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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1882-06-08

Reader, did you know we came
near having another war, the other
day? Yes, Il war between the North
and South When: how? you breath
lessly ask. Ii was when the vote
was taken in the Unit ID States Sem
ate to let ex Confederates hold Office
in the army. IF Gen. Malone had
not voted as he did, the bill would
have been passed, and the whole
Northern heart would have been
fired. Gen. Malone was the Only
Southern Democrat who saw the
danger and bravely determined to
prevent it. lie being better DEM
ocrat than Gen. Hill, it must have
gone very hard with him to leave
| his brother Democrats and to vote
with the Radicals on that occasion.
Let no one suspect for a moment
that Gen. Malone, the greatest
Confederate hero living" had any
selfish motive for doing what he did.
His worst enemies have never ven
tured to suggest even that he was a
selfish man. 0 nU! he is a patriot
and his only motive for keeping ex-
confederates out of the army, was,
to "placate" the North, and the only
reason why he wants to placate the
North, is, to get his beloved Virgin
ia into the "temple of the Union"
We knew, when Gen. Malone
} first commenced to smell Radical
flowers, in the days of Hayes, that hi
was the self sac. ificing man who wa:
going to save us from another blood.
war.-Danville Times.
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TIE TRUE MARTYR

TIE TRUE MARTYR
of the fight, his companions may
have swept on to victory, as the best
means of protecting the spot where
he fell-this somebody's darling :"
Private soldier though he may have
been, buried in a nameless grave,
sleeping beneath q simple wooden
board, he was
Somebody's darling, so young and so
brave,
Wearing still on his sweet, pale face,
Soon TO he hid in the dust of the grave,
The lingering light of his boy hoods
grace.
Gen. Lee repeated this whole po-
EN- with fine effect, and many eyes
were dimmed WitN tears
\ : If Sco:land'5 plaided soldier
can find music i'll his bag-pipe as he
chants the slogan of victory; if the
son of the mountain land of Tell. who
yet disdains the cap Of Gessler, winds
through his mellow horn with patri-
0tlc pride his "Randes Nache;;" If
along the vine clad hills of the Rhine
and the sunny banks of the smiling
Seine the Frenchman goes wild under
the magic of his "Marseillaise if
God Save the Queen" is the part of
staid old England, may we not, too,
worship the genius that inspired our
LAND OF DIxIEw
Aye, If the thistle of old Caledonia
is worshipped with Calvanistic de-
votion, as it waves upon the verge
of Ben Lomond or casts its shadows
i'll the Clyde; If the red cross of st.
George had its staff over the palace
of st. James, upheld by the British
lion, while its folds, that fiutter 10
every breeze, is the boast of heraldry
and the pride of power; if the Otto
man bows before the crescent with
an eastern iGolatry as it floats over
the BosphoruS and around the Gol>
u n Horn if the young eagles Of
France are tiedged under their feur
de Us, ana step beneath its folds with
an historic pride, may We not, too,
look back with purest emotions and
remember with the sweetest and
saddest aft ctions the cross of ST..
Andrew with its stars and bars as it
waved in triumph over a hundred
battlefelds and was baptized in the
best blood of the land ere it became
the conquered banner" immortal
led in verse by the inspired pen of
our own poet, Father Ryan:
Furl that banner, true It's corv.
\ ct tbs Wreathed around with plory
And Twill live in song and story
Though its folds are in the dust
Aye. it is holy. Holy. because
beneath its tiuttering folds fought
THE SONS OF THE SOUTH.
Holy! because it was planted amid
the whislwind of shot and shell unon
many victorious battlement bv tho
vaior of southern troops before it was
fnrled forever. Holy. because the
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Yesterday evening, after an inn
pres5ive prayer by Rev. Dr. IlOge,
Gen. F'it5hugh Lee delivered all al
dress full Of elaquenc4 and feeling.
In beginning he said:
l.auie, AID gtntl -uian. The Con-
Tolerate dead the su' je t; beautiful
HOllywUo the place! We're | sittt Il
with the splendid e!Cquence Of the
great orator of the American Revo
luton, whose persuasive pleadings
sept so brightly burning the camp
fires of our Washington, | would yet
be unable to appropriately voice the
emotions | feel at rising to speak on
this beautiful consecrated spot at the
request of the ladies of your Holly>
wood Memorial Association. The
scene and sulj ct are alike inspiring
"Ail is rest and calm around US"
The sweet murmurs of the ripples of
peace have chased away the rush
and roar Of the wild waves of war.
The birds are singing in every bush;
the blue sky bends serenelyabove Us,
aud when yon sun, shining now in
all the splendor of It's uncloud "a mai
,sty, shall go into camp for the night,
starry sentinels will in turn 90 on
duty and keep watch and ward over
the peaceful homes and hearts and
de5tinies of your people. We can
almost fancy We hear in the mystic
rious quiet around us the voice of
nature, thanking God that the fields
OF strife, where ebbed and flowed
THE CRIMSON TIDE OF BATTLE.
and where brave men stood ready i'm
defence of Nirginia's capital, are
now waving fields Of grain and grass.
accessible to all; for the pickets Of
both armies have been called Inlet
Us hope forever. Yes, the white
wings of the angel of peace are in
deed spread over Us, while the mourn
ing beauty of women wreaths with
garlands and crowrs with flowers
the holy spot where sleeps defeated
valOr. You meet here to-day 10
render homage and pay reverential
respect TO the memory of the loved
and the lost. Your presence and
purpose must wiring responsive
chord in the heart of the survivor,
for are you not tenderly caring for
the grave of his comratle who per-
haps fell by his side How great
his grief, then, when something
down the soldiers cheek washed off
the stains of powder" How high
his privilege now when the wand OF
peace is waving wide through sea
and land now, when no war or bat
tie sound is heard; now, when the
idle shield and spear are high up
hung. and the broken chariot stands
unstained by the soldiers blood, 10
stand around
THE MONUMENT
which rises here to commemorate our
love for the memory of the fallen
braves.
You know, my fellow-citizens, our
tattered, dusty ensigns no longer
wave Ger victorious fields. You
know over the graves of our soldiers
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MAIDE<HOOD.


