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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-01-12

The New York Tribune explains to
a young man who wants to know the
difference between a Democrat and
Republican that it is "sentially the
same as that which has existed in the
past between 4 Democrat and a Fed
eralist, or between a Democrat and i
Wing. Well. the Democrats defeated
the Federalists and Wings and will de-
feat the Republicans also. And the
student of history will take note Of the
fact that every form of opposition to
Democracy has, after It has been beaten
a few times, dissolved and disappeared,
and if history repeats itself the Repub-
lican party will follow its progenitors,
The Democratic is the one and only
party which has existed since the
foundation OF the government, and it
bids fair to exist as long as the Repub-
lie lasts, The fact that it is the only
party that has been able to exist under
defeat shows that it possesses some
vital principle not to be found in other
political organizations and that it
lifegiving force springs from something
higher than mere hankering after
the spoils of office. ce.-Painesyille, Ohio
Democrat
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Tho Paying Te1lcr's Tenn ptations.

When tho doors of the bank closo tho pay
ing teller counts his cash to see that the
amount on hand corresponds with tho
amount called for by the books. He puts his
cash balance In the bank vault and quits
work until tho next morning. From the
tiroo hc leaves the bank until the hour for
him to rcappear tho next morning 10 ono Of
the officers of tho bank knows where he is.
In fact, he may stay away couple OF days
on the plea Of illness, and il he Is well regard
ed By his superiors in the bank his absence
does not cause suspicion Express trains
lcavc for Montreal at and l1:1j every
night A paying teller can put 81 ,oOo, 600 in
Crceubacks in his pockets, walk out OF the
bank when the business Of the day Is oycr
end DO in Montreal before ne or the money il
missed.
Thirty-lve hundred dollars year Is con.
sidered O good salary for paying teller.
The man Knows that there is very LITTLE
chance OF his becoming tho cashier or the
president OF tho bank, and that the proba
bilities are that he will so to tho grave q
paving teller or that he will be bounced be
cause of old ogc or because change in thu
officers CT in the board Of directors IN,
brought into power some rich and infuentia
man who has \ poor relative whom he want
to support without cost TO himself.
Just consider the terrible temptations som'
of these PAYING tcllers suffer. They SEQ me-
making money by ways which arc not e1
nc.ly dishonest and yet are not exactly fair
and nobody interferes with them: and the.
also sce and ieel enough money day aftc
day to mako Themselves SO independent 0
labor that they could 1.-Two On the best Il
the land while life lasts and not turn thei
haud--Eew York Journal
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The American Standard.

Europeans say that we Americans value
everything by a dollar and cent standard
We Americans refute this an q slGnder. Yet
Is it not significant that at Gettysburg, Of all
places in the land, the visitor is told first Of
all that the battlefield monuments cost spch
and su:ch q sum. This is not wholly the fault
of the particular guide or driver whom you
may engage to take you to the scene OF the
momcntous action Experience has taught
your pilot that the average visitor wishes to
10 told at once the exact cost Of everything
he Sees as If that were the chief element in il
value, or as il it were amy element Of absolute
value. Thus, when we drove TO the National
cemetery and stopped before the national
column which Lincoln dedicated in immortal
phrase, our driver began: This monument
cost $4,000 A murmur Of sPprohation ran
instantly through the human freightage d
our coach One individual, however, ex
claimed: "Humph! Didn't cost within IS 20
as much as our monument at -, Nazs
| chnsetts. "-Bostop Herald
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A GROWING TOW n .
HENDERSON'S DEVELOPMENT
INTO ONE OF THE LEAD
ING MARKETS.
The Tobacco Trade in 1672-What it
is Now-Her Future Bright.
Flames A. Robinson, in Durham Southern
Tobacconist.l

