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chapti.u xv "By comparison wit h cWtrieity U-am U a low-plo'lrting t'at- I ran hal nun off, afu-r consultation with a law yer, my d-ar." She haM it al'ij.l, as if .h? wokM rf afure the nrirenting spirit that wai forever goading lu-r t frsh rijdvavor In the direction of solving the Norcroha mystery. If ever she felt tfmptt'd t iv ov-r the hopeless task of uiD-arthing hrr hi tr's slayer there would corii! baric to her, with reproauh in its shadowy y,'N a vision of Amelia, not as she had m--ii hr in tho Norcro.ss laaiiMon, ahla.e with jewels and Hashing in yellow fcatin, but Amelia in her peculiarly he. j less, dinging childhood; Amelia in her pun1, happy girlhood; Amelia in h r winning, unsullied, budding' woman hood; the Amelia whom the had loved and protected before that rash marriayo with Sibley Fairbanks, which had been berel to his rwrch on the high old-fash-loned box, and touclu-d up hid hors briskly. It a grim hrn-going! Yhat fiction fhon!d he invent to ac count to Ida, the most fastidiously re served of women, for bringing a strange dissolved, as rashly, at the close of three years. Of that Amelia, and of none other, would Bhe penult henclf to think. It was that Amelia who was still appeal ing to her for help. She raised her arms despairingly. In all this wide world, full of clear heads, strong arms and tender hearts, there was none to care, not one to help her throw the liht of truth upon that dark, dark spot in her memory. Perhaps it had been reserved for I)iok to help hor. Perhaps the clew had been put Into his hands for her guidance. No one could have had any motive for that dastardly deed but Sibley Fair banks. Amelia the. beautiful, willful Amelia had not made hirn a pood wife. She had heard only Melliu's partial statement; but it bad been enough. Sibley Fairbanks had tho motive of jealous revengo to steel His arm; and there was the witness of the seal of the Fairbanks family. "I will do it, my dear. I will fol low this clew to its bitter end. Perkaps then you will rest, asdso will I." Yes, steam is a slow plodding beast, specially when every nervo in on's t i , . . wuy is aquiver wim impatience. Sibley Fairbanks, steaming slowly up the river in answer to Ida's telegram, was in Just such a feverish state of un rest, until, eagerly running across tho clumsy staffing that was flung out for Lis convenience at his own landing, ha saw two carriages waiting under the spreading sycamore trees. One was a hackney coach occupied by two white men. Old Cato stood bareheaded by the horses of the other, liis withered black face had beamed a homely wel come to "hia boy Sibley" long before the gangway had been adjusted Sibley had waved his hat cordially in return. It was towards Cato's vehicle that he was hurrying, when a sober face and a massive form were interposed between it and him: "I am sorry, Mr. Fairbanks, but you sure my prisoner." Do recoiled a step and looked the man amazedly in the face. "Your prisoner?" The man extended a folded piece of paper. He declined touching it. "Who are you?" "Martin Hastings, shrriff of Dalton." "But are you not making a mistake. Mr. Sheriff?" "Not unless the mistake lies in think ing that you are the Sibley Fairbanks herein described." Again he offered the warrant for perusaL This time Sibley took it and read it, standing there under the old sycamore trees that stretched their gnarly branches protectingly over him, with Cato watching the whole strange scene in throbbing anxiety. Fairbanks grew ghastly white as he read. The paper trembled in his grasp. man homo with Mrn to his father's fuiwral? She would think him a brute. He was r ot gxd at lies. He was sick of shams, s.nd of trying to parry fate's spiteful thrusts. Should he say to her, with blunt truthfulness, that this beard less loy, from who c e.issiinere tnv.i-hers-jo'-ketH a pair of ugly hand-cuffs were permitted to obtr :.lc, was his keeper".' that he was a primmer of the law, wanted for the murder of his wife, tho little Ninette's mother? He could fancy his high-bred Ida's horror and d if-gust. It would not be an easy thing to do. It grew harder even in the bare con templation of it, as each revolution of tho wheels brought him closer to the homo whose t helter he had spurned in his hot boyish resentment ten years ago. It grew to tins proportions of a I ghastly impossibility, as the crunching I of the wheels on the graveled driva brought to the open front door of (Ileu burnie a touch'mgly helpless group. Ida, as tall and Mutely as some pure , v.-hite Easter lily, Ninette, his own lit tle daughter, all a-'ititter with flaunt j ing ribbons und crisp embroideries, j clinging to Ida's black draperies, and old Dido, the old mammy who had i rocked him to sleep in her withered ! arms Ho many, many times in the long j afT- j They were waiting for hiia, watching for him glad of h'u home-eoiuing, eager ! for his home-staying. He groaned aloud, and dropped his head upon his breast. "Is that all there is of them?" Moore asked, looking out al the small feminine group. "That is all " "No men folks but you?" "None." ; It s hard lines, no mistake. I wish i it wasn't me that had to take you away irom Wiern again to-morrow. Hanged if I ever had a rougher job put on me." "It is creditable to you to feel so. I am obliged to you." "Oh, as for that, it's