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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-25

near Detroit He was taken home
from the station in an ambulance. The
senator is better. Although not able
to leave his bed, all danger is said to
be passed.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-25
TERRIFIC RAINFALL.

Five Inches OF the Aqueous Fluid Fell
In and Around Waco.
Waco, April 25.-There was a ter
rifle rainfall Sunday night in this city
and surrounding country. Over five
inches fell. Streams are full. The
BRACES river soon rose thirteen feet
Trains were delayed
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-25
CHAFFEE ARRIVES.
Entertained at Oklahoma City With
Carriage Ride and Banquet.

Oklahoma City, April 25.-Lieutenant
General Adna Chaffee and party ar
rived here Sunday on a tour Of nspec-
ton Of the southwest They were the
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-25
GENERAL ADNA r. CHAFFEE.

guests Of Major General Sumner. The
visitors were entertained with ride
over the city in the afternoon and at
a banquet at Threadglll
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-25
ALGER STRICKEN.
Michigan Senator Seized With an A.
tack Of Acute Indigestion.

Detroit, April 25.-Un1ted States
Senator Alger was seized with an at
tack of acute indigestion Sunday
night on the Michigan Central train
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-25
THOMASsON DROWNED.
We'll Known Texas Detective Swept
Over Dam In His 3 oat.

Over Dam In His 3 oat.
t'o.t Worth. April 25.-James Thorn
assor. aged forty years, former city
detective and widely known in Texas,
was drowned Monday morning at Rus
sian park. two miles southwest OF the
Cit. He was fishing in the Trinity
river and the stream, being swollen by
the heavy rain, swept his boat over the
dam.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-25

Published thres times . week, ~ Ssa-
day incoming Tuesday and Thur
: day afternoon, at the Simon 1uil4-
3 inG, Shreveport, Ia, b. The Cas-
= sssian q Carneyf Brothers RrisAiaG
cmmpany, EaiteA pubishsss.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-25
The Tusten Seed and Produce Co., Limited

(Successors Tuen & Wel)
TO TRADE: Shreveport I
Of Tute day
Limited" We will
collect all debts due the firm of Tuen WE'LL We that
patronage
future
With capital and energyidd
the front and double its volume during the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-20
The New York Campaign.

Mr.. William M. WINS, the republican
nominee for mayor Of New York is
proving a surprise to the public. They
did not know the man because his po-
itical record is all of another period.
But evidently Mr.. WINS was politician
Of extraordinary dash and vigor in his
day, and he has not lost all Of his snap.
In his first speech he remarked that
Mcclellan must get over the idea that
he could sit for the mayoralty as he
would sit for a picture. He must get
up and run for it and added:
partment Of the government under Mr.
Murphy's apprentices the subject Of spe-
cial analysis and revelation and if this
be not campaign Of education it will
not be my fault.
These are the words Of a man
who knows the problem In New
York and goes with his ak straight to
its roots. The New York campaign is
not for or against Mcclellan, it is not
even for or against Murphy. If
Mcclellan disappeared Murphy could
find another titular tool to register his
DEGREES. If Murphy disappeared Tam
many could and would find another boss.
It is the Tammany system Of unofficial
government, which is on trial. The
metropolis is really ruled by the district
leaders Of Tammany. They hold The
voters by the cohesion Of loot. They
dictate the boss, who names the public
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-20
Standardizing Tendencies.

The "Friends of the Indians and
other dependent peoples'' have been
holding a conference at Lake Mohonk.
Lake Mohonk seems good place to
hold conference of those having a
weakness for Indians, but this partic-
ular conference appears to have devoted
most Of it's attention to the F,ilipinos,
who are not, so far as we know, local
issue at Mohonk.
There were a number of excellent pa
pers read upon the subject Of colonial
government, suggested by our attempt
to govern the Philippines, and the
thoughts brought out ought to infu-
ence congress if the members Of con.
gress can be induced to consider any
thing which contains thought. I Nh. Rob-
ert Lincoln O 'Brien, well-known news.
paper writer, discussed ingeniously the
American mania for standardizing
Standard scales and standard type.
writers; railroad widths and standard
everything else abounds STANDARD
rolls Of music for piano players are not
yet made, very likely because the man
who sells you mechanical piano7troub,
Ter would rather you bought your roll
Of him than Of someone else.
Standard sizes have had an enormous
value in purely American trade, but
Mr.. O'Brien goes on to show that we
are running our heads against it in
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-20

