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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-05-09
IN. Y. Dispatch.1

1t is said that the saddest words
that can ever fall from human lips are,
alt might have BEEN" And truly
when one pauses for brief moment to
reflect upon those four little words,
their importance grows with the re-
flection. They outweigh the whole
universe in the weight of their despair.
They outmeasure the whole oceans OF
all worlds in the tears they wiring from
the lost soul. Their cries sound loud
above the din of crashing matter in
their wall OF remorse. alt might have
been!" Oh, the rivers OF blood that
track these words on the road from
earth to Heaven! The bleeding foot
prints of earth's weary one!
And these words are many times,
aye, in almost every instance, simply
duty unperformed. The hearts of men
are everyday burdened with care, and
their pathway hedged about because of
neglect. Morning dawns with the
day before US. Duties, new and i'm
portant, come fresh with every day. If
we start out in the morning when the
vigor of a restful sleep makes us strong
for the work before US, and with deter
mined zeal engage in the duties of
life-no matter what they are, small
or great-and perform them till the
evening, we can claim the refreshment
OF slumber with a clear conscience,
and our sleep will be peaceful and our
dreams pleasant. There will be more
than one heart made glad, for no man
can live in the world a single day
without the opportunity of doing good
to some one. A cup of cold water, or
a morsel of TODD may be blessed boon
and save some poor fellow mortal from
suffering. A little thing! Yes little
thing, but the whole of life's duties are
made up OF little things. The great
things that men perform stand out as
do the high peaks in the mountain
chain, only here and there visible.
The gilt of a million dollars to an ed
uCatlOnal institution IS puOilsneu all
over the world, and the name OF the
"lberar hearted donor is regarded
with a sort of sacred reverence, while
the hundreds of millions given in the
smaller sums are not recorded, save
by the invisible hand which is ever
writing the good deeds of men. The
widows mite outweighs all the "Inuni-
ficent donations of the rich. The one
is duty performed from a love for the
needy, and the other is splash for no.
toriety.
The duties Of life, when faithfully
performed, bring rich rewards of peace
and contentment to ourselves and ben,
| eft to our fellows.
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false to itself and Gisloyal to Him who
is the Father of all alike. Indeed, to
speak plain truth, pure minded
heathen who is given to practices
which we abhor, but who is conscien-
tious in duty, enjoys larger share of
Gods approval than Christian who
mods assent to the creed on Sunday
and robs his fellows all the rest of the
week. 1t is no merit OF yours that you
were born among large duties and
hopes, and it is no fault of the Bagdad
merchant that he was not so born.
Your merit lies in the use you make Of
your broad sunlight, and his merit
lies in the use he makes of his slender
moonlight. Sunlight and moonlight
are both from God, though, and the
one need not despise the other.
With kindly charity for all, with
good will toward every race, dusky or
white with profound respect for every
system of religion, because it is factor
in the problem of human progress, We
may nevertheless be grateful for the
wonderful hopes and ambitions which
the Christ represents. His great heart
went out in pity for the prodigal; He
felt the Fathers presence in the bright
est day and the darkest night; He
loved His kind with the love Of self
sacrifice; He was the friend of the
friendless and the lover of the despair
ing; in His dire emergencies the heav-
ems opened and troops of angels came
down to minister unto Him; He did
not die but simply departed that He
might prepare place for us in Heav-
en- which is far more real than the
earth is.
If we believe all that, we need travel
neither East nor West in search of
high aspirations, for they are close at
hand. India, Persia, Arabia. China
must come to us in the fulness of time,
for we have jewels they do not possess.
They have been travelling our way for
thousand years. By and by we
shall all be one in essential belief, but
the Christian must first give up his
dogmatic denunciation and draw all
men by that love which is the only
test of character and that brotherly
kindness and charity which render it
but step from the millennium of earth
to The heaven of eternity.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-05-09
A SONG OF THE DAISY.