james A. Robinson, in Durham Southern
TobaccOnist.I
Henderson, the capital of Vance
county, now one Of the most prosper
Gus tobacco markets in the State, fur
nishes an apt illustration of an incl
dent connected with the King of Phry-
gia, Midas. The tradition goes that
in carly life this NEUROLOGICAL King
found a treasure to which he owed his
greatness and opulence. He showed
hospitality to Silenus, in return for
which Bacchus permitted MIN to choose
whatever recompense he pleased. He
demanded Of the god that whatever he
touched might he turned to gold. His
wish was granted, but when the very
food he ate became gold in his mouth,
he prayed Bacchus to revoke the favor.
He was ordered to wash in the river
Pactolus, the sands of which were
turned to gold by his touch.
There is no mythology about Hen
derson. Her growth is solid. In her
early life she found priceless treasure
in the golden leaf and its magical
touch has converted the town into a
mart of wonderful growth. In 1872
the tobacco trade of Henderson was
commenced, and in that year there
was marketed about 100000 pounds.
In the fifteen years which have passed
since that beginning, the market has
steadily increased with each twelve
months cycles, until to-day Hender-
son Is one of the leading markets OF
the State, and one every patriot is
proud to own.
Henderson now has five warehouses
-four of them in the most successful
operation ; ffty-one leaf tobacco iacto-
ries and in many cases new brick
structures have supplanted the old
wooden ones. Henderson has ample
facilities for handling tobacco. and d
full corps of brokers, who, with the
warehousemen, are energetic and stir
ring business men.
Some idea of the increase in Hen
derson's leaf trade may be gained by
comparing the sales of 1886 with
those at the close of the business yeal
Of 1887. On the 1st of October, 1886
Henderson had sold for that yeal
S,IoI,5 pounds; and at the same
time in 1887, $500, $50; making al
increase of 7o1,5oo pounds. This lea
trade is drawn from eleven counties il
North Carolina and four in Virginia
and the tobacco sold on this marke
combines fine color, good body, ant
peculiar favor and is sought GU
not only by the trade IN the United
States and Canada, but across tn
water.
Henderson's future is full of hop
and promise and her citizens have ;
just cause to feel proud of their mar
ket which is in such a healthy AM
vigorous condition.
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Bereavement Sharpencd.

Is it right that any rirtuouH woman
sbou d I've left homeless and uupr0
tecIed9 And yet bow many sucn there
1rel And why?
There are comparatively few homes
entirtlv free fr,m ircumbrapce, ly
mortgage or uthcrwise; and IN very
many cases, on the dtcease Of the hus
band and father, the wife and children
are forced from their long cherished
abode. He hal his property nearly
paid for but dies anu in the confusion
of his affairs, or the want of good man
agcment on the part OF the wifi, or ex
ecu,nrs, the fnmily loSes every hing.
few hundred or few thousand d"ilais
of ready money at his death, would
have sav"d the homestead inr them, tree
from incumbrauce. The lack of that
few hund red or Thousand "liars-w which
II life boIicy ,9ould hare prOcured-lost
the widow her all.
And now. in ahject poverty, she can
scarcely endure the reflection that Il
comfortable e subsistence was Within her
1cdch. and act rs not herSt
Lonely, she frequents the churchyard,
hut only to bring To fresh RENE m mbrancc
her folly in OF pnsing, or being in.'lfter
"ut to, an assurance upon her husband \
life. She bIames herself, and forcibly
illustrates, in her Xxi Xpeiience, the follows
ing lines:
WORDS TO WIVES.
$50 the stuck eagle, stre,ch-d along the
pain,
No more through rolling clouds to soa,
again.
Viewed her oiCn father In the fatal dark
And rimgcd The shaft that quivered IL
her heart!
"Kecn were her pangs; but keener, far
to feel
She nIrsed the pinion that imp, Led the
steel:
While The same plumage that hac
warmed the nest,
Drank tue last drop of her bleeding
breast ~
If you are such a one take warning
before it is too late, if not for your owr
sake, for the sake Of your little ones
Make it Impossible for these .e!f inflicted
rorrows To come upon you, by means o
the prOtfers of Life Insurance.
J.R YOUNG,
LIFE AND FIRE INsURANCE AGENT,
henderson, G.
Policies written IN first class comps
MES only.
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Stick To The Farm.
TShelby Aurora.

