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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11


aeights of ChilkOOt Pass weakened
when they realized the hardships in
turn westward instead of northward
Your correspondent has made spe-
cal canvass of this sentiment among
persons here, and sends the plain facts
as he finds them.
Gold there is in plenty, and copper as
we'll, and many titanic fortunes will be
taken out of the ground all over the
great Northwest during the next few
years. The quickest money. however
lies in transportation, buying and SELL
ing and ownership of wharves and
town sites. Freight and passenger
rates are high. Wharfage ranges from
$3.50 to SO a ton. Town sites come next
Ambitious capitalists should devote
their energy and resources to the es-
adjustment of regular transporta-
ton route to the Copper River country
from other Pacific ports-yes, and from
Atlantic ports, too They will also, IL
they are wise, arrange to freight over
from deep water inland to the Chillyna
River and north to the Tanana River
In this way they would cover a great
deal of territory. The necessary capt.
tai could be made back every two
months.
Trophies from the Trail.
Herewith your correspondent sends
photographs Of moss and pine cones
gathered on Skaguay trail; also a rich
nugget from a placer mine on the Cop
per River. All the photographs are ac-
tual size. The moss is edible, and men
have been known to sustain life on it
Tor long time. 1t is as tender and
Juicy as lettuce. Reindeer devour it
ravenously.
Gold seekers coming here should pro-
vide themselves with plenty of legal
tender. Checks and drafts don't go
here, as there is as yet no bank in the
territory. Everything is cash. and
money melts like snow under a blazing
sun. ~
Public Interest Growing.
The Governor and other officials are
getting hundreds Of letters weekly
inquiring about Alaska and it's re-
sources. Owing to the difficulty ex-
perienced by the officials in answering
SO many queries. the Alaska Chamber
of Commerce purposes establishing
bureaux of Information here and at
Juneau. Little literature really de-
scriptive- Of this territory has been is
sued thus far. and the necessity for
an extended system of general educa-
ton on the subject is growing daily.
Alaska will certainly hold the inter-
est of the world at large during the
next decade-in fact, great deal
longer-and the men who get in on the
ground floor may wake up some morn
| ing to fad themselves bonanza kings,
| with much money to burn that
| they'll get sick Of the smell of the
| smoke.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11

II is good deal easier TO teach an
old dog new tricks than to teach an
old man grammar.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11

L.
AGENTS WAM-Ci.~ .0lH SEA
Goods sen: - re,i - p-:s"nS to De
paid for after selling. agents sell rom
l to IS day Il generates from l 10
volts electricity. and has two powerful
Magnetic batteries that will turn the
Compass needle through two inch
plank. Cures Rheumatism, Weak Back,
kidney Disease, Female Troubles, Loss
Manhood. and all diseases arising from
a lack Of nerve force. FOR ADVERTISING
PURPOSES, we will give one BELT FREE of any
cost to one person in each locality.
Address TAYLOR & SMITH T.. A. Co.,
Department b Nineland. New Jersey
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SEVEEEE PUNISHMENT NEEDED.

III - Il = - ~ | !.
.,......
"' IAN ''''' a. '''''''>' '''''
bank officials should be dealt with
mere severely than they aIc. And he
.,, r... a. i,.., .,oh, =, he
% i'h'''' ''~5 'N'''
punished along with common lh.c't"
in pr,r,rtIop - their crimes, If not IN
, ,.,,.n,. ia
'''' ''''' ''.''' ''''''''-s' ~
say:
The other AghcvllIc banks which
,ycr, co,n,ciIrd In close their doors
....,,. ,..., l.,,.r,
tors 30 suffer we're forced 10 90 50 ny
an excited public public when
once brcauur dI>.rusriul of all others.
II tIe government would establish
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lii'',ey 'i'e' "'GJ N'','" '"''i '','N =
Ii'So''eI'' INC '.'>' '''''' ''L'''''' "',,'>'
'h"I "''0'9 lo'J''y '"'i '"' S~'9 NO
IN cold blood to commit grand lar
cehcy, IS 10 90 as IN th'if-''ehe"'i
thcm. Ihcrc IS no worse scjnhdfcI
who poses as banker and robS those
who entrust money to him
Talk about lynchjng man for rape
and CondOning the CrIme-wcll say
bank officials who go INTO coIInsjon TO
yreck = h,pL and dceroii the hannv
t.a.,. ,,.,.,, $780,, ,t.;11x -
r.
o0 many" - ,''o ''o'''''' '''''" anu i Il
'oi 'ne p'~Ai'"' |" oe'"n''
It's the worst element now al large
gentry IS made t1 understand that the
Deonle will M Iorocr tolerate their
rohh.r,.- tho La,,o, ;, u,;u ha
Nav, No-,, c,-oI;-,, prod,,r.;os
COZ. T.. II. Haired informs Us that
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11
HIGHEST Market Prices Guaranteed the Seller,


