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President L. L.Polk, North Caro
lina. Address, 3 U D Street, X. W.,
Va-hhington, D. C.
Vice-President II. If. Clover, Cam
brid;c..' Kansas.
S'-crelary and Treasurer J. II. Turn
er, Georgia. Address. 220 North Capi
tol .Street, S. W Washington, D. C.
Lecturer .1. II. Willet, Ivm-as.
EXECUTI VK liOA HI).
C. W. Mccune, VYas!dn-to:i, 1). C.
Alonzo WardaH, Huron, South Dekon.
J. F. Tiihiiau, Palmetto, Tennctthec.
JL'DICIAKY.
IT. C. D.;iniuin g. Chairman.
I.-aao Me.'.raeke'.i, Ozone, Arkansas.
A. II. Cole, Fowler ille.. Michigan.
NATIONAL LI'C;i3LATIV"E COUXCJJV
The Presidents tf all the r'tale organ
iatioj.s Willi L. L. Poll; cx-oukiio Chair
man. NOETIl CAROLINA FAttMi'il?' .SPATE
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PAP ICIW.
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gr -.-sive Farmer, il.t'eiii ; itural
11 ;no, Vi!-oii ; 1'V.ruu : 's Ailyocute,
'' i."b.ru; S.ilisouiy xValcuiuan, Sal
isbury ; Alliance .Son! bud, Uolds
b .ro; Hickory JNF-rcury, Hickory;
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idle, Trinity College; Mountain
Home J unnil, Ashevilb-; Agricul
tural lieo Goklsboro; Cohinil-us
News, Wiiitevilie, - . C; The Busi
ness Agent, it.iki j;h, S. C.
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ance Department, Oxford, N. C
Kadi of the above-named papers arc
requested to keep the list staud.n on
the I hot pae and add otl-iv, provide.l
thej are duly elected. Aav paper fail
ing to advocate the Uca'a platt'urui vvili
he dropped from the list promptly. Our
people can iiov see what papers are pub
lishe 1 In their interest.
1' i to F ESS OX A L COLUMN .
DLL Oil AS. S. BOYbiTrE,
DENTIST,
Oilers his services to the public.
Charges moderate and work guaran
teed. Office at Dr. Flowers' old
stand. niy28 tf
rn m.lee,
JL ATTORNEY-A '-LAW,
Clinton, N. C
O.Ilce over Stt.tso;i't opposstu Tub
Ovro SiAN-i'-ffi.e. niehlT tf
W. R. ALLEN. W. T. DOKTCH,
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LLEN & DOHTC1I,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Golds boro, N. C.
Will practice in Sampson county.
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M. LEE, M. D.
I' if YrilClAN ,S V !.a EO AND DEN'f 1ST,
O.iSee in Lee's Drugstore, je 7-lyi
jT eTeaison,
J. a Att rney and Counsell
or at Law.
Ollice on Main Street,
will practice in courts 'of Sampson and
adjoining counties. Also in Supreme
ourt. All business intrusted to his
are will receive prompt and careful
tlention. je7-lyr
p W. KEIilt,
.iJ Attorney axd Counsellor
at Law.
Office on Wall Street.
Will practice in Sampson, Bladen,
lender, Harnett and Duplin Coun
ties. Also in Supreme Court.
Prompt personal attention will be
given to all legal business, je 7-lyr
RANK BOYETTE, D.C.S.
Dentistry vS5
Office on Main 'street, "iSSb
Offers his services to the people of
Clinton and vicinity. Everything
in the line of Deniistry done ia the
best style. Satisfaction guaranteed.
SSSMy . terma-are strictly cash.
Don't"ask me to Ifrom this rule.
W. D. IJirvVSOK
. Tonsoriai Artist,
JiQU.VT OSLIVI .V. C.
Hair Cutting and Shaving execu
ted in latest styles. Give me a trial.
L. J. MERIUMAN,
232 Washington Street, 1ST. Y.,
COMMISSION MERCHANT
Jn Vegafab'ei, Proau??, Frails, Berric?,
No TrarelJnj AzbdU employed. -fcjhipm-mta
solicited. , mcal7 tf
Vol. x.
EDITOR'S CHAIR.
WOW THINGS LOOK FROM
OUIi STAND POINT.
The ODinion of The Editor and the
Opinion of Others which we
Can Endorse on the Various
Topjcs of the Day.
Should Dr. E'ark hurst again un
dertake to witness the cancan decol
lete it inlht he advisable for him to
select, as his companions, gentlemen
who were not fond of beer and who
could withstand the allurement of
that driiico and the seductive game
of leap-fro.
The Fanners Advocate of Tarbo
ro, htm completed its second volume.
Fearlessly, earnestly and faithful
ly it has devoted its ability in ad
vancing those principles which will
give relief to the asses. This cause
it hiti e-poused with diligence and
anility, and we predict a still m ire
brilliant and scrvisable career to
brothers Llovd and June.
A New Yuk correspondent, who
furnishes many iarge papers with
letters each week, says:
'Taking the vote on the Silver
question as a whole, therefore, it is
to be regarded as the most imp rt
ant gain towards confidence that has
k'T.dbM Wall Stieet for along pe
ri od.".
