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Lady Falconer; and Lady Falconer she will be, unless you make haste to spoil her game. The only question is whether you haven't already waited too long, I used to think that you cared consider able for Lionel Falconer; but l may have been mistaken"
 Miss Leighton had not been alto- gether mistaken. Still there are more ways than one of caring for fellow creature, and if Maud Elton had once been fond of the admirer whom she had latterly chosen to neglect, and with whose perfidy she was now menaced, it is certain that she had at no time been half as fond of him as she was of her self. However, she had no notion of allowing him to be snapped up from under her very nose by scheming lit tie widow; so she answered composed ly:
 'I can assure you of this, my dear; he shall come to our picnic on the river next Thursday, and he shall not throw us over for Mrs Martindale's afternoon concert, at which you say that you heard him promise to put in an appear ance. We shall meet him at Lady Knightsbridge's ball tonight, suppose and if I don't make him retract his promise to that woman before the even ing is over, you shall have my beauti- ful new feather fan to take home with you"
 "Qui Uirra rerra," Twas Miss Leighton's placid rejoinder. People are not quite so keen about dancing with me as they were in days gone by, and like to get to bed by three o'clock, if possible; but I will cheerfully remain until after sun' rise upon the chance of securing that fan. Not that shan't be just us wei
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her carriage. Probably she did not abandon all hope, but she might as well have done so, for the imbecility of mankind, great though it is, has limits.
 As for Lionel Falconer, he lighted a cigar and strolled off to the club, where he met his friend Bates, to whom he gave succinct account of the incidents of the evening.
 ''I am glad you have done with the widow, anyhow" was MT. Bates com ment upon his narrative. Miss Elton isn't bad girl, as girls go, and hope you will come to an understanding with her later on."
 "Well, do you know, Bates" an. swered Lionel, stretching out his long legs and blowing a cloud of smoke to. wards the ceiling, lit strikes me that I have pretty well done that Also it strikes me that between these two stools l have fallen-upon my feet"
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M'KINLEY AND THE VETERANS
The Governor of Ohio Talks to the Boys
 Who Wore the Blue.


 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. Maj William Mckinley, Jr., spoke to a gathering of 8, 800 enthusiastic c. A. R. men who had paid an admission fee in- to Armstrong park yesterday after noon. He said in part:
 think nobody in this country has better right to meet than the Grand Army of the Republic, who preserved for us and all mankind the best and greatest govern ment on earth It took thirteen times three months to conquer that gigantic rebel lion against our country and its institutions We were not only willing to suffer and die for the union. but were determined to let nothing stand in the way of its preservation. Lincoln said he would save the union with or without slavery, and that he had registered an oath in Heaven to do is but God would not let us save with slavery. It was not from man our issue came, but from Him who is the sovereign of life and limb that all men might be free. We have made and will perpetuate forever the freest gov ernment under the sun. The most marvellous thing is, when the great conflict was over about 100000 men scattered like mists and went everywhere. There were no disturbances, and there were no plundering bands. They all went home, dropping into the quiet walks of citizenship and were just as good citizens as they had been soldiers There were some who believed you had fought so long and had become so used to scenes of carnage you would return with blood in your eyes Shouts of 'but we did it"l You disappointed them by beginning the work Of reconstruction, and you have been building up this government ever since. All has been a ccomplished by great sacrifice, but what is there of good not gained that wayY We paid the price of this union in the blood of the best men of the land. and like Lincoln, we remem- Der it is not what we say of them, but what they did that will live. To keep the United States forever is the business of the Grand Army of the Republic now, and of everybody. No difference what else they take away from us, they cannot deprive us of our patriotism and love for the old flag. and we will fight for 1t just the same if they take away every pen sion from us There is no comradeship in tho world like that founded on the common field, w;.hs tanding universal privations and fighting for "A common cause"
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THE CITY IS AWAKENING.