look yourself We work alike of
be- trial will already
Osend home
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11

She-s'They say he loves her to
DEATH
lle-"Naturaily- She has a large
lie insurance.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11

We admire the character OF j ob.
says an exchange. but we don't know
what he would have done had he been
an editor with Il lot of wi>acres contin-
uaIly after him. claiming that they knew
more about running a paper than he
knew.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11

\ pawnbroker's life may not be a
happy one but it has It's redeeming
features
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11

neasy moves the foot that wears
corn-this is fact as sure as you are
born.-Orange Ob5ryrfr.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11

For Tickets, Slcepers, etc, apply To
MURRAY FORBES, Travelling Passenger AT
Portsmouth, Va
f St John, Vice President and Gen. Ngr
V. +. McBee. General Superintendent
ii. w. Il. Glover, Traffic Manager.
Il. }. Anderson, Gen. Pass. AT
General Offices: Portsmouth, Va.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11

Andrew Johnson emancipated the
last OF the chattel slaves There were
las left in Delaware and portions of
Virginia and louisiana, under the terms
OF the Lincoln proclamation Of 1868.
Johnson's final act of emancipation was
issued Dec. Is 1850.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11

Communication can easily be had
with the Copper River from Prince
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11

tUGGET FROM THE COPPER
RIVER.
(Actual size.)
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11
Sell your Tobacco at the House and Market which Pays YOU the Most Clear Money

cquI ther lrigtIe anla
We facility
good dry stalls record of Warehouse
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11

Dignity is one of woman's surest
weapons of self defense. Galveston
Nt1cs
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11

After man secures a girls hand he
sometimes finds she has him under her
thumb
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11
New North Carolina Productions.

Snow comes down in the winter
and ice goes up in the summer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-16

ing much now anyway, neither are SEN
ators. and the office-seeker has right
to call on them for help"
The great trouble that the senator
or representative has is not in assist
ing his supporters to obtain what they
want. but that there isn't nearly
enough to go around. Were there an
Office. or something equally good, for
every applicant it would delight the
souls of congressman to get them for
their supporters. The congressman
have all had their race and they all
know how pleasant and restful it is
when they have reached the. promised
land. And they. would have all there
provided they themselves did not have
to surrender a seat to accommodate
some one else.
Ofice-seeking is not only not wicked
or unpatriotic, but is delightful and
exhilirating in the extreme. There is
expectation and anticipation about
it that makes it almost as fascinating
as mining, the most fascinating tl4ng
in the world. The next swing of the
pick may uncover the hidden treasure,
the treasure that is to make real the
dreams of a lifetime. And if it is
not uncovered with that blow, it may
be by the one that follows or the one
after that. After all, it is by no means
certain that there is. not more pleasure
in pursuit than in possession.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-16
CHILDREN'S DAY AT THE JUDI
LEE.

