an address, and at 'c1ock in the
afternoon the flower parade will take
place. TWenty-one vehicles have al
ready been entered and it truly prom
ises to be splendid display of dag
cling decor ations.n
The Texas and Pacific Railway offic-
ials have kindly consented to give re-
duced rates on the main line and will
run an excursion over the Lafourche
branch, leaving Thibodaux in the
morning and returning at night, Civ
ing visitors ample time to hear the
speaking, witness the flower parade
and participate in the merry making
at Ascension Hall.
The Hooks committee on arrange
ments has received the following COM
munication from the ST. Joseph Brass
Band.
DoNALDsoNv1LLE, La, June 81, 1905.
General Arrangement Communities, Ascension
Hook and Ladder Fire Go.
Gentlemen-We are deeply mindful of the
great benefit which the fire department is to
our town. and we take much interest in the ar
held on the End, 3rd and 18th Of July. We ear
nestly desire TO contribute TO the success of
your entertainment and beg to tender our serv-
ices complimentary TO your company for the
flower parade, which is to be held under your
auspices on the afternoon of July 4.
Wishing You all the success You deserve and
the cooperation which you merit at the hands
Of grateful public we beg to remain,
Very respectfully,
ST. JOSEPH BRASS BAND,
J. A. LANDRY, President;
Ed GUEDRY. Secretary.
The sentiments expressed in the
above letter should be felt by every
citizen of Donaldsonville, and the
members OF the organization deserve
to be commended for the spirit dis
PLAYED on this occasion.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-24
Death OF Albert DeArnoud.

Albert DeArmond, son Of ). A. De
Almond, died at his residence at Acy,
in the eighth ward Of this parish, at
$50 O'Clock .. M, Thursday, June IS,
aged 20 years, 4 months and Is days.
His remains were laid to rest in the
Protestant cemetery at ST. Amant
Friday forenoon, after services con-
Quoted by Rev. w. A. Sibley. Mr..
DeArmond is survived BY his wife.
father, one sister and two brothers. to
whom The Chief tenders assurances of
deepest sympathy.