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1 THE C AUG AS I AN. ftf5MSI'EI EVKHY THUJWJAY, V.j MAKIO.' tft'TLEI., . .V ..r ud ri.irii-tor. THE CAUCASIAN Has the Largest Circulation in Thirl Cunrr&ional Iit:ict. It prints the new ami Mis tin plain truth. You Men of liusint it will paj you to admliso in it. H SUBSCRIBE! .Puro 33omooroy one! wuito Oxxioro Show this Pap'T to your neigh bor anil artv b him to subscribe. SnWriptioii I'rico $l.CO per Year, in Advance. Vol. ix. CLINTON, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1891. No. 24. 1'IiO FUSS IOXA L COLUMN . V7. It. ALLEN, ATTO RX KY-AT-LA W, Goldaboro, N. C Will practice in Sampson county. iVb-27 tf A M. LEiC, M. D. r.. I'll YMICIAN,S' KOKO.V AND DENTIST, ( )iiU;.; in bee's l,rutf Store, je 7-lyr J. A. S J EVENS, M. I). Physician and Surgeon, (Olllco over Post Office.) laTMay ho found at night at the residence of J. 1 1. Stevens on College .Street, je 7-yr H E. FAISON, Attorney and Counsell or at Law. Office on Main Street, will practice In courts of Sampson and adjoining counties. Also in Supreme Court. All business intrusted to his car-.! will receive prompt and careful Attention. je 7-lyr 3,1 W. KERR, J.J Attorney and Counsellor at Law. O.tlce on Wall Street. Will practice in Sampson, Bladen, IVmler, Harnett and Duplin Coun t Also in Supreme Court. Prompt personal attention will be x'wrn to all legal business, je 7-lyr L 71RANK P,OYETTE,D.D.S. Dentistry Office on Main Street.m3 Olfars his services to the people of Clinton and vicinity. Everything in the line of Dentistry done in the Ue-it style. Satisfaction guaranteed. ftaYMy terms are strictly cash. Don't ask me to vary from this rule. l have just received a lanzc lot ot KW''iint jewelry. This I will guaran tee' to thu purchaser to be just as rei rcKt nt;)'!. I sell no cheap, "fire guilt" gomls but carry a standard link ok itioi.n Kiio.NT oooos. The attention of the ladies is called to the latent styles ofitHKASr i-iNS thev are "tilings of beauty!" Tint old reliable and standard SETII THOMAS CLOCKS always in stock in various stylos and sizes. iiiT Ilcpairiug of Watches and Clocks u'.id mending Jewelry is a spcciauy. All work 1 do is guaranteed to give en '.iio satisfaction. Respectfully. cp3-tf G. T. It AWLS. 1. T. & G. F. ALDERMAN COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 111! North Water Street, WILMINOTOX, N. C. Ct Ion ;uul Timber. : a r.so : Country Produce handled to best ad vantage. Ukference 1st National Dank, Wilmington, N. C. aug21-ti fcY BARBER SHOP. When ou wish an easy shave, As gcol as barber ever gave, Just call ot. us at our saloon U morning, eve or noon; We cut and dress the hair with grace, To suit the contour of the face. Our room is neat and towels clean, Scissors sharp and razors keen, And everything we think you'll find; To suit the face and please the mind, nd all our art and skill can do, It vou just call, we'll do for you. Shop on DeVane Street, opposite Court House, over the old Alliance Headquarters. . PAUL SHERAIID, The Clinton Barber. A. Fii-st-CXctss BARBER SHOP- If you wish a first-class Shave, Hair Cut, Sharupoon or Mustache Dye, call at my place of business on Wall Street, three doers from the corner of M. Ilanstein's, there you will find me at all hours. RAZORS SHARP, SHEARS KEEN I If you want a good job don't fail to call on me. J. II. SIMMONS, aprlO tf Barber. Raise Turkeys weighing from 30 to 40 pounds, and worth twice as much as common stock, by buying luii-bl.)od breeds. Address, S. II. COLWELL. Wallace P. 6., nov6-tf Duplin Co., N. C. REMOVAL, ! .1. T. GREGORY Has removed his Tailoring Estab lishment from his old stand to his office on Sampson Street, net to the M. E. Church. The great and orignal leader in low prices ior men's ciotnes. econ omy in cloth and money will force you to give him a call. (-Latest Fashion plates always n hand. June 7th. lyr. 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PROPOSITION AND THE PETERSBURG CHARTER Thirty-Seven Charters Granted for New Kailroads in Spite of the Fact that a, Commis sion ISHlw.m Passed. One of the first important mea ures taken under considerjdio.i by the (ieneral Assembly was a Kail road Commission. The joint siKcial committee that had the drafting of thi.s measure in charge gave a full and patient hearing to all railroad men and other parties concerned. The bill as drawn gave the Commis- sion power to regulate passenger and freight iate, to prevent unjust dis crimination in favor of or against any individual or place and many othei important and needed duties and powers, a strong bill that gives the Commission amnle nowers to A & rotect, in every respect the inter est of the people, yet one that will not in any respect cripple the rail roads or prevent railroad building or damage their legitimate interest. The fight was close and strong in both housos to prevent amendments being tacked on that would injure, cripple or weaken the bill. But when the amendments were defeat ed and the question came for or against a Commission the bill pass ed by a largo majority, for a large