The suggestion has been made that
during the Pioneer Jubilee celebration
there should be one day devoted to the
children and that part of that day
should witness a parade of the school
children of the city. 1t is a very happy
idea and one that should be carried
out Some of the members of the
school board are opposed to it, but it
is really a matter with which the
school board has nothing whatever to
do. The celebration takes place at a
time when the schools are closed. 1t
is a matter for the parents of the
children to decide.
In celebrations in the past in this
state parades by the children have al
ways been a chief feature, and none
more beautiful more inspiring. more
patriotic. And then the children love
to parade, and it doesn't hurt them in
the least. They get warm and per-
spire, but not more than they other
wise would if they were down town to
see a parade. AS we heard a gentle
man, who did a great deal OF marching
in parades when a little fellow and
who now has children of his own who
would be glad to march in a parade.
say: Like to march? OF course
children like to parade. We used to
march and we all stepped off with the
elasticity and spring of a soldier when
he listens TO the strains of martial
music. And it never hurt us a Bit
1t may well be doubted if marching
in the sun is so trying as sitting in the
sun. IF there is a parade of the chill
dren of the city (why not have con-
tingents from various parts of the
stated every care should be taken to
avoid having them assembled for any
length OF time before the marching be-
gins.
In the early days of Utah, no celebra-
ton was considered complete in which
the marching of the children was not
a chief feature. Let the feature of
early celebrations mark the celebration
of the settlement of the state.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-16
TURKEY AS A POWER.

The Greco-Turkish war has been a
revelation to Europe as far as Turkey
is concerned. And this not because of
the success of the Turkish arms. a
thing doubtless expected, but because
Of the great military resources shown
to exist. Troops were forwarded to
the scene of action and reserves called
out and made ready with a CELEBRITY
and orderliness that could not have
been surpassed by any country in Eu-
rope. 1t all showed that no matter
how weak and debilitated the Sick
Man of the East may be financially.
he is in wonderfully sound health when
it comes to military matters. All this
seems to have astonished everybody.
but it should not. In the Turko-Rus-
sian war of 1877 Turkey showed she
was still a most formidable military
antagonist and that there still existed
in her army the same fanatical and
fighting spirit that caused her TO al
most overrun Europe in the sixteenth
century when Suleiman the Magnifi-
cent swept all before him till he
reached the gates of Vienna And
this fierce, fanatical spirit has been
not subdued, but disciplined
What can the sultan do today in
military way? He can put half q
million men in the field, equipped with
the most approved modern arms, well
differed and with a well regulated and
efficient commissariat The nation
that can do this is not to be despised
On the contrary, it must be counted
with in an age when the military spirit
is the dominating one. Turkey has
never been amenable TO moral suasion,
but SO diplomatic and evasive has she
been that she had come to be held in
more or less contempt, looked down
upon as a power to be coerced with
ease. That can still be easily done by
a united Europe, but a united Europe
operating against the Turk is thing
to be talked about with small hopes
and far less chances of realization.
What will Turkey demand of Greece
by way of indemnity? And how insist
ent upon the demands will she be?
It begins to look as though her de-
mands would be quite large, almost
excessive so far as Greece's capacity
to comply with them is concerned, and
that she would insist upon them. In
this matter she seems to be putting
on a much holder face than was
thought probable at one time. If the
powers propose to settle the terms of
peace between Greece and Turkey they
should have stepped in at the very
beginning and prevented the war, as
they very easily could have done. But
if back of Turkey there is standing
some power. some ally, it will be no
easy matter to prevent the enforce
ment of her demands. The revelation
of Turkeys warlike resources make
such a thing not impossible. Freed
from the fear of great coalition
against her, she would undoubtedly be
an active factor in the settlement of
many questions that the powers have
thought were peculiarly under their
supervision, but which have really
been under no ones supervision and
have not been settled. Turkey within
a month has doomed up as a possible
factor in European affairs not dreamed
of in two decades. Her nature is not
changed; only that of the Christian %
powers is.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-16
A Ward Handful.

