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7 ' jja. - - m' IF YOU WOULD LIKE To communicate with about ten 'anusiTED KVERY TUUi'-SJJAY, My SIAfilOX BUTLER, Editor and Proprietor. thousand of the bost country people in this section of North Carolina then do it through tho columns of The Caucasian. Xo SUBSCRIBE! Show this Paper to your neigh bor and advise him to subscribe. other paper in tho Third Con gressional District has as lsrgn Subscription Price $1. CO Per Year, in Advance. VOL. X. CLINTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1892. No. 13. a circulation: CAUCASIAN. Xur 33emooi j' Alliance Directory. NATIONAL lAftMEKS' ALUANCK AND I NDUSTKf ATj UNION. President L. L. Polk. North Caro lina. Arl-lress, 344 D S reet, X. W., Washington, D. C. Vice-Presiilcnt JJ. "II. Clover, Cam bridge, Kansas. i-ecretary and Treasurer J. II. Turn er, Georgia. Address. 229 Son' Capi tol Street, X. W., Washington, J). C. Lecturer J. II. Willcits, Kansas. K.YKCL'TIVE HOAK1J. C. W. Mu(une, Washington, i). C. A lonzo Wardall, Uuron, South Dekoia. J. F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee. JUDICIAKY. II. C. Dcmming, Chairman. Isaac McCracken, Ozone, Arkansas. A E. Cole, Fowlerville, Michigan. NATIONAL LKOISLATIVK COUNCIL. The Presidents of all the Btate organ izations with L. L. IVikcx-ollicioCnair-41'in. XOLTU CAllOLINA FARMEfit' STATE A LI.IAXCK. President Marion IJutler, Clinton, North Carolina. Vice-Prcsiflciit T. 15. Long, Ashe ville, X. C. Secretary-Treasurer W. b. Dames, Uale'h, . C. Lecturer J. S. T5e.ll, lirasstowa., N.C. Steward C. C. Wright, Class, X. C. Chaplain liev. Erskme Pop j, Chalk J- vel, X. C. 1 "oor-Kceper W. II. Tomliv.son, Fay cU;:Villc, X. C. Assistant Doo -Keeper II. E. King, Peanut. X. C. Sergcant-ut-Atms J. o. Holt, Ch".lk Level, X. C. Stato Business Agent W. II. Wortb. Halcigh, X. C. Trustee Business Airency Fund W. A. Graham, Machpeiah, X. C. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FAltMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. S. JJ. Alexander, Charlotte, X. C, Chairman; J. M. Mevvborne, Kinston, N. C. ; J. S. Johnston, Hullin, X. C. STATE ALLTANCE JUDICIARY COM MITTEE. Kli isC irr, A. Loazer, X. M. Culbreih, M. (i. Grejnry, Win. C. Conucll. STATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. IP J. Powell, Raleigh, X. C. ; X. C. English, Trinity College ; J. J. Young, Pdeutu; II. A Forney, Xe vton, X'. C. NORTH CAROLINA RKt )KM PRESS ASSOCIATION. Oilicers J. L. Ramsey. President; Marion liuilei, Vice-Presi lent ; W. S. Larnes, Secretary. PAPERS. The Caucasian, Clinton ; Pro gressive Farmer, Haleigh ; Rural Home, Wilson ; Farmer's Advocate, Tarboro; Salisbury Watchman, Sal isbury; Alliance Sentinel, Gold3 boro; Hickory Mercury, Hickory; The Rattler, Whitakers; Country Life, Trinity College; Mountain Home Journal, Asheville;, Agricul tural Bee, Goldsbero; Columbus News, Whiteville, j . C; The Busi ness Agent, Haleih, N. C. Capt. A. S. i'eace, editor of Alli ance Department, Oxford, N. C. Each of the above-named papers are requested to keep the list standing on the first page and add other.", provided they are duly elected. Any xaper fail ing to advocate the Uea!a platform will be dropped from the list promptly. Our people can now see what papers are pub lished In their imerest. PROFESSIONAL COLUMN. W. II. ALLEN. W. T. DOKTCJf. LLEN & DORTCH, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAWj Goldsboro, N. (J. Will practice in Sampson county. teb27 tf A. M. LEE, M. D. PlIYSIClANSu UfSEON AND DENTIST, OtHce in Leo's Drutr Store, je 7-lyr O" E. FAISON, J 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 care will receive prompt and careful attention. je 7-lyr "V. KERR, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office on Wall Street. Will practice m Sampson, Bladen, Pender, Ilaruett and Duplin Coun ties. Also in Supreme Court. Prompt personal attention will be given to all legal business, je 7-lyr FRANK BOYETTE, D.B.S. Dentistry iSSSgc? Office on Main Street.&tfS Offers his services to the people of Jlinton and vicinity. Everything n the line of Dentistry done in the be3t style. Satisfaction guaranteed. ggyMy terms are strictly cash. Don't ask me to vary from this rule p. 11 AND 13 COMMERCE ST., NorfolK I NOBFOLK) VA. Owned and controled by Alliance men for handling farm produce. COTTON AND PEANUTS SPECIALTIES. Don't sell before writing for par ticulars. J. J. ROGERS, 3 " . Manager. P. O. BOX212.S sept24 tf REMOVAL. ! .1. T GREGORY fllas removed his Tailoring Estab- 1iihmpnt. from hia old stand to his office on Sampson Street, net,to the M. E. Church. The great and orignal leader in iowprices for men's clothes. Econ omy in cloth and money will force you to give him a call. I"Latest Fashion plates always ca hand. June 7th. Xyr. THE EDITOR'S CHAIR. HOW THINGS LOOK FROM OUR STAND POINT. The ODinion of The Editor and the Opinion of Others which we Can Endorse on the Various Topics of the Day. THEY HAVE CHANGED