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The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-07-21
PROCLAMATION.

Pursuant to resolution passed by
the Parish Board of Directors of the
Parish of Caldwell, Louisiana, held on
the 7th day of June, 1916, l, George
T. Martin, President of the said Par
ish Board of School Directors, hereby
give notice that, in compliance with
said resolution, a special election will
be held in Wards or School Districts
Nos. IA and Is, Parish of Caldwell,
Louisiana, on the 25th day of July,
1916, for the purpose of submitting to
the qualified property tax payers,
qualified under the constitution and
laws of the State Of Louisiana to vote
at said election, the following propo-
sition, to-wit:
TO levy special tax Of ten mills
(s.010) on the dollar on all property
In Wards or School Districts Nos IA
and Is, Parish of Caldwell, Louisiana,
subject to state taxation, annually, for
q period of five (5) years, for the pur-
pose of giving additional aid to the
public schools of said ward or school
district.
For the purpose of said special cleo
Aion the polling places will be: Dis
,trict IA, Columbia; District Is, Bills
Greek, and the following commission
,ers and clerks of election of each poll
ing place have been appointed to
serve at this election, all of whom
shall serve without compensation
For District IA, M. FARRELL, J. L. Kel-
ley and d. J. Dunn, and c. R. Fer
rand. clerk; District Is, Fred Banks,
T. B. Estess and R. L. Caldwell, and
G. P. Bailey, clerk.
At said special election the polls
will be open at o'clock a. m. and
close at s o'clock p. m, and the cleo
ton will be conducted in accordance
with the laws of Louisiana applicable
thereto.
Notice is also given that at II
o'clock a. m, on the I'd day of August,
1916, said Parish Board of School Di-
rscsors of the Parish Of Caldwell,
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-07-21

been made in this minor silver since
1891. Secretary McAdOo seems to
think that the half dollar has declined
in popularity because it had not pref
ty design. Secretary McAdOO has an
other guess coming. Nobody ever de-
clined half dollar that he could get
a half hold of. Just the same, the de-
sign is going to be changed.
The face of the new half dollar
bears full-length Liberty, with back
ground of the American flag flying to
breeze. The goddess is striding to-
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-07-21

lnelr services curing the spanish war
ranged from mobilization to actual bat
tie, but they were more or less trained
soldiers, and the majority of them are
in fair shape for fighting today.
OF course, some of the congress
SiOnal veterans of the Spanish war are
now fat and short-winded. 1t would
take several months-maybe longer
to put them in condition, but they are
veterans just the same, and have a
knowledge superior to that of the
rookie regarding military tactics and
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-07-21
Sure IhinQ.

BILL know man who can tell the
time Of day by his pulse.
Jill-Quit you kiddin'. How coulf
he do that?
"He wears wrist watch. That's BY
his pulse. isn't itT
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-07-21
Funny Echoes Of the Big Preparedness Parade

squirrels grounds
The
before left its fotsam peanut
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-07-21
Veterans Of Spanish-American War in Congress

NEARLY soldiers
q
connected with the National Guard
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-07-21
Patriotic American Wants to Donate an Airship

Eg7ASNGTONA patriotic presumably
w DO his h-e certainlar in promoting preparedness
building arstip contribution the
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-07-21
New Designs for Our Halves, Quarters and Dimes

Uncle going styles his COINS and next fall
before
will be the first change which has
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-07-21

hulls and lunch bags, and-tO judge
by numbers-furred and feathered So
ciety from the most exclusive parks in
town was among those present at the
feast.
And the parade itself was echoed
in fine style by swarm of small kid
dies-mOst of them of the type that
runs to curls and foreign eyes. In
front Of everything rode boy on an
umbrella handle-Major Pullman, If
you please.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-07-21

annually, for the period of
I'VE years, for the purpose
OF giving additional aid to
the public schools of the
said district.
Tnalla lL.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-07-21

President, Parish Board Of School Di-
reCtOrS.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27

