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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-02-01

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Speaks Of Other Days.

Hair and spring MISUNDERSTANDING
stock at low prices-at WATkINS'S.
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WE entirely agree with the Winston
DAILY WorM when it says that "the
Charlotte ObSey0rr is a credit Ia
Southern journalism and one ,ha'
every North Carolnian has reason 20
be proud OF 1t is a newspaper Of a
high order OF merit. Such paper is
a great blessing to any city or sec
ton" While every issue Is up 10 tive
high water mark" of excellence the
Sunday issue Of the ObscrVe,, consist
ing OF six and eight pages, is a source
of constant surprise and pleasure to us.
Editor Caldwell knows how to get up
good paper, and knowing how he
does it. Such paper is worth every
cent asked for it, whether the sub
scription price be fixed at 5000 or
$500.
If, as the dispatches indicate, the
brokers are to draw out of the Treasury
S5o,ooo,ooo of gold with which to
buy the S5o,ooo,ooo Of new bonds,
will not Mr.. Carlisle, like the SOW
which crawled through the hollow log,
come out on the same side of the
fence he went in ?-Charlotte
Ob5eyV<r.
This is the view we take of the
matter, seeing the methods adopted.
The plan of taking gold out of one
pocket and putting it in another-or
in other words, Withdrawing it from
the treasury only to return It by
purchasing bonds-will not do much
TO build up and strengthen the reserve
fund. Unless gold outside the treasury
is used for this purpose we fail to see
wherein Mr. Carlisle will help the
situation materially by the bond issue
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-02-01
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Parker's Coughine for coughs an
colds.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-02-01
WE HAVE TO: WHY NOT THEY.

Our New York correspondent told
very interestingly in Sundays paper
Of the ground of objection of the New
Workers TO al income tax. The
bulk Of the people, he says, "pay no
taxes directly. Nobody is taxed on
his watch and his silver spoons. You
make ten thousand year in Gotham
and not be asked to pay cent of
taxes. And this immunity from the
tax collector has been enjoyed for
years ard years. When, therefore, it
is proposed to begin sending govern
ment officials to each mans house
with power to make him declare his
income and to tax it there is natur
ally howl of wrath from the popula-
tlon.'
Our people down here have, through
out the ages, been paying taxes both
directly and. indirectly; and they
want their New York friends now to
come in for system of taxation
which, while it may be new them, they
are none too good to bear it. There
is no need for the government 10 send
officers to mems houses to make them
declare their incomes. The list takers
may have offices and the people may
20 there and make their returns, or,
failing to do SO, be fined or put in
Jail. Why should the officers be sub
jected to the necessity of going out to
hunt up incomes, when they could as
we'll sit in their offices and have those
who enjoy the incomes come to them
But, if the officials ever went to mems
houses in order to get at their incomes,
what of it? Why should it be counted
a strange thing, something unknown
to the laws of the United States? The
internal revenue laws permit of doml-
cilliary visits, and when we cry out
against the invasion and ask that the
laws be so modified as not to admit
longer OF such outrages, we are de-
rided by our friends up North and the
world is told that those OF US who are
not moonshiners are in sympathy with
those who are.
But the question ofdomiciliary visits
in the collection of an income tax is
aside-there is no need of them, no
danger of them What the people of
the North dread is being made to
stand up to be counted. But, bless
their hearts, we have been accustomed
to this, down here, all our lives. We
must 90 before the list-takes every
June, take a blank form and on 1t
make out complete schedule of all
we have that is subject to taxation,
take off our hats, hold up Cur lily
white hands and swear that the sched-
ule contains a true and accurate list,
ETC., and that the value of the prop
erty is as set forth, ETC., SO help US, etc.
If the people of North Carolina can
do this for State and country and
municipal st-takes, the people of
New York are not too good to do it
tor the taxing officer of the national
government. And we want to see
them get at it.-Charlotte Observer.
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

