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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15
CREDIT TO MAI. GLENNAN.

The GOLD LEAF heartily seconds
what the Suffolk Herald says below of
Maj. NJ. Glennan's splendid work in
the Second (Norfolk) Virginia Con-
gressional district during the cam
paign Just closed. We have read with
interest the letter of Chairman Cor
don and the reply of Maj. Glennan,
and appreciate fully the whole situa
ton. The Herald says:
Chairman Gordon, Of the Virginia
Democratic State Committee, and
District Chairman NJ. Glennan have
passed congratulatory letters on the
splendid victory achieved by the Dem
ocrats of the Second Virginia dis
trict in the recent election. Mr..
Glennan has complimented the leaders
and workers in a great measure as he
also did the press, but he very mod
estly kept silence as 10 his splendid
work and fine management as chairman,
which was about the best that was. per-
formed by any one, as the snl- -naid
organization and '...~ e.ofious result
has demonstrated. To Mr.. Glennan
is much due for the grand triumph
and unprecedented victory in thi:
district, which is not only the banner
district of the State but of the nation,
and we accord him a full measure Of
the praise that the members of his staff
are row sharing.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15
HOW TO HAVE A MERRY CHRIST
MAS

There are many reasons why we
should make this memorable Christ
mas
The Almighty has showercd His |
bounty upon US during the year now
drawing to a close. The South has
struggled out Of the darkness into the
light. Her industries and commerce
are nourishirg, and the farmers have
been rewarded with profitable crops.
The era of financial depression is now
Ia thing of the past, and we have
inferred period Of good times.
| Throughout the land there is general
rejoicing over the blessings we now
enjoy, and the promise of still better
things in the future.
Naturally, all the signs of the times
indicate merry Christmas. But 1t is
IN order before its festivities are upon
Us to suggest that this great Christian
holiday brings with it duties as we'll as
pleasures. In our jubilee over the
return of prosperity, and in our joyous
lround to excitement, there will be one
Thing needed to sweeten the occasion
land make it linger like bright pic
lture in our memories We must think
LOT our less fortunate neighbors, and see
THAT they are not shut out in the dark
lness and the cold while we are revellng
10y our blazing fires. The poor are
ALWAYS with US. They are sometimes
worthy and sometimes unworthy, but
their misfortunes appeal to the sym
pathy Of all good aeople. 1t was
tamong this class that Christ lived and
moved and worked. H. cared for
their physical as well as Ter spiritual
wants, and when we ceiei &c his birth
Iday his example should il It be forgot =
Item. Let us try this lar TO avoid
some of the extravaganccs and f"liles
of the season, so that we can feel when
we settle down . business again that
we have lightened many burden and
gladdened many heart.
| These suggestions are not directed
to the rich alone. We have large
class of moderately well-tod do people
who are able to make their poor
neighbors happier and more comforta-
bic, without inconvenience to them
selves How much does it take tc
carry a little pleasure into the home o
. a poor family where perhaps the fathe
is out of work, the mother on a slcl
bed, and the half-fed children art
t breaking their hearts because Santt
> Claus passed them by? We waste
enough to relieve and comfort ever,
: case of this kind in the city.
But we neglect the poor out of shee
thoughtlessness. Bring the matter t.
the minds of our people, and the,
l. delight in giving their generous i'm
: pulses full play. 1t is not too early Il
r think about it. Let us get ready t.
e carry the joys OF Christmas into tn
homes of the poor!-Atlanta Consfl
uH0H
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15
LETTER FROM KITTRELL.

