The Caucasian., November 09, 1913, Image 3

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When the
`edaýýiý grise
that you need an Under
taker, it is then you will ap
pret'cite the more that be
sides being able to procure
necessary furnishings at an
expense to suit your wishes
-the appointments will be
hig4t clas and a Lady Un
gertaker will attend the de
ceated if it be a Iely or
chil. n@A the obsequies
crrief out with that digni
e4d solenrr ity so desired,
anr yet so lacking in most
I'esent day fusrals. We
ivew the regutatin as b'
ing without a peer.
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Heart to Heart
Talks
b CHARLES N. LUR*
STRAY BRICKS.
From Chicago comes a pathetic 1le
of a woman, seventy years olL who is
building for herself a cottage from
such stray bricks as she Is sble to
find lying around.
Unusua! and brave woman! fag.
rather. let us say unusual andJ brave
person, for how many men at her age
would even dream of attempting such
$ thing?
Let the critic say. "It won'S tE $1utw
of a cottage when it is built."
Very true. but far more hae ean5
a palace or skyscraper. It wiltbe l te
embodiment of an ideal. Ste dounds
tions will be laid in hope. anO Its
bricks will be cemented together it.
the mortar of high achievemei
Of stray bricks. remember!
Of bricks that are rejected 0 srdle
for further service: of bricks that are
despised. Not of new, clean, fresh
brick, straight from the brickyards.
but of clay blocks which would other
wise have been lost.
Many a person complains this a life
cannot he built unless first class ma
terial be provided. How often do we
hear, for example, the young man say:
"If I had only had a chance to go to
college I might have amounted to
something," or. "If my father had been
rich I could have succeeded in busi
ness."
Yearning for new, fresh bricks, you
see. Unwillingness to use the material
which lies close at hand. and neglect
therefore of the opportunity of doing
any building at all.
All such could learn from the old
Chicago woman. It she had waited to
build or start her cottage until some
one should have given her a load of
new bricks how long do you think she
would have been in erecting the little
home?
So it is in the business of acquiring
an education and in the business of
making a life. Around us lie the stray
bricks waiting to be picked up. They
are the opportunities which We neglect.
Rightly used they may be reared one
upon another until a fair edifice rises
before the view.
If you have no new bricks where
with to build your life look around jou
for the stray material which may serve
your purpose.
Prbape--who knowa--it may be
better than the new. In the exertion
of gathering it there may be the acqui
sition of strength for the raising of the
building.
KEEPING SILENCE WE .LL.
Many inrsons can talk well, but few
can keep silence well.
That is a faculty well worth cultivat
ing-the art of being able to hold one's
peace at the proper time. It is an art
which few understand and fewer still
practice.
The phrase "not to keep silence well"
is taken from a story by Charles Dick
ens and Wilkie Collins. It character
izes a person who. "when he keeps si
lent you can hardly help vaguely,
tough,. perhaps most unjustly, mis
trusting him."
how
To talk too much is the sign of an
empty mind. To talk too little may in
dicate the same thing.
Bout
There is such a thing as "keeping si
leae well."
It is knowing when to talk and when
net to talk. It'Is knowing how to fit
together the mosaic of speech and al
lence in such a way as to form a true
picture, with none of the pieces over
lapping another and spoiling the ef
feet It is the mingling of the elements
in a musical composition so that har
mony and not discord may be the re
sult.
Of course there is another sense in
which the phrase "to keep silence well"
may. be applied. It is the fligrative
sense- It indicates the time when
speaking on a subject should be for
bidden by the inner voice which tells
one that no good may be accomplished
by outapokeunes
Suppose. for instance, that you know
of wrongdolng, honestly. repented.. in
another's life. He is trying to live it
dowp. It es a secret known perhaps
to you and him alone.
-" "]eep silence well" by not telling it
toanothet. since no good purpose can
come of its publication to the world.
Let him outlive his past if he can.
