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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-02-11
n Dramatic Incident.

The slave dealers extend their activi.
ty even to the very doors of Biskra, the
headquarters of the order of the War.
rior Monks of the Sahara, and one OF
the most dramatic features of the cere-
mony of the conservation of the monks
was when Cardinal Lavigerie led to the
altar a little brown girl, barely nine
yea rs old, who had succeeded in conceal
ing herself and in eifecting her escape
from a slave caravan passing through
the desert few miles to the south OF
Biskra. A sudden movement of the
child caused her to drop something
that she was holding concealed beneath
the folds of her djebba. The venerable
prelate bent down and raised it from
the ground.
1t was a small, dusky hand-the
hand of the little girl who stood beside
him, and which in sheer wanton cruelty
had been cut off by her captors. Hold
ing it aloft, and pointing it southwark
toward the great Sahara, while with
his own hand he raised the child's arm.
SO that all present could see the man.
gled stump, the cardinal exclaimed, in
tones which seemed to ring forth as
clarion: II would to God that all Eu-
rope could see this little hand! May it
serve to direct your line of march. En-
avant for God, for France and for hu.
manityp '-Harper's Weekly.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-02-11
PIiDEN (OITNTY

i. N. Kelly, of Bladenboro, says; Our
members say that they like your suano
as well as any they ever used, aud as
lodge are glad 10 endorse 1t.
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"THE KING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY REVIEWS
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THE AREA for 1892 will h senptb
ana a"h contributions
fearless and oupokeu
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ne root underlying civilization will
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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-02-11

Great Britain's Postofice Savings Bank,
The postotice savings bank system
in Great Britain was inaugurated on
Sept. 16, 1861, by the opening in Eng.
land and Wales of sol postal savings
offices. The system was extended to
Ireland and Scotland one year later.
These have been the means of Undue
ing many poor people to open accounts.
Deposits of one shilling and upward
are received, subject to limits of ESQ in
one year and ESQ in all, exclusive OF
interest, at the rate of go los. @ IL per
cent? per annum. Pennies may be
saved by the use of postage stamp saw
ings slips, which, when they bear
twelve stamps, are accepted by the
postoffice as a shilling deposit. The
total number of accounts opened at
the end of 1890 was 4, 5O7, 800, and the
amount then standing to the credit of
the depositors, including interest, was
just short of e63, 900, 900. The increase
of deposits in 1890 over the previous
year was "a, 443, 226.-New York Re
corder
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-02-11
SOME SPECIAL FEATURES FOR 1892.

L. "A SPOIL OF CFFICE," bj Hamlin
Garland, which opens in the January
ARENA. This is, without question, one
Of the greatest novels ever written by an
American author. /, deals With the Sc
cia', economic ard political condition Of
the modern West, and is ch2racier'z. ID
by beauty and strength. A golden
thread of love runs through the woof
and web of this great story, which opens
in Iowa, shifts its sccnes to Kansas and
closes in the National Capitol. "a
Spoil OF Oficn" will be the most talked
Of story of 1892 and YOU should read IL.
H. POPULAR SOCIAL AND ECyoNfe
PROBLEMS. 1t will b. an ency clopedl "a
OF social, economic and political inforns
tor, giving its readers nosterIv eypo
sition OF the true conditions ard needs
of the prese ut, depicting th" evils OF The
hour, and suggesting remcdis calculated
to secure wider need OF justice and
liberty for the great toiting millions Of
our land. From its inceptioa THE ARE
Ma has been the steadfc8t champion Of
people absolutely fearless in it's derun-
citation Of plutocraey, monopoly and ell
means and measures which wrong the
multitude or iefrinze upon the liberty
o. the humblest citizen.
III. PsYcVICAL,sCTENCE. During 1892
The ARENA will have The ablest most
most authoritative aud brilliant series otI
papers ever published On psycnicalI
science, by leading thinkers Of the new
world and the old.
~. THE CONDITION OF WoMAn
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-02-11

kIrfTON. n. c., Get. =, 1887
". II. Worth, s. B. A., Raleigh, ". C.
DEAR SIR AND Bro : Replying 10 your
snarir- IS to the results OF Farmers' Al
lance Official Gusno on my crop, will
say it was entirely satisfactory and wa.
IS good as ever used.
J. M. MEwRoURNK
Mr.. Mewbourne is q member OF the
State Alliance Executive Committee.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-02-11
SAMPSON COUNTY

