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The Caucasian., 1913-12-18
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noDso Leaf ehsIe sos oIoeo'e'pess Ss
80 % ohe Caucasian dloat
on aseIQot t.. sapc eeac9 toon Srus-
lrate.9 lev pho iioicnde0 slctlno, lAe
wife oS % oiIipen whose occupation
frequently c,snpcIs As absence
from his Aome, Whirle is sleuate'3 in
= populous ono desirable district "t
Shreveport
81 was abolY 3 o'c9ocIl G'riday
morning whcs a 0egro named Nr-
thur 0lerk cor Sohnson, aged about
% searsa entered this home through
. window WhicIe he pried and held
open with a stick. shis lady is the
mother OF four small children. cone
of the children being sick she W@s
kept awake nursing it during the
night until about . O'Clock when
she sought repOse. Suddenly she
was startled by The noise produced
bv the opening Of the window, and
as she arose she was confronted by
the negro. who held in one hand a
piece of candle lighted. Or an IN
stanl the lady. Mortified, was seized
bv the negro, who attempte1 10
overpower her, but her resistance in
her desperation frustrated his de-
sign. Che negro becoming fright
ene6 leaped through the open WIN
dow. leaving ON the floor the piece
of candle ho hello lightsN, which
gave ll~ lads the opportunity OF
recognizing him al sight. So DELHI
crate was the negro's design that he
had cut the telephone wires before
his intrusion. which was useless 70
this lady when she attempte6 TO
call her neighbors. u was not until
davbreak that this lady crossed the
street and advised one of her neigh
bors that her home had been eur
cIarizeCl by . negre. but she With
held. on purpose to avoid notoriety,
| the facts Nhico she related t0 he'
husband ON his return nome sunday
morning ilo answer to telegram
| urging him to come st once.
From = description Of toe 0egro
and the csndle spots left oO the
floor and the window sill, the Qo-
lice secured his arrest and i'll hi:
| room were found the shoes he WOr,
on the morning Of the day OF his III
trusiOn, which were covered witt
the droppings from the piece o.
candle.
Fearing a decree from Judge
Lynch, the negro was secreted II
the city cooler and was only PLACED
in the custody of the sheriff yester
/ day. It was impossible to obtall
any information from the sheriff
who when pressed for information
| stated that this negro had bee
transferred to a Jail in another par
, ish.
As this attempt at this dastardl
crime is given publicity the strong
est of resentment is being awak
ened.
The very thought Of an attemI
at such an outrage is revolving.
The Caucasian., 1913-12-18

Denison 60, a fall of 0.8; Arthur
City $50, rise of O.2; White Cliffs
1914: Fulton 26.6, Ringo Crossing 90,
fall of Is; Finley 22.8, fall OF o.2;
Spring Bank 28S, rise of o.: Jeffer-
son 9.s, fall of o.; Shreveport 1870,
a rise Of o..
The Caucasian., 1913-12-18

psrrg Green. . negro, tried by
jury FOR msnsslsghter, is free. His
victim WAs Nomes Wilso&, . negro,
whom he allied ~ . collation. iielu
on q plantation aeaY Caspiana about
a gear ago. Mis- Vles OF aelf-defense
Impressed the Sury fasorably.
The Caucasian., 1913-12-18
3. ~. Visr on Tviaa,

Q. 20. SiSe is oN sriai sodas 6p enc
tGstrict o,ourS, 9udge 8. o. Bell. She
Indictment against him ts embszzls-
,ment. gt will aos DE surprising S
no is acquitted.
The Caucasian., 1913-12-18
Weather Forecast.

Local forecast for Shreveport and
vicinity: Generally fair tonight and
Friday; not much change in tenn
perature.
The Caucasian., 1913-12-18
Shreveport Market.

The market closed steady.
Receipts 1862 bales.
The Caucasian., 1913-12-18
COTTON MARKET

Office of The Caucasian.
Shreveport, La, Dec. i8, 1913.
