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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-25
MHIcH7

aA1e was the worst boy In school.
Not naturally depraved, not purpose.
" bad, he was of nervous tempera.
1zlent and could no harm help his tidgety
ways than he could help the color of
ais eyes, which were honestly blue and
lnisehievous
He was frail because of lack of nour.
1shment In his short life he had gone
days with just enough to eat to keep
bin from starving. In his dismal home
short dinners were the rule rather than
the exception.
The boy was also Ill clad. He wore
no anderclothing. and winter was com.
ang on. Patched knee trousers, thin
istockings with holes in them. a ragged
SHIRT and wornout jacket constituted
ali his clothing.
After repeated warnings the teacher
lad caught him In a fragrant violation
.s2f the rules. The little rebel was de.
Cant. His code of battle was that Of
che street arab-to give or take punish
snent and ahlde the issue.
The teacher took him to the hall for
punishment.
Used TO the sings and arrows of out.
rageous fortune. the boy did not finch
nor cry nor beg Ellis philosophy of
endurance under the inevitable was pa
thetic. It told sud history Of suffer
ing beyond his years.
Something of this feeling erept into
the teachers mind, and suddenly a
wave of pity for the poor child crept
over her.
She looked at the frail body and the
ahreadbare garments She thought of
The hard life Of the street and Of the
sipTeless home of the little fellow. She
thought of The lads starved soul
Tears sprang TO her eyes.
The boy was waiting with patient
submission. And then he saw the tears
in teachers" eyes. 1t broke up the
fountains Of tenderness somewhere III
1is nature, and his own eyes grew
moist. Two big tears slid down his
aDailid cheeks.
And then the teacher. still thinking
OF how the poor boy had never had
aair chance In life, In an impulse OF
tenderness put her arms around the
rtid, aud they cried together.
Well.
Which, think you, was the better
way for teacher and for boy--the rod
or the tears. the law of Sinai or the
Jaw Of the Nazarene?
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-25
Troubles Of the Anelsnts.

Alexander the Great was signing be.
cause there were no more worlds to
conquer.
But, your majesty" cried his cour-
tiers, you'll have trouble enough in
benevolently assimilating the various
peoples you have conquered on this
planet"
Forcibly impressed by this idea.
which had not occurred to him. Alex
ander frightened up and began to lay
plans for enlarging the regular army.
Chicago Tribune.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-25
A Technical Objection.

Miss SMOOTH think women ought
to be voters, don't you?
Miss Sharp-There is one objection
to their being party voters.
Miss Smooth--What is that?
Miss Sharp So many of them are
such cats they would be bound to
scratch the ticket Baltimore Ameri-
can.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-25
The Practical Instinct.

"Why do SO many children dislike
mental arithmetic?' said one school
teacher.
II suppose replied the other. its
because boy resents figuring on how
many imaginary apples a mythical
John has instead of getting out after
some real ones Of his own Washing.
ton Star.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-25
CouIdn,t If They Would.

The landlord of the Eagle Temper
anee hotel. Yaptown, and the cigar
drummer were looking at man nail
ing DO Not Spit on the Sidewalk"
sign to nearby lamppost.
sheer waste Nv time an money
putin up them there signs in this here
town absolutely no need NV them of
ALL" remarked the landlord disdain-
fully.
Why how's that?" asked the drum.
mer in astonishment.
why retorted the landlord. this
here fool town went dry over year
agoP-Illustrated Sunday Magazine.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-25
CHAR
OF LOUISIANA OKLAHOMA GAS.
OIL AND DEVELOPMENT co.

State of Louisiana. Parish of Caddo
Before me, the undersigned notary pub
lie, duly commissioned and sworn, ap-
peared H, II. Simpson, a resident of
Dallas, Texas; Charles l. Schmidt, a
resident of indianapolis, Indiana; Z. d.
Walshe. resident of Shreveport, La. !;
c. w. Besancon, a resident of New Or
leans, Louisiana, and T. E. Barbour, a
resident of Muskogee, Oklahoma, who
declared to me that they do hereby form
themselves into a corporation under the
laws of the State of Louisiana, under
the stipulations hereinafter set out, to-
wit.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-25
HOW no oRDER pATrEpns
corder.

The patterns described in the Caucas-
ian are supplied by the May Manton
Pattern Company 132 West Twenty
seventh street, New York City, and the
Masonic Temple, Chicago, I'll. Forward
orders with names and address to the
New York or Chicago Office of the COM
pany, with 6 cents for each pattern. and
they will be mailed direct.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-25
Cool.