Fhe men who make the papers are, of course And through the dark, deserted streets, so si. lent all about Their nimble footsteps echo as they hasten to prepare For our especial benefit the news of every. where. The men who deal in produce from the country next appear, And, half asleep they rub their eyes, endeayor- ing 10 clear The cobwebS from their drowsy brains before they undertake To trade with sharper grocers who are all the time awake. Now grocers in their wagons with the rising sun are seen, And soon with loads of berries, fruit and vege. tables green They rattle OCT the cobblestones right home again to sell The things to us for breakfast while in fresh ness they excel The milkmen, too, in wagons filled with chatter. ing cans of tin Now join the flock of early birds and iendishly begin To waEeu all the sleepers with their funny yells and whoops, When leaving purest country milk (and water) on the stoops. Now drivers and conductors of the city cars around With dinner pails and rubber coats are to the stables bound And soon the jingle of the bells will let the sleepers know dts time to rise and faces wash and then to business go. iNow porters of the wholesale stores begin to march along, And troops of sunburned laborers with muscles hard and strong, And here and there a fisherman with basket, pole and bait, Goes rushing by to catch train-with expecta- ticns great Now happy little oface boys with puckered, whistling lips, And pockets stuffed with luncheons and as wide awake as whips, Appear in noisy numbers with the toilers of the The last are in hurry and the first make many stops. And now the little scholars With their books and slates come out And clerks with bigger collars than their dol lars show about And neauy-dressed typewriter girls go tripping sweetly by, Unconscious of their beauty-but alive to cake and pie. Now junior partners dignifed, though dressed Q trihe loud, And lawyers smart and brokers join the ever growing crowd; And wh.ie they march to business with more or less Of joys, We know their only bosses are their breezy
 oftCe boys. Next como the senior partners, never caring if
 it's late; The gentlemen of leisure" Cbeing wealthy tramps ornate), And then the female shoppers, hunting costly
 bargains Their husbands hard.earued money can cir.
 culanng gO And now the sleeping city bas awakened for
 the day, And hustle noise. confusion drive all comfort
 far away; And angling, tangling, wrangling jams of wag-
 onS meet the eye While rushing crashing gushing crowds of
 people skurry by.
 I'll. C. Dodge, in Goodalls Sun
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A Polish Priest Assailed.

BALTIMORE, Md, Sept. 6. Father Baraboz, the pastor of the Polish Cath olic church, who has on several occa- sions recently been obliged to call for police protection against disaffected element in his congregation, was for the second time attacked by the enraged crowd, who pulled his beard and hair, besides beating him. The trouble arose over the appointment by Father Bara- boz of new set of trustees, the old board declining to give up the church property until Cardinal Gibbons com pelled them. and then endavoring to oust Father Bars boz from the priests house.
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Heeson and HIgbee Guilty.

CHICAGO, Sept. 7.-The report of special investigating committee exon- erating Commissioner Mercer, of Wy oming, of the charge of dishonora ble conduct and finding Commissioner O. Benson, of Oklahoma, guilty of dishon- orable acts, was adopted by the worlds fair commission with only one dissent ing voice Commissioner Beeson re- mained in his seat while judgment was being pronounced. The commission unanimously adopted the report of the special committee finding Frank D. Higbee guilty of conduct unworthy a juror of awards, and recommending his immediate discharge
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HAMILTON FISH DEAD.
President Grants Secretary of State Dies
 at Ripe old Age.

