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rtw ta awr the rrt?0? CHILDMS C0BH1 CUUSV'M CATAMOtMT. BY LOUIS M. ALCtfrT. (COSTtSCED.) Anxious to rtiort himself alive, anil relieve hia mother's anxiety, he pressed on till he ttruek the path. mid wxm Raw. not far away, the old Abner had Broken of. Ja&t before this hawv moment he had heard a shot fired somawheie in the forest, and a he hurried toward the dntinrl ii mivr a,tr animal dart into the hut. as if for shelter. Whether it wan a rabbit, wood- nl.n.lf nr hrt had not Seen. S a tarn in the pujh prevented a view; and hoping it wa3 old looking for him, he ran in, to himself face to face with a mount at lat! There it wa. the big, f e ce more t . . ,... r. courage lual lummer, ei. v mr.ri tt 111 huniSL BUd P own wishes so cheerfully that it was evident something bail worked a helpful changed in willful Corny, if- likwl to tell the storv of that ,ls and niffht. whenever hi friend - . ...... i . . i .ra n-annur it Huirniuitra V " I (tv " v.. -- . , , 1 l... 1... E'llll milf-'l and una: out e " about the hours on th ledge, always owuf d that Chris ihot the bear, and usually ended by sagely adtiiiing ms bearer to let their mothers Know when they wanted to go on a lark of that kind. Those who knew and him frf-st observed that ne was clear Huff iind cata Cit, rronched in a corner, with fiery eyes, growling and npitting at sight of an enemy, but too badly wounded to fight, a the blood that dripi! from its neck and the tremble of its limbs plainly showed. . ... . ..,.,. "OW a my cuain . I don't care Ai tb t!k bout womn't tvhTv mih it h1 a limit. Thw'i nut a place in rtb or hT. Tim not lo eiveo. There t not tliX or woe. There not a whisper T- or uo. There not W. or birth. Tht bs a femUier'i wwght I wwrta. WUiiOut a woman in It." MBIT M MSItK MlK'ti. nil Trlm- A KorI and I retly upr rn (wins f Ibt " fcWrl. IU,.nivo five uti the clak which ... ....V g, -I U lilted in at the back, let us make r sure that we have not missed afiy fonder than ever of nibblinjf chk- .Wjtifri of convenience in the erU-rrv leaves, that he dnln t amd being laughed ai ir wkiuj; w . a bit of pine in his buttonhole, and IIIUI. v. - him'lv won. lav before hi study table till the moths at it up. (THE V.SU.) Mr. Ilenrr iurnws anprofiUble Vork to caricature wom en. He sats that in the few times in which he has yi-Ued to the temptation he has faiaed mnch ill feeling, and he has decided that women as a rule lack sense of hum or. This is true, and it U to be re gretted. There are comparatively few writers of humor among women, as has been demons trutni in the at tempt to collect their work for rep resentation in Chicago, and uo con spicuous ones. A man fcaid the other day touch l ig thif, that In riding out and in dailv on a suburban train for yeaff he lad never yet seen a woman buv one of the . cnuc weeklies, THE CURSE OF POVtRTY IN A CITY OF TODAY. . whf shot it. I'll kill it. and own skin. too. if I lay my last dollar fo it," thought Corny; and catching nj a stout bit of timber fallen from tin old roof, he struck two quick blows which finished ioor puss, who gave nn the ehost with a savage snarl and a vain effort to iounce on him, This achievement atoned lor ai the boy h.d gone through, and only waiting to be sure the catamount was quite dead and past clawing, he llunc his prize over his shoulder, and with renewed strength and spirit trudged along the woodland road toward home, proudly imagining his triumphal entry upon the scene of suspense and alarm. "1 wish I didn't look so like a scarecrow; but perhaps my rags will add to the effect Wont the girls laugh at my swelled face, and scream at the cat! " Hope there's a house not very far off, for I don't believe I can lug this cat mnch further, I'm so starved and sl a'cy." Just as he paused to take breath and shift his burden from one shoul der to the other, a loud shout start led him, and a moment later several men came bursting through the woods, cheering wildly as they ap proached. It was Abner, Chris, and some of the ueighbois, setting out again on their search, after a night of vain wandering. Corny could have hug ged them all and cried like a girl; but pride kept him steady, though liia ace showed his joy as he nodded his hatless head with a cool "Hullo: Chris burst into his ringing laugh, and danced a sort of wild jig around his mate, as the only way in which he could Ittly express his relief; for he had ben bowed down with re morse at his imprudence in letting Corny go, aud all night had rushed up and down seeking, calling, hop ing, and fearing, till, almost exhaust ed, he looked nearly as dilapidated as Corny. The tale was soon told, and receiv ed with the most flattering signs of interest, wonder, sympathy, and ad miration. "Why on earth didn't you tell me? I'd a got up a hunt for you wuth havin.' You oughtn't to have gone off alone on a wild-goose chase like this. Never did see such a chap f or gettin'inter scrapes, and out of 'em too, I'm bound to own," growled Abner. "That isn't a wild goose, is it?" proudly demanded Corny, pointing to the catamount, which now lay on the ground, while he leaned against a tree to hide his weariness; for he felt ready to drop, now all the ex citement was over. "No, it's not, and I congratulate you on a good job. Where did you shoot it? asked Abner, stooping to examine the creature. "I didn't shoot it; I broke my gun when I took that header down the mountain. I hit the catamount a rap with a club, in the cabin where I found it," answered Corny, heartily wishing he need not share the prize with any one. But he was honest, and added at once, "Some one else had put a bullet into it; 1 only fin ishect the fight." - "Chris shot it, then; he fired not long ago, and we saw the critter run, hut we