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TJiJS CAUCASIAN. SIAN IF YOU WOULD LIKE To communicto with about thousand of the lvt country people in this section of North Carolina then do it through th columns of Titr. Caucasian. No other paper in th Third Cn grwwional District ha as Urz IJfrnLIfEI) EVERY THURSDAY, H By MAKIOX BUTLER, Kditor and Proprietor SUBSCRIBE! Show this Paper to your neigh bor and advise him to subscribe. VOL. X. CLINTON, N. 0., THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1892. Subscription Price $1 .JO Per Year, in Advance. No. 14. a sirculaUon. CAUCA w ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 " 1 i i . . - 1 Alliance Directory. NATIONAL t'AIt.M Fits' AIXIASCK AND I N'OI -TRIA I TN'JON. I'-csi.lCiitL. L. lV.lk, North Caro lina. Adhcss, ?,M D Struct. N. W., W.i.shuT.'lo'i, l. Vicc-IVc-.i.lciit ii. II. Clover, Carn ;r'nl'(:, Kashas. orefury and Treasurer .T. II. Turn er. Georgia. Address. 2211 Sorth Capi tol .Street, N. , Washington, ). C. Lecturer J. II. WillcttH, Kansas. J ; X KCL'TI VB 150 A 1 1 1 . C. W. Macuuc, Washington, I). C. A lon.oWar !al!, Huron, South Dakota. J. T. Tillman, i'almeUo, Tennessee. JlTIiICI ARY. II. C. Dcmming, Chairman. I-taac MeCracken, Ozone, Arkansas. A E.Cole, Fowlcrville, Michigan. NATIONAL EECUSI.ATIVK COUNCIL. The l'rfcsi'ients of all the State oran I'ziiUoiis with I,. L. J 'oik ex-otlicio Cnalr nian. '0::T1I CAi:OMXA FARMERS' STATE A LI.IAN'CE. I'msHont Marion JJutlcr, Clinton, Xortli Carolina. Vic;-I're:-iuVntT. 15. Lonjr, Ashe- vi;if, x. c. Sc. icturv-Tit'asnrer W. Barnes, '.'a! iitrh, C. L'.H-tnriT J. S. Bell, Brusslowa, N.C Ncwml C. C. Wrisht, (J lass, X. C. 'iiiipIuiii-'-ttev. Erskisie L'op-i, Chalk ! .'.eve!, X. C. j J Mr-K(:etcr V. II. Tomliuson. Fay- I eti.; villc, X. . ' Assistant I) )o -Keeper II. E. King, j re;:. int. -V. C. Se. rgca 1 1 t-a t-A tin s J . S. Holt, Clialk Level, X. C. statu I'.nsiness Agent W. IT. Worth, iliueih, X. C. Trustee Business Agency Fund W. A. Graham, Maelipelim, X. C. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. S. Ji. Alexander, Charlotte, X. C, Oiairman; J. M. Mewhoine, Kinston, X. C. ; J. S. Jol'.n-ton, JvUiHi;, N. ('. M'ATJ: ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COM JS ITTEE. VA'vi C.irr, A. Leazer, X. ?I. Culiu-eth, M. (i. (Jiv.gurv. Win. ('. Connell. STATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. n- J. 1'owell, Italei-h, X. C. ; X. C. Hiiv,li.-h, Trinity College; J. J . Young, F' lenta; II. A Forney, Xevton, X. C. N OUT II CAROLINA KEF- )RM TRESS ASSOCIATION. Ulieers J. L. llam?ev., President; Marion P.u'lei, Vice-President ; W. S. Lames, Secretary. PAIER3. Tjtr Caucasian, Clinton; Pro gressive Fanner, Raleigh ; Rural Home, Wilson; Fanner's Advocate, Tarboro; Salisbury Watchman, Sal isbury; Alliance Sentinel, Golds-lu-o; Hickory Mercury, Hickory; Tho Rattler, Whitakers; Country Life, Trinity College; Mountain Home Journal, Ashevill; Agricul tural Bee Goldsboro; Columbus News, Whiteville, J . C; The liusi n?ss Agent, Ilaleih, N. C. Capt. A. S. J'eace, t-ditor of Alli ance Department, Oxford, XT. C. Each of the above-named papers are requested to keep the list standing on the lirst pac and add other!", provided they arc duly elected. Any paper fail ing to advocate the Oeala platform will he dropped from the list promptly. Our peop'e can now sec what papers are pub lished In their interest. PROFESSIONAL COLUMN. W. R. ALLEN. W. T. D0RTCH. ALLEN & DORTCH, ATTORNEYS- AT-LAW, Goldsboro, N. U. Will practice in Sampson county. To!27 tf A M. LEE, M. D. PnVflK'IANSUROEON AND DENTIST, Oniec in Lee's Drugstore, je 7-lyr 'U E. FAISON, jk 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 EW. KERR, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Onice on Wall Street. Will practice in Sampson, Bladen, Pender, Ilaruett and Duplin Coun ties. Also in Supreme Court. Prompt personal attention will be given to all leal business, je 7-lyr FRANK BOYETTE, D.C.S. Dentistry Office on Main Street. Qr Offers hi services to the people of Jlinton and vicinity. Everything . n the line of Dentistry done in the best style. Satisfaction guaranteed. 8"My terms are strictly" cash. Don't ask me to vary from this rule Norffi Alice EMaie. 