Maiden with the meek, brown eyes,
In whose orbs a shadow lies
Like The duck III evening skies.
Thou W hose locks outshine the sun,
Golden tresses, wreathed III one,
As the braided streaini lets run
Standing, with reluctant feet,
Where the brook aud river meet,
Womauhood and childhood fleet!
Gazing, with timid glance,
On the brooklet's swift advance,
On the rivers broad exPanse!
Deep and still, that gliding stream
Beautifni TO thee Tiss5t seem,
rs the river OF a dream.
Then why pause with indecisiOn,
" hen bright angels in. tiny vision
Beckon thee to fields r. ysan?
Seest thou shadows sailing by,
AS the dove, with startled eye,
Sees the falcon > shadow fly
Nearest thou voices on the shore,
That our ears perceive no more.
Deafeued by the cataracts roar?
! o, thou child Of many prayers!
Life hath quicksands, life hath snares !
Care and age come unaWares!
Like the swell of some sweet tune,
Morning rises into noon,
May glid.s onward into June.
Childhood is The bough, whera slumberei
Birds and blossoms many numbered
Age, that bong with snow, elennio1red.
Gather, then, each flower til 1t grows,
/ When the young heart oveIfiows
TO en- hlam int tent OF SHOWS.
Bear lily in thyAand;
Gates OF brass cannot Withstand
One touch OF that magic wand.
Bear through sorrow, wrong aad ruth.
In thy heart the dew of youth,
On Thy lips the smile Of truth.
0, that dew, like balm, shall steal
| Into wounds that cannot hCa,
Even as sleep our eyes doth steal.
And that smile, like sunshine, dart
into many Il sunless heart,
For a smile OF God thou art.
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RuIes and Reus IatiOns of the Hem
dersOn Post Office.
Office opens at 7 A. NJ.