were too keen after you to stop for any other game. Guess you've had enough of catamounts for once hey?" and Abner laughed as he looked at poor Corny, who was a more sorry spectacle than he knew, ragged and rough, hatless and shoeless, his face red and swelled with the poisoning and bites, his eyes heavy with weariness, and in his mouth a bit of wild-cherry bark, , which he chewed ravenously, "No, I haven't I want this one, - and I'll buy it if Chris will let me. I said I'd kill one, and I did, and I want to keep the skin; for I ought to have something to show after all this knocking about and turning somersaults half a mile long," an swered Corny stoutly, as he tried to "shoulder his load again. "Here, give me the varmint, and you hang on to Chris, my boy, or we'll have to cart you home, Youv'e done well, and now you want a good meal to set you on your feet again. Eight about face, neighbors, and home we go, to the tune of Hail Columbv!" As Abner spoke, the procession set forth. 1 he tall, hearty man, with the dead animal at his back, went nrst; then Corny, trying not to lean on the arm Chris put round him, hut very glad of the support; next the good farmers, all talning at once; wniie oiu nua sooeny Drougnt up the rear, with his eye constantly on tne wiiu cat. In this order they reached home, - and Corny sought his mother's com- - -t ... iorang care, auu was seen no more for some hours. What went on in her room, no one knows; but when at last the hero emerged, refreshed bv sleep and food, clad in clean ; clothes, his wounds bound up, and plantain-leaves dipped in cream spread upon his afflicted countenance, he received very meekly the congrat ulations showered ' upon him He ainluil toilhlr. Timothy. X. C, Miu Kmtor. I am interested very mur-h in your valuable pad'-r, especially the young folks coiner. And as I have seen o manv miestions asked I will now ulr fine. When was the University Urlv oft-ned and who pnnatit nted the faculty." 1 will clone Mf f vour paper much success" Your "unknown friend, Lillie O. Wa its, oni. Certain it J U't me newer and prettv coachman faf affaii w through they sold by dozens to the - t .-.,a t .1 . inclined to get crooked, aim won t stay on unlets we are hitching ai h all the time, or else have it securely tisiht bv the collar around a some- .... . . . ti . i what choked throat, i ne uauu fastening is just a belt or a string, in ,1 it ties around the waist. see this is where the i-t possibilities or the mode are mis.sed. let the belt Im verv lone and instead of fastening it men travelers. It would 1 iut reiting to .know what link is imVng from the female mentality which deprives her of this boon, for is is noth- j i (.mm rne wainu uiuil: ii. w the front eroding the breaot. and going to the back again and fastening at the inside of the cloak collar at the back. This holds the cloak (securely even if it is all open. It coaxes it short of a boon to be able to th funny side of life. It helps f i . i i over many nam piaces auu nucl eates many creaking joints in domes tic maciiioery. It would pay for the scientists to diagnose the diflicully, if ss?i- ble, and undertake to !e.Sf'ij or remove it. In the meantime, sisters be as joyous as vou can. .New lork Times. Tt ftvttt mt Tbaaaa'XH. Jr. 'a, Perfl SnaMkt hb tba Gata f 1111 tit Vnmmmt Tm ! mm tnmm New York, Juu 4. 3Gv. Thomas Dixon. Jr.. preached today the teveath vf the aeri! of amncrna on the "Gates of Hell In Modern it. by km." The enbjct a: tolar'a aenaon wm "The Curse cf IT .ii . 7t. and I wM rlbr fa, mn ani hin. than irrar the toe cUnba of lhoe who bare tn4e tueee ctmditim.a pribW ia hatnan k1?-Xliira-SwaanttbecoKditicmaofwori that the I-1v if driven to the pot of exhalation o si! ita t u. rgit'. and ia It wakn. it I the I'rvj to lv'r7 wnwpcr of ev iL In tho rectka trom each gnna ing Ui the rff.rt t amnaemetit W aarily bnx in.- a dissipatkm. How a expect tini who work with aach un- Tyrrll County. Columaia. N. C May 19th 1803, f r VntTiiu For some time I have IW Jilaa - leen looking admiringly on the iimn. and have de- Iav.iI until now to ask for admit- tnr... thfrp. T hone I mav be wcl- vca 1 1 - j, v i-nmp. althoash I may not prove very o w - nn interesting to you all. 1 am a uttie boy twelve years of age. My papa takes your valuable paper and is nleased with it. I go to school all the time but our school will close 15 of June. I have two sisters younger than myself and one older, my oldest sister uiites muaiu mswun on! 1iL-p it snlendid. I Will ask a ouestion. When was Texas annexed tn flu United States? Wishing The Caucasian much success, I am Yours truly, Walter Owens. Union County. Monroe, May ICth 18U3, Mr. OF VARIED USEFULNESS. ntonrettv fo ds. too. when vou let - o... a- " r J. . - I .uarion liUTLEK, dik.--8 )ou I it fall loosel v back the crossincT straps i.,,, i.:fn i a fup , . , . , i . i ..I" - , . r I WUUVti. a ayw (juested the little gins to write you a make the sof t gkirt woro Wltn the jiesijrned "Ex. T ...111 ,;fr. -,n Q -four IlllPH I , . i , 1 4i-.T u,-"b"v icl.k,i i win mil j plain SKirt more snug auu wicn-j, . . ... .,i ii Advice to Vou 11 I.uJin. A country girl gives credit to a celebrated doctor for the following very prudent advice to the young ladie3 of his llock: "The buxom, bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked law who can darn a stocking, make her own frocks, command a regiment of pots and kettles, chop wood, milk cows and be a lady witbal "in company," is just the sort of a girl for me or any other worthy man to mar ry. But you, ye wasp.wasted, putty-faced, consumption mortgaged, music-murdering, novel-devouring daughters of fashion and idleness, you are no more lit for matri mony than " a pullet is to look af ter a family of 14 chickens. The truth is my dear ,girl3, you waut more liberty and less parlor, more exercise and less sofa, more pudding piona, more frankness, and less mockmodesty. more food and less fashion. Loose yourself a little; enjoy more liberty and less restraint, and become something as lovely aud God of nature i am a lime gin nine yeaio uj. age, than its own Delt unassisted couia i-nt scoid. 