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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06
STATE OFFICIALS D0DGISG THE
WATTS LAW.

Some time ago we stated in these
columns that the Democratic politi-
clans had been busy for some time
looking for an issue for the next
campaign that they had finally de
cided TO attack the Internal Reve-
nue. system in this State by charging
that the Federal officials were not
enforcing the law. But the Demo
cratic machine will now have to
look up a new issue, and at the same
time Will have to muddy the waters
terribly TO cover up the incompe-
tency of their own officials. The
news comes from all over the State
that the State officials are not en-
forcing the Watts law, and that the
Illicit whiskey traffic in this State ii
disturbed only by Revenue officials
Some days ago the editor OF the
Charlotte Observer had an interview
with Col. w. III. Chapman, Interna
Revenue agent, for North and South
Carolina.
Commenting on this interview
the Observer editorially says:
ain conversation, some days ago
with Col. w. III. Chapman, Interna
Revenue agent operating in NORTH
Carolina and South Carolina, the ed
itor of the Observer, who has known
him for many years az a conscien-
tious and courageous officer and {
gentleman of high character, re
quested Of him statement Of TIT
number Of illicit distilleries seiZeC
| by the United States officers in tn,
two states in the last six months
This request was c0urteOusly com
piled with and the statement ap
peared in yesterdays paper. From
December lst of last year to jun
1st of this, inclusive, there wer
276 such seizures in this State ant
46 in South Carolina, total 322
While these Revenue officers wer
seizing these 276 stills in NORTH
Carolina, how many were seized b.
the State officers? We are not sur
whether there were one or two, o
none. And yet the capture or de-
struction of illicit distilleries is, un
der the much-heralded Watts law
as much the duty of the sheriffs o
the counties as it is of the revenue
officers. If other laws are to be en-
forced, why not this one? If thu
influences behind it do not get bus,
and "get behind it," in fact, it will
presently dawn upon the people tina
it was never intended to be enforced
but was only grand stand perform
ance.
"CoDcluding his communication
Col. Chapman says:
81 will say that 1 occasionally &c
letters from the sheriffs in
forming me that illicit distillerie
are being operated in their counties
from which you will see that the,
are willing to see the Revenue Off
GERS destroy the distilleties even i
they don't take the time to destro,
them themselves"
| Which is very clever Of them in
deed"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06
Every
Heart-AChe

Every pain in the breast. diff
hcult breathing, palpi,ation.
futtering or dizzy spell means
that your heart is straining it
self in its effort TO keep IN
motion. This is dangerous.
Some sudden strain from over
exertion or excitement will
completely exhaust the nerves,
or rupture the walls or arteries
of the heart, and it will stop.
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heart action, and relieves the
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Take no chances; make your
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II suffered terribly with heart dis
ease | have been treated by
different physicians for my trouble
without Results. i went 10 Il phJSt-
elan in Memphis. who claimed that
l had dropsy Of the heart He put
the E-ray on me. and in connection
with his medicine he came near max
ing a finish of me. Some time before
this Mr.. Young, OF st. Louis was
In OUR town. He saw my condition.
and recommended DR.. Miles Heart
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until my return from Memphis. when
! concluded to try 1t, and am pleased
to say three bottles cured me.
CHARLES GOODRICH,
Charlottesville, Mo.
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your druggist, who will guarantee that
the first bottle will benefit. II 1t falls
he will refund your money.
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart. Ind
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06
THE DIAMOND CURE.

The latest news from Paris, is,
that they lave discovered q dia-
mond cure for consumption. II you
fear consumption or pneumonia, it
will, however, be best for you to
take that great remedy mentioned
by w T. McGee, Of Vanleer, Tenn
~ had cough. for fourteen years
Nothing helped me, until 1 took
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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06
BENT HER DOUBLE.

