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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-07-12

The Democratic State convention of Kan
sas met in Topeka last week and adopted
resolutions in faTor of the free coinage of
silver at the ratio of Is to l.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-07-12
rgEg COINAGE I6 ~ /.

From the inception il has bren thc insist
anoe of the Peoples party that the financial
policy of the country Is the controlling quea-
uon lh national politics. The parry IL pri.
marily and essentially national or,,anisa.
ton incidently and necessarily its suorSs
is dependent upon county aud State op,an,.
[aton. The free coinage os silver at the
averaged ratio that obtained for nearly luJ
years until It was demonetizeJ ia ls74, IL not
a State issue, bug the men to he elected 10
congress, pledged to maintain this principlc
must be elected through the organized effort
OF the party advocating it. Assuming a: II
the Peoples State convention will demand
the immediate restoration of silver, without
regard To International interference or con
sent, AT the ratio indicated. may not the
Democratic State convention, succeeding IL
only a few days. he equally pronounced and
emphatic in its platform declaration.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-07-12
CAN THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY EIYE? ?
\ GLASCE iNTO TIE HISTORY OF 70
IiTIC~---AN Oi;GASI/ATIOS or
SIDE 1HE PEOPLE CASNOT LAST
---ONCEIEI IsIT TIAI~E SOW.

The Principles # Democracy Eiy" Forever
lac Iarty f-.iiI-.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-07-12
rHE ISSUE TuEN HAIsEp

before the people will be which j. the hon
est party The Democratic leaders know
TOO well that the people will not submit TO
any further stfaddling on the parity be-
tween the metals" >" and the state convention
VIII be forced to endorse Rauroms vote
against the Sherman law ur repuiiate un-
guallhediy and Internationally the financial
policy OF the administration that dictated
ana demanded Its repeal. If by its endorse
ment the convention makes Ransom the is
aue, 1t wilt Toe perfectly plain sailing 50 far
as the silver question is concerned. But
suppose 1t doesn't suppose that IT declares
hat th" sherman repeal vote was a mistake
suppose Ransom comedies the mistake. Sun
pose he says IN the campaign My God
my fellow countrymcn, don't YOU know
that my first duty is TO you. To you who
have made me what am 10 you 10 whom
owe more yes ii one hundred thousand
times more, than can ever repay. thought
1 vas doing right. If I WAS mistaken God
knows IT was an error of the head and not
OF the heart. ! am your servant. men. Dem
ocrats, countrymen, fellow citizens, not your
MASTER
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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-07-12

Has the Largest Circulation and is
the
LEADING WEEKLY IN NORTH
CAROLINA.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-07-12

Rev. Collins Denny, of Vanderbilt Uni
versity, has been unanimously elected Pres
lent Of Trinity College.
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A Snake Story.