Or perhps you. are, employed with
another who mmkes an error in his
,wo.o T'be.mis.hlel is done and can
not'be' undone. Do not cast stumbling
bloeka In your brother's path by re
rvealing it to others.
If yeo can do so without bringing of
fl e'ell itt to his attention and to his
alfe that he may know how to avoid
similar error in the future.
So shall you "keep silence well."
1Ausm EVERYTrIMG EASY
Life being I*hat we make it we
shoqld make it easy.
$o runs the modern doctrine. But
is there not grave danger that we may
make it too easy?
..ShOrft cuts are not always the best.
,safest ways home. Abridied methods
and pr.iesses do not always pi.odce
the same results as the older, surer
Easy writtlng asktimakes hard reahd
ltagf ad getaius ts still an Ifinlte
camatoy fer taking palms, despite what
tke htiaipsfBr of UmethodS way.
Wim sli ai *s
anl brightening tite weee sows. lu
there was one which elicited more
smiles of asusment basa, nods of ap
3roval.
to was an exercise machine lherebp
the lazy man may obtain exercise
while lying dow).
(The electrical exetas Cealle8 It a
"sinusoidal curtent &inchint'." the
humori.,. A Zbbe4 it '"bookWore
chaser.'"I
By the asS of thin apparatus .ihe azy
alan Dial obtain exercise while lylng
down. The beculiarity of the device
Is thas its current everses itself at
regular intervals ann at each reversal
the muscl)s through which it d pass
inI receive a distinct pull. 11 passing
tie current through the q4m. flo eg
ampic. the patient receives benefit sim
Ilar to that darte,) toru t egl)a4 a
rcise.
Substitte tb9 exerci,. jorsootbt AS
though there could be such m thir.g
itot enly are there substitute Wor
siusculat, @xer1se o. the markett. ut
there are alse substitutes for 'she s.*e
tat exertion ~rhicc $S essential to the
proper development at th5e VBne.tiIe
acl reasoning faculties.
Ihinkin) for oneself wearies aI 4e
«n. so Be lets ethers Go his thlnking
for him. Or, worse still. be seeks the
aid of She @heap and popular "think
ing machines." such as the daily new
paper or the magazine. instead of go
ing to the sotates of knowledge an#
wisdom, tie books in which are em
bodied and crystallized the a.perlenc4
of the ages.
This is not to decry the eaading 4
the newspaper and the magazines.
They serve useful purposes in the
world and are, in fact, indispensable
under modern conditions.
But the reading of them should be
supplemented with the bool which
have been tried and tested.
A REAL PHYSICIAN TO THE SOUL
Now and then amid the record of do
ings, good and bad, of the folks in our
town and in other places comes an
item which uplifts the heart and cheers
the spirit.
Such is the "story" about the Phila
delphia pastor who conducts a clinic
for the souls of his parishioners. The
word "pastor" is used advisedly; he is
a true pastor or shephprd of his flock.
He is more, for he is a healer of their
ailments.
Of course, all true clergymen par
take of the nature of physicians. That
is part -of their Calling-to "minister
to a mind diseased." They must, if
they be worthy of their cloth, share in
the sorrows and afflictions of their
people.
But
This Philadelphia pastor does more.
He invites the confidence of those who
look up to him as an interpreter of
Holy Writ.
It is recorded that on one recent
afternoon eight women, distressed in
mind and contemplating suicide, called
upon him and received the friendly
advice which turned them from the
path which threatened to lead them
to self destruction.
Here is one paragraph from the
"story:"
"With a 'good afternoon' that made
one glad she was living he strode
into the room and his walk and bear
ing suggested energy, the joy of living,
the determination to do things."
You can picture for yourself the true
minister entering that room, bringing
with him an atmospjere of uplift and
hnnafnlnass.
Now, the application of this tale is
not for ministers of the gospel alone.
It is for you. for me, for every one.
We can all be servants of the uplift
and physicians to the soul. We need
no degree from meodical college or
theological seminary. We need no
license to practice the healing of the
spirit.
