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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13

trate the weakness of the human
spirit:
Many Il man has buried his most
precious treasures in the coffin of his
wife or mother or child or friend
only to dig them up again.
1t is but natural
Things that We're pleasant to us
when she or he had lived are hateful
to US in the presence of death. In
the awful shadow of the miracle we
make remuneration and register our
vows.
Time passes.
The keen remorse is dulIed by the
passing of the years Sometimes in
our better moments the reproachful
faces of the dead are before us. Lest
we forget. their memory chastens and
their voices speak to US. But other
voices speak-ambition. fierce DESIRE
a new face or form of beauty.
1t is better so.
We are not traitors to the dead. The
poignancy of sorrow cannot always
last And the dead would not have it
SO. perhaps. not even if they could.
Anyway
1t is the way of the sons of men to
bury many precious things under a
coffin lid and then dig up the coffin.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
UNDER A COFFIN LID.

Have you read Hall Gaines story
of '.The Prodigal Son?'
Briefly it is this: The hero places his
musical composition in the coffin of
his dead wife, The act was one of
contrition. for he had badly treated
his wife. A few years passed. and he
forgot his remorse. In order to sup
port wanton woman he dug up the
coffin, got the manuscript and sold it
for money.
The story is founded on the real life
story of Rossetti, the poet-painter.
Rossetti married a beautiful young
girl whom he sadly neglected She
died-some say by her own hand
and Rossetti was stricken by remorse.
Just before the coffin lid was closed
he took the manuscript of his poems
and placed it between the cheek and
hair Of his child wife.
Time passed
Ressetti's friends Morris and Swim
burne attained distinction. and the
former himself began to banker for
fame. But his best work was buried
in the girl wife's grave. At the urgent
request of his friends Rossetti disin.
tered the body of his wife. recovered
the manuscript and published the
poems. And he won instant fame as
a poet.
Truth is indeed stranger than fe,
ton
Rut-
The story Of penitence swallowed "
bv ambition or Iust-does it not illus
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
BEwARE oE YOUR FRlENDsl

1t is easier to forgive ones enemies
than to forgive ones friends.
Is the statement startling?
In large sense it is true.
It is not so deficient as it might
seem to forgive your enemy. He CAR,
not hurt you very much. If he is Il
secret enemy he is handicapped, ana
If he is an open enemy what he does
or saws against you is discounted. be
cause it is known he is your enemy.
But your friends?
Why, men everywhere are beng
ruined by their friends.
If young man becomes drunkara
it is not because his enemies have be
guiled him. They do not get close
enough to him. 1t is his friend who
begs him to have Just one more.
1t is his friend who pokes fun at him
If he says he is ION the water wagon.
1t is his friend who eoaxes him to be
"a good fellow"
Beware of your friends!
What | mean is this: Be sure that
you are stronger to do the right thing
Ludu Is yOOI 1IACANs Al hC 40 ~AS
stronger he is likely to make a mix or
your life.
One must have friends of some sort.
And, rightly understood. friends may
be helpers. But If one viii let them
they may spoil all ones prospects,
and with the very best intentions.
Your enemy may tell people you are
Of no account, which will not harm
you if you are of account.
But your friend is likely to praise
you to your face and persuade you
that our lapses are only trivial things.
The fact is most successful men
| have won their way unaided and
alone. They have made themselves
strong by overcoming obstacles single
handed. And their greatest tempta-
lions have come to them not when
they were desperately struggling and
penniless. but afterward, when sue
cess had attracted friends.
Get friends? Yes, by all means.
| Only be careful they do not overin-
| fuence you or overpraise you or over
| persuade you. Many a man has been
spoiled by his fool friends"
And
If you are obliged to travel the sue
cessful way alone the hard road may
be the better one for you.
7
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
SHERIFFS SALE

No. I2,828-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La:
. w. Alfred vs.. ]. R. Ivey.
By virtue of writ of seizure and
sale to me issued in the above numbered
and entitled suit, from the Honorable
First Judicial District Court in and for
the Parish of Caddo, I have seized and
will offer for sale at public auction. for
cash according to law, without the bene-
fit of appraisement, during the legal
hours for sales, at the principal front
door of the court house of Caddo Par
ish, Louisiana, on
SATURDAY, MARCH rs. 1910.
All of the northeast quarter and north
east quarter of northwest quarter and
north half of north half of southeast
quarter of section Fl, township II north
ranged 10 west, with all the BUILDINGS
and improvements thereon.
The above property seized as tbe
property of the said defendant and 70
be offered for sale to satisfy the debt
specified in the said writ, say in the sum
of $500, with 8 per cent per annum in
terest thereon from the 3oth dav of
April 1908, until paid, together with :
per cent on said sum and interest a. A..
torney's fees, and all costs of suit
J. p, FLOURNOY.
Caucasian, Feb. II. sb.r;e
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
A COURAGEOUS YOUNG MAN.