WHAT the New 7 ork World Demo
cratic) of Tuesday says of the Presi.
dents Supreme Count Justice appoint
ment.
Senator White did not take his seat
on the Supreme Bench yesterday. He
remains in the Senate in order to pro-
tect sugar. He has been appointed a
Judge of the highest tribunal in the
country and he has accepted the office
and been confirmed by the Senate.
Still he fingers in the legislative cham
Der.
This is scandalous. It is all the more
scandalous if, as is stated, the sugar
interest is not only State but per-
sonal matter with Mr.. White. A man
who will legislate for his personal in
terests is not fit to be Senator, much
less is he fit to he Judge. While Mr..
White should be sitting on the bench
he is dodging his new office to lobby,
deal and intrigue for sugar.
Is it possible that in his last judicial
appointment Mr.. CLEVELAND has
blundered agailp
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10
Thousands Of nrotected manufacturers

Thousands of protected manufacturers
would rather see the duties on their in
dustries lowered by prompt revision
than have the prevailing uncertainty
prolonged by delay. Thousands Of
business men who have suffered from
protection would rather have Congress
drop revision, adjourn, go home and
let the Mckinley law stand, than to
keep up An agitation which must in
crease business stagnation until settled.
In short, nothing is looked upon as
so disastrous and menacing to the
country as delay. Any revision or no
revision would be hailed as welcome
relief from the existing suspense.
If the Democrats in the Senate were
not blind or reckless they would see
this and cut delay short by killing the
infamous income tax rider and passing
the Tariff bill at once in form that
would command the prompt approval
of the House. But If they continue in
their present defiant and laundering
course the Democratic candidates at the
Congressional election nert November
,ciN be hurried under a landslide of pop
ular condemnation.
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

A disgrunlled subscriber writes
''Mr. Editor-I like your paper gen er.
ally-likewise yourself-you deserve
much of my respect. Nevertheless
cross from your d zzling list Of sub.
scriberr my humble name or stop
printing those binders Of DR.. Pierce.
I know him by heart-his medic ines
are .. X. had the sickest liver that
eve was sick and lived, and his Pellets
straight ,ned out its crooks.
My wife, sister, children, cousins.
aunts and uncles, have all been
strengthened by the mystery of their
magic, l am truly grateful; but when
| sit down to read one of napoleon
Banaparte's Jokes or AN Irishman
Crossing the Alps must I always
have to blunder into the old story of
how 'Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are
purely vegetable and anti-billious,
pleasant to the taste-cure sick head
ache, relieve torpid liver and are guar.
anteed to give satisfaction or money
returned.
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

Inyalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute.
This widely celebrated institution,
located at Buffalo N. Y, is organized
with full staff of experienced and skill.
fGl Physicians and Surgeons, consti.
tuting the most complete organization
Of medical and surgical skill in Ameri.
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Send 10 cents in stamps for the in
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Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

WE cannot refrain from calling at
tention to the recent excellent job work
turned out by the TRANSCRIPT office.
The posters bearing the stamp of the
TRANSCRIPT have been the best seen
in this vicinity for long time, with
the result, that our Office has been over
flowing with work for the last two
months. Equipped in every respect,
with all the facilities for doing good
work, and with one of the best set of
workmen in the state, the TRANSCRIPT
has taken the lead in all respects and
is prepared to do the neatest and best
work at the most reasonable rates.
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10
"The Blood Is the Life, -

Runs the old saying, and everything
that ever makes part of any organ
Of the body must reach its place therein
through the blood. Therefore, if the
blood is purified and kept in good con-
dition by the use of Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla, it necessarily follows that the
benefit of the medicine is impaired to
every organ of the body. Can anything
be simpler than the method by which
this excellent medicine gives good
health to all who will try it fairly and
patiently2
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10
NO MORE HAT-pINs1 1osr

