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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-08-25
AN ORDINANCES

Be it ordained by the police jury of
Caddo parish, in legal assemble con-
vcned. that an election shall be held
without expense to the parish of Cad
do, in ward of said parish, in that
portion of said war located in the hills
west of BAYOU Pierre, on August 2L
1901, for the purpose of testing the
ense of the people OF said ward upon
the question of adopting lawful fences
constructed with posts 10 feet apart,
with a stay INA securely fastened be-
tween each post, and with four barbeh
wire, first wire Is inches above
ground, second II inches above the
first; third IL inches above the second !;
and fourth II inches above the third.
Be it further ordained, that said poll
ing place for said election in sail ward
be fixed at Sand Beach, with Sam Pitt
man, Ben Crowder. c. ~ Wilcox,
commissioners; Lee Tucker. clerk.
Be it further ordained that the poll
ing place be kept open from the hour
of s in the forenoon until the hour of
in the afternoon of said day and that
said election hall be completed on said
day.
Be it further ordained. that none but
real estate owners, resident and non
resident, shall be permitted to vote at
said election; and that all nonresident
real estate owners shall be permitted
to vote by proxv if not personally pres
ent. provided the signature of any non
resident real estate owner has been
sworn to before some competent Off
Ger.
P. P. KEITH. President.
A. L. DURINGER, Clerk.
July ri.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-08-25
AN ORDINANCE

Declaring prohibition of sale IF spirit
Gus and Intoxicating liquors in
ward I of the parish of Caddo
State of Louisiana:
Whereas, at an election held in Ward
of the parish of Caddo, under direc-
ton of the police jury on June Fl, 1901.
to take the sense of the legal voters OF
said ward as to sale or prohibition OF
sale of spurious and intoxicating IL
quors in said ward, 100 votes were cast
against the sale of spurious liquors and
% votes were east for the sale of spir-
ltous and Intoxicating liquors IL SAID
ward as shown by returns IF said cleo
ton duly canvassed by the police Jury
OF Caddo parish, therefore,
Be it ordained by the police Jury of
Caddo parish, in legal assembly con-
vened. that from and after Ist day of
January, 1902, all sales of spurious and
Intoxicating liquors in ward I of the
parish of Caddo, State OF Louisiana. be
and the same. are hereby prohibited I'm
dor the penalty of law.
P. P. KEITH, President.
=. L. DURINGER, Clerk.
uly III. gm~y
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-08-25
Lumber Concerns Consolidate.

New York, Aug. 22.-The consohGs-
ton Of a number of lumber concerns
into what will be known as the Che
quasset Company, with capital Of b.
600, 900, is announced. This, accOrdiaE
to Charles E Corkran, president Of thu
Chequasset Lumber company, is the.
reason for that company and the MpS-
koka company going into the handS ~
q receiver, as announced. The new
concern will take in all the promineAA
Arms in New England.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-08-25
HOME SEEKERS OUTFIT.

Lawton Republican. has been Issuing
an evening daily for some time. AL
though Lawton is % miles from the
nearest railroad point and the freight
ers' rates are high, provisions and the
necessities of life are very reasonable.
Any one can get a good meal for %
cents and other things in proportion.
Altogether the government land allot
ment, which drew to this section some
thing like 100000 people. in which
there were a considerable number of
the adventurous. the lawless and the
disreputable. has been conducted
squarely, and its results, when the ex.
element has died out, will be bene-
fetal to the territory. As the territory
becomes settled the demand for state.
hood increases. There are few more
orderly communities in the United
States than Oklahoma as a whole, and
it is apparently well prepared for state
hood. CHARLES e. RICHARDSON.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-08-25

Having exanined the ABOVE charter
and finding nothing therein contrary to
law, | approve the same this 9th day
of June, 1901. JOHN R. LAND,
District Attorney First Judicial Dis
trict of Louisiana.
(Endorsed.)
Filled and recorded the 27th dav of
June. 1901. ]. H. LEVY.
Deputy Clerk and Ex-Oficio Recorder.
STATE of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo.
Il hereby certify that the above and
foregoing is a true and correct co2+ of
the original act, as the same nov az
pears on file and of record in my Of
fee.
Given under my hand and seal of Of
fee, this aSth day of June. 1901.
F. A. LEONARD.
Clerk and Ex-Oficio Recorder.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-08-25
AN ORDINANCE

