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The Caucasian., 1911-07-25
Motorcvole MortaIlty.--

William G. Van Arsdale died at
at Austin from the effects of a buggy
shaft piercing his side when while rid
ing his motorcycle he coilided with q
buggy. The shaft penetrated his right
side, shattering his ribs and causing
internal injuries. Mr.. Van Arsdale
was former resident of Garland, Dali
las county. at which place the body
was buried.
The Caucasian., 1911-07-25
BIG FIRE AT ALICE.
Greater Part of Business Houses
Are Destroyed.

Fire destroyed about Is per cent OF
the business section of Alice, Tex,
thirty miles west of Corpus Christi,
entailing a loss estimated at nearly
500. 900 Spontaneous combustion is
believed to have started the fire. High
winds and inadequate fire fighting fa-
cilities hindered the firemen.
The Caucasian., 1911-07-25
Estray Notice.

Taken up by N9han Bell and es-
trayed before me-, the undersigned
animal. one bay horse about Ave
years old; no marks or brands. The
owner will please come forward,
prove property and pay charges, or
the animal will be sold at Moorings-
port La, on Saturday, August 5,
1911, as provided by law.
w. A. ELLETT.
july 4. Justice of the Peace.
The Caucasian., 1911-07-25
sheriff and Editor Fight.

Sheriff Giles of jefferson county,
Tex, engaged in a fist fight in the
county courtroom in the courthouse
at Beaumont with Leroy G. Stump, ed
itor of the Port Arthur News. Stump
was thrown to the floor Giles took
exceptions to an editorial in the News
critieising the killing of three negroes
at Port Arthur by the sheriff's posse.
The Caucasian., 1911-07-25
rheo. Freeland oIee.

Theo. Freeland, president of Amer
lean Bank Note company, died at HE
residence in East Oeange, N j., after
long illness.
The Caucasian., 1911-07-25
Life Verdict.

At HouascIl the jury in the Wesley
Burrals case returned life sentence
verdict. Burrell, a negro, was ac-
cused of the murder last October of
his son, five years old.
The Caucasian., 1911-07-25
s,,eoumbe 10 Wounds.

Llewellyn g. Gwynee, station agent
OF the Marshall and East Texas rail-
way, shot at Elysian Fields, Tex, shot
i've times BY f. V. Patton and taken
to the Kahn hospital atsMarshall, ex :
pired il that Institution. Knights
Pxfhios of Marshall conducted tne ft-
The Caucasian., 1911-07-25
LARGEST storage t4ouse.

At Ptttsburg the Pennsy lvania rail-
road will build the largest storage
house il the world, to cost S. ooos000
knd cover ton blocks.
The Caucasian., 1911-07-25
Went Wet.

! Montgomery county, Ala. voted for
saloons and high license by majority
Of over l. 500.
The Caucasian., 1911-07-25
Official Journal of Caddo Parish.

Published three times week, Sun
day morning, Tuesday and Thurs
day afternoon, at SIT Edwards St,
by The Caucasian & Carney PRINT
ing Co. Ltd, Proprietors.
The Caucasian., 1911-07-25

Gaining an entrances
through a rear door
which opens on an
alley, burglars Wis
tod tho tailor ShOD
The Caucasian., 1911-07-25
Take Notice.

| am applying for a pardon.
S. ]. DUGAN.
Shreveport, La, July 1, 1911.
The Caucasian., 1911-07-25

No. 14,5i5-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La:
The Commercial National Bank
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21

