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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30

fer 10 raise s2s.s7s among The rag
ged and MANNED followers OF Lee to
pay General Sickles- alleged debt 70
the State Of New York.
Sheriff Hamburger who arrested
General siekles to-day in the civil
suit brought By the State 20 r~covsr
the money. also directed : letter 20
maay OF the richest men in New York
asking them TO aid the aged veteran.
In telegram sent 10 General Sir
kles from Gainesville. Ga. Mrs.
Longstreet said she had telegraphea
10 the Attorney-General. OF the state
of New York. that she would raise
the money among the Confederate
Veterans If allowed sufficient time.
The Republic whose battles YOU
fought viii not permit your degrade
ton, we're her closing words TO Gen
erai Sickles.
Sheriff Hamburger dealt gently with
his prisoner. Instead Of serving the
order Of arrest this morning. he wait
ed until General Slckles' LAWYER.
Daniel 7. Hays. had arranged with a
surety company for $4,000 bond
for the veterans freedom Mr. HAYS
brought II 10 the sherin's Office and
they went 10 General Sickles Fifth
Avenue home this afternoon
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30
JUST PIE-THAT'S ALL.

The Democratic Senator'S are deter
mined TO prevent the confirmation Of
the Taft appointments and are show
ing a tendency to go to any extreme
in order TO do this. It isn't contend
ed that the fight against these ap-
pointees is on the ground OF unfit
ness nor that 1t wasn't the proper
and natural thing for Republican
administration to do TO fill these va
cancies. It's just pie, that's all, and.
say the Democrats, we must have it.
The Republican Senators have forced
the issue against the Democrats BY
compelling them to either yield in
their opposition TO Senate confrma-
tions or TO come out in the open and
adopt methods OF delay and obstruc-
ton. OF course, they have never had
any intention of letting the pie get
by, and there was nothing left for
them to do but TO openly throw pro-
prieties to the winds and engage in
fillibuster to prevent action on these
combinations every time they are
called up in regular order of bust
ness. This they are now doing to the
extent Of absenting themselves from
the Senate Chamber for the purpose
of breaking a quorum, and spending
a good part of their time which is
popularity supposed to be employed in
dignified and statesmanly considera-
ton of the public welfare in lodging
the Sergeant-at-Arms.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30
Saved Life T., Gi,ing snakr MIA

An EuHlishman in travelling through
Ccylon Mas the guest OF a dockyaTd
Official az TrincomAiic
The dinner waS excellent" he
says. blu; when about half over
Was startled 10 hear the wife Of ms
host tell the native servant 20 place
"A bowl OF milk on the decrskin near
her chair.
Although she spoke as calmly as
giving an ordinary order. | knew
that there was "a snake somewhere in
the room. for they prefer milk 10 any
thing else. As hasty movement
might have meant certain death. Se
ali sat like statues: but for al THAT.
my eyes were inspecting every nook
and corner. with peep under tho
table. However. IL Tas not until the
milk was placed on the deerskin tina;
The snake appeared. Then 10 our
amazement. "A large cobra uncoiled it.
self from my hostess ankle and Gid
ed toward the bowl. when Of course
it was killed.
But just fancy the nerve OF the
woman. though she tainted when the
thing lay dead on the floor. How
many could have remained motion
less under such circumstances -
New York Press
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30
N~ath-w Frwph~s f'rvsisxts tcld
Weather Unsii April

\ tEAck~nxAxk. - J. dsspAsea %
rwcent date says
Weather Prophet & J IL Noo
said to-day uhsn asked conc~vaiaE
The unusually open slater The T~a-
aon - = simple one. fer with oao 81
r~pGlon w~ have b~ea on the east side
% all storms The exception waa The
sao~ -slcrfn at Christmas tlne VIE
Ter q ili begin uow. | predict hlls
gard over the Ohio vaIIcS TO Esorro~
aad sao~ all fail ESTc Thursday
cold weather will prevail rtEhi along
uuul April ] Ice foot thick all Dc
cut the middle Of February 81
pest the worst storm % the year from
February Ia 10. The ic~mru here
Abouts aced not despair
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30
GEN. DANIEL SICKLES ARRESTED
Veteran of Civil War Charged With
Disappointing Trust Funds Col
lected for Nomenclature Heavy
Bond-Friends Appeal for Aid.