majority of the members were pledg ed by their constituents to support a Commission. Judging by the great fears ex pressed, by those who opposed the )ilJ, that such a commission- would cripple railroads and check railroad building, U would have been sup posed thai not a single, or at Jeast but a very few railroad charters would be asked for. But quite to the contrary, capital r.cver seemed more anxious and ready to invest in railroad building in North Carolina. As will be seen in another column, under the head of "Legislative Sum mary," charters for thirty-seven railroads were granted, while others were asked for that did not pass. In truth, the Commission, "by re quiring all parties to do equal and exact justice will dispel the popular prejudice against railroads and be really conducive to their growth and progress. With the judiciously selected Commissioners, an experi enced, wie nnd patriotic uvil en gineer from the west, the honest, cnergectic and faithful Secretary of the State Alliance from the centre, an able, successful and pure lawyer from the east, both the people and he railroads feel in advance that pure ana simple justice, nothing more and nothing less will be done on all sides. After a hard fight a bill was pass ed extending the A. & N. C. from Goldsboro to some point on the C. F. &. Y. V. railroad and on to Char lotte. After the Railraad Commission the next most important matter be fore the Legislature was the W. & W. proposition to pay a limited amount of taxes for certain jrreafc and extraordinary privileges. Over this proposition and the various complications arising therefrom, were the hardest fights of the ses sion. As we have said before, ufter a long and rather lively discussion the Senate refused to accept the hush and purchase money by a vote of 28 to 14; thereby saying to the W & W. railroad that you can get no further favors or censideratiorrfrom the people until you surrender your claimed exemption from taxation and stand on the same footing as the poorest and hnmblest citizen On the heels of this the Legislature was asked to recharter the Petersburg road, running from Weldon to Pe tersburg in Virginia. The charter of 'this road expired a few months since. This road and the W. & W are both in the same syndicate, be ing two of the roads forming tht through K Atlantic Coast Line." Be fore considering this bill the Leg is lature passed a bill suspending chap ter 49 of the Code relating to char tering railroads before Secretary or of State and repealing every known existing charter which might be utilized by the W. & W. railroad in making a northern connection. This done, then the Legislature granted the Petersburg charter for two years only. This serves positive and un mistakable notice - upon the W. & W. railroad that within the next two years it must pay taxes not a limited amount dictated by it, bu full taxf.s under the general law or give up its northern connections for a mrougn line, unless, forsooth, it should be able to control the next Legislature, and that is not proba ble. VVhen these importaht bills passed it was Monday morning, the last day of the session, the handa of the clock pointed to 10:30 and the General Assembly of 1891 had only 4 "' an nour ana a nan of life. Yet at this late hour a bill, unheard of and iinmAntinnod liffnr a new tvno written bill, wa." sprung upon the body by those who had voted in the opposition on the W. A W. mat ter. This bill was to repeal the charter of the Georgia, Carolina A Northern railroad, which was passed n 1887 and which road is no w being built, unless by August 1st the Itai- igh & Gaston give up its chartered exemptions, lha lormer road lorms a southern connection with the lat ter. The author, or rather introdu cer, ot this bin had tne auaacity to say that he did not favor the bill and would not v.'te for it, but that since we had 4bottled up" the W. A W railroad that he wanted to see iow we would vote oii4,bottling up" other roads. Ip short those who were displeas ed at the passage of the bill with reference to the W. A W. Uoad, at tempted to take snap judgment up on the majority by offering this bill suddenly and without time for con sideration, with the hope It is sup posed of putting the majority in a hole." The majority, though tak en by surprise, were not caught nap ping, but readily took in thesituation and caught on their feet." How? By simply offering an amendment stay ing the operation of the bill for two yeaks thereby to a certain extent putting the It. A G. Road on the same footing as the W. A W. ; and to the chagrin of the authors of the bill the amendment passed and he bill as amended went over to the louse. Then a lively fight occurred ed by Mr. Jones of Wake. He said that he was against the W. A W. proposition and if the Senate liad not killed .t that he would have fought it in the House. He said that he hat- abo strongly a lvocated the bills to repe.il chapter 19 of the Code and to limit the Petersburg charter two years, which was right be cause the State's contract with that r jad had expired and that we were under no