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THE CAUCASIAN. yfi A 71 i O' .A T TT A T T THE IJCAsS F'L'IiMSKEI) EVERY THURSDAY, Hy MARION BUTLER, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIBE I Show ihU Pap?r to 'our neigh bor ami advise him to subscribe. Subscription Price $1.50 per Year, lit Advance. l'UO V KION A I , COLUMN . YT It. ALLKX, VV ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, (i)l(lsljoro, N. J. Will practic? in Sampson county. Ieb27 tr A, I'j I V.SICI A I) :0 EO N A NO 1) E NT 1ST, Oitico in -i Drug Store. jo7-lyr J. A. STEVENS, M. 1). PVVsKFAN A.ND SUIiGEON, :Mce over Post Office.) tafMay .: found at tdght at the .eUlence of J. II. Stevens on College .Street. 'lJT.. Tjr e. faison, 1 . Attorney ani Counsell or at Law. Office on Main Street, will practice In courts ofSampsonand ad'ioiiiinir couulio:. Also in Supreme Court. All business intrusted to his care will receive, prompt and careful attention. Jt! 7:lyr.. I ""uTTvloiltt, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Oillee o:i Wall Street. Will practice in Sampson, DIaden, Pender, Harnett and Duplin Conn ties. 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SEND YOUR ADDRESS FOR SAMPLES And Instruction for Self-Mesuremnf PIEDMONT PANTS COMPANY WINSTON, N. C - An Attraetlro Combined POCKET ALBf AXAC and MEMORANDUM BOOK advertising BROWN'S IRON BITTERS Uie best Tonic. Riven away at Drag and - general uteres. Apply at once. CLOCKS Manotti Tiro -"as ffi PfflS Vol. ix THE COMISSIOXERS HWOUN IN APKIL FIRST AND ARK NOW IJUSY INVESTI (I ATI NO RAILROADS. Sketches of the Three important State Officers. On April the 1st MaJ. J.W. Wil son, E. C. Eeddingfield and Capt. Thomas W. Mason took the prescrib ed oath oi Railroad Commissioner, which is as follows: "I do solemnly swvar ((.r uflirm) that I am not the owner of any steamboat or any stock or bond of any railroad or other transportation company, express or telegraph com pany, or the agent or attorney or employee of such company; that I have no interest in any way in any such company, and that I will well and fa thl'ully execute the duties of my office of railroad commissioner to the best of my knowledge and ability, without fear, favor or malice, or reward or the hope of reward: so heli n- God." Mnj. Wilson, the chairman of the Commission, immediately called the Hoard together and organized for work. Mr. Henry C. Brown, of Stanley county, was elected clerk. The Commission as selected lias every element of success. Maj. Wil son, tho chairman, is one of the finest civil engineers in America. There is no one niore capable of acting wisely in the important position and dealing out even handed justice to both the people and tho roads, for no one knows more about the cost of railroad building and operating than he and the State has no more patri oticcitizen. Mr. Bedilingfield, who is elected i or me long term oi six years, is a young man lull of energy and pro mise, one whose integrity and wis dom has already won the hearts and confidence of the great laboring class of the State. Capt. Mason is a pure and able lawyer and will be the legal advisor of the Hoard of which h Is a mem ber. The Commission have their rooms in the Agricultural building. Tho Morganton Herald gives the following sketch of MAJ. JAMES W. WILSON. Commissioner Wilson, a son of the distinguished Presbyterian educator and divine, Rev. Alexander Wilson, D. D., was born in Granville county, North Carolina, on December 17th, 1832, antl is therefore now in his 59th year. He was prepared for college under the instruction of his father and at the celehi-ateil Caldwell Insti tute at Greensboro, N. C. in 1850 he entered :he Senior clas at the University of North Carolina, then the leading educational Institution in the Sou h Atlantic States, and graduated with distinction i:i 1852. Sonic years before he entered col lege ;ie had determined on adopting the profosion of a civil engineer, and mmediately after his graduation he oined a corps of engineers under Gen. Roades, then making a prelim ary survey of a part of the Western North Carolina Railroad. Entering the service as a rodsman, he soon gave evidence of that talent which lias since made him famous, and rapidly rising to the position of as sistant to his chief, he was assigned work out the most intricate problems connected with the