on toboggans TO be secured, and for those bent
on adventure. there is the most exciting pas
time of skiing
Many of the hgh-placed villages In the noun
tains of Switzerland become colonies of British
people, These do the proper thing by going to
the little church on Christmas morning But
they come back in a hurry and are soon in their
sweaters and have donped their heavy boots. or
have affixed their skates and are of for pleasure
long before luncheon time. The dining rooms
are decorated for the great event OF the evening
the Christmas dinner Curious It is to think
that these punches of happy folk. who a week
ago scattered In all parts Of the British
Isles, congregate In the well-lighted rooms
of Swiss hotel and eating their Christmas
dinner COO or 700 miles away from home. Maybe
there is carnival on the ice at night The air
is dead still. The moon Is like u great lantern
In the heavens. Fancy dresses are the proper
thing Every carries muticoored Chinese
lantern swinging at the end OF cane. The
local Swiss band plays popular airs. There is
the swish and rumble Of innumerabe skates
the crisp and welI-swept Ice.
Think OF the manner In which the day Is spent
in the distant treaty ports Of the Far East There
comes back to my memory Christmas day l
once spent In Shanghai In that great CONNER.
cial Chinese city is considerable gathering OF
British people. chiefly engaged In trade kindly.
hospitabe. giving the hand Of friendship to the
traveller and seeing that he has good time with
the rest. There are Christmas morning calls to
be made Callers travel from house to house In
jinrckshaws hauled by bronze-skinned Chinese
coolies, Maybe there are steepechese on
the outskirts of the town. and the entire Brit.
ish colony to go off to their countrymen
adopts In horsemanship scamper for the prizes
Then come luncheon parties. to be followed at
night by the customary Christmas gathering
One might almost forget that thousands
Of miles away from home. except maybe for the
fact that the servants are sliteyed Cinnamon
Another Christmas day comes to memory as
write It In Teheran. the capital OF Persia.
There, of course. is the British legation; but
most of the British residents. fifty or sixty in
number are engaged In connection with the tec.
graph service. Teheran Is great transmission
station on the telegraph route between England
and India. On Christmas morning there is gen.
orally football match the MADAM, a big
open space where most Of the Persian military
displays take place. In the afternoon there is
polo The Persians stand round with wide.eyed
wonder, quite incapable OF understanding why II
is that English people are putting themselves to
such exertions in the search Of what they con.
slider pleasure. The Persian does not appreciate
the western habit of violent exercise He re.
CARDS those who take part in II as rather mad.
It is the practice OF most British ministers to
give q dinner party Christmas night to the
leading British and American residents In the
fine legation dining room. The two hags, the
Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes are hung
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21

tramp ship q commodious. roomy OLD ooat. put
slow in pace. plowing her way through a storm In
the pav ~ piscay We ought to have been home
before Christmas but the weather had buneted US
and we were nearly q week behind our time. Christ
mas morning drearily as the old vessel
bumped her way over the angry waters. We had
no Christmas cheer. no turkey, no plum pudding
no wine but we had timed rabbit and some bottles
of stout on board. While the ship pitched and
rolled the captain and his men and myself gulped
our poor Christmas cheer and toasted each other
In stout. Then the men went out to their work In
the gale stood on the bridge together with the
officer In charge while the wind howled and the
slee slashed and we pressed on slowly into the
gloom. Not a very merry Christmas! But still
the kind of Christmas that will be spent by many
thousands of good British sailors In far seas.
For a contrast where better could you go to spend
Christmas day than in Jerusalem and attend serv-
ice at the Church Of the Holy Sepuchre Jerusa-
lem is not quite the same 1t was in Biblical
times though a good deal OF It has not altered
through many generations. 1t seems out OF place
to go to Jerusalem by railway and. outside the
station to be met by horde OF shrieking cab driv-
ers seeking the job Of conveying to one Of the
big hotels.
Christmas day this year is on Saturday. the
Jewish Sabbath. when thousands Of Jews. con-
scious OF what the day means to Christians, Will
lament that the Messiah they expect has not come.
Christians. Jews. Mohammedans. all jostle In the
narrow streets OF Jerusalem. On Christmas Eve
the Mohammedans who. curiously enough. have
charge of the Church Of the Holy Sepulchre. to
QuarrelsOme Chr1stlans dolns INJURY 10 ono
another. will be keeping the Mohammedan Sab
bath and from the minarets Of the mosques will
sound the muezzn OF the Mullahs crying: There
is only one God and Allah is his prophet; come all
We faithful and pray" Then. as the sun begins
to drop on Christmas Eve. you may go to all that
remains of the old walls of Jerusalem, and come
across crowds Of Jews. hooded women and men
ringleted many Of them from distant Shores kiss
ing the stones which once surrounded the city Of
their forefathers,
On christmas morning. with the slouching Turk
ish soldiers at the door Of the church. many Chris
tians wifi enter to attend service crouch through
the low and narrow doorway. and have the privi-
lege Of kissing the stone on which tradition says
the body of Christ was laid after the Crucihxion.
See that group Of tourists mounted on shaggy and
illfed ponies! They are full OF light-heartedness
as they scamper along the rugged paths beyond
the gates Of Jerusalem. They are OF to Bethlehem
to visit the Church Of the Nativity-dark and SOL
emn and rather eerie with many subdued lights.
Cbrtstmas day brings many and varied recoIles-
tions to the man who has wandered much about
this old world
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21

