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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02
LET THE HISTORY BE PRINTED.
Names and Deeds OF the North Caro-
lima Troops Should be Preserved
and Perpetuated.

The Wilmington Messenger in
abiding to the publication of the
sketches OF the North Carolina regi-
ments in the war between the States.
and the necessity for this work
being done by the State, says:
The sketches Of the regiments Of
North Carolina in the great war pre-
pared under the auspices and editor
ship of Justice Walter Clark, who is
so very competent for the faithful in
the performance of such work, should
Of course be issued by the State.
North Carolina never performed a
wiser deed than in publishing the
Colonial Records. 1t cannot do a
more sacred thing than to preserve
the records of the men who fought in
the great war. In fact that has been
done in publishing in three volumes
the ''Roster' of the regiments. Now
let the s.Sketches'' follow.
In subsequent issue touching on
the same subject the Messenger says
this:
The Legislature ought not to re-
fuse to print the sketches Of the
seventy-tive North Carolina regi-
ments. 1t is duty, and should be
a proud privilege. Judge Clark,
who edits them, was asked about it
by the News md Observer. He said
to the reporter ''that not line Of
them was written by him, nor did
the idea originate with himself. That
by vote of the confederate
Veterans Associations" he had been
requested to get survivor of each
regiment TO write a history of his
own regiment, Of what companies
composed, in what battles it par
ticipated, and what part it bore in
each memorable incident its career,
is short the life of each regiment pre-
| scented in fifteen or twenty pages, to
| be handed down to posterity as
authentic statements Of eye witnesses
of the great deeds North Carolina
soldiers performed in 1S61-5. He
said he had written hundreds of let
in getting the best men in each regi-
ment to perform this patriotic duty,
and had caused many of the sketches
to be printed in the newspapers to
secure criticism and corrections by
other survivors. That he had secured
about 40 sketches, and would prob
ably get those of the other 80 regi-
ments if the State now published the
material already sent in, but if much
longer delayed it would become i'm
possible" The most marvellous
record ever made by any of the forty
five States was made by North
Notwithstanding actually more
troops into the war than she ever
had white voters prior to the war.
Let the sketches by all means be pre-
pared and published.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02
ALAW FOR THE SAVING OF LIFE.

The law passed by Congress in 1898
requiring the equipping of railroad
cars with automatic couplers and
adequate train brakes has proved by
actual trial and experience 10 be law
for the saving of human life. Although
the cars are not all equipped yet, nor
will they be until Jan. Isl, 1900, the
statistics kept 10y The in,erstate-ccm-
merce commission show large reduc-
tons in number of accidents to train
men in consequence of thu introduce
ton Of the safety appliances required
by law.
According to the report of the CON-
mission there were 1894 fewer en-
ployes killed and 4,o62 fewer injured
during the year ended June 80, 1897,
than during the year ended June 80,
1898. In coupling and uncoupllng
cars alone 2Io fewer men were killed
and 1904 fewer injured during 1897
than during 1898. The number Of
such employees killed has been reduced
one-half. This comparative Statement,
is full Of significance: 1.-The reduc-
ton in the number of accidents fron
AL causes largely exceeded in a single
year the entire casualties during the
late war;" This means casualties on
the American side, which were 29S
killed and 1.645 wounded.
1
The Chicago Record furnishes us
| the above statistics and says:
A law that will conduce to such re-
suits may truly be called bene6cen,
and a credit TO the spirit of progress
sve civilization. The saving Of hui
| man life from destruction or injury
should be one of the chief aims oil
government, and in no way can tina,
aim be better accomplished than in the
requiring Of adequate safety appliances
for the protection of life and health.
The standard of civilization Of a peo-
pie is measured very Largely by the
efficiency shown in keeping down to a
minimum the number of accidents tina,
may be prevented by the general adop-
ton Of precautionary methods and
proper life-saving appliances.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02
FORTUNE SnlLED ON THE SOUTH,