The above needs no comment, for
it seems that the above agjnt of plu
tocracy aocidently told the truth,
liul furlhvr on the tarn 9 corresponI
ent fi:ys:
"In truth, the masses arc pros
perous b.diu Avell paid and having
cheap living. Tais being so, busi-.ie-s
must be accepted as s'uod in
spile of lhe complaints of small pro
fits by them. Tt is quite certain that
no legitimate ca;iso for a serious de
:lino in railroad stocks can be found,
particularly while earnings continue
so sit is factory."
The -first statement is so absurd
that it can come only from one who
is grossly ignorant, or maliciously
lies. But this statement does not
surprise us, for President Harr'Son
has b ;en guilty of saying die same
thing officially. The latter state
is evidently tre, or rather only half
the truth. Yes, under present con
ditions, profits to corporations gen
erally are very satisfactory.
WHICH PARTY?
The following is the money plank
of a platform adopted last week in
a ct rtain Slate:
"We believe in and we declare for
hone-4 monev. the irold and silver
coinage of the Constitution, and for
a currency convertible into such
coinage without loss."
You can't fail to know that it was
a Northern or New England State,
but we offer a premium of a year's
subscription to the man who can tell
which party gave forth the mean
ingless utterance. .
TARIFF PLANKS AND TARIFF DE
MANDS. The following is a tariff plank
adopted by the Massachusetts Dem
ocratic State Convention:
"We reaffirm the doctrine that no
more money shall be collected than
is necessary for an economical ad
ministration of the Government;
that the Government shall receive
all the taxes the people pay; that
taxes should bear its evenly as pos
sible upon all the people."
The following is the demand for
tali IT reform made by the Alliance
and other farmer and labor organi
zations at St. Louis:
"We believe that the money of
the country should be kept as much
as possible in the hands of the peo
ple, and hence we demand all Na
tional and State le venue shall be
limited to the necess iry expenses of
the Government economically and
h o ues t ly ad mi u istered .' '
And yet there are some who claim
that the Alliauce has ab-mdoned ta
riff reform. How blind is preju
dice !
THE LITTLENESS OF A BIG CORPORA
TION. We learn that correspondence was
going on for making rates for the
delegates from North Carolina io
St. Louis. The Central Traffic Asso
ciation offered a one fare rate and
the Southern Traffic Association one
and a third fare rate. The latter
Association includes North Crrolina,
South Carolina and Georgia, and the
rates were made by their Commis
sioner, Mr, Carpenter. After "the
rates were published and the dele
gates had decided on theii route and
all arrangements made, in fact, just
a day or two before the delegates
were to start, the management of
the II. & D. railroad system in this
State withdrew the rate3 and charg
ed full fare. The rates were not
withdrawn ia any other Stale. What
the motive was cannot be stated with
absolute certainty, but the public
can easily draw its own inference.
At any lTftajt was littleness that a
big corporation ca&SOt afford.
WHO IS A DEMOCRAT?
Great Disagreement About the Pro
per Definition.
Mr. Ashe, whose paptrha bten
endorsed as the organ of the party,
tries his hand on the simple but yet
troublesome qnestion, as follows:
"Whoever is the nominee chosen
in regular-course has the right to ex
pect the hjuorable support of everv
man who attends the primaries. We
say 'in regular cour e,' for if the con
vention. State or National, were to
depart widely from custom, prece
dent and the methods which have
been bo regularly observed as to;
have become engrafted into the con
stitution of the party one is not
bound. If, for instance, a wide de
parture is made in the principles,
and unconstitutional measures are
laid down as a part of the latfonn,
even i hough one attended the pri
maries, he would be excused from
accepting and endorsing the plat
lorui. No man can be constrained
to violate the Constitution of his
country. But generally any o e
who goes Into the primaries of his
party is bound by its actio"."
Mr. Daniels, whose paper (while
he owned it) was also endorsed as
the organ of the party, replying to
the above, in a two column article
in the Wilson Advance", says:
"J w;s greatly surprised a ffv
days ago to read th" above in the
editorial column .f the News and
Observer. I have no disposition to
criticise the position oft! a or any
other Democratic paper, but I feel it
a duty to give the reasons why I be
lieve sound Democrats cannot accept
this construction of the dutv of a
Democrat."
Mr. Daniels goes on to define De
mocracy as he understands it. lis
article is very well written, and we
regret not being able to reproduce
it. He very pertinently asks "Mr.
Ashe who is to be the judge of what
is regular course and what is not.
LETS REASON TOdllTIIKU
AND NOT 1S12 FOOLISH.
Come let us reason to et'ier. Mo:e
than a million of free-bom Ameri
can citizens have requested Congress
to ionuder certain propositions in
their behalf. They speak for five
millions more. Oui big statesmen
don't stoop to consider them at all.
Sixteen agents of the associalfcd
banks came to Washington to put
the exception clause on the green
back. It was consid-: red. It was
done. Five men applied, to C 11
gress in behalf of the Pacific rail
road grab of 150 millions of dollars.
It was considered. It was granted.
One man, Ernest Seyd, came from
Lo don with $500,000 to get silver
demoueytized. It was considered.
It was granted. A few men had con
cocted to hive the national banking
system established. It was consid
ered. It was done. Four or five
men want to borrow one hundred
million for the Nicaragua Canal.
Hai risen recommends Congress to
consider it.