The best work one can do is the
work one loves the best.
And it is one of the sad things of
this life that so many are obliged to
do the work they do not enjoy merely
for the sake of getting on in the
world.
But
None of us should be rightly content
until he is able to do the task that is
congenial to him. the work in which
he finds delight.
| know a young man who longed
above all things to own a small news
paper in which he could write his
own opinions and conceits free from
all dictation and supervision.
He was not able to save enough
from his reporters wages to buy even
small paper.
The young man took up the job of
soliciting orders on commission for a
shirt manufacturer He did not like
the work, but worked at it as a money
making device. 1t was means. not
an end
He made money and after a couple
of years was offered a FIVE years con-
tract at a large salary to continue the
business. handling a larger line.
He deliberately turned his back on
this comfortable offer of a certainty
to buy his village newspaper.
My young man cannot hope to make
out of his paper in five years what he
was offered for one year in the com
mercial line. but he is happy in his
newspaper work.
He is fitted for that work, and he
does good work because he takes joy
in his work
You say it takes courage for a man
to give up a certainty for something
he likes that is less remunerative?
No. 1t takes more courage to stay
at the uncongenial task.
The smart thing to do is not to give
up your uncongenial task. but to fin
ish it.
Get it out Of the way as quickly as
possible so that you will have left the
necessary time and opportunity to dc
your real work In the world.
Some of US may have to work at the
thing we do not wholly like or even
despise. We dream Of our castles
but we do not make our present Ia
bors a stairway to lead us to the TOP
Of the castle of our dreams. We lofteI
on the stairway. view the landscape
Ger and stop there
Young man
Do not be content with your present
labors if God Almighty intended you
to do something else. Do not rashly
quit your present labors. but make
them stepping stones.
If you are to find happiness in this
world at all you must find it in con
genial work
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
coMPENSATION.

Billie Burke. actress, gets $4,000
year.
Joyce Denner, a cousin of the ac-
tress, gets S700 year as an account
ant
If money made happiness the actress
would be just seventy-one times as
happy as the accountant.
But she is not.
Indeed. of the two. Joyce Denner is
the happier, and-what Is rare in the
girl-she knows it.
Here is her bit of philosophy:
Il would rather be in my shoes than
In Billie's. Every small enjoyment
that comes my way appreciate. Bill.
lie would be bored. i have the love
Hest kind of time wearing my two or
three party frocks, just because i
have so few | suppose"
Finei
There are few big enjoyments In
this world, and they don't last long.
Billie Burke may have a little thrill
sometimes when an audience rises to
her work. but Joyce Denner enjoys
the little things that come right along
al the time
The rich have so many diversions
they soon get tired of them. They
are surfeited. but not satisfied. Lux
uries get to be bore when you grow
accustomed to them.
How much, dc you think, would Mr.
Frohman's Billie Burke be willing to
give if she could have single thrill
of that keen appreciation that used to
come to her as a simple girl over little
things?
Joyce Denner is right.
OF course she must work hard and
plan and manage. but a new gown
means a lot to her It has cost her
so much, and she has SO few Of themi
Billie Burkes money comes easy,
and she has gowns galore and yacht
cruises and automobile splurges; but,
as the bright little cousin says. she is
ssbored.''
Joyce Denner has got Emerson's law
of compensation down to t-y-t"
Everything averages up. Billie
Rurke has her thousands, but is moi
happy; Joyce Denner has only hel
hare hundreds and is as blithe as q
bird over her homemade plumage and
as proud of her little opportunities as
she can be.
So many people belong to Joyce's
class AMI yearn to belong to Biliie's.
They have only their few hundreds
of annual income, and they are enviou'
.of those who have their thousands
They spoil their enjoyments Of the Lit
lie things that come to them by theil
useless repinings after the things thel
cannot have
Think over the Joyce Denner philos
ophy.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
EStopped.

