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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-03-25
A Real Blood Remedy.

is a blood remedy for real blood troubles;
it cures the most obstinate cases OF
Scrofula, Eczema, Cancer, Rheumatism,
etc., which other so-cal1ed blood rene
dies fail to touch. SIS. gets at the
root of the disease and forces it out per
nnanently. Valuable books will
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-03-25
PROF. BRIMLEY AND THE STATE
MUSEUM.

In all the changes being made
among office holders at Raleigh, there
is one place that should remain un-
touched. That is the position Of Gu
ra,or Of the State Museum. We do
no, know what Mr. H. H. Brlmley's
politics are, nor do we care so far as
his connection with that institution is
concerned, bur We do not know that
he is pre- eminently the man Tor the
place and his services ought to be re-
tanned.
Mr.. Brlmey Is practical and
scientific man in his line, we'll fitted
Dy both taste and training for the du-
ties devolving upon him, and his equal
would be hard 10 find. He is full Of
zeal, intensely interested in his work,
and besides icing capable and ettl-
clen', is polite and accommodating
taking special pride and pleasure at
all times in showing visitors through
the Museum and presenting the indus
tries and resources of the State to
strangers to the best possible adVant-
age.
There is no institution in North
Carolina which is calculated 10 i'm
press people so iavorably with its
wealth Of resources and local charaC-
,eristics and the State Museum should
be conducted with an eye to The pub
lie good rather than TO furnishing a
berth for some political favorlte. 50
it is that the GOLD LEAF hopes Prot.
Brmley will be retained as Curator,
a position he fills with eminent credit
to himself and entire satisfaction to all
concerned.
This article is suggested by seeing
IN the Raleigh Press Nslt0r OF Tues
day that a student of one Of the col
| leges Of the States is candidate Tor
the position.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-03-25
NEW JERSEY EDITORS SOUTHERN
TRIP

Speaking Of the contemplated trip
of the New Jersey editors, the Orange
On. j. Chronicle, says: "The visit OF
the New Jersey editors to the Seaboard
Air Line section of North Carolina,
March goth, will be peculiarly pleas
ant, because the long prostration Of
business is ended and business rcvives
everywhere. The expressions of good
will between New Jersey and the citi-
zens Of Raleigh, Southern Pines and
Charlotte will be even more cheerful
and cordial, and the wish of a perpet-
ual friendship between the Old North
State and the people from east of the
Delaware will have the charm Of I'M
usual sincerity. An important result
Of this visit will lie in the felicitous ex-
preston of fraternalism and national
feeling. There is 4 vague idea of our
country, lowering in the popular mind,
of universal benignity and well being.
Nobody knows when this changing the
United States into Arcadia will be
brought, but that the vision is a mi
rage nobody believes. This is the gen.
erous and wholesome feeling which
makes Southern Progress, the South
ern paper published in Philadelphia,
80 delightful 1t is full Of the health
of gracious and hallowed national
ism. 1t treats the North and the South
as one nation in sentiment as we'll as
in fact. 1t gives glimpses of what our
country would be if people were gov
erned by Christian rules and practiced
the faith which they profess.
The Seaboard Air Line breaches
the same sermon IN characteristic
way. Probably the railroad primary
object is to build up the country along
It's line, and to double the population
OF It's queen cities, Raleigh and Char
lotte, but under any circumstances it
is practical Christianity which the Sea
board Air Line preaches--,he building
up OF country, the raising Of fallen
fortunes--a homcly, hearty, beautiful
Christianity. There is nothing in the
deepest and best sense human which
in the ,ruest and highest sense is no.
also Christianity"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-03-25
STORE.
CLOSING OUT AT AND BELOW COST.

the
ndred
AZ sold IS ladies' fine button and lace all Sizes
of Children Misses Shoes
formerly sold Mems Heavy Goods sold sI25
S165, will close 5 Mems Coarse Boots worth
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-03-25
ESTABLISHED 1881.

