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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06
WHY 10 IL q?

There is evil enough in the silver
schemes that make Roadway in the
West, Northwest and some parts in
the South. Why, then, attack them
where they are not weak ? Why, in
opposing loose ideas of silver men, use
arguments or assertions that are
equally true of gold, or any article
used as money, as of silver3 Why add
to the confusion of the public mind on
a subject about which confusion is
already troublesome? Secretary of
Agriculture Morton, it seems to US, is
doing just this unjudicious and unfair
thing. He is thus quoted
Il think the farmers are beginning to
realize that they are being required to
exchange their products, produced at the
cost of great labor, for product costing
much less labor and possessing, there
fore, q less intrinsic value at a ratio OF
their exchange than their wheat and
their corn. Here is a proposition.
"What is silver? IN earth product
dragged out by human effort.
"The Granite Mountain Mining COM
pany produced refined silver in the year
1887, or 1888, according to its report
to the secretary of treasury, to an
amount OF nearly 5000, 900 of ounces
at a cost for refined silver Of = cents all
| ounce. The whole output cost that year
in all S2GS, 900.
''Coined at 412H grains to the dollar
it would make over 100000 OF legal
tender for over 100000 bushels of
fhn lnt op 0f which
| than $500 900 That is, by free coinage,
under law, $3GS, 900 of mine labor is
made and forced to an equality with
| 81, 600, 900 OF farm labor cost. BY law,
| this free coinage silver will, when it
represents only SIG, 800 of mine labor in
Montana, be made cxchangeable for
$500, 900 farm labor in Nebraska. Is
this right? Will Nebraska and other
farmers hurrah for this enormous swindie
OF their TOLL?
Substitute gold for silver in this
proposition, as the secretary calls it,
and the expense-of reproduction argu-
ment is just as strong. Substitute
paper, which costs practically nothing,
but in which nine-tenths of all traffic
is carried on, and the "proposition'
appears as absurd as anything that can
be imagined.
The secretary says his argument is
against the Sherman act, as if that
measure were the delight and desire
of silver men. AS we'll say that
surgeons are appointed to the army
and navy in order that few profess
sional men may have employment, as
say that what silver men seek is the
enhancement of miners profits. Their
aim is higher. They know that gold
and silver are the constitutional cur
rency Of the country, and they wish
to see them maintained as such. Their
wish may be unqualified, and their
attempts may be clumsy and may
have results disastrous to the country,
but it is folly greater than theirs to
| belittle them and their cause by SO alb
surd and dssgenuous talk as the sec
rotary of agriculture freely INDUCES in.
Petersburg Macr-AbbeaL
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06
ISN'T THIS LITTLE STEEP 5?

We learn from the Marion Free
Lance that all four of the men killed
on the day of the late prohibition
election in Mcdowell county were
whiskey men, and killed while trying
to make drunkards of their fellowmen.
If the lightning could strike a few
judges and commissioners and about
ninetents of the members Of our
Legislatures we might hope for some
relief from this dreadful traffic.-Ashe-
vile Baptist
We have no criticism to offer on
Bro. Spaight's zeal for prohibition, but
he surely does not mean, as might be
inferred from the above, that he would
be pleased to have the lightning blast
all those i'll authority who do not look
at this question from his standpoint
Statesville Landmark.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06

The Grand Army Gazette says:
"What is asked for, aye demanded, is
that the pension list shall be infinitely
examined. No honest pensioner will
resist that, he will not be considered
honest if he does. Then let every dis
honest case, if such be found, be wiped
from the rolls. This is only fair and
right to the people of the land, the
people who pay taxes
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06

ONE of the strangest things of this
era of strange things is the avowed
purpose of Mohammedan convert to
implant that faith into this country.
We had looked for China to send mis-
sionaries to convert US to Confucian-
ism; we had expected the devil to send
his imps and ministers of evil into
our very homes; but we have to express
our utter establishment when this reli-
gion, that has in its early history won
more converts by the sword than 9TH
erwise, is now seeking to plant itself
into the very heart of Christendom.-
Scotland Neck Democrat.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06

