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CliAPTKK XVL The sleuth hounds of the law were in full cry upon Sibley Fairbanks' trail. The reward of five thousand dollars, which was still waiting fr a claimant, arted aa a permanent hpur to a few tire leu spirits on the detwtlve trrr. Th"y had at lant got hold of a positive r lew. which they proceeded to unravel with patient skilL This c lew wan a seal w ith the impress of a martlet ripen it, and it waa attached to three inches of broken gold chain of fine workmanship. Day by day. hour by hour, tlx- coil of rTidence lengthened "nd Mrengthenod, until, to the one f.iithful heart tli.it clung to him through good and evil re port, hi case looked hopee.s indeed. Given the established fa- is that Eu gene Norcroes' wife at an -arli.-r Mag of her career hod been Sibley Fair banks' wife, that their connubial info- lififirbrvjl tippn ITPI1 (Trcat'T tllMI that . 1 . ... !. V'.lrl.-ifiW OA UTC1 j wn.. ...... v - failure to mrnort his wife properly had led to a temporary Reparat ion, that dur- ing that Reparation khe ha1 taken Rteps tree-tops outside, to Itave her raarriatf-e declared null and For once in her lif - Nir-"t wis sW vo!d,that subsequently hhe had reap- , lutely forgotten by everyt-ody. Her pearcd In society as Eugene Norcross' aunt, waa poring afrain ravenously over uplendor bjvinj? and dahhinfr wife, that the closely-printed account of the trial at about the same period of time Fair- After a lorifr time she looked nt N'i banka returned to Uie city, in improved nette curiously. Slic had just mastered circumstances, but naturally consumed the situation. It was to John I.orimer's -with a Jealous hatred of the woman wife the detectives owed the clew that who had towed him aside like a mislitr they had just followed out to so triuia tinjj glovo, and the frroundwork of the phant a finale. tragedy waa complete. Slowly liffht broke over Ida's haf- It only wanted the lepra! verbiage and : pard ftice. "Come here, Ninette," Jhe profound platltudesof conteudinfcoun- Baid, aloud. "I want you, dear." eel to put this choice morsel into final Ninette came gladly, wiping her wet ehap for rolling under the famished eyes on the cuff of her little wrapper tonprue of public curiosity. lier aunt looked at her musingly On the mominpr of the day set for his "Little child, I wonder if jou could trial, Blbley Fairbanks ate his break- soften her hard, hard heart? She used fast with sullen stoicism. "It may pos- to love you. Perhaps, for your bake sibly be the last one I shall have the . We will try it! We will go to her." privilege of ordering to suit my own ; As she opened the door that led into taste" he said, with t'rim facetious- ; the street, half an 'hour later, Dennis ness, to Ida, pouring out his coffee, white-faced, but steady of nerve and resolute of heart. "If it poes against roe," he cracked the shell of his soft boiled eprjj with nice deliberation, "return at once to Glenburnie, with the child, and and if Lorimer seekw you i in spite of all, don't repulse him, my dear. Promise me that, will you not?" , She did not answer him. She was I watchinff his deliberate movements with strained attention, through a ilJni that made him look protesm-ly unfa- jniliar. "My poor Ida! my truest of women! my lion-hearted sister! you are not goinjr to break down now?" j "Sibley!" 1 DUO Citmru, Uin iiiiiu ill ti uuivy whisper. Her voice seemed deserting her along with all the other organs that had been essential in that other world ehe used to live In. She had needed a voice once, when as a girl, as a woman, ehe had breathed and moved in that other world, at a fair old place called , Glenburnie. But she had nothing1 in common with that other girl, that other j world. She was turning to stone. She was already petrified. Her heart had j turned to rock. Her tears were so j cany hard, cold little pebbles. It was ! iiww comfortaWe so. It helped her to j stand things. And there was so much, oh, so much, to stand! ! "Sibleyl" ! "Well? I think I answered you be- j fore, Ida." j "There Is one question I would like 1 to have you answer before-before-" ! "My case Is called?" j rj I r . . . , . . j You nave never saul yet never to me, though of course I know it, dear, aiiIt T wmiiri iov to iiaw von nut it in words you have never said, in so many ! words: 'I did not do it.' Iot for the lawyers words mean nothing to them; they are onlybbles for their shngs. But to me, Sibley, the Bister who loves you and whose heart you have broken." She waa coming towards him with tender outstretched arm., her worn, thin face all -lvcr with pain. Re pt out a repulsing hand before folding bis arms sullenly. "Ka I have never put it into words for you. I did not know it was neces- . t sary. k orgive me, child, every pang 1 have cost you. I asked the prison authorities to let me breakfast with you this morning, for I knew what this day would be to you, and I wanted, if possible, to say something comforting to you. Somehow don't seem to have some woman friend' near vou. Iwishibythe government ; that it would yon had not come to the city with me. It makes it harder for both of us. Will vm.i,rW(VnillMi,.n.um.u o-ovMvir n hir? Tf tt rrri ammrt mi gooa-by to ner it it goes against me, I shall not see cither you or her again. I would not like you to come so close to a convicted criminal." Her arms had fallen to her side like lead. Be would not put it into words. It must be that he could not. tiho tot tered from the room to fetch Ninette. Jn the darker hall she nearly stumbled over the two prison officials who were standing guard at the door of the room where she and Sibley had just got through with that dismal breakfast. One of the men put out a rough hand with kindly intent. lie saved her a fall, for which she did not even thank him. When she came back along the same ,way, after a hurried li a hurried lire mmutcs spent in rousing Isinette and buttoning a tiny WfTnJ?