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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
George Eliot In Florence.

Commentators Guido Biagl. head of
the Biblioteca MedceO- La urenziana at
Florence. has come upon the very
books that George Eliot studied or
perused when she was in Florence,
whittier she had gone in order to gath
er material for novel concerning
the time of Savonarola 1t had oc-
Cured to Sgnor Biagi, that George
Eliot must have gone to the Biblioteca
NaZionale Centrale rather than to any
other library in Florence. Knowing
precisely the dates and duration of her
visits. he wrote to the library and
searched the archives for the slips,
then more than fifty years old, upon
which he assumed that George Eliot
had written her application and her
name. Among thousands of slips not
one bore the signature that he was
seeking. Then, guided by sudden in
SEPARATION. he looked under "Lewes."
The surmiSe was right. Whether on
diplomatic grounds or to save his wife
from needless drudgery Lewes had
signed the slips. and thus Signor Biagl
discovered the most important literary
sources of "Romola all, at any rate,
that George Eliot consulted while she
was in Florence.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
SQUEAktNG SHOES.
Rare Now Because of a Difference I'm
the Welt.

| Rare Now Because of n Difference I'm
| the Welt.
do you remember" asked the shoe
| salesman. 1.-The days when new shoes
| creaked?
| And how you used to have the shoe
maker put wooden pegs in the middle
of the sole about every week to stop
| the noise?
Sometimes you soaked the soies Of
| rub them with lard or some other kinda
| of grease to get them flexible. Il
you don't have to do that now.
'The new welt has taken the squeay
away.
'In the old days the soles of shoes
consisted of two even pieces of leather.
and the friction of these two pieces
caused the squeak when a person
walk ed
Shoes are made differently now.
You see that little piece of ridged
leather that runs from the heel around
the outside of the sole?
That's what we call the welt 1t is
a piece of leather about an inch wide
sewed to flap cut and turned under
the inside.
'The space between the outer side
and the insole is filled with ordinary
tar paper. which holds the soles in
shape and also prevents squeaking by
taking away the friction.
This system of welt was invented
thirty years ago, but at first it wasn't
a success because the soles were sewed
with stra ght needle
couldn't explain it to you in hun
dred years, but to prevent squeaking
the soles Of shoe have to be sewed
with a crooked needle
You see when 4 sole is sewed with
a straight needle it leaves no flexibli-
ty to the sole
But the welt added so much to the
appearance and strength of the shoe
that improvements were made OH the
first system. and soon afterward the
slant or side sewing by a crooked nee
die was patented.
"a shoe that is made with that i'm
provement costs - cents more to the
manufacturer than the old style.
The patent on it still holds good,
and 1112 cents royalty has to be paid
on every pair of shoes that is made
that way
But it's worth it,
"A squeaking shoe nowadays is as
bad as an out of date dress or straw
hat in winter" -Exchange
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
"WHISKEY GALORE.

AS we are to have whiskey galore
fl1is year, our town council might take
up the subject of regulating the traffic.
Under the new charter they have I'M
bounded authority, but we trust that
whatever they do, that they will not try
to do it in secret session, but that they
will take the dear people into their con-
hdcnce, as they are sometimes little
curious to know Just how the public
business is Observation-Disclosures Enter
prise.
In this instance is I'VE" to apply to the
editorial staff or is we applicable in a
general sense and to all who would
have it?
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06

The Salvation Army bids fair to be-
come an arstocratic body. Maj&I
Mary Murray, who supervises the nj IL
itary and naval league of the SalyRI
tionists. is daughter of the late =
John Murray. X. c. B.. and Leuten1
ant Colonel Minnie Reid, who recey
married Commissioner Booth TuckT.29
is daughter of a former acting gdy-
ernor Of Bombay. The commissioner
himself resigned judgeship in India
with all the wealth and social position
attached to it. TO devote himself to
Salvation Army work
Lady Sarah Sladen is Salvation
ist. and the Countess DOwager of Sea-
field is Il member Of the auxiliary Of
the army Two daughters of Mr. On
slow. late member of parliament for
Guildford. have together steadily risen
in the ranks. Intimately connected
with the work in Australasia is the
Hon Mrs. Bird. wife of the former
prime minister of Tasmania. She is
said TO he rs ardent as any Salvation
Army lass in disposing of the War
Cry. The daughter of the late Lady
Gait wife of the lieutenant governor
of Ontario is working in Canada. as
is also. among the daughters of mil
lionaires. Miss Macdonald at TorontoA
London Answers.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
THE THREE JUDGES.

