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"Here Shall The Press The People's Rights Maintain, Unawed by influe~nc and U~nbribedbp oa"

I L SA R YNIUAYu9 1VO. .. .16 OPLUA, ASTU DY2, 1" AN A.Y " E Y

OYSTER INhESTR_A Trip to the tllSlssippi SUeil Wilk th:Lolislana OYster Commlsles

PRESENT COMMISSION WOREThe Theme for Cemmlslsn by Tlose Wht

Are Obseraing Its iaaagementat.The hihelat $b Sackrs

The oyster industry of Lonisiana iia gigantic one. One not familia.with its workings has not the leastidea of its proportions.And the work has just begun.It has not been neglected. Only inthe last few years has a Commissionbeen created for the protection of

the industry. When created, it washeralded as a political graft. Now itis recognized as a revenue producerto the State, as well as a means ofconserving the industry.And the Clarion is proud to saythat a St. Landrian--the presentPresident of the Commission, Hon.Laurent J. Dossmann-is making arecord as the head of the Commission

that is eliciting praise from everyquarter.

This the Clarion knows to be afact. Its Editor had the pleasure ofbeing the guest of the Oyster Com-mission on the patrol boat Louisi-ana, which cruised the MississippiSound last week, inspecting the oy-ster beds of that section. The Reg-olets, Three-Mile Bayou, Grand Passe,Creole Gap, Cabbage Reef, BoudreauBay and the Mississippi Sound werevisited, the trip extending from Sat-urday morning until Sunday night.

The party consisted of three mem-bers of the Louisiana Oyster Com-mission: President L. J.. Dossmann,and Hons. Clem Story and H. H. Har-vey; Chief Inspector Thomas Shannon,Sr,; and the boat's crew: Capt. VictorSandras, Engineer Melville Muller,and Cook John Peter Harmon, andWill P. Kennedy, of the Kennedy-Lopez Oyster and Fish Co., and Ray-mond Breaux of the Clarion.

The purpose of the trip as to as-certain whether or not "dredging"for oysters should be permitted bythe Commission. Information hadcome to the President that- oysters ithe section visited weie ~irge eioughto permit of dredging and the fisher-men wanted to be allowed to do so.Dredging is dangerous to the oysterindustry where done where there aresmall oysters, because the small onesare killed by the dredge while cap-turing the large ones. The dredgeis operated much on the style ofdredges used for canal work. It isa bag-net, made of iron rings orstout twine, linked together to formthe meshes; the month is set withsteel teeth, which acts as a dredgewhen the dredge is let down alongthe bottom as the boat sails on. Inthat way no oyster escapes.

The hand-tong, which is now beingused in that section, is an ordinaryteethed fossep-like concern and thesmaller oysters, when pulled up, canbe thrown back without injury.

President Dossman and the Inspect-or found that the oyster in CabbageReef were too small to permit dredg-ing.

The trip was a most enjoyable, aswell as profitable, one. It was a rev-elation to the writer-the. vast ex-panse of water with its bottomsfilled with oysters. Everywherewere sails, indicating achooners, fish-ing for the luscious bivalves. Some ofthese are manned by one person, andthe day long he plies his business, un-til his schooner is filled.

Then comes another sight bothunique and interesting-oyster plants,most of them isolated on marshy is-lands, cut off from civilization, itspopulation living in a world of theirown. These communities consistmostly of girls-Bohemian , girls,brought there from Baltimore everyyear, and released in April, when theoyster season is over. The men arestarlwart, and the girls rather pretty,and many of them intelligent. Theyare called "oyster shockers," whichmeans that they open the oystersthat are shipped out in buckets. Theyreceive ten cents a hundred, andaverage from $1.50 to $4 a day.They are furnished with roomingapartments in the plant, but boardthemselves. Many families areamong the lot.

