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MAY AND THE POET.

'Tis said you are the poets pet sweet
And verify 'twould seem the sayings
true;
For-though fair June may lead his heart
astray,
'Tis but passing whim-he loves but
You bring so much his busy brain finds
unsable.
I'm sure his steady love is quite ex-
cuSable.
He is a wild, erratic kind of creature.
With peculiar squint he calls divine;
His language, too. has one eccentric
feature
A sort of lunacy outstrung in line,
The Moon-''fair Luna, he is pleased to
She is to blame, charge that should
appal her.
He'll swear, "Sweet May, thine eyes are
heavenly blue,
Thy breath more fragrant than the fresh
Ope'd rose;
Thy flowing tresses, tinged with golden
More beautiful than blind the maiden's
brow
What mortal eye but his could see all
this,
Or in your Spring -squan find a rapturiug
kiss?
But then for his sake, and the curious
readers
Well let the poet have his wild-eyed
way;
For none denies his art has many pleaders
You know the fact as we'll as do. May
Avaunt then, cruel critic ! spare your
sputter,
Nor stand 'twixt poet and his bread and
butter!
Joseph Whltton in Leisure Hoatrs
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NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL AsSOCi-
ALTON.
Annual Convention.

The Annual Convention OF the National
Association OF the United
States for the present year will be held
at Toronto, Canada, and as it will on
this occasion be OF an international char
aeter, it promises to be the most sue
cessful meeting OF the series. Most Of
the railroads have agreed to give half
rates, plus $500 membership fee to all
who attend the meeting, this rate being
open TO the public generally as well ~
the Teachers. The Canadians are making
great preparations to welcome and en-
tertain the visiting Teachers, and nu-
merous cheap excursions are being ar
ranged TO all important points on the
Great Lakes, the st. Lawrence and the
seaside after the Convention which will
afford to Teachers the best opportunity
for enjoying their summer holidays they
have ever had. The official Bulletin, con-
tanning the programme for the meeting,
railroad arrangements, and all other
particulars, is ready. and will be sent
free to any one desiring it, on their drop,
ping a Post Card to Mr.. II. j. Hill. Sec
retary Local Committee, Toronto.
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THE BOIL CIGARETTE MACHINE.
Richmond Tobacco Journal.

lRichmond Tobacco Journal.l
This company is in every way salts
fed with the machine, and are now
making them, with a dozen already
sold, we understand. When others
are put in operation sales will be large.
What the future policy of the COM
pany will be is still unknown, but the
business men who officer and own this
patent are apt to make no mistake
with such valuable piece ofproperty.
In capacity and perfectness of work
the BOIL will come out second to none,
and is destined to be a power for the
bright tobacco raisers and dealers. To
sell out to monopoly would befeat
every object of its introduction, and
place the trade where it was before,
and in such a case there would be no
difference between the owners and
and those they now hear censured as
monopolists and antagonistic to the
interest of present owners of the BOIL.
There are half dozen cigarette. ma
chimes seeking public favor, already
known; some will be failures, some
may be infringements. and others may
not be profitable, but the BOIL is here
to stay. and excites most interest. II
is an acknowledged perfect worker OF
greatest capacity. Men of means,
brains. and experience-and they are
all tobacco men-back it. The BOIL is
the machine to concentrate and recu.
perate on. IF the Farmers Alliance
of the tobacco belt want or need the
aid they clamor for then they should
talk to the BOIL people, and thai
quickly, or some one else will. TAKE
the first and best chance, with tht
combination of tobacco men owners il
sympathy with you, with whom bes
terms can be made.
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WOMEN ARE QUEER.
New York Press. I