He had the faith to move mountains.
but he made no practical use of it.
conditions are not what once they
were,' he remarked, in that connec-
ton, with a sigh.
He was thinking of the multiplied
ton of vested interests and how there
was hardly a mountain left which
could be moved without spelling the
view from somebody's hotel
"Of course there's no faith which
can't be enjoined by the federal
courts" he explained. with an even
deeper note of sadness.-Puck
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
Heart toHeart
Talks.
nIIR hawaii WORRIES.
By EDWIN A. NYE..

'aThis is the only thing thas bothers
-me just now. If could only see my
way through this would not worry
over anything"
Thus spoke friend Of mine.
More than most men he was usually
of a sunny disposition, He had a hne
family, good health, was successful
and stood high in the community.
Had I been asked to name one who
is more than ordinarily free from use
less repinlngs l should have named
him.
And here he was in a morbid, state
of mind over a small matter.
l began to tell him of some OF the
sorrows i had heard about that day
tragedies, heart wrenchings, the real
sgriefs that whiten mems hair and
SHORTEN their days.
Then / placed his little trouble by
che side of these sufferings.
He saw the point.
Had some real sorrow gripped his
heart his minor trouble would have
sualed into nothingBess. Yet he was
foolishly spending time and strength
on something that by comparison was
of small consequence.
Which was very human-like.
We select the brief anxieties and
magnify them into large Importance
rather than look for the brief joys to
magnify them into great happiness.
We fail to count our blessings.
We are too busy counting our griefs.
And vet we laugh a thousand times
where we cry once. The good things
that enrich our lives are at our ell
bows.
The world is so full of a number of things
Il am sure we should all be as happy as
kings
But we are not happy largely be-
cause of our point of view. We have
a foreboding of trouble, and trouble
comes. Is it not true that If we expect
the best it will also come to us?
Fate is keen eyed. If you smile into
her face as she passes by she is apt to
throw a smile over her shoulder at
you. If You knit your brows at her
she will scowl back at you. If you
weep she is a mighty cold comforter.
And she reserves her best encourage
ment for the brave.
''Care killed cat"
Worry kills men and women.
And most Of cur worries are over
matters that, measured by the side of
eweighty woes, are only trivial
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
An Honest Confession.

do you think you can take good
photograph Of me?" queried the wo-
man who had not even received hon
orable mention at a beauty show.
Pm sorry. madam" replied the pic
ture producer. but / shall have to
answer you in the negative Chicago
News.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
i REAL GENTLEMAN.

she was not pretty, nor smartiy
Messed nor especially attractive.
DirninutiVe in size and frayed out
with days hard work downtown,
she got on the street car with heavy
pasteboard laundry box under her
arm
a number of men were sitting, Dut
nons Of thon offered to give her q
aeat Yearly the little woman reach
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
Johnny Had the Goods.

Mother-Johnny. you said you'd been
to Sunday school?
Johnny with PARKWAY look)-Yes.
mamma.
Mother-How does it happen that
your hands smell of fish?
JOHNNY carried home the Sunday
school paper, and the outside page is
all about Jonah and the whale.-Wo-
mans Life
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
Called the Bluff.

"You are going to take long jour
ney," said the palmist.
"How could you tell" asked the
patron. mystified.
81 see it in your hand" replied the
palmist solemnly.
The patron contradicted her. "You
mean you see it in my pocket" he
said. 81 remember now that | have
two or three time cards sticking out
enough to be Buffalo Express.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
information.

PA, what's diapason?"
"Oh, it's some kind of a useless thing
that the doctors cut out of people
whenever they can get them coaxed
into hospital Don't bother me now.
I'm busy trying to figure when TO buy
Union Pacific Chicago Record-Her-
aid
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
Very Likely.

Patienee-W What is she doing with III,
the alimony she's getting?
Patrice-Oh, she's saving it SO sh..
can support another husOand.-Yon
kers Statesman.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
lust Like a Man.