obligation to renew the contract and certainly for no longer time than we saw fit. He said that bcth the Petersburg and the W. A W. Roads had come to the Legisla ture as petitions asking lor favors and that w e had simply granted tho ?e avors in so far as we conceived it to be for the best interests of the State. But that the caso with the R. A G. Railroad and the G. C. A N. Rail road was entirely different ; and while there could be no real harm resulting from passing the bill with the two year amendment which the Senate had wisely and justly put on it. yet th whole thing was wrong in principle. For these roads had violated no contract nor had asked for any favors. That this bill put them on trial without a moment's notice and proposed to pass judgment upon them hastily without so much as giving tnem notice, mucn less . .a i It given them a hearing. That he was in favor of making every road pay taxes and give up their exemptions, but h.3 was not in favor t f changing the contract made by the State at this last moment of the session with out giving a hearing to the other parlies to the contract. That he could not do even a corporation a wrong to secure a right, much less to satisfy the pique and chagrin of certain other parties'. He hoped the bill would be voted down. Much discussion followed, but the House by a good majority sustained Mr. Jones in his position. While we were satisfied with the positioa of the Senate on this question yet the position taken by the House is sound, manly and patriotic. All this shows that the next campaign will be a square issue on taxation and railroad matters and that the next Legisla ture will be put on its metal ; and i f that body represents truly the peo pie and their interests it will beequvl to the occasion. GREAT LEADERS PASSING AWAY. Grn. Joseph E. Johnston is dead. Another one of the great Confeder ate leaders is gone. As a pro m inent figure in the tragic drama on one side tans he is loiiowea by one on the other. Grant falls, he is follow ed by the immortal Jeff Davis; still fresh is the earth over the gravi of Sherman, when the heroic Johnston follows. Gen. Johnston was born Feb. 3rd, 1809, graduate d at Wesf Point with Robert E. Lee, served with distin tinguished valor in the Mexican war and was quarter-master general of the United States Army when the civil war broke outl His distinguish ed services for th Southern cause is known to every echod boy. He and Sherman faced each other during the last struggle of the mighty conflict. No greater military genius was dis played during the war than his slow, masterly and stragetic retreat before Sherman from Vicksburg to the Sea, and then up into North Carolina with the last stand made iit Bentonsville, in Johnston county. Johnston sur rendered to Sherman near Durham on .very favorable terms after Lee had surrendered to Grant at Appo mattox. General Johnston was one of the Inter-State Railroad Commis sioners at the time of his death. EASTER EVE IN A COFFIN. IS ADVENTURE IX THE COSSACK COCTTTBY. BY DAVID KKIi. All rights reserved. X EVERY. Ras- Hsian village, from the White sea to the Black, Easter rlavia tVta foclrfll $t of the whole year. Christmas is cele brated with a Mkolyadovamew (singing of caroL) and a liberal burning of can VoiKf dles and setting forth of good cheer. At midnight on New Year's eve the country lasses trip forth to ask the name of the first male passer by whom they meet, as an angury f that of their own future husband. Uut Easter, and Easter alone, is to Russia .vhat , Christmas is to England, or the 'Jour de 1'An" to France a season of miversal good will and feasting and jaerry making, wnen even strangers jreet each other with a kiss on both ;heeks and reply to the salutation Khristoe voskres" (Christ is risen) with ;he traditional countersign, "Vo istinay oskres" (He is risen indeed). Somewhat in this stylo my thoughts an aa I lay stretched on the hay of my irantass (traveling wagon) in tho court- :r.i ywjsf honse on the outskirts of a tiny Cossack town on the Upper Don, toward sunset on Easter eve, awaiting the fresh horses which the burly, bearded postmaster had promised me with a fluent confidence that made me feel sure he was lying. And so it proved. Time passed, but the horses came not; and I was just about to spring up and give the big Cos sack a sample of my fluency in Russian scolding when I was stopped short by hearing a low, deep voice say beside me, hardly above a whisper, yet terribly'dis- tinct: "I shall have him to-night 1" The speaker's tone was so full of dead ly menace that the howl of a hungry wolf or the hiss of a snake conld hardly have been more ominous of evil. Rais ing myself cautiously, I peered over the edge of the wagon, and saw a young man and a girl standing together at the yard gate the girl in the picturesque costume of a Cossack maiden, the man in the uniform of a Russian non-commis sioned officer. The young woman had her back to me, and it was only by the fine outlines of her figure that I could guess her to be beautiful. But the man's face was plainly visible, and even I