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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-05
February 20.
SUCCESSION NOTICE.

No, I4oz2-First District Court, Parish
of Caddo, Ctate of Louisiana: Sue
cession of ]. E Bricker.
Notice is hereby given that w. D.
Broker, administrator, has this day filed
tabfeau of debts in said succession, and
unless opposition be made thereto with
in the time specified by law the same
will be duly homologated as prayed for
Witness the Honorable E. w. Suth-
erin, judge of said court this 24th day
of February 1911.
S. o. WILLIAMS,
February 20. Deputy Clerk
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-05
SUCCESSION NOTICE.

No. I4,3z2 In First District Court Of
Louisiana: Succession of John NJ.
Dortch.
State Of Louisiana, Parish Of Caddo:
Notice is hereby given that J. G. Hester
has this day applied to be appointed adj
nlinistrator Of said succession, and IN
less opposition be made thereto within
the time specified by law, he will be APP
pointed as prayed for.
Witness the Honorables T. F. Bell
and E. W. Sutherlin. judges of said
court, this 18th day Of February 1o1I.
F. A. LEONARD,
March 2 1917. Clerk
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-05
RECEIVERSHIP NOTICE.

No. I4,I34-First District Court, Parish
Of Caddo, State Of Louisiana: Nor
ris Dickson Co VS.. Pelican Club.
Notice is hereby given that E B.
Rand, receiver, has this day filed a pro-
visionaI account in said proceeding, and
unless opposition be made thereto with
in the time specified by law, the same
will be duly honaologated as prayed for.
Witness the Honorable E. w Suth-
erin, judge Of said court, this 23rd day
of February 1911
F. A. LEONARD,
February 20 Clerk.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-05
ROLL OSBORN, UNDERTAKEN
TIA Texas Street
Day and Night Phones 892
SUCCESSION NOTICE.
No I4,36I-First District Court, Paris
Of CaNdn Safe Of In,,is;n,,n SIC

No. I436I-Flrst Dlstrlct Court, Parish
Of Caddo, State of Louisiana: Sue
cession of Glenn R. Rule
State of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo
Notice is hereby given that Mrs Zula
Rule has this day applied to be appoint
ed administrators of said succession,
and unless opposition be made thereto
within the time specified by law, she will
be appointed as prayed for
Witness the Honorable E. W. Suth-
erin, Judge of said court, this 2Ist day
of day February 1911.
A. S. HARDIN,
February 20. Deputy Clerk
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-05
ARTICLE V.

The corporate powers of this corpora
ton shall be vested IN and exercised
over by board of directors to consist
OF three stockholders, two of whom
shall constitute a quorum, each OF them
owning at least FIVE shares in
his own name. who shall be elected by
the stockholders on the first Monday in
July 1911 and annually thereafter. No
tice of such election shalf be given ten
days by publishing it in a daily newspa-
per published in the city of Shreveport.
Said election shall be by ballot at The
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-05
ARTICLE VIII.

No stakeholder shall ever be held for
the faults, responsibilities or contracts
OF this corporation in any sum further
than his Indebtedness to this corpora
ton; nor shall any mere informality in
the organization of this corporation have
the effect of rendering this act null or
exposing any stakeholder to any habil-
ity beyond the amount of his or her
shares
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-05
ARTICLE VII.

No stoekholder shall ever be liable
Tor the contracts or faults Of this cor
poration IN any further sum than the
unpaid balance due 10 the company on
shares of stock subscribed for, nor shall
any possible illegality Of informally IN
organization have the effect of render
ing this charter null Of exposing a
ockholder 10 any liability beyond the
aount of his stock due by him as
aforesaid. All sales or transfers of stock
is be valid must FIRST be made On the
books Of this company, and no sale Of
stock to an outsider shall be valid unless
tie stock IS first offered the other mem
bers Of the corporation at its market
value
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-05
ARTICLE II.

The domicile of this corporation shall
be in the city of Shreveport, Caddo Par
ish, State of Louisiana, and all citation
and other legal process shall be served
on its president, or in his absence upon
the vice president, or in case of the abb
sence of both president and vice presi-
dent, on the secretary of the corporation.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-05
ARTICLE VI.