- """"""n"". sentinels were gone. So w-as Sibley. lie had scrawled a message on an enve- lope and left it on her napkin. "I have taken thn cLiest f, both of us. If I do not eouie back to you to-night leave at once for c lon burn ie. I wish you had some woman friend near you. As for mv livtle daughter, Ida, all I ask of you is to make of her as true a woman as mV sis- ter is. She will send no man to the dogs if you do that." one sai aown on a comtortiess chair, which chanced to be close by the barred shutters of her one front window, and clasped her longwhite hands behind her head. There was nothing to do but to wait and to hsten. The verdict would be proclaimed on the streets some time that dav. The Xorcross affair wvs worth money to the newspapers. The public would be eager for the extras as they fell fluttering from the presses. How long she sat there she could not J telL She had lost all record of time. Perhaps it was another hour, another day, another week, when she heard it in the distance then nearer, shriller, more distinctly incoherent: "ExtraP mumble, mumbh; "Nor- cross" mumble, mumble "here's your She opened her blinds and leaned out in feverish haste. The enterprising gamin caught her swift motion. He waa across the Btreet and at her win dow in a second, with a fresh damp shet held aloft. She seized it, flung him hu pa and drew the shutters to- .if .rdMrr-TT LiAA I UfflDTUlV jrether ajraln wiiii nao w "" " refuel their serri.e "Guilty'." Two small arms were pla -d at-mt the bent neck of her crouching hVe.re "Auntie, I loves y.-u. papa. Where is my papa' I lores mv I want him to come here. Ida shook her off ruthW.lv There waa nothing in life worth any at.en tion but that flimsy printed sheet in her lap Itwwto fpare her father this that Ood took him. Hut iv take one and leave the other? "Why should I.O l.'.rd of might and hiMice. be left to mffer w hat was t) ereat f- r him to bear.' Is this infinite justice, infinite pity, infinite mercy 7" Ninette lifted up her vojee in wailmg The room was dark. That croucliir.fr figure on the floor filled her small soul with fear. The unusual is full of ter- mrfnr liiiliV-killlls. Ida tOOU no IfiOH " ' note of her than if 1 icr waoiripr 'iu i been the wailing of the id the ' j ' Lorimer stopped in front of it. to i;e continuej). IM)LK MONUMENT. i;vi IIY HKIOISMKK (OXTKIIil TK to in j i. ii it. ll,.- 1 . Toll. lions .il l.lrfj H.flilii; Thk ('ai i asIan's fund for t he nion- ,lm, ,,t I1(W ssL'imlri as follows: j;,u at Sllfe met.til jy,, ,f .." D.J Aiut received before that time, :!0..-)U I), W. Lindsay, Thk Caicasjcn, Westville Alliance (iritn Neck Alliance . . Lucoma Alliance, No. ,')0 .10.00 . 2.00 . I5.00 . 2.00 . 5.00 Iredell Alliance ! iodwin, lioDUinsvine, A. t, . . i i mi r it 1.00 We will publish in this column t,.uh wet.k the contributions sent in. . ., .. 1,1 action to our contribution ot $10, we will out of every club of ten ,.as), subscribers sent in at one tune, win ,aee Qne )lo,lar to this fum, , . , , , , , and give the sender of the club cred- it for same. tf. A NATIONAL CURRENCY THE BEST. , , . ., , . ,,,. ln 14 speech in the Senate in 1S.J7, John C. Calhoun said : appears to nie, after bestowing the best rellectiou I can give no sub- . ,., , it, that no convertible paper that is. iiatiei' whose credit rests on a promise to pay is suitable for cur-1 rency. Jiauk pajier is chean to those j who ms3e jt but (lear v ,.ir to uj j jfc y j j , . .. , . ., ! 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, whic h would srive to everv branch of ., ;niiuat .,., ndvanhio-ea l-.th , i i i . , T !at honie and abroad. And I now . , , , undertake to affirm without the least ! fear I can be answered, that a paper j issued by the government, with a simple promise to receive it for all : Jueg would fonu a perfect papor cr. i j j , . , d be as uniform in value as the metals themselves; and I shall be able to , n,t n ;., ,,,'n,;., i. ,f '. i i? ( ll0n and rowers of congress to use 1' such a paper according to the most rigid rule of construing the constitu tion." (tf.) IS II K A TKAITOK? An Oiler to Shithe IlamlM over I lie Kuli biiiKxiul Oppresatou of the People. Mr. Murat Halstead, 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 can be found in the I'erublican nar- ; k- r,. ,.om- H... iin,.M;t;,..,i i j of the Sherman law there will be no I hurry to repeal the McKinley law, 'fni.ftuii tw i i : tor atter all the 'onlv menace of our . v., V ! U ,ef if Proteet,IOn m ! U : b.ut the Py"& ot gold for silver .. ,1 il. ail. t . , , uu inn meuuiesomeness or tne silver cranks?" tf. DO VOl WANT TWO PAI'KHS? v .;u i c m i 6 lU Send J'U for ODe "ear TlIE ' C-lX asiax and any of the following papers for the amount opposite: j Dakota Kuralist, People's Party Paper j iowa Farmers' Tribune, j National Watchman, ; Missoura World, ; Virginia Sun, . or tbe above amount $1,75. $1,75. $1,75. 1,40. $1,40. 1,75. we will ; send you two papers one year. Address The Caucasian, Goldsboro. X. G The control of trade through the 4.-.. ..r ii. i uuuncuuu ui u,e currency or L-y j placing it in the hands and power of j few jg the analogue of the control of the supply of commodities through the protective tariff. The priuciple 1S the same. 1 he man who under- standingly favors Cleveland's tiiuin cial policv is a protectionist at heart (tf.) i ra speeii T j , s T F TfiTnf PC PL.' - ST CAM ( FRCW Th CCWW JS PC"-'.E I'l 111 II INsTltl MKMS HI T tit. V 1HAI lH -I HI. r 'IM Ml sr t AMIUI'I K III Hilt 'l M I It IIII.IIU A . WtMivr Haw; National System of Fi.VaN' K NOT A liASK S V TtM.-Tili: NKT IioVI.VoK i low Talk- kok thk si r ilo oiin- H-a IHwt flu- Ol.l I'Mrll.n. 1 1 'out i !i 'i d f r ast 1-stie.l F'ellow ejt iens, our present sys tem is our inheritance from a people who believe in privileged classes, who believe. 1 ill the divine riprlit of kind's to rule over mankind. It i. in no wi.e in harmony with the principle of popular provern merit t ha t seeks 1 lie f.'i eate.st irood for 1 lie frrealest number, and is in truth the kev stone to the arcb of republican in.