location of the road. While engaged in this work, the young engineer met Miss Louise, the beautiful daughter of Col. Adol phus Erwin, of Pleasant Garden, McDowell county, and bis wooing, prosecuted with the same intrepid energy which has marked his action in undertakings less pleasant and ro- rnatic, resulted in a wedding at the stately old country seat on the upper Catawba in the spnna; ot latetul sixty-one. A few months after his marriage, Mr. Wilson heeded the call of North Carolina for troops, and raising a company of hu boy hood companions on the Haw uver mills, entered Col. Foster's regiment as Captain of Co. F and made a bril liant record for bravery during the terrible struggle between the States, He retired with the rank of Major and with a reputation as a soldier and a leader of men which entitles him toa much more exalted position. Near the close of the war Major Wilson was appointed by Governor Vance Superintendent of the West ern North Carolina Railroad. In 1850 he was elected President of that road and served four years un til the State's interest was conveyec o the Best Syndicate, when he was elected Chief Engineer, holding that position for seven years. During this period the road was pushed through the big tunnel under the Blue llidire and the ribbon of stee was uncoiled along the French Broad valley and far out westwardly towards the shadow ot trie JNania halas. The tourist, westward bound, who speeds in a Pullman car from Salis hnrv to Paint Rock in nine hours, will look from the car windows on the finest piece of railway engin er- tiit pmi he lounu eai oi me MWwlssInni. In fact, it is doubtfu if anvthinu can be found on the great trunk lines that pierce the snow-capped Rockies and Sierras to sumass the nathway tor mouermzeu liviathan, than that from Round Knob toSwannanoa is curved and looped and twisted through tunnels and along dizzy inclines, hho ju Hat hurled throusrn ine air. The credit of planning this great u iirlr and RArrvinff it out tnrougn ai its perplexing details has been justly attriDutea io uie cnairmu m Carolina's new .Railway coramis slnn . ' ' v -. In 1887 Mr. Wilson resigned his position on the Western North Car- olina Railroad to accept, at a prince ly salary, the Tosition ot Chief En gineer on two railway lines radiating from Knoxville, Tenn., the Knox- ville and Cumberland Gap and the Knoxville Southern. In 1890, both the lines being completed. Mai. Wil son resigned his position and return ed io his home in Morganton, where lie has lived since the war, and where he had intended to devote his time exclusively to the management of his extensive estates. 1 he action of the Legislature calling him to a posi tion on the Railroad Commission, a position which he had neither solic ited or expected, will cause him again to forego for a time that well earned rest in the midst of his fam ily to which he has so 1 ng looked forward. Mr-J. J. Dunn, Secretary of the Wake ( ouuty Alliance furnishes the State Chronicle with the following sketch of EUGEXE C. 1JEDDIXG FIELD. Eugene C. L'eddingficld, former Secretary of the North Carolina Far mers' State Alliance, no a- one of the newly electa! Railroad Commission era, wai born on the 10th of Octobtr, lmz, in wake county, a lew imics north of Raleigh. His father, A. II, Beddingfiold, was a Confederate sol dier and died in the hospital at Gor donaville, Va., in November, 1803, leaving his wife and son dependent upon her father, Edward Chappel, who was a plain, substantial tanner, at the time seventy-live years ot age. Sherman's army having left the country in a destitute condition . it was with considerable sacrifice that they managed to send Eugene toa subscription school lor a lew months m each year, until be was old enough to plow. A corrupt Leg islature having squandered the pub lie school fund, there were no public schools in his neighborhood at the time. As soon as he learned to read, however, he manifested a great f o- ,d- ne-js for books, and through the kindness of friends vas enabled to borrow and read many which he could not otherwise have done. Eve rv spare moment was employed in eading standard works o-. history and fiction. When he was fourteen years old, through the kindness of his teacher, Dr. L. Chappell, of Fores ivi lie, he attended the Academy at that place for a year. Dr. R. II. Lewis, now .'resident