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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01

Il1S is nelIleT religious tract uot
a Sunday school story, but tale OF
today. illustrating these two things:
What liquor will do.
What religion can do.
Edwin f. Field. eldest son of the
late Cyrus w Field. layer of the At
lantic cable, was the confidant of his
father and destined for his business
successor. He had his town house on
Fifth avenue, steam yacht. stables,
etc.. and was a member of the most
exclusive set.
Then drink got grip on him.
Slowly, but surely, he lost bis proper
ty and sank into the underworld
For ten years the name OF Edwin F..
Field was not mentioned in his old
circles save as 1t was mentioned to
point a moral or to unadorn tale.
Apparently Field was forever lost in
the depths of the slurns
Then one night about a year ago. in
a kind of drunken stapor, what was
left Of him slouched into the historic
mission made famous by jerry Nc
Auley.
Either coincidently or providential-
" q famous and wealthy architect
who was interested in the mission
work happened in. He recognized in
Field his old childhood friend and
playmate. - --''. --s~'-A.-s
The architect took hold of the bat
k..~a t,..,ok4.S5 xx,uo@.t, @ha v.avnuo ~ NJ
a man. and helped him to his feet.
The outcome Of it all was this: Cloth
ed and In his right mind. Field stayed
in the mission several weeks. He
came to realize that religion was the
only thing that could give him hope.
For more than year be has lived
soberly and righteously.
TIe would not go back to his old life
even were that possible. Many a
day" he says, Il have stood in win.
dow on Broadway and signaled to my
yacht to take me up the Hudson to
my old home. But ] have no regrets
l have found what wealth could moi
give me-peace Of mind and freedom
from Appetite t.s.,s..., a~...ss
Religion did that.
And so this man who bears an hon,
ored name Is day clerk in Chatham
square lodging house. He refuses tc
take dollar that he does not earn
and regards bis present job as a step
ping stone to something better-the
best proof that his manhood has beer
restored.
Evidently there is one force stronger
than the invisible spirit Of wine Chris
tianity.
1t may be true, as alleged, that the
religion of many persons is nothing
but a doctrine or q sentiment or 9
form of worship. but with the fellow
In the depths 1t appears as the only
lever that can pry him out OF his muck
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01

son. During the service scores OF
b!anketed braves stood by in silence.
Wolf Bear, subchief of the Arapa
hoe tribe. delivered the discourse al
the grave of Leo Wolf Bear.
The young brave got drunk, lay
down on the railroad track to sleep
and was killed.
In the course of his pathetic address
the venerable chief declared:
The white mans whisky killed my
only SON
Continuing, he said:
You see. young men of the Arapa-
hoes, what the white mans whisky
will do. don't blame the white man
for drinking his own whisky. but /
hope the young men and women Of
my tribe will have more Judgment
than their paleface brethren and alb
stain from tirewater.
Certainly, if sincerity is the essence
of oratory, Wolf Bear is eloquent.
And if restrained feeling is a neces-
sary element of successful public
speech thei this fathers stern repres-
sion of his natural emotion at the
grave of his son is the height of elo-
quent self control.
The warning sounded by the old In
dian is pathetic and forceful in many
ways.
The white mans whisky has been
the great bane ofs-the red mans his
tory. The educated appetite for fire
water" has lost the American Indian
many bargain: it has caused him to
commit many crimes and has been ut
the bottom of much of his race degen-
eracy.
As Wolf Bear well says, the Indian
is the last person who should tamper
with the white mans liquor.
Moreover
Did you note in the old mans warn.
ing his appeal to the women as well
as the men of his tribe? That was No
accident of speech.
AS If to push the race down the NOR
al toboggan slide more rapidly the In
dian women. both young and old, are
becoming slaves to an appetite fol
! strong drink.
And 1t is melancholy fact that q
like tendency among the white women
is becoming so general as to be alarm
| ing.
| But here is our moral:
| If the American Indian, with less
worth of inherited character, less gain
ed aseendehcy of civilization, cannot
afford to indulge in whisky as bev
erage without bringing upon himself {
gertrude of woe. where shall tbs
white man APPEAR
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01
THE WY or SUICIDE.

