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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22
White Men Must Show Themselves
Masters.
(Wilson NewS.)

The negro question presents to our
minds one of the grossest cases OF
ingratitude on record in the history
of the world. The negro owes his
life, liberty and all he has to the
white man. The whites give them
work and means of livelihood and
yet the ungrateful wretches turn
upon their benefactors with insults
and abuses. The Southern people
have time and time again proven
that they are the best friends of the
negro race. Yet the negro hates the
Southerner and worships the North
erner. It's the Southern people who
need to learn lesson from this issue
and not our Northern brethren or the
negro. We must show ourselves
masters of the situation, and while
we should treat the negroes with ali
the consideration and kindness due
them, we must vet ever keep before
their ewes the fact that they are the
inferior race and must in all things
be subject to the white mans con-
troll
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22
JUDGE ROBERTP. DICK.
Born Oct. 5, 1923, Died September
IL, 1898
(Winston Jou nal.)

The hand of death in touching
Judge Dick, removed from public life
in North Carolina probably one of the
most amiable, as we'll as fortunate
policical characters the State has
ever produced. Just approaching
his 18th birthday, he has been in
politics for so years, the most of that
time belonging to a political party
that was discord to the harmony of
his social, moral and mental horizeon,
and yet so pure and amiable and
gentle was his nature that he COM
manded the respect and esteem OF all
who knew him and lived a life before
the glare of unfriendly political scru-
tiny that was above reproach in
every official and private act.
In 1852 he represented the State in
the National Convention at Balti-
more and in 1853 was appointed by
Pierce as U. S. district attorney for
North Carolina and held this office
until 1861.
He was a member the National
Convention at Charleston and Balti-
more in 1860 and cast the vote that
gave Stephen A. Douglass the ma
iority of the convention and lived to
see son of Stephen A. Douglass
and his own sonin-law Judge Of the
supreme court Of North Carolina and
a grandson of both honored by a
namination to the Legislature from
his native county.
In 1868 he was member Of Gov.
Vance's council of state; in 1864
senator from Guilford county; in 1865
he was appointed by johnson U. S.
district Judge for North Carolina but
resigned because he could not take
the test oath.
In 1868 he was elected one of the
judges of the supreme court and in
1872 he was again appointed by
Grant U. S. district judge which
position he held until he resigned a
few months before his death on ac-
count of failing health. He admins
tered with great mercy and forbear-
ance the unpopular internal revenue
laws
For many years he conducted a
law school and has trained some of
the best legal minds now in the pro-
fession. He has always resided in
Greensboro where he was born Oct.
5, 1928, and has been an active useful
member of the Presbyterian church,
for a long time, a ruling elder. He
always took great interest in the
progress of the state, in agriculture
and all industrial pursuits. He was
an earnest advocate of temperance
reform and delivered many addresses
on the subject.
The state loses useful and de-
voted son in the death of this eminent
jurist and Christian gentleman.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22

