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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-18
Her Intention.

Miss Mcknight may not be your
intention to offend. but doesn't 1t &C.
cur to you that your treatment OF me
is rather calculated to make us bad
friends?
Miss Cutting (coolly)-NO. 1 had the
hope that it would make us good enc
mies-Catholic Standard and Times.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-18

where his new pigs were. He wanted
to look them over,
''The farmer somehow didn't catch
his name, but he showed Paderewski
his prize pigs, and he pointed out with
a good deal Of pride the fifty that had
just been sold.
Fine pigs, them he said heartily.
as fine lot of pigs as you'll see in q
months travel. I've just sold 'em, BY
the way, to Mr.. Paderewski, the IA
nous pig dealer from abroad"
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-18
sARToRIAL MATTERS.

coIored Collars Are New, but Not So
Becoming as White.
Tie newest collar is of chiffon in the
color Of the bodice, finished at the top
with roll of velvet. In many cases
collars of this kind surmount white
yokes. The colored collar is not SO be-
coming as the white one that We have
been wearing. But everybody with a
memory of the fickleness Of fashion
come.
Strings serving no practical purposes
are a feature in millinery. They are
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-18
3aAered as second class matter February
II, 1904, at the postofice at Shreve-
port, La, under the Act of Congress
of March 81, 1879.
Subscription Price $2.oo a year.

4u1liS4aod three times a week, on Sun
day morning. and Tuesday and Thurs
day afternoons, at 5I7 Edwards ST.,
~ The Caucasian 4 Carney Printing
Company, Limited, Projectors.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-18
Her constitutional Riaht,

Her Constitutional Right.
Gladys - So you've sent Herbert
about his business. have you?
Aaybelle-Yes. But l have since
used the-er-recau ON him.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-18
MRS. A. A. LYON
Beautiful Christian Character-ResidedI
in Shreveport-Of Prominent Family.

In the Caucasian a few days ago
there was brief report of the death Of
Mrs. A. A. Lyon, which occurred at
her home in Nashville, Tenn, ON April
8. The Tennesseean referring to her
death says:
The circumstances surrounding the
death Of this splendid Christian woman
are peculiarly sad. Her death resulted
from. burns received ON Wednesday
evening, her clothes having been ignited
from turpentine which had been set on
FIRE BY match carclessly thrown on the
floor where the fluid had been spilled.
Although Mrs. Lyon exhibited rare
presence of mind in trying to save her
self after her clothing had been ignited,
the burns were so severe that she never
rallied from the shock, and at 7:15
o'clock yesterday morning she passed
away, surrounded by the devoted men,
bers of her family and those who loved
her best.
Mrs. Lyon was native of Troy,
Miss, and was the daughter of one of
the most prominent planters in that sec
ton When she was quite young, the
family moved to Grenada, Miss, where
she spent her girlhood, and where she
was married on December 16, 1874, to
DR.. A. A. Lyon.
For short period after their mar
riage Dr. and Mrs. Lyon lived at Col
umbrs, Miss, after which they moved
to Shreveport, La, where they made
their. home for twenty years.
DR. Lyon and his family came to
Nashville to reside in September 1895,
and since that time they have been val
ued and prominent members of Nash
ville's best circles.
Mrs. Lyon had all the graces of per-
son and the beautiful traits of character
and the culture and refinement that 60
to make up the ideal woman, and she
was idolized by her family, and Lowell
and esteemed by all who knew her.
She was a devout Christian, being
member of the Woodland Street Presby-
terrain church. For some time she taught
in the Sunday school of this church, and
to the end of her beautiful Christian life
she was true in principle and in prac-
tice to the teachings of the church she
loved so we'll.
In the women's societies of the
churches and in all work that pertained
to missionary work she was leading
spirit, and her whole life was an in
spiration and benediction.
Mrs. Lyon is survived by her hus-
band, DR.. A. A. Lyon; sons, State Land
Commissioner Prof A. A Lyon, prin-
cipal of the South Highland public
schools in Birmingham; VIM. Winter
Lyon, of the Cumberland Telephone &
Telegraph Company; James A. Lyon,
with the Berry-DeMoville Company;
and one daughter, Miss Adelaide Lyon,
who graduated from Vanderbilt last
year with high honors and is this year
a teacher in the high school.
She leaves also three sisters, Mrs.
A. p Roame, Miss Blanche Winter,
Mrs. NJ E. Nicholson, and two broth
ers, w. H. Nutter and Samuel Elliott.
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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-18
One Point Settled.