EDITOR GOLD LEAF The damage
wrought by the miniature cyclone that
zigzagged through our town last month,
leveling fences, topping chimneys and
lifting tin, has all been repaired.
Two families Of Northern winter
residents Of the place have arrived.
There are also an unusually large
number of Northern sportsmen at the
hotel. Quail are still fairly abundant;
but now that the sons of Ham have
caught the slight of shooting OH the
wing, the days of such sport are doubt
less numbered.
hear of a prodigious bag of game
made by some of our neighbors from
the country who the other day went
on a hunting expedition into an ada
cent county. 1t beats anything l
have heard of since Uncle Billy Miles
made the famous shot in the deep snow
of 81. Uncle Billy raked out long
and wide road in the snow-then three
feet deep on an average-scattered
corn from one end to the other, and
ensconced himself in a blind at one
end, gun in hand loaded to fit the occa-
sion. All other food being showed
under, every sort of wild thing that
loved to eat of corn swarmed to the
feast. Uncle Billy fired. When the
smoke left and the futtering and s. flop
ping" ceased, there was pile of game
wide as the road and long as the cd
gun would carry; and it was mighty
| long range gun at that. So AYERS ira
dition.
A dwelling on farm of Mr.. Thos.
Capehart, occupied by Mr.. William
Howly Moon, was burned yesterday
morning. The fire seems to have
caught from the pipe of the cooking
stove. Mr.. Moons loss was, l am
sorry to hear, very great. No insur-
ance on house or contents.
The house was built in the long age
by Mr.. Burns, Scotchman, said to
be kinsman of Robert Burns the
great Scottish poet. Mr.. Burns was
the grandfather of Mr.. John Bullock
and also of the late genial, and popular
Capt. George B. (Burns) Bullock.
About noon last Sunday a meteor o
marvellous brightness exploded to the
North Of this place. A long trail 0
dust or smoke was left in it's wake and
the roar was that of cannon. B.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15

can only be accomplished when unselflsh
patriotism guides the aspirations of our
people and regulates the action of their
chosen servants.
We who are to be charged with the
responsibility Of making and executing
the laws should begin our preparation
for the task by rigid self-examination
and by self-purgation from all ignoble
and unworthy tendencies threatening to
enter our motives and designs. Then
may we enjoin upon all our countrymen
the same duty, and then may we hope to
perform faithfully and successfully the
work entrusted to our hands by con-
fiding people.
A number of other toasts were re-
sponded to, among them "Moral Forces
in Politics." by Carl Schurz.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15
Approaching Marriage at Rox-
bOro-Kitchin-S

RoxBoRo, Dec. 1O.-Cards are out
announcing the marriage on the 22nd
of this month of Mr.. w. w. Kitchin
and Miss Musette Satterfeld, both of
Roxboro. Mr.. Kitchin is one of the
brightest young lawyers in this section,
and as the Democratic candidate for
the Senate from this district made
most gallant fight for Democracy pure
and undefiled. He is a son of Hon.
w. H. Kitchin, Of Halifax county.
Miss Satterfield is one of our most
popular and charming young ladies.
She is the daughter of Mrs. Sue
Satterfield, and since her graduation at
the Greensboro Female College, nearly
two years ago, has been most success
fully conducting the primary depart
ment of the Roxboro Institute.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15

Mr.. F. G. Bryan. assistant general
freight and passenger agent of the Sea-
board Airline, has severed his con-
nection with that company, and leaves
on the 14th inst, for Chicago. where he
goes to accept the general Western
agency of the. Norfolk and Western
system. While. the position which Mr..
Bryan accepts at Chicago is a very
flattering one, his hosts of friends in
this and neighboring cities, as well as
the splendid record he has built up for
himself on the Seaboard Airline,
concede and show this promotion to
be nothing more than just reward
for his capability and merit:-Aorfolk
Tirginian.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15

Two remarkable movements are in
progress among the negroes of the
country that are worthy of attention.
One of them is very considerable
exodus of the negroes of middle Ten
nessee toward the North and West. 1t
is reported that large numbers are
going constantly, and that more than
seven hundred have left the neighbour
hood Of Chattanooga within the last
month, most of them since election
day. Their leaders say that this is the
beginning of movement that will
solve the Grace problem" ehectually for
that part of the country. The other
movement is an agitation in Georgia,
under the Leadership OF the preachers,
in favor of a wholesale migration to
Liberia, The agitators take a text
from the discrimination against the
negroes in the "Jim Crow car" and
exhort their hearers to go to country
where they will have equal rights and
an equal share in the government OF
the country. Migration to Africa,
they declare, is the only salvation for
the American negro. They are un-
questionably right. The Anglo Saxon
race will not amalgamate with any
other, and it will rule every other. 1t
is the great lesson of history. The
only salvation for every weaker race is
to get out of its way.-Atlanta Consi.
Mh0H
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15
WINTER UNDER WEAR

