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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-03-26
GOLD PEACHTREE TALKS

"You old Peachtree, Capitol avenue
and Whitehall street sisters you've been
blessed. Your husbands have pros
pered and have built you nice houses
and you are living in big society places.
And here are your daughters running
about here at night half dressed, with
their dresses cut low in the neck. 1t
embarrasses me too see such. 1 al
ways feel like telling them to put on
my coat.-(Amens) l am talking
fact: TO you women. If you just knew
how vulgar men gazed upon their bare
skin you'd know I'm talking facts to
you. l wouldn't put such oD my
pointer dog. If had pointer dog
and wanted to dress him up Ed cover
him all over-,ail and all-(laughsen-e
Why will women dress this wayf Eu's
a mystery | cant understand. Women
ought to be the leaders OF the modestJ
of this country.-(Amens.)
EXPOSED t. INDECsNcY
"Wny, you women, do you know
that your daughters are exposed &c
the indecent gaz- Of vulgar men2
When see the cigarette cards and the
other vulgar pictures OF women scat
tered around think otthese low neckeoi
dresses. You're out of the rnies of
society. You girls, If you could know
the vile thoughts men have Of you
when they gaze upon your decol-
lette gowns at these entertainments, as
you call them, you'd fly home TO your
mammies screaming.
''If Sam Jones does talk plain he
talks common sense and common de-
cency. You fine Peachssee women
you say, 'He'll do 20 talk to- slums and
low down people, but not to us-no
not at alI!" Why you are the very
old gals am after. You women need
it and want you to take your medi.
cine this afternoon.
"lou can go tc the devil if you want
to, but | am going to warn YOU agains,
it. If you haven't got enough cloth
to make your girls whole dress I'm
sorry tor you. My wife is sitting here
listening to every word I say and l am
certain that I'm not going to shock
her modesty, and if your modesty ::
shocked, it's because it ought to be
shocked. Some things are wrong, ano
there is nothing between Heaven or hel
that can make them right. A woman
who thinks decollette dress is modes
is lett
WOMAN DUTY TO TAKE The ARM.
"The other day 4aw a big. talf
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lanky fellow walking along with a girl
on his arm-a little bit Of dudene
she was and he was nearly lifting her
off the ground. That was a beautiful
sight. As long as I've been married
I've never taken my wife's arm. She
always lays hers up in mine and we
walk along all right. (Amens.) You
women turn your daughters a-loose.
You don't see her any more after she
leaves home with young man-who
is perchance as unclean as the devil
until two or three in the morn
ing. Mother, you don't know where
| that daughter goes. The young man
comes back by an ice cream saloon
and frequently it is 3 o'clock before
| he rings the door-bell at the girls
home. Mothers, I say to you, in
! the name of God, stop it now. That
noble woman. Miss Tucker-and there
is not a nobler woman IN tins country
than she-stood up before the ladies
at Trinity last Sunday and asked which
was the worse for her, 10 g. TO these
houses and try to reclaim the lost and
fallen women or for the girls of the
town to go with boys who were them
selves lost and unclean? Law me!
| Miss Tucker can't 80 with the hand OF
4 an angel and pull d poor girl out OF
these houses, but these boys walk the
streets with your daughters. IT there S
\ a man in the world that'll build a
/ wall mile high around pure girls ,ha,
! man is me.
! "Again lot of you women have
punch bowls and wine suppers. Aln''
YOU pretty things! A Methodist,
PRESBYTERIAN and Baptist woman act.
ually set out punch bowl to crowd
of young folks at their home and va:
told that they only drank the punch,
but after awhile-beiore day-they got
TO drinking the pure old rye. These
were nice girls, too. Nice, yes, very
nice. don't care if folks are wor,l
a million dollars-I don't care wha
kind of house people live IN, pu
| character before appearance and Goo
| beft.re gold. The men look their med
icine, and now | want you to TAKE
YOURS. Mothers, listen to me: l tel
YOU as a Christian and as a friend, yo'
| can't guard too closely the sanctlt.
| and modesty OF your home. (Amens..
/ Society is the cause Of nineten,hs of TIT
| divorce cases in the courts of-this land
And then look at the grass widows ant
| the dog -fennel widowers.
Il know there's lot of you goot
old sisters who would like 10 retire