Suicide Is said to be increasing.
An eminent authority declares that
suicide is as frequent today in this
country as in the early days Of the
Roman empire.
Why is it?
Ordinarily we say Of the unfortunate
who rashly shutfies OF this mortal coil,
"The poor fellow must have been in
sane"
Which In sense is correct But
When you come to think Of it the
wonder is there are not more suicides.
Complex conditions In our large
cities tend to lower physical and men
taI vitality. Encouragement and fail
ure lead to mental detection and dis
satisfaction.
However
1t safely may be stated that at the
bottom the greatest source of suicide
is sELFISHNESs
mo man liveth to himself" No man
can live a normal. healthful life Of
himself, by himself and for himself.
The self conferred person can only
travel in a circle within himself. He
gets nowhere.
Contrariwise, the man who lives out
side OF self, who lives in others. sell
dom thinks of suicide. He is toe
much interested in the ongoing OF
things to stop and balance up his
personal ledger. He does not cry
about spilled milk. He is glad just to
| live.
Suicide is a. disease.
Its symptoms are moral and physical
degeneraey Weakened In mind OF
body. the would be suicide shuts him
self up IN his personal shell and
broods He has become soured. sore
dlsillusioned. Existence Is tiresome.
He concludes that life is not worth
while Having no outlet to the wider
world OF love and sympathy and help
fitness. be slowly rots in his own
mental detection.
Whereas
He who keeps In touch with the
world and loves It develops In himself
a moral and physical vitality. a cour
age and an optimism that meet fail
nre with fortitude and overcome it.
Some one has answered the query
lis life worth living2' BY the senten
tious statement:
''It all depends on the liver
Which is absolutely true In which
ever sense you take It.
II you center everything IN yourself
and fail. life is indeed an insipfd thing
and ali you need Is the courage to cut
your throat.
Therefore the secret of mental. NOR
81 and physical health and satisfaction
Is to-
Keep in love with life.
| Keep out OF yourself.
Get into the swim.
Get busy.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01
How He won Her.

He studied palmistry and was look
fng for chance to marry money.
They sat IN a corner behind big
bank Of ported plants. One Of her
hands was in his. The little marks
that time Is so fond of distributing had
begun to be visible around the corners
Of her eyes. She was still a pretty
woman, however, and, notwfthstand-
ing the fact that she had buried one
husband and divorced another, was in.
ciined to believe that there might be a
good, lively romance in Der still He
bent low over the slim. soft hand. He
noticed the splendid rings upon her
fingers. He had heard of the fortune
that was at her disposal II hate to
tell you anything be said, that viii
be likely to make you feel unconfort.
able, but shall tell you what really
see?' Yes" she said, drawing o
quick breath. TELL me everything. /"
''It looks to me-" he went on. "as If a
great sorrow were in store for you. It
will come along about the time you are
twenty-seven years old" Two weeks
later the gossips were asking one an
other how in the world she had be-
come engaged upon such short ac-
quaintance. "Wlly. be can't be oger
thirty they declared. land she's at
least forty
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01
McENERY OF LOUISIANA
is as Good Republican as Aidrich Of
Rhode Island.

A clip from Golfers Weekly: Sam
uel Douglas McEnery represents Louis
lana in the United States Senate. He
is 72 years old. He fought in the Civil
War, and has held public Office, with
negligible intervals, steadily for thirty
years.
If Senator McEnery avowed himself
Republican, he could by no imagin-
able means come to the United States
Senate from Louisiana. There are
practically no Republicans in Louisiana
Taft got only 5000 votes in the State
compared to Bryan's $4,000
But McEnery is a Republican. He
has been as servile, as completely al
Aldrich's beck and cali as the most
stalwart of the Republican regulars
He has voted with Aldrich more con-
sistently than twenty of the Republicans
have. Only seven times out of sixty
seven ballots in all did Mr.. McEnery
cast his ballot against Aldrich These
seven may safely be presumed TO have
been unirnportant ballots when Aldrict
did not need him. Only seven anti
Aldrich votes out of sixty-seyen is Z
more uniformly Republican record thar
that of SO strong party man as Sen
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01

founded | Oefleve. If you VIII look
about xou, goa will iud many of your
fellow beings worse otf than you are
The suggestion doubtless went in
one ear and out the other"
Privation? Suffering?
Why this woman did not live in a
Jmmshackle tenement up rickety stairs
Her husband never came home from
the saloon around the corner with an
empty pocketbook and loaded with
LIQUOR to drive her heavy handed into
the streets.
The complaining woman did not 1--we
In q two room and closet apartment,
where you buy coal by the scuttleful,
bread by the half loaf and ice by the
pound.
She never haunted the butcher shops
late on Saturday night. when the very
poor do their pitiful marketing, to buy
for almost nothing what will not keep
until Monday-to purchase cheap
soup bone or a neck of mutton for g
penny or two.
No: this woman did not know.
She did not know that to find quar-
ter of a dollar for the slot of the gas
meter may become a financial prob
lem and rent day a real tragedy.
She never heard her children cry OF
| cold in winter nor moan of thirst in
| summer. She never had to partly
starve a living child to pay the funera
expenses of a dead one.
Perhaps my complainant would MOI
believe that thousands live this life
beeause-"one half the world does mo-
| know how the other half lives"
That's the point--we complain out o.
our ignorance.
We are all of us as illogical as thi:
! querulous woman.
| We compare our lots in life with thu
lots of the more fortunate, which ii
error.
Go along the streets. Open you
eyes. For one who is better of yol
can see a dozen who are worse of
| than you.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01