officials. The foundation Of the whole
atrocious system of misgo vernment is
the Tammany district. How the dis
trict is formed we know very well. It
is composed Of the scum of the city
banded together to make an easy living
at the expense Of the thrifty and
Woodworking element. 1t panders to
vice for the money there is in it.. It
sells contracts to the highest bidder.for
the "rakeoff f. there is in it. It in
vents work for the workers for the
votes there is in it. It is continuous
process Of bleeding the taxpayer to feed
the tax eater. e Id ss,+ j.
Mr.. Wins proposal to analyze the. de-
partments is the correct one. In no
other way can the people Of New York
be shown just what Tammany costs
them in the way Of loot in the police,
the fire and the other departments.
When he has done this, which is a sim
pie matter of calculation, he has done
only a very small part Of the work nee
essary to GUST Tammany from power.
He must then have the magnetism to
fuse the people together in protest at
| the polls.
| If he can do what Mr.. Low did, fuse
| the anti.Tammany elements, his success
| is certain, for there has always been a
latent majority against Tammany in
New York. The candidacy of Mr.
Hearst will help Mr.. WINS. His ap.
peal is. to, the public ownership element
which is strong in the democratic party
His appeal is also to the democrats who
have a " crouch against the organiza-
ton, and they are numerous. too. What
ever votes Hearst gets will be drawn in
a proportion Of at least three from Nc
Clellan to one from Wins. :.
Under the circumstances, while il
may be not good betting proposition
that Tammany is beaten, it is a gooc
praying proposition. Prayer put Phil
adelphia in the way Of salvation The
Christian people of New York have
their opportunity. 1%t .~sA7s IL
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-20

trying to standardize FOR the orient on
the American pattern. When we try
to sell to the Chinese we ought to put
up packages in the sizes which the
Chinese want and not try to force upon
them the size that we have found to
suit the domestic trade.
Professor jerks Of Cornell college
carried out the same idea as Mr..
O'Brien, taking up the point Of our
trying to standardize the morals Of the
Filipinos according to the American
pattern. Our people were wonderfully
shocked by the sstraffic' with polyga-
my by General Bates, ignoring the fact
that the Mohammedans are not taught
as we are on the singularity Of wives,
and that if we gave them free self-gov-
eminent they would as surely include
polygamy in their code as we would
monogamy in ours. Professor jerks
counsels patience and study and calls
attention to the fact that England and
Holland, the most successful colonizing
nations, approach these moral problems
by process of evolution rather than
revolution. They endeavor first to get
the confidence of the people and then
persuade the high native classes to vol
UNFAIRLY surrender some Of their waste.
full oriental ideas. ..sf
Both of these papers are well worthy
the study by congressman who are
charged with the grave duty Of con,
Quoting the government Of an alien
and distant people in such a way as
to give the maximum present benefit to
the governed and to prepare them soon
est to take charge of their own affairs.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-20
BY w. p. tkIrkwood.