il but I've got you in here and you can
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get out. You may say that Sam Jones
is fool, a mountebank, but there's
not one of you in the audience thAtll
look me in my face and say that |
don't believe what say. You Chris
tan mothers are nodding your heads
at me and you society women look like
something hacked.
81 plead for home. If there's a fel-
low that amt interested in home that
fellow int no kin to me. was at
home some time ago and while there
| asked my. wife what was the highest,
slickest steepest hill she ever had to
climb in keeping up with the children.
"sTll tell you the hardest pull |
have my wife answered, sit is keeping
them from doing what other children
do. If it wasn't for them wanting to
do what other children d. could get
along with them ali right"
CHOW you old society sister, you've
caused my wife trouble in raising he
children and Ian going 10 lay IL ont"
YOU right now. There ain, a god
| mother in the world that hasn't tried
to pull her children up the sune
| hill. How many sound taters d, you
have TO put around a rotten one TO
slve i? God bless your soul the rot
ten tater will get all the sound ones.
That's what's the matter with the
churchea 9f this town. Oh, the devil
try in these churches. The preacher
gels up every Sunday morning and
| here is about how the sermon goes.
Here am ], John Smith, d. D. Then
he breaches John Smith dignihed in
stead Of Jesus Christ cruciied, and then
the announcement that the choir will
sing, a cornet, next a duet and then
comes the little sermonent. Ii the
people don't help to get the churches
out the devil will get the whole thing
| am a man that wants TO see every
Southern home a home in the right
sense of the word. Here's preacher
over here who says he breaches these
things, but the papers won't publish
them. Well, don't doubt it. He's
in the suburbs. There's not a man
who breaches up town that'll do it.
CAN SPLIT A CHURCH WITH A SERMON.
81 can preach sermon in any
church IN this town and split thai
church wide open. And I'll not tel
anything but the truth either. When
Jumped on the club I'd he sure tc
get some one and I'd touch them
them when got on the brewery and
the like. | do believe the devil ha
gone around and farmed out his bust
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ness to members of the church in this
city. The devil has got one old Sis
ter going around getting up wine
suppers, another one whist parties and
another one organizing progressive
euchre parties -
Mr.. Jones here stopped and drew
two pictures. The first was where a
little girl had cross mother and every
time she went to her mother for a
thimble or scraps to make her doll a
dress that mother would scold her and
send her away. "By and by" said
Mr.. Jones, wha, girl comes to be
eighteen years old and she's just like
her cross old mother. If l had to
marry one | don't know which I'd
take, but | believe I'd take the old
woman because she'd die sooner and
get out If the way
The other picture he drew was that
Of little girl with a kind mother
one who gave her little daughter just
the very kind Of scraps she wanted to
make her doll a dress and bought her
thlmble just to suit her little finger.
"When that girl come to be eighteen
said Mr. jones, "she was the light of
her h ,rne, benediction to the church
and pure, sweet gl'l-just like her
| moth her,"
Then the evangelist continued in
his talk TO mothers.
"Mo,her, you be true to your home.
Run the devil out Of it and keep it as
pure as the morning dew. An angel
I came down from Heaven one brigh,
sunny day. When he had to go back
he decided 10 carry some memento oi
the earth back with him. He gathered
some sweet h)wers, a babes bright
smile and a mothers beamlng love.
When the angel had reached the gates
of Heaven he looked and saw that the
the flowers had dropped and died, the
babes smile had wi,hered away, but
The mothers love! Oh, yes, it was
beaming still. 1t is the only tha,
reaches to heaven.
Il believe that if had married Z
society woman | would have been dead
and in hell long ago. But if l had
died in my sins could not have looked
back and said my wife ever did ont
thing to lead NE wrong.'
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Pure Blood is the safeguard of health.
Keep your blood pure. rich and full of vi
tality by taking Hoods Sarsaparilla, and
you will not need to fear the attacks Of
disease.
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TESTIMONIAL.

