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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

Whenever there is stoppage OF the
mediately Usually mild, gentle laxa-
tive is all that is necessary. A violent,
wrenching, gripping cathartic is never
needed. DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are
the most pleasant and successful remedy
for occasional or chronic constipation, or
costiveness. They are tiny. sugarcOated,
anti-bilious granules, that even the small
est child can easily take. They act in
perfect accord with Nature and produce
no gripping or other diiagreeable feeling.
They should he taken at the first indica-
ton of digestive trouble. They stop sour
stomache, belching, "heart-burn," tlatu-
patton permanently. You can stop taking
them after the bowels are thoroughly
regulated. Their help lasts. You do not
become a slave to their use, as with other
pills
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

THE Winston Sentinel says the
Spaniards will have to break the habit
of claiming victory every time they
are licked out of their boots before
they are in proper frame Of mind
to sue for peace.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

The President has nominated
Hiram l.. Grant, of North Carolina,
to be paymaster in the army, with
rank of Major. Grant was rendered
commission as Colonel (of the pro-
posed negro regiment from this State
but declined.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

CHAIRMAN F. S. Spruill, of the
judicial Executive Committee, calls a
Democratic convention to nominate
candidate for Solicitor Of this the
Third Judicial district, to be held in
Rocky Mount at o'clock on Wednes-
day, July 9th
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

The President has finally done the
proper thing and pardoned Capt.
John ID. Hart. the Cuban tilibuster.
AS an exchange says, the government
should now release his boat and per-
nit him to resume operations just
where he left off.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

Ex-JUDGE Spier Whitaker, of Raj
eigh, has a hankering after a COM
mission as Brigadicr General. He
could rattle around in big gun
Office of that kind about as well rs
some other small bore fellows.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

THE United States flag now floats
on Cuban soil and it will not disap-
pear thercfrom until the war is
ended in the triumph of American
arms.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

TROOPS have been sent to Cuba,
the first embarkation from Tampa
being 1900. The war on land will
now begin in real earnest.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

The North Carolina Press Associa-
ton will meet in Waynesville next
week for two days session-Wed-
ncsday and Thursday.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16
ESTABLISHED 1881.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:

We desire live agent and correspond
ent at every postoffice in Vance and ad-
jOing counties.
Correspondence on all subjects of local
and general interest. and opinions upon
matters of public concern, are invited.
The editor will not be responsible for
the views or statements Of correspondents
and reserves the right at all times to
revise or reject any article he may think
proper.
One side, only. of the paper must be
written On-and the real name OF the
writer accompany the contribution. No
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municatIOnS.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

MARINES were landed at Guantan
amo, Cuba, and fierce fighting took
place between them and Spanish
soldiers last Saturday evening, the
fighting lasting nearly all night The
American loss was small, four men
being killed, three missing and some
slightly wounded. Casualties on the
other side unknown.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

The Winston journal gets off the
following which will pass muster:
A good motto for the American
navy would be not to put off to-day
what it can do to .Morro.''
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16
THURSDAY, JUNE 1G. 1893.

IT is intimated that Hal Aver may
be the Populist candidate for Congress
in this district. Good Lord deliver
us.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

WALTER K. Henry has been APP
pointed national bank examiner in
place of Col. w. II. S. Burgwyn, re-
signed. While this is smaller posi-
tlon than he had desired and earn
estly sought for during these latter
years it is a pretty good plum so far
as compensation is concerned paving
something like So, 800 a year we think.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

Remember you can have goods deliver
ed any where in town absolutely free of
charge, from H. THOMASON'S.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

One Of the great developments of
our war with Spain that will rebound
to the lasting benefit of this country
as we'll as all the rest of the civilized
world is expected to be the building
of the Nicaraguan canal. The neces-
sity of the great enterprise as illus
trated by its possible usefulness
during the war has brought the
sentiment Of the country and of con-
gress solidly in favor of its prompt
execution. 1t has been remarked
also that the project to connect
Chilli and the United States by rail
will also fall in line with the canal
building and the work may be COM
pleted before the canal is we'll under
way. There are said to be but a few
hundred miles between in which
there is no connection.-Dur
Sun.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