11 AND 13 COMMERCE ST., NORFOLK, VA. O wned and controled by Alliance men lor handling farm produce. COTTW MD PEANUTS SPECIALTIES. Don't sell before writing for par ticulars. J. J. ROGERS, Manager. P. O. BOX 212.S sept24 tf Piles ! Piles ! ! Itching Piles ! ! ! Symptoms Moisture; intense itch ing and stinging; most at night; worse by scratching. If allowed to continue tumors form, which often bleed and ulcerate, becoming very sore. Swayne's Ointment stops theitchingand bleeding, heals ulcere ation, and in most cases removes the tumors. At druggists, or by mail, for 50 cents. De. Swayne & Son, oc 8 tf Philadelphia. THE EDITOR'S GIIALR. HOW THINGS LOOK FROM OUR STAND POINT. The Ooinion of The Editor and the Opinion of Others which we Can Endorse on the Various Topics of the Day. DISCORD MAY BE A DUTY. Some newspapers who want the farmers to subscribe for their papers and some politicians who want to tell the farmers how to vote are constant ly saying that the Alliance would be a grand thing if it would confine it self to discussing how to plow a straight furrow and on what time of the moon it is best to st out potato drawers. But when farmers begin to consider public matters and how to vote to protect themselves and their property and to establish an h ncst form of government they say that we are a set of quacks, hay-f-cedcrs, and wild-cat schemers, who are plotting to ruin the country .They cry fiat money, third party, "nigger in the wood-pile," and call to every man, saying that if h wishes to be recognized by them as a decent man that he must quit thinking and stand by the party. Yes, stand by the party right or wrong. Yes, put your neck under the party yoke, and vote the ticket even if the monopolist and money sharks write the plat toim and the devil is made the nom inee. Will Alliance men do this? Xo, certainly no one will, unless he is a t raitor, has sold out or is a weak kned fool. Ye party schemers and tricksters, let u tell you something. If either or both of the old parties writes a straddling platform or one full of compromising clabber-dash and clap-trap just to catch votes, and worse, put a man who knows little and cares less about the interests of the great body of wealth-producers on that platform, and then at tempt to ram him down the throats of the farmers by crying "stand by your party," then that party or both such parties will get left at the polls. An Alliance man may be a Democrat or a Republican, but the name of his party is not half as dear to him as principle, justice, truth and eternal right. Parties, politicians and par tisan newspapers, beware, else you j will remember this warning in the days of your grief. Every true Al lianceman is fight ; ; f or a great principle and anything, person ;or party, that opposes or conflicts with this principle he will fight, let it be under whatever flag, for he will be lieve that he is doing his duty to himself as a man, hi duty to his family, his duty to his brother toller and wealth producers. Mark you, the farmer wants harmony, but he does not want harmony at the ex pense of justice. Two men never quarrel as long as one will give way, bear insults and suffers wrongs. New England Democracy(?) and South ern Democracy have been in harmo ny, and why? Because New England Democracy(?) has had its way and Southern Democracy has said noth ing and suffered. If Southern Democ racy cannot secure justice for its peo ple without a fuss, then it its highest duty to have a quarrel in camp. If Southern Democracy cannot get jus tice harmoniously then discord is a duty. It is very seldom that people re alize and appreciate at the time the sign and tread of even important events that transpire arouund them if the process is slow and gradual. During the last quarter of a cemtury probably the greatest social, indus trial and political evolution the world haa ever seen has been given birth, and has continued to grow broaden and deepen Twenty years ago labor and larmer organizations were unknown. Why? Because they are effects, not causes. They had no reason for being when nearly every laborer was employed at good wages and the farmer's produce brought him enough to . pay him for his toil and leave him and his fami ly a com Portable living. But during the time since then things hare been changing. The farmer found times getting worse and money harder to get. To tr to overcome this state of things he has worked harder, made more, economized and stinted more earnestly than ever. But to no purpose. Things get worse and worse. The labor and wealth producer began to think his thought turned to self-protection. He had done all he could individually, he saw his neighbor in the same condi tion. They put their heads together, proceeded to combine, to organize for protection and rel ief . They think they see the cause, they have sternly determined upon reform. Now, ye who are comfortably fixed in the world, ye to whom this world is so sweet and fair that you repel the idea of having it changed, lest it make it the worse for you; do not fret and wax angry when you read tkat another big strike has broken out, or that the farmers have passed a new resolutior or