We iesirc a live agent and Correspondent
at every postofice in Vance and adjoining
counties.
Correspondence on all subjects of local
and general interest and opinions upon
matters of public concern, are invited.
The editor will rot be responsible for
the views or statements Of correspondents
and reserves the right at all times to
revise or reject any article he may think
proper.
One side, only, Of the pa per must be
written On-and the real name Of the
writer accompany the contribution. No
attention w:ll be paid to anonymous let
terS
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-03-25

TIE expenses for contested seats in
the North Carolina Legislature were
SI.59I, which amount comes out Of
the pockets of the people This thing
Is wrong If each contestant was re-
quired to pay his own costs there would
be fewer contested elections. And this
applies to Congressman as we'll as I:eg-
lslators. 1t not unfreGuently occurs
that seat is contested by some fellow
simply for the money he can get out
OF 1t. There Is room (and need for
"retrenchment and reform" along th!,
line
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-03-25

SAYS an exchange, although even
more striking illustrations than the
one mentioned are by no means lack
ing: "The South is to be the greatest
and richest section of this country
yet. Many things serve to indicate
this. For instance, recently $50
calves were shipped from Gainesville,
Ga, to Kansas City This shows that
IN the South there are great facilities
TOR stock raising; and in few decades
at most the South will ship more stock
10 the West than the West has been
shipping to the South. As it will be
IN matters of stock raising SO will it
De IN many other things. The South
is great section and the North and
West are learning it,"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-03-25

SCoTr Jackson and Alonzo Wall
ing, the brutal and lecherous murder
ers Of Pearl Bryan, were hanged at
Newport Kentucky, Saturday, after all
the laws delay. And the court of last
resort having decrced that Theodore
Durrant, the double murderer, Of San
Francisco, shall hang also, when SEN
tence is carried ITO effect another
scoundrel whose neck ought to have
been broken long ago, will have met
his just deserts
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-03-25

There are few people in this coun-
try who will find it in their hearts to
sympathlze with Spain in the sorry
plight she IS in. As the Charlotte
Ob5c,Tr, says, "The outlook for the
Spanish people is gloomy indeed.
Once possessed OF a superb empire
that nation has lost all its colonies
save Cuba and the Philippines. And
now she IS engaged in death strug-
gle to retain these. Spain is making
no strides forward. She has been de-
ieated in the PHILIPPINES; her COM
mander-in chief there has resisnad;
his successor asks for 20, 900 addition.
al troops, and Spain not having them
at home, wlthdraws them from Cuba,
where they can hardly be spared.
Harrassed in her few possessions, bank
rupt in her government. with some of
her subjects at home in open revolt,
spain, truly, is in i sad plight, and
has lew sympathizerS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-06
A HYPOTHETICAL CASE.

Courts of law permit expert witnesses to
be questioned on hypothetical case and
asked what their opinion would be under
certain conditions. The case of the people
against a business administration being on
trial at the bar of public opinion the Jour
nal will state a hypothetical case. Suppose
that city, in pursuance of general plan
of public Improvements. awards a contract
for the construction of a sewer for say,
100000; suppose that after the work has
been commenced the contractors find it will
be physical impossibility to construct the
sewer unless the specifications are changed
so as to raise the level at a certain point
at least two feet suppose they go to the
city engineer, presumably competent cffi-
Ger, and ask that the specifications be moo
flied in the manner indicated, representing;
at the same time that it would be great
favor to them suppose the engineer re-
fuses, point blank, to make any change
whatever in the specifications; suppose that
the contractors then go to a person who is
believed to have special influence with the
Board of Public Works and the city engi-
neer, and offer to pay him if he will secure
the desired change in the specifications for
them; suppose this person, we will call him
Mr.. Gobetween, agrees to undertake the
work of securing the change for $4,000 and
that the contract is closed on that basis
suppose that subsequently the contractors
are notified that the Board of Public
Word is prepared to order the change; sup
pose they go before the board and are in
formed that upon the recommendation of
the city engineer the board has decided to
order the sewer to be raised two feet and
it is so ordered and Mr.. Gobetween re-
ceives 5000 for his influence and services
in having the change made suppose the
contractors go ahead and finish the sewer
at a heavy loss; suppose that when it is
completed the city engineer refuses on
some pretext to accept the work and the
contractors cannot get their pay; suppose
that in their desperation they threaten to
bring suit against Mr.. Gobetween for the
recovery of the $1,000 paid him for his
services in getting them into the hole; sup
pose Mr.. Gobetween lays the matter before
the mayor of the city and it is agreed that
something must be done; suppose the
mayor appoints a night conference to hear
what the contractors and their attorneys
have to say; suppose before matters have
proceeded far the mayor sees the impro-
prety of transacting official business in
that manner and suggests that further con-
sderation of the subject be postponed till
regular session of the Board of Public
Works; suppose the contractors make
sworn affidavits to the foregoing facts and
suppose that Mr. Gobetween, the city en-
gineer the president of the Board of Pub
lie Works and the mayor all declare that
they don't know a thing about it. On such
a state of facts would you or would you
not say under oath that it was a pretty
kettle of fish?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-06
AMERICAN POTTERY.

