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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-03-03

Of a freight train which had plunged
into the stream. -s-.
Miss Shelly and her mother were at
home alone.
Against the protest Of her mother
Kate. who at that time was but fifteen
years of age. lighted lantern and
started for the wreck 1t wax a black
night. and she reached the bank OF
the creek under great difficulty
Arriving. she was attracted by the
cry Of the engineer. who was the only
survivor Of the wreck and was cling
ing to tree.
Then she thought of the night ex
press which was almost cIe. To save
the train she must cross the Des
Moines river bridge. already beginning
to trembIe from the food. and get to
Moingona station.
She ran mile to the bridge. and
then her lantern went out. leaving her
in pitch darkness. The bridge was
400 feet long and swung fifty feet
above the river. 1t swayed under the
impact of the waters.
The heroic girl crawled on her hands
and knees along the periious struc-
ture. praying for strength. Flashes of
lightning revealed the lettering bridge,
and the swollen waters added terror
rather than assistance.
Somehow she crossed the bridge and
got to the station just in time to warn
the train. dropping PROSTATE.
In 1882 the Iowa legislature voted
her medal and 5000. The North
western railroad made her station
agent at Moingona for life.
Today the finest bridge on the main
line of the Northwestern road. over
the Des Moines river. near Moingona.
is named the Kate Shelly bridge
She never married. and when she
died at the railroads hospital last
month. a private car bore her body
home to Moingona.
And that's ALL
But so long as the waters Of the Des
Moines river shall flow beneath the
Kate Shelly bridge. the heroism of the
brave Irish lass shall be told as a
memorial of her.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-03-03
TO A HOUSEWIFE.

AT the end of your long day you are
listless and worn and tired.
Small wonder
There are no union hours for you.
and it is a long stretch from lnorninf.
meal to the after supper darning You
have scarcely stopped to breathe
Not once have you relaxed-w hich is
a mistake
You can learn something from the
Hind0o mother 1t is the invariable
rule of the Hindoo household that the
mother. as well as the children. must
retire fer half hour daily into silence.
relax the muscles. regulate breathing
and mediate on things eternal.
Possibly you cannot give so much
time. but you can give, say. ten min
utes-
IL you tr.-.
You can. il you are So determined.
take few minutes. say. after the
MONDAY meal. lie down. relax your
tired muscles and overtaxed nerves.
Maybe you can doze long enough TO
lose consciousness of your surround
inss for moment or two.
Let the dinner dishes 60.
1t Is not necessary that you should
sleep. Lie down anyway Relax Rest
Ii you will relig;ously observe time
when yon cen relax You will be sur.
prisei. after r time. how fresh you
MI, be when you take up your louise.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-03-03
HeartnHeart
Talks.
THE SLENDER.
By EDWIN A. NYE.

A young man from Wiikesbarre. Pa.
went tc New York city and spent 5000
In a day and night-because he wanted
to be a millionaire for day"
He arrived on a special car. had "a
time" according to his standards. and
went home broke" but Boosting
Silly chap.
Does he suppose milIionaires have
nothing to do but blow in money Oh
riotous living? The average rich man
is too busy making more money to in
dulge in dissipation. He does not go
the pace because he cannot afford it.
He is seeking money. not diversion.
This young man of Wilkesbarre says
he inherited the 5000,
That makes the matter worse. That
money represents somebody's sweat
and privation. But it was his, you say.
Did be not have the right to spend it
as he chose? Legally. yes; morally
No,
That money is part of the accumulat
ed assets of a working social order.
Morally he is bound to use it as trust.
Six hundred dollars. 1t would feed
1900 hungry children. 1t would buy
somebody a modest home. Instead it
bought only fools paradise for day.
1t requires no more brains to fall into
an inheritance of 5000 than to fall into
mud puddle.
1t requires less brains or merit to
waste 5000 than to earn 60 cents as Il
scavenger or rat catcher. honorable
occupations beside that of the waster.
Any one can waste money
1t requires neither wit nor grit to
play that farce.
But IL takes men of sex TO go into the
crowd at the market place or stand
bare breasted before the furnace fire
or heave clay out of a ditch and get
and use money rightly.
No red blooded man has any right to
dawdle in Turkish baths at S25 per or
play the puppet millionaire by giving
five dollar tips to manicure ladies.
The spender is drone.
He merely eats the honey. He nei-
Their gathers nor spreads the pollen. In
beedom. where they do things properly,
the workers sting the strikers to death
and drag out their bodies
And that poor fool from Wilkes
barre
He adds to the stigma of the spender
the reputation Of the braggart who
boasts of his accomplishment.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-03-03
LET GO!

