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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-12-24

GLOW foolish it is, Aunt Sadie, for
mamma to try and make me believe
that Santa Claus comes down the
chimney and fills my stockings. sup
pose it worked all right when you were
d little girl, but it is such q chestnut
now! However, it pleases mamma, SO
I don't let on that now."-Life.
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can auction almost at Christmas
Eve. Why, it seems fairly barbarous,
thought Mr.. Roman, Indignantly, as
he entered what had been the pleasant
home of his friend Tom, and was SO
soon to be left desolatc under the hands
of the auctloneer.
1t was early IN the day, but already
the house was filled with neighbors
who had come from miles around to
attend the sale and as Mr.. Roman
moved among them his ears were con-
stantly greeted with remarks on the
foolishness of "signin for people.
Sick at heart, he entered the little
kitchen back of the house, which was
as yet unoccupied, save by Mrs. Blake S
faithful old colored cook, Aunt Nancy.
She was sitting on a split-bottomed
chair, rocking herself to and fro, and
occasionally wiping her eyes with her
blue checked apron.
"Where is your mistress, auntie -
Mr.. Roman asked.
There was a kindly ring in his
voice that unlocked the old woman's
burdened heart, and she sobbed aloud
as she answered
ooh, massa, she done took de
chilluns, an gon' to her cousins Miss
Rachel. 1t jest broke my po' ole
heart to see 'em go. But Miss Blake
say she couldn't stand it here, an dey
have to go soon sure. Po' things
only de good Lord know what's to
come of dem she say"
ooh, massa, hits awful hard on
Missis, dis is. She went all over de
house dis mornin' tryin' 10 say good
bye to it. De little ones a-clinin' to
her KEEP pickin' up things. Mamma,
dcy won't take my wockin' horse, will
dey?" Mamma, will de nauCtion man
Diet my little chair p dey ask. Missis
tried to hol back de tears an speak
Chirk to dem chilluns, but when she
come to her own room she say you
stay out here, darlings; mamma wants
to 90 in here alone | took de chill
luns, but presently | peek in de room,
an dare was my po' missis, a kneelin'
tore massa's big arm chair, wild her
head a lynn on de big family Bible
dat she'd put on de chair, she had her
arms around dat, an she was cryin'
softly.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-12-24

MEN KNOW THAT TO SECURE PAT
ronage people must first know where
they are and what they are doing. 1t is
not enough for q professional man to
tn thoroughly prepare himself for the prac-
tice of his profession, and then shut him.
self up in back room and not acquaint
the public with the fact. Neither will q
large and well assorted stock of goods,
bought never SO reasonably and offered
at bargains unheard of, avail the mer-
chant anything if he keeps the secret to
himself. He must make the matter pub
lic-tell the story to anxious buyers and
thus make himself heard and seen and
felt. This may be done in varions ways,
but the best, most direct and effective
method Of advertising il through the
medium Of live, readable and widely
circulated newspaper. The success Of
the most liberal and persistent adver-
Users In every branch d business abun-
dainty shows this.
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wooden shoes = Krls Krinxle.

wooden shoes - Kris Krin&ie
Al over Germany Christmas IS cele-
hated with much ocrcmony. and hum
dreds OF little wooden shoes wait Tor
Kris Kriavle's coming. There is moth
ing that elm IS SO tenaciously to the
childish mind Us the advent of Christ
mas.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-12-24

The Boston Girls Christmas.
She tossed her Christmas toys aside,
Her face with disappointment frowning
'tOh, dearl'' the litrlemaiden sighed.
u did 80 want another Browning"
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! I! -;t>H FOR CdRloTMAS.

V :or merry
Christmas With
its mistletoe and
holly
And royal feasts Of
goo d. C b e e r
when everyone is
Jolly;
Hurrah for good
kri s s Kringie,
too, who brings
his S e i g b Of
treasures
To fill the chill
dren's stockings
with such over
Slowing meas
ures.
-
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-12-24
ST. NICK SOLILOOTIZES.