have discovered a new crime and are determined to make war over it. That is the fool ish part to take, and there is danger In it as well. The action of these laborers and wealth creators is proof positive that the mechanism of our Industrial system ja out of gear with the needi of the time, the demands of justice and the march of progress. If you cannot look at the circum stance from the benign attitude of God's divine charities; you can at least be selfishly shrewd in your own behoof.' Do not get mad at the ma chine, but cast about and find some politico-economic Edison who shall repair it if possible, or in default of that, make a new and better one . This is what the Farmers' Alliance is trying to do and asks your co-operation. This is what the combined Farmer and Labor organizations will meet in conference on February 22d next to try to do and will ask your co-operation. Will you heed the call? let;us keep our eyes op en. The session of Congress just open ed will be literally the most impor tanc gathering of the National Leg islature since the war. Vast issues and the whole immediate destiny of thts Notion hang upon its acts. The political leaders are still blind to the really significant features of tho sit uation. They have no appreciation of the real temper of the people. They will probably continue to ig noie popular demands. They will squabble over spoils and fill and fill and trim their sails f r this or that petty political advantage. I look for no relief from any great abuse. There will be plenty of bluster about finance, the tariff and other things, but I fear there will be nothing done of real salutary value to the wealth producers or the Nation's toiling millions. There will be plenty of dust thrown in the people's eyes from Washington in the next few weeks. We shall see little trifling matters inflated and talked about until they are made to appear like great national issues. There w ill be plenty of bluster and jingo business to taka off our attention. There will be a dramatic shaking of fist at poor little Chilli. If that revolution rid den little republic should fail to get on its knees at the demand of our State Department, the administra tion will be simply delighted. It will give the patriotic, hurrah offi cers of the Republiean party an op portunity to spend a few millions in hurrying more war vessels to South America. Then, if they really get a chance to fire a few guns and spill a little blood, the war administration will expect a triumphant re-election on the strength of that issue alone. So it will go all through the na tional campaign. If the minds of the people can be diverted from the real causes of popular distress, the old line politicians will ignore them and their demands. Let the people stead fastly refuse to be deceived. Let the keep their eves clearly on the issues that they themseves have framed. Let them insist on keeping these issues paramount before the country from now until they are met and settled once for all. Thus, and thus only, can we hope for true re form and the retura of honest gov ernment by the, of the people, for the people. 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 pubseribe soon. Tbe 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 md friend of the paper determine that we shall have the 3000 subscri bers by then. Talk for the ' paper, worh for it and we will reach it. We are very anxious to put the price of The Caucasian at $1.00 and you 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. j , . ' j THE SAIiOON-KEEPER LIA BLE. i The Supreme Court of Pennsylva nia has decided that a saloon-keeper is liable for damages in the case of injuries received resoulting from the sale of liquor to intoxicated persons. I feel it my duty to testify to the tfftcacy. of Bradycrotine as a head ache cureVsays X. Hersher, Wash-ington,'Drc. WHY AKK THESE THINGS? If You Can't Answer tlis Ques tion, Why Not? The penoa who can't thiak is an idiot. The person who won't think is a fool. The person who fears to think is a coward. The person who dares to talkabout evils and suggests remedies is a pa triot. The "Undivided Profits" of less than 4,000 national banks since 1863 on a capital which never equaled $700,000,000 wa the appalling bum of over $7,000,000,000 which is about forty per cent, "profit" per annum. The surplus of these same banks is now over $200,000,000,000! The interest paid to the national bondholders from 1861 to 1891 was over $2,550,000,000. The premiums p id to them from 1888 to 1891 were over $50,000,000. The principal of the bonds which has been paid between 1865 and 1891 was over $1,700,009,000. The debt, in bonds, in 1865 was $625,000,000 and in 1891 it is