-tit ution.x. W'e have an obj-i-t le.s-oir extending back over thitty ears. The bonded debt of our '.. ; ;., it. t ..,-..ilit , . ; ,; promise lo pay. n nas no spe.icnir redemption 1 und. It stands solely . . .i r i 1 upon the properrv, rne iniusir integrity ot tile jieople. If every credit sellinir corporation on tlie eartli should perish this proinse of the nation would stand firm and steadfast. (t depends solely upon the power of the roverriiiient to take by taxation .sullicietit wealth to pay the debt. It is measured bj prold and silver, in the last explanation, the wheat raiser, pays his part with wheat, the cotton planter with cot ton, the cattle raiser with beef, the mechanic with his product, and each contributes his part of the debt in sohicthiiijr be lias produced. Vet we lite asked by the leaders of both the old parties, to believe that this magnificent nation with (.", 000,000 id' people and .(15,000,000,000 of wealth, cannot provide itself with a sound circulating credit, a national currency, but that we must buy this currency from a small class of our fellow citizens, who have a monopo ly of the business, buy it upon such terms as they choose to impose. Was there ever anything more unropub lican than this system? Was there ever anvthiug more absurd in theory or more' unjust in practice? Why sir, the property of the people would furnish a basis fifty times as broad as the present volume of currency, whereas, the present system stands upon a basis only one-fourth as broad in theory aud one-ejgbtli in fact. Which would be the soundest aud safest? THK C.U'SK OF THK TROUBLE. What, is the true taijse of all the commotion in this country, and of the wave of distress that almost en circles the world? Simply this. The class of people who hold the securi ties, the national, corporation aud uiuncipal bonds, receive their inter est and dividends, not, as many seem to think, in money, but in commodities, labor product.. The gold as a measure of these products has appreciated, it measures 40 per cent more produts to pay these enor mous debts. Silver measures the same quantity of these products now that it did when these debts were made, and in addition it is the money of the contract specially named iu our national bonds and include by the law in all others, The free coinage of silver mean an in crease jn the volume of money. It means a broader basis for paper money, it means a raise in the price of labor products, it means a re- moVi of a part of the burden ot debt and taxes. Now the foreigners, who hold thtee thousand millions of these American tec-unties, threaten to return them and dray away the gold unless our country stop the coinage of silver. It is only a threat, they dare not do so. The American security holder interested in the same scheme of spoliation lock arms with the foreigners and together they have taken possession of our government, of the leaders of both the old parties. The conhdence we hear so much about, the confidence the admiuistrtiou is trying to restore is not the confidence of our own peo ple in their own integrity or in their ability to pay their just debts, but it is the confidence of these foreigners that our government will compel our people to pay thesb revenues, with their products shrunken in price 40 i per ceui oy me goio siariiiaro. iuai . i i . . a. i 11 . a . . i i mi 1 is the secret and tho cause or the .,, : 0n openly avowed in Europe and only denied jn A merjea by the classes who are beneficiaries of the scheme of robbery. The most dastardly, ! cowardly and daianable conspiracy agaiu;t working people m the past two. cent urje.K, Amencrn slavery not excepted. TRYIXti TO FOOL THE PEOPLE. It is true that many congressmen are appalled by the magnitude of the thelt which the aristocrat of Eu rope and his American genera par- pose a theft which means the net profits ot indstry in every held and mine and shop are now proposing to administer palliatives, and opiates to the people. They name these nostrums ratios, parities and inter national conferences. These hypo critical bircetalits of the Voorliees, Allison, Hepburn tribe, simply lack courage to do openly and above board what they are aiming to do covertly. They are like the Indian who wanted to change a long tailed dog to a stump tailed doer, but did not want to afflict the dog by rob bing him of all his tail at once, so for mercy's sake(?) he cut off a piece of his tail every other day for a month. These compromising birne talists mean a stump tail just as much as the other fellow. The na tional, corporation, munciple and individual debts of our people now amount to the grand total wealth of the nation. This is a lesson drawn from the last census, and is what the two old parties call "a healthy, pros perous condition ot affairs." Thi enormous debt is the accumulation if the past twenty-five years. A . art of it is just, a part unjust. The national and individual debts having been assumed voluntarily should be I aid according to contract. A vast sum of corporate debts put upon the publie without their knowledge or consent are unjust; and might with out injustice to-day be repudated without delay or ceremoay. Among these fraudulent debts are the two hundred million of ficitious capital in Iowa railroads. These securities, .toclf., boml, and m,,tgge' are wi4-d and controlled at the irnrl eUTerd of credit. Thir owner , ' would have them nj-aured by th- cei standard. Why, Wauv; ti.- j faihntr upply of thst metal and its j incr-A.-d j- causal by the dmoni ; ligation of silvt-r has raised its price, , as compared wjtti silver and other , tapb- c.mtnolit:-e. The interna tional conference plnee the appre ; 1'iatiuTi of rold at "J per cert per lt.tllilli. I tie holders of thete -r- ..uritie find after twenty ears th -y have appreciated 4'J per cent. Th y 1 know that debts are not paid vkithj j money but with commodities that, ; perish in the using. They krj j j that indii-try pays ail debts of every ; j kind, aud from necessity rutist pay j in the products of industry this is j true throughout the whole system ot ' commerce whether at home or i ihroad. It the money measure ap- i preciates as gold has done the price -; of the labor pioduct depreciates cor- j : responding'' . A nil now we are toid in Iowa by both parties that we! ! want a dollar of high purchasing i power. Mateo in plain migiish tins , means a dollar that will buy two; oiishcls of wheat instead of one. four : iiiishels of corn iristead of two, titty ; pounds of beef instead of twenty- i live, two days labor instead ot one. Do you believe it? Iwa is as exehi- , -ively an agricultural state as any ' -.tate in the union. The prosperity ; f ail cla-ses stands absolutely upon surplus farm products that go out ot the state. l-'rom the proceeds all -our people are sustained. The mer chant and professional classes an as much interested as other peoplt , ihey have a share, arightful. horio- j able siiare in th- proceeds. j imw Iowa is intkkKsTKI. l'.ut Iowa is in debt -Jihi, m;u, oti'i. The annual interest and ultimately the principal must be paid with these products. In addition to this the fictitious railroad capital puts upon us an annual burden of t)U0,l(MJ. What is the iuterest of j Iowa people iu the premises? For twenty years the surplus products have gradually found n lower level. Silver as a commodity has shared the common fate. It has kept an even pace with all other things ex cept one. It will exchange for as much of the twenty leading com modities, which industry sells to pay debts, as it would before it was de monetized twenty years ago. But gold will exchatjg for 40 per cent more than it would twenty yeats ago. What is the reasonable con clusion? lias silver gone down or gold gone up? But the highest au thority in the world has told us that gold has gone ub 40 pei cent in twenty years. If this be true, which is tire honest dollar, the one that measures time contracts equitably or the one that compels the' debtor to pay 40 per cent more than the contract. Can an honest man lose his way in the road as straight as this? What ex cuse or apology is ottered by those we have been intrusted with the man agement of pub ic affairs? What rem edy is proposed by old party leaders? Aredcution of taxes? oh no. That solemn promise of democracy re treats like a mirage on the desert. They squandered 20,000,000 more in the first year of their power than the republicans. Do either propose an increase iu the volume of money? By no means. Their claim is that there is too much money already ami not enough confidence. They are try ing to destroy silver as ' money in order to strengthen confidence. Confidence js wnat? Confidence in this infamous system of inflated credit that proposes to load industry with the burden of an unjust and pie pet ual debt. thk voter's duty. Fellow citizens, the danger that now threatens republican govern ment lies in the apathy of the voter as an independent citizen, He neg lects or refuses to use hi own judge ment. He falls into the dangerous habit of accepting whatever the party boss offers without question. He drops into his place like- a cog into a wheel. He becomes a mere automation. The machine turns hjm round, rolls him over and drops his ballot jn the box with the regu larity of the returning seasons. It does not matter what" the question may be he votes the brand. The political doctor of the democratic and republican eehool come to these great questions along the road of traditions and the animosities of past contests. (TO BE COXTIXrKD t EXT WEEK.) JEFFERSON AND JACKSON WrreitOpuotted to ltgnM of fsu4 XJoth ,Sle aud National, Andrew Jackson it was who said, "if congress has the right under the constitution to issue paper money, it was given them io be used by them selves, not to be delegated to i:;divi duals or banking corporations." Thos. Jefferson it was who said ''Bank paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation tP whom it be longs. It is the only fund on which we can rely for loans, it is our only resource which can never fail us, and it is an abundant o,ue for every neces sary purpose." If you bejjeve in the doctrine of Jefferson and Jackson ami have the manhood to back up your belief with your votes, what party will you be acting with to-dav T tf. GKOSS AKUKfc' That ape ltringllig Contempt and Kuio Vpou a Dishonored I'r!y The 1'opnlist Tart-Better Than the Ballot llox SStuf tiiiii Democratic I'arty. Wilmington Messenger, May, 1S1X3. We take leave just here to reiter ate our well considered, honest opin ion that Xorth Carolina now stands very much in need of a good Elec tion Law the Australian or some other. Gross abuses have crept in that are dishonoring to the party and will bring contempt aud ruin upon it if persisted it. We know educated, able, high-toned gentlemen who are unswervingly Democratic, who would prefer the triumph of the Third par ty to the triumph of the Democracy by resorting to low, dangerous, de structive methods at the ballot-box. They have said so in our hearing. They believe that Third partyism is a less evil than ballot abuses. Let us have reform here." (tf.") The Caucasian is an eye opener every week. You can not afford to do without it. JSSUES OFTHKHOUIf REV. THOVAS DIXON FOHE5EE5 A SERIOUS CONFLICT. Th. lj.Srie Ar K frmaded -t Tblr hr la World (! tuti of lh t'hnrrh. Nk-w VoEK. Oct. 22 Rev. Thoma Dixon prru hed again this morning in Aac?)ariob hall ou the tubje-.t of "The CoUi-ng Revelation." Tbe mbject for todav was "The Tremendous Lssnt-a In volved." He declared that the iues at f,takf f -r cviiMrrvatisUi in the approach ing conflict were tiothnia lest that the existence of the present economic sys tem, the idea of cate in the social order and the foundations which make it pos cible. the existence of the pre:ent rov erniiig iH-htical lowers a. well a the existence f the church ltelf. Ou the part of radicaliMn, he deilarel the is sues lelit ved by millions to U- involved were nothing le tli.m tle nyht to life and work, liberty, itidividuali-ui. a tol erable human exitmve and jiistice in the distribution of the world's eonotnic gotHls. The text fin -sen was from Matthew xxiv.7, -For nation rw against na tion and kingdom ayaiit kiiidom. The history of the pabt. centuries has given us the fulrilliuentof the hrht clause of this iiroi-li ey of Christ. We have had the era of national wars. NVe enter now the era of the clash f hostile forces with in the nations and the beginning of the era of a world organism of society. It is now the kingdom of money against the kingdom .f the common people. The natse- ale restless. The classes are blind. The hour is ripe for action. The issues involved are tremendous. STATEMENT OF THE I'KOBLKM. What are these issues? The stake involved f r the conservative forces of society certainly includes: First The present economic order. Let the men of wealth and privilege un derstand