of Judson College, was at that t'me principal. This was the n-incipal part of schooling he ever received, as some private mstters prevented him from attending col ego as he had hoped to do. He how ever did not give up his studious labits, but continued to study and read at spare time while working on his farm. 188S Mr. Beddingfield was nominated as a candidate for the State Legislature. Up to this lime he had never delivered a public speech in his life, but soon showed considerable ability as a speaker, and was able to hold his own with tho old uoliticid orators. His canvass of the countv .vas a brilliant one, he being the only democrat elected from this county. Mr. Beddiigfield at once took a oromineni position in the .Legislature, auu perhaps no young man in the otato ever exer cised a wider influence. His record n that bodv' is one of which he may well be proud. When Col. Polk re signed as Secretary of the State Al liance he was elected to fill his unex pired term, and received the endorse ment of the brotherhood throughout the State by re-election last August at the meeting of the State Alliance at Asheville. lie continued to hold this position until he was elected one of the Railroad commissioners lor the Stale by a very flattering vote. His brethieu throughout the St ite express themselves as highly pleased at his election. I am free to say Mr. Beddingfield will, 1 think, fill the new position to which he has been elected with as much ability as he has the other importa .t positions which he has held. Tho Weldon New3 gives the fol lowing sketch of CAFT. THOMAS W. MASON. Mr. Mason was born in Brunswick countv. viririnia, wnicn aujoir.s Northampton, in this State, on Jan uarv 3d, 1839. He graduated at the University of North Carolina, after the usual four years course, in I808, not h 'vinsr at the time attained his twentieth year. After receiving his degree at the University of this State he entered the law school of the University of Virginia at the .-ession of 18o8-'9 and mastered the whole course in one term. He was married in Northampton county, this State, in September, 18G0. When the war between the States began he was residing on a plantation in Lou isiana which he still owns and suc cessfully manages. He was among among the first to respond to the call for volunteers. When the sun cf the Confederacy sec at Appomattox Mr. Mason, like thousands of others who had t-taked their all and lost, res olutelv turnrd his face to tho future to repair his broken fortunes. He settled in Northampton county where he still resides, but formerly spend ing many of his winters on his Lou isiana plantation. Ho engaged m agricultural pursuits and became and is still a successful farmer. In 1877 he was admitted to the bar of North ampton county, not as a ne viy fledg ed licensee of tie Supreme Court, but as a lawyer well equipped and with a profound knowledge of con stitutional and common law. His practice began at once to grow and each year has seen it incre tse, but never yet has anyone been heard to sneak aught against him or charge Mm with taking an unfair advantage either in or out of court. He gives e same care and zeal to the hum- est esses as to the greatest; but so much is he esteemed where he is best known that in 1884 he received unsought the Democratic nomina tion for State Senator in the third dislriet, composed of Northampton rcontlnucd on Second Page. xxxro Domocrncy and Vvixito Supremacy. CLINTON, N. 0., THURSDAY, APRIL INFIDELITY SCORCHED. DR. TALMAGE'S eloquent review OF ACNOSTICISM. The Mot Remarkable of a Very Re markable Series of Sermons on "The PUjufi of the Cities" Does the Rible Jnntify Polyeamy? Nkw Yoiik, April 5. Continuing bis course of sennon3on "The Ten Plagues of the Cities," Rev. Dr. Talmage today took for his subject "The Plague of In fidelity. The discourse was delivered to large and appreciative audience3 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the forenoon and the New York Academy of Music in the evening. The text was Romans iii, 4, "Let God be true, bnt every man a liar." That is, if God says one thing and tho whole human race says the opposite, Paul would accept the divine veracity. But there are many in our time who have dared arraign the Almighty for falsehood. Infidelity is not only a plague but it is the mother of plagues. It seems from