less than ?600,e00,000, although in 1869 it was over $2,300,000, and still it will take more cotton, or corn, or hay, or wheat or other products of the people to pay the remainder of the bonds than it would to have paid the whole debt in 1869! The people rule in America, and so long as they are content to be rob bed, "by the process of law," the "bondholder" ought not to be blam ed for enjoying his "paradise." Why do 380 business men fail every week? Seven States have been added to the Alliance column during the pre sent year, viz: Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, Iowa, New York, Dela ware and New Jersey, and it is thought that Nebraska and Minne sota will fall into line before the close of the year. There are to-day sitting in the Sen ate of the United States sixteen Sena tors who owe their election entirely to the use of money and the exercise of corporate power and influence in their respective States. N. Y.Times. The 50th Congress appropriated $817, 463, 359- The 52nd appropria ted $988,417,103, an increase of $170, 438,224, and all this we pay. Cottos selling at 6 cents per pound and .vet there is nothing wrong. PREJUDICE. THE DEVIL'S WEAPON. Partyism JJot Favorable to Re form. Raleigh, N. C, Dee. 3, 1891. Mr. Editor I notice that the press of the State hardly refers to Col. Polk's address at Indianapolis; and yet, it is not only a remarkable pre sentation of Alliance demands, but of the political ills which now beset us. Many things he said have been said before, but he says them better than I have ever seen them said. It seems to be that every paper inter ested in financial reform will find something in it to advance our com mon cause against a common ene my. They may not like Col. Poke personally and may not wish to ad vance his interests in anyrepect, but they ought to seize the remedy-made weapons of a personal enemy even to fight the common enemy of man kind. If they do not hate such an enemy more than they hate any per sonal enemy, they cannot lead in this great war against plutocracy. Like Patrick Henry, we ought to use every weapon which "God and na ture" have thrown in our path; then we will win as he did. The narrow policy of partisan proscription must soon pass away. We must put prin ciple before party. The test of here eey hereafter must not be the mere adherence to an organization or par ty, but thb advocacy of principles and interests which are dearest to the people, and to which every party ought to subscribe. There can be no difficulty about the rectitude of our party affiiliations if we advocate the right principles. Churchism is not favorable to Christianity, and party ism is not favorable to reform Churches, and parties will take care of themselves if religion and prin ciples are faithfully promulgated. If I could hear less talk of the Demo cratic party and more talk of Demo cratic principle--, I should have iiiore hope of leform. . A Democratic par tisan "belongs" to the party and he will not ask many questions about whether it is right or wrong. A Democrat from principle w'll see to it that his party, or some party, shall advocate what is right. One makes party the standard or criterion of right; the other makes right the standard or criterion of party. Much if not most of what Col. Polk said is the best Democracy I ever saw. If my party is hurt by it, then it needs reforms Does Democratic paityism stand in the way of the triumph of Democratic principles ? Then let us have less of it. If the "partisan" press cannot accept aid from any source they put tneir party above their principles, or make party a test of principle. Person Uly, I care for nobody In this fight, but want fair play for everybody. NIf the preacf the State will treat Col. Polk f drly when he is right, they will have more influence with the people to correct him wnenhe is wrong. W. J. Peele, in Prog. Far. Bucklen's Arnica Salre. The best Salve in the world lor Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil blains, Corns, and all Sinn Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It if guaranteed to give psr tect satislactiu or money refunded. Price 25 een ta per box. For sale by Dr. li. H. Hqiday, Clinton, and J. B. Smith, Druggist, Mount Olive, N. C. STR0XGLY PUT. THE NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE OF N. F. A. & . I. U. MEMOri ALIZE CON GRESS. Tlie Condition of fhe Country stated ami tlie Peoples Law makers Asked to Derive Means of Relief. HOW. LET . THE WISEACRES TRY THEIR HAND AT A'XOWSTITU T10WAL BILL" The Legislative Committee of the National Farmers Alliance and In duitrlal Union has adopted and pre sented to Congress the following me morial : Washington, D. C, January 6th, 