AS compared with the loss inflicted
on the United States forces by the
Confederates in the great battles of
the civil war, the loss at Santiago is
small, when the fact is taken into
consideration that our forces in the
Cuban battles were assaulting q for
titled position of the enemy. In all,
counting 5000 Cubans engaged, there
were, approximately, $4,000 troops
opposed to the Spaniards. If there
have been as many as 500 casualties
from wounds, heat prostrations and
capture that would be 81 per cent.
A study of some of the great bat
ties of the civil war will serve to show
how much greater the losses were
there. Here is list of some of the
principal actions:
At Gettysburg, fought July Is,
1868, there were 800 killed, II, 497
wounded and 5,434 missing, total
loss of 23,OO1. The entire Union
forces in the battle are estimated at
about $4,000, giving the percentage
of loss as about 80.
At Spottsylvania, fought May S-1S,
1864, there were 2,725 killed, 13, 416
wounded, S,25S missing, total loss
of 1889. The Union forces were
10000 giving a percentage of IA.
At the Wilderness, May 81, 1864,
there were 2, 246 killed, II, ,O37 wound
ed and 1888 missing, total of H.
666. There were 100000 in the bat
tie; percentage of loss Is.
At Antietam, fought September II,
1862, there were 2,1OS killed. 9,549
wounded, 753 missing, total of l2,-
410. There were $4,000 engaged !;
percentage of loss, 10.
At charlottesville, fought Nav
1-3, 1868, there were 1,6O6 killed,
9,762 wounded, 5,5l9 missing, a total
of II, 287. There were $4,000 in bat
tie; percentage of loss, %.
At Chickamauga, fought Scptem-
Der 1920, 1868, there were 1856
killed, 9,749 wounded, 3,774 missing,
total of 1919. The forces engaged
was 1000; percentage of loss, 25.
At Cold Harbor, fought June IA,
1864, there were 1874 killed, 9,O77
wounded 1876 missing, total of
12,737. In battle there were $4,000;
percentage of loss, 33.
At Fredericksburg, fought Decem-
ber lila, 1862, there were 1924
killed, $500 wounded, 1,769 miss
ing, a total of 1868. There were
100, 900 in the Union forces; percent
age of loss, 13.
At Manassas, fought August 2S-3O,
1862, there were Lay killed, S,452
wounded, H. ,263 missing, a total of a.
462. In the battle were So, 900; per-
centage of loss, AZ.
At Shiloah, fought April 6-7, 1862,
there were 1,754 killed, S,40S wound
ed, 1855 missing, total of 13,O47.
The number in battle was $500; per-
centage of loss, 80.
At Stone River (Murfreesboro),
fought December 81, 1862, there were
1870 killed. 1902 wounded, 3,717
missing, total of 1920. The num-
ber in battle was $4,000; percentage
of loss. 81.
At Petersburg, fought, June 1919,
1864, there were 1,66S killed, S,513
wounded, 1875 missing, total of
1896. The number in battle was
100, 900; percentage of loss, II.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22

Admiral Dewey could, of course.
at any time since May have bonn
barded and conquered the city of
Manila; but although his task of
waiting was an extremely trying one,
he had determined to make no attack
that should expose the city to the
danger of anarchy and ra pine. 1t
was his policy to wait until the United
States had sent a sufficient number
OF soldiers to maintain safe and
firm occupation and prevent the dis
orders that would flow from state
Of civil warfare. With their fatal
proclivity for postponement, the
Spaniards had waited a week too
long. Our complete conquest of
Manila had altered the facts, because
it had destroyed the Spanish argu-
ment that Manila was prepared to
stand an Indefinitely long siege. 1t
was, upon the whole, highly fitting
that Admiral Dewey, whose brilliant
exploit on May 1 had been the first
great event of the war, should have
received the surrender of Manila and.
in consequence thereof, virtually Sc
cured the American possession of the
entire Philippine group as the result
of the last naval action of the war.
Admiral Dewey's tact as di plomat
and administrator in these past four
months is not less remarkable than
his boldness and brilliancy as naval
strategist. Moreover, he has shown
that well-ni Oh perfect self-mastery
which can wait with infinite patience
or can act with lightning-like energy,
as the occasion may require. Manila
is so far away, and the news since
May l has come in SO condensed a
fashion, that we have not known in
minute detail how Admiral Dewey
was occupying himself from one day
to the next. But the people of the
United States have felt that the ad-
miral was in very unusual degree
the embodiment of American pluck,
common sense, cool-headedness, and
ingenious resourcefulness; and so
they have felt great satisfaction in
the idea that the Vermonter in the
Philippines could be relied upon to
take care of himself and dominate
the situation, regardless of Spanish
captain-generals and the intrigues of
pompous German admirals, not to
mention the soaring aspirations of
restless native patriots like General
Aguinaldo. The winning side in every
war develops its heroes. We are all
glad to believe that many another
officer of our navy would have given
a splendid account of himself if he
had, in Dewey's place, been in COM
mand of the Asiatic squadron at the
outbreak of the war. But Dewey
had especially qualified himself in
advance for precisely the work he
has so we'll executed; and by unani-
nous consent he will rank first in
the list of heroes of the late war
From The Progress of the World"
in the american Reviev of RerieOs for
September.
The liver filters out the poisonous germs
which enter the system. just so surely as
the liver regulates the system, so do DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate the
liver. Keep this in mind, and you solve
the problem of good health and good living.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22
Look Out For Breakers Ahead

when pimples. eruptions. boils., and like
manifestations of impure blood appear.
They wouldn't appear if your blood were
pure and your system in the right condl-
ton They show you what you need-a
good blood purifier: that's what you get
when YOU take DR.. Pierce Golden Medical
Discovery. 1t carries health with it. All
blood, skin and scalp diseases. from a
common blotch, or eruption, to the worst
scrofula, are cured by it. 1t invigorates
the liver and rouses every organ in health
full action. In the most stubborn forms OF
skin disease. such as salt-rheum, eczema
letter. erysipelas, boils and kindred all
ments, and with scrofula, in every shape !.
and ali blood -taints, no matter from what
cause arising, 1t Is an ureQualed remedy.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22
A PROUD RECORD.
IS THAT WHICH THE OLD NORTH
STATE BOASTS.