Ii You want the latest novelties in Fine
Dress Goods you will find them at
noy5 WATKINS.
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"Old Mr.. Brown, sab; he got power
full rich on dat farm. Yo'see, sab, hits
got coal-mine It. Oh, yes, sab, he's
rich
"And Tom mortgaged that land to
save my old home" thought Mr.. Ro-
main, sorrowfully. 81 wonder if it
could be that the check sent from En-
gland did not get to him in time? In
any case he's dead, and Nellie and the
children penniless, and" glancing at
the letter again---"a legacy to me -
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THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

Il don't expect ter git nothin'. gents:
in it; but jest hang it up because !
think it's de proper thing ter encourage
and keep up desc old and time honored
customs Puck
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-12-24
SOC. -. oE...~

How Humorist Secured Useful Presen;
Tor Ii il Wife,
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-12-24

organization found was the Ladies'
. Sewing, Reaping, Gossiping and Send
ing Socks to the Heather society
Which Heathen society they sent then
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-08-07
Grimes Traced Hereditary Infuenc,

Crimes Traced Hereditary Influence.
In general way it has been found
that criminals customarily exhibit alb
normalities of physical structure, which
it is sought to classify for the purpose
Of studying to better advantage the
natural history of the wicked. Hitherto
it has been supposed that the bad man
was made such chiefly by his unfortu-
nate environment in youth, with posi-
bly, tinge of influence, innate and in
herited; but science seeks to prove that
the criminal is born such, though
doubtless matured by unhealthy moral
conditions.
Criminal anthropology" therefore is
the study of the being who, in conse-
quence of physical conformation, hered-
itary faint and surroundings of vice
yields to temptation and begins career
of crime. AS for the influence of hered-
ity in this matter better reference can
not be made than to the case of the
Jukes, SO Infamous in history.
In seventy-five years the descendants
of a single pair, 200 persons-al be-
came devoted to a life of crime. 1t has
been estimated that over 81, $50, 600 of
loss was caused by them, without tax,
ing into account the entailment of pau
perism and crime upon subsequent gen
erations. :. Washington Star.
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A Street Romance.

Saturday morning young girl dressed
in a gray gown leaned over the railing
on the Main street canal bridge. She
leaned backward and whether she was
weary of life or weary of standing no
one knows, for Immediately there was
a rotation of patent leather boot, gray
gown, with white skirts and down,
down, over and over rolled the girl
A gallant was near her and jumped
over the railing after her By mir
acle the girl had lodged six feet down
on jutting ledge of the canal wall a
dozen feet above the canal level. 1t
was full tide in the canal and swift
current under the dark bridge.
Rain was falling and splashing into
the dismal depths, and there the girl
lay, three inches from the brink, either
partially stunned or partially indiffer-
ent. A strong hand was on her arm in
q moment, and she was pulled back up
to the street level. She stood a mo-
ment or two by the railing before she
climbed back to the sidewalk, and as
she finally dragged herself over she
dropped her hand into the coat pocket
of the young man, and with a curious
look said, IL guess I'll go home with
you" II guess you BETTER" was the
reply, and of they went.-Lewiston
(Me.) Journal.
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yFHEHETH
A DEclpUoUs MAN.
He Sheds Hts Skin and Gets New Outhl
Of Finger and Toe Nails Every July.

He Sheds His Skin and Gets New OUTFIT
OF Finger and Toe Nails Every July.
AT recent meeting OF the Chicago Med
ical society DR., j. Frank reported case
where man every July shed his .Sin He
was taken with feverish tremors, increas-
Ing almost to paroxysms. He undressed,
lay down, and within few minutes the
skin OF the chest began to turn red. The
redness rapidly extended over the entire
skin, and the feverish tremors continued
uninterrupted for about twelve hours.
Then he arose, dressed and walked about
IN perfect health. The skin now COM
menced to peel, and ten hours. later 1t be-
gan to come of in great patches. From the
arms and legs 1t could be pulled of exactly
like gloves or stockings AS the old skin
came away a new epidermis, as soft and
pink as baby's, was revealed. This new
skin was very sensitive; the patient had to
wear sofrened gloves and moccasins for
about week. After the old cuticle had
been entirely removed the finger and toe
nails began to drop off-new nails literally
crowding them out Finally the change
was complete: the man had a new skin and
new outfit of nails, and was ready to re-
turn to the mines. The shedding began in
his first year and required every July there
after. The New York Medical Record is
quoted as authority for the. foregoing
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WSHOP
THE EVIL REPvrE OF THE CAT.


