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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-30
Why the Negroes Leave.
National Democrat

The exodus which has begun in
North Carolina does not follow politi-
cal lines, and the colored Congressman
who has gone to his district TO per-
suade his followers to remain among
the pine barrens instead OF emigrating
to the rich lands of Mississippi, ,Arkan-
sas aud Texas will waste his breath.
The negroes are surely not fleeing from
political persecution when they are
represented by "bright mulatto," P"
as Mr.. Cheatham describes himself in
the Congressional Directory. There
were enough negro votes counted in
that district to do the work they were
intended to do although Democratic
officials counted them. What is it
then that drives them to cmigrate
Just what has caused the abandonment
of thousands of farms in New England
what has piled mortgages on New
York and Ohio farms. what is driving
even the farmers Of Illinois and Iowa
to the money-lenders 2 1t is the bur-
den of tariff. 1t is the demand
Of the Government that the ag-
agriculturist shall pay tithes to mo-
nopolies and trusts, to a favorable few.
The Republican tariff wrings the sweat
from the brow of the negro laborer OF
the South as it does that Of the white
laborer of the North. There is nc
color line in a high tariff. All is game
that comes to its net.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-30
RUSSIAN INFLUENZA.

In Russia. where there's dynamite in every
breath they draw,
Where everybody has name that almost
breaks your jaw,
Where they double up the alphabet and
rudPiy break it of.
And ha II tile na mes you eliaiict to iscet re-
eemhIr Whoopinkopf.
''fis there they recently arranged some sh-
fuenzMt fad
That everyhody's got TO have. and got to
have it had.
Already it has found its way t" lands he
yGnd the seas,
It's in Chicaeo-there Kerclew! knew
I'd have to sneeze.
A sneeze is such a stubborn thing-it's
bound to have its say.
The more YOU strive to hush it up the more
it has to say
1t likes to catch you unawareS, at church,
or some such place.
And when you'd look your sweetest. how
it wrinkles up your face!
to propose,
May quite forget his piece the while he
wipes his suecZing nose.
And do your best, It's all in vain to try to
look at ease
When one is coming-there Kerchew
Great heavens. what sneeze.
We'd thank the Russians if they'd keep
their vile explosive stuff.
We people here are not quite up to taking
Russian snuff,
1t isn't kind in foreigners to on our people
spring.
Whose time is 50 much occupied, this hate
full Rushin' thing.
The people all oppose it, and there s
scarcely any doubt
That blow on blow they IL meet 1t till at
last they wipe it out.
1t interferes with everything, and even
lines like these
Are dull when interrupted-there! Ker-
chew Another SneeZe.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-30
THAT AWFUL LA GRIPPE"
HOW YOU MAY KNOW VIII n
YOU'VE GOT
The Detroit i" Free Press" Man
Gives His Experience With
the Russi an Influenza.
detroit Free Press. !

tDOtiot CACO
Oh, yes, I've got it. or rater it has
got me mean this up your nose craze
now going around. am greatly
t;ckled with it; that is my nose is.
They say it is genuine imported ar
ticle, duty paid, and not adulterated,
with the letters blown in. My throat
and language, | am sorry to say, are
highly inhamed. The mucous gam
brinus, l mean membranous, won't
yield to anything may pour down,
and have tried little Of everything,
especially the latter. suffer from
several stitches in my head and the
lack of several in my vest, which were
burst in sneezing. l sneeze at every
thing l see, which l do not think is
altogether proper, and l have such
roaring in my head that the boarder
next room complained of it keeping
him awake. have to get up on
step ladder to talk above a whisper,
and 1 am afraid l will have to breathe
through my ears. l cant shake off
this tired feeling that is upon me more
than usual, perhaps. I cant find any
fellow to shake it off with. When l
sneeze it lifts me off my feet with two
skyrocket force. 1t is worse in the
morning than at night, and at night
than in the morning, and when cough
l don't raise anything but the neigh
bors they say can stopit by twisting
a rope tightly around my neck. What
little do eat distresses me, ,and it does
not always come from the fact that l
have lately got in arrears with the
landlord. My eyes are as watery as
railroad stock, and my neck is exceed
ingly stiff and formal. 1t is hard
matter for me to turn my head and
look across the street WIDEN l meet a
creditor when l am out to let the
house quiet down little. My mind
has been so affected that l have been
nearly on the point of calling in doc
tor, but it has not got quite that bad.
l can't write at night because sneeze
the lamp out, and my nose is SO sore
l will soon have to chloroform it
to blow it. 1 have pains in the breast
every time time lie, which is aggra-
ting, while l am apt to get irritable if
any one calls me liar or anything Of
that sort. This is a veritable case Of
the epizootic.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-30
1T Is A CERTAINTY.
The Steel Works win Surely Locate
in Greensboro.
IGreensbrO Worknian.l


Our people are constantly in1uring
as to whether or not the much talked
of Steel and Iron Works will certainly
be built at or near this CITY,
We have number OF reasons for an
affirmative answer. one of which is
the unabated activity in real estate
transactions, another is that the
persons supposed to represent said
works appear t, he concerned in i
number of these transactions; but in
addition to all this, ,,wi,hin the past
three days we were told by one of
our most intelligent citizens that he
not only knew that the steel and iron
works would be erected, but that he
also knew the exact spot which they
would occupy. We violate no conf
dence in repeating what was thus
learned, which was that the furnaces
would be built on the ascent of the
highlands beyond North Buffalo over
against the cemetery grounds, on
purchase of land extending all the
way from the Cape Fear & Yadkin
Valley Railway to the line of the
Richmond & Danville Railroad, with
view of common access to each road,
the topography of tine country being
such as to favor the construction OF
the intermediate road, while in the
immediate vicinity of the location
chosen, the soil is adopted to the con-
struction of furnaces.
In the absence Of any authoritive
announcement to the contrary, we
publish what was given for matter of
fact. which the reader can feed upon
until such time as fuller developments
shall be made, either contradictory or
confirming. In fact, the public world
seem to be justified in any expressed
anxiety to know what is to be.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-30
Bessemer Iron in North Carolina.


The great steel enterprise at Green's
boro, N. c., has been a surprise to
many people in the North who would
not believe that there was any steel
making iron in the South. Even such
a prominent manufacturer as Mr.. Car.
negie said in speech few days ago
that he understood a little Bessemer
iron had been discovered in the South
He did not seem willing to acknowl
edge that the supply was inexhausti-
bic, in spite of the fact that his own
firm had tried to buy certain Bessemer
ore properties in the South.
The Manufaftrrers' Record has al
ways claimed that the deposits Of fine
Bessemer ores in North Carolina were
too vast and too extensive for the
world to comprehend or believe. AS
a fair illustration of what some Of these
ores are we have gathered some of the
assays made at different times of sam
piles of ores from the "Ore Hill"
property.
Twenty seven assays, made by some
of the best known metallurgists of the
country, show an average assay of
55.4o per cent. OF metallic iron, with
very low average of PHOSPHORUS, more
than one half of the samples being re-
ported as entirely free from phospho-
rous. With these facts there can be
no possible question as to the high
quality of the ores. Mr. S. A. Rich
ards, the we'll known Lake Superior
iron expert, of Chicago, examined the
Ore Hill property. 81 picked up
lean specimen and had it analyzed:'
said he, "to see what its impurities
were. It. is remarkable that this ore
contains neither PHOSPHORUS nor sui
phnr." Mr.. H. B. Nye, who made
the assays for Mr.. Richards, wrote that
it was the only ore he had ever exam
lned that contained absolutely no
PHOSPHORUS. Of a dozen complete
assays at hand, the average percentage
of silicon is only 1.94,the lowest being
40 and the highest 4.96. There are
other deposits of iron in North Caro-
lima which give every evidence Of being
as extensive and rich as this, and after
few more such enterprises as this one
at Greensboro have been organized, the
iron manufacturers of the North will
rub their eyes in wonderment for NOT
having credited the statements Of the
Manufacturers Record.
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Ingalls, Bitter Speech.

John ]. ingalls,, the venomous and
vituperative Senator from Kansas, has
been heard from again. Abiding to
his speech in the Senate last Thursday,
the Manchester Va. Leader ofthe 18th
says:
In the United States Senate yes
terday. Senator ingalls,, Of Kansas,
made two-hour's speech on the Emil
grafton bill, and hurled at the people
of the South lot of diatribes and got
off some Cheap-Jo talk.
This is what he said against the
white people of Mississippi: al would
a thousand fold prefer that every rood
of that State should be occupied by an
African rather than by those who in
habit it,
This insulting expression will cause
not only the white people of Mississip-
pi, but Of the entire South, to hold the
Senator from Kansas in still higher
contempt than they have already been
doing. Such blatherskites as ingalls,
are not the men to take the lead in a
solution of the negro problem that will
be beneficial to both races. He is a
stirrer up of trouble and a bombastic
politician who would rather perpetuate
sectional strife than win the plaudits
of honest, fair-minded men.
He appealed to the South for justice
to the negro, in the face Of indisputa
bic evidence that the Southern people
are the best friends of the negro. Had
he appealed to Kansas for justice, the
people of that State would find justifi-
cation in furnishing a necktie Of hemp
and make him stand on nothing under
the limb Of an oak and kick at the en-
tire United States.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-30
MACHINES ORDERED OUT.
Messrs. W. Duke, Sons & Co., Tele-
graph to For Five Cigarette Ma
chimes to be Shipped to New York.
durham SUM-

A rumor was current upon our
streets last night that Mr.. J. B. Duke
had telegraphed to the Durham firm to
take out five Of their cigarette ma
chimes and ship them to New York
Immediately.
This rumor created great deal OF
comment and conjecture. A SYN re-
porter made inquiries this morning
and found that the report was true.
The machines will probably be shipped
today or as soon as they can be
boxed and gotten ready for the trans
fer.
This morning the four men to each
machine and a number OF the EN-.
ployees engaged in preparing the to-
bacco for these machines were thrown
out of employment.
We regret that Messrs. w. Duke
Sons & Co., have seen ht to take thi
course. 1t is pretty generally con
ceded by many that it is the first steI
towards the removal Of the create
portion of their plant from here t.
New York.
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The Orphan Asylum.
FOxfOrd Day.I

The report of the Oxford Orphan
Asylum, made to the Masonic Grand
Lodge by Superintendent Dixon last
week, calls forth the following from
the Wilmington Messenger:
When Mr.. John H. Mills undertook
to establish home tor orphans at Ok
ford, it really looked like desperate,
foredoomed undertaking. We think
he undertook with $500 to set up
housekeeping at the Masonic College
building and to take in boarders-
helpless orphans-without cent
charge. He struggled on most brave
ly, aided here and there by kind
hearted and benevolent people, The
inhabitants OF the then small village OF
Oxford-numbering some 500
helped all they were able, and con-
stantly. The institution that appeals
SO strongly to sympathetic and phil
anthropic hearts and pockets, grew
with the years under the benignant
and energetic management of Mr..
Mills. He had a very hard fight of it
through many years, and was often
driven to many shifts in order to keep
the benevolent institution going. His
success was pronounced and he did a
very important and merciful work
which should not be forgotten. He
builded we'll as the subsequent growth
of the institution shows. We shall not
refuse to accord to the originator ol
this great scheme Of benevolence all
due praise, and we are gratihed tina,
his own religious denomination, the
Baptists, have SO highly appreciated
his fine qualifications for the work as
to put him in charge of a similar in
stitution under their own patronage.
We have been reminded of this by
the report which says that there are
now 261 orphans at the Asylum, and
that in 1889 the receipts reached the
encouraging sum of $4,000. We
hope before the present decade expires
upon which we have all just entered
there will be 500 orphans cared fol
and the annual receipts will be fully
$4,000. 1t ought SO to be, for ever
now there are probably 1000 children
who ought to be at such home fol
the helpless and parentless.
DIR. Dixon, the present superinten-
dent, is a pronounced success. He
has developed very exceptional gifts
for the place, and it was most fortunate
that upon Mr.. Mills retirement he
was discovered.
Without intending to detract IRON
the credit which Mr.. Mills deserve:
for his great and good work in it!
callow and uncertain days, the present
flourishing condition Of the Oxforc
Orphan Asylum is due to the wisdom
untiring efforts and progressiveness o
Superintendent Dixon. There il
probably not another man in North
Carolina who could fill his Difficult
place with the same success. Since ht
assumed charge the improvement
have been rapid and almost wonder
full. A more admirably conducted
eleemosynary institution does no
exist in the length and breadth Of ou
common country. DR.. Dixon propo
ses, by the introduction of industria
features, to make the Asylum self
sustaining, and ere few more year
elaspe he will succeed.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-30

The Husband Question.
fSunOlk Herald.I

The wife question has been discuss.
ed and rediscussed in all its phases,
but no writer has settled the question.
But the hue wife-North, South, East
and West-has settled the question,
and with the true woman we can af-
ford to let the question rest. The
true woman, as daughter, wife, mother
in all the relations she sustains to
man and home, the world, the church
and society-6lls her place, and the
true man and true husband is satisfied.
But the time has come to regulate
the husband. The New York World
has offered prize of a 'sgold double
eagle for the best recipe for keeping
husband at home evenings" There
is widespread interest in this problem
and the World has received more than
three thousand letters in the compe-
tition for the prize. The best letters
range "from grave to gay, from lively
to severe" The World says they are
hippant, earnest, sarcastic, preachy,
sensible, gushing and pathetic-some
written from the head, some from the
heart-some Gut OF experience and
others evidently only from observation
and speculation. Most Of the letters,
however, agree that the best way 10
keep husband at home evenings is
to make home the pleasantest place
for him, and to preserve as wife the
qualities and the charms that won him
in the maiden.
1t is sadly true too often the wife
neglects after marriage the little atten-
tions and devotions that made the sky
blue over the husbands head and the
ground firm Under his feet when he
was suitor. Let the husband see
that the wife has s'fxed up" to receive
him as the husband as was her wont
when she expected him as a lover; let
him see that the flower in her hair or
on her bosom was placed there for his
eye and for his reception and he will
not spend his evenings away from
home.
''The world we'll tried. the sweetest thing
Is the unclouded welcome of the wife.
But some of the letters above men,
toned most of which are from women,
tell the hard truth that to make home
'the pleasantest place" for some hus-
bands would be to render it spot in
which no good wife could herself be
happy. So much depends upon the
man. Everybody who reads this de-
claration knows what it means. How
great the sacrifices some wives make to
place the husband whose training and
nature gravitate away from all that is
good and noble, refined and gentle.
The letters tell of some husbands
that go to the other extreme and love
their own home too we'll. Complaint
is made that they do not take the wife
out OCCASIONALLY. The good husband
will note and remedy this mild com
plant. These letters published daily
in the Evening World have doubtless
been productive of great good. 1t is
gratifying to add that in most of the
epistles there is found high ideal OF
conjugal fidelity and domestic comfort.
In spite of the pessimists American
home-life is a fair reflex of the general
happiness, peace and purity of the peo-
pie. Husbands, love your wives and
strive to make home happy. Be CON-
panionable and spend your evenings
of home
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-30
ONE ENJOYS

Both the method and results when
Syrup Of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, AMI acts
gently yet promptly Oh the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
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aches and feve's and cures habitual
CONSTIPATION. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy o! lis kind ever pro
duced. pleasing t. the taste and ac-
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its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 5oc
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 FIG syrup co.
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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-30

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Ny brother also was very low with Mala-
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Mr. d. l. Wilcoxson. Of Horse Cave, Ky :,
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lively believes he would have died, had il
not been for Electric Bitters.
The great remedy will ward of. as well
as cure, all Malaria Diseases, and for all
Kidney, Liver and Stomach Disorders stands
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sey's
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-30

Farmers III the Scotland Neck sec
ton will 60 into tobacco culture this
year. There seems to be strong deter
nination to break up the one-crop
system and make something besides
cotton,
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-30
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-30

The Farmers Alliance IS Justly
proud OF its defeat of the jute bag
ging trust, and has begun an active
campaign against the bright cutters
trust on cigarette tobacco.
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Death of Henry S. Num-, Editor OF
the New Berne Journal.

Mr.. Henry Swinson Mum, editor
of the New Berne daily and weekly
Journal, died at his home in that place
of consumption, on the II inst, aged
46 years. The journal says Of the
deceased editor:
TO the world at large the demise Of
Henry Swinson Num- may be as a
falling leaf or withered hower-a usual
incident in the revolution of the wheels
Of time. To us it is a measureless
calamity; the blotting of star from
our firmanent; the tearing of our be-
loved from our arms. Joy has been
turned into weeping, and We cannot
see beyond the cloud! Cannot see
beyond the clouds O, yes we can
His assurance was, "All is we'll :" and
amid the weeping and the wailing
angel harps are sounding as redeem
ed spirit enters the paradise of God.
"All is well!"
As an editor he was patient and for
bearing, hrmly attached to the politi-
cal principles and measures which he
believed to be right, but intensely
courteous and benevolent toward those
who differed with him. He was gen.
erous to opponents in all things, and
no one could have set in more severe
judgment upon his own shortcomings
than himself.
The end has been reached, and he
has gone to that reward vouchsafed to
all who meekly follow the teachings OF
our Lord and Saviour.
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NO. 6.
THURSDAY EVENING:

7;oo-Promise meeting led by Mr..
VIM. REYNOLDS.
7:I5-Address: Bible Authority for
the Sunday-school; Rev. E. A. Yates,
ID. d.
7;45-Address: Step Forward; Mr..
VIM. Reynolds.
Closing talks.
The papers of the State will please
copy, as this is Of great Importance to
the people of the entire State.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-30

The first newspaper advertisement
appeared in 1862.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-30

The first use of locomotive in this
country was in 1919.
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m Nj. PITTnlAN,

IN Nj. PITTMAN,
ATTORNEY AT Law,
HENDERSON, N. c.
Prompt attention to all professional basi.
ness. Practices in the State and Federal
courts.
Refers by permission to Commercial Ma
tional Bank and T.. ID. Laita q Bro, Char
lotte. N. e.; Alfred Williams & Co.. Raleieh,
N. c.; ID. Y. Cooper and las. II. Lassiter,
Henderson, N. C.
Office: Over Jas III. Lassiter Sous store,
nov 5-l G.
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GouRTs:-vance. Franklin, Warren, Gran.
vile, United states Court ut Raleigh, anG
supreme Court of North Carolina
r. REFERENCES: Chief Justice w. n. II.
smith, Hon. Augustus s. Merrimon. Gov.
Daniei Q. Fowle, Hon. T. {. Fuller, Hon. r.
~. Argo, DIR. w. 7. Cheatham, DIR. j. H.
tucker, Mr.. NJ. Dorsey, H. H. Burwei, ESQ.,,
Hon. James Edwin Moore, Ex-Solicitnr Gen
OF U. 3. Samuel F. Phillips
OMce hours u m. to D. m mch.7SI
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