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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24
MISS MAY BArEMAN.

ees in any bank. SO there will be no
talk about women ousting men from
professions by taking lower wages.
I'VE hope to provide special advan-
tages for women. In the first place.
they can open a checking account with
a deposit of only e. Heretofore the
large deposits required by nearly all
other banks have barred that privilege
to women of limited means. Interest
will be paid at the rate of 211a per cent
year on the amount standing to the
credit Of the account where mini
mum balance of E10 has been main
tanned for six months.
'There viii be no fees exacted for
the handling OF small accounts. That
will be a convenience for the girl with
a small dress allowance who wants a
check book. and think it is only when
a girl possesses a check book that she
really understands the use and value
OF money" MARY DALE.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24
IN THE MAKING.

In one of George McDonald's books
is this scrap of conversation:
81 wonder why God made me- said
Mrs. Faber bitterly I'm sure / don't
know where was the use of making
| me-"
Perhaps not much yet" replied Dor
othy; ''but, then, he hasn't done with
you yet. He is making you now, and
you don't like it."
We are in the making.
What we shall be doth not yet ap-
pear. because we are only in the proc
ess of completion.
It is difficult, looking into the loom
and seeing but the one side, to proph-
esy what the pattern of the perfected
weaving will show.
Nor can one judge the picture by the
! first few strokes of the artist on his
canvas.
Nor can one sense the favor of the
fruit until it is ripened.
If we could get these facts firmly
fixed in our minds we could bear with
better grace our painful experiences.
better understand the meaning of our
failures and better content ourselves III
the midst of imperfections.
The fruit is not yet ripe The pic
ture is not painted. The weaving Is
not completed.
In every life is a design. Although
We may not be able to see the pattern.
the Weaver knows. No life is acct
dental or without ultimate purpose
There is a guiding power. 1t is rough
heWiDg and shaping and polishing and
perfecting. even as the potter shapes
the clay.
Take your failures. Every man of
middle life. looking back on the way by
which be came. easily can see that his
failures oftentimes were blessings in
disguise.
At the time the failures were griev-
Gus, but out Of them came new purpose
and new opportunity. Out, Of the fur
mace of trial came the pure gold Of
character. Therefore let us be patient
Oh, know it is hard sometimes to
get our lessons! And sometimes the
tears must fall on the pages of the
book But we have not yet mastered our
lessons. We are still under tuteiage.
Wait! Life is a serial story, COM
pick, full of plot and action, full of
pain and blessing and ito be contin-
ued." The final chapter has not yet
been written
Wait and trust Most miserable is
he who must stand and wait with hope
less heart There is an outcome. never
fear. God reigns.- You may sometimes
strain your eyes in vain. but
"He has not done with you yet"
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24
Heart toHeart
Talks.
A MORNING GIRL WIFE.
BY EDWIN AWE.


Young Mr.. Knox, son, of the secre-
Gary of state. ran away with young
girl who worked for living and mar
ried her.
The couple eloped because the par
ents Of the young man objected to his
marrying the girl
Well
"A great fuss was made about the
matter 1t was not expected the young
man would select somebody "below the
salt" Some girl of aristocratic breed
ing from upper Fifth avenue or New
port would have filed the bill.
Meantime Knox junior has gone to
work to support his wife.
sGood!
IF some such thing did not happen
eonce in awhile in 1.-The upper circles of
sour American life we might begin to
zseel as if a part of our population had
Cost its red blood,
In all likelihood the Knox family will
not need to go very far back in its his
tory to find wives and mothers who
worked for a living.
The most of US are now on earth and
in the enjoyment of reasonable health
because of working fathers and moth
ers, and we are proud of it!
Mr. Knox, ST., himself is an able
man. No doubt about that But he got
mis- healthy body and his keen brain
from some strong, wide hipped, sensi-
Die and hardworking grandmother, a
grandmother either on this or the other
side of the sea.
And the boys brain came in a like
way. as shown by his strength of pur-
pose and sturdy independence.
And this is true:
You will find the mothers or grand
mothers of the future presidents and
state secretaries and successful bust
ness men among the working girls In
the kitchens and shops and fields Quite
certainly you will not find them In the
congenial society of lap dogs or smok-
ling cigarettes.
Good for young Knox!
To say nothing about his being in
love with his girl, an ali sufficient rea-
son for marrying her. he may be thank
!ful to her all the days of his life be-
cause to get her he had to become a
self respecting, self supporting work
Ger, owing no man anything save good
will.
And he will get in his working girl
wife no doubt just what he wants-a
devoted, loyal. loving wife and good
wn0fhpr s,f HIS children
What more could man want in 9
wife?
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24