Some Cheerful First Facts for North
Carolinians as to the Past-We Have
all Along Been too Modest in As
serting Our Claims but the Truth of
History Should be Preserved-Some
Things Which Cannot be Contro-
verted.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22

The kinston Free Press tells that
in the recent Democratic primary Of
one township in Lenoir county there
were present more former Populists
than there were Democrats. We
hear of one eastern county in which
a Democrat has list of the names Of
200 Populists who have returned to
the Democratic party. Similar re-
ports, though not all SO good, come
from every part of the east. In truth,
under fusion misgovernment. are
almost intolerable, and the necessity
for change is apparent and i'm
perative ve-Statesyille Landmark.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22

One Minute Cough Cure surprises people
by its quick cures and children may take
it in large quantities without the least
danger. 1t has won for itself the best
reputation of any preparation used to-day
for colds, Group, tickling in the throat or
obstinate coughs. Phil II. Thomas.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22

The plan put on foot by Chairman
Simmons to organize the white peo-
pie of North Carolina into white
mems unions is causing shaking up
of drv bones in the fusion camp.
These pie-eating, fusion fellows be-
lieve in close, compact alliance Of
the 10000 negroes in the State,
but they are Mortified at the thought
of the white people standing together.
and unless all indications are faulty.
there is going to be a phalanx of
them in November that will meet
and defeat the negroes and their
allies and inaugurate decent and in
tellipent government in North Caro-
Columbus News.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22
S., s. fff YGe Blood

h..ur l'urrly Vegetable, goes direct to
the y-ly c..u-e Of the. disease and u per-
luann,t IRE always results. 1t is the
nuly a.opi remedy guaranteed to con-
tin ID, potash, mercury or other dam
r.ro.s minerals.
Book mailed free by Swift Specific
Company, Atlanta, IeoSgiu.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22
NO CUlkE-NO PAY.

This is the way all druggists sell
Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic for
Chills and FeverS and all forms of Ma
laria 1t is simply Iron and Quinine in
tasteless form Children love it. Adults
refer it to bitter nauseating tonics. Price
50 cents. l6Sept1c
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22
Crippled by
Rheumatism.

Those who have rheumatism find
,pa,--..rc- grOWin. steadily worse all
v.il.. one reason OF this is that
,hr rr.u-dins prescribed by the doctors
c,pt.in mercury ard potash, which ul-
tnnt.Iy intensity the disease by caus-
ing t4r Joints To swell and stiffen.
rroGu"iuG 4 severc aching of the bones.
! h.s been curing rheumatism
f,r r.,rrtY years-even the worst cases
ul... -rrmcd almost ircurable.
C.... n /. Hughes, the popular railroad
C.r .. .'.r. = b"tnHbln ;. e., had an expert
,..r...,.t t-lcuIuHtl- IN which convinced him
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22

Truth wears we'll. People have learne
that DeWitt's Little Early Risers are re
liable little pills for regulating the bowels,
curing constipation and sick headache.
They don't gripe. Phil H. Thomas
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22
DEWEY THE HERO.
THE MOST PROMINENT FIGURE IN
THE WAR WITH SPAIN.