George Alfred Townsend writes ::
Mr.. Cleveland is our first president,
I think, to be fat. The line of presi-
dents shows almost uniformly lean
men. Washington was tall, but not
portly, Adams, genteelly pot-gutted
but nimble, Madison small and
clerical, Monroe long and lean, and the
younger Adams like his father and
bellied less, Jackson rattan of hick-
DRY, Van Buren, smallish and rather
daintily fed, Harrison almost as lean
as Jackson, Tyler ditto, Polk scrawny,
Taylor carrying no great weight,
Fillmore robust but none too portly,
and more than Buchanan, Pierce a
good feeder yet not fat, Lincoln long
and stumbling, Johnson large and
fond of his whisky, yet never COM
planning of his weight, Grant seldom
swelled out of size, Hayes, Ohio-like
but. not waddling, Garfield a large
man with good stomach, as if his
wheat had been poured into him by
the bushel, but he was athletic and did
not perspire. Arthur, after he got
into young ladies society about
Washington, ate good many dinners
and broke himself down, yet he can
not be said to have worried about his
flesh. Benjamin Harrison was any
thing but corpulent. There are fat
men in the government, but you find
them around the supreme court and
the senate. The supreme courters,
sitting SO long and saying nothing,
eating so long while they deliberate
their opinions and little sensitive
about being left out of a state dinner,
and most of them besides liking a
good horn, are inclined to become
overfat and sleepy.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06
MAJOR JOHN c. WINDER ELECTED
- VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE SEA-
BOARD AIR LINE.

Major John c. Winder, who has
been the general manager of the Sea-
board Airline railroad for the past
fifteen years, was at Mondays meeting
OF the board of directors of that road,
held in Baltimore, elected vice-presi-
dent. This is but BETTING compli-
ment to Major Winder's executive
ability in the railroad business, and
wiser or more conservative selection
could not have been made. General
Manager Winder will still have his
headquarters at Raleigh, N. c., and
his recent promotion will not be the
cause of any changes in the Seaboard's
management.
Major Winder has hosts of friends
and acquaintance in this city and
throughout the State in and out of the
railroad fraternity, who will be greatly
pleased to hear of this deserved pro-
motion. Since his connection with
the Seaboard Airline he has always
given that time and attention to the
management of the road that few men
connected with that line could have
done. He has labored assiduously in
making the road what it is to-day and
no one is more fully competent to be
at the roads head than is Major Win
der.
Major Winder is the father of Mr..
John H. Winder, the popular and
efficient division superintendent of the
Seaboard Airline in this city. Like
his father Superintendent Winder is
coming to the front in the profession
he has taken up, and some day he will
be recognized with the same distinc-
| tion.-Atlanta Constitution.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06
DO YOU NEED A TEACHER?
North Carolina Teachers fOl
North Carolina Schools

The Teachers Bureau Of the North
Carolina Teachers Assembly desires i'll
formation from school boards, school
officials and Others concerning vacancies
in schools to be filled this year. We can
supply highly recommended and efficient
North Carolina teachers for all grades of
work from the college to the country
school. The only charge made to men,
bers of the Teachers Assembly who de-
sire us to obtain positions for them is
% cents to cover cost of postage. No
charge is made to employers.
If you need a teacher write to Us.
EDWARD Z. BRITTON,
Chairman Teachers Bureau,
ROXborO, \. c.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06

WHENEVER man by the greatness
of his intellect steps ahead of the pro-
cession he becomes the target for all
the popguns of mediocrity. This gen
eral reflection is suggested by the fact
that DIR. Briggs, confessedly one of the
ablest men in the Presbyterian Church
and one of its leading professors, has
been declared a hereto Fortunately,
mediocrity has expanded its brain
somewhat and doesn't burn heretics
like it did some years ago.-Orange
Observer.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06
Notice..

As there is no County Surveyor in Vance
county. | would inform my friends and The
public generally that | am still prepared
to do Surveying on short notice and on
reasonable terms. Thanking you all for
past favors [ solicit a share of your pat
ronage. Yours respectfully,
GEORGE HOUGUTALING,
Surveyor.
Henderson, n. {. mch9-1
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06

Think of this. There is more money
spent in North Carolina in one year
for strong drink than has been spent
in eight years for education of the
children. Woeful yet doubtless true.
Wilmington MESSENGER.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06
THURSDAY, JULY &, 1893.
~ E E2N1 X(:2;}} Il
NSAS<~- o4~ y ~%

w. w. Scorr, editor of the Lenoir
7obic, has been appointed chief of a
division in the Treasury Department.
DR.. Sanderlin has been notified that
his position is Deputy Third Auditor.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06

The Waterloo IN. W O1su0er
says of the late Michigan lynching
That lynching recently in Corunna,
Mich, was a most horrible affair-a
disgrace to civilization. A man was
hung, his body filled full of bullets and
dragged through the street by howl
ing mob Of men. When Republican
political bloody shirt" journals have
anything to say in future about lynch
law i'll the South, they will please re-
member the Michigan horror.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06

The Durham SIN did itself credit
and showed a commendable spirit OF
enterprise by coming out on the 18th
in a special 9Th of July edition, being
printed on striped paper resembling
the national colors
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06

PEOPLE have red hair simply because
they have an unusual quantity of iron
in their blood.-Erthangr.
We had supposed it was simply
because they didn't happen to have
either light or dark hair
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06
Don't Trust Him.
New York SUM-