II
 at a Ripe old Age.
 NEW YORK, Sept S.-Hamilton 8. Fish, Sr., secretary of state under President Grant, died yesterday at Glenclyffe, his country home on the Hudson, at Garrison, N. Y.
 Mr. Fish was s5 years old August 8, last. Nearly thirty years ago he had a severe attack of illness from which he never entirely recovered. Up to that time he had been active and vigorous. He had won a name as statesman in several epochs, was the trusted and in- timate friend of Gen. Grant, and was the senior living ex-governor of New York, the senior living United States senator from New York, and the senior living ex-secretary of the United States.
 Hamilton Fish was a native of New York City. His father was Col Nich- olas Fish, an officer in the revolution ary army and 8 warm friend of Wash ington and Alexander Hamilton, after whom the son and grandson, Hamilton Fish, Jr., were named. His mother, a daughter of Petrus Stuyvesant was a lineal descendant and heir of the last Dutch colonial governor of New York.
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A Prisoners Sentence Commuted.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Sept 6.-Gov. Stone granted communication to-day to William P. Phillips of Macon county, who was convicted in January, 1882, of burglary and larceny and sentenced to the penitentiary for 20 years. Under the conditions of the communication Phillips will be released to-day. His good luck is due solely to his excellent demeanor as prisoner during the long time of his imprisonment. He has been trusty at the prison for many
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in your place should want to marry him, because he is going to be Lord Falconer one of these days, and he is rich, besides being Q well-conducted sort of young man, and not at all bad looking. What do know is that you will not be able to play fast and loose with him much longer. You have dis gusted him with your flirtations, and now Mrs. Martindale has annexed him."
 Mrs Martindale" ejaculated the other, in accents of superb disdain.
 'Oh! she paints her face and she is no longer in her first youth, and her reputation is not immaculate. l grant you all that; but my dear Maud, if you haven't found out that men are abso- lutely blind and absolutely imbeciie where woman is concerned, you have still a good deal to learn. Mrs. Mar tindale would like very much to be
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Anthrax in Delaware.

WILMINGTON, Del, Sept 7.-Anthraa Is still spreading in New Castle county. Yesterday herd of cattle numbering thirteen were killed on the place of Arthur Coulbourn, near Delaware City. After the animals were killed their bodies were burned. Two cows died yesterday on the Longland place, near Delaware City. The body of one ot the cows that died last week and was dumped into the river grounded oppos- ite Parker's iron works, at New Castle, yesterday. The body was burned. Two horses on the Fordham farm have been affected with the disease. One has died and the other cannot recover.
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she was perhaps entitled to speak with certain degree of arrogance when threatened with the loss of supposed .suitor. Nellie Leighton, her confi- dante, had seen many seasons wax and wane, and had assimilated vast and varied stock of knowledge. She re- marked:
 "Of course l don't know whether you want to marry him or not. If I were
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I, l x D F. E D v said Miss Maud Elton. {" We'll sec about that |"
 Miss Elton was a tall, handsome girl, with fea- lures and figure of a somewhat pron ou n c c d type, a n d S h c had been great ly admired dur ing this, her second, London season; so that
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-"Has there been an accident down on the beach?' Landlord-''Yes." Dear, dear, anything serious?" Landlord. its bathing suit that isn't small and can be worn into the water"
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-"How are your bantams getting along?" said Pittsburgher to q poul- try-fancying friend. Finely, finely" was the reply, "The hens are laying eggs as large as hailstones. Pitts. burgh Chronicle.
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BETWEEN THE TWO.
BY ". F. NORRIS.

ICopyrightcl, 1893, by the Author ]
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-10-12
\ NATIONAL CURRENCY THE BEST.

A NATIONAL CURRENCY THE BEST.
In a speech in the Senate in 1887,
John G. Calhoun said:
at appears to me, after bestowing
the best reflection | can give no sub
ject, that no convertible paper-that
is. paper whose credit rests on a
promise to PAYS suitable for cur
rency. Bank paper is cheap to those
WHO make it, but dear, very dear, to
those who ase it. On the other
hand, national currency, while it
would greatly facilitate It's financial
operation, would cost nothing or next
to nothing, and would, of course,
add much to the cost of production,
which would give to every branch of
our industries great advantages both
at home and abroad. And | now
undertake to affirm without the least
fear can be answered, that paper
issued 10y the government, with a
simple promise to receive it for all
dues would form perfect paper cir
culation which could not be abused
by the government; that it would
be as uniform in value ae the metals
themselves; and | shall be able to
prove that it is within the constitu-
ton and lowers of congress to use
such a paper according to the most
rigid rule of constituting the constitu-
ton" (tf.)
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-10-12
- ,7cO9QANN1Nae2.V N A.oNWNMNNIN COZ