John Philip Sousa, the veteran band
master. has just been elected president
Of the newly created Amateur American
Trapshooters' association. the latest or
ganization to be added to the sport
world.
sousa is probably tho most enthusias-
tic trapshooter In the country. The
next best thing 70 trapshooting Is talk
ing about II, and In Mr.. Sousa the scat
ter-gun enthusiast finds a very inter-
estlng talker ''Trapshooting," says the
bandmaster. els the baby of the great
American sports. but It Is a healthy in
FAINT. II is estimated that moro than
100000 men Cand yes. women). face the
traps in the course OF a year. and there
are said to be more thon 1000 gun
clubs
'Ts's poor town that, doesn't boast
OF at least one trapshooting organigation.
''Trapshooting appeals to the lover of
sports from many angles. should say
that first II was fine because II develops
self-reliance. A man must call Pullr
and shoot his own gun. Nobody may do
these things for him. From experience
I say that one exercises when he lifts
en- eight-poung gun 70 his shoulder hum
dreds of times a day. He builds muscle
and he's tired-so tired that insomnia
doesn't hang around when his head hits
| the pillow.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27

zone must do some thinking, and the
eyes and arms must move in unison with
the brain"
Mr.. Sousa was asked his opinion on
women taking up the sport. He said:
Women are finding trapshooting even
more enjoyable than golf. tennis and
the other games they now play. In the
shotgun game she is not classified as a
woman, she ia not aggregated from the
men. She meets men shooters on an
equal footing, and there is nothing that
pleases her more than to beat her lord
and master at his own game. Indeed,
women have so far advanced in trap
shooting that they will be permitted to
enter the Grand American handicap this
year.
shooting makes n woman agile and
alert. have shot at the traps with
many women. and never have seen an
ungraeeful one who used the shotgun
we'll"
Az additional proof that the great
master Ia an enthusiastic shooter az
well as talker. his closing staternen,
waai
I'm conclusion. let me say that just
about the sweetest music to mo is wher
call Pull the old gun barks, and tho
referee. In perfect key. announces
'DeadrS
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
Bert Larson, Who
Flivved in Omaha,
Is Sold to Topeka

Bert Larson. the wild man from Fargo
who attempted to do a little hurling
with tho Rourkes last year. has been
sold to the Topeka club. Larson hooked
on with Kansas City after Marty Krug
handed him the gate last year, and the
Kay See people wished him onta the
Kaws last week.
The sale of Larson to Topeka recalls
a laugh Larson gave the RourlSe club
last summer. Larson had just pitched a
game against Topeka and in the club
house after the fray Bert ventured the
information there's only two OF those
Topeka guys I like. the shortstop and
second basefnan CTailion and I4attimore).
They're the only decent guys on the
team"
Where do you get that stuff, like?'
howled Marty Krug. when you're out
there pitching, you hate 'em all, see.
Mix on this like stuff; or it'll cost you
ten"
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
ESSAYS ON SPORT.
No. 6-Golf.

Golf is sometimes called lawn pool.
sometimes cow-pasture billiards. but
mostly golf is golf.
Golf is a nice. gentle. little game which
consists Of batting small gutta percha
ball as far as you can bat II and then
chasing after IT. The chasing part of
the game Is said to be good exercise.
The batting part OF II is good for the
vocabulary especially when you knock
the pill into a creek or cornfield. A. good
golfer can break seven commandments
at the same time without moment OF
hesitancy.
A golf course on which the game is
played Is laid out in nineteen holes. The
nineteenth hole as the most important.
1t is at this hole that all championship
matches are played. Members of the
w. c. T. r. and the Anti-saIoon league
do not play golf because they would al
ways lose at this hole.
Persons who play golf are peculiar
Sane individuals ordinarily sniff disdain-
fully and make heroic efforts to suppress
litter when golf is mentioned. Golfers.
on the other hand. will start out on a
six-weeks discussion of making two
in three and four, one under bogey and
six in par and thirteen in two. when
ever they hear the word mentioned.
There is q cure for every disease under
the sun except golfitis. This ailment
has all physicians and surgeons buffa-
loed.
Other persons connected with golf are
professionals, who teach you how TO
play so that any dub can trim you. cad
dies who giggle inwardly at your rotten
form and swipe balls. and golf widows
of which we have nothing to say.
Bat Nelson. in his petition for divorce
says that his wife hit him with fire
escape. We shudder to think what
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
National Commish
Holds ALI Records
For Letter Writing

Add TO the list of six-day scriveners
the Cincinnati end Of the National oom-
mission. meaning August Hermann and
John Bruce, secretary. For Iong-distanoo
letter writer's they hold the worlds REQ
ord.
The annual report of the National com
mission has just been received, and 1t
contains some interesting information.
The commish spent $S75 for postage.
which stamps It wonderful letter writer.
This sum would purchase 1880 2-cent
stamps or 1880 post cards.
Another interesting feature of the an
nual report is an item for $SsS for music
at Boston during the worlds series"
One should be able to hire lot of toot-
ing for this sum.
But, on the other hand. the commission
wasted no ka1e purchasing pennant
emblematic of the worlds championship.
For this banner 1t expended the paltry
sum of $6s. which same was much less
than one-half the travelling expenses of
the official scorers.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27

