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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13

RECIPROCITY Is THE THING.-The
GOLD LEAF believes in standing by
home affairs. 1t is intensely local, but
at the same time it does not believe it
is too much so-certainly it does not
carry this spirit into seltishness it
thinks. We believe in patrOnizing
home institutions, all things being
equal, in preference to any others.
Reciprocity among ourselves. that is
the idea. Persons who refuse to sup
port home industries can scarcely con-
slider themselves deserving of home
patronage. When you have money to
spend use it in your community. Buy
of home merchants and home manu-
facturers. Hire home mechanics; it is
the only way to build up town. The
| rule applies with special force to your
| home printers. It is the home printer
| every time who induces the people
from distance to trade at a town and
| who does the booming for the business
! men and property owners. 1t is to the
! home paper they go for all the free
/ work that is to be done. Every new
| undertaking must have his sanction
| and his influence. He must boom
every enterprise, public and private, in
the community and champion every
cause calculated for the good of his
town and people. Is it not the part O
justice, then, to patronize your home
| paper, and that in a manner to enable
it to do better work for the town an(
county? We think so.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13
Stick Pin Here,

All grades of tobacco are now selling bct-
ter and our market is more active and live
". D. Y. Cooper says he can place any
quantity of tobacco now Of all grades at
full prices. Now is the time time to brin.
it in and Ccoper's is the place to tell it.
SAD NEWS FOR A FATHER.-The
telegraph wires brought sad news to
the family of Mr.. Robert Baecom, who
lives in this county some miles from
town last Monday a week ago. 1t con-
veyed the intelligence that his son
Henry. aged % years. who was living
in Washington Territory. had fallen
from railroad bridge and was killed
Saturday. The young man had been
West about two years. and with his
brother was engaged in the lumber
business and as bridge contractor, and
it is supposed that it was while thus
employed that he fell and lost his life.
The dispatch stated that the body had
been embalmed. and was then at Seat
tie. W. T.. awaiting instructions as to
what disposition to make of it. Mr.
Baecom telegraphed for the remains te
be sent here for burial. but from some
cause it was said they could not be for
warded before the 10th. In the NEAR
time large portion of the city ha:
been destroyed by fire and it is no
known whether the body of the un
fortunate young man was burned O
not.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13
Notice.

All persons holding claims against me
are hereby notified to present them for set
Element between now and the first day nf
July, 1889. CHARLES j AIsToN.
May 80, 1889.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13
A Healthy Growth.

Acker's Blood Elixir has gained firm
hold eE the American people and is ac-
knowledged to be superior to all other
preparations. 1t is positive cure for all
blood and skin diseases. The medical fra
ternity indorse and prescribe it, Guaran-
teed and sold by NJ. Dorsey.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13

Poor AND NEEDY.-Meal has been
a scarce article here this week. For a
short while none Of the merchants had
any, and it could not be obtained. The
mills near at hand could not get the
corn to grind, nor could the dealers get
the article ready ground from a dis
lance. This was on account of the
late rains and washed away railroad
bridges causing delay in receiving
freight for several days. How utterly
dependent we are upon the outside
world! What shame and pity it is
that in such land as this, favored as
we are with such warm and re-
sponsive soil and such unsurpassed
climate, we are in large measure alb
ject dependents upon the bleak, short
seasoned North and West for many of
the necessaries Of life! What a COM
mentary upon the agriculture of this
section Of country! Poor and needy
we are indeed! How long, oh, how
| long, We husbandmen, will this condi-
ton of affairs rule?
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13

Cheatham's Cholera Mixture cures
COLES, cholera, cholera morbus, dyseE-
terry, diarrhOea and all summer and bowel
complaints. Guaranteed to cure. Price
% cents. june -.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13