natural to sup pose that anybody in my line of busi ness is a brute; but if you can think of any way in which I can soften this con sistently with my duty, command me." "I cannot think at all," said Sibley, leaning back among tho moth-oaten cushions of the old family coach, with a groan of helpless wretchedness. "I have it!" said Moore, briskly. "I ara a man prospecting for land. You kindly gave me a lift tkia far. Your man puts you out at the front door and unycsiiivaj wiLii mi;, necan mud roe somewhere. The day after the after the" "The funeral is set for to-morrow," said Sibley, steadily. "Tho boat that brought us up returns from Vicksburg to-morrow night. I will be there." "I will trust yout I never felt surer of a man since I went into tho busi ness." "Thank you." iney were at the front door. Cato drew up with a jerk. Sibley let him self out, and, giving Cato an order in a low tone, turned slowly and hesitating ly towards the little group in the door way. Moore's device had given him a respite only a very short one at that Ida's arms were about him. Her wet cheek lay against his. Dido's sobs were ring ing in ms ears. A incite was standing j shyly aloof, looking on with grave won , der at this dismal scene of welcome. "Auntie!" she spoke presently, sharp, j rebuking words, "you said my papa was 1 coming to make us all glad and happy. f so tired of bavin? no one bat Dido and Cato to consult with. Sometime, but j that was before Ninett came I have wondered how I managed to kp sane. ! I have envied the negroes in the cabins. ! WauM they worked in gang and sat ' about their cabin-doorn of evening, in groups, friendly groups, who helped ' each other to talk and to sing and to ; laugh." i "My poor, poor little Ida" Ke came around to where fche tstoud and folded ! ! U-nderly in his arms. ! Her eye gTew luminous. It was so j nwci t t be caressed, to be cared for, to pitied even by one's very own. ! "Hut it will be difficult now now j that you have come back to live. Oh, Sib. I have wanted you so, all these years: I reel as 11 a mountain were lin ed from my brwit&t. I'oor, p-or father:" She turned toward the sheeted face with a passionate gesture of self-reproach. "It sounds as if I were finding fault with him, Sibley; but it's not that not that; it is the great joy of having you back once more, of know ing that you are here to stay that a Fairbanks is once more at the helm." "Let us go in the old school-room and talk, Ida," he said, with sudden brusquenesa. "It will be easier there than here." IV? drew her away with hirn in the sunny little room in the wincr where he and she had Epent so many hours of their home school life. Ida smiled as she opened the door. "It is Ninette's room now. But you do not need to be told that. She per vades the atmosphere." Through a litter of childish belong ings, scattered toys, pictured puzzles, dolls in every stage of dilapidation, they picked their way to a sofa against the wall. "It is of Ninette I want to talk," said Fairbanks, dropping among the faded cretonne cushions with a heavy sigh; "of Ninette, and of something else." CHILDREN'S COMER Itiie fotuke suxuay Df.ar CiiJLimEx: We hot' we have -eu making the! SiGNiFrCANCE Of THE VICTORY THE DAY AT THE FAIR. FOR Dennis Lorimer, owing to a slight mishap to the boat he and I'.afe had taken, reached White Cliils the day after Ames Fairbanks' funeral. His first evening was given to his mother. The next, all impatience, he. Started for Glenburnie. There was no one there but old Cato. To his volley of surprised questions the old man gave one answer: "This note will make it clear, ef any thing kin." 1 he note did not make it clear. It was full of love and full of mystery. It was from Ida, who called him her "dear Pncis" and begged him to fc rgive her the blow she was compelled to deal nun. raie, sne wrote, still seems to pursue us with malicious intenf, Sibley is in trouble great trouble. He needs me every moment. I have crone back to New Orleans with Jiira. Until the awful cloud that hangs over him Js dissipated, there is no room in my heart, even for you. Oh, Dennis, my love, you will hear it all soon enough, "fhe news paper vultures are already hovering )n sight They have scented a fresh disr grace to the name of Fairbanks. "It is all so horribly incooaprehensi ble that I cannot be any clearer. I am groping, myself. The one clear idea that has taken full possession of me is that you will thank God that this blow iescended before your name was indis solubly linked with the unfortunate one which I will drag with me, all ptained as it is, to my grave. 'Believe one thing, always: I love you. Ida." TO BE CONTINUED. 