Y GU may trust the bloated drunkard, fol
In him there may be good;
Y Ou may trust the vicious gambler, he
Might serve you if he could
Y GU may trust the thief, the murderer,
Who to the gallows walks,
But never trust the villain who
Of women lightly talks:
". L. Ri0rd0.n
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06

The consolidation of the Raleigh
morning papers, which has been
contemplated some time required
new heading which reads, " Nezos
O6se,0er- Chronicle" Some of the
subscribers here didn't know the paper
when they they saw it, and not until
some were told what had happened
did they recognize its familiar face.
There is nothing the matter with the
paper, but when it comes to setting
up all the italics in crediting the
various clippings from the NO-C.,
the boys will object. There is no
change in management. Continued
success to Capt. Ashe and his corps of
assistants.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06

The Winston Sentinel aptly re-
marks that good roads ought to en-
gage more of the attention of our
farmers for this is Il matter of the
greatest Importance to them. Senator
PETER of Kansas says: 1.-The average
farmer is five miles distant from the
nearest railway station, and his sur
plus produce must be moved that
distance year after year. If he were
to compute the saving that he and his
neighbors would have by reason of
first-class roadways they would discover
that it would amount to more than
the expense of putting the roads in
good condition and keeping them So"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06

We mentioned last week that it was
reported by some of our State papers
that editor Frank Powell, of the Tar
boro .S0nthfrNEy, had received an
appointment in the Interior Depart
ment, Indian bureau. We are glad to
note that he has since been q" fixed"
having been appointed Special Agent
of the General Land Office. John A.
Gurley, OF Tennessee, was appointed
Examiner of Surveys in the General
Land Office.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06

CASSIUS NJ. CLAY is a wool grower
of Kentucky, and he records his salts
faction with the business condition of
the country produced by change of
Administration. In a letter to the
Louisville Conrier-/0n,naI he says:
"The belief that the robber tariff
will be repealed forever has enabled
me to sell my wool higher than last
year. My fine wool will also assist in
driving shoddy from the market and
save the people from this adulteration,
loss and fraud"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06

The North Carolina Teachers Assem-
bly, meets at Morehead City, y. C., June
20 to July 4, 1898. During that time
address all communications there.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06

10 to Parker's Drugstore and get eye
glasses to suit. Just added a large as
sortment. apr2O-4t
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06

CALL FOR AN EXTRA SEES
SION OF CONGRESS.

SION OF CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, June 3o-The Presi-
dent this evening issued the following
proclamation
EXECUTIVE MANSION, !
WASHINGTON, D. c., June, 80, '93.
WHEREAS, The distrust and appre-
hension concerning the financial stu
alton, which pervade all business
circles, have already caused great loss
and damage to our people and threaten
to cripple our merchants, stop the
wheels Of manufacture, bring distress
and privation to our farmers and with
hold from our workingmen the wage
of labor, and
WHEREAS, The present perilous
condition is largely the result of the
financial policy which the executive
branch of the government finds
embodied in unwse laws which must
be executed until repealed by Con-
gress;
Now, therefore, |, Grover Cleveland,
President of the United States, in per-
formance Of a constitutional duty, do
by this proclamation declare that
extraordinary occasion requires the
convening of both houses OF the Con-
gress of the United States at the
capitol in the City of Washington on
the seventh day of August next, at 2
o'clock noon, to the end that the
people may be relieved through legis-
lation from present and impending
danger and distress.
All those entitled to act as members
of the Fifty-third Congress are re-
CURED 10 take notice of this proclama-
ton and attend at the time and place
above stated.
Given under my hand and the seal
OF the United States, at the City of
Washington, on the thirtieth day OF
| June, in the year of our Lord 1898,
and of the independence of the United
States the one hundred and seven
tenth.
[Signed.] GROVER CLEVELAND.
FOURTH CLASS POSTOFFICES.
An official statement regarding
fourth class postoffces, over which a
large number of our fellow citizens are
anxious, is as follows: "The official
records of the Postoftice Departm ent
show that during the first three months
of the present administration, ending
June 3 the total number of fourth class
postmasters appointed was 6,537, Of
which 1852 where to fill vacancies
caused by designations and death, and
1865 by removals. During the cor
responding period in Mr.. Harrison's
administration the total number ap.
pointed was 8,226 or I $3.50 more than
were appointed during the last three
months. Of these 1850 were to fill
vacancies caused by designations and
deaths, and 5,567 by removals. The
number of appointments made or
designations was, therefore, 2,o1:
greater during the first quarter of the
present administration than during
the last, and the number made on re-
movals was 3,7o2 less during the las
quarter than during the corresponding
quarter under Mr.. Harrison's admins
tration." A little more "pernicious'
activity on the part of Mr.. Maxwell
in removing some of the offensive
postmasters in North Carolina woulc
be appreciated by those most inter
ested.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06
THAD r. MANNING,
Owner and Editor.
DEVOTED TO THE INDUSTRIAL. EDCCA-
TIoNAL AND MATERIAL WELFAR
oFVANCE COUNTY AND NORTH
CAROLINA.
Published at the live and growing town
of Henderson, in the centre OF the
Famous YELLOW TOBACCO District.
weekly resume of the News, Humor an
General Topics of the Day.
Published EVERY THURSDAY MORNING
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION :
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The editor disclaims all responsibility
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Address all communications to
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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06
Parker's Headline is still in it.