started as I saw it. Handsome as it undoubtedly was, it looked absolutely terrible in its grim inflexibility of purpose. It was the face of a born soldier, to whom duty was everything one who, if ordered to kill his own father or brother in battle, would have done it without a moment's hesitation. The talk went on, and I gathered from it that the voung sergeant was on the track of a Nihilist emissary sent to mur der the czar, who was expected to pass through the town that night with an armed escort. I followed him to the church, Masha"' (Mary), said he, glancing up at the tall, green tower of painted wood, which, with its gilded cupola and metal plated roof, glittered brightly in the last rays of the setting sun; "but he slipped round a corner, and when I darted round after him I could see no more of him than of my own ears. He must have a confederate among these long robed rogues, who let him into the church by some secret way, for, as our proverb says, "ltiey wiio wear wide sleeves In their heart are thieves. "But no matter he can't escape now, for six of my men are on the watch for him outside, and the reward for his ap prehension, along with wrhat I've saved already, will just make up the sum that your father demands tov your wedding portion, and then I can get my discharge from the army, for my term of service will be up next month, and then" The last "and then" was pointed with an emphatic kiss. "It does seem nard, thougn, said tae girl, with a touch of womanly compassion in her voice, "that a man must die to make us happy. We shall feel as if we were eating our wedding feast out of a coffin." A man!" cried her lover fiercely; "a traitor and assassin, you mean, who has plotted against the life of the emperor." "True," answered his betrothed, chang ing her tone again, "nothing is too bad for a man who could plot against Father Alexander Alexandrovitch" (the czar). We Cossacks have always been loyal, and always will be." AlwaysP1 echoed the young man em phatically. "And now good night, dooshenka'' (my little soul), "for I must go and see that this fellow doesn't slip away from us." Here was a romance ready made to my hand, and I at once decided to re main in the town that night and see this drama to the end a decision which evidently relieved the worthy postmaster, who was at Ins wits' end for a fresh lie to account for t'ie non-ap pearance of my hcrses. " "Perh ips the roble ;ur (gentleman) "would be pie:""-! .t"( in nnd take bread and salt' with us," he hinted. "It's a poor place, but" "Never mind, brother," said I; "food and sshelter are always worth having. and I know that a Cossack welcome is bound to be a warm one." In truth, there was no fault to be found with my welcome, though the postmas ter's hut was certainly no palace. The walls were of logs, cemented with clay and dried leaves, and jointed together like the frame of a schoolboy's slate, not a nail being used throughout. The floor was merely trodden earth, larded with crushed beetles and furrowed by the ex cavations of inquiring poultry. The blackened rafters stood out like the ribs of a whale enlivened by the gambols of numerous spider Blondins on tight ropes of their own plaiting, and every now and then one of the troupe lost his hold and fell with a loud splash into one of our tumblers of tea and lemon juice. - One entire corner of the room was oc cupied by a huge tiled Btove and another by an enormous bed, the patchwork quilt of which looked like a colored map of the United States. In the third cor ner hung the portrait of ; my host's patron saint, with a tiny lamp burning before it. and a pious roach making a 1 v i r Mo5 A YOCNO MAN AND A OIBL. laborious pilgrimage around its staring gilt frame. But there was plenty of good cheer and merriment in this little hovel, queer as it looked. The corpulent brass sam over looked down upon a brown rye loaf as big as a footstool and an enor mous bowl of buckwheat porridge, sig nificantly called "postnaya kasha" (fast ing porridge), while a perfect mount ain' of sugared "Easter cakes" which our host's sturdy, sunbrowned, red kerchiefed wife had spent the whole day in baking rose around the dainty of the season, a pyramidal mass of thick pasty dough, spotted with a kind of smallpox of currants and raisins. which is to a Russian Easter what the traditional plum pudding is to an En glish Christinas. , Just as all was ready for our meal in came the postmaster's pretty daughter in all the splendor of her holiday clothes embroidered blue jacket and crimson ekirt, striped stockings, and a string of colored beads round her neck. Her late appearance was fully explained by the huge basket of Easter eggs, gay with all the hues of the rainbow, which she ear ned ia her hand. Behind Miss Praskovia came another girl about her own age, who was pre sented to me as her foster sister, and who seemed to be treated with great re spect by the whole family, being (as afterward learned) the only daughter of a prosperous corn dealer m the town, who was quite a capitalist in the eyes of these simple folks. Her face impressed