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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-02

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 81, 1893.
EDIToR THE CAUCASIAN:
Having written to you of Wash
ingron as city, and the capitol as
q resort for clowns and buifoons,
triaing with mans sad wants, let Us
now get down 10 business and Illus
trate this current ribaldry of history:
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-02
20, 900 COPIES
THIS wHEK-
II Goes TO EysU County IN North
Carolina.

E Tax CAUCASIAN has . lxr-
ger circulation than any other rolss-
zeal Paper in tho State.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-02
AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM
OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
AT WASHINGTON.

1 Disgrace to Modera civiiixaffen---Buf-
foons Clown ft While Starvation
Strides the Land.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-02
STEWARDS SPEECH IN FULL.

Mr.. Stewart-Mr. President, the
repeal of the act July IA, 1890,
providing for the purchase OF ~
SOC, 900 ounces of silver bullion per
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-02
DOINGS or CONGRESS.
rHE MAGNIFICENT AUTHORIZATIONS
erEAfs-MIfITANt uAtNN sh>-
IgAIIgsn~sA11sTI nAA-
MA1As-4fHHN >tMr~u>
ASSAULTS Tt1N MIL

A SgFoax Letter From cur REGULAR Ger
restonsssnt.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-02
KANSAS.

The election of John Martin
populist democrat, TO the senator
ship of Kansas has changed the seat
of conflict to Washington. Martin
will soon tie on the ground, and
a warm time may be expected.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-02
NOT TOO MUCH SILVER PRODUCED.

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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-02

A NEW ERA In SILVER MlNING.
For several years after 1850 the
value of the product of gold was
many times the value of the output
of silver. But the discovery of the
Comstock inaugurated a new era IN
silver mining, since which time the
product of silver has increased, and
the output of gold from all sources,
except from the silver mines, has
rapidly declined. In 1891, according
to the report of the director of the
mint (Which probably exaggerates
| the products Of both metals about
equal), the coinage value of the
annual product of silver In thu
world was $173,oOo.OO0, while tht
coinage value of the output OF goie
was only $125, 100000. If the silyel
mines had not been worked, no golt
would have been produced from them
and the output of gold would no
have exceeded 100000, 900. Wha
would be the effect of such q meage
supply of gold?
Passaic City record., 1893-04-29
Importance OF Vaccination.

Some very important facts bearing on
the value of vaccination have been
brought out in connection with the re-
cent epidemic of smallpox at Leicester,
England. Ten children died, who had
not been vaccinated, while among those
that had been there were no deaths.
More significant than these facts, even,
is the report of the medical officer OF the
town regarding the twenty-eight persons
who made up the staff of the hospital.
"Of these twenty-eight, twenty-five were
protected" Doctor Priestly says in his
report, ssincluding eight whom revac-
cinated, while the remaining six had
only been vaccinated in childhood, and SO
were not efficiently protected officials
all of whom refused revaccination, which
offered them-.our have since contract
ed smallpox and one has died; SO that
two only of the staff now remain 'ineffi-
GENTLY protected, and it will be inter
esting to note their future histories. I"
Some figures have also been lately pub
lished as to the effect of vaccination on
tribe on the west coast of AfrNa that
was undergoing annihilation by small
pox. A doctor vaccinated $50 men,
women and children, and of these only
three were attacked. In these three
cases, it is believed that the lymph, sent
out in sealed tubes, had lost its potency.
New Orleans Picayunc.
Passaic City record., 1893-04-29
Training Wild Animals.

ssIt is very simple to train animals, T"
saws Niehrmann, the German trainer.
ssYou can do nothing with the animals
except by kindness, and that requires
patience. I started with this group by
letting them come in a cage with me
alone, one at time. never had the
slightest difficulty with one of them.
The leopards were the hardest to train.
They are very ugly. Yesterday one Of
them tore sailors hand badly. The
sailor got too close to him. The bears,
however, are the hardest TO handle after
they are trained. Not that they would
hurt me, but they refuse to do anything
that seems new.
ssAfter all, though, animals are like
children. When nv back is turned the
tigers sneak over to the leopards aud tap
them with their paws. see it, and
when 7 turn the tigers sneak away. III
turn my back the. go back again. The
leopards are the only animals who can-
not get along always with the others. I
could keep my whole family together
but for the leopards. In fight, how
ever, they would be killed, SO | keep
them apart, save during performances. (
was never bitten but once, and that was
By boarhound, who had been badly
treated by others. Kindness always
rules"
Passaic City record., 1893-04-29
Superstitious Fishermen.