Look upon that scene; now cast a
lingering gaze upon this and tell me
what you think. The interest of
seven millions of common people
ask Congress to consider several dis
tinct propositions and this Congress
turns a deaf year. Both parties
turn a deaf year. What do you think
of that, in the face of their ready
willingness to help on these various
robberies? When one of these hu
man beings come3 home and i'sks
you to return him, ask him if he has
joined in this conspiracy against the
Republic and the people, and think
twice and don't be foolish, Mr. Bow
ser. W. II. Lindsay in Progressive
Farmer.
AVEltGE 11 ESPFICTAIJID IT Y.
"Vard McAllister's estimate of the
annual living expenses of the family
of average respectability, consisting
of husband, wife and three children,
amounts to $183,935.
He itemizes as follow.-: Rent of
city house (7 per cent upon its value),
$49,000; rent of country house $14,
000; yearly expense of country house
$6,000; indoor servant's wages, $S,-
016; household expenses, exclusive of
servants' wages, !? 18,964; his wife's
dressing, $10,000; ni3 own wardrobe,
$2,000; children's clothing and pock
et money, $4,500; three children's
schooling. $4,600; entertaining by
giving a ball and dances 7,000; enter
taining at dinner, $9,00; opera box,
$4,500; theater and supper parses
after theater, $1 . 200; papers and mag
azine?, 100; jeweler's running ac
count, $1,000; stationery, b300; wed
ding presents and holiday gifts, $1,
500; pew in church, $300: club dues,
$425: physician's bill, $300; dentist's
bill,. $300; transprtation of household
to country and -eturn, $2oQ; trav
eling in Europe three mouths during
the spring $9,000; cost of stables,
$17,100.
Comments are useless.
HIGH TARIFF IS A FICTION.
The Republican campaign mana
gers in Washington are credited
with circulating a "tariff novel" as
part of a campaign of education.
The people, however, have finished
their education in that branch of in
ptr uction . They know the tariff bet
ter than a book. It was appropriate,
though that a work of fiction should
have been the chosen meins of pro
pagandism. Exchange.
Scrofula is an imrnrity of the blood
which ,reduces uasightly lamps
or Bwollin, which, aceamulatins: in tbe
glaada of the neck, causes painful
running sores oa the arm?, legs or feset,
which, develops ulcers in the eyes, or
noae. often causing blindness ana
deafness. Take P. P. P. (Prickly Asb,
Poke Root and Patassiao)) It has prayec?
itself thetaoct remarkable of nil blood
purifiers. - -
CLINTON, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 21,
Xmvs from rasliiiigtoa
notes and Items fkom con
giif.s3 and what 1 c is
DOING.
Some Bills Introduced Peron
i;l Mention.
The prediction is made that several
more presidential booms will rire
and tall befoie tne as.-embliHg tf
the Democratic National Conven
tion. Anions conserwUv. demo
cratic leaders there teomi to be a'
growing feeling in lavor of un-
intrcted del. gu thus.
It is understood that the House
committer's iave-tigtio'i of th
World's Fair expenditures his
disc los d some discrepancies in trie
accounts, though not very serious
onrs.
Sonato. Hill has made his ap
p"aratic hitheSeoate chamber Mr.
St-nvart offered resolution f illing on
the Secretary of t!ie Treasury for
information connected with the
purcl asy and coin o of .-diver. Mr.
Hoar, from the jud'uiary committee,
reported a bill to establish a Court
of Appeihs for - the District of
Columbia. The House was occupied
with the District of Columbia bill.
' .
The resolution of the Sen-it de
claring the oiik-e of Executive Clerk
held by Mr. James It. Young w.can:
caused a great deal of sharp criti
cism on t lie action of the Senate.
Mr. Young .demanded an inves
tigation. Thiswas toe culmination
of the long di-cu-,-.ion in the Senaty
or. the mysteries of ihe executive
ses ion and the methods by which
newspaper reports vQie obtained.
On Wednesday Senator Chandler
spoke i . the Senate against the e
lection of Senators by tire people.
-it
Thedeiiciency lor theycar 1890-91
in the expenses of the postal service
is reported to Cor.gre.-s as W,00U.
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It looks as if Chicago had goce
back on itself and its pledges when
the government is asked for an
proxrii;t:ori.s after it was stated that
its own enterprise would conduct
the Woi id's Fair.
Henry George's book, "Protect ion
or Free Trade,'' was put in the
Record in tive section - as embodied
in the speeches of five Ocngre.is-
men.
'fllli.SUB-TUEASUIIYi
In Operation m France Ofiicial
Letter Written by our Consul in
France.
Bordeaux
)KHKAUX. FllAXCE, Oct. 134 '91
II. L. Loucks:
Mr
Dear Sir: In reply to your letter
of enquiry, will .say the Bank of
trance has almost since its esta
blishment, early in the piestnt
century, loaned money on non-
perishable products, such as wheat,
corn, wine, spirits, metals, e:c,
provided such securities were de
posPwi in reliable warehouses, or
warehouses designated by the direct
ors of the Bank of France. Receipt
were of course taken for the same,
and these become negotiable just as
are warehouse receipts in America.
The amounts loaned upon products
of this description was usually
equal to about two-thirds of its ap
praised value and the rate of interest
charged for the loan was 2 per cent.
The same rate is applicable at the
present time.
Horace G. Knowx.es, Consul.
fa fx a idt
The Campaign will be' unusu
ally interesting this yoar. Every
one must and will read about it.