With the nomination Of Judge J.. l.
Hall of Monroe and with Judge Charles
v. Porter and Hon. Lynn K. Watkins
of Minden, already nominated, and
whose election by the people will follow
on January IS next, the Court OF Ap-
peal of the Third District will be con-
stituted of an array of judicial talent,
combined with experience, which will
make this court one of the strongest III
the State
The people Of this district may be con-
graduated, and the Judges, one and all,
complimented on their success.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
Whit the RnIers Cost.

In the Paris Figaro a fanatical stat
istician undertakes to answer the ques-
ton as to how much a citizen has to
pay for the head of his state. The
Frenchman pays for his president an
nually the low sum of 0 confines mot
quite cents. Considerably higher is
the amount which every German has
to pay for his namely, 81 cen
times annually. In Russia each sub
ject's annual contribution is 80. in TIA
" A and in Austria Hungary 45 CEN
times. The dearest rulers are. however.
those of Greece and Belgium, Cor every
Belgian or Greek contributes So cen
times annually to the maintenance of
the royal house in his country.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
NO MORE NEGRO SCHOOLS IN
RATION ROUGE.

The Baton Rouge State says that al
he meeting of the Parish School Board
# East Baton Rouge parish held Thurs
lay afternoon a petition for the estab-
ishnent of negro school was deferred,
md this action it is clearly understood
means that for the present no more ne
gro schools will be established in that
parish. This is done because of the fact
hat there are now number of negro
schools maintained, as many as the board
financially able to appropriate money
for. There are now almost as many ne
!ro schools in the parish as there are
white
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
House Plants.

Be sure that plants in hanging pots
and baskets get all the water they
need. Because they are near the cell
ing, where the temperature is much
higher than at the window sill, they
will dry. out much more rapidly than
ordinary plants. They are also ex-
posed on all sides. and this accelerates
evaporation. | have method Of keep
ing these plants well watered which
works well. | take small can or
cup and punch holes in the bottom of
1t. Make these small at first until you
know just how much water is needed.
Fill these vessels and place them on
the surface of the soil. Vines can be
SO trained as to hide them. Observe
the effect carefully. If not enough
water passes through to keep the soil
moist. you will know that larger holes
are necessary. This matter can be
regulated to a nicely with a little ex-
perimenting. Fill the cup each morn
ing. 4 treatment of this kind will
enable any one to grow fine hanging
plants.-Home Magazine.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
FRAUDULENT QUOTATIONS

Formal and specific charges of issuing
] fraudulent quotations in regard to the
cotton market have been filed by Con-
gresham Livingston of Georgia and
President Harvie Jordan of the South
ern Cotton Association against the New
York Cotton Exchange, and the Post
master General has been asked to issue a
fraud order against that institution,
which would deprive it of the use Of the
mails They allege that New York has
ceased to be market for spot cotton,
and that all transactions are purely spec
NATIVE, and their quotations fraudulent.
Mansfield Enterprise.
Then ''cut it out" Why not?
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
CARELESS OBSERVERS.

Gentlemen. you do not use YOUR fac-
ultes of observation said an old pro-
lessor addressing his class. Here he
pushed forward a gallpot containing a
chemical of exceedingly offensive smell.
Taste it, gentlemen, taste 1t, SAID the
professor; exercise your perceptive fac
uties." One by one the students dipped
their fingers into the connection, and
with many wry face sucked the abom-
nation from their fingers. Gentlemen,
gentlemen" said the professor, Il must
repeat that you do not use your faculties
of observation for, if you had looked
more closely at what ! was doing, you
would have seen that the finger which |
put into my mouth was not the finger |
dipped in the gallipot. -
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
A GENEROUS ACT
Complimentary to Confederate Veterans
and Fully Appreciated.


