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El CAUCASIAN. VOL. XII. GOLDSBORO, X. C, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1S1K3. NO. 8. Lui uiiiJ Lit o uiul .'- C.SON AN P,NE HAS COL LAPSED .1 tKTKI) A MOMI!(HY ! If A -tvlll ISl I lllllN'l KNOW IT. -j v r . ' I V MILLION DEFICIT IN THt i UK HAUE.S NOT LACK. HI not ( f.irr i that ills nw I 1,1 I V is what i n v. I M N I KV WANTS , is Ignorant of tli I nl titrial i ililai ii 1 1 ii I us it Hit Strvirt- i Mmplv I rr-ilall-. 1h..i .ri. .' 1 '"I'eci.il ' orn-epoii'ient iu Wash ington.; , 1 i i n; ro.N, I . 1 ;'t h. "fi rover ;. ' grip"' is w hat tin- candid i ki - " "pie say in commenting ,i- message. "The constitu : ity" of e plaining, in detail, r nial loaders lias been ad -, j.- formed, H.ut he Inn Hore ; ..inted the country in no. j,,,. -.methiiig to vindicate the . Ird outrage contemplated in i, il .. iiiim business. It was his o reestablish a monarchy i'., , iiiln, but he wan ignorant : - f the conditions existing "i bis constitutional powers monarchy making business. ,. I:.,- narrowly encaped impeach-n-i,:. II--relied upon blatherskite i : d lie honestly t honght that vv.i- 'i"g 11 patriotic and manlv ::,.' ti-ii In-ordered the rotom ,ii. 1 1 1 t iir v i dissolute, corrupt, old ij.fii 1: ' the re-establishmen t of a ,;?.-n monarchy. !- on.- view of it. hut people him k::H .-ay mat 11 was neuner ig- nu nor honesty that suggested i, Ii a .hey. The sugar trust cou-ir.sir.-i! a half million dollars to the lurii'hal I mocratic campaign fund ,1 tin,- . "i nipt corporation is inter t'il iii maintaining a corrupt and 1 ' . . r iirh i-i ! goyernmeni in Hawaii. Il' v 'HIT ;i:,il, -r I : .! business 's a national dis i repetition of the Van Allen L Van Allen paid ;jC0,00() Italian mission; Koosevelt : i 1 ',1 x 11 for a legation secretary nit in this a two million elec- 1 ! I 1I 1 . i m i iiri was rained, ana tne result 'fn:;i wars more of (i rover." In .1 nonchalant way the President 11 11 ur i liar tie ordered a read v-ui.nie iHii.inii) with the accompanying iiMiiiic-, I'.it for some reason 1111 uuuii to iiiui the thing hasn't nUl- rutii.'-'i What a ridiculous fiasco! I iA'uh th -anie ahandon and reckless- ' uon t-care-a-snap tor con- j , Me would stop half the j 'tt"i 'is, iron mills and factories: ta ve half a million who live by ni at of their face. Ki't-v line of the tarill" t)ill which .11 m;; -i, he considered in the House bi vituk. lie conceived it, form-1 att-i I it and digested it. 15y his Mlrarv orders contrress destroyed ;.,t tin eurreiicv of the country, and :h th.' dogwhip in his hands, he It? tin enactment of atari if meas wh'rh leaves the government iv million dollars short of enough 'line to defray its ordinary ex- f'-s. Honest taritt revision is one. hit the Wilson bill or the civia.-i't tun or tne ingiisn 0111 or; - I.', form club bill or the mug- i tii;i hill or nobody's bill, is quite !itf"iv!it thing. Hut with lord'y: i;iiVn nee and profound unconcern : I to the opinion of others Mr. 1 -HMiie.l says the bill ought to pass : thotit uniendnient and at once. j The country was prepared for some j ktlii;; announcement, sonic con-' -tatenient, some heroic sug- 'loii. in support of a Democratic policy, but that part 01 the stage which by common consent s to startle the country evidently written hv one or tlie V nite 1 i-lei ks. little wonder at the "Mit t'xjiiession "(J rover has lost important omission inijnnt : Wcuue intentional and premedi--i- : the wild cat bank madness. ret ie: 1 ut the ten ner cent, tax I x Hate hanks was the cheapest sort iKinocratic platform clap-trap ; imbecility. The demogogues vdab . it it during the campaign : icacy was, doubtless, in lH instances, the result of igno c IU devil is eutitled to his s iih-l Cleveland is entitled to ';t f r Uis repudiation of the Clii- platform in this respect. uirou;huut from beginning to :-the message, as an exposition of i:ii-tra:ion policy or of Democra 'xtiin,.. is an absurd and nidi 'f'tiiure. It only shows a mas elLut by say nothing, and iu I'ni'tieuiar it is a most pictur " !"lr'--. The result is general atnl disappointment. 'II IK T A KILL HILL. Nj as it Lr0tiS if is a sweemnsr tfade m-asnre, but it is impossi-t'"1;-' i-- it intelligently until it i'r,'5etiteij in its entirety. What rr!Ue method or system of taxa- ;"st0 timke good the sixty mil- 1' I.T- .1. C C H .' 1 ne increase 01 me ncr 1,1 uti.hcided. Whether it U he I ''T ain tobacco or a bond is- it?'4V' ".',L excepting the Presi f. '.'"'H-lf, Beeins to know. Every- ' 4 "Uik lw. II. I-.. d'iift, with'jut compass or an britjgjj regrets and sighs to 't the' , U I'l'tV the f.f-l.-ill a mar: nr.. 1:.:, : l ii.-li .. . jioiuicians siiu ah .'"blers. It Iras survived ev ( w i of vi ia.-.itude. It has out - kunl has done what a cent N FOURTH PAGE. THE I'KOI'LK'S WORK. REV. THOMAS DIXON ON THE ERA OF COMvlON HUMANITY. The Coluniltiatu I i...ill..n a llrllllaut 11 lumrntliiii of I'L.urm of tlif lta, Kulitlie kij.I VVraij.ia tk Tln-r un llrl. ir "Sitcnict Va Not In It. Ni.w Vock, De.-. 10. Hev. Thomes Dixon, Jr., c-.ntirn:-d in A-.-iaion hull thin tnominu' the n I h.ri-s ,f -i-. inons on th" 'i'ropiiecj.. ,,f th.- World's Fair." Tfie sunj-Tt of today's ci i -eours'3 was "Tliff Kra or" the Ommi n !'.