ooh, exclaimed the miraculous wom-
an, 81 wouldn't go to Florida again
for anything"
"And why not?" inquired her caller.
ooh, it's just horrid down there.
Why, u party saw 500 snakes one
morning"
She had gone down there with an ex-
cursion party for a week.
mot 500 live snakes" protested the
caller.
Eyes, that's what they said. I only
saw 10 myself"
"How many were in your party?"
Fifty"
Possibly each saw the same 10
snakes, and the liar of the party counted
so times 10 to make the total"
The returned excursionist began to
look confused and silly.
81 wonder, " she said sheepishly, "if
that man was mean enough to impose
on me that way. 1 believed him when
he told me, for he had been there before,
and I hadn't. '-Detriot Free Press.
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Senator George of Mississippi speaks
with a broad southern accent. Just aft
er the organization of the Fifty-second
congress the senator one day walked
over to the house and proceeded to go
by the doorkeepers.
One of the guardians, not knowing
the Mississippi statesman, laid his hand
on his arm and detained him.
"Here, sir; I say, sir, are you a repre-
sentative?' he called out.
mo, sah," said the Mississippian
gravely. ct am a member, sab, of the
United States senate, and I wish to see
Representative Kilgo', sah."
This doorkeeper was one of Iceman
Turner's appointees, who had cultivated
a grim sense of humor which he was in
the habit of exploiting at the expense of
men with idiosyncracies. He promptly
replied:
Representative Kilgo', sab,
Is not upon the flo, sab.
He went home at half-past TO, sab,
And won't be back no mo-, sab.
A day or two after there was q sud-
den change of doorkeepers at that par
ticular portal.
And the keeper of the do, sab,
Was heard of nevermo', sab.
Washington Post.
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spoken in private of which there is no
record. He accepts and confesses the
central fact of ecord on which all his
connection with this d~isgraceful cor
ruption is based.
There are two material points
as far as Secretary Carlisle is
concerned in this controversy.
The first is the accusation that
he demanded the increase of SUI
gar duties in return for cam
paign contributions from the
Sugar Trust, and the second is
that he prepared and pressed
upon the committee the sugar
schedule now pending in the
Senate. Neither of these state
ments is true unless Secretary
Carlisle and Senators Voorhees,,
Jones and Vest are deliberate
perjurers; and when these issues
cannot be met there is nothing
left for the Press but to confess it's
error or to discredit itself in the
considerate judgment of the
community. The Press owes it to
itself as well as to public journal
ism to cease quibbling when it
must abandon the only criminal
charge it has made against the
Secretary of the Treasury and
the committee of Senators. It
dishonors journalism at every
step by such acts. 1t can mis-
lead none by p~ersisting in the de-
Tense Of its correspondent. He
stands convicted of persisting in
deliberate defamation, but the
Press is a great newspaper and
cannot afford thus to discredit
itself before the world.
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eral Sheridan said hat if he owned
Texas and owned hell he would rent
Texas and live i'll hell is not the region
I allude to.
Texas has three distinct grades of eli
mate and soil-viz, the low coast coun-
try, the rich black farming country and
the desolate grazing country where the
Texas long horned steer has his home.
OF course 1 do not wish to say any
thing derogatory to the valley of the
French Broad in North Carolina, where
George Vanderbilt and I work SO pa
tiently on our upright farms. I can say
truthfully that when l first knew that
Mr.. Vanderbilt was to be my neighbor
there I feared that he was SO rich that
he would not agree with me, but now l
have tried him and know that, simple as
my living has always been and rich as
Mr.. Vanderbilt is, he agrees with me
thoroughly.
Mr.. Vanderbilt has established a very
CHEEKY reading room at Baltimore, where
his estate IN down to the railroad
station, and he has wisely put up in the
room:
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60 Grand Rapids at a profit. Furniture,