1892. lo the Honorable, the House of Re presentatives and Senate of the United States, in Congress assem bled i Your memoralists. a committee elected by the Supreme Council of the JOational Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, under its instruc tions and on its behalf, would most respectfully represent: That the uiveral andunnara'.led depression in all departments of our great agricultural industry, ha im pressed the farmers of the United States with gravest concern and alarm. That despite the fruitful soils, and favoring conditions of cli mate, their faithful application and courageous industry, and irrespec tive of seasons or harvests, their farms and the products of their la bor, are constantly and steadily de preciatmg in value. That the Inspir iting-nope ot competency and com fort, as a reward for their toiL is van ishing in their earnest struggle for sustenance and preservation of home. lhat patient, honest and earnest in vestigation of this anomalus condi tion of affairs, has impressed the tarmers ot the country, with the sol einn conviction, that the evils which are thus clogging and paralyzing their energies, are largely due to dis criminating inequalities In our gov ernmental policy and which are the legitimate outgrowth of partial and unmendly legislation. Your memoralists would further respectfully represent: That in their organized capacity, the larmers In thirty-eight States and territories of the Union, after long and earnest deliberation and remarkable unanimity, formulated and adopted a declaration of princi ples, (an official copy of which is heretofore appended) which they be lieve, If enacted into law, would re store agriculture to its true and just position among the great industries of the country and would conserve the highest and best interests of the public good. That they respectfully but most earnestly commend to the patriotic consideration and favor of your honorable bodies, the justice and wisdom of enacting such laws as will embody the principles enun ciated in the declaration referred to. Your memoralist would further re spectfully represent: That they are specially charged to ask the attention of your honorable bodies to the great and urgent neces sity for immediate legislative action for the financial relief of the indus trial and business interests of the country. That they believe that the present financial system of the country, is not only inherently de fective, but that it Is incompatible with the genius and spirit of our in stitutions and is in conflict with tho fundamental principles of our gov ernment. That they believo that the sy5tem, born of the terrible exigencies of a mighty civil war, purely as a military expedient and necessity, which, while it doubtless save the life of the nation In war, has been demonstrated under the test of experience not to bo the 3ystem for preserving nd perpe tuating that lift in peace. That they believe that a sacred and steadfast observance and maintenance of the powers and functions conferred up on the government by th Constitu tion, for making, issuing and con trolling the money of the people, Is absolutely essential to healthful and symmetrical development in our s aterial progress, and that these powers and functions cannot in any manner be relinquished or transfer red, without violence to equity and ji-stice and gravest to the safety and liberties of the people. That they believe that the exclusive right secured to the government by the Constitution, to make money, car ries with it the unavoidable obliga tion and responsibility, to supply it in such manner and amount as to meet at all times, the requirements and of our growing population and trade. That they believe that the exercises of the legitimate and right ful functions of the government in the control of money, would obviate a recurrence of the ruinous effects of undue contraction in the volume, as demonstrated in the present depress ed conditions, which are paralyzing the energies of the people in all de partments of industrial enterprise. That thev believe that ad money should be issued direct by the gov ernment to the people, at a low rete of interest and in sufficient volume to meet the legitimate demaads of the the legitimate business of the country on safe and valid securities and that it should be a full legal tender for all debts. That they be lieve that silver should have all the lights m coinage and all the quali ties of legal tender which gold possesses. Your memoralists would further respectfully represent: ihat those for whom they speak do not ask, your honorable bodies lo venture upon doubtful expedient or experiment, but respectfully and most earnestly present the