81 knew no one, for four weeks,
when was sick with typhoid and
kidney trouble" writes Mrs. Annie
Hunter, Of Pittsburg, Pa, "and
when got better, although had
one OF the best doctors I could get
/ was bent double, and had to rest
my hands on my knees when |
walked. From this terrible afflic-
ton / was rescued by Electric Bit
ters, which restored my health and
strength, aud now l Can walk as
straight as ever. They are simply
wonderful" Guaranteed to cure
stomach, liver and kidney disor-
ders; at all drug stores price Soc.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06

A professor of natural history.
who was delivering q lecture to his
class on the rhinoceros, noticed that
the attention of the students was
wandering. "Gentlemen, "he said,
sternly, "if you expect to realize the
remarkably hideous nature of this
beast you must keep your eyes fixed
On me."-Harper's Weekly.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06

A prominent Democratic city pol
itician in writing on the unfa irness
of the News and Observer says: 81
believe this paper and its unfair ed
itor, has injured the Democratic
party and the cause of temperance
in North Carolina more than he can
ever repair" The policy of that
editor is to rule or ruin, and if he
rules he will ruin. Hadn't you bet
ter look for another Moses.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06
PAPERS SHOULD PRINT THE NEWS
FAIRLY.

The following from the Rich.
mond Times Dispatch would be
very good doctrine for some of the
daily papers of this State to follow:
"Every newspaper is under a tacit
agreement with its readers to print
the news fairly, and when it dis
tOrts or colOrs its news reports in
order to deceive, it violates a sol.
emn obligation and defrauds its
readers, as much SO as does a mer
chant when he sells spurious articles
of merchandise 1t is impossible
for newspaper always to be accu.
rate in its news reports, for the
truth is mighty hard to get, but it
is the desire of every honest news
paper to print the news correctly,
whether or,not the reports are agree
able to the editor. We have often
said that fairness is newspaper re.
ligion. Every honest publisher
strives to be fair, just as every
honest man strives to be honest not
merely as matter of justice to
others, but that he may be true to
himself"
When we read the above we
couldn't help but think what good
doctrine it would be for the yellow
journal of this city, to follow, as it
often handles facts rather carelessly,
especially when writing about the
Gattis-Kilgo suit, the recent trag-
edy in Raleigh and in fact when
writing about anyone else, that is
not stakeholder in their paper.
who happens to think differently
from that paper.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06
JOHN HAY.
Secretary Hay Is dead. Sad

Secretary Hay Ii dead. Sad and
sorrowful a. is the fact il is true and
must be told if with bowed head
and dated breath. If there were
other John Hays it would be less
deplorable, but Of his like there are
few-perhsps none; and yet this
great government must continue to
move on. The President must and
will find successor and the public
general may never see any differ
snceibut the fact remains that John
Hays place will be hard to fill as
he filled it. His public career be,
gan while he was quite young
man as private secretary to Presi-
dent Lincoln, and in this capacity
he saw the rise and fall of the South
ern Confederacy which deluged the
country with human blood. lie
saw peace restored, then saw his and
the Nations Chief fall by the hand
of assassin. He saw this sad and
lonely parsonage, this man of lofty
purpose and singular purity languish
and fade just as his greatness Was
about to be appreciated by those
whose excavations had been most
bitter, then saw the stormy days
which followed.
If contact with greatness can
make one great then Hay could not
well have escaped being so; but
there were within the man those
innate qualities which make for
greatness.
First he was a man of high asper-
lions and purity of purpose. He
was ripe scholar and literary au-
thor of no mean repute. He was
also lawyer of high rank and his
Enthusiastically at the Court of st.
James afforded opportunity for the
study and absorption of the very
cream of international law, while
contact with esrth's rulers showed
by contrast the excellence and the
glory of our American system of
government.
As statesman and diplomat
Hay is thought by many to have
stood without peer among the ma
lions of the earth and without a
parallel in history.
To have lived from Lincoln to
Roosevelt and been conspicuously
identified with both administra
tions were glory enough apparently
for one man, but Hay enjoyed vastly
more. He was the leading spirit
and counselor in the administration
of President Mckinley now admit
ted to be the most successful and
beneficent in our cOuntry's history
except that of his successor our pres
ent chief magistrate, whose policy
has also been shaped largely by Mr..
Hay. "The open door in China
1.-THE restricted area of hostilities in
Manchuria," 1.-The Panama CanaP'
and the Venezuelan dispute are
some of the triumphs of Mr.. Hays
diplomatic skill.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06
A SURPRISE PARTY.