Section I. Be It ordained by the po-
hce jury of the parish of Caddo, that
said parish be and is hereby formed
into road district. in compliance with
Article 2cI &c The Constitution of 1893
Sec. ?. Be K further ordained, etc.
that in order to raise funds for the
purpose of constructing, maintaining
and repairing the public roads of said
parish, that one mill per annum of the
taxes levied by said police jury of Cad
do parish for the year 1901. and for
each succeeding year, is hereby sci
aside and levied on all taxable prop.
erty assessed upon the TAX roll of said
parish for said year and each succeed
ing year.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, etc.
that for the same purpose there i:
hereby imposed per capita tax of one
dollar per annum upon each able-bcd
led male inhabitant of said parish be.
tween the ages of Is and S. years; pro
vided, that the provisions of this Sec
ton shall not be operative in incorpo-
rated towns and cities in said parish
that maintain their own streets.
Sec. 4. Be it ordained, ETC., that any
person subject to a per capita tax who
shall fail or refuse to pay the same on
or before the Ist day of January OF
each year. shall be guilty of INSIDE.
meanor, anil shall be subject to indict.
ment by the grand jury OF said parish
or prosecution by the district attorney
o. said parish, or to prosecution b. The
district attorney of said parish by bill
of indictment, to be prosecuted before
the district court of said parish, anC
upon conviction shall be fined in a sun
of not less than $25o nor more thar
$500 and all costs of the prosecution
nd in default of the payment of said
fine and all costs he shall be sentenced
to work upon the public roads of said
parish undr provisions of this ordi-
nance two days for every dollar OF
mes and costs.
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, etc.
that there is hereby imDosed and levied
an annual license tax upon the owner
of each vehicle, including BICYCLES,
'eept and used fol- locomotion over the
public -oads OF said parish in said par
iSh nc fOHOWx
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-08-25

ANY other vehicle not herein named
SI.oo, provided said annual license tax
shall not be imposed upon any vehicle
Upon which a state, parish or city IL
cense tax is now levied under existing
laws.
Sec. 6. Be it further ordained. etc.
that if the owner of any vehicle or
bicycle in said parish shall fail or re-
fuse to pay said annual vehicle or bicy-
Gle tax on or before the Ist day of Jan
arr OF aech year. he shall be deemed
a delinquent, and the sheriff and tax
collector of said parish is hereby au-
thorized to proceed before airy court of
competent jurisdiction to sue for and
collect the same with all costs and 10
per cent on amount due as attorneys
ees, as in ordinary suits.
Sec 7. Be it further ordained, ETC.,
that there shall be a committee known
as The Good Roads Committee" and
to consist of three members of the Jury
or said parish, to be selected by said
Jury, whose duty i shall be to select a
superintendent of public roads for said
parish, II necessary. and to fix his com
rensation; to receive and take charge
OF the road fund and to disburse the
same to purchase necessary mules.
wagons, scrapers, tents, road machines
and other road implements, ETC., to EN-
p.oy foremen and laborers for each
camp outfit; and said committee shall
nave full power to direct what roads
shall be worked, when and ny whom;
and monthly reports shall be made in
fuli by said committee to said police
jury.
Sec. 8. Be it further ordained. etc.
that said committee shall have full
charge of the working and maintenance
OF all convicts sentenced BY the district
Judge of said parish and by the CITY
Judge OF the city of Shreveport to work
upon the public roads of said parish.
P. P. KEITH, President.
A L DURINGER. Clerk.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-08-25

l.. r. ALLDA1,
R. S. ALLDAY,
by L. F Alld1y.
R. P. DUNKLIN,
w. +. watkins,
by NJ. M. P-''itr.
5. A. watkins,
by M. NJ. Pruitt.
F. NJ. GREENE.
BY NJ. M. Prr;'t.
J. B ROBERTS,.
M. NJ. PRUITT,
L. a.. Aida.
nv L F ArdaV.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-08-25
ARTICLE VIII.
ARTICLE TX.