1 A NATIONAL CURRENCY THE BEST. Iu a speech in the Senate in 1837, John C. Calhoun said: "It appears to me, after bestowing the best reflection I can give no sub ject, that no convertible paper that is, paper whose credit rests on a promise to pay is suitable for cur rency. Bauk paper is cheap to those who make it, but dear, very dear, to those who use it. On the other hand, a national currency, while it would greatly facilitate its financial : operation, would, cost nothing or next to nothing, and would, of course, add much to the cost of production, which would give to every branch of our industries great advantages both at home and abroad. And I now undertake to siUnn without the least fear I can be answered, that a paper issued by the government, with a simple promise to receive it for all dues would form a perfect paper cir culation which could not be abused by the government ; that it would be as uniform in value as the metals themselves ; and I shall be able to prove that it in within the constitu tion and powers of congress to use such a paper according to the most rigid rule ot construing the constitu- C'liihJreu'jj Corner" i n teres tin and inatrurtiv. We will continue to run a nice fctory for you. When a etorv u finished ariur aud tell us ho you iliktdit. Also tell us which storv 'that we have published that you have enjoyed most. Make your let- ters for the "Young Folk' iWt , oflice" short. Make your letter bright and fresh. If you have jtist learned something new put it in vour letter and let all your little friends over the State know it too. In this way you can be of reut h-p to each j other. The way eojle improve j their minds and increase their knowl edge most is bv exchanging ideas ! with the living. Besides, vou fun now ie getting acuuainted with en h i other. Do you realize that within ... .i . .i. i urn ui mieeu tears inui you wi grow n up jM'ople and be part in tiie autiini of and political economy of the .S'ate. Before this writer is an old man, vou will be blooming into mat'.huod and womanhood. , We uie interested in you, because the management of our State will booh be in your hands. Vou are the nation's rising star of hope. The Caicasiax extendi its hand to you aud will render you all the assistance that it can. Vou can also help us. We will be glad to hear from you often. Vou can also help to increase the circulation of TtE Caucasian. Yours very truly, The Kditou. B. S. We will start a new con tinued storv in next issue. be i Yonm Foils' Post Office. .Mr. Kditou: I wish to thank you for the "Children's Corner" in The Caucasian' and especially for the "Young Folks' Bostolhce." The story I have enjoyed very much and hope you will continue to publish one tor us. I wish to ask one oiifs tion: What verse in the Bible con tains every letter in the alphabet ex cept 'J rour little friend. Kixstok, N. (J; Nov. 2, 1X93. .Mk. Ejhtoh: Will you please al low me space in vour valuable naner to joiu the Children's Corner. Mv father takes your paper and I like to read it. I wish to ask the bovs and girls two questions. When and where was the first gas used for light ing up streets W hen, where and by whom was the first horse brought into the V. S.? I will write again if this is not thrown in the waste bas ket. I close, wishing Tiie Cauca sian and its editor much success. Your unknown friend, S. J. Clark. Hrt of SfruuDi oa "1 fa frmyh ! ml th WurM' ) nr"-H Frrm Mar Hoars lr K-L. Nrw t.Rji, Nov. 12. Rev. Thorn m Diion. jr.. continued in Aociation ball this morning the new series cf aer incus on ' The Proi beciea of t bt World rair. The rubjevt of the di scour today h call.-d "The Future cf the American Sabbath, as indicate bv the Sunday Opening Fiasco. " He declared that tbe action of tho fair authorities on this question was the one tiv in the ointment of the great exposition. Their thimble rigging ilicy lie declared was a disgrace which came near ruining the lair at a critical x nod. The work uig eoile had repudiated the Sunday ojM-nmg when accomplished, and the public refused to have it. He declared , that this conflict which focusd the national sentiment nptn the problem for ' the first time h:il demonstrated pome things pretty clearly among them cer tainly that the jrreat truth of the Chria- tian Sabbath one day's nt-t in nev . . ; i.jMjii..iMii ,!.-, t fi until ir- I (llllall CM lf 1 II MllJlllitV t1 uli.,. cnn,.f;t.. r - J .. " I'll 11 111 , .It - uie uoniesiic , eccleMasticiMii can add nothing and from vvhoe fekuy ii.Cdelity can subtract nothing. i ne iexi c-Mosen was irom 3i ark n, 27, 1 he Sal-hath was made for man Jesus Christ was not orthodox on the Sabbath pit stiou. The heresy hunters were continuously after him for his failure to comply with the form of cer inomal and institutional religion. With special emphasis did the pharitees ac cuse him of lreakingthe Sabbath. And they had good grounds for their charge rrom the phansaiu point of view. Upon this question us upon others he was a reformer. He was tho learer of a new light. He did not destroy. He fulfilled and expounded. Ho found a Sabbath buried beneath dead ceremoni alism. He reaffirmed its original divine purpose. He broke tho letter. He kept the spirit. He lifted the day from the degradation of pharisaio form and made it radiant with the lieauty and freedom of love. As yet, in America, while as a nation we have proved our reverence and loyalty to the day, we have not given the unbeliever the true basis of our faith. We have haggled over the legalism of a Mosaic statute, while we professed the fuller revela tion of the Christ. The chief (source of ponflict uixm this question is found in this confusion. THE QUESTION AT CHICAGO. Grave were the fears of the faithful What would be the outcome of a na tional struggle pn thia question at (Jhicago. At this World's fair, for the first time 6ince the republic was founded, the whole nation came together in one place with one purpose. In the truest sense of the word this fair was repre sentative. Nearly 4,000,000 of peo ple, representing every Btate and district of