Parker's Liver Pills gets there.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06
Lowest Possible Prices.

| carry a general stock OF
merchandise, embracing cv-
erything in the line of
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-06-10

This popular Restaur. mt Is now
recognized as the leading place in
the city or good service and square
meals. my aim to make it the
most perfectly appointed eating
place n Nevada.
NIB
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-06-10
A TERRIBLE CALAMITY.
The Falling of a Floor Kills |
Number of Government
Clerks.

Washington, June g. Ford's OPP
era House, in which Lincoln was
assassinated, just fell in. About 300
Govt. clerks were in the place, and
great loss of life is feared.
The first floor collapsed, through
weakness, caused by excavating a
cellar, carrying down three other
floors and a hundred clerks. The
dead and wounded are being taken
cut by firemen and police. All the
ambulances in the city have been
summoned. 1t is feared 100 people
were killed. The scenes are terrible.
Some jumped from the third floor.
The walls are still standing, but the
floors are down and the windows
blown out. The building has been
condemned as unsafe for some time,
but sentiment kept it unchanged.
The floors were heavily loaded with
the records and pension divisions of
the War Department. The clerks
are all men.
There were over 400 clerks in the
building. Scarcely one escaped more
or less injured. Twenty eight were
taken from the ruins up to 1915 A.
NJ. The Emergency Hospital IS
crowded with the dead and injured.
The injuries from the very nature of
the affair are very severe crushed
and broken limbs and internal in
juries. Thousands surrounded the
scene and the excitement spread all
over the city.
Every hospital in the city has been
called on to care for the wounded.
Eight bodies have just been taken
out of the ruins unidentified.
Over thirty dead bodies have been
removed and still the work goes on.
Two companies of infantry are
guarding the place.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-06-10
KeeIy Stock.

Several of our citizens subscribed
for stock in the Keely cure yester-
day. The company to be organized
in Nevada will be incorporated with
1000 shares. The company take
900 shares and there will be but lOO
shares for sale.
1t now rests between Reno and
Carson which city will take the
stock and secure the location of the
place. 1t is as much benefit imam
cially to the town as the Mint and
Carson will always regret it if it al
lows this proposition to go else
where.
Los Gatos was dead town before
the Keely cure located there and
now it is doing twice the business it
ever did d the place Furnishing
The stock pays 25 per cent yearly
and every person in this city would
be directly or Indirectly benefited by
bringing the concern here.
About % shares of stock was
taken yesterday at $50 share and
the city will be canvassed today for
the balance.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-06-10
The Cowboy Race.

Chadron, Neb., June Am eff
fort is being made by the Humane
Society to interfere with the race OF
the three hundred cowboys who are
entered to start from Chadron June
18th on broncos, to see who will first
reach Chicago, a distance of 800
miles.
President Haynes is acting for the
society. He claims that the laws OF
Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois contain
clauses that would prohibit the pro
posed race and he has written to the
different Governors and Shsritfs pro-
testing against the race. Large
posters, in which 81, 1000 reward is
offered for the arrest and conviction
of the participants, have been scat
tered all along the line.
The cowboys say, ''Let any ten
derfoot interfere with US while we
are riding through and attending to
our own business and they will learn
the bullet dance in short order. "
The Sheriff here received an offer
from the Humane Society to stop the
race. As he is one of the riding
masters of the old cow-puncher
school, he declined to accept the
proposition. The object of the race
is to show the endurance of the ma
tive Western bronco pony. These
ponies are ridden from rs to 10
miles day while OH a roundup,
and on an average they are ridden
80 to 70 miles day.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-06-26

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Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-06-26
ART SQUARES.

Ever began furnish Oriental Rugs within
rcuc Of modest pockctbooks the idea has
aud Art Squares have been brought prominently the
For sr cottage and for pas Of city
they the conventional floor covering Suggestions Of
Rug the trfc OF capcnse Art Squares
yards 4x5 yards Several grades
Of patterns.