The People OF Baton Rouge says: 1t
was a nice thing that Captain T. J,
Woodward the respected and popular
postmaster of New Orleans, did on
Christmas He had a Christmas tree set
up at the Confederate Soldiers Home
md on this tree there was package for
every one of the Veterans. These pack
ages contained tobacco and implements
for smoking and other things which
come handy to an old soldier. Captain
Woodward was an officer in the United
States navy during the unpleaSantnesS
between the North and the South. He
settled in New Orleans at its close, and
the city has not had among her business
men one who has shown more public
spirit and manifested greater interest
in her welfare and progress than Cap
tain Woodward. We always suspected
that his heart was in the right place. We
are sure of it now.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
Subscription Price S2,oo year.
HOW TO EOJALIZE.

How to equalize the valuation Of prop
erty for the purpose OF taxation is
problem which has been left TO the con-
sideration OF fifteen gentlemen named by
the Governor. There are glarlng neon
sistencies which should be corrected. Un-
der-assessed and over-asseSsed valua-
lions should be,equalized and placed on
a basis that will be honest and fair. he
burden of taxation should be lifted from
the shoulders of the small property own
ers. The basis of taxation, # It be so
cents on the dollar, should apply on the
hundred thousand dollar man as well as
ON the one-hundred-d man.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
WARP AND WOOL

All night the beautiful snow came down
And folded the world in its stainless
shroud,
Till over the bleak hills rugged crown
The morning laughed from rosy
| cloud
And the earth was a jeweled and pom
derous loom,
Where winter his pallid web had hung,
Awaiting the checker of light and gloom.
And the mystical weavers, old and
young.
The blank warp waited; and suddenly,
From field, and highway and paved
street,
The sound of labor. and laugh and song
Blent with the tramp of the restless
feet
From the latticed cabins beneath the hill,
The rosy children, with tumult, pour,
As the whirring wheels of the waking
Jar on the wind with stifed roar.
From manse and cottage, with haste and
din,
The worlds great army of workers HE.
Some the battle with fate to win
Some to faint by he way, and die.
In the busy hives of the crowded mart,
The shuttles ring and the plans unfold,
And the black thread spun from
broken heart
Is woven i'll with the thread of gold,
Here blacken the frosts, and the rude
winds blow
There CLEANS the desert, with we'll
and palms.
And yonder the lilies of springtime glow,
Or autumn mellows in golden Gains
And always the workers, early and late,
By clews that are held in the Hand
Divine
Weave into the year-long web of fate
The blind details OF the years design
And hither and thither. and to and fro,
The restless feet of the nameless
throng
Blazon their wanderings through the
snow,
10 mingled burden of wall and song
So the mystical pattern grows and
thrives,
Till the night shuts down, and the
year is done.
But the tangled threads of the broken
God gathers them softly, every one.
And the hawless pattern our lives hath
wrought
Cleans up from the loom to the Mas
ter's eyes
The wondrous pattern the old year wove
Mid fading seasons, meath changing
skies.
We never shall know, till the Dawn OF
Day,
What mystical figures for us were
planned,
But under and over. and in and out,
The threads were guided by His dear
hand
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
POLITICAL FENCES DOWN.

The People of Baton Rouge: The pri-
mary election law and the abolition OF
The appontive system broke down the
fences by which the political field in
Louisiana was for SO many years en-
closed The field now is entirely open
l4or all entries, and there is no gate
wfere the ticket of admission has to be
shown. There's no such thing nowadays
as the candidate that the field is fighting,
for every candidate has that very thing
to fight for first or second place in the
second round. Hence, the more good ma
fiHe may be expected in the free all
at the start.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06

The Commoner: The attention of Sen
iator Foraker is called to the case of an
other eminent and ambitious gentleman
who corraled the Southern negro dele
gates to a Republican National Conven-
tion. only to have another equally emf
nent and ambitious gentleman decoy
them away
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06

The Commoner: The Birmingham
Age-Herald declares that the average
hod-carrier is miles above Count Boni in
morals and common sense too Why
should the Age-Herald insult the hard
working hod-carriers by mentioning
them i'll the same breath with this per-
son?
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06

The Commoner David Graham Phil
lips declares that I per cent of the peo-
pie Of the United States control 90 per
cent of the wealth. And the one per cent
seems to think its membership has a
vested right in the % per cent.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06