Big stock of LADIES' and gents Wool
Underwear. Gents all wool Undershirts
worth IS 90 and $500 pair; our price
81 80 and 81 90. Ladies' wool ribbed Vests
worth $50 pair in regular houses, we
sell at $l.75 pair. A splendid all wool
Vest IN natural color worth $50 q pair.
we sell at 81 90.
Ladies' Fascinators and Nubias and
Childrens Hoods, bought at half price
and will be sold the same way Gents
Waterproof Collars cents A large stock
of Gents Hats and Caps bought in Job lots
and will be sold some of them for less
money than it cost to manufacture them.
Boys blue Campaign Caps worth 20 aud
25 cents we sell ut 10 cents. A stock OF
Fancy Caps for Boys and Girls at 2J cents,
worth in regular houses 80 cents
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15

There is more catarlh in this section of
the country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced it local
disc Use, and prescribed local remedies,
and by constantly failing to cure with
local treatment, pronounced it incurable
Science has proven catarrh to be consti-
tutional disease. and. therefore, requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitu-
tional cure on the market. 1t is taken in
ternally in doses from 10 drops to tea
spoonful. 1t acts directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces OF the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and tes-
timonials. Address,
F. J. CHENEY i Co., Toledo, ..
Sold by druggists, T5c.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15
1t Should be in Every House.

J. B. Wilson, 81 Clay ST ), Sharpsburg,
Pa, says he will not be without DR.. Kings
New Discovery for consumption. coughs
and colds. that it cured his wife who was
threatened with pneumonia, after an at
tack of la grippe, when vari GUS other REM
edies and several physicians had done her
no good. Robert Barber, of Cooksport, Pa,
claims DR.. Kings New Discovery for con-
sumption, coughs and colds has done him
more good than anything he ha. ever used
for lung trouble. Nothing like it. Try it.
Free trial bottles at y. T. Cheatham's
drug store. Large bottles 5ec and s.. 90
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15
4RhS0QAl& PERSONAL
- % @5<E%1'>
T. G.. Hicks was in town Sunday.

i. ". Hicks WAS Ill LOWu OUuudy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Teiser returned home
Monday.
Mrs. Col. E. Taylor arrived home
Saturday.
Mrs. Knight is staying with Mrs. G..
c. Lamb.
Mrs. I. J. Young returned home
Saturday.
Sidney Allen, of Weldon, spent Sun
day here.
Mrs. Paul Clary returned home
Saturday.
H. P. Strause returned from Rich
mond Saturday.
R. G.. Hart. of Louisburg, was in
town Monday last.
Miss Annie Upperman, of Louisburg
returned home Monday.
Misses L. Hawkins and Irene
Terrell left for Littleton Monday.
Miss Mary Goodwin, Of Warren Co.,
who has been visiting Miss Ella Boyd,
left for home Monday.
Miss Carrie Coghill, who has been
engaged in teaching at the Wendell
Academy in Wake county, is visiting
friends in town.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15
THEINCOME TAX.

The expenses OF our government are
so enormous, and continue t1 increase
at such rate, that the average tax
payer is beginning to feel that his
burdens are oppressive and unjust.
How to readjust our system of taxa
ton 50 that it will bear more fairly |
and equally upon our people and their
various interests is one Of the problems
now pressing for solution. Among
the many suggestions advanced. The
one in favor of an income tax seems to
receive the most favorable attention.
! 1t has been successfully tried in several
countries in Europe, and we tried ii in
this country directly after the war. 1t
is a fair and a just tax. The man
whose property is in the shape of cash,
stocks, etc, ought not to be exempt
from taxation any more than his
neighbor whose visible property in the
shape of home catches the eye OF the
tax assessor. The latter cannot escape,
because his possessions defy conceal
ment the former can hide his wealth
in his pocket. We need, to correct
this injustice, a law that will tax in
comes. Some advocate graded tax
exempting incomes under a certain
sum. This is matter of detail for
further consideration at the proper
time, but for the present it is enough
to discuss the general proposition that
we should have an income tax. The
revenue raised IN this manner would
be SO considerable that the taxes on all
classes of visible property would be
greatly reduced, and the poor mans
cottage would no longer be in danger
of a forced sale every year. One of
the main objections urged against this
plan is that it would tempt men to
perjure themselves to escape the tax.
Strict laws, watchful officials and swift
punishment would be sufficient Under
the proper system a man with an
income OF SIoo, 900 a year would not
risk the penitentiary in rash effort to
falsify his returns.
The justice of the system is apparent
at a glance. If property must be
. taxed, then there is no sense in exempt
ing one class becaus. it happens to be
in the shape of big income thai
, would buy up a hundred heavily taxed
+ little cottages. If it should be felt BY
: the rich to an unpleasant extent, the
answer is that as they are interested
more than others in stable govern
, ment and the machinery with which i
protects life and property, it is onl.
' fair that they should pay proper
tionately for the benefits they receive
1t is good sign to see the interes
, felt in this question, and it is safe tt
y predict that something good will resul
from the Observation-Disclosures Consti
| tuti0n
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15