CLINTON, n. O., Aug. 18th, 81.
Have Seen 80 per cent. Of those who
used it. The official is ahead, and if
there is any one OF pleased with it / have
not been able to find him Put us down
for next season. G.. A CUTE,
Manager Sampson County z. A. Store.
A. A. Page and s. P. Page, committee
appointed by South River Lodge s3l, to
report on F. A. g. After investip alton.
we find that ne guano Was used in this
community gives more general satisfac-
ton
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-02-11
A FEW CONTRIRITT,

In order to indicate the breadth. scone
and authoritative character of the con.
tributions to THE ARENA, we mention a
few recent contributors Pres. Chas. W
Eliot. OF Harvard, Alfred Russell Wal.
lace. d. @. L.. Camille Flammeron. En-.
lilo CASTELAR,, Rev. Lyman Abott. d. d
Mary A. Livermore, Rev. Mipot j. Saw.
age, Count Leo Tolstoi, Prof. N. s. Sbs.
Ter. of Harvard, Henry George. Edgar
Fawcett, Rev. R Heber Newton. Ham
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-02-11
We have over 400 REPORTS and testimo.

We have over 400 reports and testimo-
malls covering over eighty counties.
The reports are almost every one from
an Alliance, not from individuals. The
original copies of thesa reports can be
seen in our Office at Durham, n @ The
following are sample of the reports re
ceived from the following counties, VI hicb
will be supplemented by other counties
every two weeks in these columns:
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-02-11
THE CAUCASIAN.

Entered according TO Postal !! ~ ri
Clinton, II. c., as second clas' mai
matter.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-02-11

We are IN receipt OF tue IOlioNiDp re
listing to the same subject matter from
W. Fl. Worth, State Business Agent.
North Carolina Farmers Alliance, to- wit
ICoPY.
/. w. Il Worth. State Business Agent
North Carolina Farmers Alliance, certi-
~ that s. T. Morgan. President of ths
Durham Fertilizer Company, has shown
ne the original bills and analysis OF the
Ingredients from which the Alliarcc
Gusno was made that was shipped 10 j,
X. Smith at Mebanc, y. c.. and the
books containing formula OF the goods.
and from the guaranteed analysis.
have examined the S"perir tendent Of
the Durham Fertilizer Factory under
oath, and he has thoroughly satisfied me
IS to the materials used in this particu-
lar lot Of goods. ! have had every op-
portunity, and have thoroughly examin-
ed the whole matter, and feel satisfied
that no wrong his been done us.
(Signed) ". II. WORTH, s. B. 4.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-02-11

Let us understand once for all that if
thus gospel be made the standard of
measurement for men you must strike
from the roll of human history every
name loved of man. There never has
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-02-11
OUR MAGNIFICEN

Every subscriber to THE AREy. fer
1892. Who pays twenty cents extra for
packing and postage, will receive the
magnificent ARENA ART Portfolio. con.
tanning twenty-four portraits of the
worlds greatest thinkers, such as Glad.
stone. Herbert, Spencer, Charles Oar.
viz, Camille Flammarion, Count Tolsto;.
Bishop Phillips Brooks, James Russell
Lowell, ]. g. Whittier, Rev. Minot ].
Savage. Pres. Obas. W. Eliot, of Harv.
ard, Mary A. Livermore, Frances Z.
Willard. Oliver Wendell Holmes. etc
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-02-11

ouch a creed proclaims the gospel OF
the body as the end of life. This gospel
OF the body is the gospel of the brute,
We had recently in England another Of
those theater panics in one CT the man
utacturing cities. The alarm of fire was
given, and the crowded building was in
stantly thrown into an indescribable
panic. Women lifted their babies above
the head of the bowling mob and cried
for pity. Great, broad shouldered men
ieaped on the heads of those weak.
shrleklng women, trampled them to
death and their babes to death in the
wild effort to save self. The gospel OF
the body was the gospel of that hour.
The gospel of good victuals, of good
clothes, of good houses! The gospel of
easel
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-04-08

always loved. His infirmity was physical.
not mental. however, and within n few
months he has published farewell volume OF
poems, ''Good-By, Nv Fancy"
OF late years the bitter attacks on Whit
man have ceased, and he has been admitted
to be indeed poet
Whitman was dependent entirely on the
sale OF his books. and while never rich, OF
late years has been absolutely poor He
steadily refused to accept charity. however.
Whitman was described by the admirer
who gave him the title by which ,he is most
widely known, that OF 1.-The good gray
poet" as tall and stalwa-t his
face rosy, and scanned with kindly
wrinkles; with heavy-lidded. firm blue
eyes, and with a short thick beard. and thin
~ flowing hair. OF late years his hair and
beard have been almost snowy white.
he never was married. 1t was said that
o disappointment in early life was the cause.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-04-08
Frogs Legs Are Dainty.