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Anecdotes Concerning
Well Mmowm P@opl

had been deported to Australia. and had
escaped thence to New York. The ready
young man. in answer to the walters
question. put his forefinger upon his
lip. Hush. he murmured. And he
looked round the room cautiously
1t was at once felt that Labouchere
was the patriot Meagher. And so the
choicest wines were set before him. and.
in place of the modest chop he had
ordered. a luncheon of nine or ten
elaborate courses was brought on
At the end. lighting one of the estab-
lishment's finest cigars. Labouchere de-
manded his bill. His waiter smiled. re-
tired. and soon came back with a big.
handsome mantle proprietor himself.
The proprietor. bending over the youth,
said earnestly.
From one like you, A sufferer in the
good cause ] can take no money. 1t
has been a privilege to serve you, sir.
Permit a brother patriot to shake you
by the hand
And Labouchere shook hands with the
proprietor and with the dozen walters
and stalked forth into the cold world
with the stern. sad. but indomitable
look which 1t seemed to him that an
exiled patriot should wear.
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crop Of hay. But if these insects are so
enlarged that their tools may assume i'm
pressive proportions. the lesson goes
home.
The Department of Agriculture is
anxious that all the farmers should know
the secrets of their insect enemies. Many
of these enemies are microscope ana all
of them are so small as to be scorned.
So our Uncle Samuel has looked through
a very strong microscope and has seen
these insect enemies, well accoutered for
the battle, as they really are. lie has
therefore determined that the pubic
should be undeceived with relation to the
innocence Of dimnutiveness. He has
sought to show in models just what he
has seen through his powerful glass.
Mrs Otto Heidemann has been the in
strument through which he has been
teaching this lesson. Mrs. Heioemann Is
a sc,,lptress. Her husband is scientific
authority upon insects. and is connected
with the National Museum. The scien-
tific lore of the husband and the artistic
ability Of the wife have been combined
in portraying to the "orlo tne appea.
ance that minute insects would nave
were they as large as the family cat
The delineation of these creatures has
been remarkably exact. he modeler
has viewed them through glasses that
brought them UP to the desired size while
she did the work. The skeletons of the
creatures have been shaped in wire. Upon
this wire have been attached gauze and
wood and clay and cloth and whatever
else would best give the appearance of
the insect seen through the microscope.
When the form of the creature has been
reproduced infinite care has been taken
in the painting of the model in exact
accordance with the colors and designs
in nature.
The final result of all this painstaking
work on the part of a very competent
artist has been an exact enlarged like
ness of the insect in question. These
models have been extensively exhibited.
and the government urges their use, par
ticularly in schools of agriculture, that
the men of the soil may come to know
at sight the enemies of their calling.
The government has come to APP
preciate the many mistakes that its
citizens are every year making In the
construction of the culverts and
bridges that carry water beneath their
roadways 1t has watched for a gen
Grafton the spending of immense
amounts of money each year on such
bridges It has observed that when a
few seasons have passed these bridges
have decayed or broken through or
washed out or suffered some other
misfortune and must be replaced with
new ones, and that the new are usual
ly no better than the old
i. =
Now Uncle Sam is good roads en-
thusiast He holds that the prosperity
of the nation largely depends on the
ability of the farmer to get his
produce to market, and that he cannot
haul loads over broken bridges. And
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Wherever the moisture in a soil is not
over abundant that moisture will be
greatly conserved by the building of
windbreaks. This lesson is being learned
on the great plains of the west and in
the regions where dry farming is being
practiced. The windbreaks range from
single rows of trees to a belt of timber
two or three hundred feet wide The
forest service is attempting to teach
the farmer to secure the benefit of
windhreaks. and at the same time profit
from the timber that is grown in them.
The forest service has another model
that is even more graphic in the les
son that it teaches than is that of the
wndhreak. This model is a miniature
production of two steep mountain sides.
On one of these mountain sides there
is an abundant growth of trees. The
ground beneath these trees is thickly
covered with shrubs and small timber,
underneath which is layer of moss,
twigs and leaves that cover the ground
as it would be covered in real forest.
The second mountain side is identical
with the first in the manner of its
and in the soil that rests
upon it's rocky sides. But on the sec
on1 mountain side there are no trees.