They say the new Mrs. R1ngs Is
very good plain cook"
II don't know about the excellence
Of the cookery. but she's plain all
Post.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

he placed in his fathers room, fasten-
ing II against the wall facing the safe
and joining 1t to the iron railing by
two fine wires laid along the base
board Of the room. Obviously when.
ever the gate was opened the queer
timepiece was to perform some sort of
inexpiicable service. After that Capt
COPY never opened the iron gate with.
out first stopping the clock.
Time ran or. and In the latter part
of a certain June. woman. dressed in
foreign fashion. came to land from
q steamer In the harbor. BY chance
Almar saw her as she descended the
gang-plank with other debouching pas.
sengers.
This strange fact Almar finally whis.
pered to his father. He received no ex-
PLANTATION. but from that hour Capt
COPY grew gravely Ill and restless.
Drugs did him no good. and presently
man who. report said. wrought won
ders by physical magnetism. came
daily to the COPY dwelling to soothe
and strengthen the invalid. Dr. carlo
was the name he bore. q dark-haired
man of powerful mold. and with eyes
that seemed to pass their CLEAN into
the very souls OF others. His infiu-
ence over Capt. COPY seemed helpful.
but Almar felt a faint distrust and
fear OF him. Once he met the doctor
with the strange lady walking In a by
street.
At last hot night In August was
made memorable with tragedy. Dawn
looked In at Capt. Coply's window and
saw him lying on his he'd. murdered
All that had passed In the apartment
can never De known. but this much
seems reasonably clear.
Near the hour of midnight a hui
man figure glided into the room and
crept to the sleeper's side: a blow was
struck. there was n long clutch Of
fingers on . bursting threat. then
silence. Presently h window shutter
was softly opened. hands reached out
and drew into the room two insulated
wires. then the lattice WAS closed and
eurtained: hands gresped the wires In
rubber.faced gloves and drew them
across the floor to the gate before the
safe. Upon opening the gate the flg-
ure started and turned . white face
toward the clock. A faint whirring
and clicking could be heard in the
timepiece. but tho gIoved hands fell
briskly 70 work.
Ono Of IL wires vas made fast to
The side Of the safe. the other
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05
WESTERN tlliDl's SPLENDID
CROP YIELD FOR 1903.
AMERICANS PRoFtTED LARGELY
AND SEND BACK 8ATlsFAc-
TORY REPORTS.

The census branch Of the Depart
ment OF Agriculture, Ottawa. Canada,
has completed its returns Of the show
inE OF Western CanadAs grain yield
for 1908, and the reports make very
interesting reading. In the three prov.
iEcas OF Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, which comprise what may be
known as Central Canada, there was a
total wheat yield Of about 107, 000, 900
bushels, worth 10 the farmer about
SIS. 600, 900: In addition to this the oat,
barley and fax crops were worth an
other $35,00O.OO0 Letters have been
received from many or the settlers
from the United States. From these,
that Of Rev. Oscar L. King has been
selected. He lives in the vicinity Of
Edmonton, Alberta, and what he says
will be Of interest to those who con.
template moving to Central Canada.
Every line Of the letter Is interesting.
Those who wish for the particulars as
to how to secure homesteads and pre-
emptions should write any Canadian
Government agent. Mr.. King says:
Mr.. M. v. McInnnes, Detroit. Mich
igan: am well satisfied with AL.
berta. This country offers excellent
opportunities for anyone to make .
good home for himself and family
II he is willing to put up with a few
hard knocks for the first two or three
years. But II Is worth q few hard
knocks to get a 160-acre farm Of rich.
productive land with no mortgage on
1t. This province is well fitted for
grains, stock raising and dairying. We
have found the climate generally
healthful, more healthful than Mich
igan. and although the thermometer
sometimes drops to 40 degrees below
zero In winter, yet we do not seem to
feel that temperature any more than
We did 5 or 10 degrees below zero In
Michigan. We like the winters.
THE Government takes great inter
est in the education Of the people and
quickly aids the settlers in establish
ing schools where they are called for.
The schools. though graded differently
than those In the States, are efficient
and advancing. Our great drawback
has been the limited and inadequate
railway facilities. but new roads are
being rapidly built and many more
are projected through various parts
Of the province. The new policy Of
the Alberta government to construct
a great many branch lines throughout
the province will greatly help all parts
OF the country. II those new settlers
who have to 60 back considerable
distance from existing railroads and
towns to find free homesteads will
but locate along the line Of project
ed railroad they will In two or three
years be near both town and railroad.
When / first came to this country
three and half years ago the home
stead took was IS miles from rail-
road town; now there Is a railroad Is
miles north, another Is miles south.
and third is being built through my
neighborhood.
Il think the prairie country or coun.
try that Is partly prairie offers much
better opportunities than the hilly
portions"
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05
SAD TALE OF MANY coLoas.
Incident Reminds One Of the inside Of
Rainbow.