WISE AND WITTY coUNsELS BY "A
WORIDLiNG.-Giving advice is a thing
not altogether free from danger. Advice
ls very often followed after all that Is
SAID about Its being thrown away for the
most part. Furthermore, there is some
power OF suggestion in the printed page
that makes advice thru that doubly dam
gerous. Despite this, we are disposed to
commend The Counsels of Worldly God
mother by Persis Mather. s
The counsels are in the form of let
ters to q goddaughter at the threshold of
active life.1 That the writer of the letters
IS worldly" may be seen from her view
or her own object in life-"to love my
husband. to preserve my figure. and to
enjoy life as well as I may" Had she
not put the so-called "old fashioned
virtue" of loving her husband in her
formula, she. would be too worldly and an
unsafe guide. She will be found, however,
sane and humorous adviser, with a
heart untouched by that worldliness that
must be condemned. Her worldliness
lies rather in knowledge Of the world
and its ways than in an acceptance OF
the views Of the thoughtless throng. In
proof Of this, there is her caustic arraign-
ment OF the snob, which will show, by the
way. that snobs are not, necessarily rich
Here Is part Of what she has to say on
the subject: .a 49, -"
The pith Of the whole business is that I'M
kindness OF snobbishness. / think it is not
unfair to define real snob as a person who
thru vanity tries to humiliate another. Whether
this Is done thru the parading Of real or OF
imaginary claims to consideration doesn't seem
to me to make much difference. The degrees
are Infinite, and. perhaps Thackeray right
IN assuming that most of US have some inclina.
ton in this direction. .2 as
A romantic coiorlng Is given to the
godmother's letters from the fact tina
the goddaughter needs direction in al
affair Of the heart, and this is given ir
such a way as to show clearly the true
heartedness and clear headedness Of The
godmother. IfSthere were more such god
mothers the world would be better off,
Houghton, Miflin &, Co., Boston. $3.50.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-20
WHY THE ENGINEER
STAYS BY HIS MACHINE

monds, and he owns three or four rare
stones which he wears with pride. I'll
might be thought that Brown. hayineH
all these good things of life.s would /
rather enjoy them constantly than to
interrupt every third day and take out
the fast mail; to live for several hours
in g. temperature on one side Of 110i
degrees and on the other 60 degrees, |
rocking back and forth over rails at
thirty-six seconds.
Work as Tonic.
But that is not Brown Is idea. Brown
needs that every third day Of work for
his own strength and activity, just as|
surely as range steeer must 90 tol
salt so often, and his wife and daugh-i
tiers know it. They offer no objection
it would be useless. When Brown wasI
brought home one morning, after hisi
engine had driven straight thru the
left on his right Of way, and while thei
doctors were carefully adjusting some
of his bones that had been broken orl
put. out Of place, he turned his PAIN
racked face to his wife and asked:
Elbows SallyH'
ALI Of Brown 3 engines have been
called by him ''Sally.' He never REL
fers to them by number: In his family
history the name "Sa11y" never has
appeared, but he gave it to the first
engine he ever fired on and he has
kept it for all that he has driven ever
since. .
Captain Clark at one time was a
noted engineer on the Michigan Central
between Chicago and Kalamazoo. he
| left the road to join the service of the
| Union Pacific west Of Cheyenne. AT
| Laramie he became interested in min
| ing propositions, and invested 80 wisely
that in 1898 he found he had $l00, 00C
in bank in Denver and was the owner
Jgf FSpeFss 3es sanE Els h% Roa ae M 1nso
Cheyenne, and the day he realized he
was financially protected for life. he
signed from the Union Pacific and sale
| to his wife: - H. 1850 e. '-s.-sz &
Tries Life of Ease. --.-.---
"We have worked hard; the days Of
worry are over; let's travel.
The wife was pleased, and the two
set out for California with the best
| wishes Of host of officials and train.
men following them. The captain stood
the strain Of freedom from work fol-
three days with ease. On the fourth
day, midway between San Francisco
and Los Angeles, on the coast run, the
engine pulling the Southern Pacific
train broke down. Clark left his sleep
er to ascertain the cause Of the delay
The engineer in charge was young;
Clark was trained. They struck up an
acquaintance and Clark helped him out
Of his difficulty and rode the engine
over the range.
| At Los Angeles he gave his wife into
the company Of friends and haunted
\ the Southern Pacific yards; and shops
4 A week later he was en- a switch en-
l.gine; two months later he had his ole
rum on the Union Pacifc-over thu
lSDivide-in his control again. Wher
| he was jeered and rallied for returning
4 he merely grinned. Clark knew wha'
.lthe needed, and he went back to it
I]Ewas work in the atmosphere he hat
Ibgrown up in. All the wealth and 1eis
,IlEure in the world would not compensat
;lEhim To- loss Of that. -.r F..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-20
The New Trespass Policy.

