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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-28

The engagement of the "Whirl of
Society,"" which was one OF the most
important metropolitan hits at the
Winter Garden last season, has been
extended at the Lyric theater, Chi
cago. for two additional weeks. After
the conclusion of the Chicago engage
ment. al Jolson, Ada Lewis, Lawrence
D'Orsay, Fanny Brlce' Maurice, the
cabaret artist. and other faVorites ap-
pearing in the piece, will accompany
the production on a tour of the lead
ing cities. The tour will end in Feb
ruary, after which Mr.. Jolson will re-
turn to New York
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30

Chinese women may be said TO have
walked up first in their feet. That is 10
say, one of the most profoundly infu-
entail movements looking toward their
development has been the movement
agitated by the Tien Tau Hui, the Nat
ural Foot society. This society was
founded by Mrs Little in 1897. and is
now run by the Chinese themselves.
ALI over China women are throwing
away foot bandages, and there is a
Natural Foot society in nearly every
town. Meetings are held. tracts are
circulated, and officials are appealed to
in the effort to spread education on the
subject Put even wifi fifteen years
OF agitation reform comes but slowly
in China, and In 1910 an English au-
thority on the subject estimated that
95 per cent of the Chinese women were
still bound Golden lilies. the Chinese
gentlemen call these deformed feet,
Edward Allsworth Ross. the sociolo-
gist, calls them sacrifice Ito the per
verted tastes of men,"
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30
NIarshaI's Sale.

No. 1861 In the City Court of
Shreveport, La: Irving Stokes
VS.. John Frazier.
BY virtue of a writ of fieri facias,
issued in the above entitled and
numbered suit, by the Honorable L.
G. Blanchard, judge of the City
Court, Shreveport, La, and to me
diperted. / have seized and will sell
at public auction, at the Texas
street front door Of the court house
of Caddo Parish, La, between the
legal hours for sales, on
SATURDAY, JUNE 20 1912,
Lot No. 1, block No. 2, Pecan Grove
Subdivision of the City OF Shreve-
port, Fourth Ward Of Gaddo Parish,
La. Said property seized as belong
ing to defendant and to be sold to
pay AMI satisfy the debt specified in
said writ. say the sum of $500, with
interest from July %, 1908, at 8 per
cent per annum land 10 per cent at
lorney's fees, and all costs of suit,
Terms Of sale cash, with benefit of
appraisement.
G. r. GERALD,
May Is, 1912. City Marshal.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30

more than hfty small. struggling col
ieges. because he believed the small
college afforded poor young people the
best chance. He also gave largely to
charity and foE fifty years aided young
men to get an education.
DR.. PearSonS gave away every dol
lar of his big fortune. reserving only
small life annuity to keep his soul
and body together till death
He was doubly successful.
Many men have known the salts
faction of making much money. Few
have known both the JOY and pride OF
the victor In making a fortune and the
pride and joy of the philanthropist in
giving every bit Of II away. He was
twice successful.
He lived completed life.
Which Is a rare accomplishment
Death when 1t comes to most men
finds them with unfinished plans, or.
if their plans are successfully worked
out, there yet remains the problem Of
the successful administration Of their
affairs when they shall be dead. They
heap up riches knowing not who will
gather it, They know the lawyers
will gather some. And they fear lest
the heirs may dissipate the remainder.
DIR. Pearsons was his own executor.
He successfully administered his es-
tate while living. And be had the
pleasure in the disbursement of his
wealth of seeing the good it would do.
His money went where he wanted it
to go and for the good of mankind
Successful old man!
He went to the limit Of benevolence-
Other millionaries give away money.
but--not all Of it. Some of them can
not keep up with the natural increase
and are in grave danger Of 1.-The dis
grace of dying rich" Giving all. DR..
Pearsons, of all the rich men Of his
day. was the one successful giver.
Success?
Success is like pyramid. Broad at
the base. broad as the thronging mil
lions who live their little day and
win or fail Towering upward. its
form Darrows and scattered along its
sides are the few who have been fairly
successful. At its top-their bright
figures lit up with the pure sunshine
of merited fame-are the very few who
have lived a completed aud successful
life.
OF these the gentle hearted mona
genarian who died in Chicago was one
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30
OUT OF TIE WAY