She drew back with a gesture of
scorn. You are cumberer of the
EARTH" she exclaimed.
"Ha. ha.' he laughed.
How cool you arer the beautiful
girl protested, moved to a species of
admiration in spite of herself.
"Oh, yes--a sort eff cueumberer of
the earth, you know" be retorted.-
Puck.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-25
M TIE RocRIES.
The call of the mountains.
Do Won know that eallg

. no NslEF OF tLIU IIIUtEE3IfIIIIss-
DO yon know that call?
The mountains are such staneh
friends. II you VIII let them they win
rock your troubled spirit into peace
even as your mother Graded yonf
sahyhood
THE mountains.
almost sheer upward towers a
sasigI1t Of some 500 feet. But there Is
trail. Stout boots. stout stick. stout
1sart-1n you are expert will take you
up IN lifteen minutes TO the plate
where the real mountains begin.
Up, up. up. II you feel 1t is isnpossi
BIO to take another step minutes
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-25
7 suppose you witnessed the
Explained.

"Am to understand. Them asked a
disappointed poet as the editor handed
back his latest productions, 'that you
don't like my yerses?''
Yes; don't think much
"Ah. you don't think: see! That
explains itl'-Detroit News.Tribune.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-25
ARTICLE |.

The name of this corporation shall be
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OIL, GAS
AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY ;
it shall have the right to enjoy success
sion for ninety-fine years, with the right
to contract, sue and be sued, and to
hold, purchase, ltase, sell and hypothe-
cate property, real and personal; its
domieile shalf be in the City of S9reve
port, and all citation and other legal pro-
cess shall be made on its president, or in
his absence, at the office Of the conpany
according to law
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-25
Friend lndaad.

Harker-I hear your friend Markley
was married last night.
Parker--Yes.
Harker-I suppose you witnessed the
ceremony.
Parker-Not /. | don't believe in
gloating over a friends misfortune
Chicago News.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-25
ARTICLE II.

: The objects for which this corpora
ton is organized and the nature of the
business to be carried on by it are here
by declared to be to drill and explore
lands in the State of Louisiana and else
where, as the board of directors may see
proper, for oil, gas and other minerals
to lease, buy and sell mineral lands, and
generally to do and perform all things
which are necessary in the business Of
buying and selling mineral lands and of
developing lands for oil, gas and other
minerals.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-25
ARTICLE III.

The capital stock Of this corporation
is hereby fixed in the sum of two hun
dred and fifty thousand ($2so,ooooo)
dollars, divided into 100000 shares OF
one ($1.oo) dollar each, and said corpor-
alton is authorized to commence business
whenever 5000 shares of its capital stock
is subscribed and paid for in full; the
capital stock of said corporation shall be
paid for i'll cash, or its equivalent.
ARTICLE ".
The corporate powers Of this corpora
ton shall be vested in a board of direc-
tors, consisting of not less than five nor
more than twelve stockholders, who
shall be elected annually on the second
Tuesday in January. The first board of
directors is declared to be Fl. II. Sifnp-
son, Charles L. Schmidt, c. w. Besan-
con, E. D. Walshe and T. E. Harbour.
who shall serve until their successors
are elected. The officers of this COM
pany shall be president, vice president,
secretary and treasurer, and the first Of
said officers are declared to be Fl. H.
Simpson, president; c. L. Schmidt, vice
president; E. D. Walshe, secretary treas
urer. Said officers shall be elected an
nually on said second Tuesday in IAN
uary. A majority of the stock shalt elect
the directors, and in all elections or pro-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-28
PARTNERS

TP in Chico normal school princi-
] pal named Van LieW was on trial
- for huggng one of his pretty girl
pupils and for conduct in other ways
unbecoming a man in his position, as
alleged by his accusers. A little side
light of the trial happens to be as i'm
portant in its significance as the show
in the main tent
1t appears from the testimony that
when the governor wanted to find out
something about Van Liew before pro-
ceeding with an open investigation,
he sent a detective to Chico. Now, it
happens that the state has no detec-
tives. and it became necessary for
Governor Gillett to select the man.
Where did he get him? In one of the
numerous detective agencies in San
Francisco or Los Angeles? Or in tho
police department of one of the nu-
nerous cities of the state?
No, the governor employed a detec-
tive of the Southern Pacific railroad.
The evidence at the trial brought out
this fact. We mention the incident
with the simple comment that the more
one looks into the thing the harder it
seems to find the line that marks the
separation of corporation and common
wealth. How long have the railroad
detectives been working also for the
state. and do they draw double pay
or how do the PAL tners arrange the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-28
GETTING RESULTS