it clearly. There can be no mistaking the meaning of this move ment of the world's masses. The object of attack is the foundation of the present scheme of a competitive society. The conviction has grown so strong that it has become a principle of action that the present order of society is re sponsible for the unequal distribution of wealth, the extremes of poverty and lux ury, tbe opportunities for injustice and oppression, the creation of gigantic mo nopolies and the consequent impoverish ment of the millions. They the people believe that if things remain as they are within 50 years there will be billion aires in America. Right or wrong, they believe that millionairism is unjust, and that a billionaire would be a cri me against humanity. Mr. Thomas G. Shearman in his fa mous article in The Fornin shows that in America three-tenths of 1 ier cent of the population control 70 per cent of the property. In other words, in the distri bution of national wealth one man in 300 receives $70 out of every $100, and 299 men receive $30, which if averaged would give them about 10 cents each. The wealth of Crcesus was $8,000,000. This is less than the annual income of more than one American millionaire. Mr. Shearman says: "Sevf ral nonspecu lative estates have increased fivefold in legs than 40 years. Counting only 4 per cent increase, thp present fortune of $200,000,000 will become $1,000,000,000 in less than 40 years." There is no way to prevent this save by the radical destruction of the present basis of property as protected by the state. Let men who believe in the jus tice of the present system pf compe tition and inheritance see to it. The movement of the masses threatens the laws of both accumulation and inherit ance. The under masses have grown to see that enormous fortunes that involve the lives of countless millions are mat ters dependent on the accident of birth, not on achievement. This has been so for ages. But the people who toil be neath the burden are only now awaking to the fact. And they mean to make such estates impossible and such titles invalid. Let those who believe in it un derstand what js involved. Second The established traditions of social caste are at stake. This low and vulgar rabble, called the common peo ple, are bent on tbe destruction of arti ficial distinctions among men. Let those who cling to these distinctions see to it. Their existence is threatened. INCONSISTENCY OF LEADERS. The men who lead this crusade against pride and luxury and extravagance and sham and pretense are not themselves free from the errors they would ' cure in others. Their cry is "Democracy !" But they are autocrats among their fellows They insist upon the leveling of social orders ana yet insist upon wearing a crown for themselves. This, however, is not to the point. The question is, after all, simply, Are they right jp their con tention? Consistency is the ghost of weak mmds If they are right and sue peed in setting up a real human brother hood, their own inconsistent claims and pretensions will be swallowed up jn. the flood. I read the other day that a certain Countess , who is an American by birth and a delegate to the Columbian .exposition from a foreign country, ap plied for a complimentary card of ad mission not long agp. The official to whom she sppke pf the matter eirplaiaed to her that' it would be impossible for him to issue such a card, because jf it were lost he had no way of tracing it. MA photographic pass is much better,' he eaid, "as it can bo readily traced. Such passes," he added, "are used by all members of the board of lady man- agrs." flip cpaijtes3 objected to having her picture taken for a phptpgraphic pass oh f he ground that she was a titled perstm- ags, &uu f would not be in conformity with etiquette. "Well," replied the official, by way of persuasion, "ujy mother is a member of the board of lady managers, and when She tomes to Chicago next week she will hav her picture taken just like the pther members. " ''But, you see," said thn lady, "I am a (BOW1U3SB, es, I know," retorted the official. and my mother is a queen," The countess stamped her foot, and without another word turned and left the office. Let the counts, and the duk&s, and the princes, and the kings, and their lackevs. and their apes in the republics, and th barons and princes of the social econom Ic world look to their privileges. THE ftABgLE JS AT THE POOR. At heart they believe in aristocracv. But they claim higher orders than let ters patent, swerd strokes, courtiers' manners or a bankbook. They demand an aristocracy of brains. ot heart, of character. Their pretension may be vain, but for this they fight, and they threaten the foundations of the order that standa to day. Third The ruling political powen have their future life involved in thia contest. All traditions and theories deemed fixed by the course of centuries must stand the supreme test of the interroga tion point of the scientific mind of a new e. The notions about government that . . A-!rfn-il lV thr I -" r :U Strang Uie w whKl? tb t.-.KB I- i-ring hurled b tan mu J , Am th marhiiMTj of ci filiation t- ...i- with each npw tn- Tstiooth.;rin ur-m our ytemsor; political ie-rninient l-come morr more vrre. The let alone policy pro mulgate in the rightnth century w the core all for every pvlitu-al 1 .n tne,! and found walittt. AuJ tt-e , t .n..,i..i..iih:H'l'li IiOOa (Eie i f ' i lifted high, and the preurr of " ; of a vaster lite lift trii;i io.i.- moment L t the traditiona! m--' km. ... it Thef.iumLin.ms'-f all he hwltn. dear arw leing threaten.-d by this move-; mt-nt. traditional irti- M-e to it. The partv crie that have h. ul U" , ble of ignorant follow, r- m the j-t j ..t - donended uin in th'' future. Un people are bwouung les and U-m dovi.e under traditional b a h rhtp. If l''.v are ignorant and mish-d by arrant dem agogues, it i hih time they were twlier informed by U-tter men. Sf t. it! Fourth The organic life of the church threatened. Thll tv-t WO Illilllol.H of pe.ple iu America attend no church at all. Of th remaining ju.voo.w, not half of them are of any practical ac count financially or spiritually to the churi 'i s life. I hey are utterly indiffer ent liile nominally loyal to some sort ofcl.nn h life. They have some sort of religion, hnt it is mostly on the surface. It not onlv does not go skin deep it does not jfet through their clothes. It never reaches the H ket. An evangelist the other dav no nested eveiyliody in the audience who had paid hi debts to stand up Thev rose in a ma.