It is not a hundred years since DR..
Kitchener, in his quaint old book, ga
Cooks Oracle" gave among culinary
curiosities, with ''roasted horse and
lizards in hot broth" ''fried frogges."
Yet a dish of frogs legs is to-day
dainty dish that almost any one will ap-
preciate. It has been estimated that over
40, 900 frogs legs are used in New York
in SINGLE season. When it is remem-
bered that they seldom sell for less than
fifty cents pound, it will be seen that
they are no inconsiderable feature of our
markets. They will be in market in the
spring time, being in prime condition in
the latter part of April and in May. The
only part of the animal used is the hind
legs. The finest quality of frogs legs
come from Canada. They are brought
to market skinned and ready for use. All
that is necessary is to twist of their
claws. Sprinkle them with salt and pep
per to broil them; dip them in sweet oil,
squeeze over them few drops Of lemon
juice and lay them on broiler. Broil
them very carefully, about five minutes
on each side, until they are very deli
cate brown. They should be served with
maitre d'hotel butter.
A more familiar way Of cooking frogs
is to fry them. Wipe them off, season
with salt and pepper, squeeze few
drops of lemon juice over them if you
wish; dip them in beaten egg and then
in the nnest sifted bread crumbs. Lay
them in frying-basket so that they do
not touch and plunge them into kettle
of boiling fat. When they have fried for
f We minutes lift them up, lay them on a
otplatter, and serve them with little
decoration of green. Tartare sauce is
very good with them. No one who eats
frogs legs cooked in either of these ~ays
will be tempted to try the Iaost elaborate
fricassee of frogs legs.-New York
Tribune.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-04-08
liz THE RATTLE,

If trouble binds you, break il;
Life is often what we make it,
Good or ill--and SO we take it;
Let not disappointment fret you,
If seeming i'll besat you,
Cast it off, and hopeful get you
On your way
AS you makeit, 50 you take 1t,
II the battle every day.
IF your genius slumDer, wake it:
For our life is what we make it;
As we shape it, 50 we take it;
If we hunt for care or sorrow,
We shall only always borrow
Trouble from better morrow
Every day
As we make it, so we take it
So the life will run away.
If the heart is thirsty, slake it;
If a blessing offers, take it;
For our life is what we make it;
Joy abounds in happy faces;
Pleasure lives in rosy places;
Let Us court the gooily graces
By the way;
And we'll take it as we make It
In the battle every day.
Dig the garden, smooth it, rake it
For the math is what we make it;
AS you work it, 50 you take it;
Sit not idly hoping, dreaming
Wrapt in fancy's futile teaming;
Victory does not come by scheming-
Strike and stay!
As you make it, SO you take it.
If you faint not by the way.
M. V. Moore, in Detroit Free Press.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-04-08