Office opens at 7 A. NJ.
Office closes at 7:45 p. M.
Mail going North closes at 1881 A. NJ.
Mail going South closes at $40 p. Nj.
Mail from North opens about G:3O I"
Mail frOmSouth opens about | 10 y. NJ
Oxford mail is opened about 10 AN.
Oxford mail closes $40 =. NJ.
Registration and Money Order
business from to 10 A. NJ. and from
2 to 5 z. M. Il j. WYCHE,
Postmaster.
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no triumphal banners rise; but above
them-yea, above them-shall sun
ceasingIy roll all the glory q the
heavens" and by them shall ''pass
forever the grandly glorious process
sion Of the nevcr-ending seasons"
When those of you here to day
shall have answered to your final
roll all the eyes Of generations yet
unborn will greet this good work of
yours, and with inherited fire will
fash when, touched by the hand of
memory, they are told they are the
descendants of the men who fought
upon the side Of the South in the
war between the States.
Your participation, ladies and gen
tlemen, in this scene should strike no
discOrdaut strings in the hearts of
true men, whether in sympathy for
those who ,ught for the Federal blue
gray. | invoke the blessing of Heav-
en- upon this consecrated work OF
your hands, and in the lamentatiOn
| of David and Saul over Jonathan
will exclaim: THE beauty of Israel
is slain upon9thy high places. How
ale the mighty faiien!'
The symphony of a grand past is in
! deed heard when
THE HAND OF MEMORY
sweeps over such golden strings. The
living soldier in thus hOnOring the
memory of trusted comrades honOrS
himself, and pays a true tribute to
those who have indeed fought their
last BATTLE" because mo sound can
ever awake them to glory again.
Oh sleeping Conft derates, it may be
that 10 towering monumental shafts
rear their lofty spires toward Heaven
in cOmmemoratiOn of your name and
fame. BounteOuS treasures are not
expended by the nation to guarC
your solemn resting places. The low
| ing mantle of governmental author
ity does not spread its capacious fold
over your remains, but we, you
conrad ., know you were true to you
commanders, true to your colors, tru
to your country, true to your cause
3, and we ask for you no epitaph more
glorious than "Here lies Confeder
ate soldier w: freeman.
As he fell wit 1--WE
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WHAT A NEWSPAPER DOES
FOR NOTHING. t

The following article should be
read and pondered we'll by every
man who takes a newspaper with
out paying for it:
The result of my observation ena-
bles me to state, as fact, that pub
fishers of newspapers are more poor
ly rewarded than any class of men
in the United States who invest an
equal amount of labor. capital and
thought. They are expected to do
more service for less pay to stand
more 81 longing and dead heading, to
puff and defend more people without
any fee or hope of reward, than any
other class.
They credit wider and longer, get
oftener cheated, suffer more peeunia-
ry loss, and are oftener the victims
of misplaced confidence, than any
other calling in the community.
People pay printers bill more re-
luctantly than any other. Ii goes
harder with them to expend dollar
on valuable newspaper than ten on
needless gewgaw, yet everybody
avails himself of the use of the edi-
tors pen and printers ink. How
many professional and political rep
utations and fortunes have been
made and sustained by the friendly,
though unrequitted, pen of the edi-
tor?
How many embryo towns have
been brought into notice and pulled
into prosperity 10y the press? Ho"
many railroads, now in successful
operation, would have foundered
but for the assistance Of 1.-The leve
f that moves the WORLD" in short
| what branch of American industr.
g or activity has not been promoted
a stimulated and defended by tn
e presso And VINO has rendered
2 more than miserable pittance 70
r it mighty services? The bazars
fashion and the haunts Of appetit
Is and dissipation are thronged wit
an eager crowd, bearing gold in the
IT palms, and the commodities thel
yended are sold at an enormous pro
its, though intrinsically WORTHLESS
" and paid for with lfHt1iii iiIi - "a nc
-; =; !, = : = 49, 81
"a uaiss5 .ncAonnting-rool =
in the newspaper is jewing cheapeni
- trade, orders and pennies. 1t
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1882-06-08

We judge ourselves by what We
feel capable of doing, while others
judge Is by what we have already
done.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1882-06-08

M man can ask honestly and
honafuIIv II be delivered from temp
tatinn- unless he has himself honest
Iv and firuly determined TO do the
hest he canio Keep out of it.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1882-06-08

One of the mistakes in the conduct
of hnnosn iieis to suppose that other
mems opiniHs are to make us hap
DIV.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1882-06-08

\ man who habitually makes mean
remarks about the other sex is a safe
man to habitually keep away from.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1882-06-08

Each man Is a hero and an oracle
to somebody, and TO that person.
whatever he says, has an enhance d
value
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1882-06-08

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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1882-06-08

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easier. cheaper and better than Soap orU-acr
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Soap. ltrelievcs the drudgcry cfWa>h day
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Established 1897. Providence, K. /.
And =, PARK Place, \. \.
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- = - II
TO ADHERELSERS.