superstitions and Proverbs Of Various
Nations Regarding This Animal.
The evil repute OF the cat still clings to
him says The Illustrated American. A
Finisterre cat which has served nine mas
ters in succession Is believed to have the
right Of carrying off the soul of the ninth
to hell In Upper Brittany there are some
times seen enormous cats engaged in hold
ing a meeting. II any one presumes to in.
trude upon their presence, they surround
and tease him for a time. Then long
needle Is driven into his heart and he is
dismissed. Hypochondria ensues, and he
slowly wastes away. A black tomcat, says
Russian proverb, at the end Of seven
years becomes devil A Breton farmer,
who neglected to take the usual precaution
Of putting his tomcat to death before it
completed its seventh year, was found dead
in bed one morning with his throat ter
ribly torn. +u9 -t-t
Suspicion fell upon innocent persons,
who were likely to be hanged on circum-
stantial evidence. Luckily, boy observed
that the cat of the house was always
watching the corpse with eyes that blazed
with rage So he fastened to the dead
mans arm string, the end of which he
dropped through the window into the
yard. Then he told the police to watch
the body secretly, while he pulled the
string. They did so. When the boy gave
the string a pull, the corpse's arm jerked
The cat imagined its master had revived
With one bound it sprang upon the bed
and furiously tore away at the corpse's
wounded neck. Whereupon it was con-
demned to be burned alive and the sus-
pected persons were set free.
1t is believed that cats viciousness de.
ponds to great degree upon the length Of
its tail. If the end of its tail be cut off it is
unable to take part in the witches sabbath.
When Walloon maiden wishes to refuse a
sutton with contumely she gives him a cat
and tells him to count its hairs. 1t is gen.
orally believed in France that a bachelor
who treads on cats tail will find no
woman to marry him till full year has
passed by. In Germany, in England and
in France many religious fete of the Mid
die Ages eliminated in pitching cat of q
height or into bonfire. Indeed, as re-
Gently as 1878 decree was issued at Ypres,
in Flanders, forbidding the throwing of a
cat off high tower in commemoration Of
q Christian festival. Fontenelle told Mon
crif that he had been brought up to believe
that not single cat could be found in
town on the eve of St. Johns because they
all wenton that day to the witches sabbath.
It is readily Ineligible from this why the
people on that day threw into the fire all
cats that were foolish enough to be caught.
They actually believed that in doing so
they were Kidding the country OF sorcerers.
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Any Article that has out
lived % years of competition
and imitation, and sells more
and more each year, must
have merit. Dobbins' Elec-
trio Soap, first made in 1869,
is lust that article. Those
who use it each week, land
their name is legion, save
clothes and strength, and let
soap do the work. All that
we can say as to its merits,
pales into nothingness, before
the story it will tell, Itself, OF
its own perfect purity and
quality, if you will give it one
trial. Ask your grocer for it.
He has it, or will get it. Try
it next Monday.
=. There are many imitation h,aiiia
NJ 2 Electric Soaps in which eiectlc,
IS the orpay paS y a No psf R RSs9&s
and Electro Magics are fraudulent imita-
tons. Ask for Dobbins Electric, see that
our name Is on every wrapper, and II any
order ours,~se@d It back 70 hin:
philadelphia, Pa.
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A Poets Good Appetite.

Heinrich Heine, when student at
Gottingen, was invited with fellow
student to take supper with Professor
Hugo and his hospitable wife, The
fare was simple and not too plentiful,
but one dish was viewed with conscious
pride by the hostess, who evidently
felt that nothing could be better for the
occasion; this was small plate con-
tanning four fat sausages, with tempt
ing gravy and furnishings of green.
The choice dish was passed first to
Heine, who was in the full tide of a
long and animated discourse, setting
forth his opinions on some question
which had been started by the profess
sor.
Instead of serving himself to one sau-
sage, and allowing the dish to proceed
on it's way to the others who were eager
ly expecting it, he seized the plate,
placed it before him, and proceeded to
dispose of one sausage after another,
not neglecting the gravy either, until
the furnishings alone remained to show
the havoc he had made.
Coming to the end of his speech at
about the same time that he finished the
last sausage, he looked at the gloomy
faces about him, then at the empty
dish, discovered what had been the
meaning of certain spasmodic attempts
on the part of Professor Hugo and his
distracted spouse to interrupt his flow
of language, and of course made pro-
fuse apologies.
But he was never invited to that
house for supper again-the chance of
being left supperless themselves was too
great for his hosts to risk it a second
time !-Youth's Companion.
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A Little Girl with Two Faces.