Saturday night, at the Kennedyplant, at Three-Mile Bayou, the partywas treated to a Bohemian Dance-a jolly, fantastic affair, never tobe forgotten. They are seeminglythe happiest people on earth, theseBohemians. The dance is almost in-describable. They spin like tops,then one calls out something thatsounds like "Wurtz Wursy," which.means to turn the other way-andthey do. They stump their feet, and!some sing during the progress ofithe dance.

The Clarion regrets that it can notgive more space to an accotnt ofthis trip in this issue. The storywill be continued next week, how-

IWANTS TOIlEXIBITLOUISIANA PRODUCT

I "Let the Farmers Prepare for the Frisco ExWiblt Car Neil Season," Says Mr. White

EVERY MEETING A SUCCESSIAs Also the Banquet at the Lacombe Given

Compltmeatary to Frlsco's AgriculturalCemalssleser

"You have a splendid country here-and the word splendid scarcely doesjustice to conditions, financial, socialand agricultural, existing here," saidCommissioner White, in charge of theexhibit car of the Frisco railroadsystem, which was here Friday, Sat-urday and part of Sunday. "And Itell you now, I want you farmers toprepare an exhibit for next season,"continued the gentleman," "and theFrisco will exhibit your wonderfulagricultural product throughout thecountry."

The Frisco exhibit car came in Fri-day Meetings were held in the court-house Saturday, afternoon and even-ing, which were attended by largeaudiences, particularly farmers. Thetalks were instructive to a high de-gree, Commissioner White being awell posted and plain speaker. Hon.Wm. Polk of Rapides, alo addressedthe meetings.

The banquet at the Lacombe Sat-urday night was a distinct success. 1Hon. Dudley L. Guilbeau acted astoastmatter. Short talks were madeby Messrs. Wm. Polk, Dr. A. J. Ber-cier, and Sheriff Swords, of Opelousas; IMr. Hebert, President of the State I~armers' Union; Mr. R. Lee Mills, lPresident of the St. Landry Parish IFarmers Union; Mr. Allen, and others. F

ALEXANDRIA AND ITS HOTELClarion Representatlve Tells of the Grand

ear of the Benatley.

A Clarion representative had thepleasure of being shown through themagniflcent Bentley Hntel in Alex-and ~ ,ineWithout doubt it is the finestand most elaborately decorated hotelilthbe-:South and the citizens ofkAle•fria• cain justly feel proud oftheir hotel accommodations.

The lower floor sitting room withits fountain in the center and largecut flowers and palms makes one feelas if he was in the garden of Eden.The elaborate paintings showing thescenes of bounty, plenty and grandeurof each State, the dance hall in Italiandesign with magnificent paintingsfrom Italian masters, the rooms, thehallways-all blend in making it agrand hotel.

The management is courteous, andexceedingly nice to visitors.

Our representative who twelveyears ago worked in Alexandria tellsof the great many changes that havetaken place in that time, and thattoday it is indeed "The City Beautiful.'

HISS DURIO HAS RECOVEREDAnd PaysAligh TrlbatetoBer Nurse, of Whose

Care She Partly Attributes Bar Recovery

The many friends of Miss AlineDurio will learn with pleasure thatshe is up and out of danger. In factshe has entirely recovered.

"While of course the skill of thephysicians who attended me and t".etender care of friends were greatfactors in my recovery, I can notLelp but believe that I owe more tothe motherly and proficient attentionof my nurse, Miss Coa Carney. of No.820 Valmont street, New Orleans,than to any other agency," said MissDurio. "She was my pillar rock, andI will always love here, and I fer-vently trust God will bless her for-ever. Were there more like MissCarney in this' world, it would bemore cheerful and bright," concludedMiss Durio.

AND NO HE HAS NO CLOTHESarling Daylight Robbery, la Which Ryan

Tlemapses Loses His Entire Wardrobe.

Unless Mr. Ryan Thompson, thepopular livery man, has replenishedhis wardrobe, he is scant of wearingapparel just now.