bURNED.-1n he uWelllnS mouse AT
Mr.. L. r. Goochs place few miles
from town, in which Mr.. Emmett Good
rich and Mr.. Willie Parham lived with
their families, was burned Friday night
When the fire was discovered the
flames had made such progress the oc-
cupants barely had time to escape.
Nothing of any consequence was saved
by either family Two of Mr. Good
rich's children were sleeping up stairs
| and one of them, good sized boy, had
narrow escape from being burned
alive, having gone to sleep again after
being aroused by his father the first
time Mr.. Parham escaped with his
wife and children, and leaving little
child that he had taken out with his
wife as he thought, he returned to the
burning building for something. A
little later Mr.. Goodrich went into the
house to get suit of clothes that were
hanging in convenient place. Hear
ing a noise behind the door he looked
to see what it was and found the little
by its father a short while before
crouched behind the door. The roo
was then about falling in and catching
up the frightened and half dazed mite
of humanity Mr.. Goodrich hastenet
from the burning building with thu
child instead Of the clothing.
The fire is supposed to have caugh
from the stove pipe. The loss fall
heavily on both parties. They los
virtually everything they had, clothing
household and kitchen furniture, bed
ding, &C. Both are poor men and ha'
no insurance on anything. Mr.. Coco
had the house insured for 5000, i
} Claude Hunters agency.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13

Samuel Rogers sold one barn of tobacco
at COOper's warehouse last week for the
high average of 81. There is no use in
talking, Cooper's always leads in high
prices and heaviest sales of farmers to-
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13

Green, mixed and black tea. Fresh lot
at s. & &. WATKINS.
june IS.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13

Bowel troubles are frequent at this sea-
son of the year. Cheatham's Cholera
Mixture is the best thing to use in such
cases. Price % cents. june 3.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13

4 PAPER OF THE WAR TINES
Mr.. Mike Burrows has shown us an in
teresting relic Of the war i'll the shape of
a newspaper, the Southern Illustrated
Ne,os, published at Richmond, Va. The
copy before us bears date of March
10Th. 1864. and contains much Of a
stirring nature concerning the news of
those troublous and exciting times.
There is portrait and sketch of Maj
Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner (now
Governor of Kentucky and the part he
played in the gallant defence of Fort
Donelson. Ayres & Wade were the
publishers, and. the price of subscrip
ton was $1,000 a year.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13

CHEAP RATES TO THE TEACHERS
Col. w. A. Turk, Pas
senger Agent of the Richmond & Dan
ion. sends us the following:
Round-trip tickets will be sold to More
head City by the R. & D. R. r. from all
points in North Carolina to parties de-
string to attend the Teachers Assembly,
at the following very low rates: From
Durham $40; Raleigh $40; Oxford
$500; Henderson $500. Correspond
ingly low rates from all other points.
Tickets on sale June 18th to 3Oth, good
returning until and including July 31st,
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13
We Can and do

We Can and do
Guarantee Acker's Blood Elixir for it has
been fully demonstrated to the people of
this country that it is superior to all other
positive cure for syphilitic poisoning,
ulcers, eruptions and pimples. 1t purifies
the whole system and thoroughly builds up
the constitution. For sale by NJ. Dorsey
Try our Comfort Eye-Glass, perfect in
fitting, neat in appearance, and easy to the
wearer Sold by E. E. HIGHT.
Letter from Massachusetts.
LEE, MASS, MAY 20, 1889.
EDITOR GOLD LEAF-ThinkiHg that you
would like to hear from Massachusetts
through one of your townsmen, take this
opportunity to write.
i left Henderson the 18th of Aprll-tOOk
cars for Portsmouth, where took the boat
for New York City. The boat became dis
, abled at sea which caused us to be delayed
about two days. From New York | went
by rail direct to Lee, Mass-that being the
place for which started, where l arrived
} the afternoon of the 10Th inst
! have been in no less than six state:
since leaving the Old North State. and
l that find the farther l go the more thu
. country differs from ours. would like to
tell you much of the country, especially
OF this grand ola bay state, DuC space IaIl.
: me. OF the famous Berkshire Hills must
: say word. They are beautiful picturesque
: and green Some are covered with forest
some with fine sward and others will
10 rocks and lodges interspersed with hem
locks, white birch and other varieties o
trees. These hills are immensely CRANE
looming up hundreds of feet. think som
G of the highest points are nearly 1000 fee
= Understanding far away on every side
Is They seem to wall one in making him fee
s that it is not easy to return to the dear oil
l. Sunny South
is The people, too. differ from ours as wide
T. ly as she country does. The white, as wei
the colored population work, think it n
disgrace and seem to enjoy it.
! Would like to tell you more anOthe
! | time.
l. Yours Respectfully,
!. r. Y BRODIE.
~ .-~s>-.-
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Mr.. Alpheus Ogbarn, one of the largest
and most successful farmers Of Mecklen-
burg county, Va, was in town yesterday
and sold large lot of tobacco at Cooper
for satisfactory prices.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13