4 IMPORTANT concessions voluntarily
made by the Huntington street
a railway companies were announcei
by Chairman Lissner of the public
utilities commission yesterday. Be
points an early effort is promised to
relieve the serious congestion Of car
traffic on Main street and the rush
hour crowding on other lines.
The spirit that marked the attitude
of the companies, as revealed in the
less worthy of praise than the atten-
tion to duty and to the public welfare,
the discretion. and the effective
methods of the body of which Mr.. Liss-
ner is the head. The public utilities
commission is proving its great worth
to the community by concrete results,
obtained with no bluster or spread
eagle methods. 1t is bringing the
public service corpora tions to see their
true relation and responsibility to the
public and still fostering the good feel
ing between them that all good citi-
zens wish for.
The Los Angeles commission is be
coming a model for other cities to
copy. What it has already accom-
plished in its short existence with so
little ostentation makes up one of the
brightest plumcs of the Good Govern
ment administration, without whose
earnest support, it is needless to point
out, it could not do such effective
work
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-28

sion of the land grant for the entire
projected line of the road.
1t was immensely valuable land,
comprising some of the best timber
on the continent. In 1882, the time
limit for completing the road had long
expired so that, except for the line
from Sacramento to Redding, the
grant was forfeited To reclaim 1t an
act of congress was necessary. Every
attempt to pass such an act and to re-
turn to the public the land justly be-
longing thereto was defeated. The
four gentlemen had no amore right to
the land than they had to the WASH
ington monument, but they held it
nevertheless, and reaped millions from
it.
UNITED STATES SENATE COMES TO
s. P's ASSISTANCE
In the election of 1882 Barclay Hen
ley, young attorney of Santa Rosa.
who had studied the land grant
question, was nominated for con-
gress on a platform demanding that
the forfeited land grants should be
returned to the public domain. On
this issue he was elected and promptly
introduced bills for the reclamation of
the forfeited grants of the Roseville-
Portland line, for the reclamation Of
the forfeited land grabs of the North
ern Pacific-colossal grabs that have
somehow escaped the attention they
deserve-and some other bills having
similar objects. The congenial four
bitterly fought the bill that sought to
make them disgorge, bringing down
Judge Dillon and General Roger A.
Pryor from New York to argue in their
behalf before the public lands COM
mittee of the house, and filling the
Hobbies with their hired men.
But Mr.. Henley had absorbed the
whole subject and he made of it so
clean and mastery an exposition that
he carried the house with him. After
a time the only active opposition he
encountered was from the late Thomas
B. Reed Of Maine, then speaker of the
house. When the vote came all the
bills were passed by large majorities.
They went next to the senate.
There they were promptly buried, nor
could any argument appeal ever resur-
rect them.
The four congenial gentlemen re-
manned in possession of the land to
today reflected in the capitalization of
the Southern Pacific railroad that the
public pays eXorbitant freight and pas
senger rates to support.
This must be q cheerful thought to all Of
First are cheated of millions upon
millions of acres of our lands, rich in those
natural resources are anxious to
value of the land that has been stolen from
us; then the value Of this land increases
with the increase of population, 1t becomes
additional capital on which to base addi-
tional rates to lay additional burdens upon
the ultimate consumers, 85 per cent of whom
are very poor. The finite mind seems In
capable of n grander concept.
Ito Be Continued)
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-28
BRYAN'S DEFEAT

Ut is a bit too soon for his enemies
to gloat over the final downfall
Il of William j. Bryan because the
state convention of his party turned
down his plank favoring county local
option. The intrepid leader has
hitherto been counted out several
times by his opponents but he has a
way quite distressing to them of bob
bing UP serenely in the next fight.
County option in Nebraska is local
issue which does not necessarily meas
ure a mans following. The cities fear
county option because it may impose
dryness upon them against their will.
Omaha, Lincoln and other big towns
may be strong enough in a state con-
vention to carry their point, and still
not strong enough to swing the state,
The Republican convention has in
dorsed county option. If that party
should carry the state and thus prove
Mr.. Bryan TO have been right, it is
apparent that instead of having been
put down and out he will have
been strengthened and indorsed.
Mr.. Bryan is too able man, too
doughty a fighter to be so easily dis
missed as a factor in his party, either
in state or nation. Election day will
be the one on which to pass opinions
in the matter.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-28
BELIEVES PESTHoUsE LESS
DANGEROUS THAN GRAVEYARD