There is no ground covering such as
results from the growth of trees on
the mountain side. This is mountain
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with no protective covering of vegeta-
ton.
have arranged a sprinkling device in
such way that a rainstorm may be
released at will upon each of these
mountain sides. All that is necessary
is to turn on the water and the tor
rents descend. On the forested slope
its fall is broken by the foliage. and
it drops gently upon the moss-covered
surface Of the ground. The moss and
the soil beneath. which is kept soft
and porous by the protective cover,
quickly absorb the rain and allow it
to seep out as clear water farther down
the slope. thus forming a mountain
stream. which flows through green
and fertile valley into a clear lake at
the lower end of the model
On the other slope the rain beating
down upon the unprotected and hard
ened surface washes deep gullies in the
hillside, carries the soil into the turbid
stream which drains the valley below and
thence into a muddy lake. The erosion
on the slope loosens stones. which are
carried down upon the valley farms; the silt
deposited in the channel of the stream
diverts the water which opens up gull
lies through the dry land. the main
stream is made shallower and wider and
and often overflows into the fields.
islands and silt bars rise in the stream,
and deltas are built up in characteristic
form at the entrance to the lake.
The erosion processes which work them
selves out In this model. the wearing
down of the hill, the sitting up OF the
stream he'd. the gradual shifting of the
course of the stream. the formation of
deltas and sand bars in the lake, and the
gradual opening up of water courses
through them are all typical of the
processes constantly going on in nature
and show strikingly the close relationship
between forests and surface formation.
It is the same process of erosion, on
larger scale, which. after the destruc-
ton of forests, causes the removal of the
top soil from slopes. cuts them up into
gullies, and deposits sand and gravel upon
the fertile alluvial soil of the bottom
lands, in storage reservoirs, or In the
channels of streams, where it lmpedes
navigation and causes overflow. So is
the lesson of the conservation of stream
flow crystaliized and shown In such
way that the observer understands at q
glance From this model the schools OF
the nation are invited to make copies
that even the child of the tenements may
see erosion in process.
If mosquito were as big as a turkey
or a weevil as big as cat it would be
easier to understand the manner In which
these insects ply their trades. If all the
world understood these and other insects
that are enemies of many they might be
fought to better advantage. 1t is hard to
appreciate the fact that a weevil bores to
the vitals of a cotton boil and kills it or
that a grasshopper may NOV down a
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For Paddy's Day.

THERE is a story, appropriate to st.
! Patrick's day. about Henry Labou-
chere
while an attache of the British en-
bassy, young Labouchere one day turned
up. hungry and penniless, in New York.
At noon, with his usual reckless dar-
ing. he entered a Broadway chophouse-
one Muldoon' ordered a modest
meal. But he had no idea how he would
pay for this meal. Perhaps he would
leave his hat or boots in pledge for 1t.
AS he pondered the matter. he noticed
that the walters. who were staring at
him oddly, were all Irishmen. Were
the walters aware of his lack of funds?
His luncheon seemed strangely long IN
coming. But just then waiter pent
over him and Whispered:
Il beg pardon, sir, but are you the
patriot Meagher?'
Now, Meagher, Labouchere knew. had
aided Smith O'Brien In his Irish rising,
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mold for the bridge. Its feet are in solid
earth. Its sides rise as sfx-inch wall.
Spanning the stream are small Orders
OF steel that are set into larger molds
of concrete. each material Strengthening
the other. A mesh of woven steel is
placed in the mold in the portion that is
to form the roadway. When these
meshes are filled with concrete there is
again a combination of strength that is
surprisingly great. When the whole frame
place. the concrete is mixed on the spot
and poured in. The government gives
instructions for this that any workman
can follow. The whole hardens into
bridge that is a solid piece of rock. but
strengthened with steel The length OF
time that it will last makes 1t the cheap
est bridge that may be built. The model
tells the story at a glance.
Sheepmen find it necessary to shampoo
their faocks The skin and wool of these
may get into bad condition and the har
vest at shearing time may consequently
be impaired. The shampoo is rather a
detailed job at best. and when it is neces-
sary TO cover the entire surface of some
thousands OF sheep 1t calls for every pos
sble aid to expedition.
The stockman speaks of dipping his
sheep. This consists of putting them
through a indicated bath, which is in
tended to cure them of any skin
disease. For the purpose great tanks of
the dip which consists of a liquid
strong with carbolic acid and other
medicines are prepared, These tanks
are so arranged as to connect with the
sheep pens by means of certain chutes.