The above is the caption of an edi-
torial in the Chicago Times Herald
in which the Southern States are COM
mended for their industrial achieve
ments during the year 1898. The
Tines Herald says,
"Although the Commerce of the
Gulf and South Atlantic was inter-
rupted by SIX months hos,ilities CEN
tered in the Spanish possessions in the
West Indies, this interruption was moi
entirely without compensations. The
low price of cotton has been somewhat
depressing to the growers Of this staple,
but its good effects are discernible in a
greater Investigation of farming
operations than was ever known in
the South, tendency that offers the
greatest promise of agricultural pros
perity in the South. The agricultural
account of 1898 is balanced by i'm
mense gain in the corn crop and by
the wealth derived from the sale OF
strawberries, peaches, potatoes and
other early products.
"The greatest evidences of prosper
lty, however, are noted in manufac-
lures in which the South has made
phenomenal strides, and into which a
vast amount Of Northern capital is be-
ing concentrated. The Manufaetar-
e,s' Record estimates that 1907 new
industries of various kinds were found
ed or projected upon definite grounds
during the year. Nearly eleven hun
dred miles of railroad were built, and
a greater amount is under construction
or contracted for, and more than five
million dollars were invested in iron
and steel plants. More than three
hundred thousand spindles and more
than five thousand looms were added
to textile mills.
"Next to the remarkable cotton
mill development the greatest a,ten-
ton has been attracted to the steel
plants in the Birmingham district.
During the past five months Alabama S
foreign shipments of pig iron have
been at the rate of abou, 900 tons a
day. But the South i. no longer con-
tent with an export in raw materials.
She is now preparing to work up her
IRON and cotton into shapes that will
enable her to particil ate to greater
extent than ever in the rapidly ex-
banding export trade in manufactured
goods. With raw materials right a,
her factory doors there is nothing to
prevent the South from eventually &C.
cuPying a conspicuous position in COM
merce and manufacture"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02
"PULMMAN" AS A WARD.

Now that the supreme court has de-
clared that Pullman must be only a
I'd of Chirag", the effect on the
model city will be watched with in
terest.
The town of Pullman was psopled
with the employees OF Gee. M. Pull
man and his business associates. NJ
person could be tenant without heing
an employe, and no employe Guild
rent a house except from the company.
All coal had to be bought from the
company. The tenant could not burn
a oil lamp nor an oil stove; he could
not send his children to any other than
the local school; he could not resist
his gas nor water bill because his
employer took the amount out Of his
wages; he could NOT enjoy the satlsfac-
ton of dispu'ing his rent accoun. be-
cause the account was settled before he
saw his bill; he could not attend mass
meetings; he had no township vote !;
and he couldn't keep dog nor ca.
The town had 1000 fine brick
houses, splendid arcade and thea
tire, library and a picture gallery,
and its drainage and cleanliness are
undisputed, but the death rate, never
,heless, was "a in thousand annually,
just the same as in Chicago. When
Mr.. Pullman died the people, popu-
lation of over $4,000, sought release
from the hard ways of their living.
They urgued condition of servi'ude
as just basis of legal release, and the
supreme court has declared the fendal
town of Pullman now and forever after
non existent.
Geo. NJ. Pullman is dead and so
far as it was designed by him the
model town of Pullman is dead.
Whether the changes will be for the
better or not remains TO be seen, but
at any rate the people will have a
chance to do as they please--Atlanta
Journal
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02
The Proposed Election Law.

Writing about the Legislature after
a visit to Raleigh Editor Caldwell, of
the Charlotte Observer, says:
''Of course the suffrage question is
the one of foremost interest. 1t may
safely be said of it that an election
law. similar to the Walton law of
Virginia, Will be enacted, and that
under it there will be submitted to
the people a constitutional amend
ment the adoption Of which-the
words may as well be said-will dis
franchise the negroes but not the il
literate whites. The basis of this will
be the Louisiana plan. The objection
that has been raised to this is that its
constitutionality is said to be in
doubt and that it has never been
passed on by the courts. a learned
lawyer was heard to say to-day that
he had drafted an amendment to this
plan which would make it constitu-
tional beyond a doubt. The most de-
liberate and painstaking considera-
ton is being given this subject.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02
WAS IT SAMPSON OR WAS IS sCHLEY?

