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The gold leaf., 1898-06-30

If good resolutions could furnish
wings, everybody would fly.
The gold leaf., 1898-06-30

The merry-hearted have a fortune
that thieves cannot steal
The gold leaf., 1898-06-30

You cannot tell by the size of the
tree how the apples will taste.
The gold leaf., 1898-06-30

Remember you can have goods deliver
ed any where in town absolutely free of
charge, from II. THOMASOE'S.
The gold leaf., 1898-06-30

An hour of careful thinking is
worth more than ten of careless talk
ing.
The gold leaf., 1898-06-30
For Sale.

At bargain and on liberal terms,
am now Offering for sale the Ford Factory
Building and lot on Breckenridge Street.
For further information apply to
JAS. r. YOUNG,
Insurance and Real Estate Agt.,
Henderson, n. e..
The gold leaf., 1898-06-30

CAPT. Capron, who was killed i'll
Fridays battle near Santiago, was a
member Of the Seventh Cavalry,
United Stated regulars, Clusters
old command, which he left to
join the Rough Riders. Speaking
of him after the fight Lieutenant
Colonel Roosevelt said: ''He was
one Of the most accomplished officers
| ever knew" His death is greatly
lamented among his men.
The gold leaf., 1898-06-30
The Home Chapel.

Last Sabbath afternoon at o'clock,
the Chapel for the Aged and Intirm
was dedicated after a very interest
ing and appropriate sermon by DR.. j.
d. Hufham The dedication prayer
was offered by Rev. j. S. Williams.
The transfer of all claims in the
building to the Board of County Com
missioners was read by Rev. A. r.
Shaw on the two following conditions:
/. That the Board keep the chapel
in good repair.
?. That the chapel be used exclu-
sively for religious purposes.
The cost of the chapel, including
ceiling, painting, seating and heat
ing is $412.SS. This amount was re-
ceived from the following sources:
County Commis " S275 90
School building donated by NJ.
f. Church South .. % 90
Benevolent Orders and indi-
vidual subscriptions. ...... 112 SS
IOtal... y 4l2 so
While Rev. L. M. Johnston was
Treasurer, and just before his depart
ure for Greensboro, in the form of a
check payable to Revs. J. d. Hufham,
A. McCullen and A. R. Shaw, amount
ing to $S7.8S, there were included
two contributions from Benevolent
Orders. The impression is that the
Kings Daughters and Loyal Temper
ance Legion gave about $4,000 each.
The exact amount could be ascertain
cd from Bro. Johnson's books. The
neatly finished pulpit was donated by
Miss Hattie Crow.
Friends at the Home and in the
vicinity hauled the lumber for the
chapel free. While rejoicing in the
| completion of the building it should
be borne in mind that the success of
the enterprise is attributed in no
small measure to the untiring efforts
of Miss Lucy Davis and Rev. T. NJ.
Johnson. 1t is also gratifying to
recall the readiness with which the
County Commissioners granted the
appropriation of $4,000. The work
of the contractor, Mr.. Robt. Bum,
has been entirely satisfactory. What
else can be done for the Lords King
dom in Vance county?
A. r. SHAW
Henderson, N. c., June 20, 1898.
The gold leaf., 1898-06-30

A SMALL body of American soldiers,
composed of the First and Tenth
cavalry under Gen. Young. and Roose-
velt's Rough Riders, under command
of Col. Wood, engaged about twice
their number of Spaniards in a hot
battle near Santiago de cuba Friday
morning, the fighting lasting several
hours. Twenty-Five Americans were
killed and seventy-five wounded,
among the number being Capt.
Allyn X. Capron, Sergeant Hamilton
Fish. Jr-, Sergeant Dougherty, Ser
geant Marquis ID. Russell. all more or
less prominent New York men.
Thirty-seven Spaniards were found
and buried by Our men but it is
thought that many more were killed
while the number of wounded is not
known. The Spaniards were driven
from their positions and the first
battle proved clearly an American
victory
The gold leaf., 1898-06-30