The proposed establishment at Arcadia,
manufacture of fine tableware is venture
to be encouraged. This is an industry to
which but little attention has been paid in
this country, although there is no lack of
clay of the best quality, and the demand for
such wares is great. When potteries have
been established the mistake has been made
of initiating the product of foreign fac
tories. A New Jersey concern. for instance,
turns out an American Beleek' ware,
which is quite as beautiful. perhaps as the
Irish ware of the same name, but purchas-
ers who are informed on the subject prefer
the Irish product because it is not an imi-
tation. That there is a fancy for foreign
wares is very true but it is because the
foreign makers are constantly putting forth
new designs and increasingly artistic dec
orations, and are not satisfied with even
their own beaten track if it can be inn
proved The making of china in fact, as
it is conducted in England, France and
Austria, is a fine art and one which it is
the fashion to study. That the preference
of connoisseurs for Dresden, Royal Wor-
cester, Sevres. and all the other well-known
wares is not entirely due to the fact that
they bear the brand imported. SO tails
manic with some foolish people. is shown by
the popularity among discriminating buyers
of the lockwood ware made at Cincinnati
This. almost If not entirely, alone among
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-06

Thousands of the incest men in the world
have come to helpless and endless grief
through wicked partners. Indeed, the more
immaculate man may be, the surer he is
to have wicked partner. who. sooner or
later. is sure to wreck his character and
ruin his prospects.
Mayor Thomas Taggart is already the
victim Of the wicked partner or, it might
be said, of numerous wicked partners. If
we should believe the stories we hear from
the lips of his beneficiaries there is not
whittier soul in this world of sin and sorrow
than that of Thomas T. But he is sur
rounded by wicked partners, not a half
dozen, a score or one hundred, but by bat
talions of them.
There is the now inanimate Park Com
mission. This commission, if we take his
Honor's word for it and the word of the
animate Park Commission clerk, has con-
spired to ruin the innocent and confiding
mayor, to whom several of the members
owe their existence and several more hope
to do So One would think that the men
constituting that board would seek to help
their benefactor to keep his soul white and
his smile Dedllllc. MOI SO. Inc WICKED
partner is without conscience or bowels
of compassion. His Honor did not
wish to sell the city his boys at sew
erai times their value He had the land
cut out of the park, and it was so an
nounced. But. "unbeknownst' to the mayor.
these wicked partners petitioned for the
appraisal of the Taggart boys, and once
more they appear to be within the park
limits. Now, that the affair has become
public, the Taggart halo is awry and bat
tered.
Time would fail to tell of other sad
experiences of his Honor with the wicked
partner In fact wherever the light is
turned upon the associates of the mayor
there appear the wicked partners The
wicked partners have put up the Pogue
run infamy and charged it to the mayor.
The loudest and most sincere advocate of
the i6-to-1 fad and the wicked partners of
goldbugs have caused him to appear as an
insincere trimmer And now even worse
pitfalls seen. to be in the mayors way.
all because of the wicked partners.
Mr. TaGgart has 50 many wicked part
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-06