-
The Gp1n. LEAr is the ONLY news
paper published IN Inc county-in the
heart of the Great GOLDEN TOBACCO
Belt Of North Carolina. advertisers will
make . note of this.
The GoLp LEAF has large and in
ereasing circulation, and finds It's way
each week into the homes of some of
the most substantial and Intelligent cit
izens of Rockingham. Person, csswelt,
Wake. Franklin, Granville, Vance, War
rem, Nash, an,i na16s, $3.50 is
North Carolina; ans Meck,enh,,, ~
fax, and Pittsylssnia counties. in VII
ginia. As an Sdvsrtising medium :,
offers unusal adv~'tages to merchants
manufacturers and Ger business ,,.,
Liberal discount sdyertisen,.,,,
specially contracted for.
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- ENTRRED AT THE POST OFFICE AT
HENDERSON, NORTH CARCLISA, FOR
TRANSMISSION THROUGH THE MAILS AT
sECON3-cLSss RATES
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uai,FJ ,"i'..c''nc'kouning-rot}l
the newspaper is jewing cheapening
trade, orders and pennies. 1t is
made point Of honor to liquidate a
grog bill, not of diohonor to repudi
ate printers bill.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1882-06-08
AN ELOQUENT GRAFTON.
Gen, FitZhugh Lees Beautiful
Tribute to the Confederate
Dead.

[From the Richmond State 18th.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1882-06-08

Yesterday evening, after an inn
pres5ive prayer by Rev. Dr. IIoge,
Gen. Fit5hugh Lee delivered All al
dire IS full Of el"quenc4 and feeling.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-08
A SuObbish Empress.

From Paris Letter.
The empress of Austria-airy, sprightly,
charming creature-has gone to her home in
the southeast, after few hurried rides in the
Bots in these sunlit mornings, and a hunt at
Chantily, where there was vast meeting of
the mobility Those people - European
and, am sorry to say, American also-who
are inclined to crook their spines before all
imperial personages, try to see Slight for M.
Grevy in the fact that the empress sent her
card by nobleman who is an officer Of her
household to the president, while he, of
course, called upon her, as his duty prescribes.
"She said that she only called upon sover-
eigns," remarked lady to me the other day !;
sat least heard that she said So" Perhaps
it is not proven. The papers printed columns
about the Empress while she was here, and
most of the matter was invented. There must
be just SO much in the fashionable department.;
if it cannot be collected, let it be credited.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-08
CITY ELECTION 80 PROCLAMATION.
MAYORS OFFICE,
NM ON . N7TT1IE,
City of San Antonio, April cd, 1888.

City of San Antonio, April sd, 1882. ]
In accordance with resolution of the City
Council, passed March 2Ist, 1882, and by vir-
tue of the authority conferred on me by the
charter and ordinances of the city, |, James
ii. French, mayor of the city Of San Antonio
do issue this my proclamation. ordering and
MONDAY, APRIL 24rII, 1882,
to take the sense of the property taxpayers
whether or not the City Council shall be au-
thorized to borrow Isl 10000 one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, and issue bonds
therefor, the proceeds of said bonds to be
used as follows: 100000 for street improve
ments, and $4,000 for the construction of
sewers and drains.
Electors in favor of the proposition will
have written or printed upon their ballots
''For the Loan" Those opposed-"Against
the Loan"
Polls will be opened from 8 o'clock a. m,
to 3 O'Clock p. m, at the following places,
n-wit:
Ward No. I-kecorder's Office; J. A. Settle
presiding officer.
Ward No. 2--Corner Veramendi and Sole
dad streets; G. G.. Artzt presiding officer.
ST. presiding officer.
Ward No. 4-Corner Alamo and Villta
streets; c. X. Breneman presiding officer.
In testimony whereof | have hereunto
signed my name, and have caused
l.. s. the seal of the city of San Antonio
to be affixed, this sd day of April,
A. d., 1882. J. II. FRENCH,
4-3o-Iot Mayor, City of San Antonio.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-08
AN ORDINANCE
Lice nsing and Regulating BOOtblack