-. j.N. "' lie declare. tliat'tliis isrnl exjwiMtiou was the a-Jii-veiiient of tiieconipnori jk--o-ple. "Soci-ty," po called, was not th rf. Tb5 couiiiion peojili- entice v ti it. '1'liey planned it. '1 hey uiana'ml U. They patronize.) it and i-ia.'.e it a cmces. CiaH ditiri' tion-i w. r.- I it in ti e vaster id'-a (,f humanity, 'j ln tr.uiiij.liii.rit i-x-pression of lit, by the i amnion pe.,!,.) ja the ;roj.he i,! their early aMimptiou of the Hiipreino control of the whole so cial or.ler. Tie; text eho.-.ii was from John xii, tt4, '"Whois this Son of Man?" It is a inoKt. inificat:t faet that J.-sr.s Chrint cailed himself th,. S n of Man. This was his favorite d-hi , 'nat ion of him self. It was his chosen definition of him self. The greatest revelation Christ made to the world was hitm-elf. And in this title he declared hii nself to In? the Hon of humanity. lie was not to be limited to any one family, to any class, to any na tion, to any race hi; vasthe.S.n of Man. The Son of Man shall come in his glory, he told us. The promii-e in this title he thus gives to humanity is full of richest meaning. As this Mipreme representa tive of the human race shall triumph and to him every knee how at last, ho shall humanity, tor which he lived, ,f which he was born, find its day of emancipa tion arid triumph. The Son of M:tu was crucified, but he rose again. Ihumuity has tieen crucifu-d through centuries on the Calvary of pharisaism, "sacred" and jirofane. HUT IT SHALL KlSK AO A IN. Class and sect and faction shall die at length, never to live again. The desire to lie out of the current of the great humanity is the sure index of the uncivilized animal. Whether he wear pnrpT and fine linen and fare sumptu ously every day, or whether he live from band to mouth and flaunt th red flag of an anarchist, it matters not. The princi ple is the same. All class ideas and class foundations as such are fundamentally wrong. They are not only immoral, but they are brutal. The self assertion of class, whether of proletariat or heredi tary title or millionaire, is the assertion of the antisocial nature of man tlie es sentially inhuman part of him in short, the brutal. There is no other name for it. It is a matter, then, for heartfelt con gratulation that this great exposition was in the highest and best sense of the word by the people, of the people, for the people. It was the affair of Man Man spelled with a big capital. There were no personages there. It was the triumph of the genius of humanity. There was no exhibit of "sassiety." The Four Hundred were not there to see the exhibit. It was not their day. True, the Duke of Verngua was pres ent as the guest of the United States government. But ho was present as a relic. He was not exhibited as a mem ber of "society." lie was shown strictly as a relic of Columbus. So the Spanish Infanta was a curio of a romantic past surviving today. Only in this Reuse were they a part of the ahow. humanity's triumph. For once class was lost in humanity. The idea of the fair originated in the brain and heart of the common people. It was created by them. It was planned and managed by them and for them. It was patronized and made a success by them. It could have been created by no less a power. It co ild have been sustained by no less a power. No king or prince or emperor of any nation or empire in this or any other age could have done such a work. It meant an expenditure first and last of .about $200,000,000. And more, it meant the corporation in heart and purpose of mil lions of people of all races and nations with one thought and one purpose. The vast crowds of people who poured through those gates from day to day and filled those palaces and grounds were the best looking people of equal number that ever gathered on this planet in one place. And "sassiety" was nowhere to be seen. Let the dudes and loafers and butlers who crawl up the stoops of the so called great and count it an honor to wash their dishes make a note of this fact. This was a world's fair. And the world was represented there. And the world was there to see it. But "society" was not there. Where, then, is the place of this petty mob that arrogates to itself so lofty a title? Nowhere. it is a superfluity. It has no mission in the real work of the world. It is froth. There are two great problems that now weigh on the minds of "sassiety." They are the two problems that always arose to trouble the peace of a distinguished cipher in that august coterie. "There are two things tliat bother me." he said. "One is. how the world got on before I came into it, and the other is how it is going to get on after I leave it." This exposition, that marks the glory of centuries of human achievement, has given a most emphatic answer to these solemn queries. Yet how many poor fools there are in this big world of ours who actually be lieve that the universe is no larger than their conception of a "class," or caste, of artificial social distinctions! Most of our sighings and heart burn ings are not over the great problems of the human race and human heart, but over the Tremendous problem of our own class position and limitations. An uneducated man who had made a vast fortune in a few years by specula tion, while driving in the park, encoun tered a plainly dressed