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Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21

The situation in Apayao is especially difficult
because headhunting among the tribesmen Of
that subprovnce is intimately connected with their
religious faith. Nevertheless, the practice is be-
Ing gradually stamped out and with the help OF
the lgorot and Ifugao constabulary, a number of
murderers have been arrested and punished.
There is still a considerable over which gov
ernment control has not yet been established and
which has not even been opened up by trails to
any great extent, owing to the inaccessible char
acter Of the region. One should realize OF course,
that head-huntng among these people is not re-
garded as murder in the ordinary sense Of the
word. 1t is field sport and manly occupation.
established by the custom of centuries as be-
fitting of warrior.
Most troublesome and Enthusiastically Of all the
tribes of northern Luzon are the Hongots, OF the
subprovince OF Nueva Vlscaya. There are not
more than 5000 5000 of them, but they inhabit
a vast region, most Of It very mountainous and
almost wholly covered by virgin forest. Often
their settlements merely temporary and
they are hard to get at. Enormous distances sepa-
rate their villages, which in the remote
regions continue to fight among themselves. These
were the people who not long ago murdered DR..
William Jones while he was engaged in making
chronological notes among them Nevertheless.
trails being pushed into the heart of their
country; two or three government exchanges"
have been established; industrial schools being
started for their benefit, and efforts are being
made to induce them to extend their agricultural
operations-partly for the sake of rendering their
communities more stationary.
One should realize that the continual warfare
that has been going on for centuries among the
tribes in the wild mans territory Of Northern
Luzon has been due mainly to lack of acquain-
lance among the people, Every stranger being
regarded enemy, 1t a matter Of course
that each village should be at with the neigh
boring villages, and head-hunting was an import
ant part of the regular business OF every able
bodied male citizen. The filling of the rice pad
dies and sweet potato fields could be carried on
with safety only under armed guard-heads of
women and children being not less desirable
trophies than those Of men. For doing away with
this situation Of affairs the most effective means
has been the building of roads and trails by which
the tribes have been brought into communication
with each other, thus having an opportunity to
become friends. Ifugaos, Kallngas and Bontoc
Igorots work side by side with pick and
shovel, instead of hunting each other with head
axes.
1t is, in fact, veritable social revolution that
is being accomplished. All of the Mountain Prov
ince is being literally gridroned with trails and
roads. the most inaccessible districts being open
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21
BURNED AND ITCHED BADLY

500 Lincoln Park Blvd, Chicago, III.
IA year ago received a very severe
burn on my left arm. caught cold in
1t and it was all sore and liberated.
The sore was as large as silver dol
lar. 1t was all red and infamed and
had pus running out of 1t. / suffered
terribly from burning pain; could not
sleep for two weeks it burned and
itched so badly. / applied - Salve,
-'---- Salve and salve my druggist
recommended as his own, but got no
relief. I then commenced using the
Cuticura Soap and Ointment. / bathed
the burned parts with Cuticura Soap
and applied the Cuticura Ointment on
linen bandage. / got relief from the
first, and my arm healed nicely. was
soon able to be at work again. Had
used Cuticura Soap and Ointment at
first l would have avoided lots Of suf-
fering." (Signed) Harry Junke, Mar
9, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Add. post
card "Cuticura, Dept L, Boston" Adv.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21