LOOKING back over the daily move
ments of the past month it is easy to
see that a great deal has been accom-
plished and the war movement very
materially advanced. The admins
tration has acted with caution and
wisdom and the short period of a
passing month finds one Spanish
fleet utterly destroyed, another i'm
prisoned and great army assembled
and embarking for Cuba, which
within few days will be a theatre
of war. We are now on the verge Of
momentous occurrences The real
work of wiping the Spaniards from
Cuba is now at hand.-Charlotte o.
Serrer.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

When you want Shoes don't fail to see
the beautiful line just received, at
II. THOMASON'S.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

THE Greensboro men who offer
tale for making flour, believe in
changing stones into bread. 1t was
the devil, remember, who made that
suggestion to Christ.-High Point
Citizen
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16
THE CORRECT VIEW.

The New York Times is usually
very conservative paper, but on
the subject of compelling Spain to
quit the Western hemisphere it holds
views as pronounced as the most ad-
vanced jingoist. And these views
as expressed in the following are the
correct ones too. 1t says:
The point Secretary Day is said to
have made, that we must capture
Puerto Rico before Spain sues for
peace, in order to make sure Of
our indemnity, is very well taken.
1t is important, however, that it
should be supplemented by the dec
laration that the island is to be held,
not as the security for the indemnity,
but as being itself the indemnity, in
whole or in part.
If we hold Puerto Rico as security
for the payment Of the costs of the
war Spain will have an equity of re-
demption. She may raise the money
and redeem the island. That is not
to be regarded as admissible.
Whether or not we want Puerto
Rico for ourselves, we cannot allow
Spain to keep it. She must quit this
hemisphere. 1t would be cause
of constant irritation and danger if
she should continue to enjoy the
right to send ships of war to posses
sions of her own in waters near Cuba
and our own coasts. The only pru-
dent, the only safe course, is to
expel Spain from the New World alto
gether.
The preparations to invade and
capture Puerto Rico are wise and
timely. Make the island ours and
the treaty of peace will confirm our
title.-NOrfOlk Public Led0er.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

A CORRESPONDENT wants to know
the correct pronunciation of the
name of Commodore Schley, com
mander of the ''Flying Squadron.
whether it is Stay or "Sly.'
Either is correct, depending upon the
sense in which it is used. sly" is
proper when he is chasing Spanish
squadron, while it is SHAY after he
has found the enemy or located their
Notifications.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16
WORTHY OF SPANS BEST DAYS.

In the glamor which surrounds the
bold exploit of Lieutenant Hobson in
Santiago harbor we must not fail to
recognize the magnanimity of Adj
miral Cervera in sending word to Adj
mral Sampson that he would care
fully protect Lieutenant Hobson to-
gether with the other members of the
Merrimac's now famous crew, until
some definite terms could be agreed
upon relative to the exchange of pris-
onerS.
Admiral Cervera might have con-
demned the brave Americans to death
at once; but. with the chivalrous in
stinct of the true hero. he instantly
discerned and gracefully acknowl-
edged the unsurpassed courage in
volved i'll the enterprise which they
had undertaken. While there was no
rule of warfare making it incumben
upon him to notify Admiral Samp-
son of his capture of the men, vet
such was the unstinted admiration
which he felt for the brilliant hardi-
hood displayed by them in defying
the guns of Moro castle that he could
not possibly resist the impulse to
perform the generous deed of sending
word TO Admiral Sampson. This
will be gratefully remembered to his
credit. regardless of what may subse-
quently happen in the present war.
Worthy of the best days of Spain is
the magnanimity which Admiral Ger
vera has evinced in the Merrimac
affair.-Atlanta Constitution
OLD man Buck Kitchin comes back
home. hangs up his hat, makes him.
self comfortable and is given
friendly welcome without any fuss
and feathers. He gives no eNplana-
tions and makes no apologies for
leaving the party, but his actions
speak louder than words. They show
that he thinks there is no place like
home and found out that his home is
in the Democratic party.-Reidsville
RecieU.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