We are given to understand by his
message that President Harrison is
sill in favor of negro domination in
the South, and of monopoly DONNA
ION in the North. By the way, Mr..
Larrison's own "domination" is pretty
Hearly Played out. - Bellefontaine
{ Ohio E.raminer.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15

THE Warrenton Record hits the nail
on the head in the following, and it is
a subject to which the GOLD LEAF has
called the attention of our citizens
more than once:
A large seaport may grow up from
commerce and shipping, but no inland
town can grow and prosper without
manufacturing. There must be some
thing to employ labor. Manufacturing
not only furnishes employment for
labor, but continually brings money
from elsewhere to add to the capital
of the place. The farmer markets
his crop and the money which it brings
is spent with the merchant and sent off
again. The manufacturer ships the
product of his factory and the money
is paid for salaries, labor and raw mate
rial and large portion of it remains
at home and gradually the community
grows rich. We have known towns
doomed up for awhile, everything looks
rosy, but failing to establish manufac-
turing, in every case the last end of
that town was worse than the first.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15
EXAMINE OUR GOODS,


Compare prices with others
and exercise your own judg-
ment. 1t is a question Of dol
lars and cents, and we can
make it to your interest to
trade with us. Here are the
goods to suit you--no doubt
about that. The next thing
then is look into the matter
of prices. We have no APP
prehension on that point
Come and see for yourself.
You will find that we have a
large and carefully selected
line of
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15
SIMPLY A QUESTION
-oF
and Cents


Sensible people are not
apt to be controlled by senti-
ment when it comes to part
ing with their hard-earned
cash-purchasing the every
day necessaries of life. The
contemplation of a purchase
resolves itself into a question
of dollars and cents. And the
wise buyer takes into account
how much he can save before
he parts with his money
knowing this, we merely
ask you to call and
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15

THE latest from California is that
lc legisla ure of the State will be
Dcmocrat: on joint ballot by a
majority @ two, which means the gain
# 4 Demo ratio Senator.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15

The Weldon Nc7os says among the
most important matters which will be
irought before the next Legislature,
are an increase in the public school
tax; equalizing the assessments of pro-
lerty providing for stenographers in
superior courts ; an appropriation to
the Worlds Fair, and to the Soldiers
Home increasing the powers of the
railroad commission enacting an
oyster law which will be thorough
rejection ard yield revenue to the
State.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15

The &c 'ernor has appointed Hon.
hos. H. sutton trustee for the Agri-
cultural AID Mechanical College, for
the cOlorei race at Greensboro, vice
lion. Samuel Med. Tate resigned.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15

STRANGE as it may seem there have
teen but two stepping stones to the
Presidency up to the present time.
hey have been war and the law, and
!. has been claimed by some that there
similarity between the two pro-
esions. Every President of the
, nlted Sta es SO far has either been Il
! -wyer, a s3ldier or both. Washing
ton, William H. Harrison, Taylor and
Grant were soldiers Monroe, Jackson,
Pierce, Hayes, Garfield and Benjamin
Harrison we're soldiers and lawyers,
while all the rest were lawyers.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15