Joseph Graeser Of Chicago. secretary
OF a loan and building association.
stole from time to time $4,000 from
the association funds
He took small sums at first; but, hav-
Ing once crossed the line of honesty,
other thefts followed naturally or as
necessary act.
sobbing in bis cell at the police sta
ton, Graeser grew calm after time
and issued this note of warning to
young men:
do not think you can take small
amount from the till and pay It back.
You can't. Once started, your needs
become greater all the time until you
have no alternative but continued
theft. fight or suicide.
'sDo not live beyond your means.
Once in debt you will never, never get
out. Do not gamble. You are drawn
tighter and tighter into the toiss
do not spend money to pretend
what you are not. You get tripped up
in the end. to the shame Of yourself
and friends.
..Since took the first SIS out OF the
till literally lived In hell. took the
first money to play the ponies. took
more to win back what | lost. ! have
long known what the end would be.
and my waking hours have been oiled
with agony and my nights with horri-
Bile dreams.
Ms arrest came MS an actual re
lief
But SHINE and pity for his family Of
wife and two little children succeeded
the dread OF discovery.
MY wife Is standing BY me. She
ought not to- should have made her
happy. but did not 1t nearly KILLS me
to have her so faithful after what |
have done"
And so this man has alternated be,
tween purgatory and hades.
His weakness was in being good
fellow. 4 friend said: Come; let's go
to the track rye got tip" In the
desire to be sport and a good fel-
low he took the first money.
His is the old. old story-so old as to
be stereotyped.
It is the stun Of human tragedy
weayed into the warp Of human sim
ming. And out Of It was long ago
coined this essence OF human expert
ence, the divine dictun:
The soul that sinneth it shall die"
In the years of his apprehension,
shame and rernorse the soul of Joseph
Graeser died thousand deaths II
was spiritual suffering not mere phys
ical pain. The prison was relief.
The mans soul suffered.
Mans punishment of sinner is one
thing: God AInightv's IS quite another.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01
Heart toHeart
Talks.
BY EDWIN A. NYE.
BE A BOOSTER.

Do not be a ''knocker."
In the siege of Ladysmith during
the Boer war civilian was tried by
court martial and imprisoned because
he discouraged the soldiers who were
defending the city.
The man would go along the picket
line and say disheartening things to
the men on duty. He told them the
city was doomed. He secuted the sug-
gestion of relief.
The court martial did right to put
him in prison.
AT such time no one should be al
lowed to weaken the hearts of men.
1t is a pity every community cannot
put IN prison the man and woman who
90 about with gloomy faces and fore
holdings of failure ever upon their lips
The knocker is prophet of evil.
He sees only the dark side of every
cloud Temperamentally he cannot for
bear TO throw cold water on gener-
Gus enthusiasm and to dampen ardor
He throws over all things. like wet
blanket, his doubts and questionings
The knockef is q peSSlmlSt.
Instead of trying to lift some of the
burdens from the shoulders of toll the
lxnoeker puts on new burdens. In
stead of clearing the way for weary
feet he puts other obstacles in the
path Instead of easing the pains OF
the sufferer he helps to widen the
wounds.
The knocker is a discourager.
In every community men and women
are defending their beleaguered cities
of Ladysmith Many of them are hard
pressed. and some are on the point of
abject surrender.
He who goes along the picket line
uttering the disheartening prophecies
! of failure that make heavy the hearts
and palsy the hands of the brave de-
| tenders is nothing less than a traitor
1 to his race.
! Be a booster.
Men and women are brave and only
need the boosting word of encourage
ment and good cheer.
There is a subtle force In suggestion
Use it to boost. Suggest happiness
Talk happiness. Let happiness beam
from your face Make men see the
blue of the sky, the beauty of the
flower.
And so shall you leave behind you
everywhere trail of brightness
trail that shall grow brighter and
brighter into the perfect day and light
| vol1 to the Celestial CITY.
Be q booster
And many 8 weary. discouraged
picket on the outposts Of his life's
threatened citadel shall bless you and
take courage.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01
-couNT YouR BLESSINGS. /"
Said a woman of my acquaintanc,