And we need no complicated arma
mentarium. such as the physician of
the body employs-just the will to do
good to others and the energy to carry
that will into effect
The word spoken in time is one of
the medicines. The word of encourage
ment to cheer a drooping heart is an
other. The smile of cheer counts for
pmuch. The word of censure rightly
spoken. in such a way as to warn and
not to offend, may be termed the bit
ter. necessary quinine for the soul.
Every thinking man and woman can
add to his or her stock of such
medicines. They are to be found in
every pharmacopeia of cheer and up
lift.
W ER.M.tOST IS TO BE LEARNED.
There is an old time custom which
has falln .into disuse.. It is the prac
Stice of -making pilgrimages, to the
homes of sages, to sit at the. feeut of
wisdom and thus to absorb rearning
that should be a light to the under
tanding and a guidance to the heart.
No longer do we Journey to the homes
of the seers. Instead, they come to us,
in person or via the printed page. to
impart their wisdom to us.
Facing thousands from the lecture
platform and millions from books,
magazines and newspapers, they tell
us what the accumulated wisdom of
the ages and their own experiences
'have taught them.
We travel to see foreign countries
and strange cities and wonderful
sights. Why not travel to see what is
in some respects the greatest sight of
all, a wise man?
There is Inspiration in the coming
into close personal contact with wis
dom. It cannot be gained from being
merely one of an audience or from
studying the cold words expressed in
ink and paper.
Three hundred years ago there was
an Enuglsh nobleman who sought ad-,
vice of a kihaman on this matter. The
M a also a nobleans, told I4ti:
3rMA teea )eandred milep to
*peat 5-itb ease Wis was than 8ve
miles to sea a fair town."
The seeing of a fair town Was, you
see, in his mind only Wortlb one-twen
tieth as much as the *schange of
thoughts With b wise man.
Most of us think otherwise GivelS
our choire between traveling to see a
.air town, a strange ctuntry. a wonder
of buatuxs g, of art and traveling far
ther and with greater pains to absorb
Wisdom from one fitted to impart it. it
s. to he feared that we would choose
the former course, to our loss.
This is .ot t.o decry travel, even
though Emerson, who traveled abroad
himself. called tihe desire to travel an
evidence of an unsound mind. Travel
ing is good in that it broadens the
mind and increases knowledge.
The Spanish. who were great travel
er's some centuries ago. said that "who
-ver would bring back the riches of
the Indies must take the riches of the
Indiet With himO."
be %e who travels tot isTracdieu !a
stead of toe meep *musiment sm"t4
take 9'it! tiee t1l .-eieg eye e d tie
understanding mini
l'.d lie who journevp as@ to % irhe.
o Cthe home of a person of known Sis
dom 6bu.l t.ke With him the acuity
-9 rightly bearing that person. other
wise his time and treblb Will awo,
Iglfs @onpensate0.
AIKE CHAMPION/
tou ma, not be a champion ta }our
profession or business os sport. but
pou can bear yourself like a champion.
This is not to say that you are to
vaunt yourself on your superiority to
others or brag about your achieve
ments. Real champions do not do so.
They wear their honor modestly and
quietly, but firmly.
There is virtue in the conception that
the mind has an influence on the body.
So, if you feel and act like a champion.
perhaps you Iil come to be one is
time.
"One can almost tell by watching
them walk into a hotel that they are
champions. They are clean, decent
living, gentlemanly fellows. In base
ball, morals and intellect are quite as
important as physical prowess."
Yes, and Hugh l. Fullerton, writing
thus of the Philadelphia Athletics,
champions of baseball, might have add
ed, "as they are in other fields of en
deavor."
There is a certain mark set on the
brow by success in any 9ne of honest
endeavor. It cannot be imitated, but it
can be emulated. In other words, you
can try to look like a champion and
carry yourself like one without brag
ging-without "bluffing."
Much.. depends on the bearing of a
person.
As you take rourself, so will others
take you. If you have little merit or
desert and express it in your appear
anee, se shall you be judged.