heard a strange thing the other day,
says writer in The Examiner. It was Of
little girl who had two faces. When she
is dressed up in her best clothes, when some
friends are expected to come to tea, or
when she is going out with her mother to
call on some neighbors, she looks so bright
and sweet and good that you would like to
kiss her. With nice white dress on, and
perhaps blue sash and pretty little shoes,
she expects her mothers friends will say:
What little darlingP' or, "What sweet,
face, let me kiss itp And 80 she always
has a nice smile on her face, and when she
is spoken to she says, eyes, ma'am," "No,
ma'am," when she ought, and "Thank
you," very sweetly when anything is
given her.
But, do you know, when she is alone
with her mother and no company is ex-
pected, she does not look at all like the
same little girl. If she cannot have what
she would like, or do just what she wishes,
she will pout and scream and cry, and no
one would ever think of kissing her then.
also know little girl who has only one
face, which is always as sweet as a peach,
and never sweeter than when she is at
home and her mother wants her to be as
useful as she can and help her think
need scarcely ask you which of these little
girls you like best. or which of them you
would most like to resemble.
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Fz ;||p &! 81
A DAY IN AN ENGLISH HOUSEHOLD
The Ideal of Comfort Is Good Service.
Even If the Table Be Less Plentiful.

The Ideal of Comfort Is Good Service,
Even If the Table Be Less Plentiful.
In an article on the English middle
classes Harper's Bazaar gives some very en-
Pertaining details about the manners and
daily customs of an English household of
the upper middle class, among them the
following:
An American woman wonders when she
learns how many servants are needed to
run such household. The cook must
have her one or more Kitchen maids, there
must be couple of footmen and parlor
maid, two or three chambermaids and a
lady's maid, and in large houses this would
seem but a small staff.
Visiting hours are so arranged that the
Englishwoman has her morning practical
~ to herself. She is we'll fortified for the
day She had her cup of tea before getting
up. Then at 9 came breakfast with her
husband and children-an informal meal,
with no servants in the room. At this she
drank another cup of tea, ate her rasher Of
bacon and toast and finished with marina
A lade. The menu is bacon and marmalade
N winter and summer, spring and autumn
IN Hot cakes or rolls are delicacies never seen
Won an English breakfast table. After the
Mnterview with the cook the lady of the
Nan count upon no one, except perhaps an
intimate friend, calling before or in the
afternoon, so that it is rarely she is inter
rupted for formal social duties.
Luncheon is a very important function,
from which children are banished to the
nursery. 1t might be called more correctly
"a dinner-hot joint and vegetables, a pud-
ding, cheese and fruit.
n Shopping hours are much the same as
with u.s. Between 10 and the shops are
4most crowded. The most popular time of
fall, however, is from to 5. And then, if
luncheon must be had away from home, it
is in the genuine English restaurant-in
the Holborn or the Criterion or the St.
James-it is eaten. Not for the British
middle class women are the pleasant little
French and Italian haunts.
At o'clock tea is served. 1t is brought
up to the drawing room on a tray, and is
the most informal and delightful of all Eng
lish meals. Thin slices of bread and butter
and cake-homemade, if possible-are eaten
with it, and on day Eat home' it answers
as an excellent substitute for conversation.
After tea it is time to dress for Z, 1880 or
o'clock dinner.
Dinner, the master of the house now be-
ing at home, is very formal affair, far
more so than it is with us. The manner in
which it is served is of more account than
the dishes of which it consists. Our stand
by, soup, you need never expect to get very
good, if you getit at all. Upon the inevita-
Bile joint and the no less inevitable tart you
can as surely count. With dinner the day
ends. The hours that remain are devoted
to amusement. whether that means sitting
around the fire in the embarrassed silence,
broken by spasmodic 'aohs" that in Eng
land is called talking; or going to the thea
ter, where stalls and balcony are usually
filed by the wealthy upper" middle class.
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Guardian Notice.