BASE. The enemies of the Alliance have again changed base. As one evi dence of this, notice the changed tone of the press despatches and the laitij,an press, one of the most im. portant agencies through which they do thin. Their policy in the begin ning was one of indifference, to en tirely ignore the organization, to go on with their old-time tunes and knitting, thinking from the depths of their conceit that the move, merit would soon die for the want of their condescending notice of it. Hut the inconvenient multitude grew and continued U grow. They becamo alarmed, held a hurri ed council ot war and decided th;t the hay-seeder must be brought to their senses, that the causes of com plaint must be ridiculed and poo hooded and the officers must be abused md crushed. "In the mean time they would t p the members from thinking and investigating on economical lines and make them for get their debts, high taxes and the low price of products by appealing to their partisan prejudices, then they would get up ascaie, cry third party, negro in the wood pile, etc., and try to stampede the whole organ ization. This was the co.iic farce they played last summer and fall while tle tragedy of real conditions was broadening and deepening in and around the homes of the already poverty pinched wealth producers of a great and rieh country. In the moantims the people continued to think and read for themselves. Th saw the game of the money devil as played by his tool the politician.. They turned a deaf ear to the parti san appeals and refused to be alarm ed by the scare-crows. They were alarmed however, but it was at the alarming misrepresentations of the money power. They looked on and grew more determined day by day. The enemy halted, called another council of war. They put their heads together and were of the opinion (with one or two exceptions) that ridi cule and persecution, partisan ap peals and scar-crows were the wrong weapons, for the multitude was growing more and more inconveni ent under such treatment. They de cided to stop their open warfare and tc try strategy. What all of their plans are we do not know. One of their new plans is to put on sheep's clothing, try to get very friendly with the farmers, to lament with him over the hard times, and declare that we must have more money. In fact they will talk Alli ance principles (but always in the abstract) and appear to be pretty good Alliance men themselves. They hope by this means to convince us that the organization is no longer necessary, for the party and every body is with the farmers for relief, one way or another. Such now is the tone of some papers that have fought the Alliance, indeed are still fighting it, for this is simply a new method by which they hope to de stroy it. What all of their plans are we do not know, but iu the mean time we must keep on the look out. In battle when the enemy suddenly disappears from the front look out for a flank movement or an attack from behind. A crisis is at hand. This is a great coaflict between the manhood of in?nyand the wealth of a few. Upon the result depends the destinies of this republican form of government. Let everv wealth producer watch, pray and work. The enemy have changed base. Beware ! Disfranchised ignorance is the hope of every monarch in Europe, but franchised ignorance which we have in America is a more potent power for evil than all the disfran chised serfs of the world. We would not remove the franchise, tfut are pushing a campaign of education to remove the ignorance. The.politi cian is abusing us for trying to re move this ignorance. Just here we are reminded of something we read not long since. A certain school teacher of the early days of our State was In New York and had a conver sation with Aaron Burr. He was telling Burr his ideas about trying to get the State to establish a com mon school system. Burr said you are a fool. We have enough trouble managing the common people now, and if you educate them they may manage us. May the time hasten. A cash system for the few and a debt systen for the man is the great est curse of tfae present. WHO PAYS! In his speech at the Home Market Club dinner, a short time ago, Major McKmley repeated the sentence which he has used in all his public utterances, namely, that the tariff cannot possibly be a burden to the people of this country, for said he, "the foreigner pays the tariff tax, you don't." If this true, isn't it strange that when famine threatens any country, one of the first means of relief thought of should be a dim inution or removal of import duties on food stuffs? Again, the report of the treasury department for the fis cal year 1890 shows that 6,109 gal lons f castor oil were imported, valued at $2,910. The duties were ?5,520. Now, if the foreign shipper paid the duty, is it not certain that ht not only made us a present of the oil, but gave us besides 12,610 to get rid of it? In 1890 importers brought into the United States 664,653 gal lons of