1t Was This Gallant Sea Fighter Who
Struck the First Crushing Blow of
the War, and it Was but a Fitting
Climax That He Should Have Played
q Part in the Grand Finale as the
Curtain Was Run2 Down-a GIo-
rious Record Won by the Vermonter.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22

You invite disappointment when you ex-
pertinent DeWit's Little Early Risers
are pleasant, easy, thorough little pills.
They cure constipation and sick headache
just as sure as you take them. Phil H.
Thomas
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22

Remember you can have goods deliver
ed any where in town absolutely Tree Of
charge, from n. THOMASON'S.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22
For Sale.

y bargain and on liberal terms, |
ln' IJ ,'n" Offering tor sale the Ford Factory
LE!UIIl'Hg and lot on breckenridge Street.
'F luIther information apply to
JAS. r. YOUNG,
Insurance and Real Estate Agt.,
Henderson, N. Z.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22

Lrr,iady knows that rheumatism
,- # t.-.r-rd state Of the blood, and
ra.9a ...d remedy is the only proper
trrr..lf. bat IL remedy containing
rrt~- .i :n"rcury only aggravates
,.,. 'r.iI.r
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22

Life is an impartial jury. Death
an unbiased Judge.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22
LOSSES In BATTLE.
CASUALTIES IN CIVIL WAR COM.
PARED WITH SANTIAGO.

The Percentages Vastly Higher at
Gettysburg. SpottsyIvania. Cold
Harbor, the Wilderness, Chancel-
lOrsyiIle, Anteitam, Chickamauga,
nanassas, Shiloah, and a Score of
Other Scenes of Carnage, Than in
the Fight at Santiago.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22

Hood pills are tie best family cathartic
and liver tonic. Gentle. reliable, sure.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22

When you are out of sorts, feel tired
languid and dull you need Hood s Sarsa-
parilla. 1t will brace you up and give
you strength and energy. vigor and
vita litY
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-09-22

which enter the system. Just so surely as
the liver regulates the system, so do DR..
Pierce'S Pleasant Pellets regulate the
liver. Keep this in mind, and you solve
the problem of good health and good living.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-07-08
RED, WHITE AND BLUES.
A Red Cross Society Organized in
MankatO.

A fair audience attended the mass
meeting held at M. E, church Friday
evening despite the uncomfortable
heat. The meeting was called to
order by the president, Mrs. Jache,
and much interest was manifest from
the start.
The new society was chrtstened
"MankatO Red, White and Blues"
and the purpose of the organization
shall be to assist our volunteer
soldiers. Mrs. ]. H. James, Mrs. E.
M. Pope and Mrs. Wood were appoint
ed committee on bylaws.
1t was voted to set aside Wednes-
days of each week for work, the hours
being from $3.50 a. M. and 200 p. m.
The ladies are requested to meet next
Wednesday afternoon in the base
ment Of the M. E. church and bring
needle, scissors, ETC., for making alb
dominal bandages which are essential
at this particular time. Material for
the bandages will be furnished by the
society.
A membership fee of 25 cents will
be charged and it is desired that five
hundred ladies in our city will be-
come members, and this money will
be used to purchase materials, etc.
Any one wishing to help this society
may become members by paying rs
cents and leaving their names with
any of the officers name below. The
officers are as follows:
President-Mrs. Prof Jache.
Financial and corresponding sec'y-
Mrs. M. D. Fritz.
Treasurer-Mrs. VIM. n. Plymat.
Directors Mesdames J. II. James,
Crosby, Craig, Wood and Hayden.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-07-08
SINKING SHIP.
Judge TOrrey, DR.. Hielscher and
Others Leave 1t.
Republican Party Gains Some Valuable
AcceSsiOus From the
Democracy.

Judge Torrey will vote for William
Henry Eustis for governor. He has
been Eustis man all along, and re-
iterated this statement this after
noon. 1t has been rumored that Mr..
Torrey had left the ranks Of the
Democracy, and when asked about it
confirmed this report.
81 joined the Democratic party at
the time Of the Greedy wave" said he,
because thought it was for free
trade. When it got into power it did
no better on this issue than the Re-
publicans had done. 1t showed that
it was not capable of grasping op-
portunities, and it deserved defeat.
The Republicans have some snap
about them and do something when
in power. 1 am an old soldier, too,
and am in favor of the war policy, and
L believe that Mckinley is doing
right, and feel like supporting him"
''The Democratic party is practi-
cally dead and does not deserve sue
cess. Its principles amount to moth
ing, if it has any principles. L have
been a floating voter for three or four
years, supporting the best man"
Judge Torrey is not the only prom
inent man to leave the Democratic
party in Mankato this year. DR.. ].
A. Hielscher, another former leader
of the local Democracy. has entered
the Republican camp. Prof. ]. R.
Brandrup and a large number of
others from Mankato, DR.. Garrett
Murphy and score or more of other
former Democrats of Garden City and
other parts Of the county have come
into the Republican fold, realizing at
last that the grand old party stands
for Americanism first, last and all the
time.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-07-08
ST. JOSEPH, MICH.
Readable Letter From A. B. MOffatt, Now
Located There.