In the pens are the sheep. and these
are started single file through the
chutes. At certain point the sheep
comes to the brink of the watts of dip
and is precipitated into it, The bath is
hot. and the liquid bites in. An attend
ant puts a forked stick over the neck
of the swimming sheep and pushes it's
head under the water. Every portion of
it's skin is exposed. 1t is cured of its
ailments and the wool crop is aug
mented
The bureau of animal industry has
made a model of a dipping pen showing
the most advantageous arrangement. and
recommends its adoption by whomsoever
may find use for it.
The perennial marvel to the easterner
is the manner in which the waters of
mountain streams in the west may be
diverted into the parched and barren
desert may be systematically SO guided
that they will unfold themselves upon
hitherto unproductive soil to take unto
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itself such life and vigor as to blossom
as a most intensively cultivated garden.
The government shows the manner Of
the working out of one of these marvels
in a model This model will show the
mountains above that are cleft by some
torrent that escapes from them. IL will
show the manner in which a great dam
has been thrown across the mouth of
deep canyon. expounding the floods 1t
will show the canals that lead from this
reservoir. skirt the foot of tho hills.
pierce the deserts and eventually branch
into innumerahle small bitches that carry
water 20 the individuoi farms. there 10
be applied TO individual crops in accord
ance with need. The model VIII show
the homesteads and the villages that
spring up as do the crops in the wake OF
the water. The miracle viii he shown
actually performed
The business of dairNing, OF handling a
score or more of COWS In such way
TO get from them the greatest possible
profit with the expenditure of the least
possible amount of money in feed and the
least possible amount of labor in the
handling, is very complicated. The plant
that takes care OF these COWS. the dairy
barn itself, requires every possible con-
venence in arrangement and every pos
Slble pfeCdutlen Tor the Nelt-belflE or the
cows.
After years OF study on the subject
in hand the Department of Agriculture
has not merely worked out the plans and
specifications for such dairy barn. but
has actually made a working model Of
1t in which the dummy cows may be seen
standing contentedly in their stalls with
their udders ready for the milking under
these ideal conditions.
The Department of Agriculture has
learned another important lesson in con
nection with its meat inspection work.
This lesson is the necessity in every
town of proper regulation of the slaugh-
terhouses. Meat that goes into inter
state trade is rigidly inspected by the fed
eral government. but that which is 10
cally killed and consumed may he neg
lected unless local authorities are very
vigilant The federal government urges
the establishment of central slaughter
house in every town or city. and the
requirement that all killing he done
there that the proper inspection may
be made 1t has made model of such
a slaughterhouse. with all the conven-
fences and economies. and calls that
model to the attention of every COM
munity that is now unprovided with
adequate protection.
Copyright. 1913. by ". A. Du PuyD
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the number of broken bridges between
Maine and Mexico is always legion.
Now bridge may be so built that it
will never break down. 1t may be so
built that it Will never wash out.
Neither is there any reason why it
should not last TO the end of time
The government has found out how to
build this bridge 1t is trying to ac-
quaint the entire public with the
secret and demonstrate to all men
who are responsible for bridges the
wisdom of using certain varieties of
them.
The bridges that last are made of con-
crete. Their strength is enhanced many
fold by A simple reinforcement of steel.
They are poured bridges. and any man
may look at a model of one for ten
minutes. or even at a picture of that
model. may read a little pamphlet of
instructions issued by the government
and himself construct one of these
bridges that will be doing it's work when
his great grandchildren are driving the
descendants of Dobbin to town with the
butter and eggs after century has
passed
The model shows how this should be
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United States that do lot of damage
in many different ways. There are the
sea breezes from the Atlantic and the
winds that blow off the great lakes. for
instance. These winds often bear with
them the sands from the beaches These
sands may advance steadily inward,
encroaching upon orchards and farms
and covering up roadways
There are the dry, hot winds which
come from the arid regions of the
southwest in the early spring and sum
mer and sweep all that great stretch OF
agricultural land that lies between
Memphis and the Canadian border.