when they have wandered in the inter-
walls of your daily task:
Thoughts are things" What you
think each day determines what you
are. By some mysterious fashioning
your thoughts body forth what you
are to be.
Today have your thoughts taken you
up or down? Have you dragged your
mind through sewers of foulness,
slime pits of evil, or has it been fixed
on whatsoever things are true and
honest and lovely and of good report?
And. moreover. what thoughts Of
yours have you contributed to the
worlds great treasure house?
You say you are but humble body
and your thoughts may not be written
down for the world to read and bene-
fit?
But think a moment! Have you this
day put a single one of your clean,
gracious, uplifting suggestions into
somebody's mind?
The power of suggestion is tremen-
dous A good or evil thought well
planted in the heart of your friend is
mental dynamite. And if that sug
gestion goes from the heart Of your
friend to the heart of his friend, who
knows the end of it and the influence
of it?
What have you done today?
Have you lodged some duty or lolled
slothfully, loafer-hke, through precious
hours? Have you passed by some OPP
portunity to be a minister of some
good deed?
Or maybe you have manfully work
ed at some uncongenial task. You
have revived the dropping soul of some
man or woman or child by some word
of kindness, some deed of mercy. You
have put your shoulder under some
brothers load and lifted
If so, 'at eventide it shall be light"
Retrospect is good for us. 1t is the
only means by which we may measure
progress or retreat. He who, ashamed
Of his record. is afraid to look back
ward will never get onward.
The day is done.
What has been its history?
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24
sour Mill

Most housewives do pot know that
sour milk is a preseryative Even oys-
tiers will keep in it for some time A
piece of beefsteak was found to be per-
fectly fresh after an immersion of four
or five months. Professor Ellie Metch-
nikoff of the Pasteur institute, Paris.
explains that the sugar in the milk en-
courages the growth of certain germs
which form Tactic acid This acid de-
stroys the germs Of putrefaction. For
this reason sour milk and buttermilk
are often beneficial IN aiimentary dis
orders which are accompanied by bac-
terial infection. Sweet milk will not
serve because the sugar is promptly
assimilated and the friendly germs are
without sustenance. On the other
hand, the casein Of the milk remains,
and in it the bacilli Of decay multiply
It is they which cause the class of
symptoms known rs biliausness.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24
A BANK FOR -
= WOMEN ONLY
1t Has Just Been Started In Lon
don With Miss May Bateman
as President-She Tells About
Her Work.

VERY one knows how difficult
ID it is for the woman with a
small allowance to manage it
; and keep track of where it
goes. She is debarred from the use of a
check book. which would simplify mat
tiers. because it takes certain amount
of money TO open an account of this
sort.
If she carries the money around
with her she spends more than she
should and, what is more. fritters
away the whole amount in small
ways until finally she does not know
where it is all gone. Englishwomen
have found solution. They have
started a woman's bank in London.
No man may enter there, but any wo-
man may open an account with as
little as $25 and become the proud pos
SCISSOR of a check book. from which she
can draw against the said amount.
There are a safety deposit box annex
and a brokerage branch where stocks
and bonds can be bought or sold by
depositors. Miss May Bateman is the
president of this new bank. She is
the author of number of poems and
novels and has had wide journalistic
experience, extending from London to
South Africa. As regards her fnan
cial experience, she was for years sec
rotary to Sir Douglas Gordon of the
board of trade and handled all his &C
counts. In a recent interview she
gave the following facts about her
novel position:
zone must remember certain things
as bank manager | admit that
have been keenly interested in the
progress of woman's advancement.
But when you take up the manage
ment of bank you have to bury all
your personal views about politics, the
ballot and similar controversial sub
iects. You must preserve detached
or, at any rate, an absolutely impair
tial attitude. / am hugely enthusiast
tic, however. Think of it! This is the
first woman's bank in this country.
That means a new profession for wo-
men, and who knows what may come
of it? The whole staff is composed
exclusively of women. and want to
say, too, that their salaries compare
well with the wages paid male employ
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24
sh. speaks Fiftv-four LANGUAGES.