HENRY BLoUNT AT OXFORD.-In
the Orphans' Friend of last week, Miss
Hatchett has this to say Of the address
of Henry Blount. editor of the wills on
/ Mirror. delivered before the Franklin
! Literary Society of HOrner's School:
: As the orator of the occasion he was
the attraction OF the evening. The crowd
that went out to hear him expected
something out of the common order, and
they We're not disappointed. As our con-
temporaries have remarked before us,
there is but one Henry Blount, and while
he has many would-be imitators, his
style is eminently his own. His theme
was we'll chosen and handled with ability.
While on the practical rather than
the sentimental order, many beautiful
thoughts and brilliant metaphors proved
the speakers identity with that of the
editor of the Wilson Mirror, and, with the
exception of few happily selected and
timely anecdotes, the address was char,
acterized by the same chaste and ornate
diction that has given that sheet dis
, tinctive place in North Carolina journal
f ism. Mr.. Blount is decidedly at his best
in pathos. AS a mimic he possesses
great powers and some of his anecdotes
were told in style that was immltable
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13

Top Notch Prices for Tobacco.
Fielding Knott sold two loads of tobacco
at Cooper's warehouse Tuesday for S752 Oh.
This sounds like old times.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13

Big lot of green and black tea just re-
ceived at ). 4 Z. WATKINS.
iuue Ii.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13

If you are suffering with any of the dis
eases usual in spring or summer, try Cheat
hams Cholera Mixture. The best remedy
known. Price % cents. june =.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-13

The GOLD LEAF is pleased at the sue
cess OF Messrs. ,MeadOr ( Knight, mer
chants, who located here in the Spring.
Their trade, which was very good at the
the outset is rapidly increasing, and it
is probable that when the fall season
comes they will have to seek larger quar-
tiers. They carry n well assorted stock,
deal only in choice and desirable goods,
are experienced merchants and good
buyers. and withal clever and reliable
gentlemen with whom to deal.
I Read the article on the first page OF the
: GOLD LEAF this week under the head of
"Public Spirit" 1t is sensible and prac-
teal. and we commend it to the careful
consideration of those OF our citizens who
need to give more earnest attention to
matters of this kind We have some
public spirited men in Henderson, who
are worth much to the town and commu-
nifty, but there are by far more of the sci
fish kind.-thOse who never turn loose d
dollar unless they think they see a chance
to get two dollars back.
The lst inst was the monthly collectin-
day and mucn money changed hands. Il
than the Weekly our sympathies go out II
them -Retdsrtiie Weekly.
We venture the assertion that othe
creditors. or some of them at least, dit
meet with more success, brother. 1t Il
the newspaper man that is stood OFF
generally. We have had men to tell u.
they could not spare the money the.
, owed us. that they had to pay off thei
| hands, &c, like the employees OF news
paper Office do not have to be paid a
we'll as other folks.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26

gates, her water-wor,ks are of the same
character as those Of the ancient Egyp-
tians The chief description shall give
of them is the picture of one of the public
wells, just in the suburbs of the town.
Multiply this by six or seven, throw in
two or three abandoned and diIapidated
ones that look like the ruins Of Jericho,
and the description is as complete as it
can be made.
In one Of the rooms of the American
Consul, Mr.. Willard, facing the principal
plaza, is lodged the piece Of shell,
thrown there, singularly enough, by an
American man-of- war when Guaymas
was taken. in I847, during the Mexican
war. At that time the Portsmouth and
Congress entered the harbor, shelled the
town, and took it. The piece of bursting
shell has lodged in the huge wooden raj
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26