me only by its extreme beauty, but the moment I heard her voice I recognized the girl whose talk with her lover I had overheard half an hour before. But amid all the merriment of our cav party Maria Oisipovna (Mary, daugliter of Joseph) was strangely sad and silent, and her sadness was full' explained when she at length said Tnsively: "An! it only my poor orotuer were here among us, how happy we should bet Perhaps he's not dead after all; it may ha ve been only a report. And if he ever did come back, surely my father couldn't be so cruel as to drive him out rain!" T The honest postmaster answered only with a shrug of his broad shoulders (be ing evidently skeptical of any kind deed on the part of her father, Oisip Mxsloff, who had the name of being the most hard fisted fend hard hearted old fellow in the whole district), and hinted to us that we must not sit toe long over our supper, as we would have to be at the church in good time for the opening of the night service. An hour later we were in the church, which was filled to overflowing, even the romantic old graybeards and totter ing grandams of the community being visible amid the crowd by scores, proba bly for the first time since the previous Easter. The whole scene was certainly a strange contrast to my last Easter service in Russia, which had been cele brated not in an obscure provincial church, but in the great Isaac cathedral at St. Petersburg. In a moment I re called the whole ceremonial the massed thousands of assembled worshipers amid the vast granite columns of the splendid cathedral; the plaintive hymn dying away in a cadence of mournful sweetness among the mighty arches overhead; the gorgeous robes and long silky hair of the priests in the center, grouped around the coffin that typified the death and burial of our Lord; the tone of wondering dis may in which the chief priest exclaimed, "He is not here! as he turned away and left the church with his comrades, as if to seek the sacred body elsewhere the sudden and triumphant return of the procession through the opposite gate, with heads uplifted and banners dis played and a joyous shout of "Christ is risen," and then the sea of light that surged up through the shadowy throng as thousands of tapers were lighted at once, while the choir pealed forth the grand resurrecuon anthem, and on every side was heard the greeting which was echoing at that instant throughout the length and breadth of Russia, "Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed!" But here there were no pomp and splendor, no bronzed gates or marble cornices or pillars of polished granite. All was rude and simple; plain timber, plain stone, and the only ornament worth naming wa3 a massive silver cru cifix above the altar, purchased with the offerings of the pious Cossacks of 1812 out of the spoils won by them from the retreating armies of Napoleon. Just at that moment, however, I made a discovery which put everything else out of my head at once. In the fore most rank of the crowd around the plat form on which lay the symbolical coffin stood directly opposite to the spot where I was placed a man who seemed anxious to avoid observation, for the lower part of his face was hidden by the collar of his long gray coat, and the upper part by the cap which he carefully held be fore it; but a sudden movement of the throng exposed his face for one instant, and it was that of Masha's soldier lover, young Sergt. Dmitri Rudenko! The look of fierce and hungry expecta tion in this iron man's stern gray eyes made me shudder, for I saw by it that his victim was still concealed in the church, and that he was ready to pounce upon him as soon as the fit moment ar rived; and the sudden starting up of this deadly pertinacity, this sleepless ambush of death amid all the peace and brightness and joy of the nation's great day of gladness, had an indescribably ghastly effect. Meanwhile the ceremony proceeded and all went on as usual till the high priest and his acolytes mounted the plat form, and the former, raising the un fastened lid of the coffin and letting it fall again, uttered in las deep vo Continued on the Third Page. TABERNACLE PULPIT. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE PLAGUE OF LIES. Tkia Is HU riftlk DittcoarM I lite ScrU m tl PUgtiM of Um CHISmUb' StateatcBt, T Shalt Not &&ly lic," the Text. New Yoiuc, March 2& "The Plague of Lies" was selected by Dr. Tahnage for the subject of the fifth of his di-1 courses on "The Plagues of These J Three Cities," which bo preached today. I Both at tha morning sorvioe in hrwnfc. lynandat tho evening service under 1 i 1 .jjj ,T vi i New York the vast buildings were not large enough to hold more than one- half the crowd who came tohear the sermon. His text was Genesia iii, 4, "Ye shall not surely die." That was a point blank lie. Satan told it to Eve to induce her to put her semicircle of white, beautiful teeth into a forbidden apricot or plum or peach or apple. He practically said to her: "Oh, Eve, just take a bite of this and you will be omnipotent and omniscient. You shall bo as gods." Just