middle aged man on foot. "That man," said he to his wife, "be longs to one of the oldest families in this city. His grandfather was one of the signers of the Declaration of Indepen dence, He lelongs to a set I cannot enter. I would give half I am worth for his position." Meantime the middle aged gentleman on foot mused as he looked at the mag nificent carriage and equipments. "If I CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE. .Ol MIK (.tllla.l A A I LIAtM 1M1. I . I Li html I or TL, I'ulk Memorial ' fuutl. Mauison, Ca.. Dec. 4th ', Hon. Marion Ilutler. Ch'r L. L. I'oik Memorial Fund, North Carolina. , Dear Sir and Iiro.: Kudosed you ; find my check ou the howry Bank-j ing company, Atlanta ia.. fori ;'-'.4S i thirty-three dollars and ! cents) amt. subscribed for the L. L. ! I'olk Memorial Fund by the follow-! State Farmers Alliance Miiton county Alliance. hmiijH Ledge. Colurnba co. Damascus Lodge, Karly co. Thigpen Lodge Cohjuitt co. Bridge Creek Lodge" Sunny Side Lodge Cobb ' Thomson Lodge McDutTie co. -ross Loads Lodge McDutlie e. B ineville Lodge McDutlie co. iibson Lodge (ilasseoek co. Mill Creek Lodge Bullock co. ' heroke Lodge I'olk cd. Kiiterpise Lodge Bullock co. Sandy (,'r k Lodge Clarke co. Laurance County Farmers Alliance Total 1'lease acknowledge recipt 1 (o 1 .y 1 no -- 1 00 7"i 2 IK) :( 1 (Kl 1 (0 r.o 2 00 o 00 :;. 47 and abliged yours truly, Wm. A. Broughton, Ch'r L. L. I'olk Memorial Fund State of (ia. Mir 1. mi 1:111 k. A Hi ioil County .Man .-ri;ia. Vtinlr'l In (Special to The Cao a.-iam Ai.KXANOEitvii.i.K, Echols Co., Jv'ovemhci 27th, 1893. Finiou T11 k Caucasian: Fortuu ately I am a son of the old North State ami a reader of The Cauca sian" and am always glad to welcome it in our 1 ami ly circle. I am engag ed in the naval store business with Mr. W. 11. Harris, who is one of Sampson county's most enterprising Mjiing men. There is yet agreat deal of the tinest timbered lands in this State that is not worked. On the 10th of Sept., ls)3, one of the most diabolical murders in all the annals of the history of this State, was committed iu Clinch Co. One, McClamb, (J. I ) supposed to have been from Cumberland or Sampson county, was followed from a turpentine tirm by the name of Cordon iV. Morrison by Priest Groov er about a mile, where he was shot and killed. McChunb's remains lav there in the water until the next day Alien an inquest was held. He was then buried by his employer without ;i colli 11 or box. At the last term of Clinch county Superior Court the grand jury found a true bill of wil ful murder against P. A. Priest. 1 no ft is cull at large am: lias made severe threats on others i ecause they expressed their opinion about the killing of McClamb. We saw in the Valdosta Times an article from Gor don (one of Priest's employers) stat ing 1 hat McClan'ib was of the "Lovv ery gang stock" of Morth Carolina. Some of McClamb's friends have ven tured to say th.:t Gordon's statement is absolutely lalse. It is the desire of bus friends here that his 1 datives should find it out and see that the guilty parties are brought to justice. It is the general opinion that others beside Priest are implicated. A. L. Tato.m. AM A I'DI'IMST, Oregii'! l'nrles I li'in.ii ml W- dov. inor iletiiics His I'osit inn. Mr. A. A. Stanley of Echo, Oregon, wrote Goernor Pennoyer to inquire if he could be recalled classed as a Populist, or was he still a Democrat pretending to advocate Populist principles, like so many other good men and papers. The following is the governor's reply ; State of Oregon, Executive Department, Salem, Oct. 2G, 1893. A. B. Stanley, Echo, -Ore.: Dear Sir In answer to your letter of the 23d inst, I will sav that you may count upon my being in the front of the tight next June for the Populist cause. You say that you cast your first ballot for me after being a Re publican t wenty years. Do you know why 3 on did it? It was because of my advocacy of Populist doctrine. Seven years ago, in my first canvass, I favored free coinage, the abolition of the national banking system and an income tax all good Xopulist doctrines. Three years ago, iu a magazine article, I favored loans by the government direct to the people, instead of to national banks alone, and the establishment of government savings banks, and in all my mess ages to the legislature I have favored control of corporations by a maxi mum rate tax, as well as a change in the assessment laws of the state by which the rich could no longer evade taxation. Of course 1 am a Popu list; and as nine-tenths of the peo ple of Oregou favor the same doc trines, they are Populists, and it is therefore quite reasonable to expect a sweeping Populist victory in Ore gon, if we only keep in the middle of the road. Very respectfully, Sylvester Penxover. A MIGHT V L.IVK PAPER. Urick romeroy" in Advance Thought. The Caucasian, at Goldsboro, X. C, is edited by a mighty live man, whose name is Marion Butler. He is a help to the people and his paper should have a large circulation, that what he so pointedly says, may have much and speedy influence. He be-1 lieves, that America is quite old enough and big enough, to hold her own against the world, and to have an American system of money that will be a legal-tender in this coun try, no matter what it is in any oth er! Aud he says that the interests of the people are of more account than the interests of the ones who in other countries live only to rob the wealth-producers of this country. JriXiK KTSSKLL ANSWERS A QUEST. CN A S E D S f T--E OALOTTE C T i -' : Ilk I:PL.HNh Mill IIAIOJT TUt Sll I I KK' AMI I'r KJI III H I I 1 - ii 01 i n us iiui Mir Kl l . I I M-lll II. Ewtor Tut Ca I a I a x: My attention has h . i ri called ti the follovvmir from the Charlotte Jbserver of ov. 1 th: Judge Ii. L Kii-v li . a i.