The Caucasian will tell you all
about it from now till the elec
tion for FTFTY CENTS. Can
we take down your name lor z
Campaign Subscriber?
IIFFOK3I DOTS.
The political pmisHes who have
been getting a living by trying to
prove that black i ' white and white i?
black, are beginning to learn .hat the
people are not all color blind.
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If you are anxious to save a man's
soul you had bettor firs, see thtit his
body is welt cared for.
A sy.-tem that allows capital and
cunning tocombine and wreck honest
men's chances to earn a comfortable
living for themselves and families
must go. Cast your votes for homes
and happiness for all th3 people.
Chicago Herald.
What Ails You?
If yon bavs sudden darting pains in
tbo joiDts or muscles, end it recurs everj
time $eu get oold, and apfears-in re"
places vrith out leaving aojr of tha eii
ones, the best tbin to do is to 6?nd five
doUara to the Drommssd Medicice (3 ,
4?',D0 Maiden Liup, York, for a
bottle of Dr.- Drammoud'a Lifttrin?
Remody r-sr.RUenmadsnir It will ciirfc
you. B-i wiaa in time, a ad do not be
tooled wiMi anjtbicg eire. If yon bsve
got the above symptoms you h.iva grt
tho Rhflaaaatism, and ii iha ..drcg-jri
fella yon the traVh he -wid say Dt,
Drummand's B32Hcy is the only Inoffc
car?. -- ' ' " . - L ,
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IWOMAX'S WORLD.
Hit Howara'm Work Among the litdUnt.
Ii3 Grace Howard, daughter of Jo
wp! IlowarJ. Jr.. of Xew York, is ia
Wsihingtca ia tb interest of her Ia
ia Children home, ntar ChaiaWrlain.
S. D.- Mis Howard we nt ot:t to Dakota
fire rears ago, end with mony earned
by horsilf, together with that dorutttnl
by her family and friends, built tho
school f-lie uovv occujiioa, having become
interested ia the work tbronU her con
nection with t ho Hampton (Va.) bcUooI.
MLs Howard said:
"Schools are the one thing- nocessary
for the Indiars. In my school I bare
twenty-two children, for whom the gov
erme.ent nIlov.-3 aa appropriation of
5,0 A) a year. Tlie children nro of the
Sioux tribe. They are very apt, advance
rapiily in the w.irk and are quite capa
ble. When ray school opened this yeai
I hr. -I to tarn awaj- a large nundx'r foi
lack fit T'Xm. I aia working for a reg
nl;u' training selixd that will accouimu
date all who come. Thre are sixty at
Cro.v Creek reservation and luO at Brule
who ought to bo provided with school
facilities.
"Ths Indians work Hko white jeopI.;
when you give them an object. At my
school 1 have one teacher, a matron, two
eerv.mt.3 aud Indian helpers, IxAh about
tho Louse and on the farm. Do I run a
farm? Most assuredly, and a good one,
too. ou which we raided enough hist
yeai- to keep us until spring." Wash
ington Letter.
The Mother's lU-ionsibility.
At a recent meeting of the Fanners'
National Alliance the question of -duca-tion
was diacussed by a numlxr of prom
inent ladies, and there was a singular
unanimity in their expressions in regard
to t'ue early training of children. If it
lie true, as has been so emphatically rc
iter;ied, that tho character of a child
can bo unalterably used for life by tho
edudation and nifluonces of tho first
seven years of hid life, then tho startling
fact that mothers are largely responsi
ble f r the sin and crime and wrong
that blacken tho hiatory of the world
should be made unmistakably clear and
plain.
It indicates also that it would be
easier to purify tho stream at the foun
tain than to tas the energies of the just
and virtuous to provide protection
against tho ocean of evil that threatens
destruction. Wisdom would say strike
at tho root, not at the leaves. Spend
money and time and influence and s3Tin
pathy to make mothers instead of pro
viding the costly machinery of courts
and prisons and asylums, to mitigate
the evil whilo the source is untouched.
Lot ' the responsibility be placed wdiero
it justly belongs. Chicago Woman's
News.
JMihs't l iifK-r-slaiitl the I5uines.
The railway ofiicial called the young
c-.:in into his clTiee and asked sharply:
"Did yon draw this map?"'
"Yes, sir,'" replied the young man.
"And you call yourself an export in your
line!" said tho ollicial, with ineffable dis
gust. "Why, sir, I have devoted years to the
study of it, and I was particularly careful
with that map. Everything was measured
o!T, evea to hundredths of an inch. 1
wouldn't have thought that a geographical
soeii ty could have found a flaw in it."
"You wouldn't!" exclaimed the official.
"Why, you don't know the first principles
of the business. Look here!" lie laid the
map down on the desk. "Here is I'odunk
and here is Jonesboro. They are the ter
minal points." He took a rule and a pencil
and drew a straight line f fom one point tc
the other.
"Xow put the other cities on that line,"
he said.
"Hut, sir, the inaccuracies"
"Xo 'huts' about it. This is our railroad
map. Let tlie other roads do the zigzag,
rail fence act. That's the science of this
business." Chicago Tribune.
Crowded.
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Al-r-ir Tin von ihmk. mv love, that voai
father will consent to our marriage?
Angcly Of course papa will be very
sorry to lose me, darling.
Al'sy But I will say to him that, instead
of losing a daughter, he will gain a son.