sister. IL vas with ia" hope - enlight-
eminent tina, b" hal consented ~ SOC
her. lie listened As In a dream u her
cruelty composed voice.
But il would have don" no good /"
dcnounce you- You w"r" TOO rich and
powerful Though might have sworn
70 your guilt on cod, Holy Bible, who
would have believed me? You would
have gone s,o'-frcc. after M poor Mel
lies name had been dragged through
he mlrc. That wa why let you be.
until" shc flung the roll 81 papers
down on the table before him-'l
found that in the morning papers 1t
was a. daring step 10 take
By supcrhuman exercise Of that
wilI-powcr which had never failed him
in the hour Of his need, Eugene Nor
cross mastered his violent agitation.
de looked at tho slight, frail woman
who had just arraigncd him 50 fcrccly
with eyes from which the blazing
wrath had died out, leaving instead in
tense sadness and conmiscration for
his fellow-sufcrcr.
There was that on this woman's sad,
sweet face that stamped her klnshlp to
his dead wife Amelia had lied to him,
had betrayed his absolute trust in her
frivolously and cruelty. But she was
gone, and this woman was Borrowing
for her. Could he not bear with her a
littIe while?
"And-so-you are her sister," he
said, almost gently.
Yes Her only sister. Her only
relative"
"And you are"
THE Nora to whom she wrote that
fatal letter"
why do you call it that fatal let
ter'?"
She looked at him with loathing. He
was lighting a cigar! The table in front
of him was strewn with dead stumps.
She had no means Of knowing that it
was his sedative-thc one thing that
had kept his brain in working order
during the fierce ordeal of the past ten
days
why do call it that fatal letter?
Because it caused my sisters death.
Your callousness is monstrous, Eugene
NOrcrossn
"You are absolutely saturated with
an insane idea | see what you mean,
but it Is not clear to me how you got
your wild impression"
IL was in the dressing-room that
day"
"Well?"
"And heard you tell her, after tell
ing her about the letter coming back to
you, that what you ought to do was"
II -
IL know! know! l frightened the
poor child! A man, unless he is more
saint than man, does not suddenly make
the discovery that he has been lied to,
duped, entrapped, by a creature whom
he has regarded as almost fawless,
without being temporarily thrown off
his balance. If you never saw that let
ter you do not know how mOnstrously
/ had been deceived"
Eyes, | do know 1t. It was all wrong
had been telling her so. She had no
right to marry you. But could you not
have put her away from you in some
other fashion? This is such a great big
roomy world"
''By God! I believe you are a lunatic!
I loved my wife! | tried to treat her
as / supposed a woman liked to be
treated. l was not young when 1 mar
ried her; | was not skilled with
woman-kind, but believe she was hap
py-yes, do believe she was content.
| gave her everything she wanted"
Aud took from her the thing she
loved best Of all-her life"
Your dreary insistence makes it hard
to be patient with you. If | were a
guilty man, should regard you as my
Nemesis. ! did not XIII Amelia. I am
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-10-12

En~EAEAu. y. ErIToE 1HE
CAr'A-IAS-The AIisancr - not
dead down herr. ii :. "n Il Doom :.
new members are continually COM
iug in: w. met on tn. 18th and had
ole II the b.-st meetings. W. ever had
oar County President. Bro. i. NJ
Early. aud County Lecturer. Bro VI.
l.. Wood. met with IL. and We had q
good speech from. both. The L-c-
turer of eur Alliance Hope Ali
ance1 presented the body with Il
beautiful song. which was cheris hed
by all ~ ho heard it. Afterwards it
was moved that the Secretary send ii
to the Goldsboro CAUCASIAN and
Progressive Farmer for publication,
which YOU will find enclosed.
Fraternally,
JOHN l. DAyIDsoN,
Sec'y Hope Alliance.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-10-12