opposite was the result It was the first lie that was ever told in our world. It opened the gato for all the falsehoods that have ever alighted on this planet. It introduced a plague that covers all nations, the plague of lies. Far worso than tho plagues of Egypt, for they were on the banks of the Nile, but this on the banks of the Hudson, on the banks of tho East river, on the banks of the Ohio, and the Mississippi, and the Thames, and the Rhine, and the Tiber, and on both sides of all rivers. The Egyptian plagues lasted only a few weeks, but for six thousand years has raged this plague of lies. There are a hundred ways of telling a lie. A man's entire life may be a falsehood, while with his lips he may not once directly falsify. There are those who state what is positively un true, but afterward say "may be" soft ly. These departures from the truth are called Svhite lies;" but there is really no such thing as a white lie. SOME LIVES ARE ALL FALSEHOOD. The whitest lie tliat was ever told was as black as perdition. No inven tory of public crimes will be sufficient that omits this gigantic abomination. There are men high in church and state, actually useful, self denying and honest in many things, who, upon cer tain subjects and in certain spheres, are not at all to be depended upon for veracity. Indeed, there are many men and women who have their notions of truthfulness so thoroughly perverted that they do not know when they are lying. With many it is a cultivated sin, with some it seems a natural in firmity. I have known people who seemed to have been born liare. The falsehoods of their lives extended from cradle to grave. Prevarications, misrep resentations and dishonesty of speech appeared in their first jitterances, and were as natural to them as any of their infantile diseases, and were a sort of moral croup or spiritual scarlatina. B ut many have been placed in circumstances where this tendency has day by day, and hour by hour, been called to larger development. They have gone from attainment to attainment and from class to class until they have become regularly graduated liars. The air of the city is filled with false hoods. They hang pendent frbm the chandeliers of our finest residences; they crowd the shelves of some of our merchant princes; they fill the side walk from curbstone to brownstone facing. They cluster around the me chanic's hammer, and blossom from the end of the merchant's ' yardstick, and sit in the doors of churches. Some call them "fiction." Some style them "fabrication." You might say that ' . . e ' romance, evasion, pretense, zaoie, ao- ception, misrepresentation, but, as I am ifmnwint of -mvthini? to be trained by the hiding of a God defying outrage - under a lexiocofirapher s blanket, I ii i,. .w Mw fni... taught me to call them lies. CLASSIFICATION OF LIBS. 1 shall divide them into agricultural, mercantile, mechanical, ecclesiastical and social lies. First, then, 1 will speak of those that aro more particularly agricultural. . . . - - ,X 1 There is something in the perpetual pivttenee of natural objects to make a man pure. "The trees never issue "false stock." Wheat fields are always honest. Rye and oats never move out in the night, not paying for the place they have occupied. Corn shocks never make ' false assignments. Mountain brooks are always "current." The gold on the grain is never counterfeit. The sunrise never flaunts in false col- nrs. The dew sports only genuine -diamonds. Takimr fanners as a class 1 believe they ore truthful and fair in dealing, and kind hearted. But the regions surrounding our cities do not always send this sort of men to ' our markets. Day by day there creak through our streets, and about the market bouses, farm wagons that have not an honest spoke in their wheels or a truthful rivet from tongue to tail board. During the last few years there have been times when domestic economy has foundered on the farmer's firkin. Neither high taxes, nor the high price of dry goods, nor the exorbitancy of labor could excuse much that tho city has witnessed in the behavior of the yeo manry. By the quiet firesides in West chester and Orange counties I hope there may be seasons of deep reflection and hearty repentance. Rural districts are accustomed to rail at great cities as given np to fraud and every form of rinrighteousness; but our cities do not absorb all the abominations. - Our citizens have learned the importance of not always trusting to the size and style., of apples in the top of the fanner's bar rel as an indication of what may bo found farthiT down, afany ol oar peo ple are aeeuito!iM,d to watch and k how correctly a bushel cf Kvt U I measured; and thcro tirs not many honest milkcaxuL Deception do not all cluster rounl city hall. When our cities rit down and wpcp over tliAr tins, all the sur rounding countries ought to curue in and weep with tiiem. Them U often hostility on the part of producer against traders, as though the ioao. who raises th corn was neocssaarily inoro honorable than tho grain dealer. who pours it Into bis mammoth bin. There ought to bo