TO Grand Rapids at a profit. Furniture,
wagons, etc., are made.
Fort Worth is the great railroad CEN
ter of the southwest That, however,
gave the city rather an overstimulus at
first, and she extended her lines out of
sight. l never saw a city troubled with
such a severe enlargement of the SUBJ
urbs, but now that is past, and the cleo
trio lines and dummy lines are being
hauled in one by one. So are some of
the houses
There is but 5 per cent of colored peo-
pie here, while the old southern states
have so per cent and often more. This
is quite an advantage. though I judge
that i'll the four years since / visited
Texas the percentage has gone up some
what.
There is one serious drawback about
the climate of Texas, though the soil is
very deep and rich, especially in this
part Of the state. The climate is very
trying. 1t is extremely hot i'll summer,
and the norther is so severe sometimes
that brass and cast iron ornamental ami
mails do not dare go out Of doors much.
It was in Texas that the scene of the
poem called t'Lasca'' was laid. Accord
ing to the author of that work, Lasca
was a dark eyed beauty, with Castilian
blood in her veins, while there were
also 10 parts Montezuma, 5 parts Cortez
and several parts Piute in her veins.
She was very beautiful, and even after
a week or two on horseback, with no
baggage, she was still neat and trim,
according to the poet. Her laundress
had an easy time, and her milliner
spent most Of the time in Europe.
Lasca loved this poet who writes the
piece, and once when he spoke to anoth-
er very beautiful girl on the Alamo
another Spanish lady with Arapahoe
blood in her veins and some in her eye
also) Lasca stabbed the poet with a
dear little dagger, but he got we'll, and
she regretted it SO much that he forgave
her and wrote this article regarding her.
One night when the poet was herding
cattle at $11 per month the Texas
norther came down ON the range and
stampeded his stock. Lasca was with
him. Her mother knew nothing of the
matter, however, for she had left town
for the unmer. So the poet only heard
the roar of hoofs and horns and heads
and - Lascal
LAG hl'Ho' saw Ldae'1 VIZ AIao'uIo d
hame strap. He leaped IN his horse and
swung her lightly on his saddle. Then
they let out. They did lot stop to gather
the furniture, for they were only doing
light housekeeping, as a guitar and a
package of Beauty Bright cigarettes
were all they had. Poets live very SIM
ply anyway.
They broke loose, she clinging to him
on the saddle until he saw that tho
steers were gaining on them and would
soon swarm over them and tread both
of them into calf's foot jelly.
He only has to stop a moment to
think, for he has an active brain. He
leaps off the saddle and draws his bright
little revolver, which is also 4 nail file,
stylographic pen and shoehorn COM
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bined, and shooting his horse he and
Lasca crouch behind the carcass (the
horses c~arcass) and expect that the
dead horse will keep tho steers away
from them and save Lasca, after which.
he may possibly marry her.
But, strange as it ma SEEM, those
frightened steers, that wild stampede of
crazed tenderloins, don't make any
change in the line of march. The poet
hears a rattle of hoofs and horns and
such things, gets 4 stockyard aroma, and
that is all. When he awakes, ailis still.
OF the horse that was to keep off the
stampede there is not enough left to
bait a trap, and over him lies poor Las
ca, who had sought to save him by
throwing her slight body across his face,
and SO she is dead.
He throws up his job Oh the range
after he had "gouged her a grave in
Texas down by the Rio Grande. He
finds that he does not really know
enough about the cattle business to re-
main, and so he goes away and clerks
in a store at Smithville, Tex, till he
gets money enough to go back to his
homo in England.
1t is a good piece to speak, and it has
been one of the most delightful dramat-
ic things done by my old friend Bur
bank and by Bob Hilliard in costume,
but Mr.. Burbank always used it as a
can enc Or seater-viz, to open the
programme or seat an audience with,
for when it gets toward May and the
audience gets to stringing along and
coming in up to 10 o'clock it is a de-
light to have a nice young poem that
has a great deal of hollering in it, for it
helps to seat the AUDIENCE. "Lasca"
answers that purpose, but in the cattle
country there is a feeling that somehow
a la who doesn't know better than to
try to conceal himself and a full grown
Mexican senorita behind the carcass OF
a dead ''bronk," so that they will not
be discovered by the steer stampede,
ought to be engaged at the corner of
Seventeenth street and Broadway sweep
ing dirt and debris into a duck valise
with a short handle crumb brush.
I have seen no ''Lascas in Texas down
by the Rio Grande." After the hand
some Spanish Indian girl has reached
Is and eaten chile concarne and TOBIAS
co sauce and breast of buzzard with
| red pepper a chaperon is no more nee
essary than a pocket stone in perdition.
1 saw in San Antonio a very beautiful
Spanish girl was going to say purely
Spanish, but I will say entirely Span
ish. She was not related to Sitting Bull
or the M~ontezumas. She was a very
| rich, voluptuous, dolce farina style of
lazy beauty, but she was not 10, I pre-
sumo, and she was married, and also her
| husband wore a knife down his neck
which held his hat up a little off his
/ head and pricked the chair when he sat
| down.
That's the kind of gent one hears of
down on the Rio Grande. She would
make Carmencita go home if she were
to try conclusions with her. But she is
not an Indian and is not related in any
way to Pizarro or Ferdinand or Isabella
or Columbus.
1ze
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He Liked 1t.

At a recent dinner given by a very
well known Bostonian, where cham
payne and other wines were freely dis
pensed, a member of the clergy was
found ~isolating himself in an obscure
corner of the supper Don and tenderly
hugging n quart of champagne to his
bosom.
His young friend of the laity, who
dicovered him, remarked on the excel
lence of the spread.
"Ah, yes" said the clergyman, with
embarrassment, "and there is nothing so
well suited to my digestion after such a
dinner as a good bottle of apollinaris
such as this. Boston Budget.
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Law.

AS is well known, the law cannot con
Germ itself in any case before it with side
issues. These are vigorously excluded.
In a case in which a mar was accused
of forgery a witness for the defense
managed to say:
IT know that the prisoner cannot
write his own name"
"All that is excluded" said the
judge. 1.-The prisoner is not charged
with writing his w name, but hat Of
some one else. youths Companion.
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Doing Nobly.