deplora and alarming financial - condition of the agricultural interests of theeoun- try, with : the -.hope that; areoar dy may be speedily soughtand devised through which they may be relieved rora imnetidinsr bankruntrv Ami ruin, and will secure to our people and to posterity, the b!esings of a permanent, jut and equitable finan cial system: Respectfully eubmlttod, L. L. Polk, C. W. Macuxe, Manx Page, W. F. Gwynxb, L. I. Feathekstoxe, National Legislative Committee. A SPOIL OF OFFICII A Powerful Realistic Story of Western Ufe. We take great pleasure In sn nouncing to our readers that in the January Arena will appear tlie open ing chapters of a powerful Ury by Hamlia Garland. It will be one of the most thrilling novels of Ameri can life that has bee.i written In many years, depicting conditions in tho great Won with that wonderful fidelity which h:vj Ynade -Mr. Gar land's "Main-Travolled Roads" one of the most popular and nos talked of books ol tho year. The social and political change which have weighed ?o heavily on the great commonwoalth of farmers west of the Mississippi, tho rising tide of discontent which culminate. 1 in the unparalleled political cyclone of last autumn whicn swcpt over Kansas, burying from from view tho 80,000 normal majority of the dominant party, and demonstiating, as never before, t!.e power anu majesty of the masses in a nineteenth century republic. Never has there been so significant an illustration of the power of the people when once awakened as in this unprecedented struggle of the pleasant and artisan against dominant thought, entroneh td conservatism, a majority of more than four score thousand, a well organized political machine, and a powerful daily press. It is one of the most suggestive and significant passages in contemporaneous his tory, and the facts involved, wrought into the woof and web of this story, will give a special interest aside from the charm arising from Mr. Garland's power of depicting real living, breathing personalities, who appeal most powerfully to. the lea der. "A Spoil of Office" will be the finest and most faithful study of Western life and conditions that has ever appeared. It will be rich in lights and shadows, humor and pathos, ambition and selfishness, nobility and political treachery, de pression and defeat, exaltation and enthusiasm, while through the whole story, like a threat of gold, will run the noble, all-sustaining love ot a brave, high-minded Ameri can woman. In short, it will be a story of life to day in the West. The characters in thi work will be found real men and women. No writer of to-day is freer from the fault of presenting puppets for per sons than the author of "Main-Travelled Roads." As Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton well observes: "His sympathy with humanity, his preception of the subtlest -meaning of nature, his power' to bring his people before you as if you had grown up in their door-yards these are his own," niJILTX GAR!. AXD. (1) This great American novel should be read by every American farmer, who will find m it the most perf ect photograph of the struggles and perplexing problems which he faces every day and hour of his'life, (2) It should be read by every American woman, for nowhere has womanhood abraveror more earnest champion than in Mr. Garland. He stands In the very van of the young men of the rising generation who are fighting for womanhood's absolute emancipation, for equl free loin and justice for womanhood before tlie law, in the home and in society, and for a single standard of morals for men and women. (3) It should bo read by every be liever in social, economical, and political reform, for it oeals with these great problems ss only can a naturn in strong sympathy with progress and the triumph of ireedom and justice. (4) It8hould be read by every thoughtful American, for it will prove at once intensely interesting, and wonderfully suggestive. "A Spoil ot Office" will be the most talked about novel of 1892, and you ought to be acquainted with it. THE NEW POSTAL CARDS. The new postal cards now being issued by the government are 6 inches long by 3 j inches wide, and are nearly half as large again hs the old cards, which were 5 J by 3 inc.ies. On the ot verse side is: "Postal Card. One Cent. United States America. This side is for the address only." Grant's vignette is on the right hand upper corner instead of in the centre -as heretafore. The cards furnish much more room for writing than, ever before. '' 'Both7 erudition and agriculture ought to bo encouraged by govern ment; wit and manufactures will come of themselves. AT THE PARTING OF T1III TlioCurioti Tale of the Old Year, the New Year and tiuGhnu. It