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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07
Troubles Of Newspaper Man.

That other newspapers have trou-
bles Is evident from the following
clipped from an exchange:
Lives of poor men oft remind us,
Honest men won't stand a
chance;
The more we work there grow be-
hind us
Bigger patches on our pants.
On our pants once, once new and
glossy,
Now are stripes of different hue;
All because subscribers linger,
And won't pay us what is due.
Then let's all be up and doing,
Send your mite, however small:
Or, when snow of winter strikes us
We shall have no pants at ALL"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07
President Helps Orphans.

Hundreds of orphans have been
helped by the President of The In
dustrial and Orphans Home at Ma
used Electric Bitters in this institu-
ton for nine years. 1t has proved a
most excellent medicine for Stomach,
Liver and Kidney troubles. We re-
gard it as one of the best family
medicines on earth' 1t invigorates
the vital organs, purifies the blood,
aids digestion, creates appetite. To
strengthen and build up thin, pale,
weak children or rundown people
it has no equal. Best for female COM
plants. Only soc. at all druggists
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07
r. S. Brown, of Robersonville, N. G.
Asphyxiated i'm Richmond.

Richmond, Va, Jan. 5.-R. S.
Brown, of Robersonville, N. c., was
asphyxiated in the home of Mrs. J.
Monroe Campbell, with whom he was
boarding, last night The young
man who had come to this city for
the purpose of entering the Massey
Business College, entered his room
last night, and in turning Off the gas
jet, accidentally left it open.
His dead body was discovered
early this morning by Mrs. Campbell.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07

The State Legislature met in this
city yesterday, and Raleigh will be
the Mecca in this State for the next
two months. Nothing of Importance
has been done thus far with the ex-
ception Of the election of a speaker
and the various clerks.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07
AGENTS WANTED.

We want q good agent In every
county in North Carolina to solicit
subscriptions for The Caucasian. We
have attractive propositions to make
, to the right parties. II you want good
employment. and can hustle, write to
THE CAUCASIAN,
| Raleigh. N. @.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07

The Legislature will get down to
business to-day and we will doubtless
have interesting news for our next
issue. The Caucasian accurately gives
the proceedings of the Legislature
and you want to read it carefully
each week while the solons are max
ing history.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07

Ii the Governor should place
pistol In the hand of every citizen
In the State it is more than probable
that the sound of the pistol would be
more frequent than the song of the
hooking bird.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07
'RETROSPECTS
FOR 1908
important Steps in Progress OF
Civilization.
TRIP OF WARSHIs FLEET
Conservation Congress One Of the
Most Important Events OF the
TweIyemonth. - Establishment of
Cheaper International Postage
Events i'm the East-Prominent on
tho Death Roll.

New York American.
The year that has drifted past has
been a strict and perilous trial-time
for the American people.
Following the depression of 1907,
with its loss of credit and threatened
disintegration of the social tissues.
we have passed through a year OF
slow and painful recovery. Now, at
last, we begin to feel the glow of un-
doubted convalescence. The wheels
of industry are whirling again.
There has been much social misun-
Outstanding, controversy, dishearten-
ment. But the hurts have been found
to be not Unavoidable.
Through a memorable presidential
campaign, which began in apathy
and ended in hot-blood, we have
passed to diffused sense of satisfac-
ton and assurance.
We expect of the President-elect
not great things, it may be, but wise
things-an era of sober ways and
steady reconstruction.
The early days of the New Year
will see the end of Presidential ad-
ministration that has raised more
questions-and urgent ones-than a
decade can hope to answer. But his
tory will not withhold its dignities
from President Roosevelt. To ask
great questions ON a great stage is
to compel the answers-in due time.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07

