The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-01-15

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There Is an old saying TO che e6ec
chat when 4 certain class Of individual
tall Ous another class gel their dues
| A row is aoW on between che manu-
5acturers Of srpor plate, and some Q
them are threatening to tell the secret
| OF armor plate contracts in Che halcyol
past when by conspiracy ahey Sorcet
Uacle Sam 20 pay $45l per Con 20
plate when John w. Gates was offerin,
TO cake che contract at S24O PEI Con
He aEoEed that he could make = prof
even az shat price. but he did 40
stand In with Che sine. and che sin,
had pVIa enough 20 have eheis bids az
cepted se che highes 6gur> Nha
UUcle Sam ought 10 do Is 10 build hin
az armor pfate factory et MS own J.
would be money On bis pocket even il
he oeSes actually made . pound OF it
He could shesebg eosss ~ eteeaD &
esssoHSbIe esia>a
The Cotton essmA
Suppose 9 ease. Suppose Sddge eas,
ker had been elected, ohas ohe e1~al
slump q Che Vast eev weeks on cotton
Mad struck tho south. shat would hase
happened4 why. Sust as eestalp - two
and ewo make 0ous al the stand paeters
would Aase sworn BY tho ereae bora
spoon that wicked Ggee trades. caused
It. Shey Nave DOT cheek enough % %
charge SOW. for Goosese9t was elected
BY so overwhelming enaSos!ty. but the
slump came tevevtheless. Rue Wais
awhile and sec what Sill happen Whel.
the eext campaign Is o. and public
memory has been slulle0 somewhat b.
the lapse Of Vine. 1he stand pae.svs
via sweas thew aas 90 slump ~ cot
eon and Is there was one & Vas pg.e-
dvceJ by aee ssade Sgitatios.
A witty but eyn'cao Vomas once DE-
clared shat the easiest end shortest
soute to = man's heart Is Through his
stomach. Representative Timothy D.
Sullivan Of New Sork. whose popular
sobriquet Is "Dry Dollar Tim.~ eve
IDENTITY believes in that woman's theory.
though he may never have heard or
read her mot. On Christmas day he
fed 5000 Of his faithful constituents
and speeded the departing guests by pre-
senting each OF them with a Greenwood
pipe and quantum sufhcit Of good
smoking tobacco. Each visitor was
allowed twenty-five minutes in which
20 appease his hunger and to luench
his thirst. AS this is about twice as
much time as is permitted to 4 hurry
ing and thirsty traveller in which to
dine at the Average railroad eating
house. Timothy's guests did not go
away empty He will certainly sit in
the Sixtietb congress II he lives.
Cofones James Hamilton Lewis, fate
~ of the state of Washington, now Of
Chicago. could not be dull IL he tried
to be, but nevertheless he Is likely 20
get himself into a class with Grover
Cleveland if he does not look a little
out. o. E."s stronghold is in phrase
making. When J. II. Z. characterized
recent Dem ocras platforms as "socio-
logical symposiums~ ne must have
caused 6. G: to turn green with envy.
As linguistic achievement that is al
most equal to "innocuous desuetude"
and much mere original than ~public
office is a cubic trust.~
Most assuredly politics makes strange
bedfeliows. President Roosevelt has
just appointed to good fat office in
Virginia J. E. +. Stuart II. Oh the rec
Of Captain John s. Wise.
once OF the Old Dominion now Of New
York. ,. E. n. Stuart I. was General
Lees famous cavalry commander. who
was killed at the battle of the Yellow
Tavern. and Captain John 5. Wise is
|he son Of Governor Henry A. Wise,
who hung John Brown. Verify, the
world moves, but whittier! j
the project of Representatives
Brown1ow of Tennessee. Edwards Of !
kentucky ana SlemIs of Virginia %
make new state of east tennessee,
southeastern Kentucky an1 southwest
,rn Virginia may please Ahem very
veil. but u ~ill siisplease sv.rybods
Use in che three states. Should they
i've till THAI comes 20 pass A1ethuselah
will appear young beside Chem Guess
is one of 8rown9oW's jokes.
The Democrats of che house .fi4 the
'ery remarkable ching Of writing .
ONT letter to President Roosevelt zee
a Republican fellow MEM
YER, Major Sespasian Warner of flli-
ois, for pension commissioners. which
oes % show that much good Will pre-
ails under the domes
Good old Massachusetts 4s Glivide8
gainst herself touching a sievice FOR
er great seal. Some Bay Staters wane
be Indian continued thereon. Others
1sist that he shall be displaced by
icture of the Mayfower. If they want
modern and strictly up 90
ate, why not use the efigy of Govern
+ William Lewis Douglas? His is the 4
est known face Of any Massachusetts
IAN Of this generation. He certainly
'ould be good substitute for poor Co.
That great and good sovereign Peter
Servia is emulating the illustrious
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