and white can make St. it conveys put
little idea OF She reality. beyond form and
contour, with the variegated colos8d rocks
for q roof, and the same reflected IN q
floor of the deepest u1tramarine oscillatinas
with the great sWeIts Of the ocean.
] thought that Guaymes had a wealth OF
natural attractions for the winter tourist
or traveller, although hardly any reared by
the hand Of man TO make his stay comfort
able in the strictly physical sense. The
hotels are all Mexican, and while they
should be judged from that standpoint
probably, yet to an American they are
neither good nor bad, and it is hard TO say
Just where they are between those limits.
How an American hotel ought TO succeed
here, If that fact and all others regarding
Guaymas were knownl
Even the inhabitants, IN their Nazarine
primitiveness, are very interesting. Al
though Gusymas claims 2, 600 within her
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26
What We Know Of Color.

All we know of color, its causes and
effects, is in connection with the wave
theory of light. Color depends upon
the number of light waves reflected
from any object impinging upontheret-
ina of the eye. In red there are about
10000 waves to the inch, and these
viii strike the eye at the rate of AT
millions of millions of puIsations per
second In violet there 81, 600 waves
to the inch, and $50 millions of millions
of pulsations per second. The other
colors have wave lights intermediate
between these two. Color does not,
therefore, exist either in the object or
in the brain or the mind of the Observ-
er. 1t is an effect. There can be no
appearance Of fire on a desert island
where there is no eye within seeing dis
lance. The chemical process called
combustion goes on, but there Is no
appearance Of the fame save when its
waves strike upon the retina Of an eye.
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auL41fAsl PuRT.1c 49,.

the hands of foreigners, and this is es-
pecially true Of the northern part of that
rich territory.
After cooking our lunch of cabriI1as and
boca dulces on the northern or inside
shore of San Vicente Island We made a
visit to the southern or seward face OF
the same island. This led Us through q
little gorge between two high, beetling
cliffs and into which the sea had eXcavated
the caves We were to see.
Through or rather under this gorge the
waters of the Gulf of California pour into
a small underground funnel OF the sand
rock before they reach the little lagoon be-
yOnd, At all hours the reverberatiOn Of
the rushing tide is like thunder as it beats
backward and forward in its caYe-like
prison. The upper crust OF the funnel Is
pierced with occasional holes ana ereYices,
and at certain stages Of water these are
the mouths Of so many EpOuting geyers as
each wave comes IN and beats against the
stone roof that confines 1t there. Noe 20
the fOotman who steps across one Just as q
high wave reaches its maximum strength
in the cave beneath. he viii get the
quickest and most ehectual bath or his
lifetime.
once on the seward face and long
line Of caves are presented to view. The
high hills here are hard cOnglOmerate, and
the sea waves Of the Gulf OF OaiItOrn1s
have cut far under the cliffs, leaving over
hanging masses or earth sometimes nun
dreds Of feet IN depth, as measured bacE
along the roofs under which We walked
They looked forebOding enough and We
felt that a great chunk of few hundred
tons might come down at any time on OIL
heads, scaling of Of the roof, for her.
and there could be seen just such deposits
Ia the shallow waters, while occasionally
great islands were made out along "a.
mouth % the caves that must have beer
formed when greater masses fell down
probably the whole cave tumbine In
The ecIoring In the largest eGgs vas %
Vond description, and although the sc
eOmpanFlng skstOh is as good s. bAael
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26
COD Htckarr,. Was Toneh.

Traveller IN a sParsely settled region
in Tennessee coming down with red
eyes to brea kfastl -You say, madam,
General Andrew Jackson once slept in
the bed I occupied last night
Aged LandIady Of Country Tavern
He did, fer a fack.
Trayeler-Was it-er-the same bed
In all respects 1t is now?
Aged Landlady-Je s' the sam.
Traveler-And he actually slept in
it? Sure he slept?
Aged Land1ady - Sartip' That's
what I Wuz sayin' He sIep' IN j.
hide 5"F ZEE must E0P 6aqe gRs4 c %Res
T'Tjb959le.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26

oughly, slowly driving the steamship lines,
and especially foreign steamship lines,
from the Mexican trade. We labor at
one disadvantage, however, and that is
the fact that we viii not attempt to cater to
any other ones taste, even though to do
so would be money in our pockets. There
are peculiar lines of cheap prints and cot
tons made in Europe that are sold only
on the west coast of Mexico, not yard
finding it's way to any other part of the
world, and while ours command higher
prices and a great deal Of it finds ready
market here, yet it does not "exa thy fill
the bill, and Americans, probably from
ignorance of the true wants of these peo-
pie, will not manufacture it and drive the
foreign stuff from the Mexican market,
which they could easily do. The
ignorance Of our people as to the COM
mercial value of Mexico to US, and es-
pecially those parts off the great lines of
railway, is certainly great and losing us
money daily now, and more important in
huence later. Our enormous advan-
tage of contiguity is pressing us
forward in spite of our ignorant baking,
when in reality we should sweep nearly
every line Of commerce in Mexico from
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26

A CALIFORNIA philosopher evolves
the theory that the many divorces in
that State are due to the coIdness of
the climate and the high price Of coal.
In the evening, he says, it is so chilly
that the husband and wife can't sit
down comfortably as they do in the
East, and with coal at SO ton they
can't afford to use it. So the husband
gets into the habit of going out for a
walk in order to keep warm. and the
wife often gets into the same habit.
Divorces soon follow.
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tiers of the building, and its rusty round
side is plainly visible from beneath AS
the American flag yet floats from the staff
directly over the shell, it makes it quite
an interesting as we'll as historical piece
OF iron.
There are very few good seaports in
Mexico. There are none on the Atlantic
coast, and but one or two on the Pacific,
and those viii need some work to make
them as good as We are used to seeing on
our own seaboards. Either Guaymas or
Topolobampo, from their peculiar geo
graphical positions and inherent qualities
that nature has given them in country
where she has been very spare with her
favors, will be a great port on the Pacific
for the transmission of freight from the
United States and Mexico to Australasiau
ports. San Francisco holds this now by
right of American energy over her south
ern neighbor, but against fairer position
and ultimate development of this region
I do not think she can hope to keep it
always.
The country surrounding Guaymas is
rich, but undeveIOped In the American
sense. Enough has been done to show,
however, about its true capacity, and on
this found my conclusions.
FREDERICK SCHWATKA.
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Mexican war.

sWarms with a hundred kinds of
fishes. It looks not unlike the harbor of
San Francisco, California but while it is
smaller it is also far more senic in the
many beautiful Yistas it opens to sight
from the various points as one sails over
its tOrtuoUs waters running deep into the
land and studded with beautiful islands.
While we were here the United States fish
commission steamer "Albatross" came
into the harbOr from long cruise in in
vestigating the fishes of the Gulf Of Cali
fOrnia, and Capt. Tanner, OF the United
States Navy, told small party of us
that there were enough fishes in the Gulf
of California to supply all the markets Of
Mexico and probably the United States.
Singularly enough, nearly all the great fish
supply in the gulf was along the eastern
coast of this American AdEiatic, or on the
Sonora and Sinaola sides, rather than
along the coast of Lower California. A
good system Of railways to the interior
mining camps and towns is needed to
make this great supply available to the
wealth Of this naturally wealthy but now
poorly developed country.
When I first sailed on the waters of the
Gulf Of California some eighteen years
ago the commerce here, small as it was,
was three-fOurths in the hands Of Eu-
ropeans. while to-day three-fOurths Of it
is American and the other fourth Eu-
ropean.
AII the new railways of Northern Mexico
are American, and they are surely, thor
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26

TIE healthiest and the most hopeful
attack upon foreign influence in this
country is that which we find made by
a body of our adopted Irish feIlow-citi-
zens who have resolved that @we pledge
ourselves not to patronize any hotel,
inn, or saloon that deals with any
brewer of the English syndicate, and
thus pays tribute to the British octopus
and encourages the growth of foreign
monopoly on American soil They
cannot do too much of this. 1t VIII
take a form of real self-denial, without
doubt, in many cases; but we trust
they VIII not be discouraged. Every
blow they deal the British lion in a
beer saloon VIII be blessed. IF it does
not do a great deal Of good by diseour-
aging foreign capital in this county,
they may be almost certain that 1t viz
benefit themselves.