Mrs. de Style-How is your daughter
doing at college?
Mrs. de Fashion-Beautifully. Nine.
Bringemupp writes that she is the best
dressed girl in her class. Good News.
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How He

Dashaway-What luck did you have
your last trip?
Billboard (the tragedian)-I played to
full houses.
Dashaway-That's great luck, old
Billboard-Yes. They were so full
that they couldn't shoot straight
Life.
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E9rTHE ARGUS seeks to be a reliable
paper for the people and the family
Democratic and fearing to discuss no
issues wherein the peoples rights are
at stake. Progressive, abreast OF the
age, we shall always endeavor to keep
our editorial and local columns up to
the day and hour.
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RALEIGH. May 10th, 1894.

RALEIGH, Ndy IOUII, IO07'
BY order of the Central Exc
cutive Committee there will be a
meeting of the Democratic State
Executive Committee at Raleigh
on the 10Th day of June, 1894, at
8 o'clock p. m. for the purpose
of calling a convention of the
party and for the transaction OF
such other business as may prop
erly come before it.
F. M. SIMMONS, Chairman.
r. H. CoWAN, Secretary.
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A shantytown Real Estate movement.

Murphy (who has just Awakened
Great heavens, Biddy, that robber Nc
Ginnis has foreclosed the mortgage
fwhilst we were shlaping.-Truth.
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BILL Y IN TEXAS.
WHERE GRASS GROWS GREEN AND
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS SPOKEN.
He Hears Sam Jones Speak and Gives a
Few samples of His Stirring Style-Where
'Lasca'' Had Its Origin-The Real Span
ish Girl Described.
Copyright, 1894, by Edgar w. Nye.i
IN TFyAC
IN TIIE SpRING OF THE

In II SPRING OF THE YEAR.
1 have decided that without prejudice
one can truthfu1ly say that Texas is more
beautiful just now than France or Eng
land. Of course this applies to the coun-
try $50 miles long by rs miles broad in
which is the ''black farm" district. The
grazing country and the part where Gen-
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The Executive Committee Call.

GoLDsBORO, N. c., JUNE 7, 1894
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Entered at the Post Office at Colds
borO, N. c., as SecOnd-C1aSS Matter.
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The


on Still in the load in dispensing
go themany cooling beverages anG
as far as neatpesS of service
and comfort is concerned. can't be eX-
celled in the city. | shall serve this
year:
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Court House
.~..CQ3ateP...

THE purest in the city. used il
= making III drinks. We use rock
ANDY syrup also. and pure fruit juices
1T our fountain. [ desire specially tc
say to my country friends that l can
make milk shakes and lemonades lust
Us good as ever and will be glad to
wait on them as usual.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-02
A Negro Superstition.

'sWhile I was In Florida 1 was q
great deal amused at an incident wit
messed which illustrated supersti-
ton that appeared to be prevalent
among the negroes" said tourist
Zone day an old negro who had been
out rabbit-hunting came home. bring
ing with him an immense rattlesnake,
which he had killed. He exhibited his
trophy with pride to crowd of tour
lists who were standing about in frOat
of the hotel. The reptile measured
six feet three inches and had twelve
rattles and a button. One of the
guests offered the negro Q dollar for
the rattles- The negro did not seem
to think that was enough for so valu-
able trophy, and said he would not
sell them for less than two dollars.
Just that moment another old negro
came upon the scene, and, upon hear
ing what was going on, said to the
owner of the snake: 'Doan yo' cut of
dem rsttles.' 'Wharfo' won. cut OF
dem rattless, eff kin get two dollars
for um?" demanded the other. 'DoaD
you know dat eff yo' cut of dem rattles
yo' GO blind? When ye' cut EN- OF, de
milk oh de snake hy up in yo' eye and
blind yo'.' The owner of the rattle
snake pondered for moment and then
he said: 'Ef any gentleman give NO
two dollars for dem rattles, be can
have 'em; / cut EN- off, nd II go
blind, all right. Use seen enu6 any
how. st Louis GlOse-Democrat
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Wher Baby was sick, We gaze hsr CASTOR.
When she WIS Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.