cousin 20 Hans Lobert. played a first
class game with tho Dodgers. He hit
IKE fiend, stopped everything that came
his way. and everybody was happy. Then
he suddenly strained q ngament In his
shoulder and was put under an expert
surgeons care 20 he could be put back
into form In hurry. Somehow or other
Joe didn't feel like playing. II was ru-
nored he had lost his nerve and in the
middle Of the season Manager Robinson
tied q bag Of gold to him and traded him
to the Cubs for Larry Cheney. Larry
proved as useless TO the Dodgers as
Schultz was 70 the Cubs. After Joe's In
jury he was used by the Dodgers as a
pinch hitter. and In contradiction OF the
report that he had lost his nerve he
batted 800 IN ten emergency trips to the
plate. However. he didn't seem to be
able to collect himself 30 he could 60
back to his regular berth at third. II
was strange case. Some thought the
change In climate might do him good
but he was no better In Chicago than he
had bean in Brooklyn.
Callahan Takes Him.
When Joe Tinker started wedding out
the surplus material in the Cub-whais
amalgamation he decided ne couldn't
bother with Schultx and Callahan grabbed
him. Jimmy Is said to have gotten him
for tho price OF a song-and a cheaI
composition at that. Callahan thinks hS
can get Schultz back to his old-tifne form
He believes the hometown atmospher,
and proper handling will bring results
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
Hub Perdue Falls
For Brother Act

One day during batting practice when
Tnib Perdue was with Boston Fred Clarke
OF the Pirates hit liner Off Perdue that
went to the fence.
''Nlee hit. Fred" yelled Hub. "You
ought 20 set back In the game"
'oh. would get back II they were all
like YOU" kidded Clarke.
you ain't ever got but one hit In your
life off me. ana your brother got you
that one" shot back hub.
Perdue then told OF having filled the
bases one day with Fred Clarke up and
Josh Clarke running in from left field
and whispering:
Throw him a curve on the inside"
sand fell for the brother act" sighed
Hub. shaking his head. Il broke that
curve Just a. Brother Josh suggested
and think that ball Is going yet"
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
CAL OUT TO SOLVE PUZZLE
New Pirate Manager Will Make an
Effort to Find What Troubles
Joe Schultz.
WAS MOST pROMIsNa ROOKIE

yimmy Callahan, vaudeville actor and
manager OF the Pittsburgh National base
balI club, believes he can solve the mys-
terv of Joe schultx, the ex-Rochester
third basernan. Two managers have tried
to find out what's wrong with this young
infielder and have given. up the task.
Now Jimmy Callahan Is taking hand
in the matter.
probably no minor Lacquer ever rose
10 the majors with such promise as the
stocky. hustling blonde third sacSer,
whose work In the International league
Buffalo fans still remember
To 20 back into the history of the ball
player with the mysterious malady,
schultz was drafted by the Braves from
Akron in 1914 He started playing ball
In Pittsburgh his home town. ana early
attracted the attention of the ivory hunt
ers. He wasn't just ripe for big league
company IN 1919 and the Braves sent him
20 Toronto, where he played during 1913
AZ the close OF the season the Braves
recalled him and stallings gave him q
Camel in part payment for Butcher Boy
Schmidt
starred with IIustlers.
schuits played . hang-up game fo1
Rochester that season. performing In ~
games and batting .s1e, The season wa,
not far advanced when Your Uncle VII
bert Robinson grabbed him and bought
him outright from Rochester, gtvinl
sehuits a three-year contract He wal
allowed 20 finish the season with th'
tIustlers. but Robinson could hardly wal
until the next season opened so he coul'
show the universe what q crackerjaci
third basemRn he had garnered, Critics
were oongratulating Robbie.
For a month Joe. who. by the way, 4
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
DOC" SCHLElER WILL BE
SAW-B0NES FOR R0URkES

DR.. F. ]. Schleier has been reap
pointed club physician for the Omaha
team by Pa Rourke. DR.. Schleier. who
holds card number one in the Ancient
and Honorable Order OF Rourke Fans.
nursed the cripples so successfully last
year that Rourke signed him up again.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
amlth to PirAtea.