This charter may be changed, amen
dH or dissolved in any way (except
to increase or diminish its capital stock.
which shall be done by vote of two
thirds of stock present) with the as
bit Of three-fourths of the stock rep
enfed at a general meeting of the
ckholders convened for this pur-
after thirty days previous notice
hed in a daily Shreveport paper.
srer this corporation is dissolved
81 E<Sjtation or otherwise its affairs
shah e liquidated b. three commits
s;oners elected at a stockholders meet
ing. who shall have full power to wind
% its affairs settle its indebtedness
9,d d;s.-;h'ste the proceeds among the
rfodixhoiders-
Done and passed at my Office in Cad
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-08-25

An ordinance submitting proposition to
incur debt and issueo negotiable
bonds therefor to build a Jail for
CaddO Parish Ia
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-08-25

do Parish, Louisiana, in the presence
of K. K. Colquitt and W. 7. Colquitr,
competent witnesses. on this 27th dav
1T June. Ammo Domino Nineteen hum
dred and one (IooI.)
ALLEN Kendall,
Notary Public, Caddo Parish, La.
Attest
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-10
A CAUSE OF INSANITY.
Long Continued Use of Alcoholic
beverages Has n Decidedly De-
Generative Effect.

That alcohol is not without utility
will not be denied by any unprej-
udiced mind, but that it is likewise
a powerful influence for evil cannot
be disclaimed even by those who adj
vocate most earnestly its legitimate
and intelligent employment. Apart
from the effects of acute intoXication,
says the Journal of the American
Medical Association, the deleterious
influence of long-continued indulg-
ence in alcohol is witnessed in chron-
ic visceral changes principally of a
degeneratiye character. In speaking
of the increase in the number of
cases admitted during the year 1900
to the Royal Edinburgh asylum, the
Observation-Disclosures, DR.. Clous-
ton, in his annual report was unable
to avoid the conclusion that this was
due to large extent to the excessive
use of alcoholic stimulants during
times of prosperity, attended with
brisk trade and high wages. The
number of alcoholic insane admitted
to the asylum has increased from an
iNCl VI IO'o pei CCHl. Ill Juc pcIlOu
between 1874 and 1883 to 21.5
per cent. in the period between
1889 and 1898, and to 22.5 in 1899.
Of 472 new cases received during the
year 1900, drink was assigned as
either the sole or contributory cause
in lis, or about one-quarter of all
In the men alone 81, or about one
half, were alcoholic patients. Be-
sides, for every man in whom excess
sive drinking causes absolute insan-
ity there are 20 in whom it Injuries
the brain, blunts the moral sense and
lessons the capacity for work in vary
ing degree. DR.. Clouston makes an
earnest plea for Legislative or state
means for the diminution of alcohol
ism. He rightly contends that it is
an irrational application of the doc
trine of liberty to grant to every man
the inalienable right to render him
self burden to others and a source
of degradation and danger to the
community.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-10

those who were fond of drink. Of
course we have had hardships, priva-
tons and bad weather enough to make
the strongest sick, but compare the
sickness of the men when they can
only get the regulation issue of rum
and the sickness when in a standing
camp, and l will guarantee there is
double the sickness in the standing
camp where the men can obtain beer,
etc. l have only had slight attack of
rheumatism through getting wet and
having to lie on the veldt all night in
my wet clothes, and very few of my
teetotal comrades have had any sick
ness at all. 1t would greatly surprise
you to see the men going with buckets
for beer, and they have to pay eXorbi-
tant prices for it. There is nothing
that units a dutiful soldier so much as
alcoholic drinks-cursed drinks! One
night a lot of us were called out to do
guard duty. Several were absent,
after drink, of course, and when we
were going down the kopje we saw
one poor fellow lying full length
across the road, and bugler boy cry
ing because he could not get him up.
The man had such a sense of his duty
that when told who and what we were
he tried to get up and follow us but
all in vain. Don't think L speak with
any animosity against my fellow sol
diers. No, I pity them. They are more
sinned against by being able to get
the drink than shining. I felt like
praying a curse upon it and those who
make and sell it, but it is cursed
enough. 1t keeps the men away from
our Gospel services. 1t was their de-
light, when our regiment was on the
march to join us in the singing, but
now they can get drink they are alb
sent from the service.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-10
CHRISTIAN EXPEDIENCY.
Attitude Towards the Temperance
Question Which 1t Would
Clearly Indicate.