BENJAMIN Black. white. aged 80. q
pugilist. and Joseph White. black.
aged rs. sailor. each loved and
claimed clay-banE maiden who
lived in Purple alley. Black, white,
and White. black. met In the gray
glimmer of a summer morn.
At sight OF Black, who was white
White. who was black. turned white
with anger. while Black. who was
white. turned black. They passed un.
complimentary remarks. White said
Blacks liver was white. while Black
asseverated tnat Whites near. was
black.
Then White. blsca. mixed with
Black. white. ard the circumambient
air became blue Black. white, rammed
White. black. amidships. while White.
black, Tented with his left and landed
with his right on the Black. white.
nose.
White. who wished his color would
fade. and Black. who was specifically
white. now c,inshsd. and they both fell
into the gutter. where the air before
the light one grew dark and the dark
one saw radiatinE streaks Of Hight. Al
this crisis Policeman Brown hove In
sight and dragged the inharmonious
combination Of colors on to be tried
before Judge Red. and the whole sarie-
gated AFFAIR Was written up In lurid
style BY green reporter On . yellow
neWspaper.-N. =. Herald.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05
Allnar coply's
Clock

~ ALvAn MILTON KERR

Vt8sonAt
In the evening OF Almar Coply's
twenty-first birthday his father called
him into his sleeping room, and.
opening = safe which stood In an al
cove with an iron gate and railing be.
fore II. revealed to the youth that
which made him gasp with amaze
Ment.
Seven bags OF gold. each marked
SO. 900, lay in the vault. daggers were
there with gem incrusted handles.
bracelets md rings that blaxed with
precious stones. and In one corner a
curious jewe. box bound In silver.
threaded cloth.
This box Capt. COPY drew forth and
opened warily in the flare OF the gas
light
All the bottom OF the box SHIN
mered and famed with loose dia-
monds. and upon these lay q minia-
ture picture OF woman, dark-eyed.
beautiful. and set round with scroll
Of gems. The face was strange to
Almar, and he stared at It and the
cleaning hoard In speechless wonder.
To think" said the man, hoarsely,
Il gathered all this wealth for your
mother. brought 1t home that we
might live in ease the balance OF our
lives. But I had scarcely set foot on
shore when they told me she was
dead! God, what blow that was! l
could follow the sea no more" Sud.
den tears ran down his checks and
glanced among the quivering gems
Where and how did you get all
this?" stammered Almar.
In India, most of It: not all by
fair means. yet none at the cost Of
blood"
He thrust the box into the safe and
shut and locked the iron door.
when am gone all will be yours.
my son: 1t win not be long"
From that night. Almar changed:
upon his young shoulders descended a
burden OF mystery. trouble and care.
Since his mothers death his father
had grown broken and aged; the man
seemed haunted with fear.
One day Almar brought home from
the polytechnic school curious clock,
mechanism Of his own devising. This
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

She Threw Him Over Twice.
why have you thrown over Mr..
Pitcoe?"
"Oh, / could never marry q man
with crooked leg"
What made his leg crooked?"
Il ran over 1t with my motor car"
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05
Whales BY the Hundred.