-s. Then he paid. Sit down, au 1 every man here who has not t.ai.1 his debts stand ni." One man raise.1 his arm alolt. -.My goi man, ... Ml said the evangelist, "have yon not paid your debts?" -No." said he, "1 have! not paid them and cannot. I am the editor of a religious periodical, and near-1 ly every nieinlter of this congregation owes me for my paper." This is a fair! sample of the religion of one-half the the nominal adherents of the modern church. The modem church that is powerful, that iys its debts and is able to take care of itself is the church of the rich pewholders. THE NONCHI KCHGOERS. The 32,000,000 of our ieople who do not attend churches at all are many of them bitter m their hostility to all churches. They have grown to believe that the priest and preacher are their enemies and the churches the stronghold of their allies and supiorter8. Church after church in our rural districts die. Church after church in our cities die as the rich conservative classes move up town and out into the suburbs. The church has neglected the mass of ioor people until they have lost faith even in its friendly pretensions. Its invitations are regarded a bait with which they are to be swindled. Right or wrong, this is their attitude. If it is a mistake, it is high time they were taught better. The attitude of these millions bodes no good to cushioned pew, candled altar, solemn arch and cleric frock. Shall we have a century of atheism, as with France, and then after a hundred years of stag gering in darkness grope our way back to the point of departure and begin again a hundred years lost? Believe me, the power and authority and organic life of the church is at stake in the pres ent threatened social revolution. The church must ever lead or di . Is it lead ing? On the part of the restless and radical masses, what are the issues for them In volved? Whether they are right or wrong it matters not. The restless masses believe, and believe with a conviction deep and sullen that will not stop to parley or to reason : First That the right to life for them ia at issue. The specter of starvation haunts hundreds of thousauds of these people from year's end to year's end. The possibility of being thrown out of work and tramping the weary, hopeless round for days and weeks and months and begging for the privilege of the hardest labor in vain hangs now over them. It saps life. It takes the heart out. It kills. The specter of shame haunts thus a thousand girls' dreams day and night. An honest life to hosts of girls seeuiB each day more and more hopeless. The conviction that the right to live is involved in some sort of social move ment presses today upon the souls of millions with the crushing weight of de spair. They have grown to lielieve that the right to life is becoming a matter of inheritance; that millions are born to die an untimely death, crushed beneath the upper and nether millstone of an un just social organism. We read that coal miners in England "hew coal in seeme 1 foot 10 inches and 2 feet thick, lying for hours on their side, all nt naked, in seven inches of water and under a sort of shower bath frcm the roof, picking and shoveling as best they can. It be ing impossible to eat a lunch in such quarters; they take only a cup of cold tea or bit of bread and butter and work on until time to leave the pit." That men who rise at 3 in the morning to go to such work are "queer in the legs" from young manhood and broken down at 50 is not strange. Eighty thousand of these wretches struck in the spring of 1892 against a reduction of wages. Can eny man dare to say they were not striking for life? 6 CASES OF EXTREME HARDSHIP. We' read 'of a man f5Q years old, once prosperous, but ruined in the panic of 8Y4, ho works 17 hours a day on a street railway. He had a Sunday off 18 months ago and ' hoped he might get an other in five or six months," My church is helping to keep a woman from starvation whose business ia to make coats at 15 cents each. This wom an ia the representative of hundreds of jtbon'saha'g bpse right to life is involved in the hoped lor reformation pf "socjety. Alongside this fight for life we read of a fruit market "which has existed for 80 years npon the vbjnjs of the rich. Ham burg grapes at $2 a pound are regularly In stock. Jn winter strawberries and as paragus at $3 a box or bunch. First Flor ida berries. 13 in a cup, $4 a cup, and parties supplied at that rate." Second These people believe that their liberty is at stake. They believe that they are in slavery and their children being borne in slavery a slavery the maintain that is worse that chattel slav ery, because thp master i pot held re sponsible even for food and plothes and shelter. Js this true? It is said thaj during the winter months of a recent year in three judicial districts in JTew York pity over 21,000 men, women and Children were evicted for nonpavmenl pf rent, and in the course of tlie23,86j families comprising not less than 1J9,00 persons weu evicted in like manner. A young man who attends my churcl services and who is B clerk in one of thf firms which does this work told me tht other day that hardly a day passed ovei his head that his fcoul was not made sick atwhat ; he saw. He says that the pov erty and suffering of these poor familiei are so intense that after he lias executed his orders and turned them put he ft quently takes a dollar oUt 0f his owt ometbing to eat for at least a day cj two for herself and her children III told me that the.world would J amaS to know how many Lig tenemt S in, with HI.I- fl'l' ' 1 1 -i. ....... .1.1 t.ntken cba-r. a ty rooms. Wllu !. of rags a tb only malt? t-r furniture THK VERY It is UieS to tell ibe leol they 1 ,..nv is to tbeui larawaj ie iirr. - j . , i tint in uinr wi-n vears. Jlie I-ro ny cri re pris onen for lite. The hoj f liU-rtv U - . It i a madness that M Sues is contagion- when hrougiii Him n' tact with b'lI , if re" jxvtable, jov IMCl wnu ii -j" - i ertv Ibre het. the danger i'f tne threat of anarciiv. Ib re is th- danger j-oiut of ..