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TIIE CAUCASIAN.
1 he ?oath Carolina tax cases were
(decided by the V. S. Supreme Court
published every thcrmdat. j Jiyn,jay in favor of the railroads.
JlAItlON BUTLF.K, Editor I'ropr.
8UiJw;iiirnoN katks.
ONE YEAR.
SIX MONTHS.
1.00
of
to
of
Enteml at the Pont Ofli at Gobb-boro', X.
C. as second-claw mail matter.
Our Italeigh correspondent gives
the public a little bit of history about
newspapers at the Htate Capitol.
Friends of silver in the ranks
Democracy will either have
"ehanire their views" or keep out
a -
the Federal patronage dining room.
Tim ia no secret
lie careful not to work too hard
and make overproduction again
this vear. You had better use mott
of your time to trying to get men
to help vou vote a sufficient supply
of money to buy the over-production
already made,
We are sorry that we haven't
room to publish in one issue all the
letters we have received from county
Alliances. Every one we have heard
from reports a good meeting and an
increase of membership. In short
there is an Alliance revival going on
all over the State.
j Kvtrv imi-i of The Caucasus
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j will Ik? valuable in the next cam
n. Ur tnem aside lor tut tire
use.
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Dr. Dixon has resigned as I'reui
dent of (iretngborf' Female College
and Dr. F. I. Jleid has been elected
lJ 11)1 HJU iin am ?.
in
liro. If. C Denning, member of
the Ex. Com. of the National F. A.
& I. U. in a personal letter says:
"The Farmers Alliance and Indus
trial Union continues to make sure
and steady headway in Pennsylva
nia. We have had a growth ot over
100 new Alliances since our October
annual meeting."
A subscriber says: "I sent you a
communication several weeks ago,
I see you have published some bear
ing a later date than mine. I sup
ose you are following the Bible
schedule "the last shall be first and
the first shall be last." That is just
what wc are doing brother.
We have on hand at least one
hundred Resolutions and communi
cations for publication. Don't
blame us for not publishing them
all at once, it is impossible. And
we trust that there will be no jeal
ousy among our friends about which :
are published first Some must be
first and some last of necessity.
Don't fail to read the letters in
this issue from "Johnathan Ed
wards." lie gives in one a fine pen
picture of a remarkable scene at the
White House. lie finds many Xorth
Carolinians on deck and some of
them in much distress.
In a second letter he tells of an
interview which he had with (i rover
himself. He enlightens the Presl
dent on a few things.
The State Pre?8 Anxriatiou is
session at New llerne this week. W
understand that the members wil
all have a free trip to the World
I-air.
When the jieople get atiothe
chance to eiteak through the ballot
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box wonder ir tm-y will not send
Cleveland to Keeley to try the gold
cure?
On last Monday President Cieve
land said that all the obligations
should be paid in gold. Does this
mean that lie is trying to make an
excuse to issue more lioiids? a the
tax paying jx-ople watch.
Y lien the last legislature met
there was much lieing said ubou
good roads. When they got throng!
making appropriations and giviii
away taxes to tne itailrouds tin? poor
taxpayers had a hard road to (ravel
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Cleveland lias fpoken ami lias
given the lie to every man who tokl
the people in the last campaign that
he was for free silver. It is now
time fur Ii s honest supporter.--, who
aienotaiier apppomtmenls, to re
pudiate him.
HAVE
Vou gotten us a new subscriber?
Jf so, can't you get us another?
Tun Caucasian must be gotten
into the hands of the people and
we must depend on those who
are reading it now to gtt ethers
to read it
Dr. Cyrus Thompson, State Lec
turer, is doing some line work for
the Alliance in the western part of
the State. A letter from Jefferson,
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Asne county says that he made a
magnificent speech and a fine im
pression there Monday of court, April
17th. The Alliance is on the in
crease there, as it is in fact every
where. The Legislature tried to
cripple the Alliance, stop the Busi
ness Agency, cut off the receipts and
stop lecturing. But the brethren
are offering to pay the expenses of
lecturers faster than they can go.
Every day we are hearing and
reading of another strike of ltailroad
employees. Why is it that we never
hear of the employees of the postal
service striKing: .because they are
paid better and treated better than
the employees of the Railroads. If
private corporations were running
the postal system, the postage on a
letter would be more than 2 cents
and the employees would be con
stantly striking because their wages
were being reduced. The people are
thinking on these things.
The Nonconformist reviewing the
work of the late Legislature of Ne
braska says:
"The Nebraska legislature ad
journed sine die last Saturday. It
has made a record that will be a
8timilus to the People's party all
over the United States. In the elec
tion of United States senator, it
proved that all the gold of all the
corporations could not buy one single
Populist, and this is the only legis
lature which has assembled west of
the Mississippi in the last twenty
years that the railroads and the
money power have failed to control."