In the case of David Wurth. who met
with his death in a saloon on South Ala
bama street on Sunday last, the coroner
finds that the immediate cause of the mans
death was the breaking of his neck from
a fall caused by chance blow from an
other person. 1t is a matter of great con-
sequence to the person who struck the blow
whether it was the immediate cause Of
Wurth's death or not, but far as the pub
lie is concerned that is a matter of no con-
sequence. Wurth was not in any sense
good or useful citizen and his death is no
loss to the community, and the manner of
his killing is Of no particular consequence.
The point of interest to the people of In
dianapolis is that the killing, whether acct
dental or otherwise, occurred in saloon
which was open on Sunday and where IL
quor was being sold contrary to law. There
We're scores of other saloons where the
same thing was done on that day and has
been done every Sunday for months past.
Last Sunday there were hundreds of ex-
cursionists in the city. and along towards
train time in the evening South Illinois
street was filled with noisy crowd of peo-
pie who showed the effects of drink. AL
though strangers they had no trouble in
finding saloons with their side or back
doors open. So far as known, killing oc-
Cured in only one saloon on that day, but
the law was no more openly violated by
that saloon than it was by all the rest.
For this condition of things Mayor Tag
CART who has sworn to enforce the law, is
responsible
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-06
THE RIGHT TO PROTECTION.

On Friday last at the Heidelberg colliery,
near Pittston. Pa, a lot Of rioters, Huns,
Slavs and Italians were permitted to pre-
vent the English-speaking miners from go
ing to work in the mines. At Spring Hill,
in the same State, on the same day, a
similar condition of affairs prevailed. At
the latter place the wives of foreign min
ers, counting on immunity from resistance
or arrest because of their sex, attempted
to induce a. few men at work in the
mines for the support of their families to
cease such efforts by surrounding the mine
and starving them out.
One will look in vain for any condemna-
ton of these acts of violence in any of the
papers which are devoting much space
to denouncing government by injunction"
If their attention should be called to it they
might be induced to admit that such con-
duct cannot be approved. They will make
haste to say that if these rioters are Offend
ers warrants should be issued for their ar
rest, to the end that they may be brought
into court. Very good; who could make out
the writs in time to prevent these desper-
ate persons from assaulting the workers, as
was the case in Heidelberg, and what force
of constables could be found to serve them?
The point which it seems necessary to
make clear is that orderly people who are
voluntary workers are entitled to adequate
protection. Adequate protection pre-
vents interference by violent mobs. That is
not adequate protection, indeed, it is no
protection whatever which authorizes the
arrest Of a mob of hundred men upon
writs, after the peaceable victims have been
driven from their work by the bludgeons
and pick handles of lawless men or strick-
EN- down with their blows.
Whose rights would have been interfered
with if the men who committed the out
rage upon peaceable worlxingmen in Pitts
ton had been forbidden to enter upon the
grounds of the colliery under the penalty
of contempt of court? Is it possible that ig-
norant and vicious mobs, made up of the
scum of Europe, cannot be prevented from
driving other men from their work by
force, wounding and nearly killing victims
of their rage? This is a good question to
put to the constituencies denagogues who
are denouncing the enjoining of mobs from
interfering with men at work and who still
insist that the shooting by deputy sheriffs
in another part Of Pennsylvania was due
to an injunction when it was not.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-06