10 go TO the hospital but was compelled to do So.
receiving the one injection requisite. Then he
began to complain bitterly that no medicine was
being put on his sores. But the effect OF the
drug soon manifested itself, and he went about
town exctedly demonstrating his improved con-
dition to all who would look. Some days later he
disappeared and the doctor was much disap-
pointed, because he wanted him for an object
lesson to convince others Of the efficiency OF the
treatment To the great surprise of the hospital
staff he turned up again soon afterward with thr-
teen other sufferers from "yaws," whom he had
brought a distance of fifty miles from his native
village in order that they also might be cured.
In Benguet the wild people are building school
houses and sending their children to them. The
boys are taught to construct looms. and the girls
to use them for making cloth Each girl, on com
pleting her course of education, takes her loom
and returns to her own village. thus extending her
newly-acquired knowledge OF weaving to her fam
lily and friends. At Bua is an Igorot girls school
in which the pupils not only make CLOTH but
manufacture articles of clothing for sale. Baguio,
the capital of Benguet is growing by rapid strides
and new and substantial buildings are springing
up on every side.
Useful plants and particularly vegetables, includ-
ing the Irish potato. are being placed in the hands
of the wild people. Their agricultural methods at
present entail great labor with limited results,
They patiently clear a forest tract with bolos,
turn over the soil with primitive implements, and
of weeds drives them to fresh areas, where the
performance has to be repeated What the Ameri.
cans propose to do is to provide them with mod
tools of husbandry, and with carabaos when
ever possible.
A point by means TO be lost sight Of is the
fact that these wild people Of Luzon are not saw
ages OF ordinary type. Not only is their physi.
cal development superb, probably surprising that
of any other race of human beings in the world,
but they highly intelligent and even clever.
Given the advantage Of two or three generations
of such educational opportunities are now being
afforded them by the Americans. and they will
far exceed in intellectual qualifications the Fill
pinos of Manila and other coast towns Indeed,
II does not at all unlikely that in the future
they, rather than the Filipinos, will become the
dominant race in Lu2on, controlling the affairs
of the island and oven those of the whole archi-
pelago in case we should voluntarily surrender
sovereignty. In the meantime while trying to
uplift them in the scale OF civilization. the gov
eminent Of the United States is making every eff
fort to protect them against civilizations evil in
huences-e especially the drink and diseapes which
have undermined the moral and physique Of
many primitive peoples on coming into contact
with the corrupting Caucasian.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21
WOMAN WORKS OUT PROBLEM
Mrs. Sarah Erickson Declares the Hen
Lays an EGG AZ the Same Hour
She Was Born,
What time O. day
nnpa a hon lazy


That question has puzzled poultry
fanciers for unnumbered decades, but
now, 1t seems, 1t has been satisfactor-
lily solved by woman. She is Mrs.
Sarah Erickson of Falconer, N. Y.
Having kept chickens for 81 years,
she believes she qualities as an expert
in this line Of effort
Il have worked out the problem"
she declares. by using marked leg
bands, trap nests and alarm clocks at
tached to the nests have determined
that hen lays an egg at the same
hour, minute and second that she was
born, or, rather, Matched. For In
stance, II the hen happened to be able
to peck its way through its she'll at
7:43 a. m, she will lay an egg at pre-
cisely 7:43 a. m. And she will do this
without variation every time she is In
clined to lay. / have kept close, sys-
tematic watch on my hens for five
years, and l have never known the
rule to fail"
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21
VERIFIES LEGEND OF SERENA

sole survivor of the once sacred sis
terhood was one aged vestal.
Serena. finding the treasures OF the
house practically unguarded, stripped
from one OF the sacred statues a large
jeweled necklace that hung about its
neck The aged vestal could do no
more than soiemnly curse the intrud-
er. The emperor Honorius, who was
the son-iniaw Of Serena, took no steps
TO punish the offender.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21

The French ministry of public works
is endeavoring to have the govern
ment adopt the system of reckoning
time on railways by the use of the
hours from to "a, instead of IL noon
to IL midnight. This system has al
ready been adopted by many CONT
mental railways and has been in op-
Grafton for years on the Canadian Pa
cifc railway.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21
American Tools Preferred.

A favorite sport in New Zealand, as
also in Australia and Tasmania, is
competition in wood chopping and
saving; and in these contests, which
attract a great deal of interest, the
championships are always won
through the use of American tools.
In fact, the expert woodsman wording
for a prize would never think OF US
ing any other kind of tools.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21

When Alaric the Goth was besieg-
ing Rome, years afterward. Serena
was condemned to die, because she
was believed to have held reasonable
correspondence with the Goths. and
was strangled.
This ia the story Of Serena's theft
Of the sacred necklace. Now for the
veriiication OF at least part of It.
The house of the vestal virgins of
Rome was within recent years discov.
cred and exposed to view by tho
picks and spades OF psychologists
Among the statues found was enc,
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21

and one only, which bore the marks
of having been decorated with real
necklace, which had been violently
torn away. The fastenlngs still ex.
listed to show its size and che posi-.
tions Of it's great pendant jewel.
This portrait-statue dates nom the
fourth century, and It is not impos-
sible that this is the very statue that
Serena robbed.--Exchange
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21
Recent Excavations In Rome Confirm
story Of Woman's Theft Of
Sacred Necklace.