-fnf.ire. Thf it rankle under the fancied or real hense oi lujur.u.. v. of work anl the victim of despair, ..... I lilt Out be inaj no ui.i.i. i ...... i .1.ti enough t meet this is Will we have the love sue for him in s.t ing that a tane life is at least made possible? A writer in the Hartford Courant tells us how Lord Lytton of England lehaved when such an apical was made v.. him. A laborer on the estate of the elder Bul wer did a certain hard Job. The Iwilin refuwl to pay w hat hedeiuMided for thf work. The "man iiiMst.-d. The Iwnlill discharged him and jiersecuted bun. un til finally he drove him almost a pauper froui tho estate and from the neighbor hood. He kept telling hi friends that some day he would t what was due him from the Bulwer-Lytton estate. When Owen Meredith came to the title and was home on leave of absence an English embassador to France, this laborer met him ou the road one day. -You are Lord Lytton. I lnhevo," he said respectfully. " i es. -Then, if you please, I should like you to pay an account which has len due me for a long time." Lord Lytton looked at the account, and at his request the man told the whole story. The poet was very much affected and disturbed. Then he said: -Well, I will do what I can to make it up to you." He was as good as his word. He built a house at the gates of the park, put the man and his family into it and gave it to them, rent free, with other perquisites, so that he was entirely comfortable for the remainder of his days. KITY K THK MC 11. If our iKwert ul classe s of today would only meet t he suffering and despair of the present with something like this spir it, there could 1 but one end of every issue peace and fraurnal helpfulness. Third The issue for which the larger number struggle and the one fraught with more serious possibilities than any other is the right to a tolerable existence for the masses of the jieople. It is a question of debate as lo bet her the con dition of the working masses is abso lutely better or worse than in the past generation. Some affirm that the work ing people have the best of the advance of the civilization of this period. But so high an authority as E. Benja min Andrews, president of Brown uni versity, declares that "in many respects the toiling masses are no whit better off today than in England four centuries ago," and that "the pasting of this age of industrial advance and of worldwide land utilizations, w ith so slight gain in the ordinary comforts of life on the part of the laljoring man, goes far to preclude all hope of great improvement for him under present economic conditions." While it is a question for debate as to whether he has actually improved his condition, it is no question for debate whether the life of the rest of mankind has advanced. Under these circumstances the condi tion of the workingman of today is be coming for him more and more an intol erable one. He has learned to read and to think. He has a hundred wants and aspirations now where he had one a hun dred years ago. What his father was content with he will not accept. He lives in a bigger world. Forty years ago the postoffice of Great Britain carried 30,000,000 newspapers. Now it carries 250,000,000 annually. The total n-unber of papers issued in America is estimated at 8,368.000,000 annually, or 54 copies for every inhabitant. The masses of the people now read, and this for the hr?t time in the history of the world. The preacher of the past generation could reach a few hundred people a week. The printed sermons of this pulpit reach millions. So in every department of teaching and even in greater degree! Dr. Strong in his recent book graphically says: "We shall not be surprised that reading has operated as an unoqualed stimulus upon workingmen when we re call how promptly it quickened the up per classes in the sixteenth century. This was not the only cause, but it was one of the chief causes of that wonder ful awakening of genius and energy which marked the century of Shake speare and Bacon and Raphael and An gelo." The railways of 1891 carried 495,000, 000 of passengers in the United States. Travel has increased with reading, and the same writer says "travel and the press have made the modern working man a cosmopolitan." The cosmoiolite is one sort of being. The village workman of the last genera tion was another. What was tolerable for one may be the flaming issue of a revolution for the other. Tne masses are deeply and sullenly discontent wji their present condition. They declare it intolerable, and they contend for such a a reorganization as will make it toler able. They do not believe it just for one man to receive T0 and 299 men 10 cents each in the distribution of the world's goods. Thousands of the; . 1,. heye their verv lives are at Vtake. 1 WOERK GOVERNMENT FA1UJ. The ultimate seat of our present gov ernment is with the sheriff and his Tsse. His abihty to handle the posse d pends on the feeling of the posse. The g., .,. ment failed utterly at Homestead. The posse was on the other side. Let our great and wise men see to it Here lies the latent possibility of vio lence or peace and prosperity. We face m these issues the possibility of a higher and freer and purer civilization or a re Upse to the darker slavery of lgnoranc and brute force. Shall we call each oth er names while the opportunity for res cue passes? F Let us not deceive ourselves into be lieving the discontented represent a few cS eadTtla5r afdtat" in cities. The fanners are equally de pressed, and have equal cause for dt E8S'f Rejoined the army of the radicals. The farmer, too. has be pn to read and think. 'TheumtuS have a ready tasted of the tree of edge of good and evil and have Some aware of their nakedness. The smX Which cover the mere necessities of ?' are the Were fig leaves. The masses w never be satisfied until their waS fi FSj?1 B?r0IS mee these issues? flo 1? 1 tlme threatened rev, olution the people have full political Will the fortunate and powerful know their opportunity or lose it? The trouble is that thi inaiw vt despair- j iug manhoi.l and wv u.anh.1 fall wj ! victims in mli nonr w t. ctlininal madness tailed anarchy. All an hv i ii.s-.mty- i mml u.ty. had its birth in the pr.M U voiuit of the last centi.rv. This Mmun of deadlier wi-t.s has Uvu mring rnh.