That Henderson is not altogether
the busy, pushing, prosperous place
that it should be, can not be denied.
That we need more enterprises here to
give employment to. labor. is equally
true. How shall theseNSbnditions be
brought about, then ,Eentainly not
b. sitting sapinely down and letting
things drift as they will. We must be
np and dolps, working for the advance
ASST, as..t prosperity of the town and
htnmunity. Fault finding and vain
regrets only tend to make matters
worse. If business is not what we
would have it, let us get right down to
a lard work and exercise liberal spirit
in all that IS calculated to push our
town and individual interests forward.
Je lousies ard petty chickering's will
ne er materially help to work out our
own financial and industrial salvation.
1t only needs that We should pull
soSsther to assure the future of our
aoA flIse do it1
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15
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, 1per.
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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15

NORTH CAROLINA SIX per cen, bonds
ave gone np to SI.22, and per cent
consols to par. This is good for the
credit of tie old North State.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15

Two more suCkers-men who want
II get rich fast and are willing to do
/. by dishor est means as we'll as fair
have been caught by the green goods
Counterfeit money! fellows. This
tine they are colored, something
rather unusual The Wadesboro In
ttHigeafer of last week gives an &C
count of how Rev. A. NJ. Barrett, a
negro preaohe of Arson county, and
Ian Robinson, we'll to do colored
farmer of tlat section, went to New
York after green goods and were re-
lieyed of $500 in good money. Robin
son furnished the $500 at the instiga-
Sion of the preacher.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15
Boots and Shoes

We defy the wo:ld to compete with us
if they purchase their goods in the regular
way. We sell Mans full stock IL inch
leg Boot worth in all regular goods retail
$3.50 and 1915 for 81 90 also a good Boot
for S1.75. Boys and Youths Boots sold
very cheap.
Mems full stock high cut Brogans worth
81 so, our price 81 90 a big stock Of Mems
fine Shoes worth 50 per cent. more than we
sell them for. A Gents Kangaroo Shoe
worth So. so our price 81. 90 and s. Is.
Boys fine Shoes Is and 95 cents and
81 90, worth more money. Ladies' fine
Shoes warranted full stock, fancy goods,
worth $l25 cur price 81 90. A big stock
of Ladies fine Shoes bought and sold from
% to 80 per cent. less than any regular
house can afford to sell them for.
A nice lot of Children's and Misses
Shoes. A good solid leather button Pcb-
BILE Grain Misses School Shoe worth 81 90
wholesale. our price 81 90 retail. Ali We
ask is to come and examine our stock,
quality and prices before purchasing else
where
A big job lot of Bed Comforters It %
per cent. less than regular price
We sell for CASH, SPOT CASH, when
goods are wrapped up. and 1t gives us q
great deal of pleasure to refuse any one
credit that asks for it as we consider we
are doing them favor and ourselves
Justice
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The GOLD LEAF agrees with the
Stanton (Va) Nt5>@ IN Resentment
expressed wher II says:

The newspapers are commenting on
tt unusual spectacle OF both houses
of congress being opened with prayer
by Jewish rabbis, Rev. Joseph Silver
man, of New York, in the Senate and
Rabbi Wise, of Cincinnati, in the
House. This is as it should be. In a
country like ours, where religious and
civil liberty have gone hand in hand
from the foundation of the government
and where the Hebrew population is so
extensive, it is eminently proper that
this religious freedom and equality
should be put into practice, and there
is no more fitting place than in the
halls of leg islation.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15
THURSDAY, DEC. Is. 1892.
~ .zI2 gl .='lR:3} .
- ~ JJ &

WIN This issue the GOLD LEAE
loses It's eleventh volume, having been
s',ablished by the present publisher
december 18Th, 1881.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15
General Merchandise,

Embracing everything in
Dry Goods and Notions, Hats
and Caps, Boots and Shoes,
White Goods, Tin, Crockery,
Glass and Wooden ware. &C.,
&c. Also a full and complete
stock of pure and fresh
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-15
A Christmas Card.

l have no purse of gold, my dear.
With which to buy you dainty things;
The purse is empty, and the gold
Has flown away as if on wings;
So sweetest wife in all the world,
Tho you possess the greater part,
I'll give to you on Christmas day
Another fraction of my heart.
-Harper's Magazine