Approximately low rates from 9TH
er stations. These tickets are first
class and include meals and berth
while on Peninsular and Occidental
Steamers. Stop-overs will be allow
ed on going trip at Jacksonville, St
Augustine, Palm Beach and other
points south of Jacksonville. Spe-
cial representative will be in charge
and personally conduct this party
Further information as to tour
side trips from Havana, sight-see.
ing tours, hotel rates, ETC., can be
had upon application to
w. III. McGLAMERY,
P. and T.. A,
Raleigh, N. G.
r. l.. VERNON, T. P. A..
Charlotte, N. C.
r. H. DeBUTTS. P. G T. A.
Greensboro. N. G.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07

Yes, she has reached the heights d
said one Christian Scientists, speak
ing of another; now when she wish
es to take bath, she simply becomes
plunged in thought" January
Smart Set.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07
Fleets Long Journey.

The American fleet of battleships
great floating machine shops, for
midable for war, yet bearing a mess
age of peace-haye in the past year
nearly circumnavigated the globe.
There has been a strengthening of
the commercial relations of the re-
public with the countries of South
America and the Far East, and a
definite establishment of political ac-
cord with the rising power of Japan.
Perhaps no national event of the
year will seem in the long perspective
of time more important than the in
itiation of the movement for the hus-
banding of the great natural re-
sources of the country. Posterity will
wonder why this event was delayed
so long, and will mark the year of it's
coming as the epoch of a notable
change in the national consciousness
the dawning of new kind of pol
| 1tics engrossed less in personalities
and more in the solid things of civil
ization.
An event of the past year that is
larger than it looks is the establish
ment of 2-cent letter postage between
| Great Britain and the United States.
| A similar rate to Germany went into
| effect on the first day of the New
Year.
The Russian revolution goes not
much forward, but it cannot go back.
The reactionary forces are much in
evidence, but the deeper undercur-
rents are surely setting toward DEM
ocracy. In Turkey, in Persia, and
in other countries of Oriental tradi-
ton, the democratic spirit has lifted
an inspiring standard of revolt.
China has awakened from it's ancient
| sleep.
Death Roll of 1908.
The death roll of 1908 includes
the names of the harsh old dowager
empress and the neurasthenic EN-
peror OF China, the murdered King
of Portugal, and the Grand Duke
Alexis of Russia
| America mourns the loss of its last
Democratic President, Grover Cleve-
land. And Rear Admirals Coghlan
Crowninshield, Cogswell, and Miller
with Gen. Stephen Dill Lee, com
mander-in-chief of the United Con.
federate Veterans-left heroic names
Among clergymen and educators
were Daniel Cort Gilman, Charles
Eliot Norton, Henry Goldman Potter
and Morgan Dix
i The fields Of letters and journalism
lost Edmund Clarence Stedman, Joe
Chandler Harris, Louise Chandle,
Moulton, and Murat Halstead.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07
THE SUN AT ONE CENT
Is the Cheapest High-Class Paper
in the United States.

THE SUMS special correspondents
throughout the United States, as
well as in Europe, China, South
Africa, the Philippines, Porto Rico,
Cuba, and in every other part of the
world, make it the greatest news
paper that can be printed.
It's Washington and New York bu-
reaus are among the best in the
United States, and give THE SUMS
readers the earliest Information up
on all important events in the legis-
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country
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07
PERSONALLY CONDUCTED TOUR

Southern Railway announces ex-
tremely low round-trip rates to Ha-
leave Havana not later than jan
uary II, 1909, final limit good to
leave Havana not later than jan
uary 81, 1909. The following fares
will apply from stations named be-
low.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07
Confident of Outcome