Angely I wouldn't do that, love, if you
really want me. Papa lias three such son
livirig at home now, and he's a little bit
touchy on that point. Tit-Bits.
Ono -Advantage of the ATcather.
He had Lis coat buttoned up around his
neck and was shivering as he stopped a
frier d on the street to remark:
"Awful weather!"
"It isut of the best," returned thf
friend.
"Either cold or wet every day," went od
the shivering mortal. "By George! I wisb
summer would come again."
"Well, I don't know that I quite wist
that,'" said the friend doubtfully.
"Oh, I can stand heat better than cold."
"So can I."
"And I'd rather take chances with sun
stroke tbau grip."
"For that matter, so would L"
The shivering mortal skivered some mort
and then asked:
"Well, what makes you stand up for this
weather, then?"
"Why, in summer I have to keep th(
windows open."
"Of course."
"And every one else does the same."
"Naturally. What of it?"
"There are seven babies in the neighbor
hnnd that crv at intervals all nisrht. Tht
weather is bad, but it keeps the window?
down and I'm not kicking so nara as j
might." Chicago Tribune, '
Used to It.
In the city of II lived a family whe
had one of those domestics of the familial
heavy hand. A few years ago the towr
p-mp.rifniWl a sliizht shock of earthquake.
Pictures were throw a down, crockery ant?
furniture rattled about. In the midst of
the tumult the mistress went to the bead
of the basement stairs and called out in s
would be patient tone, ."ilary Ann, what
are yon doing now?" Harper's Bazar.
i I
1892.
POLICE C0UUUITI0X.
liKV. THOMAS niXOX, J It
A 1 1 M ( I A IN T H E M I N 1 0 N S
OF1IIKLAW.
The I'iiMlin;9 r the New York
(iruud Jury Furnish a lmi
Tet lor a Discourse on
3IiiiiicipaI Corrupt ion.
hut U the Iiibl.
New Yu;:::. April 17. Ik fere the reg
ular f,err.Ki:i in A-:.M--iHtkn hall this
morning, Mr. Dixon reviewed tha eul
ject of tho corruption c-f the police
forces of our great cities. He Raid:
The rect-nt terrific indict mT.t of tha
whole pulico force of the c ity uf New
York by the grand jury is an event in
the history cf modern muni.'ipal govern
ment. It is t 1 hoied that it will J
mark tho beginning of a new era in j
civic life of Ai;."i i'-u.
Mr. H-nry M. Tabor, foreman of this
remarkable grand jury, said in an inter
view after its fes-iuus tliat from t-vi-denco
presented tho jury was thor
oughly convinced that "'there U at least
$7,uX,0o0 collects! annually from tho
kociX-TS of f-auiblin g dens, h.doons, con
cert halls a:ul houses of ill repute, and
distributed among tlur members of tho
police ih p:irt:ac:it. I bay at least
7,()');),(,0;, for calculation diowa that
the jiin.-nnt ii prolmbly nearer $10,
000,000." ifi d'.-ciares that this accusation in
volves tho integrity of tho entire iolico
forcc f roia lhe superintendent down t
Ihft natrohii.U!.
This is a -rave charge. It cannot be
laughed down by tlie men accused. It
cannot bo ai. -wcrel by tho assertion
that tho J.I ireh grand j-;ry was an ag
gregation oC l,-.r.-itk-s. Iu fact, while t x
elamation i;--.'i;its may 1 -o i;ie iUblc, they
aro not sali ax-toiy ju: t now to tho in
quiring public.
There i.-, iu this official document much
of startling suggestion to every great
city in America.
Is the iniico power of the t tate ia oar
centers of bfo thus honeycombed vltli
l-otienue.ss? If c-o, the future lifo of j'our
civilir.atio.i is thre.iteiied. And no man
who loves his neighbor and his country
can aflord to ho iudiilercnt to buCa a
Bituation.
. THE TKMPTEU i-'OUCEMAX.
How to keoy a pure iolice force is cer
tainly "a serious problem.
And the Christian public is somewhat
to blame for this fact. The temptations
in the way of a policeman to elo wrong
are well nigh resistless to tho ordinary
man.
In the first place they aro cut oil
from the association and sympathy cf
the good. Thy get few sympathetic
hand grasps from their neighbors. They
cannot go to church often. As a cla-s
of men they aro utterly neglected by
those who seek to nelp aud save their
fellowmen. There aro no friendly inun
built for their comfort, though they live
a life of danger md exposure. We try
to save tho wretch iu the ditch, but
have no sympathy or help for tho heart
of tho bluecoat who tramps his beat and
sees sin and crimo and misery until hi
eyes and cars and very heart at last be
coiqo saturated with it. ramilinrity
with vice makes it well nigh inevitable
that the officer himself will at last suc
cumb to some form of it. Tho saloon is
is always open; and here the policeman
finds his frirnda and finds fellowship.
Tho way downward is made easy for
him. The way of virtue and honesty
and Christian manhood is well nigh im
possible. In my soul of souls I sympathize with
these men. I thank God I am not called
to tramp a policeman's beat and touch
crime and vico and sia and temptation
at every corner. Wo need not' be sur
prised if now aud then a policeman i
guilty of brr.tality and of assault upon
innocence. .Such tilings are inevitable
ia the very nature of such a situation.
tut when tho whole force and tue whole
system i3 honeycombed with a schemo
of wholesale blackmail and bribery the
time has come for action by the whole
community.