Will Carleton, in Every Where for May
o, would that were yonder thrush,
Mid forest branches swinging,
While every dewy leaf would hush,
And listen to my singing!
Or would were an eagle high,
That cleaves the distance hazy;
'Iis not for me, alas for l
Am nothing but daisy
Though thrOned upon Jaunty stem,
And clasping tight golden gem,
With star of silver browning them.
And would that were yonder oak,
With vines about me clinging,
Or with the storms undreaded stroke,
My arms in triumph flinging;
Or basking in clOudlesS sky,
Mid dreams divinely lazy;
Oh, that would be a life but
Am nothing but daisy
The humblest Of the flowers, alas
A spectre white amid the grass,
That trembles when foot may pass.
And would that were yonder maid,
Whose fairy feet are bringing
A precious form adOwn the glade
That with her laugh is ringing!
And look for now she wanders nigh
Along the woodland may;
She takes me to herself though
Am nothing but daisy
A child of nature. void OF art,
play at last an envied part:
This beauty clasps me to her heart!
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Marvellous Results.

From letter written by Rev. J. Gunder-
man, of Dimondale, Mich, we are permitted
to make this extract: '' have no hesita-
ton in recommending DR.. Kings New
Discovery, as the results were almost
marvellous in the case of my wife. While
l was pastor of the Baptist church, at
Rives Janction she was brought down with
Pneumonia succeeding La Grippe. Ter
rible paroxysms CT coughing would last
hours with little interruption and it seemed
as if she could notsurvive them. A friend
recommended DR.. Kings New Discovery ;
it was quick in its work and highly salts
factory in results'' Trial bottles free at
Melville Dorsey's drug store. Regular
size SOC. and 81 90.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-05-09

"With the feetness of a deer the
cruel murderer had fed, not knowing
what his ruthless shaft had done. But
with equal fieetness hundreds of braves
were soon upon his trail, and before
the moon went down, on being told
what he had done, he at once became
a raving maniac and his moanful
wailings were heard for miles around.
"In the large mound at the junction
of Tar River and Lynch's Creek the
remains of the Indian idol were laid
to rest, with all the customary cere-
monies of the Indian burial, and the
different tribes returned to their
villages with mournful hearts and
down cast heads.
"The remorseful culprit was duly
tried, condemned to death, and was
carried before the aged and grief
stricken arrow-maker 10 suggest what
tortures should be inflicted before
death. But waving his hands to the
guards, he said: do not kill him,
death IS no punlshment-only relief.
Unbind him and let him 60 that he
may suffer the pangs of remorse the
balance of his days, and may the
Great Spirit prolong his days forever
"And tradition says that he never
died, that he still wanders over the
hills around Kittrell, and that on the
full moon in September, those visiting
the spot of the murder, can yet hear
his moanful wailings as they reverberase
up and down the little valley.
"But the less superstitious think
that these sounds are only caused by
the blowing of the wind in this peculiar
shaped valley"
Such was the old mans story. l
have some of the pretty arrow-heads
said to have beer polished by
Kinneeta. prize them very highly.
RELIC HUNTER.
Kittrell, N. c., May 9th, 1895.
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Twenty Years a Teacher.

CANPBELLsvILLE, KY.-"I have been a
teacher for twenty years, and during that
time have had repeated attacks OF head
ache. Now l am entirely free from then,
after using Simmons Liver Regulator. 1t
was so mild in its action that it neve'
interfered with my school duties. e. A
Cheek.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-05-09

After the grip. diphtheria, pneumonia,
scarlet fever, typhoid fever. ETC., Hood s
Sarsaparilla is Of wonderful benefit in
imparting the strength and vigor so much
desired.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-05-09

PROTECTION from the grip,
i pneumonia, dphtheria, fever and
epidemics is given by Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla. It makes PURE BLOOD.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-05-09
TORN TO PIECES BY A MAD Doc
A Little Child's Awful Fate-The
Stubbornness of a Neighb0r Re-
sponslble.