With high hearts and a deepened
sense Of indissoluble union which
merges all differences of class, we
are launched upon the great issues of
our age, confident that we shall ar
rive after a while at the haven where
| we would be.
More and more, as the years go by,
the emotional interest of mankind
| shifts from the field of abstract ideas
| to that of material accomplishment
| The signs are everywhere reckoning
| to be read that the solution of the
social and political problems is to
| be found in a better organization of
| the inventive and creative forces.
| The thinker can never think out the
way to social peace and progress; the
worker must work it out.
| Nineteen hundred and eight has
been a great year for the inventors
| and engineers. Perhaps their most
| dramatic achievement has been the
| development of the aeroplane. At
length men have put in an incon-
testible claim to the realm of the
air and the freedom of wings.
| Wireless telegraphy has made
striking gains, and has become a
| familiar method of communication
| along all the main-traveled roads of
commerce. Here at home the gener-
| al chronological advance has been
signalized by the completion of tun-
nels under the East and North
| rivers
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07
Price ! Cent?
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NOW SELLS FOR 1 CENT, AND
CAN BE HAD OF EVERY
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THAT PRICE.
All Subscribers In
District of Columbia, Virginia,
North and South Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Delaware
And Throughout the United States
Can Get THE SUN by Mail
at ONE CENT a Copy.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07
THE FARMERS PAPER.

THE SUMS market reports and
commercial columns are complete
and reliable, and put the farmer. the
merchant and the broker In touch
with the markets of Baltimore, Nor
folk, Charleston, New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia, and all other import
ant points in the United States and
other countries. All of which the
reader gets for one cent
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-01-07
THE WONfAN's PAPER.


THE SUN is the best type of a
newspaper morally and Intellectual
ly. In addition to the news of the
day, it publishes the best features
that can be presented, such as fash
ion articles and miscellaneous writ
ings from men and women of note
and prominence. 1t is an educator
of the highest character. constantly
stimulating to noble ideals in indi-
vidual and national life.
THE SUN is published on Sunday
as well as every other day of the
week.
BY Mail the Daily Sun, So a year;
including the Sunday Sun, $3.50
The Sunday Sun alone, $50 a year
Address,
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Publishers and Proprietors,
BALTIMORE, MD.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-07-14
Defines DisorderIy Conduct.

WASHINGTON, July 7.-"Piauo play.
ing and singing after 10 O'Clock at
night is disorderly conduct, as much
as cursing and fighting" declared
Judge Ivory in the police court today
in dismissing Walter Gray. The
court announced that hereafter cur.
few would ring promptly at ten o'clock
and all offenders brought before him
would receive a fine. The Judge said
to Gray: "That playing the piano
after hours will not be tolerated in
the city. No man or woman has the
right to play the piano or sing after
his neighbor is asleep or in bed try
ing to Sleep
Continuing, the Judge said that any
house where music was kept up late at
night was disorderly one.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-07-14
Train Wrecked BY Flood.

KANSAS CITY, July 7.-Swollen by
unpr recedented rains and melting snow
from the mountains, brought down
through the Missouri valley, the riv.
ers have left their banks and caused
damage in many parts of Missouri
and Kansas. Train No. of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
way was wrecked at Pomona, Kas.
OF the ten caches which made up the
train, four left the track and slid into
Is feet of water, according to late
report. The roadbed was covered
with water and the train was proceed
ing slowly, when the tracks spread
and overturned the coaches. The over.
turned coaches are supposed to have
been empty.
A relief train was sent from Ottawa
tonight with supplies for the passen-
gers, who were said to have to climb
on top of the coaches for refuge from
the rising waters.
In Kansas City the situation is
thre atening, if not serious. In the
bottoms in the western section, where
are located the stock yards, wholes ale
warehouses and N manufacturing plants.
the waters from the confluence of the
Missouri and Kansas rivers tonight
are tapping the danger line apd pre-.
cautions were taken against further
rise. In what are known as the east
bottoms, the authorities hope to avert
damage by closing sewer food gates
and the operation of a giant elec-
trical pump.
A telephone message from Pomona,
Kas,, at midnight said the four.year.
old daughter of Mrs. Carrie Rose OF
Chicago had been drowned in the
wreck. The three hundred others who
had taken refuge on top ofthe coaches
were rescued.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-07-14
One Chance In a Hundred.