-a-hnt; North .1; I i .! ..1: in- w.:v w ie re he I. a- !i en 11:1 !! 1- a j oliria lawyer, i- at th. j home from New York. ; iriiiMirtmit Ilm! !-im:, ut.iH:an. and i;v.- ta.it if the St.itc c-uuhi have absolutely fair eli-H !oii- the I'eniwrat would not earry twenty e unit ie out' ..f the niri-ty---vi-ri, instead of rarr uiil' as ihi-v now do all but twenty." Waaf.iii-ton ..-t "It's au often-asked and ro ver an swered question, tint wea-k it airain: If the Republicans ar? the victims of systematic eieetioii Iraud.s at the hands of the leinoerats of North Carolina, why is it that the-;., jotdied and swindled Republicans, who have had all the machinery of tlie Cnited States courts in their hands for ail these years, excepting the period from VJ to i);t, have not had the guilty Democrats put in the peniten tiary? That would have trained for them more respect at the North thin pleading the baby act will gain them sympathy." Charlotte Ihserver. Why don't we send election thieves to prison!' That would never do; it might embarratss the Democratic machine. What would they do for leaders!' Who would be left to send to the legislature and to congress!' Then again how unjust and cruel it would be to try ttie.-e high-toned Ptatesinen for falsifying returns, sup pressing lawful votes aud making perjured certifica'cs. Who could or would try them ? To obtain an un biased jury would be impossible. How could the criminals get a fair trial: Would not the case be 'pre judged !'" Imagine the embarrass ment which existed iu the ca-c of tin hog thief. Conceive his terror when he looked at the jury and oaw that eleven of the twelve were the men who with him had divided the pork. In J.sSs, there were com ictions and punishments in the l'. S. courts for election frauds. This was ac complished by W. S. 0"B. Robinson, the then United States Disuie! At torney an achievement perhaps without a parallel in Southern poli ties. The const quence was t hat the election that year was fair and hon est. The Democratic pariy got the S ate, and got it ou the honest vote. Siuce then, while there have been many precincts, aud even counties wiiere the votes were honestly count ed, taking the State as a unit, there has not been an horest election, ct cept in IKStj. The monster mock ery of ls; was the culmination of all tiiis pol tical knavery. And the defrauded were white men who lead broken from the rule to which ihey had previously submitted. Take one instance, which is only one out of many. At the election in Warren county, the Returning Board threw out the returns from six or seven precintsout of about eleven ou the flimsy pretence that the certili cate was not dated at the bottom, or not being brought by the right per son to the Board; or the polls not be ing opened at the right moment or some irregularity or other which was committed for the purpose of making an excuse for disfranchising the vot ers. The members of the Hoard were tried, the facts proven, the law ex plained by the court and the defend ants acquitted by the political sym pathy of the jury. Jury verdicts in political cases go according to the politics of the jury. Perhaps the greatest political trial since the Kenaissauce was that of the Seven Bishops who were brought to the bar of the King's Bench by com mand of James the Second. They were acquitted because the revolt against the Crown had obtained such headway with the aristocracy (the people had no power and no rights) that the King could not pack a jury. Within a few months after the ver dict the King was a trembling fugi tive living on the bounty of his kin dred despots in France. Whenever the revolt against political lawless ness here shall get strong enough to be felt in the jury-box then, and not till then will political crimes be pun ished. Has the Observer heard of any body being .punished for lynching negroes charged with assault on a white woman ? Perhaps about all the victims deserve what they get, but the lynching is inexcusable, be cause the barbarian brutes cau be hanged just as well and just as sure ly aud infinitely more decently by the law than by the law-breakers. I hope the Observer agrees to this. If so, suppose he undertakes the job of sending the lynchers to the peni tentiary ! Or would it sound better to say "there are no lynching," no negro is ever hung except by law, and the proof of it is in the fact no body has been convicted of lynching. D. L. Russell. THE WILSON BILL IS "A Democratic ('.') Tariff Masquerading iu McKinlev's Old Clothes." New York Sun. "Tested by the first principles of political rectitude and party honor, the protectionist tariff proposed to congress by Mr. Wilson and the Democratic majority of the commit tee on ways and means is a fraud, an infamy and an insult. Mr. Wilson speaks of the surpassing magnitude, difficulty and delicacy of the duty assigned to his committee. if there had been a single copy of the Demo cratic platform in the committee room, everything might have been as smooth as oil. but then there would have been no free list, nor would the Democratic party have been mas querading in the Hon. rilliam Mc Kinlev's old clothes." (i. M. W. OF K. L. LESS PC a ;v A' 1 cS J. Ii. Soo-tri... 1 11.