Washington. Jan. 13.-Mr. Berry, "f Ken
tucky. read the following poem IN the
House today, amid a whirlwind OF laugh
ter and applause:
"When the Spanish feet with full bead
Dashed headlong out of SANTIAGO bav,
Taking the chances of death ana wtecs,
Who stood on a Yankee nuartnr-decK,
And marked the game with eagle eve;
Say. was it Sampson, or was 1t Schley?
daughter and Applause
Who was it, when shot and screaming shei =,
Turned Sabbath calm into ech"lhg nell!
steamed into the thickeet of the frav,
His GOOD ship leading all the way:
While the roar of his guns shook ear,h
and skv,
Saw. was it Sampson, or was 1t Schley!
daughter and Applause.)
In American hearts, VIII" holds hrst place
Of those who claim part Ill thai glorious
chaseo
Whose name stood out on that prnui Gay
As the hero OF Santiago bav?
In letters Of gold, write that name on hlet:
Stall we write it Sampson, or write IL
Scbley?"
daughter and Appiause.)
81 saw it should be written Schley,
added Mr. Berry.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02
MANNERS OF CHILDREN.
Hints About Their Conduct at the
TabIe-the Right Training OF Chill
dren Is no SineCure.
(The Household

..Show me what man eats, and L
will tell YOU what he isl says Brlllat
Sayarin. Show me how a child eats,
and | will tell you what his parents
are. If Il child has rude and un-
pleasant manners at table, his par
ents are certainly criminally care
less, though they may not lack breed
ing.
Between the ages of three and
seven child is easily taught, simply
by the force Of example, the little
amenities of the table demanded by
civilization, and even more easily
does he acquire wrong habits, winch
are almost impossible to correct IN
after life.
have never forgotten the astonlsh-
ment with which | saw the sixteen
vear-old son of Washington banker
spread and bite from a whole slice OF
bread. His subsequent confusion
showed that his habit of early child
hood had been the subject of frequent
remark in the family. His mother,
gay society woman, had left him to
servants at meal times, just as she
was then leaving her younger chill
dren.
One must not, of course, make Il
childs whole meal a time for
.don'ts,n and this will not be neces-
sary if, beforehand, one at time,
you will instilI into his plastic mind
few of the most necessary rules re
garding his behavior at the table
1t keeps the mother ever on the
alert to see that the children sit
straight in their chairs, and do not
tilt side ways or backwards; that
they wipe their mouths before and
after drinking, and do not drink with
food in their mouths. That they do
not bolt their meat, or scrape their
pudding plates, or swallow their
spoons, and that they do not gather
debris in the way of crumbs of bread.
egg shells. or bits of rejected meat,
on the table cloth beside their plates,
instead of on the sides of the plates.
Fortunately, childish memories are
good. Once thoroughly impress
some little point of etiquette on their
minds, and years will not efface it..
A child whose manners could never
be mended by fault finding, can often
to transformed into 4 veritable Lord
Chesterfield by judicious praise. 1t
is when praising him for some point
of conduct that you can best i'll
sinuatingly add that you have never
seen him do thus and SO. He will be
a thousand times more apt never to
commit the error of which you speak,
than if you had bluntly corrected
him in the act itself.
have visited in houses where the
children at meal times were so pain
fully silent that, but for the motion
in eating, they might have been
wooden images, and in other houses
have seen single child keep the
whole table in a turmoil by his
incessant chatter and rude demands.
In this, as in all things, it is the
golden mean that must be sought
after. Let the little ones have share
in the conversation, but let the COM
mand that they are not to break in
upon the conversation of their
elders be peremptory one. The
greatest moral and religious duty of
parent, the right training Of chill
dren, is no sinecure.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02
A Boys Essay on Heads.

This essay on Heads is ac-
credited to an S-year-old boy of a
neighboaing town:
There's 4 lot of kinds of heds-
red beds, wooden beds. soft beds,
cabbage beds, bawld beds and so
18th. Pas got one, it's bawld; ma
she's long-headed and pa, he's bull
heded; but I'm red-heded and level
heded, too. The smart end of boy is
his he'd, except when he gets spanked,
but the smart end of bee is not
thereon no. Pa says if a Teller has
a he'd he will get he'd in the world,
but | don't want no he'd like he gets
when he gets out with the boys
Germantown independent Gazette.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02
Aphorisms.