1 Forgetting the things that are behind.
Paul knew humanity. He knew how
we cling to the things that are behind
and how these things hamper us. They
are like the ball and chain the convict
drags about with him.
We cling to old clothes. The cast
off garments are of no use to us, but
might be to others.
And old letters. Moth eaten, yellow.
they should have been burned years
ago.
And old furniture Slippery old
chairs and couches, grass cloth COW
cred; lame, decrepit stuff that is stored
away because it is DID,
There may be some sentimental ex-
cuse for clinging to old clothes and
letters and garments, but there is none
for harboring old resentments and old
prejudices, cherishing old hatreds and
grievances. keeping alive old disputa-
lions, reviving old chickering's.
Let GO. They are behind. Forget
them.
Why drag such outworn. bygone
trash along with you? Many of the
ills of life can be cured merely by the
method of forgetting them. Why fuss
and fume? You sour your disposition
and put premature lines in your face.
Drop the curtain. You have plenty
of present day problems to keep you
busy.
Paul says, Forgetting the things
that are behind. let us press forward
Forward! That's a great word. Gu
loose from the old troubles. They arr
behind you and cannot be changed
The past is turned from US and sleeps d.
not wake it.
The future is his. with its brambles AMI
flowers.
Let us drop the vain things OF thu
past. Let us cover them over witt
the broad mantle of forgetfulness. LIE
them go-and cling fast to the eterna
veritieS.
Face today with today.
We can make 1t or mar 1t.
The present is ours.
The present is ours Let us not fac
today with yesterday. And not onI
is the present ours, but
The future is ours!
Give away the old clothes and tn
old chairs to those who need them
Make bonfire of the stuff that is use
less. And forget the old pains an
sorrows and hatreds and misundeI
standings.
Let 60. And press forward
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-03-03
KATE SHELLY.

kate Shelly is dead.
The telegram that told of her going
saddened many hearts.
Kate Shelly.
For thirty one years she has been the
ideal heroine Of the northwest and In
ali those years she has lived SO mod
estly and worthily as to confirm the
public's good opinion OF her strong
and gentle spirit.
The story is an old one.
On the night of July 6. 1881. Honey
creek. in Boone county. Ia. became =
torrent and swept away the bridge,
The Shellys were aroused by the crash
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-03-03
A PLEA FOa MRS. ADCOCK

A PLEA For MRS. ADCOCk
In the Shreveport Times, of Feb
ruary 20, in the column Of Letters
from the People, is a plea for Mrs.
Adcock signed by "A Woman
The woman whose name is reser-
we'd from publicity, is unquestion-
ably one of the fair sex whose sym
pathy is not maudlin, but is practi
cal and substantial and is evoked
from the depths of the heart.
There is nothing so easy as to
damn a woman, especially if ignor
ant poor and friendless.
In the plea for Mrs. Adcock, "A
Woman" recalls the tragedy enacted
at the freight depot of the V. S. & P.
which resulted in the acquital of the
woman who killed her paramount.
This woman had deserted her hus-
band and her children in Mississippi.
For this woman there was exhibited
an unlimited range of maudlin SEN
timent.
Under the law this wOman's crime
was murder. She shot and killed her
paramount without giving him
mad dogs chance for his life
The only eXtenuatiOn offered for
this murder was that she had been
mistreated by her paramount, who
had threatened to abandon her.
What of Mrs. AdcOck?
Is she guilty of any crime, except
to have yielded to some seducer, by
whom she was abandoned in her
hour of extremity?
The child which she admits that
she concealed under the floor of
an clubhouse of one Of her rela-
tives' place, was born alive under
the most agrevating and most hOr-
rible of conditions. She was I'M
attended by physician and alone,
exposed to the most rigid Of
an inclement night when people
comfortably situated suffered from
the effect of the cold, clustering
weather.
. Is it surprising that the infant
died after it had drawn few
breaths.
Is ii surprising that Mrs. Adcock,
realizing that her babe being dead,
that she should conceal it.
Is it not reasonable to think that
if the child had lived that she would
have cared for it with all the love
and devotion which springs from
the heart of a mother.
Her condition preceding her ex-
tremity was sufficient to the eye
to fasten upon her the guilt of
shame, but the mother instinct was
there. Why should she murder her
child?
Where is the proof of the act?
Why should Mrs. Adcock be held
accountable to law when there is
no evidence of crime, and when she
has admitted that the child breathed
a little while after it was born, but
when she realized that it was dead,
that with one supreme effort, she
took it and placed it under the floor
ef an clubhouse on the premises of
one of her relatives.
Why not give the woman hel
freedom? ..
IF Such woman as the one who
killed her paramount at the V. S. &
p freight depot was guiltless and
secured her acquittal through a
maudlin sentiment, why should a
poor, ignorant, friendless woman as
is Mrs. Adcock be held in custody
and be called to trial for crime
of which, under every reasonable
consideration she is guiltless.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-03-03
The Yenire