1t is $50 a. N. The street cars are
lined up for a block The clerks had
come down earlier These cars are
filed with the bosses, heads of depart,
ments, professional men. Restless and
fuming. broker cries out, whats the
matter aheadT
Goal wagon down"
"a coal wagon! Can't the company
keep these people off the track? Must
a man miss important engagement
because of these drivers?"
The coal hauler. in order to relieve
his rather weak team, had turned into
the car tracks Warned by the clang-
ing bell he started off. The strain
broke an axle and the wheel smashed
down Traffic was delayed ten min
utes
That was all. except that the driver
would lose two days work and So.
A bagatelie? Let's see.
The loss TO the company. tncor
porated at S5,O0O.OOO is few nickeLs
But the drivers lossf
Capitalize his entire oa.ht AT $50
Wagon, horses and harness are old
How much has he lost?
One thirtieth of his capital.
A railroad company capitalized at
$150,0O0,0O0 has disastrous wreck
loss 100000 The papers make much
Of it. Well. the company loses one
fifteen hundredth of its capital
The railroad company may cut a
small fraction off the dividends at the
end of the year or make up the loss
in some other way. but the coal hauIer
must make up for the loss of the one
thirtieth part of his capital stock by
pinching economy.
Go to his home.
The wreck of the wagon is 20 the
family a real calamity 1t means din
ners without meat. 1t may mean a
failure to pay the rent. And in the
end some bloodsucker may get mort
gage on team and wagon.
Ask the woman
Little Johns coat is getting too worn
and patched for school. His sister
must needs pair of new Shoes Her
old shawl is good enough for "her."
but father sufferers in the bleak winds
because his underclothing has grown
thin.
Aye, drag the old trap off the track
We must get down to business.
And. alas for Christian charity under
the sun. no one of those prosperous
people who passed the sooty faced
driver as he stood by the side of his
battered wreck had perhaps a glm-
mer of thought or pity for his tremen.
dous loss.
We must get down to business.
Out of the wayl
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30
Heart toHea1tt
| Talks. /
HER GREAT LOVE
By EDWIN 4. NYE

The Lord do so to me and more also
If aught but death part thee and lie.
If it is difficult to choose between a
thousand stories of heroism in that
night when the Titanic went down, one
story stands out graphic and luminous.
the story of the great love of the wife
of Isidor Straus, the New York philan-
thrOpist.
She refused to save her life. prefer
ring to die with the husband of her
youth,
She was urged to go. Almost they
rompeied her to go. Her husband,
who had chosen manly death for
himself and who spurned all offers Of
safety so long rs women and children
remained. added his pleadings, begging
Mrs Straus in the name of their chill
dren and grandchildren to go to the
boats.
She chung TO her husband.
Had they not come down the Gears
together. sharing each others WS
and joysi And she loved him now no
less than in the days of their pliGhted
troth. She was bound to him by tender
ties that even death could not loosen.
He was her lover Together they had
come thus far; together they would 60
And she refused all aid.
Think what this woman did. If she
would leave her husband to his certain
fate, ahead of her stretched out years
of ease and comfort in her old age.
Ahead Of her II she would go were the
love and care of her children. the pratt
tie of grandchildren. peaceful years
Close at hand was horrid death.
And this delicate woman deliberately
disdained the offer of the years. II
life meant separation from her other
self she passionately chose death And
so. with her arms about her beloved.
she GLADLY went down with him.
Only one picture?
Yes, but among all which the world
| will love to remember of that time
that tried mems souls and the souls Of
women will be that radiant. appealing
picture silhouetted against that dark
night of terror, the picture of the great
hearted woman who, loving her own.
loved him to the end.
Oh. weary, stated woman; oh. iistless
husband. crying out in your complain,
ings Of the marriage bonds that chafe,
look on this lasting. vivid picture of
conjugal fidelity. strong and holding
fast In the hour and article of death!
What may we write under It'll
What more significant words than
those of another woman of this race.
Ruth, the Moabitess:
Where thou diest will die. and
there will be buried"
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30