Last Sunday night a thief stolefrom his room in the Lacombe Hotelall of his clothes except those hewore, and his hat, and shoes.

He lost six suits of clothes, be-sides a few pairs of extra pants, hisovercoat and underclothes.

Mr. Thompson left his room at tsix o'clock, and when he returned toit at 8 o'clock he discovered the rob- I

tery. He has no clue to the identityAf the thieves. (

=--~ - - I-aver, when incidents of the trip willae given, as well as information con-:erning the great Louisiana industry. n

COMMISSION TO LOWtINTO TlE PLAF

Congress Wants to Knlow All About thDlvercement of the Atchafalaya and led.

FAR-REACHIN5 IMPORTANCIAnd Therefore the Rivers and Harbors Gem

mittee is Anmaons for Informationon the Subject.

Washington, D. C., Jan. 26.-Con-gressman Ransdell said to-day thatthe Rivers and Harbors Committeehad agreed to instruct the Mississip.pi River Commission to examine andreport upon the proposal to divorcethe Red and Atchafalaya rivers fromthe Mississippi by damming the Redriver at its mouth. RepresentativeBroussard recently introduced a billproviding for a special board of fiveengineers to examine and report uponthis project. The committee thoughtproper to refer it to the MississippiRiver Commission, as it has for yearsbeen studying the question, which ismost intimately connect ed with theMississippi itself.

Since the recent agitation of thematter, Messrs. Ransdell and Wick-liffe have had communications bothfor and against it. They regard itas a question of far-reaching im-portance and one which if enteredupon must be only after the fullesthearing has been accorded to all con-cerned and the most careful consid-eration. Should the pending riversand harbors bill become a law, thisprovision to refer the matter to theMississippi Commission will doubtlessbe included, and the commission willprobably begin its consideration verypromptly, in order to report to Con-gress next December.

It is the intention of Messrs. Rans-dell and Wickliffe to make an elabo-rate study of the question and theywould be glad to hear all arguments,pro and con.

DELI5HTEl AT RESULTOF SUPREME COURT

DECISION.Ennice Gall Says People In that

Section Prefer 6oming toOpelousas than Yille Platte

Eunice voted in favor of the divi-sion of the parish. If we rememberright, the vote there was practicallyunanimous in favor of dismemberingthe old parish. Eunice went into thefight for the parish seat, and lost.Now Eunice is against parish division.

When the news that the SupremeCourt had decided that the act callingfor the election creating the parishof Evangeline was announced in Eu-nice, there was great rejoicing there.Now comes the Eunice Gall, the old-est paper published there, with thefollowing statement, included in anarticle speaking of the Court's deci-sion:

"Since the defeat of the proposi-tion, we have interviewed many fromdifferent sections, and without asingle exception, they are all pleasedat the Court's decision, saying thatthey rather go to Opelousas than toVille Platte."

NEW BANK FOR OPELOUSASSChicot Correspoadent Says that Such A Ru.

loor Is in Clrculatlon...Other Chicot News.

(Crowded out last week).Bayou Chicot, Jan. 17.-It is ru-

mored that a new bank will soon beopened in Opelousas. This showsthat the coming city of the South-west is in a prosperous condition.The statements of the different banksin the parish show such a fine finan-cial conditio. that their officers mustbe heartily congratulated.

Mr. Jenkins, of Eunice, passed hereSunday, hunting for two mules whichstrayed away from him.

The Pine Prairie Oil and MineralCo., is progressing nicely in the drill-ing of its well.

Mr. C. T. Griffith, of Opelousas,spent several days here this week in-specting the public roads.

L. B. Griffith, E. A. Whittington,V. C. Wooley and Louis Singleton areon the jury this week.

Farmers are beginning to work,Preparing fences, etc. There will bea good deal of cottc)n planted here.the coming season

The change in the schedule of theRock Island railroad, by which thetrains fail to connect at Eunice for)pelousas, has given the Southe.rnPacific a greatly increased passengerbusiness from this section.

