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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-11

Oriental billiard aud Pool par
Iora. fug Third Ave. have eight
nov tables aud the only 5Vta pool
table IA Seattle A place for gen
tlemeu
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-11

bunker. I understand has eeca
mentioned FOR eengrvHa
Yes isut Il strange shat faith
some women have In their huh
banda
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-11

FIRST Aatoist-= We're go svaF IN
maEaftaf
HaAanf nItfo-=ff sFafisf ~ seems
ta me We stepped theFs cree % aat
tire rspaiFed aafihnsfs MAHs
slna.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-11

Iast a. noon "a
a trust Eita un
STEADY n water
runs out
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-11

4 Wisconsin, uiislstsr declares
ChIearn e. q pocket edition - he'll
Never again win - tell maa e.
g. there
Not meaning Chicago
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sEARLY sGApY.

Yauag Brook trout Mother. 10
breakfast ready YETI
Mother Trbut Nearly That
man 40 o. the tank IL Just batting
he hook
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-11

Mabel Gilman says her place is
ai her husbands site CanaideripE
the conflstnna uuder whirh Nahei
aud CoreF fret met goa can (
blame her from keeping htm tn
sight
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-11
BETTER THAN A LAUNCH

GARDNER KELLOGG TELLS HOW HG PUT BIO CANADIAN
FISH TO PRACTICAL
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-11

sSik8la Tesla writes to q NrN
York PAPER that 10 can Invent ans
fhiuE be wants 20
Then I don't suppose b svri
need to be- uurFoaa about tiudlns
he wifc sitting 10 waiting for
him
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-11
Olympic Markei

cuts your meat bills IL al
Pike ct. opposite the - sn's|
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-11
STAR DUST
BY JOSH

00o Alas. tho rumors that he VAS
broke were true'
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-11

A Pleasant Expression.
A chicago professor advocates
pensions for mothers. Fine Aud
let tho husbands pay ON.
Poor Gaffer' nown and cut
Worth a quarter of "a million five
years ago aud broke flat today I"
IL D. too bad
II ceuAialy Il Aud when q man
~ down. how fate doca kick him
lie asked the mayor tndAy Zoe a
job tn a street cleaning kang aud
couldn't SET a."
WHY not
The mayor tod him he wasn't
old enough
A cleveland lawyer nf ~ SAYS
n g wasn't Tor my legs I would
Hhuu a feN nf these fellows haw
"a trY q Law Hnit Its legs hstnH
weak. naturally. ho finds difficulty
In periofmlnE that most essential
work nf a lawyer kicking
Why don't YOU consult sona
fitatelasa riairyeFahtF
I did. aud she told mo J would
so mto aome kiud % mauufaotur,
Inc business within = year
why don't you 50 70 another
clalFyoYantf
What forf-
she might tell you something
elise
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-11

Il has becn the custom for many
yeAfa Tor families to select a Ger
tain DAY Of the year ta move. 80.
raeiaiiy those uho varatr their
city homes fof their couutfy
estates
In baltimore MAY ! IL the NOV
ms day and the furniture wagons
wnfa kepa busy Yesterday While
those pefaaaa Who car afford "a
have both city aad coantry homes
maFrd "a tho latter place YsslaF
dax other families changed their
residences FROM enc section II The
city 20 another baltimore sun
vHaniuf has ennn signed bY the
mAaaEer 81 musiral comedy
shantrFF Why. be- caut sing
&o~thatn uua reason lheY
signed him
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-11

A Mes YORK policeman who used
10 b. strong man pulled a hafHn
Oui ~ hale the other day Z ~
Hartman ought 10 hire him AZ
once
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-11

II ts announced officially that
John vs. Gates fatircs with $1,000
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a Word from Josh wise.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-12-22

tamlnating and entangling influences,
and there will follow that prosperity
which shall be substantial and perma-
nent, which shall raise from the slums
and the gutter and make better the VIC
TINS who instead of squapdering their
earnings in beer and other intoxicants
will be distributed in the enhancement
OF general prosperity.
Not only will the political atmosphere
be relieved Of the dominating influence
Of the saloon, but there will be a de-
crease III the number of widows an1
orphans there will, therefore. be less
victims for the orphanages and chari-
table institutions; there will be less
crime and criminals, and the revenue
obtained from legitimate pursuits viii
be more than sufficient to meet all tie
obligations of the municipality
This is an appeal to reason and noe
to the cupidity of any man.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-12-22