ton, he said. I'VE merely met and studied
the situation together. That Is all there
was in 1t, gentlemen"
Before he Louisville gentlemen arrived
DR.. Hurry Ia 70 the Journal reporter that
he was convinced that there we've cases OF
yellow fever st Louisville. "fhey hide il
from the world he said L do not doubt
that IL an Investigation should be made
many cases OF yellow fever would be found
in Louisville. The physicians report It as
densue fever or something else and the
world is kept ne Ignorance The fact is
that detective has already visited Louis
vile, as the agent OF Chicago, and his re-
port is TO the effect that yellow fever pre-
walls there. He was q man With medical
education and was able TO get about and
learn things which would not have come
TO light otherwise. il IS the same situation
as prevailed in Chicago three years ago
during the epidemic of smallpox Hundreds
authorities and hundreds thatswere r ported
We're not published
DR.. Hurry said yesterday that there is
really danger of the yellow fever reaching
this State ard that ii could live and kill
thousands in Indianapolis should it get here.
The conditions are Just right Tor its
spread, he said. The proper conditions are
a temperature about 20 degrees Fahrenheit
or above and a relative humidity of 20 de-
grees. At O'Clock on the evening of Oct.
the temperature was SIG and the relative
humidity was g. This was not good day
for yellow fever. but the meteorological
conditions have been right ever since. Oct.
the temperature was 53 and the relative
humidity 20; Oct 3. temperature us. rela-
tive humidity IS: Oct. A. temperature a. rel
There could he no better conditions for
the spread of the disease. We are not
alarmed about it, but it is well to be on the
guard and ready TO take any precaution-
airy measures which may be necessary. A
light warm rain would make the conditions
more alarming but hard rain. followed by
cold, would settle the yellow fever in the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-06

not conceive of a case being made out more
completely on purely circumstantial evil
dence. Our case will he strengthened by
the rebuttal evidence yet to be heard. The
identifcations Of women at Kenosha, Wis,
and Lake Zurich Wis. viii be absolutely
oblterated before the end of this week
This viii add another link to our strong
circumstantial chain. We are fully salts
fled with the situation ] DO not care to en-
ter upon a detailed discussion of the case
i'll all its varied features. inasmuch as 1t
is still open and we are yet TO present more
evidence. OF course it would not be proper
for me TO express an opinion relative to
Luetgert's failure to so upon the witness
stand
Ex-Judge Vincent was apparently highly
pleased over the status of the case. We
have met them at every point and checked
them" said he. We have impeached sew
eral witnesses and they have failed to show
beyond a reasonable doubt that Mrs. Luet-
CERT is dead. In my Judgment a case has
not been established under the Indictment
And we are not through yet.
Luetgert is confident that he will be ac-
quilted. While apparently regretting that
he had not had the opportunity to tell his
story to the jury the big sausage maker
said he was satisfied that the jury would
not convict him under the evidence pre-
scented. Luetgert was in an ugly humor dur
ing the afternoon and not inclined to talk
much.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-06

American pottery. is original in design and
process of making. and takes high rank
among collectors solely on its own merits.
pottery such as that talked of at Arcadia
must meet a demand less exclusive than
that sought to be filed by the lockwood
people. but this need not prevent an effort
commoner products. An opportunity, at
least. should be given to native artists that
it may be seen what they can do in the dec
orative line. There is no better place than
Indiana in which to establish such a manu-
factory, beds of clay from which the finest
porcelains can be made being found within
the State. There is a chance to make the
Arcadia trademark famous
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-06

The Maine lady who is being sued for
breach of promise by an aggrieved Maine
gentleman, who says she proposed to him
and agreed to marry him, but afterwards
married another man, should be a warning
to other members of her sex who under
take to do the new woman act. Her ex-
perience proves that it is not safe to tamper
with the affections of sensitive male beings,
and that if she is rash enough to propose
to a man she does not want it is the part
of wisdom to use diplomacy and get him
to break the engagement instead of per-
hitting it to exist while she enters into a
second one. There is a lesson in the affair
also to men who are proposed to; they
should not be too coy. If they mean yes
they should say yes. The man in this case
hesitated. He wanted time to consider, and
after finally conserving insisted on post
poning the marriage until a year had
elapsed after the death of his first wife. BY
so doing he chilled the tender sentiment in
the heart of the feminine wooer and she
turned her attention to a more responsive
man. Naturally, after it was too late, the
feelings of the Tilted one became more
ardent and he realized that he had lost a
treasure. He cannot have her now, but a
little of her wealth would serve as balm
for his wounded feelings; hence the suit. 1t
is not a gallant proceeding, but he had en-
acted the passive part in the courtship, and
gallantry could not rightfully be expected
of him. When the enterprising lady be-
comes a widow she will probably proceed
with more caution in her assumption of
prerogatives hitherto exclusively masculine.