spirits distilled from grain valued at $450,121, the duties on which were $1,329,367. Who paid I hese duties? If the importer?, they lost not only the liquor, but $873,246 besides. There are, of course, ex treme cases, but the truth or fallacy of a proposition is generally more forcibly shown by taking extreme cases. No more important measure was passed on by the Indianapolis meet ing of the Alliance than the cot ton resolution which we recently published. In another column on this page read how the Associated and United Press, the agents and tools of monopoly, tried to suppress it. A people are not free when monopoly can suppress as well as manufacture news and thereby dic tate wh it they shall and shall not read. Why is it that no movement o f reform ha ever commeneed among those in high lite? It is because men never begin to investigate their rights until they are oppressed. Those who never want have no cause to in vestigate, and an oppressor would not reform himaelf any sooner than a hog would stint itself. Money is not valuable to keep, but valuable to spend- Money is made by law and earned by labor. Aay other way of making monay is counterfeiting and any other way of getting it is stealing. What can be the real political character of a nation in which one man works in poverty and another feast&in idleness. Political character cannot be mea sured by our devotion to our govern ment, bt by our love of justice. One More Offer. We have received a number of letters and requests to hold our $1.00 special reduction offer open a week or two more. Some have written that they were getting us up a club and others said they had friends and neighbors who would subscribe soon. The secretaries of some Sub-Lodges' have written that they will get up a club at their next meetings. While we have not gotten more than half of the subscribers we needed, this is very encouraging, so we have deci ded to keep the proposition open till February 1st. Now let every reader wd friend of the paper detemine that we shall have the 3000 subscri bers by then. Talk for the paper, work for it and we will reach It. We are very anxious to put the price of The Caucasian at $1.00 and yon my dear readers certainly ought to be more anxious if possible for us to be able to do so. As soon as you get ne subscriber, send the name on to us. m m State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County, ss Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the ser lor pastner ot the nrm oi x . J. CHENEY & CO., doing business in the city of Toledo, county and State af jre-t said, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catabkk Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, I"1?86 w- Glbabok, j seal ( - Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cr be is taken in ternally and acts directly on the blood and mucus surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. feold by Druggists, at 75 cents. MT. AIRY IN ASHES. January 1st,' 1892, was a gloomy day for this progressive town. Some J inf amous incemdiary had ushered the new year m with most disastrous re sults for he had touched the torch to a store which will eostover $100,000. j 1 he beautiful Blue Ridge Inn was J among the houses burned. ; This is til severe blow to the tOrtrn, but-. herl piucic will again be shown. . . ANOTHER EVIDENCE. THE MACHINE AGAINST US. How the Great News Engines Favor the Powers That Be They Refuse to Publish the Cotton Resolutions. Copyright by Reform Press Xews Association, JNew York, i The supreme council of the National Farmers' Alliance, at its Indianapolis session, took some Btaps with reference to the cotton question. The price of cot ton for some time past has been lower than for a generation past in fact, lower than ever before, and is far below the cost of production.! Trying to look after the interests of the cotton producers of the country, the council adopted certain resolutions as a basis for operation during the present and future. In effect, one set of these resolutions presented the facts concern ing the depression in the price of cotton. and as a means of relief petitioned con gress to relieve manufactured articles of cotton from any tariff duty whatever on the free list of American products. Another resolution was as follows. "That being in possession of facts that are thoroughly reliable which warrant us in the belief that a false estimate has been purposely made of the present crop of cotton, we feel safe in guaranteeing better prices if cotton be held for sixty days." Of course these resolutions with ac companying explanations were utterly useless and worthless unless they could be put before the public and the attsn tion of the people directed to them. In order that the people might know of the action of the Alliance, these resolutions with some explanatory notes were of fered to the Associated Press in Wash ington with a request that they be pub lished. But they were declined, and no good reason given. The