rare as blue moons. AS rule, the morning g
blazing sunshine. with not cloud In the sky. and
the atmosphere not only warm but sultry. 1t is
not the occasion for topcoats or muffiers or FUR
capes. The men are In fannels and the women
are in white fnery Possibly some attend the
English church, with the hope of being reminded
what day 1t Is; but the majority go on upon ex-
curs.ons. wandering through the quaint, bediz
ened and scented bazars. where the Mohammedan
salesmen with little concern about the Christian
festival. ply their trade OF selling antiques
radiant robes and handmade Oriental carpets
The majority, pleasure bent, go on to the
Pyramids and. under the sweltering sun. climb
TO the summit of the great burial pile OF the
Cheops and then likely enough. mounted on don
keys, scamper the hot sands to the
Sphinx, in the shadow Of which they proceed to
picnic
1t is late afternoon. and the big sun is setting
the Libyan desert. and the bells In the
mosques tinkng for the faithful Mohamme
dams to come and pray. when most of our fellow
country people return to their hotels, There is
odstyle Christmas dinner. The fare Is
French the music Is probably Austrian. Some
how the occasion, delicious and happy though It
be. does not At the picture The moon rises and
the evening is fragrant. whilst parties sit out
upon the balconies before the dancing begins
And then thoughts inevitably wander to what the
folks at home are doing.
Even with ourselves, particularly In London
great change is coming over the celebration OF
Christmas. People with families. especially those
with young children, do keep up something OF
the tradition. But amongst those who are grown
up the tendency is to spend Christmas night at
one of the great caravansares Of pleasure-a
fashionable West End restaurant or a hotel.
where in the entrance hall there is generally
magnificent Christmas tree. and the dinner Is
lavish, the music ravishing. and everything Is
bright and noisy and the air Is rippled with the
laughter OF pretty women.
The oldtme Christmas Is voted dull besides.
taking ones Christmas dinner AT hotel is reck-
oned much cheaper than having It at home.
within short memory a great change has come
over our manner of spending Christmas Thou.
sands OF people go to the big hotels on the south
coast The hydropathic establishments in the
provinces invariably crowded. Thousands
upon thousands OF men and women-chiefy those
who are still In blithe manhood and womanhood
take themselves TO Switzerland. For week
before Christmas the London stations which are
Jumpingoff places for the continent are busy
as in summer holiday time dispatchng Britons
to the Alps
Christmas in Switzerland! Why, a dozen years
ago the majority Of British people would have
shuddered at the idea Switzerland in dead Of
winter. with heaped-up snow and storms and bit.
ter cold. was not to be thought Of Great has
been the alteration. Though there is plenty Of
snow the atmosphere is dry and the shines
brightly. The air 10 invigoratins. There IL sum.
cient Of skating to be obtained. exciting races
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21


is instead green and sunshlny, Chrisc
mas at home has an appropriateness
and fits the scene in a way 1t cannot 90
in other lands.
1t is rather hard to imagine appro-
priateness about Christmas under
blazing sky, and the eating OF plum
pudding when the thermometer Is W
degrees in the shade. How out OF
place the picturesque characters from
Dickens novels-muff1ed and CHEEKY
and full of boisterous mirth-would
have been If they could have been con-
veyed on the magic carpet to gorgeous
Cairo! Wealthy people, and, In these
days of cheap travel, those who are not
wealthy, now seek sunshine In the
months which are considered dreary;
go each, Christmastide crowds of Brit
ish people betake themselves to the
City of the Caliphs. proceed up the
Nile, and, even on Christmas night.
toast the old folks at home in the mag
nificent hotel at Khartoum.
Our grandfathers and grandmothers.
who regarded Christmas as a time OF
waits and holly berries and taking bas-
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
HOMESEEkERS exCU RsION
. RATES TO TEXAS AND NEW
MEXICO POINTS DUR.
lNa foff

On the first and third Tuesdays OF
each month during the entire year
The Colorado and Southern Rail-
way will sell round trip homeseekers'
excursion tickets to a great many
points In New Mexico and Texas at
greatly reduced rates. Final limit
25 days allowing liberal stop-over
privileges. For detailed information,
rates, ETC., call on your nearest Colo.
RADIO and Southern agent or address T.
e. Fisher. General Passenger Agent,
Denver, Colo.
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
A Cruel Question.