- vrw T. V. Cu.j.rh h. ii.J of th- K nu'tr loll at St -.C!!ri- .Hi' ,.. .lf,t. ln i A.MKs i;. m " K i; i; 1 1 ; X. The ehoie of .laim s I. S..vi-ig-n for (n.'ui.l Master Workman seim to meet with ireii.-r.tl s.-ttisfa.-tioii. 1 fe ha eonsilir;t tile exeell'ive at'il- ity, an.l prohaMy the uienihershi. roll v iil assuaie t'oi iner 1 afire porjiorl ions, iiinh-r hii had. i -hip. I.KS ! iWI.KK I.V AM' M.I;K Vi I . I'll. . The W.i Ciiton l'o-t in an e.i- tonal s'ivs: Witii the retirement t .Mr. I'ow deily as lu nil ma.-ter vvo- k nau oi the Knights of l.abof . -Ue 1 t he aeees- sioii of Mr. Sovereign to this tesjion- .11 . : . : i .i ;tllt ioic iiosuiou. v. e are assure, i on tin lority of .Mr. Sovereign liini, l) that the organization is forth more of a power I ie h, nee in pobtie-. than It has iieen in the jmt. More attention is to tie given to economic and political .p.i st ions. The knights are to ji'i hands with the I'an-Anieriean League and Farnit-t s' Allianee and to male- e.mi hinations, if possible, sith th, American I'ederat ion of Labor ami other trades' organizations. In short, the new master woikman makes it plain that the great body which he has undertaken to harmon ize and .strengthen is to be made an inipoiiant factor in the future poli tics of the country. His own polities are of a l'op'iii-lie turn. That is, he believes m tin unlimited coinage of both gild and silver, the issue of more np.i..y as may he required without the inter vention of banks, the abolition ot the President's veto power, aud flio (i'tm.S,i by ilireet vol.. the peo; i f ail tne legislat i o ollicers of , exeeu t he gi II- tive, and judicial eral govei iiment. The clergyman A nd why should little boys say their prayers every nighl.' Tlie (iood boy So'stde Lord ean have a chance to get what thev want bv morning. Life. She -How little salary do you think a young man tnicht marry on.' He Well, if the girl is extra old and ugly, she ought to give him ."i,(HK) a year at the very least. Indian apolis Journal. The teacher asked tlie class wherein lay the difference of mean ing between the words ''.siillicient'' and "enough." 'Sufli-ieiit," answr ed Tommy, "is when mother thinks it's time I .stopped eating pie; "enough is when i think it is." Tuck. Boston Mother Tommy, if you don't keep quiet I shall be compelled to whip you very hard. Tommy (aged i) Mother! How illogical! Does it not occur to you that a severe castigation will only have the effect of increasing the vol time of sound 1 may be producing.' -Chicago Re cord. "1 have enough to support you, Ethel. Will you be my wife.'" "Well Charlie, you must excuse me if I am eau'ious. But you say you have enough to support me. Who is go ing to support you.'" Ilarpn's Bazar. Little Johnny was in tribulation that morning. Prohibitionisis great aud sm ill met him at every turn. It was "no" to this and "no" to that, till at last he began to cry, angrily exclaiming to his mother between his sobs: "I wish 'no' was a swear word, mamma, so you couldn't say it!" Boatou Herald. If you don't believe that anyone reads ad vet tistnents. jut ask the man who has had the birth of t .vius announced in the local paper how many times during the next week ht. had to stop to be congi atulated . Somerville Journal. Sunday school teacher Now, children, we must bear in mind that between our last week's lesson mid this quite a period of time is iVpre s'mted as having elapsed. Daring this time a very important event has taken place. Yes, Mollie (noticing a little girl at the end of the class smilling knowingly), you may t 11 us what is. Mollie Mamma has bought her winter hat. He: "I shall never marry until I meet a woman who is my direct op posite." She (encouragingly-): "Well, Mr. Duffer, there are numbers of brig!iT, j intelligent girls light iu this neigh borhood." "Ma," said a discouraged urchin, "I ain't going to school any more." "Why, dear?" tenderly inquired his mother. "'Cause "taiu't any use. The I can teacher never learn to spell, keeps changing the words every day." . Family Friend: "I congratulate you, my dear sir, on the marriage of your daughter. I see you are gradually getting all the girls off your hands.'' Old Goldbranch: "Oft" my hands yes; but the worst of it is I have to keep all their husbands on their feet." hn '(.. i n at tLt : s d I. a hir 'or !' i strange to Ler ' Ills n.l. v. ki!ii;in iiiill'Ni'ii'iiliiieiii. 3 KAXO uELL a::: !1..: !. . ; A .'.lot c ! - r 14 y i L: ani JACS ALL i TfJuaw.e,! i M . Ii.il C ;! A . V.-. 1 : i . '.M A -.Hi.rV '! , J 1 r. .,,,-! l"aol Hi . h i I Vain !;. ;. F"!-!,. .'tli;tt !.- -t!.i ..l: I r : -l.. t n:u vi l,i j v- f. ,,. . . , U'.nt (.: .j.,, Jur.r:.- 1 w f-.-i I 'v-t 1. 1 T o!.m i it..- .v. rv:-n- . I rr.m l.i u i.-I i . nan i"r- e . -f e..i , 1 1,.- ... I i - - . ' -r. -.i r-POPULAT0N O" AMERICA. Wl.i i la I U.