NORYHvIEw, Va, March 12, 1896.
MIR. GEO. GRENsHAw, Henderson, y. e..
" ours Of the 9th inst. 10 hand and noted
In reply would say that used last season
210 pounds per acre Of Armour's All Solu-
bic Fertilizer on my tobacco, and must say
that l am welkpleased with the result in
every way. l made good sized rich and
cOlory crop, more wrappers In it than
ever made with eight to ten hundred
pounds of low grade goods. Ny fertilizer
last year cost ME 1920 per acre, and on
crop OF 1894 it cost Inc SS 90 per acre. /
was then using low grade stuff and my
1895 crop is great deal better in every
way. heavier and not so much diseased,
Notwithstanding we had quite protracted
drought during the months Of July and
August. My land is nearly all fresh and
Is light and gray. The lands around your
place will, am sure, give good results
from the use Of four 10 five hundred
pounds to the acre. II will make you
fine crop of bright tobacco with good body,
size and colory. You can safely put out
Armour's Tobacco GuanO and have no
fear as 70 their results. / will cheerfully
give any information can at any time to
help the farmers in your section to make
two-thiTds of their tobacco crops good in
stead OF as they are at present. making
two-thirds bad with low grade goods.
Yours truly,
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Chicago, Ill.
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Dyspepsia

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THIS FOR FARMERS.
THE QUESTION OF MANUR1NG CROPS.

Stable and Barn-yard-Best rleth-
DDS of Applying it-What Chemicals
Pay Best With These Manures-
Helpful Hints on Small Fruit Gull
ture, &C., &c.
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Advertising does the business.
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Hats

We sole agents for the genuine Dunlap Hats, ant
have large stock of other in all the shapes
The celebrated Wilson make of Hats-Youman styles
all shades sizes and prices-stif and soft Ha,s-for BIZ
and little men. See our line before you buy.
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Dress Goods

Here will be found everything please and nteres
the ladies. An immense stock of Dry Goods Of the ates
mportaton from Paris Berlin and other fashion centres
Notions, Laces and White Goods-largest and pretties
line brought to Henderson. Thompsons Glo,e-6t
ting Corses-best in the market Hosiery, Cottonades
fancy stuff, and all the latest weaves and fabrics.
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NO.. Is.
Nervous

People often wonder why their nerves are
So weak; why they get tired so easily;
why they start at every slight but
sudden sound; why they do not sleep
naturally; why they have frequent
headaches, indigestion and nervous
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Hardware.

E.Excelsior and New Lee Cook Stoves-best for the
money Majestic Steel Ranges-the greatest cooking
apparatus in the world. All styles and sizes select
from. Richmond Starke Dixie Plows, (sold only by us)
Best plow be found. Smith Harper Hoes-the leading
hoe made Shoves Spades, Axes, Nails, Locks Hinges,
Spokes Rims Hubs Wheels Horse Shoes Grain Cradles,
Harness. buggy and wagon, Paints, Ois Varnishes,
Putty, Glass; Guns Pistols Fishing Tackle, Bats, Balls
and sporting goods generally. Full line of Table and
Pocket Cutlery, Crockery and Glassware.
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Millinery

The Millinery department will be found up to its usual
standard of excellence and completeness The fact that
Miss Thomas charge sufficient guarantee that the
stock embraces every article of fashionable and tasty
and decorative dress for the feminine head Her selections
of Hats, Bonnes, Feathers Flowers and Trimmings Of all
kinds preer pronse than this season
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Furniture

