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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-23
CHIC CONCEPTS.
Charming Things to Be Made In Vel
vet Neckbands.

vet Neckbards.
The modish maid finds velvet neck
bands of all kinds very seryiceable
To wear with a white satin or net slip
q good choice is that of inch wide
orange velvet ribbon, long enough to
inferred ends of which are outlined
with crystal and amber beads, while
a chain of the same hangs in festoons
in front.
The simple blouse with kimono
sleeves and trimming portions that
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-23

vi tlIC IL 81 DiStI 1
for the Week Commencing Feb
ruary 3, 1913.
4 0. p. Ogilvie 4 John d. Wagner
4 J. M. Owens 4 R. L. Whitman
4 Louis Frank S. E. Richardson
1 J. j. Meares Morris Grener
a C. ]. Lawton Jno. New. Ford
5 Lucien Flournoy
J. H. Blum r. A. Reed
4 A. L. Geueux H. G. Freeman
4 w. M. Smell 4 J. F. Attaway
4 Castle, A. C. G. B. Grosjean
4 A. B. chatham
4 ID. |. DOdez VIM. Johnson
4 Eli Gras A. H. Godfrey
4 ]. G. Hirsch q. P. Cook
4 J. HOleman G. A. Odell
4 A. j. Murff Jr. John Kuhn
Done and signed on this the 18th
day of January 1913.
F. A. LEONARD,
F. H. GOSMAN,
LEVI COOPER,
C. MONCURE,
J. B. ARDS,
Jury Commissioners.
S. N. kERLEY,
Clerk and ex-Officio Jury Commits
sioner.
Attest:
r. w. NORTON.
w. A. KERLEY.
A True Copy.
F. A. LEONARD, Clerk.
Caucasian, January 81, 1913.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-23

RECHAD PAsHA CHIEF TURKISH ENVOY.
chad pasha and the other peace ENJOYS
seeking to terminate the Balkan con-
troversy. Rechad Pasha has establish
ed himself as the widest old diplomatic
fox in Europe.
When the burnt tower of STAN
boul falls the Turkish empire fails
So runs the prediction in which the
Moslem dwellerS in Constantinople be-
leve. That is the reason why, during
the most critical period of the Balkan
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-23

Photo by American Press Association.
BURNT TOWER" OF STEAMBOAT.
war, prayers We're Offered at the base
of the venerable pile that may fall at
any minute.
The tower was erected centuries ago
and Is considered almost sacred by the
Turkish PeRtiiaee. About five years
ago it was in danger of falling and
was braced up by iron bands and up.
rights.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-23

This May Manton pattern is cut in sizes
from 81 to AZ inches bust measure. Send
10 cents to this Office, giving number. 1915.
and it will be promptly forwarded to you
by mail If in haste send an additional
two cent stamp for letter postage. When
ordering coupon.
NO. .,.-.....-- SiZe .......-. 49,
Maine ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Address Observation-Disclosures.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-23

9 1873 by American Press Association.
THE UNITED STATS DESTROYER M'CALL.
threw the ship out of equilibrium was
not at its highest fury when the pic
ture was taken.
The Mccall and the Paulding. an
other destroyer, are two of the vessels
1t is planned to send to the Panama
canal. The Atlantic feet, which re-
Gently modified at Guantanamo, Cuba.
to stay in winter quarters. viii pay a
visit to the canal in sections
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-23
Civil VeniPe

OF the First Judicial District Court
for the Week Commencing Feb
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-23
FRoCK FOB TINY TOT.

This May Manton pattern is cut in sizes
Tor children of Cne. two and four years of
age. Send 10 cents to this Office, giving
number. 1851. and it will DO promptly for
warded to you by mail If In haste send
an additional two cent stamp for letter
postage When ordering use coupon
Nc-........... Size...
Name ............................
Address ---......-................
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-24
STRAWBERRIES ARE
OF FINE VARIETY
Shipments From Cuba Have Been
Averaging Two Cars Daily in Ad-
ditiOn to Express Shipments

