The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-01-31
Miss Mamie l.. Hatchctt.

Miss Mamie Ua.c has taken charge of
the Oxford, Orphans Friend as editor. Her
salutary appears in the issue of this week.
She has for some time been canvassing
agent and correspondent of the paper and
the GOLD LEAF thinks all parties con-
cerned are to be congratulated upon the
new arrangement. Miss Hatchett has lit
crary gifts and attainments of high
order and will infuse new life and inter-
est into the paper. She is graceful and
facile writer, an advanced aid original
nalistic work. A most worthy and deserv-
ing enterprise, under her superior conduct
the GOLD LEAF predicts that the Orphans
Friend Will attain to position of honor
and usefulness unknown even in its past
successful history. We gladly welcome
the lady into the journalistic field again
and wish for her and the very meritorious
the fullest measure of success. Hiss Hatch
ett's salutatory is in such good taste that
we extend the courtesy of publishing it in
full. She says:
Again we find ourself in the editorial
chair; this time not as the champion of Il
doubtful cause or the propagation of adj
vanced ideas, but as the manager Of one Of
the oldest and most popular Journals in
the State. : A little run down at the heel,
true yet it has a good foundation to build
On, needing only few stitches here and
there and new stout sou! (sele) to fit it
for its future race up the stony path of
progress and competition.
ln assuming the editorship of the Or
plans Friend, we realize the responsibility
and the delicacy of our position. Unlike
the ma jOrity of our contemporaries, who
have simply one class to protect, one creed
| to defend, one party to sustain or one Sec
ton to upbuild, we are expected, while
maintaining a becoming dignity and indie
pendence, to be nonsectarian, nonpolitical,
| nOnsectiOnal. and nOn-eyerything except
n0nsens5cat. We must be decided in neu-
ira lily, serious without gravity, humorous
without levity, witty without satire, bril-
liant without flame. We must eschew
! alike the breakers of contention and the
maelstrom of controversy, knowing no
country but tie universe, no people but hu-
manity, no creed but charity, no statute
but love. We must be as ''wise as a ser
pent" as armless as a dove pleasing all :,
| offending none, while preserving the strict
est standard of right and morality.
Thus encOmpassed and suppressed, we
cannot give the public so bright and spicy
a sheet as we might under other. and more
favorable conditions ; but accepting the sit
uation, we shall endeavor to make the best
| of it, working such improvements from
| time to time as circumstances Will permit.
| We purpose to make the frse'ld more
newsy and interesting to all classes than it
has been heretofore, diversifying its con-
| tents in such manner as to enable its rea-
ders of whatever age, to find within its
pages something to entertain, amuse or in
| Struct.
| How far we will succeed, time alone
can decide; but accustomed to success, we
enter upon our new duties with faith and
confidence, resting assured That our efforts
will receive whatever recognition they de-
serve at the hands of generous Press and
an intelligent people