The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-01-20
The CAUCASIAN,
sHRF yEPORT, LA, January 20 1901
LADY ESTELLE AND MISS
BETTY

"Eyery feeling hast been shaken,
Pnde which not world could bow,
Bows 10 thee. DE thee forsaken,
Even nv soul forsakes me now"
Byron.
After the dance is over,
After the break lsjourne,
Apres lebal-Is oVeT-apTes lebal.
There is An arm thSt never tires,
When human strength gives way;
There is lsT9our that never fails,
When earthly love decsys.-Song.
We will draw the veil of forgetfulness
oyer the scene OF tbs salutation, and goCd-
bye, forever, OF FIR Leonard and Betty.
bat 1t was hot, and to the dagger's point,
from the girl, her eyes flashed like tire,
from an enrsge0 g Jddese, and Sir Leonard
waedszed and amszed, and charmsd at
her courage, for be knew she loved hin.
heard preacher say, the saddest " srd
to him was, parting.
The sad1est word ls forsaken; we part
to meet again in days CT years to come,
but fOrsaken, is to meet no more; forsaken
by friends, lover and God, like the lost
star, wandering through space By the
light OF other worlds, until eternal dark
ness sets IN, beyond the hight OF the fsrth-
est sun.
Born in rags or luxury, and raised into
COED society by money OF others, 10 b; At
last forsaken by trends, and God Himself,
is the fate Of the gosslper. Ii you Know
evil Of others, hold your tcngos, MI sss
you are directly concerned, or tell It TO
the party II Is about, woman or man; per-
haps they have never heard OF It before /;
and psIhaps you will get up q name then
OF your Cw0 in pubic talk. sach ideas Ms
viz: 81 saw John where he ought nat TO
have been last night" and thls repeatec,
AID repeated again, and John goes to per.
dltion. You may never know you are the
cause OF MS complete downfall, until you
meet him IN peIdition TO serve SatSn the
balance of your days, You will kaow
then, what NORWOOD and gall means
. Satanic drink.
Some one on their way to England, stop
ped long enough in Lisbon to gather up all
the scandal they could of the Englishman
there. They went hume and said Sir
Leonard vas flirting with every pretty
girl in Lisbon, and vas about to marry one
pretty girl. but did not know her name, it
might be Jane or SAran, they did no. care
ali they wanted was to be the first to
-'break tbs news to mother" and not to
look for I'm, be ''1as not coming home. !"
but WAS dying now, for the love OF some
foreign girl, and such like, you know how
such stories travel. Betty heard 1t all,
ana she and her brother started for Lisbon
to ind out the truth, for she was making
her wedding clothes for grand weddin.
and we dOn'G blame her for going ana
clearing matters up. tor she had been sus-
picious herself and wondered what il All
meant. She made preparations, as have
said, and starts0.
sir Leonard had been discadred by the
two girls, ane he felt like one who treadi
alone, some banquet nall deserted" who's
Tiends are gone, and he is left alone.
There was an entertAinm emit given at tn ?
Magnolia in honor OF cou: IL just married
The bride is pretty. her hair Is as black a.
raven. Her eyes shine like stars. de
dress fitted heT, like she had been moulds "a
into 1t, 50 to speak. which showed OF her
figure, in all its grace and charms. Thers