prospected for ore The claim proved
Il valuable one. hanks WAS as happy
as man could he " no ha,, good red
blood, u tine financial prospect and Il
letter from his sweet heart in his
pocket,
One day at noon. just after reading
bis sweetheart : letter. which some one
had brought up the hard mountain
trail to the lonely cabin Hanks picked
up a box of dyuauite caps which had
lain in the sun. The slight jar did the
rest
BY miracle he escaped instant
death
He was thrown ten feet away and
when he arose both eyes were gone
and where his hands had been were
bleeding stunps- His PARTNER, looking
upon him. screamed and cried like II
child Recovering himself. ne gcc
Hanks to the cabin, where be bound
his arms tightly above the elbow to
stop the bleeding.
1t was six miles to Il Telephone.
All that afternoon Hanks lay alone.
having as sole companion Il little dog.
When help came they got him 10 IL
hospital at Provo, where they saved the
remnant of him. His SWee,h heart came
10 see him. and he released her from
their engagement. What woman would
want both cripple and a blind inan
for husbandf
And then!
Had it been you? n. G. Hanks.
cripple and blind. went to work 10
make a lecturer out of q miuer-and
succeeded He makes return dates
which tells the story of his popularity
And you?
You have two eyes and two hands,
and yet you whine because you have
no chance? Doesn't the duuntlrSs
spirit of N. c. Hanks make yOn
ashamed?
And if you have been unfortunate
doesn't the spectacle of Hanks going
about. keeping sweet and serene.
hearten you somei
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30
A NATIONAL HOLIDAY.

Today is a national holiday. 1t Is
Federal Memorial Day, which is Oh
served throughout the States OF tht
North with military and civic dem
constructions. 1t is on this day thai
the cemeteries are visited by the
kinsmcn and friends Of Federal sol
diers and flowers and eVergroenS
are s(rpwn or deposited over the
graves Of the dead. The ceremonies
are altuncd 10 oratiOms, and the war
between the States Is revived with
the Vigor Of burning eloqucnce, cS
peeialIy by the speakers born after
the end Of The gigantic struggle.
Of recent years there has pre-
vailed broader view of the con
fliet by the men who were the par
Elephants on either side-the men
who experienced all the hardships,
tribuIations of the camp and the
biyouac and the horrors of the bat
tlefields. These men, Federal and
C0nfederates, have crossed hands
over the bloody chasm" and today
when a wreath of green is placed
over the mound of the Blse, there is
dropped some flower and some ever
green on the grave of the Gray.
This feeling as an exemplification
OF a practical brotherhood, is recip-
roeated by the Confederates on their
Memorial Day, June 3, the anniver-
sary of the birthday of Jefferson
Davis, the President of the COnfed-
crate States Of America, a Nation
which if shortlived passed into
Oblivion enshfined in the splendor
OF glorious Cause, only yanquished
by numbers overwhelming.
On The day when the memories Of
the Confederate dead are revived
will flowers and evergreen as the
tokens of love from their kindred,
the mound OF the Federal soldier are
not forgotten.
II is through these observances OF
memorial days that the sting of war
has been blunted and removed, and
when each participant, with an hon
orable record, can recall through
memory the heroism of men whose
deeds have lustered the records of
history with imperishable Penown.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30
WOLF FANGS,

Ever read White Fang" Jack Lon
don's companion story to his Call Of
the Wild?'
The latter story, you will remember.
shows how dog gently reared, hav-
ing been stolen for the Klondike
sledge trail and most cruelty treated.
escaped to the wolves and became as
savage MS they. White Fang shows
the opposite-the force of kindness
and good surroundings
Briefly. this is the tale:
White Fang is part wolf. He fights
from mere inherent love of lighting
and Is savagely cruel. He falls into
the hands Of Weeden Scott. master
whose kindness to the vicious brute
seems thrown away. Scott persists In
bis steady gentleness and finally finds
the one soft spot under the hide of
the little beast.
The discovery Is made thus:
The master leaves the wolf dog for
a few days. Although hitherto White
Fang never has responded to SCOTS
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30
IN OUR IGNORANCE.