The hat pins which prods dozen OF
holes into felt and straw has seen it's
day. The inventor has turned his at
tention to the matter and the result
is fixture which guides tina direction
OF the pin, and at the same time
fastens it SO securely that no sudden
breeze can dislocate it.
The pins are made with a small, al
most imperceptible groove near the
base, over which a little plate Of sill
yer or steel fastens. This sheath is
fastened on after the pin is stuck
through one side of the hat, and thus
acts as a sort of lock. The pin cannot
come out until the plate is removed,
and as the pin is stuck through at the
proper angle in the first place there is
no necessity for it's frequent removal
In this way the ruin of the hat is pre-
vented. Gold, silver, and ordinary
wire pins are now made with this i'm
provement.
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

There is more Catarrh in this sec
tion of the country than all other di.
seases put together, ard until the last
few years was supposed to be incurable
For great many years doctors pro.
nounced tia local disease, and pre-.
scribed local remedies, and by con.
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment, pronounced it incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be a constitu-
tional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Ca.
tarrh Cure, manufactured by f. J..
Cheney Il Co., Toledo Ohio is the only
constitutional cure on the market, It
is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to teaspoonful. 1t acts directly
on the blood and mucus surfaces of
the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it fails to cure
Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address. F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Sold by Druggiats, 75c. Toledo O.
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

IT is useless for the Democrt officials
of this State to carry on their obstruc
tive tactics to defeat the popular will
and the sooner they realize the fact
that the Republicans are fearfully in
earnest in their efforts to redeem the
State the better it will be for them.
The tax collectors who are the servants
of the people and not their masters,
should remember that it is their duty
to receive the taxes and that duty is
laid down by the law. If the obstruc-
tive tactics pursued by the Collectors
of Kent and Sussex are kept up we may
expect to see an uprising that will
sweep the Democrat party from power
with the force and violence of a land
slide. Having carried things with
such high hand, they have come to
believe that the State is theirs and
that Republicans have no rights they
are bound to respect. The fate of
McKane should be an object lesson to
he dictators of Delaware Democracy.
The spectacle of the taxables Of East
Dover Hundred being compelled to
follow tax Collector to Philadelphia
to pay their tax is sample of the diff
culties which Delaware Republicans
encounter in their efforts to qualify
to exercise the right of suffrage,
fought for upon the fields of the
Revolution. The tide is turning
and it looks very much as though
Delaware was changing with it. There
Is limit to all things. Never were
the Republicans in such good heart,
with the fact that in each of the last
four elections the Democrat majority
has been reduced and the severe object
lesson that the people have had placed
before them of the incompetency of the
Democrat party to govern the nation.
Facts are facts, and the empty pocket
books, hungry stom achs, and idle
workshops will have the same effect on
Delaware voters as in other parts of
the Country.
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10
STILL ON DECK.

Argument of tle Democrats in Cor.
gress by the New York Herald Demo
cratic) in its issue of Tuesday last.
SUICIDAL TARIFF TINKER1NG
In tinkering with the Tariff bill and
retarding its progress indefinitely the
Democrats in the Senate are evidently
proceeding in perilous course without
reckoning with the people. They are
leisurely wrangling over selfish local
interests, apparently oblivious of the
vital fact that the mischievous delay
which they are causing is fast disgust
ing the people with their party and
contributing to its defeat.
1t is live weeks since the Wilson bill
was sent to the Senate, and it has not
yet been reported to the Finance Com
mittee by the sub committee. When
1t will be reported, or what shape it
will be in when this is done, will be
known positively only when the bill is
actually reported, since experience has
shown that promises are not to be de-
pended upon.
Even if the bill should be laid before
the Finance Committee to-day or to-
morrow the subsequent outlook, as re-
ported from Washington, is neither
promising nor satisfactory, 1t is said
that the bill will remain in the hands
of that committee for several days, and
that at least two weeks will pass before
debate on it will begin in the Senate.
How long that debate will be allowed
to drag on no one can tell, but unless
the Democratic Senators turn over a
new leaf it may be prolonged indef-
nitely.
For this delay the Democratic leaders
are to blame and will be held response
BILE by the people. They hare shoun
neither patriotism nor craftsmanship.
They promised the country revision by
March 1st. Their present course gives
no assurance of revision even by June |
LIST.
The country has already suffered |
grievously from delay and must con-
tinue to suffer until the tariff agitation
is settled. 1t matters not so much how
1t is settled as that it shall be settled.
Whether sugar is to be taxed or not,
whether coal and iron ore are to be
dutiable or free are minor questions, of
iusigniicance compared with the vital
Importance Of passing some sort of
bill and removing the suspense which
10 SO disastrous to trade and industry.
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