In business three things are nee
essary, knowledge, temper and time.
-Feltham.
Men resemble the gods in nothing
so much as doing good to their fell
low creatures
There are few wild beasts more to
be dreaded than a talking man hay
ing nothing to say.-Swift
More firm and sure the hand of
courage strikes when it obeys the
watchful eye of caution.-Thompso
Words are like leaves, and where
they most abound much fruit or
sense beneath is rarely found.-Pope.
Nature often enshrines gallant and
noble hearts in weak bosoms, often
est. God bless her, in woman's breast
Dickens.
Ialkativeness has another plague
attached to it, even curiosity, for
praters wish to hear much that thew
may have much to sav.-Plutarch.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02
An Able and Working Body.

Editor j. Z. Caldwell, of the Char
lotte Observer, who has been at Raj
eigh looking in upon the Legislature,
writes as follows to his paper among
other things:
Nothing has been said or written
in praise Of the personnel of this
Legislature that it does not deserve.
People compare it with the Legisla-
lures of 1895 and 1897. | consider
ately spared myself a sight of either
of those bodies, but when it is con-
sidered how this one compares with
the two preceding ones it must be
sharp indeed. 1t is a working Legis-
lature, too. What is it doing? In
open session-and the daily session
OF each house is brief, not more than
two hours or two and half-the pro-
ceedings are rather dull, for the bills
acted upon are nearly all of local
character; but important general
legislation is under consideration in
committees, and the committees are
in session during nearly all the work
ing hours of the day and night, ex-
cept those given to the open sessions
of the houses After dinner COM
mittees are in session until night
after supper until bedtime. 1t is in
committees that the work of all legis-
lative bodies is done. and certainly
the committee work of this BODY is
not being neglected Members are
not to be found on the streets or in
the hotels except at meal hours or at
bedtime-they are working all the
time. and there is every encourage
ment to believe that they are working
wisely.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02

THERE are some things greatly
needed in North Carolina. We may
name good road law; a good edu-
cational common school system; a
plan to better equalizc taxes. which
is a CRYING necessity: Il reformat"ry
for Young criminals; a good local
dispensary law; and a brave dog, law
to protect sheep and to bring IN
revenue for the education OF the
children Of North Carolina. The
Messenger does not believe it is the
time now to enter upon an expensive
revisal of North Carolina laws. Post
pone to "a more convenient season"
new codifcation. Let US not
create new board to increase ex-
penditures. Get from under the
curse of Radical vicious laws now and
then codify farther on. ''Thems our
sentiments" If Democrats do not
be very careful there will be a bad
showing in expenditures when the
Legislature adjourns. The people
demand sound economy and re-
trenchment wherever possible.-WiI-
mington Messenger.
/ WHEN level-headed colored men
who have at heart The real interest
of the race, ascend the platform and
begin to speak words of soberness
and wisdom, they are Kissed at, or
showed under. and their good advice
is wickedly scattered to the four
winds of Heaven. We are glad to
know that our Southern negroes are
more sensible and conservative than
those of the Fortune tribe up North
who speak unadvisedly with their
lips and try to stir up strife and con-
fusion where it should not exist. AS
we have often said before, the South
ern negro is in the midst of the best
and truest friends on earth, and if he
will steer clear of political wire
pullers and social corruptionists. he
will for many years to come abide in
this bright sunny land and worship
God under his own vine and fig tree
without fear or corruption.-Fair Bluff
Times.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02
Money in Cattle.Raising.

Mr.. f. Winslow, living near here,
has 80 head of fine beef cattle. He
has sold large number this winter
to the Greensboro dealers. There is
money in cattle in this section. Land
is cheap and the cost of raising and
feeding is small. Courier.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02

The Asheville Citizen ventures to
say that comparatively few North
Carolnians know that nearly one
hundred years ago, when Nathaniel
Macon, of North Carolina, was speaker
of the House of the National Con-
gress, North Carolina had - men,
bers in that body, while now it has
only nine. 1t would be interesting
to follow up the history and compare
the Representatives of that day to
those who represent lis at the present
time
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02

Out of 1910 homicides in the
United States in 1898 but 80 were in
self-dcfence. Only 100 were executed
for their crimes. This shows either that
murder does not out as frequently as
is generally supposed, and second,
that technicalities and the delays of
the law often enables the criminal to
escape just punishment for his crime.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02
A Mad Editor.