wan nearly midnight, Thursday night when a gray, b nt, bald-head, ed, full whiskered ol I man met a brh-k. froth cheeked UivfttThni.i. ing of the Ways. The paths were separauu oy a ciissm, w hich marked on one side the end of th journey and on tho other the Ugin meg oi me iad s. Gayly the yountrster called out "Hello! I've been waiting for you. i start up the hill at sharp 12, you know." "To be sure, and you'll get might y tired of your job in a week. I was bright and chipper as you when I oegan, anu iook at me now I" "What's the trouble? A fairly good year, wasn't It?" "Yes; low wars, less pestilence, lot much famine, fair crops, but tho Ieople generally have i;ot been pros perous, -me money cievu has been robbinsr the ieoilo for vear and they have just found it out. Tiuth is humming, and I predict for you anevanttul career. IJut t hat i fur you, I have now to deal with a pack oi hpooKs tnat's Haunted and curs! me inrougn au the months!" "That's bad. 1 look out for 'em all." "It'll do no (rood: von ean't Mntta However, my moment of happiness has arriveu. just watch me." At that instant a distant boll toll ed the first stroke of midnight. "Come on, you scoundrels!" yell- -..sit. . eu me grayoearci, and at the com mand there trooped to tho front a strange and ill assorted group. The old man seized the leader. ho look ed like a half ennsumod iirortt and cast him into the gulf with a howl of maniacal delight. The next one hurled oyer had the form of a pipe, and he succeeded by a chunky inue ieiiow wno rcnembiod a pocket fla.k, and who dragged with him a cigar shaped companion. A protest ing cornet, a wailing iolinanda stick of chewing gum then went to ineir doom. At the eleventh stroke a billiard cue, a poker chip and play ing card disappeared. "Revenged! I am revenged!" exulted the patriarcm "Gootlby, my boy. You will have more to contend with th?n these trifles. I go to join in oblivion the ghosts of the Swear Offs" And down he plunged. To the tollin&r of tho boll tinfl chimes of welcome, nnd thn tkw xear began to climb the hill, far up wnose sides smiled the green of beck oning spring and whose top glowed rosy In the sun of summer. He heard stem behind him and a voir exclaimed: "Whoa, January!" Turning, he beheld a inllv rrnw at. his heals. "Who are you?" ho asked. "I," answered the foremost, "am the Last Smoke." Then they all joined hands and hopped akout the youih, singing: )b, we, y-s; we are tho Swear OH guv ; Though Klain lat night, we're alive to-day; The cuewing gum and the billiard eue, The iolrootii, turt and the mountain dew, The baseball game and the dizy danrt All these with poker and ieanutH pram-e. We've been sworn off for economy's oakc. Hut just one more, and what'll you taker Pausing, they fell behind, and the New Year trudged on, thoughtful and nervous about the future, after casting ode wistful glance at the chasm iu which his predecessor had found rest.' Fred C. Daytox. NirVV LIGHT ON TIIK PRO TECTIOX QUESTIOM. Mr. T. E. -Vilson in discussing the fallacy of protection against so-called foreign pauper labors says: No Ameiican ever used or enjoy ed the product of foreign labor. No American was ever in lawful posses sion of so much as a pin lhat was the product of foreign labor. Every thing that is ud or enjoyed in thefe United States by Americans is the product of American labor. There are only three ways by which we can come Into possession of any thing: 1. By producing it ourselves. 2. Ry ome one elpe Droducinor It and giving it to it. 3. By Mealing it. Everything in the United States whether imported or not which is in the due and lawful possession of an American must be eitherth nro- duct of bis labor or the gift of a foreigner. If it is the product of foreign labor, not eiveu tn him. then it must have been stolen. The men vno have it must be thieves or receivers of stolen goods. If: one American makes an yp and anothei a shovel, and they then exchange, what each man has after the exchange is still the product of his labor. Neither loses the pro duct of his labor by any wise ex change ho may make. He only loses it by gift or thefr. No ma.: can get possession of another man's labor product except by gift or theft. This seems too simple for argument, yet Ihe whole Protection theory is built on the assumntion that what is imported into this country and used by ns is not the product of American labor. Because we produce in some in dustries more than we use, and pro duce in other industries less than we use, exchanging the surplus to make good the deficiency, the Protection buueo-steerere tell us that what we get in exchange for our surplus is not the product of our labor, but of foreign labor; in short, that we