1 i 1 : I c i rt ms-v. II ir I - ., i f i t i . I . - live tnree mues lroiu nxuiuuc . 0 when the cloak is tastenea it is Mothers, don t scold, lou can 1 X 1 . TP -rw r k TTn 1(?T4 V . . - i i . granu papa uiKea a nr. vauvacxx, llke an y otner cloak, except pernaps be firm without scolding your anu ne auu papa oom luiub. u that it lit8 in tne baclx- a lltue more children; you can reprove them tor 1 i. I ,l nH l l . l . I oesc paper tney ever reau, auu x exactl v than does the usual belted-m their fault: vou can punish them so too. i love io reau me uuuuicuo cjoak phis, of course, is because letters, I hope they will write more th Wening at the top as well aa of them. I will answer Lillie Kerrs hpW :n the l)afik h0ya ;t better, TLT 1 ' . . question, ixegro-eiavea wwc uiot Made of some serviceable plaid oi introduced into the English colonies h k stuff as was tne garment of in 1620. 1 will ask too questions, thia sketch, with a generous and first, in what year wa3 the Capitol of practiCable hood, the hood and cloak ootn well lined, it win prove au North Carolina burnt down, second, I and what did the present one cost? 1 will close wishing you and HIE Caucasian much success. Your little friend, Maud G. Secrest. when necessary, but don t get into the habit of perpetually scolding them. It does them no good, They soon become so accustomed to fault-finding and scolding that they pay no attention to it. Ur, which often happens, they grow hardened and reckless in conseqn Moore County. Joneshoro, N. C, May Mr. Editor. I am a gi 29th '93. especially good garment for the trip ence cf it. Many a naturally good to the b air, that we are all or us disposition ls-j-uined by constant going to take. When we want a scolding, and many a child is driven change of dress we can let the cloak to seek evil associates because there be open; when we want another is no peace at home. Mothers, with change we can wear it shut; yet an- their many cares and perplexities, other alteration we can accomplish often fall into the habit unconscious and years, I live in Moore county. My father is a farmer. He takes The Caucasian and I like to read it, especially the Children's Corner, I will answer the question asked by Lizzie E. Langdale. The battle of Lexington was fought April 19th 1775. I hope that my answer is cor rect. Wishing much success to The Caucasian, I am Your friend, Mattie Brooks. fiffpM, bJ wrapping it close about us, 11 UtBVVU . - ., ... , , , in an ways i win ue pieLtv. The second picture shows a use ful and charming toilet. The front can be either gathered in, or left quite loose, the latter is preferable ren n i " i ii.. a.i i ior morning wear, wnue ine otner i your method looks more dressy. The your I'niou County. Stout, N. C, May 28th, 1893. Mr. Editor. I think it great pleas ure to write to your paper; papa has been taking your paper for some time aud like it very much. I am a farmers boy 13 years old. I will answer l'aul Crumpler's question. The first window glass was used in 1G94. Yours truly, Joe Haywood. ltad Keligion and Had Politic. A man's politics is no better and no worse than his religion. Good politics is good religion and good re ligion is good politics. Those who cannot harmonize their creeds with these truths are worshiping false gods, and the sooner their, idols are smashed the better it will be for humanity. Omaha Tocsin. In other words the man whose religion is good will not steel votes. lv: but it is a sad habit -for them and their children. Watch your selves, and don't indulge in thi3 nnfortune and often unintentional manner of addressing vour child Watch even the the tones of voice, and above all, watch hearts: for we have divine sleeves are trimmed to the elbow with authority for saying that ''out of guipure. Any shade can be placed the abundance of the heart the under the guipure, but green is ex- mouth speaketh ceptionally tasmonaoie ust now. The skirt is a tailor made one. 1 he The ideal Fmiiv little jacket would look well trim- The first great essentials of the med with ball fringe. , ideal home and the ideal family A few years ago it was considered are constant love, confidence, devo- a necessity that the greatest attention tion, unselfish, willingness to spend should be given to the making and and be spent in the seruices of one fitting of the bodice of a gown and another The ideal home is one the skirt, in comparison, was of no, where the children shall say "When or very little consequence, liut at we marry and nave nomes or our the present time the importance of own, we wish to love and be loved the latter canuot be over-rated. The a3 our father and mother love each tm 1 11 1 111 "111 M T 1 1 Jl iashionaoie voluminous skin is otner. it is wnere tne sons are looked upon with a feeling akin to taught respect for all women, by horror by those whose purses are not the deference and kindness of their tather. to their mother; it is where daughters learn from their mother's i paueni example now oeautnui a thing wifely and motherly affection is, ieam ine ceiuty oi daily, un selfish devotion to the good of all. It is one where the atmosphere of love and kindness is so all-pervad ing that it sottens every privation, ennobles every humble duty, and stimulates constantly all noble and unselfish aims. Selected by Lois. Are You Any Good at Puzzles ? The genious who invited the "Fif teen" Puzzle. "Pigs in Clover" and many others has invited a brand new one, which is going to be the great est on record. I here is fun, instruc tion and entertainment in it. The old and learned will find as much mys tery in it as the young unsophistica ted. This erreat puzzle is the proper ty of the New York Press Club, for whom it was invented bv Samuel Loyd, the great puzzlist, to be sold for the benefit of the movement to eject a great nome ior newspaper workers in New York. Geuerous friends have given $25,000 in prizes ior tne successful puzzle solvers. LbN CENTS sent to" Press Club Building And Charity Fund," Temple Court, New York City will get you the new mystery by return mail. tf State of Ohio, City of Toledo, IjLvAS lOwNTYi SS. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing husi ness in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUN DRED DOLLARS for each and ev ery case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed m my presence, this 6th day of De cember, A. D., 1886. .,- ; seal I A. W. GLEASON, , Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken intern ally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo" O. I"Sold by Druggists, 75e. . What Lady Macbeth Caldwell Thinks About It. We don't like this language in a report submitted to the southern Presbyterian General Assembly one uay last ween: The session must absolutely enr force the injunction oi Sriptuie iorDiaamg women to SDeak in NATTYOUTDOOR COSTUME. churches (1. Cor., liv.. 34V or in i i m . I - ' J very elastic, ior in some oi these as any way faTing to observe that mucn as iweive yards oi material are relative subordination to men that necessary in order to give them the is taught in 1. Cor, xi., -13 and requisite iuiness at tne root, out to otner places. tnose wno wisn to be tnorougniy stv- it is all right to prohibit the ash this skirt is indispensable. It sisters speaking m the churches should fit quite closely over the hips, they get to speak enough elsewhere ana the iumes3 commences .at the and therve no business talk; i ...... . i "- Knees, whence it falls m graceful public execept among themselves- folds, the interlining of muslin giv- but the General Assembl v renort ing it the necessary outward flow, should have left out that reference Instead of this, or the horsehaur cloth to "that relative subordination to some dressmakers use a roll padding men." It is scriptural, of course. tormecl or cotton-wool, encased m but it is distinctively Pauline, and linen, insiae tne aress at tne toot, raul was a bachelor and a toW. which answers the same pu-pose. bly vinegary one. We hold that it There is almost endless variety in isn't nice to be constantly remind- uuc.umuuiug iui Bali toy auu me mg women oi the duty of subor womau who cannot find something dination, and it isn't always safe w sum uv.i wuqv icy uiiuuun io i cinjci. vuariotie Ubserver. pi ease, a most oecoming otyie tor ta'l slender figures is to have three bands of velvet about three inches We will send vou for in width at intervals; namely, one at Caucasian and any of the following the hem. the second af. t.h tnwc papers iorme amonnt.nimAcU. and the third ar the hips. Another aust, . $175 nmv !o th Modern Cit v." Th text chosen was from Proverb Ttxx. 8. 9: "(iirm tae neither iovcrty nor riches; fel me rrith the foorl that i neelful for ui. Ut 1 lw fall, ami deny thee, and ear. Who i the Lord? or leut I be ioor. and ?tal. and u profanely the came of my There ia a poverty that ia respectable. There la a poverty that ii the mother of greatness. It is not of this poverty that t ept-ak today. The cradles of the poor have been those that have rocked the srt-atest men of the eartn. uat iy lias we mean a decent jsoverty in which there has bft-ii coarw food and coarse cloth ins al yet f"l enough to keep hnn ictr from the door, clothe enough to ktnthe cold from the IxkIv. Poverty 4 that tia-uns Lanr nd cold and naked- nets aud ra.'s w a cure and only a enrae. It ik this shadow that falls across the j ii. streets or tuecity aa nowuereeiseon we earth totLiy. There are poor people in the country, bat they are millionaires in all thit constitutes a life as compared mith the pKr of the city. It is a continuous amazement to me that people should leave the country and crowd into the city, the city which Car- lyle Kraphicatty described, "The great. foul city, rattling, crawling, emoKins. stinking, a ghastly heat of fermented brick work, pouring out poison at every pore." And yet they come in tens, in hundreds, in thousands, in tens of thou sands every year, crowding the already crowded trades, crowding the already crowded dens in which human beings live like beasts. They leave clear skies. They leave pure air. They leave kindly friends, sympathetic neighbors, a hey leave earth, in other words, for hell, and still they come. Could not Borne kind angel whisper to them when they make up their minds to leave the old country home that they are taking their departure from earth and hope and descending to the lower regions? Th only possible explanation is that they are ignorant. They do not know the city. They do not know what it is. They do not understand until it is too late to retrace their steps. It is sim ply impossible with language to ade quately convey to the average xnind the facts in the condition of the life of the thousands who live in our cities. Their poverty is indescribable; their wretched ness something unthinkable. Tlie jtyverty of the city is an open door to the deepest hell, and through it daily crowd countless thousands. First Because poverty in the city means loss of a home. There is no home life among the poor of the great city, The word home is stricken from the lan guage of man. The poor live in a den. They exist in a tenement, and the tene ment life, with its attendant horrers, is constantly on