When you want Shoes don't fail to see
the beautiful line just received. at
II, THOMASOS'S.
The gold leaf., 1898-06-30
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The gold leaf., 1898-06-30

n LOT of Republican editors who
do not know ..Shouldcr arms from
opinion Mr. Bryan is not competent
to command regiment-forgetfulof of
the fact that $500, 900 loval Ameri-
can citizens demonstrated bv their
ballots that they believe Mr.. BRYAN
qualified to be commander-in-chie
of the army and navy of the United
States Omaha Uorld-HeraId.
The gold leaf., 1898-06-30

TIE South goes steadily marching
onward. The contract for erecting
new steel manufacturing plant to
cost 81 900, 900 has been made by the
Alabama Steel and Shipbuilding Com
pany. The mill is to be erected at
EnSlay City and is to be capable of
turning out 1000 tons per day. The
war has put no check upon the iron
and steel making industries of the
country. Alabama already dictates
the price of the worlds iron, and it
NAV do the same with steel.
The gold leaf., 1898-06-30
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FLOUR A SPECIALLY

l have "n hand large quan;.r....
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bought before the rise, which w;,, NJ.
at lOx prices. ''i b" =,
Everything in the GROCEEyt,r.
SHOES at bottom prices. LINE
Large quanty of STOCK PEAS.
All goods delivered free ar VA, In,," "h h,s
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The gold leaf., 1898-06-30

A FRlCANA viii cure Rheumatism ano
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The gold leaf., 1898-06-30

the finest preparation on the market for
piles" SO writes John G.. Dunn, of
Wheeling, w. Va. Try it and you will
think the same. 1t also cures eczema and
all skin diseases Phil III Thomas.
The gold leaf., 1898-06-30

IT was the editors pleasure to at
tend the meeting of the North Caro-
lima Press Association in Waynes-
Vile last week. The session was 4
most delightful as well as profitable
one in every way. Waynesville is
one of the most charming mountain
towns in the State and the citizens
did everything in their power for the
entertainment and pleasure Of their
guests. Ofthe meeting, Waynesvillc,
the trip, etc, we will write more
fully next week.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-12-21

HAT a very pretty
girl she was, and
how the 20 years of
her fair young life
had combined to
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-12-21

enough during the early twilight OF
Christmas eve, but as night came on
and there were only shadows and
stiffness in the great house where lights
had cleaned and children's merry
laughter had filled their halls, the de-
preston became SO overpowering that
I began. to feel as if a crisis were ap-
preaching and that something was 60
ing to happen to make great change,
either for the better or for the worse,
and end the painful chapter. Once
or twice as the evening dragged slowly
along and the streets became still, I
started nervously and gazed .anxiously
at the chimney place, feeling sure that
Santa Claus would come down that
way, or if he did not I would very
soon go off in fit of Mysteries. If you
have never had such an experience,
you should pray that you never do.
About midnight, and just minute or
two before the bells of the city rang out
their Christmas welcome to the day,
I ventured to suggest that probably
they would find some forgetfulness in
sleep, and as 7 did so I arose and with me
the mother stood up, leaving her hus-
band sitting with bowed head. She
stepped forward to touch him and,
as her hand was laid upon his shout
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-12-21

der, there came a ring at the door
bell so sudden, so powerful and so in
sistent that the woman screamed and
fell to the floor in faint. Instantly
her husband was bending over her,
and telling me to go at once for doc
tor who lived directly opposite. ran
away in obedience, quite forgetting
the cause of all the disturbance. jerk
ing open the front door, I almost STUN
bled over basket sitting there, and
then I nearly tainted, too. You men
never know why women do such things
as they do, but they do them just the
same, and the minute I saw that bas-
ket I knew what was in it, and I knew
that there wasn't any need of going
after the doctor then And I didn't
I simply picked up the basket and car
ried it back to where the stricken
mother lay, with her husband over her,
chatting her hands and kissing her
white face as his tears fell upon it.
"Without word to him, I opened
the white silken flannel which was
folded thickly all over the precious
package within, and as I dug down
into the soft folds I found something
warm, and then I came to bit Of
filmy lace, and under that the sleeping
face of baby, six or seven months
old. + turned up the light and the
baby opened it's big blue eyes won
deringly and, with chubby fist held
up at the light, it .crowed as only
baby can crow. The man leaning over
the woman had not even noticed my
return, but this baby's crow was to
him like call from some other land,
and he turned toward me. With a
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-12-21
Growth Of the Soul.