the continent, came to one spot, filled With the consciousness of a common national pride in a common national life. The nieans and the extremes met. The blood of every nation of earth mingles in our veins or yet floats un observed upon the surface of our life. We are a composite people, with the ele ments of composition yet unaseimilated in many states. The amalgam is not yet made. What we will be when is made does not yet appear. i-iei ns contess that with the rerrata tioh of the wesj or recklessness on the Sabbath wo felt f6ad' over the possible tion.' ,(tf.) IS IIK A TKA1TOK? LaCiianhk, Lexoih Co., October, 3o, 1893. JUr. Editor: I am a little boy 12 years of age. Aly father takes your paper and I like very much to read it. I also like the Childrn's Cor ner. I will ask a question: What year did the earthquake come? 1 will answer a question for Era M. Hill: George W ashington was born in Westmoreland county, Va., on the 2 2nd of February, 17:52. Best wishes to The Cuy;asian and its editor. From your unknown friend, Adam Measley. it what brought me "YOU" ABB 1IT PRISONER." When he handed it back it fell between him and Sheriff Hastings. Ho took out his white silk handkerchief and wiped the great beads from his forehead. He wa afraid to trust himself to words. At last: "Dees that mean," he asked, huskily, "that I must go with you go back to New Orleans?" "It does." "Do you know here?" "You are here to attend your father's funeral. - We have thought of that, and are disposed to make it as easy on you aa possible. My companion here my deputy is entirely unknown in this neighborhood. With your permission he will driva to Olenburnie in the same carriage with you. I would advise you to go quietly. He can pass as a friend who came up with you, you know." T suppose yon mean to be kind, so I ought to thank you. I do," said Sibley with mechanical courtesy. ' "No call for gratitude; only, you see, there's no use your kicking against the pricks, and there's no use our making it any rougher on you than need be." "What is my friend's name?" asked Fairbanks, smiling somewhat grimly as the sheriff beckoned to his com panion, a slight, boyish, beardless youns man. fa "Moore. As gentle as a girl, as long as you walk straight, but Old Nick him self couldn't get away from him." He had caught and misread the wintry smile on Fairbanks' lips. "I have no desire to try his patience in that direction," said .hia prisoner, walking haughtily away In the direc tion of his own carriage. At its steps he paused and courteously turned to the officer of the law, with a regal air: "Before me, Mr. Moore." Moore entered the vehicle. Sibley stepped in after htm. 014 Cato dam- He has come, and you and mammy Dido do nothing but cry and wipe your eyes on your handkerchiefs. Is that mv papa?" J Sibley put Ida away from him and turned towards the small faultfinder, tie held out his hands -Is that my Ninette? Do you not re member me, ehild? Have you not the faintest recollection of me? No love at all to give me?" At each yearning question Ninette shook her small golden head in grave eyed negation. Then, in rapid cres cendo: "I remember my Norrie! I remember Uncle John, and Dick, and Rafe, and and Celeste. But you-never! Auntie Ida said my papa was the most beauti ful man m the world. She showed me his picture, ajid made me kiss it every day, and taught me to pray 'God bless my papa' every night. But you don't look one bit hke my papa's picture; not one tiny little speck." He drew back his suppliant hands. Let her be," he said, as Dido whis pered a reproach in her pink ear. "Let her continue to worship the unreal father you have all made her acquainted with. Where does our father lie, Ida?" Ida turned, and, with her hand rest ing upon his arm, led the way towards the drawing-room, where all that was left of Ames Fairbanks lay in state npon a velvet-draped couch. nr i iueuuauicauy sne gave him all the dreary particulars of those last days. They stood on opposite sides of the still form, scarcely less responsive now than it had been all these years. "But oh, Sib she burst forth, sob bingly, "it is awful not to be able to miss him more! I feel as if he had been dead all these years, lying here waiting for sepulture. I am so tired, Sibley, so tired of my loneliness, of my horrible feeynofjresponslbility for everything. An OrtVr to Shake Hand over the Rob Mug and OpprrsMioii of the People. Mr. Murat Halatead, commenting on the change of Mr. Cleveland since the election, says : ''The President has held out a hand to the Republicans to be shaken on the understanding that if help eau be found in the Republican par ty to carry the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law there will be no hurry to repeal the McKinley law, for after all the 'only menace' of our welfare is not protection or reciproc ity, but the paying of gold for fcilver ana the meddlesomeness of the silv crants V Oka, Sampsox ('., Ar, C. Jin. rviiuti: j. lease give me space in your valuable to ask the boys and girls a question? Where is the tallest tree oo earth, how high is it and what kind is jt? Success to you all. Yours as ever, Addie Kevnolds. er Sopi, Bertie Co., October, 22nd, 1893. Mr. Editor: I take pleasure in writing a few lines to The Caita SI4.5T, which I have been reading for a good while. I will answer Lou Ilinnant's question; The shortest