Albany, N. Y, Jan. 25.-Upon ap-
plication of the State authorities, the
State Supreme Court to-day issued an
order for the arrest of General Dan
iel F. Sickles, of New York, who, as
chairman of the New York Monu-
ments Commission, is alleged to have
failed to account for s23,467 of the
Commissions fund.
The total amount of the alleged
shortage was s28,476, but on Deem
Der goth, last, Stanton Sickles, son
of the General, paid the State $4,000
and promised to make good the bal
ance as soon as certain property in
Spain, owned by Mrs. General Sickles,
could be sold.
The States complaint points out
that from 1890 to 1912, inclusive
the Legislature appropriated $780,
141 for use of the Commission. 1t
is charged that of this amount, s445,-
GAL was turned over to Gen. Sickles
and that his vouchers showed a bal
ance unaccounted for of s2S,746.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30

New Hanover Grand Jur, Brings In
dictment Against City for Violating
Health-Judge Carter Very Caus-
tic in Criticisms of the jury

special from Wilmington 10 yes
terday's News and Observer says:
Because the city of Wilmington
has failed and neglected 10 obey the
regulation OF the County Health
Board, adopted last summer. to the
effect that after certain date some
time in the fall that no carrion or
trash would be allowed to be dump
ed on or buried beneath the soil in
New Hanover County, the municipal
lty was indicted by the grand Jury
to-day on charge of nuisance. The
case will probably come up tomorrow
when three other cases charging nuts
ance in that the city has allowed GER
tain distractions in the way of build
ings or steps to project on the side
walks are to be heard.
The alleged fish trust case will
be taken up in the Superior Court
tomorrow. Six of the leading fish
dealers of the city are indicted for
violating the State antitrust laws.
Judge Frank Carter, VIII OILS pre-
SAoih at tnlS lSl III Oh I, maze
some rather caustic comments to-day
on the verdict of a jury that found
a negro not guilty Of charge of kill
ing another. He declared that while
the city has been aroused to the en-
forcement of the prohibition law that
seemingly the public conscience in
this county in a homicide case could
only be aroused where the circum-
stances might be sufficient to stir in
dignation to the point of a lynching.
when the solicitor stated that T.
c. Groom desired to enter a plea Of
guilty to a charge of assault with
serious injury in a case against him
for the murder of Magistrate J. H.
Sykes some months ago, Judge Carter
advised that he had better seize it
like frog does a fly, For it is all
you will get out of the wreckage,
he added. The court then ordered
this entry made: A plea of guilty
to assault with serious injury is of
fered, which plea the State gratefully
| accepts with the full approval of the
court"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30
CRUSHED IN FALLING BUILDING.
Eight Killed Outright and Many 9th
ers Seriously Wounded When De-
partment Store COllapsed-Struc-
ture Caught on Fire and Some
Were Burned.

Mckinney, Texas, Jan. 23-Thirty-
believed to have been killed or bad
ly injured in the collapse here this
evening of the Cheeves Brothers De-
partment Store. At 10 o'clock to-
night the known dead numbered
eight, and thirteen persons seriously
injured had been rescued from the
ruins. Immediately after the col
lapse of the three-story building
flames burst out and only were sub
dued after an hours fighting by fire
men and volunteers.
The store had been crowded during
the day by citizens and families of
nearby farmers attending a bargain
sale. According to VERNE Graves,
the only person known to have es-
capped uninjured from the falling
ruins, there were fully fifty people in
the building at the time of the catas-
trophe.
Cracking of timbera and swaying
of the building were quickly followed
by the collapse. Excitement attend
ing the accident was increased by the
falling of two-story store building
adjoining the department store
Many of those in the Inflated build
ing when the collapse came were wo-
men and children. Their cries spur
red the rescue workers in their eff
forts to tear away the burned and
splintered timbers behind which the
inmates of the building were pin
toned.
A special sale was in progress at
the time the building tumbled and a
number of shoppers were said to have
been in the store. Some of these are
known to have escaped alive, but
whether others were caught beneath
the falling masonry had not been def
initely established early tonight.
Five dead had been removed from
the wreckage at Z o'clock, two others
died shortly after they reached hos
pital, and of seven others injured,
three are seriously hurt.
Mayor Finch estimates the dead in
the department store collapse and fire
at thirty-five.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30
FOR NORTH CARO-
LIMA MONAZITE.
The Shelby On. c. Highlander, in
a leading editorial, says:

The Shelby On. c. Highlander, i
leading editorial, says:
Write to Mr.. Underwood.
You men of this section of
the PiedmOnt-Write,
Address the letter to Hon.
Oscar w. Underwood, Chairman
of the Ways and Means Com
mittee Washington, D. c.
Urge him and the Ways and
Means Committee to restore the
mOnazite industry Of our section.
1T will mean more revenue
to the Government and much of
the money which now goes to
Brazil for the golden sand will
flow into our section, making it
flush with a new life
With a duty Of but two cents
per pound, or even four cents,
the industry is PROSTATE in this
country. Make it six cents or
more and the industry will bios
som INTO lie again.
High duty or low duty, the
cost of Welsbach gas mantles-
the finished product of monazite
remains about the same. The
consumer in this case is not ben
Gifted by low duty on monazite.
But a comparatively high
duty will mean increased reve-
nue. for the Government, for the
Brazil sand will not be kept out,
and we, the American producers,
will profit enormously by the
higher revenue duty. .
Let our people-especially
the miners and producers of
monazite sand-write to Mr..
Underwood, in their own Ian
guage, in their own handwrit-
ing.
do this to-day and possibly
your letter may be the one which
will decide the Committee in
favor of increased duties.
$50 get busy.
Surely it is contrary to the
policy of the Democracy to stand
sponsor for the complete killing
of so great and so important an
industry as that Of monaZite."
Here we have right at our door
oncrete example of what the Demt
ratio tariff policy means.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30

but have announced that they will
wait until Mr.. Wilson is sworn in as
President before creating the jobs SO
that he can appoint Democrats to fill
the positions.
Thus IL would seem that the Demo
Gratis in both State and Nation favor
a "non-partisan" judiciary. providing
only Democrats are named 10 fill the
judgeships.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30
DEMOCRATS AND A NON-PARTI-
SAN JUDICIARY.

The Democratic lawyers are still
working to have the Legislature ere
ate four new judgeships, claiming
that there are not enough judges in
the State to dispose of the dockets in
the various counties.
The Democrats once claimed that
the judiciary should be non-partisan,
but it is safe to say that if the Re-
publican or Progressives were to have
the power to name those extra judges
that these same Democratic lawyers
would soon realize that the State
could manage to get along with the
present number.
In 1868 the Constitutional Conven-
tional increased the number of Su-
preme Court judges from three to
five. The Democrats put up terri
BILE howl about increasing the number
of judges and claimed that three
were a plenty (the two extra judges
were not Democrats). About 1871
the Democrats voted to amend the
Constitution and reduced the number
of Judges from five to three. Again
in 1875 when they thought they were
thoroughly entrenched in power they
came to the conclusion that there
were not enough judges on the Su-
preme Court bench, and increased the
number to five again. (Of course
this time the judges were Demo-
crats.) And if the number of Supe-
rior Court judges are increased from
sixteen t. twenty, of course the four
extra judges and extra solicitors will
be Democrats.
And the Democrats in the nation
have the same view of non-partisan
judiciary. They want some extra
Judges on the Supreme Court bench,
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30

wco1ro~ wIlsoa. " ]. Bryan. asa
Roe~rE ~ Ia Fplsssts-
Thus early 81 TIE srsstoE OF car
state snloas &c has Etvsa aeaaiss
tasarAtsoa Of ~h~re o. staaas He
a~lozEs 20 The srhpcl 81 TeaetEoa
lie = opposed 70 changes asa ia
nuvat5cas
lie believes wsth tAe Special later
eats that ali ~rwforrzeTs are frasds
K~<p your syr o. Nasoa
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30
WILSON AND HIS CABINET.