Though times and seasons are not
as important as many would have us
think, still nearly every thoughtful
person at the coming of new year
remembers how old he is and wishes
he were not quite SO old. Let us turn
our minds away from the tabernacle
of flesh, the least real thing in our
lives, and think little of the inward
growing old. For the body every add
ed period is loss; for the soul every
added growth is almost incalculable
gain. How old are we? How much
older than year, two years, ten years
ago? How much quicker to recognize
the Divine voice? How much stronger
our hand and clearer our voice against
evil? How much swifter our feet to
bear the message of good will to men?
How much gain has there been in pow
er and willingness to serve? How much
more faithful are we in the chaos of
small and common duties and cares?
How much truer are we in friendship,
warmer in the home loves, more pa
tient with the mistaken and the bad :?
Round our tree of life, as it has strug-
gled up toward the sky, whether
it bear the spring buds or the sum-
mer green, or the dead russell of the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-12-21

cry whose gladness cannot be de-
scribed, heran to me and, snatching the
baby from it's covering, he kissed it
and laid it down on the bosom of his
wife with it's fat little fists digging
into her cheeks and neck. I don't
know, nor does anything human, what
the baby's power is, but in a minute
the woman began to stir uneasily, and
to move her hands about as if search
ing for something, and then, with
cry like her husbands for gladness,
she opened her eyes and her arms, and
the baby, with satisfied coo, cuddled
close to the mothers breast.
"That was the crisis, and as the
father dropped beside the side of his
wife with the child in his arms, and
prayed fervently, I broke down COM
pletely and cried as if all the sorrow
in the world instead of all it's gladness
had come into that lonely house this
Christmas eve. So they called the
baby Santa Claus, and as she grew UP
she became indeed, as you say, a verii-
table Santa, bringing only good things
to all the world that lay about her"
"And do they know nothing of her?''
I asked.
Everything" she answered. "Her
mother was a widowed relative of the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-12-21

Their and mother lavished all their love
and their generosity upon this one eve
lamb Of theirs. I can remember what
a scene of fairyland their house was
at Christmas for the little girl and
for her troops of friends, for all that
love could suggest and wealth could
secure was brought and laid at the
feet of their darling.
"And what dreadful change when
the fifth Christmas came. In the Sep
TENDER before, the little girl, bright
and beautiful child, suddenly sickened,
and within a week she slept on the
sunshiny slope of gentle knoll look
ing out over the beautiful blue river
sweeping by with a murmur as of
angels wings. For weeks the father
and mother refused to be comforted,
nor would they go away to other
scenes. There the little one had
filled their hearts and lives and there,
they insisted, should the empty shell
remain. Elsewhere in the world there
was nothing; in that spot were, at
least, the memories of their idolized
one. I was with them a great deal,
and as often as I could I sent my own
children to visit them, and from these
and other playmates of their lost one
they derived much comfort. Eut I
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-12-21
Christmas in New York.

Jacob A. Riis, in an article in the
Century Magazine on merry Christ
mas in the Tenements," says:
In hundred places all over the city,
when Christmas comes, as many open
air fairs spring suddenly into life. A
kind Of Gentle Feast of the Taber-
naclcs possesses the tenement districts
especially. Green-embowered booths
stand in rows at the curb, and the
voice of the tin trumpet is heard in
the land. The common source of all
the show is down by the North river,
in the district known as "the Farm"
Down there Santa Claus establishes
headquarters early in December and
until past New Year. The broad
quay looks then more like clearing in
pine forest than busy section of
the metropolis. The steamers dis
charge their loads of fir trees at the
piers until they stand stacked noun
tain high with foothills of holly and
ground-ivy trailing off towards the
land side. An army-train of wagons
is engaged in carting them away from
e@d1Ay ulOA AlAS I'LL AdLS DIV ulSAL, DuC Vie
green forest grows, in spite of it all,
until in places it shuts the shipping
out of sight altogether. The air is
redolent with the smell of balsam and
pine. After nightfall, when the lights
are burning in the busy market, and
the homeward-bound crowds with
baskets and heavy burdens of Christ
mas greens jostle each other with
good-natured banter-nobody is ever
cross down here in the holiday season
it is good to take stroll through
"the Farm" if one has spot in his
heart faithful yet to the hills and the
woods in spite of the latter-day city.
But it is when the moonlight is upon
the water and upon the dark phantom
forest, when the heavy breathing of
some passing steamer is the only
sound that breaks the stiffness of the
night, and the Waterman smokes his
lonely pipe upon the bulwark, that
*the Farm has a mood and an at
mosphere all it's own, full of poetry,
which some day painters brush will
catch and hold.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-12-21