in Pennsylvania" Senator Higgins
''For our present miseries we have to
thank the Democratic party, which is,
it seems, never SO happy as when trying
to run sword through our industries
Senator Pugh Democrat )-"I condemn
Mr.. Cleveland's financial policy in
toto;'' Senator Frye-"His Hawaiian
policy and his attempting to force the
Wilson Bill through Congress have
wrecked his party, and to this extent
Mr.. Cleveland is public benefactor;''
Senator Hale-"The only hope of busi-
ness men is the expected total over
throw Of the Democratic party at the
fall elections;' Senator Manderson-
GA miserable and lamentable failure;''
Senator Platt-"Incompetent and
bad;" Representatives, Bowers-"May
the good Lord save us from three more
such years." Bingham-"Ee has lost
the good esteem of the people by his
pique and bitterness as we'll as by his
attempts to control the legislative
branch of the government contrary to
the Constitution" Payne-"The only
good thing accomplished is the demora-
lization Of the party which placed it in
power;" Walker-"The record of the
year is little short of disgraceful;"
Hepburn-"No administration has ever
gone out of power so little regretted as
will that of Mr.. Cleveland;;" Stolrs-
''Is great failure;;" Marsh-"Has
been hell upon EARTH"
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

Applicant Ito political boss)-Oi'm
afther a job under the Collecthor NV
the Poort.
"But you'll have to pass civil SER
vice eXaminationl"
"Civil sarvice, is it? Phat's that,
now?''
"Why, you'll have to go through a
regular examination.
rs that it? Thin Ohm good for a
two thousand dollar place; Oh can
sthrip as foine as anybody at the French
ball!''
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10
TEMPERANCE CRUSADE.

The Worlds Women's Christian
Tsmperence Union has been prepar
ing during the last seven years mon
ster polyglot petition against legalized
vice, to be presented to all the gov.
ernments.
Lady Henry Somerset and Miss
Willard have been appointed IS the
deputation to convey this petition to
the different governments.
The petition itself has now reached
the unprecedented length Of more
than two million signatures and
with the attestation of certain
great societies not less than three
| millions.
A first class steamer is to be immed-
lately chartered, and a party of 100
will be organized to accompany lady
Henry Somerset and Miss Willard in
this remarkable crusade. DR.. Lunn
has arranged with Mr.. William Pipe
the chairman's secretary to this expo
sition and to accompany the party
around the world.
The crusade will commece at the
annual convention of the Worlds
Women's Christian Temperance Union
to be held in the United States next
October. The American delegation
will then proceed to Washington,
where the polyglot petition will be
presented to the government
Leaving New York on October "a,
the contingent will join the British
contingent. The crusaders stamer
will leave London on Saturday, Nov
ember 8, arriving at naples on Mon
day, November 10.
Avisit will then be peid to Rome
Athens, Jerusalem, Cairo, all the
principal of India, Ceylon, Siam, Aus
tralia, China and Japan.
The eastward circuit of the world
will be completed by a journey across
the Pacific. 1t is intended at a later
date to present the petition to the
Northern and Central governments of
Europe.
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

If persons would bring to bear the
same amount of sense, in buying a
remedy for bronchitis, cough cold and
Group, that they do in the purchase of
their family supplies, they would never
fail to procure DR.. Bulbs Cough Syrup.
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