The following named persons shall
constitute the first board of directors to
serve until their successors shall be
elected in accordance with this charter,
VIZ: L. B. Thomas, r. E. Page, R. G.
Jolley, with L. B. Thomas as president,
with T. f. Page as vice president, and
with X. g. Jolley as secretary.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-05

Special meetings of the stockholders
shall be held when ordered by the board
Of directors or five stockholders signing
petition asking for said meeting, stat
ing the purpose, time and place
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-05

X. w. hleILYAlN.
s. s. HEROLD,
Notary Public
State of Louisiana, Parish Of Caddo
/ approve the above and foregoing char
fer of the Willer-Kern Company. This
18th day of February 1911.
]. NJ, FOSTER
District Attorney First Judicial District
Of Louisiana.
Endorsed Filed and recorded Febru-
airy Is, 1911 w NJ. LEVY,
Deputy Clerk and ex-OfRcio Deputy Re
corder.
8 State Of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo:
thereby certify that the above and fore
going is a 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
10Th day of February 1911.
w NJ. LEVY,
Deputy Clerk and ex-ofhcio Deputy Re
corder. 2-I6.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-05
ARTICLE III.

The objects of this corporation shall
be to manufacture groeers computing
bins, fertilizer troopers and planters and
other sheet metal specialties and gen
eral sheet metal products and general
sheet metal products; and to sell the
same; to buy and to sell patent rights !;
to make models and drawings for in
ventors and others, and to otherwise
deal in patents, and to do all other acts
necessary for the proper and successful
of general manufacture
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pass the Sixty-second congress-. our
prices declined and continued to de-
cline. although we had Il very poor
crop in the great wheat states, until
the day succeeding the Canadian cleo
ton 1t had reached it's lowest point
word h d the Canadian electors had
declined our proposal. Within two
days wheat advanced six cents per
bushel: barley. already Very high,
from NV, to ten cents per bushel: and
since that day both have steadily adj
vanced. With a shortage of wheat
crop in Minnesota and the Dakotas
ana a large crop in tho Canadian
northwest. our northwestern markets
would easily have been glutt.d in case
the reciprocal arrangement had been
carried into effect.
On October II. this year. the diff
ference in the price of grain between
Fort Williams and Duluth. one as ia
vorably situated as to worlds markets
as the other, was: Wheat. IL cents;
barley. average about 30 cents: oats.
. n and fax j" cents. Had We full
reciprocal arrangements today at
points equally distant from consuming
centers. these products would COM
mand the same price whether in Cana
da or the states.
The Canadian market price is the.
Liverpool market price. less cost of
transportation, commission, insurance.
etc. With free intercourse our prices
would. of course. lind the same level.
Without thai free intercourse, the
home demand makes our prices so
much higher that We do not export
any of our best milling wheat from
the border states.
Mcager as are our crops this year,
the loss hat would follow IL free trade
arrangement in wheat. harley, flax and
oats will be manifest when we COM
pute this difference in prices on the
1871 crops of two border states alone.
North Dakota and Minnesota:
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DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES,

The census for 1910 contains a story
Of racial interest, according to which
the popular notion that the negro
population is increasing relatively
faster than the white population In
once moro Shown to be erroneous. To
the contrary. the tide is running
strongly the other way as time
rolls on. Since 1900 tho whites have
increased 100000 in round num-
bers. or 22.3 per cent, as against an
increase Of negroes of 1000, 900, or
J1.3 per cent; a wide margin Of gain
for the white brother. as will be not
ed. While a great part Of the excess
Of white increase comes from imlni
grafton Of foreign-born whites. still
the increase of Caucasian blood is
impressive when compared with the
csnsus of 1880. At that time the
whites numbered 100000 and The
blacks 100000. whereas in 1910 the
whites had increased to $4,000, 900,
and the blacks to / 5000. 900.
Another popular failacy is explod-
cd by comparison Of the returns from
The sonthcrn states, by which process
II Is found hat not only are the
southern whites "utstrippine the ne
groes. but the northern whites as
well. In 1880 the negroes constituted
3G rer cent OF the south's total. az
c%omps:cd with 30 per cent in 1910.
when the totals stood 20,5O0, 900 and
S.7oo.Goo. respectively. Although, this
showing is To some extent duo to tho
lt!sra:iom Of negroes to states outside
the so.th, neither Interstate migration
ror foreign Immigration has added
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largely 10 the white population of the

