The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-11-15
Credit not Due Him.

Replying to paragraph recently pub
lished in the GOLD LEAF whereby we gave
to our venerable agd esteemed friend Rev.
}. l.. MichauX, editor of the Greensboro
Workman, credit not exactly due him, he
humorously says:
The Greensboro Workman knows a good
thing when it sees it. Speaking of Hon.
w. II Kitchin, one of the most thoroughly
honest and outopCken Democrats we know,
it says:
If there is any man between heaven and
earth we would walk twenty-five miles
before breakfast on a rainy day to hear
speak, it is w. II. kitchin, of Halifax.
We clip the foregoing from that excel
lent paper, the Henderson GOLD LEAF,
for the purpose of a word of explanation
and comment, remarkng, first, that the
item is wrongly credited to the workman,
the mistake not originating with the GOLD
LEAF. however. In the second place the
eXaggerations of fact are such as we would
have by no means spoken, written or
printed, however we might some times in
dulge i'll the hyperbolic style. In fact, the
quotation attributed to the workman Is
one of the best illustrations Of the hyper
b0lc that we remember to have Seen, and
should be handed over to the compiler OF
the next Reader for schools. And all this
we say without the slightest intention TO
disparage the author Of the quotation OF
; the subject of it. Between the heavens
and the earth" Never did We risk such
flight as that. "Twenty-tive miles before
breakfast" This indicates two improb-
able things in us. First, Incompatible
speed in walking second. c,teeming p-
litical speech above our necessary food. ,
Those who have known Our habits from
youth would ad Judge Us insane could they
learn that we had even started before
breakfast" to walk twenty-five miles to
hear speech from anybody. But when
the "rainv day" i thrown III. we are
simply amazed at the stupendcuSneSs OF
the hyperbole. There is, in fact only one
word il. the quotation that looks at all like
Us. and that is Halifax" a county IN
! which we once made our home, and with
whose excellent people weGlways heartily
! sVmpathiZe. We are free 10 acknowledge
that since we have been living in Greens
bOro. now fourteen years, we have con
stantly grown younger, and to-day ieel
Younger than we did twenty years ago, bat
: if there is man between the heavens
and the earth that We would walk twenty
FIVE miles before breakfast of a rainy day
to hear" that man has not yet made hi-
appearance in these parts.
We can we'll remember when the editor
Of the GODD LEAF, then a boy Of about tel
! years Of ege. used Ia walk on his hands fol
/ a long distance. his feet in the air, in ths
sandy roads at Ringvooi, Halifax county
/ bet i.og he makes of us a performer mor'
| wonderful than himSeif-befOre breakfaS
of rainy day. But these are days wheI
! we must excuse many of the eXasgeration;
| we hear in politics. 1t was only last nigh
that We heard something of Col. Docker1
ON the canvass i'm the Western part Of th'
| State. 4 citizen OF one Of the Western
counties who was present at speaking u
| Lincoln county Is reported 10 have sale
that he had seen Col. Dockery: that u
was making all possible speed tn reach th
| Tennessee liae to escape from an Indian u
the name of Buck kItchin, Hho va
| after hiBa with a t0mahawk.