The following extracts are from a
letter received from A. B. MOffatt,
now located at St Joseph, Mich, and
will be of general interest.
81 find St. Joseph a very pleasant
little city, older in appearance than
Mankato, but having a good system
Of water works, electric lights and
gas, and fine electric street railway
system connecting St. 10 with Benton
Harbor mile away.
The popularity of St. Joseph as a
summer resort is growing every year,
and excursions are of frequent occur
ence from the interior cities of
Michigan and Indiana, and five fine
steamers run daily between these two
cities (the Twin Cities they are called
here) and Chicago. The fare going
and coming the same day is but S1.00
round trip, and ST. so unlimited. 1t
takes four hours to cross the lake. So
far this summer we have had one
really hot day, 8S Q in our office, that
was the oath inst. Usually there is
a fresh breeze from the lake, which
makes it pleasant in summer. Those
who can, spend the winter In the
south.
The large summer hotel, "St.
Joseph was opened last Saturday,
but as it is yet too cool for bathing
the season is not really open.
find my work here fully as pleas
an and agreeable as I expected to,
and can say the same Of the peo-
pie. The Hosiery business of Cooper,
Wells & Co. has been established
nearly twenty years, is conducted on
business principles and their product
stands in the front rank with the
best hosiery mills in the country.
They employ over 300 people and have
Is statesmen on the road. Sales last
year were $330.000 and there is good
increase so far this year"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-07-08
YOUNG, MIDDLEAcED oLDMEN

showing
debility
manhood abuses the vitality
face loss of energy and frequency of urinating.
Many bright naturally gifted
permitted his until
pride
made drudgy hdo Thousands
standing
nate fatal diseases,
P. S.-Remember the date. DR.. Fshbiatt will
remain two days at The Saulpaugh, Mankato,
Mimi, reaching here on Thursday, July 18th.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-07-08
CAMP THOMAS.
News From the Mankato Boys Who are
at the Front.

Co. A, 18th MINI. VOL, Camp Geo. r..
Thomas, Chickamauga Park.
LYLE, Ca, June 81, 1898.
EDITOR FREE PREss:-There is an
expression of utter disgust upon the
faces of the members Of the 18th Min
nesota, 5th Pennsylvania and End
South Carolina, which comprise the
first brigade, on account of the news
just received that Gen. Brookes had
decided to send the Third army corps
instead of the First. The boys
right along had been very proud, ex-
pecting that that they were the next
TO be sent from Chickamauga, but
they have been very badly disap-
pointed, and they don't hesitate to
say what pretty words" they wish to
ABOUT it. The reason given in camp
for this change in affairs, by Gen.
Brookes, was that the Third army
corps was more completely equipped
than were the First and Second.
AS it looks now, the 18th will prob
ably be ordered to Washington, D. G.
later on, as they are conceded to be
the finest disciplined and drilled, and
that is the only kind of volunteers
they want at the national capitol.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-07-08
A Generous Offer to the Y. M. G. A.

The Board of Directors of the Y.
M. @. A. met last evening to consider
an excellent offer to the association
Just made by one Of our citizens, the
association holds pledges from our
people for various sums ranging from
$500 to $4,000 given to support :and
carry on the work for the year ending
July l, 1898 amounting to about ST. 800
Of this amount $3.50 is unpaid. There
are obligations amounting to 1907 and
when the pledges are unpaid there
will still be deficit of nearly $3.50.
The gentleman referred to (who does
not care to be named) proposes to do
nate the sum of 800 on condition that
these pledges be paid and the deficit
raised before July Is and thus place
the association on solid footing and
free from debt.
The Directors believe that this can
be done and as starter pledged
among themselves last evening fifty
dollars in addition to the sum already
given by them for the years work. 1t
is believed that the people Of Manka-
to, will aid the Y. M. @. A. in secur-
ing this generous sum. The work of
the association is such as appeals to
every citizen who loves the good and
those who know the most about this
work are it's most enthusiastic friends
and supporters. Plans for canvass
are being considered and the Direc-
tors meet in few days to arrange de-
tails,