friend of the Artemus Ward club OF
CIeveland-the Press club of that city
has sent to that organization a handful
which is delightfully."- characteristic OF the
humorist whose famous non de plume the
club so proudly bears. 1t is dlngy Httle
sheet printed on the cheapest OF paper,
ten by fifteen inches, and bears the I'M
print: Excelsior Press, Weathersfeld.
While the paper shows the corrosIons OF
time so plainly says the Plain Dealer,
the ink preserves its blackness as II II
had been printed yesterday instead Oh
80 years ago. -. -
Brownies numerous fakes and must
have been written in the Plain Dealer
office in a moment of .pFoDhetic lnS9lra-
ton for ct that time there is no nkeH-
hood that he had any intention OF going
on the lecture stage.
This is the way the handoln reaos'
GREAT
EXCITEMENT!
Artemus Ward is arrived in town with
his big
ELLEFANT
AMERAKAi
and by partickier requEstawil e. here this
evenin
Evry boldly must B karful not to git two
klost two the ouardy pid as he has only
bin Kaut bout q years and amt altogat-
her acquainted with the Human raise
animile & vii make him cut up som OF
his best KaDers-
%. s. ladys May ryde on the animile at
there own risk. ARTEMUS WARD.
n. B. March the sixteenth, aighteen
hundred & fifty-eight.
1t will be noticed that the future great
Snowman spells his name in two ways.
Evidently he hadn't quite settled at that
time on the style he afterward followed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-16
MILES AWAY.

Up to Athens at break of day.
Causing rift in the Greek dismay,
A message was borne TO the people scared,
Telling that peace was at last declared;
Peace was declared at the break of day.
With Uncle Sans general still Miles
away!
Swift few the smoke from the fields of
gore,
Showing the battle was on 10 more,
And grass grew high where the fighters
And lowers in the trenches were thickly
set,
And all was as calm as a summer day,
With Uncle Sans general still Miles
away,
The first that he met was gentle maid !;
How goes the battle?' he eagerly said
The maiden replied: You ought. sir, to
know
The trouble ended a long time ago.
Re looked rather blank, and he'd nothing
to say -
For Uncle Sans general had been Miles
away,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-16
A DEFENSE OF oFF1cE-sEEK1Ne.

The Washington Post is the friend
of the ofice-seeker Do not under
stand by this that it keeps a special
bureau for them where inside" infor-
nation can be had at certain rates.
It is not the individual that it favors
but the principle for which the Office
seeker stands. One of its exchanges
having remarked that Hon. Billy Ma
son. of Illinois, was giving toe much
time to office-seekers. the Post asks
why he should not devote the larger
part of his time to those who are seek
ing Office. II wants to know how 1.-THE
Hon. Billy got there but by assiduous
and persistent effort" The Post then
proceeds to comment as follows:
The effice-seekers are entitled to
consideration, and they ought to have
it. The Hon. Billy Mason is strictly
within his line of duty in giving up
much of his time to the office-seekers.
That's just what he ought to do He
was once an office-seeker himself, and
not so very long ago, either. The
woods are full of office-seekers. and
their claims should be recognized. The
Pharisee sheer, directed against office
seekers, is in bad taste. Everybody
does not want an Office, but any one
who does, has a right to try for it,
and there is nothing wrong in the try
ing. Give the office-seeker a chance,
He is just as good citizen as anyone
else. and whether he wants a place
worth $40 day or $500 year makes
no difference. Congressman are not do
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-16
WAR AGAINST TIPS.

Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania.
hotel walters. He is new man in
Washington but refuses to be domi-
mated by some of it's ways. One of
these is the tipping practice. Since he
has lived at the Raleigh, one of the
leading hotels of Washington, taking
his meals in the cafe, he has become
unpopular with the walters and for
some time they have grumbled about
serving him. The crisis came a few
days ago.
When the senator entered the cafe
for breakfast the walters ignored him.
The head waiter, noticing that some
thing was wrong, told a man to take
the senator's order. The man refused
and was discharged on the spot An
other waiter was then called up to
take the order. He also refused and
was discharged. A third man was
called with the same result. The fourth
man took the order, but Immediately
afterwards removed his apron and quit.
When these four men were paid off
and left the hotel all the other walters
quit in a body. An entire new force
was employed and the Pennsylvania
senator is now being waited on.
A war against tipping hotel walters
might almost be called a holy war
A hotel waiter has it in his power to
tyrannize over a man; over him he
holds the power of life and death, for
if man would live he must eat. And
how can he eat when the walters re-
fuse to serve him with food? To have
to pay an exorbitant hotel bill and then
to have to tip the waiter so that one
can get anything to show, or rather
feel, for his bill, is an outrage; it is
more, it is unconstitutional as it takes
a mans property without due process
of law
1t is to be hoped that Senator Pen
rose will be victorious in his war
against tips. If he isn't, he should
add an amendment to the tariff bill
to remedy the evil complained of.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-16

