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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18

Rain or shine-wet or dry-hot or
cold-free silver or no free silver
every year the good Lord sends brings
the usual crop of fools. The late cold
snaps, the spring freshe,s, the swelter-
ing heat Of summer, the long dry
drough,s in the fall of the year and
the tremendous cold spells in the dead
Of winter have all got nothin to do
with the great American fool crop. 1t
comes up and grows off and turns out
its producements as regular as pig
tracks in a plum th!cket.
TWO HEARTS THAT BEAT AS ONE.
What makes me stop and tell you
that? Well, mostly from the fact that
we had of the most proper and lovliest
weddin matches you ever heard tell Of
fixed up in the settlement this fall, and
everything was comm right on across
in nice shape till old man Dave Bowen
took up one of his fool notions and
gummed up the cards and busted the
game.
As everybody knows, old man Dave
Bowen is one Of the best fixed men for
miles and miles around. He lives on
the old Bowen plantation down there
on Deer Creek, where he was born and
bred and brung up. The old stock Of
Bowen people passed away in the full
ness of time, and then Dawes brothers
and sisters died up one by one till fl
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18
MAYBE THIS HITS YOU.
THE SOBER SAGE WRITES ABOUT THE GREAT AMERICAN
CROP OF FOOLS.
There Many and Various Sorts All Playing Their Re-
spective Parts-A Fool Notion Breaks Up Wedding
One Womans Way Of Bringing a Whiskey Fool to
(Rufus Sanders in Gaffncy Ledger.)

the weddn was to come off, TO GIT Miss
Mary dressed and ready. On the way
down there Aunt Nancy had to tell
everybody where she was goin and
what she had to do. Whereas, dut+a
the day old man Dave heard that
mother and Aunt Nancy had went on
down to Bunk Wea,herford's to dress
Miss Mary for the weddin.
Well, from then on the fat was in
the fire and the weddin cake turned to
dough. That wouldn't make con-
tinental bit Of difference with me and
you But old man Dave swore he'd
be doubly dadburned if he would
marry any woman under the sun that
couldn't dress herself.
"Somethin is the matter with her If
it takes two women TO dress her," says
old man Dave, "and by gollys that
lets me out"
The neighbors soon got wind of how
the machinery had jumped cog, and
some of them went over to see the old
man Dave to try and talk some sense
into his head. But it was pluperfec,
vanity. He wouldn't move peg.
And he maintains till yet that if he
ever does take unto himself wife she
must be a full grown woman and able
TO dress herself.
ONE SELFMADE FOOL.
There is at least one more man in
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18
Wise Words.
(The South h-West.)


Take time to deliberate; but when
the time for action arrives, stop think
ing and 60 in.
A man cannot go through the world
with a loving heart without having
JOY written on his face.
You should cultivate not only the
habit of telling the truth, bu, the for
bearance to hear it.
The man who does always his best
will find a steady demand for the
things that he can do.
Don't hold a man responsible for
his fool kin. You may have troubles
uf that kind Of your own.
1t Is as easy To draw back a one
thrown with torCe from the hand as 10
recall word once spoken
All the women who have been DIS
appointed IN love are not Old maids;
the maj j,rl,y of them are married.
Some delicate matters must be
treated like pins, because If they are
no, seized by the right end, we get
prlcked.
Remember that one may be witty
without being p rpular; vpluble with
out being agreeable; a great talker and
yet grea, bore.
rhe voice should be carefully train
ed and developed; full, clear, f1ex-
\ l., &
,ions of good breeding.
Be frank. A frank open counte-
nance and clear, cherry laugh are
worth far more even socially than
"pedantry in stiff cravat.'
The happy family is the one IN which
a compromise can be reached between
wife's notions Of decoration and the
husbands idea Of comfort.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18