what we hear on all sides that the Christian religion is a huge blander; that the Mosaic account of creation is an absurdity large enough to throw all nations into rollicking guf faw ; that Adam and Eve never existed ; that the ancient flood and Noah's Ark were impossibilities; that there never was a miracle; that the Uible is the friend of cruelty, of murder, of polyg amy, or all lornis ot base crime; that the Christian religion is woman's tyrant and man's stultification ; that the Bible from lid to lid is a fable, a cruelty, a humbug, a sham, alio; that the mar tyrs who died for its truth were miser able dupes; that tho church of Jesus Christ is properly gazetted as a fool; that when Thomas Carlyle, the skeptic, said "The Bible is a noble book," he was dropping into imbecility; that when Theodore Parker declared in Music Hall, Boston, "Never a boy or girl in au unrisiendom out was profited by that great book," he was becoming very weak minded; that it is sometliing to bring a blush to the cheek of every patriot that John Adams, the father of American independence, de clared, "The Bible is the best book in all the world ;" and that lion hearted Andrew Jackson turned into a snivel ing coward when he said, "That book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests;" and that Daniel Webster abdi cated the throne of his intellectual power and resigned his logic, and from being the great expounder of the con stitution and the great lawyer of his age, turned into an idiot Avhen he said, "My heart assures and reassures me that the gospel of Jesus Christ must bo a divine reality. From the time that at my mother's feet or on my father's knee I first learned to list) verses from the sacred v.-rit- ings they have been my daily study and vigilant contemplation, and if there is anything in my style or thought to be commended the credit is duo to my kind parents in instilling into my mind an early love of the Scriptures;" and that William II. Sew ard, the diplomatist of the century, only showed his puerility when ho de clared, "The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the evergrow ing influences of the Bible;" and that it i3 wisest for us to take that book from the throne in the affections of uncounted multitudes, and put it un der our feet to be trampled upon by hatred and hissing contempt, and that your old father was hoodwinked and cajoled and cheated and befooled when he leaned on this as a staff after his hair grew gray, and his bands were tremulous, and liis steps shortened as he came up to tho verge of the grave, and that your mother sat with a pack of lies on her lap while reading of the better country, and of the ending of all her aches and pains, and reunion not only with those of you who stood around her, but with the children she had buried with mfinite heartache, so that she could read no more until she took off her spectacles and wiped from them the heavy mist of many tears. THE GLOIUOUS COXSOLATIOX, Alas! that for forty and fifty years they should have walked under this delusion, and had it under their pillow when they lay a-dying in the back room, and asked that some words from the vile page might be cut upon the tombstone under the shadow of the oild country meeting house, where they sleep today waiting for a resurrection that will never come. This book, having deceived them, and having deceived the mighty intellects of the past, must not be allowed to deceive our larger, mightier, vaster, more stupendous in tellects. And so out with the book from the court room, where it is used in the solemnization of testimony. Out with it from under the foundation of church and asylum. Out with it from the do mestic circle. Gather together all the Bibles the cliildren's Bibles, the fain ily Bibles, those newly bound and those with lid nearly worn out and pages almost obliterated by the fingers long ago turned to dust bring them all together, and let us make a bonfire of them, and by it warm our cold crit icism, and after that turn under with the plowshare of public id'gnation the polluted ashes of that loathsome, adulterous, obscene, cruel and death- f ul book which is so antagonistic to man's liberty, and woman's honor, and the world's happiness. Now that is the substance of what infidelity proposes and declares, and the attack on the Bible is accompanied by great jocosity, and