louisiana 1Or GfdnQ jury lOf
term commencing 3rd Monday in
February, 1912 and Petit Jury for
trial of criminal cases for two
weeks commencing On ist Monday
in March, 1912.
For the week commencing March
4, 1912.
4 Garter, C. E. 1 Nash, W. E.
2 Stanley, w. B. 2 Hill, j. w.
Eastwood, L. S. Goldsmith, NJ. J.
Mccain, Earnest4 Howell, John W.
4 Wolff, Robt. 2 Norris, Chas.
Ratcilff, E. R. 4 Enrich, Harry
4 Stoer, C. r. 5 Hill, A. L.
5 Hensley, C. H. s Roby, J. B.
4 Welsh, D. A. Hirsch, E. NJ.
4 Watson, J. G. 3 Lilies, J. w.
2 Caldwell, 0. Y. 4 Raburn, w. Nj.
a Barrow, w. J. 8 Gayle, J. l..
"a Williams, G. q. Bills, C.
2 George, Walter 5 McClurg, Hugh
4 Rusca, R. l.. Terry, Otto
For the week commencing March
IL, 1912.
4 Oden, W. p. West, A. B.
4 Gillespie j. Fl. 7 Romby, ]. r.
1 Davis, j. E. Renfroe, V. A.
I3 Willis, T. w. Fuller, ]. E.
4 Bolin, w. M. 2 Joliff, N. E.
II Moore, G. H. 6 Sylvester, A. R.
1 Caldwell, H. B. 2 Spell, I. S.
| 4 Dickson, M. A. 4 Hale, J. M.
u Stokes, M. @. 4 Skannell, J. A.
| Kern, Chas. 3 Attaway, VIM.
4 Queries, A. Jr. 8 Little, ID. 5.
8 Porter; J. D. Semansky, V. M.
4 McRady, I. G. 4 Lewis, ]. B.
4 Cunning, Leo s Cupples, J.~E.
Dillenberger, Fl. Jr.
Elliott, S. R. C. MONCURE,
LEVI COOPER,
F. H. GOSMAN,
Feb. 5, 1912. Jury Commissioners.
F. A. LEONARD,
Clerk and ex-Officio Jury Commits
| sioner.
A True Copy: F. A. Leonard, Clerk
II you need some stationery Of the
better kind, telephone 1000.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12
'MANOA DEMANDS
INDEPENDENCE"
Improvement Club Considering
Plan for Seeding from Homo
luIu-Want Own City.
lFrom wednesdav's Advertisor.l

| (From Wednesdays S Advertiser,)
Treasonl The inhabitants of Manoa
Valley are planning to quit Honolulu
cold and establish a municipality of
their very own. They are in dead ear
nest, too, and the officers of the Manoa
, Improvement Club are working on
plan to secure the passage of bill
through the next legislature, permitting
the taxpayers to organize all on their
own hook and so get chance to use
the tax receipts of the district for the
| improvement of local Manoa conditions,
under the supervision of the new town 8
own engineers.
| The question of incorporation was
brought up at the quarterly meeting of
the club Monday evening at the resi-
dence of Fred. L. Waldron and was well
| received, although the full details of
the scheme were not explained. Presi-
dent Waldron has appointed commit
/ tee of three to thoroughly investigate
the proposition and to report at an ear
lily date, in order that plan may be
formulated to bring the entire question
before the coming legislature.
The incorporation of Manoa Valley
to include College Hills, Sea View, and
Manoa proper, is proposed along tho
lines of Piedmont, part of the city
of Oakland, California. Piedmont has
! been incorporated and is permitted to
make use of certain amount of its
taxes in improvements to the district,
particularly as to roads, water and sew
er systems. The city has its own mayor
and engineer and board of trustees.
1t was explained to the meeting that
since the incorporation of Piedmont the
property values have increased rapidly
and are in sharp contrast to the values
of property in adjoining districts not
forming part of the corporate section,
AS a central thing the position of may
or is honorary, as far as salary is con-
cerned, the only officer being recon-
pensed for mis- work being the engineer.
The Improvement club considers the
plan practicable and as soon as the re-
port is brought in will bring it to the
attention of other districts of the city.
The somewhat remote situation of
Manoa from the remainder of the city
makes it ideal for the purposes of town
. incorporation and its affairs can cas-
lily be handled under the corporate sys
tenn, say the promoters of the plan.
The Manoa Improvement Club is al
ready father of the "Manoa plan' OF
making direct taxation for the improve
ment of roads, such improvements be
ing lien on property facing upo1
streets so improved. A report wal
, made by G. G. Owen,>wh presented tn,
4 plan to the club several months ago
, that the scheme is now in the Contra
Improvement Committee and is beinj
, taken up by other Improvement club
;. for full consideration. A report win b.
: made through the central committee
a !. embodying the views of all city i'm
provement clubs. If all opinions or
, majority of opinions are favorable, th
plan will be formulated into bill an
. given to the tender mercies of the mex
legislature for action.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12
WAKEFIELD RETURNS.