EI call this the dullest place in exist
ence," said Miss Jocelyn, half aloud
''the very dullest."
She does not finish her sentence, but
turns to the massive pier glass to look at
the reflection of herself-a handsome
girl in a smart frock. After one glance
she turns back to the window with a
sigh.
"What's the use? One might as well
wear .sackcloth trimmed with ashes in
this place, for all the people there are 10
see ones gowns. It was much more fun
at school, after all.
"Why"-suddenly craning forward
''if that isn't that frumpy little Miss
Blake with Mr.. Stanford, and he is hold
ing his umbrella over her! She has got
his arm, too! I wonder how he likes it?
Poor mani wonder if he ever notices
whether woman is old and plain or
young and pretty?
"Now he's gone splash into puddle,
and she is actually looking up at him
and blushing and laughing. Oh, WAT
joke. Fancy her blushirg! Why she
must be forty if she's day-qulte forty.
And these little curls bobbing about as
she goes
81 wonder if her sister makes her
wear her hair like that? wonder if she
is in love with him? Poor old soul!"
Mr.. Stanford is curate, but he is a
man first and afterward a cleric. Strong,
manly, gentle, he plays cricket with the
village boys, is ready to gossip for few
moments with the old CATERS, is a mem
Der of the debating society as well as the
rowing club.
But Miss Jocelyn is young, and is not
yet able to grasp more than the fact that
she is better looking and better dressed
than most of the girls whom she knows.
So to her Ruth Blake is a ridiculous
sight, and Mr.. Stanford's quiet courtesy,
which he would extend just as readily
and pleasantly to his washerwoman, is &
Etgood joke"
She watches them part at the Misses
Blakes' little green gate, and thinks she
can see Miss Ruth's upward glance aud
smile at the fine face above her before
Mr.. Stanford turns and comes striding
and splashing back through the puddles.
Then, having nothing else to do, Miss
Jocelyn plans pretty little piece of mis-
chief, which she promptly sets about
carrying out. She has one gift, this
handsome Miss Jocelyn; she is very skill
full with her pen, and after little prac-
tice csn initiate almost any handwriting.
And now she remembers that there is
in the study letter of Mr.. Stanford's to
her father, and her eyes sparkle with de
light.
What fun to send poor old Miss
Blake a love letter. Perhaps she has
never had one. 1t will be kindness,
positively! How she will blush and
simper-silly old thing! Well, serve her
right! When there are so few young
men in place, what business have old
maids stroiing about with them under
umbrellas.
"Mlss Cornelia's lying down, Miss
Ruth She have one of her bad head
aches, and she says as how no one is to
disturb her. And your tea is ready and
waiting, Miss
Ruth Bake turns into the prim little
oinlng room, seats herself upon one of
me straight backed chairs and begins to
diaT OF her brown cotton gloves.
Soc IS an odd little figure, small and
slE and dressed in hideous antiquared
fa'ia't'' with shades of glazing blue and
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-04-08

What gentle life to be marred and
shattered by bitter shame!
Still Dir. Stanford does not speak,
but stands there before her, looking
very pale. His back is to the window
and she cannot see his face well, but the
light shines full upon hers.
81 did not show NY sister your letter."
she begins hesitatingly. 81 thought I
had better wait-that perhaps YOU
would change your mind, think differ
emily about it all, and then it would be
best that only we two should know"
She does not say a word about
changing her own mind. She stands
there before him, a sweet, fair woman,
in spite of her old fashioned gown and
her oddly arranged hair.
She looks at him with smiling, stead
fast eyes, and bids him take or leave her
as pleases him best. And his courage
to hurt, wound, perhaps kill her. fails
Linn. In a moment his resolution is
taken. He strides hastily forward.
Ruth, do you love me-" he asks,
holding out his hands. And the calm
of her face breaks up as she sinks into
his arms.
"Oh, so much--5o much!' she almost
sobs. ''But | am not worthy of you.
You should marry some one ever, ever
SO much better and younger and prettier
than I. Do you know" hiding her
ashamed face and confessing it as she
would have confessed a sin, 81 am
thirty three"
"And 1 am thirty-four, he answers.
''Dreadful isn't it,"
When Miss Jocelyn hears the news, she
goes away suddenly on a visit to some
friends.
Three years have passed, and Laura
Jocelyn is older, sadder, wiser. She
has loved and suffered, and learned to
sympathize with others. But she has
never seen Mr.. Stanford or his old maid
wife again.
When she returned home the marriage
was over, and they were gone to his new
living.
''This was the worst thing ever
did," she says sadly to herself 81
will go and confess, and tell him how
sorry I am. What a horrible thing to
have ruined two lives!'
the small town forty miles away. On
getting out of the train she asks the way
to the vicarage, and walks there slowly.
A child's laugh startles her from her
bitter musings, and she looks up and
across the sweetbriar hedge that is in
bloom at her side, for it is July again.
She sees but dimly an old-fashioned
garden, a quaint, rambling house, for
that is Mr.. Stanford himself standing so
close to her that she could almost touch
him.
And who is that lady, the pretty little
woman in the dainty gray gown, her
fair, wavy hair knotted close to her head,
and her eyes shining with happiness?
With gasp Miss Jocelyn recognizes
her. That is-no!-that was Ruth
Blake.
'sNow let him come to me-" the little
woman cries gaily. ''Harry, you are
spelling the child. Let him come to his
mother"
Ruth stoops down and holds out her
arms, and tiny figure in white rushes
wildly for little distance toward her,
and then totters unsteadily, and finally
sits down plump upon the grass, the per
Torrance being hailed with shout of
laughter from the father, echoed more
softly by Ruth.
Under cover of Sheir mirth Miss Joce-
Ign steals away. She has received for
giveness unasked, and she has the sense
to see that to apologize to either of these
two happy, blessed people would be an
impertinence.- Globe.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-04-08
HER LITTLE JOKE.