there is hardly any subject about which more mirth is kindled than about tho Biblex I like fun; no man was ever built with keener appreciation or it There is health in laughter instead of harm physical health, mental health, moral health, . spiritual health provided you laugh at the right things The morning is loennd. The Indian with its own mist baptizes the cataract Minnehaha, or Lausrhinrr Water. You have not kept your "eyes open or your ears alert you have licit i?en the Ha smile, or heard the foretts clap their hands, or the orchards in blossom week aglee with redolence. But there is a laugh ter which ia deathfuL there is a laugh ter which lias the rebound of despair. It is not healthy to giggle about God. or chuckle about eternity, or smirk about the things of the immortal soul Yon know what caused the accident years ago on the Hudson River railroad. n was an intoxicated man who lor all.vmi.iriu,. u-riim.r, -n I Joke pulled the string of tho air brake u Blulipeu ma iraw B uie moa uan- ... i ji.. .iii . i gerous pomt of the journey. But the l.f: : i l : .1 I guuiui uiuu, uut iuiuhiuj; uaeru was I any impediment in the way, came down, crushing out of the mangled vie- tuns tlie immortal souls that went pood- mg mstantly to Ood and judgment. It was only a joke. He thought it would be such fun to stop the train. He stopped it! And so infidelity is chielly anxious to stop the long train of the Bible, and the long train of the churches, and the long train of Christian influ- ences, while coming down upon us are j deatn, judgment and eternity, coming a thousand miles a minute, coming with more force than all tho avalanches that ever slipped from the Alps, coming with more strength than all the lightning express trains that ever whistled or shrieked or thundered across the conti nent. THE LAUGIITKU OF FOOLS. Nov.-, in this jocularity of infidel thinkers I cannot join, and I propose to give you some reasons why I cannot bo an infidel, and so I will try to help out of this present condition any who may have been struck with tho awful piague ot scepticism. First, I cannot be an infidel because infidelity has no good substitute for the consolation it proposes to tako away. You know there aro millions of people who get their chief consolation from this book. What would you think of a crusade of this sort? Suppose a man should resolve that he would organize a conspiracy to destroy all the medi cines from all tho apothecaries and from all the hospitals of the earth. The work is done. The medicines are taken and they are thrown into the river, or the Lake, or the sea. A patient wakes up at midnight in a paroxysm of distress and wants an anodyne. "Oh," says the nurse, "the anodynes aro all destroyed; we have no drops to give you, but instead of that I'll read you a book on the ab surdities of morphine and on the ab surdities of all remedies." But tho man continues to writhe in pain, and the nurse says: "I'll continue to read you some discourses on anodynes, the cruel ties of anodynes, "the indecencies of anodynes, the absurdities of anodynes. For your groan I'll give you a laugh." Here in the hospital is a patient having a gangrened limb amputated. lie says : "Oh, for ether 1 Oh, for chloroform 1" The doctors say: "Why, they are all destroyed; we don't have any more chloroform, or ether; but I have got something a great deal better. I'll read you a pamphlet against James Y. Simp son, the discoverer or criioroiomi as an anaesthetic, find against Doctors Agnew and Hamilton and Hosack and Molt and Harvey and Abernethy." But," says the man, "I must have some anaestuetics. io, say trie doctors, "they are all destroyed, but we have got something a great deal better." "What is that?" Fun." Fun about medicines. Lie down, all ye patients in Bellevue hos pital, and stop your groaning; all ye broken hearted of all the cities, and quit your crying ; we have the cathol- icon at last! Here is a dose of wit; here is a strengthening plaster of sar casm ; here is a bottle of ribaldry that you are to keep well shaken up, and take a spoonful of it after each meal, and if that does not cure you, hero is a solution of blasphemy in which you may bathe, and here is a tincture of derision. Tickle the skeleton of death with a repartee! Make the King of Terrors cackle ! For all the agonies of all the ages, a joke ! Millions