Ben Butterworth, the commissioner
of pensions, is not great admirer of
the Dingley bill, in fact he may be put
down as opposed TO it. He was in New
York one day last week and was
questioned about the bill and what its
effects would be. He said:
IF the tariff measure. as it looks at
present. is conducted along the lines
Of small affairs and local politics.
do not see that it VIII be Just the
thing desired. I do not know what
Will be done later with the bill. am
in hopes that it viii be changed con-
siderably and broadened. Perhaps it
viii be. After all, the late General
Hancock was right, 1 believe, when
he said that the tariff was chiefly a
local issue. The man who raises cattle
and has hides to SELL naturally desires
to have a protective tariff placed on
hides, while another man, in district
a few miles distant, desires a tariff on
wool because he raises sheep. So
Hancock's remark, after some years,
has turned out to be true and quite
applicable to the conditions that now
exist in our country. Recently had
a conversation with a prominent Re
publican who is active in the legisla-
tive councils of the party, and he told
me that If the tariff bill should be
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-16

The New York Evening Post, always
an avowed and active enemy of free
silver, is not much more favorable to
International bimetallism. 1t regards
it as very much a will o. the wisp.
Speaking Of the meeting of Ambassa-
dor Hay with the English bimetallists,
it says:
Colonel Hay lunched yesterday with
the leading English bimetallists,' and
the news is thought worth cabling.
Perhaps the leading bimetallists
wanted our ambassador to explain his
letters in defense of Mckinley in the
London Times of last May. In one of
them he treasured English investors as
to Mr.. McKinley's soundness on
finance, practically affirming that he
was gold-standard man, though there
was a dastardly attempt to make it an
pear that he was not. This little diff
Guilty apart. the luncheon must have
been a great success. and anybody can
imagine what was said The leading
English bimetallists assured the Amer
lean ambassador that England would
do great deal for silver if only Lord
Salisbury and Sir Michael Hicks Beach
and the government majority of $50
would let her. Colonel Hay gave them
in return the equally important and
confidential information that the Unit
ed States was ready to agree to a ratio
as soon as Germany and Austria and
Great Britain let off asserting that no
agreement was possible. Thus does the
cause of International bimetallism ad-
vance by leaps and bounds
That which gives point and sting to
such comments as these is the fact that
while the administration is doing
something" for international bimetal-.
iism, it is pledged not to do anything
for American free coinage unless the
consent OF the leading commercial ma
sicns of Europe can first be obtained.
And the mission of the bimetallic COM
missioners now in Europe is mere for
the purpose OF parade and placatioa
than anything else. Never has a single
International monetary conference done
a thing TO advance the interests of sill
yer. Such being the case, can anyone
think another conference will do any
thing more? The fable of The Farmer
and the Lark" points the moral OF in
ternational monetary conferences so
far as the interests of silver are con-
cerned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-16

Judge Bartch is back from Washing
ton, having returned yesterday after
noon. The judge tells us that he feels
very much encouraged over the pros
pect of the presidents coming, and
feels quite confident he viii come if
congress adjourns in time to permit.
The president, he says. realizes how
important the west is and how its i'm
porfanee has not always been duly ap-
preciated. He says that members of
the cabinet with whom he talked are
also anxious to visit the state on the
occasion of the Pioneer Jubilee. Judge
Bartch agrees with The Herald that il
President Mckinley were to visit the
west this year it would in all likeli-
hood establish precedent that would
be followed by other presidents. May
ne come. ,----
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-16

inscribed banners. and pulled out Of the
depot at o'clock. AT ogden. Willard.
obtained and at noon today the work OF
distributing Utah's floral expressions OF
friendship and good will to Montanans
will begin The personnel of the Montana
lilac party is: z. F. Colburn, in charge:
Assistant Director-General McGarvie.
Miss Emily Katz. J. A. Evans (1orisO
and wife. Miss Edna Sherman. Miss
Alton Young. Mrs. Frank w. Jennings.
Bert Morris (fiorisD, John Hanson. of the
News. Will Nelson jr., of the Tribune,
and Herald representative.
The party will return Tuesday.