[Rutherfordton Democrat, April 26th.
Little jamie, the six-year old daugh-
ter of Mr.. julius Gettys, Of Duncan's
Creek, who was so horribly bitten by a
mad dog recently, died last Friday.
The full details of this tragedy form
most heart-rending story. 1t
seems that about a year ago, a dog
belonging to man by the name of
Chetwood, who lived in the same
neigaborhood with Mr.. Gettys, was
bitten by a mad dog. His neighbors
begged Chetwood to kill his dog, but
he refused and allowed it to run at
large.
On the first day of this month the
dog went mad. 1t went to Mr.. Get
tys' house where his three children,
little jamie, aged six years, her sister
aged about ten years, and an infant,
were alone. 1t jumped upon little
JAMIE, dragged her out of the house,
into the yard and under the house,
undeterred by the child's screams.
The older child caught the baby up,
and ran to a field nearby where a
colored man was blowing and told
him that a dog had her little sister
under the house "eating her up" The
negro instead of going to rescue the
child, unhitched the mule, jumped on
it, took the baby and galloped of
telling the little girl to run or the dog
would get her. He rode to the house
OF Mr.. Plato Gettys and told him.
Mr.. Gettys got his gun and went as
fast as possible to his brother's and
found the dog under the house biting
and tearing the child's face. He sho,
and wounded it, whereupon it dropped
the child, ran from under the house
and was shot again and killed.
The little child with blood stream
ing from her mangled face and throat
and the flesh hanging in strings
! crawled from under the house, walked
around to the door and into the house
and sat down upon little box in the
room. Her nose had been torn off.
t All the flesh on the right side of he,
face, and the left eye and left ca,
were torn off and the flesh on that side
of her face was stripped from the bones
; leaving the bones on both sides of her
, face exposed, presenting a horrible
spectacle.
She was conscious and told how the
dog had bitten and torn the flesh from
her and had never for moment
ceased tearing and biting her until he'
uncle shot him. AS it was thirty min
utes from the time the dog dragged
her from the house until her uncle
rescued her, some idea of the pool
little ones horrible suffering can be
| formed.
When her heart t-broken father arrived
and caught her to his heart sobbine
over her, she begged him to be quiet,
to keep the dogs off her and to gel
his gun and kill them. For nineteer
days the little innocent lay in agony
in her delirium begging to be saved
from the dog until death came to hel
relief.
The poor father, almost crazed, ha'
obeyed his dead child's command
Wherever he goes he carries his gun
and shoots every dog he sees. Ane
he is right.
And how must Mr.. Chetwood feel
But for his refusal to kill the dog wher
begged to do so and when common
sense and common humanity de
manded that he should, this innocent
harmless child would have escapet
| hen fea rfi,1 death
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-05-09

All druggists guarantee DR.. Niles PAN
Pills to stop Headache. Zone cent dose"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-05-09
Duty UnperfOrmed.

Hoods Pills for the liver and bowels
act easily yet promptly and effectively.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-05-09
The Latest Outrage

which the people of the South
are resenting, is the efforts of
some to sell them limitations for
the real Simmons Liver Regu-
lator, because they make more
money by the imitation and
they care little that they swindle
the people in selling them an
inferior article. It's the money
they are after, and the people can
look out for themselves. Now
this is just what the people are
doing, and merchants are having
a hard time trying to get people
to take the stuff they offer them
in place of Simmons Liver Reg
ulator-which is the liking of
Liver Medicines" because it never
fails to give relief in all liver
troubles. Be sure that you get
Simmons Liver Regulator. You
know lt ny M&5 TIC % II
old stamp 6as of the Red
Il on the i& package.
It has gAA0 never fail
ed you, Mse1 H and people
who have VNX been per-
.ualed to take something else have
always come back again to The
Old Friend. Better not take any
thing else but that made by j. II.
ZEILIN & Co., Philadelphia.
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know it by
old stamp
i on the
1t h a 8
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who have
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-05-09
SUBSCRIPTION Si.6c Cash.
NO. 20.
Pure Blood

Because the health OF every organ and
tissue Of tho body depends upon this
purity OF the blood. The whole worli
knows the standard blood purifier 10
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-05-09
\ Good Advertisement

In live, progressive paper, that
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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-10
Panic or a Grand Stand. .