object of the Alliance in having them made public was to call the attention of the farmers to the fact that indications were favor able for a rise in the price of cotton, and the benefit of the advance might be ob tained by holding on to the cotton for a few days. But the Associated Press refused to give them publicity. Perhaps it had a perfect right to do so; but this was news fresh news so far as the public was concerned not having been made public in any way. But it was a small effort in favor of the producers, and met with no favor. The very next day the great financial and banking systems of the country had the voluntary support and sympathy of the Associated Press. That colossal in iquity was boomed and lauded, and a very sweet and subtle apology was niiide for the bank failures which had occur red. The following is the dispatch: " Washington, Dec 2. The report of the comptroller of the currency show that during the year ended Oct. 81, 1891, 193 new national banks were organized, possessing an aggregate capital of $2,700, 000, thus exhibiting a growth largely in excess of the annual average for past years. . Of the new banks established, ninety-nine are located west of the Mis sissippi river and fifty-nine in the south ern states. In number of failures the present exceeds any previous year, but others have been more disastrous in point of capital and liabilities. "It is noted that more than one-half in number of the banks which became insolvent during the period covered by the report were located in two western states, and that these failures were chiefly due to the effects of four succes sive crop failures. It is shown that of the total number of national banks or ganized only 3 per cent, have become insolvent during a period of twenty-nine years, and that the annual average loss to creditors during that period has been only one-twentieth of 1 per cent of their average liabilities. The failures recorded are looked upon as the result of the collapse of the spec ulative spirit which has been generally prevalent for the past five years greatly aggravated by the monetary stringen cies experienced by most of the nations with which we sustain commercial rela tions. On the whole, the banks in the system have met the disasters of the year with commendable courage and success, and have demonstrated their ability to meet the exigencies of a general liquidation with so small loss to creditors as to make it seem insignificant when compared with the vast sums which have been intrusted to their care and management," ' This dispatch does not need analysis. Where the failures were most numerous, the failure of agriculture is given as the cause. Yet nothing can be done by the Associated Press to start the farmers on a plan by which they may counteract their losses. Banks seem to fail when crops fail. Farmers seem to fail when crops are bountiful. Witness the de pression of the southern farmers, who have produced the largest jcotton crop on record. Witness the depression of the western farmers, who two years aeo nroduced such immense crops that they were consumed for fuel because the price of products went so low asw make corn cheaper than coal ; What would the condition of those western fanners be today had the crops of Europe been a success? Are these tanuers to be patted on tne oacs ana congratulated because their fellow men across seas are battling with famine, and must part with everything they have in order to obtain bread? And if they are, niTist these same American farmers be encouraged to think that there will be another crop famine tn Jimrope next year, and such famine will neip put up tne prices or American grain prouueto.- ...'' : . . , Flattery and taffy are accorded": to the banks ealore.. - These institutions (which ""bdrrow monev at 1 per cent, from th government and lend it to citizens of the government at , from C to SO per cent., interest payable in advance, are ArtniiJlv congratulated on the smallness ot their failures. If a man who pays the interest cnarged uy tne Danzs iaus. Continued on Fourth Page. AS ADDRESS. To all Citizens of the United States, Greetiug: The undersigned have been ap pointed a committee to issue an ad dress setting forth the objects and purposes of the great conf erence of producers which has been called to convene in St. Louis, on the 22d day of Febiuary, 1692. The call for said conference orig inated with the National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union at Ocala, Fla., . in December, 1890, as follow: "This body gives its sanc tion and call for a meeting to be held about February, 1892, , to be composed of delegates frotn all rtganizations of producers upon a rair basis of a representation, for the purpose of a general and thorough conference upon the de mands of each, an J to the end that all may agree upon a joint set of de mands Just prior to the next national campaign, and agree upon the pro per methods lor enforcing such de mands. If tire