Last week some of the intellectual
giants Of America were in New York
discussing "the perils of city life" and
bewailing the increasing tendency of
country lads to rush TO the city, SO de-
n.oralizing and enervating, where one
thousand sink in vice and poverty and
only 4 few achieve name and fame.
At the threshold of another year laden
with brilliant anticipations and gor-
geous dreams of future success, many a
youth is to-day medltating his de-
parture from the old homestead and
the exchange of rural friends for city
sports.
There is in this century strong
tendency for young men, weary Of the
mental rust and irksome toll of coun-
try life, to rush to town and enter
business. In Europe and every State
in the United States the country is be-
ing depopulated and the villages are
rapidly increased by recruits from the
country. This. is not theory, for the
census reports confirm this idea.
A countryman longs for the activi-
ties, temptations and wealth, which
await him, as he supposes, in the busy
march and hum of commerce. The
plow is distasteful to his ambitious
mind and he hies to town to gain a
name and fame. He forgets that six
teen out of the list of Presidents were
farmers and farmers sons. He for
gets the severe tax upon his physical
powers, that his wants are multiplied
in town and that the hours of labor in
clerkships and professions are longer
than in rural life. He iorgets that
only few succeed in town while many
fail who would have made good far
mers. The young man rushes to town,
aspires TO clerkship, and after two
years labor day and night behind the
counter, he has few fine clothes, some
bad habits and no money. He at last
discovers that mercantile and legal
professions are over-crowded and nine
men out Of ten fail. The glare and
pomp of town life are alluring to many
a youth, tried of prosaic country life
which has more pleasure, peaceful con.
tent and quiet rest than the noisy
tempestuous city, full of sharks and
swindlers, trials and temptations
Young man, be content with thy
sphere and remain upon the farm. Dc
not, like Rasselas in the Happy Valley
forsake thy peaceful home in the vair
search of happiness, for you will, like
him in after years, return home, lader
with the burden of vain regrets anC
disappointed hopes. Stick to the farm
husband your resources, save some
money each fruitful year, improve TN
fertility of your land, then health ant
happiness shall crown 20 ur sunset day
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VOL. VII.
GULLIRILITY.

Tho Wild phantoms and shricking cries
of, wortbIe.. humbug can make money by
imposrng upon the crelulity and ignorance
Of an honest pa olic, and the supply OF this
so.cirs of work seems more than an adequate
damand The enuuciatiOn of facIs-facts
that have stood crucial tests-facts proven
law brain f,rce and tangible evidence, should
satisfy all laudable enterprises but the
execrabIe practice Of teaching false ideas
and doctrines for selt-agsrandlzetnent IS
,ruIy reurehensibIe and should be scorned
all classes. r
When one house tells you that lodide OF
Potash is poison simply because their
oDuonents use il, and b cause they are pan
d.ring To YOUR ignorance, rs they suppose,
Won should look upon all such as arrant
frauds and their remedies as unworthy pub
lie confidence. and if those who make such
assertions DO not know better, they are set
Of unenvia0le ignoramuses.
Doctors and Hot Springs.
Hot Springs failed entirely to cure me OF
several terrible ipdolent running ulcers on
rnr legs with which | have been troubled
for MANY wears. Several doctors also at
tempted to cure me but failed. have used
only few bottles of b. B. Il. (made at At
lauta, Ga and the effect has been truly
magical. as they have all healed and l am
cured. It is worth all medicines made for
purifying the blood. This wonderful quick
cure has been effected after every thing else
had failed. Your medicine is daisy, and
has done the business for me. have lived
here Twenty-Five years My general health
is also improving, appetite and digestion
good. | sleep soundly, and never felt bet
ter. Doctors told me that l could not be
cured, but g. +. B. has cured me.
1t is decidedly the quickest, best and
cheapest blood purifier | ever used. 1t Is
ahead Of all others. As to my case and It's
cure refer to every merchant or proles'
sioual man of Pine Bluff.
A. II. NORRIS, Cotton Buyer.
Pine Buff, Ark May l2th, 1886.
CancerOus Ulcers Cured.
have been taking Botanic Blood Balm
Oh B. T., and | am about well OF an ulcer
] had upon my nose for six years, SAID hy
all to be 4 cancer. | refer t" Postmaster
Renlroe. Of Atlanta. &. T. kELLAM.
WrightsvilIe, Ga, May 3, 1886
All who desire fun Information about
tho cause and euro of Blood Poison,
Scroful4 aud Scr0fulOu< Sweilings, Ul>
GERS, Sores, Rheumatism, Kidney Com
UlaintS, Catarrh, etc can secure by mai
free, 4 copy of our 3l-page Illustrated
hook OF W WDnderS, filled with the most
wonderful and startling proof ever be-
fore known. Address,
BLOOD BALM CO..
Atlanta. Ga.
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ATHLENE.
A Spring Song.
IOEI1INAL.l