largely 10 the white population Of the
south.
IL follows. therefore. that the
southern white MAJ is more typical
vt the %nriginal. breed than the north
crnrr whose blood has become IL
blend derived. in part. from white
peoples who may be said TO have
scarcely penetrated beyond Mason
and DiNon's line . This Circumstance
does not apply to the border states.
however, where Puritan and Cavalier
meet on an equal footing numcrical-
iy and wipe out Ii sectional distinc-
tons by intermarriaSc. Nor is il to
be sainsaid that the trend of migra-
tion is southwark. Moreover. the
great encouragement this tendency is
now receiving for the first time sig
mites that in the course of time what
is true OF the border states can be
said of all the states down to the gulf.
The south is also beginning to attract
colonies of foreign-horn newcomers.
Some day. therefore, the movement
Of whites to the south. and the coun-
tcr-nlovement Of negroes to the north,
II not interrupted. will result in an
equal distribution of whites and
blacks Throughout, the country. to-
eether with Il disappearance of the
bodily and mental contrarieties
which today distinguish the whites of
the far north from those OF the far
south.
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And if this properly measures u
logs from free trade with onc com
peting country only. N on grain on
]y. we can form somc idea of the vast
ness Of the loss had We free trade with
every country i'll tho world in every
food product.
Few people appreciate the amount
Of food stuffs We import into the
country. Even with Il high protection
against most of that which is i'm
ported, VIC imported during the year
ending June 50, 1911:
Food stuffs ........... $SG3,a0J,41S
We exported in the
same period 1,O35.957,154
With only this slight excess of cx-
ports over imports Of food products,
with protection, we may properly
pause to contemplate where the bal
ance of trade would be with no pro.
lection whatever.
Democrats and Republicans Should
Agree.
There should he no difference be-
tween the %adhcrents of the two great
political parties from agricultural
states, who believe in IL fair deal for
the ag~riculturalist in respect to the
maintenance OF q proper duty on agri-
cultural products. Because, while the
faithful Democrat may not believe in
any protection to any industry. he
does believe in a tariff for revenue.
and he knows that such u tariff will
be levied, and that such tariff is al
ways a protection to some degree. the
greater the duty the greater the pro-
lection. And as this duty will always
Dc levied on those things which the
agricl'tliralist must buy, it ought i n
Justice to be levied with the same
degree Of protection on what lie must
sell.
san without fear Of any contradic-
ton that the poorest paid labor in the
United States always has lH:cn and still
is the labor bestowed in bringing into
existence II food product: thai the
Cheapest articles purchased in the
markets Of the country today, when
measured by the amoun Of intelligent
human energy necessary to produce
them, are the raw; food products as
they leave the farmers hands. 1t il
Il palpabie injustice therefore to enact
any Legislation that will decrease the
earning. Of this poorest paid labor
while maintaining the standard Of
other labor. go Il step farther and
produce it. 1t Is our duty to enact and
maintain laws that wi!' increase the
farm earnings until the til,.r OF the
soil reaps as great Il reward for an
equal number Of hours labor as the
equally intelligent skilled laborcr or
business man of the cities.
Causes of Higher Cost Of Living.
There arc several rt,Iscs for tho
higher cost of living. They may hc
sl1nmarizcd> aa follows:
]. The great increase in orr circu-
| latinE medium. due for the most mart.
to tho "v"r increasing gold output. In
1921 our per capita circulation was
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You can easily double his total for
other like Injuries demanded by the
present city gait. 1t is safe to say
that more than ninety per cen Of
these enormous sums is to satisfy the
high living habits of our cities. Very
little indeed can lie charged to the
farming population.
The supreme injustice oi the de-
mand that food products be cheapencd
at the expense of the producer is made
moro glaring when we stop to consid-
or that it from that portion of
II population who have become dis
sipatcd in their expensive habits and
are asking hat the food producers
shall not have their compensation in
creased to correspond with the in
creased capital which they must m
ploy, because to do SO would compel
them to curtail some of their cXtrava-
ganccs.
Tie Remedy.
The food producer may we'll say to
them: Stop paying excessive prices
for your luxuries. and then even those
prices will become more reasonable;
those prices are maintained because
you seem willing to pay Them Stop
paying $500 to $500 for your. theater
seat and the price will drop to a rea-
.sonable sum. Don't pay fancy prices
for what you can we'll pass up, and two
results will follow:
First. those prices will come down
to q reasonable basis. and second, you
will then say sufficient from your
earnings to pay the farmer living
prices for his products.
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Benner, Begg & Garvin