people, by delegates coming from them direct, agree that a third paity move is necessary, it need not be feared. That the next session of this Supreme Council elect delegates from this Order to represent it in said national con ference of productive organizations tor political purposes." Commit tee, from the National Farmers Al liance and Industrial Union, the Knights of labor, the National Citizens Allianee, and the Colored National Farmere Alliance and Co operative Union met in Washing ton,-D. C, January 24, 1891, and chose a national executive commit tee, and fixed the time lor tne com ing conference at February 12, 1892, and instructed their executive com mitte to decide on the place of meeting and the basis of representa tion. The call for the great labor conf erence has since been ratified and accepted by practically all farmers' and laboiers organiza'ions. The national executive committee met at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 16th day of November, and fixed the basis of representation, and ap pointed a co ximittee to choose the place of meeting. This shows the call to be regular, and to be supported by millions of people scattered throughout every section of this broad land. Amove nient or such great extent and popu larity Involves great forces aud must wield great power; its causes, ot jects, purposes and methods, there fore, are important subjects of con sideraiion. The causes are many and depend on combinations of circumstances that Lave been transpiring for year; many of them are to-day minoticed, and to atte--.pt even a list of the causes would be almo3t an endless task, but prominent among the causes for this great movement causes which should fill with alarm and concern every loyal citizens of this government, are: The rapid accumulation of the wealth of the nation in the hands of a few, and the general improverishment and discontent of the masses; a finaucial system that furnishe a volume of money which at one season ot the year ic so redundant that money is worth in the metropolis only 1 per cent on call, while at another season it is so inadequate that money ran ges as high as 188 per cent on call, thereby entailing great hardship and distress upon all classes as a result of instability of prices. The general and widespread belief on the part of the masses that the government is administered in the interest of a fa vored class whet'ir this be true or not, the fact that such belief exists is a matter of public concern) in spite of the wise and just provisions of the the Constition. Boss rule methods and the distribution of millions of cor.uption money by political organizations; the depress ed coudition of all productive pur suits; the menace to free govern ment involved in the shameful abuse of aggregated wealth, uing combinations of transportation com panies to control legislative and judicial proceedings; the foreign in vasion which is received ana allow ed to exact tribute on aceount of the unavailability of American wealth in business; the plainly visi ble wide separation between the government and the people who 6eems to feel that they are - pushed aside for the politician and lose a proper interest in government! affairs; that monster, the mortgage, J which is rapHly devouring the liberties and the independence of the grandest and best pee pie the sun ever shown upon, and whose conscienceless exactions must soon bring on a climax of violence unless wise couneils shall prevail and the ;ause of justice assert itself. These among the many causes ars suffici ent to enlist the support of all patriotic citizens in any laudaole effort to wrest American institutions from such abuses and restore them to the foundiations laid by the signers of the Declaration of In dependence. ; The object of the coming meeting is, under the blessing of God, to con fer and agree upon the wisest, fairest and most just means of relief in the inttrestot the whole people, and to announce a declaration of principles upon which all are agreed to stand and demand laws to crry out. For this purpose every organi zation of pi oducers in this broad land is invited to send delegates and participate in the deliberatk ns. For the love of our country, for the tase of your family, in view of your duty to prosperity, anu pur suant of your responsibility to God, come ! and let this be the second Decimation of Indepeadence for the American people in which in stead of throwing off the yoke of a tyrant king they liberate posterity from threatened Industrial tyrany and seaVery. The purpose of the meeting will be developed when tho delegates of the people assemble, it is iaie to suppose that they will . adopt a set Continued on Second Pag.l AT TIIE TABERNACLE. DR. TMLMAGE PREACHES ON THE YEAR JUST CLOSED. Tlio First Sunday of the New Year Is a Fitting Time tb Think on the Uncertain Ties of Life. Hi e An tideluvian Patri archs. DANG EI t ALL. AROUND' US. Brooklyn, Jan. 3. This morning the Tabernacle