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lift the napkin from his face
And press his brow 20 cold;
Can this be Jack-old lifelong friend
Ny Jack with heart Of goldf
No answering pressure from his hand,
The hand whose daily greeting
Seemed more like pledge Of lover than
Mere mark Of friendly meetingi
That face 30 full OF honesty,
So radiant with mirtt-~
Some called It '.homely,r but for mo
No faircr sight on earth.
Let others prate OF woman's charms,
Her SMILES, her melting tears
Give me the trusted friendship Of
A. chum Of forty years
But my grief Is lost In wonder
- = AZ that smfie Of gladstone Thought,
As II angelic hnrmonies
His listening soul had caught;
And his pale lips seem to tremble
With message for my ear;
Assurances that all is we'll
That Heaven Is really near.
Oh, that look robs death Of terror
And my soul with comfort fills;
Strangely near appear the SUBMITS
OF the Everlasting Hills.
Keep q welcome ready fo- me,
Some bright morning, looking back,
You will hear ny shout ascending;
Il am coming ACCOMMODATED"
Chicago Journal.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-01-02

LIKE Oil Upon Troubled Waters Is Hale's
Honey Of Horehound and Tar upon cold.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-01-02

MARRY your sweet heart on her birthday.
II you can, young Sman. It will save YOU
money every year in anniversary presents.
-Somerville Journal
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IF you want to find out all about women
and their ways ask some young man who
has never been married -Terre Haute Ex-
press. Is
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-01-02

A SORE Throat or Cough, Il. suffered to
progress, often results in an incurable
throat or lung trouble. /" BrOtuB's Bronchial
Troches'' give instant relief.
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TnE law permits man to use his wife to
rob his creditors Yet In the face Of this 1t
is argued that marriage Is failure. bling
hamton Herald.
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4 The poets continue to rave about the puri-
ty and all that sort Of thing Of marble, In
spite OF the fact that tombstones are the
awfulest liars on earth. -Terre Haute Ex-
DreaS
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THERE are many LII. DIS in this country,
but there are lots of laws that need doctor
ing just the same ochester Post Express.
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knows it, too but she is always willing to
be told Of it once understandable Jour
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-01-02

THE after-dinner speaker is sometimes in
demand. So is the undertaken. Merchant
Traveller :
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/. To FLATTsR a young woman ask her about
her victims; every girl likes to think she
has victiroa~ -Atchison Globe.
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IT is easy to believe that tobacco smoke
kills bacilli. There are cigars that nearly
knock man down, let alone doing up a ba-
cillus. -Courier journal.
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ONE ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup Of Figs is taken; 1t is pleasant
and refreshingto the taste, and acts
gentlyyetpromptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head.
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup Of Figs Is the
only remedy Of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial IN its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances,
its many excellent qualities COM
mend it to all and have made It
the most popular remedy known.
Syrup Of Figs is for sale in 800
and 81 bottles BY all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will PRO
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept
any substitute.
CALIFORNIA re SKRUP co.
..... SAN FRANCISCO, CAk,
f0Uf5KffE. Ky. SEW voRx, M
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TIE star actress wardrobe IL incomplete
nowadays without divorce suit.-Terre
Haute Express.
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Oregon, the Paradise OF Farmers.
Mild, eqdable climate, certain and abundant
crops. Best fruit, grain, grass, stock country
in the world. Full Information free. Address
Oregon Immigration Board, Portland, Oregon
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THERE is wide difference between the
best-known and the known best men Of Q
modern city.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-01-02

Do NOT purge nor weaken the bowels, bui
act specially on the liver and bile A perfect
liver correcter Carter's Little Liver Pills,
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-01-02

OYsTERs are very self-possessed Great
ures. They never turn red when they Sc
into stew.
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The cleansing, antiseptic and healing quail
tiles of Dr. Eage's Catarrh Remedy are un-
eo11aled
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i THERE is . silver lining to every cloud
the man who can't get credit Is neves
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HIsroRr is not fable agreed upon but
truth disagreed upon.
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IT is q sailors experience that seas gen-
orally wash in dirty weather. Baltimore
American. EeAssss9
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COLONEL john CocKERILL is paid $50, 900 4
year by the New York World.
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THE best cough medicine is Piso's Cur
for Consumption. Sold everywhere. NO.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-01-02