- , i, i. of Copjnriiij; I T'.e j.. . j iu j.it j. !( Ui li ! I. .1,-. I lit f I v U etnal:. Anierie A 1 1 u r i. -.i n are inn m. 1 1-.:' ij,ii.i lft-i from l..ii.itlin. . ( A o. ri -.i i -i t 1 't! N It til,' , .,! (i i is large, an.! tin ;n !i.- ! lis. Mt Illliil. !l'-i-. I! am e aiut kicking! An Lngli-hman w a ..lie il.iv tmastin.. to a r feii. Inn :iii . f i .e i nun. iisit v i if tin H: it i.-li i i n i 'i 1 1- "es. -if." In- cxil.n .i.-d (,, im-!i up witli, "I'i.. Mm r m !s mi iii. f i. !.-!, : pvissi s-j, in--. " j "1 am in.t Mii.!i-.-. ut that." ivt rt.-d j the fjood I ri-iH tun, ui. "the sun i nl.li-. d to keep ari i .ii t lie raseaK. " However, the sun can how (ravel Irom : .New ..i ; to San I ran. Uc.i. and li ! on his p i age. a tree tiat j. m vv hii I ! 177ij, l.. ;g. . Kri rl uel to mind in r own alTairs for I he ( mure From i at to wot. Ann rie.i m retches over a breadth of more th in three thou sand miles. Here it is well to put homo readers on their jjuard, incase an Ameri can should one day put to them one of his favorite queMioiis. -Where is the center of America.''" 1 myself imagine. that, starting from New Ynk and push ing westward, one v..uld iv.i. h the ex tremity of America ou arriving ;i Sun Francixo. Not so Jonathan knows you are going to answer wronglv, and if you want to please, you must let your self be caught in this little trap. At San I ranei-to you are n t quite half way, and the center of America is really in the Pacific ocean. Jonathan more than doubled the width of his continent in 1S.C7. when he purchased Al.i. ka of the Huss ians. Today population, progress, civiliza tion, every t hing advances with giant's stride. A tow n with 'u.oiii) inhabitants was perhaps Imt a year or two ago, a patch of marsh or forest Today Paris fashions are followed there as closely as in New York or I.ndon. Jonathan pisses bis life in admiration of all that is American. lie cannot get over it. 1 have been through part of the country and I cannot get over it either. It is pure conjuring but let ns imt an ticipate. (Jive me time to , cover civ breath and set my i lea:, i i order. The.-e Americans are reeking with nnheard-of-lie.ss. My ideas are till jostling ia inv jwior old Kurnpo.m brain There is no longer a a store; mipo lele. LveiV thing is prodigious, ami I no longer wonder that the Americans only use their adjec tives in the superlative. Here is a letter that 1 received from an American, i i the mouth of May, 1837. It is dated from f'.o.sion: "Di:i: M:;: "1 was on the point of taking the boat at twelve to-day, to go ami have a talk with you about an idea which occurred to me yesterday ; but as I have already been across three times, aud, iu a month or six weeks, shall have to set out for. St. Petersburg and Japan. I am desirous, if possible, of arranging the matter I have at heart by correspondence " And as soon as circumstances allowed, I set out to see Jonathan and his conti nent. 11-JONATcUN AND HI3 CRITICS. 8..1I1. ilaliiy Ailviro Wliv JoiialLitn Loves Nut Jotui i;ml. A few- days before leaving America I had a pleasant talk with Mr. White-law Keid, of The New York Tribune. "Do not fall into the, great error of fancying that you have seen America in six months," he said. "But 1 do not fancy anything of tha kind,"l replied. "When a man of average intelligence returns home after having made a voyage to a foreign land, he can not help having formed a certain number of impressions, and be has the right to communicate them. They are but im pressions, and, if there is an error com mitted, it is by the critic or the reader, when either of these looks for a (wrfect picture of the manner ; r." l institutions of the people the author has vi.,i!ed, in stead of simple impressions. Certainly, if there is a country i.i the world that it would be impo.s.sil.k; to judge in six months, it is America. "In fix months you cannot know America, you cau merely get a glinjpse of it; but, by the end of a week, you must have been struck with various things, and have taken note of them. A Eerious study and an impression are two different things. To form a really exact idea of America one would need to live twenty yean in the country, nay, to lie an Americaa. 1 My all this to you to warn you thai if. on my return to Europe, 1 should pu';!i-!i a little volume on America, it vvi'.i ! a book of impressions, tn J if you fchou! 1 persist in sei ing in it linything but impressions you will lie to blame. Uu t i:i this matter I trust to the Intelligence of Americans. I shall bo in good hands." Upon this the editor of The Tribune responded. "You are right." It must be allowed that Jonathan lias good reason to mistrust his critics. Most books on America have been written by Englishmen, eow the English are, of all people, t!io.e who can the least easily et rid or th ir prejudices in speaking of America. They are obliged to admit that the Americans have made their way pretty vail, Liu John Hull lias always a rankling remembrance of the day that the Americans sent him about his busi ness, and his look seems to Bay to Jona than: "Yes, yes, you have not done at all Ladly for you, but think what the country would have been if it had re mained in my hands." He lixiks at everything lie sees with a patronizing air, with the arrogant calm that makes him so unliearable when he travels abroad. lie goes over with the firm intention of admiring nothing Amer ican. He occasionally presents himself at Jonathans dinner parties in a tweed 6uit. And Jonathan, one of whose little weaknesses is love of appreciation, has a cordial antipathy to the magnificent Briton. The Englishman, on his side, has no antipathy whatever to the Ameri cans. For that matter, the Englishman has no antipathy for any one. He de spises, but he does not liate, a fact w hich 1 -l ;.,;!" John IS .