Cuba, April 23.-(Special )-This mas
been the banner week of the season
for strawberries, two cars per day going
opt under refrigeration aside from the
usual express lots
The demand for labor has been very
keen due to green peas coming in, but as
this crop is short, there will be enough
labor available to handle berries without
getting too ripe. Never before in the
history of the industry have berries been
so fine as this season. and as there has
been no rain 10 soften them they are
carrying to market in excellent shape
On account of the break In the levee
on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
growers here anticipate, some delay to
shipments of berries from that section,
and look for continued we'll sustained
markets. which while not unduIy high
have been remunerative. Traffic officials
of the Alabama Great Southern are de-
lighted with the movement so far, and
are using every effort to have prompt
service rendered shippers.
And still the cattle industry grows de-
spite the action of the county commits
sioners in not appropriating money to
continue tick eradication. Probate Judge
p. b. Jarman just recently received a
car of cattle purchased at Birmingham
that will Craze on his pasture this sum-
mer. 1t is stated that If he is success
full with this lot that he will increase his
herd and put in pure bred cattle. The
type has not been decided upon, but it is
said that Holsteins are favored because
they are both mixers and beef cattle.
The price for green peas has scared the
past week, prices being around 81 here.
The crop appears to be unusually short
all over the trucking sections of Missis-
sippi and Alabama, with the resultant
high prices. Not a single solid car will
be loaded here and the movement now
bids fair not to exceed 100 hampers per
day.
The resignation of the postmaster here
has brought out large number of ap-
plicants who will take the examination
required at York some time soon. While
Hobson only carried this box by six or
eight votes. it SENS now that everybody
voted for him, for all the applicants are
his warm admirers and would do anything
on earth for him in his race for elevation
from the House to the Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-24
CROPS IN Chiffon
ARE DOING WELL
Large Force of Men at Ocamp0 Has
Increased the Demand for Veg
etabIes and Truck

Mountain Creek, April 23.-(Special)-
Crops in Chiffon and Autauga counties
are looking splendid and farmers who suf-
fered little by the hard rains which
prevailed during March have about caught
up with their work.
Corn, it seems from reports received
here from all over Chiffon and Autauga,
will surely receive more attention than
on any previous year, while cotton VIII,
Il appears, be equal as to the acreage OF
1872.
Wheat, especially last fall sowing, Is
looking satisfactory in every way. while
later fields are doing well.
Oats never promised better yield than
the indications are for the 1913 crop.
Peaches will not be as plentiful as
early indications in the spring promised.
The late frost did considerable dam
age. but more than is necessary Tor
home consumption is surely to be grown.
Strawberries are now being shipped and
they are of splendid variety. The yield
is exceedingly large and hnd READY puy
ers in the small towns by parties who
shin to other markets. Thorsby, thriv-
ing town on the Louisville and Nashvilie
railroad, is the principal shipping point
in this section.
small observation-disclosures, onions. early
meas and radshes-all are in splendid con-
dition, and already shipments have COM
menced to be made TO Birmingham ana
other points.
The large force OF men employed on
the big dam over the Coosa river, whlch
is being constructed by the Alabama
Power company to furnish electric power.
consume a great quantity OF early gar
,len stuff raised in this vicinity, for which
the farmers and garden truck growers
receive good prices. There are now nearly
1000 men engaged there. and to supply
great number of them results In much
money being put in circulation throughout
the nearby towns in purchasing garden
sfuff
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-24
New School at Meridian

Meridian, Miss, April 2S-tSpeclaA'
work has already commenced on the
-, a ynificent new building for the Sa-
cred Heart school, which Is cohoucte'
under the auspices OF 81. fatrich
catholic church. The building Will pc
made so that it can easily pc auoeu
To by placing third story ~ wiz
b.ve six class rooms, a gymnasium,
reading room and room for the Ia
dies society of the church. The build
ing will be steam heated and modern
throughout. Without the plumbing anu
leating contract, the building Will cost
$4,000. The Sacred Heart school mas
been growing at a rapid rate until IL
las become one of the best scnools OF
tto Catholic denomination in the state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-24

Tt is reported that the machinery for
the cloth mill to be located here has been
shipped and will arrive soon ready to be
placed business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-24
MIAMI, FLA, is ON
A GEUINE BOOM
Winter Palace Is to Be Built By a
Chicago Manufacturer at Cost
of About $1,000, 200