the increase in our great cities. In New 1 ork city it has swallow' ed up all the other life practically. The tenement has, like a huge monster, de voured the home. It may be said that New York city lives in the tenement; that New York city lives in the second and third class tenements. One million three hundred thousand people in this city exist in second and third class ten ements. This constitutes tJe people. The landlords are an insignificant f&o tion. People who live in separate houses are not of the people; they are the ex ception, in every so called house in the city of New York thee is an average of 19 dwellers; London averages seven. In what is known as the tenement house district there are no fewer than 276,000 families packed together. In this quarter it goes without saying that the death rate reaches its most horrible height, and public morality touches a depth of degradation before wThich philanthro pists and Christians and evangelists stand aghast. Poverty and disease and crime are the portion of these people. faecond buch poverty is the open door to theft because the wages are bo low that the temptation to wrongdoing is well nigh resistless. "Give me not pov erty! cnes the ancient seer, "lest steal." How hundreds and thousands of people in the cities, with their wapres, can keep from stealing is a miracle. . Peo ple are entitled to bread. A man is cer tainly entitled to existence. Jle is en titled to bread to eat. He is entitled to enough clothes to keep him from f reez rag. tie is emaiied to a nouse to. cover his head, and he has a right to work. But these things are denied hundreds and thousands of people today in the city. A woman was discovered the other day who had starved to death. Men commit crime daily that they may get tne comforts of a penitentiary, the lux ury of a Btay on Blackwell's island. Shopgirls enter their life full of vain hopes. They do not expect to be drudges all their lives. They work during the leisure season from 9 to 13 hours a day- many of them in basements lighted by gas and electricity. In the crowded sea sons they put on blue glasses. The only comfort they have is the fact that they have company m their misery. During tne ousy season tfcey work rejmlarlv 11 and 12 hours, and during the rush till 10 and 1 1 o clock at night. The shoDrfrl'i income is barely enough to furnish food. it is not enough to furnish clothes. She does her best to imitate the rich whom 6hesees. The fine lady who bends over the counter is studied with minute care She hiis road the stories of working girls marrying ricn no Dies. . bhe dreams of meeting this man of paper and being iu. teu irvw ner poverty and grind. HELEN CAMPBELL. As Mrs. Campbell has so truthfully BAiu, on kuovts rar oetter what const! rates tne lire of the rich than the ricl cr uiiow 01 we lire of the poor. She imitates where she can. Hr rhMn has a French heel, her neck its tin dog Ing and defiinnK energy u tihu and concert UU and W htne in tinman lifer Tt .i inanity murdered hi. what 1 : r ' m M 4 tlfilTlir ri Til 11 lit IXIAfc 1 lit -.. children, now --rrt'.r ... .4trtftl,i THfX MX n 1 ' fwwv . 71.5 . th Mi teili home fwr your iu-ihi turn at,. .kJlv J , . 1 !itr and mother from popular method is to have seven or eight rows of ribbon or velvet in graduated widths beginning at the foot with a wide one aud terminating at the knees with quite a narrow band Crossway hands of silk are much in favor, and so also are three or four flounces, cut bias. " - ' ESTELLE. xcvpicsrajiyraper,' 4175 ieuman, $1 -iuo uove amounts we will oc"u two papers one year, Address - The Caucasian, Qoldsboro. N. C. - It is now inorder to inquirewhat vuc ucuiocrais are tnere for?' . And tbU lb' Vrihtwi f lull, into which thv are n to fall. Ten. 12. 13 wnl 13 d -veB 1 hours meu and women -crork ia this great city and in other cities, and work at tak deadening to every fen monotonous to the verge of dep-air. rocrth Such poverty is the gateway to hc!l. because the children born into it are doomf! before their Urth, and the generation that riws has lees of hope than tl:e generation that die. Our frtatisti cnins tell us that 20.000 children work in the groat citv cf New York, hat tlwse who kuow the facts tell ns that in th grt-ut citv of New York alone there are 100.000 little pinched forms that work f.n'.iniW liTvud and are cll to get work j . . . , i i work at the period wnen ciuioru must grow or die. Their little faces are pinched aud shriveled and wrinkled un til thpv are an armv of little old men and women, to look into whose pinched faces is enough to draw the tears from the heart of a stone. vhat wondenui itile creatures many of them are! 1 hey never complain they tcie it as a mat ter of course. A little fellow discovered in Boston recently by a charitable institution gave the matron an account of how he got nlornr for a week after Ins mother had died aud his drunken father had kicked Kim nut. "Where did vou sleep? bhe asked. - "We lived out in Roxbury," said he. "and I knowed a place out that way where a man kept three pigs in a real warm and 6nug pen, and I slept there throe nio-hts." "You slept with the nisrsr asked the matron. "Oh, yes, mum; it was real nice and warm there. But the next niirht I found the man bad moved away and taken the pigs and pen and all. I lost 'em." 44 And what did you do then?" "I kind of Bnooped round and got into an empty old house. I found a lot of papers on the floor and got intoTapers and folded them up. They were nice and warm. I slept there two'uights. Next night I got in a junk- shop on some rags." "What did you do for something to eatr "Why, l staid round the markets and got oranges and apples and things the fruit stands throw aWay, and I knowed where there was rest'rants and boarding houses where they