,We sometimes hear a misinformed
man say that the Democratic party
is opposed to an income tax.' On
the contrary, it favors such a tax
and says so in its platform." Samp
son Democrat
In which platform? If an in
come tax is passed it must be done
by Congress and what is put in a
National platform seems to have but
little effect upon that body much
less what is in a State platform. . A
demand for an income tax wa3 put
in the State platform but when the
delegates from this State went to
Chicago, they did not try to get it
pnt in the national platform, where
it jtfiGHT have done some good We
can't believe that Mr. Bethune the
geutleman who is now editor of tht
Democrat intended to create a wrong
impression.
I t t rn i ii
it. n. j . vviiision delivered an
address recently in New York on tin
.Negro Problem. He has given this
juestioninuch study. The New York
papers all speak in the highest terms
of the address, but we have not seen
a iuu report or nis lecture. Uno of
the points he made that we have
seen reported is that the negro has
prosgressed intellectually, but not
morally or physically since the war.
On April the 13th "Johnathan Ed
wards," a North Carolina hayseedcr,
went to Washington to see something
for himself. He promised to write
a letter for The Caucasian- each
week while there and let the people
of the State know what he saw and
heard. We were disappointed at not
getting a letter from him in time for
last week's paper. It come just as
we were going to press. You will
find the letter on the 4th page of the
paper this week headed, ''At the
White House." He has written us
another letter for this week, which
came in good time and you will find
it also in this issue.
Some of those disinterested parties
who labored so earnestly last fall for
the preservation of their country's
weltare do not differ from other
fowls, their chiefest desire being a
roost, they'll roost low when thev
can't roost high. Washington let
ters say that .Ir. Jernigan and Mr.
Henry bothfeel sure of foreign ap
pointments, but rather than embar
rass the appointing power they would
accept positions in the domestic ser
vice? That's considerate in them.
Stated plainly, it reads, "beggars
must not be choosers," and the very
hungry will eat anything, llather
than perish, the most fastidious
weald eat garbage.
WRITE ' "'
To us for sample copies when
evt i- you can hand them out to
any advantage, Our friends
must help us to put The Cau
casian into the household of
every wealth pioduoer in the
State.
GOV. RAILROAD CARR AND CONDUCTOR
JARVIS.
The Washington correspondent of
the Charlotte Observer says that
Cleveland referring to Gov. Carr af
ter the latter had been to call on
him, said: "He was the Carr of
North Carolina now." If the Presi
dent had . been up he might have
added that ex-Governor Jarvis was
the conductor too.
"MISS MARYANN'S" FIRST SiaNATiiRr
The other day a registered letter
came to the Goldsboro Postoffice ad
dressed to "Miss Maryann Butler."
The editor of The Caucasian of
fered to take the letter and sign for
it, saying that he and the lady were
on very friendly terms. But the
Post Master refused, saying that the
lady would have to call in person.
When found, she was busy looking
over some letters just received from
from many bright boys and girls
over the State addressed to "The
Caucasian Letter Box." She at once
once went to the office and receipted
her full signature, Mis3 Maryann
Butler, on the Postoffice Registered
Letter book and got the letter. This
is the only place her autograph can
be seen.
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THE JAMES CITY TR0U3LE-
The first Ilegiment of the State
Guard was ordered to New llerne
Mondav. It seems that wine trou
ble wai anticiated with the colored
people at James City, a town just
across Trent river from New Berne,
entirely inhabited by negroes. For
years Mr. James A. Bryan, of New
Berne, has been euirg the ocenpan 8
of James City for possession. He
claims that the land on which the
town is located is his. A few mouths
ago he got a verdict from the State
courts in his favor. The Sheriff of
Craven county waited upon the ne
groes and told them to vacate the
town or pay Mr. Bryan reut They
ref used to do so, claiming that the
projerty. was rightly theirs. They
claim that the land was condemntd
during the war by Federal authority
and that they were put in iMjssesskn
of it Thev built houses on it and
have been living their ever since.
From all we can learn there is no
doubt some merit in their claim.
If this is so the government should
pay Mr. Bryan for the land which
ne owned ielore tne war. It was
worth but little then, Mr. Bryan
thinks it would be valuable now for
truck farming.
Later. The whole affair has been
settled peaceably. Gov. Carr went
over to James City Tuesday and made
peeeh to the colored people. Af
terwards a committee, representing
the Governor, or rather Mr. Bryan,
the owner of the property, and a
committee representing the citizens
of James City met and agreed on
terms. The netrroes are to nav Mr.
Bryan from 50 cents to $1.00 a week
for the next three years, at which
time they are to move or agree on
terms as tenants of Mr. Bryan. The
troops will leave New Bern to-day.
It is our opinion that this whole mat
ter could have been settled without
so much expense to the State. Did
the Sheriff -of Craven exhaust his
powers before calling1 on the Govern
or? W as the case ot a nature to call
for such extraordinary action?