-ed. jnluj our ocml order for the ,t l.umiiw OI r Will w do . .... called to anrb. nr , another? A p-dicrm.m nr. k au altercation tn,. . '. fought one ai.. .,. w burned down. ,. work. And th- i,. v. Maud l"fvire tii,. t reason for th.-ir ex..;. . lf Mot,, k,, The rejrt . f tr.f w- . T J. ... .,. '- L 75 veai nva.: h 1. i.t reformatory . r:, : ,-k.i , t vcriUtf Steadfast tie . by moderation t..: . . : l.- liest kl.i'W 11 H 1.;;, , ineMic a;ri- n: i.t ;. tpecially wiv.cii C' l:.-., tbni. woman' ni:. vi rv slow Micce us ; '-1 U. .. . 'A point voting ami oV . . to this day It l.rts I:..,,.,, vane, tholliili they I. 1 frage iu t ne Mate i.a ballot tor chH'l . , unfair awumj iu .ii i.,; u, cared moot fr w4 . ilege of KoHl io the . a luore general eq-.;a':' sh tielieved Would j suffrage. A to tins t:, great nin in recei.t , impulse to this has l . i, of equal and j-ep.ir.ve : wbi. h has ii rt , thruij;hniit th'- count i Willi the chance t fruits f tl.eir iii.'ni'irv t Wi'lllell were natural !v i... work. Tho refoi m . f K. .1 .. 1 ' 1,1.-. ! T. s. r . . . r :iif'e.l l'.r.tiii, ing preva.hil. there na,fM 1.. ....ti....i I..L- ...it e... t una c, to hxk out 'or li.-i-selt st. .! surely const raincl the , vwil! formity and eqiiaht ot rni:.t J work. The truth tn. ;,. i,vn very great obj.ytion to m. I( u,,r;r.fc the part or woman, sin- i.. vht ui til. the washtub or tin r;,r'-s'- r"iu iii t sundown without n uinn for lack of femininitv. it Ww wnen soineoiner cmi'ioynu-M , .n ' more suitable physn allv. wh mi,. that the appropriate hph.-rt r. view. Brooklyn F.agle. iiiH tttt Ilia Wife IUd Nrrw. About a month ago a buMiu-M mt wife got the idea that she on-lit U) ham a revolver in the house. Tli.hui!,i protesteil in vain. JShe win .1pj M(b having one, and she got it. Tli.-f,,u0W1!l night, after teasing his wii,. hlmut hy ing something that she wniM u?n . if it were required, he h it the lmun. ing ho would return in a few lienr. Shortly after the door l.i,.,l brhial him his wife was attra ted by themcsl of footsteps up stain. 1 b-r first insula waa to Bcream, her second to runnn door and ask assistance. IVo tU thought of the revolver and of her W band's laughing taunts t hat i-hc afraid to handle it. ( Join t the draw, she secured it, as the sound of tin M-!t footsteps were close to thetop landu.f 4 the etairs. Flinging ojn-n the jiarlordun; she peered into the darkiu-K and in trembling voice demanded to know ! was there. She fancied sh.- heard tint laugh and then saw the dun outline oil nuuisiariiiiK ioue.- i-eini. Stay back, ir 1 will hxt," ahe uid as 6he pointed in the direction of tlit-Ej ure. There was one more step, a n-ioi and the man fell down stairs with i thundering crash and lay uiinmrnni almost at her feet. One look uliuwtd him to le her husband. Then there w a piercing scream, and when some ueiffc bors forced their way in the twowai lying senseless in a jiool of blKl. The husband has just recovered, M will be lame for life, and it 1 tudtm that he will never try to f righteu hiimli again. Toronto World. Two ilrl I'armerii. Two MassaehuM tts girls, the MiM Clara and Lottie Temjile, own andcarff on tiuccessf ully one of 1 1 eat li's lnct fnm The father of tho young women dieil few years ago, Aud tho farm wan Iwnghl by them. Since that time they have asHtiuied tot entire resjionsibility of the placn.Rtidbf hard work and close calculation tin large indebtedness incurred at the hoi the girls took possession has lm-n paii in full. New and improved farm n chinery has b'-en purchased fnra tin to time, and a herd of fino milk col has been seeured. As a result of their enterprising e deavors th-- girls have not only mli home for t1 'inselves, but are able topr vide a com i ortable home for their owed mother. They paid last y for field work. The farm embrace lill acres. Massachusetts has 303 wom'-n farmed exclusive of a number engaged in ing fruit, flowers, seeds, cattlo and 1J"" try. Exchange. Mohawk Indian looking For Ho- Chief Green of the Moliawk tribeof Indians at Deseronto.Out., accomliftai by two councilors of the band, I been visiting in the city and left tat home in the east last night. The too have been on a tour of inspection alasf the Rainy river looking for a deibk location for a colony of the young members of their band, and tb yowl men are anxious to be settled. TbeJ egation was not favorably impr with the district and then-fore couttoj ned their journey westward. They b1 a' conference with the Dominion Is" officials in the city. They were gl all information and furnished with ature and will return in the upringfe spect the several districts in the or wcm, v.ith-a view lo the selection d fcile for Uie colony. Toroi.io Mail Eugenie' Generoaity. Apropos of tlie generosity f press Eugenie, the following bWH told: One morning at breakfast g' al related to the emperor the misftittjjj 6f a brother officer, who "becau "? had not lxlKiO franca mut hdisbc ored." The empress flew to ber ro and retnrnitig with a packaeof hW-1 mjtes4e-4t "Take them, general, and n'-v v me his name," iat Even now she doe- not know the b of the man ehebtfriended. Lonfov 13iU. HmimI TiaiMd Skylrk- Worefhan 100 hand raised .' larks recently reached this cit, a bird fancier who Ixmght them he has never before seen th"roiJ tamed skylarks old in this market commonest method of obtaining birds for market is to trap them- 1 urtuu raiseu oirus are laaou ut pest Hjrnetimes still in the egg, grown they are tame and accustom pptivity. The caged skylark sin? ing the greater part of the year n?JLi not seem to know the difference he! his lowly jr h n id the sky from his free btet hren rain down their K" New- York t un. Window Shades. . ii A window without a shade is vr JJA dressed. Draperies may be diPf onlT& wan. ineyare aecorauvo, are essential They temper the Ug the room as the lashes do fr,twJin they dress the window and at the time form a background for the , aud 6tuffs of the drajery. .
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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