Among many tanclful superstition IS and
curious weather omens which have
found to be universal with British fisher
men, writes Edgar L. Wakeman. are the
following: They never point with the
finger to another smack. If the mistake
occurs, both hands are instantly upraised
and spread in the attitude OF blessing.
Three idle strokes of stick IN the sand,
making figure resembling coffin, por-
tend death. 1t is unlucky to meet a
barking dog in the morning. 1t por-
poises tumble about in unusual numbers.
or if sea gulls leave the open sea aad
gather noisily alongshore, storms will
surely come. Whistling at sea Is the
worst of all i'll porrents and notning is
so much dreaded as wnlstling woman
ashore. If mop or water bucket is lost
overheard from smack the unfortunate
craft instantly sets sail for port. Dream
ing Of anchors is a good omen. A broken
looking glass on board will create YER
liable panic. To count fishermen as
they march to and from the boats puts
them in deadly peril. If blood be drawn
during quarrel on the beach all fish
will leave the locality. Nothing is more
unpropitious than the presence o. women
wherever fishing is in progress, and no
fishermen will 60 to sea when the dead
body OF one of their number or families
lies unburisd. Chicago News Record.
Passaic City record., 1893-04-29
The Cat in Th;bst.

The cat is treated by Tnibetans with
the most marked attention and forbear-
ance. Even when it spills milk, breaks
or destroys any valuable object, or kills
some pet bird, it is never whipped or
beaten in any way, but merely chidden
and driven away by the voice; while
were dog or child to commit these
offenses they would be soundly thrashed.
Such very mild aud considerate treat.
ment might lead one to suppose that the
cat is esteemed holy. But sucn is not
the case. 1t is, indeed, regarded as
useful animal to the extent that it con-
tributes to the preservation OF sacred
pictures, robes, books, sacrificial food,
and the like, by killing the rats and
mice which consume and destroy these.
But otherwise the cat is considered the
most sinfnl being on earth on acc 'ant
of its constant desire tor takin, life,
even when gorged with food. an its
torture of its victims. Its mild treat
ment is due to the belief taat waosver
causes the death OF cat, whether
accidentally or otherwise, will have the
sins of the cat transferred to his shoul-
dcrs. And so great is the burden of
its sins that even were one sir (two
pounds) of butter for each hair on the
cats body offered in feeding the temple
lamps before Budda's image the crime
would not be expiated. Indian Anti
quarry.
Passaic City record., 1893-04-29
A Romance In Real Life.

ssPolly" Thompson was buried the
other day in Mason, Warren County.
With the close of her life ended the last
chapter in one of the real and rare
romances OF life.
Mary L. Thompson was born in
Pennsylvania, August 16, 1909. She
was the youngest daughter of Robert
and Margaret Forest Thompson, aud
came with her parents to Ohio in 1870.
She was known as the handsomest girl
in the county. Her society was sought
for on every hand, but poor young
farmer OF the neighborhood seemed to
have the preference. Despite his
poverty he wooed with the fervency of
Romeo, and at length his suit was ac-
cepted. Thinking to better his condi-
ton he went West, and in few years
became wealthy. Returning to Mason
he renewed his suit and insisted upon
the wedding taking place at once, as a
palatial home had been entirely fitted
for their occupauy, and he had interests
there that demanded his attention.
Polly was charmed with the prospects,
duu tue AdpPy CoonAo "o ~ -
mother to secure her consent. The
mother was then in declining health, and
begged that the daughter stay with her
the remainder of her days. True to
filial duty, Miss Thompson refused tc
leave home, and with tears in her eyei
she bade her lover farewell. He returned
to his home heartbroken, and buried
himself in business to escape the memory
of her whom he hoped would be the
brightest light of his existence.
With the unpleasant memory that ever
seemed to cling to him, he tried many
ways to forget the winsome Polly, but to
no avail. He at last grew ill, and in
comparatively short time died. Mis-
Thompson stayed with her mother until
she died. She had many suitors for her
hand, but declined all offers, and lived
single life all her years, yet not mur
mur escaped her lips. All her life sn
tried to make others happy. -Cincinnat
(Ohio) Commercial.
Passaic City record., 1893-04-29
THE nAINBoW CRAZE.