The story is told that in the latter
mart OF the. fourth century, when the
roman world had become more or
Isss. Christianized. Serena, the wife Of
the great vandal chief, stilicho, visit
IA the almost deserted house Of the
xestal virgins at Rome, in which the
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21

ed up. A through route for horseback
travel has been nearly completed all
the way from Southern Benguet to the
extreme northern end of LuZon. Tele-
graph and telephone lines are being
extended over hundreds of miles OF ter
ritory, and the watch towers on lofty
peaks, hitherto occupied by native sen.
tinels on the alert for raiding bands OF
head-hunting foes, are deserted.
At Bontoc Capital of the sub-prov-
ince of the same name), wonderful
improvements are being made Here
where half a dozen years ago no white
man could have ventured without an
armed escort, the men and boys are
being taught brick-making and lime
burning. A deposit Of magnificent
clay for the purpose was found near
the river, with unlimited quantities OF
sharp sand suitable for building near
by; also limestone. Today the people
of the entire village of Minac. In that
neighborhood. are burning lime and
furnishing it to the government OF
Bontoc Province They are becoming
independently rich at the business.
These facilities, with unlimited la.
Dor obtainable for nothing under the
system of the ten-day tax. make build.
ing work exceedingly cheap. A large
brick school house and a brick club
house, as well as a building for the
offices of the provincial government,
OF stone and brick, have been put up
at Bontoc; also a prison for wild folk
who misbehave themselves, and
small, but thoroughly up-to-date, hos
pital. A canal has been constructed
incidentally to furnish the town Of
Bontoc with an abundant supply Of
pure mountain water.
It is expected that the hospital will
be OF inestimable usefulness. Most of
the wild people seem heartily willing
to give up their ancient custom OF
curing physical ailments by human
and animal sacrifices, and come to the
doctor showing a touching confidence
in the ability OF the white man to give
them help. Packages of simple RENE
dies, with small pamphlet Of directions
in English and the more important ma
tive dialects, are distributed among
the villages; likewise large quantities
of ouinine and other safe and useful
drugs.
A recently discovered drug has been
found to be a specific for the very I'M
pleasant tropical disease called
"yaws." 1t happened that Bontoc
Igorot. afflicted with II, was unwilling
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21
Importent 40 Mothers
DIaturhlnu.

mora, is my husband homer"
Eyes, mum; he's in the library,
workin'."
Then wake him and tell him ]
want to see him."-Satire.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21

idrs. winsIow-s sooth.=S Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inhamme-
iIon allays pain, cures wind collie, Csc a bottle.
Adv.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21

No thoughtful person uses liquid blue
It's a pinch Of blue in a large bottle of wa
ter. Ask for Red Cross Ball Blue, the blue
that's all blue. Adv.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21

1t is useless to take u vacation If
you are weary from everest.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21

Nearly 5000 students from foreigl
countries studied at American lrstitr
lions OF higher learning In 1911
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21

The man behind the pillow makes
more of a stir in the world than the
chap behind the hoe.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-21

rink warm blood, and indulge Tor
have done so until recently an appe-
tite for wholesale homicide.
AS a means of civilization (under
the direction of our war Department.,
trade is being developed among these
wild folk, In the past it has been nee
essary for them TO make long journeys
to the coast towns, to buy salt, cloth,
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-15

proposition TO compromise the suit
betweeH The Levep Board and Stuk-
ley and Henderson. Carried.
The following resolution was of
fafed by II. L. Heilperin seconded
by J. NJ. Robinson:
Resolved. That the Pure Oil Oper=
ating Company be granted an exten-
sion Of four months on its eleven
acre lease in Section /, Township 20.
Range i6. in consideration Of its be-
ginning within 10 days The drilling
of well in The northeast quarter
OF southeast quarter Of Session 1.
Township 20. Range 10 on 50 acre
lease from this board. Carried.
The Board then adjourned subject
10 call Of The president.
=. A. DICKSON. Pres.
f. n. KEHLEY. See.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-15
SPINAL MENINGITIS
There Has Been Provoked Unneees-
sary Alarm and Apprehension In
Shreveport.-ToD Much Tsls.