put things into the swill barrels that's plenty good to eat." There are from 50,000 to 60,000 of these little waifs drifting on the black, turbid waters of this great city's life, and every city has its proportion. Is it any won der that we have tramps and idlers, and that the gang of toughs is soon devel oped, and that they graduate into the hardened criminal, desperado, highway man and assassin? PANTS SEVEN CENTS A PAIR. Fifth It is the gate of hell because of the hard life of the women. Woman is the mother of civilization as well as the mother of ma n. Womanhood is the index to life. If it be degraded, life is degraded." If it is Bteeped in sullen de spair, life will show its fruits. If it be hard, life will be hard. If the life of womau leads to hell, hell is nigh to hu manity. Two hundred and fifty thou sand women work at hard tasks outside of domestic service in this great city. Three hundred and fortj'-three trades are open to women, the census taker tells us. They are, as a matter of fact, simply subdivisions of old trades sub divisions caused by the divisions of la bor. Added to this is the additional horror of unpaid labor. There is not a single one of these trades in which wom en work in which they are actually paid a just return for their labor. Because they are women they are made to do the work which men could not do better for from one-half to one-third the remu neration men would receive. Needlewomen make pants for 7 cents a pair and use their own machines, find their own thread. They make shirts for 35 cents a dozen and find their own thread and machines. They make ging ham waists for boys at 2 J cents each, and his lmpossioie to maKe more tnan a dozen in 14 hours at a sei And 14 hours at a sewing machine, with a woman's hands and a woman's nerves. means that life is being groundnut at a pace that makes the thing little short of actual murder. Cloakmakers can earn but 60 to 70 cents a day. W e find 16 hours of loil unrelieved by a single cleam of light or hope or cheer, and the net re sults of this concentrated despair and misery ia $3.50 a week. And half of this is taken to pay for the miserable den in which the work is done. Two families live in single rooms. Twelve people are tound sometimes in a room 13 feet sauare. Many of the women who work in this underworld of horror are dying to hope, ana when woman with her ceaseless passion of life, her undying love, with her quenchless heroism, ceases to hope it is time for your social economist, it is time tor your preacher, your politician. your philosopher, to hasten to find the cause. One of this army of a quarter of a million women recently said to Mrs. uampbell: "I don't see how anybody can much longer Keep eoul and body together." "We don't," said one of the other wo men, Burning suddenly. "I got rid of mcbt. I who in wir nd thre 'i know it was iniquity! j.. nA of how the old nero ""rr 7" ,lay bte chill rather than hcrj-J the' frequent horrors. t! y ia uTf L n,.t by inity. but by the de- I??. ' . . ' if- irin rnd over ii!. ;.i !,v and l referred to kill their "own rather tluu. to deliver them to the l ell they ora hvfore them. Focb poverty i ieoanly 'th i mother f dp.ir-H!rir grim tu!fying. The man who fighU with hunger K-eomes an animal. I it not bet ter todie a man than to die a brute? Slall thes desperate ieoplft reason? litm a luxury. Th death of a child tinder such conditions it a. joy. not a sor row. Thev are gathered to the potters iuld. but thev ret. They are crowded one on top of tho other in the great -black trenches, but they will not be touh1 in tlw gray twilight of the morn ing to dull, ceaseless toil. 1 heir mu Wies mol.b r together in tho gravv. but their little rtomijc'.m do not cry for bivud and for met and f or drink. Their little faces do not grow pinched and wan any longer. There are some things worse than death. There are some thing worse than the letter "s field. It is the living potter's field it is the living death. A pitiful case of destitution recently came to light near New York. A iwliee man of the Thirty-third precinct wasia rrolling his lieat on the outskirts of the city when in a lonely Fiot in the woods near Hunt's joint he came upon a man and woman and threo children stretched on the bare ground. The man and the womau-were asleep, but the children were awake.and groaning. When theinan was awakened, he said he had no home, no means of subsistence. During the winter and spring he had earned a scanty living as an oyster oien er, but at- the close of the season was thrown out of work. Ho fell sick, and the little money he had saved was soon spent. Then the owner of the house in which he lived turned him out. lie tramped round, trying to find work, but failed. His wife and children had no shelter, and he had not a cent to find them lodging. - Kt knowing where to go. they went : . the woods, where they slept for th: o nights. It was three daj-s 6ince they luid e aten a scrap of food. They were taken by the policeman to the station house and given food, which they devoured ravenously. THE SUBMERGED SIXTH. In a j-ear in Isew York city there were 39,679 deathi-v 7,059 died in hospitals, in- sane asylums ana worKuouses. mat is to say, more than one person m every six who died in this great city died lu a pub lic institution, aud nearly 4,000 of thc-in who thus died were thrown in the pot ter's field for burial. Talk about your "submerged tenth!" This k the sub merged sixth. And this only represents those who actually die. Those who are living in death cannot be numbered. In the great city of London there are more than 300,000 souls that hang on the bi ink of this gulf, whohe life is a nightmare. Beneath thei. oiens the pit of starva tion, btill further down are i00,000 more, actually starving, where