SOME of the brethren of the press
are finding out, even at late hour,
that the people of Eastern Carolina
are as patriotic as those of any other
part OF the State, and there was
more good reason for the soldier
boys to remain at home than to rush
into the army at the first call. Hasty
conclusions are generally dangerous
and often times they are faulty; and
this is especially true when the
honor and patriotism Of North Caro-
linans are in question.-Scotland
Neck Commonwealth.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16

SPAIN seems to congratulate her
army and navy, no matter what the
result. In regard to the recent at
tack on Santiago. Admiral Cervera
reported very little except loss to his
side. yet the Spanish Senate fastened
to congratulate him.-Norfolk Public
Ledger.
Cervera was probably congratula-
ted upon the fact that he Jared no
worse In the Manila affair con-
CALCULATIONS were in order because
Admiral Montejo was left to con-
graduate. None of his vessels and
good many of his men were not.
COMMENTING on the structures of
the Biblical Recorder. (adverted to else
were) on the Cabarrus county lynch
ing. the Concord Standard makes a
vigorous reply and among other
things says:
Ii we understand CabarruS she is
willing to part company at any time
with fancied moralists that feel
Inundated by this lesson to the foul
that our tender sex shall not be 4
prey to beastly lusts and murderous
villainy.
The Recorder says the greatest
shame is the lynching II the Re
cOrder is more Inundated by the
hanging of those inhuman wretches
than that such an outrage should be
committed on Emma Hartsell we say
away with its moralizing wailings.
We want none of them, and if it
would teach the crime as preferable
TO the resentment, away, away with
its teachings.
The herald., 1898-05-29
THE ARIZONA QUAIL KNOWS THE HEIGHT OF ARROW WEED

open and the timber rarer. A little farther
down the overflow from the back water of
the high tides, joining with the high water
Of the summer season, covers the land SO
long at a time that timber becomes
drowned out and soon disappears, only
few struggling specimens lingering in
summer struggle with water Very soon
the whole becomes one vast plain on either
side, reaching miles away to the noun
tains, leagues Of 1t on either side being as
near perfect level as it is possible for
land to be. At this time of the year the
ground here is perfectly dry as the water
In the river is at low stage and the land
lies above the greatest of the tides being
overflowed only when the water and tides
are both high. In the extremely dry air
on bright day the mirage on this dry,
bare, level plain is the most wonderful in
the world. Nothing approaching it is to
be seen on ordinary deserts. On them you
can see lakes and all that, but they are
some distance of and dim and hazy. But
here you can see not only lakes but small
ponds. full Of ducks, with cranes standing
efQunf the edge and sticks and drift wood,
ldSs. frass and everything else clear-cut.
The herald., 1898-05-29
France Adopts English Time

A curious instance of theological Cnau-
vinism-which is not above adopting good
thing from a foreign source, provided it is
clothed in native homespun-deserves pass
ing notice. Although most of her neigh
bors have Joined in adopting an interna-
tional system of time-reckoning, so that
Denmark, Germany, Italy and Switzerland
use time which is exactly one hour fast
on Greenwich, and Holland and Belgium
keep Greenwich time, France has until now
stood apart from this specific convention.
no doubt because it involved some feeling
of yielding to her insular neighbor. 1t is,
however, now announced that the chamber
of deputies has adopted law which reads
as follows: 1.-THE legal time in France and
Algeria is the time which is minutes q
seconds slow on the mean time in Paris. "
1t will be remarked that this law without
speaking either respectfully or disrespect-
fully of the meridian of Greenwich, which
is equally entitled with the equator to pro-
verbal respect, makes in effect the time
Of our national observatory the legal time
for France.-London Telegraph.
The herald., 1898-05-29
SCHLEY FUMED AT RESTRAINT
Quick, Aggressive Action Is the
Comm odore's Wish