The Caucasian iS never sensation
al. II may be too conservative 10
meet the views Of the exeitable elaas
but il is deliberate in reaching con-
illusions. II Is never an slarmist.
In The excitement incident 10 the
present alarm Of spinal meningitis
in Shreveport. ii has been cool end
deliberate. II opposed the quaran-
tine for the reason that quarantine
is q relic Of barbarism and that II ia
not possible TO have an effective
quarantine except aI The EXCLUSION
Of all kinds of traffic by railways
and modern convenienees.
Prccaution is better than guarsn-
time. which is expensive and not. ga
a rule satisfactory nor efficient.
sanitation is one o! the 81
and best of preventatives. The So.
cord Of eases disclose that The great
est number Of victims come from
negroes and white people who have
no regard for sanitation. There are
som" exceptions which are isolated
and rare.
Since HE beginning og The nota-
lion oi eases in Shreveport !or the
year including today and beginning
June q. 1914. there has been
sixteen cases reported and recorded
by the Shreveport Board o? Health.
OF the victims, all being negroes,
Seven are dead. OF The victims one
came from Greenwood. one from
Dixie, one from Dallas, one from
Bossier City and one from Furrh.
La.
In each ease The report IL ''sani-
tary conditions bad"
I'm The face of these facts there is
moi nor should there be any alarm
nGr apprehension. II there was
The Caucasian would not hesitate te
inform tlie people Of The danger.
II is fact thai meningitis has al
ways prevailed in Shreveport.
IN 1900 there were four deaths
from this disease.
IN 1910 there were four deaths
from this same cause.
All these deaths we're reported
in The moriuary records published
each week by the Shreveport Board
of Health and there was then no
excitement. no alarm. no appreben-
sion.
The trouble with the people is
IN TOO much unnecessary agitation,
TOO much talk Of meningitis. Keep
cool aud do not worry over menin-
gifts.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-15
sherifr'a Sale
No. i5. .765--in the First Judicial Dis
triet Court of Gaddo Parish. Lou
isiana. Frank 4. Blanchard vs. Mary

No. i5. .765--in the First Judicial Dis
triet Court of Gaddo Parish. lou
isiana. Frank 4. Blanchard VS.. Mary
Smith.
BY virtue uf q writ Of seizure and
sale 10 me directed from tie Honor
able tile First Judicial District Court
.ef Caddo Parish, Louisiana, in the
above numbered and entitled cause,
4 have seized and vii offer for sale
al public auction for cash and with
out the benefit of appraisement, at
the principal front door Of the Court
House of Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
during The legal hours of sales on
SATURDAY. MARCH %. 1912
The north half Of lot two and The
south half Of LOT three with front
age Of 10 feet on st. paul ST. running
black 10 the alley i3a feel more or
less. Of The Mt. Zion Subdivision Of
the city Of shreveport, Gaddo Par
isl. Louisiana as per map in Book
30, page 30. records Of Caddo Parish,
Louisiana, together with all the
buildings and improvements there
on. said property seized as belong
ing TO The above defendant and TO be
sold for cash to pay and satisfy The
debt as specified In said writ. say III
the sum of Four Hundred and Forty
six and 25-iO0 dollars, with eight per
cent per annum interest thereon
from December 22, 1906, less a cred
it of twenty-five dollars paid there
on on May 10. 1908. and all costs OF
this suit, as well as ten per cent on
said principal and interest as attor-
|ney's fees. ]. p. FLDURNOY,
Sheriff, ex-Offlcio Auctioneer
Caucasian, Feb. 10, 1912.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-15
sher,ff's Sale

No. i5.760-in the First Judicial Dis
.rict Court of Caddo Parish. LOU
isiana. Shreveport Mutual Build
ing Assn. VS.. Succession of Effie
George.
By virtue Of writ of Fieri Faeias
TO me directed from the Honorable
the First Judicial District Court Of
Caddo Parish, Louisiana, in the
above numbered and entitled cause
| have seized and will offer for sale.
at public auction for cash and with
out the benefit Of appraisement, at
the principal front door Of the Court
House of Caddo Parish. Louisiana,
during the legal hours Of sales. on
SATURDAY. MARCH %, 1912
Lot eight and the half of lot nine
lying next 10 and adjoining said lot
eight in Block u Of the Texarkana
Annex in the City of Shreveport,
Louisiana. as per map filed and re-
corded in Conveyance Book II. page
|22 Of the recorders office of Cad
do Parish. together with the build
ings and improvements thereon. said
property seized as belonging 10 the
above succession and 10 be sold for
cash, without the benefit OF ap.
|praisement 10 pay and satisfy tht
ldebt as specified In said writ say il
the sum of Ten hundred and Fort,
and 25-iOO Dollars. with eight pei
cent per annum interest Thereon
from the 22nd day Of April, 1911, 1n.
til paid and all costs of this suit, al
well as five per cent on said sun
land interest as attorneys fees.
| j. p. FLOUHNOY.
Sheriff, ex-OfIicio Auctioneel
Caucasian, Feb. Is, 1912.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-15