D Spring come not with wreathed brow
To scatter from thy perfumed wing
Thy offering.
'ris mockery to brighten now
With gladstone smiles the winter scene
For in the grave she lieth low
Ny own Abilene!
What boots it that the tender sun
Should come to set the rivers free
With golden key?
Its timid rays in terror shun
To pierce the darkness and the gloom
And warm to life my darling one
Within her tomb
What boots it that her grave should wear
A mantle of the purest green
That e'er was seen,
And that lilies should blossom there?
Do not know, alas SD we'll
That in her very sunny hair
The worms do dwell?
All It's mock 'ry to hear the song
OF birds that welcome once again
Thy vernal reign.
Can she hear them, altho they throng
The willows DER her lonely bed?
Oh hush the song she sleeps among
| The silent dead.
What boots it that the balmy air
| Should fan to life with magic power
The withered flower?
| The roses Oh her cheek were fair
AS any DlOONhLlS Htlc Oil cdiln
| And 10 the worms are feaStlng there
/ In horrid mirth
We watched her thro' the winter 6rear
| And saw the life blood ebb away
| Day after day.
! ALI sad and hopeless then We were.
AS shipwrecked men who stand at nigh
! And see the only ship that's near
| Speed out of sight.
| One morn she longed and prayed that thor
Woulds't come, and whispered with :
sigh:
sis Spring time nigh q"
Methinks that can see her now,
Her scattered locks as fair and bright
AS if the sun had bathed her brow
In waves of light.
l saw the *gleam within her eye
| And knew All angel voice had come
To call her home.
Her cheek was tinged with deeper dyes
Than e'er before--'twas like the light
That paints in crimson hucS the sky
! Before the night.
| The moaning wind fell on her ear
Like the weird toll that sadly swells
From Phantom bells.
Trembling, she mnrmured with tear
The Spring! The Spring = and droope
For like a timid startled deer
Her soul had fled.
And then, oh cruel, mocking Spring.
With balmy breath and joyous song
Thou cams st along.
killing the winter with sling
OF rOses-glad' lining every scene
With life and joy for everything
Save my Abilene.
Thus was filed with crief and hate
Till bending by my spirits side
The Spring replied
90 foolish man look up and wait,
Thy darling sleeps not meath the sod,
But 10 ! she passes thro' the gate
That leads to God.
"Ana with that God there is no i'll
For she shall find eternal Spring
Beneath His wing.
Acknowledges then His gracious Will !;
When she has gained the better part
Why dost thou guard the winter still
Within thy heart
The voice was all silent, when 10!
The grief that had held me in sway
Vanished away.
The Spring winds still merrily blow
But my heart is shielded from care
l look Mr0' the stars, and know
Abilene is there.
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HENDERSON. n G. THU RsDAY. JANUAR
pest iron making centers in tie

cheapest iron making centers IN the
Union"
Surely these are encouraging facts.
Yet there is moral taught by them
which our Southern people should
take we'll to heart, not only as regards
the development of our mineral re-
sources, but also as touching our agri
cultural and manufacturing interests.
What the Messenger has contended
at all times should be the dominant
spirit and principle in Southern COM
merce, Southern manufactures, and
Southern agriculture is we'll enforced
by Mr.. Swank as regards our iron in
dustries. Mr.. Swank says. in this con-
nection: "The South ought to make
its own plows and other agricultural
implements, its own wagons, stoves,
chains, axes, shovels, nails, horse
shoes, cotton ties, steam engines and
boilers, locomotives, iron and steel
rails, and all other articles which are
made wholly or IN part of iron or steel.
The future prosperity of its iron and
steel industries depends upon the
prompt adoption of this policy. To
make pig iron, however cheaply, and
pay the freight on it to Northern mar
kets, taking in return Northern fin
ished products of iron and steel and
paying freight on them is not wisdom,
but folly. The South will be richer
and more prosperous than it now is
when it resolves to supply, as far as
possible, all its own wants, whether
they relate to food or clothing, furni
ture or house-building, the implement:
of the farm or any kind of machinery
the equipment of its railroads, or the
making of the tools of the cunning
workman.
Now, we think this good advice
which should certainly be needed, al
belt it proceeds from Pennsylvania
which has much to lose by the growth
of the IRON industry in the South, anc
has nothing whatever to gain. The
South can. should, and ultimately y will
supply its own wants-not only in the
lines of manufacture which our Phila
delphia contemporary and its cores
pondent suggest, but also in every
other direction. Ou1 people have
long suffered from their own negli
gence in creating home manufactures
in supporting those manufactures, anC
in supplying their own wants by home
production. We can, if we will, en-
ter upon a new era-and we will, t
be sure, if the acts of our people are il
accordance with their spirit and thei
professions.
So let the South begin to work on
its own destinN and accomplish it
own salvation. We have the men ant
the resources, and most of the money
What is lacking in means will soon b
ours. We are bound to win, in SO ia
as manufacturing supremacy is con
cerned. Pennsylvania will be bount
to come to us some of these days-i
fact, we expect to see the day whe1
the Drawn, the brains, the muscle an
the money of that historic State wi
turn to the South and become pal
and parcel of uS. You had bette
come soon, gentlemen. When we al
able to create and supply our hom
demand, we will beat you soundly il
your own home markets, and whe
the commercial Gettysburg comes 70
will find that your heights have bee
: taken.
The South knows a thing two.
} will L" get there" in time.
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Some Excellent Advice.
Wilmington Messenger