- ..i'tKv.r. as a jar - - e .'i iin i, ,ihl v (w ' .. Hi , o s. t l l' I litj L it f- l i t nr. .ui i t Hi. A , !; vi r a. .i-el :' t otilv ! !i ii..r I it I- ! iii- h. i, Jiluit l;i 1 . a- W Ti- t!: - i ii i vu-.er.i!,-, A iioi.j!;. J. luit l;i f. .r.'. .Mi'n llil l .... I'. 1 . - ' tol lit- .i-in..t i i..ific an l.niil.iii;i u r un t t,. I r.t;. r t.,1 I ci a tw0J Mui 1 1M Hie I I 1 ill t ,, 1 1 Ii . ..i i ii.. a j It.r ..iKI. I -o t - Air. I . K . I! U!n r. 'i!!:tilisl.!nf of i;vl,:t.it f,.r N'.irt!, ( ..i j.j , F"alr, hiiiiiiiitif llolm i .it th - the !..!!.. :V...m N..M): 'a did !i-.-,v n. i a!i.l t. the . 1... f.go; i 'ti a. .li.-jj a pl. en-. ia to t!.. hi.-h t in: TL Kl. i r v.. t t M. i - i . . I i 0; i.w: --. I H Mclv, J M ;,i.bs . T:ll-ry. 1 v . p. a-. ' I' Ke-,. Haw M Walk An II. .'t , ll.eii. w. nv i ; . p. ;is. i ews, p, as. "d. Bui :ihgt. sei d . i d. T J I ing. L oi shur- - 1.1. " ! W l,'obll:s.,, 1 1 ie ko ""II' 1 K.lWe. Nl Wton. sei ,1 lr II li Hut!,.. 1,-al, ,,-h. J.'S-e 1 Stokes. Wind,,.,-. . H M Jenkins, Mt H..!iv. h. at. I " Wh,t, sell, Kh-n roll, ge. wh. at H L 'I liomas, Thotn.isv ill, w hi nt. P r Lail, "oho i-r, beat . I A Keltyre, Antioch, w heat. J 1 Kerr, H i w I ; i , -. wh.-at. r i i . i 1 .-summers .-n..w ei. ( I,, v r xi 1 1 i . i oat. I .'I 11. '11. l.lll V(..,, he;,t. J .Mlo.. me Lihe.,!hti..ii, ),,.;,( H L h'l I. lie. Iblt IISV i,e. I Ve. I ' A I'alt.isi.n. Maxton. rye. John Ramsey, Way, i ,. I K K'ust, l'l idgewater. r e. I H cub.. ru.-, Idleuild. r"e. 1 1 1 1 l I . . I ii ii ii anon, .uorca tit .ii. rye. N I Balling er, l:!..umv W. 4 1 f I . , k. o,tt .yi'X .viei ver, l.gy pt, oats. I'. K Ciwcii. S.-ili.sbiiry. oats. i 11 Komi. Salisbury, oats. I I Ken-. ;,w l.'iver. oa's C W Mavis, Lngelhaid. oats. Holt tV I loin, w.i id. Lu'litigloi it- M K Lynch, 1 arlington, oats. I 1' Kerr, Haw Wiver, ci n. State Farm. Weldon, corn. I W Morrow I 'iney iile, ai.t n. I II C Uhorne, Idlewihle, eoi n. J W Wobin.son, 1 1 i.-kory, corn. I' W Ha vis, Augusta, com. J H Me I yer, Tillery, corn. J A Woolf, W ura I Hali, coin. I V," Kobitisoii, Hlckoiy, coin. (ieorge Holmes. I'.ow nian'l'.hiff. coin S T Pike, Mud Lick. win. i ciarrett t co.. Mi doc, emu. Holt A. Hoinewoo.l, liuliiictoii. corn. J M Sl'wyer. Sfecah. corn. T A W iiy.la. Maxwell, coin. Jacob Kis r, Snapp, com. II II Walton, Moiganton, corn. M Lowman, Connelly Spring-s, eoi n. c; (' Sanboinc, .Kiiow(len, corn. Pioottc lbal. Sugar Cirove. com. J 11 Mclvcr, Tillery, crn. I Loftin, Mt. (Hive, corn. W (.' Stromich, Jialeigh, coin. L I lvelfe, Durants Neck, corn. Titos Haffioii, Hurants, corn. 11 ' n I t il .i iiecKcr, .lerusali.ni. corn. i L Davis, Kngclhan eoi 11. J M ( 1 1 il is, Ivv. corn. He; Miller. Wb, crn. W H Ji'ierfs, liocky Mount, corn. n. 11 niggan, f.u wai ilsvi 1 ie, corn. Jacob liarnes. Jackson, corn. J (' Williams, Winslow, corn. .1 (' Smith. Vilas, buekwhiat. N L Huyson, I'.oime, l.u.-kwheat. I M Ciibbs, Ivy, bu.-ku Ik at. J Iv Wust, liridgc yvater, buckwheat. 1 II Houghton, Lauiel Spiing, buckwheat. W F l'arks, Zi n, bi ckwheat. 1) K Hower, Vakin Valley, buck wheat. John Ethcridge. Soowdi'ii, rice. Alfred .Fame., Ma. tin county, rice. J M Shipman, C'l irktoji, rice." H I' I'ope, Wehion, rice. 1 L Moore, Kin.sto.i. rice. W B lioeut, JJoek I'oint, ri.-e. I F Lautz. Liiicoliiton. rice. I J Kcei h, Tarboto, 1 ice. I L McLain. Maxton. i i. e. E E Knight, Tarb .pi, tn-e. I) M Stanton, La (itange. 1 ice T E I'erry, Belvidere, rice. lob Moore, Johnson Mills, rice. I W Hasty, Alfo dsville rice Or H V Ounston, W indsor, rice. I Loftin, Mt. OLw, peas. J II M.-Iver, Tillery, j.eas. F A Melver, Tillery, pea. (TO I'K I'KXTIXI KIi NKXT W KKK.I Thk Caucasian" is an eve opener every week. You can not afford to lo without it 1 11 1 : 1. 1... . 1 -ii I'OLK MOM MKNT. i.i;t kvkky i:KI nilMI.lt ( IIMKIIII 1 1. TO IU 11.11 IT. Take I i ti.lliil ioim at Ki i-r y Mri-tini;. The C-At CAsiAN's fund forthemon utti. nt now stands as follow s: Collected at State meeting, 1S!:. Am't received before that time, 0, W. Lindsay, The Cai ask n. We.stvilie Alliance (iutu Neck Alliance Lucoma Alliance, No. M.J1... Iredell Aliiatice E. (Jo.lwin, Oobliinsvilie. X. t Carr's Alliam-e, No. 1401 Wm. A. Broiightoii oO.oO Hum J.00 :;." 0.(10 i .00 ."i.OO Cleveland Sub Alliance, No. oSs 2.