chapter in the Bible is th,e U6th Psalm. I will also ask a question: Where is the word "river" first spok en of in the Bible ? .frertrude Willianif. tf. 10 TOU WANT TWO 1'APKKS? We will send you for one year The Caicasiax and any of th following papers for the amount opposite: Dakota Ruralist, $i 75 People's Party Paper, $if7'0 Iowa Farmers' Tribune, $1,75 National Watchman, -fl'-tO Missoura World, $l'-4t)' Virginia Sun, H73 For the above amounts we will send you two papers one year. Address The Caucasian, Goldsboro, N. G The control of trade through the contraction of the currency or by placing it iu the hands and power of a few 13 the analogue of the control of the supply of commodities through me protective tariff. The principle is the same. The man who nnder- s-- dingly favor8 Cleveland's finan cial policy is a protectionist at heart RENEW. Dou't let your subscription expire. Renew before your time is out. It saves us trouble and insures you not to miss a single copy. Often we can not furnish back copies. Marines, Onslow Co., October 23rd, 1893. Mr. EiiT,R:-,piease allow me a little space in the Children'd Corner. 1 am a little girl 14 vears old. lly papa takes The Caucasian and like it very much, ia fact we all like it. I live near the sea shore and go to the beach when I desire and we pick up shells that an very beautiful and go in bathing too. J will ask one question: Who first invented a steam eugine? With much success to the editor and his loving bride, I am Vour unknown friend, Emma Redd. Marines, Onslow Co., October 23rd, 1893. Mr. Editor: I am pleased with the Children's Corner verv much especially the Bear storv. I thank you very much for the Young Folk's Postoffice for I think it a deed of kindness and aDreciat it I am going to school and I like my teacher. He is very kind; his name is Jack Grayer. Our friends all like The Caucasian and its editor. I am a young girl and live near 'the coast aud enjoy the sea breezes, but I am sorry that the fishermen have not had any luck fishing this year. Hurrah ! Boys and girls, let's keep the office full. With much success, Your friend, Annie H. Redd. You should put Mr. before your teacher's name. Ed. ; victory of the lawless element in thia conflict, comjng as it did and when it did. The verdict would necessarily be uauonai in us Hearing. The way this question was handled by the directorate or the fair forms the one serious blot npon its history. It is the one fly in the ointment of the greatest exposition ine emmed world ever saw. Let ns try to remove this in the beginning of our siuuy. The fact is, we have cause for con gratuiation after all, for in the end God has taught the nation with a new emphasis a great and solemn lesson. The directors were, after all, fallible men, and iu trying to increase their rev enue at the expense of the nation's con science by opening on Sundav thev ml. lided prith the nation's honor, and in the hour of a possible peril brought uonor ana aecency to the rescue of a poorly enlightened conscience. They went before the nation assembled at Washington and asked for an appropri ation. The Sunday question was sprung .urn urougni to a nuish n congress. The Sunday observers won an over whelming victory, yoicjng the unques tioned sentiment of a vast majority of ii me peopie. xney accepted the ap propriation and promised to close the fair on Sunday. Then they lied and for the sake of money opened it. They outraged the sense of honor and .depency of the nation. The peppje would not have it people Who knew little pi ' cared fittje about the question of opening pr not opening on Sunday did care as to wheth fir xra thould exhibit ourselves as a nation of aars ana mcusters. The success of the exposition was seriously threatened. And befpre the gathering storm of a nation's contempt the managers re treated and closed their gates. ' Then came (he enemy and invoked the magic jugglery of the law and the personal equation of the judiciary. Through the Jegal technicalities of a local law tbe gate jvee again fored open and the managers thus relieved of the etain of voluntary dishonor.1 TJpt ,the people did not go into tbe opened , gates, Bund ay opening continued to ! be to the last week a conspicuous fizzle. The hue and cry raised by a pertain WODO lu "naii or tne workingmen proyed by actual demonstration to be ft fate pure and simple. The working- men did not wain ih fair opened on Sunday, and they did not go when it Was opened. The thimble rigcinir methods of the mHiiaTnt i; , nly faile4 & deceive, but failed to give any advantage in the nd "" l"ofmern. The manaeement have been taueht a i n.iii . : iwu "' w sucn a thing as being too smart. In fact, after the fair they find -.wwc, uu img qnetfwn Where a very smart couple found themselves after a parade jn New York one day aa reported by one of the papers : A man and woman found themselves wedged in a crowd in one of the streets. They bad come out to see the parade v88 thSF were they could see ""SlS?" T6-man had a bri8ht idea. When I give the word, Julia, you scream and faint," Julia waited. The signal came, and she flopped over into her escort's anna, trive me air. she gasped. "Airi air!" cried the man. The crowd parted, and the mm and woman emerged at the front. The woman revived, and the pair made readr to enjoy the show. ' Jnst then, however, an ambulance dashed