The largest stock and best of Furniture to
be found outside of the regular wholesale houses Every
thing you think of under this heading we have
Pa,lor chamber and dining sets; chairs tables,
cheap and pretty floor coverngn all the choicest pat
Baby Carriages in all designs and styles of uphol-
stering. White Mountain Ice Cream Freezers and Re-
frgerators Lamps and lamp goods, woodenware, etc.
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Furnishings

Our line of Gents Furnishing Goods larger
attractive Big assortment of Shirts and Cravas
Collars Cuffs, Handkerchiefs, We have beau
fu display of Spring and Summer styles. Umbrellas
Trunks Valises, and everything for mems wear and
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n. c., THURSDAY, MARCH 26. 1896.

Every department
is replete with a
we'll selected line
of the choicest
and best goods
that money can
buy. We name a
few things:
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Tho Man and the Snake.

The reputed fascination Of the ser
pent,s eye Is the motive Of a story in
Mr.. Ambrose Bieace's volume of tales
I'm the Midst of Life" Mr..
Brayton was the guest of a friend. an
eminent zoologist, whose specially, OF
which he had a fine collection was
snakes. Stretched upon a sofa In his
own room, Mr.. Brayton glanced from
the book he was carelessly scanning
while awaiting the summons to dinner,
and saw. in the shadow under his bed,
two small points of light about an Inc
apart. He gave them no specia'
thought and resumed his reading.
In a few minutes he gave an involun-
tary start, and stared Into the obscurity
under the bed. His gaze disclosed the
coils Of a large serpent; the points OF
light were Its eyes, but were no longer
merely luminous points; they locked in
to his own with a malign significance.
Brayton was a brave man, but this
seemed an occasion when discretion
was the better part of valor. He would
shezt O retreat and backward, so as not
f6Aisturb the reptile; but instead Of the
moveuent his will had shaped, his
right bot was placed in advance of his
left.
Theysnake did not move, but Its eyes
seemed to become larger and more lum
inous. There were strange noises IN
Brayton's ears as, with reluctant steps
he could not refrain from drawing
nearer the bed. Suddenly something
struck him a hard blow upon the face
He had fallen to the floor.
The zoologist, startled by a terrifi'
,cream from above, rushed to hi
! friends ROOM. There lay Brayton
senseless. AS he bent over him b
4 glanced under the bed.
How did this thing get hereY' n
exclaimed, and pulling out the snake
dung 1t to the center Of the room, wher
1t lay without motion.
II vas a stuffed snake; its eyes wei
, two shoebuttons.
t.
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I'D. sra Should ls killed, % ssfs lhs
nafion which can mt exist txcept for
the money changers, who Keep Us cred
it good and lhe good credit Is fof them
only.
A wave OF reform has started beck.
Ths people, The masses nsuat rise "
ard sIoen tie mofsicf, lie bond and
tae dollar D. ths imperialism Of wealth
81 aggregated capital which is being
organized tosrslie ne world. will grind
Humanity " powder.
This new reform says that The bond
shoald be abolished; that every one
zlioeId have All equal chance before tsse
i2N 10 gst The dollar; that every man
IL eniitied toa home and food on earth;
that every creator Of wealth should
have tba faif fruits 81 his labor. and
lid wealth madn b5 & community should
bs SHARED N alike; thar an men arc
created equal.
About I, 0t0 years aao God placsd
Adam an eaftlA. 1900 years ago co.
CURED We food. 1900 years ago came
me saxiouf and the dawn of the ooh
ee1titly will see Tie advent Of the soIu-
ton Of tbs political economic and soc-
laj problems shat Will decide The des-
tl6ies 81 maa On earth. The ideal re-
public tha last stand Of free men, the
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-12-25