the Rocky Creek settlement which
comes up with the general crop of fools,
and his name is Dunk Strickland. To
some extent Dunk was raley what you
mought call a self made fool He did
have sense enough to squeeze through
if he had to but only kept it cool and
sober all the time. But Bunk was
powerful prone to look long and low
inly upon the early runnins Of the
corn. And moreover, spoonful of
brains and pint Of mean whlskey,
mixed and shook up together and
takeL before and after eatin and be
tween meals, will soon make the gone
byest biggest fool in the world. The
devil couldn't bea, that prescription If
he tried day and night for thousand
years, and SO long as nell make the
mixture the Fool Killer ain't i'll no
danger Of losin his ID
There was the trouble with Dunk.
He went on making that terrible mix
ture till at last he bore the name and
fame Of na,ural-born fool. But by
and by he took and married Miss
Dixie Standenrnire, which she was
about the most handsomest woman in
the settlement, and presently she
fetched him TO law. Mss Dixie was
tall and buxom and high strung, as
we'll as good lookin. Her arms was
white as milk, but big as bed post,
and she had the keenest, pre,tess blue
eyes you ever looked into perhaps.
Along a, first Miss Dixie she would
cry every time Dunk come up drunk,
bu, tina, was such regler thing till
she had to gi, use to it, and l reckon
her stock Of tears run ou;. She tried
and tried in her tender, womanly way
10 break Dunk from his fool ways. But
Dunk didn't do a blessed thing but
make great promises and then went
right on drinkin and rowdyin to bea,
SIX bits.
Ore bright and beautiful spring
morning some IS years ago, Miss
Dixie she called for new deal and
give II out that she would now play a
different game with Dunk. So when
he started to town that mornin she
went out TO the front gate with him
and read the law in his hearin.
TAKING DOWN THE CHECK REIN.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18

nally at last he is the onlyest one left.
Consequentially the whole plantation
and everything on it belongs to him
in his full name He had went on for
two or three long and weary years
livin there all alone by hi .self with no
better company than the niggers and
his mules. And naturally IF course
everybody was glad when he lit out
and put in visitln and courtin around
Mss Mary Wlllingham-whch | do
know she is one Of the best and most
smartest women in the round created
world. Miss Mary is. like old man
Dave in one regards-her people have
all died up and left her alone in the
world. But they left her without any
home that she can call her own, or
land, or mules, or cattle, or anything.
She is also way yonder different from
old man Dave in regards to sense. She
has got a gracious plenty Of 1t, whilst
he is monstrous poor man in that
way.
But anyhow i, did look to me like
the very best thing for them to do,
under the surroundln circumference,
was to 60 and git married. Dave had
the money and the home, whilst Miss
Mary had everything else. He was
some the oldest, but she had also shed
her colts teeth, as it were, and 1t
would raley seem like they had been
predestinated to marry from the foun-
dations of the world. Everybody in
the settlement though, SO. And at
one time old man Dave and Miss
Mary though, the same way. After a
right smart fumbln and { olln and
visitin and courtin and carryn on, at
last they give out the news and Sc, the
day-Frday evenin before the last
Third Sunday.
THE MACHINERY SLIPS A COG,
Blu: in the meantime Aunt Nancy
Newton had heard the news and come
bilin up from Panther Creek to see the
show. She had been goDd clost friends
with Miss Mary for years and years,
and the dear, delightful old soul jest
simply couldn't keep her finger out OF
the weddin pie.
! SO that Friday nornin Aunt Nancy
and mother they hooked up and driv
off down to Bunk Weatherford's S wher
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18
LUCILLE.
Lucille

Lucille
Had acquired that matchless, unconscious
appeal
TO the homage which none but churl
would withhold
That caresSIng and exquisite grace-never
bold
Ever present which just a few women
possess
From heartful repose, undsturbed by
the stress
OF unquiet emotions, her soft cheek had
drawn
A freshness as pure as the twilight of
Her figure, though slight, had revived
everywhere
The luxurious proportions of youth, and
her hair,
Once shorn as an Offering to passionate
love,
Now fiOated Or rested redundant above
Her airy, pure forehead and throat, gath
cred loose,
Under which, by one violet knot, the pro-
fuse
Milk white folds of cool modest garment
Rippled faint by the breast they half hid.
disclosed.
Put her simple attire thus in all things
revealed
The fine art which so artfully all things
concealed.
Some faces show
The last act of a tragedy in their regard.
Though the first scenes be wanting, it yet
is not hard
To divine, more or less. what the plot
might have been,
And what sort of actors have passed DER
the scene,
And whenever / gaze on the face of Lucille,
With its pensive and passiOnless languor,
feel
That some feeling hath burnt there
burnt out, and burnt up
Health and hope. SO you feel when you
gaze down the cup
OF extinguished volcanoes. You Judge of
the tire
Once there by the ravage you see-the de-
sire,
By the apathy left in its wake, and that
OF moral immovable, mute innocence.
Owen MEREDITH.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18
Two Lives Saved.

Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, Of Junction City
H., was told by her doctors She had Con
sumption and that there was no hope for
her. but two bottles of DR.. Kings New Dis
coverv completely cured her, and she says
it saved her life. Mr.. Thos. Eggers. ap-
preaching Consumption, tried without re-
suit everything else then bought one bottle
Of Dr. Kings New Discovery and in two
weeks was cured. He i, naturally thank
ful. II is such results, Of which these are
samples, ,ha, prove the wonderful efficacy
Of this medicine in Coughs and Colds. Free
trial bottles at NJ. Dorsey's Drug Store.
Regular size soc and 81 90.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18

1--WE are now standil at the forks
OF the road, Dunk" says Miss Dixie,
"and the time has come for me and 10
have family reckonin together. |
don't want any more of your promisin
and qultun. You have been promisin
and promlsln and quttin and quittin
till bless gracious am sick and tired
of that. You have now got to Let
down the check rem and change ,our
gate, or I'll blest If there don't be
a smashup somewhere in the neighbor-
hood | am plum wlllin for you to
play big and boss the concern if You
will only stay sober. But if YOU come
home drunk to night you will be the
sorrlest man in this county to- NOR
row."
1t was deep dusk, with the stars
sh'nln and the whlppowlIs singln when
Dunk 90, home-drunk as usual. if
not little drunker. But Mss Dixie
she was standing there at the from,
gate when he rid up, and she wan,
cryln any to speak of.
dunk Strickland" says she, "you
dadbias,ed, slow footed, good for moth
ing so', git down off OF lha, horse and
give me drink"
"What smatter wild you seventh,
honey3' says Dunk
"Don't Come honeyin around me-"
y.
wet dog. Git off of that horse like
told you"
And with that she went right on up
into Dunk's shirt collar and landed
him on the ground fiat Of his back
Then whilst he was scrambln to his
feet she got holt of his whisky bottle,
tnrned it up TO her pritty mouth and
bit off good big plug.
"That is mighty sorry whisky,
Dunk" says she, "but if you can stand
it can, and we will 60 a reglar family
drunk together. If you won't stay
sober and go with me, then bless the
heavens III git drunk and go with
you"
By the time they got into the house
Dunk was comm around to his sober
senses, but Miss Dixie took him in her
lap, she did, like he was baby, put
the bottle to his mouth and belt him
kown and drenched hlm..,,to the last
drop. Dunk kicked and he cussed,
but i; want no use, and when she did
let him 60 he raised a merry rucus.
He kicked over the chairs and tables
and then went to the dlnin room and
smashed the dishes right and left. Miss
Dixie didn't say stop, but it made her
blood bile and her heart bleed She
didn't do blame thing but take the
ak and went out to Dunk's young pear
orchard and lit INTO it with both hands.
ln less than two hours every tree in
the orchard was cut down and chopped
up in s,ovewood length.
50 Dunk he slept on the kitchen
floor that night, and when he woke up
next mornln he was the siCkest and
sorest man in II states and territories.
But when he walked out to the orchard
and found his pear treeS-whlCh stood
white with blooms the day before
cut up into stovewood and Mss Dlxle's
tracks all around, he lifted up his
voice in broken places and cried like
school boy with his Hls tie sinmped.
And that WAS Dunk's last spree. He
told his wife If She wuuid uuit he
would, and the sw.ne Of ,ngrr her
henCeiuIth and i,rcvrr III the Iu1 Il
time they bought m 1t" dishes aud
planted another r'n,'d. They have
now got nine pro. u children and
you wouldn't find harpier family in
long days drive.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18
Set Out Trees In the Spring.

Spring is q better time TO set trees
beginning to grow and will, therefore,
be in condition to respond more readi-
ly to treatment, while in fall they are
unlikely to establish themselves before
cold weather sets In Preserve the roots
to the fullest possible extent and do not
disturb the tree until after it has ripen-
ed and has shed its foliage. If the roots
are cut away, as they almost invariably
are in spring planting, be sure to cut
back the top proportionately--Eben +
ReHord in Ladies' Home Journal
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18

"Id rather have one man with
courage to act up to his convictions
than seven thousand whom nobody
but the Lord can find. Mooay.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18

The father of biography was Plutarch
Critics are generally agreed that the
model biography is that Of Johnson. by
Boswell
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18

You can be we'll when your blood is
rich. pure and nourishing. Hoods Sar-
saparilla makes the blood pure and cures
all blood diseases. restoring health and
yigor.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18

Nice lot of Hay and Oats (for feed
and seed) at II. THOMASON'S.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18