np. Some one had turned in a signal. "You can't be too careful about I tx r n c"-." Mid tbs-nrjr'H'n. l .j I . .i r ou both aluorf for in- I aptvtiun. " . And thev did 1 . t the parade. Tbe whole truth 1. th conrs of th management in th fiasco and tha bear- IxLir of our pAotl toward it at L&MGf dvth,: int-nt has xnd clear one thine tb tuition has rraderrd verdict upon xb Sabbath question that mutt tt-U in shaping our future. tE tTS REKT IX RKVIX. . In this conflict thr pttpl have n rnipha.irrd the truth of th Christian Sabbath uam-iv. that unday'8rtt in rvm in uT the invention f pritcraft, but is tht primal ordinance of human ity, to w1m fumctity t-clattici!uu can add nothing, from win glory in fidelity can subtract nothing. Fiit. we say tb-y bav raffii uud the true lis of the Sabliath an ordinance primal of tbe human race. The 11 'pie have said. Mo or no Mtoes. command rnent or no t-tniiinaudmer.t. Bible or no Bibl ri-ht or wronir. orthodox or hf t-r- odox, whatever dgs and cats may l? able to do, as for man. the Sabbath with its reft is to him an alxiolute ne- eesMty of nature! Such a necessity in- lerd that, if (tod did not establish a Sabbath, he Kurelv committed the crime of creatiu:; a lieiun who can not live without one. And this is but a re amrmati'iM f the unvarying record of history. Fi;ui e went .mad with rage once against eeelesiastn-ism. Ti-y mistk tbe Sabbath for an invention of priestcraft to h at them out of a day. They allihh-d it by law, only to wake in a short time from their de lusion to find that iod bad founded the Sabbath in love for man and had writ ten it in the red blood jf nature's eter nal decree. They found the law of the Sabbath written 011 their tired hands ' and feet, in quivering muscle and throb bing nerves. What any nation of the old world has found a necessity for rest to the hu man body a double necessity to the people of America. While the old world travels one mile we rush over two. We are a nation of maniacs in rush and drive. The pressure of life with us is liecoiuing more and more an insanity. Of all tho people Ood has created we should cherish the Sabbath. It is the one oasis in the desert of our fev erish host, it is our one remaining bul wark against the greed of the century. Our lust for gold is taking the heart out of the nation. The Sabbath is the one pause in the mad rush. It is the one hour left when we may return to, reason for the moment gain the con sciousness of our humanity. Every effort we have made in our national life to drive throuch this dav with th rush and roar of the week lias proved or is proving a failure. Men who are forced to work 011 Sundays never arive the best service. They break down early. Their overwrought nerves and muscles are tho cause of many fatal ac cidents in which the nation pays life for taking life. NOT THE WOBKINOMAN'S WISH. Every attempt to break down the rest of tiie Sabbath in the name of the American workinginan is a subterfuee and a lie. The workingman does not desire to work seven days in the week. The hue and cry set up in his name is the thinly guised hypocrisy of greed crying for the last possible tribute of his muscle and hia heart's blood. The men who seek to break down t.Ii SuK. bath as a day of complete rest are the enemies of labor; their twaddle on the subject is but the echo of some capital istic gmtton behind the scene who wishes to work them to the last drop of blood in their veins. No class of work ingmen desire to work on Sunday. A fool editor of a weekly 6heet in New York tried to get up a sensation to sell his paper some time ago by advocating the opening pf the theaters on Sunday. He wrote to all the managers of the theaters and the leading actors and asked their views. And he got them. But they were not what he had ex pected. To a man manager and actor denounced the movement. And one of the reasons brought forward against it was the fact that Sunday opening in the west had proved itself a curse. They declared that it made the life of the actor well nigh impossible and did not increase the revenue of the theater, what they gained on Sunday being in variably lot on the first days of the week, and the extra labor was so much dead loss in the long run. What we need to do for tlje working man is more and more to' shorten hia hours of labor. The world is the gainer by it, directly and indirect! v. Thou sands of street car men are now forced to work from 1? to 15 hours a dav. and some of them do not tret aRnnnff in a year. Such a system ia the nnin. tessence of brutality. lhe workinjrman is overworks What he needs, wiat he demands and What he will have is f.wor h,mr. f Work and more days of rest. v.a attempt to rob bin, pf the perfect rest of the Sabbath is a crime against i0- Ity. Why the great mass of working men have not Bpoken with louder em phasis npon this question is explained parr by that awful silene whih nearness ermd of tr.il brings. BBTJTES BETTER TREATED TIIA.V MEN We are kinder than we are to pne another. We give the horse the rest needed to prolong his life and give us the Ust jKissible serv ice. VVe pile work on n.r ,. .1 is no heart power left to - the tired The world is inn ! v U. urt power, not horsepower, whet lu-r 1,1 man or fceast. VVe forget this Mr. Montague Williams a description lately pf that pathetic si lence that hangs over this world of muscle. He describes a cheer less room in London where a man and hW wife were workpg "fop dear life" at their respective occnnair.ria the youngest of the eix children dosed away the minutes in a oonu'r and the l aeonea were silently "helping fa tfaef. 