for revenue to meet anticipated defaults
Referring to the opposition he said:
They propose to reduce the number
Of saloons. Why that would make q
deficit! The man who takes ont a
license must have a good moral char
acter. Then he must give a high bond
that he will observe the law. See the
moral saloons with the screens re-
moved. A gilded palace of reform
While from the ceiling above there
comes down the high moral light of re-
form.
There is another call for prohibition
1t is the great black cloud that grows
blacker and darker wherever the open
saloon exists. In a city where one-half
of the population is negro, and over
one-half negro in the country wards, it
becomes no longer question Of dollars
and cents nor of reform and regulation
but Of the dearest thing to every man
whose blood is white
Georgia has seen the danger and the
saloon has gone; Alabama, for the same
reason, has driven market places of in
tONicating drinks from her bounds. The
country wards of Caddo, for the same
reasons. have voted out the saloOn-but
here, in Shreveport, the danger lies The
crime brewing place Of George Neil is
tonight filled with negro men and wOm-
en-. There are places on Texas street
by which your wife and my wife will
never pass. If saloon keeper but knew
that he would be, through the sale Of
his drinks. the indirect cause of a trag-
edy, such as has been enacted in
Shreveport-would he not close his
shop :,
Il have no time for bitterness, but
every day | will pray that God will help
us to eliminate the great curse of this
city, and the sun of Gods heaven will
not then shine on a lovelier city or on
a more prosperous people,
1t is not possible to overestimate the
influence of this gathering 1t was a
success which exceeded the anticipa-
tlons of the most sanguine.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-12-22
THE SALOON, FOR REVENUE
ONLY
Its Pernicious Influence in Politics-Tts
Control All Powerful - Some Men
Seeking Office.

1t will not be questioned by intelligent
and we'll Informed men that the saloor
is permitted to exist by sufferance only
Unlike all other occupations, it ha:
practically no standing 1t is viewed a:
an evil, ;,for such it is, an evil through
which the nlanhood of the State may bt
debauched; an evil through which homes
are desecrated and wrecked, and pau
perism is increased.
Who can, who will, defend or Offer
apology for the saloon, except on the
plea of its necessity as the producer Of
revenue, essential, as alleged, for the
uses of the city government.
Article I81 of the Constitution of 1896
reads: THE regulation of the sale o1
alcoholic or spritous liquors is declared
police regulation, and the General AS
sembly may enact laws regulating their
sale and USE
This provision of law is applied to nc
other profession, occupation or calling
1t is directed strictly at the saloon.
Why?
AS provided by legal enactment, local
tiles and communities and parishes have
authority to regulate and to suppress the
saloon by a majority vote of the quail
fed electors
Under this authority of law, the citi-
zens of Caddo parish, qualified as vot-
ers. who are opposed to the saloon on
moral and on economical principles, are
being rallied for the struggle which is
fixed to take place on Tuesday, January
H. of next year.
The opposition is gathering its CO.
horts to defeat the suppression of the
saloon, the constant menace Of peace, of
law and order.
The plea that the saloon must be suf-
fered to exist for the reason that it pro-
duces revenue through its license by the
city, is a reflection on the intelligence of
the gentlemen who assume such a posi-
tich HIS plSd, lOl Is liOt SuS-
tanned by the experience of cities who
have become rid of the saloon.
The saloon is Objectionable from any
point of view in which it may be pre-
scented for impartial consideration. For
the purpose of this article The Caucasian
will view the saloon as factor in poll
tics.
In this sense it is not less vicious than
was the Louisiana Lottery which donli-
mated the Legislature, compelling some
of the brightest intellects in the State
to do its biddings. This monstrosity, op-
Grating under the sanction of the law,
had debauched the morals of the State
to such low plane that the people were
being affected by its communicating in
f1uence.
To continue its power of debauchery
it offered brbe to the State of a mil
lion dollars annually for the mainten-
ance of its schools, its charitable insti-
tlltions and its levees
1t was a glittering and strongly per-
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-12-22
COTTON. MARKET

Office of The Caucasian,
Shreveport, La, Dec. 81, 1907.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-12-22

The Connoner The laws of Wee
Virginia prohibit the employment of
children under fourteen years of age inl
mines. Many of the victims of the Mo-
nongah disaster were boys under that
age. Here is an opportunity to enforce
the written laws.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-12-22
ESTRAY NOTICE.

Taken up by A. H. Riley at Flournoy,
La, one dark bay mare, gray on lett
Jaw, white in forehead, white spot ON
under lip, scar and white spot on root
of tail, about IA hands high and about
Re or ID years old, no brand The owner
will come forward, prove property and
paw charges or the animal will be sold
as directed by law at Greenwood, La,
on the nth day of January 1908.
S. J. PHILLIPS,
Justice of the Peace Ward Five, Cad
do Parish, La.
Dec 10, 1907.
If YOU will telephone one thousand,
we will send a man to figure with you
on any size job of printing.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-12-22
THE MEETING
FRIDAY NIGHT
LARGE GATHERING OF PEOPLE
IN THE COURT HOUSE.
JUDGE 7. F. BELL SPEAKS