Shortstop Jimmp smith of the chicago
and Baltimore Federal clubs has been
signed by the Pittsburgh National club.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
SCHWAB WILL ORGANIZE
OWN BASE BALL LEAGUE

Charles NJ. schhwab. the Bethlehem
steel magnate. failing to get a franchise
for his town in the New York State
league announces that he will organize
a whole league Of his own to play in
Bethlehem and suburbs for the enter
tainment of the wage slaves In his steel
mills.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
SUTTON ACCEPTS HOPES
Def FOR $500 TILT

CHICAGO. Fob. NC. b. sutton has
accepted the challenge Of william Hoppe
for a billiard match to be played some
time AFTER October 1. The match is 20
be 100 points at 1873 baIk line, for a
side bet OF s25OO. II may be played in
New York. Chicago or both cities.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
FRED BEEBE TURNS DOWN
OFFER FROM COAST TEAM

BLOOMINGTON. Ind. Feb 2a-Fred
Beebe. well known pitcher in the National
league a few seasons past. has declined
an offer 70 Join the San Francisco club
OF the Pacific Coast league IN order that
ne may fulfili his contract TO coach tho
base bali team OF Indiana university. lie
may later accept some Offer
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
G11 a115iy 5p94Ss''s36i! 4HSssesi!!e
By Fred S. Hunter

would have occurred II abe had hit HIM
with the Brooklyn bridge
How Gull the day,
To us will seem,
when johnson sells
The Cleveland team.
Chicago Herald.
To us this day
Du did not seem,
We had a loush--
"Whdt msdRset tedmf'
What happened to Charlie Schmidt,
the Boston Braves great first sacker7
is asked. oh. very simple. indeed. very
simple.
Schmidt
QUidt.
THE DOPE ON BILL.
Old Shakespeare was q faker,
Zen though the critics say
His plays are precious I.it'turs,
The greatest Of all day.
We know he was a fakers
The dough was out TO. get,
He pulled the first MASKED Marvel
In the ghost sosne IN ''Ramlets
HERE ARE TWO LAUGHS
ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
Umpire Chestnut has signed with the
International league, and Chicago's
champion ski jumper is Ragnar omtvedt-
The Smiths and Joneses will now declare
war.
WORDS BY FRANK GOTCH
TO MIR. j. STECHER
OF DODGE, NEB.
rd like 20 stage a come back,
My graphing skill to show;
I'd like to flop 'em right and left.
| And gather In the dough.
And as dream Of happy days
| 1 think how nice 'twould be
If only you had both your legs
| Cut off above the knee.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
MAY RE0RGANlzE THE OLD
EASTERN CAROLINA LOOP

There is talk OF reorganizing the old
Eastern Carolina Association. a fast cir
cult OF several years ago. Several Of the
cities formerly in the league are anxious.
It is said, to break into Organized ball
again.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-29

To the Editor of he Tribune.
Sir: want to congratulate you on your
timely and patriotic editorials. agree with
you on your arraignment of President Will
son in regard TO his Mexican policy, his lack
of diplomacy in negotiating with foreign gov
ernments, his position on preparedness and
many other most important policies.
It is highly important that the Republican
party elect President who will be wise,
strong and fearless enough to restore this
government to its former condition when it
was the admiration Of the civilized world.
Can such a President be elected? Where is
there such man? VIII the people rally to
his support?
1t must not be forgotten that the Demo-
era &c party is pretty strongly intrenched. 1t
has the entire South with IL, right or wrong.
II is in possession of the government. which
will be used to reflect President Wilson.
Therefore, il is important that the Republican
party makes no mistake in selecting its can
didate.
In my judgment. Justice Hughes is the man
to lead lie owes it to his country. lie would
not decline when called upon TO save this
nation from disaster. He fits the place. His
ability is not questioned; geographically he
is from the right state, and he can unite and
solidfy the party. He would be the ideal
candidate.
True. Mr.. Roosevelt is great statesman.
intensely American. courageous 20 the core,
firm in his determination. But he owes the
Republican party debt which he should pay
before receiving further honors from its
hands. That debt Is to help repair the dam
age he did in starting q third party which
was responsible for the election of Mr.. Will
son. If he should come out squarely for Jus
tice lughes's nomination. and stand for his
election, he would be rendering his country a
service which, at this time, it so much needs.
Nominate Mr.. Roosevelt. and thousands OF
Republicans will not support him; nominate
Mr. Root, and thousands of Progressves will
unpleasantly recall the part he played at
the Chicago convention; nominate Justice
Hughes. and both Taft Republicans and
Roosevelt Progressives will be found heartily
supporting the same candidate. which means
certain victory
Whatever may be said derogatory of Mr..
Roosevelt. he stands first for America. and,
realizing that in this coming campaign the
paramount issue will be whether this govern
ment will protect American citizens. wherever
they may be, he may yet come to the realiza-
tion that his strongest place is in the ranks.
using his talents in support Of Justice Hughes.
WILBUR II. THOMAS.
Martinsburg. W. Va, Feb. 2l, 1916.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-29
Wadswor.h for President