autumn leaves or the boughs Of win
ter, these things are marking their
line, and how old we are is being
written day by day so clearly that he
who runs may read. God gives us
eternal youth in, the vigor with which
we press upward, and in all best
things gives us such rapid growth that
we may soon gain eternal years.
1--WE live in thought, not breaths, in
deeds, not years,
In feelings, not in figures on the dial;
We should count time by heart throbs,
he most lives
Who thinks most. feels the noblest.
acts the BEST"
Washington Home Magazine.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-12-21

family who died only few weeks pre-
viously, leaving two or three children,
and this little girl was sent to the
stricken parents as Christmas gift
in this way with the hope that has
been so happily fulfilled. NV. j.
Hampton, in Detroit Free Press.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-12-21
Johnny's Suggestion.

Johnny ion Christmas eve)-*'Mam-
ma, can't you give the baby something
to make him sleep tonight" Mamma
why, Johnny"' Johnny BE
cause if Santa Claus hears him yelling,
he might think we're all just as bad"
Current Literature.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-12-21

and spend two or three days, but they
would not hear to leaving, and, fear
ing something, I knew not what, I
determined to slip away from the
and cheer of my own home
and go into the ,dreary darkness Of
this one of my friends. It was sad
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-12-21

would you like for Christmas?"
teacher asked of one little fellow. 'I'd
like pair of pantaloons without
patches, ma'am," replied the boy
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-12-21

feared for the coming of Christmas.
That was the joytime of the year when
the child was the very soul of it all,
and I did not dare think what that
father and mother would do in the
thick darkness that had fallen upon
them.
when the time came around tried
to get them to come to my own house
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-12-21
a Modest Wish.

At mission Sunday-school at
Woods Run the children were talk
ing of Christmas. Johnny, what
The age-herald., 1898-04-23
War Declared.

The refusal of the Spanish government to entertain the demands of congress, has proven to be, as perhaps it was expected to be, signal of war. The congressional joint resolutions should perhaps be consid- cred declaration of war. Spain has so construed them, and history will doubtless take that view of them.
 As matter of fact formal declarations of war have been exceptional in all coun- tries for at least two centuries. There was no declaration of war when the invincible Armada sailed. It was deliberately and openly prepared, and declared to be in- vincible and when all was in readiness, 1t sailed away to encounter storms and Drake and the Dutch and irretrievable disasters.
 In this country war was declared against England in 1872, but that declaration stands alone in the history of the United States. And it was brought about in cred very mysterious President Madison had many anti-war people to contend with the federalists of that day-and he there- fore sent a confidential message to the house of representatives, suggesting rath- CT than urging, a declaration of war against Great Britain on account or hos- tile acts on the seas and among the ln- dians; and this secret message was con- sidered by the house in secret session. The bill that declared war was reported in the house by Calhoun, and was considered and adopted in secret session. It was secretly considered six days in the senate, and the injunction of secrecy was not removed un' til the declaration had been signed by the president.
 In the Franco -Prusian war France did formally declare war, but in the Turko- Russian war of 1877, the Russians began an advance before the Czar issued formal declaration of war. Unless the joint reso- lutions of congress are construed as a declaration of war, there will be none in the war that will soon be waged by this country and Spain.
The age-herald., 1898-04-23