no such hostility. Vet producers often think it no wronjr k snatch away from lha trader, ana tbeJ" Sil' Ut tlj bargaiuer, your money easy." Do t! your money easy, icy get it easy? Let those who in tho quiet field and barn get their living exchango places with those who stand today amid tho excitements of commercial life and see if they find it so very easy. While the farmer goes to slovp with tho assurance that his corn and barley will be growing all tho night, moment by moment adding to his revenue, tho merchant tries to go to sleep, conscious that tliat moment his cargo may bo broken on tlie rocks, or damaged by tho wave that sweeps clear across the hurricane deck, or that reckless fikvu lators may that very hour bo plotting some monetary revolution, or the burg lars be prying open Ids safe, or his debtors fleeing the town, or his landlord raising tho rent, or tho fires kindling on tho block tliat contains all his estates. Easy! Is it? God help the merchants! It is hard to havo the palms of tho hands bUstered with outdoor work, but a more dreadful process when, through mercantile anxie ties, the brain is consumed 1 THE LIES OF TIIE TKADK11S. In the next place wo notico mercan tile lies thoso before tho counter and behind the counter. I will not attempt to specify tho different forms of com mercial falsehood. There are mer chants who excuso themselves for devl ation from trutlif ulness because of what they call commercial custom. In other words, the multiplication and univer sality of a sin turns H into a virtue. There have been largo fortunes gath ered whero there was not ono drop of unrequited toil in tho wine; not ono spark of lad temper flashing from the bronze bracket; not ono drop of needlo woman's hoarfe blood ia tho crimson plush; whilo there are other great es tablishments in which there is not ono door knob, not one brick, not ono trinket, not one thread of luce, but has upon it tho mark of dishonor. What wonder if some day a ltand of toll tliat had been wrung, and worn out, and blistered until tho skin came oil, should be placed against tho elegant wall paper, leaving its mark of blood four fingers and a thumb! or that someday, walking tho halls, thero thould bo a voice accosting the occupant, saying, "Six cents for making a bhirt;" and, flying the room, another voico should say, "Twelve cents for an army blank et;" and tho man should try to slot p at night, but ever and anon be aroused, until getting up on one elbow be should shriek out, "Who's there?" One Sabbath night, in tho vestibule of my church after service, a woman foil in convulsions. Tho doctor said she needed medicine not so much aa something to eat. As she began to re vive in her delirium sho said gasping ly: "Eight cents! eight cents! eight cents! I wish I could get it done; I am so tired ! I wish I conld get souio sleep, but I must get it done! Eight cents! eight cents!" Wo found after ward that sho was making garments for eight cents apiece, and tliat sho could make but three of them in a day I Three times eight are twenty-four! Hear it, men and women who have comfortable homes! Some of the worst villains of the city are tho employers of these women. They beat them down to tho last penny and try to cheat them out of that. Tho woman must deposit a dollar or two I Vwiforw slie cets the Erarments to work . ? , !f . . UI ww-" ... T T'o' "i- " Picked oot f d tJw1Iwa I 4l. l .It'll. lAnrujit ia i ,r sometimes the dollar deposit is not riven back. The Women's Protective union reports a caao whero ono of these poor souls, finding a placo whero she could get more wages, resolved to cliange employers, and went to get lier pay for work done. The employer says: "I bear you are going to leave me. " "Yes," she said, "and I am come to get what you owe me."' lie made no an swer. , She said, "Are you not going to payiner "Yes," he said, "I Will pay you," and be kicked her down tho stairs. i There are thousands of "fortunes made in commercial spheres that are through out righteous. God will let his favor rest upon every scroll, every pictured walk every traceried window ; and the joy that flashes from the lights, and showers from the music, and dances In the children's quick feet , pattering through tho hall, will utter tho con gratulation of men end the approval of God. LIES AKH UXi'ECESSAUT. A merchant can, to the last item, bo thoroucldv honest. , I aero ia never any need of falsehood. Yet how many will, day by day, hoar by hour, utter what they know to bo wrong. You say that you are selling at loss than cost. If so, then it u right to say it. But did that cost you less tlian vliat you ask for it? If not, then you liave falsified. You sav that that article cost you twenty-five dollars. " Did it If so, then all right. If it did not, then you have falsified. Suppose you are a purchaser. You are "beatinsr down" tho Poods- You say tliat that articlo for which five dot lars is charged is net worth more than four. Is it worth no more than four dollars ? Then all right. If it bo worth more, and for the sake of getting it for less than its value you willfully