hunger gnaws day and night and every hour in the day is an agony. No one is better entitled to speak on this subject from actual life thau is Mrs. Campbell. She has given her whole life to this work among the poor. I wish to quote her ex act words as to what she knows - of the conditions of the poor in this city: "We pack the poor away in tenements crowded and foul beyond ai .hinir known even to London, whose bitter cry is less yours than ours. And we have taken excellent care that no foot of ground shall remain that means breath ing space, or free sport to a child, or any green growing thing. Grass pushes its way here and there, but for this army of weary "workers it is only something they may lie under, never upon. "There is no pause in the march. As one and another drops out the gap fills ristantly, every alley and byway hold ing unending substitutes. It i3 not la bor that profiteth, for "body and soul are alike starved. It ia labor in its basest and most degrading form labor that is a curse and never a blessing, as true work may be and is. It blinds the eyes; it steals awav iov: it blunts all whether of hope or faith; it wn-ecks the body, and it starves the feoul: it is waste and only waste. Nor can it below ground or above hold' frnctifvinir for any human soul. It ia nn nt-nXon not as professional philanthropist, that I write, and the years that have brought experience ha ve also brought a convic tion, sharpened by every fresh series of tacts, that no words, no matter what power of fervor may lie behind, can make plain the sorrow of the poor." iingutnoof Bavaria Is now a hope less maniac. In his lucid intervals only he realizes his terrible position. But bi chief amusement seems to h shnnfin peasants. It seems to amuse the mad king to kill the peasants, Of course they do not let him really kill them, but they dress up a man as a peasant, and he passes before the window, and the king seizes the rifle which has W-n tnnA. ed with the paper shell, fires" at his vic tim, and the victim instantlv fall with dramatic effect and dies in great agony. 4iw mug loons on with the utmost glee at the result. What a horrible amuse ment even for a maniac! And j et this is practically the results of the kings of our economic world. They may be mad it is the most kindly interpretation to pus upon tneir actions and yet there- A 1 ; which they fhall m at J! . Open? when through m L: tWy re nnal-ta tow. rV wav of joy nwept the h art. tJ shadow tf tl.a houldr and hv.r' LritrhUT mv.lo they w-t,t work; wiili tror.ger an,: their anvils ring. w ill our toilers laUr f of th race to letter purpv-. rr hearts a i stronger arm. v lives are mad really w.t , In our prwtit condition f 1, U helL- Let th workir.uui, ,,j city as he would avoid a pt. r t1., "fisu 1 1 S JrME ?ilf !LZa v"'8 -its of thdr k k he of " i. , enuuing i weait. ssot only is this a fact, but it is a y nours a aay to turn out fact that could be remedied, and it is a contract goods? 'Tain't eauls that count butchery that is useless SdLtiTw ItS tiOMlAa that r-nn V.i x i tm I j a a . ae3 BtarvtKl and in their tracks I was not driving driven still till thev j -jr i j ... . w mo vvccul. la a ncca- . I WOUld trv th rivr if I !mc Ar.fh T i t-. , i ircuiefs outcnery. tO DaV a doctor's m I irtr-TT. r rv . - gles, frizzled bangs, cheap trimmings Of every order swallow up her earninss. It is an age of cheat and swindle it is aa age. cf imitation. She knows it and knows its power. She . buys an opera glass and sports a xoanicnra Bh knows that even Queen Victoria's horses have false tails and that the queens of ovuwiy are tne creations of the tailor's art. In the midst of all vyietchedness at home she dreams of this magnificence of which she reads in the daily press, in the cheap story paper which is her daily pabulum. This continues for weeks and months, and the months lengthen into the years, and life becomes a ceaseless,, hopeless round of deadening toil. Then comes the tempter with his whisper of bright things to be had for the taking. Then comes the time when the devil puts in his fine Work. Life has lost its glamour. - Pov erty in all its grim and hideous and hell ish outlines looms up before the tired vision of the girL Sickness comes, loss of work and the terrible alternatives to steaL to starve, to begj to commit sui cide orjellher bodjr for money. Cfteu- ESTABLLSIIMFVT Wherever great hearts have Wn bined with great ability and a true nnr. pose to labor with tho masses for their benefit we behold great fortunes cre ated and created in a way that signify something to humanity. We see what for my three that went with the fever. Before that I was driving to nut food in. to their mouths. I never owed a cent to no man. 1. have been honext and rA& i went and done a eood turn whm l could. Had I chosen the, ntho ..... w uauk wniie 1 had a prettv face of w T miu i "i ZZZTT''' " v 1. 1 . ' . J i """o v, im irue sympathy and Z?f?-lZ "JL eas? an.a comfort and a cooperation in capital and labor in th Huiutueain. A ne river's the beat Tlar yrpat TTt, .vi:.v - 6"" CTKtuiisimient in vrer- ' w DUCCULCr said apologetically; "she knows there is usuer times aneao. - I Rn xes, the kind you will find in the Selling OIU Ciol.i. In th face of tba mm-h i rl-.vijj pold f amino, old gold lin It is bought by the refin. r f r tj tnl purpt'ses nd iTRil f ritj,,., cash of the p-ecnKtck vari.-i v. " Old gild i- very rich, not . i.v l5ft rt.ity value, but in Stran g- i:j?ff Ing ensr:-e;ioa. MM f u n' r.iajie tf 1u..pidattd jev.