A pleasant surprise party may
be given to your stomach and liver
by taking medicine which will
relieve their pain and discomfort t,
viz: DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
They are q most wonderful RENE
dy, affording sure relief and cure
for headache, dizziness and consti
patton $50 at all drug stores
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06
FORCED TO SrARvE.

BIZ. Lesk. Of t'oncord. Ky. sayss
For ~ years 1 Suffered Agouis .,
with . sore on my upper lip. 90
painful. sometimes, that | could
not eat After vainly trying every
thing else. I cured 10, with Buck
lens Arnica salve.- It's grea; foF
burma, cuts aud wounds. At all
drug stores only lie
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06

Cotton sold in Raleigh Monday
for fraction over ten cents per
pound and Richard Cheatham, sec
rotary of the Southern Cotton Grow
ers' Association says it will 60 even
higher. This is a death blow to
the calamity hOwlers.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06

The News and Observer and Barbarian.
We can appreciate the indignation
of the News and Observer over the
affair of last Saturday, and we hear
tily endorse its efforts to put down
evil. The advocate has cried out
repeatedly against the same evils in
Raleigh. But we confess to shock
Of surprise when we heard the News
and Observer in its Sunday morn
ing's issue consigning one Of the &C
tors in last Saturdays drama of
shame to 1920 years in the peniten-
tiary and million in hell" We
attributed such a shocking un-Chris-
tian sentiment to the EDITORS white
heat of Indignation, and felt that he
would soon be ashamed of it. But
we fiud that he practically repeats
it in Tuesday mornings paper. We
cannot understand how one writing
from the standpoint of Christian
morals and the supremacy of law
can feel himself justified in using
such words. Their spirit would tear
down the very pillars of that tenn
pie which we are trying to build.
There is in the words enough lynch
ing heat to light the lyncher's bon
fire for years to come.
May the News and Observer have
great success in putting down evil,
but we trust that, in the name o!
spiritual and civil law and all right
eousness, it may modify its shock.
ing statement. We are trying ia
establish on earth higher and more
enduring principle. We are trying
to get away from barbarism.-Ral-
eigh Christian Advocate.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06

The following item is from the
Raleigh Enterprise:
"FrOm appearances we judge that
the moral welfare of this City is in
the hands of JOsephus Daniels aud a
score of negro hackmen. Well, we
had to strike the bottom sometime"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06

Glenn Williams Charged With Defraud-
ing the Government
Greensboro never fails to come in
for its share of sensational cases.
The case against N. Glenn Williams
has been continued for hearing in
this city in October Greensboro
Telegram.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06
TRINITY COLLEG E

Four Departments Collegiate,
Graduate, Engineering and Law.
Large library facilities. Wei
equipped laboratories in all depart
ments Of science. Gymnasium fur
nished With best apparatus. Elk
penses very moderate. Aid for
worthy students.
Young Men wishing to
Study Law should investi.
gate the superior advant-
age offered by the Depart
ment of Law in Trinity
College .. -. :. :.
For catalogue aud further infor.
nation, address
D. w. NEwsOM. Registrar,
DURHAM, N. c..
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06

Mamma Here comes your hther.
See how crus you've made him.
Now, 20 and tell him yov're sorry.
Tommy-5sy, pop, pm sorry you're
30 blamed cross.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06

Subscribe for the Caucasian. Only
81 90 per year or Soc for six months.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06

The time Of our governor should
be considered too valuable 10 b
taken up with q lot OF folks WHO
are In the penitentiary and lot 81
others who should be there.--D0r
ham Herald.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06