Miss Elizabeth s. Cotton. a citizen of
Easthampton, Mass, has great adj
vantage over the rest of her sex be-
cause she can express her thoughts in
fifty-four different languages, while
most of them have got to get along the
best they can with one. Probably only
one other woman in America. at least,
approaches Miss Cotton as a linguist,
and that Is Miss Mary Montgomery,
daughter of a Presbyterian missionary
in Turkey. who astonished the faculty
OF the University of Berlin by her lin
gulstic accomplishments and is now
editing a dictionary of oriental Ian
guages IN new IUTk.
Miss Cotton has studied the live and
dead languages at various schools on
three continents and has recently re-
turned from a stay of year and a
half in India
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24
THE GREATEST THING.

Once upon time an Englishman
wrote a book entitled THE Greatest
Thing IN the World
OF course you know the theme he
wrote about. There is only one great
est thing.
Take that out and life would not be
worth the living. 1t is the only torch
that Iightcns the way. the way which
to all of rs sometimes grows dark
and dreary
And love is eternal
It lives in the hearts of the old as
vel as in the hearts of the young
Youth is its budding season. Its bios
som and its fruitage come with the
passing of the years Love grows the
stronger as hearts grow older
Love is a tender blossom.
Like delicate plant. it needs the
sunshine. # il grows and thriyes it
must be nourished If you shut It
away in tile dark and silence it WIZ
wither as the flowers wither And
It Yill die as the flowers die. It must
have attention. II responds to care.
And yet love does not ask so much
II is easily satisfied. It viii treas
ure up the memory of single kiss
for long. FIR many a dag it win sts'i
feel upon IL weary shoulder the touch
II 4 loving hand tenderly laid How
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24
AN uNWIcKED SIMMER.

Deserted by her husband, forsaken
by her friends. her dream of coy
little home rudely destroyed. Mrs.
Frank Standish, frail little woman OF
Chicago, stood weeping in the divorce
court
She had stolen few articles from a
department store.
She was not a s'kleptomaniac, Il
Enanne given to those women who have
plenty at home. but who are not able
iato Withstand the lure Of pretty things
Il am. guilty." she said.
Asked her motive. for taking the
things, the sobbing woman replied to
the court:
Il wanted little home. took Ia
Die linen and goods on that order to
furnish the little place.
of course had Mrs. Standish been a
rich woman the goods would have been
returned or paid for; there would have
been no arrest, no fine. and nothing
said.
But her husband had turned his back
upon her because she had "disgraced
him." her friends had deserted her,
and there was nothing to do but to
throw herself upon the mercy of the
court.
The fine was $50.
It took nearly all her meager fortune,
leaving only enough to get back to her
Michigan home.
The fragile little woman staggered
from the police station to leave forever
the turmoil and temptations OF great
city. Her earthly belongings packed
In worn suit case, she started for the
depot to join her aging parents on a
Michigan farn.
Sordid story of a foolish woman?
Foolish yes. but not wicked. Shall
say she sInned because she was good
at heart? She had the normal longing
OF every good woman for a little home
OF her own and to furnish 1t. Shall !
say she sinned because Of her yirtuous
desire?
Did you ever think how easily ones
virtues may lead one astray?
Pun an innocent young girl under a
subtle temptation she does not under
stand and her very innocency may
prove her undoing.
The laudable desire of a young man
to get on IN the world, carried to
lengths. may ruin him.
Push a virtue too far and you have
a vice.
Which fact of our complex being
ought to make us very kind to those
-vrho Sin naf ont of wicked but out of
innocent desires.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24

it thrills at the meaning smile, and
how eagerly it responds to the spoken
word.
We let love grow dumb for want of
expression,
Contradiction of human nature! We
allow the trivial things. the vexations
of the day. the small annoyances of
the moment. to stand in our way
while the hearts we love slowly starve
for want of the language of love. Is
it not so?
Worse than that
Sometimes. when we forget, we al
low ourselves the bitter tone, the
harsh spoken word. even the deliber-
ate and studied unkindness and neg
lect-all this TO those we love the
most.
But for our own the bitter tone
Though we love our own the best
Why do we do this? Why select
our own. only to remember when ii
is too late how much we loved them:
Life is so short! And without love
it is both barren and bitter. Why. q
soul of man or woman, should you
Willingly lose so much of your little
day?
Let not the sun go down on that day
whose eyentide brings no recollection
of thoughtful kindness. a kiss. a smile.
tender word. to those you love.
Do not wait to wall out over cof-
fin lid your regrets of those things
you might have done, the words you
might have said.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24
CHARTER
OF THE CELESTE FIG PRESERV
ING AND INDUSTRIAL COM
PANY, LIMITED.