Columbus, Ga, April 23.-(Speeial)-
The Industrial Index says this week:
"A winter palace is TO be built at
Miami, Fla, by Chicago manufactur-
er at a total cost, including that of the
grounds, of approximately sl,OOO,oOO. 1t
will be located in virgin tract of un-
disturbed semi tropical flowers and
other growths. the tract having bay
frontage of $50 feet. Even the Lady of
Lyons was not offered anything more
magnificent than this home will be.
The amount of municipal street paw
ing to be done, the number of apart
nation of II new corporations with mini
mum capital stocks aggregating s2,S620oe
comprise some of the more notable fea-
lures of current reports.
Alabama marble deposits have peeh
purchased and will be developed py
Canadian capitalists.
Pensacola, Fla, has a new naval
stores company with capital stock OF
s20c000 Jacksonville, Fla, land com
pany with capital stock of SSco'Vo and
Batrow. Fla, phosphate organization
with capital stock of $4,000.
Among the items of construction work
~ 10 oohcs as Icpofttu lhi7 "S~-,'
Apartment houses. Americus, Atlanta
and Savannah, Ga, and Jacksonville
Fla; paving, Mobile, Ala, South Jack
sonville and ST. Augustine, Fla' ana Ioc-
Goa. Ga; church building Augusta ia
business blocks, Bradentown ana Lake
land, Fla: school buildings. Augusta and
Atlanta Ga; Jasper, Ala, and $'o,vv'
Palatka, Fla; system subdivision at MI
ami, Fla; factory building, Punta Gorda,
Fla; clubhouse. Birmingham, Ala: lw
houses principally residences, Miami
Fla. Construction contracts nave neen
awarded as follows: Warehouse, soo.oo'
Tampa, Fla: bank building, Pell City,
Ala; road construction. Jackson county,
alabama; Elks building, Macon Ga; or
phanage buildings. Montgomery Ala
paving, Tampa, Fla, lighting system
Chipley. Fla.
"zebulon. Ga, voted Nsterworks con-
siruction bords; Bleckley county, Geor-
gia, will vote upon 900 Of bonds for
brilding 1 courthouse and jail ST.
1chns county. Florida. contemplates is-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-24

The big cement plant is two days late
with the pay roll this week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-24
Delegates from Ashland

Ashland, April Especial. )-Mayor
o. B. Cornelius has appointed the fol-
lowing delegates to represent the town
Of Ashland in the National Goods Roads
convention which meets In Birmingham
April "a and 25:
A. b. Mayo, Felix Parsons. b. W.
Sims. B. w. Pruet, A. A. Northen. H.
j. Garrison, b. f. Stevens. c. B. AL
len, S. ID. Treadwell, A. J. Glenn, j.
w. Levi. G. A. Mattison w. NJ Lack
ey, James A. Smith and Fl. w. Hickey
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-24
Fishermen, Attention
Come to East Lake
Rates Lowered a. Follows:

Special Rates TO Families.
nait nay be prscneet Al the boat house
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-24
Injured in Runaway.in Dadeville

DadevilIe, April Especial. "A
runaway horse to buggy in whicn
Mrs. John L. Adcocl and her little
son, Horace were driving this after
noon. dashed against the front os the
ncrth wall Of the Alliance warehouse
both occupants were thrown violently.
Both are badly bruised but not dan
gerously hurt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-24

suing 100000 of road construction bonds.
industrial plants will be established
as follows:
Marble quarry, near Sylacauga, Ala; /;
fertilizer factory. Enterprise, Ala; coop
erage plant, Bay Minette, Ala; paper
factory, Pensacola, Fla. laundry, Apala-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-24

chicola, Fla; glass plant, Bessemer. Ala;
lumber plant, Alapaha, Ga; cotton oil
mill extension, Elberton, Ga; ice factory
extension, Punta Gorda, Fla. Movement
has been begun for building railway be-
tween Gainesville, Ga. Railway will be
extended from Good Hope to Monroe, Ga
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-24
Not Animals Equal

From London Opinion.
Road Hog tafter mishap in which pup
py has been run over)-"Madam, | shall
replace the animal"
Indignant owner-"sir. you flatter your
self"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-24
NEGROES ARE HELD
One of Their Number Apparently
Killed By Train Near Ragland

Ragand, April 23.-(Special.) 1.-Two ne
groes giving their names as Charlie Por-
ter and John Henry Searcy, were ar
rested at Ohatchie last evening and
brought here to be held pending an in
quest and preliminary trial for being inn
plicated in the murder of a fellow COM
panion. A negro whose name is given
as John Briggs, was found killed on the
railway tracks of the Seaboard Air Line
railway about one mile east of the depot
in dee> cut.
The three men claim to have been work
ing for the Tennessee Coal, Iron Railroad
company, whose checks they exhibited
and were on their way home. After buy
ing a lunch at G. S. Elwee. a store near
the depot, they walked on up the tracks
of the Seaboard and claimed to have been
asleep when the eastbound passenger train
due here at S:4 a. IN. came around the
curve, and two We're awakened and
escaped while the other presumably was
in the act of getting up when struck
by the engine and had his skull crushed,
death occurring instantly. The two es-
Gaping, Porter and Searcy, called Mr..
Martin, who was working nearby, and
then came to town and notified the Sea-
board agent and an inquest was held
this morning. The trainmen failed to see
the parties as sharp curve exists in
the deep cut.
The big cement plant is two days late
with the pay roll this week.
Tt is reported that the machinery for
the cloth mill to be located here has been
shipped and will arrive soon ready to be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-24
ANCHOR LINE