TOO POOR TO TAKE THE PAPER.
Every day we receive letters (aid
they come from every (juurter of the
State) saying that the people are
anxious lo read 1 UK Caucasian and
that there would be no trouble to net I
arge clubs in every neighborhood if
the people were not so poor, &c. Now
our mends must remember that ii
the people were prosperous that
If i i i i i
wouid not ue publishing a paper, Ave
would be in some other business. It
is because the people are poor, be
cause they are too heavily taxed and
not getting a fair return for their
abor and produce that makes
such a paper as The Caucasian
necessary. There is but one way
short of a bloody revolution for the
eople to rid themselves of the pres
ent oppressive condition, and that is
to vote themselves free. Therefore
the people need a paper to stand on
the watch-tower and turn on the
ight a paper that will search for
he true causes of their great wrongs
and oppressions and tell the facts,
lhe people need such a paper. We
are publishing such a paper for the
people. Therefore the people who
are getting poorer, and those who al
ready feel too poor to take a paper
must take it if anybody does. It is
uuousueu m tueir interest and no
body else wants it published. Half
of the ten thonsand people who get
The Caucasian now would pay us
$2.00 a year for the paper before
they would do without it, and if our
object had been simply to make mon
ey, we would have put the price at
2.00, or at least run the paper differ
ently. But cur desire was to reach
tne people with the factg, so we put
the price dowji to $1.00 a year, which
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is jeea man cents a weeh", a price
so low that every man in the State
can afford to take it. Oar desire is
to give the people the very best paper
in the btate for $1.00. We are striv
ing to do this. And now we wish to
urge our friends to give us 20,000
subscribers so that we will be justi
fied in continuing to do the necessa
ry work to make the paper the best
evei published in the State, The
honest, hard working man, who gets
poorer every year, is not too poor to
take 1he Caucasian, but he is too
POOR TO DO WITHOUT IT.
HE SPEAKS FROM H S MOUTH AND
SHOWS HiS HAND.
President Cleveland told a reporter
of the United Press syndicate Mon
day that the Secretary of the Treas
urp would continue to redeem in
gold a long as there was any gold
in the Treasury. When his atten
tion was called to the law which
says that the government can re
deem in either gold or eilver, he said
that he would redeem in gold to
preserve the parity between gold and
silvei. Now how this is going to
preserve the parity between the two
metals is what the average man
wants to know. To a plain practi
cal thinking man there can be but
one result of his policy and that is
exhaust the gold reserved, then raise
a cry to issue more bonds to get more
gold, thus putting gold At a still
further premium and to still further
depreciate silver relatively. The
average man would pay out some of
the silver locked up in the Treasury
and thus tend to bring up silver to
par. The Washington Post corn
men tins: on Mr. Cleaveland's declara
tion Bays:
"Now that we know exactly what
course Mr. Cleveland intends to pur
sue w ith reference to the financial
problem there need be no more spec
ulation in the dark. Indeed, there
wa3 little justification for such spec
ulation at any time. Mr. Cleveland
has advocated the gold standard nt
all times and ha3 never lacked the
courage of his convictions. No one
who had intelligently watched his
prbhc career in the past need have
doubted as to his policy for the pres
ent and the future."
Now where is the demagogue who
will longer deny that Cleveland is a
gold-bug? He has shown his hand
he is a self-confessed gold-bug.
Tffl? MMM1 PITY
By WALTER H MD0UGALL
pan-, aad published bjr l-eUl x-ET!T-til
Uh tfcera )
(Continued.)
CHAPTER IL
ATZLAX, TUE HIDDEN CITY.
CAN
You hand out some sample cop
ies of The Caucasian for us
If so send us vour name and
post office on a postal card and
we will send you a bundle of
sample copies and a subscription
blank and a return envelope.
The Charlotte Observer, comment
ing on the Citizens' ticket set up in
Asheville in opposition to the ma
chine ticket of the Democrats, serm
onizes upon "Party Discipline," It
reminds the good Democrat, Capt
P. W. Patton, who heads the Citi
zen's ticket, and the other Demo
crats who support it, that they are
making a, record which they can
never outlive; and the Observer con
cludes that no man is srreat enough
to "buck" against, his party. Evi
dently the Observer is forgetful.
The head of the Democratic party
"tucked" agaicst his paity, and the
cowardly troop ignominiouelv con-
essed and proclaimed that the part
is greater than the whole. '-Evil
communications .corrnpt good mor
als." Patton & Co. are simnlir "fnl.
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lowing in the foot-steps of their
ustrioua predecessor." -
Virginia has a statejeampaign thii
all, and the Populists are forming
in the middle of the road for what
promises to be a red-hot fight
A CAPITAL IDEA.