SPOKANE, July 8.-''1f we compare
the number of claims to be entered
with the number of persons who will
register for Indian lands in the Flat
head, Occur d'Alene and Spokane res
ervations July Is to August S, the
chance for getting a homestead il
about one in 100. 1 have prepared
for loo, 900 reglstr ations at each of the
three reservations, where there are
probably not more than 5000 claims
to be distributed.
j. W. Whitten, superintendent o1
the opening and sale of government
lands, said that on his arrival in
Spokane, after looking over the Flat.
head reserv alton in western Montana,
he will also visit the Occur d'Alene
reserve in northern Idaho and the
Spokane in eastern Washington,
afterward going to Occur d'Alene,
where he will make his headquarters
from July IA to August 20. The draw.
ing for the three reserva vations will
begin at Occur d'Alene on August 9
and will continue until all the lands
set aside are distributed by the gov.
ernment lottery plan.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-07-14
Equal Privileges To All Settlers.

HELENA, July 9.-Notice has been
received In Helena that in order to
afford to all water right applicants.
under public notices issued in pursu.
ance OF section of the reclamation
act OF June II, 1902, equal privileges
In the matter OF making payments.
1t is announced by the secretary Of
the interior that full payment may be
made at any time of any balance re-
naming due on the portion of water
right charge for buildingl the irrigs.
tion system, after certification has
been made by the commissioner OF the
general land Office that full and salts.
factory compliance has been shown
with all the requirements of the law
as to residence, guilty alton and rec
lam alton.
Until further notice the order shall
apply to all water right applica.
tions for public and private lands
or hereafter made in pur.
suance of public notices heretofore or
hereafter issued under the provisions
of the reclamation act.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-07-14
Aldrich Wants Tariff Vote.

WASHINGTON, July 7.-When Sen
ator Aldrich today moved for an
agreement by the senate on all para
graphs of the tariff bill which the
senators did not care to reserve for
further amendment, there was q wide-
spread movement to reserve parts of
the bill against which sen ators desire
to make last stand for a change in
the schedules.
The corpor alton tax amendments,
hides, print paper, plate glass, cotton
ties, writing paper, the Philippine
tariff, tobacco, pottery, and watch
movements were includediin the reser-
vations and Mr.. Cummins gave notice
of another income tax amendment.
He also indicated desire further to
amend the maximum and minimum
provisions of the bill, together with
the plan for a customs court of ap-
peals and counterv ailing duties.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-07-14
A Big Irrigation Project.

SPOKANE. July 8. What is de.
signed to be the largest private irri-
CATION project in the United States
will be installed in the Horse Heaven
country, southwest of Spokane, where
600, 900 acres of land is to be watered
at cost OF sl5, 100000. The Klickitat
Irrigation company is backing the
scheme, which is to be in opera alton
within five years. The main canal
will be $50 miles in length and there
will be sixteen reservoirs to be filled
during the winter months and melting
snow from Mount Adams in the sum.
mer.
The irrig cation of this tract, Off.
cially known as the Klickitat project,
was deemed feasible by government
engineers, who said in their reports
that the work would be too expensive,
while others have said that the task
is out of the question. The promoters
of the enterprise have made thor.
oug investig alton of the land to come
under the system, and Il. A. Hollen-
beck, secretary of the company, says
that as soon as owners of 10000 acres
of land sign to pay $50 an acre for
perpetual water rights the work will
begin. He announced also that no
payments are to be m ade until a year
after the delivery of water.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-07-14
Missouri Towns Are Flooded.

KANSAS CITY, July 7. - Pattens.
burg, q town of 100 inhabitants sixty
miles north of here, is ten feet under
water and hundreds OF people spent
last night perched on the roofs of
their homes. Fifty row boats were
loaded on q special train at Kansas
City this morning and hurried to the
flooded town and the marooned citi-
zens removed to places of safety.
Several houses fosted away. The
rain continues and the waters are still
rising.
Aided by q two.inch rainfall here
and rising waters above, the Missouri
river and the Kaw river showed at
Kansas City today rises OF over q foot
during the past "a hours. If the pre-.
dicted further rises occur, backwater
will be running in the lower streets Of
the west bottoms by tomorrow.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-07-14
TARIFF BILL COMPLETED.
After Several Weeks Discussion The
Senate Is Ready For Vote.