depre ciate you liave falsified. You may call it a sharp trado. The recording angel writes it down on the ponderous tomes of eternity, "If r. So-andso, merchant Continued on Fourth Pago. . A BIG AND AX IMPORTANT !.llSillV. Til K F 1 ILST Vl? il u KULLKTIX OK TIUJCK FA KM STA VIS VlCS. The iK'MMii-doi! at Ihn lkit-trt Cu roll tin TriicUrTH' Asvwfi.1. tiou POINTERS TO TRUCKERS WHERE. EVERY- One of tho largrsl uud n -t hnr porlant industries along ttu- .south ern Atlauth Coa-t Is 1 1 tick larmln-. It is only within th? l td fY w yrars that this profitable industry I, de veloped into iuiiMenMS proportions. It Heenis that never ln-fure tho hist decado had :his business rhvt t enough dignity and ?inimi!;ne bi come under lhe oocrvati ;i nud at- tiact tho attention of th Nation d IX'partnionl of Agriculture. Hut to day thu attention of the Nat oa In called to the following prc-s di-- patch, which hhowsthe. maguitudo and iumorUuec of this Industry : Washington, .March if.. Tho census eiuce io-u;y lu.um puwio a bulletin on truck funning, which, for the first time in thehi-tary of the count! v has besr n made a 8 abject of census investigation. The Mute- inents aie compiled from ret inns which have been received up to Jat uary l.-t, 1S91. Truck farming eonjridercd in thi rejHirt, U dMind from market gardening, the foruur is carried on in favored localities at a distance from market, water nnd rail transportation leing necessary, while tho latter is conducted n sr local markets, the grower of veget.i I les u&ing hlsovn team fur tr.ms lurtati;i bis products di xt beilh er the retailer or the eon-umcr. Upward of $IOO,000,oot arc Invit ed in this industry, tho rtamiul pro ducts reaching a vidueof $7G,7n,i,Vi on ihe farms, after prying freight and eomiuiHhkms, and nulized up n 523,-HOacres of laud. Tt. -ro uro em ployed in this industry 21,075 men, 1)2,511 women and 74,871 chlMrcn, aided by 75,SS6 horses ;nd mules, and ?8J71, 200.70 worth of imple ment. li.e :orioik uiftuct, emnro ing 0,'tto acres, shipped product valu ed at S7,GJ2.851). The .South Atl.ui- tie district, 111,711 ncrci, products l.'l.lSVdG; the Missl-nippi V.tih y, 8,180 (ten, products, $ !,S7'.,7:1. Neirly75 percent, ol the truck reduced in tho United Stale's come from a belt of country a'ong the At- mtic cooht, being east i" Ihe line Irawn from Augutn, MCto l-ie u, (la.: from ;; hem (ieerirl.i. Al tb;i- na and Florida, along I ho m-th and south lines ef railro.tds in the Mississippi Valley from th lull' to Chicago, tit. Louis ami Kansas City uid ft oiti the celery dMiicls ol Michiga and Ohio. More r bs of the truck, however, is produced In ill these States. flic trucking business is aBMintli.g a systematic methodical shupeby 1 1 1 ; organization of State Truckers' Avo cations all along the Atlantic Co.ist. The Eastern Carolina 'I nicker' Ah sociatiou wits organized at the town of Clinton in 18M), from which many enefits directly smd indirectly bae resulted. The annuil meeting fur 601 met on March 10th, at Mount Olive, a notice of which was publish ed in last i ue. The follow ing i rn outline of Home of the riitcu.cionft : fiTKAWHL'KUIKK. Dr. E. Porter mid that the great st object in view ot the strawbcirv grower should be quality iuki not quantity, and that the grower should reduce the acreage it be could not troduco fine berries without it. The oil should bo a stiff black or pond land, but thoroughly drain, without which it was almost iuipoih:e to grow lierrk'S successfully. His ideas on the fertility of rain on thorough ly drained land, if irwt are well worth knowitcar.d would beol gn at advantage to berry, growers to ad pt his method of nub-soillng. Ho riy he generally applies Ms at,ru uu-' nure in the bar furrow, and applies the guano as top dres-ieg ; but i.s ex- periuitfn .ing with stable manure and guano as a lop urcssirr; only ways t will not py to giow inferior ber th k J, S. Wthtbiook next- ddre'-si-d.- the Association. He . dors- d Dr. IV i tor's treatment of the ct and S;dJ that the land h!nu! i by broken wkh plow a medium dedh( and a cotton plow with point !o fol low turn plow as a ub-s. nler, jind ineistf lh:t jou put therumequ;mtU ly ol manure on one acre l!.it you would considet t big tl e lor two ncres. jio auvises ire .unni.- to n pUi two fe t a iitt on 15e row.i an.l not eighteen im-hcNasfuimcrly. II" puts aboui lorty to tiny t;u.l.i is ol cotton K-enJ er. aero i: the? b.ir fur row in late full uul from t;) io oOO pounds of high grade gu utos as u top clmsdngnt out the bUi of I'eb'y. lie advises all shippers to use both the Express and lteftigtrators, lor the reasoa that your berries idrik'j both thu ear!y and late in ukt.t- A moUan, by J. O. Idti., that a committee of four from one shipping point. le appointed on Transporta tion was adopted.' It. 1). Craton then placed Id.so:i in nomination for &aid int, whici was adopted. J. 8. Wo-tbrook, A. D. Hicks, II. J. Fabson and J. 11. Oliver were appointed as aid cjtn m it tee. - FfiEIOHT KATES." Capt. Emerson was then called on for freight rates, and said there had Continued on Secon4 rage -1 1