A few days siuce we received a
etter inclosing $5.00. It was sent
by five men in a certain neighbor
hood, with the request that The
Caucasian be sent one year to five
of their neighbors. This is a capi
tal idea. This is missionary work in
the iu'erest of truth and good gov
ernment that will tell. There are
fifty thousand good honest, straight
forward citizens in this Si ate who are
not politicians, who are not expect
ing or wanting office, who want good
government and when they see the
best way to get it will vote for it ir
respective of party labels. Every
one of these men want lower taxes
and more money. They want to see
the rich men and the corporations
bear their share of the burdens of
taxation, thy want to see enought
money in circulation so that their
produce will bring a good price. But
they voted the old party ticket last
fall to get it. If events proves that
they were wrong they will next time
vote the reform ticket in spite of
the appeals of the politicians, if the
facts are honestly pnt before them.
We know that the partisan papers
will not tell them the truth, in fact
they are already trying to smother
facts and makinsr excuses for it?
dear party's sake. Now let every
reformer who can raise a dollar pick
out some one and send him the pa
per for a year. In every community
there are five men who can raise $5.00
and send the paper to five of their
neighbors for a year, or to ten of
their neighbors for six monts, or
even to twenty of their neighbors
for three months. Just think what
an effect this would have over your
neighborhood. We care not how
many partisan papers your neighbor
may be reading, he wants to know
the truth and we will each week
give him facts that the partisan
papers can not disprove or success
fully deny. Try this plan. It will
be the best and cheapest investment
you have ever made.
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Man can do much good for the re
form cause by getting the people
to read Tjje Caucasian. Send
for sample copies, they will help
you in getting up a club.
MR. GRADY EXPLAINS.
In another column will be found
a letter from Hon. B. F. Grady in
answer to Dr. Thompson's commu
nication. He attempts to explain
why he voted to increase his pay
$100. a month so he could hire a
clerk to write his letters. TT aA.
mits that it was wrong, but says that
the Senators and chairmen of com
mittees have clerks and if they paid
their clerks out of their own pockets
that he would be willing to do so
too. He says in effect that a law
could not be passed to decrease sala
ries, but they found they could pass
one to increase them, so they did ii
ii Air. trrady had not tried to ex
plain there would have been some
reason for a belief that there was
some good reason for his strange and
muonsisiant vote, but now fair
minded people will read his expla
nation and will say that it does not
EXPLAIN.
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V WWW i flf'4 vA tX::1f-n
lie could tee nothing in the abyna below.
The beams of the morning sun had
been slanting down on the level plain
above Atzlan for an hour, but the city
was still in deep shadow a thousand or
more feet below. Itosy tints hovered
about the vermilion edes of the great
eliffs, mingling with yellow and g.
and saffron colored belts farther down
throwing into ghostly relief the white
castellated promontories of the majestic
sculptured wall and deepening tii
blackness of the dark recesses.
But there were people astir in tli
streets and fields and on the housetops
for the storm that had risen in furj
during the night had wrought soml
damage to dwellings, and, it was feared
to the flocks in the pastures.
But no eye was directed toward tin
cliffs, for the sky was now clear, and m
further disturbance was apprehended
from that direction. Storms were few
and far between in Atzlan; they ragec"
on the plains at frequent intervals ir
springtime, but troubled not the dwell
ers in the deep canyon, who never tool
the pains to climb the steep cliff sides,
Had curious eyes peered upward thej
would perhaps have discerned a figurt
outlined clearly against the sky, but thej
could not have seen that it wore no Atz
lan garb, and that it surpassed in heighl
any Atzlan man, or that it bent forwaro
and seemed to eagerry strive to pene
trate the darkness of the canyon. Eact
early riser carried a torch and was toe
intent upon his errand to waste time gaz
ing aloft, or he might have seen the fig
ure slowly clambering down an ancient,
rude pathway leading to the first terrace,
where ruined cliff houses and caves
abandoned centuries ago, were the onlj
evidences of former human occupation.
But the man on the heights had seen
the moving torches, and up where he
was it was light enough to easily pick hi
way.
It was Eric Gilbert, and he was seek
ing a point of observation before it grew
light in order to ascertain what maunei
of men these were who carried the lights
far beneath him. Hostile Indians he
knew might in all reason be encountered
in those wilds, and he had escaped one
danger too narrowly to fall carelessly
into another.
Events had crowded so quickly upon
him during the last few hours that he
was prepared for anything. Unaware
even in what state or territory in the
Union he had been thrown in the last
wild bound of the balloon, he did not
know what he might encounter, and
though the craving for water and food
began to assert itself he was resolved to
let his caution govern his necessity.