to diferentiate my fondness Tor ART
and nature; I cannot remember the
time when they were not associated
with me. began to draw pictures, in
childish way, many of which were
very crude, and, as rule, they were of
flowers, insects and things of that
character, and were united in natural
history subjects as far back as my
eighth year"
"Your interest in literary work came
in by way of describing to others what
you had observed YOURSELF"
THE way / drifted into literary work
was quite natural, and, in sense, was
imperative, in order that might gain
a livelihood. In other words, had my
sketch book and portfolio full Of draw
ings from nature. After having left
school went into business, but my
heart was not in Tiny ambition from
a boy had been to be an artist My at
tention was not drawn to the art OF
drawing on wood until / had noticed a
publication on the subject. Then it
was tha4I determined to draw on wood.
Being beginner, it was impossi-
BILE for me to ILLUSTRATED could only
show nay specimens; but had certain
facts regarding natural history which
] could illustrate, and in that way /
gradually drifted into writing sketches
on natural history, and illustrating
them, meanwhile studying and en-
deavoring to improve myself in draw.
ing, until eventually became known,
and my work appeared in various
magazines. However, 1 never, at that
time considered my writing 'literature;'
1t was simply natural means of find
ing a market for my drawings. My
work was conscientiously done-as
well as could do it, but had as yet
never had the remotest idea of becom-
ing writer.
81 drifted into writing proper at the
suggestion of Mr.. Henry NJ. Alden,
then. as now, editor of Harper's
Monthly. / returned one summer
from vacation spent at Washington,
and was describing my school life to
him-telling him little episodes which
had been reawakened by my visit to
Mr.. Gum. Mr.. Alden seemed inter-
ested, and at the close of my remarks
said: 4 want you to write that for the
magazine My conversation with him
at that time finally led to an article
called Snug Hamlet. That; came out,
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and concentrated my thoughts upon

and concentrated my thoughts upon
the same"
The appreciation of Mr.. Gibson's
charts was most dattering, and while
he had not the remotest idea at that
time Of taking to the lecture platform
with them, the calls became so numer-
Gus. their fame having spread through
people who had heard the lectures and
seen the charts, and invitations to lee
ture came crowding SO thick upon
him without solicitation ON his part
that Mr.. Gibson's time has been
filed up pretty well since then, to
the exclusion of almost all other work.
Mr.. Gibson has been told by scien-
tific people that he had evolved an en-
tirely new method Of teaching and
ought to protect his charte-and this
he has done both by copyrights and
patents in America, France, Germany
and Great Britain. They have been
Endorsed by Columbia college, and the
president Of that college has booked
Mr.. Gibson for q lecture course next
year.
One summer after the city people
had left Washington Mr.. Gibson gave
lecture in the church at a nominal
rate for the benefit Of the village IL
brary, and the church was filed by the
farmers roundabout with their fam
lilies. he talked for an hour and forty
minutes to q very much interested au-
dience, and the revelation which these
charts of his conveyed to those people,
who had been in contact with flowers
all their lives, was most interesting
and suggestive to him. One old farmer
said to the lecturer in the provincial
dialect; Mr.. Gibson, do you mean to
tell me tibet thet's what tibet man OAR
WINS been telkin' 'baout?'' EYES," said
Mr.. Gibson. "that is one of the things
he has been talking about" Then the
farmer replied: "Wall, I never took
no stock in Darwin before, but I
think mighty heap of Darwin
now" Another native noted for the
fondress he had fer his gar
den said: 81 VOW, Mr.. Gibson, almost
feel ashamed to go into my garden,
again" Another one came to him with
an expression of awe and amazement
on his face, and said: Mr.. Gibson. is
tibet really SO about tibet daisy flower,
or is it guff?" In other words these men
were inspired with awe and reverence
for the wonderful design and intention
which lay beneath the forms of the
flowers that they had known all their
lives. The idea never entered their
minds that the form of the flower, the
color, etc, all have reference 10 spe-
eial insect taking the pollen from one
flower to another to insure cress-fertil-
ization. This is fulfilled among flowers
in various ways, Mr.. Gibson said. One
flower claps the bee on the back and
covers il with pollen as it leaves the