There is no man who can stand up
and boast of his immunity from evil.
We must have a certain definition of
moderation, and how shall man
know what is moderation until he has
touched the line of immoderation?
And at that very point the evil has
already been done. Besides, what is
moderate at one time is not so at
another. A different condition of
body may entirely change the effect
which alcohol may have upon the
system. A time comes when the
previous condition of safety is not
present. The reign of danger is
reached, the time of injury has ar
rived. Are you sure that you will
recognize this time? May not the
man wake up to find that he is in the
coils of the serpent, that the evil is
done, and that he has lost that equi-
librium of bodily and mental self-con-
troll which he is bound to conserve?
Even if he should be saved, yet he has
been injured, and though he may re-
trace his steps, he has already trans
ANoSNd. L hC law VI Wits Uldn tx
pediency is imperative against such
condition, and the only insurance we
have against such a condition will be
the practice of total abstinence.
But the Christian has to consider
not only himself. He is one of the
great family of mankind, and while
his religion and the relation which
he occupies toward God through his
Lord and Saviour separates him from
his kind, and gives to him a peculiar
character and special place, it also
| deepens the obligation under which
he rests to live not for himself, but
for his fellow-men. In the sphere of
Christian liberty, therefore, we have
to find as directions not only that
which shall be innocuous to our own
well-being, but we must avoid such
things as may lead others into wrong
doing.
A direct injury is prohibited by the
moral law, but an indirect injury is
quite as much prohibited by the
Christian eXpediency which rules in
the sphere of liberty. Even human
laws take into consideration such in
direct results, and equity has stepped
in to control that region which COM
mon statute law may not be able to
reach, because not able to define.
EXpediency in regard to the welfare
of our fellow-men is the equity side
of justice in the court of ethics. And
that is the law which controls the
Christians actions.
The Christian law of expediency is
well illustrated by Paul writing to the
church at Rome in the matter of eat
ing meats offered to idols. He says
an idol is nothing, and meat offered
to idols is nothing; but if the eating
make a brother to offend or become
weak, then the eating is contrary to
the law of God, and unworthy of
those who trust and serve Saviour
who gave Himself up altogether for
us. Do you say this is a sacrifice
a self-denial? What had we been had
there been no self-denying of Himself
in self-sacrifce by the Son of God?-
William G. Haeselbarth, in Christian
Worly
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-10
Mammoth Found in Siberia.

The ST. Petersburg Academy of Sci
ence has received a telegram from the
leader of the expedition which is
shortly to bring the mammoth found
in Siberia to St. Petersburg. The tele-
gram, which is dispatched from va
kutsk, reports that the expedition was
at that place on June IA. tits proceed
ing by steamer up the river, and will
then journey overland to Kolymsk
which is 1000 versts off. and where it
expects to arrive in two and halt
months. The mammoth found is
unique of its kind. It's hair, skin and
flesh are entirely preserved and there
are remains of undigested food in its
atOmach
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-10
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ENEMY OF THE SOLDIER.
Letter from Soldier in south Africa
Draws Strong Indictme MT against
Alcoholic Drinks

In an English paper we find a letter
from a soldier in South Africa, show
ing the evils of drink. Among other
things he says:
The men who drank rum could not
stand the cold like those who took
none. One night six of us were on
duty at an observation post 1t was
on the top of a mountain, dreadfully
cold, and we dared not walk about for
fear the enemy would hear us. Four
were taken i'll. two of whom had to
go in the hospital. The two who were
not i'll with the cold were your humble
servant and another teetotaler.
Again, men don't seem to care what
trouble they get into so long as they
can get drink. In one camp we had
six men on guard over the stores. They
broke open the rum casks and got so
drunk we had to take them with US in
the hospital wagon. They were tried
by court-martial, the corporals re-
duced to privates and all the lot got
six months imprisonment. There are
lots of cases Of this sort l could give
you and l have seen five Kaffirs fogged
for stealing rum. have also taken
notes of the men who have been sick
and almost to man they have been
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-10