Yes, women are queer-very bueer.
The masculin sex has arrogated to
itself for ages the privilege of laughing
at their toibles, xuite regardless of the
fact that women by no means have ex-
elusive possession of human faults and
follies. But somehow, in spite of
woman's weakness-f it is weakness
for nem bonnets, pretty dresses and
dainty tasteful things in general, in
spite of her we'll known fear of mice
and several other harmless creatures,
it frequently oappens that she does
very heroic tnings-that she makes
sacrifices and exertions that the ordi-
nary min is not up to. Take, tor in
stance, the case of Maggie Mcmahon,
who is now dying in New York hos
pital, if she is not already dead.
Vhis woman-a genuine daughter
of the masses-is still young, though
the life her burly, drunken husband
has led her during the past two years
has been enough to make her prema-
turely old. The pair had one child, a
little boy, on whom the mother law
ished all her love upon whom the
father when in his cups had as yet for
borne to lavish the kicks and curses
that he gave his wife. The one fear
of Maggie's lie was that her husband
might injure or i'll treat her boy. To
gcard the boy she put up patiently
and silently with the oardest of usage.
But there came day when her
husband, little drunken and uglier
than usual, enraged at his wife's re-
fusal to 60 out and buy liquor for him,
seized the child and rushed from the
house. The wife followed, pleading
pleading with him not to teke her
baby. His answer was shower OF
kicks and blows under which she did
not shrek, from which she did not
attempt to defend herself, SO intense
was her feor that resistance or outcry
on her part might result in turning
her husbands blind fury against the
boy. Then Maggie dragged herself
home, and, still fearing that complaint
might endanger her child's safety, en-
dured in silence for eleven days the
agony of peritonitis, pneumonia and
kroken bones that came from her hus-
bands last beating. When her con-
dition was discovereda nd she was
taken to hospital, the doctors said it
was too late. She had been dying by
inches, but had made no sign.
An old story, you say. Perhaps it
is. But the fact that such heroic. un-
shrinking, womanly self-sacrifce is an
old story should blunt the point Of
every upkind jest against woman and
teach men to reverence, if they cannot
initiate, the sublime devotion and ut
terly unselfish love that so often turns
| the weakness of the humblest of women
into transcendent strength.
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ACREAGE AND YIELD OF TOBACCO.
Remarkable Falling OFF of the Crop
in Virglnia-Increase or Decrease
of the State.
Richmond Southern Tobacconist. ]


The Census Office of Washington has
issued statement of the acreage and
yield OF tobacco for the year 1889,
showing and increase over the last
census of 55,223 acres and Io,o52,-
44o lbs. The amount produced in
Kentucky has increased over $4,000
900 pounds, and there has also been
a substantial increase in North Car
olina, Tennessee, Ohio, New York, and
Wisconsin. On the other hand, there
has been a more or less serious falling
off in Virginia, Maryland, Connecticut,
Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania, and Mis-
souri,. The figures are liable to
slight modification in the final revision,
which has yet to be made. The state
ment is based upon returns sent in by
enumerators, supplemented by an ex-
tensive correspondence and consider
able field work, which has been con-
Quoted by Prof. Thos. N. Conrad under
the general supervision of John Hyde,
Special Agent in charge of the Division
of Agriculture.
The following comparisons of acre
age production of principal tobacco
producing States for the years 1889
and 1879:
Alabama, 1889, acres 6S5, pounds
164,9o1, against in 1879 acres 2, 1877,
pounds 452,426.
Arkansas, 1887 and o73, 76I,
against 2,o64 and 97o,aao.
Connecticut, 6,337 and s,S74,924.
against 1866 and 13,o44,652.
Florida, 1,236 and 4SS,o75, against
90 and 21,I82.
Georgia,824 and 261,3o2, against
971 and 228,59o.
Illinois, sc and 3,ooS,656,against
1855 and S,S72,S42.
Kentucky, 273,o15 and 225,4o3,-
o47, against 226,12o and III, 12o,
7S5.
Louisiana, I26 and 5o,S45, against
253 and 55,o54.
Maryland, 17,o67 and 12,27S,o48,
against 38,174 and 26, ,o8a,147.
Massachusetts,, 2,II2 and 2,7o4,-
S4S, against 1858 and 5,369,436.
Mississippi, 232 and 61,9o6, against
1,471 and 414,663.
Missouri, II, 1868 and 9.41S,67o against
1891 and 12,o15,657.
New York, 1858 and o,344,3o7,
against 4,937 and 6,4S1,431.
North Carolina, o7,o55 and 36,426,-
247, against 57,2o9 and 26,9S6,a13.
Ohio, 44,348 and 37,726,8SI,
against 34,667 and 34,735,a35.
Pennsylvania, 26,o56 and 2S,672,-
787, against 27,566 and 36,o43,a7a.
South Carolina, 441 and 232,ooS,
against 169 and 45,779.
Tennessee, 51,383 and 26,217,52o,
against 41,532 and 29,365,o5e.
Texas, 413 and 175.8o4 against 6S5
and 221,2S3.
Virginia, 1929 and 49,14o,ra3,
against 14o,791 and 79,oSS,S68.
West Virginia, 1850 and 2,593353,
against 4,o7I and 2,2o6,146.
Wisconsin, 1881 and 19,3S6,I49,
against $3.50 and 1o,6o8,423.
Other States whose production is
small bring the grand totals up to
694, 1904 acres and 4o1,713,5S8
pounds in 1889, against 63S,841 acres
and 472,661,158 Tbs. in 1879. The
acreage in Iowa decreased from 6o2
in 1879 to 122 in 1850; in Kansas,
from 333 to 129; New Jersey, from
152 to IS; Michigan, from ITO to %;
Minnesota, from 1863 to "A, and Ne
braska, from 1o1 to 81.
Note.-In above the figures are
invariably those of 1850 against 1879
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-05-14