Mr. and Mrs. Charley GraysoR havemoved to Cheneyville.

k DossMANN SAY FIII'S Expects the aStael g lalaleto ls C•ets lb

Parish of Evaagtllae.E SENTIMENT NOT ON LOW EBB

P President of Leuislana- Ojter Cummsslon,and Staenck Friend of Ilvisten,

Is Ipeuraf

Hon. L. J. Dossmann, President oft the Louisiana Oyster Commission, andB a staunch friend of the division of.

-St. Landry parish for many yearsI past, gave the New Orleans DailyStates the following interview :on1 last Tuesday. When asked by theI Clarion for an expression on the sub-

ject of Evangeline, upon his comingI home Wednesday, Mr. Dossmana said

"Just copy the States' interview withme-it is correct."

Here is what Mr. Doesmann saysin the States:

Mr. L. J. Dossmann, president ofthe Oyster Commission, is a residentof Opelouseas, St. Landry parish, a dhas kept in close touch with condi-tions in his home locality by frequentvisits and correspondence. He hasbeen especially interested in thefight over thb creation of Evangelineparish out a part of St. Landry, andhas full information on, the ques-tion. When seen Tuesday morningby a representative of The States,he was strong in his denial of therecently circulated reports that di-vision sentiment in his parish is onthe ebb. He made statements whichcannot be denied because they arebacked by actual figures and statis-tics. He spoke as follows:

"Talk about division being dead!The antis will find it the livest corpsethey ever tackled, when the nextlegislature meets. The very oneswho are writing to the city papers.and giving interviews to the effectthat the people of St. Landry don'twant division, were in Baton Rougeduring the last session of the legis- Ilature telling the members that the Ipeople of St, Landry didn't want any Idivision, that it Wvas only agitated by aa few would-be politicians. "

'"The result 4the election showshow incorrect they were in their Istatements. Although the division- Iists had the disadvantage of having anearly the whole of the local politi-cal machine opposed to them, and aninjunction restraining the holding of Ithe election which was dissolved bythe supreme court only forty-eight Ihours before the day of the election; Iand when the people had been led tobelieve by the anti-divisionists thatthey would be held in contempt -,ofcourt if they participated in the telection; out of a total qualified reg- tistration of about 3,300, there were apolled 2,070 votes, 1,807 for division iand 363 against. The divisionists icarried seven out of eight police jury bwards.

"The antis are always referring to-the west being the only section want-ing division, whereas it is not oniy-the west that is in favor of division,but the east, south and north also.Out of the 18 precincts within themeets and bounds of the old parish,only 3 went against division, namely,Opelousas, Bellevue and Notleyville.The divisionists polled 78 votes inthe city of Opelousas.

"I am not prepared to discuss thelegal phase of the question, as I amnot a lawyer; but this cry of divisionsentiment losing out in St. Landry isonly calculated to create a false im-pression in the minds of the peoplethroughout the State. I am as wellacquainted with the sentiment of thepeople of St. Landry as any one.

"In answer to the charges madebefore Ithe legislature, at the timewhen we were seeking an act submit-ting to the people the question ofcreating Evangeline, that the peopledid not want division, I told the mem-bers of the legislature to give us theright to vote and we would soon con-vince them as to who were in themajority. The fact that the peoplewant division having been demon-strated by an overwhelming vote, Ifeel assured that the legislature willgive them what they won at the bal-lot box."

Wrong Credit.

In the article reproduced in theClarion last week descriptive of thesugar care development in St. Landry,on the Atchafalays, the Clarion gave Icredit for the article to "Sugar Planterand Sugar Manufacturer," when itshould have been credited to the"Sugar Planters' Journal." TheClarion takes this occasion to correct Ithe error.