Editor Herald: a pest house is al
ways abhorrent, and highly objection
able in a thickly settled neighborhood,
but a graveyard, though more familiar
to us, is even more Objectionable for
the reason that a pest house may be
disinfected, removed or destroyed,
while q graveyard cannot De got rid of
in any such manner. Once established,
the graveyard is practically immovable.
| The two are alike in most respects,
and almost equally are menaces to the
health, happiness and welfare of peO-
pie There is this difference between
them: The danger from the pest house
is only temporary, while the menace of
the graveyard continues as long as
dead human bodies continue to decay.
The greatest danger from either the
pest house or graveyard occurs in time
OF pestilence, or of the prevalence of
some infectious disease, as smallpox,
cholera, leprosy, yellow fever scarleti-
ma, the bubonic or some other form of
plague. The graveyard eXerts it's evil
influence when no pestilence prevails.
and for this it Is more to be deprecated
than the pest house. The malaria from
the graveyard is transmitted in water
underground, as we'll as through the
air, while that from the pest house Is
carried through the air alone.
further reason why the burying-
ground is mor3 Objectionable than the
pest house is that the handling Of dead
human bodies is more abhorrent than
caring for the living, as in pest house.
OBSERVER.
Los Angeles Ju1v 26
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-28

Among the passenger rates that had
been reduced by the merchants roads
competition was the passenger rate
from San F'r-Ecisco to Fresno. This
had been $500; 1t was cut to $S75,
When the merchants road was sold
the old rate of $500 to Fresno was re-
stored. This was in March, 1900. E.
b. Edison brought suit to test under the
constitution the legality of the re-
stored rate, and the state board of
railroad commissioners Joined him.
In the superior court Judge George
II. Bahrs gave judgment for Edison and
the commissioners. The Southern Pa
cific appealed, and on May %, 1901,
the supreme court reversed Judge
Bahrs and remanded the case for a
new trial.
On the trial in the lower court in July,
1904. Judge Frank ii. Kerrigan decided in
favor of the railroad company. holding that
the rate had never been reduced.
The ground for this decision is
worth noting. 1t seems that when the
Southern Pacific reduced the rate to
Fresno to $3.75, 1t issued new form
of ticket good only for the day of
issue. The old style of ticket, price
$3.50, and good for six months, 1t still
kept on sale. Nobody ever wanted or
bought the old style of ticket at $3.50,
but 1t could be bought If desired.
Hence, in Judge Kerrigans opinion,
there had been no reduction OF rates.
JUDGE CRITICISEs THE CONSTITUTION
Edison and the commissioners now
appealed. Chief Justice Beatty wrote
the decision of the supreme court,
which entirely upheld the railroad
company. and affirmed the validity OF
the $3.50 charge-not because the rate
had not been lowered, but because
it had not been lowered for the pur-
pose of competition within the
proper construction of the constltu-
ton Judge Mcfarland, an asso-
ciate Judge of the supreme court, and
previously a Southern Pacific attorney,
concurred with Chief Justice Beatty,
but added an even stronger opinion OF
his own, in which he fiercely attacked
section 20 of article XII of the con-
stitution, speaking of it as containing
"a drastic and ruinous penalty"
One might think that on such
grounds any law anywhere could be
upset at any time.
Incidentally, 1t may be interesting to note
that Judge Bahrs was retired to private life
at the end of his term and Judge kerrigan
was elevated to the appellate court
Among the choice presents the four
gentlemen of Sacramento Huntington,
Crocker, Stanford and Hopkins) gath
cred from the United States was a
land grant for building railroad from
Roseville eighteen miles north OF Sac
ramento. to Portland, ore. This grant
was of every alternate twenty square
miles (ten on each side of the track
conditioned upon the building of the
road the entire distance. The con-
genial four built only as far as Red
ding. 152 miles, but they took possess
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-28
Extravaganza of the Ancients

that among the courses were 1000 diff
ferent sorts of fish and 1000 varieties
of fowl. And one may fairly conclude
that Julius Caesar knew how to do
hi lself well'' in this matter, judging
from the fact that at the dinner with
which he celebrated his initial tri-
umph the lampreys alone cost him not
far short of 1000 pounds. 1t is said,
however that the equivalent of some
thing like 100000 pounds sterling
were spent by Apicius Coellus during
his lifetime, merely in continual tick
ling of his palate, 1t was the latter
gentleman, it will be remembered, who
committed suicide when his extrava-
gance in eating and drinking and in
other directions had reduced his in
come to $4,000 pounds year, a sum on
which he imagined he could not be
happy while living.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-28