Hoods Pills are easy to take, easy to
operate. Cure indigestion, headache. &c.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18
ElY'S
CREAM BALM

Is quickly abb
sOrbed. Cleanses
the Nasal Passa-
ges, Allays Pain
and InflamIna-
tion, Heals and
Protects the
Membrane from
Cold. Restores
the Senses of
Taste and Smell.
Gives Relief at
once and it will
cure.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18
E. c.. DAVIS,
HENDERSON, y. &.
GEORGE {. WOODWORTH.
ELECTRICIAN.
HENDERSON,, n e.,

Would announce that hc il prepared tn
equip houses with electric bells Of all
kinds, for doors for dining rooms SER
wants call bells &c. Large line nf d iif-r-
ent STYLES from which Ia select. VIII
warrant III work and keep same iu repair
free Of cost. lso prepared to furnish
batteries and do repairing Of bells. Have
had large experience in bell hanging d.
we'll as electrical work.
VII ca II oii persons and show styles of
bells, door plates push buttons, &c, from
which to make election when notified iH
person or by postal card dropped III :he
post office.
Prices Very Reasonable.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18
AN IDEAL BACHELOR.
AWRITER WHO UNDERTAKES TELL
ALL ABOUT HIM.

How He Must Dress and the Rules Of Con-
duct He Must Observe to BE Classed as
'Comp1ete Bachelor" Manner
With Ladies and Servants.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-02-18
Io0dS !
Sars sapariIla

.g." Flood Purifier 81 i,er bottle
~, r'ir" Iii II.rt His and
-, Pills o.rA !irl,.acnc. :, cents
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-04-21
Lumber, Sash,
FURNI TURE.

The largest stock of Furniture
in the Northwest of all description.
Carpets, Chenille Curtains, Couches,
Blankets, Quilts, Pillows. We can
furnish anything from the cradle
to an old mans easy chair.
Come and see our Baby Car
riages. They are very cheap and of
the best quality.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-04-21
PAINTS.

We have the best line of Paints
in the Northwest, manufactured by
T. L. Blood & Co, of st. Paul. We
have handled them for the last
ten years and they have given the
best satisfaction; also full line of
Pure Linseed and Machine Oils.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-09
THE NAV York CAMPAIGN
And What Hryan had TO do with 1.-THE
Bow Orator Ia. Only a aIan OF chimeTlcai

And What Hryan hHdto do win 1.-THE
Bow Orator Ia, Only SIan OF chlmeTleai
Fnlhuslnsm,
NEW YORK Nov, sTThe Journal
and Advertiser prints the following let
ter from former Mayor Hugh j. Grant
concerning Mr., Bryan and the recent
New York elections;
"The conclusion of Mr.. Bryan that
the results OF the recent election indi-
Gates popular dissatisfaction with the
policy of the Republican party Is un-
doubleday correct His declaration that
they 'presage the overthrow OF the
Republican party Is not entitled 10 the
same credence as his conclusion,
II heartily hope that the Republican
party VIII be oyerthrowD 10 1900, but
II Is early for anyone but an enthusiast
like Mr.. Bryan 10 make up his mind
what will happen three years hence,
Most OF the George men were enthu-
siasts, who believed that II theory 20
which they subscribed could be put In
operation upon the affairs of life the
condition OF society would be made bet
ter. Others of them were believers IN
the 10 to theory, who were led astray
by their enthusiasm. All OF them-sin-
gle tax enthusiasts and 10 to .enthu-
siasts-ought to have been Democrats,
The latter would have been with us IL
Mr.. Bryan had not deferred them. He
was sufficiently acquainted with the
local situation In New York City In 1856
to talk about 1t with complete assur-
ance. He ought TO have been able to
make himself acquainted with 1t In
1897.
"He did nothing for the local Democ-
racy this year. Every suggestion OF his
words or acts was to our disadvantage.
The secretary OF the Democratic nation
al committee, who is presumably very
close to him In sympathy, repudiated
the candidacy OF Judge Van Wyck on
the ground that Judge Van Wyck did
not stand upon the silver plank of the
Chicago platform and gave to Mr..
George whatever support he had to
give, although Mr., George did distinct
ly repudiate the silver theory.
1.-THE trouble with Mr.. Bryan and the
secretary of the national committee Is
that they cannot adapt themselves to
changing conditions. They insist up
on following certain theories and In
disregardlng peculiar conditions Of life
which must affect the Influence OF those
theories In the various parts OF the
country.
1--WE are Democrats who insist upon
taking things as they are. shall be
happy, II, three years hence, Mr.. Bry-
ans present prediction is verified; but,
l do not take much interest In predic-
lions that have so long 10 run. Many
things are likely to happen between
now and 1900. II they happen IS Mr..
Bryan thinks they will happen they
will Justify his assumption OF the role
of a prophet. II they do not, Mr..
Bryan will be grieyed, In any event, the
Democratic party will remain"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-09
WHAT IS This DISEASE CALLED
DYSPEPSIA?