3&e woman was making button holes in a heap p wajppats, and the husband bent pver bench., stitching uppers to boots. ' - No one spoke, no one looked up even g'ftflee from the window, and aft er standing som time in silence the visitor ventured to addre cheer- wuupiace 10 the man. Tha fcoweyer, neither spoke nor an eyelash. Tho repeated, but still there was no . Mr, Williams, heliotrir, man,.to de?f and dumb, turned an inquiring look on the wife. !!JW8 the matter?" he asked. Oh said she, "he'sgot nofimeto ?i ihat?n7 mmDte 18 Wm! to jaw. Z.TlfX 1 take half o ZZil?- " SSI ot Kte"nconPlangly. asif 6TK tZl?lL reTa11 euer. vprur.i timo to peak ? It almost seined as if dead silrtK- wer tberw tl rule of life. - And in facw of world wid facta Hk th then. an men who writ about th woTkingman's dtnir to the whrU of this bi world tnor round even day in seven, and !om as his champion In evry effort made to break his Sabbath's ret. Second We do not hesitate to ic know ledge and hasten to add that we are nUd of it that in this con flict ecclesiastical tradition has failed to make out a case. We have not got a Sabbath because we have the Ten Commandment. This commandment is merely the first crude translation on stone of the great law mat nau exifeu from the t-ru: tii. Our Sunday does not rest on the niutnandment letter of the Jewish ritual. -Ifs. we celebrate the wrong day and utterly fail to fulfill the letter of the law. The Sabbath of the Maic ritual i our Saturday. No man who knows anything about the subject has ever disputed it. Wo Jo not keep tbe Sabbath day becauso we are commanded 111 so manv woras to keep a htiecific day. WHY WE KEKP THE SABBATH. We keep the Sabbath day liecanse it is our privilege a God given and Christ given one of resting one dav in seven. "The Sabbath was made for man, sanl Jesus. It was tuxl sgilt of love to his tired children. The Sal- batarian zealot who would restore the formalism of a pharisee's Sabbath is the enemy of Jesus Christ, for he is the follower of them who slew him. Nor is the man who would restore the gloom and the alistirdity of the early Puritanic Sabbath in this day any less the enemy of true Christianity. The life of our stern ancestors, while it had elements of heroic stremrth. had about its religion a narrowness, a big otry and a mean ess that it were better to forget than seek to erpetuate. Listen : In a book in which Jonathan Trumbull recorded the minor caws he tried aa justice of the teace is this entry: "liis Majesties Tithing man enteml com plaint against Jona. and Susau Smith, that on the Lord's day, during divine service, they did smile." They were found guilty, and eaeh was fined 5 shil lings and costs. But it was the "small boy" whose Ix havior in the meeting house provoked tho Puritan elders to groan in chorus, " Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child. " The boy behaved badly lecause he was seated with other loys, instead of with his father and mother in a family pew. They were herded together on the pulpit and gallery stairs, and tith ingmen and constables were appointed to watch over them "and see that they behave themselves comelie and ur such raps and blows as meet."' In one parish it was ordered in town meeting "that there lie some sticks set np in various places in the meeting hous-e and tit persons by them and to use them." It is this spirit carried into the inter pretation of Scripture that has done so much hurt to the cause of Christ, as it has lingered as a strange discord in the light and harmonies of modern life. irom Yvaterville college in 1888 graduated a young man whose mother had designed him for the ministry. But he refused to enter it. One of the professors in Waterville, on a certain occasion, delivered a sermon in the chapel, in which he claimed that none but the elect could be saved; that of professing Christians not more than one in a hundred conld reach heaven, and that heathen people would have more creating ponrr I believe tt U-, -,v, future of bumr.!' composite hujm.Llt, powtiuu prvph ns or HH 1 to one truutij h alien blol. 1 mother kv,- i-.-. . 1 . , dians a writ r ""V mere w.u Uli j ing with bi t iM, 1 ' ' Who wan hot !..,. "Faith." h.. . x. 1, it's ull or inl tl , boys, an iioik- .1 Tile tieit ln..vi. i t Olieyed Inui an.i 1 part. Another iuei.l. m fight worthy f ,, treated Uu kw14pl n of the white s..'.,; hand.t Im hind b. r one reii hi l ist bullets. It iu sheltered a li owiy a uaiy. iijj i.i... i... " tan uerneil. it child was savixl else's tiaby. ti, blood, l t rae 4 w ' Ir.. a r-l U L;- I; I: JOT.-. 1 he M i An.I it... in their very blood thi. " tieness aul tweftnM ,,, er of man's lt.