instead of anticipating the decree
Of Judge Blanchard which probably
would have been in his favor, Dg-
lesby determined on the cewardly
|unprovoked and brutal assault for
which he may not escape when he
Is called 10 answer before Il jury
in the Criminal Court, on the indict-
ment by the grand jury on bill OF
information which may be filed by
District Attorney Foster when il
trial could take place without IN
necessary delay.
In viewing and in considering this
unwarranted and eowardly assault,
let II be with calm and dispossion-
ale deliberation. Let every citizen
who favors law and order deter
mine for himself whether such
crime should be permitted 10 lag
or should be prosecuted vigorously.
This IL not an ordinary assault. rs
may ereur on The streets between
individuals in aroused passion. 1t Is
defiance Of The law deliberately de-
signed and IL should not bc con
doned nor tolerated in q community
of Law abiding and law observing
citizens.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-15
4. n. kEHLEY. See.
EstrayatI

Taken up by b. F. Hattiff and es-
trayed before me The undersigned
authority. one two=yeaf-old red
steer: no marks or brands: bush of
tail white.
Owner must come forward, prove
property and pay charges or same
will be sold al Blanchard, la. March
10. 1912 al II o'clock according 10
law. e. l.. MCCAIN.
Feb. IL, ,tustiea of paaa.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-15
Nearo Electrncuisd

This morning about Q o'clock Jim
Bigger a negro about 10 years old,
by The Cumberland Tele-
81 enc and 1plegllaph Company was
instantly killed by coming in contac.
with d span wire which was highly
charged with electricity.
The accident occurred at the cor
ner of Louisiana and Cotton Streets
Bigger, who worked in the capac-
ity Of ground man, had ascendet
the pole and was In The act oi
throwing a rope around the pele
when he accidentally grabbed ih'
live wire.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-15
Detective Pinsan

In expressing himself unreserved.
ly on the assault Of his friend and
associate Howard by Hi Oglesby.
Detective pinson said that the fail
ure of the law abiding citizens 10
take public notice Of this outrage
would be discredit TO them. II
was O defiance Of law that should
be resented by every good citizen.
II this crime is permitted 10 go un-
noticed II, q public sense. IL would
|embolden the criIninally inclined 10
attempt TO terrorize by assaults ev-
cry official who would dare do his
duty.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-15
CADDO LEvEE BOARD
0ffieiai Proceedings Of the Session
Held on Wednesday. Feb. IL. 1912

Al special meeting of The Caddo
LeVee Board held al the office of
The Secretary, This the i4tb day Of
February. 1919. there were present
=. A. Dickson. president. ]. W. Dixon.
). N. Robinson, J. J. Lay. II. L. He'll
perrin, ". u. Means and J. n. SEN
tell.
Attorney u. =. Land was present.
On motion The reading OF The min
ute8 "as deferred until nest meet
ina.
On motion bids for construction Of
levee from Twelve Mile Bayou 10
Cross Bayou werc opened with fol-
Iutyiuu pn@tilt.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-15
Albert Mays, Wife Murderer. Sur
rendered

10 the surprise of Sheriff Flour
noy and his deputies, Albert Mays
surrendered this morning. He was
not aware that the suit he wore
when he murdered his wife was in
the possession OF the Sheriff. So is
the bloody knife. The suii Is bloody.
Mays denies having committed the
crime but stated that he had an en-
counter with strange negro he met
when on The track Of the X. G. s
Monday night and during The figh,
1.-The negro stabbed the woman In the
meek.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-15
III Oglesby Relaeased on BOND.

After having been inearcerated In
the parish Jail, Hi Ogiesby was re-
leased yesterday evening on bonds
aggregating 5000. One Is for 800 on
The charge Of woanding less than
mayhem and the other $500 for as.
sault 10 murder. The bonds were
met with the full amount in money.