Said woman of my acquaintance:
Last year my husband was Ill. and
now my daughter is threatened with
tuberculosis. Living expenses are
high, and my husbands salary Is only
$1,000 a year Why should we be put
into this world to.suffer 50? Life Is
really not worth living sometimes :
This woman lived IN her own home
and had never lacked FIR life's neces-
saries.
said to her. Id substance. but esi
IDENTIFY without effect:
The protieni Ct suffering. Ike hat
OF sin. is a.: I'D oas isEt To fNgey hat
one is laesie1s hcgnad others IS ii
- 1890 ~a
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01
SUCCESSION NOTICE.

No. I1,62o-Firs District Court, Par
ish of Caddo, State of Louisiana:
Succession of Mrs. Nina Utz Suth-
erin.
Notice is hereby given that w. K.
Sutherlin, administrator, has this day
filed his final account in said succession,
and unless opposition be made thereto
within the time specified by law the
same viii be duly homologated as
prayed for.
Witness the Honorables T. F. Bell
and A. J. Murff, judges of said court,
is 14th day of July 1909.
F. A LEONARD,
July IS. Clerk.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01
AN AGREEMENT REACHED.

From the capital at Washington it is
reported that an agreement on the tar
if has been reached by the Senate and
the House conferees. According to
the agreement hides and oil will be
placed on the free list Coal is to be
made dutiable at 45c a ton; the duty
on paper is to be $3.50 ton, while the
iron ore tariff is I5c and lumber in the
rough is to be taxed at $I.25 to $3.50
per 1000 feet In brief, when man
wants lumber to repair or build house
he will have to pay from SIPS to $2.oo
per thousand feet for a commodity
which should be free of exactions ex-
cept the actual cost thereof with reas-
enable profit for the manufacturer or
mill man. Lumber should be free, and
would be if it were not for the dictates
of the lumber trust.
1t is senseless to argue that a tariff
on lumber is necessary and that it IS
intended to exclude lumber from Can
ada and foreign countries and to pro-
tect the American product.
AS lumber is a necessity and in de-
mand for the building of houses and for
the many uses which are promotive OF
the welfare of the people, it should be
on the free list
If Canada can compete with the lunl-
Der produced in the United States, in
the interests of the masses such conf
petition should be encouraged.
This principle should apply to every
commodity of the people. Only lux
| uries should be made dutiable.
But this protection of the lumber OF
the United States is simply pretense'
and a giaring subterfuge. For instance,
the lumber of Canada could not conf
pete with the lumber from the South
ern mills for the reason that the pro-
ducts of such mills are distinct in quail
ity. The yellow pine of the South is as
different as the white pine of Canada
and ef the Northwest.
Should this tariff on lumber, as
fixed in the schedule of the conference,
prevail, it can be classed in no other
term than highway robbery. It will be
on the order of compelling the pay
ment of from $r.25 to $2.oo per 1000
feet for lumber according to quality
from the rough to the finished.
Who will be the beneficiary of this
robbery? The lumber combines.
| Equally outrageous is the duty on
paper, and there is no excuse for it ex-
cept that paper is controlled by trust.
Print paper should be free of duty, but
lie is not, and yet the conferees are
boastful of their concessions fixed at
/ SAYS per ton instead of 5000 per
| ton, and yet these iniquities of the
tariff are made possible by the Demo
Gratis who voted in support of the high
| tariff.
| And, seriously, what is called the
people have no cause for complaint
| AS a rule, the people are responsible
for the government which control:
them. Had the majority of the people
who voted at the presidential election
had elected Bryan and Democratic
Congress instead of Taft and major.
ity of the Republicans in Congress
there would have followed revision
of the tariff consistent with Demo
cratic principles and teachings which
would have operated to the welfare Of
the masses. There can be little relief
from Congress as long as the Republi-
cans are in the ascendency and domi.
nate the government.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01
THE OTHER SENATOR FROM
LOUISIANA.