He had gathered the instruments,
which he had thrown in a heaD near the
edge of the cliff, and covered them with
a blanket. They consisted of a small
electric battery and lighting apparatus
(an invention of Pierce's), a lantern, a
tnermometer and barometer, a camera
and plate box holding a hundred instan- j
taneous plates, some medical instru
ments in a case, a quadrant and a few
otner articles,
He carried his Winchester rifla in Ms
left hand, a blanket thrown nvor V.4o
arm, and a carrier pigeon, whose broken
wing hung limp and flapping, in his
right hand, making his descent a matter
of care. The light was growing stronger
m me canyon when he reached a level
shelf or terrace edged with a rough
stone wall and lined with caves and cliff
dwellings; caves whose months were
built up in cyclopean masonry, leaving
o uarruw enrrance to be reached by a
ladder of rope or poles.
He felt the need of haste, although
even yet he could see nothing in the
abyss below, and finding a convenient
opening into a cave close at hand, yet
Where he could overlook the depths, he
laid down his burden and waited for the
ugni to mi the canyon.
ue nutter or the wounded bird
aroused his pity, and he bound its wing
to its side with a strip of his handker-
cniei ana laid it unon his ManVet tcuA.
Ingasortof companionship in its pres
ence a link with the outer world.
Resting as he was from a long vigil and
tuuS continued struggle, he stretched
himself beside the bird and fell asleep.
Long before the -sun rose upon Atzlan
a figure stirred upon the top of the high
est building in the city, whence arose a
slim, blue column f smoke. The figure
moved with slow, hesitating steps from
one side of the low walled housetop to
the other, as if from habit, although the
burden of years had turned the exercise
into a toilsome journey.
He was Iklapel, the high priest of
Atzlan, watching before the sacred, inex
tmgmshable fire of Kinchahan, the sun
god, which for centuries had burned
and would burn forever.
Even in iYttx l.nl . .
7 " "gut oi tne cominz
vuiuu in setm rnnr. ib-io
quarer, a grace cote m it rrP, broke
mxn it evi-n tones: ,
-Kukan. my the lUn ot my
heart rrotrs fwble. ana uus "J "
I tet. mot Kurml in the year may
' be mr last. For a hundred and two
! ; rearl have wn the sun rif over the
.!;..! ..liff. l.nt tomorrow I may not see
it. Tims 1 fi--l that now. while my
strvDffth remains in me. 1 UouM leave
vou tnv Ust word of instruction and
advice. You will wcctwJ me aa high
priest, and there is no one more worthy,
do .ne to whom 1 would leave the care
ad the honor of iny McrtKl officj' more
willmslv nor more fearlessly. Today.
us you well know, I was to make the
holy sacrifice to the sun. the sacrifice of
the Thirteenth Year, yet my strength
fail me. and you. my son, shall perform
tho facred rite. No one but myself for
eighty-five years Inn theJ the blood of
the virgin sacrifice, and yet 'tis with a
cheerful heart I lay the office down. Al
n.H.n put on the holy robe, and, as you
alone have leen instructed, perform the
rite that our jeople may be held to
gether and their religion be preserved."
Tho hand against Iklapel'a bosom waa
trembliug, und Kulcan'a figure shook
with the emotion he endeavored to sup
press. For some momenta he appeared
unable to reply. Then placing his hand
upon the old man's shoulder he said:
"My father, you tell me to perform
tho rite that our people may be held to
gether and their religion preserved.
Why not 6ay that the sun god may be
merciful to us and preserve our peopled
Dis voice had a litter, sarcastic ring,
and the old man replied quickly:
"Oh, Kulcan, you will not learn the
lesson I have striven so diligently to
teach. Know that the people are not as
we are and cannot be lifted to the level
of our knowledge. You, who have been
initiated into the mysteries and dwelt in
the higher atmosphere of lofty thought,
do not realize the distance between their
and our conception of religion. Among
all the priests to you alone have I dared
to reveal my inward thoughts and true
beliefs, but it was because I saw in you.
as in the dead governor, your father, the
spirit of philosophic reason, as well as
the tact to bow to popular prejudice in
religious matters. I have spoken to j'ou
as to my own soul. You know that I
despise the images of the god and wor
ship him, as I have taught you, without
fires or feasts or sacrifices; but you know
that the people require these signs and
symbols to keep them true to their obedi
ence; that 'tis thus we rule them and not
with reason or philosophy. 'Tis the
tribute they pay to intellect the tribute
they have paid for countless ages and
must in some form continue to pay
"But 'tis time," impulsively interrupt
ed Kulcan, "that they were brought to
see that these cruel, inhuman sacrifices
should be abolished. Something, I know
not what, tells me that we are beyond
and above them now, and that the people
themselves will welcome the change and
rejoice that their children no longer may
be thrown to the senseless image of the
fierce, bloodthirsty sun god! Oh, father,
he cried, shuddering, "can we not devise,
before it is forever too late, some means
to prevent this murder of Ainee?