The whaler Of st. Lawrence has
broken the worlds record by capiur-
ing 3IS whales in one season. includ.
ing 24l humpbacks. IS sulphur bot.
toms, 10 Enbacks and one sperr
whale.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

RED, weak. Weary, WafePy Eyes
Relieved by Murine Eye Remedy. Com
pounded by Experienced Physicians. Con-
forms 10 Pure Food and Drug LAWS. Mn-
rine Doesn't Smart. Soothes Eye Pain.
Try Murine In Your EYES. At Druggists.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

Occasionally a woman goes to
church for the purpose OF ascertain
ing how many Of her neighbors don't.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

Its easy 10 see the blessings of poyert
through the eyes of a millionaire.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

Two-thirds of the words in the ay-
erage school girls letters are ad-
jectives.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

WE FAY ia-Ifr FOR COWHIDEs.
y. ". Hide a Fur Co. Minneapolls MINI
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

ana misery. 6QvlSe Ill SUFFERING
women TO take Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable COMPOUND" -MRs. EMMA
WHEATON, Vienna, w. Va
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harm
full drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number Of actual cures
of female diseases of any similar medi-
cine in the country, and thousands Of
voluntary testimonials are on file in
the Pinkham laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, from women who have been
cured from ain sst every form Of
female complaints, inflammation, ul-
ceration, displacements, fibrOid tumors.
irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
indigestion and nervous prostration.
Every such suffering woman owes 1t to
herself to give Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound q trial
II you would like special advice
about your case write cOn1iden-
tial letter to Mrs. Pinkham, Mt
Lynn, Mass. Her advice Ii free,
and always helpful.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

When girl yawis lis mp TO the young
man To get IN the home stretch.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

Even a wise man can't tell when a
woman's hat Is on straight
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

ONLY ONE .HROMO QUININEs
That Is LAXATIVE BROMo ouiNISR IooH I'm
the signature of = w. GROVE. Used the World
ose- 70 Cure . Cold In One Day. &c.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

II man asks a candid opinion of n
friend. and gels IL. IL makes him mad.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

For relieving Coughs. Asthma and Bron-
chitis Browns Bronchial Troches'' are
effective. Is cents box. Samples free.
John ]. Brown & Son. Boston, MGss.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

We buy cream Write desk No ] for prtc~a
The Crescent Creamery Co.. ST. PAUL
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

We realize that the world is grow
ing better when 1t begins to sit up
and look our way.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

When a woman pretends TO be ig-
norant she Is playing deep game.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05
OWES
FER,
b "
a
LIFE TO
lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Vienna, w. Va feel that owe
the last ten years Of my life to Lydia
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

The recording angel probably
doesn't pay any attention to the lies
a man tells when he Ia in love.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

WE BUY CREAM GET OUR PRICE
Miller & Holmes, st. Paul. MINI.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05

II a girl In In love with n Young man
she can't see any one else In crowd
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-05
Western Canada Inc Peasant Wilmer
''Tho Last Best VI est

The government Of
Canada now gives
TO every actual sct-
tier l6O acres Of
wheat.6FOwin6
land free and an
aas.f
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-13
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Charlie Blakesley calls attention to
the fact that the state board Of health
is doing all in its power to make fly
swatting the king of indoor sports.
1t is Charlie Blakesley's idea that
Cottonwood Falls ought to cut some
Ice in the Kansas State Baseball league
because it is fortunate to have a
catcher by the name of Freeze.
The Ottawa Herald remarks that the
new state optometry board is having
some trouble to get opticians and the
eye specialists over the state to under
stand what the title of the office means.
What lot of unrighteousness must
have prevailed at Mcpherson? A re-
port of the workings of Evangelist
Oliver states that his visit to that
town some time ago netted 1,021 CON
versions"
The Garden City Telegram can al
ways be found lending it's mighty voice
to all worthy crusades, and so there is
nothing strange in the fact that it has
come out strongly for the extermina-
ton of the dandelions.
Now isn't it real mean of the Kan
sas City Star to comment on the fact
that Ex-Governor Hoch is lecturing in
Nebraska on the beauties of prohibit
ton by saying that he has little to say
in his discourse as to his failure to en-
force the law during his first term +?
Speaking in calm and deliberate fash
ion of a certain United States senator,
the Junction City Sentinel says: THE
senator is one of three things, or maybe
all three things, a sensational seeker
after notoriety, partisan SO pref
udiced as to be disgusting, or ---
fool"
Wellington is awful proud over the
fact that the enumeration of its in
habitants by the assessors shows an
increase in the population of the town
over what it was a year ago, and 1t
wasn't necessary to count in the 200
Mexicans who might possibly be re-
garded as citizens, either.
They are telling this story at Doni-
phan: The assessor lately appeared
at Doniphan. Boyd Koch, who was
married last fall. had never been as
sessed, and Herman Koch, the young
mans father, put up job on him.
When the assessor called on Boyd, he
told him that wives were being assess
ed this year. How much do husbands
usually value their wives" Boyd asked.
From eight to sixteen hundred dol
lars" the assessor replied. We'll,
said Boyd. put mine down at sixteen
hundred dollars. and If anyone returns
a higher valuation. let me know; /
want to raise mine.' The young man
appreciates his wife, all right.-Troy
Chief
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-13
QUAKER fluctuations.
LFrom the Philadelphia Record