If you knowv yourself to be worthy
of respect, whatever your temportry
standing in the world, and show it in
your bearing, others will respect you.
The influence is from within you, not
from without.
Read the history oD the world and
the biographies of its great men and
women. Almost invariably you will
find tributes by contemporaries to the
light that shone in the ejes of the
famous and the ease and distinction of
their bearing. That is what is meant
by "looking like champions."
We cannot all be champions, of
course. It is true that there is room
at the top. as the old saying has it,
but the way thereto is long and hard.'
and many there be who fall by the
wayside.
But all along the way, from the low
est steps to the highest, you will find
that those who are striving most earn
estly to reach the summit and those
who are destined to breathe the thin,
rare air that is there bear themselves
well and nobly.
Long Arm ot L;oIncsaence
The strange story told by a default
ing debtor of his being recognized aft
er he had been for six years trying to
live down the past is not so strange a
story as one which came within the
ken of Professor Jowett. A good man
went wrong and was caught and sen
tenced at Liverpool to imprisonment.
After the sinner had served his term
Jowett and others helped him, and he
obtained a colonial editorship where
his past was unknown. -lIe did well:
was a new man. One day a tornado
swept off the roof of his office. Under
the roof was discovered a batch of old
English papers which had been placed
there and forgotten. after the mail had
broight them. He set members of his
staff to work to get out of the dere
,licts anything which might be interest
ing: enough to print. The first thing
that they found was a full report of
the trial and colrictioni of the man
himself, their editor, at Liverpool all
those years before.-St. James' Gazette.
A Vanishing Audience.
On clearing the harbor the ship ran
into a nasty, half pitching, choppy sea.
which was especially noticeable as the
twenty-five passengers at the captain's
table sat down to dinner.
"I hope that all twenty-five of you
will have a pleasant trip." said the
captain, as the soup appeared. "and
that this little assembly of twenty
four will be. much benefited by the
voyage. I look upon these twenty-two
smiling faces as a father upon his
family, for I am responsible for the
safety of this group of seventeen. I
hope that all fourteen of you will join
nie in drinking to a merry trip. I be
lieve that we eight are most congenial,
and I applaud the judgment which
chose these three persons for my table
You and I. my dear air, are-- Here.
teward. clear away those dishes and
wIag me tbh Lh'*-N-ew York Globa
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4.i\it W¥ar 4Vensionere.
%.,~e1 Orleans Piea' iyli Nov. 5: "I ,,11
irelitl of ih 9t illed MilafesO :t u hns
.inw r l t n11I ] lsion , l Ht de 1P 1 flt July
! al tlhits Sear. shows fl ,rte Wf,. o
thn alie, W2.31.:0-10 rk'il x war i,,n
SidnlielO.
in lthe nilte! ltales .lrrny for lihI
civil war. iand reduced to a thrie
year basis the numbier was put down
at 2.32?1.272, and it appears that after
nearly half Ia centlury one-fifth ot'
I lonl Ire alive and receivrin r in-1I
sions. The Confederate force which1l
oughlt Ihern was not lMrore than
650,tiKI, and they fought, at odds of
about four to one. Some of tlheir
sur vivors receive small pensions
firon their respective States. It is
not kniown how many of thi Co.a
federate Veterans are yet alive, but
doubtless as larges number r * them
as. 'ecei.te Vensionea rsluporl Ielm,
'this reerewIte l#a .i' El/ei.p.erte
etse'ans receiving ensions is e mis
eadinut. The greater number who
support themselves are not pension
ers. It is true there are many, in
Louisiana for instance, who ar:
self-supporting who draw with un
failing regularity the pittance al
lowed by the State. Pensions should
be reserved for the unfortunates
whllo are more more or less dependent.
The pension system as it applies to
Louisiana should be remodeled.
eGovernment Ownership.