CTATE OF VT, Bradford District, IS,
~ At probate court held at Thetord within and fo
said district the 18TH day of July, A. D., 1891.
Athena p Cooke guardian Of Daniel Clinton Cooke
and Amah B. Cooke, minor children, makes application
to said for license sell the following described
real estate Of her said wards witt al their interest
all real estate in Vermont, representing that the sale
thereof for the purpose Of putting the proceeds of such
estate would be beneficial to said wards Whereupor
it is ordered by said that said application be
referred to session thereof /, be held at Bradford
in said district the nth day Of Aug A. d. 1891, fol
hearing and decision thereon and is further ordered that
all persons interested be notified hereof by publication
Of notice Of said application and order thereon three
weeks successfully in the United Opinion newspaper
neighborhood Of those interested before said time Of
hearing that they may appear said time and place
and if they see cause object thereto.
By the Court-Attest,
80 S. M. GLEASON, Judge.
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Seaside Visitors and Damp Beds.

The mischief wrought by damp beds un.
fortunately does not usually react upon its
needless originators. The sole sufferer is
the luckless occupant who buries himself
within the chill of half dried bedclothes
An instance in which the injured party ap-
pealed successfully to the law for damages
is related by the English Lancet, which
says: 1.-THE plaintiff, who had for several
days occupied room at seaside resort,
was told that the apartment was let and
he must accept another. Here the trouble
began. Illness with its expenses followed,
and the final cost to the too unceremonious
host was considerable. An action SO unu
sual and verdict so consonant with sani
tary principles deserve to be kept in re-
membranes; however, the maxim which
inculcates prevention is still the BEST Not
even a money fine will always atone for
the injury done by avoidable illness. Let
the traveller, however weary and inclined
to sleep, first be careful that his bed is dry.
In any case of doubt change of bedding
should be insisted on, and the further pre-
caution of sleeping between blankets rather
than sheets is in such cases only rational"
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Would and Should.

A pupil in a quiet boarding school in
Pennsylvania displayed some time since no
small degree of industry in collecting au-
tographs of distinguished persons. James
Russell Lowell was one of the number adj
dressed The address to him was in sub
stance, ~ would be very much obliged for
your autograph" The response contained
lesson that many besides the ambitious
pupil have not learned: "Pray do not say
hereafter. 1 would be obliged If you
would be obliged, be obliged and be done
with it. Say, 4 should be Obliged and
oblige, yours truly, James Russell Lowell"
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A pYNsoN BINDING OF 1899.

terials possible being generally adopted
This order, on the invention and use Of
movable type about A. D. l44O, was dis
tinctly changed; the manuscripts them
selves were no longer of the extreme value
they had been up to this time, and as the
simple printed page superseded the beauti
full illuminated manuscript, so leather
took the place of the costly enamels,
carved ivory and jeweled bindings hither-
to used.
Books bound in the Fifteenth and early
in the succeeding centuries usually had
clasps, and frequently short title is writ
ten on the fore-edge. The clasps are seldom
found perfect, as the books, having been
kept laid on their sides, with the fore-edge
and it's title outward, they were useful as
handles, and have been, in consequence al.
most always pulled to pieces. In some cases
the printer was his own publisher and bind.
err, and we find his device or initial inside
and outside the same book, as in the lit
tie abridgment of the statutes printed
by Richard Pynson in 1899, of W hich the OBJ
verse of the cover is here illustrated.
In the Fifteenth century the size of the
leather bindings of printed books were deco.
rated, if at all, either in cut or stamped
WOrk' Jic CuI WOrh was Hoe uScu w any
extent in England but the stamped work
was. The stamps were engraved on metal
or wood, and were impressed upon the leath
er after the book was bound; sometimes
they were heated and sometimes not, and
the leather was damped in either case.
Richard Pynson was a native of Nor
mandy; pupil of Caxton. He worked in
England from 1893 to 1929, and seems to
have been IAN especial favorite of Henry
VIII, as in an edition of the statutes print
ed by him about 1909, he says; "By me, Rich
ard Pynson, Squyer and Premier to the
Kynge's Noble Grace"