That man who claimed the cor
porations elected Mr.. Roosevelt L
not saying very much just now.
Washington Post.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06

A certain editor has threatened to
run all Of "the hell holes out of
Raleigh" 1t Ii said that the nun Der
has increased since he ran them out
before.-Raleigh Post.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-07-06

Are not taxes coming little too
high these days for the people not to
have q free and fair ballot: There
should be no dickering about the
ballot box these dsys.-Union Re-
plblican.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-12-22
CHAPTER TX,

Desmond was beginning to be consid-
erably exercised in his mind. The prob
lem concerning the fate of his ward
seemed more insoluble than ever. 1t was
now nearly a fortnight since Professor
Laybourhes funeral, and he had been
able to come to no conclusion whatever,
as yet, about his daughter. He had gone
down great many times to the White
Cottage, staying there, generally, not
longer than twenty-four hours and then
returning to London to look after her
temporal interest. Everything was now
fairly in order. Kitten was not left a
pauper; when all came to be settled it
was found that her fortune amounted to
about nine thousand pounds, which was
left in trust to herself until she was
twenty-one, or until she married, when
1t reverted entirely to herself.
In these days, when he came down to
the cottage. he was very pre-occupied
and very silent. There was a hush In
the empty rooms, a perpetual gloom in
the unlittered chamber where so lately
the naturalist's books and papers and
instruments were strewn about. And
Kitten herself was silent. She moved
about the house like little white wrath,
with dark circless about her blue eyes
and piteous droop of the rosy childish
mouth. But, little by little, as the days
wore on, her youth began to reassert it
self.
1t was on the occasion of one of his
brief, although frequent visits, that soon
after his arrival at the White Cottage
letter was brought to him. He opened
1t and with some surprise read these
words:
Dear Sir-As an old friend of the
late Mr.. Laybourne's / venture to write
to you to ask you to come and call upon
me, in order that we may consult little
concerning the future Of his daughter,
In whom | take sincere interest As
woman Of a certain age and of some
experience in life. trust you will not
think l am presumptuous in this Offering
to give you my counsel-the poor child's
condition seems to me at present to be
somewhat melancholy. Perhaps If we
were to talk it over together we might
be able to arrive at some conclusion con-
cerning her. Will you come and see me
at Frierly Hall at II o'clock tomorrow
morning? Perhaps it would be as well
not to mention to your ward that 1 have
written to you. Yours faithfully,
MARGARET GRANTLEY."
A man who is driven to his wits end
by perplexity will, like a drowning one,
catch at any straw that II likely to
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CHAPTER vIII.-(Continued.,
By MRS. LOVETT CAMERON

The next week passed away sloy,
each day seemed to be double its own
length. Kitten neither ate, nor slept.
nor spoke. She lived in a sort of dull
dream, and did what she was told. Brian
Desmond went and came, backward and
forward, from town to cottage. The
funeral was to be in London, the great
naturalist was to be buried in Westmin-
ster Abbey. The nation wished it to be
so, and Kitten, when she was asked,
made no objection.
She never even expressed a wish to
go up to London to gaze once again
upon the dead face of her ather. Brian
marveled at this, for to most women
'last looks" last days." a last fare
welr' are things which have a morbid
fascination; but Kitten was above and
beyond all this. Her fathers face as
she had last seen it in life, full of eager
thought and bright with the intellect
of his great mind, was a sufficient mem
ory to her. She did not wish to efface
that pleasant image in her mind by any
more painful vision of him.
IF l could get him back" she said to
Brian, 81 would walk barefoot from here
N'A hAAS "oy up " 1@OhuOh " oSC hlul =
but what is the good Of my going to see
what would not be my Daddy at all, but
only sad shadow of what l have lost!'
So she stayed at home by herself all
day, in the cottage with its white drawn
blinds, while the choristers were sing
ing solemn requiems in Westminster
Abbey over the dead man whose funeral
hundreds of great men came from miles
away to attend.
Outside the July sun came hotly down
In the cottage garden, the bees MUIR
INJURED drowsily as they buried them
selves in the brown bosoms of the sun
flowers. The dog lay stretched asleep
in the sun on the stone steps, the cat,
curled up on the kitchen window sill,
purred contentedly to herself; there
were gossamer threads spun across the
lawn and the flutter of winged creatures
through the bushes and among the trees.
Kitten peeped out from behind the
blinds, the deathlike stiffness Of the
house oppressed her; presently she stole
out in her new Grape into the garden,
breathing more freely and naturally when
she was under heavens own blue once
more. Her heavy, sable skirts brushed
behind her across the grass as she walk
ed-she had nothing on her head, the
sunshine came down upon her yellow
hair and lit up the small, childish face
that looked all the younger and wniter
for the deep black of her garments.
Keziah saw her go with a groan. "She
might have waited for an hour" said the
old woman to herself, with indignation,
then the ceremony would have been
over and could have drawn up the
blinds all over the house. It's hardly
decent for her to go out now, and there
she goes with her new Grape a-sweeping
all across the grass and gravel, with
never thought in her to pick it up out
of the dust! But she always was an ex-
travagant lass, with no thought to take
care of her things"
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found these enduring riches by losing
itself in loving service.
CHRIST IN ECLIPSE.