BUFFALO. n. Y, July 4.-While
10000 people sat in the new grand
stand at the Buffalo Driving Park at
80 o'clock this afternoon, a section
of the stand fell. The cause was
weak stairway which held forty or tif-
ty at time. Underneath the stairway
was wine room, which had been
crowded with people only moment
before. They were climbing back to
their seats in the stand to witness the
start of race, when the accident oc-
CURED. IL caying in so suddenly,
the stairway took with it section of
the grand stand and piled about sixty
people, men, women and children in
a mass. Then the immense crowd
stood up in their seats and rushed TO-
ward the stairway and then back from
it again. In the stampede women
tainted and were trampled upon,
jumped from the stand to the ground
and other ways contributed to the ex-
citement. After the stand had been
cleared the people were held back
with difficulty while those who had
fallen were extricated. Carriages were
soon at hand and took to their
homes about forty men and women
who were but slightly injured, or who
suffered from the shock. Ambulances
took the most severely injured to the
hospitals.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-10
For SafekeepiQg,

COLUMBIA, June 29.-Saturday after
noon Deputy Foster of Spartanburg
brought to Columbia for safekeeping
Constables Stevenson and Brice, and
they were placed temporarily in jail.
So far as could be learned by Private
Secretary Gunter. the citizens of Spar
tanburg did not fear any trouble, but
Sheriff Dean seemed to be apprehen-
sive and asked that the constables be
taken to Columbia.
Passengers on the Spartanburg train
report that there was large crowd of
mountaineers gathered at Tryon,
many of them being relatives or friends
of the dead moonshiners, and some
thought they might want to resort to
extreme measures, but whether that
was the case or not is questionable.
Constable Stevenson said he left
Toland and Pettigrew in about the
same condition. Pettigrew's case is
still considered most critical, and
though be himself is hopeful his
friends are not so much so.
The dead moonshiners have been
removed to their homes from the
scene.
The revenue authorities had been
after the gang before the constables
met up with them. About the 22d of
May they seized four barrels of liquor
in Spartanburg, which was being un-
loaded by oneR. D: Blowers in store.
He was a member of the same gang, it
is said, and a case is now against him
in the United States Court.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-10
Murder In Greenyille.

GREENvnLE, June 29.-Tonight at
halfpast s o'clock, J. D. Lewis, a con-
ductor on the Carolina, Knoxville and
Western Railway, shot his brother-in-
law, Henry Rutledge, who will prob
ably die before morning. The shoot
ing took place at Rutledge's house,
about hundred yards from the rear
of the News Office. The trouble be-
tween the two men was caused by
Lewis leaving his wife, a sister OF Rut-
ledge. Mrs. Lewis made an attack on
a girl named Lytton, with whom she
accused her husband of being too init
mate. The Lytton girl is the daugh-
ter of respectable parents and went
wronga a year or two ago. For some
time She was an inmate of Emma
Browns house in Charleston. Rut-
ledge deals in ice and keeps his stock
in the cellar of his house. Bad blood
has existed for some time between the
two men and Lewis went to Rutledge's
house tonight and found the latter in
his ice cellar. They had some words
and Lewis drew his pistol and fred
three shots, each taking effect. One
passed through the right lung, another
in the shoulder and one in the side.
Three physicians are with Rutledge,
but do not express an opinion as to the
possibility of his recovery. Lewis
made his escape as soon as he shot and
has not been CAPTURED vet.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-10
Favorable Trade Conditions.