When corl<s are too large to 70 into
: bottle put them Into hot watsf lev
minutes and thsy VIII selten.
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A MAN feels down in the mouth when
buying horse, and sometimes much more
so after buying 1t.
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The man with tendency toward giving
Traveller.
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GRATITUDE IL the music Of the heart when
its chords are moved By kindness.
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4 100 smoke g. ''Tansin's Punch. "
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Sufferers from Catarrhal troubles should
carefully read the above
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face, and | heard the old cross-patch
shove the bolt. We'll, just thought
poor Rast had got somebody to take care
on him With vengeance; | then picked
up my lantern and went back home,
glad to think of my unblessed state.
Christmas came on tuesday that
year, and on. Saturday / drove pretty
Thankful home to Woodbury., and
didn'tsee or hear any more of the folks
until spring came round again; for every
letter twas writ and sent there was
twenty-five cents postage to pay, and
money was scarce, too, so the folks
saved up the news until j came home,
and then we had plenty to talk about.
allus lotted on going home four times a
year to see mother, and wish now had
gone oftener.
Where was 1? Things didn't mend for
the better over to the Sparhawk place;
Lccty got more and more dissatisfied
with Erastus, and If it hadn't been for
Mother Sparhawk Rast couldn't have
stood I1ecty's continual naggin' at home.
The old lsdy's health was very poor, and
Rast was jest as good as gold to her.
Lccty kept the old lady cooped up in
one room all the time, and all the variety
Mother Sparhawk had was when Rast
would read to her evenings, by the light
of the half-candle which was all the
light Lecty would allow them. Mother
Sparhawk had allus been Just as kind to
Rast as though he had been her own son,
and 1t hurt her terrible to see him so put
,,x.an h,.t "a che d{dn,t 1;Lo - x.olya
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-09
A YEARIN THE SOUTH.
The Progress of 1889 as Compared
with Previous Years.

BALTIMORE, December 26-The an
nual review of the South's industrial
progress, as published in this weeks
Manufacturers Record, shows that
5,133 new manufacturing and mining
enterprises were organized in that Sec
ton during 1889, against 3,61S in
1888, 5,43o in 1887 and 1875 in
1886.
The amount of capital and capital
stock of these companies was S22o,-
7o3,5oo in 1889 and s168, SOL, 900 in
1883.
The total number of new industrial
enterprises organized in the South dur
ing the last four years,or since January
1, 1886, of which the Manufacturer S
Record has given full particulars, is
over 13,7oo, divided as follows:
Iron furnace companies 26, ,machine
shops and foundries 421, agricultural
implement factories 63, gas works 1o1
flour mills 267, water works 331, car
riage and wagon factories 176 electric
light companies ATS, mining and
quarrying companies 1901, lumber
mills, sash and door factories, stave
factories, etc, 1896, ice factories 593,
canning factories 275, stove foundries
IS, brick works SIS, miscellaneous
iron and steel works, rolling mills,pipe
works, ETC., 184, cotton compresses
ia, cotton seed oil mills 14o, miscel-
laneous, not included in the foregoing
4,4I5; total 1914.
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The South MOurnS.
Fayetteville Observer. I

In the late tragic end of Capt. Daw-
son, of the Charleston Nezvs and Cour-
Ter, and the untimely death the other
day of Henry w. Grady, Of the At
lanta Constitution, Southern journal
ISM has cause for the profound mourn
ing which laments the loss of conspic-
uouS talents and commanding abili-
ties.
In the very prime of physical and
intellectual manhood, with that i'm
pulsive and magnetic nature which
rendered his a most generous and
thorough devotion to all the best in
terests of his country, Henry Grady's
brilliant life was already reaching out
for grander achievements and brighter
guerdons than even the field of a news
paper career might offer, and to him
there had almost come the fruition oi
the worthiest of all ambition :-service
IN behalf of his people and his coun-
try. Beyond the love and esteem OF
his own section, he had stormed and
captlvated the colder and more phleg-
matte natures of our Northern friends,
and the very flush Of a triumph Just
won in the most cultured literary cir
cles of New England was man,ling his
cheek when deaths touch stopped the
busy brain, stilled the eloquent lip
and dulled the fire of the speaking eye.
1t is we'll that the whole South
mourns, for Grady belonged not to a
State but to his common country.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-09

THE SLEEP OF DEATH.
(CharlOtte DemOcrat.1

We know not what it is, dear, this sleep
SO deep and still;
The folded hands, the awful calm, the
cheek SO pale and chill;
The lids that will not lift again, though
We may call and call
The strange white solitude of peace that
settles over all.
We know not what it means, dear, this
desolate heart pain;
This dread to take our daily way and
walk in it again;
We know not to what other sphere the
loved who leaves us go,
Nor why we're left to wander still, nor
why we do not know.
But this we know: Our loved and dead, if
they should come this day
Should come and ask us, "What is life ?"
not one of us could say!
Life is a mystery as deep as ever death
can be;
Yet oh, how dear it is to us, this life we
live and see.
Then might they say-these vanished
ones-and blessed is the thought:
$50 death is sweet to us, beloved, though
we may snow you naught;
We may not to the quick reveal the mys-
terry of death
Ye can not tell us, if ye would, the mys-
terry OF breath
The child who enters life comes not with
knowledge or intent,
So those who enter death must go as lit
tie children sent
Nothing is known. But l believe that
God is overhead;
And as life is to the living, so death is to
the dead.
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A Fertile Region.
Estate ChronicleI

Beaufort county is by nature highly
favored in its fertile soil, varied and
valuable lumber interests, its rare water
transportation and its great variety Of
fishes with which its waters are stocked.
There is no county where an easier
living can be made or where industry
yields surer reward. 1t ought to Sc
cure the sale of much of its surplus fer
tile land to thrifty immigrants who
would better their condition and be-
come useful citizens. The county-town
Washington, is one Of the oldest and
loveliest of North Carolina towns, and
it offers unexcelled opportunities for
the establishment of new industries
in its borders. The people of both town
and county are earnest, intelligent, stur.
dy ypeople. They lost very heavily by the
war and have had an uphill work since.
Their beautiful town was twice destroy
ed by fire in those days ofconfict. They
have not since had the means to utilize
all their resources and to erect the
needed manufactures. They desire
to secure good class of immigration
who will help them to win back the
commercial glory of the town and aid
in making it a manufacturing centre.
They are pressing forward themselves,
and are not idly waiting for some one
to come and do their work for them.
They need help in the way of money
and brains and muscle.
In order to secure this need, and to
advertise the resources and prosperity
of the town and county, the Washing.
ton Gazette has issued a handsome "a
page paper. 1t is full of the record oi
Beaufort county's men and a descrip-
tion of the advantages and resources
of town and county. 1t is highly
creditable to the energy and wisdom
of Editor Latham and to the charming
town about which he writes so pleas.
| antly. Five thousand copies of tht
edition will be circulated and we hop<
that it will result in great good to ths
fertile county and attractive town
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OF Special Interest to all our Readers Who
Possess the Boon Of a Baby,

A magazine devoted to the care of in
fants was established in New York a few
years ago. Its plan was to procure the
best writing that money could buy from
physicians. trained nurses, and every one
else who was competent to advise in the
parents who aim at successful training of
their children. An experienced physician
was placed in charge as medical editor.
This magazine. Bd6yh00d by name, has
met with remarkable success the world
over. Its foreign subscription list was suf-
ficiently large for it to establish a London
office last year and begin the issue of a
foreign edition.
Bd1yhood contains important popular
articles on infants diseases departments
of Nursery Problems" in which numer-
Gus questions of subscribers are answered !;
prising descriptions Of recent Inventions
Mothers Parliament" containing inter
esting letters from readers, etc, c. The
CongregGtsonatist recently said Every
issue Of Bdoyhood confirms US in the opin-
ion which we have often expressed, viz,
that it is peerless in its way. 1t is full of
material of the most practical value to all
mothers, and it must be read to be appre-
dated. 1t is doing missionary work Of a
high ORDER
By special arrangements with the pub
fishers. we are enabled this year to make
an unusual offer The regular price of
Bdtyhood is 81 80 a year. We will furnish
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you wish to first see copy of the maga-
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THE STERN DECREE.
1.-THE WAGES OF SIN Is DEATH
The Halter and Life Sentenec-This is
What the Murderer, the Rapeist
and the House breaker May Expect.
[Sufolk Herald. I


The way of the trarsgressor is hard.
Wrong doing is unrelenting in Its con
sequences. Men reap what they SOW.
Sin is prompt paymaster. HemakeS
no discount; he pays in full The
wages of sin is death.
On the night of October 9TH twenty
four buildings, comprising the larger
part of the business portion of the town
of Rocky Mount, Franklin county,
Virginia, were destroyed by fire. It
was supposed at the time to be the
work of an inCendiary. Circumstances
pointed to several individuals. One
colored man made confession. He
said he set fire to the warehouse because
its use was refused to the Mahonites
when they wanted 10 hold a political
mass meeting The fire occurred on
the night the building was used by the
Democrats. The negro man who made
the confession named several other
men and one woman who aided him
in his diabolical work. The trial of
George EARLY, MILAN Wood, Bird
Wood and Mamie Wood has just closed
and the verdict is the extreme penalty
of the law-death. The four colored
incendiaries named above have been
sentenced to be hanged on the sd of
January, 1890.
The Cronin verdict has been an
nounced. Chicago justice has not lost
its backbone. The public is well ac-
quainted with the circumstances of the
deliberate plot by which DR.. Cronin
was assassinated. The consprators
had laid their plan wise and sure, and
the murder was executed in the most
perfect privacy and seclusion. Cough
lin, O'Sullivan and Burke: after a fair
trial, are found guilty and sentenced
to imprisonment for life. Kunze, as
an gets three years in prison.
Each of the accused, as was shown in
the trial, had his own part assigned
him in the bloody drama. O'Sullivan
was to provide secluded house where
in the crime could be committed with
out danger of detection. Coughlin was
to convey DIR. Cronin to the appointed
place to see sick man. Burke was
to deal the fatal blow. But for the
blunder in the disposal of til. body the
crime would probably never have been
brought home to the perpetrators.
These men belonged to a secret order
called the Gamma -Gael-an order fol
the relief of Ireland. DR.. Cronin had
threatened to expose the diversion ol
the funds. Their motto was, " Dead
men tell no tales hence his removal
But crime pays and pays promptly
These daring and dangerous spirits are
reaping their wages and eating the
fruits of their own ways.
Leaks stopped in your roof by use o.
"Mineral Paint" Sold only nv
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Some Timely Moralizing.
TDanyilIe TiulH.1

We have carefully put our last years
file of papers away aud with this issue
we start another. There on the side
Of the wall hangs Our work for twelve
months-all that we said in our paper
during that length of time. Did we
write anything we ought not to have
written hurt anybody's feelings inten-
tionaliy and without cause9 failed
through fear of public opinion to op-
pose any measure which we thought
was wronga fawned upon the powerful
or oppressed the weak3 These are
the questions which an editor asks
himself in looking back upon his years
work. If he can say "no," his con-
science is easy; if he can't say "no,"
he is bound to suffer remorse. Reader,
III beginning a new year, we suggest
the propriety of your reviewing your
last years work. All of us ought to
do it, and profit by it.
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"JEFF. DAVIS is DEAD.n
BY NEEDHAM BRYAN COBB, d. d.

jeff. Davis is dead the telegram read;
Not so the old chieftain is sleeping;
And angels of light in garments of white,
Their watch-fres around him are keep
ing.
No! no not dead! as the telegram said,
Promoted to loftier station!
He stands mid the lights Oh the lcftiest
heights,
With the grandest and best of his
nation.
Though cold he may lie, he can never die
While SOuthrons remember the story
OF the turmoil and strife of his wonderful
life,
Oh his hardships, privations and glory
Now lay him away with Webster and
Clay,
And Calhoun and Jackson and Lee,
Not one of these named was surely more
famed,
Nor nobler, nor better than he.
Let the solemn-toned bell toll the funeral
knell,
OF the noble old hero to-day,
And the true and the brave proceed te
his grave,
And tenderly lay him away.
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Brace Up

You are feeling depressed, your appetite
is poor, you are bothered with headache,
you are fidgety, nervous and generally out
of sorts, and want to brace up. Brace up,
bat not with s,imulants. spring medicines,
or bitters. which have for their basis very
cheap, bad whisky, and which stimulate
you for an hour, and then leave You in
worse condition than before What YOU
want is an Alternative that will purify your
blood, start healthy action of Liver and
Kidneys, restore your vitality, and givere-
newed health and strength. Such medi-
cine you will find in Electric Bitters, and
only so cents bottle at NJ. Dorsey's Drug
store.
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The New York Weekly Post and the Gold
Leaf together one year for $2.75

Thoroughly earnest work is being done
in behalf of tariff reform by the New York
Weekly Post, which holds that the time to
discuss this economic question is noso, rather
than in the heat of a Presidential CAM
paign. Every issue of the paper contains
articles bearing upon SOME phase OF the
ing readers, with answers by the editor, all
tending to facilitate and simplify the dis
cussion. The Post has been adopted by a
number of clubs and other organizations
as the best exponent of the subject, and its
discussions are conducted ia spirit of
fairness which entitle it to the respect of
opponents as we'll as advocates of the re-
vision of war tariff to adapt it to times of
peace. The Post is compiling directory
of active tariff-reform organizations in the
United States, and has already published
one instalment of the list. The Weekly
Post is 12-page paper, and contains all
the features requisite for first class gen
eral family journal. In combination with
the GOLD LEAF, $2.75 per year for the two
papers. Sample copies free on request.
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his words and bury sectionalism, it
will be written of him that athough
dead, he yet speaketh."
:" Star Of the South
To thee all eyes aud hearts were turned,
As round thy path, from plain to sea,
The glory Of thy greatness burned.
Millions were drawn to thee and bound
By minds high mastery, millions hailed
In thee guide star-and ne 'er found
A ray IN thee, that waned or failed.
No nights embrace for thee nor pail,
But such rs mortal hand hath wrought,
Thou livest still in mind-in all
That breathes, or speaks, or lives IN
thought"
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Consumption Surely Cured.

To The EDITOR-Please inform your
readers that have positive remedy for
the above named disease. By its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured. I shall be glad to
send two bottles of my remedy PREE to any
of your readers who have consumption if
they will send me their express and post
Office address. Respectfully,
Ia. SLocUN, NJ. C..
nov. 81 l. 181 Pearl St.. New York