Omaha-Commodore Schey was visited
on his flagship off Hampton Roads Sunday
by Rev. DR.. d. A. Foot of this city, who
had letter from Secretary Long. Schey
fretted and fumed under reStarint, and in
the course of the conversation he said to
DR.. Foot: 'This is not war, shutting up
this splendid squadron here for five or six
weeks. War is to go after the enemy and
fight them. Nelson and Napoleon went
after their enemies with great swiftness,
surprised them and defeated them before
they had had time to complete plans, Of
fenSive or defensive. We can find the
enemy fast enough. Just give us the
chance. We can lombard and destroy the
fortificatiohs of Havana and Porto Rico,
and then go after the fleets of Spain. We
will find places to coal, just as Dewey did
We can capture Cadiz, Barcelona and the
Balearic islands. In other words, we are
ready to prosecute swift and victorious
war and speedily terminate the existence
of Spain upon the seas"
Speaking of the needs of the navy
Schley said: 1--WE need thirty-five or forty
armored cruisers, of the class of the Brook
lyn, and 100 to $50 swift torpedo boats and
destroyers. We must have plenty of coal
ing stations in various parts of the world
In fine, Americans must learn the lesson
that preparations for war with first class
nations is a safeguard of peace. The patri-
otsm of the army and navy, no matter how
powerful 1t may be, is above the suspicion
of reproach. We love our flag and want to
see its honor protected.
Il wish to God we were cut loose from
here. The country would hear from us,
too"
The herald., 1898-05-29

ter, and on the whole the fishing cannot be
considered an attraction. Nor is there any
good fishing in the gulf itself in tho winter.
though there are fine clans and turtles,
with fine oysters further down.
Fine shooting can be had, though. by one
who knows the lay Of the land. Soon after
leaving Yuma one begins to see ducks,
geese and sand hill cranes flying but there
are no sloughs near the river where one
can get at them easily so 1t is not advisable
to get excited. In the mesquite and arrow
weed of the bottoms the Arizona quail may
be found and in places is quite abundant
One who has never tried this gamey cousin
of the California valley quail should by all
means spend a few hours among them
here. Most Of them have never heard q
gun and you naturally think they will be
very tame. II you ever imagined yourself
The herald., 1898-05-29

vaquero or explorer the white man is not a
factor. The weather is the most charming
Of California or Arizona winter weather.
II there should be an extra heavy storm
on the Pacific coast 1t may overlap the
mountains and make cloudy or even drizzly
weather on the river but the chances are
ten to one that the whole trip will be in
weather as fine as the finest the land of
climate can show, with the temperature
running to seventy-five at midday, oc-
casionally reaching eighty, and dropping
to forty-five, or possibly to forty, in the
morning There are no mosquitoes or other
annoyances in the winter and the trip is
wholly free from most any kind of dis
comfort where the boat is large enough
for the party.
Most of the upper half of the river is lined
with heavy green willows and cottonwoods
and aspens standing massed in solid array
close to the edge that is ever crumbling
beneath the wearing of the swift stream.
Rough and ragged mountains tower away
on the west, rising from one of the worst
deserts in the world, one that no man
should attempt to travel unless well
skilled in desert craft. On these the noun
tain sheep is yet found fat and lively,
what he lives on and the most hardy hun
ter must be careful about trying to follow
him to his hiding place or he may never
return. Around the base the mule deer
Is also found, as fat as where there is
plenty of feed in sight. Deer will keep fat
on cactus of the most terrible kind, but
where they get the cactus here is not we'll
settled question.
But the strip of the desert that lies for
several miles wide along the river is one
of the richest bits of country the sun
shines on and is farmed today in the old
Egyptian style by people possibly as old
as those Of Egypt The Cocopahs, num-
bering several hundred, are probably the
most Independent of all the tribes of the
earth. Though under the government of
Mexico, they do not know it, for that gov
ernment never troubles them, and unlike
our own great and glorious country, allows
no one else to bother them. They make
their own laws, even to the inflction Of the
death penalty. and have the most certain
living of any people on the continent. When
the river overf1ows it irrigates vast strip
of land that furnishes sure feed for cattle,
and they raisef all the corn, melons and
beans they want by making a little hole
In the ground with q stick and putting In
q seed.
Wild flax, almost as thick as good stand
Of wheat and ten or twelve feet high,
lines both sides of the river a few leagues
below the line, gradually taking the place
Of the arrow weed that fringed the banks
In such dense masses higher up. In about
hundred miles the banks become more
The herald., 1898-05-29
DOWN THE COLORADO TO THE GULF