Democratic Senators are still fighting
among themselves over the tariff bill,
which was sent back to the Finance
COMMITTEES by the caucus for revision,
and until some sort Of an agreement is
reached the outcome will be very much
in doubt.
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10
COMFORTING
EPPS'S s cocoa
BREAKFAST-SUPPER.

laws which govern the operations of diges.
ton aud nutrition, and by careful ap-
plication of the fine properties OF we'll
selected Cocoa, MIR. Epps has provided for
voured beverage which may save us many
heavy doctors bills. 1t is by the judlcious
use of such art cles of diet that constitu-
ton may be gradually built up until strong
enongh 20 resist every tendency to disease.
Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating
around us ready to attack wherever there
is weak point. We may escape many a
fatal shaft by keeping ourselves we'll
fortified vito pure blood and properly
nourished frane"-Ciph Seruice Gazette
Sold only in halfpound tins. by Grocers,
labelled thus:
JAMES EPPs & CO.. Ltd, Homeopathic
Chemists, London, England.
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

Salvation Oil has the envi able dis
tinction of being synonym for cure
of rheumatism, neuralgia, gout and
kindred affections, such as sciatica tic
douloureux etc. 1t is growing more
popular daily. The people will have it.
25 cents.
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

The splendid report of the collections
in the M. E. church on last Sunday do
not seem to indicate that the hard times
have had any appreciable effect on the
generosity of the Middletown Metho-
dist,
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

Jillson says he has noticed that some
men are great deal like rivers. When
their heads are swelled you realize it
from their mouths.
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

"Lady-young, pretty, clever, poor
desires to make the acquaintance of a
gentleman possessing the opposite
qualities. View: A happy marriage, y
(Advt.)
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

The date on the label ON your
paper shows the time to which
your subscriptin Is paid
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

To hear them discourse upon the ad.
vantages of the new style of costume
one is impressed far more by their
enthusiasm for it's beauty and grace.
fulness than by their enumeration OF
it's practical utility. They are logical
too. One feels after listening awhile
to them that if Greek goddess wished
to walk along Fifth avenue on a cool
day she would choose just such a cos.
tune as theirs; nay, mere, a little in.
vestigation is almost sure to convince
you that the dress, if given a fair
chance, would cause the pinched-in
victim of the modern dressmaker to
gradually acquire the proportion of a
sculptured master piece by Praxiteles.
A listener is all the more inclined to
become convert if she is wearing the
new dress while listening to recital
OF It's merits, for there is a glorious
feeling of freedom lightness and COM
fort, without the slightest suggestion
OF the horrible suspicion of "dowdi-
ness" which is the bane of every
woman who cares about her ap-
pearance.
Dowdiness is what the reformers are
continually pleading against. Their
text is beauty, beauty, beauty always,
for this term properly includes the
highest utility and appropriateness.
"As Lucy Stone recently said, the
bloomer was abandoned, not because
OF any fault in the garment Itself.
The bloomer costume was excellent.
1t did not fatigue us. When we un-
dressed, we felt no great sense ofre-
lief, as we do when we put off these
heavy garments. We could walk in
the streets without getting our cloth
ing all mud, and come home without
having great heavy skirts to brush.
We could go up stairs without STEP
ping on ourselves, and go down
stairs without being stepped on. But
useful as the bloomer was, the ridi-
cule of the world killed it.
1T suffered the usual fate of any
thing that is forty years ahead of its
time. We laid it aside with regret, but
the freedom we had gained for our
feet did not make amends for the tor
ment of our spirit, and we had to 60
back into long skirts. Times have
changed since then. Now dress re-
form can be talked about without
bringing ridicule and abuse on the
heads of it's advocates.
"Dress reform is discussed by the
newspapers without being sneered at.
This is as it should be. We who
fought the first battle do not repine |
at victoly's tardy coming. We were
ahead of our age and generation.
Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10

"Ef | kaynt gifts libbin' by far
means den mus by fowl, !" said Sambo,
as he lifted Squire Munger's yellow
leghorn from its roost.