New Twfn-screw Steamships
SCameronia," "CnlifOrnia," "Caledonia"
and .sCOIumhfa"
Sailing from New York every Saturday
Glasgow Via Londonderry
Tor Book of Tours, Rates, etc, apply to
HENDERSON BROTHERS. Genl Agts
steiner Brothers, 21O1 1st Ave: r. w.
Iuckett, Terminal Station, or Jack W.
Johnson, 1927 1st Ave. Birmingham
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-26
MISS MILHOLL.AND's VIEWS

Very honest and well meaning people have habit OF
thinking Of this the best possible world as indeed IS
and condition becoming, that progress the order
the sphere Hence the world is worse to-day IMAM II
will again There is conflict between the t"o
thoughts.
muddy This is not because those who hold the ideas
are more stupid who do not is because such
persons usually haven't studied the facts
Miss Milholland, leader in the feminist move
ment has different views the marriage question, be
she has studied than of those who diff
fer with her; that is all.
Many well meaning persons labor under the belief
that this homogeneous country. 1t is not Poygamy
generally practiced establishment is unrecognz
ed bv law against But it exists and every
body Every red light district elo
with the fact that exists Now that is the fact and
scientific people will deal with the FACT rather than
ignore the fact and pretend that it does not exist
Miss Miholand does not ignore the fact She admits
that the fact exists She asks what be done about the
fact.
She believes there time between the early teens
and the late twentes which the natural human mating
time She believes the existing economic conditions do
not marriages. She believes that late
marriages increase polygamy. She is correct
She believes that conditions will be improved 1t wo-
vote. She believes that family life will be improved
if it has sound economic foundation. So does every
who has made the necessary Investigations. She
supposes become not for wife and hs
band to engage in the worlds work independent
support the home. Why not?, Is the home such
a substantial basis that thoughtful and
willing leave it where it is? We think not Home is
better than it used to be- But home is destined to be
pose that would the vote to make home
better. They have interest in home than have
They interest children than have and
the child is the foundation of the home Miss Mihoand
to to be unusually intelligent and wenform
ed who is striving the future and making
better about than most of would be able to do
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-26
EXCESSIVE DIVIDENDS

Regarding the underlying cause of
Mr.. Me1len's troubles, one of his most
Jealous champions, the Hartford
Times, has this to say:
New England, as a whole, is suf
fering from the excessive and IN
earned dividends which are going in
to the pockets of the holders of Bos-
ton and Albany, Fitchburg railroad,
Connecticut River railroad, Boston
and Lowell, Boston and Providence
and many other leased lines. These
burdens, so far as they affect the Bos-
ton and Maine, were not assumed by
Mr.. Me1len and it is wholly unjust to
attempt to load the responsibility for
them on him
Yet the New Haven system was
built up on much the same kind of
long term leases of subsidiary lines,
with contract guarantees of high diTi-
dends for SO years. We have one fat
little New Haven. subsidiary in mind
whose shareholders were guaranteed
10 per cent annual dividends, and
they will get them long after the
New Haven shares pay no more than
6 or even 4 per cent.
The method of combination was
economically wrong both on the New
Haven and the Boston and Maine sys-
terms, although having the richer and
more popu1oue territory, the New Ha-
ven has been better able to stagger
under the load in a period of increas-
de operating and maintenance
charges.
That Mr.. Me1len ever condemned
the combination methods exemp1ified
in ''the New England lines is not
generally known. When he sought
the amaIgama ton of the Boston and
Maine with the New Haven in order
to make zone great terminal yard of
New England he willingly assumed
the burden of the Boston and Maine
subsidiaries; and, if he had his way
today he would increase freight rates
in order to pay all the excessive
and unearned dividends which a
reckless method of consolidation pro-
vided for
Those dividends, in so far as they
are guaranteed by contracts, must be
paid indefinitely regardless of net
earnings, but Mr.. Mellen, in his trou-
bleS is simple reaping what was sown
by the school of ama1gamators to
which he belongs.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-26
NINE HOURS TOO MUCH.