"Dink, solemnly said the wife, ''ef 20
doan take me back TO Macon Use goin' to
haunt yo' My speerit'll come back to
yo' Dink, it shore will !"
Well, eft it comes to dat said Dink,
i spose I'll have to humor you; but,
Mirandy, Ise goin' to try you in .Tacksun
first.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06

The Commoner The eminent statisti-
clans of the Dun commercial agency
have at last discovered that il costs more
10 live now than it formerly did The
discovery is verv much belated. several
millions of American housewives having
beat the statisticians to it.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06

Look your disadvantages square1y in
the face and see what you can make out
of them. and instead OF clamorng and
complaining that you have not the right
tools, use well the tools YOU have.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06

Times-Democrat: 1t is reported that
a japanese has cornered the California
potato market Can any loyal Irish
American further WITHHOLD his support
from the embattled Californians?
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
SHOShONE FALLS.
Utilization of This Wonderful Region
of PlunSinS Waters.


! With a sheer drop of 210 feet, which
is fifty feet greater than the height of
| Niagara, the Shoshone falls, in Idaho,
! stand second among the great cata-
ractS of the new word.
The region is one of pluugIng waters.
Snake river leaps down a series of
giant steps until it has dropped clean
5S3 feet.
Shoshone falls form the highest Of
these leaps. -Four miles above them are
Twin fails, divided by great, cIeaving
promontory of rock.
Eleven miles from Shoshone is an
other drop, of 139 feet this time, called
Augur falls. A hundred miles below
are Swan falls. and so it goes
The cataractS are not the only natu-
raj wonders of this region. The canyons
are comparable only to the Grand Can
yon of the Colorado. In places they are
even deeper than the great chasm far
ther south.
Years ago Bancroft said of this part
of the country, Taken altogether, it is
the most grand. wonderful. romantic
and mysterious part of the domain in
closed within the federal Union"
AT one time the cataract region was
set apart by the government as a ma
tional park. but the act providing for
il has been repealed. The enormous
water power is TO he used for irriga-
ton.
Perhaps the beauty of the falls will
suffer, but SO square miles of sand
and sagehruSh III one tract alone will
give place to rich harvests, and the
Jack rabbits will move out in faver of q
million human beings who can find
homes there
1t is time for Aladdin to go way
back and sit down. Twentieth century
engineers accomplish marvels which
make his old lamp back number
Take the tunnel which has been cut
through 400 feet of solid rock and
through which an industrial Niagara
will generate almost unlimited power
Every bit of machinery for the plant
and many of these bits weigh
thousands of pounds-was hauled by
six horse teams over thirty miles of
crowded hills. Much of This equipment
was lowered by ropes over the precipi-
tous walls of the Snake river canyon.
= The tunnel was blasted out, piece by
piece from the top down, the reverse
of the method employed in making the
great Niagara tunnel. The interior was
then concerted smoothly. so that it
forms a circular shaft fourteen feet in
diameter, piercing the solid rock at an
angle of forty-tive degrees.
Already the knell of sagebrush and
jack rabbits has struck in Snake river
valley. April l, 1905, the water was
turned on 10000 acres near Shoshone |
falls. One hundred days later the reap
ers were at work gathering In the first |
crop.
The soil of these valleys is of vol
canic ash ana will produce sixty bush |
els of wheat to the acre. or if you |
prefer it. apples which bring 81 a bush
ell in London. With all this gain, more
over. it is said that the Snake river has
water enough for both purposes. 1t
can irrigate its millions of acres and
still form cataract to see which is
worth going hundreds of miles.-New
York Sun.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06

There is no such thing of finding true
happiness by searching for it directly 1t
NUT come. if it comes at all, indirectly !;
or by the service, the love and the hap
piness We give to others
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06

Times-Democrat; St. Louis is jubilat-
ing because she has captured the next
international balloon contest Her citi-
zens have been lodging sandbaggers for
SO long that they probably feel there will
be no additional risk in letting the aerial
navigators heave few at them
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
ST. MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Rev. JOS. H. Spearing, rector-Serv-
ices today as follows: Morning prayer
and holy communion II am; evening
prayer and sermon at 5 pm. Sunday
school 9 am. Regular meeting of Parish
Aid Society tomorrow at rectory pm
Bishop Sessums will administer con-
firmation next Sunday at II am and
pm. services. Everybody cordially in
vited to attend all services.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06