WITNESSES AFKAID.
The foreman of the grand juryfni'ther
declares that witnesses are afraid to tell
tho truth. They fear for their lives if
they testify against the police and these
chronic criminals. Ha en id that wit
nesses who could give satisfactory evi
dence against the keepers of disorderly
resorts were deterred from doir,g so Vy
fear of callbg down the vengeance of
the parlies exposed a vengeance in the
execut ion of which the police would af
ford every opportunity a?;d ;- '-ure al-so-lute
IT-it- c, ion. Hew utterly helr-h-ss
ia tho public when guarded by such a
force!
It was uLcovered the c-lk.-r day that an
ex-police captain now reliro-ci on 'np.lf
pay was a "sheet writer" in ,i gajiibli'jg
hell. Retiring from active polics duty,
he c-ecrns naturally to have gravitated to
this den of gamblers wji-;- e bufiuc-r-s U
daily to viol ito and defy law. Wbut is
tho rcmsdy for such a condition?
First Ii seems to me that the Chris
tian community rhould get closer per
sonally to the police force. We tbould
know them bolter. Reading rooms and
libraries should be established for their
benefit while off duty, where they could
find deceit friendship &nd companion
ship. These men need more Chr'i-t'aa
sympathy and help than any class in tha
community and they get le.T3. The con
sequence ii that many cf them become
infidels and skeptics.
Second The dirty politicians back cf
the" system must bs robbed of their
power. The policeman preys on thi
criminal, sad. tho political catt'iraat
preys on b-Dth tk3 polict-m in and tka
eriminaL and driven them twidim to bi5
triumphal cart.
Third In the present corrnit condi
tion of thmgsit ia n"rc'.sarr, as s. revo
lution is sosactimes cecrsrtary, to organ
ise latr and cr ier societies cf such in
vincible strength that a complete police
system can, at loe.; t fr Rvrhila, be main
taine.1. . Dr. rajiam-afa Society Tor the
Pre vention of Crime and il snob organ
isations fchould be Ea etrengthened by
No. 28.
ItWTl UiOtHT tkat tua rf',p
,'-f
raiiitrtt Sl.rrf..rt crry ;. tb ;r pat I if j
uy iim tj l.uiinui, ia lt.tir c?tir I
ii-juUo-kI oar iwj ista ti
cietie cntil ti.nu.il ntUiUfa f t vr&et
raa lx attitlnt-1 in p-.ir.:b-d dir U n .
Tl-n put a thttkt totu.ruy hi
wh clean hand aul wbu ha-n't 4
out U'-fvT ti: tlects n.
V.'HAT tS THE CtCLFJ
Tlr wrdUUiap al ref fiTt-lVklsi
eta. k
Around thj HiMe for tititM'n lnn
dred yeam I.ave r&zi $Ut t tonus f
criticiMn and of doubt. It ha a
aulunl with ell tho pnwt r of bnuian
g( tvisiH, with all th babtb ty of learning
and pcicnee, by its c. arnica wh hava
thought todrttroy it. It ha bt-t ini
interprefed, misapplied ntul minndcr-.toe-l
by iu fnVndjj. ud yet it live ud
f ways th.j world. It li.s wit)itocHl all
a-ailts of tho enemy; and more than
this, it hn, been ubl to survite th ia
tcrpretatiou' of its frirnb for tli dead
liewt fots that have ever haudh-l the
Dibl hare Un-n th who have handiod
it with loudest protestations of undying
l ivalty. In dise ttssing the c,nestkn of
tho obi lHk, I d j not propte to entct
into the details of the question that
clu t r arerun l tnoderu critk isin. I inh
rather jsnt at this time to p jint out tho
power of the book, thut wo m.iy kiiort'
its real worth to man.
What is the Bibk? Tho Kt definition
I ever read of tho Bible, written iduce
the developments of scienco and the
achievenn-nts of the critics, is this, "Tho
Bible is tho literary ree-ord of the ni ui
ifetatiou of trol in bnm.ui bihtory in n
supernatural manner, to the end that '
man might bo saved." ThU ii ml a
paraphraf-o of tho great thought con
tained in tho text. The Bible w.n writ-1
ten as a guide to life. "Thy word i- a
lamp unto ray feet." Such has been thu
revelation of God to man through all j
the ages. Now if tho Word of tiod i . !
such a light, there are some things V. is
not.
NOT AN ARSENAL. !
First It is certainly not a sytcma j
tize l scheme of philosophy, ekhft sacred
or profane. It is not t-ystcmalic the-;
ology, over which intellectual gyimiu-ts
and hairsplitting deigmatists aro to ex
orcise their powers of reasoning and dis
puting. It 13 a record of life, tho way
of life. (
Second If it is such a lamp Mmply
to guide tho fett of men, it h iot -magazine
of weapons with which nu n
are to fight ono another. It ii not a
holy arsenal; it is not a collection of
bludgwns, an assortment of chains oi
a collection of sacred torches with
which martyr fires are to bo kin bVl
There aro those who L;ive felt that tnu
Bible was God's testimony ng-ii.-t man
kind, and that we air. to pi; ,.ck tkr
Bible in order that God Almighty nmy
have grounds on which to damn the
rest of the world.
r.ini.i: on V K i .f CMUis?