not that sort of brute You must be-
lieve me-"
who did. then?" In spite of herself,
she was almost persuaded.
II do not know. | have offered five
thousand dollars for the answer to that
question"
II heard you say that you ought to
kill her. That nj mt she was killed. Oh.
the horror of it maddens me-"
"A pretty piece of circumstantial evil
dence, ! admit Yes, your memory is
correct; did tell her that 4 ought to
Kill herr but it is not on record that
Eugene Norcross ever did the thing he
ought to do
Then, N less extensively defiant tones.
perhaps in commiseration for the great
anguish in the sweet white face before
him, he added:
She went away from mel Thank
6od, the last words she ever heard nae
say were in apology for that brutal out;
break l had never spoken angrily to
ner before. had never had occasion
TO do So believed in her utterly and
entirely. Yes, she went away from me
and returned to the women downstairs.
L could hear her voice above every
other one, the gayest, clearest one
there, as went out of the house again.
l dined at the clubhouse that day. I
wanted time to think the whole misera-
BILE business over fully before met her
again. l was afraid l might forget
that. l was gentleman and she a
woman; false, damnably untruthful,
but yet a woman Nothing would be
easier than for me to prove an alibi if
need be. I did not care for nav own
company that evening picked two
club men up on leaving the house, drove
them to the club, dined with them,
played whist with them, until-until-a
messenger-Bennett, l believe it was
came to the club and informed me that
Mrs. Norcross' maid, surprised at her
mistress not ringing for her at bedtime,
went to look her up, she found her-as
you know. You are her sister, and you
are entitled to this much.'
i He stopped talking. and, reaching for
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-10-12
another one. {"

another one"
he was visibly trembling; was itfrom
physical weakness. She had refused to
be seated, and he had remained stand
ing. He dropped heavily into his chair.
as that slight frail woman hurled the
monstrous accusation at him. in a voice,
which, though perfectly under control,
was fierce in its intense emotion. She
misread his agitation:
II do not wonder that you tremble
The man who could take n woman,s
life, who could clasp his brutal hands
around her slim white throat and keen
them there while her strong Young life
current ebbed out forever, is lust the
sort of man to pale and tremble at fear
Of detection. Brutel Cowardlv brute
that you arei would have denounced
you publicly at once, but | thought.
Mol they will drag my poor Nellie from
the grave, his rich friends, and thew
will buy him off from justice at any
price They will parade all of her
weakness and her folly to the world!
They will blacken her memory, as he,
as you, Eugene Norcross. blackened the
soft smooth white skin of her pretty
neck My poor little Melliei My pref
ty, foolish butterfly
Great Godl this is horrible!-too
horrible to standl"
His eyes blazed like living Goals His
arched black brows came together in a
fierce contraction. The solid chair
shook under him She echoed him
sternly.
Horrible! too horriblei I agree with
you Was it not enough to put her out
Of the way, she so slight and weak and
helpless, you SO strong. without involv.
Ing me-? It must have been absurdly
easy
"What?" he asked, stupidity
"To choke her. could have done i
myself"
He pushed the damp masses of hal
back from his forehead with both
hands It was almost a gesture OF
despair. How could he silence this
woman? How rid himself of her? 81
could ring for Bennett and send for Al
= -
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-10-12
JEFF sRSON AND JACKSON

Were Opposed to Banks: of Issue Both
State and National.
Andrew jackson it was who said.
eff congress has the right under the
constitution to issue paper money, it
was given them to be used by them
selves, not to be delegated to indivi
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 to whom 1t be-
longs. Ii 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 one for every neces-
sary purpose
If you believe in the doctrine of
Jefferson and jackson and have the
manhood to back up your belief with
your votes, what party will you be
acting with to-davq If.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-10-12
DISTRICT NO. 8.

those marked with star will not
be furnished speakers as State Lee
turers have Just held meetings in the
counties or will do so later.
a "a o J has been provided for
each district. The expenses of the
speaker must be paid by each COUNTY
but the cost will be small, as tbe
speaker will go from one countv .o
the next adjoining. Each co1,t W
should 8 notify Bro, W. s. Barnes ~
e nsis' sou at once nee at what point in
be held. Pr ,ns county meeting will
Wis visit the 9Th District: Eaetn VIII
thompson the 18th and sth; and Lect
no hoo we the 9th; Bro. Nj. L. WOOD
tne md; Bro. A. C. Shuford tho S,h
n,U, =. = Long the 3rd. The Other
T SPeasers are not yet announced
eener. Io smy meetings will cause a
State. all over the