WASHINGTON, July with the
general understanding that the final
vote in the senate on the tariff bill
should be taken by four o'clock to.
morrow afternoon, the senate ad.
journed this evening in pleasant an.
ticipation of the early conclusion of
the labors of the special session of
congress.
When passed the measure will be
hurried to the house, which is expected
to be in session Friday morning to
receive it. The income tax question,
including the corporation tax pro.
vision and Inheritance tax, received
much attention in the senate today
and the straight income tax advocates
were aft tforded the opportunity on which
they had so long insisted to get vote
in favor of the income tax as opposed
to the corporation tax. With the
corporation provision thus securely
established as part of the tariff bill,
there was considerable effort to amend
it, and in one notable case this effort
was successful.
Senator Clapp of Minnesota, has
been severe critic of the provision
ever since its introduction, because it
excluded ''holding" companies. He
renewed his criticism today and was
supported in his views by other sena.
tors. The ultimate result was the &C.
ceptance by Senator Aldrich OF an
amendment by Mr.. Clapp striking out
the exemption Of such companies.
Assurance was also given that every
effort would be made to retain the
amendment in conference.
Next to the income tax, the discus.
sion of the customs court was the big
feature of the days work. Sen ator
Clapp intimated that the court would
owe it's existence largely to the places
where its sessions would be held, and
Sena ator Borah asserted that it was
an impeachment of the present judi.
ciary.
Senator Aldrich and Sen ator Lodge
defended the court. The debate over
the court provision resulted in the
acceptance of the finance committees
provision.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-07-14
HOUSE HUMORIST IS DEAD.
Congressman Cushman Succmbs To
Attack Of Pneumonia.

Congressman Cushman Succmbs To
Attack Of Pneumonia.
New YORK, July 6.-Frank W.
Cushmsn, representative in congress
from Tacoma, Wash, died this morn.
ing at the Roosevelt hospital from
pneumonia. Mr.. Cushman's body,
wrapped in an American dag, will be
put aboard the Chicago Limited of the
Pennsylvsnia road tomorrow and will
be taken direct to Tacoma in charge
OF Fredrick Nj. Weber, deputy ser.
geant at arms.
WASHINGTON, July 6.-While Rep.
resentative Cushman possessed un.
challenged the title Of "house humor.
ist." he was universally regarded as
far more than that. One striking
thing about Representative Cushman
was that he never displayed his gift
OF humor to the house for its amuse.
ment, but always with view of i'm.
pressing his views more forcibly on
that body.
One Of his first speeches to attract
attention touched on the effects of the
panic of 1898. In describing the impov-
erished condition to which his constit-
uents were reduced, he said they were
forced to live on CLANS, washed ashore
by the incoming tide. "Their stom.
achs," he concluded, "rose and fell
with the rising and falling of the tide"
Mr.. Cushman will probably long be
remembered by reason of the effective
ness of his humor in the debates on
the Payne tariff bill in the house.
In describing to the house his feelings
he likened them to those of cow
puncher in Wyoming, whose ability
to raise 1000 cattle in one summer
with one COW as starter, caused a
rope to be placed around his neck by
vigilance committee.
"They asked Bill what he had to
say" explained Mr.. Cushman. "Old
Bill rolled his quid into the other
cheek and said: We'll, gentlemen, l
suppose I got more interest in this
performance than any other gentle
man present, but I am the least en-
thusiastic over the program"
The Washington congressman was
said to have looked moreMlike Lin.
coin than any other publicIman of re-
cent years, In summingIup his career
once, he said he had been water
boy, section hand, cowboy, school
teacher, lawyer and congressman.
He was in congress for more than ten
years.