Murphy ]. Fosters record differs
only slightly from that of McEnery.
Twenty times he voted with Aldrich,
and eighteen times refrained from vot-
ing-and to Aldrich silence is often as
serviceable as a vote. Did the people
of Louisiana intend to send two Repub-
1icans to the Senate?
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01

ator Burton of Ohio, or Senator Du
Pont of Delaware. McEnery voted
with Aldrich in favor of high tariff
on agricultural implements, and he was
the only Democrat who did. He was
the only Democrat who helped AldricfI
put the outrageous duty on cotton
gloves. Again he was alone among the
Democrats in voting with AldrIch in
favor of the duty on window glass.
Alone in all his party he helped Aldrich
postpone the vote on the income tax,
at one of the most critical points in
Aldrich's management. On twenty I'M
portant items of the tariff bill, Mem
cry was the only Democrat to vote with
Aldrich As the browning act he was
the only Democrat i'll the Senate who
voted in favor of Mr.. Aldrich's tariff
bill as a whole.
With no other record than his votes,
it is hard to escape the inference that
Senator McEnery's course is in pur-
suance of some bargain which reflects
credit neither on him nor his State.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01
INDEAN ELoOuENcE.

A striking spectacle was witnessed
near Lander. Wye. a few days ago
An aged Indian shief preached a pro-
hibitiOn sermon oger the eIaee Of his
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01
SIN sIIrFrRENC.

Don't be good fellow" The other
fellow gets the fun, and YOU pay the fid-
der Warning of Good Fellow.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-01
WHISKY VERSUS RELIGION.

This is neither a religious tract nor
a Sunday school story, but a tale OF
today. illustrating these two things:
1;r,1,,,. xr,;II 10
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-13

FREMONT. Neb., Sept. 12,-(special)-
J. M. Maher. one OF the best known farm
ers Of this vicinity. slipped while oiling q
windmill on his farm. one hand caught
in the gearing, and he was thus suspended
for some time until his calls for help
brought men to the rescue. AS his foot
slipped he reached out with one hand for
the big wheel, his hand caught in the
cogs, and the machinery whirled around,
with Mr.. Maher hanging by three fingers
at a distance Of sixty feet above the
ground. He was unable to get back to
the platform, and it was some time before
he could make anyone hear. His hand
was badly lacerated and a~mputation OF
three fingers may be necessary. He sus-
tanned no other injuries.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-13

Omaha Neb, evening.
September 2-Denyer, afternoon and even
ing.
COLORADO springs early afternoon Pueblo.
late afternoon.
September 23-Glenwood. Colo, brief morn
ing visit; Grand Junction, one hour; Mont
rose, afternoon and evening.
September A-Provo, Utah, afternoons
Salt Lake City, evening.
September 25-Sa Lake City.
September 28-salt Lake City, morning.:
ogden afternoon; Poctallo, Idaho, brief
visit.
Helena, afternoon.
September 2s-spokane, Wash. all day.
September 29-North Yakima, forenoon
Seattle, evening.
september 3~O-Seattle.
October l-seattle, morningi Tacoma, aft
eTnoon and evening.
October S-Poruand, Ore.
October F~Saeramento, Cal. evening,
October SOakland and Berkeley, Cal,
forenoon San Francisco, afternoon and
octo6er S-Merced, one hour enrOute to
October 7, 8 and Elm Yosemite valley.
October lO-Fresno, Cal, afternoon.
october IL and 2-Los Angeles, Cal.
October l3-Phoenix and Prescott, Aria,
October 1.-THE Grand canon.
October Albuquerque, N. u.
October lei Paso and Ciudad JuareE,
October H-san Antonio. Tex. evening.
OCTOBER lS-San Antonio, morning.
October 10. 20, 81 and 22-At ranch and In
Corpus Christi.
October 2a-Houston. Tex. forenoon;
October s5|st Louis. most of day; East
St Louis, brief afternoon visit; brief trip
d9S% cloh MissisSssipPi at p m
one hour, early morning; Cairo, Ill, one
hour at noon; Hickman, KY, one hour late
afternoon.
october 27-Memphis, Tenn, entire fore
noon; Helena, Ark, one hour, evening.
october 2-Nicksburg, Mlss., evening.
Octoper B-Natchez, Miss evening.
October 30 and 31-New Orleans.
November jackson, Miss, all day,
November AColumbus, Miss, afternoon;
Huntingdon Ala. evening.
November S-Birmingham, until ~ m.
November EMacon, Ca, f%orenooni
Savannah. evening.
Hovemb r 6~-savsnnah, forenoon; Charles
ton, evening.
November 6-CoIumbia, s, c.; Augusta,
evening.
November T-Augusta.
November 6-AuRusta to i'O D. m; Flor
enc, s. C., short yisit, evening.
November SAN day.
November i~0-RichWond, all day to 5 p
m; Washington AZ S:S5 .. m.