Mr.. Kadley-How mannish she is!
Miss Bright-Isn't she, though?
Mr.. Kadley-Yes, and the funny part
of it is she thinks people admire her
for being so. She doesn't seem to see
that people are merely laughing at her
Miss Bright-Yes; she's mannish eveH
to that extent--Catholic Standard and
Times.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
A Thorouah course

do you think at the schools they
ought to teach girls to cook in ex-
tenso"
mo; they ought to teach 'em to cook
in the kitchen Baltimore American.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
A HoIdun.

'Does your wife object to you play
Ing poker?''
'sYes. until i promise to buy her a
new dress with my winnings Detroit
Free Press.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
CHARTER
OF THE AMELIA LAND COM
PANY

The State of Louisiana, Parish of
Caddo: Before me, the undersigned au-
thority, on this day came and appeared
the several persons whose names are
hereto subscribed, who declared that
they do hereby form corporation I'M
der the laws of the State of Louisiana,
for the objects and purposes and under
the stipulations following, to-wit:
ARTICLE l.
The objects and purposes for which
this corporation is organized are hereby
declared to be the purchase and sale OF
real estate and other property, with the
right of holding and disposing of same,
or of mortgaging, leasing or pledging
the same, as the directors of this cor
poration may see proper.
ARTICLE II.
The name and style of this corpora
ton shall be AMELIA LAND COM
PANY, an dunder its said name it shall
have power and authority to enjoy sue
cession for period of twenty-five
years.
ARTICLE III.
The don1icile of this corporation shall
be in the City of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, Louisiana; citation or other
legal notice shall be served on the pres
ident, or in his absence on the vice
president.
ARTICLE ".
The corporate power of this corpora
ton shall be vested in and exercised by
board of directors, composed Of three
stockholders, which said board shall BE-
elected annually by the stockholders or
the first Monday in January, beginning
with the year 1911. The officers of the
corporation shall be president, vice
president and secretary-treasurer. Ih'
officers shall be elected by the directors
and the first board of directors, who
shall serve until the first Monday il
January 1911, or until their successor!
shall have been elected, shall be ]. c
Foster, J. B. Foster and ]. A. Thigpen
with J. C. Foster as president, J. b
Foster as vice president and J. A. .Ihlg
pen as secretary treasurer. Notice o
stockholders meetings shall be given b.
ten days publication in any one of tn
newspapers published in the City o
i Shreveport, but such notice may b
waived by the stockholders. At al
stockholders meetings each share o
stock shall be entitled to one vote, an'
may be cast by the owner thereof or b,
proxy. Any vacancy in the board of di
rectors shall be filled by the remaining
! directors. Two directors shall constitut
quorum. The directors shall have ful
power and authority to adopt all rule
j and bylaws that may be necessary o
needfu1 in the management of the bust
ness of the corporation.
ARTICLE V.
The capital stock of this corporation
is hereby fixed at one hundred thousan
dollars, to be divided into 1000 share
of one hundred ($Ioo) dollars each
The stock may be issued either for cas-
or for its equivalent in property; pro
vided, however, that no stock shall b
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
Deadly.

Myer-Try one Of these long cigars
old man. They measure four to tho
yard.
oyer What yard-the graveyard p
New York Press.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
Attest:
J. C. PUGH.
SARA w. PRARCF.

S. L. HEROLD,
Notary Public.
The State of Louisiana, Parish of
Caddo: | certify that | have examined
the above and foregoing charter and
approve the same This 5th day of Feb
ruary A. D. 1910 J. NJ. FOSTER,
District Attorney First Judicial Dis
trict, Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
Endorsed: Filed and recorded Febru-
airy 8, 1910 S. o. WILLIAMS.
Deputy Clerk and ex-Oficio Deputy Re
corder.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo ::
| hereby certify that the above and fore
going is true and correct copy of the
original act, as the same now appears on
file and of record in my office. Given
under my hand and seal of Office this
9Th day of February 1910
S. o. WILLIAMS.
Deputy Clerk and ex-Oficio Deputy Re
corder I-8.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13
ARTICLE V.