The Editor of the paper, in writingus c-lling our attention to the error, Isays, "Watch our columns and youwill soon see more interesting newsabout the cane development in the eAtchafalaya section of St.' Landry." i

-Mrs. Dora Cook returned Sunday ifrom a visit to Alexandria. i

IYERE AN ACRE" NOEjISHES RT PEOP

llpid luouse of Population Makes itperatlo that We Study of

CROP AND SOIL PRODUiCTIO Nfstlegulsbed Writer Tells of Results ia

Cilas, erna and Japan...The lsmberof Peaple Fed Per ALre.

Professor F. H. King, of Madison,Wisconsin, in writing on soil cultiva..tion in the far East in Farm andFireside makes these interestingcomments:

It could not fail to be a matter ofthe highest industrial, -educationaland social importance to all nations~were it possible to bring to them aPuil and accurate account of allthose conditions and practices whichhave made it possible for such densepopulations to be maintained solargely upon the products of Chinese,Korean and Japanese soils. Manyof the steps, phases and practicesthrough which this - evolution -haspassed are irrevocably buried in thepast, but such remarkable mainte-nance 'efficiency .attained centuriesago and projected-into the past withlittle apparent decadence, merits themost profound study and the time isfully ripe when it should be. made.

With our population increasing atthe rate of nearly a million a yearduring the. last half century it isclear that we can hardly learn toosoon or too thoroughly our probablelimit of soil and crop production, andthe best methods of insuring andmaintaining it. Probably nothingcan give a safer measure of themaintenance capacity of the farmand farmers of a nation than thenumber of- people they feed per unitarea of cultivated field and it isioubtful if there is a better place to"tudy this problem than in China andJapan at the present time. "According to official statistics pub.

lished in 1908, Japan has in its mainislands, exclusive of Formosa andKarafuto, a population of 48,542,736and the area of its cultivated fieldsis 21,321 square miles. This is 2,-277 people to the square mile, andbesides these there ai e also main:tained 2,600,000 cattle and horsesnearly all of which are laboring an8tImals, giving a population of one hungdred and forty-two people and sevenhorses and cattle to each forty acresof cultivated field; a condition suf-ficiently different from our mostfully occupied 'forty-acre farm tomake the busiest man among us stopand do some thinking.

The old farmer who permitted meto hold his plow told my interpreterthat there were twelve in his familyand that he owned and was cultivat-ing fifteen mow of land, whichis two and one half acres, and thatbesides his team-a cow and smalldonkey-he usually fed two pigs.This is at the gate of one hundredand ninety-two people sixteen cows,sixteen donkeys and thirty-two pigson a forty-acre farm; and a popula-tion density of 3,072 people, two hun-dred and fifty-six cows, two hundredand fifty-six donkeys and five hun-dred and twelve swine per squaremile.

Japan is making rapid stridesalong many industrial lines and greatattention has for many years beenpaid to her agriculture in which rapidprogress is being made. As early as1872 she had established an agricul-tural college. For several years thesoil survey of the main islands hasbeen completed with large scale mapsand is made the basis of values fornational, perfectual and local landtaxes. She has an admirable systemof road maintenance in effective oper-ation. She has many agriculturalexperiment stations, nine of whichwe visited, and the equipment atTokio for soil investigation is su-perior to anything yet provided inthis country. We have more pre-tentious buildings, but their resourcesare more largely used in providingappliances and men for rigid, accu-rate research work. I visited oneof their dormitories at the agricul-tural college conneoted with the Fu-kuoka Experiment Station, and hereyoung men are provided with roomand board at four dollars (gold) permonth. From the two colleges of .highest rank they had graduated, in

1907, 1,041 students; from their one!hundred and thirty-nine A and Bclasses of agricultural - schools ofsecond rank they had graduated intl1906, 12,371, and from the still;lower grade of third rank there grad-sated in 1905, from the 2,450 sup-plementary agricultural schools, 14,-

127.