the center aisle His face was pale and his hands trenbled. He never took his eyes off Tillman. Tillman threw some hot shot into the bond-sharks, and in doing so he looked directly at Hanna, and gave further emphasis by pointing toward Hanna-the assistant president. At one point 1t was ap- parent that Tillman was going to mention names, but before reaching the climax he hesitated, then stopped, and never finished the sentence. Hanna was the man he had in his minds eye. Hanna breathed easier after TflIman had concluded He arose from his seat as a man would who had first appeared as though he was going to be killed. when the marksman had missed the target, and there were no more loads in the gun. Hanna knew in the event that TiIlman mentioned his hame the next move was up to him, Tn which he would make denial and demand that Tillman prove the charge. Tillman's speech was not up to his standard in pitch-forking. He was not as vigorous in his reference to Hanna and Ell1ins as was either Thurston or Foraker.
The age-herald., 1898-04-23
Month of April

April 19i Hateful month and fateful day!
 It was on April 19, 1775, that the blow for American independence was struck at Lex ington and the Concord bridge, where the shot was fired that was heard round the world.
 It was on April 19, 1898, that America struck the blow for Cuban independence by adopting the resolution ordering Spain to abandon the island.
 Between these two events much of the im- portant history of the United States has be- gun in the month of April. The New York Herald has compiled the following statis- tics:
 April 1s1775.-Paul Revere's famous mid- night ride.
 April 19, 1T75.-Beginning of the revolution by the battle of Lexington.
 April Il, 17S3.-Congress proclaims cessa- tion of hostilities-
 April 15, 17S3.-Congress ratifies prelisnin- ary treaty of peace with Great Britain.
 April 4, 1S12.-Congress establishes the embargo that begins the war of 1872.
 April 21, 1S35.-Santa Anna suffers his great defeat at San Jacinto.
 April 9, 1s46.-Hostilities open between the United States and Mexico,
 April 12 1S61.-War of rebellion begun by General Beaureguard firing on Fort Sum- ter
 April 19, 1S61.-F'irst bloodshed of the war. in conflict between United States troops and mob at Baltimore.
 April g. 1S65.-Lee surrenders to Grant at Appamattox.
 If history repeats itself, then we are en- tering the war with Spain in a month of peculiar interest, and we shall win again, as we have always won
The age-herald., 1898-04-23
Mills North and Mills South.

Massachusetts manufacturers still think the hours of labor must be increased In its cotton mills, and taxation decreased, If the cotton industry in that section 1t to be kept from going away as the iron industry before 1t did But the Wool and Cotton Reporter tells them that it is idle to ex- pect either at the hands of the legislatures least of all, any increase in the hours of labor. No legislator can afford to advocate so unpopular a proposition.
 The Reporter insists that the southern mills do not possess all the advantages that the country offers the cotton manu- facturer. Cheap fuel is limited, it says, to northern Alabama. Augusta and Char 1otte pay as much for steam coal as Provi- dence mills pay. The skilled labor of the northern mills must be devoted to special classes of goods, leaving to the south the manufacture of print cloths. cheap sheet ings, shirtings and the like. "It would have been better for Fall River" says the Reporter. If, ten years ago, it had gone off from the manufacture of print cloths entirely, letting the south have that branch of the business, if it desired it." In this readjustment of northern cotton industries, the Reporter explains that extensive changes of machinery will be needed and much tact and judgment and also down. right hard work. Figure heads and high commissions will have to go. The commits sion house Is hereafter to be the servant of the mill, and the mill Is no longer to be a creation of the commission house.
 The Age-Herald has all along believed that there is room in this country for all the spindles it contains and many more besides. In order to spin and weave here in America the American crop the best efforts of both sections will be needed. In- stead of cutting each others throat the two sections should conspire together to cut in commercial sense the throats of those who are spinning or weaving Ameri- can cotton abroad. The plan the Reporter has mapped out is in every. respect sensi- ble and practicable. Turn over to the south as rapidly as possible the manufac- ture of coarse goods, and practically com pei this section to build enough mills to do the work.