"It is even now too late, answered
the aged priest coldly. "Can you not see
with what feverish impatience the peo
ple await the light of this day? They
know their children are safe now that
the lot has fallen on the girl Ainee, and
they thirst for the spectacle for which
they have waited thirteen years. Today
they believe Quetzalcoatl, with his dove
upon his hand, will return, as on this
day for ages they have looked for him.
In vain will they look; he will not re
turn, but they must have their sacrifice,
or their wrath will turn upon the priests,
and we shall perish. Upon it rests our
very existence. Murmurs have already
been heard against us we are called
idlers and bread eaters of the poor. It is
our only hope, and upon you it will rest
today. W ere it only a question of my
life or your life alone, I would willinelv
die; but we cannot prevent the slaughter
Dy our deaths.
"Alas, my son" (the old man's voice
softened and quivered), "time brings but
tne same tale. Eighty long years ago 1,
too, loved a maiden as you, I know nav.
-A . J . . . . " 1
start not love Ainee: vet sha
rowing to few feet la places, tne eye
beintf lost in it sharp turns. Thronsn
it ran a stream about forty frvt wide,
with many hallow ford, making a curve
about the city and sinking into dn jvr
ous ruicksands at the western extrem
ity. 'The walls of the canyon, two Ummi
aiuid feet high above the city and siuk
ing to seven hnndml feet at the western
end, had been terraced by the fWls into
huge step, upon which the ruined cliff
bouses stood, one row alwve another.
StAirwaya and ladders were carved in
the twrky walls, giving access to the
heights atHJve. although the were bow
only nseil by venturesome urchius.
This city was built in a huge circle
three thousand feet in diameter, form
ing, in fact, one continuous structure,
with a large open court in the center full
of fruit trees and garden plots. Thil
gigantic tenement contained nearly a
thousand rooms, having in its eastern ex
tremity even stories t apartments. It
was buiit in a regular and beautiful al
ternation of large and small square cut
stones l.iid in white mortar, or, more
strictly speaking, gyiwum cement. There
had been in earlier times no doors or
windows upon the ground floor, and the
entrance had been effected by ladders,
hundreds of which leaned against the
walls and protruded from the roofs; but
now a few large doorways opened iuto
the fields outide the city.
The successive stories were set back,
one behind the other, leaving the high
est tier a single line of apartments, each
storv being reached by short ladders.
The houses were three rooms deep, open
ing on the iuterior court, and connect
ing by trapdoors with the rooms below.
There were innumerable trapdoors in
the roofs, through which the ends of
the ladders appeared, pointing in every
direction, giving the city the comical as
pect of a forest of leaning bean poles.
Up tho ladders children and even dogs
ran with easo and agility.
On the western end of the cily the
houses were only one story in height,
imparting to the whole the appearance
of an amphitheater or a vast fortress,
W itnin the court, toward the western
end, stood the temple, the highest build
ing of nil, from tho roof of which rose
the smoke of the perpetual fire.
All about the outskirts, and also with
in the court, were pleasant gardens and
fields cultivated t- a high degree by
irrigation. In places on the cliffs the
terraces had been converted into gardens,
walled and faced with neat masonry,
and with raised edges to hold water
upon the surface, to which the water
pipes ran.
Through the outer walls of the houses
projected for a foot or two the cedar
poles forming the floors, and in some in
stances they were carried out far enough
to form balconies, upon which grew
trailing plants with great scarlet flowers
blazing iu the spring sunlight in riotous
rivalry of color with the burning cliffs,
In this great beehive dwelt two thou
sand souls, one family above another,
the roof of one forming the floor and
yard of the next above, the humblest
dwelling in the highest tiers, for the
nobles and wealthy citizens, as a matter
of course, were averse to climbing and
preferred to be near tho ground, where
opportunities for communion or display
were greater.
All this lay before the young priest as
he stood and strove with his emotions.
and euch was the Bcene that greeted Gil
bert s eyes in the depths below him when
he awoke from slumber.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
WOBLDS NEWS
II
1 4
!!.
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f
n?s of Mr. f , "
High Mim!, i'1
Uesd roved ! :
cotton antl ;X ,
were destroy.-.',
sisted with'a.i :
rvttiin t!,.,.
ft roved.
l' M. ( 'nm , ;
an ivHrien
ncday morii:;. -low
iu his r.x hi i
pistol. Crow. I:
fellow, but Ii,
It is said th .,;
mica ever di. ,
recently taken
lina qtuny. ;
half by sit. u
chance the Sun!,
anywuy. Dt.rh.i
.lack llrady.
at Hakcrs ille
diT Of 1JI. Ta:
his request, "A:.
was sung v hi,
eternity.