State of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo
Before me, Robert A. Grain, notary
public in and for Caddo Parish, State OF
Louisiana, personally came and APP
peared P. T. Hedges, c. L. Jones, R. P.
Moore, Lee N. Bush, Roland William
son, T. c. Aubrey, R. R. Emery, w. B.
Daniels, all residents of Caddo Parish,
Louisiana, and T. M. Cook, a resident
of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, who de
c1ared that availing themselves of the
provisions of the laws of the State of
Louisiana relative to corporations, they
have formed and do by these presents
form and constitute themselves into a
body polite and corporation for the
objects and purposes and under the con-
ditions, stipulations and articles as fol-
lows, to-wit:
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24
Essv wav 10 srown Potatoes.

Boil in usual way without breaking,
strain of. raise saucepan lid TO let
dry few minutes. Have ready deep
pan containing very hot fat. put pota-
tees in few at time. They will
become a golden brown By putting
IN. hot the potatoes do not cool the
fat and better result is obtained.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24
ARTICLE vi.

No stakeholder of the corporation
shall ever be held liable for its contracts
or faults in any further sum than the
unpaid balance of his stock; and no in
formality in organization shall have the
effect of rendering this charter null OF
of exposing any stakeholder to any loss
beyond the unpaid balance due on his
stock
In witness whereof the parties have
signed this act of incorporation, in the
presence of ]. ]. Lyon and w. S. Den
MS, competent witnesses, on this. the
I4th day of March A. D. 1910.
?. T. HEDGES.
c. L. JONES.
T. N. COOK,
per C. L. Jones.
r. P. MOORE.
R. R. EMERY.
LEE N. BUSH.
T. c. AUBREY.
per P. T. Hedges.
ROLAND WILLIAMSON.
w. B. DANIELS,
per P. T. Hedges
Witnesses:
J. ]. LYON.
w. S. DENNIS.
R. A. GRAIN,
Notary Public.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo:
| hereby certify that I have examined
the above and foregoing charter, and
hndlng nothing therein contrary to law,
| hereby approve the same on this the
4th day of April A. D. 1910.
J. M. FOSTER,
district Attorney First Judicial Dis
trieess Of Louisiana otis
Endorsed: Filed and recordsG April
3 1910. A. S. HARDIN,
Deputy Clerk.
State OF Louisiana, Parish of Caddo:
hereby certify that the above and fore
gong Is true and correct copy of the
Original act as the same now appears
on HE and Of record in my Office. Given
under my hand and seal of Office this
4th day of April 1910.
A. S. HARDIN,
Deputy Clerk and ex-Ohcio Deputy Re.
eoraef. As
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24
ARTICLE v.

This charter may be amended or the
corporation dissolved, by a vote Of
three-fourths $50 in amount of the
capital stock at meeting called for
that purpose. Whenever said corpora
ton shall be dissolved by linnitation e.
otherwise, its affairs shall be liquidatei
by two lquidators selected for that pnr-
pose by the stockholders, and they shah
hold Office and liquidate the affairs Of
the corporation until fully settled. Il
event of death or resignation of liqni-
dator, the other liquidator shall serve
alone.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24
ARTICLE III.

The capital stock of this corporation
is hereby authorized to be ten thous-
and ($Io,ooooo) dollars, divided into
and represented by one hundred shares
of one hundred ($Ioooo) dollars each,
to be paid for in cash or its equivalent
at the discretion of the hoard nf dirae-
tors. This corporation shall commence
business whenever three thousands dol
lars ($3,ooo.oo) of the capital stock shall
be subscribed and paid in full.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24
ARTICLE w.

The corporate powers are hereby
vested in the board of directors, to con-
sist of seven stockholders, four of
whom shall constitute quorum for the
transaction of the business of the cor
poration. The board of directors shall
be elected annually on the first Monday
of March of each year, beginning in
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24
Ihef|OT5hein Bros. Dry Goods 60. Ltd.
Exclusively Wholesale Dealers in
Dry Goods, Notions, Boots, Shoes
and Hats.
l51O-512-54 Levee st. New York Office II Franklin St

1911. The first boar dof directors. who
shall hold Office until their successors
are elected, are hereby declared to be
P. T. Hedges, C. L. Jones. T. NJ. Cook,
R. ?. Moore, R. R. Emery, Roland Viii
hanson and Lee N Bush, with the fol-
lowing officers: p T. Hedges. presi-
dent; c. L. Jones, vice president; R. p
Moore, ecretary-treasurer
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-24
ARTICLE I.