Like thief at night, II steals in upon
US unawares. The patients have pains
about the chest and sides, and some
times In the back. They feel dull and
sleepy; the mouth has bad taste, espe-
claiiy In the morning. A sort Of sticky
slime collects about the teeth. The APP
petite Is poor There Is feeling like
heavy load on the stomach; sometimes
faint, all-gone sensation at the pit OF
the stomach which food does not satisfy.
Eyes ore sunken, the hands and feet be-
come cold and clammy. After q while
cough sets In, at first dry, but after
few months II Is attended with q green
lsh colored expectoration. The patient
feels tired oil the while, and sleep does
not seem to afford any rest. After time
he becomes nervous irritable and
gloomy, and has evil fOrebodings.
There is a giddiness, n sort OF whlrllng
sensation In the head whom rising up
suddenly. The bowels becom costive;
the skin is dry and hotat times; the blood
becomes thick and stagnant; the whites
OF the eyes become tinged with yellow;
the urine Ia scanty and high colored, de-
posting sediment after standing.
There Is frequently a splitting up OF the
food sometimes with sour taste and
sometimes with swedish taste; this Is
frequently attended with palpitatIon of
the heart; the vision becomes impaired
with spots before the eyes; there 10 a
feeling OF great prostration and weak
ness. All OF these symptoms are In turn
present. II is thought that nearly ono
third Of our population has this disease
In some of It's varied forms II has been
found that medical men have mistaken
the nature of this disease Some have
treated II for u liver complaint, some for
dyspepsia, olhers for kidney disease,
etc. etc. hut none of the various kinds
Of treatment have been attended with
success.
Now. tho Shaker Digestive Cordial
causes tho food eaten 20 be dlgested.
This will cause an appetite for more food
and this being digcsted will result In an
increase Of strength. an Increase Of flesh
and an increase of nerve power.
Tho tired, weary feeling will give way
to vigor and courage. The pale, thin and
om0clatcd will recover their color and
plumpness because red blood and fat
are the result OF properly dlgested food
A ten cent trial bottle will produce n
result It's good effect will bc rcullzod nj
on CO. You will not have to take a dozen
bottles to ind out II II Ia doing you any
good Try II and then give praise 10 the
Shakers OF Mount Lebanon, New York,
for the relief that you obtain.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-09

CHICAGO, Nov. s.-As the result Of
a conference between Secretary James
f. McHugh, OF the stonecutters' Union,
and the heads of all the central bodies
of Chicago, including the building
trades council and the Chicago Fedora
tlon Of Labor and many prominent To-
cal labor leaders 1t has been decided to
formulate demand in the name of or
ganized labor that a clause be inserted
in all contracts and sub-contrncts for
cut stone-work for the new postoiilce
requiring that the stone be cut In Chi
cago. The amount involved will be
81, $50 600 It is urged that this will pre-
vent contractors from having the stone
cut by cheap labor and shipped here
In competition with union wages.
Should the demand be successful, the
plan will be extended to keep, II POSI-
BILE, the entire government expenditures
amounting TO about 100000, In Chiea-
M
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-09

NEW YORK, Now 1.-THE chorus
choir of the Peoples church. of which
Rev. Thomas Dixon. jr,, is pastor. con-
slstlng of about forty singers, refused
to sing to-day, out OF sympathy with
Professor Agramonte, their leader, be-
cause the pastor last Sunday advoca-
ted the election of Seth Low for mayor.
Professor Agramonte is a Cuban and
member OF the junta here, His son has
been in a Spanish prison on the island
OF Cuba for two years. The Cubans say
that Seth Low was opposed TO any In
PREVENTION of this country in Cuban af-
fairs and has stood against the cause of
Cuban liberty since the outbreak OF the
last war. Mr.. Dixon in his sermon to-
day said that he sympathized with
Professor Agramonte and had advoca-
ted voting for Low last Sunday because
he stood the best chance for election
against Tammany. He was opposed to
Low, personally.