Itself in loving service.
CHRIST IN ECLIPSE.
BY Rev. John r. Sfraton
Mary as she stood by the tomb Of
the risen Christ looked at Him, but
did not really see Him. Her careless
ness eclipsed the face of Christ. And
many things in this age are hiding
the Savior from the vision of lost men.
One of the worst IF these things Is
false worldly pleasure The glorifica-
ton of sport is one of the most serious
signs Of our times. There is a place
for legitimate recreation, but the race
has all but gone mad after idle pleas
ures. Automobiles, Sunday golf and
baseball, theaters and giddy social dis
sipation are dwarfing the soul vision
Of multitudes by glofifylng the animal
pleasures rather than the mental and
spiritual delights.
The love of money is another force
producing spiritual blindness. The dol
lar looms so large upon the horizon Of
so many lives to-day that it has put
Jesus Christ completely into eclipse.
Honesty, virtue and justice are being
sacrificed on the altar of mammon.
Every paper Is laden with the slcken-
Ing stories Of dishonesty and graft.
Even our United States Senators are
not exempt from the cortagion. Promi.
nent packers plead guilty to a deliber-
ate and carefully prepared violation of
our national laws and the greatest in
surance companies Of the world have
been proven guilty of thivery as fla
grant as any recorded in the dark his
tory of crime.
Friend, you may worship at the altar
of pleasure until its incense rises to
the sky; you may fill the social cup
with the red wine of good fellowship
until it sparkles in beauty to the very
brim; you may surrender to the weird
and deadly hypnotism of the gaming
table; you may give yourself to the Sc
ductive charms Of impure beauty; you
may devote your talents to the amass-
ing of golden treasure until your
wealth obscures the Tame of Croesus
and surpasses the dreams of avarlce,
and yet, when you have done it all,
you will still be unsatisfied. They will
be as dust and ashes upon your lips.
Your starved soul will never find true
happiness and peace until you look
away to the hill Of Calvary and accept
as your Savior the pale and patient
sufferer dying there In agony and
blood.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-12-22
SHORT METER SERMONS

Truth needs no tlnsel.
Weakness cannot wait.
Friends never come In flocks.
Love is the great human lodestone.
Labor is the noblest of all prayers,
Every sin would like to syndicate
itself.
III saints are honorable but none are
self-made
The world needs kindness more than
creeds.
When religion is only thing It Is
worse than nothing.
Enough is as good as a feast; more
leads but to famine.
Even child knows the difference
between plety and padding.
No man can be an infidel who has
some faith IN other men.
A few friends at heart are worth a
whole directory in the head.
The day of rest Is never the better
for making it day of rust.
Look to your works and your wings
will take care Of themselves.