The capital stock of this corporation
is hereby fixed at one hundred thousand
dollars, to be divided into 1000 shares
of one hundred ($Ioo) dollars each.
The stock may be issued either for cash
or for its equivalent in property; pro-
vided, however, that no stock shall be
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13

disposed of by the directors at less than
par. This corporation is authorized to
begin business when one hundred shares
of its capital stock shall have been sub
scribed and paid for in full.
ARTICLE VI.
This charter may be amended with
the consent of majority of the stock
holders, at a meeting called for such
purpose, after ten days notice in writing.
When this corporation is dissolved, its
affairs shall be liquidated by two coma
rnissioners, selected by the stockholm
ers, at meeting called for such par
pose.
Signed at my ofsce in the Parish Of
Caddo, on this the sth day of February
A. D. 1910.
]. C. FOSTER.
]. B. FOSTER.
T. A. THICPEN
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-25
TBINk M VAS LEON LING.
Kansas Railway shOp FOFemeR sa) EIsIe
~IEeI's slayer Worked IRdeF Them.

WELLINGTON. Kan, May o. Leon Ling.
alias William n. Leon, the Americanized
Chimes who 10 accused ~ having muir
dered Elsie Sigel. was in Wellington until
two months ago There are four men
herr who are positive II H. All are fore
men IN the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
shops here They say that Ling worked
under them Ling. ~ the foremen say.
was an engine wiper IN the shops and
worked here several weeks The dis
oovery Of his identity was made by Al
Raglan. ono ~ tho foremen. Raglan was
IN a Jury panel and while in the sheriff .
lsflca happened n pick up a photograph
~ Ling sent Out by the New York police
Strtlck Immediately by the resemblance
between the picture and Chinese who
worked IN the shops Ragan caused the
picture o. be shown 10 J. 7. Chiffon. ".
ID. Russell and J =. Turner. also fOremen
IN the shops. Al declared az Once that
the picture was that Of the engine wiper.
The New York pollen were communi-
rated with and a fuller description n
the suspected slayer was sent here. All
the foremen say that the description con
frmed their belief that the man who
worked under them was Ling. The Chit
nesa quit work here about two months
ago and said he was going 10 Chicago
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-25
MuBE SHE TRIED Suicide.
PhOned the Druggist she Was Going 10,
hat the Doctor IL seeptlcal.

Having bought some chlorOform hni-
ment at the drug store Of A. Goodman
at Eighty-ninth street and Columbus
avenue yesterday morning. Mrs. Margaret
Cottrell returned 90 her apartment. at
10 West Eighty ninth street. and called
up the druggist on the telephone She
said she was going % kill herself and
asked.
How much of that chloroform inimsnt
do you have 70 take2-
Hoping 10 proven a suicide the druggist
replied
THAT stun wouldn't kill you II you
took a gallon Of IT, You might just a.
well take a glass Of water
Then the woman hung up the receiver.
Goodman told Policeman Pross. PrOss
called up the telephone central and found
out the address from which Mrs. COttrell
had telephOnet. Then he summoned an
ambulance from the J. Hood Wright
Hospital and hurried 10 the house.
Opening the unlocked door Of Mrs
Cottrells apartment the policeman found
her wing on the bed DR. Wardner
arrived a minute later After using the
stomach pump he took the woman TO the
J. Hood Wright Hospital
In the hospital Mrs. C0ttrell told Or.
We'll that she had taken the ohoIorofOrm
IMMINENT and some sulphate Of Kino mixed
with lead which she had purchased o
the preceding day Dr. We'll had his
doubts. Two hours later the woman
was able % leave the hospital. DR. We'll
was Of the opinion that she had wanted
10 scare some one. From the hospital
she called IN . person on the telerhone
and gave him a lecture.
Charged before Magistrate O'ConnoF
in tho West Side police court in the
afternoon with having attempted 10 take
her life, Mrs. Cottrell said she had been
melancholy since divorcing her husband
IN GlenwOOd Springs. Col. four years ago.
She was held in 500 hail for trial.
A reporter who called at the Eighty
ninth street house In the afternoon found
q man who said he was Mrs. COttrelfs
husband He said she had telephoned
him from the hospital 70 tell him that he
would find the cause for her action between
the MATTRESSES Of the bed. He looked
and found the card and letterhead Of an
actress whose folks his family had known
In Boston
He had met the actress casually q
month ago, he said. and she had given
him the card and paper hearing her 1d-
dress. He had pushed them n the bottom
Of a drawer in the dresser and forgotten
them. He said bis wife had no cause
for jealousy.
by occupation said the man. 4 am
a sandhog.'