To .he Editor OF The Tribune. -,
Sir: The free-for-all discussion IN ~ go. ~.
ur.ns of The Tribune Of Repuo''ss" La.
dential possibilities has indicated qu''e 60. -.
" tina. none Of the avowed esndlGa'e' ,oc.I
tbus far obtained anything more 'A'"
support. r,;r. State
II appears 10 me that the tmpn. ali
has son who can satisfactory S"'
tests. .3 which
Senator Wadsworth has a recoI' ! sur.
amply iustifes confidence tina. he "OI,o ,,a,s IN
round himself with the ablest eounse.O' ore
the nation. He is at the present IN ..,s,
Of the ablcst and most intelligent Iafs,ee.
Of a we'll conceived plan Of naiion"' - the
II the East IS TO offer cand "a = hone
,oxt national convention, venture ~ o.c
that he will be one whose name WIZ .rely
>erious public consideration aad nO' n of
the obviously personally INSPIRED TSnpIr.vor,h Srprv,h
we'll oiled press bureau. hr, s"s and es-
commands universal public re'pec' o. aJ Do.
.eem. Modest and unselfsh 20 ".sss;,,on
cree. he has attained an undisputea py; pah,;c.n
as one Of the few big men in the hspuv,,li hpn;.li,v
par.y. His magnetic psrsonal'!. sverv.
and vigor would be an insprs''JuI, u,yEs
where. hnNhn ~.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-29
Henry James.

He died a British subject, but ours re-
main the privilege and the credit Of hav-
irg given him to Anglo American litera-
ture-one Of its most interesting and sig
nficant figures during the period in which
he lived and worked. Nay, more; Henry
James was our most meaningful contribu-
ton to international literature as well,
for Italy and France, and, less directly,
all the Continent, may claim their share
in the suggestion and the shaping of his
material, in the production Of those stud
les Of interaction between the Old World
and the New which earned for him the
name of the Father Of the international
Novel;
He interpreted US to Europe. but most
Of all he interpreted US TO ourselves as
we reacted to the European scene TO
adapt one Of his own felicitous phrases.
Time was when we resented him; we had
not yet outgrown then our sensitiveness
to what at first flush appeared to be criti-
cism. II took US some time to discover
that, in the comparison, 1t was Europe
that furnished the highly veneered sur
face. but our wanderers abroad the depth,
the inner delicacy that is truer and nobler
than smoothness OF manners.
In Henry James's stories America pre-
sented the morally positive element-re-
ceptive though it was socially and cultural
Is; the Old World the negative, all rough
corners carefully rounded, avoiding full
stops wherever commas can be used, max
ing easy the roads Of life by graceful COM
promises, smiling insincerities, elaborate
rretense.
Balzac was James's first enthusiasm. He
never dreamt Of "comedie humane" of
his own; instead he gave us ali interna-
tional social comedy whose social con-
trasts, at least, gradually wore away with
the passing of the years and the increase
OF our Intercourse. His preoccupation
vas exclusively with the social phase OF
/ this comparative study of his. Politics,
economics, the vital questions of the latter
falf Of the nineteenth century abroad and
here. concerned him not. And, with rare
exception. his preoccupation was exclu-
sively with one social stratum. He loved,
not wealth and position, but the adorn-
New-York tribune., 1916-02-29
Altruism and Weakness.

From The Philadelphia HrenirO Ledger
The highest virtue OF state. said Sp.noza.
who lived before the time of William Jen-
nnrs Bryan, is security. The cry against
preparedness in the United States is o cry
for national weakness. Every appeal to
kindness in international relations is, in
some way, an appeal against American citi-
zeAs Because. if this country weakers it.
self by pscifsm, it will not persist.
The evil is not that Japan may take the
Philippines or snatch San Francisco from
Us. BY applying the Golden Rule we might
persuade ourselves that Japan needs them
more than we do. The disaster would be
thst this country. dedicated 70 freedom and
10 democracy. Offering not only haven OF
rest for the prosecuted but harbor of hope
for those sickened by bureaucracy and
tyranny abroad. would crumble and fall 70
the ground. I, the United States is 10 re-
msin a country in which the Golden Rule
can be practsed by individuals witho !, fear
OF the encroachments OF power. II must give
up the altruistc rule in its relations with
cher countries. II need not become mill
taristic; Il need no; cease 20 strive for
relce among nations. Il need only forge h
hCsstpls,c OF gold and iron 20 protect is
hcart. Because once the heart is pierced
tho most golden OF golden rules will avail
nothing.