Wise is the individual and wise the
nation which are ever ready to give a
respectful and appreciative hearing to
disinterested counsellors. Of course,
advice is cheap, as the pot-house
maxim runs. But good advice is never
valueless. On the contrary, it has an
intrinsic worth of its own, and foolish,
indeed, are the individuals and COM
munites which, wise in their own con-
ceit, recklessly reject the counsels OF
disinteres,ed friends.
The Philadelphia Press, the bright
est ard ablest of our Quaker city ex-
changes, prints the views of a very
good authority on the Southern iron
industry. In his essay, just published
in the Report on the mineral Re-
sources of the United States," Mr..
James NJ. Swank says, "that in re-
gard to the claim that the South pos,
sesses advantages in the proximity oil
Its ores. fuel and limestone, and in
cheap labor, which enable it to manu-
facture pig iron more cheaply thar
any other section of the country, thai
this clam is undoubtedly true Of sew
eral Southern States, and that it should
everywhere be frankly conceded ,
Mr.. Swank next quotes the highest au
thority in England, Sir |. Lowthiar
Bell, on the manufacture of pig iron
This English authority gives as hi
opinion these significant remarks, to
wit: "In the Southern States Of Ten
nessce and Alabama, and to some ex
tent in Georgia, in all likelihood, th'
cost of bringing together the material
t for making iron is not more than it |
on the River Tees that "the natura
conditions under which ore and fue
are found are such that it would b
| difficult 10 find locality of any mag
nitude in any country where thes
minerals can be more cheaply wrough
than in Alabama" and that ultimatel
there seems nothing to prevent thes
Southern States from becoming tn
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T he Bath.

Every human habitaton should
always contain a convenience for a
complete bath in water. In the long
catalogue ofdiseases, says we'll known
physician, scarcely one can be named
in the treatment of which a bath is
useless. To those blessed with good
health, bath gives thrift and growth
to healthy functions, a brightness and
delightful serenity, clearness of mind
and buoyancy of spirit. 1t is certainly
a blessing to both mind and body.
For the mental worker it is nerve
tonic. a thorough application OF
water Of proper temperature will calm
and give tone to the whole system
The indoor laborer, who gets but a
scanty supply of fresh air, needs bath
to obtain for the skin invigorating
elements of open air.
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II He Did All This He is Good Enough
Democrat for Us.

President Cleveland receives 4 sala-
ry of $4,000 per annum. OF this
amount he remitted, says the Natona!
Republican, S. 900 to the Democratic
State committee of New York 81 900
to the city committee, and $4,000 to
the Democratic State committee OF
Ohio, making a grand total of I6 per
cent. of one years salary. In the face
Of these facts some people c:ll the
President a mugwump, a civil service
reformer, and unreliable as Democrat.
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About this time Of year the farme

About this time Of year the farmer
riseth up and maketh himself ready to
assassinate the fatted porker; yea,
even the porker that is SO fat that you
can't see his eyes. And the porker
shall be red and the spots thereon
shall be black. even as the crow is
black. And his ears shall hang down
over his eyes like unto the bangs that
hide the ivory brow and dark brown
eyes of the society girls (bless them.
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As this is Leap Year the girls now
have a chance to make their PROPOSE
tions. In other words, the tables are
turned, and the boys will have to do
the waiting and oh how long and pa
tiently some Of US will have to wait.
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,r.xar suIliran Removed.

puaLIx, Dec. 6-Mayor Sullivan ha.
,se, removed from the Dub.in Jail - lula
NOR. prison. This Was done in ordrr &C
nr.vsnt the holding vi ths daily leTees which
hav. greatly iessened tbs hardship Of Nj
Sullivan,s Imprisonment
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The Adjutant General of North
Carolina reports The entire State guard
force at eleven hundred and twelve
members, consisting of twenty-three
white companies of infantry, two col
ored infantry companies and one white
cavalry. Five companies have been
formed and equipped during the past
wear