He Views the Question of Prohibition
in All Its Phases-A Strong Argu-
ment-Rev. J. K Smiths Appeal to
Reason and Common Sense-Striking
Words in Defense Of Prohibition.
The Evil of IntoNicants.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-12-22

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT.
This yr Last yr.
Since yesterday -. -. 6Io I33
Same day last fear -. I,4I5 -.
Thus far this week -. oIo -.
Thus far last year -. LAS I33
Since September 1 =. 52,5SI I42,234
Stock on hand -. -. I3,465 2I,244
LOCAL RECEIPTS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

peals to the Plat amendment. which re-
Quires that all lawful rights acquired under
the military government of Gen. Wood shall
be recognized and protected.
Jai alai is the Basque game of pelota
and is played in all Spanish countries by
children and young men and women, but
here, as in several of the Spanish cities, 1t
has been advanced to a science and Is
played only by professionals who are i'm
ported from the Basque provinces of Spain
and receive salaries as large as those of
professional base ball players. The pur-
pose of the game is to keep rubber ball in
the air while rebounding from a wall
against which it is thrown. In childhood
this is done by the use of the bare hand and
it is known as hand ball." but scientific
development has brought into use a curved
basket or cestus, as it is called strapped to
the hand and protected by leather gaunt-
let. This cestus is handled with wonderful
skill. 1t requires as much strength and
agility to play the game as to handle a
rapier in a fencing bout and the sport is
very exhausting. The contestants are di-
vded into sides and take their turns until
one of them misses the ball by failing to
throw it back on the rebound or permitting
1T to land outside the floor limits. Each
failure is scored and when thirty points are
made by either player failing to hit the ball
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ward in this respect. These evils were
bad enough before Gen. Woods order was
issued and to restore them would be to
make them still worse. Once having made
the prohibition. it would be a lamentable
precedent for the government to revoke it. "
Gen. Wood and Jai Alai.
Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez, the leader OF
the liberal party, takes exactly the oppo-
site view He declares that the poor peo-
pie are entitled to amusements as we'll as
the rich, and the other day he INDUCED in
some scathing criticisms of Gen. Wood for
prohibiting cock fighting among the poor
and encouraging the game of jai alai
among the rich, which he insisted was
even more demoralizing TO the public
He said that Gen. Wood, while military
governor, not only licensed. but encouraged
that institution, which has resulted in the
moral and financial ruin of many persons
and is universally recognized as a curse to
the community. And, what is still worse,
Gen. Wood accepted very valuable silver
service from the gamblers, who have since
received large revenues from the monopoly
he granted them. Several efforts have been
made by the liberal party, he says, to abol-
ish It, but they have been defeated by sp-
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the palace for advice. but Gov Magoon
was deaf and dumb. and when the judge
insisted upon having instructions, he was
told that the provisional government had
nothing whatever to do with the admins
stration of the police courts and that his
only course was to perform his duty. Gen.
Woods order, issued April 10. 1900. i'm
posed a fine of $500 upon each ana every
transgressor of the law prohibiting cock
fighting. but that penalty was afterward
modified to a fine of not less than $40 nor
more than $500. imprisonment for
pelio of not less than one nor more than
six months Hence, when the heroes Of
the late revolution were hailed up In the
court next morning each was found guilty
and fined $50, with order of imprison-
ment until the fine was paid.
The humiliation and ridicule they SUI
fered from the newspapers and public were
almost more than they could bear. Two
of them caught the editor of one of tho
papers on the street and beat him Until
he was a mass of bruises. The third Wis
tied a newspaper office and offered TO fight
the entire editorial force combined or sin
gle haHded. 1t was the most exciting
episode that has occurred during the in
tervept!on and is one of the principal
reasons why the liberal leaders .asist
upon the restoration of cock fighting and
the abolition of the Rural Guards.
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American banker. who was getting up the
game, and to the army officers who had
been invited, warning them of the discov-
cry of the pCEce and advising them to
keep out of peril. Most Of them accepted
his suggestion. but the host of the day re-
fused to recall his invitations and en-
dcavored to avoid interference by chang
ing the location to another suburban VII
lage
The audience was small, but select, and
although the distinguished insurgent gen.
erals were duly warned, they could not
conceive that cry one would interfere with
the sport Of such eminent and influential
pergons as themselves Therefore. when
the Rural Guards lit on the place and
everybody else took to his heels, the three
generals declined to retreat and allowed
themselves to be arrested. Much to their
surprise and humiliation, however the
Rural Guards treated them exactly as they
would have treated ordinary human beings.
They were showed into a patrol wagon,
hurried to the jail and locked up.
Gov. Magoon Kept Aloof.
Raging with indignation they appealed to
Gov Magoon for Intervention. but he
knew what had happened and kept away
from the telephone. During the night the
police Judge before whom tho culprits
would be called in the morning. rushed to
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their energy on one occasion caused both
amusement and chagrin.
A popular American banker in Havana,
desiring to promote the pleasure of several
prominent visitors from the United States
and officers of the United States army
stationed here, arranged for a secret cock
fight in one of the suburbs of the city, to
which he also invited Gen. Jose Miguel
Gomez. the leader of the liberal party;
Gen. Pine Guerra, former notorious
gambler, who was one of the leaders of
the late instruction, and now struts
around as hero, and Gen. Monteguedo
another distinguished patriot, who occu-
pies a prominent seat in the councils of
the liberal party and has the rank of gen.
eral acquired in the late insurrection. AL
though the arrangements were made with
the greatest discretion, the Rural Guards
discovered what was going on, reported to
Major Slocum and inquired whether they
should ignore or stop the game. In Span
ish times and under the republic the police
We're not allowed to interfere with the
diversions of public men, but Major
Slocum, who had been teaching his guards
the true doctrines of democracy, could not
destroy their faith and demoralize their
principles for single cock fight Hence
he told them to act precisely as they would
If the particir ants were humble peasants.
At the same time he telephoned to the
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What is Said of Cock Fighting.