of people willing with uplifted hand toward heaven to affirm that the gospel of Jesus Christ is full of consolation for them, and yet infidelity proposes to take it away, giving nothing, abso lutely nothing, except fun. Is there any greater height or depth or length or breadth or immensity of meanness in all God's universe! MISERY OF IGSOUAXT SO-FAITH. Infidelity is a religion of "Don't know." Is there a God? Don't know! Is the soul immortal? Don't know! If we should meet each other in the fut ure world will we recognize each other? Don't know! A religion of "Don't know" for the religion of "I know," "I know hi whom I have believed." "I know that my Redeemer liveth." In fidelity proposes to substitute a religion of awful negatives for our rehgion of glorious positives showing right before us a world of reunion and ecstasy and high companionship and glorious wor ship and stupendous victory; the mightiest joy on earth not high enough to reaca zo iueua uplifted splendor awaiting all I those a , 1 1 , t a i. n: -1 wno on wmg oi umsuan uiu wm soar toward it. Have you heard of the conspiracy to put out all the lignthouses on the coast? xjo you Know mat on acercuu mgu of nest month Lddystone ngatnouse, Bell Rockjighthouse, Sherryvore light house, Montauk lighthouse, Hatteras lighthouse, New London lighthouse, Barnerrat lighthouse, and the six hun dred and forty lighthouses on the At lantic and Pacific coasts are to be ex tinguished? "Oh," you say, "what v, ill become of the ships on that night? What will be the fate of tho one million sailors following the sea? What will bo the doom of tho millions of passen gers? Who will arise to put down such a conspiracy?" Every man, woman and child in America and the world. But that is only a fable. That is what infidelity is trying to do, pat out all the lighthouses on the coast of eternity, letting the soul go up the "Narrows" of death with no light, no comfort, no peace all that coast covered with the blackness of darkness. Instead of the ii Continued on Fourth Page. 9, 1891. Literary Department. Eook and Magazine Reviews-Quo- tations General Lllerary I a tUIC. I Eiuploy your tinM Inltunroln? votirself I y by what otlwr have laborvu hard for. xcnoes. i VVir ,lflt.Vf,. ,,.. time were written for our Kamin-.-M. Miawespeanaa liau. 1 Ie following is the essay of Mr. E. A. lieihune, read before tho 1 vt , meeting if the Shakespearian Club. He had been assigned the character of MACBETH. .More than eight centuries have parsed away since Macbeth sat upon uie throne ot bcotiand, and his his torv ls 1)11 1 u tradition. The world nan lorgotteu him in the six centu ries mat followed Iroin bis day to the lime ol Shake snearo. This intro uiced him uion the stge ami intnovnr' fnl..1HUntt.n..I..l...ri .,..1 Macbeth lives Immortalized in the sublime tragedy which bears his name. The year of Macbeth' birth L tin- known, but from childhood, it is said, ambition ami love of glory were marked traits of his chaiacter With these dangerous wings he rose 1 from Thane of (JlamU to King of Scotland. This was the dream of his life. He coveted the crown of He coveted the crown of Duncan the Meek, his cousin, and his hin oi eovetousness led :o the greater on of murder. Macbeth saw no way to the throne, save in the death of Duncan, and with calm delibera tion he planned tho blackest crime recorded in Scottish historv. In all these plans, avd in their execution, ne iound an able adviser and assist ant in his wife, who was even more cruel and ambitious than himself. In him was a little of the miik of human kindness, but gratitude and mercy were foreign sentiments to the heart of l his wicked woman. A great feast was prepared at the castle of Macbeth, and Duncan and his nobles attended. Fine meats were spread upon the board and washed down with choicest wines. Duncan was merriest of the merry, little dreaming that with each cup he drank to his own destruction. When the merry making was ended, the King retired tu rest, and being weary from travel and the revelry of the night, fell into a deep sleep. At the appointed hour, Macbeth armed w ith a dagger, stole to the bed cham ber of the King to murder him, but on its very threshold his heart failed him. His soul revolted at the! thoughts of a deed so horrible and atiooiou and he returned to hi wi fe and told her of the triumph of his better nature. Frying imo a temp est of rage, Lady Macbeth reviled her husband for his weakness and cowrdict ; warned him of t lies 1- cinii o.'