There Is no finer winter trip than that
from Yuma to the Gulf of California,
though it can be made only by special ex-
cursions of some kind as there are no reg
ular boats running. There are boats at
Yuma that can make the trip with great
comfort and even luxury, such as the stern
wheel river boats of Pollhemus & Mellin,
but they must be specially chartered as
there have been no regular boats down the
river since the building of the Southern
Pacific to Yuma stopped the regular navi-
cation of the river.
This portion of the river is about as un-
known to the average white man as any
part of North America that is known at
all, and the whole extent of the river on
each side for over one hundred and sixty
miles Is about as wild as when Columbus
landed. On the eastern side are some of
the Mariccpa Indians and on the west the
Cocopahs. both peaceable and we'll
behaved; but with the exception of an oc-
casional hunter and at long intervals
The herald., 1898-05-29
She Corrected the Professor

A college professor who prided himself
on his correct English heard his wife re-
mark:
II intend to tell Jane to bring fresh
bucket Of water"
"You doubtless mean a bucket of fresh
water,' corrected the professor. II wish
you would pay some attention to your rhet-
oric Your mistakes are curious"
A few months later the professor said:
my dear, that picture would show to
better advantage if you were to hang II
over the clock"
"Ah," she replied quietly. "you doubtless
mean if 1 were to hang it above the clock
If were to hang it over the clock we could
not tell the time. wish you would be more
careful with your rhetoric my dear; your
mistakes are curious"
And the professor all at once became very
interested in his book.-Answers.
The herald., 1898-05-29

judge of mesquite you may change your
opinion when you reach these bottoms of
the Colorado. Some Of them are thirty
or forty feet through, vast tangle Of
snaky arms beside which the famed locks
of Medusa were but stylish ringlets. In
these this quail will hide and skip out Of
the other side with downward curve that
will leave your shot above him II any of it
ever gets through the bush. He CAM run
from one to another by the exact time you
have decided that under the circumstances
ground sluicing" will be all right; and then
when you decide to drive him out along the
ground he will run around a mesquite in
a circle that will make you wonder whiAi
side OF the bush your head is on. BY the
time you have concluded that you are not
born for mequite pioneer you are in good
shape to sample his idiosyncracies In arrow
weed. If there is anything this bird does
like 1t is to be inside of patch of arrow
weed with tenderfoot and q fine gun on
the outside. This grows about ten feet
high, straight enough to make good arrows
and thick enough to cut for hay. Since the
government quit keeping an army post at
The herald., 1898-05-29

we'll she backs around and cuts out a
channel with the wheel. This is generally
quickly done, but sometimes when a bar is
unusually wide it Is necessary to send out
an anchor or two to hold her in place while
the wheel is washing out the bar. An In
dian deck hand wading out with an anchor
on his shoulder or sitting In patience
mounted on one of the fukes after being
wet up to his neck makes a rare subject
for the camera fiend. On the whole. I know
no place where as rare combination of
wild life, wild country, wild scenery, with
perfect weather and safety and comfort
can now be had that approaches this. But
one should have wading boots with duck
shot and small shot for quail and snipe. l
took only a rifle with me, but there is lit
tie use for one of any size, as you will
have to go too far from the boat to find
game for 1t. 7. S. VAN DYKE.
The herald., 1898-05-29

see something new can find it on this trip.
If he can make up party that will JUS
tify taking the steamer Mojave down from
Yuma he will get value received for every
hour he spends on the river. The steamer
is both safe and comfortable and ladies can
go as well as on any river boat. 1t is also
one of the last opportunities to see the old
fashioned style of western river naviga-
tion that the railroad has consigned to OBJ
livion. The Mojave is a stern wheeler with
upper deck, state rooms and all other con-
veniences of the old-time passenger boat
but built to run on mud almost as well as
in water. The river builds bars SO fast at
low stage that no reliance is placed on the
channel. If channel is not handy the
boat simply makes one or goes without it.
If the mud is a little too thick to slide over