The development of the strictly
material resources Of great area of
North Carolina-embracing the tide
water, middle and mountain section
of the State-is the great part of the
mission of the Cape Fear & Yadkin
Valley Railway, but it is only a part
after all. Its long line of nearly 800
miles give easy access to an unexcelled
combination of delightful summer
resorts - mineral springs of excep-
tional medicinal efficacy. surf-bathing,
fishning, sailing, ETC., without par
allel on the Atlantic coast, and natural
scenery no whit inferior to the in
comparable pictures of the French
Broad. Enlarged hotel accommoda-
tions are in preparation to do justice
to all these wonderful treasures and
delights ofnature; and, by the time the
Norfolk & Western r. r. meets us on
the Blue Ridge and the gap south of us
is filled, such a tide oftravel will set in
with each summer as we have never
before seen.-Fayetteville Observer.
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Happy HOOsierS.

VIM. Timmons, postmaster at Idaville,
Ind. writes: Electric Bitters has done
more for me than all other medicines COM
biued, for that bad feeling arising from
Liver and Kidney trouble" John Leslie,
farmer and stockman of same place, SAYS:
''Find Electric Bitters to be the best Kid
ney and LKer medicine, made me feel like
a new man. J. w. Gardner. hardware
merchant, same town, says: Electric Bit
tiers is just the thing for man who is all
run down and don't care whether he liver
or dies y he found new strength, good ap-
petite and felt just like he had a new
lease on life. Only soc. bottle, at w. L
Cheatham's Drug store.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-05-14

of the citizens of this city, assembled
as is the right of American citizens,
to discuss in public meeting questions
of grave importance.
We find a general sentiment among
these witnesses, and also in our in
tercourse with the people, that the
verdict as rendered by the jury was
contrary to the law and the evidence,
and secured mainly through the design
ing and unscrupulous agents employed
for the special purpose Of defeating
the ends of justice. At that meeting
the determination was that the people
would not submit to the surrender of
their rights into the hands of midnight
assassins and their powerful allies.
The assassination of the late chief
of police shows the elimination of a
conspiracy. His death was deemed
necessary to prevent the exposure and
punishment Of criminals whose guilt
was being fast established by his dill
gent pursuit.
The condition of affairs in this COM
munity as to certain class ofviolators
of the law had reached such state
that the law itself was we'll nigh power
less to deal with them, so far reaching
was their power and influence in the
trial of criminal cases.
Good citizens were profoundly i'm
pressed by the repeated and signal
failures of justice.
The arts of the perjurer and briber
seemed to dominate in the courts, para
Lying and rendering powerless the
ends of justice. Certainly this was a
desperate situation.
In the public meeting above referred
to, general and spontaneous in char
acter, as truly indicating an uprising
of the masses, we doubt if any power
at the command of the authorities
would have been sufficient to overcome
its intentions. Evidence is before
US from official sources that eleven
persons were killed in the attack on
the Parish prison.
In a careful examination as to the
citizenship of these men, we find that
eight of them were beyond question
American citizens, and another had
"declared his intention" in this court,
which act carries with it the renuncla-
ton of allegiance to his native country.
1t is noteworthy fact in connec-
tion with the uprising that no injury
whatever was done to either person
or property beyond the one act which
seemed to have been the object of the
assemblage at the Parish prison.
We have referred to the large number
of citizens participating in this demon
stratior, estimated by judges at from
5000 to 5000, regarded as sponta.
neous uprising of the people. The
magnitude of this affair makes a diff:
fcult task to fix the guilt upon any
number of the participants-in fac'
the act seemed to involve the entire
people of the Parish and city of New
Orleans, so profuse is their sympathy
and extend their connection with the
affair.
In view of these considerations, the
thorough examination of the subject
has failed to disclose the necessary
facts to justify this grand jury in pre-
senting indictments.
Respectfully submitted, George H
Vennard. o. Carriere, David Straut
G. A. Hooset, Jr., E. Gauch, S. R
Graham, T. w. Castleman, w. l.
Saxon, G. c. LaFaye, John Jackson
Paul J. Christian, Emile E. Haley
A. S. Raelett, H. Haller, W. B
Leonard, w. H. Chafee, foreman.
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The prediction that the world is
really coming to an end this year is
already being made by the advertists,
but let US bear with them. Prediction
of that kind is their occupation, and it
is better that they should do that than
do nothing.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-05-14