.th he had taken, and deciar ed she would murder ho; own child, had she sworn to do so. She was a eager t: be a Queen as Micbath, to be a King, and snatching the nagger from his trembling hand went her self to cut the Gordian knot tha bound them without the pale of roy alty. As she htood over the sleep ing monarch, and looKed into his face, he bore such a striking resem bianco to her own father th t she fled from the room in dismay. On bend ed knees she implored, and with threaten nigs commanded her bus band to ake courage and renew and carry out ll5s bloody resolve. Mac- beth goaded and driven, implored and entreated, went again, his heart hav ing been hardened by the conflicting fires that raged in his breast, and plunged his murderous dagger into the bosom ot his sleeping guest and k Scotland saw but the dripping dagger to Lady beth who smeared the laces and hands of the sleeping grooms. These, laughed Macbeth, will be suspected and punished tor my sin. xle anect ed great sorrow at the untimely death of his ki;.sman, and unbounded indignation at such a crime's being committed under his own roof. In the robes of a mourner he followed the remain?, of his victim lo the grave, and saw them laid to rest But the world was not deceived The people knew the hand that had robbed them of their King, and pa tiently awaited the hour when his death should be avenged. The sons of Duncan had fled the country and Macbeth being next of kin was crowned King. He sat upon a throne, the ambition f his life achieved, but the glory was not worth its cost"T As is many a time true, the dream was sweeter than its realization. Sometimes to live is a Urcater punbhment than to die, . wUh MacDtth. ,Ie k and kuev that he reigned over a people who.e hearts were steeled against him. He gaw gcoUand in ieaTA and in b'.ack for noDie Duncan, but few seemed j0vf ul at his own ascension, and none but lhe rabble cried. "God save the King!" The brand o a murderer ! was set upon him, and as ho rode in to the country the peasant turned away from him a; they would from a ravenous beast. In Ids castle flat terers and parasites beseiged and an noyed him ; bis conscience lashed hiin; remorse burned his soul. With a hape of regaining the alienated af fection of his people, he became a patron of the church and founded benevolent institutions. Bui an out raged and offended Providence frown ed upon hU selfish schemes and brought them to naught. In the midt of these judgments, Lady Macbeth, who had awakened to the awfulness of the part she had play ed, and giving way to despair, took her own life, and Macbeth was left friendless and hopeless io bear the burden of his fius alone. Seeing that he, like Cain, was cursed of insman. A gasp and a groan, and V " ' a ' . i 's King lay dead. Macbeth urivw aiitna i J i,.,f,,,, u,:' ,0,i 4ft,miaii,. prevent as w eu as i-ur un .uiiianni betoie nim a roan to royal ty, . . it ran with blood. He handed lyct- rmrr x ' ,:W.' I tiLLn4 m .i w I I r ,i in fti-1 in 1 ltf 11 if No. 26. heaven and scorned on earth, be grew drcperate and locked himself i in hia castle, wherever he turardi hUripf! lit; A Ifirrltilr. miKlIno ted, and dMiTired Mai to the level if bcttSt 1Ie chained hluneir to Art a..,.. ... . L , u niiuj uiiuci .uJiicuui, mo law ful heir to the erow.i, uppt reached and laid seigw to ihU stronshold. iTUHting In the prophecy of tho ih.v, .!.-.. ..... .. bv mortal rmn.l ir.ti, to meet lis f.v. lKsir4lb.t ln v. ..., him bravey and stremrth. and he lought with the fury of a lamWdng lion. One after another went down U'fure his broad claymore, and, like ppartacus he raiitnl walls of dead around him. MacDufT, whose wife and children ho had cruelly put to ueatn.saw him, and thiistlng for re venue, speedily assaileil him. It was a meeting ot giants, and long the result seemed doubtful. TulcK and fast fell the fearful blows of their pondi rous sonl, and all eyes ceu tered on the contest. Macbeth went down. The tcel had found a vital spot. At the baud of .Macduff, this cruel muruerer uiul lase usunor yielded up hi charmed life, like great Achilles at the li t id of Pari. Ther? aw A out of triumph that WPpt like H floml Ot JV OVtT all Scotland, rushing over the lowlands of