The chief craze in Paris at present is
for multicolored silks, such as rainbows,
both solar and lunar. These lovely ef-
fects are best gained on satins or fine
silks. The craze has been set in motion
by nimble American skirt dancer, Loie
Fuller, who has taken all Paris by storm
and who holds her nightly revels at the
Folies Bergeres. Everything is now a
la Loie Fuller from the hundreds of
knick- -knacks in the store windows to
the set dish in boulevard restaurant.
Curiously enough the lovely effects on
the satins and silks above mentioned
cannot be prepared in France. They are
the invention and secret of well-known
Parisienne artist in London, and hated
Albion for once has to supply the mate
rial to keep all Paris in a frenzy of ex-
citement and halo of most gorgeous
prismatic coloring.-Chicago Herald.
Passaic City record., 1893-04-29
FASHION NOTES.

Inner Innings of stiff material are put
into many of the new dress skirts.
Dress goods, already on sale, present
many new, beautiful and stylish effects.
London girls of the chic sort are wear
ing square top. WIDE brimmed felt
hat.
Very few of the newest skirts have
any great amount of fullness at the
waist.
Graduated puffs, varying from four to
ten inches wide, trim some of the new
skirts.
Sateens, ginghams, mousselines and
crepe cloths are to have the floor next
summer.
The new French zephyrs are very
stylish, and will create breeze of ad-
miration.
Eccentricity continues to mark the
use of the pages of note sheet IN social
correspondence.
Passementerie increases in "elegant
effects" and the price per yard increases
correspondingly.
Modistes who enieavor to improve
upon or modernize the Empire gown
make blunder.
Some new dresses of woody looking
camel's hair are trimmed with ruffles of
black satin ribbon.
Rival factions in Paris are contending
e., rho onprap,aou Of Ao uar- or rihhnnc
as millinery trimming, with odds for
the flowers.
Girls in these days who do not en-
velope their heads in wells have, in a
majority of cases, ''a complexion worth
looking at.
Ondines, the dress material for even
ing costumes, is having run compared
with which John Gilpin's ride was a
snail-like exhibition.
There is constantly something new in
candle shades for dinner table decora-
ton, and the latest are pronounced the
most beautiful ever seen.
Corselet belts of ribbon, ornamented
with small cabbage leaf bows, are to be
had in all colors. They are especially
suitable for young girls.
Dress skirts for evening wear are in
creasing much in their width, and are
cut on the cross and closely plated to-
gether in tie center of the back.
Colored em5roideries are leaders il
| trimmings for summer, and will be usec
on chambreys aud ginghams. They art
seen in the delicate shades of heliotrOpe
pink, green, blue, etc.
| The new woo.ens for plain tailor
gowns are the rough rabbit hairciotns
which are noteworthy for their soft,
silken-likc texture, aud long-hared
rough-looking surface.
White petticoats of very thin, fin
lawn are qaitc tne rage. Some OF tn
newest are several inches shorter thar
tee black sitN petticoat. Tney arr
elaborateiy rIEsl and pufed ane
| trimmed with lace and embroidery.
Whip cord Is the favorite materia
whereof the tailor. made gowns of manl
young women are composed. Like al
material connected with ''horsey" out
fit, it has the merit of being durable and
looks neat, especially if worn with
smarty waistcoat.
Passaic City record., 1893-04-29