should be to make certain that the
protective policy Of this government
should embrace the products of our
farms. The Republican party is the
party Of protection. and we must look
to that party and that party alone to
defend us against this impending dam
ger.
National Republican Platform.
The constitution Of a party is its ma
tional platform. Into that instrument
should and must be written in no UNI
certain terms the guaranty Of h par
ty to uphold the agricultural interest
of the country and to give it the same
protection that is accorded every 9TH
er industry in the country.
Fair and just protection to every
important American industry, exces-
should he written into the Republican
platform of 1912.
II placed there it must be dom by
the representatives of the agricultural
states in the next Republican conven
ton. And it must be placed there by
men who have the ability to d o SO.
And here we approach a most import
ant matter, the selection of delegates
from not only North Dakota, but from
question is not how these delegates
shall be selected, but who shall De Sc
lected. 1t is not so much a question of
stalwart or insurgcnt, as it il q qucs-
ton, who can accomplish.
We want men as delegates to that
convention who are workers. who will
be able to work with their party assoc
ciatcs and will see to it that We have
the right kind Of a plank in our plat
form.
Let us not deludc ourselves with the
idea that it makes no difference whom
we send. I repeat the platform is
more important to us than the Ques-
ton of who shall be the next Repub-
lican nominee for president. The
the president and the Republican rep
resentatives in congress.
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Therefore,. the first remedial step is
TO boycott the excessive prices we pay
for luXuries and not the barely living
prices we pay for III food necessities.
Another remedy is that of co-opera-
ton between producer and consumer.
Get these two closer together and dis
pcnsc with the great army of middle
men who must make excessive profits
III order to pay excessive rents on ex.
cessively high priced city property.
1T is Il ~trrdvesty on the enlightenment
OF this century hat nearly all pro.
ducts. food and manufactured articles.
increase in cost from 100 to 5000 per
cent over the producers charges be-
o they reach the consumer. But as
long as the city meat retailer must nav
$500 a month for a room sufficient to
keep Il stock Of $500 worth of meat,
he must make 1900 per cent on his
principal a year to pay for rent alone.
and as much more to pay his other
expenses and still make q living for
himself and family.
Send Them Rack 10 tire Farms.
How will o avoid this condition?
Gc this army OF middlemen back tO
the farm. How will we accomplished
that? Make farming as profitable as
other business. But how will you do
that? Just let conditions alone as
they are and the farming interest will
soon take care OF itself. Just main
tain good protection on farm pro-
ducts. and In u few years when con-
sumption shall equal production. the
farmer will get II price for his pro-
duct that will invite this rent laden
meat man and a hoard Of others to
h farm. Then tho rents will go
down: then things will begin to equal
izc themselves: then all products will
r(Cf 1n1A in tho riftr.c
But a false and unjust sentiment
has been created by the great press
and magazines Of the country against,
not the cxorbitant prices paid the mid :
diclnen for tho products Of human la
Dor but against the producers Of
those products who for the most part
make lGt a meager profit, and must
meet that sentiment.
The First Step Necessary.
What are we. the people Of the
agricultural states, going to do about
it? Are we going to sleep OF our
arms and let the matter drift and only
wake up when it is TOO late? Are We
going to spend u time over i%nsurgen-
cy and stalwartism. going to gorge
ourselves with the false and sensa-
tional journalism Of the day; or are
we going to unite for the protection of
our real and most important inter-
ests? If the latter. what IL the first
step to take?
by parties. A policy tina has no sup
port by either of the great political
parties--a policy which is not backed
by either, has but II prncarions stand
ing. and Is liahl. to be- sacrificed by
either or both. II is doubly cndan-
scrcd when there is a CRY for its Dc
struct1on. Our first step therefore
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OF the Bahamas group, it is made up
OF coral shell and cher marine debris
ana rests on Il bank or underlying
platform. But unlike that Of the great
or number. the supporting bank of
Natitnes Is narrow. extending out be-
ncath the water only about u vile on
an average n but four or five miles
at the widest part. In addition. a
dangerous reef surrounds the island ~
~ distance from the beach of from n
few rods to three or four miles. Tho
soil is good-fur Il coral island-hut
shallow and consists of bahamas
white land" black and rcd loan,
Muc OF the interior is taken up by an
irregularly shaped body Of water, tho
great lake"-listcd as zone of tho
Bahamas" VIZ
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HOBBLE SKIRTS WIN
Connecticut Trolley Cars Will pc
Equipped With Lower Steps