Mr. J. W.
lost a cow in r.'i! !
ner several days -
foot in u root in i),.. .
and fell iu the dii.-lii
it. Charlotte nu ;'v(r"
Isaac Ilut hin-.u rt
er and merchant i ,:C
County, conumtt. .!
by hanging him.,, if.
to have U-en can-..! h
trouble.?.
lleports to the I j,,
ricultnre at Uah-i-h ,C
is now iu pror. !ir ;
sixty days on h i!Ui
ton mills in North ( ami.
The (ileaner ?as. a L
Ihillock, from I'liu-ai,;
id'IOeil in lw l.',,l
l',wvw lia I. 111. till
charged with makin-
sault on a white wmn-.m
Mr. Frank Ha -h. .,r.
seph h. haehelor, of 'u
was valedictorian .f th,
at the University, .li, ,!
heart trouble, on the
Dr. L. (. llroughtdii,'
has placed himself in t?
denouncing the m w-j-aj-:
mon recently. The num
are nearly all after him.
A county fair is
in Cluilford county. '
THE WOMAN'S FRIEND.
THE HYDRAULIC CLOTHES WASHER.
Mil V K- k-.i iin, (r, J
San h'UANcisc h. ur:
British ship (Jowanlnirn.
Newcastle, New South W'i
fourdavs since, for ilnW
doubteJly been lost, and i;
ble that her dew of u
have shared a similar U
Moore & Co:, shipping1 m
this city, are in iveeVtof
vices that lie!u-.W.x
were found on the coast of?
land March 11.
J
LA I to It, TIMKAM) MONKY SAVi:i IT
IS PRACT1CA I. KI M VIA-: AMI CI! KA I.
Ten In-h nfSiiou lullifV
Minneapolis. Mix. n.. A;
The rainstorm w hich jw
:UI line i'nctarlan (,,. I i
TT . r, ..... .J TVOIA.1UUT llll III U H'
Have vnn n. conic stove?' ves vnn I .. ii i , -. J -
j iniriiu anu to-uav imni
could not do without it. Have vou inches covers flu
yes, you could still falling, accompanied!;
not do without it. Have vou a
wind. The street carsvetiz
b tUl ?Te Ainee; yet she was wash,a mslfW nn vnn ,.Pp t 51. Plc.lc,-v locked, a the .
cnosen, ana tms withered hand plunged , " """ and packs. Advices im
ine sacrea k-nife into her throat. Her "enuing your oacK and drudging and throuo-h the Nt-.f,. fmm It-.
T?!? on me. 8he fel1 uPn m? scrubbing over the washtub. Noth- Wisconsin indicate that tit
"'ioo nicj aic vum me uowi i Killed I 'it i i . i .1 1
her, and when the day was done 1 inS WlU break down your health aud Seneral
Slxte Fnn t-l Tliiily-OiK J
" ui. me coi
uawn it mnii cmv. iv.i ti .
pld and blind, and though his figure
bowed many an inch before his only
master, Time, fine and tail i
withered, it still showed the remains of
ffff1, gTaceful form. Now and
then he held hia wasted hands over tie
languid fixe to measure its burning or
past a few twigs of cedar upon it, muf
tering, aa old men do, to himself the
While. As the sky grew brighter and
redder with the dawn he seeme&io feel
t and know that the day was approach-
ZSL ra,pped BharPly several times
npon the roof, as if in summons toan
other person.
In a moment a second figure appeared
SfL?P 0Xleh trapdolS
stood before him in a respectful, yet
easy and familiar attitude. Sen as tne
aged Iklapel tottered it uprang to his
side and lovingly passed a strong arm
about him, leading him to a stonl seat
beside the altar and placing him ten-
put his hand, feeling fpr that of the
Placing it against bis
breast he held it there In sUence. After
awliils he spoke, and his voice was
round and. full, though now and thsa a
climbed the cliff and wandered out noon make you look old and wornnuicker.
lOOU. and then Rtflrtinor onmii in tV. Hl hia Chnwn lia w, I I i n n-nrtoa . B- .
It is too late, even were I willi "
replied tne aged priest "As is the cus
tom wnen tne feast of the Thirteenth
ear approaches, all prodigies in nature
in the skies and on the earth, are eagerly
regarded as omens of good or evil. The
birth of the six horned calf has been ac-
pteu Dy tne priests and the people as
jtu evii sign, and the terrific storm of
nigni will have wrought their fears
mgner pitch. And now I will reveal
to you a cause of secret uneasiness and
great fear even to me.