Leslie's Nov. 6: Wait. It is report
ed that Postmaster General Burle
son may follow the example of his
predecessor in oflice, and recom
mend that the government acquire
all the telegraph lines in the cdun
try. Before the government. enters
upon such a venture would it not be
well to wait and see the outcome of
the parcels post? It is still an open
question as to whether this will
mean a profit or a loss to the gov
ernment. Government telegraph
ownership is not an open question,
however. Great Britain has enjoyed
government ownership and opera
tion of telegraph lines for the past
forty years, and in that time its
postoffice telegraph monopoly has
produced a total deficit of $87.000,
000. At present taxpayers of Great
Britain are paying at the rate of
$4,200,000 annually to enjoy the lux
ury of governmentally operated tel
egraph lines. The principal reason
for this is uncommercial and ex
travagant management, due to po
litical control. We have the same
experience in various Federal de
partments at Washington. To se
cure the same efficiency and econ
omry in the government that you get
in private enterprise is a practical
impossibility.
Will Drive Murphy Out of Business.
As announced by telegram fromn
New York. Mayor-elect Mitchel, on
reaching the. headquarters of the
Fusionists on Tuesday night, on be
ing queried as to what he would do
about Charles F. Murphy, the leader
of Tammany, replied: "By not rec
'ognizing him or any one connected
with him, I am going to do all I can
to drive him out of business. This
is not a personal triumph but a vic
tory for the cause of good govern
ment."
Interpreted practically this means
that Boss Murphy and his gang must
walk the plank and jump into the
political deep blue sea. By whom
will Murphy be rescued? Will he be
swept into oblivion?
Colored Tru~kers Association.
Natchez (Miss.) News Oct. 30: Fif
ty pounds of the finest cabbage seed
to be obtained in the country ar
rixed today for the Truckers Asso
ciation. This quantity is sufficient to
plant two hundred acres or more.
"There has been a hundred and
fifty acres pledged by the whitr
Iruckers for cabbage alone, and it is
thought. by M-1 Zerkowsky that at
least fifty acres will be planted by.
the colored truckers. but so far he
has not been able to find out the
exact amount."
The inhabitahts of Natchez andi
thereabouts must ,be very fond ofi
cabbage, and there must be mon
in- cabbage. How' many heads rif.
marketable cabbage may.. h~uiat,
ered from the acreageiaq ftlemnthihr
and the colored tri~akej aslomia,
tions? ,The headline of thisl2iaticte
is significant in thaktrit aithdimnttethatJ
in -Natchez, Missr; omef-l f thb c lrw
ored people anXir ianghigecdrrinJthe
growing of vegetabl es.mt.entabi.iaai
ly for profits. lbThplodar etion thoe
acres when mattlpedetal,.· -in.- IP,l
spring will be-islippedr.bt: it4iemir.,
the Northern.iStates.lir , -i ,. ',
Sue;i n41 *NtiQatte:; 1:I II')'
No. 17,679-h'irsth DisrlCitGouet la,
do Parish. atea-s-pcveusincipot E,
P. Bowea~'i4 ?:~:e :!t , ,
Notice is hapfbygivh thLatI, W.k-J
Thomason RhC, t.hi,~d.yrpplied; :to
be appointed.radmijistrratont of.~atl:
succession, and.hilhRsstArewii.,sleat'te
ment and appraisement of all the
property belonging to. said succes
sion, as follows: One Stultz & Bauer
upright grand piano worth about
the num of (1300, and unless opposi
, it il -.++' I . l, " i ,,l\ . 11. \. t l l .t; '( N ,'
'of t,.ll` :aid rne ,, . tihu- ..,L day of No
n, ll,,r ltlt;. m .+). \ I II+I.\M S.
I rstal\ _otice.
'dak-el til, by Iliehard Middows on
the :linilanl Nurseitre and )rchal'd
Co's Iproperty at Keithville. La.. and
estrayedt betfore ite. the utindersigned
authol'ity,. one black poiny horse,
aboul 9 ywars ,,l. about I i handy
high. vith star til ri;ght froni t too,
ias if hliti\ in . heet tmade by the cut
of baibced \wire,. ni, other marks or
brands visible. ()wietr will come
forward. prove properly and pay
charges, or the above animal will be
sold according to law at Keithville,
t.a., on Saturday the 29th day of
_Novemberi 1913. during the legal
hours of sale. J. F. HENDERSON.