Imagine low, narrow room, 15O feet
long and perhaps thirty feet wide, and in
this, writes Frank J. Carpenter, in the
New York Independent, put six great
cogwheels, each about twelve feet in di-
ameter, so that they make one continu-
Gus wheel from one end of the room to
the other. Let the cogs In this great
wheel be boards half an inch thick and
about six inches wide, and put these
boards along the wheel, running hori-
zor.ally from one end to the other,
ABOUT one foot apart. They now form
set of steps, by which man standing up
on them can by his weight make the
wheel move. There is q bar up ABOVE
the wheel, and to this the men hold with
their hands, if they are peaceable, and to
which they are chained if they are not.
In this position they must move, or the
wheel goes on and leaves them hanging
by their hands. When I entered this
room $50 men, bare to the waist, hung
on to this bar, and kept walking up and
up this massive wheel, and these me1
formed the power which ran these two
immense machine shops. Every one of
the prisoners had heavy chains upon his
feet. Some had iron bracelets on their
wrists, and all had iron collars about
their necks. The bare legs of some bore
chains so heavy that they had tied them
up and fastened them to their waist
cloths in order that they might not be
impeded IN their work by them, and
the weight might might be taken from
their ankles. Several of the men were
handcuffed, and their hands thus
fastened were chained over the bar above
the wheel. These were the men who had
refused the crank that morning, and
others had committed minor faults for
which they were undergoing this pun
ishment. At the foot of this great
wheel, and under the shadow of these
three hundred legs which stepped up
ward to the musical jingle of the chains
upon them, 150 other prisoners squatted
on their kness and held up their hands
together toward myself and the guide in
the attitude of prayer. They remained
in this attitude as long as we stayed in
the room, and In going throughout the
big jail, wherever we met a convict he
bobbed down upon his knees, folded his
hands and remained thus until we
passed. I asked the reason for this, and
was told that it was done in order to
prevent the prisoners taking the guards
by surprise.
Passaic City record., 1893-04-29
Little Dwarf Girls From Africa.

Two interesting young people from
Central Africa have just been brought to
Europe. They are pigmy girls from the
forests through which Stanley's expedi-
ton wandered. They are Aka dwarfs,
and description of them printed in
England says that they are the first
specimens Of their race brought to
Europe. This is a mistake, for several
Aka dwarfs have been taken to Italy,
but none of them thrived there.
DIR. Stuhlmann and his companions,
while members of DR.. ENNIS expedition,
rescued these two young girls from the
hands of their Arab captors. They are
supposed to be between seventeen and
twenty years old, arc well proportioned,
and about as tall as boys of eight years.
They bore the sea voyage from Zanzibar
to Italy we'll. Neither was afflicted with
seasickness, aud they became very fond
of the ship and the sea, of which they
had never heard before. They were
sent to Europe in charge OF young
Swahili, coast native from the neigh
borhood of Zanzibar, who had been DR..
OIuuluduu > uldu cCL SdAb AOA A'S ySestS'
They learned to speak the Swahili tongue
and thus were able to communicate
through the interpreter with the whites
they met upon landing in Italy. The
young women have small heads, prom
inent foreheads, with lustrous black
eyes. copper-colored complexion Gew
of the pigmies of Africa are black), nair
which grows in separate tightly twisted
curls, fat noses and protruding red lips.
Their eyes are very wide open, their
hands and feet are small, and the forearm
and wrist are perfectly shaped. The
spine curves strongly inward, making
the back hollow, and the stomach pro-
trudes proportionately, which IS char
acteristic of their race. In behavior
they are described as infantile, wild, and
shy. One OF them is rather cross in dis.
position, while the other IS of sunny
Temperament and was much pleased with
/ the bead bracelets aud other trlnkets
that were given to her. While in Ma
Piles they were taken to the house OF a
wealthy man, and number OF people
/ were invited to meet them. The sunny
faced girl showed her appreciation Of
chocolate bonbons. and was proud of the
red lining Of her blue frocls, and kept
showing it and her red stockings to th'
bystanders.- York San.
Passaic City record., 1893-04-29