James Wakefield of T. II. Davies &
Co, and a member of the board of har.
Dor commissioners, returned from a
mainland trip yesterday and viii sit
with the board at its weekly meeting
this afternoon. Mr. Wakefield was un.
able to attend the National Navigation
Congress, owing to business calls. In
the limited time he was in Boston and
New York, however, he looked over
the wharf schemes and there are some
features which he believes VIII fit in
with the plans for the greater Homo
lulu, bargor, particularly in the develop
ment of wharf space.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12
COHEN TO RUN.

Joe Cohen, an avowed Roosevelt man,
but opposed to the organization of a
third party in Hawaii. feels so
strongly on this point that he has an
nounced his candidacy for the senate.
He intended announcing his candidacy
later, but the "third party" proposal
caused him to get into the fight at
the present time. He believes the or
ganization of the "third party"
would destroy the Republican organiza-
tion in the Islands.
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ing an exhibition at Atlantic City upon
his return to this country.
The members of the organization be-
lieve that everyone has now heard of
the great record made for this country
by Duke and will want to have a
chance to see him in action. He will
visit Atlantic City at the conclusion
of the games at Stockholm and as it
will be at the height of the season at
the popular sea coast resort it is ex-
peeted he will make a great hit with
the throngs.
A. ]. Gignoux, of the Merchants AS
soeiation, stated yesterday that tho
members feel that this is an admirable
way to advertise Honolulu in eonaee-
tion with the general promotion work
being carried on.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12

waiian is now almost conceded first
place in the finals.
Only the jayelin throw was completed
in the Olympic games yesterday, the
Swedes winning, as was expected.
Two Americans qualified for the
semifnals in the three heats run of the
500O,meter race. Ten American run
ners qualified in seven heats of the
l500-meter race.
England yesterday won the finals of
the 400-meter relay race, in the pre-
lilninaries of which the American team
was disqualified Monday. Sweden won
second place.
The Merchants Association yester-
day forwarded TO Duke Kahanamoku
one hundred dollars to be used in max
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12

STOCKHOLM, July l0.-Proving
his consistent speed as a swimmer,
Duke Kahanamoku of the American
Olympic team yesterday equaled his
own world S record in the 100 meter
swim and qualified for the finals, which
will be held Saturday The American
athletes are iubilant and the young
Hawaiian is the lion of the hour.
The Americans were permitted to
swim an extra heat following the de-
cision in their favor and against the
protest of the German entries ON the
basis that the heat in which Kahana.
irregular.
TInszagh OF Chicago came in second
in the heat and both he and the win
ner will race in the finals. The Ha-
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12
POET TAKEN ILL.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1O.-Follow-
ing exhaustion due to his efforts at "A
Fourth of July celebration at which he
was orator, Joaquin Miller, "poet of
the Sierras," was reported last night
to be seriously i'll. Physicians are in
attendance and the utmost concern is
felt by his friends and admirers over
his condition.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12
A HOME NECESSITY.