"Last night, as the storm raged with
m7!1 not often Men. there came
a blast that shook the temple, and -there
seemed to sweep over my head a some
thing, I know not what, but I felt its
tuu as inougn long, slender threads
brushed by me, and out of the cloud
there came a loud voice in wailing; then
it passed, but I heard the voice,-and
others, too, must have heard its loud
tones. Think not that I was dreaming,
v , was tne vagary of a blind
man s mind. It ia tb t "
have I preached signs aid wondersTyel "T ' J
this is tne first I have mvaelf LLa made of
or believed in.
i a III. 1 1 1 1
have done, that we are alon in tt in g machine. Bat in the past hu- the beginniucr. and 10U:
world a city in a desert the remnants man ingenity has failed to offer the For several days past she J
TST117 necessary machine to relieve you of f Up r'J
SS t f: . - fCe.that d.a7 1 ve been ... , ' T a bad fainting nell, anla;4
l,l in iiii t. i. vuu iiiiiu i n nptl n a m A. l v lll w f u l l l l w I'l viailir lll.l f l ll l ltl ll n v- v . tm
. v.uu0 ,u guiuumj me iraai-1 v " "vb- j .jii matmuca nave I ncart failure
tional customs of our relisrion " W lnvnlA V..,i- r.i ni c
13ut, my father, we have fh nmuor .... Jlississiniti was visited
a ... . ' I T II fi In 1 I V I.rtl . 41 TV I I 1 1
u we will, to prevent this horrid R.ri. k"v "c tne ew x.ra clone last w.L-whieli
nee today! borne plausible excuse can Hydraulic Clothes Washer fills this ful loss of life and i.roirK.
wvu"cu i"o creauious neonle. and I-irrro on1 nntln t I llorv, f . i
an nnimal tt-1,o v ..t i..-.J. . f . ' ""1 v,iiil. wviuuui, ui. negroes III
ueauurui maiden." I . -
nauitants were killed.
plantations were swept a!i;
lelegraph Loles were torn
miles. The towns of I'aci-
De Sota suffered trrcatk.
into Texas At was accoicf
haiL One man i3 reiwrtw
hailstones. Storms were
the same time from II''
Wisconsin, Nebraska. Mi
igan and Georgia
the remains of ev-Pre
K. Polk, and of his wife
removed, tnorptnor uith ti
J Q V-1.
ment over the present gT
table ejot on Capitol
ville, Tenn.
ix-rresident Harrison
made a member of the Vir?
torical Society at the next '
ui liik mmtmrtii m
it can be used by a person in delicate Washington Post.
It is The Pennsvlvnnia .Steel (
brass, covered with is in the hanrla nf a receiT
d ji. ui n i.ifTnnr Tr t nil hi'i unii wi . . n i a. . T -v. - . , .
prevent the wriGno t,a UTTf." . . "Vk 1 uau " was- idwin Booth, the cte
7. - " CUI1UUI TITlABTa I r. it f . I 1 ... . .. I.. . o
Long health no bending of back.
H. TOT I . - ...
have mvseif vrinLt made of solid
UvOOCU
themselves will tr, , J e the finest laces or the heaviest h the toinfc nf AnJth
will but add our own bodies to theoffer- clothes 11 &es all goods perfect- The widow of (Jen. W.
fi Zlru'lttn IJclean without rubbing or boiling. d.
- c. " WiO I W O
black With tta . . ' I tr.,lU t A1. i! . .
00.;. ; oi me people con- iVU1 111 Ui "me required by hand,
gregated there to rrovat v I i , . 1 J
All were silent mnl Ti n wasner w &ranteed for five
nan a... a ' . '
uJiS "ver ine eageof the cliffs.
Its beams already blazed fv lU i
em wall of the canyon and bht
SJ the
.o ana elate. The bVv wi
The Erl of Irbr DM
Loxdov. Anril 20.-1
uerty died at two o eloc -
noon.
all
years. If during that time it gets
out ef repair it will be repaired for
you free of charge. Any machine
that does not do whf wo -
ur wu - - x uiuui lur
""mm, and a flrwi t if rm i. ' . msarreciw
iurea over into the ahvsa. ta C: V.V re- uninuanua, Mexico.
giowmg, radiant orH .'T - mnued. It 13 one of the tmtji snrnW.inniRfji . M bv
SSLStif 7 hont Wed inventions of J age, because it gative from justice, h
meir neaaa before th tmA i . I . . UafotoI 4nn..a Contd I
afewmnmont. , i"yer ioi eaves tne Btrensrth. haa'th flml w "ol W"UB" -
Kulcan stood ... . . . TamaDle ' ot them. The governmen-,
An insurrection has brj ,
aeifihArnfff.MjJ-?: , .! mgh priest, WE WILL GTVE one of thpBA in? reinforcements and
. ".viu juiuinviri th.,..!.. . i a
shouts nor the prayers of the tunT! washers to any lady who will get us ment.prevails.
me sun rose. The eve nf Z 1 fd.0 f at4tt no or, o,tTt-;o. tv a .,,u.,i;r, tnlnt
year to The Caucasian. The
the washer is $8.50.
er man were an k
i ... ..
price o "."ttlUbffito'J'J
THE CAUCASIAN, due to heavy withdraw
Uoldsboro, N. C. p tils.
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