congregation, meeting for the first Sunday service of the new year, found the pastor disposed to serious reflections on the flight of time. The opening hymn gave the keynote in the familiar words: My days are gliding swiftly by. And JL, a pilgrim's stranger. Would not dentin them as they fly. Those hours of toil and danger. Dr. Talmage read several passages relating to antediluvian longevity, making characteristic comments as he read, and then preached from the ominous words, Jeremiah xxviii, 10, " This year thou Shalt die." Jeremiah, accustomed to saying bold things, addresses Hananiah in these words. They prove true. In sixty days Hananiah "had departed this life. This is the first Sabbath of the year. It is a time for review and for anticipation. A man must bo a gen ius at stupidity who does not think now. The old year died in giving birth to the new, as tho life of Jane Seymour, the English queen, de parted when that of her son, Edward VL dawned. The old year was a queen. The new shall be a king. The grave of the one and the cradle of the other are side by side. We can hardly guess what tho child will be. It is only two days old. but I prophesy for it an eventful future Year of mirth and madness 1 Year of pageant and conflagration 1 It will laugh; it will sing; it will groan; it will die. Is it not a time for earnestthoughtt The congratulations have been given. The Qiristmas trees have been taken down, or have well nigh cast their fruit. The friends who came for the holidays are gone in tho rail train. While we are looking forward to an other twelve months of intense activ ities, the text breaks upon us like a bursting thunderhead, "This year thou shalt die." The text will probably prove true of some of us. The probability is augmented by the fact that all of us who are over thirty-five years of age have gone beyond the average of hu man life. The note is more than due. It is only by sufferance that it is not collected. We are like a debtor who is taking the "three days' grace" of the banks. Our race started with nine hundred years for a lifetime. We read of but one antediluvian youth whose early death disappoint ed the hopes of his parents by his dying at seven hundred and seventy seven years of age. The world then may have been ahead of what it is now, for men had so long a time in which to study and invent and plan. If an artist or a philosopher has forty years for work, he makes great achievements; but what must the artists and philosophers have done who had nine hundred years before them? In the nearly two thousand years before the flood, considering the longevity of the inhabitants, there may have been nearly as many peo pie as there are now. The flood was not a freshet that washed a few people off a plank, but a disaster that may have swept away a thousand millions. If the Atlantic ocean, by a sudden lurch of the earth tonight should drown this hemisphere, and the Pacific ocean, by a sudden lurch of the earth, should drown the other hemisphere, leaving about as many beings as could be got in one or two ocean steamers, it would give you an idea of what the ancient flood was. HOW LIFE WAS SHORTENED. At that time God started the race with a shorter allowance of life. The nine hundred years were hewn dawn. until, in the time of Vespasian, a cen sua was taken, and only one hundred and twenty-four persons were ; found one hundred years old and tbr je or four persons one hundred and forty years old. Now a man who has come to one hundred years of age L a curi osity and we go mile to see him. The vast majority of the race passes off before twenty years. To every apple there are five blossoms that never get to be apples. In the coun try church the sexton rings the bell rapidly until almost through, and then tolls it. For awhile the bell of our life rings right merrily, but with some of you the bell has begun to tolL and the adaptedness of the text to you is more and more probables. "This year thou shalt die." The character of occupation adds to the probability. Those who are in the professions are undergoing a sapping of the brain and nerve foundations. Literary men in this country are driven with whip and spur to their , topmost speed. Not one brain worker out of a hundred observes any moderation. There is something so stimulating in our cli mate that if John Brown, the essay ist of Edinburgh, had lived here he would have broken down at thirty five instead of fifty-five, and Charles Dickens would have dropped at forty. There is something in all our occupiv tions which predisposes to disease- if we be stout, to disorders ranging from fevers to apoplexy.; if we be fraiL to diseases ranging from con sumption to paralysis. " Printers rarely reach fifty years. Watchmakers, in markine tho tima for others, shorten their own. Chem ists breathe- iWh in their labora tories and potters absorb paralysia. Painters fall under their own brush. Foundrymen take death in with the filings. Shoemakers pound away their