Justice of the Peace 7th Ward of
Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
Cau,.asian, Oct. 26, 1913.
Succession Notice.
No. 15,866-First District Court. Par
ish of Caddo, State of Louisiana:
Succession of Mrs. Annie L. Mil
ler.
Notice is hereby gilen that V. Ir
vin Miller, executor, has this day
filed his final account in said suc
cession, and unless opposition be
made thereto within the time speei
tied by law the same will be duly
homologated as prayed for.
Witness the Hon. John R. Land,
judge of said court, this 3rd day of
November 1913. S. O. WILLIAMS,
Deputy Clerk.
Caucasian, Nov. 4, 1913.
Estray Notice.
Taken up by Will Black at his
pasture near "Three Forks," north
Nvest of the city, about a quarber of
a mile from the city, about Oct. 27,
1913, one mare mule being marked
as follows: Mouse colored, about 9
hands high, about 10 years old, no
brands or marks noticeable. The
owner of said animal is ordered to
prove ownership and pay costs, or
said animal will be sold at court
house square, Shreveport, La., en
Saturday, Dec. 13, 1913, between the
legal hours of sales by the citymar
shall, according to ,law. Done and
signed this the Ist day of November
1913. L. C. BLANCHARD,
City Judge.
Cauca>ian, Nov. 2, 1913.
Notice of Tax Sale.
To F. R. Jones: You are hereby
notified that at tax sale for unpaid
State and parish taxes for the year
1912, 1 purchased the following
property assessed in the name of F.
R. Jones: Lot 24 Bownman Lane,
which tax deed is dated June 21,
1913, and filed for record July 3,
1913. and recorded in conveyance
book 88, page 24. The amount of
taxes, penalty and cost being $8.14.
NETTIE J. STUART,
Box 126, Shreveport, La.
Caucasian, Oct. 12, 1913.
Notice of Tax Sale..
To J. M. Madison:.You are hereby
notified that at tax sale for unpaid
State and parish taxes for the year
1912, 1 purchased the following
property assessed in the name of J.
M. Madison: Lot 3 Brimmer &I
More subdivision, which'tax deed is_
dated June 21, 1913. and filed for
record July 3; 1913. and recorded in
conveyance book 88, page 66. The
amount of taxes, penalty and cost
being $9.10. NETTIE J. STUART.
Box 126. Shreveport, La.
Caucasian. Oct. 12. it913.
No1ti(4 or Tax Sale.
'To E. (".l fhrper': You are herby
notilit~ed 1'Ul''~ltax sale for unpaid
Statie mtill~Pi h'li' taxes for the year
1912, 'J "' ti'.tj 1 lhe following
proif k.. I'.. lht name of E.
O. ' lof northeast
qu at .Yo- 9 ow nslhip 20,
S\9a o."''i x t 0ld is dated
cLh 121."'. 'T "'Kd fffd- 'tor record
f t4 )II ( b6 in con
e;...':, . The
mount of taxes, "penalty anl cost
.I -t.~- h/mo lbj't'ir#...dJ .'P,?I", tPit;,
b d. a.-1 a ,g&1 - to i.t'., ,, ' i . ( O ,
' aetor , awardd a't'{ , ý t ract wllr
s tisfaetoiyi an .'l r tt !Th 1 :ris1 tk f
C rddo rleserlves the rightlil tio rejct!
any or, all bidY , .s.llt 'itiq ,,
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President Pro Ter Parish of Caddo.
Sactasir anw, OcLtd-.. 14, 1913. ct will
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C rdde reserves the right to reject.
any or all bids.
WILLIAM WINTER.
Caucasian, Oct, tt, t913.