Some measly, lousy, scalawag.
devoid of principle or conscience,
stole nearly two bushels of meal
from the hall of our office about
dark last Tuesday. A man that
will steal bread from an editor is
meaner than the devil wants him
to be.-Murphy Scout.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02

1--WE Western men need light on
these Eastern county measures, -
said Western representative to
representative +. d. Winston yester-
day. ''Well, my FRIEND" replied
the ready and able representative
from the East, Il had hoped that
every body in this State saw the
light of white supremacy dawn on
the East with the rising of the sun,
the morning after election day.
These Eastern county measures
mean light and life to us. That's
all. "-Raleigh Post
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02
Improbable Hogs.
(kanSas JOurnal,)

A rural subscriber asks: "Do hogs
pay?" We know that a good many
don't, They take the paper several
years and have the postmaster send
it back marked '.refused." Such a
breed is usually two-legged and I'M
profitable.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02

Here is an extract from sermon
by Mohammed on True Charity"
Every good art is charity: your
smiling in your brothers face; your
putting wanderer in the right road
your giving water to the thirsty, is
charity; exhortation to another to do
right is charity. A mans true
wealth hereafter is the good he has
done in this world to his fellow-men
When he dies people will ask, What
property has he left behind? But
the angels will ask, What good deeds
has he sent before him?''
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02

This country is rich, but it isn't
rich enough to make its military ex-
penditures in time of peace exceed
those of the European nations which
maintain great standing armies.
That is what they will do, if the adj
ministration bill for the increase of
the regular army becomes law.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02
GOOD ROADS.
The Enormous Tax of Bad Ones Far in
Excess of the Cost of Good Roads.

Prof J. A. Holmes. State geolo-
gist. writingon the subject of good
roads. says:
Dirt roads are the most expensive
roads that can be used
Macadam roads, properly con-
Structed. are the most satifactory
and the cheapest roads yet discover
ed
Trained labor and competent en-
glneerlng supervision are as i'm
portant in building public roads, as
any other special business.
Convicts make cheap and satisfac
tory road builders. and every short
term convict in North Carolina ought
to be at work on the public roads of
the State.
Hills and mudholes. both of which
are avoidable. are the two most ex-
penslve features about the dirt roads.
All road work should be done Will
view to its permanency. A poorly
built macadam road is largely a
waste of time and money.
Good roads are expensive. but in
the long run they are far cheaper
than bad roads.
The bad roads in North Carolina
to-day cost her people in labor and
money but little less than SO. 900.
600 year. and vet over two-thirds
OF the counties in the State will re-
fuse to levy small pittance of a tax
Tor good roads. to help throw this
terrible burden
This enormous bad road tax is
to-day the biggest factor in the
industrial depression from which our
people are suffering. 1t is as real as
any man ever paid. 1t is the largest
tax we pay.
stop, or I'll shoot called out
the policeman.
''Ha. ha." laughed the malefactor.
nor paused in his flight
Stop" the policeman now shouted,
thoroughly incensed, ..or I'll shoot at
random"
Here the malefactor halted at once;
for even to such as he life is sweet
Detroit ,I0arnal
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02

CURE rheumatism by taking
~ Hoods Sarsaparilla, which by neu-
trallzlng the acid in the blood perma-
nently relieves aches and PAINS.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02

The Oxford Public Ledger says:
North Carolina did not have a sim
gle lynching during 1898, but with
January just half gone two have oc-
CURED in the State in 1899" This is
a mistake. North Carolina had sew
eral lynchings last year. Two men
were lynched at Concord, one West OF
Asheville and one near Chapel HILL
But for several years previous to
last year we had only one or two
lynchings. News.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-02-02

Some men," said Uncle Eben,
.'wouldn't hab no trouble tall bout
gettin' rich eff dey held on as tight to
de money dev earns as dey does to
the money dey borrows. "-Washing-
ton Star.