ISIS JOCELYN is
looking out of the
window. It is a
drenching day, and
there is nothing to
be seen but the gar
den, with its heavy
heated roses droop-
ing under the down
pour, and the viii
lage street beyond,
now fast becoming a
rand water-cOI1rSp
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-04-08

The gossip believes half she hears and
tells the other half.-Elmira Gazette.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-05-27
The Road 70 SsWtooth Omen.

Major Hyndman, lessee Of tho Sill
Yer King mine, of Sswtooth. started
McPheters, freighter, from Ketchum
Monday with an eight. horse team for
the purpose Of breaking the road over
the mountains, and getting supplies
to the mine. From the present CON-
dition Of the road and tho quantity of
snow in the upper attitudes, the gen.
eral impression was that it would take
about three weeks to mako tho trip.
A note reached Mr.. Florence from The
MAJOR to-day stating that McPhesers
got through to Sswtooth. This will
be received with considerable pleasure
BY many of our people, as the opens
ing of the road will enable all persons
interested there to resume operations,
and consequently many miners will be
put to work who are now idle aud in
need of employment.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-05-27
What Braudreth's Pills Do.

In BRANDRErH's PILLS the true
life medicine has been found, COM
posed as they are of numerous vege-
tables 80 combined that each multi
plies the virtues of the rest. They
never can do any harm. Their action
is always the same. no matter how
long OF in what doses they are taken.
They purge away the waste particles
of the system. They recruit the ani-
NAL vigor and arrest the progress of
decay. They purify the blood. They
stimulate the liver. They inv,gorste
digestion. They open the pores.
They make the bowels do the work
of the kidneys, thus giving those
organs an of,times needed rest. One
or two at night for a week will de-
monstrate their power and is generally
sufficient to cure ordinary diseases.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-05-27
The River Booming.

The heavy rain last night over the
upper Wood River country caused the
river to boom this morning. 1t may
be safely said that in the memory OF
that MYTHICAL chestnut, the Oldest in
habi,ant, the river never was as high
nc il is now. The embankment built
BY the electric light company on the
east side of the river is very much
endangered; the water is ponrlse
over the upper end of it and out OF
the fiat reaching towards the town.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-05-27

What is Required to Form q New
School District.
Boise statesman.l
Attorney General Roberts yesterday
rendered an opinion in answer to
questions propouuded to him by State
Superintendent Harroun in regard to
the formers Interpretation of Idaho's
school laws. The following is the
Attorney Generals opinion in full:
Hon: J: Z. Harroun. Superintendent Public In.
s1R-You refer me to Chap. v. See.
20, School Laws, and ask: ''In form
ing . new district from territory en-
braced in one OF more Districts, must
the new district contain an area OF
more than nine square miles?'
Further, "Can new district be formed
from one or more districts, If by &C
doing either ono or both Of the old
districts, are cut down to an area oil
less than nine square miles?"
While ! think from the debates on
the passage Of the school law, the
members OF the last legislature in.
tended to limit the area of new
school districts to nine square miles,
they did not do 30 by the section re.
ferred to. 1t provides:
l. That . district, unless it con.
tains over nine square miles, cannot be
divided for the purpose of forming q
new district
2. That there must be at least
fifteen persons OF school age left in
the district after a portion has been
segregated for new district.
The section says nothing Is to the
size or population Of the new district
it treats emily of the size of the Original
district before division, and the popu'
lation of the part remaining after
division. Section II provides, infer
entially, that there must be at leas
ten children of school age in the dis
trict. l find nothing In the schoo
law, defining the area of new districts
l, therefore, answer your first ques
ton, no; the second, yes.
With high regard, your obedien'
servant. GEORGE II. ROBERTS,
Attorney General