New York Amcricanl
Two steps, a double running hoard
on open trolley cars, or some similar
satisfactory solution OF the high car
step problem. practically was prom.
Used by General Manager Punderford
of tho Connecticut company, which on.
crates all the trolley cars in the stat.
This was the result of II lively hnarinr
before the new public utilities com.
mission. ''"'-
1t was u victory for tho women wb>,
attended. headed by Mrs. John r. Str,
ing: and a big delegation from
bridgeport. who were supported hv
expert testimony of noted phvs,ri,n ~
". Anscl &. Cook of Hartford. h,.,i
OF the american Orthorrdica) soc;c.
ty. said his patients always did hnt,or
whcn they walked than when hey M,
IL tren1cndou strain on the liva ,nan,s
OF the knee by getting on a car. IL"
had no approval for hobblc skir,s ~.
high heeled shoes. nav VI
Inc women. however, showed th,.
they nus wear what was IN ro.,'a
Letters from women We're rnad
complaining OF the annoyance of 49,
Ing to lift tight skirts high IN ~.
Knee and also of the hazard invo,v.
Manager P%underford said tina, b,s
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company was anxious to cooperate
Win the women and to solve tho prob
rem. He said the New Haven road
Mouiu next season use now chilled
steel whccns to ave only onc.half
men inc that cars would settle on
springs after they had been loudcd
heavily IL few times.
me women proved that the steps
are now about nineteen to twenty
one inches high and they demand
s.eis not II higher than ordinary
INC trolley managers rcgart the
.m":s.ep car as hazardous to people
once. ~ ~
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WHERE COLUMBUS LANDED
Historic Spot Gets Its Name From q
Famous English Privatecr

Ne" YORK evening EOSL)
The celebration of Columbus day
better Discovery day-brings up a cur
ious question: How many persons are
umbus first set foot? The number is
undoubtedly small: and this. while
San Salvador is perhaps the most In
teresting historical point on the Amer
lean side Of the world.
But X citizens are lame in their Col
umbian geography. SO are the Ia
hamians--l prominent member OF the
colonial school board ~contendtng no
later than last April that Cat island
was entitled to all the honors OF the
landfall. In view Of the history not
only of the Bahamas group. but OF
the American continents as well, 1t Is
far from surprising that the identity
Of the famous island should have been
so long lost; or that the rcidcntitica.
ton should have been delayed until
the middle Of last century, when Capt.
Becher Of the british navy. by ap.
plication Of the description contained
in Columbus journal to tho course
from Gomera to the Bahamas. de-
termined clearly that Watlings island
alone met all requirements OF the
case
On the several counts OF latitude
the ships having been on h twenty
fourth parallel ut sunset of October IL
of the direction taken on the we'll
known Sunday cruise; and OF the la
COON in the center Of the island, other
distinguished investigators have con-
CURED in this conclusion, &C that we
are now as sure OF our island rs II
we had been present ut the momen-
tous landing on October IL. 1892. But
present conditions prevailing Of this
little isolated patch of ~corallinc rock.
rnthc rthan the history Of its idcntiii-
cation. appeal Z" is most krcnly today.
Watlings island, nalned for an old
privHtccr. Capt. George Waiting, lies
on the tW"nty. fourth parallel. north
latitude. and is about thirteen miles
long. north to- south. by six miller
vide, east to west. Like other islands