-.i! miiM grow as nun ilizat In the sun- hiii,. ;i, 1 days of rest with tlt n,.i . . fr.. s'r" wi.n,i lt memories lira the s .......... .. . X.t-i 01 tuif fCK Ul II,, t, grows in Kreatu. ,t vv more reHpiiif it. 4 !1 A LOOKS,, cj ax..rf . " v oXT.lt ' li-rh a ii in favor of a I K-iiuK nit ' OpjHlsed to a UeiiKH-rat ' tit u. lilt. d triiaU ; consideration of the Almighty in tho future life than men of Christian na tions who hear but do not profit by the word of God. The rules of the college made attendanc e upon religious serv ices in the chapel compulsory. After this! sermon the youm? man petitioned to be excused from further 'attendance on these services, giving as a reason that, according to the proportion stated not above six persons in the college """ L auu as lucre were nine wortny professors, all of whom were doctors of divinity, it would be pre sumption for him to hope for salvation, and therefore in attending rhnrl, Was only makiiig damnation the more sure and terrible. The name of that yng man was Benjamin F. Butler. Form and ritual and tradition and ceremohy-may be one thing1 and Chris tianity another.' as' the '"following adver tisement taketi from a receni humber of the St. James Gazette shows : ' Church Preferrne.,t-A valuable living for Prospect ot early poBsession. Could It be nut Butifol modern cliurch. Apply q - The party which anneal, and commandment and trmliHon has made a sorry showing in this mortal combat for the truth. But the truth ia so divine a thing even its professed friends can not slay it. iNFinEury Third Take a I'er ami National Kcfurin, r II l an a man W m f ver und W a I em Yen. Can a man W uimhi..-.i t. t 1 ver and be a Ih intH iat Yes, A 1 . - can he be in faur of and be a I einovrat r Yes. Can be be opposed to and be a Detnocrat 'i Yt'8. Can he be banks and be Yes. Can he bt banks and be Yes. Can he be in favor be a Democrat i Yes. Can he be opposed to truu 1 be a Democrat ? Y'es. Can he lie in favor of and be a Democrat? Yes. Can lie lie opposed to more a and be a Democrat 't Yes. Can he favor economy and it. Democrat 't Yes. Can he favor extrava a Democrat ? Yes. Can he favor an be a Democrat '( "' Yes. Can he oppose an income tai u be a Democrat ? Yes. vau ne vote against the uoduk of the party machine and heal1 ocrat ? Xo. tin . . nnatthen, constitutt'd a ite crat, his principles or hid ' ot ? JIis vote. jTinpiplcs tl ,in'tc3 JEFFERSON AND JACKSOU Were' innrem lliruillr li n the bo often BAI.KKIi. The fact been Increasing brilliancy that from a Sab bath founded on a primal ordinance of humanity infidelity can subtract noth ing. The Christian world without author ity of ritual or statute, moved by the resistlese impulse of the free love to ward Jesus Christ, changed the Sabbath mwraajr to Bupday and made it the Lord's day-the day 01 Li.rWH& -their day of joy and hope and peace of soul after the storm. This was the beginning of the rei IlS Th u.., . luo PJ"i -vri IJau uone its work new era of freedom and love and had come. Slf , of la the d vine law of nature. The reign of aw is the reign of God. ThewfoS Bhall we remember the SabbafJ day! The revelation cf nature is the las fT fem10od- You ca" not muffle the Sabbath ben, pf the Wof, , "J nature rings them: " ' f pau8 aJSf T aat6r Wlis'c'M of rhe world withmtrr!;h!!-- throll uaiure s hearr The grace latter, moved wer. Their thought is one wT The" e2 gfg"f. Therefore tU mat? per us. Their nnn- eathoyer, i a'ma.terpie Veprodu ie trumpet calls of tL 1. 2r?5uce5 r ""u" storm with siirV," iitfir wind. mi.. . Ju B,Kh- rT-rf r '""5 wrreni and looni cascade. tni... v oopi breath of ooato in a n.' i V-w me Waist- old shawl "over her he aTl out, stiU in siZ,2 readand hastened work. ' . w tarry home her PRthe wretch Infidel assaults are in vain. ' only. U' Thl8 may be hog WHAT MAXHOOD lfKAJ it7 more thn l? wik human- '"nil auimoi r n . Oiipoiied to Kanki uf Iwn M Stste and Katluiml. Andrew Jatkaou it was who id. n congress nas me rigiii unu't" constitution to issue paper rnonej,' was given them to be used by thtt selves, not to be delegated to inditi duals or banking corporation!." Thog. Jefferson it was whoii "Bank paper must be supprewA and the circulating medium mmth restored to the nation to whom it longs. It is the only fund on we can rely for loans, it is ear resource which can never fail un, it is an abundant one for every e sary puro56:;f ' ' If you believe in the doctrine Jefferson and Jackson and have manhood to back up your belie! jy VOUr Voles, what narlv l TM , acting witli to-dav t t Tliat are nrlng-lny Contempt 1'pon DlihoDorad Fart v The rwT I'HrtV llvltnTh.. . 1 uil.., noi tie l'einorrattc Party fyjlr,!httrt.in MeunrnKtr, May, l) We take jeuve jusf here "w ate our well considered, hoiito ion that Korth Carolina no W" very much iu need of a jrood E" tioji Iaw the Australian or other, Qroiii abuses liave en-pt1! that are nibnnn-'in will bring eoutewpt and ruin nf if persisttni it We know able, high-toned gentlemen who v uoewgryingly Democratie, who wo prefer the trium.,b of tbe Third p triumph cf theiiefti ng to low, (Janerous, ty to the fcy re8ortinr Btmctivr. Kfetlwia f the ballot-Wt: They have said so in our ben They beliere that Third partyis I a less mpi'1 than ballot abuses. 10 V TWt , . ua have reform hwJ' (tl-) 9TICE and startle a,!. Boothea ill Vi i i a ww opens new i,iQ ' wougm n . "lalJ ana plain and ttZLr ' th. invibTe great dTv oirtlTr .nian'i Thl??!? Oration 1 with ia- To the American People m. The Democratic party under J leadership of Grover Cleveland f surrendered to John his allies. Kh-rni&n (tt) Thb Caucasian is an eye open erery week. Yon can not dfof" v do without it.
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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Nov. 16, 1893, edition 1
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