a ooyporation with Vice President
Hobart at le head has 4 monopoly Of
kta water supply HI north Jersey and
JeSaey CRY vii have 10 pay over s6s
100000 10 get water to drink. The air
Wflf 30 owned by i trust next.
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The woman zuiffagisss llata cafza
their point IN Idaho. The Supreme
Court Of that State has decided tiIAk
the amendment ID TIE Go15fltaliod
giving women ne right 10 xole
adopted at tho lnte elecalQ1. Y1s
amendment received 5000 mott xokes
than were recorded s9ainst bot not
q majority OF the whole vote cas-
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A telegram has been received from
the Lowell Observatory, at Flagstafi,
Arizona, announcing that the canals
OF Mars, known as Prison and Eu-
pirates, have been Observed again 10
be double.
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Tho pgI3HED LEDGEHis lrsto Of ana Hsws-
paper giving all the news Of the day, classified
ind HI complete form. In the LEDGER every
statefnent Is verified, its news IS therefore
t~xxproHktsIy reisable.
Sufsido fits news department (which in
elaies special correspondence from all the i'm
Iportant cities and towns in Pennsylvania,
lei gersey and Delawarel,t the LE
Is an Illustrated family newspaper Of cxception-
Al Interest ard yalue. giving special attentions
domestic ~aifsirs. religious news and comment,
social events. games, sports. the fashions Of -the
day, literary, art, farm ard garden, scientific
and labor notes. bnildinR society news, etc.
To Its special Kew York and washing-
ton eorrespcndenee, long since rendered
famous. ii now adds letters from the chief
Capitals OF Europe.
s*s financial news and marlxet reports
pfe1e and reliable.
arday issue is a great compendium Of
ie OF social life. containing reading
suit every TASTE; complied specially
!fnrday Eaition ofthe LEDGER.
cot the international sunday School
h0ne worth the rice OF subscription,
lied advertisements are AZ interest
IS and as widely read. The public has
made the PUE1kC LEDGER It's
Gle for the announcements Of births,
and deaths.
" rates for classified advertisements
ion prices as followss
LILY LED0Ek sSunday excepted
joany address In Tho United States OF
10 cents per month 5000 per year
iy's LEDGER tseeklyl, a great
rnai. which should be in eyery country
90 per year.
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HORN BLASTS.
warning Notes Calling the wicked ts
Repentance.

T ONT go with tho
fLW crowd simply be-
VI & - cause it Is o.
W~ IA "a crowd.
N LkAA SNES The devil will
y MEA4GSS claim everything
49, we do not give to
AmA[TN@tA God.
NEs4M MshA When we suffer
WSSH y tNfaG for a holy cause.
k%F ~ NJ our tears are not
A<<szN shed in vain.
<VNS We are sure to
~ wrong others II
we ourselves are wrong with God.
No MAJ can be truly known until he
is e e through the eyes Of love.
From the standpoint of the bulldog,
this is a very quarrelsome world.
There is nothing Ike faith in God for
taking the bitterness out Of life.
Follow Jesus closely. and It will be
well with the mar who follows you.
Prove that Moses made no mistakes.
and you prove that he was not a man.
Has not God always been good to usf
Then why not believe he always WIZ
The twenty-third psalm Is filled with
food for both the lamb and the warrior.
A cheerful gift Is always a large gift,
beeause nothing small can be given to
God.
Before Jesus told any man to o
his ueishbor as himself, he showed him
how.
Failure is impossible when God helps
and God always helps when we take his
way.
II you would keep the wrinkles on
Of your face, keep sunshine in YOU
heart.
To The man who seeks God hrst, seek
i, Ing a fortune Will become a means o
grace.
SThe size of a mans bank account hai
@hing to do with his illness TO
yen
ley that honor me, I will honor
.vht is a good thing when It come
Aod.
fould talk less about others !
ID first do more thinking aDou
lbn has never been known t
death for lack Of something 7
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A COMMON EXPRESSION USED BY
AMERICAN WOMEN.
Many do not Realize the Full Significance
Of Those Two Words.

When a woman is nervous and irri.
table, head and back ache, feels tired
ali the time, loses sleep and appetite,
has pains in groins, bearing-down
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