tho South, echoing and reechoing among the misty peaks of the north ern highlands, and Uvmj useendlr.g i; heaven. It us mui-ie to the ears of men and angels. Wicked Macbeth was no more. Ho had fallena victim of his own selfishness and !"uulwn; " was severed fi;0, and lornas a trophy I i mm- a . . "l iLl"r u " capuai oi uie mi- uon. ine measure lie had meted to others was n.eted to himself. Some writers would lay Macbeth' sius at the door of his wife. This is hardly fair. In him burned the lire of inordinate ambition, and she but tanned the flame. Hi life teaches a valuable political moral that position which can not be attain ed by fair and honorable means should be left alone. It further Lshwtl.1! le,l,h9 ?f frime and folly into which unchecked ambition leads its victims, to bo overwhelmed and ruined. As Thane of Glamis, Mac beth was an honored man. and es teemed by his people. 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Now the development of railway system ha brought t ii-s great West so close to market tl-.d wheat can no longer bo piofi'.i-'.i! grown inthe East, while in the W. -i, the great wheat growingd'wtrict, i 1.5 wheat is cut and bound by niacti m. - ry, , taken to immense tteani tki " ii- rs and from the thresher goo- : i .- . d ..r id. ve , b lot haste into the elevator tfpo. ai ! way, always close at hand, the moment it strikes th elc Is on tho market of the w. hi? season, therefore, In whici; ariner realizes from his produ lfort is reduced from ten 10 t.. nouths to a itoriod that docs no' ts utmost limit, exceed thuvt nonth-. "For trie same reasons lhe sca.0.1 fi.r 11 arketing tho cotton by lhe f i?- mer ha shortened as much or 1:1. re than that of inaiketing the win it. EFFECT OF MOOF.KX 1 M I'HO V KM KX'iV . "These changes, brought ab-iuLby he modern Improvements that have substituted Ihetailway iroin for be x cart and tin te.egrapa lor the ourier, make hhho other change .ecessary, one of w hich, the one of all other the most impoilant, i a modern instead ol nn oxcart system of finance. "Under the old sytem the de mand for money ti hand' the pro- lucts of the country being nearly the Hatm throughout the'year, ttt'i marketing of product of ngrletilturo produced no great effect upon the money market. Bui undr modern conditions it produce. a mtA pow erful effect. "The voluiim of money in c'-reu-atlon in the United Slat s at this time Is variously estimated at Iimm 600,000,010 to Sl,100X)O,0'j0say $1,000,000,000. Bepresent -!iatum by the figure 2. The gross out put of manufacturing of all kind is about $500,000,000. Suppose ail the tmn- ufar-tured commodities chance own- eishlp between the manuiiicturer and tne con- tuner three times. The demand then throug-icut the year, for the use ol money on account ot manufactured commodities, would A i- i..rt j.s.si ik a . . equal 5Z,ouu,uuii,uuu. jw.pres in uiwi surn by the figure 4, and the rclati.:i ol the volume of money to ih s de mand for it use would Is a 2 U ; 4, and would only require that every lollar ;ncinulati'n be ns-d two limes in each year to sati-fy this de mand. Tin relation is practically uniform throughout the year. "lhe gross value oL agricultural products h about $7,000,000,000. ' Suppose two-thirds of this product Is used tor home consumption an 1 seed and one third I marketed dur ing the last three month? of the ear, ana that this only c:i:mves ownership twice; tho demand ti u created vould lie for the use cf ?V 000,000,000, which, upon the bs vo basis, sh utd be rcpreseule' by the figure 10, and which a-ldil to the regular emand, 4, make H e Ie mand during that time 11. A G BEAT CONTRACTION. "If the vo'.uma remains the fane throughout the year, fur 9 month in the year, the relation of vc'umo to demand is as 2 to 4, and during the other 3 months jt is as 2 to 1 1. "Of course this is lhe widest rarge in the relation of the volume, and it could not in practico bo confined to any such lines. It must come aud go gradually, but the actual relative volume must be and Is reduced dur ing lhe short term for handling ths crop3 to two-sevents of its average Continued on Second Pair.l i 'I i i . f s - f I: h f t ; ': 1 ! - a ! i v t j
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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April 9, 1891, edition 1
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