Skeezick's car had turned turtle, and
as he sat gloomily contemplating the
situation Uncle Silas reined In his nag
and stopped outside.
Turned over. hain't she?" he OBJ
served.
yep, said Skeezick. shortly.
want to sell?" asked Uncle Silas.
"Yes." said Skeezick. "Pl sell out
cheap"
whats your upset price?" asked
Uncle Silas with grin.
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLI.
DAY EXCURSION FARES
THE DENVER 4 RIO GRANDE
RAILROAD.

sThs Scenic line Of the WorlA1
One fare for the round trip betwesn all
stations in Colorado and New Mex-
leo on the Denver & .Rio 0rands
system. also correspondingly low
Tickets on sale December -. ~, 2g, 20,
and January I. between all sta
ticns IN Coloradc and New ,Msxico.
Denver. Colorado SPRING. Manit ov.
Pussplo, Trinidad, csnon CITY, saiids
Aismosa, Cresde, Antonito, DursnSo.
Dolores. Telluride, Ridgway and II.
termediate points
rfnal Return Limit January 4 lnaa
FER Rates ana full particulars. cali q
Rio 0rands Agent,
FRANK A. WADLHI0H.
General passeagep AH0ae.
Denver, CO1O.
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
Whv He Wanted to Go Home.

A man who takes his vacation in
northern Michigan every summer
brought back to Cleveland the other
day a man-servant who had never
been in city before. The sights and
scenes along Euclid avenue impressed
him peculiarly. Recently he went to
his employer and said:
"Mr. Ebergardt. guess I'll have to
go back home"
"why. Jim. haven't we treated you
well here?"
"Yep-treatmetn's all right. But I'm
scared about my health"
Are you sick. Jim?"
Nope. But seen four funerals
goin' past this house today. and guess
Cleveland amt healthy town."
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21

land who are in far corners OF the
world? I do not only mean those
who are IN the great cities of Can
ada or Australia or South Africa
or even in the semi-British towns
in India. Rather I have In mind
lands where are few British men
and women, some traders. some
missionaries. but all cut off by
enormous distances from what Is
called the civilized world. whom 1t
takes six weeks or two months for
a letter to reach, and whose Christ
mas day is inclined to bring sad
thoughts. not only because Of the
lonely lives they are leading. but
by reason of the recollection OF the
other and more happy Christmas
days they spent before they left
the homeland.
Dotted about the world. in AZ
rica, in lonely Indian stations. In
the far northwest OF Canada. out
on the deserts of Australia. these
people will be eating their Christ
mas dinners on the same day as
ourselves. So, in the flush of hap
piness which comes to most Of us.
II is not a bad thing to let the
thoughts wander to fellow Britons
go far off that sometimes they are
Inclined to be forgotten.
Also there are others. I remem-
Der a Christmas day l spent on a
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
To Be Taken Seriously.

Take advantage Of your opportuni-
ties. but don't take advantage" OF
them.
1t seldom requires a very strong
levee to Withstand q flood of generos-
ity.
You can't convince an average man
that he isn't little above the av-
erage.
He who knows who to make much
of little generally hase something to
spare.
Sometimes when you say q writer ID
beyond his depth. 1t simply means he
Is beyond your depth.
When you begin to suspect fault
in yourself you may be sure II II quite
plain to others.
Most Of us feel that we could have
done great things II It hadn't been
for the little things.
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
Grabbing the PIums.

Did yes notice. Pat. that Read Ad-
miral Hugo Osterhaus was in COM
mand av the fleet that President Taft
reviewed in New York the other day?"
"Yis."
"And the Secretary av the navy is
a man be the name av Mayer?"
''Is he?"
"And Schultz got the autymobile fer
bein' the best player in the Naytional
league? Dinnis, the furriners are
breakn' in everywhere over here"
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
A captious Customer.

81 don't like these fuzzy hats" de-
clared the man.
Here's something nobby in der
by" said the salesman.
81 don't care for derby the depth
of a soup plate"
"These are the only models we
have"
"Well, gimme dozen Of each. I'd
better lay in stock before the styles
get any worse"
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
A. Drain Of the Company.

On his way home from the theateF.
wnere he had seen a performance Of
"Othello," Bobby was unusually quiet
Didn't you enjoy the play" his
grandfather asked at last.
"Oh. yes. very much." replied Bobby.
But. grandpapa. there's one thing I
don't quite understand. Does the
black man kill lady every nightr'-
Youths Companion.
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21

above the chair.
When the din
ner is ov 9 r
tn ere follows
the usual and
a ppro p r late
speech making.
Then comes the
dance. That the
company Is in a
distant foreign
land Is forgot
ten. Something
Of the flavor of
Christmas t ide
at home is with
the assembly.
Laughter a n d
m e r,r 1 m e n t
reign unbound
ed.
And is 1t not
we'll at Christ
mastide to think
Of those of our
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
innocent.

RastusA"What you think is De mat
tab wifi me, doctaR"
Doctor-"Oh, nothing but the chick
enpox, guess"
Rastus (getting nervous)-"I clare
on nah honor. doctor, amt been
nowhar could ketch dat!"
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
one on George.