The managers of the worlds fair at
Chicago would do we'll to lay in an
early supply of Indians for exhibition
purposes. The supply is being rapidly
exhausted, and the cigar store sign will
soon be the only survivor of the abo-
riginal race.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-05-14

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habituA
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 commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup Of Figs is for sale in Soc
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 SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAT.
LOUISVILLE. XIV. NEW Y0Rx. ME
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A woman never forgets the halo of
romance which clings around her first
love, and a man never blots from his
mind the sad memory of what he suf-
fered when he smoked his first cigar.
Philadelphia Times
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-05-14

The man who buys something that
he can do without, instead of paying
a bill that he owes, is compelling
somebody else to pay for his luxuries.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-05-14

Most great men have had great
mothers. Most great women have had
great fathers.-Inge,soX
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The telephone girl may be an angel,
but she has considerable hello about
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FFICE BuRwEII. pu11,

CoURrs:-Vance. Franklin, Warren, Gran
vllie, United States Court at Raleigh, and
supreme Court of North Carolina.
REF EFERENcEs:-Chief Justice W. N, H.
smith, Ion. Augustus s. Merrimon, Gov
Dan1ei @. Fowle, Hon. T. &. Fuller. Hon. T,
N. Argo, DR.. w. T. Cheatham, Dr. J, HI
Tucker, Mr.. NJ. Dorsey, II. II. Burweli, ESQ. !.
Hon. James Edwin Moore, Ex solicitor Gen
OF s. Samuel F. Phillips.
ONCE hours a IN. to D. m mct 73r
St. Landry democrat., 1891-01-31
Bears of Alaska.
TIE LANE IS A PARADISE FOR THE BCNTER
OF LILLE GhlZZLY.

TIE LANE IS A PARADISE FOR THE HUNTER
OF TIE GhlZZLY.
To thu bear hult-r the wids of Alaska
offer paradise tina. can be found in no
other country on the globe. as is attssted
by the yearly shipments OF hides, writes
Jane cores pondent of the Denver News.
The most chosen are those of the black
bear v hich roam the woods by hundreds,
and prime skins bring from SIS up to as
high as 800 each in the market. During
The X :urslon season tourists from sll paris
Of the globe make thriving trade for
.-laska merchants in the baarskin line.
There are five distinct spec; es of the bear
in Alaska-tne black, brown, or cinnamon
and cross, which inhabit all portions of
southeastern Alaska and the upper por-
ton of the Youkon country. Further
north, in the st. Elias Alps, is the home of
q grizzly which in size, ferocity and color
much resembles the grizzlies of the Sierra
Nevadas, and still further north, along the
reaches of the Youkon and the ice fields of
the Arctic Ocean, is the white polar bear.
As brave and skillful in hunting bear as
the Alaska Indian is. he seldom hunts the
St. Elias grizzly, both because there is lit
tla pref. in the hides and the great size
and ferocity of the beasts make hunting
tbem a most hazardous undertaking.
Their mode CT killing them is by shooting
into them from heavily charged smooth
bore musket heavy slug of lead, copper
or iron, then awaiting their charge, which
never fails 10 follow the shot, with long,
heavy and strongly made spear, resting
the butt of the weapon on the ground and
planting one foot firmly against 1t. The
point of the spear rests at an angle to
pierce the bear in the breast, and the bears
own weight, when it strikes the spear in
its mad charge, is calculated to drive the
weapon through him o. pierce him deep
enough to cause death. AS will be readily
seen, if at this crit cal moment the hunt
er's courage should fail him, or by mis-
calculation the spear fall-,i tu inphle the
charging hea1t, The hnntet would b.
knork-d s-u eIess and um. diat-ly torn
INTO >hr-dS. 1uis mldo Of bear Lunrln!
liza. h vu ITS sCvtntase~, but on!y lh-
,l->ka Iudisp has tho courage to w The
{ X0cliu.ut.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-01-31
Majors Hos Dit alitV