In keeping track Of the work Of the
state timber board, it should not be for
gotten that in it's new line. Of work the
board is dealing with two kinds Of
trespass cases. There are some new
cases which have arisen under the pres
emit administration, but the board is
still engaged in making further col
1ections from trespassers who thought
they had settled once by compromise
with the state auditor. The board is
disregarding those settlements, but as
to the money paid in under the void
agreements with the auditor, that is
question that has puzzled the board.
The state officers who comprise the
board are agreed that the lumbermen
who made one so-called settlement and
paid the amount agreed on ought, in
Justice, to have credit for what they
paid. But legal question is involved,
and it may be that, in strict legal in
depreciation, the payment is to be ig-
nored, and after paying a single value
for the timber, the state could compel
the lumbermen to pay double or tres
pass value. The attorney general is
inclined to think that the money first
paid goes properly to the credit of the
1umbermen, but the board has decided
to leave this question to the legislature
The settlements made are provisional,
therefore, and if the legislature de-
mands the pound of flesh, the suits filed
may be reopened and still another pay
ment demanded.
It should be remembered that the
present board is proceeding in all things
according to the law. Trespass settle
ments, formerly made by the auditor,
have been since March in its hands.
In opening up the old settlements, the
board is refusing to accept less than
double value for the timber, which is
the least the law allows the state to
accept In new cases, where no pay
ment has previously been made. no
question is left for the legislature. The
board is cleaning up. Where wilful
trespass is found, three times the value
Of the timber is being exacted, and this
penalty has been collected in several
instances. In other cases, no matter
what the circumstances, the law is be:
ing enforced and double value collected
1t is significant that the volume of
trespass has greatly fallen off. It. has
been the boast Of a former state audi
tor that he collected, much more fol
trespass than his predecessors. How.
ever. he did not stop at trespass, but II
grew apace under a system which
charged barely the actual value of the
timber in most cases, and often less
The modern idea is to stop trespass by
making it Improbable, and it certainly
seems like better business for the state
1t is also better public morals to en-
force the law. When law enforcement
checks violation of law, and brings the
state higher returns for it's property
there is no room for cavil. = -. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-20
Locomotive Driver with $3.50, 600
Cannot Bear to Leave His Work
Industry Of Years Is Often a
Pleasure to Those Who Are
Financially Able to Live at
Ease.
Chicago Post.

Chicago Post.
An eastern railway engineer went
into the ditch with his machine the
other day, and when later an investiga-
ton was made into the estate it was
found that he was worth a quarter Of
million dollars.
Why, then, did he work9'' asked
many who did not know of his thrifty
habits. His wife made the best reply:
Jim grew up with his engine. He
was nervous, miserable and sick if he
was off his run a week. He worked
because he loved work. When he made
his first big money specializing in real
estate I urged him to leave the road be-
the only satisfaction I got out of it was
his answer that when he and the engine
parted he didn't care to live any
more. -
A deeper explanation is to be found
in the fact that when the habit Of con-
slant labor is associated with love
for work because of work IS own sake,
the. roots enter into both the objective
and subjective natures Of many men
and to sever them means permanent
end Of the usefulness of the Individual.
Sullivan, an engineer on the North
Western system, years ago fell in love
with a school teacher and married her.
Sullivan could not read, and, could bare
u write his name when he married:
The wife educated him. She induced
engine as he never had before, and a
result was that Sullivan received many
promotions in the line Of his work.
Like many Of the engineers who are
wealthy, Sullivan believed in real es-
tate as an investment. His wages went
into farm lands and city lots. When
he was 40 years old and had been
twenty two years in the service he was
worth $4,000. Did he quit the road
Did; he hunger for the sights of Eu-
rope and the leisure Of a man of means
his fast express run. One night a rail
spread on a bad curve underneath his
big ninety-ton mass Of steel and brass.
Sullivan and his fireman escaped with
out scratch, but the engine was
wrecked. Grady, the fireman, talking
about it afterward, said:
80 Weeps Over His Engine. H..
tuHYou'd thought Mikes wife was
dead, to see him Pickering his torch
about the old machine and cursing fol
the harm done her. He had tears in
his eyes and he couldn It talk straight
He did all he could to have her re-
built, but she was hardly worth picking
up. It. took Mike two years to re
cover from the loss Of her, but guess
as he did the old one.'' ..
Over on the Burlington there Is
Brown, who has been at the throttle
SO long he has almost seen genera
ton Of people pass away. Brown owns
stock in the Burlington system and ii
has a fine cattle farm in Iowa Brown
! fad, when he is not on duty, is dia
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-20
CHM & Co., Boston, SO net.
WIS.,