own. lives on the last. Over driven merchants measure off their own lives with the yardstick. Millers grind their own live with tho grist Masons dig their graves with tho trowel. And in all our occupationa and professions there are the elements of peril. Rapid climatdo changes threaten our lives. By reason of the violent fits of the thermometer, within two days we five both in the arctic and the tropic. The warm south wind finds ns with our furs on. The win try blast cuts through our thin ap parel Tho hoof, the wheel tho fire arms, the assassin wait their chance to put upon us their quietus. I announce it as an impossibility that three hun dred and sixty-five days should pans and leave us all as we now arc In what direction to shoot the arrow 1 know not and so I shoot it at a ven ture, "This year thou shalt die." , In view of this, I advise that you have your temporal matters adjusted. Do not leavo your worldly affairs at tho mercy of administrators. Have your receipts properly pasted and your letters filed and your books balanced. If you have "trust funds," see that they are rightly deposited and accounted for. Let no widow ox orphan scratch on your tombstone, "This man wronged me of my in heritance." Many a man has died leaving a competency whose prop erty has, through his own careless ness, afterward been divided between the administrators, tho surrogate, the lawyers and the sheriffs. I charge you, before many days have gone, as far as possible, have all your worldly matters made straight for "This year thou shalt die." POSSIBILITIES OF SABBATH WORK. I advise also that you bo busy in Christian work. How many Sab baths in the year? Fifty-two. If the text be true of you it does not say at what time you may go, and therefore it is unsafe to count on all of the fifty-two Sundays. As you are as likely to go in tho first half of the year as in the last half, I think we had better divide tho fifty-two into halves and calculate only twenty -six Sabbaths. Come, Christian men, Christian women, what can you do in twenty-six Sabbaths t Divide tho three hundred and sixty five days into two parts; what can you do in one-hundred and eighty two dayst What by the way of sav ing your family, the church and the world? You will not through all the ages of eternity in heaven, got over the dishonor and the outrage of going into glory, and having helped none up to tho samo place. It will be found that many a Sabbath school teacher has taken into heaven her whole class ; that Daniel Baker, the evangelist took thousands into heaven; that Doddridge has taken in hundreds of thousands; that Paul took in a hundred millions. How many will you take inf If you get into heaven and find none there that you sent and that there are none to come through your instrumentality, I beg of you to crawl under some seat in tho back corner and never come out lost the redeemed get their eyes you and some one cry out: "That is the man who never lifted hand or voice for the redemption of his fellows! Look at him, all heaven !" Better be busy. Better put the plow in deep. Better say what you have to say quickly. Better cry the alarm. Better fall on your knees. Better lay hold with both hands. What you now leave undone for Christ will fjever bo un done. "This year thou bualt die !" In view of tho probabilities men tioned I advise all the men and wom en not ready for eternity to get ready. If the text be true, you have no time to talk about nonessentials, asking why God let sin come into the world, or whether tho book of Jonah is in spired, or who Melchisedec was, or what about the eternal decrees. If you are ua near eternity as some of you seem to be, there is no time for anything but the question, "What must I do to bo saved V The drown ing man. when a plank is thrown him, stops not to ask what sawmill made it or whether it is oak or cedar or who threw it The moment it is thrown he clutches it " If this year you are to die, there is no time for anything but immediate ly laying hold on God, It is high time to get out of your sins. You say, "I have committed no great transgressions. " But are you not aware that your life has been sinful t The snow comes down on the Alps flake by flake, and it is so light that you may hold it on the tip of your finger without feeling any weight; but the flakes gather; they compact, until someday a traveler's foot starts the slide, and it goes down in an avalanche, crushing to death the vil lagers. So the sins of your youth and the sins of your manhood and the sins of your womanhood may have seemed only slight inaccuracies or trifling divergences from the right so slight that they are hardly worth mention ing, but they have been piling up and piling up, packing together and pack ing together, until they make a mountain of sin, and one more step of your foot in the wrong direction may slide down upon you an ava lanche of ruin and condemnation. A iaou i.Tusaing a desolate and lonely plateau,.a hungry wolf took after him. He