steal it. That we are a nation of thieves is, unfortunately, true; but our thefts are confined to our own Doundaries to the plunder of our 60,000,000 people by 14,500 mill owners Protection by law from punishment. ' F. H. Hickey, 1208 Main street, Lynchburg, Virginia, writes: I was broke out ail over with sores, 'and and my hair was falling out.' After using a few bottles of Botanic Blood Balm my hair quit falling out and all the sores got well." THE WORLDS S 1 NCL LAST TIH'ltS l Y.CA I; I N fully assorted ani' coshknskd for i:isy PKOPLK. suite. Wilmington F.leclrlc stnt i . w ay )iii! an soured fact. Incendiary work In Pill CMiiiy ha retched an alarming extent. Tliert ! now 127 children nt Baptist Orphannge at Thum.wi '.-. Tho 19th innant, "Leo' birth day," I a hval holiday in North Carolina. At FAelby last wio?; or.o rtf ro shoot another for piying to. ru : attention to hh Rwoethffirt. A little fi year old girl fnm V. V mington wa burned to Vv.v ! Thompson Orph:i igo nt t'hatUf". Tho county comml-Mof, iA l ' h Vance and HlaJen ooimiH." h.-n- . fused to gr:mt licenses to rt.-t liquor In tho county. Mr. A. L. Sink, wi:o was h i t rr ble injured iu the Iototi I ri '.- wreek, i able to it up in ! -;, though till very weak. Tho Maonie conioiiitif aom !t.:...l to examine the Oxford Orjh.in Asylum find the finances in g.ul condition and institution well mar :v god. MaJ. T. 1). IjOVP. h verv tnn.i;. nent man of Wilmington,' fornielv ji iwauen county Uod at hit hto n Wilmington la-t vk. of th.. Grippe. At Fayettovlllc hut Snndiv ti er,. were two fires. Tho Mitro,', house und a residence ii.lioinu wurneo. i mil night the kitchen of Mr. Weldon Hu-ke' burned. Tho Grimeslcv Ahprttathv - is being well diseus-od 1(1 1 lift i ri . Giiinesiey's father And out in strong cards to the pil.lir. Aoernauiy nas had two r three t the press. The Board of Rocrpnts. In at StfttesTille last week, unanimous ly decided to rebuild tho I'rosbv- terian Orphanage at Barium Springs. Brick buildings will 1 o nrffii it i i.l JI 0,noo will bo oecassarv lo- tho same. Mr. Ed. Cham! Mir Kmlih viiuii- man ot the Stato Deinocrttic l-.w-cutivo Committee, was niarrhd i:i Christ church, Raleigh, Lift Tups day at 12 o'ciovk, to Miss nnie Badger, daughter of Col. Paul F. Faisou. fho Knout. Knrin pany's property h;to Imh-ii puu-hW4-d byMeshi-s. R. V. H1cJ;m of Wil- v. t . A . .1 . uuuKieu anu jonn V. tjoasler of IMliladelntift. Tn fliia ...... :.. B . aa, , ruir ii,. Ill- eluded 13,000 acres of land in Unr- 'vHAUuiiij, tJIHl HIOCK f 10,0 O. National. Eilfht mon urn L-:ily..l t.. . . niinn III 11 ngni over a game of cards at a Georgia turiu.ntmi A III,.... Anether hltz-h W.1.UII3 J II IHP Behring sea npgotiations tietuwii England and United States. A bill tisia Ku.i-.ri ln ....l. ...... i V irmnla 1 .r'rii.i..t..i- .... " - - - ......mv. iui ill-; rP- establishment of the whipping : t. A 1JWI..-1 ilJIS IH II appointed by (lnV. Humphry 0f Kansas, ns Senator I'lHob's nuc cessor. Four men Were killed in Arknr..,. yesterday while an Ritptm.t w .s heing made to arrest thntn peeled murderers. The New York TfVMMif lira V. , . meet. The Itomopratt ... "Ik lll'Ki tne oenate without from the Republicans. . A fearful mino otnlnHA i ' iviiiri.v Oil". I n Indian Territory Tt-.nrci.... t...... Over 800 men wero in tin- shall" aV the time and 500 killed. The first dele itl 1.1? can presidential fleeted in Penn.y I vanla. Hi? m n.e luiigrianu no Is Instructed i name. Foreign. Spvprnl rnf.l. !...,. i i . mull iiDiiuaim Jl.iVi' been ordered to Morocco. Several elected to ofikes in Canada. Tho Tv hrxTIVa t.f T.' .1 1 week. His son succeeds him. TllP Tri r im l.lll'inn t . n . f . - - ... 1 UK iiavw iu many nart ff Vrannn ri. A i.t- . 01 Carnb.al died of that disease Another Nihillist nlot efidni h,. Czar has !oen discovered. Many high in ofiical circles have bocn mpucaiea. The Poles have dv!dMi k black durinsr this voar inmmi., . tive of 1702. thoyearof thedi.s!fiOti- uenuent oi troi&na oy tho allied powers of Europe. Banking houses In London are un able properly to conduct their husi nfss by reason of the great number of cases of grip among the men in the postal service. The German Reichstag, this week will discuss Emperor Williams bill for the repression of drunker ness. One provision of tho bill Is that a party convicted of being a habitual drunkard shall be Imprisoned until he tan obtain a certificate of a physi cian that he has been cored and in the meantime is , property can be used for the support of his family.
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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Jan. 14, 1892, edition 1
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