Third If it is stu-h u l. .-.;; for h-
feet of man, it is not a charm witl
which to conjure. The pajH-T and he
h-ather are nut sacred. We lauii at
onr Catholic friends as snpcn-tiriouv
when they wear their brads and H-apu i
lars, medals and holy trinkets. The
believe that there is power in tln'-t-pacrcd
things to ward oil e d spirits
and calamities. It is well for tne Prot
estant world to ask if sometime t we
have not regarded tho Bible a i Mich a .
charm. I rvad a description of a Catho !
lie mutual insurance society for the re:';'
and deliverance of oor fouls in purga
tory. It was organized recently in St.
Jeseph's Catholic church, West Do Pern, j
Wisconsin. The announcement i !
dared there would be no reserve furo.
All contributions would lie immediately
cmploj'ed in celebration of masses for
tho deliverance of souls ia purgatory,
Thi circular of 'announcement of the
society has a frontispiece containing a
highly realistic picture, representing
libe rated souls in the act of issuing from
pnrgatori.il flames.
Wo smile n such a faith as supersti
tion, and yet the Protestant world has
sometimes regarded the Bible, the very
purses.-.ion of it, as somo sort of an in
surance coupon for safe on-lr.ct through
the world beyond. U is a l.nap unto
the feet of man here. Let ns not believe
that it is a oh.'.n.i in itself. ltd only
charm is the truth it li aches.
I heard a preacher once b-11 in graphic
manner how tint a young man's life
was eaved ia a baitis because ho had a
Bible in hi c... io';ket. Tho bullet
struck tho BiLlo and it saved bis life. 1
also heard a g;ribl' r say that he had a
pack of cards in his pocket and that in
battle the bull t struck the cards and
bis life was i aved. 1 bavo no doubt that
the cardj rai'y were a bc-tb-r protection
against a bullet than the soft leaves of a
Bible. "Thy v.oid is a lamp nnto my
feet."
GKAIliOrrXIi BCTENTIST3.
Fourth It is uot a book of science.
Tho books weie written by men not one
of whom prof ..- ed c-mmscience as relat
ing to the tie-; s of physical nature.
There are, consequently, grievous disap
pointments in tho Bible to those of Fpe-c
rda ive cm jo.-Uy. Upon qyestions of
ph dcrd Rcic-i:e the I5ib1? k pra-ticaliy
silent. It is a guidebook to life im
mortal life here, hereafter. There waa
a great clatter of so called ecii ntists a
fc.v years ago about the failure of the
old D'-xik. lltich of this noise was made
by grasshopper scientists tm n who urn
ply owned a dollar microscoie, which
they bought at the bargain counter of a
shoddy store, and with this imperfect
lens had examined the four legs of a
grasshopper or the bind legs of a fly.
and were thrilled with the wonders of
science; and because they failed to find
in the Bible a description, minute and
accurate, of the legs of a gra.3shopi.er
they were disappointed.
WAS TIlEIlE A CETTYEBCEti? '
We do not reject history because the
language of appcarar ce is used ia de
scription. Neither can we 'reject the
great moral history of the race because
tho language of appearance is used
when matters scientific are touched. I
was on the battlefield of Gettysburg the
other day.- I bought a book descriptive
of the battle. It-was written by a man
who was present . and engaged in it, so
he said. I do not know it as a fact, per
son all v, because the battle was f ought bo
fore I was born. Euttkisman prcfeesod
to have be?n there and wrote a descrip
tion of tho event In the very beginning
of his description he declared that the
sun rose. I stopped. I say that is a
mistake. That is a ecientifio tiiunder.-
(Continued on Third Page.)
IF YOU; WOULD LIKE
To ccmmuttkt? frith about tea
thousand of tU Wt country
lxojlr le thU Alkn of ctlh
Carolina then do It through tt
column of The Cak-asiax. o
oter fravr la tl;t Third Ctv
grvssional Dutrici ha a lr
a circulation.
THK WOUIJVS XEWS.
jSlNt'i; lt VSTTHFIiP W ll''
FUM.Y AMSOUTlil AJ
CUNDKNSKI mil ItlY
St.lt.
Jban mid j.i!;io wero killl
by tb be.)Vy I r-1 of Siindiy ut-l.t
hi tuaiiy NitK u t.t.ir N.itfuik.
Bill Murpliv, a t"bt-rtk'. iuay
outlaw, killed tlv. to :.!,-.,.,Tue.!.,y,
Aiooni ifie kidtd U a br.;!. r of Hie
Wpcrudo.
Mr-. Corinnn Gh nt and l.er idoo
yeur-idd oi were bun.-I In-ilLIi
pond near Durham Mn l.y, uhl'o
UMiking -U1 r l.etH.
John Itoyd, m i;ro, charged ulth
wrecking the Wefteiti N. C rah
A lbistia.i tiijdo and uki M.p..
I'oriii J dl va. rciapturtd nt lui on.
S. C,
T.A.live, iHiiyorol lUkr il!e,
vas Htrmtc ! Moml.iy nnii ,rb
foro no .ildertiian for ub pri-fUno
I iigtniio tu the reI 1 1 w tvj
fined ?1 at.d (
Muniiml elder, hfrvr two k
wen. pie.cliiitg triefr Ulrii in
Stanly county, were V idU! ut by a
puify i I" ma-ed tn.-u Ioi,ly nip;lit
and i rdoifl to lc.'.ve.