President-elect Wilson told some
callers few days ago that he had
not selected any of his Cabinet, and
If he had even talked with any mem
Der of his Cabinet he was not con-
scious of the fact. OF course, he has
talked with the editor of the Raleigh
News and Observer, and as we'll as
with Mr.. Bryan, and it is to be pre-
sumed that he was conscious at the
time, and that he has not picked
either of them for a position in his
Cabinet. While the editor of the OBJ
server might accept a second place, it
is certain that Mr.. Bryan would have
to play first fiddle or else he would
stay out of the band.
1t is believed by many that Mr..
Wilson is worried over just what po-
sition to offer Mr.. Bryan, or whether
to offer him any. Some of Mr. Will
sons advisers are urging him to give
Mr.. Bryan any position he may desire,
while others claim that Mr.. Wilson
is under no obligations to Mr.. Bryan
That Mr.. Bryan did not fight for Mr.
Wilson at the Baltimore Convention,
and that~when he broke away from
Speaker Clark it was with hopes that
no other candidate then in the race
could be agreed upon, that the Dem
to him as their Moses 1t is further
charged that so confident was Mr.
Bryan that he would be able to man
ipulate the Baltimore Convention and
bring about his nomination, that he
had already prepared his speech of
acceptance, and that it was a speech
that would have surpassed anything
the Nebraskan had ever delivered.
That may be true, or it may not.
But it is true that Mr.. Bryan wrote
practically all the Baltimore platform
and that he inserted a plank which
binds Mr.. Wilson not to be a candi-
date for a second term. And right
here more speculation comes in. Since
Mr.. Bryan succeeded in getting in the
one-term plank, it is claimed that he
did it in order to have Mr.. Wilson
out of the way four years hence SO
he, Bryan, can have a clear field for
the fourth race.
If Mr.. Wilson puts Mr.. Bryan in
his Cabinet, along with other Pro-
gressives, Mr.. Bryan will, in meas
ure, if not to the extent of the whole
measure, dominate all Cabinet meet
ings. If he does not put the Peer
less One" in his Cabinet he will be
foot loose on the outside where he
can probably do even more damage
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30

tEuEn bis hugxy 20 the pcss-osSce vita
Tive wiIa goose ~ eta nail pouch
Qaite = erowd gathered avuuza hE1
tryinE 70 l~Arn khs details OF this tn
terwssInE pIece OF nail. TIE goose
w&s captured alive OF Pc DE River
b. Mr Jesse Mills lie prepared i
for mailing Ana sat :, 70 Mr.. " Z.
Cr.wa CT this place The postage on
the gcose zak fourreen cwrts
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30

Four-year-old George had been
naughty and when he said his pray
ers that night. his mother told him he
must ask God TO forgive and make
him a better boy.
This was his prayer:
Dear God. forgive me, and mako
me a better boy. but IL you can't
make me much better, please make
mamma reconciled"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30

The Charlotte Chronicle remarks
that corn bread should be adopted
as a National diet during the incom-
ing administration" II past expert
ence with Democratic administra-
lions is TO be taken as basis of
prophecy, thousands of families
among the laboring class will be truly
thankful even If corn bread can be
had.-Lincoln Times.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30
General SickleS Arrested.

On Monday General Sickles was
arrested, but not until after his bond
for $4,000 had been arranged. His
wife from whom he has been estrang-
ed has offered to help all she can. She
came to his rescue once before. But
even that did not bring about recon-
Citation
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30

Mother: Joe. why do you suppose
that old hen persists in laying In the
coal bin?"
Joe: Why, mother. ! think she
has seen the sign: Now is the time
TO lay in your COAL"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30
L RauCOus ReactiOnary.
Shelby Highlander.

Shelby Highlander.
That eminent patriot, Senator Os-
car F. Mason, of CASTOR County, is
doing all in his power to defeat pro-
gressive legislation in the Upper
House Of the State Legislature
He took the lead in the Senatorial
turn-down of the invitation TO three
of Americas most eminent sons
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30
Move on Now!

Says policeman TO a street crowd.
and whacks neads IL 1t don't. Move
on now" says the big. harsh mineral
pills to bowel congestion and suffer
ing follows. DR.. Kings New Life
Pills don't bulldoze the bowels. They
gently persuade them TO right action,
and health follows. Twenty-Five cents
at all druggists.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30

Two years ago the Democrats said
they only wanted TO equalize the tax
IS. but when they got through with
the job the people found that their
taxes had been doubled And still
they say our taxes must 20 higher
Clinton News Dispatch.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30

The Charlotte Observer il Of the
opinion that y. Glenn Williams IL
quor over which the Federal Govern
ment has split could hardly have
caused much more trouble If IL had
all been drunk Union Republican
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30
Mrs. Longstreet to the Rescue.