Ileavy Purchase of Rough Rice. ;

Clement Brothers bought and!,hipped out 15000 sacks of rough (ice last week.

50 cars were required to handie •,his shipment. Prices were satis- f'actory. I

TIE PEO OF TIE

Up the. Str•a* s Wth Objia.e,

il MF ii FEiRUARY 5T1For the Purpen of luislag Ways and beaas

of Dathig thile roIacft..WefldClUe Ilalgatlmt

A well attended meeting of promi-inent citizens of. Washington and Op-elousas was held at' Littell and Law-ler's office, in Opelousas, on Wednee-day evening, and a campaign againstthe scheme of Congressman R. F.Broussard to dam the Courtablea-Bayou at Port Barre in order to im-prove the Teche at the expense ofipeople of this section was inaugura-ted.

The project will be fought to theast ditch, and most probably won,

because there can be no just reasoniwhy the government should rob onesection for another. Mr. Broassardhas been on this scheme for some'time, and the government sent twoengineers, op different occasions, tolook into it, and we are informedthat both made unfavorable reports,stating that the good to be accom-plished was incomparable with theexpenses it would entail.

While the damming of the Court-ableau would open the Teche forinavigation to Port Barre, it would for-ever close the Bayou Courtablean. Notonly that, but it would seriously af-fect the drainage and irrigation ofthis entire country, as the govern-ment will not permit drainage in adiked stream.

Prominent speakers will addressthe meeting to be held in Opelousason February 5th, and it is expectedthat representatives from adjoiningparishes will be present.

The proceedings of the meetingfollow:

January 25th, 1910."Meeting called to order by Mr.

Jonas W. Bailey, Sr., of Washington,acting Chairma..

"Mothat~ b by Mr. Harry, duly sec-onded, that Mr. Bailey be electedaepermanent Chairman, wittrA. H. GarsJrnd as Secretary, .Motion put to thehouse. Motionk carried.

"Motion by' Dr. Kilpatrick, dulyseconded, that a mass meeting of thecitizens of St. Landry and adjoiningparishes be called for February 5that 11 o'clock a. m., for the purposeof devising ways and means of oppos-ing the damming ofthe BayouCourtab-leau. Motion carried. So ordered.

"Motion by Mr. Gilbert L. Dupre,duly seconded, that notice be givento the public, through the news-papers of St. Landry and adjoiningparishes, of this mass meeting andalso that posters announcing themeeting and urging the public to at.tend, be printed and distributedthroughout St. Landry and other par-ishes. Motion carried. So ordered.

"Motion by Mr. Wolff, duly sec-onded, that Calcasieu, Acadia, Ver-milion and Lafayette be requested toco-operate with St. Landry in oppos-ing the movement to dam the Courtab-lean, and that they in accordancetherewith send delegates to the massmeeting to be held at Opelousas at11 o'clock of the 5th of February.Motion carried. So ordered.

"Motion by Dr. Bercier, duly sec-onded, that a committee of three beappointed, with Mr. Yves Andrepontas Chairman, to wait upon the Gov-ernor of the State, to invite andurge his attendance at the massmeeting. Motion carried. So order;ed. The following were appointed.

"Motion by Mr. Harry, duly sec-onded, that a committee of seven, in-cluding the Chairman and the Secre-tary, be appointed as a visitation com-mittee, to visit Ville Platte, Eunice,Mamou, Crowley, Lafayette, PortBarre and other important points, forthe purpose of informing the citi-zens of those places of the impor-tance of the mass meeting and urg-ing them to attend.

"Motion carried. So ordered. Thefollowing were appointed: Mr. An-Srepont, Mr. Ha*y, Dr. Lazaro, G. L..Dupre and Dr. Kilpatrick, with the

Chairman and Secretary."Motion by Mr. Andrepont, duly

seconded, that a committee of threebe appointed as an arrangement com-mittee, whose duty it shall be to makeall necessary arrangements for themass meeting. Motion carried. Soordered. The following were ap-pointed: Mr. Harry, Chairman; Dr.Bercier, J. G. Lawler. Dr. Jno. A.Haas and J. W. Lewis.