The Governor ye!ei Jjy itTorc a
rt Uatd lor lien. iC IVi'tdou Iloxfge-,
u liitirdett r JVoni Horry nml pri Id
n-wMitl for l ho tur-t of Lray, ono
of the Itownu ti!tMi tbb'VfX.
lhu-o (Ir.ivlllc rtjinly fUrmeri
rt-cr,:y went to .Vtnv York in ro
potio to a "green good,' drculiir
iti tl weie lbncel Ut of fluec lam
d cddnrt.tt. Tbey ic'.urued liouie
w It It three brick-bats.
'beje i .ilWh'U In Hdo
cr tioty over lli'. elopement of n
v. id W tiaiiM il .M:i-(.n U It It ;i Win b
1. - m: libd iiiiiii rained Paul. The
vi ! . .w ubob-ftfiVCcbildn iibi hind,
lei n'i-be I the bors aid luigy f.f
the i tipi iueid.
A destructive cvcl Mie, !lee:iilp:i;i
i ! by liTili, pt ovi-r port of IJl.-i-i!e
. i Mid CnpnubiH Count ie:t I e,"
Tli!itd..y, April l ltb. S Vt-r;d d rll
iof.'s were nnro ifi, ami c nine to?,d !v
h-ll'oyed. The l.mi,tge I paid to
te ccii-iderabh-.
At the Mvon.l dMrtct Itepublicttt
convention lu-Mat Lllllei n, Tiur
d;ty, II. 1. Client ha , colored, U"M
renorniual4-d for Cmigre bv necla
illation. Tl o sixth dUtilct c n vi p
diei held at r.oekir.glnitii that l.iy
broke np in row, und put twotleKi t
io the fit'M. ,
Mr. Walters. Lltlle, a prominent
eitien of Ansonvilh', X. ('., eoni
nitkd suicide li-t TburMlay by
-boolitig bin; ef tbrmgli lhe bead.
Tie- uiiiottuiiHtcgrnUcinaii b id bten
Miirering from pro-t re.t ion, oee.i-loit-ed
by la grippe, and thi. II I nop.
i o-( d, wan the can o'biiIeiuet.th.
At the ef liie'i-re nt WoMnn II.-
horrible dis-ovcrv wu to nl. u .1
-I'vend gravis bad been torn to
1., .
Iii e h anil i no nans siuto-rea about.
One or two lieadntone. bail bei n
broken, and lhe giave ilc-e-ratoiH
left t veiy evidence belilud Ibat they
wi re pos-M-KM :1 of many demmm.
The ii:tboritii arc making effort
to ciptutc them.
.National.
.Mlnl-ter Albert G. I'orter llifn
moinhig received a telecrraui from
Sicrvtary of Stato UJuine inslrucllnj;
mm jo proei fd to jioine.
'lhe Falcon. l'erimibt mention
tb .t !!.;,. C. IJ. lYnellon, a rsallvo
of Iliizebioh Cilv.iiml wIiom; father,
Mr. A. L. IV i.fljefon, ftiU resides
r r :do-tb-re, K mm.ed by homo of
tb" Mobbi pa peii as a candidate for
fovcioi of I lorld.i. Wo rejoiao fa
the sui- cs wbidi North CarolUm
bfy -jti in r.evv home.
The flood Mgingin Mhsislppi
u:( extien r ly di -aster 'u. TboTom
bigbie Itivcr ba overfloweil Its
liankT-, i nd all the sutrotindbig coun
try for milo-, in the vich ity of Co
lumbi'3, J submerged. Ti ouiind
aro without hornet and flnj numlx?r
of the lo-t 1. considerable. A petl
i 'i for ?'',0 )0, to t d (ho nuflcre'B,
h; I een intmliicel in Congrcn.
l'iio Covert irient has fw-nt a jfrcat
in vy tent for their Hh titer.
The Neu- Yoi k A iubiy has pars
ed, by a vote of 7(1 1. .11, the bill
iivifi.' .vomn the r lit of Huffrarro
In ;dl State lect hois, but it Ih not
liht-iy to becieiie law. For sovcr
1 iirs pot lhe Dill has pone
through o'ie I ranch of th I'gL-li-iiif
, only to tt" in lhe other. J.jst
year it pa -ed tho S.'nato, but tho
p.-o- t i Vi (,f it doing tl.i kk-mlon
aae taU.t rsiim. lividently tho tlm3
ha no come tor .vosutn lojjOtO'thei
p: II-.:. Y. Herald.
Forefjrn.
Tbe youthful Kedivo of Egypt,v
after u l'glt delay, caused by Kiig
bmd' os'imsition, for diplomatic
fCi.soiv, to the TurkUh fir man, wai
inducted info olPto last week with
great display. -
Italy i.sto roume diplomatic ro
iaiio!.f with !hi couutry, an info r
ir.ul asrw'iut nt having been reached
thut the Uiii i d Stasea will pay f2l,
c( 0 to the f a niiiei of the three IUil
ian bubjoct killed at New Orleans.
ArTirt In the East are assuming
rai her a lielligcrent aspect. Kassla
is rn e--dng all her troops on the Ger
man frontier and tiaa compelled tho
fiiii render nf the private railroads .
and steamsh!p to aist iu the trans
portatic!ifc Germany, on tho other
hajd, ka i)eea carefully -watchinj
the liussian uianouvoua and his fn
6ected the fortiflcatlons and def&n
cea from talloonj, '
n