Said a woman Of my acquaintance:
Last year my husband was i'll. and
now my daughter is threatened with
tuberculosis. Living expenses are high.
and my husbands salary is only $1,000
year Why should We be put into
the world to suffer SO? Life is really
not worth the living sometimes"
This woman lived in her own house
and had never lacked for the necessa-
ries Of life.
Now
The problem OF suffering, like that of
sin, Is an old one, but to think one Is
luckless beyond others is wrong. One
has only to look about him to find
many of his fellows worse off.
Privation? Suffering?
Why, this woman had never lived in
ramshackle tenement up rickety
stairs. Her husband never had come
home from the saloon around the cor
ener with empty pocketbook and loaded
with liquor to drive her with curses to
the street.
Deprivation?
This complaining woman did not live
i'm two room and closet apartment.
where you buy coal by the scuttieful.
bread by the half loaf and ice by the
pound delivery.
Poverty?
She had never haunted the butcher
shops late on Saturday night, when the
very poor do their pitifui shopping. to
buy for almost nothing the remnant
that will not keep until Monday-to
purchase for a penny or two soup
bone or neck Of mutton.
No. She did not know.
She did not know that to find a quar-,
ter of a dollar for the slot of the gas
meter may become q financial problem
and that the monthly rent day may
become real tragedy.
No.
She never hal heard her children cry
Of cold In the winter nor moan of thirst
in the summer time. She never had
partly to starve living child to pay
the funeral expenses Of a dead one.
Now
| make no doubt my complainant
scarcely would believe that thousands
live the life | have limited at. because
lone half the world does not know
how the other half lives"
That's the point we complain out of
ignorance.
We. all of US. are like the woman
We have our troubles and visitations
but it is only necessary that we should
go along the street with wide open
eyes to find dozens of people whose
condition is infinitely worse than ours.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30
TO THE MAN OF FORTY

1t is the common saying that unless
man has succeeded in life by the
time he is forty years of age he never
will succeed
The statement is TOO broad
1t is untrue
The facts do not sustain il.
A study of the lives of the success
full will show that success comes to
most men after rather than before
forty. Is it financial success? Who,
save BY speculation, has amused a
fortune before he was for1t?
Or politics.? Few get moresfhan fair
~ started in politics before that age
He who goes to the United States sen
ate at City is rated as & young mem
Der.
Or merchandise or literature or art
or the professions7
Most of us at forty are ouly just
ready for successful endearer We
have made our mistakes and learned
of experience. We have discovered
our right place in fife and our Iimka
tions fears have matnred Judgment
and the brain stands guard over the
passions
Life and literature TEEN with illus
trations OF sncress at forty. fifty. sixty
seventy. even ninety
Fortunate Is he who IS In tho wat ssf
success II the age Ut forty Fortunate
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30
Judicial Sale.

No. i,60I6- In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, Ia:
William Thomas ct al VS.. Alfred
chatham ct al.
BY virtue of a commission to sell
CT ne directed from the Honorable
First Judicial District Court of Cad
do Parish, Louisiana, in the above
numbered and entitled cause. will
FIR for sale at paGii, auction !nr
cash and according to law, at the
principal front door of The court
house OF Caddo Parish, La, during
The legal hours for sales, on
SATURDAY. JUNE Is, 1912.
Lots eight, nine and ten, Bowman
Lane subdivision of the City Of
Shreveport, Gaddo Parish, Louis
lana, with all the buildings and inn
proyenents thereon. Said property
IL be sold as belonging to the par
lies litigant for cash according !,
Ian for the purpose of effecting a
partition. Up. FL0URNOY,
Sheriff. ex0fficio Auciioneer.
Caucasian, May "A, 1912.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30
The Story of a Thirteen Dinner.

AFTER thirteen years." writes Marie
Won CHASER, 81 feel that may tell "A
story of the fatal number" and de-
scribes a dinner given by Johann
Strauss, the waltz king, at his home
In Vienna, at which she sat between
the host and Paul Lindau. The com
pany consisted of men and women
"who had something to say and who
knew how to say it," and the flow Of
merriment was at food tide when Ad-
albert Won Goldschmidt. who had been
detained at the theater, appeared. 10
his question, May | come in so later
there came cheerful Yes and be
found a place at the table Then
Strauss turned to him and said hoarse
ly, We are thirteen and to change the
number the little daughter was
brought in and placed at side table
We are still thirteen said the master.
The result is inevita ble' That was at
Easter, and we laid the earliest June
roses on his bier"
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30
THE WAY OF The WORLD.