These winds sap up the moisture from
the crops that lie in their path and
often parch those crops till they. are
dead and dry as powder. When winter
arrives in the same region the winds
come from the opposite direction. some
finding their origin in Medicine Hat.
the mother of billiards.. while the
chinook comes down blightingly from
the northern Rockies These winds
mean death to man and beast that are
UNPROTECTED and discomfort untold.
In California there is the Santa Ana.
a thirsty blast that comes out of the
Mojave desert and drinks the moisture
from every living thing in it's path.
Oregon and Washington and other
Pacific coast regions know similar
winds that are likewise the enemies of
man. The rough winds from the Pacific
shake the ripening fruit from the
trees of the coast orchards and other
wise handle them so roughly as to
injure production.
Almost everywhere. are the winds the
enemies of the farmer. Uncle Sam
has found manner of stopping those
winds from blowing He has massed
all the knowledge there is with rela
ton to the windbreak and the method
of its development to protect growing
crops. All this information he has
sought to crystalline into a model of q
farm embracing quarter section of
land. In this model he has shown how
the land owner can throw the protect
ing arm of growing trees about his
premises and greatly profit by so doing.
In any given region it is likely that
the injurious winds are from one gen
eral direction. The trees need be plant
ed only with reference to protection
from this direction. Two sides of the
Such a farm is half mile across, and
in this distance two additional belts
of trees will be needed. Each of these
belts will check the oncoming blasts
of wind and divert them upward. They
will travel third of the way across
the farm before they find the level of
the ground again. Then another wind
break shoots them upward. as later does
the third. and the ground surface has
been spared these blasts,
The drying effect of winds is even a
greater damage than is the discomfort
of the cold they bring in winter.
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the dark ridge where Jackson lay. and
the march to Manassas was unmolested.
Many have advanced reasons as to why
Jackson made this attack. To the mind
of the writer the rea sons are all vain.
This moving division Of Gen. King was
such fine target that the artillery could
not resist the temptation to fire on it.
Once fired on. it was Kings men that
first advanced to the attack. Had King
when fired on sheered off into the south
ern woods and marched on Manassas.
there would have been no battle that day
at Groveton The Confederate artillery
threw down the challenge and the Iron
Brigade snatched it up. And some say
that King should have turned aside TO
Manassas; that here was a point where
discretion had been the better part of
valor The valor of this fight inspired
the men of the Iron Brigade unto the end
of the war Henceforth this dauntless
body was a banner to lead into the thick
est Of many a heady fight. and when
one brigade stood others could not go
back. At Antietam. in the Wilderness
and, above all. at Gettysburg, the Iron
Brigade led the attack. and heavy as
was the death total, that of its opponent
was still heavier This effort was not
wasted; those men who fell at Groveton
did not die in vain.
This heroic combat was the prelude to
Second Bull Run. In the noise and con-
fusion of that tremendous battle the COM
bat of a lone division has been we'll nigh
drowned. But one may read the annals
of that battle, and of many others. with
out finding a record of steadfast courage
like that of the Iron Brigade at Groveton.
No man has ever been able to write of
that campaign without hating the course
of his narrative to yield his tribute of ad-
miration to those unfinching regiments.
Yet no monument marks that gray hill
that witnessed their stubborn valor. The
Gbbon wood still borders the ruinous
pike. A small frame house stands where
the Douglas House then stood, and
fence runs toward the edge of the wood,
roughly marking Gibbons battle line. A
small peach orchard surrounding the
house as on that evening when, as Jack
son said, "Taliaferro's command was now
moving in gallant style until 1t reached
an orchard on the right Of our line, and
was less than a hundred yards from a
large force of the enemy. The conflict
here was fierce and sanguinary." Here
Taliaferro's gallant movement stopped
and never went farther When the writer
was there two boys were shocking shock
corn where the 18th Indiana brought him
to stop. and nothing appeared to denote
heroic ground. Some hogs rooted along
the fence where the I'd Wisconsin. the
most heroic regiment in the whole Union
army, formed and held its lines
The Iron Brigade, many claim, deserves
a monument at GrOveton. Every regiment,
every company in that devoted band de-
serves a monument to commemorate men
who were willing to give their lives for