-tljy. .r I and of gold wniM It 5 wedding ring and innM h:.v as precious lyoud all iri. - ,y who wore it during the hon v 1:k after years, as it was worn ;.r, 1 u.,fj it waa almost worn away, it i:,.;t fluctuated many time in vain... The ring does not say win -th jtg ot or was happy or not. Tho l.nk .,f r may nave urn mi logeiner a i.jt, band and wife, or it may l..i,M,ct. eda widow with heaven r with coldness of a steel it may have h:ji like a galley slave cnaiueu to a c c-j ion that she uateo. Tho ring tell none of these tiling is Old laauioneu mm worn, shows that it has seen loni; n r i, e. f liajis it was worn oy tw-au rs, kv.i pcrseded.by tfliother weddinj; nt,t perhaps it was a precious family loom handed down from em-rath. 4 generation. 1 . llie purcnaser ruos it on a a stone until it leaves a yellow mark, j drop of nunc or com pouna aii 1 this mark so that tho export asMty!rm tell the purity of the gold. TIhiibj carefully weighed and paid fr at 6 rate iwrhaps of 3 or 4 cents a cant- Boston Herald. next room. Tako a look in there, man, and then tell me what we are going to wunteu m nis magmncent shops. 'He paid them full wages. He loved them. uved w ith them and of thm tt was their counselor, their guide, their father, their friend, and when he died the great army of workingmen mourned for him as though God had taken from meir own Home circle their best beloved. In the next room was found a. nanta. loon maker, huddled in an old shawl. money to build on the groundi fire and food. - - - 1 .Jl I vuc -v .1 -m . . I younger Krupp, - who - succeeded . the father at the head of. the company, pre- aA ' A Jl it. . thA T-rr, . .TV rouuu mis monument were .uua noo CLUULV.. -r.TPn T n "J T cKn I i V. 1 it . said vrith o ' r' r- . b"wu -tnouBanaa w 1? fa ri1-" : lue pjserawe bed, faces to do honor to the memory of their -7" '"IA.- 1 urlons wime- 1 friend. The young man rose to make pawneu everything before my husband the-addresa to the people. He was so died, except the machine."- . : overcome bv tWviSL y,Z - CTTTTT nr... I. 7-. r " lTi 1 . UUJlELES3- - V l that shonein their faces that he could . Uo.Tlot heheve: that these are excen-1 scarcelT sneak. - . .: cases. They are typical epeciuns ;Ttobi every side rose the murmurs of Keeping Spooge Swri-t. Thero are few things that are m a lessly bandied and which givo bo Lr. eatitjfaction for this reason us a lath, siMjngo. A large sponge u aajii somewhat expensive item, anl mt i becomes odorous, as it somctinn i after c little use. one hesitatr-s to thrt it away at once, exjiecting to restore 1 This is a very difficult matti r to aoc& plish. Repeated scaldings will ofuufs. to makaa sponge sweet and buft uj it n originally. Tho best way tdo Li to take care t it at first. If tho sponge i.i find fri soapsuds and hung where it will grtt each timo after it is usel, it will Eutk come sour. In order to do tiiis. the soap out with warm water a.' using it and rinse it in cold wss Squeeze it as dry as you can witi hands, but do not wring it.u U would break the fibers. r It is a good thing to dry sialism ; summer in the bright sunthim;. lawi ter they must be dried by artificial hi and for this reason soecial can; iwust taken to rinse them clean after ait them. It is a great mistake to shot 1 sponge up in a close box, even thonA' may be one of solid' silver. A s; shut up in this way with the least Luc ness in sure to acquire an impure c' time. Tho Wsf place to keej) a pv is on a hanging earthen tray or in t open basket of wire near t his bathit where it can dry and is always cunve ient. New York Tribune. .e IL I- t. , The Canlimere MimwI. In the glittering but chilly wila Versailles doubtless it wasforcuof that Josephine wore the cashmere sbt that the Egyptian exiiediticn introdw into France, and which her huL-j with his characteristic regard for ' i rights of others, pullwl froJii her f4 dcrs and nut nnon the blazeof sop' fire. These proiwrly folded, or any 11 narrow piece of kom1 fabric, worn long scarf, will add flowing line tot front of the figure and short borixtf ones not too rigid to the back. A good critic says of it: "To wear f- a proof of grace, and it impart f elesance. esneciallv to a tall woaw- the old portraits by Sir Joshna olds, by Gainsborough, by btuan fViTiW further- ill the days, by David the scarf has l effectivelv nral th loni?. BtraWBl1' drawn tightly across the small back, nassintr nvpr thn r-ll)OW8 and Dinir down in front as low an the fcn or lower.. Nowadavs one 6ees theffl1 byjadies who have relatives intb1 who send them scarfs of crape or c hair, and occasionally the Fren proach the scarf in the style of p; Or antnmn wrann Tfc would only half a dozen ladies who have repo for good dressing to persisteutij j the scarf for others to recognize w and elegance." Harper's Bazar. tin r IAm. ti.-mrd. Thfirft in a. minunf 'atatPinect COO ing Mr. Rider Haggard to tlie ef his first wife was Miss Carroll t more. Ihave,een it in The Sj& niiofifrn r,Ant ond Otflff'' nera. It ia As his WW. wrote a few davs since to that e-15. the latter naner. bnt the editor . courteous enough to insert my c04 tion. Perhat you will be so kii f allow thi to appear in print in fvJ of Ditchingham House. Norfolk. alive and well. The lady whoffla news-jKiper-i so very tmgallantiy j terrible and ageless beauty" to and divorced by another eio the- family. Andrew Haggard i York Sun. in w! ol te d ro di k. r. ti r u in i L v m A crmtlpman wlm e-aUaA at 01 "What has become of your office m jjff ne ha quit the business." 1 o1 "Bounced him?" f - ; "sso; ne just quit, lie is tk "Money left him in a will?" "No. but he had the rigbi w, the waste paper about the offi'' late he has got so many origiD,T about Uokunbaa ad the dio America that he has money eU throw at the birds." Texas Sifo"" - bcene A luxurious nursery1"- f , games of all kinds scattered about tusion. y Time Afternoon of third rtf1" Leo (cloomilvV I'm tired of Pw j Aren't yox, Harold? Harold Yes, I . Leo Let's say bad words. Harold What shall we sayr iTjpval and of love and of tyn?.t Caxar. -