From time immemorial the pleasures
of the dinner table have been among
the chief weaknesses of mankind, and
wealthy epicures have not hesitated to
spend large sums on single meals for
themselves and a select and limited
circle of friends. For instance, going
back to the dim and distant past
there are on record some nice little re-
pasts indulged in by Roman gour-
mands. Aelius Verus gave ban
ouet to a dozen guests, which must
have been a sight for gods and men,
seeing that it cos. if reckoned in our
money, over $4,000 pounds, while the
Emperor Vitellius once entertained his
brother Lucius to a smack" which
ran away witt. 5000 pounds less. This
latter feast could not have been
meager affair, when it Is considered
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-28


One moment we were eating ducks
eggs whose blackened, lime-fiaVored
whites indicated that their age was un-
impeachable; the next we were grap--
pling with sea weeds macaront, and
the slippery sharks fms thai eluded
our clumsily manipulated sticks. Now
we tackled-not without fear-un-
known meats and vegetables cooked IN
sugar fresh shrimps, mushrooms from
MONGOLIA Young bamboo sprouts, pig
cons eggs, and a hundred different for
eign-tasting messes. Then clean plates
we're given to us, and bowls of sickly
pink soup, sweet potato and Indian
corn cakes of dusky hue were set be-
fore each one. These were only creVlce
tighter norton of the repast Now
came the real substantial meal, where
in every dish had an accompaniment
of smaller ones. containing graves,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-28
MYSTERIES of a Chinese Banquet
LONDON Express

ExpresS
ETC., in which to dip the morsel taken
from the central bowl.
There was stewed duck cooked with
out salt. roast sucking pig, forcemeat
balls and chicken; there were soups of
birds nest, of mushroom, of vegetables
and of sea slugs. There was grllled
fresh-water fish, which, according to
custom, was helped from the top side
only, for the Chinese remembers his
servant. And, finally, at the conclu-
sion the inevitable small bowl of rice
and rice water was set before each
person.
After some three hours, with a feel
ing of thankfulness that all was over,
pipes, cigarettes and tea were served,
and it seemed to me that the delicious
aroma which rose from the latter
soothed our senses and almost dis
PEELED the antipathy that had been
growing on us for all things Chinese.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-28
Teaching Good Manners in Shops
(Bonln Correspondence London Expressly

ce London Expressly
school is to improve business, as shown
by the fact that the cost of conducting
it is borne by the shopkeepers them
selves, who are convinced that we'll
trained and polished shop assistants
can sell more goods to customers than
the young men and women who have
received no special instruction in this
branch of their activity.
Glasses o the new school are to be
held in the evening to enable work.
ing shop ass stants to attend. The
municipal authorities of Berlin have
lent the Association OF Shopkeepers
rooms for the school free of cost, thus
Iarting an official character to the
movement. which is exciting keen in
tetrest.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-28
CAUSE OF INDUSTRIAL
WOMAN HAS CHAMPION

Editor Herald: Reading One Wom-
ans letter of Tuesday recalls sharply
to my mind what 1 have been eager
to broach any time for two years,
namely: the beneiiCent influence of
mans chivalry toward woman in the
industrial field. We appeal to the con-
tented, coddled woman of the wealthy
or of the "quite comfortably fixed"
class to bear US out in our contention
that we cover the whole ground in
cherishing and protecting our woman
folk. But what of the large class of
working women whom our chivalry al
lows-or, rather, compels-to work ten
hours a day. while the mans labor-day
is only nine hOurs-and often but eight.
| know one woman who. after her ten
hour day. has the comfortable, pro-
tected. cherished experience six days
a week of coming home to a cold and
lonely supper, because mans chiValry
has so ordered her life that she must
work one hour longer every day than
the man. and she unselishly forbids
that others should wait supper for her.
This is no singular case.
ONE MAN.
ne Angeles Tu1Y 26.