Oscar Hammerstein, London:
/ have quarreled with Alphonse, the cat
il dead. and the stove has gone out
SUZANNA DUMESNIL.
Behind the cablegram printed above
is the story told by theatrical writer
"a typical story of human life.
Every year Oscar Hammerstein used
to go to Europe, looking for ong birds
for his opera.
In Paris he heard Susanna Dunes
nil. a famous French soprano. and
said to her. II want you." In add
ton to buying her release from her
manager he offered a big salary.
Struggling her shoulders. Dumesnil
said:
Leave my so dear. Parish Neyaire!
Why should leave my Alphonse, who
loves me; my cat. that / adore. and my
good, warm little stove7"
Why indeed?
There are other things In life aside
from dollars. And Dumesnil knew
that very well.
And yet
Ola luOutuS IdleE Tic oOpIduO was
swaying audiences In grand opera.
London And the discriminating said
they could detect In the wonderful
voice a new undertone of sadness.
All, me!
Alphonse had proved false, and the
cat was dead. and the little stove was
cold.
What was it somebody said when he
first heard Jenny Lind? Break her
heart and she will sing divinely."
Well, and somebody did break her
heart.
1t Is the way Of the world
The way of disillusion
When Alphonse is true and the cat
purs on the hearth and 10 Gre In the
little stove burns brightly. then does
life ahead look like radiant morn.
ing. But
Comes q day when the fire. is but
ashes. and there is no sweetheart true.
and the poor cat Is dead. The mirage
has risen The rivers of Joy have
lost their runnels In iife's desert places
Well. WE'LL
1t may be that some sweet day Jules
will Gil the heart that Alphonse left
empty. and another kitty will sing
and the Ere in the little stove win
flame up again.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30
Worried Over Alfonso.

Although every effort is being made
to keep the fact secret, it has be-
come known that the condition of
King Alfonso is giving the Spanish
royal family much anxiety The king
is suffering from a nose and tbroa
afiiction. which makes frequent opera,
lions necessary. Affairs of state in
Spain have weighed heavily upon the
Spanish monarch recently. and these
have added to the burden of i'll health.
The king has been advised to spend
as much time as possible outdoors. 70
avoid as far as possible the duties Of
state and to give up cigarette smoking
Madrid Letter.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30
Revolt of the kaiser's Daughter.

REVOLT OF IHS iS'ftS''
Before setting out for Vienna and
Venice William H.. emperor of Ger
many, awaited at Berlin his daughter.
whom he calls his best boy. She re
turned from Switzerland, whore she
made, according to the official version,
a sojourn for health, The gossip of
the German court says this was really
q lark to escape from the presence of
the grand duke of Mecklenburg- Sire
litz, to whom they wish to marry Der
without her consent The emperor and
empress were at the station when she
arrived. Hardly had the train stopped
when the princess hastily descended
from the coach and, throwing herself
impetuously into the arms OF her
father. exclaimed. Il will not marry
himr' The emperor, smiling enigmatic-
ally, responded. Il shall occupy myself
with this alliance after the others. 1t
is now said that this marriage can
never take place, as the grand duke
has withdrawn from the field. The
kaiser has taken the princess to Italy.
and travel sometimes changes ones
ideas.-Cri de Paris.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30
Judicial Sale.

No. tJ,894-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court Of Caddo Parish, La:
Mrs. Amelia Metcaif and Husband
rs. 5 II. BOazman, ct al.
By virtue of a commission to sell
10 me directed from the Honorable
First Judicial District Court of Cad
do Parish, Louisiana, in the above
numbered and entitled suit, l will
offer for sale at public auction for
cash and according to law, at the
principal front door of the court
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30
zg1llsb2sQ tls!stlstz & d & & 0.6 004066

mouse OF Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
during the legal hours for sales on
. SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1912,
South half of northwest ouartar md
north half of southwest quarter of
section one, township fifteen north
range sixteen west, with all build.
lngs and improvements thereon.
oald property to be sold as belong
ing to the parties litigant, for cash.
aecofaing TO law, to effect a parai-
'iol. ]. P. FLOURNOY,
sheriff, ex-officio Auctioneer.
Caucasian, April q, 1912.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-30
He Measured the Earth.

Dr. Louis A. Bauer. the first man to
measure accurately the earth. has re
turned to Washington. after travelling
around the globe for the last two years
and a half devoting himself to the
undertaking. For his purpose be used
the famous nonmagnetie ship Car
negie The absence of magnetic metals
aboard the ship makes possible the ex-
tremely accurate observations which
VIII be used when completed TO rectify,
orrors on the mariners chart.