Major was graz, ta1nev NcwFound.
land dog that lived On farm IN New
England. lie was qlite useful member
of the family in which h7 lived. 81 d a
general favorite in the Ut gh oorhood
HIS master and the other man about the
farm often called Ms jcr TO their assistance.
and be would trot TO and Iro, from hou e
to bsrn, carrying, in his teeth, pals, bas
kets, lanterns, or wLa.ev9r the men might
require.
One day his mistress saw him pla! ing in
the yard with a Ian. hungry 10 liking
hound. 81 and by M5jrr he=an to sc a'cL
on the ou-sr door, wt'rh was his usu=
manner rt Set king &c IL it'au -. aud wh-t
she had opened the Corr th7 dog Well.
ErR light to Iii, ISL, and asked, in his deg
fa>ti3n. for food.
She knew tue dog had been fed, but
PLACED some food III nls dish to 81 if he
would eat more. Bat no; Maj or had no
idea of eating, bat went out sgsin, aud
soon returned, bringing the hungry look
irg tranger with him He led the hound
to The foJd, aud watched him while he ate
it.. Wh-n the hound had flushed eating,
M,jor evidently considered his duties as
host at an END, or perhaps he thought it
lite time tha5 his canine friend returned
to his own vine and fig tree. Whatever
he thought, he would have no more play
with the stra nger dog, not even parting
froIic M ~ G.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-01-31
Planting TIE Pecan.

Dick Naylor, of Scottville, Tex, writes
Farm and ranch that if any man 10 Texas
upon the birth OF his first son wonld plant
twenty acres of good land in pecan trees,
aud set it aside for him. that bow, when
h. attained TO his ms jori'y, would have an
I'D pendent income OF $4,000 year, and
merely the trou BILE of picking it up. This
might be a bad thi"g for t1S boy, but the
income would be there all the same.
When the universal popularity OF the
pecan nut is considered. he adds, we must
conclude that grove of pecan trees would
bs one of the sa est investments Texas
farmer could make. If the land was not
needed for other purposes. the trees could
be planted two or three times as thick as
they should stand when grown, and the
surrl1s tees cut out for fuel as they grow
large enough There IS no better fuel
than pecan wood. A peculiar advantage
in planting such trees is found in the fact
that very little cultivation IS necessary.
Yet il might be better to u e the land for
crop purposes while the yciug trees are
owing, taking care not to pillow too close
to Them. Those who would staff grove
of pe ans should lose no time in getting
ready, as fall or winter is the best time to
plant.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-01-31

An air Of cheerfulness and brightness is
about the place. The gay and brilliant
young Eothen of half Il century ago gives
playful description of his own delight in
finding smiling faces and the laughter Of
girls upon his path in the little hill city of
the nativity; and one cannot but remem
Der his words when the women flock out
to their doors-in greater numbers, surely,
than IN other plaCeS-lS the carriage ulShes
up Il narrow street where the panels al
most Craze the walls, and the pavement
seems composed Of powders like the bed
of Il mountain stream. This is tribe in
the east, where in towns much more i'm,
portant than this, which is little among
the cities Of Judah-thriving cities like
Smyrna and BeyrOut-you drive over
thoroughfarcs like water courses at the
peril of your life.
The inhabitants OF Bethlehem are ali
Christians, which is cheering to begin
with, and the feminine part of them are
unusually distinguished by good looks, and
wear beautiful coStume-embroidere
jacket with long hanging sleeves, and
skirts in various colorS-eXceedingly pict
ureSque and striking Their heads are
adorned with silver chains and coins en-
circling the forehead and falling on each
side Of the face. over which the women who
are married wear some sort of a stiff round
cap, over which is arranged long veil of
the fine unbleached linen which is peculiar
to the east embroidered with heavy Dor
der in rich colors CT silk-red and purple
and blue. This heatldress gives kind Of
mild majesty to their clear tints and we'll
cut features, and they sell their vegetables
like princesses-not in disguise, but grace
fully condescending to supply their fellow
creatures with the necessities of life
Blackwood's Magazine.