a FROG IN. THE MooN.-All this talk
about the moons not being inhabited is
nonsense. Why? Because there is a
man in the moon. He is well known to
fame. And then we have seen him. Then
there Is a woman in the moon: we have
seen her, too; and a rabbit. But we never
before reading In the Reign Of Coyote
knew that there was a frog in the moon.
But the book says certain Indians see
frog in the moon, and if they see him he
must be there. Not only that but the
same Indians tell how he got there, which
is more than Is. told Of the man or the
woman or the rabbit an the Reign OF
the Coyote is little book of folk. lore
from the Pacific, illustrated. It is by
Katherine Chandler.
CHM & Co., Boston, As cents.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-20
~,<-.-=-y..,.--

A STORY OF BUNKER HILL.-Dan
Monroe, by w o. Stoddard, begins a
revolutionary series Of stories for the
young. Mr.. Stoddard found in trustwor-
thy records that the drummer boy of the
Lexington militia was named Dan Mon
roe, while his companion, the ffer, also
his closest friend, was named Nat Har-
rington. With these genuine historical
characters as heroes Mr. stoddard has
constructed a book, introducing the Con-
cord Fight and the Battle OF Bunker Hill
and the arrival -of Washington. There is
plenty Of excitement without doing vio-
lence to the carefully preserved historic
outline.
Lathrop Publishing Co., Boston. $1.25.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-20


HISTORY WITH A STRONG INFU-
SION OF FUN.-There is much to laugh
over in An Alphabet of History, by Will
bur D. Nesbit, the poet Of the Chicago
Tribune, illustrated by Ellsworth Young.
The best thing TO- do to let the readers Of
this column see What Is In the Alphabet
is to give them a sample. Here is some-
thing about Alexander the Great:
Alexander the Great was a victim of fate,
And HE ne sighed tasHa was naught to delight l
When lie brandiahed Ills sword and deiantly
reared g b. ~ = ~. -. Il
And could not get a country to fight him.
Tho the Gordian knot, cut in two, in spot
In his palace was labeled a relic, =. :. !; =, -
Tho Bucephalus; stuffed, gave him : fame, he
was hufed- f..
= he was grouehy2 and grumpy, was Aleck: 5
And the cause. of his woe, he would have you
III, =. to knoW,Il a%5t ti,'...% 80 -.
Was the fact that he never was able
To conduct big scrap that "a versatile chap
or war correspondent would cable.
The book is set in art old style type,
and printed with illustrations over tint.
upon Ehard-pressc manila, size 10x713,
bound in Rhinos J. .rds.~
Paul Elder & Co., San; Francisco. Is cents net.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-20

HOW MISS ALICE FRENCH GOT
HER PEN ,NAME.-Adnlirers Of the short
stories Of Octavea Thanet whose first full
sized novel has just appeared from the
Bobbs- Merrill firm, will be Interested in
knowing how the author, Miss Alice
French, chose her pen name. Octave
was the name of one Of her schoolmates
and was selected because 1t gives no hint
as to whether the person behind the pen
is a. man or a. woman. Thanet
pronounced sThan-ette, accent on the
second syllable), was adopted from pass
ing railroad car that Miss French CHANGED
to see a. -a