The name and style of this corpora
ton shall be THE CELESTE FIG
PRESERVING AND INDUSTRIAL
COMPANY, LIMITED" and under
this name and style it shall have and
enjoy corporate existence for a period
of ninety-nine years from date hereof.
ARTICLE II.
The purposes for which this corpora
ton is established are hereby declared
to be to plant and cultivate fig and other
fruit bearing trees and all farm and
garden products; to construct and equip
canning factory at or near the town
of Forbing, Caddo Parish, Louisiana,
and therein to preserve all orchard,
farm and garden products, preparing
them for market in such manner as
may be determined, and to buy and sell
such products both in the raw and man.
ufactured state, and in general to do all
things necessary and proper in carrying
on general planting and preserving
business The domicile of this corpora
ton is hereby declared to be the City
of Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana,
and all legal process shall be there
served on the president, or, in his abb
sence, the vice president or secretary,
according to law.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-06-23
SUNDERLAND
IncOrpornfed

Andrew Brown of Manchester was
In town recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. Bentley spent Sun
day at the home of Ira Bentley of
Manchester
Miss Sarah Green, OF Watervliet
is spending a few days with Miss
Helen LaDue.
Miss Helen LaDue was at
her home in Pawlet Friday, called
there by the death of her aunt, Mrs
Randall.
There was a dance at the old
shoolhouse Monday night There
was a large crowd and all reported a
fine time.
c. w. Bell and a party of friends
from Troy, were at I. NJ. Bentley's
recently and took home fine fox
hound pup.
Mr.. and Mrs. Parker OF Cleveland,
Ohio, have been visiting their son,
assistant cashier for the Bruon Coop
erage Co Monday they visited the
lumber camp and took dinner in the
mountain. Mr.. Parker was a former
resident OF Vermont and has many
friends left in the Green Mountain
State.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-06-23
NORTH HoosIcK

Lillian Washington is on the sick
list.
The White place is to be sold next
Saturday at 10 a. m
Ira Fisk was in Cincinnati last
week has returned home.
The Ladies' Aid will meet at the
parsonage Friday evening.
Miss May Russell visited at the
home of John Allen recently.
Mrs. Sherwood Haswell called on
friends here Friday afternoon.
Paul Andrews and Frederick Weir
were baptized Sunday morning.
The Ladies' Aid held a social at
the church last Friday evening.
Mrs. Grace Friar has moved into
the house recently bought by her.
John Connors has moved into the
house vacated by Mrs. Grace Friar.
James Fairburn was in Albany on
Sunday to see his sister who Is IN the
hospital
George Harrington is picking some
very fine garden strawberries from
his garden.
Lucy Haswell was in North Ben
nIngton Friday to attend the gradua-
ting exercises.
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Hill OF South
SALISBURY spent Sunday at the home
Of Levi Brooks.
James Byars Srd is having his
buildings repaired. Walter Sherwood
is doing the work.
William Mozart is delivering the
mail In this section as George Sweet
is on his vacation.
Childrens day exercises were held
Sunday evening at the church and
they were much enjoyed.
Miss Lucy Haswell received a tele-
gram from Pittsheld, Mass, one day
last week announcing the death OF
Miss Nash OF that city.
Mrs. Lemon and Mrs. yelling
Thomas drove from Cohoes Friday 10
visit their brother, George Harrington
and returned Saturday.
The Walloomsac school held a pic.
mic az Battlefield park Saturday after
noon and a large crowd was In atten-
dance. Dancing in the evening.
The ball game Saturday afternoon
between the home team and the Rex
ais Of Hoosick Falls was a fine game
and was won by the home team ! to 0
William Straub has gone TO Green
wlch TO work at Stevens & hompson's
mill for a few days. Edward Spauld'
ing who Is working there was 40 bis
home here over sunday
Following are names OF the pupils
OF the North Hooslck school who
passed the Regents examinations al
Hoosick Falls: Spelling Ethan Reid
aS; Ruth Reid 96 Edward Delaney
%. Geography-Caroline Hewitt, So;
l.cGrand Sherwood. IS: Blanche Has
we'll. Sc; Thomas LAWN. 81: Edward
Delaney. 15; Carrie Fairhurn, ST.
/ Elementary English Leta Allen. 75;
United States History and Civics-
John Wclch. g3 Leroy Baker. 77:
Elsie Sherwood. rs. IeGrand Sher
wood. Is. Administration WEIGH
| SIS; Leroy Baker. 81. Elsie Sherwood
+ as. LeGrand Sherwood, sS; Caroline
Hewitt, 50.