New YORK, ly 5.-Bradstreets to-
morrow will say: There are 197 bust
ness failures reported throughout the
United States this week, as compared
with 215 last week, 164 in the first
week Of July, 1894; 319 in 1898, and
152 in the like week of 1892. The total
business failures in the Dominion OF
Canada number twenty-five this week
against twenty-elght last week, thirty
nine IN the week one year ago, and
twenty-siN two years ago.
Notwithstanding theweek is broken
by holiday, favorable trade condi-
tons heretofore reported continue to
exercise pronounced influence, prom
inently general advances in prices of
staples and of wages of industrial en-
ployees. The extent of the voluntary
advances in wages reported within a
month or two has outgrown the re-
sources of voluntary statistical bu-
reaus which have endeavored to keep
track of them, latest advices being
that more than 100000 industrial
workers have received an advance
averaging about 10 per cent.
The upward tendency in prices,
while not as marked as month ago,
is still striking because Of additional
advances, those of lumber, tin plate
and PRINT cloths being new Cotton
goods are firm generally on the late
advance in raw cotton, although some
varieties are quiet at this, the mid
summer season. Fancy prints are ac-
tive for fall delivery. Wool, which
was late in starting in the race for
higher quotations, isquoted atanother
advance for South American and Au-
stralian varieties. Prices at London
sales are up 10 or Is points, which
having been more than discounted
here. induces the trade to anticipate
reaction unless London quotations ad-
vance further Cotton also is higher,
as is leather, following which we have
a repetition of theannouncement made
each week for more than a month,
that quotations for pig iron and steel
billets have advanced To this must
be added similar statement in respect
to bar iron.
Among the list of staples for which
prices are lower. are flour, wheat, corn
and oats, in all instances the outcome
Of reports OF improved corp conditions.
Pork and lari are also lower, as are
potatoes and Batter
Nc IL .,er:alim pr,-emo2tis is reported
from the s;n':tb, rains continuing to be
damaging t. agricultural Interests and
the check of business in Texas. while
! al South Atlantic and Gulf State cities
tie quiet movement OF staple goods
and fair or unsatisfactory collections
oi tho past month os two continue.
But adviceS from nearly all cities re
ported appear TO agree that wholesale
dealers IN uearjy- ali lines are greatly
encouraged IS TO tie outlook for busl
ness during the autumn, believing
that the demand Will be greatly stimu
lated by the Very general, and, as it is
now believed, permanent improve
ment n prices.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-10
A Strange Case.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, June 30.-The
death of Brice Carter, wealthy and
prominent contractor of this city early
this morning, was the elimination of
strange case which has attracted at
teAtion for the last seven years. That
long ago Mrs. Carter complained to-
the police that a servant girl whom
she had just discharged was slowly
poisoning her husband but detectives
who investigated reported that Mrs.
Carter had no grounds for her accusa-
tions. Several months later Mrs Carter
repeated her accusations and appealed
to the police, but no attention was
paid. She told her story to the grand
jury. Mr.. Carter was called and said
he believed his wife was insane. At
intervals of a few months Mrs. Carter,
who appeared to be sane on all other
matters, has repeated her act. Early
this morning she was aroused by Mr..
Carter, who was suffering from
stomach pains, and before doctor ar
rived he was dead. An autopsy re
vealed no poison, but the stomach will
be analyzed to clear the mystery OF
his death.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-10
Sullivan Acquitted.

ANDERSON, June 29.-The jury in the
case of J. Minis Sullivan, charged
with the murder of Herman G.. Gil
reath in Greenville on June IA, 1892,
after being out from 2 p. m. yesterday
till 1910 p. m. today, returned a YER
dict of mot guilty This case was
first called for trial at the July, 1892,
term for Greenville and continued on
affdavits of the absence of material
witnesses for the defense. At the Oc-
tober term of the same year, the defen-
dant moved to quash the panel Of
Jurors on the ground that the sheriff
of the county was half brother of
the slain man. Judge James Aldrich
granted the motion and as the sheriff
had just been reelected for four years,
ordered a change of venue to Ander-
son. At the Anderson spring term of
1898 the defendant demurred to the
jurisdiction of the Anderson court.
The demurrer was overruled and no
tice of appeal was given. Circuit
Judge Jzlar decided to try the case,
but was enjoined from doing so by
Justice Pope Of the Supreme Court. 1t
was at this term that the stir about al
legged attempts to bribe jurors occurred.
The Supreme Court sustained the lower
court and remanded the case for trial.
In October, 1893. the case was tried be-
fore Judge Wallace and verdict of
guilty was rendered. The defendant
was sentenced tc be hanged Decem-
Der 22nd, 1898. Execution was stayed
pending an appeal to the Supreme
Court for a new trial. In 1894 the de-
fendant moved for and secured suspen-
sion of his appeal toallow motion on
circuit for a new trial on the ground
of after discovered evidence. Judge
Ernest Gary heard the motion and re-
fused it. The Supreme Court sustained
the appeal on the grounds, chiefly,
that the judge erred in excluding evi-
dence showing that the States witness,
Finlay, had made statements regard
ing the shooting different from those
he made on the witness stand, and had
erred in his charge regarding the tax
ing of life; and ordered new trial,
which was begun two days ago, and
the evidence was practically the same
as that given at the former trial when
a verdict of guilty was rendered and a
death sentence passed.