New York, Jan. 27.-Mrs- Helen D.
Longstreet, widow of the famous Con-
federate General, came to the aid of
her husbands Civil War foe, General
Daniel e. Sickles to-day, with an Of
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30

The highest price ever paid for
real estate is recorded in New York
where a lot on Broadway was recent
~ sold at the rate of twenty-four and
quarter million dollars per acre
Exchange.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30
A Live Wild Goose by Mail.
Mount Gilead Southerner. J

One of the first packages that came
one that created considerable excite
ment on the streets, was a wild goose
which made it's way into town over
Route No. l. When Mr.. R. A. Scar
boro, carrier on this route, started
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30

And az much as Josephus has said
about Republicans fondness for Fed
eral pie, we find him already OF the
anxious seat at the Wilson pie coun-
ter. Who would have thought /, OF
him Clinton News Dispatch.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30

President-elect Wilson says he has
a whip. Will it prove more effective
than the "big stick? Well, hardly.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30

Uncle Sam Ii beginning TO wonder
already how he ever got along with
out the parcel post-Union Republ!-
can
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30

l Rhode Island. 1902 days
,. Connecticut. 1912 days
3. Maryland. I79s days
I. New York. 1883 days
). California. 1850 days.
g. New Jersey. 1867 days
7, Wisconsin. 1870 days.
s. Nebraska. HOS days
g Iowa, 1856 days.
10. Washington. 1910 days.
II. South Dakota. 1858 days.
10. Michigan. 1916 days
10. Massachusetts, 1907 days.
IA. Kansas, 1900 days
IS. Utah. 1870 days
16. Delaware, 1870 days.
II. Ohio. 1850 days.
IS. Illinois, 1913 days.
10. New Hampshire, 1877 days.
20. Pennsylvania. l494 days.
81. Vermont. 1910 days.
%. North Dakota, 1892 days.
%. Maine. 1925 days.
"a. Georgia, l415 days.
25. Montana, 1875 days.
IS. Missouri, 1877 days.
81. Wyoming, 1860 days.
%. Minnesota, 1925 days.
30. Mississippi. 1913 days.
81. Virginia, 1905 days.
81. Indiana, 1903 days.
33. Oklahoma, 1855 days.
"a. West Virginia. 1878 days.
35. Louisiana, 1241 days.
So. Colorado. 1898 days.
81. Tennessee, 1920 days.
80. Texas. 1892 days.
80. Oregon, 1857 days.
40. Idaho, 1125 days.
Al. Kentucky, HOG days.
AZ. Alabama, 1855 days.
43. Arizona, 1850 days.
Al. Florida, 1901 days.
As. Arkansas. $50 days.
as. South Carolina. 94.5 days.
AT. North Carolina, 1913 days.
4S. New Mexico, 90.1 days.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30
NORTH CAROLINA FAR BEHIND.
Randolph Bulletin ]

The country boys And girls Of
North Carolina to-day have a poorer
chance for an education than chil-
dren anywhere else In the rnlied
States except New Mexico. That Is
the fact--iAe startling. alarming fact
brought 10 light By an Official d.
agram Just published by the United
States Government our city schools.
the schools for city boys and girls in
North Carolina are about up 10 the
American average. but FOR our coun-
Try boys and girls. as this startling
official table shows. the average
school term tn North Carolina is Vet
the loves, in the American Union
with the single exception OF Wild and
woody New Mexico Only New Mex
leo, the land OF Indians and Mexican
"greasers" saves us from being at
the foot of the whole list
Length of rural school term IN the
various States as shown By new
United States Government diagram:
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-02-21

Mrs. E. Reed and little daughter,
Erma. left Saturday for Santa Cruz to
join Mr.. Reed who has been there for
some time.
Miss Ida Penn, of Preston, Oklahoma,
arrived last Thursday for an extended
visit at the home of her brother, John
Penn, and family.
The Daughters of the American Rev.
olution are obliged to postpone the din
ner that was to be given Saturday, on
account of the serious illness of some
of its members.
Mrs. Cosper and Miss Cosper enter
tanned few friends at their home
Monday afternoon, for Mrs. Thorne,
who has just returned from Europe,
and stopped off at Kennewick for a
visit. She left Wednesday evening
for her home in Seattle.
Miss Naomi Smith entertained the
Juniors and Seniors at Valentine party
in the gymnasium of the public school
last Saturday evening. The decorations
were of red hearts. The evening was
spent in games after which ice cream
and cake were served.
When the basket ball girls of Walla
Walla were here to play the matched
game with the Kennewick girls, they
were entertained at luncheon by Mrs.
ID. A. Bier. Mrs. Bier is always de-
llghtful hostess and, as the girls were
all well acquainted with her, it was a
pleasant occasion for them all.