-'r We will publish in this, column each week the contributions sent in. In addition to our contribution of tit), yve will out of every club of ten cash subscribers sent in at one time, we will place one dollar to this fund and give the sender of the club cred it for same. ftf. GET TWO PAPERS AND SAVE MONEY. J Y'ou can save money it you want both The Caucasian and the Na tional Watchman, by sending us $1.75. You get both papers for one ear for that amount. MAIM ANN'S OLD MAX 4TT B C w T I. i i nit it i mi. mrniiNiik. oil.tltr l.ll,l. I.ilrr la Ht 4 .mmim, ili. I ,. . Vrmtl, -liii ei rj.i I m a.,,, j III I i u 4 vi', lt:plm ('. l.i'lH K: Mv Mux a cof mi.. M K. laid in the wn tit; i"hiuk, but .Mart Al tl S l s ;,rt. ;(s s,HllJ )lry ,.r,, lo y.ars .t-,. when -ycn UhI r tjtld -Ie was tin- iiklie.M cjri j"n tn "-. .imp." Marv Ann in niv ifr. no! t t:e ne t t. r of t. u healthy, utrong '.irouably e,KW; , labium. Wc lime 1-e. i. iiiairi.d iij. h i'lifii lo tcara ami iw ii. e r s i ei t a piea( titer thankn--:':--: ;'" After dinner i- ov r ami a 1 ! i e thnii;s cli-amd an. I j it away M;:iV Aim 1 1 J t tl (ut lew alien fi.H-k and v lute up rou ai IS 1 she looked a- yotiiig and rprv al.y ot tie. Ml Is, She olHiie.1 lb.. clock, atn I that i 'm k hasn't t'p1l i liiiot.te in mil .'ui y ars, but once li tu g ihe war, and to.k out votir j.ap.i to Me what 's.iuin- Kdwards bad t. iv about I hem iMiliticiiuii in Washington. Ue always hide the pa pel ;n the clock and keep it for .-ollie of the "swamp" pinjde to read "bin tiny drop in ou Suadaie. U In ii she got to where the 'Spurt. sp..ke about the day, of the razdr b.e k hog and the p mu-royal hteer it Ml me lo thinking. li. f(Ve 1 for- t i! M.,n Ami ay she know k 31m liiii.-t Ie a good 111 111 i f the Diiim c:at 1 "l;i tioii. f.s would iicyt r hair thought ot ejvn.g X)lll an.: l oin 1 1. ! ... 1 1 1 .1 s .n Tom i captain of "liie llell .Wallil S u 11 in 1 1 1 11 1 1 . . I . ! . -WiVH I llll.-l'll ( .11 loll ee you that name. I li n.i ml 1 r .1 ti.Uoii a.-, a tallow-face boy a! ti e l Lm,i, m h.N.i Iiottse. He bid a .-lick tongue and the older boys al! -:iid that he y as eut tint for a p .li" ii ian. lit 1 h in days Mime of the .Nuamp bihlren had a fiishioii of nibbling the clay in the hin kn ! between the logs" It didn't have :anv grit about it and it was old and , nn llow, but the feller that said clay to .FihImui got licked or had :i foot ! rac. It was all a habit and it had I a bad affect 011 the skin. It giye it I a alhr lik- look and made ihe chihli'i 11 wormy. ! Me and tun Ie John Duihai-i Cur roll - .1 mison's fatln-1 -belonged to I the sjiue church. We are mostly ( 1 5.-t j tiets 111 "the swjimp" and .lud i mui's father was one of tile pillars of the church, lie always sat on the front bench iu the amen corner and raised the tunes. .M ail V is t he 1 1 tiu 1 I have b..d the cold chills run down my back when he yyould sing on ; '-.Jordan's stormy bank I stand." I We don't haye any more church ! singing like that nowadays. Mary ! Ann and me just the other Sunday I was talking about this and after : wondering a little we thought that ;.FiidM.i must be a mighty goo friend of yot rs or he would never have call ! e,l you -Mary Ann." Ili-causc Mary s .... .. . - .. r.. 1 .inn 1.-1 Mm 01 11 lumn name 111 tne syvainp," and besides .Judsou 'h wife is named Mary Ann and Judson's bi other Wa.-h's wife is tunned Mary Ann. Forty years ago seems like a mighty long time. 1 married at 21 because I thought it yvas the right thing to do, but if I had known the yvar was coming 011 so soon I should have waited. I shall never forget tlie day, in front of tlie old Union hotel in Kenansville, where the lirst soldier company left for the war. Tom Kenan yvas captain of the com pany and he called it "the Duplin Killes.' Tom got to be a big man in the war, and his brother Captain Jim, our sheriff, took the company. I was mighty tempted to go with the boys, but 1 thought of Mary Ann and the two little chicks at home and we hadn't talked the matter over. I went home feeling very much up set. I couldn't sleep nor eat, and Mary Ann saw that some thing had gone wrong. She was right iu for the war, and when I told her theitextday what Dick Stan ford said to the Imivs when he give 'em the Hag ami how everybody cried, the thing was settled then and there. To the war I must go. The next day, bright and early, I nad dled "Sally" my flea-bitten gray mare and enlisted in Capt. Hill Houston's horse company. "Sally" carried me all over Virginia and brought me safe back to tlie Swamp as sounu as sue was the morning I rode her into camp. I don't intend to hin t anybody's feeling, but I want to say that it is a shame that a big high tombstone is not put over his grave. The Ixjrd neer made a braver, nobler, bigger-hearted man than Hill Houston. And I want to say another thing that may not be very pleasant to some people, Imt when I remember how (ieneral Hob Kaiiso.'n treated our company I for get that I am a deacou iu the Hap tist church, and I am just mean enough to be tickled to deatn at the digs you give his brother Mat for the way he voted to destroy the jieople's money. 1 haven't seen the sight of a silver dollar since that bill passed the senate. Even Captain Tom Dob son, of "the Hell Swamp Invinci bles," says that Mr. Hansom's vote as a confounded shame and out rage. Well, General Hob reduced our company officers and put in their places some Scotland Neck school boys whose dadies owned a lot of nig gers and they thotigld they owned the w hole earth. Gen. Hob is dead now, but we are all human and it is mighty hard, te forget some things. There is a mighty strong feeling in CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE.