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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1890-12-12
FROM THE OTHER SIDE.
Jacob Holters Letter Proves too be to Much for {
t5t Canton Man.

Jacob Holter's Letter Proves too be to Much for a
Canton Man.
CANTON, Dec. 10.-EDIToR LEADER:
You seem to have respect for all sides and
opinions in your paper and appear to be
willing to let all sides be heard. There
fore ask for little space to present my
side Of the case brought up in the letter
of Jacob Hotter in your last weeks issue.
Mr.. Hotter evidently regards it as appal-
ing for Canton to vote upon itself tax
for water works bonds because he in some
way has gathered the mysterious and
miraculous idea that it is the farmers who
have to pay this tax, and from that stand
point he finds sufficient reason to COM
pare the people Of Canton to those of an
cient Sodom and Gomorrah. Now, de-
sire to say that l have nothing against
Mr.. Hotter or any of his fellow craftsmen
but he strikes at an exceedingly tender
spot when he under takes to slander the
virtues of the people of Canton-not the
men alone, but our wives and our sons
and our daughters. 1t is well known
that the sin for which the cities of Sod
ON and Gomorrah was punished was
the sin against the seventh command
ment and can assure Mr.. Hotter or any
one else that we here in Canton, if we are
a set of thieves and robbers Mr.. Hol-
ters estimation at least-I can assure
him that for virtue and sobriety we can
produce as good a lot of men and" women
in Canton as he can rake up in any part
Of the United States his own nelghbor-
hood in Canton township not excluded.
AS for the water works tax, Mr.. Hol-
tcr's idea that the farmers have to pay
this is as far-fetched as many other ar
guments we have heard on economic
questions lately. His chief complaint is
that the people in town produce nothing.
Very well, but suppose they did. Sup
pose every man in this city and in every
other city in the United States would go
into the producing business. Suppose
they would close up their banks, their
law Offices their stores and. their shops,
and go to farming. Where would Mr..
Hotter be when he wanted to sell his
wheat, or his hogs, or his cattle or any
thing he may produce? Yes, and last but
not least, where would he be when he
wanted to buy clothing, dry goods, boots
and shoes or other necessary articles-on
tinee9 AS the boys say 'He would be
badly left, for the prices for his pro-
duce would be lower even than they now
are, because of a vast increase in COM
petition caused by over-prcduction. So
you see, Mr.. Editor. that the people who
live in town, and vote water works taxes,
and school house bonds, and sell dry
goods. and loan money, even though they
produce nothing, they are not standing in
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1890-12-12
HOW to Bui1d am Ice uou.e.

Now is the time to lay plans, if not
the timbers, Of an ice house, says Ameri-
can Agriculturist. One Of the chief
points to consider is location with special
reference to good drainage. A side hill
is preferable, and it is always best to lay
a tile drain around the building three
feet OF so from the walls. The best fill
ing is tanbark or sawdust. and for these a
six-inch wall is sufficient, the material
being put in as the boards are added, be-
ginning at the bottom. Ventilation must
be provided for by openings at the gables
or extending as a chimney through the
roof. Cut the blocks of ice evenly, pack
closely and cover upon sides and top
with six inches of sawdust. When straw
is used the covering must be thicker.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1890-12-12

''That featherhead who has been
laughing at the new air ship about which
we have just heard may yet live to take
voyage in it, is the latest prophecy as
to air navigation.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1890-12-12
Success In wheat Cuiture.

. i .
In a bulletin sent out from the Indiana
experiment. station it is reported that
careful experiment and observation en-
phasize the Importance of attention to
the following where success in wheat
culture is desired:
1. A fertile, well drained soil. 2. Ro-
tation Of crop, with stable manure, or in
place of the latter green manunng, with
commercial fertilizers that show good
results. 8. EARLY, thorough preparation
of the seed bed. 4. a hardy, prolific
variety of wheat, suited to the soil and
climate. S. A liberal quantity of seed,
deposited evenly and not too deep in the
soil. 6. Sound, plump seed, absolutely
free from all impurities, including the
Invisible spores sor germs Of black and
sinking smut.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1890-12-12

Congress has not yet made any ar
rangement for the seating of a delegate
from Alaska, yet that enterprising young
territory has her delegate already elect
ed and waiting, expecting all the time
when he will be called.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-22
aCo-OneratiOrl.

Let the farmers movement advance
with sure and steady strides! Let it
avoid the pitfalls that ever beset all eff
forts at popular cohesion, learning wis
dom by experience, gaining knowledge
by inquiry. and developing conservatism
with the achievement of power.
Cooperation can accomplish wonders
for our farmers in finance, politics, So
ciety. education-in everything that goes
to make farm life prosperous and happy.
The spirit of cooperation is the funda-
mental motor of the farmers movement,
though this fact as yet is but family re-
allied. But the benefits of cooperation
will not result from magic. They will
come only through years of earnest per-
sistence, intelligently concentrated and
directed in a brlsinesslike manner
American Agriculturist.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-22
Horse and Man.

In starting, Gen. Booth, of the Saliva
ton Army. lays down the ideal at which
society should aim. This is explained as
the ideal of the London cab horse. The
cab horse has its charter with two points,
work is found for it with food and lodg-
ing sufficient to enable it to get through
its daily task; that is the first. The sec
ond is that when it falls down, whether
it be by its own fault or by mischance.
OF by the fault of others, it is helped -
again-all questions as to who was re-
sponsible for it's fall being deferred until
it is set upon its feet again.
Mr.. Carlyle long ago remarked that
the four footed worker has already got
all that this two handed one is clamor-
ing for: There are not many horses in
England able and willing to work which
have not due food and lodging and go
about sleek coated. satisfied in heart. y
You say it is impossible; but, said Car
lyle, The human brain, looking at these
sleek English horses, refuses to believe
such irnpossibility for Englishmen.
Gen. Booth claims the extension to
every human being of the two points of
the cab horse charter.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-22

the Storrs school and some action as to
the original package decision of the
United States supreme court.
Resolutions were recommended for
consideration by town leagues favoring
distinct political action, the following
objects to be secured: State insurance
against loss by fire or lightning; choice
of United States senator's by an electoral
body in each state: provision by con-
gress (under constitutional amend
ment) to enact such laws us may he
necessary in order to make it easily pos
sible for any one desiring it to own and
occupy sufficient land from which to
gain livelihood by obliging the largest
landholders. when necessary to this end,
to sell enough of their land for that pur-
pose on easy terms and at a price not ex-
ceeding it's assessed value for taxation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-22
Hours of British Golfers.

An analysis of Il return of the hours
worked at collieries, made for the
Miners Federation of Great Britain by
the check weighers and lodge secretaries
in the federated districts. gives very
clear view of what is involved in the
demand for a working day of eight hours
from bank to bank. The return gives
particulars of 679 collieries, employing
1873, 720 men underground. The general
average time worked at the face by the
golfers is 8 hours 25l minutes per day:
boys, s hours 4S minutes per day, and
day laborers, hours 40 minutes. The
average time spent in travelling Under
ground is 80 minutes daily. The gen.
-ral net average reduction in the length
of the working day, if the eight hours
(miners) bill becomes law, will be 60
minutes, or 12i per cent.-London Labor
World.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-22
The Corn nusker All Right.

Mr.. Willetts, the late Peoples party
candidate for the governorship of Kan
sas, says that he has not paid much at
tention to politics since the election be-
cause he has been busy husking corn.
There are non-producers and ease low
ing urbans who will SEE. in the Willetts
corn huslling a joke on the Alliance in
politics. These gentlemen did not come
in direct contact with the campaign in
Kansas where the corn huskers met
lawyers and politicians on the stump
and beat them as squarely in debate as
they afterward did at the polls.
In the history of this or any other
country there has never been a great
popular movement in which knowledge
and intellectual force have been so fully
in command The corn husker is all
ght-Kansas City Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-22
What Is Possible.

The Republican organization is large
ly under the control, in its national
policy, of capitalist class, and it is
quite possible that the Democratic or
ganization is more or less tainted with
the same defect. If, therefore, a national
party which included the farmers and
the labor organizations were to be form.
ed, it is not impossible that, by appeal
ing to the anti-capitalist sentiment of the
country, it could control for while both
state and national elections, unless it de-
feated its own ends by the support of ut
terly absurd and untenable economic
propositions Herald
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-22

Many farmers meetings and organiza-
lions have resolved" in favor of the
election of United States senators by a
direct vote of the people. The Farmers
Mutual Benefit association, of Illinois,
goes step further and advocates the
81 ,ction of vice president and United
Safes judges by the people. Why not?
--R1ral New Yorker.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-22
Bucklen's Arnica SalYe.

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Bruises. Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fc-
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Ii is guaranteed TO give perfect satisfac-
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-22
The Connecticut League.

The Connecticut Farmers league at
its first annual meeting at Hartford,
Dec. .. adopted resolutions favoring ad.
ditional oleomargarine legislation, con-
centration of experiment station work at
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-12-04
Skillful Grating,

A remarkable surgical operation has
been performed in the Charity Hospit-
al, New York, which is no less than
an attempt to graft the bone of dog
to the leg of a boy. The boy, whose
name is Johnny Gethius, has suffered
since his birth with weak and mall
formed leg which was surely making
him cripple for life. He consulted a
large number of surgeons at different
times and had seven operations per-
formed. Finally, he called upon DIR.
A. NJ. Phelps, of the New York Uni
versity, who conceived the idea ofreplac-
ing the diseased bone with the healthy
bone of dog. Accordingly the oper-
alton was performed, but whether it
will prove successful or not is as yet
unknown. The dogs bone is not yet
entirely severed from him, in order to
keep it alive until grated to the boy.
The dog is encased in plaster of Paris
and can only move his head and wag
his tail.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-12-04

Additional train leaves Oxford daily ex-
cept Sunday IL 90 a m., arrive Henderson
Il o5 p m, returning leave Henderson 10
p m, daily except Sunday, arrive Oxford
5 Is p m
No 50, leaving Goldsboro 20 m and
Raleigh IS p m daily, makes connection
at Durham with No. 19. leaving at 90 p m
daily. except Sunday for Oxford, Hender-
son and all points on 0. 4 H., o. & Z. and
&. & NJ. roads.
Passenger coaches run through between
West Point and Raleigh, via Keysville, on
Nos. "a and 102, and IS and 10S.
= Nos. 81 and SO connect at Richmond from
? and to West Point and Baltimore daily ex-
cept Sunday,
trains to and from Morehead City and Will
nington, and at Selma to and from Fayette-
Vile
No: 50 connects at Greensboro for Fay
stteville.
No 50 connects at Selma for Wilson. NC,
Nos. 80 and 81 make close connection at
University Station with trains to and from
Chapel Hill. except Sundays.
SLEEPING-CAR SERVICE.
On trains so and 81, Pullman Buff
fet Sleeper between Atlanta and New
York, Danville and Augusta and Green's
boro, via Asheville to Morristown, Tenn.
On 81 and 53, Pullman Buffet Sleeper
between Washington and New Orleans via
AUutgOuleES. anu UclWCSH w dSuiHetOu
and Birmingham, Richmond and Green's
h0ro, Raleigh and Greensboro and between
Washington and Augusta. and Pullman
Buffet Sfeepers between Washington and
Asheville and Hot Springs.
Through tickets on sale at pri ncipal
stations to all points.
For rates, local and through time tables,
apply to any agent of the company, or to
SOL HAAS, JAS. l.. TAYLOR,
Traffic Manager. Gem. Pass. Agent
W. a TURK,
Div. Pass. Agent,
Raleigh n c.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-12-04
HENDERSON, No THURSDAY, DECEMBER

in their nature to give way to any
others until they are finally and salts
factorily disposed of. With all of
these Mr.. Cleveland is so closely con-
nected by his public services and by
the strong ties of confidence which his
character and high patriotism have
created that his denomination is almost
essential to Democratic success. New
York is no longer absolutely necessary
to the Democratic party, and even if
Hill, Dana and their associates should
again attempt to knife him as they did
in 1888 their wrath will prove harm
less and impotent. The country de-
mands Cleveland, aud it will have
him, and the spoilsmen and the politi
cal pothunters had better get out OF
the way, if they do not want to get
hurt.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-12-04

of the Southern States have their sup
plies of iron ore, coal and limestone at
their doors. Consequently, in the i'm
portant item of transportation alone
they have great advantage over their
competitors in Pennsylvania and other
Northern and Western States, whose
freight bills are particularly heavy.
And further, the Southern iron mas
tiers have generally water transporta-
tion of the most perfect kind which
has the beneficial effect of keeping
down railroad rates. Hence whilst
new furnaces are rapidly being blown
in in the South, despite declining
prices, many of the Pennsylvania fur
naces are lying idle in preference to
selling their products without a mar
gin of profit or at actual loss.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-12-04
durham Globe. |

Some of the papers of the State are
now talking about Yankees, and the
Wilson AdOanee wants permission of
the Globe to call Western and North
ern men Yankees, but it wants at the
same time to invite them to North
Carolina to live. The Globe wants to
say this about the subject while it is
being discussed and while its name is
being used:
During the war, when passion
blind and narrow and selhsh-on both
sides swayed the people, an epithet
which still will cause the blood to boil
in some of the Northern men was fas-
tened to the Union soldier. The term
Yankee originated, we believe, some
time ago-a long time ago, up in the
pine woods of the New England States
long about the time that Yankee
Doodle went to town on a load of
switches and subsequently damned the
English, but the war title is the ac-
ceptance these days. And this is why,
when the South wants the people from
all over the world to come here to To-
cate, the Globe thinks that Jim crow
newspapers should hold their yawp
concerning Yankees-and what the
name carries with it, The Northern
man or the Western man who falls in
upon this country to live, says nothing
about the " Johnny Rebs;'' he says
nothing that he might say and which
would be distasteful. The war is over
and should be forgotten, SO far as our
industrial interests are concerned.
What we want to come here not
Yankees-but MEN. The word it
simple, but it carries all the weight
that is necessary with it. Let men of
brain and mucles and wealth-no mat
ter about their religion or politics come
among us; let them become citizens of
the Old North State, and let we fel-
lows already here welcome them.
We need them to help us develop
our mineral deposits !; to open up rich
agricultural land which has never been
touched by plow; to set wheels in
motion which shall fashion our forests
into articles of use; to help and aid in
thousand ways to make this what it
should be-the greatest and grandest
country under the sun. And so the
Globe believes that any name that
might by some be considered distaste-
tul which might cause the stranger to
feel that he was not welcome, should
be dropped out of the catalogue, and
other words, meaning more, adopted.
This country is only lacking more
men and women-lacking wealth to
develop, and then she will take no
back seat for any state or section in
the broad union. She has the resources,
she has climate, she has society-all in
fact, except the men and money to de-
velop. So let us hold our yawps abou,
Yankees and Yankeedom-let US pre-
sent our invitation and make it gener.
al to men and women over all the
world to come and live among us.
Those North and West would be
more acceptable now, but let them
come from the four quarters of the
globe, and let US ask them no ques
tions.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-12-04
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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-12-04
WHICH WILL YOU TAKE ?

Entering the Office Of a we'll known
merchant lifted my eyes and found
myselfconfronted with the brightest and
most thrilling temperance lecture ]
ever steered myselfagainst in the whole
course of my life. 1t was an inscrip-
ton marked with a pen on the back
of a postal card nailed to the desk,
The inscription read as follows
wHICH7
WIFE OR wHISKEY?
THE BABES OR THE BOTTLE?
HOME OR HELLp
"Where did you get that, and what
did you nail it up there for2" l asked
the merchant.
81 wrote that myself and nailed it
up there" was his reply, "and l will
tell you the story of that card. Some
time ago l found myself falling in the
drinking habit. I would run out once
in awhile with customer or at the
invitation Of travelling men. or ON
every slight occasion that offered. 1
soon found that my business faculties
were becoming dulled, that my stom-
ach was continually iout of sorts, my
appetite failing, and constant craving
for alcoholic stimulant, becoming
dominant. I saw tears in the eyes of
my wife, wonder depicted on the faces
of my children and then l took long
look ahead.
"One day sat down at this desk
and half unconsciously wrote the in
scription on this card. On looking at
it upon its completion, its awful reve-
lation burst upon me like a flash. /
nailed it up there and read it over a
hundred times that afternoon. That
night | went home sober, and have
not touched a drop of intoxicating
liquor since. You see how startling is
its ALTERATION. Now / have no liter
ary proclivities and regard that card
as an inspiration. 1t speaks out three
solemn warnings every time look at
it. The first is voice from the altar,
the second from the cradle, and the
third and last from"
Here my friends earnestness deep
ened into a solemn shaking of the
head and with that he resumed his
work.
do not think I violate his conf
dence by repeating the story of that
card. In fact, if it should lead to the
writing of similar cards to adorn other
desks l think he will be immeasurably
gratified.-Safnrday Evening CALL
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-12-04
A Safe Investment

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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-12-04

Enterprise is the life of a commu-
nifty. Take two cities and contrast
them, and it will be found, other
things being equal, that the city that is
most enterprising is most prosperous. But
enterprise must be regulated. Itmustbe
directed with wisdom and prosecuted
with energy. Energy will make a
busy people, but it takes the combina-
ton of energy and wisdom to make a
a business people.-New Be,ne Jour-
naL
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-12-04

No one doubts that Dr. Sage's Catarrh
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