"Oh, my!" she exclaimed inpatient
ly. "We'll BIZ sure to miss the first
act. We've been waiting god many
minutes for that mother of mine.'
"Hours, I should say" he replied
rather tartly.
"Ours?" she cried joyfully oh,
George, this is so student"
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
Her pai,v Habit.

"Ive been counting girl lately, but
think I'll stop seeing her, as I'm
sure as wife she won't do"
-..Who Is she?"
"She's telephone girl"
"Ha! That's why she won't an
swer."
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
Kindred Spirits.

Lady" said Flooding Pete. II ain't
had . square meal in two days"
WELL" said the resolute woman.
- she turned the dog loose. neither
has Towssr. 70 I know you'll excuse
him.
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
Natural Deduction.

Papa. are lawyers always bad-tsm-
peredf"
mo. daughter: why do you ask
thatf"
because l read 10 much In the pa,
pers about their cross-examinations." !"
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
, CHz2sI sIZ7ZY5 Rz2z5
! TT LzE PHz2A,Tl1

kets provisions poor folks then attending the fes'
morning service and after
wards with curtains drawn proceeded TO con
turkey beef chunks OF plum pud
ding nnumerabe mnce pies with the object OF bring
ing happy months would twr their graves tney coud
which thousands OF their descendants
celebrate the day in Cairo
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
Too True.

.. fr-r.r Too True.
"yvhy 10 the race not always to the swift. my
boyf"
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21

BON l. LOOK PA D;tI;T Sn;ssl ,S e. LIND: 2. .E.-
log mailed free. Cor. 18th Blake. Denver
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
a Roorback.

"Wise men make proverbs and FOOLS
quote them," observed A.
"That's So" agrees B. by the way
who was the author Of that ones"
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
By Jpbn Foster Fr azer

FTER all, there Is no
place like home in which
to celebrate Christmas.
Even when the day does
not come up to the old
fashioned pictorial repre-
sentation of snow on the
ground and red-breasted
robins on the boughs, but
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21

AS a rule, the morning comes with
Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21

snow in Cairo, but the occasions are as
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AZ usual " llsl. ~ y owds ~ d SE:sA u
aAes d ~ ldp ocalai u tol
~ Ladies' AID; Civ Han 6 Il ~
day evening last n
Nov that IN loswlsr story 81 tbs all
has been furniahsd With 4 oonorete
floor, II makes i ans dining hsll ssatinR
about 4 hundred peopls With plenty 81
room Tor sideboards stc. The supper
was Of the best, and schiclsn pie, baked
beans, salads, pumpkin and apple pie
went the way such things goin ! brief
space Of time. The IN stairs pro.
gramme was mostly q the musical order
and was very pleasing. A reading BY
Mrs. b. II. Moore, violin solo BY Ruth
Wilkins, song BY Kate Kneeshaw and :
violin solo by Miss Forester Of Emerson
we're among the pleasing features 81 the
programme. Charles Short, with his
trombone made pleasing music, Miss
Pauline Kneeshaw gave recitation, and
their were several numbers on the
piano. About one hundred and sixty
people took supper.
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three ! years and be notes the appearance
q many strange faces. Hs acts 90
travelling salesman for 4 Montreal coffee
mouse with 9 territory extending from
winnipeg to Edmonton On one line 81
railroad and from Winnipeg to Calgary
on the other. n his travels he frequent.
y runs up against former Hamilton.
ites, including R. Z. Francis 81 Moose
Jaw who is still on The rad for ! har,.
ves1er concern. Az $Hebelt sask., rs
saw Robert Anderson Mondav. .nd sam
ferfls. Both gentlemen ars farming.
Independent. s.'.
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evening from his hunt with IS fine ones
The dinner was prepared and served by
the host and an elegant time and dinner
is reported by those who were present.
iDrayton Echo.
A. P. Dayman, one Of the early set.
tiers Of Drayton died there on Monday
Of last week very suddenly OF heart fail
;ure. Mr.. Daymsn while he had been
suffering from heart trouble was appar-
emily il his usual health, and while on
his way home willis crossing the street
was ssssn 10 AL. a doctor was sum.
moned hut IL was too late. He vas born
In Guelph, Ont. Dec .2Ath, 1S49. He
came . North Dakota in 1850. H1
lsayes two daughters and his widow.
10 No. : member of the n. q. ChnrchI
md 40 highly respected 81 his neigh.
bors M IL many friends
| s. Grssn = hsss o. 3 viii! Is III.
Imothsl. "a = vi ilIsltt WIT II nsariy3