[From the Philadelphia Record-1
Any man can succeed in being a
failure.
The preacher with the largest face
generally delivers the longest sermons.
Call a fellow a bird and he will
never stop to consider that you might
think him a jay.
The only people who really seem to
enjoy living close to nature are those
who don't have to.
A man may saw wood and say moth
ing, but, Of course, it isn't a woman
place to saw wood.
Some people are born foolish and
some acquire foolishness- The rest
claim to have their foohshpess thrust
upon them
Blobbs-'In the old days the doc
tors used to bleed a man for every
thing that allied him." Slobbs-' They
still do, only in a different way"
He Cautiously would you
say if should ask you to marry me?';
She (likewise cautiously)-'If you
knew what would say would you ask
me?"
wigwag-"Good evening, Mrs. Guz-
zler. Is Mr.. Guzzler in?'' Mrs Guz-
zler-"He has just gone down to the
corner for a little exercise" Wigway
II think I'll join him. In which
er-corner does he take his exercise? 2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-13
WOMEN IN WHITE PLAGUE WAR.

One million women, representing
cities, towns, villages and isolated ru-
raj settlements in every section of the
country, are today enlisted in a cam
paign against tuberculosis, according
| to a statement issued by the National
Association for the Study and Proven
ton of tuberculosis. In legislatures,
in congress at Washington, in society
gatherings, in churches and clubs,
through speaking and writing ev-
cry possible way, the women of the
country are persistently fighting con-
sumption.
With an organization established in
every state of the country, under the
direction of the General Federation of
Women's clubs, and with associated
clubs in Alaska, the Hawaiian Is
lands, Porto Rico and the Canal zone,
the women of the country have enter
ed a systematic crusade to carry the
message of the prevention and cure of
tuberculosis into every American
home.
The organization of the women's
anti-tuberculosis campaign was def
nitely begun in st. Paul in 1905, at
the time of the biennial meeting of
clubs, when that body sanctioned a
resolution "to make the prevention and
cure of tuberculosis a subject of
study" and made Mrs. Rufus P. Will
liams, of Cambridge, Massachusetts,.
chairman of the new department. call
ed the Health Department of the Cen
eral Federation of Women's clubs"
For the purpose of extending the cam
paign into the many cities and towns
of the country, the central commit
tee makes every local and state club
under it's jurisdiction responsible for
the work in its own community.
The executive board of the Mothers
Congress has also recently entered in
to the crusade, and has prepared cir
culars and literature on the preven-
ton Of consumption, which are being
circulated broadcast throughout the
country. In every city where the con-
gress is represented, an advisory
board of local physicians is being
formed to help educate mothers about
tuberculosis. Other national organi-
cations of women have given favorable
consideration to the campaign against
tuberculosis.
And the fight is not only being car
ried on by women organized in clubs
and by the wealthy women, but by the
working women in the general labor
movement against tuberculosis, and by
the women who are battling hand in
hand with the disease in connection
with the religions and philanthropic
organizations of the country. The
special tuberculosis nurse. too. is a re-
cent addition to the Aghting force en-
listed against consumption, and al
most all of these are women. No
city campaign is complete today with
out such nurse, and on this account
hundreds of them are devoting their
lives in unselfsh service for the re-
lief of human suffering.