Licensing and Regulating BOOtblacks.
Be il ordained by the City Council of the
city of San Antonio:
SEC. I. That any person desiring to pursue
and follow the occupation of boot black,
shall pay to the City Marshal the sum of five
dollars per annum, payable quarterly. in adj
vance, and the City Marshal shall then de-
liver to said person a tin plate or badge, which
shall bear such stamp or design as said Mar
shall shall indicate, and shall be worn by the
person receiving the same on some con-
spicuous place about his person.
SEC. The City Marshal, on said person
complying with Sec. of this ordinance, shall
designate place OF beat, on the public side
walks or streets, where the said person may
pursue and follow his said occupation.
SEC. 3. The badge provided for in Sec.
of this ordinance, shall not be transferable,
and shall be returned to the Marshal at the
expiration Of the time for which the license has
been paid.
SEC. 4. All persons permitted to pursue the
occupation herenbelore provided for shall be
under the immediate supervision and control
of the City Marshal and Police, and it shall
be unlawful for any person TO pursue and fol-
low said occupation without first complying
with sections and of this ordinance; and it
Sllall DC uNiaWiul 10 pursue Salu Occupation AT
any other place or beat than that indicated by
the City Marshal.
SEC. 5. Any person violating any Of the
provisions of this ordinance shall be fined in
any sum not exceeding five dollars for each
ofense.
Passed and approved April 4, 1882.
J. Ii. FRENCH,
Mayor.
Attest: THO. BAIDUs, City Clerk.
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the remarkable story" We are only
not familiar with them. The child
loved the flower which, with its life,
responded, and there was a marriage
of these forces. 1t shows us how
subtle, how exquisite, is the soul.es-
sence of the flower. Some minor Eng
lish poet Bailey, or perhaps Proctor,
seems to have been striving to grasp
this perception when he wrote the lit
tie poem beginning,
81 am the spirit that dwells in the flower
with which you may be familiar.
There was amazing intensity in the
child's afectlonal nature. In its en-
brace the unconscious object of this
devotion could not survive her, but
passed with her to the higher plane,
and the little one opened her delighted
eyes in her spirit home, not only upon
her fuchsia in full bloom, but probably,
owing to her deep and strong affection,
upon every object she had ever loved.
1t is worth our while to know that we
preserve everything we love by pre-
serving our own purity-which is
power. We can lose our "pets," if
they die, only by our passing out of
the condition in which we cherished
them, for only in that event will they
be lost to memory. They will then
fade out of life in the unseen world,
but nothing is lost by mere death.
The buds of this hower-tree can not
have "shrunk away one by one;;' they
probably dropped one by one because
some had more plenary puissance than
others. In the near future, it is to be
hoped, such phenomena, and their
laws, will be familiar to us all. 1t
awaits but our desire to have them SO,
and the opening of our understandings
to a knowledge of the Laws of Life.
In whatever else you fail through
life, let me invoke you to make your
self familiar with the laws that govern
existence, and through which alone the
Divine Author of All can be Compre-
hended.
"Allah Gracious! Allah Good!
Now Thy world is understood,
Now the long, long wonder ends"
Your FATHER.
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MIR, Forster I'm Ireland.

Vanity Fair, the leading English society pa
paper, in leader on Mr.. Forster's speech,
delivered at Tulamore, employs the following
very strong language:
"Mr. Carlyle thought that when Mr.. Wal
pole cried about the Hyde Park riots new
era in the history of government had set in. |
do not know what the old man would have
thought had he lived to read the speech made
by Mr.. Forster at Tullamore. That the rep
resentative of Englands power should vince
die an msolent mob from hotel window
seems little sad. Everyone who has govern
ed men knows that nothing is SO fatal as to ex-
plain the reasons for giving any order. A
good disciplinarian forces those whom he
commands TO obey without the sign OF a queS-
tioning spirit. The moment that the ruled class
es are smoothed and ilattered, danger begins.
Had Louis XVI. stacked a large graveyard
with the bodies of those gentlemen who came
out TO Versailles, there would have been no
revolution. But Louis must needs beseach
and flatter, and tell the guards not to shed his
peoples blood, and the consequence was that
the people took his head of. Napoleon
played very differently. The first round he
fired on the mob killed two hundred or so, but
thousands of lives were saved by that resoute
volley. do not find that Napoleon explained
why he tried such an ugly piece of horseplay,
but the mob evidently recognized his logic,
and determined to render him discreet obedi-
ence. Fancy Napoleon simpering from an
hotel window, and letting insolent ruffians
laugh at him and interrupt him! The spectacle
OF Mr.. Forster governing a nation in revolt is
surprising. 1t is as though Mrs. Camp had
turned lion-tamer."
This is about as strong as the editor of an
Irish newspaper could place the opposite view
before its readers. 1t carries suggestion far
stronger than its words, and incuclates the
principles of force as being the panacea Of
Irish troubles.