But cock lighting is an entirely different
proposition. 1T has always been the ma
tional amusement in Cuba, IN the Philip
pines, and until Gen. Woods order forbid
ding it issued there was contest in
every village, every plantation and in
regular cock pits In the cities every Sun
day afternoon. All classes of the population
participated and 1t was NOT considered i'm
moral or undignified for priest to attend.
the game and sport his own chickens
There are arguments on both sides Army
officers III the interior say that plantation
and village cock lighting does no harm and
ought to be tolera ted but they contend that
4 should not be licensed and that Gen
Woods order should not be revoked so
that the authorities can reserve the power
20 interfere II necessary when il IS peing
carried TOO far. They say that IL keeps
dissolute people out of worse mischief and
affords diversion that promotes content
ment among the negro plantation hands
Many planters also advocate it. They de-
clare that II promotes industry. and advise
the restoration of the lottery for similar
reasons. but those reasons are entirely sell
fish. They do not AFFECT the moral or
pecuniary welfare of the laborer. but 1t is
claimed that planter can get more work
out of his men II they are afforded add
uonal opportunities TO spend their money.
Cuban labOTerS never ANYTHING They
need very little. They never buy homes of
their own; they live In miserable shacks
without comforts or conveniences of any
klllu anu tiIclT tlOiilHk COSTS only tribe:
Formerly, IL is said, a plantation hand
would work six days in the week TO earn
money enough to support his family sup
oily his own wants. buy lottery tickets and
have something left to gamble away at the
cock fight on Sunday. Nowadays since
the era OF moral reform enforced by Gen
Wood, he has been able TO earn enough 10
support his family in four days and there
Is no reason for him to work the other
Two. There are no lottery tickets to buy
and no cock fights TO bet on. hence he has
40 use for his surplus earnings.
Other planters assert that the cruel sport
is demoralizing: that II promotes drunken
ness and quarreling and causes idleness
instead of industry. They say that the
men begin to bet on their chickens Fri
day; they quit work Saturday because of
the excitement. attend the fights Sunday
and need all day Monday TO get over the
effe It's OF thair drunkenness and disspa-
ton.
Mr.. Rafael Mo2tOro, whom / esteem as
the ablest and wisest man In Cuba. says:
II am unaiterably opposed to lotteries,
cock lighting. bull batting and other cruel
and demoralizing sports. They debase
the people. increase their improvidence.
provoke disorder and !ntemperance, and
are altogether bad. I sincerely hope that
Secretary Taft will not yield TO their
opportunities and take step back
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Liberal Leaders Humiliated.

The controversy over cock fighting is not
without its humor. Not long ago there was
very sensational episode in which several
of the greatest generals and proudest poll
ticians in Cuba were deeply Inundated
The sport is carried on secretly, more or
less throughout the islands; in the patios of
residences, in villages and on the planta-
lions, and Major slocam of the United States
army, who has command of the country
police known as the Rural Guards, has
given strict orders to prevent 1t as far as
possible. His men have been vigilant and
active and have earned commentator, but
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thirty times they are defeated and their OPP
ponents are declared winners. Immense
sums are staked on favorites. The pro-
prietors receive 10 per cent commission on
all bets and 1t is claimed that their reve-
nues are now $4,000 a month.
1t is very true, as Gen. Gomez asserts
that Gen. Wood not ony licensed. but en-
couraged the game, and that he did accept
a silver service from the most disreputable
gamblers in Havana for granting them a
monopoly of jail alai. 1t is the most la
inevitable incident in our relations with
Cuba.