There is one medicine that every
family should be provided with and es-
pecially during the summer months,
viz: Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy. 1t is almost GER
tain to be needed. 1t costs but trife
and never fails to give relief. Can you
afford to be without it9 For sale by
Benson, Smith & Co., Ltd, agents for
Hawaii
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12

vinced that the government will not
accept the bonds as security at their
par value. 81 did not have so much
work to do for the Territory in Wash
ington this time as 1 have usually
found, " he concluded.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12
TAFT TO OPEN
CAMPAIGN
TODAY
Arrangements for the Big
Struggle Are Now
Complete.
THE PRESIDENT WILL STICK
Report of His Withdrawal Is
Denied at the
Capital.
THE PRESIDENT WILL STICK

WASHINGTON, July 1O.-President
Taft will not withdraw from the con-
test for the presidency. On the con-
trary he will today open his campaign,
which will end with defeat or the White
House.
Charles d. Hilles secretary to Presi-
dent Taft, yesterday was named chair
man of the Republican national com
mittee, according to previous arrange
ments. James b. Reynolds is named
secretary of the committee.
Hilies will resign Saturday as secre-
tary to President Taft, and will de-
vote all of his time to Taft S campaign,
in which he now becomes active man
ager, 1t is thought that Taft will not
appoint a successor. Hilles will still
remain a confidential adviser on gov
ernment affairs.
1t is believed that the publicity Civ
en- the proposai to petition President
Taft and Colonel Roosevelt to with
draw from the presidential fight will
circumvent what is declared TO be a
political scheme. Friends of Taft yes
terday stated that they uId not believe
he would withdraw
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Qulnine
Tablets. All druggists refund
the money if it fails to cure.
& w. Groves signature is On
each box
'ARls "EDI7INE co St Louis e
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12

I'm back again from Chicago,
Where went as a delegate
To help the Grand Old Party
Hang on to the ship of state;
hoped to win new titles
Which might increase my fame,
But Crook, Thief. Scoundrel, Robber
Fraud, Burglar, Rascal, Cheat
Thug, Swindler and Pickpocket is
all
That's added to my name.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12
FREAR IS SURE
REAPPOINTM TMENT
Returns rom Mainland to Be
EnguIfed in WhirI of Local
Politics.
(Trom Wednesday s Advertiser.

(F'rom Wednesday S Advertiser)
Having kept to his schedule on the
mainland, performed his financial work
for the Territory and duly attended
the convention at Chicago, Governor
Frear returned yesterday in the Will
helmina to step into the whirl of poll
ties and work.
From every indication as he sat in
his familiar place in the capital yes.
terday, the Governors trip did him
good, physically and politically. To
all intents and purposes he rests as
sured that he is to be reappointed for
the ensuing four-year term. Judging
from what he heard and saw in his con
ferences with the executives of the ma
ton at Washington he believes that
no weight is attached in the capital to
the charges brought against him in
Washington by Kuhio.
Picks Up Burden.
This belief he expressed yesterday
and returned to his local work of ad-
mnistration with the renewed vim com
ing from an assurance that Washington
is behind him. On his desk he has be-
fore him big budget of homesteading
matters, the Punchbowl preference
rights matters, the coming election
work, the preparations for the next
bond moneys and his annual report.
These will keep him busy for the next
three months, and probably occupy his
entire attention.
The first named is a matter of ron
tine only except that it includes the
homestead survey that is going on.
About the convention he said little,
, but what he did say showed that the
delegation from Hawaii of which he
was the head, played a wary game
+ there, pledged to Taft MS they were and
, under the necessity of fighting also for
the Hawaiian party that sent them
) without any particular weapon to fight
/ with.
i With the Governor Is return and that
, of the other delegates and alternates II
! becomes certain that Frenr won He
fcryptcallv explained Kuhio s ahseHce
from the delegation
Afraid of the Band Wagons.
lie was in neither band wagon, .
said the Governor, "and was afraid
VI EbtAlAA- run oNtI hN Que OF tHN
a other of them, -
A whole lot of meaning was crowded
into this statement, but though the
Governor smiled as if he knew it, he
WASH 7 going to elaborate for any thing
/ on earth.
The high and noble game of politics
did not occupy all of the Governor :
, time. He did considerable work
, among the tinanciers in New York, Bos
/ ton, and Chicago and obtained assur-
J.. ances that good premiums would ma.
terialize when the bonds were put on
sale.
: The government will not receive the
new Hawaiian bonds as 100 per cent
security for deposits. The Governor
expects a letter in any mail from the
secretary of the treasury turning down
the Territory S request for this
''Conditions have changed in the
last several years, said the Governor,
yesterday, ''and I found things con-
siderably different than when / visited