1t is moral courage that characterizes
the highest order of manhood and wom-
anhood--the courage to seek and to
speak the truth: the courage to be Just ;
the courage to be honest: the courage to
resist temptation. the courage to do
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06

Luxuries We're purchased By the
United States from abroad to the ex-
tent of 100000. 900 during the fiscal
year 1906. according to the tabulations
of the bureau of statistics of the de-
partment Of commerce and labor.
These luxCries are classified as dia-
monds and other precious stones, or
which 10000 900 was imported; laces,
edgings. embroideries and ribbons. $40
900. 900: feathers. natural and artificial.
S7.O0000O: champagne. SG0G0.0ft. ~
miscellaneous. such IL petfgma
toilet articles smokers articletN
opium for smoking make up the
ancp Tobacco cigars and cigal
were imported 10 the vai'fe II .
600 This is more than donpie
amount spent abroad for such ar'l
q decade ago. The Item or largest
crease in the above list - Said
diamonds. rs the vaftie Tor
not reach IS. 900, O00-New
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
THE LETTER LIST.

Tie following is list of letters re-
naming uncalled for in the Shreveport
oostof1ice for the week ending Satu--
day, Jan. 5, 1907. A charge of one cent
will be made for each piece Of mai,
advertised. When calling for these let
rers please say 'advertised,' giving the
date of advertisement. Free delivery of
mail may be secured by having ycur
mail addressed to street and number.
Advise your correspondents of your ad-
dress and have them address your let
ters accordingly.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06

Vaughn Walter: Lay l. V. 3
Wright Lem w. ;; Wade J. w.
Wesley Jones; Washington +. J.; Wutt
Am; White Mr. and Mrs. 4. F: Wilson
B. Wright L. Il; Wagner L. G. and
wife; Williamson w. ].
Young A
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-06-21
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Speaker Cannon was born in Gull
.ord, North Carolina, May Z, 1886.
Out of twenty-six years in the
Navy Peary has had fifteen of absence
on leave.
Rex Beach, the author of "The
Spoilers" at one time held the ANA
teur short distance swimming rec
ord.
Or. Tikhon, formerly Archbishop
of the Orthodox Russian Church in
the United States. has arrived at
Yaroslav, Russia, TO assume his new
duties.
Ransford u. Buckman, of Worces-
ter. Mass, recently appointed naval
adviser to the Sultan of Turkey, is
now in command OF the feet which
guards the Bosphorus.
Professor George w. Jones. profess
sor of mathematics at Cornell Uni
versity. will retire at the end of the
present year, after thirty years of SER
vice in the institution.
President Eliot of Harvard Uni
versity. who was seventy-three years
old in March, has held his present
position since he was thirty-fve. He
receives $4,000 year.
Professor Edward b. Clapp. head
of the Greek department of the Cali
fornia State University. has been ap-
pointed professor of Greek in the
American School of Classical Studies
at Athens.
Secretary Cortelyou spoke about
twenty consecutive words at a Cab,
met meeting the other day Good
gracious" the President is reported
TO have said. such loquaciousness on
your part is positively brutal, Cor
telyou."
Cardinal Merry del Val. who came
so prominently TO the front during
the French church dispute, shows his
modernity. by playing an excellent
game o. golf as well as by his abil-
fly 10 send a rife bullet through .
ten-cent piece at twenty yards. 4.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-06-21

Physicians from all over the state
gathered in this city last week for
the 126th anniversary meeting OF the
Massachusetts medical society.
An exhibition by publishers. Of med
ical books. and by manufacturers. of
medical devices and surgical instru-
ments. was held in Mechanics hall
and attracted much attention
The most important paper read
during the session was that OF Dr.
Theobald Smith OF the Harvard medi-
cal school in the tuberculosis section.
IL was entitled The Channels OF In
fection in Tuberculosis" and IL he is
right in his conclusions two things be-
come at once apparent The first Is
that thousands OF cattle have been
unnecessarily slaughtered In this
country under the misapprehension
that bovine or animal tuberculosis and