never make a steady worker, is not
shared by Gen. Macarthur. 1.-THE
Filipino" he says, will work when
properly paid, and the Chinese are
not necessary, as has been asserted"
He advises 1.-The gradual decrease of
the Chinese now in the islands," and
evidently favors the application Of
our exclusion law. Thus the British
doctrine that the islands will never
amount to anything industrially I'M
less the Chinese be allowed to over
run them is overthrow by American
experience, just as many other Brit
ish colonial precedents" are being
overthrow.
The muchdebated ''friar question:"
Gen. Macarthur believes, will easily
be settled by the Straightforward ap-
plication of our principle of the alb
solute separation of state and church
properly speaking and in broad
scope" he says, there is no church
question" Common-sense Americans
have long held Gen. MacArthur's evi.
dent view. That is, to give the friars
exactly the same protection given
others, and let the people have such
priests as they wish. Then let con.
troyersies over property be settled
by the courts in the ordinary way.
ITO doubt the wisdom of the Unit
ed States remaining in the islands,"
says Gen. Macarthur, in conclusion,
sis to doubt the stability of repub-
lican institutions, and amounts to a
declaration that a nation thus gov.
erned is incapable of successfully re-
sisting strains that arise naturally
from its own freedom and productive
energy" That is why the United
States stays in the Philippines. and
will there remain. Their future will
depend chiefly on the fitness of the
natives for self-government, and to
some extent on the construction OF
our constitution by the supreme
court.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-10
ALBERT B. CUMMINS.
Brief Sketch of the Career of the Re-
publican Candidate for Governor
OF the Hawkeye State.

Albert B. Cummings, the republic
an candidate for governor of Iowa,
is a leading lawyer of Des MoinesA
He was born February Is, 1880, ne
Carmichael, Pa, the son of Thomas
L. and Sarah B. (Fennekien) Cum
Minis.
Mr.. Cummins passed through the
public schools of his native town and
later entered college at Waynes-
burg, Pa. He became a resident of
Iowa in 1869, when he was 10. In
1871 he removed to Fort Wayne, Ind,
where, after a brief term as assist
ant surveyor of Allen county, he be-
came division engineer and then as
sistant chief engineer in the service
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-10
PROGRESS IN LUZON.
Substance of Gen. MacArthur's Re-
port Is Encouraging.
Greater Part of the Philippine Arch.
ipelagO He Declares to Be Under
Civil Home Rule and Thor
OughIy Pacided.

Gen. MacArthur's report on retir-
ing from command in the Philippines
is record of advancement all along
still raging in many districts. He
leaves only a few bands in the hills,
the greater part of the archipelago
under civil home rule, and at peace,
with industry and education advanc-
ing rapidly.
Gen. Macarthur rightly regards
Funston's capture of Aguinaldo as
the most important event of his ad-
ministration. 'The capture" he says,
"dispel.ed the growing tendency to
idealize Aguinaldo's personality,
which millions of natives believed
ultimately would insure success for
the rebellion" Aguinaldo at large
and rarely visible was a demigod to
the superstitious natives. Brought
within constant sight and touch, he
has shrunk to his normal and COM
monplace dimensions.
Gen. Macarthur approves Col. E. Fl.
Crowder's plan for reforming the
Pmlpplne currency upon the gold
standard. This proposes as the
standard of value gold peso of 1919
grains, just half the value of the
American gold dollar, to be coined in
convenient multiples, and a subsd-
larry coinage of subdivisions of the
peso, these coins to be exchangeable
for American at two pesos for 81.
This is practically the plan success
fully followed by Japan in changing
from the silver to the gold standard.
Whether it would be better than the
plan used in reforming the Porto
Rican currency need not now be dis
cussed.
The opinion of so many European
observers, that the Filipino will
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-10

descendants of Frenchmen. A large
part of the.United States was settled
by the French, and if their descend
ants have not preserved their language
they still love France.
"The Americans speak English, but
they are not English. Their whole eff
fort has been to weld into a single met
al the French, English and Germans
who compose the nation.
THE French language is popular.
If the educated young women Of
France who are vainly seeking employ
ment in schools would go to America
they could easily gain good living
there as teachers.
"The Americans, perhaps, are in
clined to reproach the French with re-
Numbering too well what they did for
America. Still, the cultured classes
know what America owes to France"
Describing the country, NJ. Cambon
said: "Iyhen one returns to Europe
after living with the Americans every
thing here looks small. America is so
colossal and so young that she has
many other surprises in store for Eu-
rome"