brought . his gun to bis shoulder and took aim, and the wolf howled with pain, and . the cry woke up a pack of wolves and they came ravening out Of the forest from all sides and horribly devoured him. Thou art the man. Some one sin of your life smnmoxdng on all the rest Continued on Second Page. THE WORLDS XEWS. SINCE LAST TIIUKSPA Y.CAUK. FULLY A 8 S O ItT K I) A X I) , eOXDEXSKD KOK llt PEOPLE. Stttto. Thre Wit a tlO.OOO flrr- ill Ij nnlr lt week. George lUt colored of Dowr. X. C, used "rouh on rats" on hi wife and children with deadly i fTivb. The Pulman Car Co , hat paid 1!, 300 tax to the Bute, .m a rvult of the effort of tho railroad, eou-mis sion. The tax Is on the mileage rasi. While arreting adltmlT!v Li'irm Christmas day the chit f of police of otatesviiie was shot hy the nogro son. The chief 1 not tuppo! to be in much danger trom M wounds. The Executive (muiiitttM of tl.e State Teachers Aonilly, iflor having considered many iuvititlm from various points In the Kt.ite, decided to bold the next inn At Morehcd Citv. The nstrnMv !- gins June 21st and ends July -d. The exact amount of tht drfau a- tion rf Charles 1). UH-hurch, who was tho republican clerk of Wake superior court, and who thd the stato last year, Is to-day said to Im $20,000. Thisftum will have to bo pid by A. W. HhaflVr, a wealthy republican, and postmaster of Italol- Kh. In Wilmington, on Tuesday, IKv. 30, at tho preliminary hearLig for false pretf nee Mr. John C Iavid waived an examination, and was re quired to give a bond of ?7uO for Ills appearance on. the llrt Monday in January, 1W2, at tho Criminal ilourt of New Hanover county. Mr, D.ivls failed to give bond and wan recom mitted to jail. Tim statement of the ntnto tr?a- fury balances shows that at the bo glning of tho past fiscal year thero was on hand of tho educational and v public funds ?K!l,0(W- Iteeelptsof both these funds during tho prist fiscal year were ? 1, 183,000; making the total receipts $1,317,000. Total disbursements of the educational fund during tho year, $32,00 ), and of general fund f 1.153,000 balance of both funds in the treasury 30th of last November, f 1G1 ,C20. national. A five acre firoln New Jcney last week, at cost of over one million dollars. Last Friday Mr. Flower became Governor of New York, and David 13. Hill United States .Senator. The suit for daninges by Mrs. Jefferson Davis aglnst Jtelford Publishing Co., has been decided in favor of Mrs. Davit. Senator Alfred H. Colquitt, ofCla., announces that there Is not a word of truth in the report that bo con templates resigning his beat in tho United States Senate. The United States Supremo Court affirms the decision of the Supremo Court of South Carolina that expen ses of the State Itallway Cormnlfwlod shall be borne by railroads in the State. Miss Louise Lee ltavaid. voumrest daughter of ex-Secretary of Stato Thomas F. liayard, wns marrR-d at Wilmincton Monday, to Dr. Frank Angell, a professor hi Cornell uni versity, Ithaca, X. Y. Frank P. Slavin met Charltm Johnson, John L. Sulli van's htttker, in Xew York. They agreed to sign articles for a fight to a fitji.-,h be tween Sullivan and Slavin for 10.- 000 next September. The nrivaie batiks at Wavnesborn. Oordonsville, Warrenton and Xew Market. Vinrinla. all suM-nded Monday week. They were nil cm trolled by the same people. It is not mougtit mat the depositors will lose anything. Bob Sims and hie cane? of outlaws In Alabama were captured by officers of the law, and while being taken to Jail a mob oi citizens of Choctaw county overpowered the oGcem and lynched the outlaws, live outlaws were lynched. Governor Camnbel!. of Ohio, is quoted as f-ay ing in Pittburg that s . noinouynr neither Cleveland nor Hill would receive tho nomination for President by the democrats In 8J2. He thought the nomination would go to the west, and Palmer, of Illinois, reems to bo the mast likely candidate at present. Foreign. A Chinese priest and a thousand native Christians were massacred by rebellion in northern China. The czar has depofed Its brother, Grand Duke Sergins, governor of . Moscoft, because of his unpopularity and alleged political Intriguing. A dispatch from Singapore saya: Official advices from Pekin report service righting from Dec. 8 to Dec. 6, In which 2,000 rebels were killed and fifty leaders beheaded. i The Chilian authorities appear to regard unfavorably UniteJ States Minister Eagan's absence f;tu. the inauguration ceremonies of Presi dent Jorge Jioutt. They are at a loss to explain It, and believe that it was Intended as an act of discourtesy. The Chinese empire have officially notified the state department at Washington that it will take no part In the world's fair at Chicago. The emperor holds that if his sub ectsare good enough to come to tho Columbia expositlen they are )?ood enough to be admitted to tho United States at all other times. , J
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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