"Motion by Mr. Harry, duly sec-onded; that a committee of three beappointed to solicit subscriptions tobe used in defraying the expensescontingent upon the mass meeting,one of said committeemen to be fromWashington and the other two fromOpelousas. Motion carried. So order-ed. The. following were appointed:From Washington, Dr. Kilpatrick, andfrom Opeloasas, John W. Lewis andHenry ,. Estorge, with Dr. Kilpat-

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plant of the United Sgro. atMochis, Mexico, Bayarde $

Sbright prrosing, anman, succumbed to his is

His father, Mr L. 8andoz, wasHe had nazisM there +on TbassdsJanuary 20.-

The yong man wae o n os i a< `intervals. It was be4ee b te atending phynsieian-an,that he would survsiv. ;to iset in, however, and a lif ibrightlprospt of th fairre adsnauffed out.

He died at 9 o'lock ofand was briled =the i am t .m:i aOwing to prohibitive r guatforce in Me2lcdtwasis•remove the body to this coutryafter the apse of, a cerlastthe diemali will be broughtesoon as practicable. He wasaccording to the •ree of thechurch, in the presence of allficials of the United Bugar Co.many of its employees.

Bayard J. Sandoe w.as 2 4tage. He is a atiiOplopson of Mr. L.. A. Sandoz. I egraduate of the Jauieiasa Stateversity, and for the past t,: ean instructor in the sugarduties being so arranged that heaccept employment in sugarin Mexico, California and C

The following letter, wrtl!Prof. Boyd, his instrustorLouisiana State Univretty, 9s aattestation of the worth ofceased::-"Louisiana State U- i ity

College, -at '* ,, bS dent's Ofl9e.y "Mr. L. A. Sando Ope~eas,

S"Mr. Deat 8t.a h' a bayceived a telegraim t •t m yh forming me tbat reour s•,p died to-day as•- result • of the-dent. of which my son gave ; s-count in a letter reived ytThis sad news is a terriblehme and-to all hist other ifriiBaton Rouge. t inerstpsiplorable that he should h .esuddenly cut down, 1j the vryof his young manhood, whseemed to hold out t• •a future. h 1toi 4I one of the mosblljting of our graduates, md "him to make a great ame.self in his chosen urofeeasiaUniversity was prd of himof the most succesaful 4t adethat one of our departmentswe hope to make of gato the State. His death willloss not only to the Uniermsity.Louisiana and to the who

"I know that wordsoi cs ipoor consolation to he4ostricken as yours, burt t maysome alleviation of your gknow that there are athetsband honored your noble boy,they too are bowed dow, witkand are mingling th0er tearsyours over his untimely i death

"May God have m.ry pinand teach us to find wisdo i ; iscrutable decrees aid 'to seiethrough the darkness and goom aso often surround us. .

Faitbful yeores

rick as Chairman."Motion by Dr. Kilpatick, y

seconded, that a copy of tese proceedings bh mailed th4l districtr e,sentative in Washibgto, andfLhat abe invited to be perst pand participate at the m seMotion carried. Soor ~4i4,

"Motion by Mr, Hrry, dlyonded, that a committee otion and publicity b. apointed,composed of Mr. Raymo4 $rethe Clarion, Mr. Price of theand Mr. Taylorof he WProgress. Motiontearr•~I

"Motion by Mr iH~onded, that meetisng

further notice. o Meeti g adj 4~o

"A.. H. GARLAND,"*,,retr

-Mr. R. H. Price raseNew Orleasz MMay after #adays' buslns vita :i

-Mr. Frank ast lW re t' tPort Arthur, b .e., a ed e4tspending a •ir k with.friends here.