True royalty is ! to live.
Women always = ; more than they
receive; men, less.
One must tell woman only what one
wants to be known.
All women wish to be esteemed. They
care less to be respected.
The most discouraging thing about
woman is woman herself.
The man who rides a hobby always
wants the whole road for himself.
A good word is an easy obligation,
but not to speak i'll req Tires only our
silence.
The world is full of lion fighters, but
it is hard to find people who won't run
from hornet.
1t is the self-indulgence of the highest
and not the self-surrender OF the lowest
that is the Great End.
He who prefers the material delights OF
life to its intellectual pleasures is like the
possessor of palace who takes up his
abode in the kitchen and leaves the
drawing-rooms empty.
Excellence is not common and abun-
dant; on the contrary, as the Greek poet
long ago said, "Excellence dwells among
the rocks hardly accessible, and man
must almost wear his heart out before
he can reach her." Whoever talks OF
excellence as common and abundant is
on the way to lose all right standard OF
excellence,
Passaic City record., 1893-04-29

The little screech owl, well known

The little screech owl, well known in
most parts of the country, is indefatiga-
BILE in its work of destroying mice and
insects. It may often be seen at dusk,
hoverino about barns and outbuildings,
watching for mice or skimmiug along
the fields and along hedgerows in search
OF grasshoppers, crickets and beetles.
Many birds of this species have taken up
residence in the cities, having learned
to feed upon what the Boston Transcript
calls that most destructive nuisance, the
English sparrow. In winter rural resi-
dents often notice the tracks of mice
which form networks in the snow, cross
ing and recrossing, passing in and out OF
walls and stacks--tending to show how
active these small rodents are when most
OF the world sleeps. Occasionally such
track stop abruptly and, while the OBJ
server is trying to read more OF the his
tory written in the snow, his eyes catch
the faint impression of a pair of wing
tips near where the trail ends, and in
stantly he is made aware that tragedy
has been enacted. Screech owls also
feed on chipmunks, shrews, moles and
occasionally bats. During warm spells
in winter they forage extensively and
store up in their homes quantities OF
food as provision against inclement
weather. Probably the most important
from an economic point of view among
owls is the barn owl. Its food is almost
entirely made up of injurious mammals.
In the west it feeds largely on pouched
gophcrs, and the stomach con-
tents of many individuals examined have
revealed little else than tue remains OF
these rodents, To appreciate properly
the services of this owl it must be re.
membered that pouched gophers are
among the most, if not the most, de-
structlve mammals which inhabit this
country. In various other localities it
feeds extensively on the common rat.
The great horned owl, which in the east
is persistent in its attacks on poultry and
game, kills immense numbers of rabbits
in rabbit-lnfested parts of the west,
where its assistance is invaluable to the
farmer. It is much addicted to eating
skunks, of which it devours great num-
bers wherever these Objectionable ami
mails are common.
Passaic City record., 1893-04-29
THE NEW FASHIONABLE JEWEL.

One of the questions of the day is
what is the new fashionable jewel, chrys-
toprase? Last year the Queen happened
to mention the stone to one of her
maids of honor, who had never seen one.
Her Majesty then sent for a jewel case
and showed the young lady this peculiar
stone set round with diamonds in ring
that belonged to Queen Anne. The
stone is Opaque and OF delicate green,
and was first brought to England by
King William ILL.,, who owned small
mine of them in Silesia. In the reign OF
Queen Anne it was very fashionable, but
afterwards fell into neglect. Now. how
ever, its turn has come again in the
wheel of fashion, and all the great world
is seeking for specimens. San Francisco
Examiner.