their management of the Bridgeport Trade School is
standing argument against the extension OF industrial
the Of the intelligent skilled workers long
al the Trade School is conducted.
That school is worked under nine hour day The
workers have determined eight hour day Every
body who knows anything about this country, anything
about industry in other civilized countries knows that
eight hours is be the ordinary work day It is both
Orant futile and disastrous to the interest of the employ
themselves to attempt nine hour day in the Trade
School, which is not even operated on private funds, but
is public school, supported by all the people
Just why intelligent employers should oppose every
liberal movement in industry will remain mystery.
ductOn has continued to increase the hours of labor
reduced, and will continue to increase
obtain leisure and time to think The human
thing. The brains released to period of thinking
the progress there will be- Cut out the nine
day in the Trade School.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-26
LITTLE BEAUTY CHATS
Why the Double Chin is Regarded with Horror

1t is quite unnecessary for me to tell
you that double or triple chin is IN
desirable, as no woman in her right
senses adnires the chin that looks
like a pudding. Far from regarding
it with favor, I find all feminine Great
ures gazing askance at the chin that
grows plumper day by day until it
has no shape at all
f There must be a reason for the dis
like lavished on the chin which multi
plies. Would you like to know the
why and the wherefore of this uni
Versa1 hatred? Women dislike to
see their chins double up because this
makes them look '-of the earth
earthyi' Can you blame them for
showing an aversion to this defect?
There is still enough reason why the
pudgy chin is regarded intoIerantly
It is sign of age! Now every woman
past twenty-five wants to look eight
cen, SO naturally anything that tells
tales out of school is taboo.
1t was all very different long ago in
the days of our great-great-grand-
mothers, as then a. fat chin was a
mark of distinction. 1t denoted good
living and that the world was dealing
kindly with one. GentIewomen past
a certain age were just the least bit
vexed if no extra chin put in an ap-
pearance. But of course that was
long ago and times have changed.
really think we show more wis
dom now. Old age is not blessing,
so why be proud of anything that
stamps one as past the prime of life?
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-26
society. The Prince was the son of
a cousin of Queen ILL.," and was pro-
claimed heir to the throne in 1884

The first English Sunday newspa-
per, the British Gazette and Sunday
Monitor, issued its first number 1873
years ago to-day, March 26, 1850. 1t
was an immediate success, and, des-
pite the agitation carried on by those
who considered Sunday papers i'm
pious and sacrilegious, the Gazette
and Monitor soon had a number of
competitors. The Sunday Observer
was started in 1871, Bells Messenger
in 1895, and the Sunday Dispatch in
1901 OF late years many sensational
Sunday journals, devoted largely to
scandal and publishing details that
would not be permitted in America,
have sprung up in England and have
attained tremendous circulations. In
the United States, Sunday newspapers
have long been issued as a part of the
regular editions of daily journals, but
the development of a distinct Sunday
type, with magazine, comic and other
feature sections, is of comparatively
recent origin. One of the first of the
great newspapers of to-day to issue
Sunday edition was the Milwaukee
Sentinel, both the daily and Sunday
editions having been started in 1887.
Other pioneers in the Sunday field
were the Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1913;
the Memphis Commercial Appeal,
1910; the Boston Herald, 1876, and
the San Francisco Chronicle, 1865.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-26
PUBLIC OPINION
Editor Tanner:


Sir-As in past years our spring sea-
son is with US. It is the usual clean
ing up period as of old. The map of
Bridgeport is changing with remark
able rapidity and yet no material i'm
our cleaning up methods. 1t is the
deed that Bridgeport is but one Of a
DDS of getting your house in ORDER
open spaces of property. Which
brings one to recall conditions allow
ed to exist for the past several years,
when these unsightIy places could
have been put in order at small ex-
pense. From the viewpoint of cause
and effect, brings to mind an instance
where one of the common herd who
resided in a, locality where no regard
was given to the manner of refuse
disposal, and the party was prompted
to make inquiry in that direction.
The edifice of justice and benevolence
on Fairfield avenue was visited and
inquiry made among those supposed
to be in authority such matters.
1t was learned that the palace of the
wise men on State street was the
place to make complaint This visit,
however, was like unto the first, re-
sulting in an opinionthat it was
case Of divided authority; in other
words, no one was responsible. Also
learned that party was employed to
inspect the yards about the city and
inform the owners of said property
as to the condition thereof. It is well
to be thus informed otherwise the